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• Optronica 2007

Thursday, 08 March 2007

Optronica returns! Once again, bringing visual music to the big screen, the hybrid film and music festival takes place in London from 14th - 18th MARCH 2007 and promises to be a must-see spectacular 5 day celebration of the fusion of music and visuals.

This year's line-up includes the World premières of new shows from a fantastic range of artists including Fred Deakin & Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly, prolific designer and musician Trevor Jackson, Austrian electronic music pioneer Christian Fennesz with renowned New York video artist Charles Atlas, plus the UK première of Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper VJ performance and a special World Cinema remix set from current #1 AV artists Addictive TV. Also on the bill are Japanese audiovisual artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, the brilliant Berlin-based Rechenzentrum with a brand new AV show and the highly innovative Spanish team behind Reactable. Saturday 17th, London's ICA hosts an audiovisual club night headlined by Speedy J & Scott Pagano and, just confirmed, a rare and exclusive audiovisual set from EBN's Gardner Post and Brian Kane.

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Digicult and VJcentral.it have curated for Optronica "ITALIANS DO IT BETTER", an overwiew of some of the most innovative Italian audiovisual artists working on the concept of AV experimental electronic synesthesia and the eclectic use of codes and softwares.

The artists presented are: Elec, Kinotek, Mylicon/En, Tez, Quayola and Otolab.

In IDNLNY by Elec, visual objects are programmed in actionscript while the audio signal is converted into numerical values that function as oscillators. In Kinotek's Linfa, the artist developed his own software for real-time video processing and sound analysis and in Portobeseno, artists Mylicon/En play with all manner of video stills, photographs and Super8 movies. CF#1_1 by Tez calls his work a "procedural video composition" in which custom software generates an ever-changing videopainting that reacts in real time to a multi-channel sound composition. 151.05 by Quayola is a video in which each layer of the 126bmp audio track has it's own specific animation. Finally, Otolab's Field is a generative video in which the 3D space is formed from short-wave signals and interferences.