Konkreet Labs 21:00

Konkreet Labs, a collaboration of Gwydion ap Dafydd, Shai Levy and Marc Tiedemann, was formed with a mission to create innovative music instruments for touch-screen devices. “Performer”, a visual music control instrument for the iPad is the main result. Throughout its one year of existence “Performer” has managed to draw the attention of professional and aspiring musicians alike, has been touring the biggest clubs in the world as weapon of choice for Marc Romboy and Stephan Bodzin and keeps inspiring recording artists in their studios and on stage.

In their presentation Shai Levy and Marc Tiedemann will give a live performance of their app, talk about its development through the many stages of conceptualizing, researching and creating and will share their thoughts on the pros and cons of using a touch-screen a creative medium.

Reynold Reynolds 21:50

Reynold Reynolds is an award winning experimental film maker and visual artist with a background in physics. Originally from Alaska he now lives and works in Berlin. Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, he has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’ analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use to understand reality. By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he transfers the experimental methods of science to film making, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.

During his presentation Reynold will show works made in his Berlin studio (Six Apartments) and some older works from his collaborations in New York with Patrick Jolley (The Drowning Room).

Pikilipita 22:40

Pikilipita aka Clément Cordier is a video artist, designer, programmer and all-round genius. Born in France, working in UK, but in Poland most of the time, he not only creates VJ content but also develops his own console software to perform his visual mixes on. So far he has made VJ applications for the Game Boy Advance, Playstation 2, a number of mobile phones, and other cheap multimedia devices.

When mixing with these tools instead of your usual laptop, the performer can be much closer to the audience, creating a totally new experience both for the artist and the performer. At scopesession clement will demonstrate how this works using two of his newest pieces of software: PS24VJ with runs on the Playstation 2, and Super Pikix for the Caanoo console.

The collective of Marcel Weber and Lucy Benson, MFO (vimeo.com/mfo) create and direct audiovisual performances, installations, video and image works. Intense and distinct aesthetics define their work. Concept takes priority over technique, the meaning defines the method. New and old media forms, technology and illusionary devices are employed equally. MFO aims at the subconscious over the conscious, emotion over intellect, ambiguity over well-defined.

MFO are resident visual artists for multiple event series focused on the exploration of contemporary electronic music in Berlin and internationally. Performances and installations have featured at festivals such as CTM and Transmediale (Berlin), Unsound (Krakow), TodaysArt (Den Haag), as well as various events across Europe, USA and Australia. Recent collaborations include audiovisual performances with the likes of Kode 9, Roly Porter and Oni Ayhun. Additionally MFO contributes video design to high culture productions, having worked with the Opera national de Paris, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin and the Brut theatre in Vienna. Larger projects are realised with an extended network of artists, MFO seeks constantly to collaborate, inform and evolve.

Thorsten Fleisch (fleischfilm.com) was born 1972 in Koblenz (Germany). He made his first film experiments with his dad’s Super 8 camera when still in school. Later he studied experimental film with Prof. Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Thorsten Fleisch works with digital and analogue film. With materials such as the body, crystals, fire and electricity, he worked directly on 16 mm film strips. Crystals are grown on the film and 30,000 volts burn through photo paper. The results are poetic and abstract visual systems with references to catharsis, cosmos and the universe. In 2003 Fleisch received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria) for his computer animated film Gestalt. High voltage is the centre of his work Energie! for which he has won international acclaim. His films received several awards and were shown at festivals worldwide like: New York Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Film Festival, Videoex. Among other clients he has worked for Gaspar Noé (electric titles for Enter The Void) and Basement Jaxx (live visuals for Jump and Shout). He lives and works in Berlin.

The mixed-media collective Sansculotte (sansculotte.de) will present their 2-players live video patch and talk about visions, technology, aesthetics and how to spend a lot of time building universes that fall apart 99 seconds later.

Along the way will be mentioned: pure data, glsl, digital cut-up, appropriation and information overload.

finally here are the last two interviews we made at FREEMOTE in december.

Ioann Maria and Gianluca del Gobbo of Live Performers Meeting present their yearly events and talk about the future.

Benjamin Jantzen talks (in German) about the yearly B-Seite Festival Mannheim organised by him and the Verein für Jetztkultur.

Francesco Salizzoni talks about the annual robot festival in Bologna, Italy

Willem van der Schans talks about born digital and their FREEMOTE Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands

Elwira Wojtunik and Popesz Csaba Láng of EleKTro mOOn Vision talk about their installation at FREEMOTE and their planned future festival in Kraków, Poland

Welcome back to SCOPE SESSIONS – a new year, a new location and new speakers!

We will start with a small introductory talk about SCOPE, ourselves and our project, our intention, network and focus. A good occasion to discuss strategical needs for future art presentations and the exchange between artists and audience.

Andreas Karaoulanis (bestbefore.gr) comes from illustration and Computer Science background. His current work deals with interactive media illustration and animation. In the scope session he will present a way to creating  visuals from hand made sketches and images, basically from scratch. Simple real time drawings can create some very interesting effects that later can be evolved to more complex and artistic results without any need of code. (Maybe a few Quartz Composer patches already built).

A technique that can be used in various forms, from live dj ing to theater and dance performances.

Software used VDMX ,a firewire camera plus lots of white A3 papers, black markers!

Christoph Rittweger (crittweger.net) will talk a little about “VVVV” and the stuff he made with it and if you are interested he can give an introduction on how to work with “VVVV”, so bring your books and/or a windows-emulator if mac and download “VVVV” at http://vvvv.org/downloads.