The evening event of the CODED CULTURES festival in Vienna is situated at the »Hofstallungen« (MUMOK) of MuseumsQuartier Vienna.

Pecha Kucha Night

Devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture) in Tokyo, Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers and architects to meet, network, and show their work in public. As we all know, depending on who speaks, a presentation can last for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images for his/her presentation, each shown for 20 seconds – giving 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame before the next presentation is up. Since its introduction in 2003 Pecha Kucha has spread over more than 150 cities with events on a regular basis. Since 2007 the communications agency brainiacs and BKK-3 architecture organize Pecha Kucha Nights in Vienna.

For more information: www.pechakucha.at

Tetsuya Umeda (Live Performance)

Tetsuya Umeda, emerging artists from Japan, is well known for his unique sound-performances using everyday objects and subtle electro-acoustic elements. His self made sound tools and custom made sound-systems create an atmosphere of improvisation and composition. He has participated in a large number of exhibitions and events, including “Festival Beyond Innocence” (Osaka, 2002-2007), “Instal” (Scotland, 2006), “Sound Art Lab” (Osaka, 2005), “the listening project” (London, 2006), “waitool sounds” (San Francisco, 2007), “Sound Effect Seoul” (Seoul, 2007), “Blurrr” (Tel Aviv, 2007) and others.

MINIMAL TOKYO & TRUST REC. (Visuals: DEXTRO)

Minimal Tokyo is an international collective of DJs, producers, designers and media artists. Since 2007 Minimal Tokyo has been running one of Tokyo’s top events for electronic dance music with a minimal flavor: minimal techno, click house and tech house, inviting both talented underground producers from Japan as well as internationally re-known artists from all over the world. Minimal Tokyo also closely collaborates with visual artists: photographers, graphic designers and moving image artists striving to create a perfect balance between electronic music and digital visuals.

Trust Records is following its vision of cold, funky machine beats for over 10 years now. TRUST is Vienna’s main outlet for Detroit-style underground electro, techno bass and futuristic breaks. The label is run by DJ Glow, and besides local talent like Microthol, Epy and Lok44 the label’s roster has meanwhile expanded to include respected international artists like Urban Tribe or Clatterbox.

The Coded Cultures EXHIBITION was curated by a SELECTION COMMITTEE: – Masaki Fujihata (Tokyo National University of the Arts) – Yukiko Shikata (NTT-InterCommunicationCenter, Tokyo) – Christa Sommerer (Interface Culture, University of Art and Design Linz) – Manfred Faßler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.) – and the curational team of CODED CULTURES (Georg Russegger, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Michal Wlodkowski)

Participants (Exhibition):
BCL (Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel) (AT/JP)
exonemo (JP)
Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)
Walter Langelaar (NL)
Saita Kazuki / SoichiroMihara / Hiroko Mugibayashi (JP)
Yuko Mohri (JP)
Martin Pichlmair & Fares Kayali (AT)
Saso Sedlacek (SLO)
SHIMURABROS. (JP)
Ludic Society (Margarete Jahrmann, Gordan Savicic, Phillip Lammer) (AT)
Tetsuya Umeda (JP)
Mamoru Okuno (JP)

Location:
Freiraum, MQ Vienna MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna, Austria

• CODED CULTURES Exhibition

Von 27. – 31. Mai findet das Festival Coded Cultures, veranstaltet von der Gruppe 5uper.net, statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine neue Generation von Medien- und Entwurfskulturen und deren kreative Praktiken. Vielfältige Szenen und Projekte, die unter Zuhilfenahme von elektronischen Medien neue Anwendungsbereiche schaffen, werden vernetzt und für Außenstehende zugänglich gemacht. Damit thematisiert das Festival kulturelle Enwicklungsprozesse an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Technologie, Wissenschaft und Design.

Eröffnung: 27.05. 2009, 19.00 Uhr, Freiraum/quartier21 – MQ

Welcome
Dr. Wolfgang Waldner (Director MQ)

General Opening
5uper.net feat. Dr. Georg Russegger

Exhibition Opening
Dr. Gerald Bast (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

• CODED CULTURES Website

The works presented will be those by Asian artists from the Ogaki Biennale in 2006 in Japan, along with experimental animation works, which are completely different from what is accepted as “Japanimation” or “Japan Cool,” and with modern computer music projects by Masahiro Miwa and his students.
The students involved in the seminar on Open Source formulate their positions in the following way: » In the context of educational institutions, it is important to pose the question towards the access of free software / media in order to give an alternative to the dominant proprietary software / media. The proprietary media mainly used on the labor market, has shaped the knowledge and skills of students, creating a dependency on these tools. There is a need to understand and not allow ourselves to be blindly subjected towards the structures imposed on us during our educational process.« – Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Philip Leitner, Ivette Mrova.

25.5.-27.5.2009
University of Fine Arts
Workshop: Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka
Akbild, Semperdepot, Lehargasse 8, M1
25.5.: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
26.5.: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
27.5.: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

By presenting examples and research footage from Japanese arts and cultures the goal was to establish an external view on these conditions. The indoctrination of a cooperation year does not suffice to create common places and common situations per se. Dealing with the issue of artistic ideas and developments opens the opportunity to create a think tank of unforced interpretations and ideas which can also lead to substitutes of cooperation.
In this sense each student had to develop an idea in cooperation with a Japanese counterpart, to establish a set of communications leading to an art piece. Those are exhibited in a glass porch with the size of A (Jap. square measure) which serves as a metaphor for the lack of space in Japan. The thereby percieved spacial density reflects the intellectual density the artists’ aim to achieve in the exhibition.

26.5.-7.6.2009
University of Applied Arts
ca. 2 jo – substitute of common places
(Transmedia Arts Department)
Opening: 25.5., 19.00
Open daily: 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Participating Artists:

Verena Dürr
Kathrin Kaiser
Wolfgang Lehrner
Alexander Martinz
Tobias Pilz
Johann Scholz
Nicole Weniger

• http://transmedialekunst.com/

The screening event is taking place at the former Net Culture Space at MuseumsQuartier Vienna.
The Japan Media Arts Festival has been an annual event in Tokyo, Japan since 1997. Its aim is to promote the creation and development of media arts. The Festival highlights creative works not only in art but also in the fields of entertainment, animation and manga. Besides the annual exhibition in Tokyo, the overseas exhibition of this festival is held once a year. The forthcoming exhibition will take place in September 2009 at MQW. For the first time, those media art works will be shown to a European audience as the cutting edge culture with the topic “OTO” meaning “Sound” in Japanese. We hope the audience in Austria enjoys this selection and and are looking forward to intensify the cultural relations between Japan and Austria during the Austria – Japan Year 2009.

More information about the Japan Media Arts Festival can be found on the website:

• http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english

Japan Media Arts Festival
in Vienna 2009
September 12th – 20th 2009
MuseumsQuartier Vienna

• http://www.netculturespace.at/

“Altering fans, televisions, and other everyday appliances, converting their functions into something utterly different, UMEDA creates objets freed from their original meanings. His works, created to suit the spaces in which they will be installed, use utterly familiar, commonplace phenomena, channeled through his clever handiness and unique spatial sensibility, to create mysterious, seemingly impossible sensations. They thereby free one from rigid perceptions constrained by preconceived ideas.

Tetsuya Umeda is an artist currently working in Osaka, Japan. He has done several sound installation projects and performance that generates site-specific soundscape using minimal function of electric circuit/system and simple physical phenomena. Umeda has been performed in Festival Beyond Innocence, an experimental music festival in Japan, since 2002. In 2006, he performed in internationally acclaimed underground music event, INSTAL, in Scotland, UK. He also has been participated installation/exhibition project; in 2006, he participated the London-based residency program, The Listening Project. in 2007, participated the exhibition program, Sound Effect Seoul, and stayed in San Francisco for one month for his Waitool Sounds project.” (dorkbot.org)

• more information on dorkbot.org
• http://www.siranami.com/

nOtbOt is an automated game-player which is controlled and deranged by reactions to it’s own virtual environment, caught in a vicious
force-feedback loop…
The installation consists of a hacked up human-computer interface in which the feedback system, originally intended to provide tangible interaction for a human player, is now used as input data to control a ‘first-person’ videogame. Human interaction with the game/controller becomes obsolete, resulting in a completely erratic form of [art]ificial intelligence. The observer of the installation, however, can literally try to ‘get a grip’ on taking control of the system…

Walter Langelaar’s “nOtbOt” is a self-playing videogame; to be specific, it is a mechanized Logitech “Wingman Force” joystick that has its robotic maneuvers projected in real-time in front of it. In certain ways, Langelaar’s installation recalls the similarly automated works of Paul Johnson, but where Johnson’s games are vacuum-sealed, seen but not touched, “nOtbOt” allows viewers to actually grab hold of the controller. In the process of trying to, as Langelaar cleverly puts it, “get a grip” on the device, players confront their own metaphoric role in a feedback loop that no longer requires them—where the real object of obsolescence is not the technology, but the players themselves.< < (Gameworld exhibition catalogue)

Weblinks:

nOtbOt bei Coded Cultures
notbot.lowstandart.net
Dowkbot Vienna

Das Projekt CUISINE DIGITALE von der Künstlergruppe 5uper.net ist ein Raum im MuseumsQuartier Wien. Hier gab es über die letzten zwei Jahre regelmässige Events, Screenings und Treffen für Produzierende und Interessierte in den Bereichen Medien, Kunst, Architektur und Musik.
Trotz des grossen Erfolges und der vielen Veranstaltungen wird ab August der Ausstellungsbetrieb in der Cuisine Digitale eingestellt. Im letzten halben Jahr hat sich die Gruppe stärker inhaltlich entwickelt, unser Fokus wird in Zukunft auf unseren eigenen Projekten liegen. Es werden auch weiterhin Aktionen und Veranstaltungen von 5uper.net stattfinden, allerdings nicht mehr nur im MuseumsQuartier.

SAMSTAG, 8.JULI, ab 19:30h
CUISINE DIGITALE-CLOSING_PARTY “Höha, Schnella und Weida”

*** Glow & Mike Inzinger ***

Falm, Fishbitch & Downjones, DJ Kai & Klaus, Schwäm
ab 21:00: VJ: Fussball WM

Location: 5uper.net Cuisine Digitale, Freiraum MQ Wien

Bis Heute wurden über 70 Veranstaltungen (inkl. Ausstellungen, Workshops und Eröffnungen) von 5uper.net realisiert und präsentiert. Die Finanzierung wurde von den Einzelpersonen der Gruppe getragen, Förderung gab es kaum.

Die Zukunft: alles wird Besser.

“Je mehr Vergnügen du an deiner Arbeit hast, um so besser wird sie bezahlt.” (Mark Twain, 30.11.1835 – 21.04.1910, US-Schriftsteller)

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Es waren bisher über 100 KünstlerInnen mit 5uper.net in Kooperationen tätig, unter anderem

5VoltCore(AT), Adachi Tomomi (Japan), Badiu Theodoru(AT), Basso &
Brooke(UK), Benedict Berna(FR), Bom Daphne(NL), Breger Delphi(DE),
Cannava Alice(IT), Capozzo Alessandro (IT), Cheap Records (AT),
Christoph Hoeschele (AT), Ciglar Miha (SLO), Doleschal Wilhelm (AT),
Edgar Oralineta (Mex), und Eduardo Verderame (Brasilien), Ek Robert (SWE), Engels Coelestine(AT), Georg Russegger (AT), Gossow Tobias(AT), Grubanov Ivan (Serbia), Hafner Markus (AT), Halewijn Han (NL), Halsey Brown Laurie, Hangl Oliver (AT), Hoeschele Christoph (AT), Horvatits Judidth(AT), Ishida Takashi (Japan), John Harten (DE), Karl Kilian (AT), Kauer Daniel (AT), Kuluncic Andreja (Croatia), Laar Kalle (DE), Lawhead Milena (SLO), Lazarescu Cesar (RU), Leton Xavier (FR), Lintz-Maues Igor (AT), Magruder Takeo (UK), Martin Zeplichal (AT), Melentie Pandilovski (AUS), Mendocino Kori – blueroses (BUL), Micevski Goran (Serbia), Michail Michailov und Ekaterina Radeva (BUL), Michalis Pichler (DE), Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa (Japan), Nicic Miroslav (Serbia), Niki Passath (AT), Novotny Georg (AT), Peak Tom (AT), Pichler Michalis (DE), Rakita Stefane (FR), Raum fuer Projektion (DE), Renan und Rodrigo Costa Lima (Brasilien), SOURCE (DE), Schroeder Kristine (DE), Takahiko Iimura (Japan), Testen Ziga (SLO), Teterin Sergey (RU), Tiefenbacher Philipp (AT), Trautwein Jurgen, Tudor Florin (HU), Vatamanu Mona (HU), Ventzilsavova Borjana (BUL), Vitor Cesar, Zeleznikar Jaka (SLO), Zeplichal Martin(AT), cntrcpy™ (AT), funkfeuer (AT), lina (Croatia), monochrom (Gruppe) (AT), nin.jah (DE), o-p-a.org (MKD), popnoname (DE), reply2all (DE), shifz.org (AT), son:da (SLO), sonance.net (AT), suk&koch, toxi (UK), ubermorgen (AT)

mehr Information: Wiki Eintrag für 5uper.net

Auf zahreiches Erscheinen freuen sich: Georg Russegger, Robert Kosara, die 25 Teilnehmer des Kurses und das Team von 5uper.net.
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