Fri, 27 Nov
Sound ON/OFF IPerformances by Telcosystems (NL), Lucille Calmel (BE), Anne-Sarah Le Meur (FR), Feedbacksociety (NL)
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Both on Friday 27th with Sound ON/OFF I and on Saturday 28th with the ON/OFF II program, Cimatics goes back to its roots. With audiovisual performances mainly revolving around the image/sound relation, but also live cinema and more experimental acts, we engage with the contemporary art center Les Brigittines focusing on performance art.
Sound ON/OFF I is highlighted with the extremely immersive and very loud 'Mortals Electric' sound-image performance by the Dutch collective Telcosystems. On the other end of the spectrum there is the complete silent 'Grey-Moire' video performance of the French Anne-Sarah Le Meur. In between there is the Brussels based Lucille Calmel with her writing jockey performance 'When I'm bad'. A creative violation of a Mac's operating system. Feedbacksociety (NL) bring 'a performance for tv-screens'.
zFREE ENTRANCE (tickets only needed for Telcosystems and Lucille Calmel) Book online: Doors
normal: 10 euro
reduced: 8 euro
Korte Brigittinenstraat / Petite rue des Brigittines - 1000 Brussels
Next: Sound ON/OFF II09:00 → 09:00
Belgium
performance
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Grey-MoireBy Anne-Sarah Le Meur20:00 → 20:30
France (2009)
performance
Grey-Moire of Eye-Ocean is a counter-proposition, based on anti-technological choices, to enhance a "bad-seeing": to see in darkness, to see flat (without 3D), to see little, slowly or nothing; To rec
In Grey-Moire Anne-Sarah Le Meur challenges the traditional synthetic computer image: Can the computer image go beyond the well known usual clichés : perfect geometrical volumes, often complex, even 'fractalising' forms, too often metallic textures?
Grey-Moire - which is a completely silent performance - Excrescence of Eye-ocean,visual part of Beyond-Round, interactive research
project at ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe) that explores non-realistic virtual light phenomena (one light is black). Breaking computer 3D-image clichés, refusing geometrical perfection and complexity, the form is flat, silky, undulating as a breathing body rocking the viewer. Grey-Moire focuses in particular on greys and visibility thresholds and uses a third light. Grey-Moire is a blind spot.
Partners:
Le Cube - Interface-Z (Technical Support)
When I'm BadBy Lucille Calmel & Thierry Coduys20:30 → 21:15
Belgium (2009)
performance
A brutal, playful, childish and poetic violation of a computer's operating system and various applications.
The 'When I'm Bad' performance by Lucille Calmel can best be described as a brutal, playful, childish and poetic violation of a computer's operating system and various applications. With close connections to both literature, e-poetry and contemporary performance Calmel acts as a writing jockey.
As in a real-time stream of (un)consciousness she is generating visual text compositions from internet archives, social networks, browsings and hijacks them through screenshots, shortcut key combinations "and other kinds of low tools".
'When I'm Bad' is an expanded audiovisual performance (increased by the sensors and sound-interaction from Thierry Coduys). As an act going far beyond the screen, the physical presence of the artist - stubbornly typing and manipulating the interfaces - is crucial.
Producer:
When i'm good i'm very good but when i'm bad i'm better
Mortals ElectricBy Telcosystems22:00 → 22:40
Netherlands (2008)
performance
With Mortals Electric Telcosystems presents a new audiovisual journey. Over the years they have managed to achieve a far-reaching integration of human expression and programmed machine behaviour. In their interaction with machines they create a form of live cinema which fuses the auditive and visual domains into one spatial experience, exploring the limits of the human sensory apparatus. Mortals Electric shows slow-moving cloud clusters, layers of strobing organic structures, deep machinic drones and waves of digital noise. Mortals Electric is a very demanding performance for the human hearing system. Cimatics will be providing ear-plugs.
Producer:
Telcosystems
Partners:
Fonds BKVB
Quadra TVBy Feedbacksociety22:45 → 23:30
Netherlands (2009)
performance
'Quadra TV' is a spatial quadraphonic audiovisual performance and installation. In the performance Feedbacksociety treats four TV's as musical instruments. The basic concept is that the TV's are being fed analogue audio signals to the video input. The TV's treat these signals as if it were video signals and thus change the sound into light. The light being emitted from the tube is then picked up by light sensors and, after losing some information and gaining some noise, is converted back into sound, and so the circle is closed. Feedback.
Next: Time to ExpressBy T2X23:59 → 23:59
Belgium
dj-set
http://tinyurl.com/t2xlabelnight
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screening
Cimatics presents a screening of the first meakusma DVD. Compiled together with the Ampoule collective from Scotland, meakusma has chosen quality over shock effect. Steering away from hypes, the pieces included here often aim more for something artistic rather than for something functional. Some pieces even hint at social commitment, a stance rare in the realm of electronic music. The visual contributions range in style from more straightforward digital visual design to cut-up pieces to short movies, whilst still having a distinctly understated feel. Tracks by Move D & Benjamin Brunn, Pub, Chris Parks, Terrence Dixon, Roger 23, Kate Simko, Herrmutt Lobby, Subjex, Roebin de Freitas, Peter Van Hoesen, Trifonic, Rony & Suzy,... get a visual interpretation by, amongst others, man vs magnet, Chris Parks, Defasten, Visual Kitchen, Les agents Myop, Scott Pagano, Humanstudio, ego, miH, Ewo, Dirk Ignoul...
21:15 Casualty 606
21:20 Thanden Strakk
21:26 The Aral Sea
21:31 The End of Eternity
21:36 Parks on Fire
21:44 Webs made of Nylon
21:48 77
21:53 E3
21:56 Rotor2
