Since September 2007 the 12 meters neon writing FLU POWER FLU by Italian artist Stefano Cagol highlights physical and mental influences, positive and negative points of power in the capital of Nato and of Europe, in front of the former financial-market center, on the former casino, on the actual Beursschouwburg Art Center. For the festival opening night, Cimatics re-appropriates the semi-permanent installation 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.

As opening performance of Cimatics festival, AGF presents 'urban lone warrior forest', a highly poetic and rather downbeat audiovisual performance based on her yet to be released sixth solo album entitled 'Einzelkaempfer', or Lone Warrior (release Nov 6). With Lone Warrior AGF investigates musical and lyrical themes concerning solitary beings and actions. 'It is a lot about NOT being in the city, withdrawing from the masses, mass movement or overstimulation...'.

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. In this concert for Cimatics festival Ben Butler and Mousepad will also include some experiments with the Star6 iPhone application, but that is just a detail. Ben Butler and Mousepads show buddies include Lightning Bolt, Dan Deacon, Max Tundra, Shitdisco, No Age, Cutting Pink With Knives, Eats Tapes, The Blow, Venetian Snares, Mahjongg, Afri Rampo, Dat Politics,Yacht . Festival appearances have included Glade, Overkill and TDK Cross Central, Numusic, Metropop, Novafest, Futuresonic, ZXZW and art festivals such as Glasgow

Singularity is an audiovisual installation that confronts the viewer with the recursive states of the physical and the virtual. They are both dependent on each other, as is the installation towards the viewer, and the visuals to the audio. What is presented as a monolithic object filled with mathematical references is reflected in the mental state of the viewer in the form of associations. These resemblances are then projected again by the viewer towards the object; the object itself becomes the visual manifestation of how an idea grows in complexity.

Producer:
Yves Marquillie

Partners:
Studio Hans op de Beeck

Presented on triple screens and on a series of CRT televisions, TVestroy is an experiment with the links between image and sound materials, leveraging all of their potential 'drasticality'. Generated from the same source, sounds and images are not only in synch - they emerge concurrently. The sound IS the image. Hypnotic and heady, this work of art - qualified as 'electrovideoacoustic' by its two creators - engulfs the audience in an environment made out of geometrical abstractions and de-structured rhythmic phrases way beyond any compromise.

Whales may be the heaviest animals living under the surface of the see, Baleine 3000 is the fastest whale living on the surface of the earth. Coming right from the future of music history, these animals have been trained to smash the dancefloor thru the exclusive use of color diagonal records shaped by the best jewellers on this side of Saturn. Infamous rock selector DJ Afrojaws (France)  and inti-mujus techno producer Sun OK Papi K.O. (Belgium) promise to bring you a powerful, spicy blend of new Sound. This special DJ set is dedicated to to MC Illreme, stuck in Japan for financial reasons.