CODE
A word which goes from one discipline to another.
Which plays with limits.
Computer code, genetical code, law code, codes
of behaviour, dress codes...
And when we think we've grasped it, it seems to be the opposite of what
we expected.
We use codes to program data and to solve genetic sequences.
We call for code to inflict a penalty or to mention open source project.
Every time this word appears, it raises questions about norms and deviations.
When talking of the computer, the notion of code implies revelation
as well as mystification of information.
Is there a way out of the matrix?
For its fifth edition, Jonctions, the new media festival of the association
Constant,
will focus on the idea of code: its definition, its history,
and above all the different interpretations of the word code: genetic
code,
social code, gender codes...
Andrew Hodges UK (lecturer at the Wadham
College, Oxford University) will present a web of connections illustrating
the life and work of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science. Alan
Turing lived from 1912 to 1954; his observations, as mathematician, philosopher,
and openly gay man, now have more meaning than ever before. As Turing
foresaw, the concepts of mind and machine, communication and codes, sexuality
and society, rules and freedom, are now all in flux.
[_more...]
__http://www.synth.co.uk/
INSTALLATION VIDEO
04 - 26 /05
Centre Dansaert
Wed-Sun 13:00 -19:00
Harun Farocki , Frankreich/Deutschland,
Farocki's film is an assembly of images from video surveillance cameras in supermarkets and prisons, scenes from feature and documentary films. It shows the degredation of man as he becomes a mere object of control, questioning the point at which protection becomes control.
__http://www.farocki-film.de/
During the VJ5 and KFDA opening week-end, Constant invites you to 2 video projections. The first is made of 3 videos staging technology fantasy and itching. The second is dedicated to the Valins Experiment, conducted by Isabelle Stengers and Vincianne Despret.
Motion pictures, motion graphics, music interplay in this poetic reflection on our accelerated age
The story of a man's struggle to learn to see.
This science-fiction allegory traces a history of media technology from its early days to a 21st century "New Electromagnetic Order" that threatens to take total control of our lives.
__http://www.othercinema.com
Isabelle Stengers
Vincianne Despret
B, 1999, video, 50 min
The Valins Experiment was conceived with the aim of exploring and elucidating the multiple and confused relationships between body, consciousness, and situations able to produce emotional reactions. It shows that synthetic emotion is no more genuine or false than live emotion.
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Which code for today ?
Programming is connected to desire. As techno users we are too often limited by the computer in the realisation of our projects. Code writing allows us to modify this: what do WE want the machine to do, what is OUR project? We can't do it alone. To achieve complex realisations, we have to invent new forms of collaboration, new forms of practice, and engage firmly in an alternative approach towards intellectual property.
The workshop will begin with an open discussion with Xavier Le Roy (F). Xavier Le Roy is a dancer, but has also trained as a molecular biologist. His experience as a performer and scientist made him suspicious of the notion of authorship and shaped his interest in the production of attainable utopias.
Udo Noll (D)said: 'I am not a programmer but an artist that can program'. He has a long experience in projects where technology and collaborative art interact. Recently he decided to produce a continuous sound stream live on the net: someone walking with a minidisc can send the surrounding sound to a server that adds it to a dynamic database of audio samples.
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__http://www.humbot.org
__http://king.dom.de/equator
__http://king.dom.de/parole/
The Freenet network is made up of decentralized computers. It has been created to guarantee absolute freedom of speech. The quality of its encryption and its peer-to-peer architecture have made Freenet a strong successor of Napster and Gnutella. Steven Hazel (USA) is musician and Freenet programmer. He will demo Freenet and explain how it can be used and developed. He will introduce his new project Soundmosaic and open the debate about copyright, the free flow of information and cultural goods.
__http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
__http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/883.fleshmade
8 +12/05
agency (B)
12/05
16:00
Loïc Vanderstichelen (B)
__http://agencydb.grmbl.com/
19:00
Round table within the context of Tricoter by Xavier Le Roy (F). Questions about authorship, copyrights and attainable utopia's will be at stake. With the performer Jérôme Bel and Annabelle Hagman, jurist.
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__http://www.silverserver.co.at/lia
__http://www.re-move.org
__http://www.turux.org
__http://www.webdiva.nl
__http://www.tech-women.nl/Bulletin/cyberfeminists.htm
Performance in integrated
live and media formats
Halles de Schaerbeek
The Extended Body Project is a prototype
distance-teaching program suitable for the creation of multimedia performance
events and tutorials on linked sites or 'classrooms' in real space and
online. The aim of the project is to discuss the politics behind new media
performance: gender politics, ethnic and the body politic, and the politics
of transforming artistic practices, as well as to develop an awareness
of how the theatrical and physical vocabularies of performance using digital
technologies develop at the same time as the critical and theoretical.
[__more...]
__http://www.surrey.ac.uk/EBP/
PORT: Performance Online in Real-Time
The PORT system juxtaposes real-time filmed moving bodies with their computer contours, or with previously recorded images. The modified image may be used as a modulator for the system.
[__more...]
__http://www.surrey.ac.uk/~dap2vm/image.html
A live link up to a theatre stage in London for a puppet show. Wrap-up discussion and plenary with TerreThaemlitz USA/JP
__http://www.comatonse.com/thaemlitz/
300 Bef
Terre Thaemlitz (usa/jp)
[_more... ]
__http://www.comatonse.com/listening/interstices.html
Reservations 02 507 83 70
(60-90 BeF - 120 pl)
Calculated Cinema is a seven part series that focuses its attention on the pioneering use of computers and electronics in experimental films. It looks at the creation of new procedures in animation and, explores movement, light and synchronicity between music and image, weaving a fabric of cross-references. These concerns range from the first avant-garde groups, to examples in more recent work, from the binary geometry of calculated images to other arithmetical applications based on stills, and other principles of systematic composition. The juxtaposition of different techniques, eras, aesthetic directions, and very diverse natural images serve to establish both the relationships and contrasts that pertain to this field, and which can be observed in the works of artist-film-makers as Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, John and James Whitney, Jordan Belson, Peter Kubelka, Werner Nekes, Larry Cuba and Robert Darroll.(E. B).
16/05 20:15
17 /05 20:15
18 /05 22:15
19 /05 22:15
20 /05 22:15
21 /05 22:15
22 /05 22:15
_-details: Elements of Image
_-details: Geometry and Oscillographs
_-details: Arithmetic of Frame and Bit
_-details: Lumigraphy, Chromophony and Abstronica
_-details: Machine-Language: Permutations
_-details: Cosmic Arabesque
[_details of the whole Calculated Cinema Programme...]
14:00 - 19:00
20 :30
Final party
This year the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts and Constant have chosen the Halles de Schaerbeek to host three experimental parties. Three nights, three party labs.
Ultraphonist
Geographique
Thomas Köner
Foton, B
B
G
Lem
Trep
Heroika, B
Pneu, B
Köhn
Chazam
Grand Magasin
Negative Entropy
B
F
F
B + UK
Zélie
F
Jacqueline Klein
Riley Reinhold / Triple R
Nurse
Traum, G
Kompakt, Traum, G
Pneu, B
VIDEOLIBRARY
Wed-Sun
13:00 - 19:00
Multidisciplinary space inviting the audience to watch websites, videos, cd-rom, beta programs, freewares and try-outs selection, and according to the festival program, to follow conferences, workshops, debates and video projections. And it's free!
Videolibrary
Popular cinema and its vision of code/Science fiction, horror and thriller/Code as visual element and drama component/Hidden, exchanged, stolen/ Cause of blackmail and games, it is the initiated's weapon/Playful tool or power attribute, it is the mean of access/But there is always a game rule/Who will follow the game, who will deviate it?
16 :00 -18 :00
Debate on the need for a public media-space in Brussels. How, where, with who and for whom? Questions will be subject to public debate between experienced people from Brussels and abroad who will present models and ideas, and locals of different practices such as new media, education, artist, youth centers, activists and permanent education workers, who will talk about their need for such a space. If we consider the cultural potential of digital media, research and exchange, such a space cannot be limited to a consultation-space for video, cd-rom and internet work, but also as an education space for workshops and presentations, a meeting place where people from different practices such as socio-cultural, artistic, research & development can meet , exchange information and know-how. Along with a physical space, one must investigate the possibilities of a web-platform to give access to information, education and exchange.
