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fRED, Bram and Flux went to the Live Performers Meeting in Rome to showcase their work, represent VisualBerlin and hook up with the international AViT scene…

DAY 1 – Lost Highway

DAY 2 – Linuxclub

DAY 3 – Viva La Felicita

Day 3 was chaotic again – as expected. We woke up too late, injected some dual core espressi, and fought our way through the friday high noon traffic mayhem all the way to the St. Peter’s Dome. Finding a place to park was almost impossible and took us almost half an hour. Finally we were there, on the big plaza, shooting some clips, getting nods and smiles from chinese tourists and confused looks from others who saw us in our costumes.

We returned to the basement as soon as possible to tune into the final phase of cutting, editing and preparing for our set. This took a long time and our camera seemed to be fucked up at last – it decided spontaneously whether to spit out or just eat the dv tape – we had lost control. Eventually all material got digitized and we started to get a bit releived when Bram returned from a short walk around the block to buy coffee and mumbled something about our car not being where we parked it. fRED and Bram went back to the place and indeed – the Audi was gone!!!

Panically we talked with Michael, our kind host, who phoned the police and fRED, Bram and him went to the police station to find out that the beloved automobile had been taken to the deposit because of parking in a prohibited area (which is funny because there were so many other cars in that street which didn’t get pulled off) – so two hours later and 120 EUR lighter the car was back in our property, but we lost hours of preparation time and hundreds of nerves…

We drove to the Linux Club rightaway, dressed up and ready to rock, but we still had a few hours to wait until we would spit out our flickering mayhem, so we spent the next hours socializing and watching the showcases and workshops.

There were quite a few interesting talks: about the node based open source media programming environment Pure Data, which seemed to have developped a lot within the last years and comes closer and closer to the power of Max/Jitter. The French crew talked about vjfrance.com and the Italian base presented ‘vjing tube’ – a fancy web 2.0 portal for VJs to share and discuss their videos. There were many audiovisual showcases which we liked, but whose artist names we totally forgot – and some other arty farty noise performances that bored us a bit. artificialeyes.tv rocked the house with their VMS projectors and their decadent pile of macbook pros.

Late at night, paki, who was responsible for the schedule of the festival, was already trapped in fear and loathing because he had to cram dozens of artists into the final hours of the night. We had been waiting for so long to show our prepared live set and didn’t want to leave Roma without having shown a single frame. He told us that our set would be “after 3″ and we decided to take a walk down via Ostiense to get our obligatory caffeine dose. There, we sat in a small bar, together with Soni Riot and some other known faces, enjoyed our caffé, listened to Village People and got into a better mood.

Some time around 4am we finally went on stage, really nervous and with a handful of vodkas in our brains, and shot our set out onto the beamers, blinded by flashes, confused by the chaotic “technical support” – our set had turned out to become an audiovisual set together with Bram – and after almost an hour shwich felt like 10 minutes, the mayhem was over and we packed our stuff and emptied the vodka bottle quickly. Outside we smoked and tried to remember how the gig went – it had been a big chaos with lots of difficulties and we were both happy and really pissed off at the same time – confusion!

Later that night we enjoyed the live set of Soni Riot and chatted with artificialeyes, the “pirate”, Dr. Nojoke and some other drunk veejays until the sun had risen. Bram and fRED wanted to drive to Berlin rightaway but after Flux had laughed and looked at them in agony – the plan was cancelled and we drove back to our accomodation location to fall into a short, noisy and dreamless sleep.

On the next day, we packed everything up and started our long trip back home at noon. Amazingly, 15 minutes later we were already on the highway – and on the first gas station, we poured fresh orange juice and caffé into our heads and headed up north. We took Olli with us, the audio-part of Soni Riot and after eleven hours of schmoove cruising through Italy and Austria, we finally arrived at Bergen, Bavaria, where Olli invited us to a nice italian restaurant where we had huge pizzas (we had zero pizzas in itally – funny eh?). fRED, who had been sleeping almost the whole day, drove the final lap up to Berlin and around 6am we arrived in Berlin to fall into our beds…

So after a not to long night and some little surprises regarding underground and water temprature, we spend the afternoon in our great studio somewhere in rome. its still a lot of stuff to do for our performance on saturday.
But we are not only here to sit behind our machines, so we took our car and made a rush-hour trip to linux-club, its amazing and we hope that we remember the way back.

Now we are in here to socialize a little. the athmosphere is nice and relaxed, inside the first performances take place and i’m looking forward to see some really nice stuff. at the moment our friends from avit visionaire paris are talking about all the projects they did the last year and i have to say every performer should keep an eye on their stuff.
After a little talk about avit worldwide network we did afterwards, with gianluca from lpm and thodd from artificialeyes, covering avit.info issues, plans and dreams (avit is alive!), we now see a really amazing av-performance. to girls and a guy put a lot of gear on the stage and perform in a really synaesthetic way. mostefprod is their name, if you got the chance to see them, take it.

quite esotheric in a way, but a really nice ambient connection between sound and visual impression.
So far for now i will enjoy the next hours a bit and maybe we get a short video together for you folks.

“The same procedure as every year…” the trip to the Live Performers Meeting in Rome staarts with chaos…

…after Ryan Air had cancelled our flight tickets for some strange reason, a meeting was scheduled at Café Gorki Park to discuss further proceedings. A few cigarettes, debates, calculations and desperate phone-calls later the decision was made to turn the LPM visit into a transcontinental road trip…On the next day, all of us met to buy the last essential gadgets for the planned visual narrative performance and struggled with our tape-munching camcorder, peripheral work deadlines and frustrations. Eventually, we managed to shoot some scenes and while fRED spent a lot of time capturing, compositing and editing clips afterwards, Bram and Flux returned to the desks to finish due freelance work.

Wednesday afternoon, fRED and Flux finished filming some more clips and crammed the Audi A4 with loads of cables, computers and the usual nerdcore visualists equipment. Bram was picked up and we started our trip towards West-Berlin, searching for some more environments to capture final Berlin shots for our live-set.

The Autobahn was hit around 6pm and the cruise-controlled Audi rolled south. Although the roads were fairly clear, several construction sites and a lot of trucks slowed us down a bit, and six hours later, we finally arrived at Flux’s parents home in Heidelberg to chill in front of the TV, fill our stomaches and take a few hours of sleep.

The next morning started with a few more chaotic issues. Flux didn’t hear his alarm clock, and we got up an hour later than planned. The shower was freezing cold, but refreshing (the heater didn’t work for some reason) and within only a few minutes, we found ourselves back in the car. The morning sun was enjoyed (and filmed) on the garden terrace of the famous Heidelberg castle, but soon, our hunger and caffeine addiction forced us to continue to find a bakery and a supermarket to hunt some breakfast and nurture to survive the upcoming passing of the Alps. Our primary survival needs got satisfied very soon and we brought our weels back on the freeway.

The ride to and through Switzerland was calm and quick and the huge mountains and crystal clear lakes around us very imressive. After we slipped through the pinhole of the Gotthard tunnel, holiday feelings came up because it got warmer and the first palm and pine trees appeared as we approached the Italian border. fRED safely drove us to the beautiful refuge villa of his aunt and uncle in the idyllic mountainsite where we were heartly welcomed and even spoilt with pasta, coffee, cake and fresh grapes that grew above our heads on the terrace. It was hard, having to leave the beautiful place again, but two hours later we returned to the messy car seats to start the final stage of the roadtrip.

The last hours went by very quickly – the Audi dove through the night, through a lot of construction sites, where workers crossed the road like scared deer in the headlights, maniac drivers passed by with insane speeds, and glowing bright pimped up trucks ruled the highway all the way down to Roma. We fortunately found the right exit in Rome and arrived rightaway at the Linux Club. The expected chaos surrounded us when we walked in, recognizing known faces and totally flashed by the loudness and bright video flickering. We were still in the driving mood and not quite used to the sudden party atmosphere, so we waited outside the club for Valeria and her friends who had organized a sleeping place for us…

[lang_de]In unserem Ende Juni eröffneten Vereinsheim “Karakusch” in der Friedelstr. 17 in Neukölln treffen wir uns jeden Donnerstag ab 20:00 um Projekte zu besprechen, Filme und Workshops zu präsentieren, oder einfach am Tresen zu sitzen um uns auszutauschen. Gäste sind selbstverständlich jederzeit willkommen.

Besondere Termine zu Veranstaltungen oder Filmvorführungen könnt ihr unter News nachsehen. Wir freuen uns auf euch! Licht aus!

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[lang_en]Every thursday starting at 8 p.m. we meet at our club location “Karakusch” at Friedelstr. 17 in Berlin Neukölln. There, we plan projects, show films or hold workshops or simply sit at the bar, socializing. Guests are always welcome!

Special events and film presentations are announced on our News page. Feel free to come around! Licht aus!

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VISUALBERLIN AV NIGHT
Saturday, August 18

STEVE NALEPA (LA) – ambient glitch dub
MOGREENS (B) – broken downbeat grooves
RETURN OF THE SPACE INVADERS (B) – post retro audiovisuals
VJ SYNESTHETE (LA) – a visual sensory experience
=FF= (B) – narrative ego visuals

@ K:ITA – Weidenweg 44-46/Bersarin Platz, Berlin Friedrichshain

Start: 21:00 – Open End

Unkostenbeitrag: 5 EUR

[lang_de]Der aus LA stammende Elektromusiker, Multimediakünstler und verrückte Wissenschaftler Steve Nalepa kombiniert tief dubbige Bässe, verzerrte Breaks, bioakustische Atmosphären und wundervolle sinoide Melodien zu einer einmaligen Mischung aus Ambient Glitch Dub. Nalepa performte bei der Do Lab Stage in Coachella, produzierte Tracks mit Legenden wie Bill Laswell und Pharaoah Sanders, und rockte zusammen mit Amon Tobin, Cut Chemist und DJ Spooky.[/lang_de]
[lang_en]LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass, glitchy breaks, bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful sinewave melodies to create his patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has performed at The Do Lab Stage at Coachella 2007, produced tracks with legends such as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, and shared a bill with Amon Tobin, Cut Chemist and DJ Spooky.

Todd, aka. VJ Synesthete from LA, comes from a post-production and documentary film making background. He spent a number of years working for Technicolor Creative Services and on documentary projects around the world. The growth of the American Rave Scene in the early nineties motivated Todd to expand his artistic repertoire by fusing video with music live in a club setting. Todd continues to bring cinematic influences to his work as a live performer. Todd draws from a wide range of cult cinema and motion graphics material to composite his live performances into a unique brew for consumption by a thirsty public parched by the desert of traditional media experiences.[/lang_en]

[lang_de]Todd alias VJ Synesthete aus LA kommt aus der Post-Production und Dokumentarfilm-schiene. Er verbrachte Jahre damit, für Technicolor Creative Services zu arbeiten und Dokumentarfilmprojekte auf der ganzen Welt zu realisieren. Das Aufkommen der amerikanischen Rave-Szene Anfang der Neunziger motivierte Todd, sein künstlerisches Repertoire zu erweitern und Video mit Musik in Live Club Situationen zu verschmelzen. Todd lässt seine filmerischen Erfahrungen in seine Arbeit als Live Performer einfliessen. Seine Bilder nähren sich aus unerschöpflichem Material an Kultfilmen und Animationen und verschmelzen in seinen Darbietungen zu einer einmaligen Mischung.[/lang_de]

[lang_en]RETURN OF THE SPACE INVADERS is all about remixing popculture. Taking the full depth of all AUDIOVISUAL media ever made since the arcade game spaceinvaders hit the market. RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS is NOT bleep, micro or tekno, it is called POST-RETRO. New technologies and self build software are ingredients to unique blendscape of different AUDIO/VISUAL mash-up styles and techniques. RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS has a audio visual performance where SYNCHRONIZED video and music are performed and jammed.[/lang_en]

[lang_de]Bei RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS dreht sich alles um das Remixing der Popkultur, in vollem Umfang aller audiovisueller Medien seit das gleichnamige Arcadespiel den Markt eroberte. RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS ist kein bleep, micro oder tekno, es ist vielmehr POST-RETRO. Neue Technologien und selbstgebaute Software sind Zutaten für eine gelungene Mischung verschiedener audiovisueller Mash-Up Stile und Techniken. In seinen Jams präsentiert RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS Hör- und Sichtbares SYNCHRON.[/lang_de]

[lang_en]=ff= is a joint venture of the video artists fRED and Kiritan Flux from Berlin. Both share a cranky affinity towards pixilated and pixelated substance and appearance. They are permanently working on the communication between the visual artist and the obsever. The =ff= method to achieve this is presenting an exaggerated self glorification withing the narrative content of the shown short-films on screen and on stage at the same time. =ff= equip themselves with odd costumes, film each other and spontaneously interweave fictional actions and short narratives into their gonzo style perception of the local surrounding.[/lang_en]

[lang_de]=ff= [eff-eff], [da-bl eff] – Visuelle Darstellergruppe. Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Videokünstler Kiritan Flux und fRED aus Berlin. Beide verbindet eine skurrile Affinität zu leicht abgedrehter und trashiger Thematik und gleichartiger Darstellung. Ständig beschäftigen sie sich mit der Kommunikation zwischen Visualkünstler und Konsumenten. Die =ff= Methode, dies zu erreichen, besteht in der Darstellung von übersteigerter Selbstglorifizierung, sowohl in den gezeigten narrativen Kurzgeschichten in ihren Videosequenzen, als auch in ihrer Rolle auf der Bühne. Erst in unmittelbarer Umgebung der geplanten Vorführung rüsten sie sich mit skurriler Kostümierung aus, filmen sich selbst in der ihnen meist fremden Umgebung und verweben spontan am Drehort ausgedachte fiktive Handlungen und Kurzgeschichten.[/lang_de]

[lang_en]The K:ITA started on the first of June 2007 as a temporarily (and through this enduring) crossmedial art-project in Berlin at Bersarinplatz in Friedrichshain. A creative oasis with a garden and art-studios right in the heart of Berlin. 22 artists and groups from the Netherlands, France, USA, Italy, England, Australia, Germany… etc. join the “kitty” and work together for one year. In the former DDR – Kindergarden many different arts are collaborating: sound, video, lightdesign, fine arts, music, painting, sculpture, fashion, webdesign, performance, printing, dance, New Network Technology, photography. Most of the artists of the group already worked together in former exhibitions and events.[/lang_en]

[lang_de]Die K:ITA startete am 1. Juni 2007 als temporäres crossmediales Kunstprojekt am Bersarinplatz in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Eine kreative Oase mit Garten und Künstlerateliers mitten im Herzen Berlins. 22 Künstler und Gruppen aus den Niederlanden, Frankreich, USA, Italien, England, Australien und Deutschland sammeln sich in der “Kitty” und arbeiten dort für ein Jahr. In dem ehemaligen DDR-Kindergarten treffen viele verschiedene Künste zusammen: Sound, Video, Lichtdesign, Bildende Künste, Bildhauerei, Mode, Webdesign, Performance, Druck, Tanz, Netzwerktechnologie, Photographie. Die meisten der Künstler arbeiteten bereits in der Vergangenheit in verschiedenen Konstellationen zusammen.[/lang_de]

http://www.visualberlin.org
http://www.k-ita.de

http://stevenalepa.com/
http://www.synesthete.com/
http://www.returnofthespaceinvaders.com/
http://www.prototypen.com/blog/mogreens/
http://www.effeff.tv

[lang_de]VisualBerlin DJs, VJs und Audiovisuelle Performer boten ein fünftägiges Programm zwischen Musik und visueller Gestaltung. Neben der Aufgabe, Gastkünstler des DMY videotechnisch zu unterstützen, zeigte VisualBerlin eigene Showcases im Rahmen des Couch VJ Programms und präsentierte Installationen, wie den Video-Würfel oder ein umfassendes Überwachungs-Kamera-Setup.[/lang_de][lang_en]VisualBerlin’s DJs, VJs and audiovisual performers presented a five-day-programme between music and visual design. Besides the task to support guest artists with video equipment and service, VisualBerlin presented their own showcases within the Couch VJ setup and showed video installations, like the video cube and a CCTV surveillance system.[/lang_en]

[lang_de]Call for audio visual Artists, DJs, VJs, laptop musicians, live artists, installation and site specific video artists.

Vision Clash: open laptop audio visual arts jamm
Donnerstag, den 15. November 2007 19 – 0 Uhr
Havana Cafe Bar, 38 Kent Road, Southsea, Hampshire, UK PO5 3ET
Genieße einen Abend zeitgenössicher Kaffeehaus Kultur bei einer Audiovisuellen Kunstveranstaltung des örtlichen Kino-Kult Kollektivs.
Im Keller, der Performancebereich, Aufführungen lokaler Audiovisualisten und Laptop-Musiker.
Im Ambientbereich werden die aus Southampton stammenden “Skecthbook” ihre live visuals präsentieren, begleitet von electronica und “queasy listening” Musik
Im Obergeschoß werden Gastkünstler ihre Livekunst und Installationen zeigen.

Wir bieten Auftrittsmöglichkeiten für Visualisten und Musiker, ebenso suchen wir DJs die eine Mischung aus Ambient, Eclectic und Electronica spielen und Vjs die diese begleiten. Außerdem würden wir für unseren Galleriebereich gerne noch Künstler mit Rauminstallationen und videobasierten Installationen und Performances einladen.
Schick uns eine kurze Vorstellung und/oder Links zu deinem Portfolio mit einer Zusammenfassung von deinem Projekt. Bewerbung bitte über den folgenden Myspacelink:[/lang_de]

[lang_en]Call for audio visual Artists, DJs, VJs, laptop musicians, live artists, installation and site specific video artists.

Vision Clash: open laptop audio visual arts jamm
Thursday 15th November 2007 7pm – 12pm
Havana Cafe Bar, 38 Kent Road, Southsea, Hampshire, UK PO5 3ET
Enjoy an evening of 21st century cafe culture at this audio visual arts event hosted by local collective Kino-Kult. Downstairs in the performance zone live sets by local audio visual artists and laptop musicians. In the ambient zone Southampton’ s “Skecthbook” host an evening of live visuals, electronica and queasy listening. While upstairs features live art and video installation works by guest artists.

We have performance spots for VJs and video artists, laptop/electronic musicians. We would like to offer spots to DJs who can keep it ambient and eclectic with electronica and queasy listening along and we need VJs to play with them. we are also keen to invite artists to use the upstairs ‘gallery spaces’ for site specific and video based installations or performances.

In the first instance send a short resume and/or links to your portfolio with an outline of what you would like to do. Applications should be submitted via the myspace link below:[/lang_en]

http://www.myspace. com/royhanney