MACHINISTA 2004: INTERNATIONAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL
Machinista 2004 Festival takes place in Glasgow from May 7th - 9th, having originated in 2003 in Perm, Russia (1386km east of Moscow). A migrating festival with a host of events exploring, celebrating and questioning the ideas of "artificial intelligence in the arts" and "wo/man-machine interaction", Machinista also includes an extensive online exhibition of accompanying works.
Machinista 2004 is organised by a team of 12 experienced curators,
artists, journalists & researchers mainly based in Glasgow. We will present
a widely diverging selection of projects from international artists and creators,
including live music, audio-visual performances, software-based experiments
and recycled hardware constructions. Machinista will also feature interactive
installations, illustrated seminars and an Open Source software cafe for networking
& workshops.
Machinista online exhibition is themed according to 3 categories:
Art from the Machine: Gleams of the Inhuman, Artists against Machinic Standards
& Full-screen Robovision. Individuals or groups, working in either artistic
or scientific disciplines, were encouraged to submit proposals without genre
limitations to any of these categories over a fixed time period, for potential
selection at the Machinista Festival. Supervisors for each category have prepared
a shortlist of highlights, which can be viewed on our website from 3rd April.
The timetable of Machinista events is:
| -29th
April: Machinista Arches Foyer Exhibition @ The
Arches 19:00-21:00, free; - 6th May : Machinista 2003 Pre-Launch (Russian organisers present last year’s entries) @ CCA 19:00-20:30, free; - 7th May : Machinista 2004 Festival Opening (Category supervisors’ review) @ CCA 17:30-20:30, free; - 7th May : Machinista 8-bit Cabaret (Artists Against Machinic Standards) @ CCA 22:30-03:00, £5; - 8th May : Machinista Seminar (AI, A-Life & artistic practices) @ Glasgow Science Centre 17:00-20:30, free; - 8th May : Machinista Club (Art from the Machine) @ Glasgow Art School, 22:30-03:00, £7/6; - 9th May : Machinista Street Performance @ Secret city centre location, 14:00-15:00 free; - 9th May : Machinista Lounge (Full Screen Robovision) @ The Arches, 16:00-00:00, £5/4; |
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Confirmed appearances at the festival include:
| - Richair
2030 (UK/US/LAT/RU/TWN/AUS) : post-netcrash wireless performance
by renegade rollergirls; - Solar X & EPS (RU) : Russia’s premier electronic musician & the country's leading VJ; - Z-Lab (FR) : multilingual cybernetic presentation showcasing miniature DIY-robots; - ap02 (UK) : baroque modular AV performance by self-coding hardware network; - Idealword (SP) : Enrique Radigales' Copyleft ASCII image environment; - Avatar Body Collision (UK / NZ / FIN/ SER) : globally dispersed cybertheatre demo; - Videohometraining (NL / US) : 2-D micromusic & AV gameshow; - Prometheus (GR) : Yiannis Melanitis' suspended body ritual and sonically-controlled hexapod robot; - Feedback Society (NL) : realtime video vortex-generation from drill-mounted wireless camera; - Viewmysourcecode & Spoonbender (UK) : synchronised robotic biofeedback mix in 8-bit AV ; - EJ Turntable (US) : Optical video vinyl scratch mixing on customised MIDI decks; - Ablab (UK) : one-fingered musician generating florid labyrinths of sound and colour; - many other local & international performances/ installations & Machinista DVD screenings. |
www.machinista.org.uk/press/ contains full details about Machinista’s
history, links to relevant artist sites, print quality photographs and biographies
of all artists and international online organisers.
CONTACT: GUY@SPEZIALMATERIAL.CH
/ 0044 7870 608634
| online exhibition: www.machinista.org | offline events: www.machinista.org.uk |
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