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2018/05/31

“Man Gazed”

The Azerbaijan A/V Club: "Man Gazed" from VJ Fuzzy Bastard on Vimeo.

Performed and recorded at 23 Windows
Brooklyn, NY
9-23-17
All video and audio improvised & recorded live

LPM 2018 Rome

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Ciao Vj,

here you are the list of the workshops in program at LPM 2018 Rome. The meeting begins on June 7, 2018 in the spaces of Mattatoio . Learning activities will take place in the dedicated classrooms every day starting from 15.00. Read carefully the requirements to attend the classes, choose your activity and register!

Workshops are dedicated to learning, sharing and drawing upon the themes of free and open biophysical technologycreation of interfaces with the basics of Processing environment, discovering the tricks and tips of timelapses, Fulldome VJ Master class and a Resolume bootcamp.
Hurry up to register since places are limited! 


Interactive visual game
June 7 - 8 - 9 | 15:00 – 18:00 | Classroom 1 
[€ 120 - max 12 attendees] REGISTER 
Ever wonder to play video game with something else than a remote ? Ever tried to map your game on real life object ?
This workshop is an introduction to videomapping techniques and an in depth exploration of interactive devices.
During the workshop, we will focus on testing as much interactive devices as possible, from mouse and keyboards to voice controlled gamepad, We will use our phones and bodies, midi controllers, electronics devices (Arduino)… 
Participants need to come with their own mac computer (OSx10.9 or more) and video adapter.
We will share our interactive devices, but personal devices are more than welcome.
We will bring temporary licenses for the software we will use (Millumin).
English will be the main language.

How to use LUMITRIX technology
June 10 | 18:00 – 21:00 | Classroom 1 
Our company bring to world first All in one solution for outdoor projections. We built projector which included media server, camera, scan system, scheduling, wifi/internet connection and much more – TYPHOON T2.is also Weatherproof IP rating 43! This machine is selling around the world.
more at http://lumitrix.eu/#technology
Then we Strat building indoor control unit. Which you can use with any projector on the market – LUMIBOX.
more at: https://www.facebook.com/LumiBOXeu/
For our machines we also make whole new web application – LUMIVERSE. Lumiverse was born last year, and now, we are proud to show you latest version – LUMIVERSE II!!!
On this workshop you can try Lumibox control unit and Lumiverse II web application. You don’t need special hardware…. just PC, Mac, Tablet, or smartphone with Chrome web browser!
Then you can learn how to use our mapping tools to finish your project.
Make your video-mapping installations smart and permanent easy way.

Workshop | Unity3D: Audioreactive visuals & virtual reality 
June 7 - 8 - 9 | 18:00 – 21:00 | Classroom 1
[150 €] REGISTER 
Unity3D and possible applications in audioreactive visuals and virtual reality
Robinrabauke and Katinks, together Bobkat, will teach the basics of Unity3D in a 4 day workshop (each à 3hrs).
After a detailed introduction they will show possible applications and combinations in the fields of virtual reality and audioreactive visuals.
You will learn how to make things wobble to audio in VR using all kinds of hardware.
Using Oculus or even your smartphone, you will be able to create virtual worlds.
Basic knowledge in C# or similar programming language is not required.
You will need Unity3D preinstalled and activated on a Mac or Windows PC – if possible with a dedicated graphics card.
It will be possible to view your VR-Projects on:
Windows Machine and Oculus Rift
Mac Machine and iPhone (iOS11+, iPhone 7 or later with Google Cardboard etc.)
(A few Oculus Headsets will be provided for the workshop)
https://vimeo.com/263590407


Video Mapping with Telenoika
June 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 | 15:00 – 18:00 | Classroom 2
[€ 150 ] REGISTER !!Only 3 places left!! 
Four days to learn everything related to Video Mapping techniques, from the project idea to the final realization.
Technical study, optical, video projectors, lux, blueprint, 2d, 3d, music and sound effects
Taught by VJ Eletroiman, member of the Telenoika Community.
After a painstaking measurement process, we construct detailed 2D and 3D models of the target surface. We then generate the audio and video content, using these models to “map” the content onto the finest details of the specific site. This allows us to visually alter the appearance of the architecture – by controlling light, colour and surface volume – to change its very nature and transform the way it’s perceived.


Resolume Arena 6
June 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 | 18:00 – 21:00 | Classroom 2 
[€ 150 ] REGISTER
The Resolume Arena 6 workshop introduces to the participants the use of the new released version of the Resolume Arena Media Server software, the most used tool for managing audio visual content at performances, stages, interactive installations. Starting with a basic interface explanation, you will progressively get to learn all the features of the software and get professional suggestions to use Resolume Arena 6 at its best. You will also get a deep review of all the new features that this new version brings with. During the workshop you will be asked to practice and try by yourself what you are learning. The next step of the class will be focused on the Advance Output including the video mapping and LED mapping techniques using Resolume Arena 6. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be also encouraged to experiment a video mapping on an “object” of their choice. Participants will be required to bring their own laptop, computer cables for connecting the projector and pc/laptop, and possibly their own projector (if they have one). They may also bring any hardware controller. To bring their own video footage for projection is not required, but welcome.


Live Coding with Max&Ableton 
June 7 - 8 | 15:00 – 18:00 | Classroom 3
[€ 80 ] REGISTER
The worksop will be focusing on various techniques inside Max, Max for Live and Live that represent the basis of my audiovisual compositional practice and can be easily extended to performance. These techniques are anchored around a conceptual node that could be called “in-betweenness” – being in-between very opposite compositional practices such as indeterminacy, randomness or probabilities on one hand and planning, total control or repetition on the other. In other words I am influenced by techniques that span from very experimental to very genre based and I will share with you how I bridge that gap using Max, Max for Live and Live. During the workshop we will create few simplified sequences from the LPM 2018 promo video.


Processing: Beginner’s guide to creative coding 
June 9 - 10 | 15:00 - 17:00 | Classroom 3
[€ 60 Max 15 attendees ] REGISTER 
Processing is an open-source, free computer language which was designed to create visual output. Plus, it is a perfect language to learn how to program.
This workshop introduces the basic concepts of coding, to afterwards focus on the creative possibilities of processing. After this workshop, each participant knows the fundamental principles of coding in processing, and has created an own small sketch.
No previous knowledge in programming is required. Participants should bring their own laptop with processing downloaded and unzipped (https://processing.org/download )


Isadora Workshop
June 7 - 8 | 18:00 - 21:00 | Classroom 3
[€ 80 ] REGISTER 
Isadora’s creator and pioneering media artist Mark Coniglio will offer a two-day introductory workshop to Isadora – a software tool expressly designed to be used by artists that offers real-time interactive control of video in a way that goes beyond standard VJ software. During the first day, Coniglio will quickly cover the basics of importing, playing and layering media and show how to use the integrated projection mapping tool. The second day will be spent showing how to take interactive control of your media using MIDI devices and other sensors. Participants will all receive a free three-month license for the full version of Isadora so that they can continue to experiment with the program after the workshop ends.
Participants will need to bring a personal computer (Mac or PC). If you have a MIDI device like a Launchpad or Nanokontrol, please bring it along and so we can show you how to use it for real-time control.

Arduino for visual artists
June 9 - 10 | 17:00 - 21:00 | Classroom 3
[€ 120] REGISTER
In this intensive workshop Michal Mitro will introduce visual artists to the world of interactivity. Together you will (briefly) look at the history of interactive art and use of interactivity in visual and time-based arts followed by an exploration of several strategies on how to approach interactivity from both a conceptual and technological perspective. Participants will be guided through a hands-on project that directly demonstrates and teaches how simple interactive elements can be embedded into an artwork to create a meaningful piece.
Following on, participating artists will be introduced to the basics of simple analog electronics in order to directly utilise them in the project. All parts of the circuit will be connected together (no soldering required), to Arduino, and to LEDs embeded in grown borax crystals at which point ultrasonic proximity sensors will be introduced to create an interactive environment.


Stage LED Design
June 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 | 15:00 - 18:00 | Classroom 4
[
€ 150 Max 20 attendees ] REGISTER 
The workshop aims to teach the foundations related to the world of LED and related applications in the visual and artistic fields.
After a first introductory part and a theory of light, we will touch the world of LEDs, starting from the stripled up to professional led bars and parled. Configuration and setting of the various components: ArtNet, Network Card, Midi.
Finally, the participants will be divided into groups, each of which will have to deal with designing and creating a sculpture of light, composed of led bars and parlded. The final part of the workshop will be the various performances of the groups.


Openframeworks: working with faces
June 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 | 18:00 - 21:00 | Classroom 4
[
€ 150] REGISTER 
During the workshop the partecipants will get a panoramic on the creative coding platform Openframeworks (http://openframeworks.cc/), to illustrate it we will use as example the theme: "face tracking". The partecipants will see, and code, various practical example of various techniques to track faces in real time, and examples of use of the resulting data to remote control other applications, how to substitute single face feature or full faces using webcam or pre-recorded video, or how to modify single elements of a face. While we will code the face tracking examples we will traverse all the Openframeworks main features, like 2d graphics, real time 3d graphics, how to use add-ons, how to project an application, and all the other of the core functionality of the framework.


LPM Video Mapping for kids
June 9 - 10 | 16:00 - 19:00 | Studio 2 Lectures
FREE ENTRY 

The videomapping workshop for children aged 5 years will be aimed at creating a visual project to be exhibited in the same day.
The imprint of the workshop will be very practical, and during the course the children will be invited to realize a real videomapping using the video projector with colored pencils and markers as well as computers and software to be able to reinterpret shapes and architectures with the light of the projector as only a child can make and paint colored shapes with which he can then experiment with the final project.


Accendi i LED della tua fantasia
June 9 - 10 | 16:00 - 19:00 | Galleria 
FREE ENTRY
Age: 7 – 11 years
Thanks to the tool provided by Microsoft for development on the Micro:bit (https://makecode.microbit.org) card, the kids will learn the basic programming instructions with the ultimate aim of drawing shapes and developing image sequences on the led of the card itself.
With the images generated by the LEDs, they can create animated stories, giving space to their imagination.


See you in Rome!

LPM Team"

“Broken Geometry”

The Azerbaijan A/V Club: "Broken Geometry" from VJ Fuzzy Bastard on Vimeo.

Performed and recorded at 23 Windows
Brooklyn, NY
9-23-17
All video and audio improvised & recorded live

ECHO 02_05

ECHO 02_05 from Vj Pain on Vimeo.

Interactve video animated trough MIDI devices and layer composition edited in real live time trough out MODUL 8 and Quartz Composer.
Show performed in the Spanish Embassy of Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de La Embajada Española.

Touchdesigner - 002

Touchdesigner - 002 from sean clarke on Vimeo.

Touchdesigner experiment, mixing multiple layers and playing with the mask effect.

Track / Gerry Read - Mass Media

2018/05/30

the stations × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 神楽音

the stations × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 神楽音 from Hello1103 on Vimeo.

2018.03.11神楽坂 神楽音『OK EXPERIMENT #1』
the stationsのVJを担当しました。

the stations
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/the_stations
twitter https://twitter.com/thestations_jp

Wonders - vjshow

Wonders - vjshow from Wanfu Qin on Vimeo.

用Leapmotion来控制玩vj

Piering

Piering from Gabe Damast on Vimeo.

QUANTA - Apropiaciones désde la física cuántica

QUANTA - Apropiaciones désde la física cuántica from LiliTXT on Vimeo.

QUANTA - Apropiaciones désde la física cuántica
Mapping projection
Analog and digital techniques using different kinds of elements and playing with light and textures as a new visual and dynamic experience.
Casa estudio 74
Reactante Collective
Bogotá
2017

Video Explorations

Video Explorations from LiliTXT on Vimeo.

Video Explorations
Powered by Madmapper Modul8
2016

2018/05/29

Visuales en Vivo

Visuales en Vivo from LiliTXT on Vimeo.

Visuales en Vivo
Liliana Caycedo Lilitxt
Bogotá - Colombia
2016

Video Mapping Festival Black and White

Video Mapping Festival Black and White from LiliTXT on Vimeo.

Festival Black and White
2012
Lago Calima
Video Mapping

vj/mapping

vj/mapping from karolina czachor on Vimeo.

This video is about My Movie 2

ENAJ | SKANA

ENAJ | SKANA from Jane on Vimeo.

Skana exposes overload. It seeks the limitation of human capacity to interpret information. Patterns and colour coding are triggered by transients and frequencies to such an extent that overload is reached.

[VJLOOP] skull vhs type

[VJLOOP] skull vhs type from Hyun Jae Kim on Vimeo.

my fuxking nice work
i like that

beat: YB MUZIK-Speaks Volumes

2018/05/28

Beeple | Designed with Wix

Beeple | Designed with Wix from High On Design on Vimeo.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Beeple creates short films, Everydays, VJ loops and resources for celebrities and brands worldwide. To showcase his work, he uses Wix.com.

Get to know Beeple: https://wix.click/2GLY9bw
Explore www.beeple-crap.com


About Wix.com
Wix.com is a leading cloud-based development platform trusted by over 120 million people, brands, and agencies. Work with advanced features like retina-ready media galleries, unlimited fonts and sophisticated design effects to create your website exactly the way you want.

06 - Gira - Quartz Composer

06 - Gira - Quartz Composer from Tomás Picasso on Vimeo.

Experimentando con Iteradores en Quartz Composer
Música: Aso - Snug

Cosmic Connection - Remix

Cosmic Connection - Remix from The Void on Vimeo.

“Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.”

Art: Cosmic Connection - Tom Loranz
https://www.facebook.com/TomLoranz/

Music: Of The Heavens - Avari
https://soundcloud.com/avarisound

リビドーと悪魔 × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 大宮ヒソミネ

リビドーと悪魔 × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 大宮ヒソミネ from Hello1103 on Vimeo.

2018.05.03 大宮ヒソミネ Live×VJイベント『vague parade Vol.11』
リビドーと悪魔のVJを担当しました。

リビドーと悪魔
https://the-devils-and-libido.tumblr.com/

FORT+Jimanica × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 神楽坂 神楽音

FORT+Jimanica × VJ Hello1103 - Live at 神楽坂 神楽音 from Hello1103 on Vimeo.

2018.04.02 神楽坂 神楽音
FORT+Jimanica のVJを担当しました。

2018/05/27

Touchdesigner - 001

Touchdesigner - 001 from sean clarke on Vimeo.

Experimenting with Touchdesigner. Here I am playing with the Feedback effect which is added with blur.

Track - Laurel Halo - Oneiroi

S.M.R.K. + Vj Bit

S.M.R.K. + Vj Bit from dodechadron universe on Vimeo.

koncert analogového monokultu v Kabinetu Múz, Brno

vj#13 Jen Jen

vj#13 Jen Jen from marzia braggion -editor- on Vimeo.

excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/natanuvemdesom/longa-metragem-psicadelicomeditativa

Touch Data Body X (Official Trailer)

Touch Data Body X (Official Trailer) from VJ Um Amel on Vimeo.

Touch Data Body X (2018) is an interactive installation expressing the idea that computer malfunctions expose something for which you were not prepared. In this interactive media installation, VJ Um Amel has written java code in Processing 2.2.1 that enables users to manipulate frequency modulation of the source photograph for the metal print, Data Body of a Cyborg / سايبورغ مجسّم من البيانات, also on display at Arto Bots in the Glitch Resistance on Metal installation. Curated by Vanessa Chang. Original soundtrack, "Cake" (2018) by Dan Kearney. See: http://codame.com/projects/touch-data-body-x

Projeção Mapeada

Projeção Mapeada from luciano on Vimeo.

Projeção IUSG em Belo Horizonte MG.

2018/05/26

Points of Light

Points of Light from Miss LNI on Vimeo.

By @Max Nova
Music "Unknown” by @mrkryl

WAR ON DRUGS

WAR ON DRUGS from VJ RUBAS on Vimeo.

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1971.

The war on drugs has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply.

The prohibitions on drugs have also created perverse economic incentives that make combating drug producers and distributors extremely difficult. The high black-market price for illegal drugs has generated huge profits for the groups that produce and sell them

The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report on June 2, 2011, alleging that "The War On Drugs Has Failed."

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Video from archive.org mixed and fx in real time with Resolume Arena.
Track Id: Adrift- Octo Octa

THIRD DIMENSION!

THIRD DIMENSION! from Amir R. Setayesh on Vimeo.

MY NEW VJ & TRACK PRODUCTION!

Plexus Loops

Plexus Loops from Matt Deuse on Vimeo.

Available as a pack or individual motion graphics videos. Go check out mattdeuse.tv for more info.

Red Bull 3style - 2017 Tour visuals reel

Red Bull 3style - 2017 Tour visuals reel from Fokus on Vimeo.

Year: 2017
Client: Red Bull
Illustration: Alek Morawski
Production: Fokus Creative studio
Technical Direction: Mathieu Vezina
DOP: Sacha Roy
Motion design: Olivier Blanchette

Music: Long Distance - Sam Gellaitry

2018/05/25

VGN FRST @ STRAY SIGNALS #2

VGN FRST @ STRAY SIGNALS #2 from VGN FRST on Vimeo.

Live from our performance at the last Stray Signals in Berlin. VJ & Video by DELTADATA (https://vimeo.com/adriendavid)

“B&V” 26/04/18 @ Work Bar; O V J w/ Raul Escobar

"B&V" 26/04/18 @ Work Bar; O V J w/ Raul Escobar from ovjaveejay ( O V J ) on Vimeo.

Fashion Week Berlin 2017 - TIGHA

Fashion Week Berlin 2017 - TIGHA from by VISUAL ART on Vimeo.

Impression of our room-installation for the label "TIGHA" in the KitKatClub at Berlin.

NakedSoftware VJ Loop Demo (under development)

NakedSoftware VJ Loop Demo (under development) from Stephane Poirier on Vimeo.
Another NakedSoftware VJ Loops Bundle demo video (Bethany-Morgan-Glamour-Shootscut01-vorotrans derived from a great Peter Wilso vimeo demo video). The NakedSoftware Loops footage could become available from NAKEDSOFTWARE.ORG.
NakedSoftware VJ Loop Demo (under development) from Stephane Poirier on Vimeo.
Another NakedSoftware VJ Loops Bundle demo video (Bethany-Morgan-Glamour-Shootscut02-vorotrans derived from a great Peter Wilso vimeo demo video). The NakedSoftware Loops footage could become available from NAKEDSOFTWARE.ORG.

NakedSoftware VJ Loop Demo (under development) from Stephane Poirier on Vimeo.

Another NakedSoftware VJ Loops Bundle demo video (Bethany-Morgan-Glamour-Shootscut15-vorotrans derived from a great Peter Wilso vimeo demo video). The NakedSoftware Loops footage could become available from NAKEDSOFTWARE.ORG.

Asso’ lution Party 2017

Asso' lution Party 2017 from eMTv on Vimeo.

live video :: vj eM Tv :: 13-05-17

:: ~~ next Asso' lution party ~~ ::
::: Festi d'Fou ~ Pied de Borne :::
:: ~ ven. sam. 18-19 Mai 2018 ~::

2018/05/24

VJ Loop - DeadHead

VJ Loop - DeadHead from Dan Gold on Vimeo.

Performances 2017/2018

Performances 2017/2018 from Ari Dykier on Vimeo.

It's a short clip from a few festivals I took a part between May 2017 and April 2018.
Live Performers Meeting (Amsterdam)
Visual Brasil (Barcelona)
Concerts with Arte dei Suonatori
Generate!°(Tübingen)
Patchlab (Kraków)
microB B - Seite (Mannheim)
ER VA 41 Telenoika (Barcelona)
Riders On the Mall (Budapest)

Moon Zero - Sunk Cost

Moon Zero - Sunk Cost from Ben Moon on Vimeo.

The video produced for Moon Zero, 'Sunk Cost' appears on the new record 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' released on Denoval Records. Video was premiered on Cyclic Defrost (https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2018/05/watch-the-premiere-of-sunk-cost-by-moon-zero/)

· Listen: www.denovali.com/moonzero
· Order: www.denovali.com/store
· Download: www.denovali.com/digitalstore

05 - Glitch - Quartz Composer & Resolume

05 - Glitch - Quartz Composer & Resolume from Tomás Picasso on Vimeo.

Quartz Composer & Resolume

Lapsus 2018 - ID:MORA -visual set

Lapsus 2018 - ID:MORA -visual set from ID:MORA on Vimeo.

A short bit from my live visual set for Gacha Bakradze at Lapsus festival, Barcelona 2018.

PIT - CUELLOS

PIT - CUELLOS from O I V I on Vimeo.

adelanto del beat tape "Super Cute"
* producido en https://www.instagram.com/estudiopira...
Experimento vvvvisual para Ediciones Tentaculos.-

2018/05/23

Ite.rar - Quartz Composer

Ite.rar - Quartz Composer from Tomás Picasso on Vimeo.

ite.rar: el acto de repetir un proceso con la intención de alcanzar una meta deseada, objetivo o resultado.
los resultados de una iteración se utilizan como punto de partida para la siguiente iteración.

Video programado integramente en Quartz Composer
Código por Tomás Picasso
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Serie de 20 videos creada para el triangular
Los videos completos los pueden buscar en
https://www.instagram.com/eltriangular/
Y proximamente en su pagina web.

Deep - PM (Ikuko Morozumi)

Deep - PM (Ikuko Morozumi) from TWISTCUBE on Vimeo.

sound: https://ikuzumi2.wixsite.com/ikunixxinfo

Duality

Duality from Chris Speed Visuals on Vimeo.

Warning flashing Images! ☯️

Sound: Joe Reed and Chris Speed
Visuals: Chris Speed

Duality is a real-time media performance exploring how minimalist techniques in sound and vision can allude to much broader concepts, such as the duality of the human experience.

The sounds come from granular processing sounds and a custom synthesizer I built within the visual programming language Max MSP. Everything was then arranged within Reason and performed with Ableton Live. The accompanying visuals were made with Jitter, openFrameworks and VDMX.

This was first performed live at Buster Mantis in London as part of my final project for my Programming for Artists II module on the MA Computational Arts Course at Goldsmiths University.

Download the songs here https://soundcloud.com/artilekt/sets/arkoschris-speed-visuals-duality

Track List
1. Creation
2. Duplicate Animal
3. Pulsek232

Deep - Collapse (Ikuko Morozumi)

Deep - Collapse (Ikuko Morozumi) from TWISTCUBE on Vimeo.

sound: https://ikuzumi2.wixsite.com/ikunixxinfo

Modul-Her

Modul-Her from Halea Isabelle Kala on Vimeo.

VJ Loop - Chill Dragon

VJ Loop - Chill Dragon from Dan Gold on Vimeo.

2018/05/22

VJ Loop - Arrival

VJ Loop - Arrival from Dan Gold on Vimeo.

VJ Loop - HexMare

VJ Loop - HexMare from Dan Gold on Vimeo.

SINGULARITY NOW

"TALES FROM THE EVENT HORIZON

The 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival exploring the unknown future of the upcoming Technological Apocalypse through art, science and technology, presents you the theme of its next edition, under the theme “SINGULARITY NOW”.

This year for its annual date, ADAF, the most renowned festival for digital arts in Greece, will present its content in May, at a TBA location in the historic center of Athens. The festival attracts and presents works and artists from all over the world.

Event Horizon is the conceivable surface of a black hole, a place where gravity curves space-time so much, there is no escape, not even by light itself. Its core is the singularity, a zero point, where space and time are discontinued and is unknown what exactly happens further. A wormhole? Termination of everything? A new universe through a white hole?

When something enters the event horizon, all physics laws get distorted, while gravity becomes such, that inevitably reaches singularity and from there on...
Singularity is a notion that has different definitions in the various fields of science, nonetheless, it retains a common axis regarding its main idea. In mathematics, it is the point where a function or an equation degenerates or diverges toward infinity, changing its nature and thus becoming impossible to define. In physics, it is the core of a black hole as well as the state right before the Big Bang, the zero point of space and time where everything is compressed in zero dimensions and density is infinite. In mechanics, it is the calibration of a machine in a way that its behavior cannot be predicted and the physical variants involved are either not definite or infinite. In technology, it is a scenario where artificial intelligence surpasses humanity, the technological boom becomes infinite and the outcome is unpredictable.

Is evident that singularity as notion is associated with infinity, with the unknown, and the beginning of universes, both physical and conceptual, but how does it link to art and technology?

Every universe launches its existence in subject to time, while the perception of time is by birth connected to creation and technicality. In the Promethean myth, we can perceive as singularity the gesture of the maker to offer fire to the humankind, passing thusly the torch of knowledge to the creation and enabling it to create on its own. As a consequence comes torment for the creator, but also time emerges in the form of a circular punishment considered one of the first references to the circle of a clock. Additionally, fire, which symbolizes simultaneously both intellect and technicality, was the first medium for the development of all “tekhne”. Its arrival in humanity, signifies the beginning of consciousness, thus consequently the perception of time as well as the development of art (fine tehkne) and technology (the art of making) which resulted in civilization and culture, both means for recording time. In this way, technology and art as derivatives of singularity and instruments of time, have proclaimed the beginning of this world, but maybe also its very end.

Today, the further development of the promethean gift is slowly taking over the reins from its creator and “degenerates” tending to change its nature, holding us witness in an upcoming technological singularity, which can potentially get any form. The constant progress on robotics, AI, biotechnology, biomimicry, nanotechnology, quantum computing and space technology, is courting with the idea of surpassing humankind, constituting obvious for the spectator, that we have entered an “event horizon” where no one can predict what will follow.

Human-machine merger or enslave of humanity? Brain upload and immortality or cease of human species? Progression or Regression? Futurism or Archaism? Physics or Metaphysics? Utopia or Dystopia? Beginning or End?

Following to this realization, the International Festival for Digital Arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival, calls both the art world and the world of technology, in order to have works and achievements which outline, comment, foresee, or determine the upcoming singularity, the human role in this new era, the role and form of art and technology in it.

Will you tell us your tale from this event horizon…?

http://2018.adaf.gr

Athens Digital Art Festival is part of the cultural cooperation LPM 2015 > 2018realized within the international audiovisual network AVnode, with the contribution of the Creative Europe Culture Program for European Cooperation Projects, involving 14 partners from 13 European countries.

See you in Athens!

AVnode Team"