We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the latest Video Vortex conference in Brussels. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures

Today is completely devoted to the design aspect of Cimatics. In collaboration with O.S.P. and Verbindingen/Jonctions from Constant we ivite you for a workshop and presentation at Zennestraat, and later tonight there are the concerts by Gangpol und Mit, Goto80,... at Recyclart.

On Wednesday Nov 25 two extremely exclusive mid-week concerts bring Cimatics to the challenging context of the Brussels center for fine arts Bozar. With two audiovisual concerts (both Belgian premières) the Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa and the Austrian Ulf Langheinrich (from Granular-Synthesis) create immersive experiences where sound and image are seamlessly intertwined, synced and juxtaposed into true musical compositions. Cimatics is proud to be able to present these international crème de la crème A/V artists.

We liked the glitch vj set of Rosa Menkman at the opening party. She also gave a nice lecture about her 'Glitch Studies' at the Video Vortex conference,

Not to miss: Ben Butler and Mousepad is the twenty five year old Joe Howe. Currently based in Berlin, he produces scatter brained, frenetic music under a bunch of aliases, including Gay against You and Germlin. When not devoting his time to thinking up this junk, Joe is also a keen producer and remixer. He's been involved with his band project, Gay Against You, as well as producing an album for Momus and a slew of remixes for artists as varied as Klaxons, Deerhoof and Shitdisco.

For the festival opening night, Cimatics re-appropriates the semi-permanent installation FLU POWER FLU from Stefano Cagol by temporarily speeding up the flickering of the neon words. For 24 hours the installation will go 5 times as fast. By this, converted it into an event, it is re-mixed with the festival and re-activated as an urban landmark. Meet at Beursschouwburg Saturday 21 Nov at 16h48

The 5th Video Vortex conference will be held at the Atomium. You can follow the conference live at the URL below starting from Fri Nov 20, 13h30.

With performances, artist presentations and a film-screening program Video Vortex is expanding into the night. In an effort to overcome the limitations of a traditional conference setup, Cimatics invites everyone for a Friday night add-on where you can experience some remarkable artistic approaches, consequences and interpretations of the online moving image.

Last night we opened the festival meeting point. Jump in for any information about the festival program, pick up some flyers or posters and test Byram's straws couch.

"For me, events like Cimatics are ongoing after-parties with after-effects that feed into the autohallucinatory framework of my variable postproduction (i.e. metamediumistic) becomings (what in the "gig world" we might call sets). The most important part of live A/V events is the live function or, if you will, life function. It's bio-social networking conducted within a technologically savvy framework. And besides, it's great fun." - Mark Amerika, Nov 2009