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//Collapse of PAL at Cinemateca Brasileira, Sao Paolo.

Artists: 20:00 // Saturday // 15/10/11 //
FOYER Cinemateca Brasileira, Sao Paolo, BR.██─▀─▌█
Rosa Menkman, Optical Machines, B.Fleischmann, DEFI.─██─▀─▌█

Trailer: Music by little-scale─██─▀─▌█
I am super excited to announce that the Collapse of PAL will be part of Rojo Nova cinematic installations - in which it will feature Optical Machines and B. Fleischmann! (some of you might know I have been a fan of Fleischmann soundscapeyy-music for years so its an absolute honor to work on this project together with him).
The Optical Machines will bring an analogue-installation component to the whole. ─██─▀─▌█

The fourth “cinematic installation” to happen at the BNDES Foyer inside Cinemateca Brasileira. A technological set-up… all “collapsing” with the many analogical ways of generating the information, the music, the story telling. A session where you will read, listen, watch, but most of all, you will be surprised on how the whole installation is generated.─██─▀─▌█

Plot: Collapse of PAL tells the story of the PAL signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. While it might be argued that the PAL signal is dead, it still exists as a trace left upon the new, ‘better’ digital technologies. PAL can, even though the technology is terminated, be found here as a historical form that newer technologies build upon, in- herit or have appropriated from. Besides this, the Angel also realizes that the new DVB signal that has been chosen over PAL is different, but at the same time also inherently flawed.─██─▀─▌█

Rosa and Áron Birtalan // Collapse of PAL // longtailtour

Here is a video of me and Áron playing at the glitch gallery show in Budapest. If you are not happy about quality, you better come and see us for real!┘─▀┐─▄┘─
The Collapse of PAL will have a couple of installments in NL before the big show in Brazil and to make it more more beautiful I invited Áron Birtalan to join me. Áron and I have played some of the most traumatic shows I have ever been through in my life, not just musically... and its really good to have him at my side.█▄┘─▀┐─▄─

Áron Birtalan [HUN] is a musician / media artist from Budapest, Hungary, currently living in The Hague, NL. His works and interests primarily focus on minimalist music, sonic environments, failure aesthetics, DIY ethics, romanticism, religious art and music, medievalism, Greek and South- East Asian mythology and lo-fi electronic media.▌█▌█▀─██▌█─▌

† 19.11.11 - with Áron @ TBC, STRP - Eindhoven, NL

† 24.09.11 - with Áron @ TodaysArt - The Hague, NL

† 09.09.11 - with Áron @ Gogbot - Enschede, NL

At Gogbot I will also do some visuals in the church and some vj-ing with Eavan Aiken aka Roborant.██▄┘─█
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GLI.TC/H 20111 ONLINE!!!

GLI.TC/H20111 is online! Apply now to the call for works at GLI.TC/H
Or help by donating through Kickstarter█▌█▀─██─▀─▌█▀┐██▌

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GLI.TC/H was a simple idea that was hatched upon the notion of folks gathering together and engaging/chatting/debating the issues/theories/concerns of failure, systems, art, && glitches.▄┘┐█▄┘─█┐█▄┘─▀┐─▄┘─

We were able to realize this gathering last year in Chicago. GLI.TC/H 2010 brought people together for five days of glitchy art, hacking/coding workshops, discussions, screenings, lectures, and realtime audio/video performances. All events were free & open to the public and ended up exposing an extremely diverse, amazingly deep, somewhat quirky community.

The community is growing and this year we are hoping (and planning) to do it again! From the beginning, we consciously adopted a free & open ethic for GLI.TC/H. We believe that exorbitant entrance fees and exclusive passes create obstacles between "actor" and "audience."─█▌█▌█▀─██▌█─▌

It takes considerable resources and energy execute an exciting event like GLI.TC/H. Folks have donated We're reaching out to you (and your networks) in an effort to help amplify these efforts and make GLI.TC/H 20111 a reality.

Some generous artists have donated exciting incentives to this Kickstarter campaign. Please check them out; of course, the biggest incentive of this campaign is actually making GLI.TC/H 20111 happen.

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GLI.TC/H is spreading from the web to Chicago: US; to Amsterdam: NL; and Birmingham: UK; GLI.TC/H will launch in Chicago on NOV: 4TH, 5TH, & 6TH. Amsterdam will commence on NOV: 11 -> 12. Birmingham: UK; will follow on NOV: 19.

GLI.TC/H is both a physical and virtual event with always-on online games, galleries, easter-eggs, downloadable artware, scavenger hunts, APIs, and loads of other experimental components. These activities will continue through-out and beyond the physical events.

We hope that branching and forking the gathering/festival/conference will mesh && mosh conversation(s) with local happenings, multiple perspectives, and allow for more individuals to participate.

This year, we are opening frameworks and structures to involve the community at core levels including curation and organization. For example, Kim Asendorf (fa-g.org & gifmarket.net) is curating an online component and Antonio Roberts (AKA hellocatfood) initiated and is leading the Birminham: UK; component. Many more artists and curators are investing their talents.

We can't do this alone. Let's make this gathering happen together!

Executing GLI.TC/H takes considerable resources. Your donation will be use for the acquisition, construction, and transportation of materials and artwork for the exhibitions. It will allow us to support the local independent venues that we have partnered with. It will help supply materials for workshops and provide resources for the printing and pressing of festival data for dissemination at and before the events.

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We will continue to update this Kickstarter page with details/announcements/activities.

Please help by donating and spreading the word by liking/sharing/linking/tweeting/posting EVERYWHERE!

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//Exhibitions///Screenings

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•10/09/2011 -> 15/010/2011 - exhibtion Telenesia, Newport, UK.•

•23/09/2011 - opening Vernacular of File Formats @ 't Hoogt during Dutch Film Festival/NFF.•

•03/09/2011 - Screening at Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela.•

•03/09/2011 - Speedshow: Chicks on Speed, Linz, Austria.•.

•26/08/2011 - Screening @ Experimentación Mediática, San Juan, Puerto Rico.• 
•23/08/2011 -> 28/09/2011 - exhibition Vernacular of File Formats@ 't Hoogt, Utrecht, NL.•. {exhibition ft. Kim Asendorfs extrafile}
for the other shows see my other list
 

//Vernacular of File Formats for Re:Visie/NFF

[Sorry I copied only the Dutch text!] 

Яosa Menkman (NL) Vernacular of File Formats, 2010/2011 (ft. Kim Asendorfs Extrafile)
Expositie dinercafé ’t Hoogt 23 augustus t/m 30 september.

Het Nederlands Film Festival maakt zich met het programma Beeldenstorm op voor de toekomst en wil een wegwijzer zijn in een sterk veranderend medialandschap waarin film, de Nederlandse film, van substantiële betekenis is. Programmaonderdeel re:visie stelt de conventies, esthetiek en verschijningsvorm van het filmmedium aan... de orde. Hedendaagse kunstenaars met verschillende achtergronden en werkterreinen (experimentele filmmakers, videokunstenaars, beeldend kunstenaars, ontwerpers) onderzoeken de mogelijkheden en beperkingen ervan en maken de balans op. Re:visie is niet uit op herdefiniëring van het filmmedium, maar benadrukt de eindeloze variëteit ervan, reagerend op telkens wisselende omstandigheden. Niet de inhoud staat centraal, maar de materie. Re:visie laat het publiek kennismaken met kunstuitingen waarin de kijker gedwongen wordt op een andere manier beeld te ondergaan.
In het kader van re:visie toont dinercafé ’t Hoogt werk van kunstenares Rosa Menkman dat bestaat uit een video-installatie en prints. Vernacular of File Formats staat daarmee voor het eerst op Nederlandse bodem.

In het werk van Rosa Menkman speelt het falen en toeval binnen digitale media een belangrijke rol. Compressie, artefacten, beeldstoringen… Menkman maakt dankbaar gebruik van alles wat we liever negeren binnen de digitale technologie. In haar onderzoek naar de ruis van het beeld, brengt Menkman de onzichtbare maar altijd aanwezige technologie in beeld. Het digitale, het ongrijpbare, het vluchtige, en daarmee ook het onvoorspelbare. Het digitale beeld is als een onstuitbare acrobaat die tot alles in in staat lijkt te zijn. Maar waar kijken we eigenlijk echt naar, en waarom? Menkman laat ons de grenzen van het medium ervaren. Dit proces van creëren, comprimeren en converteren is voor Menkman een manier om de oneindige digitale stroom van beelden op een andere manier te bekijken en de geaccepteerde conventies over schoonheid en esthetiek te herdefiniëren.

Sunshine in my Throat officially dangerous in Chicago coffee cafe.

Someone curated my work and I liked his selection. So I stole it. now I am going to sleep

glitch art spheres organized (graphs in collab w./ Esther Weltevrede)

An organization of glitch artists // bookmarkers perspective

Research Question: bookmarking on delicious is an act of curating; the organizing and including (or excluding) of links.

To what extend do the ”glitch”+ ”artist” -tagged bookmarks form (a) networked websphere(s) and what spheres are part of this glitch-artist bookmark network?

The glitch blogosphere // the bookmarkers perspective

Research Question: bookmarking on delicious is an act of curating; the organizing and including (or excluding) of links.

To what extend do the ”glitch”+ ”blog”+ ”art -tagged bookmarks form (a) networked websphere(s) and what spheres are part of this glitch-artist bookmark network?

Glitch actors organized // The Twitter perspective

Research Question: making twitter lists is an act of social organizing; it entails the active including (or excluding) of contacts within a particular stream or network.

But do the”glitch”-listed actors and their websites form (a) networked websphere(s) and if so,

what sphere(s) can be distinguished?

General remarks: 

- I deleted sites like myspace, twitter, flickr, vimeo and creativecommons because they distorted the graphs, while they are not interesting for the autcome. However, I do think that these nodes could have been interesting for platform focused research

- There are some bugs in the mapping software that caused some nodes to show up twice. It seemed impossible to merge the nodes automatically or by hand so I deleted the smallest ones - I do believe that overall, this did not matter much and the graphs still give a trustworthy overview of the spheres.   

- did not index the twitter lists that were based on glitch the game (this is completely trivial)

- A node will only appear if there are at least 2 in or outlinks. 

Preliminary (Cross-)spherical findings

* The Delicious graph based on the "glitch" + "artist"-tags and the Delicious graph based on the "glitch" + "blog" + "artist"-tags show two very similar, complex networks. After  observation, I recognize how the graphs reveal the location of the glitch art community in relation to other web-based/digital arts communities. The key players (or hubs) of these spheres are for insrtance tools (Processing, openframeworks, Puredata, arduino),  digital art community-blogs with (such as Rhizome, 319scholes and the NewMuseum, Neural and Furtherfield) and festivals (Transmediale, bentfestival and GLI.TC/H). 

Vagueterrain seems to function as a pre-eminent center-hub that is greatly responsible for connecting the different communities . However, the hub is also disproportionately small (which means that Vagueterrain does not receive many inlinks from the community, whereas Rhizome does - this could be a case of authority). 
The Rosa-menkmans website (my site) is both big and colored, which means that the crawler indexed both inlinks and outlinks to the blog, marking it both as an authoritative and active hub within the researched spheres. This also means that the blog is actively shaping the mapped community, which is on the one hand an important problem to keep in mind during analysis and on the other hand not very surprising since its me who is asked these questions - they are what my blog and generally all my research is centered around.

Personal blogs and artists pages such as Goto80, designingimperfection, beigerecords, Gieskes, jonsatrom and jodi seem not to link-out to the glitch community, while at the same time receiving many inlinks from their peers. This could either be a sign of status, or the crawler encountering a problem  fetching the outlinks). 

Vades website has many different nodes (syphon, Vade.info, v002, abstrakt.vade.info, etc). Because of these nodes it is not completely clear what the 'status' of the website within the network is, but it is clear that this repository/artist blog must be a key hub within the glitch sphere (given the different colors and many outlinks).  Both Vade and Pixelnoizz take an interesting place being connected between the more generative side of the graph and the more procedural side of glitch art).

* There are two independent Twitter glitch-listed actor spheres: 

the first is centered around glitch.fm, the glitchhopforum and a couple of other glitchmusic related sites. 

The second sphere is a bigger, diffused sphere that locates and maps the genre of glitch art. 

Within this sphere sites like 8bitpeoples (an chiptune/8bit/lofi community), GLI.TC/H (the glitch art festival), Vagueterrain (the Digital Art / Culture / Technology blog), slowelectronics (where the music label slowelectronics is located) and personal blogs act as hubs inbetween the different communities. 

It is striking to me how many of the personal sites are connected with multiple hubs, indicating a bigger trend of possible crossbreeding and networking between the different digital art communities.

Some more observations:

I think of all three graphs the "glitch" + "artist" graph gives the best repository of glitch art nodes for starting glitch-art researchers.   

 

Location

- I had expected the Chicago school of glitch to have a more pronounced, heavily interlinked presence. While there is definately an disproportionate amount of Chicago based artists in all of the graphs, they do link socially to other geographically nodes. 

- The presence of a Dutch community (Gieskes, Karlklomp, rosa-menkman, Jodi, Impakt, mu, v2 and wormweb) is also interesting.

- There are only western nodes in the graphs. Actos like UCNV are missing. I think this is because non-western glitch artists do not write in English and are thus not linked-into the network . However, they could have formed their own network, which also did not happen - Glitch art must (still) be a very western discourse

Many of the in IDN magazine featured glitch artists/projects (Quayola, Kimasendorf, clementvalla) who are new to the glitch scene have found a place in the delicious networks. This means that the network is fresh.

Obviously communities are often build on top of friendships. The graphs also show this - I know many people within these graphs know eachother personally.

The circuitbending 'community' seems under-represented. Possible reasons for lack of nodes could be that this community is not social within these particular glitch spheres (ie. are not linking or out), or is not tagged as glitch or as art. 

QuartzComposer does not have a node on the graphs (for as far as I can see). This must be because its 'inside' of the apple OS. It makes me wonder about where the Quartz community is based.

Music:

The 8bit/chiptune music scene is notably connected to the glitch scene. keyplayers in this interlinkage are: Goto80, Notendo, Nullsleep, no-carrier and the 8bitpeoples music label.

click and cut/microsound musicians dont keep blogs but are tagged as glitch artists. 

 

The Glitch.fm community (glitch music) is not tagged as art or artists in delicious (there is no delicious presence). 

Extrafile vs GLI.TC/H vs. A Vernacular of File Formats

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████For his graduate research into the role of the digital File Formats in the arts, Kim Asendorf developed Extrafile: "New image file formats for artistic purposes". The Extrafile software gives artists and designers the opportunity to create exclusive file formats to personalize works of art.

Extrafile offers an escape from the pandemonium of licensed image file formats (standards), the proprietary protocols that are under the rule of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), who authors, dictates and judges standardization laws since 1947 (way before 1984!). ISO, the part-time big brother of codecs, developed some of the most important encoding protocols in the digital realm, amongst whom for instance JPG. 

Extrafile could thus also be read as a critique and employed as a rebellion against an image-dictator that has been in power for over 60 (!) years.

Kim invited a group of databending/glitch artists to use the Extrafile software, to exhibit some of the results in his graduation show. I was proud to be one of invited artists and finally adopted the software to use it in collaboration with Monglot. Next week 3 of my favorite outcomes will be exhibited in Het Hoogt in Utrecht, as part of Re:Visie and the NFF, alongside the original prints of the Vernacular of File Formats. But here is a digital spoiler (the exhibition will last for a month and a half and the official opening will be on the 23th of September).

As guestcurator for the online gallery component of GLI.TC/H 2011, Kim open(sourc)ed the Extrafile software, which is since this night available for the public. You are invited to use Extrafile to develop bumpers, banners and posters for the GLI.TC/H festival which is confirmed to take place in the autumn of 2011, on different locations, on two different continents! Wohoo!

if (a == b && b == Paris Batofar cancelled && c == new shows confirmed) { // do something }

18/11/2011 - GLI.TC/H, Birmingham, UK.

10/11/2011 -> 12/11/2011 - GLI.TC/H, NL.

02/11/2011 -> 06/11/2011 - GLI.TC/H, Chicago, US.

21/10/2011 - TBC Telenesia, UK.

24/09/2011 - TodaysArt, The Hague, NL.

14/09/2011 -> 21/09/2011 - TBC ISEA 2011 Istanbul, Turkey.

23/08/2011 -> 28/09/2011 - A Vernacular of File Formats vs. Extrafile (feat. Kim Asendorf) @ het Hoogt, Utrecht, NL, 

for Re:Visie and Dutch Film festival.

Official opening: 23/09 opening during Dutch Film Festival.

09/08/2011 - TBC Performance @ Gogbot, Eindhoven, Nl.

02/08/2011 -> 20/08/2011 - DeFunct /ReFunct exhibition, Rua Red, Dublin, IE.

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Into the Tulgey Woods)

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Previously screened at The New Psychadelia, Enschede, NL and Bent Festival, New York. ______________________________________________________________
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DeFunct / ReFunct exhibition @ GLITCH festival, Rua Red, Dublin, IRL.

I just came back from the most beautiful exhibition I have seen and been part off for a long time "DeFunct / ReFunct", curated by Benjamin Gaulon (Ireland). Here are some photos of the setup.

//Observatori Valencia

Observatori Valencia Used my image as their poster-image for the festival. Here some photos..

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