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.:.: Closing Gala
Art.ware Performance
Media. Machine. Magic.
This year, ifva partners up with art.ware, presenting three
performances from Golan LEVIN, Zachary LIEBERMAN and Julien MAIRE,
three renowned media artists from USA and France. They will perform
live with self-developed media technology and installations of image
and sound. The performances showcase the perfect marriage between
traditional projection technology and computer programming, displaying
the multi-facets of sound, image, and their interactivity. They will redefine the meaning of moving images and provoke every nerve of yours
in any possible way.
Golan LEVIN has been exploring the possibility of music
performance under the scope of interactive art for 10 years. In 2001,
his tour de force Dialtones: A Telesymphony turned mobile phones into
musical instruments. The audience and their phones become performers
in the concert, providing a whole new insight of the relationships
between the artist, audience and the performance itself. Zachary
LIEBERMAN, Golan's long time collaborator, has won several awards from
Ars Electronica with his work Messa di Voce (2004), Drawn (2006) and
openFrameworks (2008). Since 1996, Julien MAIRE has become a regular
in many different media art festivals. His expertise is to combine new
and old technology, reshaping film projection and hence the viewing
experience. His improvised performances often obscure the perception
of reality and illusion.
To see the latest from these three important artists in
one setting, to feel the shockwave of interactive art crossing over
contemporary live performances, don't you hesitate! One show only. Get
your ticket fast!
Bigger venue for more audience!
The venue of the 15th ifva Festival Closing Performance – artware on 20 March (Saturday) will be changed to ArtisTree. Ticket holders to artware in Osage Kwun Tong can attend the same performance at ArtisTree (1/F., Cornwall House, TaiKoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Island East, HK).
About art.ware
art.ware aims to explore the use of digital and interactive
technology for contemporary performative art-making and to
introduce basic techniques and knowledge for developing custom
digital tools. Since November 2009, art.ware has presented a series of
workshops which provide and promote a creative and integrated use
of digital technology to artists, students and anyone who is interested
in contemporary digital art and culture. In January 2010, art.ware presented its first performance with Daito MANABE, a promising new
media artist from Japan, and Gaybird of People Mountain People Sea
from Hong Kong.
http://www.artware.hk
About the Artists
Golan LEVIN (United States)
Golan LEVIN is an artist, engineer and composer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of interactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into non-verbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. He is known for the conception and creation of Dialtones (2001), a concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones, and for The Secret Lives of Numbers (2002), an interactive online data visualization featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Levin is Assistant Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. http://www.flong.com
Zachary LIEBERMAN (United States)
Zachary LIEBERMAN is an artist, engineer and educator whose work explores the creative and human uses of technology. He produces installations, on-line works and concerts concerned with the themes of kinetic and gestural performance, interactive imaging and sound synthesis. Lieberman lives and works in New York City, where he teaches courses in audiovisual synthesis and creative image processing at Parsons School of Design. Most recently, Lieberman and Levin have premiered several works exploring visual treatments of real-time speech analysis, including RE:MARK (2002), an interactive installation, and Messa di Voce (2003), an interactive-media performance. http://www.thesystemis.com
Julien MAIRE (France)
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Metz, Julien MAIRE is a French new media artist currently resides and works in Berlin. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked between categories of performance, media installation and cinema to produce live performative works that were hybrid of genres and media. His installations and performances have been featured widely and internationally at prestigious venues such as Ars Electronica, Digital Art Festival, European Media Art Festival, Film Festival Rotterdam, Sonar, Transmediale, ZKM and more. http://julienmaire.ideenshop.net
About the Curator
IP Yuk-yiu (Hong Kong)
IP Yuk-yiu is an experimental filmmaker, media artist, art educator and independent curator. His works, ranging from experimental films to live audiovisual performances and media installations, have been shown widely at international festivals including the Image Festival, Transmediale, European Media Art Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New York Film Festival, VideoBrasil and more. He has lectured extensively on film, video and media art and has taught at Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Currently he is Assistant Professor and the Master of Fine Arts programme leader at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
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