VISUALBERLIN AV NIGHT
Saturday, August 18
STEVE NALEPA (LA) - ambient glitch dub
MOGREENS (B) - broken downbeat grooves
RETURN OF THE SPACE INVADERS (B) - post retro audiovisuals
VJ SYNESTHETE (LA) - a visual sensory experience
=FF= (B) - narrative ego visuals
@ K:ITA - Weidenweg 44-46/Bersarin Platz, Berlin Friedrichshain
Start: 21:00 - Open End
Unkostenbeitrag: 5 EUR
LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass, glitchy breaks, bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful sinewave melodies to create his patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has performed at The Do Lab Stage at Coachella 2007, produced tracks with legends such as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, and shared a bill with Amon Tobin, Cut Chemist and DJ Spooky.
Todd, aka. VJ Synesthete from LA, comes from a post-production and documentary film making background. He spent a number of years working for Technicolor Creative Services and on documentary projects around the world. The growth of the American Rave Scene in the early nineties motivated Todd to expand his artistic repertoire by fusing video with music live in a club setting. Todd continues to bring cinematic influences to his work as a live performer. Todd draws from a wide range of cult cinema and motion graphics material to composite his live performances into a unique brew for consumption by a thirsty public parched by the desert of traditional media experiences.
RETURN OF THE SPACE INVADERS is all about remixing popculture. Taking the full depth of all AUDIOVISUAL media ever made since the arcade game spaceinvaders hit the market. RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS is NOT bleep, micro or tekno, it is called POST-RETRO. New technologies and self build software are ingredients to unique blendscape of different AUDIO/VISUAL mash-up styles and techniques. RETURNOFTHESPACEINVADERS has a audio visual performance where SYNCHRONIZED video and music are performed and jammed.
=ff= is a joint venture of the video artists fRED and Kiritan Flux from Berlin. Both share a cranky affinity towards pixilated and pixelated substance and appearance. They are permanently working on the communication between the visual artist and the obsever. The =ff= method to achieve this is presenting an exaggerated self glorification withing the narrative content of the shown short-films on screen and on stage at the same time. =ff= equip themselves with odd costumes, film each other and spontaneously interweave fictional actions and short narratives into their gonzo style perception of the local surrounding.
The K:ITA started on the first of June 2007 as a temporarily (and through this enduring) crossmedial art-project in Berlin at Bersarinplatz in Friedrichshain. A creative oasis with a garden and art-studios right in the heart of Berlin. 22 artists and groups from the Netherlands, France, USA, Italy, England, Australia, Germany… etc. join the “kitty” and work together for one year. In the former DDR - Kindergarden many different arts are collaborating: sound, video, lightdesign, fine arts, music, painting, sculpture, fashion, webdesign, performance, printing, dance, New Network Technology, photography. Most of the artists of the group already worked together in former exhibitions and events.
http://www.visualberlin.org
http://www.k-ita.de
http://stevenalepa.com/
http://www.synesthete.com/
http://www.returnofthespaceinvaders.com/
http://www.prototypen.com/blog/mogreens/
http://www.effeff.tv
