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9/4/2007

DEAF07: Interact or Die!

Different venues, Rotterdam

Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2007

The Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF07) takes place April 10 through 29, 2007, in Rotterdam. One of the most important international art and media technology festivals, DEAF is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. V2_ turns 25 this year and will celebrate its anniversary during DEAF07 with a smashing night of music and performances at Staal in Rotterdam on Saturday, April 14.

DEAF features an extensive program addressing art, technology, science and society, with a large exhibition of interactive art as a focal point. This year's festival will devote special attention to China. Visitors will also be able to enjoy concerts, performances, seminars, workshops and a symposium. DEAF07 is the definitive event at which the international ‘creative city' network comes together.

25 Years of V2_
Organizer V2_, which has developed DEAF into an important international festival for art and media technology, turns 25 years old this year. One of the DEAF07 theme nights will accordingly be devoted to V2_'s anniversary. A part of the festival program will also focus on the network V2_ has built in China and Asia over the past few years. Young artists and exhibition makers from China, along with several key members of the Chinese art world, will play an active role at DEAF.

DEAF's locations include The Las Palmas cultural centre , LPII and Pakhuismeesteren on the kop van Zuid, where the larger part of the exhibition will take place. Other locations: V2_ , the NAi, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Ro Theater, Staal and Arminius.

During the festival tickets can be purchased at the ticketing desk in the V2_building. Euros 8/6.

Show

A large international exhibition shows an intriguing overview of contemporary interactive arts. From cutting edge and experimental technological art to almost classical video art. With works from Europe, the United States, Canada, China and Japan, and also some specially commissioned works. The exhibition opens with a performance of Code31 on the 10th of April and runs on till 29th of April. The exhibition is closed on mondays and on wednesday 18 April.

Amazon Noir
(Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Übermorgen.com)
The Amazon Noir crew (Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Übermorgen.com) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated technology coded by 'supervillain' Paolo Cirio. A subliminal media fight and a covert legal dispute escalated into an online showdown with the heist of over 3000 books at the center of the story.

Chinese Portraiture
(Zhou Hong Xiang)
Chinese Portraiture (Zhou Hongxiang) is a conceptual image work, presented like a dictionary, in the way of Chinese tradition scrolls. Various Chinese people: workmen, policemen, the emperor of Qing Dynasty, intellectuals, monks, old people, children, beggars, farmers, judges are presented with their most remarkable characters, morals and habits. The film works like a photograph, because of the stare between viewer and portrayed people. You’ll wait for a certain thing to happen in a quiescent time and space.

Coexistence
(Donna Conlon)
(Donna Conlon) Leaf cutter ants live in the habit of transporting leaves to their nest, to feed their colony and assure its survival. In this video work we get a close-up look at an ant colony carrying political and institutional symbols like those seen in flag parades. The friction between the selforganised ant colony, based on evolutional strategies rather than on law and order, and the political symbols they carry through the woods, brings up ambivalent questions on the issue of power and survival principles.

Common Grounds
(Workspace Unlimited)
Location: Pakhuismeesteren 10-29 April
Common Grounds (Workspace Unlimited) brings the realities of the physical and virtual space closer to each other by creating an intermediate third space that opens new perspectives. The installation raises questions about presence, representation and identity as a reflection on mediaculture where the relation between real and virtual take more and more complex forms. A virtual simulation of the exhibition space of DEAF07 is connected to the Common Grounds network of virtual worlds, they will all be simultaneously accessible from the terminals in DEAF07, Montreal, and Gent.

Death Before Disko 3.1
(Herwig Weiser)
Death Before Disko 3.1 (Herwig Weiser) brings us back to the raw components, it exposes the innards of our technology in all their complexity and beauty. The work plays on associations with popular media culture by sculpting with plastics, metals and magnetic liquids, instead of showing the fetishized end results of informational transport technology. The sculpture visualizes live input from outer space noises which have been sampled from various internet sources.

drawn
(Zachary Lieberman)
In the installation drawn (Zachary Lieberman), figures drawn with pen and ink take on a life of their own and interact with their creators. They seem to arise from the sheet of drawing paper and start to move in synch with the hand motions of the person who drew them. Drawn figures can be animated in diverse ways simply by touching the figures on the paper.

EI 4 (Exercise in Immersion 4)
(Marnix de Nijs)
Location: Pakhuismeesteren 10-29 April
First public user test
Exercise in Immersion 4 (Marnix de Nijs) is an art-game played in an existing physical space. The players wear a specially designed headset-display and a crash-suit. The headset has a sensorsystem that connects the position of the player with previously modeled visuals. Objects in the virtual world correspond with objects in the existing world, on the display of the headset both are mixed visually. A player who does not move sees an existing reality that he confides in, the more he moves the more that existing space is visually taken over by an unknown virtual world.

Experiments in Galvanism
(Garnet Hertz)
(Garnet Hertz) A miniature webserver is implanted in the body of a frog specimen, which is suspended in a clear glass container. Through an ethernet cable connected to the embedded webserver, remote viewers can trigger movement in either the right or left leg of the frog, thereby updating Luigi Galvani's original 1786 experiment causing the legs of a dead frog to twitch simply by touching muscles and nerves with metal.

Go Up! Go Up!
(Hu Jie Ming)
Go Up! Go Up! (Hu Jie Ming) consists of 24 TV screens are stacked up as a vertical column resembling a ladder. The TV screens show a number of people climbing fanatically. The audience intervenes the climbing scene by either shouting at them or making noises, the climbers fall down hopelessly, and start to climb once again.

Harddisko: Noise & Disturbance Amplifier System for Harddisks
(Valentina Vuksic)
Harddisko (Valentina Vuksic) is an installation piece dealing with raw computer sounds. Rhythmic noises evolve from sixteen harddrives, which are orchestrated through simple power circuits. By cutting the harddisk's power in varying sequences and amplifying the peculiar sound characteristics of each drive, an unpredictable acoustic and visual interplay takes place.

knife.hand.chop.bot
(5Voltcore)
knife.hand.chop.bot (5Voltcore) is a cybernetic system that plays with the senses and perceptions of the user. A robot is equipped with a knife, to simulate the test of courage known as "Mumbledy Peg". A user puts a hand in the machine and starts the knife game at the push of a button. The knife starts to hit the space between the fingers, first slowly, then faster and faster. In case the user can’t keep his or her cool and start to sweat, contacts are activated, and the computer is disrupted.

Lowest Resolution
(Zhang Peili)
(Zhang Peili) A small LCD screen plays a video, hardly recognizable from distance. The viewer approaches, the video signal becomes fuzzy. The closer the viewer, the blurrier the video image until the image totally vanishes. One can never see the images clearly, whether from distance, or from close-up.

MOBI
(Graham Smith)
MOBI (Mobile Operating Bi-directional Interface) (Graham Smith) is a human sized telepresence robot that users remotely control to move through distant environments, see through its camera eye, talk through its speakers and hear via its microphone ear. Simultaneously a life sized image of themselves is projected onto the robots LCD face, creating a robotic avatar. MOBI allows people to "explore far away art shows, attend distant presentations and make public appearences from anywhere on earth, thus helping to reduce air travel and reduce global warming".

Morphing Machinery
(Graham Smith)
Morphing Machinery (Graham Smith) explores the world of nanotechnology, and takes as it thematic foundation a new urban landscape filled with transforming machines and architectural forms in motion. Just as plants grow and alter their structures over time our machines, buildings and environments may in the future reconfigure themselves based on environmental and programming influences. Our cities will then become alive in a real sense as they will change and evolve in ways that more resemble the growth in a forest.

Object B
(Exonemo)
Object B presents a modified first-person 3-D shooting game with real objects connected to a virtual-reality setting. Robotic objects made of computer parts, electric tools, and a control terminal for players trigger automatic commands, according to which the game develops. By controlling the game characters with vibration and shocks from the power tools, the system enables a myth of connecting the global abstract theme to the sense of local materiality to be repeated between reality and fiction.

Ondulation
(Thomas McIntosh)
Ondulation (Thomas McIntosh) is a composition for water, sound and light. A two ton pool of water is set into motion using sound, beams of light are projected onto the surface of the water and reflect onto a projection screen. The pool becomes a liquid mirror that is slowly sculpted into perfect three-dimensional expressions of a musical composition.

Pneumatic Sound Field
(Edwin van der Heide)
Location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 10-29 April
Opening hours 11:00-17:00
In the sound installation Pneumatic Sound Field (Edwin van der Heide), wind, pressure and sound create a 'breathing' architecture from sound structures. Sound and wind cross a field of 36 + 4 valves mounted over the heads of the audience, with differing speeds, directions, and intensities. The audience is challenged to find its own perspective on the spatial interaction of the air vibrations and the sound-generating valves, and the resulting composition.

Roots
(Roman Kirschner)
Roots (Roman Kirschner) is inspired by an old persian image: a bush growing heads. In an aquarium filled with a brownish fluid, iron crystals grow steadily. Bubbles ascend like jellyfish. Branches break off and sink to the dark ground. They start to dissolve and become thick clouds hovering over the scene. Electricity is pulsed through the sculpture. Growth changes the flow of the current. The modified flow changes the growth. The voltages at each wire are put through a resonance filter and transform into sound.

Screening: Camouflage. Look like them - Talk like them
(Jun Yang)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
14.00 / 18.00

Camouflage. Look like them - Talk like them
Jun Yang
A 2002/04, 16:33 min
As an object of "suspicious appearance and behaviour", Migrant X feels forced to develop a range of camouflage tactics to ride out his everyday life.

Screening: Faceless - The Spectral Children
(Manu Luksch)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
15.00 / 19.00 (total 30mins)

Faceless - The Spectral Children
Manu Luksch
A/UK 2006, 13:00 min
In a future society where people´s faces have decreased to an anonymous plain, a woman runs scared when looking into the mirror one day.

Screening: In the Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall
(Denis Beaubois)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
15.00 / 19.00 (total 30mins)

In the Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall
Denis Beaubois
AU 1996, 07:31 min
The video questions the role of surveillance in public space by trying to reach beyond the anonymous CCTV system and to get in contact with what's behind it.
Screening: Marching Plague
(Critical Art Ensemble)

During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
11.30 / 15.30

Marching Plague - Critical Art Ensemble
The Arts Catalyst
GB 2006, 17.00 mins
A powerful critique on UK-US bio-weapons research and the bio-terrorism paranoia.

Screening: Safe Distance
(Kuda.org)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
12.00 / 16.00

Safe Distance
Kuda.org
RS 2003, 31:00 min
A testimonial from the world´s first "clean war"; the NATO intervention against former FR Yugoslavia, won exclusively with air strikes, keeping a "Safe Distance" between the pilot´s navigation screen and the reality of the outside world.

Screening: The Catalogue
(Chris Oakley)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
15.00 / 19.00 (total 30mins)

The Catalogue
Chris Oakley
GB 2004, 05:30 min
From a remote position, we observe humanity being reduced to spending capacity and consumer categories.

Screening: The Red Flag Flies
(Zhou Hong Xiang)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
13.00 / 17.00

The Red Flag Flies
Zhou Hongxiang
CN 2002, 25:00 min
A video essay offering new perspectives on a contemporary China between communist slogans and market-driven society.

Screening: What Noah Knew: Old Models for New Conditions
(The Yes Men)
During DEAF07 a series of screenings will be shown in the film theater on the groundfloor of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Las Palmas.
Location: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas, film theater on groundfloor, 10-29 April
14.00 / 18.00

What Noah Knew: Old Models for New Conditions
The Yes Men
USA 2006, 05:00 min
The "disaster and conflict industry innovator" company Halliburton presents its latest product: The Survivaball.
SE/30

SE/30 (Code31) is an installation of 20, almost 20 year old Macintosh SE-computers. The installation is based on the principle of cellular automata, every SE/30 is a cel that adapts to its environment and forms collaborative patterns. The sound is modulated and the images are plotted by the status of each computer that generates the sound and images. In the realm of General Midi and Quicktime Musical Instruments the aesthetics of failure are a necesity. Digital artefacts distort mobile phone-like timbres to abstract structures...
Soft(n)
(Thecla Schiphorst)

Location: V2_Lounge 10-15 April
Soft(n), survival strategies for interaction (Thecla Schiphorst) is an interactive public art-installation based on exploring emerging network behaviour, through interaction between a group of soft networked objects. It is a survival strategy for interaction that allows misplaced action, mistake, forgiveness, a bad attitude, weakness, and stillness, giving in, throwing away. The Soft(n) objects create an ecosystem, where the audience interferes and where new behavior comes into existence through audience interaction.

Surrounded
(Yang Zhenzhong)
Surrounded (Yang Zhenzhong) is a circular installation of 8 synchronized videos. It explores the contemporary preoccupation with questions of identity and perception, and the ability of images to turn apathy into anticipation, and ordinariness into desirability.

World Wide Ensemble
(Antoine Schmitt)
In World Wide Ensemble (Antoine Schmitt), an endless landscape of frenetic audio and visual automatas, all entangled in one another, slowly scrolls before the eyes of the viewer, through a window cut in the wall. The trackball, situated on the side of the window, allows the visitor to change the direction of the movement, to explore other parts of this "planet seen from a satellite's window".

For general questions about the festival
V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media & V2_Lab
phone +31 (0)10 206 72 72
fax +31 (0)10 206 72 71
e-mail v2@v2.nl

Subscription for the workshops is open until March 15th 2007.
Contact and information: Lyndsey Housden
lyndsey@v2.nl

Annetje Lekkas or Remco Beeskow
phone +31 (0)10 206 72 72
a.lekkas@v2.nl and remco@v2.nl

For educational programs and/or guided tours during DEAF07 please contact Vera Maria Glahn
phone +31 (0)10 2067272
vera@v2.nl

If you want to apply as a volunteer for DEAF07, or you have questions about the volunteers, please contact:
Dagmar Veenstra - dagmar@v2.nl

Web:http://www.deaf07.nl

Locations
V2_ , Institute for the Unstable Media (exhibition, workshops, seminars, brunches)
Eendrachtsstraat 10/ Witte de Withstraat 63
Las Palmas/ LPII , (exhibition, sceenings)
Wilhelminakade 699
Pakhuismeesteren (exhibition)
Wilhelminakade 52
NAi (symposium)
Museumpark 25
Staal (The Evening of V2_)
Beursplein 23
ro theater (“The Evening of ... ”)
William Boothlaan 8
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (exhibition)
Museumpark 18-20
Arminius (music program)
Museumpark 3
The Internet (streaming activities, specific online projects in the exhibition).

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