Kohshi Kamata / Jeff Donaldson #180
Doors: 19:30 / Start time 20:30
Entrance 5-10 euro (up to your offer)
Sound art performance by Kohshi Kamata
Japanese improviser, computer and sound artist currently based in Berlin. He plays computers as a instruments and uses mainly Maxmsp, Puredata and Processing in his performance and creations. Although the concepts and inspirations of his works are on the basis of ideas and theory from literature, psychology, economy and so on, the conclusion of all projects are always focused on quality and aesthetic as entertainment art.
Jeff Donaldson - Prepared Video Mixer Improvisations
Applying the NIMB (No Input Mixing Board) concept from audio to video, a Panasonic "prosumer" video mixer becomes an audio/visual instrument for Jeff Donaldson's Prepared Video Mixer Improvisations. All video is created within the mixer and is processed as sound to give a true synesthetic experience: What you hear is what you see and what you see is what you hear. Donaldson has prepared the Panasonic with wires that enable him to play the video RAM in real-time: an exaptation of digital error that extends the aesthetic possibilities of the instrument.
Jeff Donaldson is one of the pioneers of “glitch art” and one of the earliest to apply glitch art, or the aestheticization of digital or analog errors, to textile design. He is perhaps best known for his “Notendo” circuit bending process in which he prepares a Nintendo Entertainment System to intentionally short-circuit by adding wiring to the system’s circuit board. For his “Data Knit” series of scarves, he produces textile renders of patterns generated with software. Donaldson's work contemporizes the tradition of embedding information in textiles and expands the vocabulary of surface design.
He has exhibited and performed internationally including at Tate Modern, London; Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio De Janeiro; Microscope Gallery, NYC; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, UK; Leap, Berlin; LABoral, Spain; Isetan, Tokyo; White Box, NYC; Art in General, NYC; Eyebeam, NYC; PLANETART, Amsterdam; and iMAL, Brussels among many others.