Category Archives: NODE13
Gabriel Shalom – Videomusic & Hypercubism
As part of the NODE13 Symposium in February 2013, Gabriel Shalom (founder of the design studio KS12) gave the following talk about his theories: Audiovisual composition, Video games, Dimensional collapse, Hypercubism, The transformation of the object, Speculative simulations, Design fiction, Pixels and frames, Through the looking glass.
The NODE13 Symposium was a two-day journey into discourses on The Rules of a modern, digital society through the lenses of different thinkers of our age. Not only we have been discussing these rules within panels and lectures. In advance to NODE13, we also have commissioned KS12 to develop a vision in the shape of an audiovisual essay on these transforming ‘rules’. Gabriel and his partner Patrizia came up with this video essay that has been premiered and screened as a part of the NODE13 exhibition.
Bio:
Gabriel Shalom is a director, audiovisual artist and composer living and working in Berlin, Germany. His signature work takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions (videomusic). Taking inspiration from musique concrète, he explores the hidden musicality of everyday objects, unusual handmade electro-acoustic instruments, and manipulation of traditional instruments. He understands video to be a fundamentally audiovisual medium and strives to create highly synaesthetic works. His five channel videomusical installation The Tosso Variations premiered in his solo exhibition at MU Eindhoven. He has written and spoken extensively on Hypercubism, his theory of object-oriented aesthetics. He has been commissioned by brands such as MINI, Sony and BMW Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the ZKM Karlsruhe and the CAMP Festival in Stuttgart. He is an ADC Young Gun and a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.
In addition to making audiovisual artworks, Gabriel is a director of experimental narratives. His company KS12, founded together with partner Patrizia Kommerell, is a creative studio for experimental storytelling. KS12 is the originator of the Video Sprint, a storytelling process designed for festivals and conferences. KS12 collaborates with events, agencies, and organizations, such as Transmediale, STRP Eindhoven, British Council, BOX 1824 and Meiré und Meiré. KS12 is a graduate of the Portland Incubator Experiment at Wieden + Kennedy.
Gabriel has been a guest speaker on audiovisual trends in London, Berlin and São Paulo, and since Spring 2009 he is adjunct faculty at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule in audiovisual media. He is a contributor to opinion-leading blogs on the future of cinema and augmented reality.
The NODE13 Symposium was a two-day journey into discourses on The Rules of a modern, digital society through the lenses of different thinkers of our age. We are happy if you get involved in the discussion and maybe even see you at the next edition of the Node Forum. Read more on the NODE13 theme here: node13.vvvv.org/the-rules/
ALEX MCLEAN – CHANGING RULES WHILE THEY ARE FOLLOWED: LIVE CODING THE EMBODIED LOOP
// Changing Rules While They Are Followed: Live Coding the Embodied Loop //
In terms of the body, live coding of music is perhaps the most inert performance art invented. Live coders give everything to the digital world they inhabit: in order to achieve creative flow they focus entirely on the code and its effects. The result is stark: blank faces, eyes fixed on the screens, no movement except the efficient tapping on keyboard…
Bio:
Alex McLean is a live coder, software artist and researcher based in Sheffield, UK. As a live coding musician, he performs with Adrian Ward and Dave Griffiths as the live coding Slub, getting people to dance to code at the Sonar (Barcelona), Transmediale (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), STRP (Eindhoven), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Lambda (Antwerp), Make Art (Poitiers), Piksel (Bergen) and /* vivo */ (Mexico City) festivals. He also collaborates with Jake Harries in the spam-pop band Silicone Bake.
Alex is Research Fellow in Human/Technology Interaction, at ICSRiM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music), University of Leeds. His research interests surround the use of programming languages in live interaction, within creative, educational and social contexts. Alex completed his PhD thesis “Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts” at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Alex is active across the digital arts, for example as organiser of regular dorkbot events in Sheffield and London, and recently chaired the International Conference on Live Interfaces. He is a founder member of the TOPLAP live coding organisation, and is guest co-editing a special issue of the Computer Music Journal on the topic. He also co-runs the ChordPunch label with Nick Collins, showcasing algorithmic music with stage presence. He collaborates on the AHRC funded Live Notation project with Hester Reeve, approaching philosophical aspects of liveness from the joint perspectives of live performance art and live coding. Alex also collaborates with EunJoo-Shin, on works exploring non-vocal communication though installation art (http://comms.me/).
The Node13 Symposium was a two-day journey into discourses on The Rules of a modern, digital society through the lenses of different thinkers of our age. To share these insights with you, we will now start to publish the talks of our Symposium guests, starting with Kyle McDonald’s inspiring talk on a “Life away from the keyboard”. We are happy if you get involved in the discussion and maybe even see you at the next edition of the Node Forum.
Read more on the Node13 theme here: node13.vvvv.org/the-rules/
KYLE MCDONALD – LIFE AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
// Life Away From Keyboard //
What might it look like when all of our real world relationships are governed by the rules of our online relationships? When the way you treat your friends, how you determine who to respect and who to disown, is determined by an automated system? What happens when broadcast becomes the norm, and one-to-one contact is extraordinary? These are a few stories about unusual situations at the border of our real and networked lives.
Bio:
Kyle McDonald is a New York-based media artist who works with code, with a background in philosophy and computer science. He creates intricate systems with playful realizations, sharing his source and challenging others to create and contribute.
Kyle is a regular collaborator on arts-engineering initiatives such as openFrameworks, having developed a number of extensions which provide connectivity to powerful image processing and computer vision libraries. For the past few years, Kyle has applied these techniques to problems in 3D sensing, for interaction and visualization, starting with structured light techniques, and later using the Kinect.
Kyle’s work ranges from hyper-formal glitch experiments to tactical and interrogative installations and performance. He has been Guest Researcher in residence at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan; a fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; and is currently teaching at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
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
Festival program for exhibition, symposium, workshops and happenings announced. Tickets on sale.
The 3rd edition of ‘NODE13 – Forum for Digital Arts’ comes with the key topic ‘The Rules – Examining code as shapeable cosmoplastic material’ and it invites to the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, from the 11th through the 17th of February, 2013. Visitors can now purchase their tickets and register for the workshops online.
