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From 10 through 29 April 2007, the eighth Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) will take place in Rotterdam. This international festival is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. It will be the first event to take place in the fully renovated Las Palmas cultural center in Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid area. This year’s theme is Interact or Die!
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.
The Main Location: Las Palmas
DEAF07’s main venue is the Las Palmas cultural center, a renovated building which once housed workshops for the Holland America Line. It is located in the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam. DEAF07 is the first festival to take place in the renovated Las Palmas, which will officially be opened on 18 April by a very distinguished guest. DEAF’s other locations include the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, V2_, Ro Theater, Pakhuismeesteren, and Arminius.
More information on the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF07) can be found on our site: www.deaf07.nl
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Open call ! Artist-in-residence program 2007
ARCUS Project is now accepting application for the artist-in-residence program in 2007. Please read the application guidelines carefully and download the application form.
Application guidelines:
http://www.arcus-project.com/english/program/info.htm
Application Deadline: March 31, 2007
***Taiwanese Applicants are expected to apply through Asian Cultural Council Taipei Office. Details are explained in the application guidelines.
*** Application via E-mail is not valid.
Inquiries:
ARCUS Studio (Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays)
Attn. Yoko Nameki / Takashi Nakamura
Tel / Fax: +81-297-46-2600
E-mail: arcus@arcus-project.com
URL: http://www.arcus-project.com
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A R C U S
Artist in Residence – IBARAKI
[Director] Aki Hoashi
[Coordinator] Yoko Nameki / Takashi Nakamura
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The year 2000 was the early stage of collaborative meeting from a group of people with similar concern and interests. An intense gathering in a house that located in a dense suburban area in Bandung has resulted a so-called ‘collective attitude’, which is regarded as an act of self indulgement through a creative process. Each member of this collective often use computer technology, creating piles of works in some digitalized format of sounds, music, images, animations, films, etc. From personal activities, it then has expanded into a collective act to form artistic composition through the creating sensation of sounds, light, and space; which is done spontaneously and sometimes with diverse goal and objective. Some surprising results often happen from their freedom to act and create, as well as dialogues and intervention. What they did has been growing from a daily attitude into an art performance.
“For us, VJing is more than projecting real time combined images on a screen. I’d like to look at it as an activity of creating an evolving visual experience/universe. First, the gap between spectator/performer, stage/seat, premeditated/spontaneous, mine/yours etc; should be obliterated. To rebuild something we have to destroy/deconstruct the initial form and limitations. Second, interaction and respond is imminent. By doing so, we have created a moebius loop where an idea shall move back and forth, left to right, passed from person to person, and it would evolve and change while being so. And that is Real Time Interaction. It’s like a complex game of “pong”.” (from VJ Theory web link)
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