S.LOW ( http://s.low-low.org) is a cross-disciplinary project which will bring together thirty-four visual artists, composers, musicologists, performers, engineers, physicists and film-makers from around the world to the European meeting point of Berlin. The project aims to articulate synergies from this community of individuals through their responses to the concepts of 'slow' and 'low '.
S.LOW will facilitate an exchange of methodologies and knowledge by examining how similar issues impact upon different disciplines. These issues will include: the creative use of slow or low technologies versus high speed and cutting-edge technologies, the need for a different rhythm of work in a cross-disciplinary or collaborative environment, high-brow versus low-brow art and its relevance to practitioners either from academic or non-academic backgrounds and the environmental impact of art. S.LOW's events, spread over six weeks during the months of July and August 2010, will include musical performances, art exhibitions, sound installations, film screenings, workshops and round table discussions and its expected outcomes will include the creation of new works, artistic connection between practitioners and the community and between the artists themselves and the assimilation and development of the ideas upon which the project is based.
The S.LOW team.
List of S.LOW participants: Andre Bartetzki, Elena Bellantoni, Stefan Bilbao, Thomas Bjelkeborn, Michael T. Chinen, Carlos Cid, Ricardo Climent, Gordon Delap, Kristina Frei, Teresa Foley, Cristina Ghetti, Marco Giani, Akitoshi Honda, Elaine Kelly, Suk-Jun Kim, Jaana Kokko, Carolina Loyola Garcia, Cristina Martin Lara, Michael Larsson, Iain McCurdy, Shintaro Miyazaki, Egle Oddo, Irene Pfeffer, Ima Pico, Hendrik Purwins, Gail Ritchie, Andreas Roman, Sam Salem, Patrick Sanan, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Dawn Weleski, Gareth Williams, Sunshine Wong, Sergio Zavattieri.
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JULY 2010 |
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WEEK ONE |
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| THURSDAY 15th of JULY 2010 |
| S.LOW PROJEKT LAUNCH PROGRAMME |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
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| FRIDAY 16th of JULY 2010 |
| SONIC BATTLE OF CURATORS: IDKA (Sweden)/ NOVARS (UK) aka MANTIS-in-MOTION |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Multi-channel and audiovisual works by UK and Sweden based composers and audio-visual artists
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WEEK TWO |
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| THURSDAY 22nd of JULY 2010 |
| ARTISTS GATHERING |
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| Venue: Rudi Marie Cafe at Weichselstrasse 34. Berlin-Neukölln |
- 18:00-19:00 A chance for S.LOW participants and event attendees to meet informally before evening events.
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| meme=brane AN AUTO-ACTIVE SOUND INSTALLATION BY ANDRE BARTETZKI |
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| Venue: Projektraum Schwarz - Weichselstrasse 34. Berlin-Neukölln |
- 19:00-21:00: Andre Bartetzki sound installation opening
- Installation continues until 30th of July. Opening times: Mon to Sat from 14:00-18:00
- meme=brane programme note: Branes are mathematical concepts that appear in string theory in theoretical physics where they represent multi-dimensional objects within higher-dimensional spacetimes (bulks). According to this theory our 3-dimensional world is bound to a D3-brane which exists in a 10-, 11- or 26-dimensional space time. Most of the known elementary particles and forces are "attached" to our D3-brane but there might be objects which can move freely between different branes, like the graviton.
A meme is a unit of cultural ideas, thoughts or symbols analogous to genes which are units of biological information. Memes use communication of their hosts (i.e. human brains) as a means of reproduction. They are subjected to evolutionary processes (variation, mutation, competition, inheritance etc.) like biological units are.
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| FRIDAY 23rd OF JULY 2010 |
| WORKSHOP: Low Cost Technology- Everyday Object Sensors for Sound Installations |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 10:00-18:00 Iain McCurdy and Ricardo Climent.
A full-day workshop where participants will collaborate to create an interactive sound installation which will be exhibited on the evening of the workshop.
Participants will be introduced to a variety of sensors (pressure sensors, light sensors, bend sensors, velocity sensors etc.), will be shown how to make many of these from everyday objects and will be shown how to interface these with the computer programme Audiomulch.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop. No prior knowledge or expertise is required just imagination and enthusiasm! All required instruction will be given on the day.
Places are limited. Please book in advance by sending an email to ricardo.climent@cross-disciplinary.org. For more information send email to iain.mccurdy@cross-disciplinary.org. This workshop will be in English. Workshop fee is 15€.
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- 19:00-21:00: Showcase of the works created during the workshop
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WEEK THREE |
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| THURSDAY 29th of JULY 2010 |
| ARTISTS GATHERING |
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| Venue: Kino Tilsiter Lichtspiele (Cafe) Richard-Sorge Str 25a 10249 Berlin |
- 15:00-16:00 A chance for S.LOW participants and event attendees to meet informally before evening events.
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ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS AND SCREENINGS |
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Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
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ARTIST MULTIDISCIPLINARY 'HAPPENING' |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- 18:00 Directed by Sergio Zavattieri:
- Instructions:
- The event will start in 91mQ, the 29th of July 2010 at 18:00.
- The event is open to anybody interested in participating.
- You will need to bring a small photograph (between 10 x 15 cm and 20 x 30 cm with your name and surname written on the back) which defines a significant moment in your present or past life, related directly or indirectly to the city of Berlin.
- The participants will have to talk briefly about the personal meaning of the chosen photograph before hanging it on the previously selected wall in 91mQ. The event will be open from this day each of the following subsequent Thursdays (August 5, August 12 and August 19) from 16.00 to 18.00 until the day of the opening on August 20 at 19.00.
Rationale:The aim of the event is to provide a space for the reflection of a historical moment, where the image is consumed quickly and in excess, often without the possibility of reflection and assimilation of the content. A break in time and space, like the concept of photography. At the end it will be possible to see all photographs, the merging of important moments, forming a single body, multiplying and producing new meetings.
- The photographs will remain in the exhibition space until the 21st of August. Participants can collect them in 91mQ during the opening times of the art space.
- If you want to bring a valuable or irreplaceable photograph, please bring a copy rather than an original as we cannot be responsible for any damage that may occur during the project.
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| PANEL ONE - THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE: TIME AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Invited speakers to the panel: Gail Ritchie, Carolina Loyola-García, Teresa Foley, Jaana Kokko, Kristina Frei, Suk-Jun Kim.
Moderator: Sunshine Wong
- Panel focus: It has been said that Picasso preferred to scrawl a quick sketch than pay for his dinner in cash. In this anecdote, his concept of money evidently never surmounted his working-class background that saw a causal relationship between time and currency: the negligible minute or two to draw something was, in his mind, of less worth than the restaurant bill. This logic still continues to resonate in most people today, which then begs the question of how time itself becomes a factor in an artistic practice. Focusing on the spontaneity and/or patience demonstrated in their work, the panel participants will discuss their understanding of time and the part it plays in the audience's perception.
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| FRIDAY 30th of JULY 2010 |
| WORKSHOP: OPEN-STUDIO RINGTONE RECORDING SESSION |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 15:00-18:00 Presentation by Teresa Foley
- What does Berlin sound like? You! Bring your robots, moo-cow toys, drums, rattles, harmonica or voice, and your super-bad self, and MAKE YOUR OWN TONE! The artist will provide the technical know-how and recording equipment. Audio content must be copyright free (i.e., original compositions or sounds which exists in the natural world). Tone duration will be 30 seconds or less. Participants at this session will be photographed for possible inclusion in project exhibitions and archives. Tones will be made available to the public (as MP3s) by the end of September 2010 at www.locallytoned.org
Language: English
- Places are limited. Please book in advance by sending an email to ricardo.climent@cross-disciplinary.org
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| ARTIST PRESENTATION: AUDIO SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Institute of Algorhythmics: Presentation by Michael Chinen, Shintaro Miyazaki and Akitoshi Honda
Invited speakers will introduce their work and will invite questions from the floor at the end of the session.
- Akitoshi Honda and Michael Chinen will present their custom mp3 player with user-activity based visualization and synthesized funny symbol sounds and effects, called MiruTune.
MiruTune watches which applications are currently being used and record its timestamp. This data is stored as metadata for each mp3 file which is reloaded upon subsequent openings of the same mp3.
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AUGUST 2010 |
WEEK FOUR |
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| THURSDAY 5th of AUGUST 2010 |
| ARTISTS GATHERING |
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| Venue: Kino Tilsiter Lichtspiele (Cafe) Richard-Sorge Str 25a 10249 Berlin |
- 15:00-16:00 A chance for S.LOW participants and event attendees to meet informally before evening events.
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| ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS AND SCREENINGS |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
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| AUDIOVISUAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION POND LIFE III |
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| Venue: Projektraum Schwarz- Weichselstrasse 34. Berlin-Neukölln |
- 19:00-21:00 Opening Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem a/v installation
- Pond Life III: Following on from our success with Pond Life II, we plan to create a new version of the work, developing the themes and technologies of the piece further. Pond Life is a generative audiovisual laboratory that encourages audience exploration and participation. Pond Life II has been exhibited in Montreal (ICMC 2010) and in New York (NYCEMF2).
- Installation continues until 11th of August. Opening times: Mon-Sat 14:00- 18:00
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| FRIDAY 6th of AUGUST 2010 |
| ARTIST PRESENTATION: AUDIO SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 16:00-18:00 Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem.
Invited speakers will introduce their work and will invite questions from the floor at the end of the session.
- Inspired by ICMC / NYCEMF2's installation Pond Life, a generative audiovisual laboratory that encourages audience exploration and participation, workshop attendees will be encouraged to put hands and thinking on exercises involving:
• generating complexity from a multiplicity of simple interactivity
• interaction and the artwork as play
• the audiovisual work as a consequence of a deeper behavioural system
• the use and abuse of physical simulation to create real/surreal environments.
Sam and Patrick often use Processing, Max5 and Matlab as tools for their works
(*) Processing is an open source software environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
Language: English
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| ARTIST PRESENTATION: AUDIO SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Stefan Bilbao, Gordon Delap and Hendrik Purwins
Invited speakers will introduce their work (including a multichannel demo session) and will invite questions from the floor at the of the session.
- S. Bilbao/ G. Delap: Physical models, Supercomputers and electroacoustic composition. This presentation deals with the use of software which simulates a network of interconnected bar and plate elements towards the creation of electronic music. The composer is faced with the tasks of writing a score, consisting of a series of strikes sent to prescribed locations on the instrument, but also the somewhat larger job of designing the instrument itself, which may consist of upward of 100 elements.
- H. Purwins: Unsupervised Synthesis of Variations from Audio Percussion Patterns. A joint work (together with Marco Marchini) will be present, a system that learns rhythmic patterns from drum audio recording and synthesizes music variations from the learnt sequence. The procedure is completely unsupervised and embodies the transcription of a percussion sequence into a fuzzy multilevel representation. Moreover, a tempo estimation procedure identifying the most regular subsequence is used to guarantee that the metrical structure is preserved in the generated sequence. The final synthesis is performed, recombining the audio material derived from the sample itself. Several examples (beat boxing, percussion loops) are provided and the system can be tried. For more information click here
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WEEK FIVE |
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| THURSDAY 12th of AUGUST 2010 |
| ARTISTS GATHERING |
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| Venue: Metropol Cafe-Bar. Landsberger Allee 62. 10249 Berlin |
- 15:00-16:00 A chance for S.LOW participants and event attendees to meet informally before evening events.
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| ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS AND SCREENINGS |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
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| PANEL TWO - CREATIVE EXTREMES: LOW VERSUS HIGH TECHNOLOGIES AS FRAMEWORKS |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- Panel Focus: The manipulation -- or in some cases the subversion -- of technology is fundamental to any creative endeavour. Whether it is the long-standing tradition of sewing or some cutting-edge development in robotics, the art practitioner's role remains that of the innovator who, through varying degrees of deconstruction and recontextualisation, realises previously unexplored potentials. The artists involved in this round of talks will shed light on the media and techniques that have informed their work, and share their views on the utilisation of "old" and "new" technologies in contemporary art.
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| FRIDAY 13th of AUGUST 2010 |
| ARTIST PRESENTATION: AUDIO SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS |
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| Venue: NK - Elsenstr. 52 -12059 Berlin |
- 16:00-16:30 Welcome to NK / coffee
- 16:30-17:15 Jonathan Reus (NK Artist in Residence)
For the last year, Jonathan Reus has been conducting research and development of new music performance systems at STEIM (www.steim.org), in Amsterdam. In this presentation, Jonathan will discuss interesting research topics in live computer-music performance, as well as give an overview of the work being done at STEIM in this regard and discuss his current work with ARM-Core embedded processors as part of a recent residency at studio N.K. in Berlin
(short break)
- 17:30-18:15 Ricardo Climent
This presentation will be a work-in-progress update of the methodologies and processes employed when creating my First Dynamic Documentary Film (DDF) with the working Title 'Calle Garibaldi'. I am exploring a hybrid visual genre, guided through sound, which reunits aspects of DocuFiction, Interactive Inmersive Environments and the Acousmatic tradition in space environments. It builds upon my previous navigation system through sound experience, where music structures are built around our visual experience and intuitive decisions as a method of anticipating sonic behaviour'.
(trip to projektraum schwarz - see below)
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| SOUND INSTALLATION: SU-BAHN SONICOGRAPHY |
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| Venue: projektraum schwarz- Weichselstrasse 34. Berlin-Neukölln |
- 19:00-21:00 Iain McCurdy sound installation opening.
SU-Bahn Sonicography presents an interactive sound installation in which visitors are invited to explore physical channels in the piece's surface with their finger tips. The shapes and arrangement of these channels has been inspired by a stylized map of the Berlin transport network and its musical inspiration from the ideas of interdependence within an internally dynamic yet globally equilibrius system. This piece continues my work exploring interdependence in the sonic realisation resulting from multiple interactions with the piece. The interdependent nature of control creating a social music making environment. The metaphor being applied is that the musical outcome will represent the equilibrium state resulting from all forces (interactions) acting upon the device. The number of musical possibilities resulting from a such a system can be huge, therefore this will be an instrument that remains enigmatic to the visitor and one that will resist swift reduction as a simple analogue electronic device.
Opening times: Friday 13th 19.00 - 21.00. Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th 14.00 - 18.00. Monday 16th - to Wednesday 18th August 17.00 - 21.00.
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WEEK SIX |
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| THURSDAY 19th of AUGUST 2010 |
| ARTISTS GATHERING |
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| Venue: Metropol Cafe-Bar. Landsberger Allee 62. 10249 Berlin |
- 15:00-16:00 A chance for S.LOW participants and event attendees to meet informally before evening events.
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| ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS AND SCREENINGS |
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| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- 16:00-17:00 Egle Oddo
The invited speaker will introduce her visual work and will invite questions from the floor at the end of the session.
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BATTLE OF CURATORS (VIDEO SCREENING) |
Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
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PANEL THREE - GREEN MATTER: THE IMPACT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF ART ON THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Invited speakers: Egle Oddo, Kristina Frei, Dawn Weleski, Nastia Eliseeva, Elaine Kelly.
- Moderator: Sunshine Wong
- Panel focus: A challenge that artists constantly face is how to situate themselves within the larger social landscape, especially one that is plagued by more problems than ever before. Above almost every other issue in the current global discourse is the destruction of our environment and our obligation to prevent its demise. While the art world struggles to come up with a good response, we ask our group of practitioners how greener living can be featured more prominently in artistic production and whether art workers should reevaluate their positions in light of our planet's precarious future.
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| FRIDAY 20th of AUGUST 2010 (last day) |
| VERNISAGE | FINISSAGE: ONE DAY EXHIBITION |
| Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin |
- 19:00-21:00 Opening
Artists: Kristina Frei, Gail Ritchie, Andreas Roman, Ima Picó, Egle Oddo, Sergio Zavattieri, Dawn Weleski, Carolina Loyola, Cristina Ghetti, Cristina Martín Lara and Ricardo Climent.
This event will present the culmination of the artists' work carried our during the S.LOW projekt.
- From 21:00 CLOSING PARTY. Guest artists to be revealed.
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91mQ Link to Google MAP here
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NK Link to Google MAP here |
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| PROJECTRAUM SCHWARZ: Link to Google MAP here |
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| S.LOW - contact information: |
[-] Artistic Director: Ima Pico
email: imapico [at] cross-disciplinary.org
[-] Project Manager: Ricardo Climent
email: ricardo.climent [at] cross-disciplinary.org
[-] Publicity Manager: Andreas Roman
email: andreas.roman [at] cross-disciplinary.org
[-] Press Officer: Irene Pfeffer
email: irene.pfeffer [at] cross-disciplinary.org
[-] Technical Manager: Iain McCurdy email: iain.mccurdy [at] cross-disciplinary.org
With the support of:
*Disclaimer: All information is subject to change without prior notice |
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