UNCONFERENCE: ArtCamp07: Re:use
ArtCamp07: Re:use follows up on ArtCamp06, the World’s First
Un-Conference on Art, a groundbreaking day-long event co-produced by
New Forms Festival and Upgrade! Vancouver, which was attended by over a
hundred artists, designers, programmers, critics, theorists, curators
and practitioners from all fields who presented over 30 workshops,
talks and hybrid events throughout a single inspiration-filled day. The
theme of Re:use will be brought into the framework of ArtCamp in order
to offer an opportunity for participants from all fields working
creatively with technological or material frameworks to come together
in an open window of time and space to meet, show work, talk about
ideas, try things out, and learn new hands-on practices.
Bring your turntables, laptops, or sewing machines, your old mp3s,
National Geographics, bridesmaid’s dresses, or liquor tickets. Come
with something, and leave with something else. We invite all manner of
on-the-spot engagements including but not limited to: DIY projects that
transform discarded materials in something beautiful, cool or useful;
showing people how to cut and paste code to make quick and dirty
websites or applications; strategies for revisioning experiences or
environments; workshops for recycling photographs, cassettes, CDs or
other technological or manufacturing detritus; conceptual detournement;
discussion or demonstration of interventionist practices relating to
performance, psychogeography or street art; collaborative drawing
events; experimentation with found materials; realtime mixing of
cameraphone pictures, text messages, video, photostreams or something
else; swaps, exchanges or tricked-out marketplace mods for circulating,
disseminating or evolving objects
ArtCamp is a self-organizing event that gear up in the form of a
collaborative wiki in the months and weeks leading up to the festival.
To look at last year’s wiki, visit http://artcamp.pbwiki.com
FILM
Deconstruction
Deconstruction looks to films made entirely out of sample based
material. Whether coming from a found art, archival, scratch video or
other mode of presentation, deconstruction looks to those works that
alter the reality of the original clips, creating new context through
the finished result. Works are encouraged from a wide range of sources
including poltical, pop-cultural, surreal, home-video, and the
internet.
MUSIC AND VISUALS SERIES
Scratch Video
Aiming to present a comprehensive look at the world of scratch-video,
one of the most prominent sub-genres of live video production and
interfacing, this night takes live video mixing/scratching under the
context of hip-hop/beat music production as its focus. Assembling
National and International artists, software developers, and
scenemakers, NFF07 affords a mash-up of sub-genres, styles, and
methods, picturing where this Form has been and where it is going.
Live movement within the image, movement, and sound is crucial to this
evening.
Cross-Pollination
Articulating the crossovers and variances between traditional
band/instrument structures and electronically-mediated production and
performance, this event allows audiences to see committed efforts on
both sides in order to facilitate cooperation and communication between
Forms. Cross-Pollination features 30-minute sets from bands, which are
sampled live and then restructured and remixed by a laptop/live p.a.
artist immediately thereafter, which effectively is a live remix. This
format encourages both artists and audience to stretch their
understanding and appreciation to the limit, as it lays bare both the
capabilities, but also inadequacies, of the Forms, while pushing both
all involved to further their skills and the scope of their art.
Electronic Heritage
Electronic music as a musical art form has been in existence for nearly
a century. From early modulating and noise creating machines like the
intonarumori to modern day audio computer software like ACID and Pro
Tools electronic musicians have been at the forefront of musical
innovation since its existence. 2007 will mark the 100th anniversary of
the first electronic instrument the teleharmonium. In celebration of
the birth of this now antique musical art form the New Forms Festival
would like to pay tribute to yesteryears electronic pioneers by
inviting contemporary electronic innovators to interpret their sound.
Electronic Heritage will invite artists to incorporate electronic
theories, instruments and samples from their electronic forefathers
into live performances that will both address the old and bridge the
new. This night will show where we’ve come from and where electronic
music is yet to go.
Manglification
Building off the success of the "Where We Are" and "Timestretch" nights
from the Low/Music & Visual Series of NFF05 & 06 respectively, Mangling
plans to showcase those at the forefront of modern dance culture and
its subsequent music production. These artists provide necessary
alternatives, reconsiderations, and subversions of the vast machine
that has occured as the music industry has overtaken branches of the
electronic music scene and its pop tangents. The event will complete
the spectrum of the modern club environment, pairing the music sets
with visual installations and live video performance.
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
New Forms has begun to work with Artist Run Centres in the city to
produce works specifically around the festival. The goals are to
create a maximum audience for these local artists works that might not
be available otherwise, and also to give these artists a forum to
display works in an international context. The first of these
partnerships will be with OFMAS (Open Forum Media Arts Society) for
2007. We will be contacting further Artist Run Centres in Vancouver
concerning this in the months ahead. The Residency Program is only
applicable to local artists and community projects are encouraged.
Please contact curatorial@newformsfestival.com for further information
on the program.
All submissions should be done through the online form at
www.newformsfestival.com, with accompanying material sent to:
New Forms Festival 06 / Transformations #200-252 East 1st Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C. V5T-1A6. Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2007. (No
Submissions arriving after April 1st will be accepted)
For any further information please email
submissions@newformsfestival.com.
