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Apparat live @ Utrecht meets Berlin Tivoli de Helling

Utrecht meets Berlin groot succes!

In het weekend van 7 en 8 november 2009 kon de top van nieuwe media performers/artiesten bewonderd worden in Utrecht, tijdens het uitwisselingsproject Utrecht meets Berlin. Toonaangevende internationale artiesten als Motomichi, A MAZE, Pfadfinderei en Apparat namen het publiek mee in een wereld van nieuwe media met exposities, presentaties, installaties, workshops, tentoonstellingen en feesten georganiseerd door Born Digital in samenwerking met Vrede van Utrecht en mede mogelijk gemaakt door gemeente Utrecht. Het programma was onderdeel van Culturele Zondagen  ‘Niemandsland’ dat plaatsvond op 7 en 8 november. Met ruim 1600 bezoekers was het programma een groot succes.
 
Zaterdagmiddag ging het nieuwe media weekend van start in de Centraal Museum studio met presentaties van wereldbekende artiesten. Zo deelden game art specialisten A MAZE en het invloedrijke VJ collectief Pfadfinderei uit Berlijn hun werkwijze en kennis met het publiek. Ook digitale designer Motomichi uit New York en onderzoeksgroep virtueel theater van het lectoraat TMP uit Utrecht presenteerden hun werk. ’s Avonds smolten bewegende videokunst en elektronische muziek samen in Centraal Museum Studio tijdens het optreden van Motomichi en Pfadfinderei op muziek van Utrechtse DJ’s.
 
Zondagmiddag kon men in de Toonkamer en in Centraal Museum Studio deelnemen aan interactieve installaties en tentoonstellingen van Berlijnse artiesten als Shintaro Miyazaki en Wolfgang Spahn. Zondagavond zorgden de optredens van Berlijnse held Apparat in combinatie het Utrechtse collectief 030303 voor een uitverkochte zaal in Tivoli de Helling. Ook deze avond stond nieuwe media centraal. De danszaal was voorzien van vijf projectieschermen waar nationale en internationale videokunst op werd vertoond. Ook in de foyer van Tivoli was het topdrukte waar men kon participeren in interactieve installaties zoals Digital Puppetry en Amy the Urban Game.
Het weekend stond in het teken van het uitwisselen van kennis en creativiteit op internationaal niveau waarbij zowel de organisatie als deelnemers en artiesten erg tevreden zijn over de resultaten en enthousiaste opkomst.

Utrecht meets berlin @ Centraal Museum Studio

Utrecht meets Berlin @ Toonkamer

Utrecht meets Berlin november 2009

Zaterdag 7 en zondag 8 november 2009 stonden in het teken van 'Niemandsland'. Het was 20 jaar geleden dat de Berlijnse muur ten val is gekomen. Culturele zondagen wijdde hier een speciale editie aan, en Born Digital had hierin een zeer uitgebreide programma!

Nieuwe media en nieuwe creativiteit stonden centraal waarbij verschillende hoog aangeschreven artiesten uit Berlijn exposeerden en samenwerkten met Utrechtse artiesten.

Het hele weekend lang kon er genoten worden van de meest bijzondere digitale kunst en performances. Een combinatie van unieke en innovatieve installaties, tentoonstellingen, presentaties en video's van toonaangevende, wereldwijd bekende artiesten resulteerden in een one of a kind ervaring.  Daarnaast was er in dit weekend ook ruimte om zelf te leren en te participeren in de vorm van workshops, lezingen en interactieve installaties. Natuurlijk kon er na afloop elke avond flink gefeest worden onder de leiding van top of te bill DJ's en VJ's zoals Apparat, Pfadfinderei, Motomichi, A MAZE en 030303 dj's.

Deze crossover van kunst, media, muziek, vormgeving en design vond plaats op drie verschillende locaties in Utrecht: Centraal Museum Studio, de Toonkamer en Tivoli de Helling.

Voor meer info en het volledige programma van Born Digital klik hier

Voor het totale programma van Culturele Zondagen klik hier

Utrecht meets Berlin werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door


Programma Niemandsland november 2009

Saturday 7 november

                  Centraal Museum Studio

Presentations
13.30 – 14.30:    Lectoraat TMP Onderzoeksgroep Virtueel Theater - Performance Engine
14.45 – 15.45:    Motomichi - Animatie & Character design
16.00 – 16.45:    A MAZE - Game Art
17.00 – 18.00:    Pfadfinderei - VJ & Design collectief

entrance: free

Performances in collaboration with HAFF
21.00 – 22.00:    Mav Scientific - Downtempo Drum & Bass
22.00 – 23.00:    Motomichi - AV Set
23.00 – 00.00:    Milk Money Maffia - Electro
00.00 – 02.00:    Leondustar, Mav Scientific - Electronica, Breakbeat 
                         Visuals: Pfadfinderei (Berlin) & Born Digital (Utrecht)

entrance:  5 euro
 
                Toonkamer

18.00 – 06.00:    Videowall, Exploring Niemandsland, Utrecht meets Berlin

entrance: free


Sunday 8 november

 
                Centraal Museum Studio

12.00 – 17.00:     Niemandsland Exposition, Terrain Vague, Installations

entrance: free


                Toonkamer

12.00 – 19.00:    "Born Digital? - Art, life, games and technology."
                              Curated by Institue of Algorhythmics & A MAZE
18.00 – 06.00:    Exploring Niemandsland, Utrecht meets Berlin (Videowall)

entrance: free


                Tivoli de Helling

21.00 – 22.00:    Mav Scientific
22.00 – 23.00:    Apparat & VJ Transforma
23.00 – 00.00:    DJ SKATE & VJ Rosa Menkman
00.00 – 02.00:    030303 & VJ Born Digital

21.00 – 02.00:    Lounge & Outside: A MAZE, Urban Game, Digital Puppetry

entrance: 10 euro

Locations











































Toonkamer (Rotsoord 3)


Tivoli de helling (De Helling 7)


Centraal museum studio (Agnietenstraat 3)



Centraal Museum Studio can be reached by busline 2 from Utrecht Central Station

Tivoli de Helling and Toonkamer can be reached by busline 1 and 8 (direction Lunetten) from Utrecht Central Station

Born Digital? - Art, life, games and technology

Curated by "Institute of Algorhythmics (Berlin)"
with Tim Horntrich, Akitoshi Honda & Shintaro Miyazaki and Wolfgang Spahn & Thomas Gerwin

Life and technology always played a role in our history. The myths about Golems, artificial humans, can be dated back to the middle age. In the 18th century Jacques de Vaucanson made complex machines who imitated humans or animals like the "Mechanic Fluteplayer" (1737) or his "Mechanic Duck" (1738).

The exhibition "born digital? - art, life, games and technology" reflect this classical subject of life versus technology in our post digital age and questions the real meaning of being digitally born.

For more info about the exhibition and the participating artists look over here!

Utrecht meets Berlin is made possible by

     

A MAZE

The Berlin based A MAZE is distinguished in the international media world for their Game Art. Their installations during the exhibition are innovative and give a new look on games and the crossover with art. Feel free to participate on this day in one of their games.


Website A MAZE

Shintaro Miyazaki

Shintaro Miyazaki has founded his own art and design Institute of Algorhythmics. In his work he plays with art, music, time and technology. The Japanese artist from Berling modulates everyday devices, such as telephones, and makes music and art out of it. His installations are complex and original, resulting in a unique, out of the box experience.

Website Shintaro

Multimedialounge, Centraal Museum Studio

New media, new creativity. The separation line between different art disciplines will be crossed by organiser Born Digital with a combination of photo, video, music and other media. Today is also the day for you as a visitor to air out your creativity on various interactive installations. 
  

LeonDuStar, Mav Scientivic & Born Digital

The grande finale at end of the evening will be provided by artists from yours truly, Born Digital. Leon Du Star and Mav Scientific will get your feet of the floor with a mix of electro house and drum and bass. The best VJ’s from Born Digital will turn the room into a dancepalace with visualisations and lightning. Saturday 7.11.2009, Centraal Museum Studio (doors 21.00).

Website LeonDuStar

Website Mav Scientific








 

Milk Money Maffia

What do you get when u put together a talented, eclectic bedroom
producer with a visionary, underground video artist? You get
“MilkMoneyMaffia”. MilkMoneyMaffia has an amazing stage presence that guarantees a packed dance floor filled with smiles. Their audio and visual presentation crosses over the boundaries of electronic music today. Come and see, saturday 7.11.2009, Centraal Museum Studio (doors 21.00).


Website MilkMoneyMaffia

Visualisations by Pfadfinderei @ Centraal Museum Studio

The big passion of Pfadfinderei's members has always been live visualisation of music. Back in the days they were VJing in various Clubs, nowadays they are planning, creating and performing visual installations on an international level. For the opening night of the Niemandsland festival, Born Digital is happy to invite Pfadfinderei to perform their live visuals at a party with the HAFF (Holland Animation Film Festival) at Centraal Museum Studio, Saturday, 7.11.2009. Doors will open at 21.00. See the program above for more information and line up.

Apparat & VJ Transforma

After legendary performances together with Modeselektor, the Berlin hero Apparat will join our party at Tivoli de Helling. With his unique, warm music Apparat breaks the boundaries of techno music, with a mix of broken beats, electronica, sixtiespop, and minimal; there are no limits for Apparat. The music will be visually supported by VJ Transforma, the resolute VJ's of Apparats own label Shitkatapult.

Website Apparat

Apparat - Komponent

Pfadfinderei

This VJ collective from Berlin is probably one of the most famous in the world. With seven different artists they travel all over the world to show their visual performing skills. All these artists have their own expertise, from calligraphy, to character design, to stop motion.  They do this together with leading musicians such as Modeselektor, Apparat, Ellen Alien and Paul Kalkbrenner, which shows how big they are!




Website Pfadfinderei

Motomichi

Motomichi is a born and raised Japanese, but habitats in Brooklyn since 2000. In his digital art, as well as his paintings he constricts himself to use only the colours red, black and white. After exhibitions in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, we are proud to present him in Utrecht.

Go to website Motomichi

030303

The Utrecht based DJ-collective 030303 is well known in the Netherlands from their own organised party’s. The foundation of their name is pretty logical; 030 is the area code of Utrecht, and 303 comes from the famous acid house synthesizer: the Roland TB-303. Besides nostalgic acid music, 030303 also likes to play all kinds of electronic music. Altogether you really have to get your feet of the floor and dance all night!

Website 030303

030303 @ de Helling

Rosa Menkman

Every technology has its own accidents. Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences.
By combining both her practical as well as an academic background, she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory artifacts (a glitch studies), in which she strives for new forms of conceptual synesthesia.

Website Rosa Menkman

Lectoraat TMP Research Group Virtual Theatre

This research group is interested in the interplay between creative making processes and interactive digital technology. Especially in the rehearsal phase of a theatre making process. This interplay is studied form two perspectives; the interface and mixed reality. For this research they combine theory and practise through quick prototyping principles, ideas and hypothesizes are tested in practical setups and projects. In these projects they look at three aspects; person, proces and product. On Niemandsland the research group will show their performace engine, which is based on wii-motes, camera's and motion.

Website DVTG

DJ Skate

DJ Skate is allready well known in the Berlin electroscene. With his musical performances he travels all over the world, and often shares the stage with great artist like Apparat and Modeselektor. His music can be defined as 'real' elektro, with hard, stunning kicks and snares, and lovely vague melodies.

Website DJ Skate

Looplala & Mav Scientific

Want to be DJ for a day? With Looplala from Born Digital you can record your own lyrics and loop them, mix them, tune them, into an original music piece of your own! Afterwards you can dance on your own tunes, provided by DJ Scientific.

Website DJ Scientific

Videowall Utrecht meets Berlin

Before ‘Niemandsland’ started, there have been some interesting collaborations between Dutch and Berlin artist, throughout the internet. The outcomes of these collaborations can be seen all night long on the windows of ‘de Toonkamer’. From the Jutfaseweg you can see photos, videos, characters and other visual art on this videowall above the water.