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SELECTED AUDIO/VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
10K PFFA apr 2008
Software application for the conversion of visual to audible data for the project '10.000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid' by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. www.portablepalace.com
Laser light is used to scan the ever-shifting surfaces of nucleating and dissipating soap bubble clusters. When refracted at specific angles, this penetrating light generates a reticulate, large-scale projection of normally invisible salty acid formations, and exposes their underlying electro-chemical forces.
Through analysis of the projected shapes and movements by use of video digitisation, the visual information is transposed to audio in order to create a realtime soundtrack.
Performances:
2008
Elektra Festival, Usine C, Montreal CA
Medialab, Tetem II, Enschede NL
FDBCK/AV 3D may 2007
The stereoscopic adaptation of the live performance FDBCK/AV.
A FDBCK/AV 3D single screen video production with 5.1 surround sound will soon be released for the Optofonica project. www.optofonica.com
Performances:
2007
STRP festival, Eindhoven NL
Netherlands Institute for Media Arts, Amsterdam NL [tryout]
Melkweg, Amsterdam NL [tryout]
FDBCK/AV exhibition feb-mar 2007
A solo exhibition including several audio-visual feedback based works at Nieuwe Vide gallery in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Next to a new installation with 18 televisions, the show included high-res versions of the FDBCK/AV videos 'Red Flag', 'Silver' and the SYNCHRONATOR video produced with Gert-Jan Prins.
The exhibition ran from February 25 - March 18 2007. www.nieuwevide.nl
SYNCHRONATOR Tesla residency jan-feb 2007
Invited by Tesla, the Berlin laboratory for media arts, Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins continued work on their SYNCHRONATOR project during a residency in Berlin DE.
Open studio evenings were organised by Tesla on the weekend of the Transmediale festival and a SYNCHRONATOR performance took place as part of the Club Transmediale 2007. www.tesla-berlin.de www.clubtransmediale.de
YOKOMONO/VIDEO oct 2006
A video component for their YOKOMONO performances was developed with Staalplaat Soundsystem.
For the first two concerts, onboard cameras and video transmitters were used. In the second stage of the project an openGL visualisation of the 'empty grooves' audio output was developed.
Performances:
2006
Sensoralia/Romaeuropa festival, Rome IT
Re:Visie/Dutch Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL
Steim, Amsterdam NL
SKIF++ audio-to-video interface sep 2006
Before the start of an American tour, a new software application for realtime visualisation.
The application is based on the 1974 Rutt/Etra scan processor.
www.umatic.nl/SKIF++
SYNCHRONATOR video aug 2006
The first video release of the SYNCHRONATOR project. www.synchronator.com
Video & audio by Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins.
Distribution: www.montevideo.nl
Selected screenings:
2008
Museum of Modern Art-Kino Lab, Warsaw PL
2007
Optical Sensation, Filmreakter, Luxembourg LU
'Nederclips', Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch NL
Galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin DE
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück DE
Experimental Intermedia, New York NY, USA
DNK Afregelsalon III, OT 301, Amsterdam NL
Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina SK, CAN
FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL
2006
'Welcome Back, Mister Paik!', MuHKA_media/Monty, Antwerpen BE
Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL
SYNCHRONATOR 'Impakt Works' residency apr-jun 2006
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if it were an oscilloscope screen.
SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to make use of the characteristic visual qualities of such techniques, whilst tackling the problems concerning recordability of the signal with a combination of current digital and analogue means. Visit www.synchronator.com for more information.
Part of the project is a dual screen performance of which a first try out was presented on June 3 2006, during an evening filled with hardware oriented audiovisual arts. Works by the Vasulkas, reMI, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand in collaboration with Asmus Tietchens, were included in the programme.
A video production as part of the SYNCHRONATOR project will be released in August 2006.
The project was commissioned by Impakt and was being developed as part of an 'Impakt Works' residency. www.impakt.nl
SYNCHRONATOR workshop
As part of the Impakt residency, a three-day workshop about developing an AV performance.
Analogue and digital techniques were examined to create a direct interaction between image and sound. The working method was mainly practical. Facets such as the use of interfaces, videotronics, video/audio software and improvisation in electronic music were examined.
Your instructors: Gert-Jan Prins, Bas van Koolwijk and Karl Klomp.
may 30 - june 1 2006 www.impakt.nl
FDBCK/AV - Silver 3D mar 2006
A stereographic version of the video 'FDBCK/AV - Silver'. Viewed with anaglyph red/cyan glasses, the illusion of depth is added to the otherwise two dimensional video images. This version is part of the Staalplaat Soundsystem installation 'The Ultrasound of Therapy'. www.staalplaat.org
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I.D.E.A.L. Festival, Nantes FR |
Vertical Helical Scan I jan 2006
The video describes the gradual decomposition of the video signal on VHS tape when repetitively copied. With every generation, the analogue information looses quality. Some parts of it disappear, other information is spontaneously added by the equipment. Eventually the signal is rendered unreadable as it gets dissolved into the medium.
A 'homage' to the Video Home System. Commissioned by Planetart www.planetart.nl
baroch jan 2006
A collaborative audio project with Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof. Electronic improvisations performed over Nijhof's speaker-like sculptures. www.roch.nl
First performance:
January 29 2006, Vishal, Haarlem NL
FDBCK/AV - Silver nov 2005
An abstract video in the series FDBCK/AV.
FDBCK/AV - Silver was released on the Sonic Acts XI DVD. www.sonicacts.com
Selected screenings & exhibitions:
| 2007 |
ColorField Variations, Cimatics Festival, Brussels BE ColorField Variations, Laptopia #4, Tel Aviv IL ColorField Variations, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY, USA ColorField Remix, G Fine Art, Washington DC, USA ColorField Remix, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington VA, USA ColorField Remix, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL |
| 2006 |
Leids Film Festival, Scheltema, Leiden NL N-event, Diapason Gallery, New York NY, USA Re:visie/Dutch Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL )toon) festival, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL Sonic Acts XI, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL |
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FDBCK/AV - Red Flag oct 2005
Red Flag is an abstract video, produced with software applications that were developed for the live performance FDBCK/AV. The 'flagging' seen in this video is of a digital nature entirely, but its logic is based on analogue video processing. The same logic applies to the computations by which FDBCK/AV creates a feedback control circuit between audio and video signals. Behind its technical appearance, the video addresses the issue of aesthetic contemplation of form versus the more worldly agenda of utility and politics.
Distribution: www.montevideo.nl
Selected screenings & exhibitions:
| 2008 |
'Un Festival, c'est trop court', Nice FR |
| 2007 |
Exground Filmfestival, Wiesbaden DE REHEAT - Utopie und Sommer, Nickelsdorf AT Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych (BWA), Zielona Gra PL '(in)visible sounds' exhibition, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam NL Festival Rencontres Paris Berlin Madrid, Madrid ES Kill Your Timid Notion Festival, Dundee UK Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Lille FR FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart DE |
| 2006 |
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris FR Alter-Native International Short Film Festival, Targu-Mures RO Holland Animation Filmfestival, Utrecht NL Exis Festival, Seoul KR Waterpieces Video Festival, Riga LV Impakt Event, zaal Moira, Utrecht NL Dissonanze Festival, Rome IT European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck DE Courtisane Festival, Vooruit, Gent BE Cinematiek #11, cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL 50% Beeld, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam NL Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven BE Montevideo presentation, Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Koln DE |
| 2005 | Impakt, cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL |
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db oct 2005
Performance for 2 double bass players, real time sound processing and sound reactive video. With Wojciech Kosma, Michal Skiba and Duszan Korczakowski. Commissioned by Unsound festival 2005, Krakow, Poland. wojciechkosma.art.pl
COLORTRON may 2005
The second audio cd release of the RGB project. Subtle frequency modulations create a field of suspense and blur the actual time span. Colortron is based on improvisations with the audiovisual live performance RGB. With Christian Toonk.
desktopjam apr 2005
Ronald Nijhof, Christian Toonk and Bas van Koolwijk expose their individual inspirations, recent projects and experiments in three simultaneous desktop presentations. Improvisation and association are the means by which the presentations are structured. The aim is to fuse the separate contributions into a collective triptych.
Performances:
August 4 2005, Garage Festival, Stralsund DE
April 5 2005, Fabrikaat, Artis Gallery, 's-Hertogenbosch NL
RGB audio jan 2005
The first audio-cd release of RGB including three tracks based on improvisations with the audiovisual live performance RGB. Sounds derived from properties of the PAL video signal.
A limited number of 50 cd's were produced.
RGB Improv_1&2 jan 2005
Two short videos resulting from the live performance RGB.
Improv_1 was presented as an installation during the exhibition 'Utrecht Uploaded' at Expodium Gallery in Utrecht, from February 12 to March 13 2005. Improv_2 was released as one of the titles on the 'Netmage 05' compilation DVD.
FIVE² oct 2004
FIVE² is an adaptation for two screens of the video production FIVE.
The installation was commissioned by Stichting 'De School' for the Tschumi Pavilion at Hereplein in Groningen and was on show for the whole of November 2004.
UBIK sep 2004
Installation responsive to a monumental building. Synchronised sound, smoke and light neutralise a historical space. Inspired by Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' [1969]. With Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof for the SKOL 2004 exhibition in Utrecht.
Urban[ISM] jun 2004
An installation for the Impakt event and exhibition 'Yarning Utrecht' at the BAK Gallery in Utrecht. Urban[ism] was a collaboration with Christian Toonk and Ryan Parteka.
As people travel through space, points between destinations are often neglected. In their multi-channel audio and video installation, Umatic members have transferred this in between volume of the urban space to the gallery space. Nestled between two walls is a space for one to consider what lay in between.
Maps~ / Psychonavigators jun 2004
Maps~ is a video application for a collaborative performance that came about after a conjunction of ideas for the Impakt event ‘Yarning Utrecht’.
Simular to roadmaps being abstractions of the world as we percieve it, soundscapes reflect a view of the space around us. The intricate use of layering in both the video and the audio of this project, makes image and sound seamlessly connect.
Performed at BAK Gallery, June 18 2004, with Derek Holzer and Christian Toonk.
European Data Cup mar 2004
Presentation about a generative parasite project turning the European Football Championships into an electronic music generator. With Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof.
Presented at BAK Gallery, Utrecht.
RGB mar 2004
The live performance RGB is based on the video channels red, green and blue. By direct transposition of the video signal to audio, Bas van Koolwijk creates a real time soundtrack using colour fields only. The sound environment is completed by Christian Toonk. Toonk uses audio feedback derived from amplified internal computer processes.
RGB is a minimal technoid environment, build up using the basics of video signal with sound.
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Performances:
January 9 2006, Kraakgeluiden, OT301, Amsterdam NL
November 15 2005, Break 2.3, Ljubljana SI
August 5 2005, Le Placard/Garage, Stralsund DE
May 21 2005, Dissonanze Festival, Rome IT
March 2 2005, Expodium Gallery, Utrecht NL
January 29 2005, Netmage Festival, Theatro Manzoni, Bologna IT
December 14 2004, 'Stop Dancing, Start Looking', 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL
March 7 2004, Umatic event at Club Moira, Utrecht NL
OZONE sep 2003
An installation exploring the shifting tide of signals, frequencies and codes passing through our bodies every day. The installation is based around a four-channel, generative digital video, displayed on four television sets. Four 100m loops of copper wire serve as antennas, receiving the Very Low Frequencies [VLF] emitted by the television tubes. The resulting signals are converted into digital audio, which is returned to further influence the video, creating a self-sustaining feedback loop.
Ozone is a collaboration with Derek Holzer, following a residence at Medienturm, Graz. www.medienturm.at
Presented during the 'Steirische Herbst' Art Festival in Graz, Austria [september/october 2003], the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany [april/may 2004] and the WAVES exhibition in Riga LV [aug/sep 2006]
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PETLAB may 2003
An installation with living animals, and the use of color- and motion detection for gathering data with which audio and video are produced in real-time. With Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof. Presented at the Academiegalerie in Utrecht, may/june 2003.
FIVE sep 2002
Abstract video composition
[distribution by Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam]
Selected screenings:
| 2007 |
HARDfilms: pixels und zelluloid, Kino Arsenal, Berlin DE |
| 2006 |
State X - new forms festival, Het Paard, The Hague NL )toon) festival, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL (XGA version) |
| 2005 |
Potenza Film Festival, Potenza IT De Player, Rotterdam NL 'Remote Control', Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam NL Museum of Young Art, Vienna AT SKIF-9, St.Petersburg RU New York Underground Film Festival, New York NY, USA Avecom Festival, CBKG, Arnhem NL VPRO's Nachtpodium, VPRO television NL |
| 2004 |
LOOP’04
International video art fair, Barcelona ES Videozone2, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv IL Biennale Romania, Bucharest RO Tour Eastern Europe > www.audibleimage.nl Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen NL Big M-Film by the Sea, Vlissingen NL Big M-Lux Cinema, Nijmegen NL Big M-Noorderzon, Groningen NL Big M-Uitmarkt, Amsterdam NL Big M-Lowlands, Biddinghuizen NL Big M-Theaterfestival Boulevard, Den Bosch NL Exhibition 'Feel', Mediateque Art Centre Z33, Hasselt BE Montevideo Programme, Caixa Forum, Barcelona ES 30 Years Dutch Video Art, Kornhausforum, Bern CH Image on Sound, VideoMundi Chicago IL, USA Club Transmediale, Berlin DE |
| 2003 |
Avanto Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI Impakt, Image on sound, Utrecht NL Festival Bandits Images, Bourges FR Abstraction Now!, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna AT Festival International du Film d'Amiens FR Split Filmfestival, Split HR National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon KR Moscow Film Festival, Moscow RU IMPAKT, Utrecht NL Boulevard, Den Bosch NL Filmhuis Lumen, Delft NL COURTisane Film Festival, Gent BE 25hrs Video Festival, Barcelona ES European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück DE Cinema Zed, Leuven Kort, Leuven BE De Balie, Impakt Highlights/Shorts, Amsterdam NL Shorts! Film & Video Festival, Kriterion, Amsterdam NL Lux Cinema, Impakt Highlights, Nijmegen NL International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Impakt Highlights DE |
| 2002 |
PEK Festival - Filmhuis, Den Haag NL IMPAKT Festival - cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL Sightsonic Festival, York UK |
LMR [audio oct 2001
3-channel video installation
Commissioned by the Melkweg in Amsterdam, exhibited nov 2001
Hardcore REWIND nov 2000
Video/audio installation
Hardcore Lounge #3 - Rotterdam
TST 04 sep 2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions, compiled of digitaly remodelled video disturbances.
Using the basics of the signal's function, an audio translation of the video signal serves as a soundtrack for these works.
[distribution by Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam]
Selected screenings:
| 2005 | '30 years Dutch Video Art', St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ekatharinenburg RU |
| 2004 |
Exhibition 'GOGBOT', Planetart, Enschede NL Exhibition 'Feel', Mediateque Art Centre Z33, Hasselt BE |
| 2003 |
Transmediale in Bogota CO Maths in Motion, Sixpackfilm, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna AT DGV, Cinerama, Rotterdam NL |
| 2002 |
PEK Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL 12 Jahre Sixpackfilm, Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien, Vienna AT Gam Video Festival, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino IT MUTEK Festival, X-Centris Cinema, Montréal QC, CAN COURTisane Filmfestival, Gent BE Chicago Filmmakers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor MI, USA Transmediale, International Media Art Festival, Berlin DE |
| 2001 |
AVANTO Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI IMPAKT Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Trans 004, The Chopin Theatre, Chicago IL, USA Cinema Digitaal/Holland Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück DE Pandæmonium 2001, The Lux Centre, London UK |
TST 03 may 2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions
Selected screenings:
| 2001 2000 |
Planetart Exhibition, Galerij Romein, Leeuwarden NL VIPER festival for film, video and new media, Basel CH |
TST 02 apr 2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions
[distribution by Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam]
Selected screenings:
| 2006 | 'Good Vibrations', Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven NL |
| 2005 | Island Art Film & Video Festival, London UK |
| 2004 | Exhibition 'Feel', Mediateque Art Centre Z33, Hasselt BE |
| 2003 | Rencontres Paris/Berlin, Berlin DE |
| 2002 |
PEK Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL Page 3ree, Urban Mag Festival, Kaaitheater, Brussels BE Fractures, MUTEK Festival, X-Centris Cinema, Montréal QC, CAN Fractures, Available Light Collective, Ottawa ON, CAN Chicago Filmmakers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA |
| 2001 |
Video Marathon, [KSA:K] Center for Contemporary Art, Khishinev MD AVANTO Video Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI 30th Anniversary of Videographe, Montréal QC, CAN IMPAKT Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Trans 004, The Chopin Theatre, Chicago IL, USA Cinema Digitaal/Holland Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL I Love Art Video, Le-Maillon, Strasbourg FR Pandæmonium 2001, The Lux Centre, London UK |
| 2000 | VIPER festival for film, video and new media, Basel CH |
CONNECTING may 1999
Video/audio installation for exhibition 'Connecting', Internationales Festival 'Musik+Film+Musik', Minoriten galerie, Graz AT