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| Pushing
the Medium : Sound Investigations (HELI+VISIOON) MOKS Media Art Symposium October 15-22, 2004 |
| Pushing
the Medium is an international
meeting of sound and video artists brought together for a one
week symposium in Tartu and Mooste. The event includes a series
of Performances, Lectures and Workshops for the artists and the
public. It is organized by MoKS, an
NGO organization dedicated to local and international cooperation
in the fields of arts, social and environmental research in Mooste,
Estonia. --- Program Friday Oct 15th: Näituse Press conference and Artist discussion, Tartu Artist Union Gallery 17:00 Saturday Oct 16th: Video and Sound performance Evening: Saadamateater 19:00 - Derek Holzer (US/NL), Sara Kolster (NL), Maxim Shentelev (LV) - Antonio Della Marina (ITA), John Grzinich (US, EST) - Paulo Raposo (PT) Sunday 17th - Thursday 21: Artist Workshops at Tartu Art College / MoKS - Derek Holzer-Sara Kolster: Visible Sound / Audible Image - Paulo Raposo: Techniques for Audio/Visual Manipulation Wednesday 20th - Artist excursion to the Meenikunno Nature Preserve Thursday Oct 21: Concert Evening: Tartu Artist Union Gallery 19:00 - audums (Kiril Lomunov, Janis Bikis, Maxim Shentelev, LV) - Taavi Tulev (Estonia) - Kiwa (EST) - Alt-Ctrl-Del (Kurt Korthals, US) All events will be documented and stored in the MoKS archive. --- + Thurday 13.10 23:00- 01:00 listen to the FANTAASIA program on KLASSIKARAADIOS SUPPORTERS: KULTUURIMINISTEERIUM, TARTU LINNAVALITSUS, TARTU KULTUURKAPITAL, AMEERIKA ÜHENDRIIKIDE SUURSAATKOND, EESTI KULTUURKAPITAL |
| Participants DEREK HOLZER (NL/US) is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations [Karosta Project, w/ Sara Kolster], and on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment [OZONE Project, w/ Bas van Koolwijk], as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data. http://www.umatic.nl/ SARA KOLSTER (NL) is a video and new-media artist with a background in web / graphical design and webbased-projects. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology). http://www.umatic.nl/ PAULO RAPOSO (PT) is a sound and media artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite having studied cinema and philosophy, he has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound since the early nineties, performing, exhibiting installation works and recording throughout Europe and the US. He is the founder and director of SIRR records, a label dedicated to new and experimental forms of music. http://www.sirr-ecords.com/ http://www.sirr-ecords.com/pauloraposo/ ANTONIO DELLA MARINA (IT) Italian electronic composer Antonio Della Marina focuses on sequencies, frequencies and phase of sine waves and the essential characteristics of sound itself. His work exploits sound's physical property, its causality with human perception and mathematical dianoia as music, time and space. Since 1998 he has been active in sound art through concerts and sound installations. http://www.fades.net/ JOHN GRZINICH (EST/US) media artist (mostly electronic, sometimes not) and MoKS Media Lab coordinator working with sound for over 10 years and with video for 5. has constructed various permutations of sound and video individually and together in compositions, installations and performances. He has released CDs on a host of independent labels internationally such as CMR (NZ), Elevator Bath (US), Staalplaat (NL), Intransitive (US), Erewhon (BE) and others... http://www.kaon.org/jgrzinich/ :KI WA (EST) situational meta-media artist who expresses himself through painting, sound, video, text, performance and social sculpture. He has been involved with numerous artistic and curatorial projects throughout Estonia and abroad. http://www.looming.org/ TAAVI TULEV (EST) is currently studying architecture and has been working with electronic music since 2000. He has released works on Ulmeplaadid and the net labels Audiobulb and Autoplate. He considers his musicstyle to be APM (abstract party music / abstraktne peomuusika). http://taavi.kalale.ee/ ALT-CTRL-DEL (Kurt Korthals, US) Kurt recently received a degree in computer science yet he has released several full length works as an electronic musician under the name 'The Buddy System'. Alt-Ctrl-Del is a side project for exploring abstract electronic soundscapes that range from ambient to edgy. Kurt often accompanies his sounds with original video work. http://notenuf.net/ AUDUMS (Kiril Lomunov, Janis Bikis, Maxim Shentelev) MAKSIM SHENTELEV (LV) is a multimedia artist from Latvia who works in field recording under name my-ym. Activity of my-ym is focused on perceptional nuances of informative environment. Field recording, collage and musique concrete are the main genres. Scope borders are set for research of audio visual sensual field, especially for analysis of phantasmal dimensional structures. He is also the cofounder of AUDIOT, a Riga based net label that develops and publishes the sharpest audio design from Latvia and neighbouring countries. http://www.audiot.lv/ KIRIL LOMUNOV (LV) is a Riga based sound designer who has worked with the duo OLOOLO and the ambient music project “ssvaa-faa”. In 1997 the project “Ayahuasca “ was founded on a conception thatwent far beyond habitual borders of ambient music. From 1997 – 2000 he worked on sound design collaborations with Ugis Vitinsh, Android, Denis Verushkin. In 2004 collaborating with Maksim Shentelev (my-ym) and Janis Bikis (mutal) formed trio project “audums” . Kiril is also the cofounder of AUDIOT, a Riga based net label that develops and publishes the sharpest audio design from Latvia and neighbouring countries. http://www.audiot.lv/ JANIS BIKIS (LV) started his video designing activity with shortcut “Dimensions” 12 min. 2001. From 2001 to 2004 works as one of the organizers of youth multimedia festival “2annas”. In 2002 shortcut “Get woozy!” came to light. 2003 - shortcut “Photo session”. In that period collaborates as a vj with local club scena dj’s. Participates in festivals, club events and performances. In past couple of years artist focused on experimental merging of analog video and digital processing. From 2003 works together with ambient, electro acoustic and field recording sound designers Maksim Sentelev and Kiryll Lomunov in trio project “audums” |
| Pushing
the Medium: Creative and active engagement with new electronic media by artists is what Pushing the Medium intends to expose and present. An international collection of artists and their works takes the form of a three week symposium and will include a workshop, lectures, performances and an exhibition. This symposium offers the public and the Estonian artistic community an opportunity to observe and engage themselves in a rare collection of innovators and movers who continually work on Pushing the Medium through their art and creative pursuits. At the same time, Pushing the Medium, allows the chance for international and Estonian participants in the symposium to exchange and share ideas about their own lives and works. Sound Investigations: While the use of Sound as a means of artistic expression has gained a wider audience in recent years it still is not fully understood or accepted as a creative medium. Pushing the Medium takes on the various cultural phenomenon surrounding the use of Sound as an artistic medium and opens topics from where it has come to the directions the medium is headed. The participants of Pushing the Medium represent a number of perspectives and disciplines in the cultures of sound art and music experimentation. They range from respected composers and performers from marginal scenes, dedicated organizers and promoters, to innovators of developing technologies. Notes on the pushing: We start with a frame or point within a process: What always lies at the edge or periphery of technological developments are people who seek to adapt or transform these technologies for their own means. In the case of artistic investigations, experimentation becomes the rule when trying to define ones own method or form of expression. The materials, objects or devices of “progress” and technological advancement tend to follow the cycle of being made for specialized purposes for the elite few, yet over time eventually trickle down and find their way to the general public for consumption and eventual disposal. But often without clear reason or logical explanation there may be individuals or groups who open up the territory at various points along this cycle. From the edge of advanced research to the wasted borders at the end of usability, artists find the means for their own creative explorations. Seen better from a historical perspective, these activities are born from the margins and often act as indicators and catalysts for change. Whether it is to push for answers to philosophical questions of personal or social nature, making playful light of the burden of technological infringements on the human condition, or even constructing situations for social/political agitation, these changes are often shadowed by their creative artistic roots. Notes on the medium: Using sound specifically as an artistic medium can be seen as a relatively recent advent in the arts if designated as such in a contemporary artistic context. This comes in paradoxical contrast to music, which may or may not be defined so much as a medium as it is a form, and extends back in time as far as the history of creative or ritual expression is known and definitely beyond. Although debates surrounding sound vs. music sporadically rise and fall, the designation of sound as a medium relates more to the development of media, namely electronic or reproducible media, than it does to competing and/or replacing music. From new technologies, new cultures and forms of expression are derived. A number of parallel developments of the 20th century musical avant-garde showed that adaptive use of new or existing technologies proved realizable at all levels of sophistication. More basic activities ranged from the confrontational noise experiments of futurist Luigi Russolo in the 1920s to the underground cut-up tape machine exercises of Brion Gysin in the early 60s. While credible composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Schaeffer established themselves through their electronic explorations using the most advanced state run studios available in post-war Germany and France. As the number of small multi-track home-studios grew in the 1970s and 1980s so did the amount of people willing to adapt or put their machines to new uses. Large reel tapes shrank into small cassettes. Running hand in hand with the ‘do it yourself’ punk movement was the underground tape movement which became a vast international network of sound and music experimenters who wished to copy and distribute their products to all those interested. The firmament of the underground formed more established scenes and distribution channels for cassettes, records and CDs from the mid-80s through the 1990s and on until now. Styles and approaches expanded and resulted in such genres as, electro-acoustic, concrete, experimental, collage, acousmatic, ambient, industrial, soundscape, minimal etc... The digital age however is shaping the way musicians and artists work with their medium, perhaps more than all preceding technologies combined. Although the ability of the personal computer to emulate and combine all the technological elements of the past into a single machine is radical in itself, the developments inherent to the new media of digital production and communications opens questions and possibilities limited only to what is currently imaginable. Pushing the medium is an open forum, exhibition and presentation space for artists and organizers engaged in pushing the medium of Sound. |
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