We are very happy to announce the Dutch premiere of our 12_series installation at the upcoming Flux/S festival in Eindhoven. The festival runs from september 9th until september 12th at the former Philips site STRIJP-S.

For more information on the festival click here.

Paul Prudence, the artist behind the fascinating blog dataisnature.com wrote kindly about our latest publication and installation 12_series. Read the entry here, and check out Paul’s work at www.transphormetic.com .

On thursday the 27th of May Sessions_03_rev03 will be screened at Filmhuis Lumen Delft, as part of the program Joost Rekveld presenteert 80 jaar Nederlandse abstracte films. The program features very special films, some are very seldom screened, like Keep on Turning (Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz), Gyromorphosis (Hy Hirsh) and Uit het Rijk der Kristallen (J.C. Mol, 1928!).

More information here .

We’ll be performing our live set Mortals Electric at the VIDEOEX festival, a festival for experimental film and video in Zürich, Swiss, on Saturday the 29th of May, at 22:30 in the Festivalzentrum Kunstraum Walcheturm.
On friday the 28th of May, at 20:15, Loudthings and Sessions_03_rev03 are screened as part of the program Visual Music from the Netherlands, curated and presented by Joost Rekveld.

More information here and here.

“From an eight-legged seductress to a piano playing chess: experimental film is very different to what it was a few years ago. […] New makers have appeared with new strategies.” That is the opening sentence of film³ [kyü-bik film] the book that accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.

Through eleven in-depth interviews Anna Abrahams, filmmaker and head of our Dutch distribution office Filmbank, spotlights young Holland based filmmakers and visual artists who have enriched or renewed the language of film, who see outside the framework of the flat cinema screen and add an extra dimension to the presentation of their work.

Films are increasingly screened outside cinemas which is leading to the development of a new cinematic language. The ‘cubic films’ by the new generation of film artists are made to walk around or are augmented by live music or performance art. Cubic film is too arty for the cinemas and too cinematic for museums. How do filmmakers manifest themselves in this era of YouTube and Flickr? How do they use the latest computer technology in their work?

For more information on the book click here.

The Optofonica DVD, published by 12k’s offshoot Line, presents immersive environments created by 42 artists from 13 different countries, inciting a unique multi-sensory awareness of both physical and mental (imagined) space.

Some works directly examine the slipping contours of kinetic phenomena, involving magnetism (Kanta Horio), fluid dynamics (Skoltz Kolgen), or acoustic levitation (Domnitch/Gelfand/Chartier). Others have invented an impossible phantom spatiality, stemming, for example, from brain wave interference (Ulf Langheinrich) or stereoscopically rendered interferential video signals (Bas van Koolwijk). All the pieces entail a search for hidden, transitory spaces that crosswire the perceptual spectrum.

After being presented worldwide (Sonic Acts, Elektra, Sonar, Nemo…) in the form of Surround Cinema as well as in the Optofonica Capsule (a tactile audio installation), this body of work, spanning 3 years, has been painstakingly archived, preserving as much as possible the intricacies of each composition.

For more information on the DVD click here.

The result of a technological malfunction, the visual glitch is generally an unwelcome visitor—a digital artifact representing error. But when viewed in their own right, seemingly randomized visual abstractions become fascinating designs that represent a unique hybrid of human intention and mechanical failure.

Recently released by Mark Batty Publishers, Glitch: Designing Imperfection, examines these errors as works of art and explores their origins. The editors culled more than 200 glitch images from the various artists who created them, both by accident and experiment. The striking visuals are interspersed with interviews conducted with artists Angela Lorenz, Johnny Rogers, Kim Cascone, Ant Scott and O.K. Parking. Glitch also leads off with particularly illuminating essays by Norwegian artist Per Platou and designer/author Iman Moradi.

For more information on this publication click here.

On Sunday the 2nd of May, 19:15, at the Filmmuseum in the Amsterdam Vondelpark, our 5.1 surround Live Cinema performance Mortals Electric will mark the final evening of the film³ [kyü-bik film] exhibition, an exhibition that shows work by a new generation of Holland based experimental film makers, at various locations in the Westerpark.
We were allowed to pick three gems from the archive of the Filmmuseum, three short films to show before our live performance: Ray Eames’ A communications primer (USA-1953), James Whitney’s High voltage (USA-1957) and Willem Bon’s Is er overeenkomst tusschen klank, rhythme en kleurafwisseling? (Are there resemblances between sound, rhythm and color changes?) (NL-1932).

For more information on our performance click here.
For more information on the exhibition click here.

Marco Mancuso just published an interview with us on 12_series in Digicult, an online/offline Italian platform, created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society.

For the English version of the interview click here, for the Italian version click here.

We just finished a book with DVD to honor the 12_series installation we made last year. The book contains writings on the installation by Murray Horne, Joost Rekveld and Arie Altena and is richly illustrated.

More information on the publication and a paypal button can be found find here.