2011

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CELL

29/11/2011

Initial concept design by James Alliban and Keiichi Matsuda. Photograph by Ghaasan Daghestani

C E L L is an interactive installation commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival and created by Keiichi Matsuda and James Alliban.

This interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements.

As our identities become deliberately constructed and broadcast commodities, our projected personae increasingly enmesh and define us. Cell acts as a virtual mirror, displaying a constructed fictional persona in place of our physical form. Co...

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Be Your Own Souvenir

22/09/2011

Be Your Own Souvenir uses sophisticated cameras take a 3D picture of your body and 3D printers to create a 3D model you can take home as a souvenir!

Click here to view the printer in action! http://youtu.be/a8c4QcGCNw0

BYOS connects street users, arts and science, linking them to under-lying alternative spaces and their own realities. The audience are released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observer-object.

BYOS runs tomorrow and Saturday at the Red Market Square behind Red Gallery, 275 Old Street.

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Pantha Du Prince

15/09/2011

Time 8:30pm-3am

Under the pseudonym Pantha Du Prince, Henrik Weber fuses house, techno, electronica and electro-acoustic soundscape into music that is at once both beautiful and fascinating. Pantha has released several recordings through the respected German label Dial Records. His previous album This Bliss, was a bittersweet take on techno, which appealed to both dance floors and living rooms alike and was hugely successful. As a result he has become an in-demand remixer and has done tracks for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, and many others. He switched to Rough Trade for Black Noise (2010), f...

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CELL

15/09/2011

James Alliban & Keiichi Matsuda

UK, 2011

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival this interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements. Personal identity is increasingly becoming a broadcasted commodity, as a result of this, our constructed personae enmesh and define us. C E L L realises our virtual reflections, making digital projections into literal ones. This installation creates luminous clones, exposing these parallel realities as it replicates the body movement of visitors. As the visitor moves through the ins...

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Matthew Dear

15/09/2011

Time 8pm-6am

Alpha-ville Festival are delighted to announce that Matthew Dear will be performing a DJ set at the Festival on Saturday the 24th of September.

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes commissioned by The xx, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service and The Chemical Brothers; he’s made mixes for the Fabric mix series and Get Physical’s Body Language. He maintains four aliases (Audion,Fals...

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Old Apparatus

14/09/2011

Time: 7-11pm

Old apparatus return off the back of their latest deep medi release with an otherworldly audio/visual show that has previously been performed with the likes of Fennesz and Philip Jeck. “creakings and whirrings, musty steam clouds, subterranean groans and Garage rhythms that sound more mechanical than digital, are all rendered in exquisite detail” – The Wire

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Svarte Greiner

14/09/2011

Time: 7-11pm

Best known as one half of the delicious duo Deaf Center, Erik K. Skodvin is one of Norway’s most treasured sons and founder of the prestigious record label Miasmah. Svarte Greiner has performed in some of the most important festival around the world including Unsound in New York, Transmediale in Berlin, BEMF in Brussels.

 

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Jacaszek

14/09/2011

Time: 7-11pm

Jacaszek is a talented polish electroacoustic musician and producer. He is the latest in a tradition of Eastern Europeans exploring the reaches of sentimentality in classical music. Clearly influenced by the liturgical compositions of Henryk Gorecki or John Tavener, with a healthy pinch of Angelo Badalamenti’s mood-setting soundscapes, Jacaszek manages to find his own niche somewhere between Murcof and Francois Tetaz’s indispensible score for ‘Wolf Creek’ – somewhere dark and mysterious but ultimately beautifully rewarding and moving.

We are very excited to announce that Jacaszek will perform wit...

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Illum Sphere

14/09/2011

Time: 8:30pm-3am

Described as “one of the most special and unique artists to come out of the UK” by Hyperdub first lady Ikonika. Hoya Hoya label co-owner Illum Sphere creates sound that draws influence from hip-hop as much as it does from psych, jazz and Detroit techno.

Illum Sphere is currently working on a new album and has recently done a Radiohead remix, as part of the band new remix series.

Live AV set bringing together Illum Sphere and EMN, one of Manchester’s most talented visual artist. EMN has done visuals for Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Hudson Mohawke and Kode 9.

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Every Day Play

13/09/2011

Katy Beale

UK, 2011

A one day interactive drop-in session at Alpha-ville’s Innovation Space, enabling visitors of any age to get involved in an entertaining, creative, hands-on process. Create, explore and prototype ideas about a ‘post-digital Hackney’, and create imaginary prototypes of things you would invent in an ideal real world. Look at the streets you walk down and buildings you see every day a different way. What would make life more fun? Using paper, pens, boxes, stickers, you’ll be able to create your own ‘ramified’ versions of everyday objects.

Katy Beale is co-founder and director of C...

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DIY WORKSHOP: Design a successful Brand Identity and Marketing Strategy

13/09/2011

Mark Knight, Music marketing & strategy consultant

Time: 15:00 – 15:30

This workshop is designed to provide independent & unsigned artists with ideas about how to promote themselves more effectively. Topics covered will include. Objective setting, brand image & identity development and management, asset creation, audience engagement and creative marketing. During the session Mark will be sharing best practice tricks and tools for effective promotion.

Mark Knight is an artist manager and music strategy consultant. He set up Right Chord Music with the aim of bringing the discipline of brand marketing to music ...

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DIY WORKSHOP: Live Green Screen Compositing With Isadora

13/09/2011

In the Picture

Time: 3:00 – 4:00pm

Participants will learn the basics about taking photos and go off and take their own pictures. The pictures have to be on the theme of “The Community You Live In”. Participants will then learn to upload, edit and make their photos into  movie with Final Cut Pro. They will then learn how to burn their short movie on a disc to take home with them. The whole process should take half an hour to 40 mins. We will play some of the work produced on a show-reel with the projector.

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TALK: Addressing Memory Failure – Archiving the UK Web

13/09/2011

Helen Hockx-Yu, Head of Web Archiving at the British Library

Time: 2:30 – 3:00pm

Helen Hockx-Yu leads a team of web archivists and technologists to archive and preserve the UK web. Previously, Helen was project manager of the Planets project, a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. Before joining the British Library, Helen worked as a Programme Manager at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, overseeing JISC’s technology research and development activities in the area of digital preservation.

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DIY WORKSHOP: Sound Clinic, Soundcloud

13/09/2011

David Adams, Business Development at SoundCloud

Time: 2:00 – 2:30pm

SoundCloud will be giving a clinic to explain what tools from SoundCloud and connected applications can help you to share and promote your audio across the web, as well as a presentation the session will offer a q&a clinic to ask how you can make the most of your online audio presence.SoundCloud is an audio platform that enables anyone to upload, record, promote and share their originally-created sounds across the internet, in a simple, accessible and feature-rich way. From sample to symphony and soundbite to soliloquy, SoundCloud allows sound...

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Alpha-ville Symposium on Post-Digital Culture

12/09/2011

Time: 9:30am – 4:40pm

This year’s programme addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beyond technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and at how the physical boundaries between reality and online are being blurred.

The event brings together a panel of influential creatives, thinkers and digital professionals to debate a series of topics such us the humanisation of digital technology, augmented reality the use of public spaces, digital innovation in arts and culture, p...

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Mobile Roadie

12/09/2011

Stephen O’Reilly, Director of International Sales

Time: 1:00 – 1:30pm

Stephen has worked in the fashion, sports and music industries for over 10 years specialising in online and mobile marketing, sponsorship and PR. He studied Sound and Music Technology in Dublin.

He is currently Director of International Sales at Mobile Roadie. Mobile Roadie is an award winning mobile app platform. In just a few minutes you can create iPhone & Android apps. Clients include: Madonna, Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, The Beatles, The Davos World Economic Forum, MIDEM & many more.

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CUT

12/09/2011

Time: 4pm

CUT | Kristian de la Riva | 2010 | 3:05 minutes

synopsis: In CUT a lone male character attempts to cut away various body parts using ever more extreme methods to do so. A distorted ode to relationships lost is hinted at within the work but the field of reference is expanded to incorporate the pain and humour implicit in an individuals day to day thoughts and routines.

bio: Kristian studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and then at Central St Martins, London, graduating with an MA Fine Art in 2009. He has exhibited his work at Palais Paradiso, Amsterdam; Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales; New Con...

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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: Solar Sinter

12/09/2011

Time: 4pm

Solar Sinter | Markus Kayser | 2011 | 06:07 minutes synopsis: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and triggers dreams of the full utilisation of the product...

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Hybrid platforms and Social TV: The extension of Disbelief

12/09/2011

Alexandra Wall

Time: 2:00 – 2:30pm

This presentation presents a brief outline of my Alexandra Wall’s experience in the working in the digital marketing and social media industry. Alexandra will discuss her work on television show Misfits’ Social Media campaign. She will discuss audience participation, hybrid platforms, transmedia storytelling and alternative online, and lived realities. Encompassing theory, literature and a host of other multidisciplinary approaches Alexandra will present a broad and informative insight into her experience in one of the most digital-post-digital industries around. Share{la...

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The Eagleman Stag

12/09/2011

Time: 4pm

the Eagleman Stag | Michael Please | 2010 | 08:55 minutes

synopsis: Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter times increasing pace. Peter also discovers that if you repeat the word ‘fly’ for long enough it sounds like you’re saying ‘life’. This is of no real help to him. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.

bio: Following a BA in Special Effects at UAL Mikey went on to direct animation ...

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Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d

12/09/2011

Time: 4pm

Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d | Greg Tran | 2011 | 5:24 minutes

synopsis: “Technology is on track to produce a new medium: The Digital 3d. As it escapes the screen, the digital enters into the realm of architecture and ceases to function merely as representation.  This concept expands on “augmented reality” to encompass conditions which function spatially and engage a site-specific context. The ideal condition is an architecture which is designed simultaneously with the digital.  Projects which consider both material and digital realities from conception to finish and allow architects con...

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Wireless in the World 2

12/09/2011

Time: 4pm

Wireless in the World | Timo | 2010 | 4:39 minutes

synopsis: An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language for RFID, Dashed lines and Fictional radio spaces). Right now I am sitting near fourteen objects sending and receiving radio signals, from Oyster cards to mobile phones and wireless routers in a multitude of overlapping and competing fields. Here we are creating communicative material that uses dashed-line abstractions to visualise the presence of wireless technologies in ...

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The Great Western Singularity

12/09/2011

Time:  4pm – Saturday, 24th September

 

The Great Western Singularity | Eric Schockmel | 2010 | 4 minutes

synopsis: Commissioned by jotta.com and sponsored by Intel for the REMASTERED: a jotta and Intel Visual Life Production exhibition at One Marylebone London (March 2011), The Great Western Singularity is a contemporary reinterpretation of JMW Turner’s iconic painting Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway. The animation explores the concept of the Technological Singularity through the metaphor of a train which, instead of rolling on tracks, is building itself out of it’s own structure. A metaph...

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Drew Hemment

12/09/2011

Time: 10:10 – 10:40

Dr. Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher based in Manchester England. Recent projects have been on open data, remote collaboration, new mobilities and environmental mass observation. He is Director and Founder of FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic), and is Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University.

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SUPER PIKIX vs WALKABOUT Projection

12/09/2011

Harajuku Zoo (Pikilipta & Prickimage)

Time: 3:30 – 4:00pm

HARAJUKU ZOO (PIKILIPTA & PRICKIMAGE) will host a workshop/presentation of the open source software SUPER PIKIX & how it is utilised for live interactive performance with WALKABOUT Projection (as used by Chemical Brothers), incl. LIVE demo with Glove controller & 3D Characters. PIKILIPTA will present & answer questions remotely from LPM – Minsk, Belarus. SUPER PIKIX is a free VJ software for the Caanoo, It features all the classic VJ softwares options. The Caanoo is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and media player. WALKABOUT Proj...

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Networked Cities

12/09/2011

Fabian Neuhaus

Time: TBC

Fabian Neuhaus will present and discuss his ‘Networked Cities’ project in the Innovation Space’s Speakers Corner. For this project Neuhaus examined the spatial and temporal nature of Twitter data from four cities: Brussels, The Hague, London and Ljubljana. He conducted this research over the course of one week, within a radius of 30km of each city’s urban centre.Fabian will present three ways of visualising the sample of data captured: 1. NCLm maps of the urban areas; created using that area’s twitter activity over the period of one week. 2. NCLn network; looking at social co...

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