For the festive pre-opening of Cimatics festival 2008 we invite everyone at the Gesu Church (near Botanique) where LAb[au] presents their interactive installation 'Binary Waves'. Right after that, the MediaRuimte makes place for the official opening with audiovisual concert '$$Troopers' by Huoratron (New Judas, FI) and an electronic music concert by Olaf Bender aka Byetone (raster-noton, DE).
(Note that the ArtKillArt exhibition at iMAL is also open from Thursday: ArtKillArt installations)

Cimatics presents the installation 'Binary Waves' by LAb[au]. It's not only a challenge but also a big opportunity to combine the 'information-architecture' within the 18th century Gesu Church in the center of Brussels.

Binary waves is an urban and cybernetic installation based on the measuring of infrastructural ( passengers, cars…) and communicational ( electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, radio…) flows and their transposition into luminous, sonic and kinetic rules. This relation between the installation and the urban activity happens in real time and sets each person as an element of the installation, as a centre of the public realm.

19:00 Vernissage 'Binary Waves' by LAb[au]

 

Starting at 21:00 MediaRuimte opens its blackbox basement for a drink and 2 world-class performances by Byetone (aka Olaf Bender) and Huoratron. Byetone opens the festival officially with the AV performance 'Death of a typographer'. At 23:00 Huoratron is on turn for his big banging AV performance '$$Troopers'.

21:00: exhibition C.E.B. Reas

22:00: 'Death of a typographer' by Byetone (aka Olaf Bender)

23:00 '$$ TROOPERS' by Huoratron