For this 7th edition of the Cimatics festival, we try to go at full throttle again with todays image culture. As an audiovisual festival Cimatics puts the focus both on art, media, design and music. We invite you for a mix of concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, public interventions and parties.
Cimatics is spread out all over the city of Brussels. For 10 days and nights it will be hosted by numerous venues, both underground and above. It intends to be a citywide international festival for advanced creativity, a node where underground, pop and art become mixed in an exciting cultural mash-up.
Cimatics is an ongoing experiment. What was initially a festival for VJing, and soon after for live audiovisual art, has now become an exercise and celebration focusing on 'advanced creativity'. Todays urban and digital culture in all its diversity.
A great expections are for performances at Beursschouwburg (AGF), Bozar (Ulf Langheinrich, Ryoichi Kurokawa), Les Brigittines (Herman Kolgen (see picture), Telcosystems,...) and Planetarium (Vladislav Delay + Lillevan): it is recommended to purchase a presale ticket. A great event of the festival will be also the Exhibition about Mika Vaino's works. The publication 'Time Examined' by raster-noton, the German label for minimal electronic music, aims to change this with a chronological overview of Vainio's wanderings throughout music, installation, performance and video. The book plus two audio cd's is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the audio-visual work of artists associated with raster-noton. For the accompanying exhibition raster-noton and LAb[au], the Belgian electronic arts trio, join forces to retrospect Mika Vainio's oeuvre; an attempt to make tangible 12 years artistic creation.
CIMATICS PLATFORM
Cimatics is a Brussels-based initiative with structural support from the Flemish authorities as an organisation for 'audiovisual performance arts'. With this focus Cimatics is unique in Belgium, and has built up a strong international reputation in this field.
Next to the organisation of Cimatics Festival, activities include the production support of audiovisual creations (such as Ryoichi Kurokawa, Boris & Brecht Debackere, Arne Deforce, Yutaka Oya and Visual Kitchen), tourmanagement and bookings, the organisation of audiovisual events (concerts, performances,...), workshops and guest-curations.
Cimatics is member of ICAS/ECAS (International Cities of Advanced Sound), the international network of contemporary urban festivals such as Mutek (Montréal), Mutek Mexico, Club Transmediale (Berlin), Todays Art (The Hague) or FutureEverything (Manchester).
As a Flemish organisation in Brussels Cimatics tries to encourage dialogue between the different Belgian communities. Therefor the organisation is member of BKO/RBA (Brussels Kunstenoverleg), and established numerous partnerships with organisations from both the Flemish and the French-speaking community.
Welcome to Digicult, the online/offline cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture. Digicult focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field.
To learn more about Digicult, you can read some deep online interviews did in the last months: the one taken from Lab For Culture, the one from Elektra Blog, the one from project Vj Theory and the last one from Russian magazine Art-Manager.
Here you find all the Credits and here our rich Archive of articles, and you can contact us at:redazione@digicult.it
Created at Mutek festival
at Monument National (Montréal) in May 2009, POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations.
SKETCH-A-MOVE
Sketch-a-Move is a 5 weeks project by Loiuse Victoria Kinkler did with Anab Jain. The brief was set by Mattel Hotwheels to come up with a new concept for their small toycars.
BUSCANDO SR.GOODBAR
Buscando Al Sr.Goodbar from Transmediale award winning Michelle Terran, is a journey through Murcia, that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos.
DIGITAL ZOETROPE
Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year’s festival 'Citystates'. Opting to create an installation and identity that integrate into each other, Troika designed a modern digital zoetrope as the cornerstone of the identity.
SILICON DREAMS
The exhibition, Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union, will take place at Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián It explores the convergence of these three fields from the perspective of a group of artists
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: POLITICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
It is an abstract submission for an edited book on the creation, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and Middle East. The intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.
555 KUBIK
555 KUBIK "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle
CALL: CYNETARTS
TMA Hellerau hosts the international competition of Cynetart, an digital art and technology festival, that takes place in Dresden, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects. The call for entries ends bu will be extended until March 2010
INJECT BY HERMAN KOLGEN
It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the INJECT project. The genesis of the principal visual material for this project was a shoot, in an immense cistern filled with water, which lasted six consecutive days.
LIGHT BULB
light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.
UCLA SCI | ART NANOLAB 2010 LOS ANGELES: 21 JUNE / 2 JULY 2010
A two week summer course including lecture, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, offered through UCLA's Summer
Institute. Open to high school students. This introductory studio / lab course explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on
contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences -
bio and
nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas
that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific
research study.
Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases this year in Paris top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms.
