The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits #145
Doors: 18:30
Start time: 19:00
Entrance: 5-10 euro (up to your offer)
An evening with THE SOCIETY FOR NONTRIVIAL PURSUITS
Complex behaviors, whether in feedback systems, chaotic circuits, social systems and/or computer programs are fascinating objects of study. The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits (students, alumni and associates of the class Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin) explores the possibility spaces of such systems for experimental performance. They design, build and program their own audio/visual performance systems based on a variety of devices, sensors, analog electronics, and software synthesis, and use them in extremely diverse projects, often intended for performance contexts.
Performances (in no particular order)
EERO NIEMINEN & ANNA PETZER - IM SITTING IN A ROOM WITH WHITE NOISE
We are going to activate the lowest natural frequency of the space by recording white noise over and over again in a similar way that Alvin Lucier recorded speech in his piece I'm sitting in a room.
THE MENTAL MODEL OF AN IMPALPABLE SPACE
Haye Heerten, Nicolas Lefort, Hannah Rumstedt, Büke Schwarz
Join a quartet of media artists composing a collage of feedbacks between present and imagined realities using live A/V processing equipment. By doing so they try to touch on the otherwise imperceptible circumstance that a communication process is always reflecting on itself. You are invited to take part in this research experiment.
The group formed during a recently held collaborative workshop involving the Generative Art and Moving Image classes of UdK's Art&Media department.
GLICL
Lisa-Maria Steppacher, Christian Höhn, Isak Han, Luca Lomonaco and Gil Fuser
The concept of this work was elaborated from a method. Images from natural landscapes and human gestures compared as organic movements analysed with computer vision techniques. Sound and video influence each other in a feedback system. A simple shape of a circle searching uncertain for something that is not obvious emerges questions about interdependence and decision.
CHRISTIAN SCHMIDTS - ATTRACTIVE FX
Audio-visual reflections on communication and social systems
BRUNACCI + PIDRÉ
Matias Brunacci is a multimedia artist. His media artworks feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to experiment with aleatoric operations and results. Inspired by his personal attachment to computers and the digital-analog conversion that determine our daily realities, he explores new media phenomena amplifying and mixing their effects to create new experiences for his performances and interactive installations. As an autodidact digital artist, Emmanuel Pidré is an enthusiast for all things logical. His work is based on a set of self-written algorithms that follow a particular system of rules. The result is the transformation of forms and colors, playing with the rules of geometry, sometimes creating an illusion of space where there is none.
WOLFGANG KICK - LITURGIA
Live sound performance. People pray around the world, in silence, speaking, singing, chanting, usually using rituals that allow them to repeat the same words over and over. I recorded prayer rituals in different parts of the worlds, in different religions. When do the words lose their meaning because of the repetition? When do they become music, when do they become silence? At which point do all religions sound the same?
DIGITAL DISSECTION COLLECTIVE
Interactive audiovisual installation If we ignore all of the information that links this piece with contemporary reality, the deep symbolism arising from the depicted close encounter with death will surface as the primary theme.