Intermission: Who is Miss Roder?

Description

Xenosine creates a situation whereby anarchic and defunct technologies democratically combines analogue debris and signal feedback. The result is an extreme environment of heavy voltage sensory stimulation.

Media

Synthesizers, drum machines, feedback loops, no-input mixer

Biography

Vijay Thillaimuthu is an experimental musician/filmmaker that has his roots in free jazz improvisation and esoteric analogue electronics. In 2006 his film Untitled premiered at ACMI and was shown as an installation at the Melbourne Museum. He has worked with Isaac Under the Blade a free improv. group heavily influenced by the German-based Kosmiche Music scene. He also played with Francis Plagne, an artist that works on the fusion of music concréte and popular music. Vijay Thillaimuthu is currently studying Sound and Media Arts at RMIT University.

URL

http://www.xenosine.com

Description

A stilted conversation between two people that dwells on the unforgettable and the banal. Using three laptops SONE gradually manipulate both sound and image to explore fractured narratives, and the language of the unsaid.

Media

Custom/networked software environment, DV Cam, surveillance cameras

Biography

SONE is an experimental Performative Sound and Image act from Melbourne, Australia. Their work is almost film, and nearly sound-scape, with narrative woven within the silent and still moments. They utilise their own field recordings to construct each scene in the time-space of the performance.

URL

http://virb.com/sone

Description

Inside the Outside is a three screen, gesture and sound poetry performance. It extends the concerns of Traum A Dream (Australia 2003) into the immediacy of the performance situation. Traum A Dream has been described as "A representation of traumatised space, depicting a person who is consumed by a body of pain" and enlists the strategies of Direct Cinema, punk and Artaud's 'cruel' performance.

Media

16mm film, live performance

Biography

Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation works over the last 35 years. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta). He has curated various programs of film and video art internationally and written extensively about this area of arts practice. Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt in 2004, at Otherfilm Brisbane in 2007 and at Anthology Film Archives New York in June 2008. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria. (Burwood Campus).

Sophie Brous is an award winning young vocalist, composer and broadcaster. She undertook scholarship study at the New England Conservatory, Boston, and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and is a law student at Monash University. At 22, Sophie has been the recipient of many awards, including the James Morrison Scholarship, International Jazz Singing Competition (2nd prize), and finalist in the National Jazz Awards, London International Jazz Competition and Melbourne Music Prize. Sophie is the founder of the Mash Out creative music series and Yamaha Felt Hammer Festival and hosts Dance Cadaverous, a weekly radio show on Triple R.

URL

http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/debruyn_films.html

Description

Using a short segment of the popular 1970s American television show M*A*S*H as its foundation, this double-projection performance employs a variety of 16mm film loops, hand-built electronics, prismatic lenses, and analog components to create an audiovisual feedback loop that edges steadily towards the phenomenological. With echoes of Tony Conrad's The Flicker and William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and derived in part from a collaborative performance between Russell and avant-musician Joe Grimm, THE AMERICAN WAR (#10) seeks to interogate the inexplicably human impulse towards violence via the abstracted field of bodily experience.

Media

16mm film, vocoder, live narration

Biography

Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator, and experimental film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East India Trading Co. buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats, Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art (solo).  He has made films about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the exploration of Easter Island, the divining powers of Richard Pryor, and the end of the world.  A Guggenheim award recipient, Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, and he currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

URL

http://dimeshow.com

Description

Handmade 16mm projector extrapolation/exploration; chaotic distortions of optical mechanical and photochemical processes. Unhinged and impressionistic Foley, sound effects and cracked electro-acoustics.

Not Still Life, 8 mins. Live three colour-separation experiments, antique portraiture filmed and projected through green, red and blue filters, the footage converging on a single portrait-format screen

Face of an Other, 5 mins. Obsessions with horror manifest as phantasmagoric projections onto the filmmakers own body

Bloodless Landscape/Johnny’s Ghost, 8 mins. From a pile of blank, discarded 16mm film leader, photographic images begin to haunt an otherwise desolate film space.

Media

16mm film, lenses, cracked electro-acoustic processing, sound effects

Biography

Abject Leader is the ongoing expanded cinema collaboration of film artist Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern. In an era of digital proliferation, Abject Leader defiantly foregrounds the analogue, the handmade, the photo-chemical and the acoustical. Abject Leader have performed at New Zealand Film Festival, the Now now, What is Music?, Liquid Architecture, OtherFilm Festival, Articulating Space, Wagga Space Program, Madcat San Francisco, on a moving train, in Toowoomba, and many places in between. Sally and Joel, along with Danni Zuvela, direct OtherFilm, a Brisbane-based collective dedicated to film art and expanded cinema, which has staged three major festivals and countless events through Australia.

URL

http://www.abjectleader.org/

Description

An opportunity to witness the ongoing works of Guy Sherwin, one of the worlds leading practitioners of expanded/performed cinema. The program features illusionist constructions and multi-screen works. His performances are characterised by an enduring concern with light and time as the fundamentals of cinema.

Vowels & Consonants 2005-8, six 16mm projectors, optical sound
and voice. 15 min

Cycles #3 1972/2003, two 16mm projectors and optical sound. 9 min

Railings 1977 (for vertical 16mm projection) 8 min (or) Soundtrack 1977 |(2008) 16mm anamorphic. 8min

Bay Bridge From Embarcadero 2002/07, three 16mm projectors,
silent. 10 min

Man with Mirror 1976/2008, super 8 projector and mirrored screen. 8 min

Media

16mm film, 8mm film, prepared screens, optical sound, live performance

Biography

UK film artist Guy Sherwin taught printing and processing at the London Filmmaker's Co-op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films have been widely exhibited in England and abroad, as part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4; also shown on BBC2, Channel 4 and Arte TV France. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX London, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Image Forum Tokyo.

URL

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/index.html

Description

The Feast is a sonification of an awkward situation in which two people eat dinner and discuss a problem. As the waiter conducts his service, their discomfort is heightened through his nervousness, and the soundscape composed from the audio reactive dinner setting. This stark, sterile scene is observed through Jon Pak’s contemporary programming techniques, resulting in an image that intensifies the bodily movements of the diners. The Feast places contemporary movement and generative sound aesthetics in one harmonious render of screen and scene.

Media

Live performance, GLS Shaders, twelve channel audio sampling

Biographies

Jon Pak, Composer, Programmer

Jonathan Pak is an Australian based electronic musician, new media artist and technology innovator currently interested in humanising technology to create interactive art through intuitive hardware and software design. In 2006 he created The Light Matrix Interface for musical performance subsequently presented at NIME '06. Jon performs electronic music regularly in both solo and collaborative work including performances at the Melbourne International Arts Festival (2007).

Danelle Lee, Performer, Choreographer

From the UK, Danelle completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Manchester Metropolitan University in Dance, Drama and Writing in 2003, she also assisted in creating Film Noir a contemporary theatre performance piece at Live 03’ held at the Manchester Green room. In 2004 Danelle became the tour and stage manager for Fever Productions in Sydney. She completed the Post- Graduate Diploma course in Choreography at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) 2006. She participated in John Cage's 'Musicircus' held during the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival. She spent a two week creative development workshop with Brian Lucas during 'Learning Curve' held and supported by Dancehouse. Following this she completed her Masters in Choreography at VCA which saw the completion of her 50 min physical theatre performance "Now With Feeling, Pt 2".

Andrew Gray, Performer

Andrew is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Acting program and has furthered his studies in New York at the Michael Howard Acting Studio and with Ruth Zaporah's Action Theatre. He is also a qualified Feldenrais Movement practitioner, a freelance actor in the Melbourne theatre community and a founding member of the improvisation troupe, Five Square Metres. Andrew's teaching credits include the National Theatre Acting program, Victorian College of the Arts Drama School, Victoria University Performing Arts Program, Deakin University Dance Program as well as freelance teaching in schools, drama associations and public and corporate workshops for Melbourne Playback Theatre. Andrew is also a Graduate of the (2006) Directing Course VCA which included his production of "La Musica". His recent directorial productions include "The Winterling" Jez Butterworth (2007) with Red Stitch Theatre Ensemble and currently "Three Dog Night" by Peter Goldsworthy showing at 45 Downstairs.

Dean Keep, The waiter

Dean Keep is a filmmaker/visual artist working with new media technologies and digital narratives. Dean has recently exhibited video and photographic work at the Queensland Centre for Photography. He is also a tutor in creative media at RMIT University, where he is completing a research degree in interactive media. His current project "Spatial Threshold" is a networked video installation which explores representation in virtual spaces.

Bee Amuludun, Producer

London born Bee is a ‘can-do’ creative producer. His active love of music and the arts has spanned over thirteen years starting in his hometown, then onto Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. In the early days Bee was active in the underground music scene as promoter and events producer. In 1997 Bee managed the venue Babushka in London, where he staged music, performance and installation art. In Australia Bee has focused on the performative with interests in digital media, contemporary dance, experimental music and fashion theatre. In December 2006 Bee completed a graduate diploma in Dramatic Arts Event Production & Management at the VCA, Melbourne. He is currently co-producing Someones.com an exciting new media arts platform that has an online presence, with exhibitive and performative components.

Hair & Make Up by Rose & Jazz @ Monxlove, Richmond
Danelle dressed by alexifreeman.com
Andrew dressed by Cose, South Yarra

Set and props kindly supplied by
Angus Antique & Estate Furniture, Richmond
The Salvation Army Family Stores
Cafe Orange, Windsor
volkerhaug.com Lighting

Description

Are negative comments being made about you? Do you worry about being observed or followed? Do you think that someone has it in for you? Do you worry that there is a conspiracy to harm you? Are there coded messages about you in the media? Do you think that others might control your actions and thoughts? Psychological research shows that in recent years a significant number of people report that they have experiences and thoughts that might be described as ‘paranoid’.  In this performance Steven Ball will excavate and articulate reported fears, anxieties, and the often all-too-real experiences.

If you would like to contribute your fears, anxieties and experiences please visit:
http://www.steven-ball.net/personalelectronics All contributors remain anonymous.

Media

Digital found footage, live narration

Biography

Steven Ball has worked in film, video, sound and installation since the early 1980s.  In the late 1980s he accidentally migrated to Melbourne, Australia.  There he continued his practice making a number of film, video and sound and installation works, as well as being engaged in various arts activist, curatorial, administrative, teaching and writing activities.  Since returning to the UK in 2000 he has worked predominantly with digital video, producing a series of works, which among other things, have been particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation.  More recently he has been developing these concerns through live video performance in collaboration with Martin Blazicek (Czech Republic) and as Storm Bugs with Philip Sanderson. He is currently Research Fellow at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and has also been engaged in developing exhibition strategies through regular monthly screenings through 2006-7 with cogcollective.

URL

http://www.steven-ball.net

Description

Botborg is a practical demonstration of the theories of Dr Arkady Botborger (1923-81), founder of the 'occult' science of Photosonicneurokineasthography—translated as "writing the movement of nerves through use of sound and light". Botborg’s ‘instrument’ is the Photosonicneurokineasthograph - a complex feedback machine incorporating an entangled mix of new and old technologies, which is then altered and customized to the unique features of every venue. Although the human operators of Botborg are skilled manipulators of the system, it is equally unpredictable and uncontrollable, allowing Botborg to look and sound vastly different on every occasion. All demonstrations are completely improvised and no source material is used outside the Photosonicneurokineasthograph.

Media

Feedback electronics

URL

http://www.botborg.com/