Dear all,
Conflict 09 regularly still echoes within discussion, media and even parliamentary questions. We are reflecting on this intense and very actual theme that was interpreted by many in extremely diverse directions. Again, we would like to thank everyone that attended, participated, embraced and criticized. The festival was a great success and we are slowly shifting from today towards tomorrow.
We are anticipating 2010 and would like to share with you our upcoming activities. Below is an overview of what we are working on and we hope to see you at one of these adventures.
– SOUNDMUSEUM @ TODAYSART HQ
– CTM – BERLIN
– UNSOUND – NEW YORK
– CODE-LIVE – VANCOUVER
– ROKOLECTIV – BUCHAREST
Furthermore:
– FLOW 5.0 BY DAAN ROOSEGAARDE WINS DUTCH DESIGN AWARD
– WINTER WIRED – THE HAGUE
SOUNDMUSEUM @ TODAYSART HQ
The Soundmuseum installation by Nathalie Bruys and Katja van Stiphout is now exhibited at the TodaysArt headquarters in The Hague: Weimarstraat 1E, The Hague.
Soundmuseum is an online environment for sound art and concentrated listening. The sound art collection of Soundmuseum is carefully assembled by the curators and its editorial staff according to their visions. The exhibited sounds originate from the art world, from underground, from all corners of the earth. They can consist of field recordings or compositions, can last seconds or hours, and can range in character from cinematic sound to silence.
More info: http://soundmuseum.fm
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TODAYSART @ CTM 2010 BERLIN || January 28 – February 7
The 11th edition of CTM (Club Transmediale), Berlin’s unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, titled by many as Berlin's best music event, is on from January 28th to February 7th 2010 under the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
TodaysArt is proud of the ongoing cooperation with CTM and co#8211;curated a series of projects, which this year involves close collaborations with TAG, CTM, STEIM and Extrema. The collaborations include an opening performance by Hiroaki Umeda and a STEIM program with Justin Bennett, Alex Nowitz, Tok Tek & DJ Sniff. TAG presents Esemplasticism – The Truth is a Compromise, artists presented in this program will be confirmed soon.
Neat routine has never been CTM’s style, and in 2010, with a new theme and a new venue at Alexanderplatz, it again will be entering unknown territory. With the theme OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media, the festival continues the discussions begun during the highly praised jubilee edition in January 2009 regarding the situations, terms and future prospects of self–determined music creation and experimental audiovisual cultures. While the focus in 2009 was on the internal structures of independent music and media cultures, OVERLAP will broaden the scope to interfaces between music and other creative and economic fields. CTM.10 takes a critical look at the opportunities and risks of developments where media and creative disciplines melt increasingly together, and where previously fixed roles are now in motion. The discussion on how mutations in music culture should be framed continues.
Read more: http://clubtransmediale.de
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TODAYSART @ UNSOUND NEW YORK || February 5 – 14
Co–organized by the the Polish Institute in New York, the Goethe–Institut New York and Tone Foundation, Unsound will travel to New York between Feb 5 – 14th 2010 to set up a showcase of European and American experimental and electronic music, as well as related visual arts. This 12–day event involves concerts, club nights, specially commissioned work, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions and video screenings. It will take place across Manhattan and Brooklyn, revealing connections between music genres and audiences, ranging from experimental to club music. Unsound New York includes the Warhol Series, which premiered in Krakow in 2008. Other institutional partners include: Trust for Mutual Understanding, Romanian Institute, Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Consulate in New York, the Finnish Consulate in New York.
TodaysArt will present a music program with Legowelt, Newworldaquarium, 2562 and Xavier van Wersch.
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TODAYSART @ CODE–LIVE VANCOUVER || January 22
We are pleased to announce our participation in the Cultural Olympiad as part of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics where TodaysArt will represent the Netherlands with a selection of artists; Daan Roosegaarde, 2562, Martyn, Charly & Gallus and Legowelt.
The Cultural Olympiad is a series of multidisciplinary festivals and digital programmes showcasing the best in Canadian and international arts and popular culture. Launched in 2008, the programme culminates in the 60–day Cultural Olympiad 2010 (22 January to 21 March 2010), which begins before and continues throughout the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. CODE is the Cultural Olympiad’s digital edition, a series of programmes developed to creatively engage national and global audiences through the use of digital technology.
CODE Live explores personal interactions with art, physical responses to art, and ways art challenges us to become part of it. The theme of bridging aims to reflect this world – looking at these interactions through the multiplicity of disciplines that have merged with new technologies, culture and the environment.
More info: http://vancouver2010.com/more
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TODAYSART @ ROKOLECTIV 2010 BUCHAREST || April 23 – 25
TodaysArt will once again present a program at the Rokolectiv festival in Bucharest, Romania. Nacho Patrol (Danny Wolfers, Jimi Helinga and Marc Alberto) and Syncom Data are confirmed so far.
FURTHERMORE:
FLOW 5.0 BY DAAN ROOSEGAARDE WINS DUTCH DESIGN AWARD
TodaysArt congratulates Daan Roosegaarde with the Dutch Design Award 2009 for Best Autonomous Spatial Design with Flow 5.0 which has been commissioned by TodaysArt and premiered at the TodaysArt festival 2007.
Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of ventilators which reacts on your sound and motion. By walking and interacting the visitor creates an illusive landscape of transparencies and artificial wind. Moving through Flow 5.0 the visitor becomes conscious of himself as a collective body, in a dynamic relation with space and technology.
More: http://studioroosegaarde.net/project/Flow5.0.
Flow 5.0 will also be presented in the DECODE exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum, together with Daan Roosegaarde’s Dune installation, which has also been commissioned by TodaysArt and premiered at the TodaysArt festival 2007.
Decode: Digital Design Sensations – a collaboration between V&A and onedotzero – showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen–based, graphics to large–scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, C.E.B. Reas, Aaron Koblin, Robert Hodgin, Jonathan Harris, Troika and Karsten Schmidt.
More info: http://vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/.
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WINTER WIRED THE HAGUE || December 19th 2009
VillaNuts presents the second edition of Wired. The Winter Wired '09 festival will take place at BINK36, featuring more art genres than before with live cinema and fashion being integrated in the program. Wired presents upfront music, audiovisual art, installations and live cinema together in the shape of a mini–festival. A small look at the program: Andrea Reyes & Marcus Graf, Daan Brinkmann, Martijn van Boven, Merlijn van Eijk, Lowman, Narain Ashad, Nobody Beats The Drum, Refunc, YobKiss and Yoko Seyama & Lyndsey Housden.
More info: http://wiredfestival.net
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