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Sponsorship and Partnership Opportunities now Available

13/02/2012
We are currently looking for sponsors and partners to build the 2012 of Alpha-ville. If you are interested please get in touch with Estela (estela@alpha-ville.co.uk) to get more information.
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Alpha-ville at The Thursday Club, Goldsmiths

19/01/2012
We're doing a session on Thursday 19th January at Goldsmiths, University of London, The Thursday Club from 6-8pm. Meet the festival directors will speak about the festival inspirations and future plans. Guest artists James Alliban and Keiichi will present their latest work: CELL. http://doc.gold.ac.uk/thethursdayclub/?p=609 The session is open to everyone, join us at The Ben Pimlott building, Goldsmiths College, Lewisham Way New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
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Call for Advisory Board Members

17/01/2012

We’re looking for Advisory Board Members, would you like to join? _____________________________

An exciting opportunity to contribute to the future of Alpha-ville, a fast-growing digital culture organisation.

Alpha-ville is a non-profit organisation that explores the intersection between arts, technology and society. Its main activity is Alpha-ville Festival, an annual event that has been running since 2009.

The 2011 edition attracted 5,000 live attendees and offered education, debate and participation through concerts, screenings, talks, workshops, ...

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Video of Grey Matter, a performance by Man Bartlett

6/01/2012
#GreyMatter was an online and live performance by artist Man Bartlett that took place in London at Alpha-ville Festival and V&A Digital Design Weekend. The performance connected East and West London and touched ideas of identity in relation to virtual and physical presence. http://vimeo.com/34645460 @ManBartlett @alphavillefest @v_and_a  
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Happy new year

31/12/2011
Looking forward to a new year full of creativity, innovation and forward thinking. Best wishes from the Alpha-ville team!
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December News

16/12/2011
So 2011 is coming to an end... what a year! The September edition of Alpha-ville festival was an amazing experience for us and we have received positive feedback from the people who attended as well as our partners. At the moment we are working hard to plan the next edition in 2012 >>> READ MORE.
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New podcast by Christian Loeffler

13/12/2011
German artist Christian Loeffler presents the new Alpha-podcast series. Listen to the podcast, read an interview with our Berlin based editor Louise Brailey and enjoy a photo gallery by the artist: http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/alpha-podcast-presents-christian-loffler
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Robots Of Brixton Winner RIBA President’s Medal

8/12/2011

Alpha-ville 2011 Moving Image Awards winner Kibwe Tavares has won the RIBA President’s Medal for his film “Robots of Brixton”.

In the words of the artist: “Robots of Brixton is an architectural film project that explores the relationship between architecture, class and race. Using Brixton, (or an augmented Brixton) as backdrop, the project uses robots...

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Find Alpha-ville in Google+

5/12/2011
We have a new Google+ Page if you would like to keep connected just follow this link: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108980220716899862269/108980220716899862269/
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Cell will be at the LBi Rave

24/11/2011
CELL, the interactive installation created by Keiichi Matsuda and James Alliban and commissioned for AVF11, will be installed at the LBi Rave party this evening - don't miss it! http://vimeo.com/30003878
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Alpha-ville at Beck’s Green Box Digital Salon

14/11/2011

Alpha-ville will participate in the next Green Box Digital Salon: a one-day event exploring the medium of Augmented Reality and its role in the world of art, fashion, music and design.

The salon is an extension of the Green Box Project - a global art fund established to inspire, celebrate and financially support independent talent in art, design, music and fashion.The first round of submissions for the new Beck’s Art Fund has now closed but be...

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Alpha-ville 2011: LIVE in review

10/11/2011

// LIVE Day 1 //

Opening Concert with Jacaszek, Svarte Greiner & Old Apparatus

Old Apparatus were the first act to open Alpha-ville 2011 at Rich Mix Cultural Foundation and as the first bass frequencies hummed through the dark upstairs space, there was a real sense of anticipation and excitement. Old Apparatus set matched visuals sourced from dated scientific and educational vide...

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C E L L featured in Creative Applications

1/11/2011
Nice article about C E L L from our friends from Creative Applications: http://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/cell-openframeworks-kinect/
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Alpha-ville in Roundhouse Radio

17/10/2011
Listen to interviews with the LIVE artists from the Alpha-ville 2011 night at XOYO on Monday 17/10/11 at 8pm UK Time: http://roundhouse.org.uk/explore/radio
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Cell available now for exhibition

9/10/2011

C E L L, an interactive installation commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival is now available for touring and exhibition. This interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements.

cell by Keiichi Matsuda and James Alliban

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Listen to Andy Stott’s live set at AVF11

7/10/2011
Manchester based Andy Stott was one of the highlights of the LIVE programme. Now listen to the set he played at Alpha-ville Festival in XOYO on Friday 23rd September. http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/4497/
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Reporting Back From The First International Post Digital Symposium

27/09/2011

And so concludes the first symposium on post-digital culture. And arguably the biggest question that needed answering was thoroughly debated: just what is the postdigital and how are we inhabiting this condition. The concept is simple enough, it’s a meditation on the idea that we are already at the stage o...

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Alpha-ville 2011: A debrief

26/09/2011

Welcome to an age of post-Alpha-ville 2011! An era that encourages new methods of innovative thought, thrives on technological brainfood and offers a virtual high-five to all things digital.

But before officially waving off this years proceedings, a quick round up of my time spent at Netil House and R...

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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, ob...

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Interview with Pantha Du Prince

20/09/2011

For anyone with even a passing familiarity with Hendrik Weber’s musical output – so often loaded with meaning and narrative – it’s perhaps unsurprising that the artist is a deep, fiercely intelligent thinker. Born in 1975 in a small German town called Bad Wildungen, his last a...

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Alpha-ville in Madrid, Twin Gallery

20/09/2011

Alpha-ville takes place live, online and also in Madrid via our partners Twin Gallery – a new cultural hub of multi-media and new media art in Madrid. There will be a selection of our SCREENING programme as well as connections to the live streaming of the actual London event. For more information please visit http://www.twinstudio.es/ and email info@twinstu...

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A taste of the music of AVF11

15/09/2011
Listen to a mix with a taste of the sounds of Alpha-ville 11, including Pantha Du Prince, Svarte Greiner, Emptyset and more. http://soundcloud.com/alphaville/alpha-ville-festival-2011
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Alpha-ville Online Cinema Now In MUBI.COM

14/09/2011
Alpha-ville is the London Festival exploring the intersection between art, technology and culture. The 2011 edition is programmed under the name of "Zeitgeist, from digital to post-digital", watch a part of its screening section for free here: http://mubi.com/programs/alpha-ville-festival
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Be Your Own Souvenir at AVF11

5/09/2011
We are super excited to announce that Be Your Own Souvenir who have recently been awarded with a Honorary Mention at ARS ELECTRONICA will join us for Alpha-ville 11. Read all the details here.
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Scott Snibbe will present “Biophilia” at the Alpha-ville Symposium

2/09/2011
Scott Snibbe will join the Alpha-ville Symposium remotely to present Björk’s Biophilia – the first app album – and discuss how the emergence of music apps for mobile devices promises to reacquaint listeners with an immersive, intimate music experience that has been lost in the age of the digital download. He will particularly share Björk’s view, which he enthusiastically embraces, on how technology can bring people closer to nature and music. Read more here.
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