Transmedia

Art & Technology Day – MUS-E & Transmedia

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:40 +0000

Transmedia opens its doors for an artistic education project for children aged 11-12 years.

MUS-E Belgium is an open platform for artists to translate their artistic practice into an artistic project for groups at risk to develop creativity in dialogue.

THEME
Art & Technology

WHEN
Tuesday 24 April 2012 – 9h till 15h
Thursday 26 April 2012 – 9h till 15h

WHERE
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art & Design
Transmedia – Paleizenstraat 70 – 1030 Brussels

MORE INFO
MUS-E Belgium: www.mus-e.be

Impact Sessions – Michael Vorfeld (D) – light & percussion performance

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:53:44 +0000

Michael Vorfeld, visual artist and musician, based in Berlin, realises light installations and performances with light and works with photography and film. He plays percussion and self designed stringed instruments and realises elektro-acoustic sound pieces.
Michael Vorfeld works in the field of improvised, experimental music and sound art and is often involved in site-specific art projects.
Besides his solo activities he is a member of various ensembles and collaborates with artists from different art forms.
His list of activities includes numerous concerts, performances and exhibitions in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.

WHEN
25 April 2012 – lecture at 20h – performance at 21h

WHERE
RECYCLART asbl/vzw
Station Brussel-Kapellekerk
Ursulinenstraat 25
1000 Brussels

MORE INFO
Michael Vorfeld: www.vorfeld.org
images: Flickr.com
Impactsessions: www.impactsessions.be
Recyclart: www.recyclart.be

OBJETs SONOREs by Hallveig Agustsdottir

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:40:56 +0000

WHEN
OPENING: Thursday 29th March at 18:00 till 20:30
30th March – 21st April — Wednesdays till Saturdays — 13:00 till 18:00

WHERE
b-gallery
Rue Saint-Jean 17-19
1000 Brussels

MORE INFO
La Centrale Électrique, b-gallery: www.lacentraleelectrique.be
Hallveig Agustsdottir: www.hallveiggkagustsdottir.com

seminar & workshop by Julien Maire

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:21:44 +0000

Julien Maire, 1969 (F-DE) Lives and works in Berlin. Studied Fine Arts in Metz (F). Artist and performing artist, his work deconstructs and re-invents the technology of audio-visual media. He renews obsolete cinematic techniques or develops alternatives interface to produce moving images. His research confront immobility and movement, reality and fiction and interrogate the notion of time and memory in the film image. His performance, “Digit” and the installation “Exploding Camera” receive both an Honorary mention in Ars Electronica 07, “The exploding Camera” also receive the award of New Media Art from the Fondation Liedts-Meesen in 2008. His work was nominate for the “World Technology Award” in New York in 2009.

WHEN – seminar
Tuesday 6/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00
Wednesday 7/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00
Thursday 8/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00

WHEN – workshop
Tuesday 27/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00
Wednesday 28/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00

WHERE
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art & Design
Transmedia – Paleizenstraat 70 – 1030 Brussels – Belgium

MORE INFO
Julien Maire: julienmaire.blogspot.com

Impact Sessions – Tetsu Saitoh – double bass & composer (JAP)

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:17:55 +0000

“Radical and surprising things have been attempted in music. Various techniques have been presented that make use of accidents, create chaos, or develop new kinds of feeling through technology. Many methods for transcending the self have been tried. When I played music with Kim Suk Chul, a Korean shaman who plays traditional Korean instruments, I discovered another method—relaxation.

Normally, a jazz musician can play improvisationally for thirty minutes at most. His playing time is determined by his stamina. As the performance continues, it takes a toll on him physically. He plays music to express himself, and the performance doesn’t exist if he doesn’t play.

In contrast, the performance of Kim Suk Chul and his group lasted for many hours, and they seemed to be in better and better physical condition. When I participated in their performance, I felt happy and satisfied just being there, even when I wasn’t playing an instrument. I realized that in his performance he easily went beyond self-expression.

Tetsu Saitoh has been involving himself with dance, Butoh, theatre, fine arts, poetry, calligraphy, Japanese traditional music, court music, Noh theatre, classical and contemporary music, tango especially Astor Piazzolla’s music, jazz, improvised music, Korean and Asian shamanism.

WHEN
Wednesday 14 March 2012 – performance at 21h

WHERE
RECYCLART asbl/vzw
Station Brussel-Kapellekerk
Ursulinenstraat 25
1000 Brussels

MORE INFO
Tetsu Saitoh: www.japanimprov.com/saitoh
Impactsessions: www.impactsessions.be
Recyclart: www.recyclart.be

visit: Artefactfestival – “The social contract” – 2012

admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:18:05 +0000

The title and theme of this eleventh edition of Artefact is The Social Contract. This term has been used in political and philosophical theories since the 17th century, but still emerges regularly today, in interviews with politicians, political party programs, debates, … Even the early adopters of the social contract theory, such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, used and interpreted the concept in different ways. The classical interpretation concerns the relation between the individual as a citizen and a political entity, in which the individual sacrifices part of his freedom and power in order for the state to offer for instance safety and social and economic security. But what is the position of the social contract in our current times of crisis in a globalized world?

One of the festival’s main questions is whether we can renegotiate or reform those ‘contracts’. Can we cancel them, rewrite them? The programme focuses on different forms of resistance and imagination. With exhibitions, performances, debates and meetings with international artists, we look for the position and alternatives for The Social Contract in our contemporary information and network society.

MORE INFO
Artefactfestival: www.artefact-festival.be

Research Dossiers by Michel van Dartel

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:00:47 +0000

About Research Dossiers

When artists engage in research they often also need to share their research findings through journal publications. Getting one’s writing accepted in a journal, however, requires basic academic writing skills and the ability to set out clear and concise arguments
‘Research Dossiers’ provides Transmedia students with a crash course in academic writing and publishing. The course guides students in the practical exercise of writing a structured academic essay around an argument that can be supported by their own artistic research practice. In addition to writing a research proposal in the first year and a research dossier in the second year, the course includes plenary presentations, individual meetings and a peer-reviewing process.

Michel van Dartel is curator at V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Besides his appointment at V2_, Michel is co-curator of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival and ARTICLE Biennial of Electronic Art, advisor at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Willem de Kooning Academy, and Hanza Hogeschool, associate editor at the Journal for Artistic Research, and a member of music group The Rose Frustrates. Michel holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MSc in Cognitive Psychology.

WHEN
Tuesday & Wednesday 15+16/11/2011 –10h00 till 17h00: 1st and 2nd year presentations
Friday 19/12/2011 – 10h00 till 17h00: 2nd year individual meetings
Friday 17/02/2012 – 17h00: Deadline draft papers. (Send to Michel and to peers in peer-review group)
Thursday & Friday 01+02/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00: 1st year peer-review groups
Monday 05/03/2012 – 10h00 till 13h00: 2st year peer-review group
Friday 16/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00: 1nd year individual meetings
Friday 30/03/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00: 1nd year individual meetings
Wednesday 04/04/2012 – 10h00 till 17h00: 2nd year individual meetings
Friday 01/06/2012 – 17h00: Deadline (Send to Michel)

WHERE
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art & Design
Transmedia – Paleizenstraat 70 – 1030 Brussels – Belgium

MORE INFO
Michel van Dartel: www.v2.nl/archive/people/michel-van-dartel

Artist in Residence – Julien Maire

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:26:31 +0000

WHERE
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art & Design
Transmedia – Paleizenstraat 70 – 1030 Brussels – Belgium

MORE INFO
Julien Maire: julienmaire.blogspot.com

Plexiglas Objects by Christiane Wittig

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:39:44 +0000

WHEN
Tuesday till Friday — 13:00 till 18:00
The exhibition ends on the 30th of march 2012.

WHERE
Galerie Borssenanger Chemnitz
Uwe Bullmann, Am Rathaus 6
D-09111 Chemnitz
Germany

MORE INFO
Galerie Borssenanger Chemnitz: www.borssenanger.de/index.php?page=chemnitz
Christiane Wittig: www.christiane-wittig.net

visit: Sonic Acts XIV – “Travelling Time” – 2012

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:04:02 +0000

Since its inception in 1994, the bi-annual Sonic Acts festival has questioned, examined, assembled and exhibited contemporary and historical developments at the cutting edge of art, technology, music and science.

MORE INFO
Sonic Acts: 2012.sonicacts.com/index.php