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CELL

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.

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. Composed from keyword tags mined from online profiles, these second selves stalk our move...

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Pantha Du Prince

LIVE

Pantha Du Prince LIVE 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...

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venue: XOYO
date: 23/09/2011
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CELL

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

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...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/2011
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Matthew Dear

(Ghostly/Spectral) DJ Set, NYC

Matthew Dear DJ Set 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. ...

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venue: Hearn Street Warehouse
date: 24/09/11
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Old Apparatus

AV Performance

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 th...

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venue: Rich Mix
date: 22/09/11
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Svarte Greiner

LIVE AV

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...

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venue: Rich Mix
date: 22/09/11
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Jacaszek

LIVE

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,...

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venue: Rich Mix
date: 22/09/2011
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Illum Sphere

Illum Sphere & EMN Live AV

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 workin...

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venue: XOYO
date: 23/09/11
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Every Day Play

PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP

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 prototy...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24/09/11
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DIY WORKSHOP: Design a successful Brand Identity and Marketing Strategy

DIY WORKSHOP

Mark Knight, Music marketing & strategy consultant

Time: 15:00 – 15:30

This workshop is designed to provide independent & unsigned artists with ideas ...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24/09/11
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DIY WORKSHOP: Live Green Screen Compositing With Isadora

DIY WORKSHOP

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 Co...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23/09/11
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TALK: Addressing Memory Failure – Archiving the UK Web

TALK

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 ...

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venue: Netil House
date: 25/09/11
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DIY WORKSHOP: Sound Clinic, Soundcloud

DIY WORKSHOP

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 th...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23/09/11
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1st Alpha-ville Symposium

FROM DIGITAL TO POST-DIGITAL

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, participati...

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venue: Rich Mix
date: 23/09/2011
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Mobile Roadie

PRESENTATION

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...

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venue: Netil House
date: 25/09/11
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: CUT

ANIMATION

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 ...

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venue: the Vortex
date: 24/09/11
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: Solar Sinter

3D PRINTING -

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...

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venue: the Vortex
date: 24/09/11
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Hybrid platforms and Social TV: The extension of Disbelief

PRESENTATION

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...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24/09/11
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: The Eagleman Stag

ANIMATION - SCREENING

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 c...

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venue: the Vortex
date: 24/09/11
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d

SCREENING - ARCHITECTURE - 3D - AUGMENTED REALITY

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 fu...

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venue: The Vortex
date: 24/09/11
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Alpha-ville 2011 programme: Wireless in the World 2

TECHNOLOGY - WIRELESS - VISUALIZATION

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 nea...

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venue: the Vortex
date: 24/09/11
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: The Great Western Singularity

3D ANIMATION - TURNER

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...

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date: 24/09/11
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Drew Hemment

Opening talk

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 Read more >

venue: Rich Mix
date: 23/09/11
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SUPER PIKIX vs WALKABOUT Projection

PRESENTATION & WORKSHOP

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 C...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24/09/11
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Networked Cities

PRESENTATION

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 o...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24/09/11
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