Erstmals präsentiert das Japan Media Arts Festival ausgezeichnete Werke der Medienkunst in Europa.

5uper.net, als Kooperationspartner des Japan Media Arts Festivals, würde sich sehr freuen dich/sie bei der Eröffnung der Ausstellung begrüßen zu dürfen!

ERÖFFNUNG
Freitag, 11.09. 2009, 19.00 Uhr // MuseumsQuartier Wien, Ovalhalle/Arena21
Eröffnungs-Performance von ISHIBASHI Motoi & MANABE Daito von 21:15 bis 22:00 Uhr

SYMPOSIUM
Samstag, 12.09. 2009, 13.00 bis 16.30 Uhr // MuseumsQuartier Wien, Barock Suite

Ausgewählte Künstler des Japan Media Arts Festivals präsentieren aktuelle Arbeiten aus dem Bereich der Medienkunst. In Talk Sessions und Workshops haben die Teilnehmer des Symposiums die Möglichkeit, mit den Künstlern zu diskutieren und sich näher mit den verschiedenen Aspekten und Positionen der Medienkunst auseinanderzusetzen.

Schedule:

13:00-13:10 Eröffnung: Dr. Georg Russegger
13:10-14:40 Präsentation & Workshop // Artist: ISHIBASHI Motoi & MANABE Daito
15:00-16:30 Artists Präsentation & Talk Session // Artist : KATSUMOTO Yuichiro, SAKAMOTO Nodoka // Moderator : WAKIMOTO Atsushi (CG-ARTS)

Weitere Infos zur Ausstellung und zum Symposium gibts unter: http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/vienna

Über das Japan Media Arts Festival:
Seit 1997 findet das Japan Media Arts Festival jährlich in Tokio statt und wird in diesem Jahr zum 13. Mal ausgetragen. Das Festival honoriert auzgezeichnete Arbeiten in den Kategorien Kunst, Unterhaltung, Animation und Manga und thematisiert Innovationen im Bereich der Medienkunst, die mit neuen Ideen und Technologien in Verbindung stehen. Dadurch wird einerseits kreatives Schaffen gefördert und andererseits die Möglichkeit geboten, ein großes Spektrum an künstlerischen Arbeiten zu präsentieren. Zugleich promotet das Japan Media Arts Festival die Entwicklung von Medienkunst durch verschiedene weitreichende Gelegenheiten und Werbeaktivitäten wie Ausstellungen und öffentliche Programme. Das Ziel des Japan Media Arts Festival ist es, einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung nicht nur der japanischen Kultur, sondern auch der internationalen Kultur zu leisten, indem exzellente Werke der Medienkunst anerkannt werden und Gelegenheiten zur Betrachtung dieser geschaffen werden. Dabei sollen auch das Schaffen und die Entwicklung der Medienkunst gepflegt werden.

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/

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“Forget the technology, it’s lustful entertainment, baby!”

“The Sound of eBay” is an UBERMORGEN.COM project with Stefan Nussbaumer, online at www.sound-of-ebay.com since July 2008. Using eBay user data, The Sound of eBay generates unique songs. By simply entering any eBay username and clicking “generate”, the robots sprawl out into the net to collect data, bringing it back to the SC3 Supercollider sound-generation engine. The complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is then transformed into a unique song.
“The Sound of eBay” transforms a role-model of individual commodities market in an “ARTitude” of robotic configurations and strings, swapping personalized and compositional business dreams with sound designs from secure client accounting. Using the concept of creative destruction, this entertainmentaggregation is tuning in a mind-blowing cutup, pushing the contemporary lifestyles over the edge and combines it with transformable delays of postrealistic business-analysis.

• cronicaelectronica
• the sound of ebay

CONTENT Neural issue 32:
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new .media.art

. France Cadet interview,
. Ken Rinaldo interview,
. Douglas Irving Repetto interview,
. New Zealand report,
.news: Processing Photography, Digestive Table, Ocean_v1, m/e/m/e 2.0, Connect.
.reviews:
..books/dvd: The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, Data Flow, Aesthetic Computing, Junk Jet n.2, Buffalo Heads. .
.centerfold: The Inverted Machine by Ralf Baecker.
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e .music

. Ralph Schreiber interview,
. Drum Machine(s),
. news: (Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra, Love Songs, Particle, Sound Camera Recordings).
. reviews: (Waves, Re-Inventing Radio, Radio Territories, Tuned City, Public Loudspeakers, Attack on Silence).
. reviews cd: (Jacob Kirkegaard, Gregory Büttner, Blevin Blectum, Tarek Atoui, Goh Lee Kwang, Cem Güney, Carrier Band, Fennesz, The Noiser, Shinkei & Fourm, Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino, Kim Cascone, Schurer, Kenneth Kirschner, Sudamerica Electronica 02, Stefan Bauer, Dj Olive, Noah Creshevsky / If Bwana, Richard Garet, Negativland).
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. Survival Research Laboraratories interview,
. Polymorphic Intelligence,
. It does not have to be real, this is much better. Right?,
. news (Qwitter, China Channel, Oiligarchy, Antidatamining, I Left This Here for You to Read, Gomorra fake dvd)
. reviews: (Tactical Biopolitics, The Privacy Advocates, Internet and Society, How to bypass Internet Censorship)
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