BELLING STAG

Concert: Pécs D(é)RIVE: GPS-Trans 11

belling stag — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:11:19 +0000

When: Friday, 10 December · 19:30 – 22:30

Where: University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Damjanich u. 30, Pécs, Hungary

A collaborative project between Marek Chołoniewski & European Bridges Ensemble

live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

“In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view, cities have psychogeographi-cal contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.”
Guy Debord 1956

In July 2010, a car fitted with 4 video cameras, (facing forward, backward, left and right) and GPS tracking, made a number of “recording” journeys through and around the city of Pécs. Several of the locations passed through were then re-visited on foot, and recorded audio-visually in greater detail.

During the concert, a car will re-trace the original journeys around Pécs, transmitting its GPS coordinates to the venue where it will control the video and audio material, projected onto 4 screens and through 4 speakers arranged in form of square geometric object, simulating the form of the car and the space through which it travels. In this way the car becomes a live performer/controller of its own recordings. It’s GPS position and speed data determining the status of the audio-visual record of the original journey.

(GPS-Trans – transmission in time and space, rather than live broadcasting).

As the car approaches each of the previously chosen locations, the journey will be suspended and overlaid by detailed audio-visual compositions created by EBE’s composer/performers and visual artist, as responses to the ambience of place rather than to the transit through space. A place is explored and articulated and the journey resumes on to the next.

In the early stages of the project, initial exploration of the ‘terrain’ of Pécs revealed locations and spaces not on the “tourist trail”; the mines and mine buildings, the gas/water pipes, the cemetary, the tallest empty building as well as those more commonly experienced by visitors like the center or the TV Tower. Their qualities and ambience contributed a deeper experience of the city of Pécs.

Pécs D(é)RIVE, the latest iteration of “GPS-Trans”, combines the data-driven audio-visual urban installation, originally conceived by Marek Chołoniewski, with the integrated performance of audio-visual compositions by EBE within Georg Hajdu’s Quintet.net software environment.

Creators and performers:
Marek Choloniewski – concept, composition, coordination
Georg Hajdu – Conductor, Quintet.net programming
Marcin Wierzbicki – GPS programming
Kai Niggemann – Composition, Laptop Performer
Adam Siska – Composition, Laptop Performer
Johannes Kretz – Composition, Laptop Performer, Quintet.net programming
Andrea Szigetvári – Composition, Laptop Performer
Ivana Ognjanović – Composition, Laptop Performer
Stewart Collinson – Visual artist

Here is a video of an older performance (2007) of the EBE:

Organized by: Hungarian Computer Music Foundation

Sponsors: EU Culture Program, NKA, Nikolaus Lenau Kulturverein, MAMI PTE MK, Kertész Panzió, VisualPower

More information: www.globalvillagemusic.net

Symposium on network music in Pécs

belling stag — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:01:24 +0000

When: December 10-12. 2010.

Where: University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Damjanich u. 30, Pécs, Hungary

The “Music in the Global Village” symposium researches technological and artistic domains that are made available through the interaction of humans and machines in networked systems. It aims to create a platform for musicians and media-artists or collaborative net-based art-projects and for the discussion of the latest issues in live-electronic performance. After two editions of the conference in 2007 and 2009 the Symposium in Pécs will summarize the results of the Co-Me-Di-A cultural collaboration performed in the framework of the European Commitie’s Culture porgramme, the ideas initiated at the conferences and the progress made since the first conference.

General concepts:

what does network facilitate, what does network impede
what is gained, what is lost
how do we adapt (to) the new possibilities afforded by the Network
where the network, as a medium, facilitates “traditional” performance, improvisation by artists in remote locations?
transformation of the rules of musical communication
extending the notion of social intercourse and co-operation in different forms of art

Concepts emerging from the framework of the CoMeDiA project:

the network as acoustic medium
avatars: embodiment of remote performers through gesture-modulated visual display
audience participation in network performance
virtual spaces
pedagogy of network music

The lecturers of the symposium are associates or artists of the institutions, artistic groups listed below:
IRCAM, Paris; SARC, Belfast; IEM, Graz; UNIGE, Genova; HFMT, Hamburg; HCMF, Budapest; EBEHamburg/Münster/Budapest/Vienna/Beograd/Lincoln; PTE MK MAMI, Pécs.

The symposium is open to the public and free of charge. To participate, please register by sending an email with a short bio to: info@hcmf.hu.

PROGRAMME

Lecture session #1

Friday, 10 December · 15:00 – 17:30, Room 218

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

Catching network activity – presentations from participating institutions (1.)

15.00-15.15: Andrea Szigetvári [H]
15.15-15.30: Georg Hajdu [GER]
15.30-15.45: Winfried Ritsch [A]
- coffee break -
16.00-16.15: Gualtiero Volpe [I] (online)
16.15-16.30: Pedro Rebelo [GB] (online)
16.30-16.45: Balázs Kovács [H]
16.45-17.30: Questions, comments

Lecture session #2

Saturday, 11 December · 10:00 – 13:30, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

10.00-10.40 Lecture session: Network based GPS control system
10.00-10.20: Marek Choloniewski [PL]
10.20-10.40: Marcin Wierzbicki [PL]
10.40-11.00 Lecture session:

Catching network activity – presentations from participating institutions (2.)
10.40-11.00: Andrew Gerzso [F]
- coffee break -
11.20-12.40 Lecture session:

Audio/video/stage design for network performances
11.20-11.40: Georg Hajdu [GER]
11.40-12.00: Constantin Basica [GER]
12.00-12.20: Rémi Desmonet [F]
12.20-12.40: Winfried Ritsch [A]

12.40-13.20 Lecture session: Extension of the notion of spatialization
12.40-13.00: Winfried Ritsch [A]
13.00-13.20: Markus Noisternig [A] (telepresence)

Lecture session #3

Saturday, 11 December · 15:00 – 18:30, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

15.00-16.00 Lecture session: Relation to the audience/ Social interaction/ Pedagogy
15.00-15.20: Andrew Gerzso [F]
15.20-15.40: Jacob Sello [GER]
15.40-16.00: Kai Niggeman [GER]
- coffe break -
16.30-18.30: Discussion session (1.)
With the participation of musicians and dancers from the CoMeDiA projects: Elisabeth Harnik, Andrea Ladányi, Veronika Zott

Lecture session #4

12 December · 10:00 – 15:00, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

10.00-11.00: Co-Me-Di-A partners’ meeting
11.00-12.20: Lecture session: Strategies for finding artistically meaningful applications of Internet technology
11.00-11.20: Johannes Kretz [A]
11.20-11.40: Andrea Szigetvári [H]
11.40-12.00: Ádám Siska [H]
12.00-12.20: Felipe Hickman [GB]
- coffe break -
12.40-15.00: Discussion session (2.)
With the participation of musicians and dancers from the CoMeDiA projects:
Elisabeth Harnik, Andrea Ladányi, Veronika Zott

Organized by: Hungarian Computer Music Foundation

Sponsors: EU Culture Program, NKA, Nikolaus Lenau Kulturverein, MAMI PTE MK, Kertész Panzió, VisualPower

More information: www.globalvillagemusic.net

network music in Pécs

belling stag — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:48:49 +0000

network music
GPS installation-concert / symposium

December 10-12, 2010.

University of Pécs,
Faculty of Music and Visual Arts
Pécs, Damjanich u. 30.

The Music in the Global Village series focuses on music and art works created and performed on the Internet and local networks. Its first edition, a conference, took place at the Kunsthalle, Budapest in 2007. Subsequently, in 2009 it returned as an “Unconference” in the framework of the Making New Waves Festival.

The Music in the Global Village, Pécs 2010 will take place as of a concert-installation and a symposium exploring the ways in which the network – being the most significant new medium of the modern era – shapes and influences recent manifestations of music and other art forms. The computer music installation-concert-performance, will use GPS data to control audio / video “samplers” of material recorded in and around the city of Pécs. The symposium will provide the opportunity to hear leading network art professionals lecture on, and discuss the recent developments in the field.

Organized by the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation

Website: http://globalvillagemusic.net/

HIJACKED Vol 2 AUSTRALIA / GERMANY

belling stag — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:41:00 +0000

BOOK LAUNCH

Friday, July 16th, 7 p.m.

LUMEN Galéria, 1088 Budapest, Mikszáth Kálmán tér 2.
Guests: Mark McPherson, Katja Melzer, Katrina Schwarz

Exhibit: Kinetic Image

belling stag — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:54:40 +0000

Kinetic Image – animated films of fine artists from Central Europe

Kinetic Image presents the animated artwork of ten artists from five former socialist Central European countries who will showcase their animated film or video installation and connected artwork like photograms, sketches, drawings, and other materials. From each country one film will be shown from the socialist, and another from the post-socialist period. The earlier films are made using analog technique, while most of the later ones are digital. Animation in fine art is an undefined field which has not yet become a genre of artistic expression on its own, but it is definitely an emerging form of both practice and theory. For Art Historians film is still isn’t regarded as part of the Fine Art meaning that it is not integrated into its taxonomy. The exhibition can not hope to present a detailed historical overwiev of the phenomena of animation in Fine Art, nor to create a definitive list of animated films made by fine artists. Our aim is to give an insight into the diverse approaches of artists using this medium.

Artists:

David Možný (1963, Brno)

Frantisek Skála (1956, Praha)

Robert Seidel (1977, Jena)

Lutz Dammbeck (1948, Leipzig)

Ágnes Háy (1952, Budapest)

Waliczky Tamás (1959, Budapest)

Franciszka & Stefan Themerson (1907-1988, Warsaw; 1910-1988, Płock)

Piotr Bosacki (1977, Poznań)

Daniela Krajčová (1983, Žilina)

Vladimír Havrilla (1943, Bratislava)

Curator: Rózsás Lívia

: opening at 2b

opening at 2b

2B Galéria, Ráday street 47, Budapest (IX.)

June 25th – July 29th

Photo Exhibition: Jewish life in Budapest

belling stag — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:19:43 +0000

On Thursday, July 8th, 6 p.m. a new exhibition will open at the synagoge in Rumbach utca, VII. Budapest. The photorapher Bruno Bourel (born 1957 in Paris, living in Budapest) will show a selection of his works on Jewish life in the Hungarian capital.

Invitation

Preview:

For more information, check the website: www.brunobourel.com!

Artist Talk at Goethe Institute

belling stag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:14:20 +0000

In the frame of the current exhibition “Művészet Vendégségben” at the Goethe Institute Budapest, an ARTIST TALK will take place on Thursday, June 17, 6 p.m.. Four artists will talk about their experiences as foreign artists in Budapest and their opinion on the “Budapestian” art scene. Languages: Hungarian / German

exhibition view

Művészet Vendégségben – Beszélgetés

Június 17., 18.00 – 20.00, Goethe Intézet

Résztvevők:
Bruno Bourel (*1957, Párizs, Franciaország)
Áron Baráth (*1980, Újvidék, Szerbia)
Alexander Schikowski (*1973, Bamberg, Németország)
Mamikon Yengibarian (*1963, Jereván, Örményország)

Moderátor: Katja Melzer (Művészettörténész)

Nyelvek: Németül / Magyarul

A budapesti Goethe Intézet idén ismét kortárs képzőművészeti kiállítást rendez az intézet épületében. A kiállítás kurátora Katja Melzer, alapgondolata pedig a kulturális sokszínűség. A cél olyan nem magyar művészek bemutatása, akik a világ különböző országaiból érkeztek Budapestre, és letelepedésük után alkotásaikkal jelentősen hozzájárultak az itteni képzőművészeti élet változatosságához. A festményeket, fényképeket, szobrokat és más műtárgyakat szemlélve új szemszögből tekinthetünk a nemzetiség és identitás kérdéseire.

2010/04/15 – 2011/02/15

Nyitva tartás: hétfő-péntek 10-18 óra

opening

Künstlergespräch
Über die Budapester Kunstszene und über das Leben als Künstler in Budapest anlässlich der Ausstellung “Kunst im Haus 2010″ im Goethe Institut Budapest.

Donnerstag, 17. Juni, 18:00 – 20: 00, Goethe Institut

Diskussionsteilnehmer:
Bruno Bourel (*1957, Paris, Frankreich)
Áron Baráth (*1980, Novi Sad, Serbien)
Alexander Schikowski (*1973, Bamberg,Deutschland)
Mamikon Yengibarian (*1963, Yerevan, Armenien)

Moderation: Katja Melzer (Kunsthistorikerin)

Sprachen: Deutsch / Ungarisch

“Kunst im Haus“ ist seit dem 15. April 2010 in den Räumlichkeiten des Goethe-Instituts zu sehen. Die von Katja Melzer kuratierte Ausstellung basiert auf dem Gedanken der „kulturellen Vielfalt“: Vorgestellt werden Künstler, die nicht aus Ungarn stammen, sondern aus verschiedenen Ländern nach Budapest gezogen sind und einen maßgeblichen Beitrag zur Vielfalt künstlerischen Schaffens in dieser Stadt leisten. Durch die Präsentation ihrer Werke – sei es Malerei, Fotografie, Skulptur oder Objektkunst – lassen sich weiterführende Fragen nach Identität und Nationalität diskutieren.

15.4.2010 – 15.2.2010
Geöffnet: Mo-Fr 10-18 Uhr

Roisin in Soundsuits?

belling stag — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:22:40 +0000

Roisin Murphy: Sow Into You (Ruby Blue. 2005)

Nick Cave: Soundsuits

belling stag — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:14:35 +0000

Today I saw this work of Nick Cave for the first time, quite amazing: “Soundsuits”, currently exhibited at the Fowler Museum in L.A. (here are some of my fav. – of course, especially the furry ones!)

Nick Cave: Soundsuit

“Experience the largest presentation of work by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, featuring thirty-five of his Soundsuits—multi-layered, mixed-media sculptures named for the sounds made when the “suits” are worn. Reminiscent of African, Caribbean and other ceremonial ensembles as well as of haute couture, Cave’s work explores issues of transformation, ritual, myth and identity. His virtuosic constructions incorporate yarn, sequins, bottle caps, vintage toys, rusted iron sticks, hair and more. Mad, humorous, visionary, glamorous and unexpected, the Soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials that Cave re-contextualizes into extraordinary works of art.” (AAM 2010 Blog)

EXHIBIT OPENING: Group Show at G13

belling stag — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:41:48 +0000

invitation, designed by ZOLTAN+

Exhibiting artists: Áron, Attila, Csaba, Csilla, György, Lóránt, Mihály, Rita, Robin, Tamás, Zsolt, Zsuzsa.

Show opens on May 20, 2010 – 6pm
Specially selected wines by 75CL wine-merchant

BP PSYCH BP SPIRIT May 21 – July 10 2010
Opening Hours Tuesday-Friday 12pm-6pm / Saturday 11am-3 pm.

web: www.g13.hu

address: Király utca 13, Budapest