What is NODE? What happened at NODE13? Paoloreste Gelfo and his team of ambitious videographers followed every stage of the festival in February 2013 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and have taken hours of video footage, to create a documentary about NODE13. The festival is a biannual reunion of vvvv developers, users, artists and activists. It is an international platform, with talks, workshops and an exhibition. A platform to share knowledge and to meet each other – away from keyboard, in real.
So what makes NODE special? ‘Why do we trust in NODE? Because it is good people here!’ [Joreg] It is a week full of ambition, densely packed with workshops, artist talks and performances. Whether you really want to dig deep into code and patches, share your artistic endeavor or just want to get a picture of the future of digital media as seen by the critical members of a developing society.
‘ Panel Discussion’ with Andreas Broeckmann, Philipp Kleinmichel, Rafael Rozendaal, Gabriel Shalom, Joanne McNeil
We admit, NODE is quite geeky and we must confess ‘we like to make little toys like children’ [Aristides Garcia]. We are really curious – we like to develop and discuss ideas. We invited an outstanding selection of speakers to develop a comprehensive idea of ‘The Rules – code as a shapeable, cosmoplastic material’. ‘The symposium was unique, it is the moment when everybody turns away from his display, from his computer and steps back a little – when we try to think about what we really do on these machines. We think that writing software changes the way of the transformative processes in our society.’ [Eno Henze]
In addition to the Symposium, the Exhibition and the Performances have been a social hub to the city to mix up developers, artists, activists, art lovers, international guests and locals. Each one could connect to each other to form new and sometimes unexpected inspiring nodes.
‘Volume’ by Robert Mathy; Sound installation, 30 electric motors 2013, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Direction: Paoloreste Gelfo paoloreste.tumblr.com/
Editor/Colorist/Graphic: Antonio Labbro Francia vimeo.com/user3449801
Music: Edisonnoside soundcloud.com/edisonnoside
Production Coordination: Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Camera: Constantin Urban, Paoloreste Gelfo, Markus Haertel, Yannic Bill
The video was made possible with the help of
meso.net
wirmachenbunt.de
m-box.de
vvvv.org
Commisioned by NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur. node.vvvv.org
