FIBER presents audiovisual art at SPEKTRUM (Berlin) on January 23 & 24, 2016

A cultural exchange between Dutch and German artists

As part of CTM/Transmediale Vorspiel 2016, Amsterdam based FIBER presents a collaborative two day programme at SPEKTRUM with audiovisual performances, an artistic meetup and a screening programme. The event is co-created with LIMA, Berlin based Retune and SPEKTRUM’s local communities. This cultural exchange is part of an ongoing research trajectory to setup an artistic production network for emerging artists between European festivals.

On Saturday night, January 23, 2016, FIBER presents two audiovisual performances by upcoming Dutch artists Zeno van den Broek and Mark Ijzerman. The former explores the tension between space and sound, while the latter presents a research into the performative and material qualities of tape loops. Prior to the audiovisual performance evening, there will be a meetup during the day that brings together practitioners in the field of performative & immersive art, which is co-hosted with Retune. The goal of this collaboration is to create a day of exchange, communication and collaboration between actors using similar platforms and tools.

The programme continues on Sunday evening, January 24, with a screening programme of video art, digital and performance artworks. For this special occasion FIBER collaborates with LIMA, the international platform for sustainable access to media art, and made a selection of video’s taken from LIMA’s extensive historical archive.

Central to the Vorspiel programme is the exchange of network and knowledge between various artistic practitioners who are operating within the domains of live cinema, performative installation art and immersive performances.

Our programme will take place in the same weekend SPEKTRUM invites the iii collective from The Hague that will present a programme on Friday.

FIBER at SPEKTRUM has been made possible with the generous support of the Creative Industry Fund NL.


DATES & PROGRAMME

FIBER presents: Audiovisual performance evening
Date: Saturday 23 January 2016 (evening, exact times tbc)
Location: SPEKTRUM | Bürknerstraße 12 12047, Berlin, Germany
Tickets: More info soon

FIBER presents the work of two emerging Dutch audiovisual performers.
- Zeno van de Broek [NL] - “Divergence” - audiovisual live performance
- Mark IJzerman [NL] - Tape loop performance

FIBER & Retune present: Performative & Immersive Art Meetup
Date: Saturday 23 January 2016 (day time, exact times tbc)
Location: SPEKTRUM | Bürknerstraße 12 12047, Berlin, Germany
Tickets: Free accessible

FIBER & Retune combine their forces and network to bring together artists from different backgrounds and communities. These artists are working with a wide range of digital tools and softwares to create audiovisual performances and interactive installations with an immersive component. The work of these artists distinguishes itself mostly by its audio or visual quality and/or its artistic aesthetics.

Participants:
- Robin Koek (NL) - http://www.robinkoek.nl
- Bram Snijders (DEFRAME, NL) - http://www.deframe.nl
- Mark IJzerman (NL) - http://markijzerman.com/
- Zeno van den Broek (NL) - http://www.zenovandenbroek.com/
- Mariska de Groot (NL) - http://mariskadegroot.com/ | http://iiinitiative.org/
- Michael Burk (DE) - http://www.michael-burk.de/
- Rainer Kohlberger (DE) - http://kohlberger.net
- Raphaël de Courville (FR / DE) - http://cargocollective.com/raphaeldecourville
- More names to be announced

FIBER presents: The LIMA Collection (screening programme)
Date: Sunday 24 January 2016 (evening, exact times tbc)
Location: SPEKTRUM | Bürknerstraße 12 12047, Berlin, Germany
Tickets: More info soo

Media art – what is that exactly? At the very least the history of media art embraces the histories of performance art, cinema, activism and medium specificity – four major themes that recur frequently and in many guises. The LIMA Collection includes of all of these histories, with installations, videos, performances and born-digital artworks dating from the 1970s to the present day.


BACKGROUND INFO

RETUNE
Retune is a network and event series focussed on the intersection of art, design and new technologies.
More info: http://retune.de

SPEKTRUM
SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks, science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle “do-it-together-with-others”. Above all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical understanding.
More info: http://spektrumberlin.de