In its 4th rendition, NODE15 Forum for Digital Arts was dedicated to the leitmotif „Wrapped in Code – The future of the informed body“. For one week, we investigated the melding of the human body with technology and take up the current debate regarding its effect on our social interactions, body and society.

NODE15 has hosted over 50 coding workshops and turned Naxoshalle into a forum for practitioners, for experimenting with digital technologies, and exchanging know-how and skills. With a series of lectures, concerts, performances, and an exhibition, the Mousonturm became the stage for drafts of the future of the informed body.

Selected Press

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Schirn Magazin, Frankfurter Neue Presse, 3sat Kulturzeit

ARTISTS

Exhibiting Artists
Aram Bartholl, Antoni Rayzhekov & Katharina Köller, BeAnotherLab, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Chris Sugrue, Depart, Golan Levin, Gregor Woschitz, Herwig Turk, IOCOSE, Jeremy Bailey, Jörg Brinkmann, Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Lisa Bergmann, panGenerator, Quayola, schnellebuntebilder & kling klang klong, Simon Renaud & Véronique Pêcheux, Stefan Tiefengraber, Susanna Hertrich, Woeishi Lean & Quadrature

Performers
1024 Architecture, Alfeo Pier, Davide die Franco, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hard Work Soft Drink, Peter Kirn, Philipp Artus, Robert Henke, Sam Aaron, Ulf Langheinrich, Yuebing Luo, Quayola & Natan Sinigaglia, Zanshin, Antoni Rayzhekov & Katharina Köller

Speakers
Ali Panahi, Amir Bastan, Anna Biselli, Carolien Teunisse, Christian Loclair, Filip Visnjic, Florian Jenett, Georg Scherlin, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Janine Häberle, Jeanne Charlotte Vogt, Kyle McDonald, Manuel Rossner, Mark Farid, Mark Lukas, Matthieu Cherubini, Max Wolf, Mirco Becker, Pedro Lopes, Peter Kirn, Robert Henke, Sabrina Verhage, Sam Aaron, Scott DeLahunta, Sebastian Oschatz, Verena Kuni, Zack Freedman

Associated Exhibiting Artists
Amir Bastan & Georg Scherlin, Anton Savov, Dominik Lischka, Felix Deufel, Marcel Patsch, Markus Schuricht, Michael Burk, Oliver Tessmann, Patrick Renkel, Paul Schengber, Rafael Mäuer, Ruven Sprenger, Stig Anton Nielsen, Städelschule Architecture Class “Architecture and Performative Design (APD)” 2014 with Guest Professor Mirco Becker, Interactive Media Design Class of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt with Prof. Andrea Krajewski

Podcast Authors
Dawid Kasprowicz, Ingrid Scharlau, Joanna Jurkiewicz, Mareike Teigeler, Martin Gierczak, Martina Leeker

WORKSHOPHOSTS

Abraham Manzanares, Alessandro Maggioni, Anton Koch, Anton Mezhiborskiy, Antoni Rayzhekov, Arístides García, BeAnotherLab, BeAnotherLab, Benjamin Schiek, Chris Engler, Chris Loclair, Clement Destephen, Daniel Huber, Darsha Hewitt, David Gann, David Morasz, Dominik Koller, Edgar Loco Martinez, Elias Holzer, Elliot Woods, Florian Egermann, Florian Jenett, Gerrit Kress, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Ingo Randolf, Ingolf Heinsch, Ivo Schüssler, Jan Bernstein, Jens A. Ewald, Jochen Leinberger, Johannes Helberger, Johannes Lemke, Johannes Timpernagel, Joreg, Juliane Götz, Julien Vulliet, Marko Ritter, Matthias Husinsky, Matthias Zauner, Melanie Thewlis, Mika Satomi, Minoru Itoh, Moritz Cramer, Natan Sinigaglia, Nikos Mechanezidis, Patrick Jost, Paul Scheytt, Robert Willner, Sam Aaron, Sarah Schmid, Sebastian Gregor, Sebastian Huber, Sebastian Neitsch, Stephan Müller, Tebjan Halm, Thomas Gross, Valérie-Françoise Vogt, Verena Henn, Woeishi Lean, Yuki Hirano

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TEAM

Festival Direction David Brüll
Curation Exhibition Jeanne Charlotte Vogt & Alexandra Waligorski
Curation Symposium Sebastian Oschatz
Workshops & Community Program David Brüll, joreg, vvvv group
Performances & Additional Program David Brüll, joreg, Rosi Grillmair, Jeanne Charlotte Vogt, Alexandra Waligorski

Production Management Christian Hergarten, Markus Berger
Production Benjamin Schiek, Björn Schwarzer, Daniel Maaz, Emanuel Reith, Eva Mössner, Fenja Braasch, Johannes Schmidt, John Einchenseer, Julius Lebert, Kalle, Klaus Peter Texter, Nils Weger, Phillip Reul, Sarah Schmid, Tim Findeisen, Tom Forsythe
Program Coordination Daniel Maaz, Emma Atzenroth, Rosi Grillmair, Valérie-Françoise Vogt

Design Pixelgarten – Adrian Nießler, Catrin Altenbrandt, Timo Lenzen
Exhibition Architecture Hellen Kleine & Marc-Samuel Ulm
Web Florian Jenett, Philip Reul, Simone Marine, Omar Rollins

Public Relations & Social Media Jörn Klein & Enes Ünal
Marketing & Merchandise Alexander Henker, Christian Tielmann, Ivan Iovine, Tobias Goger
Controlling Anja Scharrelmann-Hassebrock, Kathrin Ahrens
Organization & Participant Hospitality Benjamin Schiek, Christine Lyschick, Darina Mamonova, Emeline Van Houtte, Fatih Inan, Fatma Keser, Isabelle Stamm, Liliane Werner, Lukas Flory, Nicoletta Schenk, Nikos Mechanezidis, Nils Weger, Omar Rollins, Rosi Grillmair

Documentation Team
Alexander Koltermann, Amin Weber, Benjamin Böhm, Constantin Urban, Ira Konyukhova, Jakob Helmrich, Jammal Rahim, Jennifer von Schuckmann, Jens Wunderle, Johannes Scherg, Nicolas Kronauer, Pierre Blechschmidt, Sebastian Nöll, Sophia Edschmid, Yannic Bill
Photography
Jessica Schäfer, Nemanja Knežević, Laura Nickel, Woeishi Lean, Jeanne Vogt

Exhibition Team
Antonina Mackova, Anna Mackova, Begüm Inal, Catharina Szonn, Emeline Van Houtte, Hanna Sauer, Isabelle Stamm, Liliane Werner, Linda Traut, Ronja Trischler, Sabine Funk, Sonja Lesniak, Theresa Fuchs

Workshops

Topcis among others: vvvv – a Multipurpose Tooltik (for newbies), Art and Brainwave Analysis, 3D Body Tracking with Kinect (Basics), „ Choreographies with Flying Copters, DirectX 11 Realtime Rendering, Projection Mapping on Moving Objects, Folding & Cutting Paper, Visualizing Dance with Motion Bank, Animations with Particle Systems, Video Effects, Multitouch Gesture Recognition, Multiscreen Setups, Physics Based Interactions, Transformations,„„ vvvv and the Arduino, Motor Control, Industrial Robots for Creative Applications, IRIS – Interactive Realtime Image Synthesizer, vvvv.js

Workshop instructors among others:
„„Arístides Job García Hernández (http://aristidesgarcia.tumblr.com, Berlin, DE)
„„Sebastian Neitsch (www.sebastianneitsch.de, Halle, DE)
„„Joreg (http://vvvv.org, Berlin, DE)
„„Motionbank (Florian Jenett, Scott DeLahunta, Amin Weber; www.motionbank.org, Frankfurt, DE)
„„Sebastian Oschatz (www.meso.net, Frankfurt, DE)
„„Natan Sinigaglia (www.natansinigaglia.com, Varese, IT)
„„Julien Vulliet (www.mrvux.com, Annecy, FR)
„„Elliot Woods (www.kimchiandchips.com, Manchester, UK)

Exhibition ‘The Rules’

Julian Oliver (www.julianoliver.com, Berlin, DE)
„„Rafaël Rozendaal (www.newrafael.com, New York, USA)
„Memo Akten (www.memo.tv, London, UK)
„„Kyle McDonald (www.kylemcdonald.net, New York, USA)
„„Elliot Woods (www.kimchiandchips.com, Manchester, UK)
Rainer Kohlberger (www.kohlberger.net, Berlin, DE)
„„Geoffrey Lillemon (www.oculart.com, Amsterdam, NL)
„„Gabriel Shalom und Patrizia Kommerell (KS12, www.ks12.net, Berlin, DE)
„„Kathrin Stumreich (www.kathrinstumreich.com, Vienna, AT)
„„Robert Mathy (www.robertmathy.com, Vienna, AT)
„„Evy Schubert (www.evy-schubert.de, Berlin, DE)
„„Marcin Nowicki & Katarzyna Nestorowicz (Noviki Studio, www.noviki.net, Warsaw, PL)
„„Ivo Schüssler (www.mappingmymind.net, Berlin, DE)
„„Gabriel Hošovský (Bratislava, SK)
„„Daniel Schwarz (www.danielschwarz.cc, Treviso, IT)
Curator: Eno Henze (artist, www.enohenze.de, Berlin, DE)

Symposium ‘The Rules’

Speakers: Andrew Goffey (Writer and theorist, www.nottingham.ac.uk, Nottingham, UK)
„„Philipp Kleinmichel (Arts theorist and philisopher, Berlin, DE)
„„Kyle McDonald (Artist, www.kylemcdonald.net, New York, USA)
„„Alex McLean (Artist, www.toplap.org, Sheffield, UK)
„„Joanne McNeil (Writer and theorist, www.joannemcneil.com, New York, USA)
„„Julian Oliver (Critical engineer and artist, www.julianoliver.com, Berlin, DE)
„„Rafaël Rozendaal (Artist, www.newrafael.com, New York, USA)
„„Gabriel Shalom (Artist, www.ks12.net, Berlin, DE)

Curator: Eno Henze (artist, www.enohenze.de, Berlin, DE)
Moderation and curatorial advice: Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg; formerly artistic director Transmediale, Berlin)

Further program

„„Panel discussion ‘Communities in Open Source Projects. Responsibilities and Challenges.’
Moderator: Filip Visnjic (www.creativeapplications.net, London, UK).

AV Performance ‘Sirens’
Novi_sad (www.novi-sad.net, Athens, GR), Ryoichi Kurokawa (www.ryoichikurokawa.com, Berlin, DE)

Livecoding performance
Alex McLean (www.toplap.org, Sheffield, UK)

AV performance
Daniel Schwarz (www.danielschwarz.cc, Treviso, IT), Edisonnoside (www.edisonnoside.com, Venedig, IT)
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‘vvvv keynote’ – Insights into the diary of the developers of vvvv
vvvv group a.k.a. Joreg, Sebastian Gregor, Tebjan Halm, Elias Holzer (Berlin, DE)
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Performance ‘Fabricmachine’
Kathrin Stumreich (Vienna, A)
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Artist talk and screening
Geoffrey Lillemon (www.oculart.com, Amsterdam, NL)

Artist talk
Städel Architecture Class (www.staedelschule.de, Frankfurt, DE)„„

‘Patcher Kucha Talks’ – Insights and talks by the participants of NODE13, Moderator: Max Wolf (MESO Digital Interiors)

„„ ‘Prototyping Interfaces’ – Book presentation
Authors: Roman Stefan Grasy, Mark Lukas (www.prototypinginterfaces.com)

Premiere screening ‘Another Dimension’
Gabriel Shalom and Patrizia Kommerell (KS12, www.ks12.net, Berlin, DE) Resulting from the Deutsche Börse Residency Program

Artist talk
Memo Akten (www.memo.tv, London, UK)

Exhibition Abstrakt Abstrakt the systemized world

With: Ralf Baecker, FIELD,  Ben Fry, Leander Herzog, Robert Hodgin, Thilo Kraft, Brandon Morse, Louise Naunton Morgan, John Powers, Patrick Raddatz, SOFTlab, Jorinde Voigt, Zimoun

Exhibition NODE Deluxe

With: Jonas Bohatsch, Florian Egermann, Jürgen Graef & Jonas Friedemann Heuer, Florian Jenett, Philipp Sackl, Stefan Schwabe, James Snazzell, Daniel Stempfer

Workshops

Digital Media in Performing Arts, Visual Music, Projecting on things, vvvv Beginners, Mathematics for vvvv, Off Effects and Shaders, Plugin Coding Patterns, Transformations, Web User Interfaces, Physics Based Animation, Multitouch Paradigms, Character Animation, Arduino and the TinkerKit, Data Visualizations, Video Tracking, Video LED with e:Cue & Traxon, Boygrouping and Multiscreen Setups, Tinkerin with Fritzing

Symposium & Lectures

Frieder Nake, Lutz Dammbeck, Marius Watz, Eno Henze, Sebastian Oschatz, Stefan Bergheim, Matthias Böttger, Ludwig Engel, Klaus Mainzer, vvvv group

Performing Live

Pan Am Scan, Abstract Birds, Paul Prudence, Ralph Schreiber & Christian Faubel, Aoki Takamasa (live), Jacob Korn (live), Manuel Raven (live)

NODE08 Exhibition

Verena Friedrich, Theverymany (Skylar Tibbits & Marc Fornes), Sebastian Preis und Lena Zhdanova, Philipp Steinweber & Andreas Koller, Christian Riekoff and Andreas Schmelas, Abraham Manzanares, Javier Lloret, Jordi Puig , & Paola R. Salillas, Jan Snippen, Jens Fischer, Jannis Kreft, O.M.A. – International, Pinar Yoldas, Benedikt Gross, Digital Slaves, Claudio Midolo, Edgar Castellanos, Natan Sinigaglia & Pedro Mari, Sebastian Huber & Alexander Graf, Eno Henze

Workshops

vvvv Beginners, Shader Programming, Max/Msp & vvvv communication, Bring your Serial Device / Decode RS232, Typographic Techniques, Tracking Techniques, Virtual Architecture and Installation Setup, Tagtool and the Node Kit, Processing Printing Techniques, The Tagtool talks to vvvv over OSC, Frame Based Animations & Feedback, vvvv to Sensors and Microcontrollers, vvvv project managment, FreeFrame Video Effects Coding, Tinkering with Arduino and vvvv, Boygrouping & Deskewing Projections, vvvv Plugins – Code your own Node, How to build VJing Setups and Interfaces

Symposium

Herbert W. Franke, Regine Debatty, Casey Reas, Mark Fornes & Skylar Tibbits, Verena Kuni, Berthold Scharrer, Paul Prudence, vvvv grou

Performing live

VA – Sanch and Nushitzu, Desaxismundi – France, Gaiser – m-nus, Detroit, b-film – Amsterdam, Alex Flitsch – Connaisseur Rec – Frankfurt, Sylvie Marks – Bprich Control HAL 9000, Frankfurt, Melchior Productions – Cadenza, Deutschland, Elektromeier – Switzerland, U7Angel – Germany