What does it mean to practise resilience and regeneration within digital societies? How does this relate to art, design and cultural works? Artists, designers, coders, activists and researchers working in, and beyond computation and network technology are invited to join the free symposium Practices of Digital Resilience & Permacomputing on December 2, at Tolhuistuin. The programme will explore permacomputing, inspired by the principles of permaculture, and related fields of expertise.
A selection of speakers will offer different perspectives on countering the extractive and harmful nature of big-tech technologies and how they translate their principles into work. What room is there for tech in a world where humans actively contribute to the well-being of the biosphere? How can we actively change our relationship with technology? This one-day meeting place is hosted by digital culture platform FIBER, the Unsustainable Research Group of the Willem de Kooning Academy and members of a growing permacomputing community.
As our reliance on digital technology and network infrastructures deepens, the pressing issue of the environmental impact of our digital lives is gaining prominence. In a time where computing equals huge amounts of industrial waste and various forms of extraction, permacomputing encourages the maximising of hardware lifespans, minimising e-waste and energy use, supporting energy literacy, and focusing on the use of already available computational resources. It’s exploring good relations with the Earth by learning from ecological systems and experimenting with new ways of ecological-driven computation and aesthetics.
The symposium Practices of Digital Resilience & Permacomputing aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue through artistic research and the exchange of knowledge with neighbouring communities, like free software activism, solar punk and art/design making use of electronics recycling. Today, all these groups form a decentralised and multifaceted critique that materialises itself in new practices, and tries to make itself heard.
The symposium will also provide insights to makers & thinkers how to transform their own practice. It welcomes newcomers, professionals and students working at the intersections of art, design, critical infrastructure studies, data studies, new media studies, and informatics, who seek to enhance their understanding of the intricate connections between technology, society, and the environment through collaborative exploration.
SPEAKERS
Marloes de Valk (NL), Marie Verdeil (BE), Sunjoo Lee (NL), Raaf (Unbinare, BE), Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij (Varia, NL) en Michal Klodner (CZ) | Moderators: Shailoh Phillips (NL) & Abdo Hassan (NL)
Marloes de Valk (NL) is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. De Valk is looking into the material impact of the networked image on the climate crisis and a rich diversity of practices that aim at a lower environmental footprint of information technology.
Marie Verdeil (BE) is a French designer based in Bruxelles who works with empirical and empathic research, which often results in creating tools, methods or experiences. She uses hacks and subversion in an attempt to shift our relationship with technology and draw attention to the ever growing resources involved in its production.
Sunjoo Lee (NL) is a media artist based in the Netherlands. Lee makes tools, sensory robots that respond to the environment, and video art installations, combining technology and ecology, among other things. Her works often explore topics such as; technology for more-than-humans, emergence, biomimicry, permacomputing and future forms of symbiosis.
Unbinare (BE) Raaf is an anarchist, hacker and reverse engineer. In 2020 they founded Unbinare, an e-waste reverse engineering laboratory which aims to reduce the increase of e-waste by finding ways to repurpose discarded electronic devices. Unbinare operates from an anarchist context and considers their research to be a form of direct action to counter state and corporate control of the environment. Prior to founding Unbinare, Raaf has been an artist, composer, architectural designer, security consultant and hardware security researcher.
Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij (Varia, NL) is a software developer, member of varia, radio DJ, and digital hoarder. His practice combines alternative and situational software with amateur electronic engineering. Currently this revolves around topics of computational frugality, divisions of (non)meticulous labour and the practicality ignored within politics of repairability. varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative and space for developing collective approaches around everyday technology, through maintaining and facilitating a collective infrastructure. At its core, varia aims to develop critical insights into the technologies around us. Varia experiments with different instruments and tools to develop physical and digital infrastructures in a collective way.
Michal Klodner (CZ) is moving from the field of audiovisual live performances and experimental film to forest gardening, building livinglab and back. With a background in information science and coding, he was among the founders and currently a curator of node9.org digital community server and online gallery. His practice involves writing on online activism, digital curation or postmediality, as part of creating networks based on trust in those fields. In the recent projects on the role of artistic research in sustainability he goes into computational aspects of media art in relation to ecosystems and more than human natureculture communities, trying to develop livinglab as an interdisciplinary method of nondestructive living-research in nature and wilderness.
PRACTICAL INFO
Symposium: Practices of Digital Resilience & Permacomputing
Date: Saturday December 2
Location: Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam | Room: Zonzij
Time: 12:00 - 17:00 | Drinks: 17:00 - 18:00
More info symposium on our website.
Tickets: Free (donations) | Registration here.
ABOUT THE LAB
The symposium is part of the Practising Permacomputing Lab; a series of workshops and research activities happening in autumn and winter of 2023. This FIBER Lab programme aims to reimagine, rebuild, and rewild our approach to computation, culture, and aesthetics. It’s part of the FIBER’s yearly Reassemble Lab series, which takes place between the annual FIBER Festivals and establishes connections between the arts, creative industry and science. Inviting makers and thinkers to develop knowledge, expand their network and work in relation to pressing societal issues. More information about the workshops can be found here.
ABOUT FIBER & PARTNERS
FIBER is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary platform and festival presenting new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and experimental electronic music. Aymeric Mansoux is part of the The Unsustainable Research Group of the Willem de Kooning Academy. He’s an artist, musician and media researcher, with a background in economics, fine art, graphic design, and computer programming. Organising members of the permacomputing community: Ola Bonati, Lukas Engelhardt, Michal Klodner, Brendan Howell.
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]]>Opening: Wednesday 10 May, 5 PM - 12 AM
Curator: Jarl Schulp
Part of: 8th edition of FIBER Festival
Participating artistsChristine Hvidt (DK/NL) | Erik Peters (NL) | Félix Luque Sanchez (BE) | Jan Christian Schulz (DE/NL) | Josèfa Ntjam (FR) | Myles Merckel (UK/NL) | Ralf Baecker (DE) | Sébastien Robert (FR/NL) | Tianzhuo Chen (CN).
Artworks on displayBiological_data_transmission (2022), Myles Merckel | Dislocation (2022), Josèfa Ntjam | Edaphon (2023), Christine Hvidt | Perpétuité I (2021) Félix Luque Sanchez | Prosthetic Sensorium (2022), Jan Christian Schulz | The Dust (2021), Tianzhuo Chen | The Lights Which Can Be Heard (2022), Sébastien Robert | Xenofossils (2022-2023), Erik Peters (NL) | Floating Codes (2022), Ralf Baecker (DE)
As part of the international FIBER Festival 2023, the Amsterdam based art, performance and electronic music festival proudly presents the exhibition Fragments at the brand new cultural hub Door Open Space. The unique 3000 m2 warehouse recently opened to the public and provides a space for experimentation for interdisciplinary art in the quickly gentrifying NDSM area. Spread out over three spaces visitors can explore the works of nine artists, including four works that will be presented in The Netherlands for the first time. The exhibition Fragments is on show from May 11 to 14 and the opening is free to attend for the general public on Wednesday 10 May, at 5 PM.
Exhibition theme: FragmentsAt the dawn of the 21st century, Western civilization is being forced to accept the reality that we will never have a complete understanding of the world in which we live. The more we attempt to measure, calculate, and control using binary reasoning, the more this mode of existence disintegrates within unbounded earthly realities. As the Cartesian way of categorising the world around us continues to fall short, what are the fragmented realities we can move towards? What can we (re)learn if we perceive with different ears and instruments?
The exhibition Fragments invites you to navigate between nine works by artists who challenge our perspective on our surroundings, identities, beliefs, and interactions with non-human actors. The works carry a duality between something falling apart while simultaneously offering a chance to rearrange and explore new compositions. The artists use a wide variety of artistic instruments, sonic storytelling, and mystical world-building as inspiring and critical media, inviting us to discover our environments in new ways. Throughout all the works, the function of an instrument, tool, or object is explored, and the realities that can be manifested through their designs are examined. From the sonification of millions of invisible living particles travelling with the earth’s winds, to an encounter with the symbiotic voice(s) of
coral that questions dualisms of artificial and natural, and to opaque artificial intelligence systems that, presented within a spatial instrument, now come to life with an organic-like behaviour.
About the worksOne of the works out of the exhibition is Floating Codes (2022) by Ralf Baecker (DE). Floating Codes (2022) is a site-specific light and sound installation, exploring the inner structure and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks; the way computer systems learn, recognise patterns and reproduce them. Within the installation, visitors explore the centre of an artificial neural network’s computational dialog. Once the system is activated, the exhibition space becomes immersed in constantly shifting visual and audible pulses.
Opening hours- Wed 10/5 Exhibition Opening - 17:00—00:00 (Free entry)
Opening talk & artist interview: 18:00
- Thu 11/5 13:00—22:00
- Fri 12/5 10:00—22:30
- Sat 13/5 10:00—22:30
- Sun 14/5 10.00—17:00
Location: Door Open Space, Tt. Vasumweg 31, Amsterdam
More about FIBER FestivalFrom 11 to 14 May 2023, the Amsterdam based FIBER Festival returns with a four-day multi-sensory festival programme spread over unique indoor locations in Amsterdam – the majestic Concertgebouw, the vibrant Oedipus Brewing, music & audiovisual performances at the new industrial venue Noordwaards and a club night at Garage Noord. The festival exhibition will ground itself in the industrial sheds of Door Open Space and the two-day festival symposium takes place at De Brakke Grond.
Artists festival programmeABADIR (Live) / Aimée-Thierot Ramos (Live) / Aleksandra Słyż, Judith Hamann & Gerard Lebik (Live) / Alliyah Enyo (Live) / Assyouti (DJ) / Happy New Tears (DJ) / Hüma Utku presents The Psychologist (Live AV) / Katarina Gryvul & Alex Guevara (Live AV) / Know V.A. (DJ) / LCY (DJ) / Mbodj (DJ) / Monster (DJ) / Perila (Live) / Puce Mary (Live) / Shoal & Orah present Terugblik (Live AV) / Signal Transmutations (Spekki Webu & Matti Vilho) (Live AV) / Teqmun (DJ) / Vox supreme (DJ)
Symposium & EducationBesides a Music, Performances & Club programme and exhibition, FIBER Festival offers unique learning opportunities for both students and professionals, or anyone interested in the making processes behind audiovisual art. Join us at the De Brakke Grond for our two-day symposium exploring the groundbreaking work and visions of artists and researchers who shift our understanding of reality. Through engaging lectures, panel discussions, and listening sessions, FIBER delves into the urgent developments in art, technology, and ecology. Are you not able to attend in real life? Attending a live stream of the symposium is also possible. Online tickets are now on sale.
SpeakersSymposium: Aditi Srivastava (Lecture) / Aimée Theriot-Ramos (Lecture) / Alice Yuan Zhang (Lecture) / Helen V. Pritchard (Lecture) / Jordan Edge (Lecture) / Maria Muehombo - M I M I (Lecture) / Sean Cubitt (Lecture) / Studio Above&Below (Lecture) / Toby Kiers | SPUN (Lecture)
Audiovisual Art Assembly: Andreas Tegnander (Talk) / Anticiplay | Joost Vervoort (Talk) / Mathilde Renault (Talk) / Pim Boreel (Talk) / Sophia Bulgakova & Leo Scarin (more TBA)
Get your tickets via www.fiberfestival.nl. FIBER offers both Passe-partouts as single event tickets.
Venues & programme- Het Concertgebouw | Opening Concert | Thursday 11 May | 8 - 11 PM
- Noordwaards | Music & Performance | Friday 12 May | 9 PM - 5 AM
- Garage Noord | Club Night | Saturday 13 May | 11 PM - 8 AM
- Oedipus Brewing | Audiovisual Art Assembly | Friday 12 May | 11 AM - 5 PM Public programme: 5 - 9 PM
- De Brakke Grond | Symposium | Saturday 13 May & Sunday 14 May | 12 - 6 PM
- Door Open Space | Exhibition | Thursday 11 May to Sunday 14 May.
Exhibition opening: Wednesday 10 May, 5 PM - 12 AM
Event informationTickets: now on sale
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]]>From 11 to 14 May 2023, the Amsterdam based FIBER Festival returns with a four-day multi-sensory festival programme spread over unique indoor locations in Amsterdam - the majestic Concertgebouw, the vibrant Oedipus Brewing, music & performances at the new industrial venue Noordwaards and a clubnight at Garage Noord. The two-day festival symposium takes place at the Flemish cultural centre De Brakke Grond and the festival exhibition will ground itself in the industrial sheds of the recently opened Door Open Space. What to expect? A wide selection of new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and the experimental and deeper corners of electronic music by both international artists as emerging talents.
During this edition, FIBER explores the theme of Fragments. Carrying a duality between something falling apart while simultaneously offering a chance to rearrange and explore new compositions. Fragments invites visitors to reassemble a new understanding of our surroundings and identities, using different acts of listening, music, sound, sonic speculation, and magical worldbuilding as inspiring and critical media.
What new languages and thoughts arise from amplifying and listening to non-human forms of communication, from AI to animal entities? As we see the cartesian way of classifying the worlds around us fall short, what new realities should we, and can we, still construct? What voices have been pushed into the background while shaping a dominant view of history and the present? In times of crisis, can (not) listening create a resilient state or move us to act? Fragments acts as a collection of lenses, frequencies, vectors and objects through which we explore contemporary developments in art, music, technology, and ecology – all in relation to a technologically-disorientated human mind and precarious state of the world due to climate collapse.
The programmeThe first names on the 2023 line-up are released. During the kick-off of FIBER Festival on Thursday 11 May at Concertgebouw, Entrée and FIBER present an evening concert where classical and electronic music meet. Het Concertgebouw is considered one of the most important concert halls in the world due to its unparalleled acoustics and broad, high-quality programming. Alliyah Enyo (Live) will use sound as a meditative medium to embrace the power of rituals. Composer and performer Aleksandra Słyż (Live) – accompanied by cellist Judith Hamann and saxophonist Gerard Lebik – will play an extended version of her piece ‘Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage’. When listening closely to Perila (Live) her soothing sounds, you will discover a world built out of many sonic fragments gathered from field recordings.
On Friday evening 12 May at Noordwaards, breakthrough artist ABADIR (Live) will host a powerful live-performance in which Arabic rhythms are merged together with influences from Jungle, Jersey Club, Reggaeton and Footwork. FIBER is honoured to co-present the premiere of Terugblik (Live AV) by Shoal & Orah – in collaboration with The Something Something, an audiovisual collaboration themed on looking back whilst creating the new. Signal Transmutations (Live AV) is a new mind-expanding project by Spekki Webu and Matti Vilho, which explores the questions of reincarnation by travelling through tribalistic transmissions. Hüma Utku will present her audiovisual performance The Psychologist (Live AV), using harmonious noise and harsh ritualistic rhythms as tools for storytelling.
On Saturday 13 May, FIBER and Garage Noord will join forces again for the festival club night. Assyouti (DJ) will surprise the audience with hyper-rhythms and noisy energy. Drawing inspiration from lore, speculative fiction, and literature, LCY (DJ) operates between dancefloor-oriented sets, sonic worldbuilding and experimental ambient releases. Mbodj (DJ) mixes different contemporary African genres together, resulting in a melting pot of experimental sounds, breaks, dancehall and bass. Amsterdam based Teqmun (DJ) brings his surprising sound, which balances between crisp organic textures and snappy driving drums. Happy New Tears (DJ) invites dancers to dissolve into her sonic world while creating a melancholic atmosphere. Monster (DJ) will play a euphoric and energetic set, combining old-school trance, breaks, techno and house with acid More names will be added!
On Saturday 13 May and Sunday 14 May FIBER returns with its two-day festival symposium, which offers visitors the chance to learn about urgent technological and ecological developments. During this programme, artist and performer Jordan Edge (Lecture) will roleplay a new understanding of hybrid species, non-human and queer/trans sonic narratives through multidisciplinary performance experiences. Media theorist and writer Sean Cubitt (Lecture) will give a keynote lecture on (among other things) his upcoming book Truth, about ecocritical approaches to media and society. Dr. Toby Kiers | SPUN (Lecture) introduces the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks; a science-based initiative dedicated to mapping and protecting Earth's underground mycorrhizal networks. Helen V. Pritchard (Lecture) their work addresses how computation and environmental practices configure the possibilities for life—or who gets to have a life—in intimate and significant ways. This is only the start, more to come!
The line-up for the Audiovisual Art Assembly and the festival exhibition will be announced within the coming weeks. The Audiovisual Art Assembly is a one-day programme on Friday 12 May at Oedipus Brewing, in which professionals and students will explore the boundaries of and the unique making processes behind audiovisual art. The festival exhibition will open on Wednesday 10 May and will be open for visitors during the festival in the 3000m2 big Door Open Space, showcasing new hybrid artworks by both leading and emerging artists.
With the 8th festival edition, FIBER invites you to fast-forward, skip through, or slow down with a programme of audiovisual art, sonic encounters, digital creativity, and daring conversations. Join FIBER Festival: Fragments from 11 to 14 May 2023 to meet a generation of artistic makers and thinkers who help ground us in the realities of our present and futures. Get your tickets via www.fiberfestival.nl. FIBER offers both passe-partouts as single event tickets.
Venues & programmeConcertgebouw | Opening Concert | Thursday 11 May | 8 - 11 PM
Noordwaards | Music & Performance | Friday 12 May | 9 PM - 5 AM
Garage Noord | Club Night | Saturday 13 May | 11 PM - 8 AM
Oedipus Brewing | Audiovisual Art Assembly | Friday 12 May | 11 AM - 5 PMPublic programme: 5 - 9 PM
De Brakke Grond | Symposium | Saturday 13 May & Sunday 14 May | 12 - 6 PM
Door Open Space | Exhibition | Thursday 11 May to Sunday 14 May | View www.fiberfestival.nl for the opening times. Exhibition opening: Wednesday 10 May, 5 PM - 12 AM
Event informationTickets: now on sale
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About FIBER FestivalSince its first edition in 2011 at club Trouw Amsterdam, FIBER brought together visual culture, electronic music and club culture. The festival builds bridges between art/music lovers, newcomers and an international programme of artistic makers, critical researchers, creative coders, DJs and live performers. Together, they experience the latest developments in digital culture and electronic music, with a special attention to emerging talent. FIBER Festival acts as a meeting place, while giving visitors tools to interface with our rapidly changing world. Through lectures, artist talks and interviews – that form the in-depth programme behind all art installations and music/performance programmes – FIBER focuses on the impact of technology on humans, and how technological developments are intertwined with the ecological reality of our planet.
]]>From 11 to 14 May 2023, the Amsterdam based FIBER Festival returns with a four-day multi-sensory festival programme spread over unique indoor locations in Amsterdam; from the majestic Concertgebouw to the industrial sheds of the recently opened Door Open Space. What to expect? An eventful programme including audiovisual performances, electronic music, a club night, a two-day symposium on art in relation to pressing technological and ecological issues and a four-day exhibition showcasing both installations and video art. In addition to the public programme, the second edition of the Audiovisual Art Assembly will take place; a day entirely dedicated to education and exchange between professional makers and students within the context of unique making processes behind contemporary audiovisual art, performance and design projects.
On Wednesday 10 May, FIBER Festival opens its festival exhibition at Door Open Space; the brand-new 3000 m2 industrial culture hub on the NDSM site. The large building will show a selection of audiovisual artworks that invite visitors to experience the world in a radically different way. On Thursday 11 May, the official festival opening takes place at the Concertgebouw, with a mixture of electronic and classical music. On Friday 12 and Saturday 13 May, visitors can immerse themselves in a nightly line-up of (audiovisual) performances by both leading and emerging musicians and DJs. For the music and performance programme, FIBER collaborates with the new venue Noordwaards and club Garage Noord. On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, artists, researchers and scientists will meet at the symposium at the Brakke Grond for discussions on current themes - from technology to ecology - within our contemporary society.
FIBER's festival programme is still in development. The first names on the line-up will be announced in mid-February and the full festival programme will be launched in March. Want to be the first to reserve your tickets? Sharply priced Early Bird tickets are still on sale for another two weeks at www.fiberfestival.nl
About FIBER FestivalSince its first edition in 2011 at club Trouw Amsterdam, FIBER brought together visual culture, electronic music and club culture.The festival builds bridges between art/music lovers and an international programme of artistic makers, critical researchers, creative coders, DJs and live performers. Together, they experience the latest developments in digital culture and electronic music, with a special attention to emerging talent. FIBER Festival acts as a meeting place, while giving visitors tools to interface with our rapidly changing world. Through lectures, artist talks and interviews – that form the in-depth programme behind all art installations and music/performance programmes – FIBER focuses on the impact of technology on humans, and how technological developments are intertwined with the ecological reality of our planet.
What can be seen/heard during the festival?The festival theme will be announced in mid-February. But, FIBER can already share something: during the four days visitors will discover different ways of listening as a critical medium for experiencing our living environment differently. The festival will show a rich selection of installations, talks and live sets in relation to the festival theme.
The programmeOpening Concert | Thursday 11 May (evening) | Concertgebouw
FIBER kicks off its 8th festival edition on Thursday evening 11 May with an opening concert in the Concertgebouw's Kleine Zaal, in collaboration with Entrée.
Music, Performance, Club | Friday 12 May & Saturday 13 May (evening & night)
During the Friday and Saturday programme you will explore an (inter)national selection of audiovisual performances, experimental DJ sets and the mix of music and visual art at the locations Noordwaards (Friday) and Garage Noord (Saturday).
Audiovisual Art Assembly | Friday 12 May | Location: TBA
As a precursor to the symposium, the Audiovisual Art Assembly shares knowledge about unique making processes behind contemporary audiovisual art, performance and design. FIBER's Audiovisual Art Assembly connects professional makers, thinkers, students and organisers. The programme is open to anyone with an interest in new forms of culture.
Symposium | Saturday 13 May & Sunday 14 May | Brakke Grond
FIBER's two-day symposium offers a wide range of lectures, interviews, listening sessions and talks. Discover the work of leading and emerging artists, designers, musicians and researchers and learn more about the ways in which their practice addresses innovative technological developments and important ecological, social and cultural issues.
Exhibition | Wednesday 10 May to Sunday 14 May | Door Open Space
Prior to the official opening of the festival, FIBER will open its doors for the exhibition at Door Open Space on Wednesday 10 May (afternoon). The exhibition can be seen daily from Thursday 11 May to Sunday 14 May.
Event informationDate: 11 - 14 May 2023
Venues: Door Open Space (Exhibition | 10 - 14 May), Concertgebouw (Opening Concert | 11 May), Noordwaarts (Music, Performance | 12 & 13 May), Garage Noord (Club night | 13 May), Brakke Grond (Symposium | 13 & 14 May).
Tickets: Early Birds are now on sale
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]]>FIBER Festival 2022: 16 — 19 June 2022
AMSTERDAM Tuesday 12 April - Spread over 12 days, the Amsterdam based FIBER Festival returns in June with an international programme of emerging and renowned artists, researchers and musicians. Fanned out across multiple unique locations, the organisation creates a meeting place for everyone interested in state-of-the-art audiovisual works and performances, daring conversations about art and society, and experimental electronic music. FIBER Festival has always been a platform for emerging artists to present their inquisitive work and refreshing views, and this year will be no different. The festival continues its exploration of the theme Mutation.
From June 8th, the festival exhibition with a collection of works opens its doors for twelve days at culture hub Dokzaal. The exhibition explores new relationships between humankind, nature and technology in an age of radical earth changes.
A week later, from 16 to 19 June, the core programming of FIBER Festival 2022 takes over Amsterdam-Noord. Visitors will dive into a multi-evening performance programme happening at Likeminds and NDSM’s MACA, a brand new space for audiovisual culture and film, founded by Eye Filmmuseum. The two-day conference at Likeminds is full of talks and conversations which will focus on art, design and music practices in relation to the festival theme Mutation. On Saturday night FIBER presented a mesmerising club night at Garage Noord.
On May 20th, FIBER kicks off their festival season with The Rest Is Noise at Muziekgebouw; a concert night with showcases from leading international artists operating between music and audiovisual art. The annual collaboration is traditionally scheduled in the first week of January, but could not take place due to covid. This edition is the first one in two years.
After last year’s festival edition we will deepen our understanding about the future of humankind with the festival theme Mutation (Part II). The programme will reveal the mutating relations between humans, nature and technology as questioned and captured by arts and design. This time, zooming in and out on the collisions between worldviews, the material nature and planetary scales of computation, industrial and spiritual realms and proposals for different types of futures. Artists, musicians, researchers and performers will share their beliefs and speculations on mutation through sound, image, space, and sensory experiences.
What does the future of humanity look like under the influence of a radically changing earth and the inseparable adaptations of its modern society? Are we, forced by global warming and planetary-wide technological demands, able to steer towards a new post-human world; one in which man is no longer the center of reality? Through artistic explorations, we will offer mind-altering perspectives.
The installations, performances, live sets and lectures provide thoughts and strategies for adaptation or rejection of current modes of living.
The first programme release will follow mid April.
Programme overview
Muziekgebouw: FIBER x The Rest Is Noise | Concert Evening | Fri May 20
Exhibition Opening: Dokzaal | Wed June 8
Exhibition: June 8 – 19
Festival opening: Keynote & Performance programme | Likeminds | Thu June 16
Festival Conference: June 18 + 19 | Likeminds
Music & Performance Programma: June 17 + 18 | MACA
Club Night: Sat June 18 | Garage Noord
Professionals programme: Fri June 17
Closing Night: Listening Event | murmur | Sun June 19
Links
Read more on the theme here: https://www.fiberfestival.nl/about
Tickets are now for sale via https://www.fiberfestival.nl/tickets
]]>AMSTERDAM, MONDAY 21 FEBRUARY — From 10 to 13 March, Natural Intelligence will take place at A Lab in Amsterdam; an international meeting place focussing on an ecologically-based future Internet. In the fight against accelerating global warming, the nature of the Internet and our own online behavior can have a major impact. Because of the ever-increasing energy demand to run our digital services, it’s necessary to develop sustainable internet-literacy and work on alternative digital infrastructures. Fortunately, there are many opportunities and initiatives that are active in this growing field. Arts organisation FIBER connects a multitude of makers and thinkers to envision the future of the internet.
The immense possibilities of today's internet services, data centres, artificial intelligence and rendered computer graphics have been made possible by a large supply of cheap energy sources: fossil fuels. The promises of yet another generation of artificial intelligence and the rise of the metaverse and NFT’s are unthinkable without the endless extraction and flow of fossil energy. Many are already talking about 'data warming' as one of the strongly growing drivers of global warming.
Natural Intelligence, the third part of FIBER’s ongoing Reassemble Lab, brings together those who are proposing alternative internet infrastructures based on earthly dynamics, low-carbon solutions, collaborative infrastructures and ecological ethics. The lab consists of a public programme with lectures, and a three-day lab in which a selected group of makers and thinkers will work together on various topics.
The full programme gives voice to various directions, philosophies and thoughts on the future that have emerged in recent years. The choice for our location is not a coincidence; A Lab was the former Shell Grootlab, from which the global fossil fuel superpower operated for a long time.
Starting an Amsterdam solar server
One component of this four-day programme for artists, designers, creative coders, technologists, researchers, energy experts and policy makers is the establishment of a solar server on the roof of Amsterdam Noord’s creative melting pot A Lab.
With the launch of this cell, Amsterdam becomes part of the global network of the project ‘Solar Protocol’ (Tega Brain, Benedetta Piantelli and Alex Nathanson). Under the motto ‘Towards a Natural Intelligence’, the team experiments with an international platform of solar energy distribution to prototype and design a potential new, sustainable generation of internet services. Already participating sites are in Australia, Chile, Kenya and the US.
Public programme: A Future Of Internets
The project will kick off with an hybrid public programme on Thursday 10/3, A Future of Internets, with i.a. Michelle Thorne (Sustainable Internet Lead at the Mozilla Foundation), Marloes de Valk (software artist and PhD researcher at the London South Bank University), Shayna Robinson (Senior Program Officer for the Internet Society Foundation’s Research and Innovation Programs), Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantelli (Solar Protocol team), Kim van Sparrentak (member of the European Parliament for GroenLinks) and Aymeric Mansoux (media researcher and Reader at the WdKA). The evening takes place at A Lab in Amsterdam Noord in collaboration with MozFest, and can also be attended online.
Tickets for the public programme and more information can be found on our website:
https://www.fiber-space.nl/event-a-future-of-internets/
About Reassemble Lab: Natural Intelligence
The Lab programme takes place at A Lab in Amsterdam Noord, where participants get acquainted with the themes and with each other in hands-on workshops, prototyping sessions, talks and discussions. The Lab Programme contains talks and workshops by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella (the Solar Protocol team), Lisette van Beek, Cristina Napoleone, Abdo Hassan, Michelle Thorne, Mick Jongeling, Farah Ghazal, Aymeric Mansoux, Roel Roscam Abbing, Kris De Decker and more to be announced.
The lab will explore questions such as: What role can design, creative coding and artistic research play to envision and prototype a fundamentally different way of adapting our technological demands to natural cycles? What does it mean to learn from, adapt to, and work with natural intelligence, and how to imagine, articulate, practice and connect initiatives towards fossil-free futures?
The lab is developed in partnership with A Lab (location) and MozFest and others to be confirmed. Lab curators are media researcher and curator Katía Truijen and FIBER’s artistic director Jarl Schulp. Abdo Hassan and Mick Jongeling co-develop the programme and join the lab as mentors.
More information about the lab programme can be found on our website:
https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/natural-intelligence/
About Reassemble Lab
Reassemble is FIBER’s multi-year lab programme that will connect the festival editions. The lab strives to contribute to our understanding of great planetary challenges by supporting artistic makers and inquisitive thinkers in prototyping new (collaborative) works and ways of knowing. This takes place in partnership with research institutions and other cultural organisations. More: reassemble.world
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Practical info
A Lab / Overhoeksplein 2, 1031 KS Amsterdam
Thu 10 March — Public Programme (19:00 - 21:45)
Fri 11 - Sun 13 March — Lab Programme (each day 09:30 – 18:15)
Marketing & communications FIBER: lauren@fiber-space.nl
Public programme: https://www.fiber-space.nl/event-a-future-of-internets/
Lab programme: https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/natural-intelligence/
]]>A meeting place for fans and creators of groundbreaking digital art and performances, the Amsterdam organisation showcases new and forward thinking artists who enhance other worldviews. Through the lens of the arts, FIBER reflects upon the ever shifting impact of technology on society and the environment.
With the new multi-year theme ‘Mutation’, the programme will explore the (in)ability to shapeshift into new ways of being. Mutation can be seen as an unwanted development but might also present opportunities to change habits and minds. In the face of global emergencies, like the current pandemic and the climate disaster, the Western societies will need to leave behind their illogical separation from ‘nature’ and embrace fluidity. FIBER 2021 preludes a regular festival edition in May 2022.
Artists, DJs and performers of FIBER 2021
Artefakt presents Days Bygone (Dutch Premiere, Live); Boris Acket (Light scenography); CAO (Live); Camille Barton (Talk); DJ Leoni (DJ); Entangled Others Studio (installation); Jonathan Castro (Dutch premiere, Live A/V); Leanne Wijnsma (Talk); Mika Oki (DJ); Naone (DJ); Nelly Dragon (DJ) & Leeza Pritychenko (Visuals); Orit Halpern (Talk); Robin Koek & Zeno van den Broek (Installation); Sahej Rahel (Talk); Saša Spačal (Talk); Sissel Marie Tonn (Installation); Špela Petrič (Talk); Tammo Hesselink & Sjoerd Bartlema (Performance); Thomas D. Moynihan (Talk); Tim van Hooft (Installation); Torus & Mark Prendergast present These Cars Do Not Exist (Live A/V); upsammy & Sjoerd Martens (Live A/V); Woody92 (DJ); Zohar & Jeisson Drenth (Live A/V); Zoë Mc Pherson & Alessandra Leone present Fugue Extended (Dutch premiere, Live A/V).
Music & Performance programme with Zoë Mc Person & Alessandra Leone, Mika Oki, Tammo Hesselink & Sjoerd Bartlema, CAO, Jonathan Castro and Artefakt and many more
Likewise, FIBER’s carefully curated music programme seamlessly coheres with the Mutation-theme, presenting a notable line-up with A/V sets, live sets and live performances. Artefakt (Live), CAO (Live), DJ Leoni (DJ set), Jonathan Castro (Live A/V), Mika Oki (DJ set), Naone (DJ set), Nelly Dragon & Leeza Pritychenko (DJ set/Live visuals), Tammo Hesselink & Sjoerd Bartlema (Live performance), Torus & Mark Prendergast (Live A/V), upsammy & Sjoerd Martens (Live A/V), Woody92 (DJ set), Zoë Mc Pherson & Alessandra Leone (Live A/V) and Zohar & Jeisson Drenth (Live A/V) make an appearance in either Tolhuistuin’s garden, Tuinzaal or Concert Hall (Paradiso Noord). All artists masterfully combine organic and technological sounds and images, fusing rhythms, folklore, mysticism, the real and the fictional.
Raumklang premieres at Muziekgebouw during FIBER 2021
FIBER 2021 takes a small trip across the River IJ to invite artists Zeno van den Broek and Robin Koek to the Muziekgebouw. For the past four years, the duo have been working on an innovative sound art installation. Raumklang is a sound sculpture that is exclusively observable through hearing, as sensors detect the visitor’s physical movement through the piece. The sculpture could be seen as an acoustic distillation of the Atrium, Muziekgebouw’s immensely high hall, and its direct environment with trains, ships and a buzzing city. The premiere of Raumklang is in collaboration with our long-standing partner The Rest Is Noise | Muziekgebouw.
Talks & Keynotes from artists all over the world
On both Thursday, Friday and Saturday, visitors attend intriguing talks covering a wide range of topics within FIBER 2021’s main theme Mutation. On Thursday, guests can dive into ‘Mutant Making: Artistic operations in more-than-human metabolisms’ with postmedia artist Saša Spačal and media/data researcher Orit Halpern. Writer and historian Thomas D. Moynihan will address the behavioral science provoked by the possible impending human extinction, discussed in his new book X-Risk. On Saturday, Špela Petrič, Maggie Roberts and Stephanie Moran explore interspecies communication through AI and the arts. Interdisciplinary artist Camille Barton presents a talk on body activism and healing, reflecting on Mutation.
Installations at Tolhuistuin
In addition to the ‘Raumklang’ premiere at Muziekgebouw, FIBER 2021 presents a small yet captivating selection of four installations at Tolhuistuin. Entangled Others Studio demonstrates an AI’s re-imagination of what the ecosystem looks and sounds like in ‘Hybrid Ecosystems’ (2021) with a hypnotic, vivid video landscape. Alternatively, Sissel Marie Tonn’s video work ‘Becoming a Sentinel Species’ (2020) zooms in on a future in which humans explore and reflect on becoming a ‘sentinel species’ as an eyewitness to environmental pollution. The film follows two researchers who experimentally introduce microplastics collected from the sea into their own bodies, with profound neurophysiological consequences.
Especially for FIBER 2021, media artist Timaeus (Tim van Hooft) combined two of his existing works into a new version of his immersive video installation ‘Anthropocene Monster’ (2021) in which he explores the horrors humans have created by grossly interfering with earth’s ecosystems. Another commissioned work will be found throughout the festival location, as visitors will meet a mesmerizing light scenography by Dutch artist Boris Acket.
Partners
FIBER 2021 is made possible with the generous support of Amsterdam Fund of the Arts and the Creative Industry Fund NL. We thank Tolhuistuin, Paradiso Noord, The Rest Is Noise and Muziekgebouw for their partnership.
Raumklang is co-produced by V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media. Raumklang is supported by V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Creative Fund NL, Gerrard Street and STEIM.
Theme: Mutation
FIBER 2021 launches the multi-year theme Mutation, which will be discussed further during the full festival in May 2022. One of the most well-bespoken cases of mutation are, of course, the current COVID-19 variants and our constant mitigation with these shapeshifting viruses. But also the DNA of our planet is transforming. Mutation can be seen as an unwanted development but might also present opportunities to change habits and minds. In the face of global emergencies, like the current pandemic and the climate disaster, the Western societies will need to leave behind their illogical separation from ‘nature’ and fluidity.
The once-established social binaries to categorise the world must give way to new fusions. Mutation, explored and practiced as the blurring of separations, could provide us with both speculative and actionable manners of moving towards a new existence. From an artistic viewpoint, we examine the (in)ability to shapeshift into new ways of being.
]]>Amsterdam, 9 September 2021 — While still navigating through uncertainty and curveball regulations, we are delighted to share some exciting news. On 28, 29 and 30 October FIBER 2021 will settle down at Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam Noord for an adapted festival programme; a three-day physical arts and music event including the possibility to attend some parts online. Fuelled by the now critical quest for human adaptation to a radically changing world – both technologically, ecologically, and culturally – the organization compiles a wide selection of conversations, music and immersive performances in line with its theme Mutation.
This fall FIBER returns to their homebase Tolhuistuin to experience, listen and talk for three evenings in a row. FIBER’s playground will consist of several areas within the green cultural hub just across the River IJ. Through art, sound, audiovisual experiences and talks we will explore the (in)ability to change or adapt to strange, unexpected or hostile environments. While we are elated that we are able to welcome you in person again, we have learned from last year’s online efforts: all talks and interactive panels will also be streamed live globally. This October weekend leads up to a regular festival edition we aim to organize in May 2022.
Our 2021 edition launches the multi-year theme Mutation, that we will pursue to discuss during the full festival next May. One of the most well-bespoken cases of mutation are, of course, the current COVID-19 variants and our constant mitigation with these shapeshifting viruses. But also the DNA of our planet is transforming. After an extensive period of stability, our world is now changing at an accelerated pace in terms of extreme natural disasters with the risk of becoming completely uninhabitable due to the collapse of ecosystems.
Mutation can be seen as an unwanted development but might also present opportunities to change habits and minds. In the face of global emergencies, like the current pandemic and the climate disaster, the Western societies will need to leave behind their illogical separation from ‘nature’ and fluidity. The once-established social binaries to categorise the world must give way to new fusions. Mutation, explored and practiced as the blurring of separations, could provide us with both speculative and actionable manners of moving towards a new existence. From an artistic viewpoint, we examine the (in)ability to shapeshift into new ways of being.
Our first programme release will be in two weeks from now. Tickets will go on sale simultaneously. Expect a full programme with talks, performances, installations and music.
FIBER 2021 // 28, 29 & 30 October 2021
Updates follow on www.fiber-space.nl
FIBER 2021 is made possible with the generous support Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst en Tolhuistuin.
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September 24—September 27, 2020
Exhibition (September 24-27)
Opening September 24, 5pm
Tolhuistuin, IJpromenade 2, Amsterdam (NL)
Hybrid Conference (September 25 - 26)
Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam (NL)
Online
https://2020.fiberfestival.nl/
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A generation of emerging artists and researchers present alternative perspectives for a changing planet
Abdelrhman Hassan; Anab Jain; Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan; Angela Chan; Arif Kornweitz; Darko Lagunas & Theun Karelse; Holly Jean Buck; Irene Stracuzzi & Alice Wong; Kim Stanley Robinson; Michaele Büsse; Ruben Jacobs; Sébastien Robert; Sissel Marie Tonn; Suzanne Dhaliwal; Tega Brain; Thijs Ebbe Fokkens; Tivon Rice; Tom Burke; Sébastien Robert; Whitespace (Anni Nöps & Casimir Geelhoed).
Daily we are confronted with the devastating effects of humanity on our planet. The complexity and origin of these changes have been highlighted to a lesser extent. Climate change, the ecological crises and underlying social and economic inequalities are rapidly transforming living environments around the world into uninhabitable areas. The absolute necessity for change now seems to have penetrated many, but what do these changes look like? And most importantly, what adjustments to our thinking about the planet—including thinking about ourselves—are needed to follow this new path?
With the theme of Instability, FIBER Festival 2020 presents an artistic journey that responds to the transformative influence of mankind on earth. Through the lens of audiovisual art and artistic applications of technology, a generation of emerging artists offer a range of alternative perspectives for a changing planet. The festival aims to seek artistic narratives, skills and strategies to prepare us for a life in a period of uncertainty and radical instability. Tickets and registration via this link.
More about FIBER Festival
FIBER Festival is an Amsterdam based festival that showcases contemporary digital culture, audiovisual art, speculative design and forward thinking music culture to enhance other world views. Through the lens of the visual arts the festival reflects upon the ever shifting impact of technology on society and the environment. The festival annually explores these matters collectively through lectures, installation art, performances and by learning from pioneering creative making-processes. Read more.
]]>Organized by FIBER, Motion Bank, and ICK Amsterdam, with the support of Dansmakers Amsterdam, the Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) will provide a research environment at the intersection of dance, choreography, digital tools, data and code. It brings together an international group of code-savvy artists, digital scenographers, code-minded musicians, interaction designers and the world of dance and choreography. A selected group of creatives will be working on projects and ideas relating to technology and the moving body.
Taking place at Dansmakers Amsterdam in a four-day interdisciplinary peer-to-peer setting, the participants will work on experiments and prototypes, participate in masterclasses, share knowledge, find new collaboration partners, and discuss ideas and challenges. The CCL is offering arts professionals the opportunity to translate aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and apply choreographic thinking to their own practice.
Talks & Open Lab SessionAccompanying the lab, there will be two evening programmes at Dansmakers open to the public; a talks meetup about technology and movement on Tuesday, May 26 and a closing-evening with CCL presentations and a keynote by Dr. Laura Karreman, Lecturer in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, on Thursday May 30.
Guests & MentorsGuest artists and mentors guiding the lab are: Mária Júdová, an independent artist whose work combines the exploration of technologically informed dance practices, body movement, time and space. Her work has been presented at LABoral, Berlin Atonal, Cinedans and many more festivals. Danae Kleida is a researcher at FIBER and Motion Bank, CCL facilitator, and media scholar who is active in the field of dance, choreography and annotation practices. She recently published her thesis on dance notation systems and annotation practices as gestures. Anton Koch is the lead developer of Motion Bank and an expert in working with dance data. Suzan Tunca is responsible for the dance research activities at ICK Amsterdam, with extensive experience while working as dance researcher and performing artist. Jarl Schulp is the CCL Amsterdam co-curator, designer and the artistic director of FIBER. Joana Chicau is a graphic designer, coder, researcher — with a background in dance. Her trans-disciplinary project interweaves web programming and environments with performance/choreographic practices. (More guests will be announced)
ICK invites two choreographers to introduce their ways of thinking and doing choreography and dance: Matej Kejžar (ICK Amsterdam) is a Slovenian dancer and choreographer who will address the general dance discourse in order to re-evaluate dance terminology and language. Amos Ben-Tal (OFFprojects and ICK Amsterdam) will share his research on the perception and valuation of time in relation to movement and the body.
International Open CallArtistic professionals working with movement and code will be able to apply for the CCL until Sunday, 14 April. From these entries 25 - 30 participants will be chosen. Apply here: https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/cclams19/
Public Programme FIBER x CCL Meetup | Tuesday May 28 | 20:00 - 23:00Join us for an evening of short presentations from the FIBER community related to technology, code, movement and dance. Speakers TBA | Entry: € 5
Keynotes & Open Lab Sessions | Thu May 30 | 19:00 - 23:00The CCL AMS 2019 is organized by FIBER, ICK Amsterdam and Motion Bank, with the support of Dansmakers. It is supported by the Amsterdam Fund of the Arts and the Performing Arts Fund NL
Dutch Press Release can be found here:
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Taking place in Amsterdam on 23 November and 1 December, FIBER Weekends 2018 is a new, decentralized art event dedicated to emerging developments in audiovisual art, electronic music, creative coding, and advanced technologies. Having previously announced performances and talks by Alva Noto, Alan Warburton, Rainer Kohlberger and NKISI, FIBER now completes the Weekends’ programme with the addition of 11 new speakers and performers, including Utrecht-based electronic musician upsammy, Italian interdisciplinary artist TeZ, live-coding performance duo Joana Chicau & Jonathan Reus, American researcher and designer Shailoh Phillips. FIBER Weekends Performance Passes and Day Passes as well as individual event tickets are on sale at fiberweekends.nl/tickets.
8 new speakers for Coded Matter(s) Conference
The Coded Matter(s) Conference brings together interdisciplinary artists, designers, creative coders, engineers and researchers to explore experimental making- and knowing processes. Taking place at Lab 111 on Saturday, 1 December, the conference comprises of four sessions that will navigate questions about Artificial Intelligence, the nature of technological and ecological complexity, the future of simulation and reflects on strategies to make sense of the world through art and music.
In addition to a keynote by Alan Warburton, FIBER now adds talks and presentations by Italian interdisciplinary artist TeZ, American researcher and designer Shailoh Phillips, live-coding duo Joana Chicau & Jonathan Reus, molecular ecology researcher Xavier Bailley, installation artist Sissel Marie Tonn and artist-designer Waèl el Allouche.
upsammy joins Sensory Shifts: Club & Performance Night
Utrecht-based DJ and producer upsammy has taken the local club scene by storm since releasing her debut Another Place back in March. Blending a mix of sci-inspired techno, intense body music and euphoric experimental electronics, she unleashes mind-melting productions and unique, otherworldly DJ sets, and was tipped as one of the breakout acts at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event by Resident Advisor. upsammy joins an electrifying lineup of audiovisual performances and club sets by NKISI, Szare and CAO & Michael Tan at OT301 on Saturday, 1 December.
Openings of LFS2 and If/Then installations
FIBER Weekends 2018 also presents the openings of LFS2 by Mariska de Groot & Dieter Vandoren and If/Then by Gabey Tjon a Tham. Presented in collaboration with KIKK Festival on Friday, 30 November, LFS2 is an environment formed by a network of elements scattered in space that interact with each other through light and sound signals. The Hague-based artist Gabey Tjon a Tham unveils If/Then at 4Bid Gallery on Saturday, 1 December. Commissioned by FIBER and created with the support of the Crossing Parallels programme (TodaysArt & TU Delft), the installation attempts to make sense of the non-human systems of time that we interact with every day.
Full FIBER Weekends 2018 programme
PART I:
The Rest Is Noise in collaboration with FIBER
Date: Friday 23/11 | 19:30 - 1:00
Location: Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij
Lineup: Alva Noto presents UNIEQAV (live a/v), object blue (live), Valery Vermeulen (lecture-performance), her again and Arif (dj)
PART II:
Coded Matter(s) Conference + Sensory Cinema
Date: Saturday 1/12 | 11:00 - 20:45
Location: Lab111
Lineup: Alan Warburton (keynote), Christian ‘Mio’ Loclair, Kevin Bray, Michelle Kasprzak, NXS WORLD, The Rodina, TeZ, NKISI, Shailoh Phillips, Joana Chicau & Jonathan Reus, Xavier Bailley, Sissel Marie Tonn + Waèl el Allouche
Sensing Shifts: Club + Performance Night
Date: Saturday 1/12 | 21:00 - 05:00
Location: OT301
Lineup: NKISI (live), Szare (DJ), upsammy (DJ), Rainer Kohlberger (live AV), CAO & Michael Tan present The Burial Theme (live AV), Whitespace & Zois Loumakis (DJ & light installation), Vito Willems & Bin Koh (live & light installation)
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Opening LFS2 (2018) by Dieter Vandoren & Mariska De Groot
Date: Friday 30/11
Location: TBA
Opening If/Then (2018) by Gabey Tjon A Tham
Date: Saturday 1/12
Location: 4bid Gallery, OT301
Tickets
FIBER Weekends 2018 Performances Passes (€32) and Day Passes (€30), as well as individual event tickets are available at fiberweekends.nl/tickets
Confirmed Partners
Funding Partners:
FIBER is kindly sponsored by Stimuleringsfonds, Creatieve Industrie, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds Podiumkunsten, and Goethe Institute
Creative Partners: Programme and Location partners
Waag, Crack Magazine, KIKK Festival, Lab111, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and OT301
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Note for the editorial team (not for publication):
FIBER images are obtained through this link
The FIBER logo can be downloaded here
Credits festival image: Goys & Birls
For more information please contact:
Phil van der Krogt, Marketing & Communications
press@fiber-space.nl | +31(0)624416710
jarl@fiber-space.nl | +31(0)641235624
About FIBER
FIBER is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary organization that presents new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and experimental electronic music. The team works year round with a vibrant network of artists, designers, researchers and developers to present mind-bending experiences to a broad audience. Special attention goes out to the support of up-and-coming talents across numerous creative disciplines.
In addition to FIBER Weekends 2018, the team organises the biennial FIBER Festival, Coded Matter(s) lecture series, recurring small-scale events and exhibitions, FIBER podcast and Studio Visits in Amsterdam, bringing together a diverse crowd of new talent, established artists and curious visitors. FIBER aims to explore hybrid forms of art, the power of media and network technology, and encourages an exchange of views between the makers and their audience.
Links Festival website: fiberweekends.nlTickets: fiberweekends.nl/tickets Documents Images ]]>Friday, 2 November 2018
FIBER is proud to present the launch of FIBER Weekends 2018, a new, decentralized art event dedicated to emerging developments in audiovisual art, electronic music, creative coding, and advanced technologies. Taking place in Amsterdam on 23 November and 1 December, the inaugural edition of FIBER Weekends features an opening concert of mesmerizing live performances at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, an extended conference edition of the Coded Matter(s) series at Lab111 and a club and performance night at OT301. Artists and speakers confirmed for FIBER Weekends 2018 include, among others, Alva Noto, Alan Warburton, NKISI, Szare, object blue and Rainer Kohlberger. Performance Passes and Day Passes as well as individual event tickets are available now at fiberweekends.nl/tickets.
FIBER examines the 'act of art and performance' and how it can present alternative ways to make ‘sense’ of the complex, 21st century connections between humans, advanced technologies, and living and non-living entities. It begs the question: ‘should humans even strive to measure, model and know everything? And do our contemporary knowledge systems still reflect our radically changing reality? Spread across two weekends, FIBER Weekends 2018 invites audiences to experience the search for new ways of sensing, building and knowing the world through an expansive programme of audiovisual premieres, immersive installations, conference talks and lectures, and the club and performance night.
In addition to the aforementioned artists and speakers, FIBER Weekends 2018 also presents live audiovisual performances by CAO & Michael Tan, Whitespace & Zois and Vito Willems & Bin Koh, talks and presentations by The Rodina, Valery Vermeulen, Christian ‘Mio’ Loclair, Kévin Bray, NXS WORLD and Michelle Kasprzak, and installations by Mariska de Groot & Dieter Vandoren and Gabey Tjon A Tham. More artists and speakers will be added in the coming weeks.
Theme: Sensing Beyond | Beyond Sensing
Advanced simulation technologies, algorithms and AI systems propel human activity into alien terrain and dimensions. At the same time – in the midst of an impending climate crisis – we are slowly coming to terms with the need to fundamentally reconnect human activities with other living and nonliving beings. With the theme, ‘Sensing Beyond | Beyond Sensing’, FIBER examines the 'act of art and performance' and how it can present alternative ways to make ‘sense’ of our complex and often alienating world. FIBER Weekends 2018 invites you to experience the search for new ways of sensing, building and knowing the world through the lens of the arts.
Opening concert with Alva Noto
Presented in collaboration with The Rest Is Noise, the opening concert of FIBER Weekends 2018 takes place at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ on 23 November and sees pioneering German sound and visual artist Alva Noto unveil the Dutch premiere of his latest project, UNIEQAV, a dazzling audiovisual experience that strips scientific phenomena like sound and light frequencies to their core. Joining Alva Noto are Beijing-born DJ and producer object blue, who performs a live set of her experimental, techno-infused soundworlds, and Belgian electronic musician and mathematician Valery Vermeulen, who presents his lecture-performance 'Music/Math and Imagination'.
Coded Matter(s) Conference
On Saturday, 1 December, FIBER Weekends 2018 hosts an extended conference edition of Coded Matter(s). The final instalment of the series and the conclusion of the ongoing World Building trilogy, Coded Matter(s): Sensing Beyond | Beyond Sensing invites artists, designers, musicians, creative coders and researcher to question the design of contemporary world visions and technological narratives that contribute to greater socio-economic inequality and environmental destruction. Comprising four sessions, the conference will feature a keynote by British filmmaker and software artist Alan Warburton, and talks and performances by, among others, German media artist and choreographer Christian ‘Mio’ Loclair, Amsterdam-based performance designers The Rodina, French CGI artist and Rijksakademie resident Kévin Bray, and collaborative art studio NXS WORLD.
Sensory Shifts: Club & Performance Night
The inaugural edition of FIBER Weekends 2018 concludes with Sensory Shifts, a physical and audiovisual club and performance night at iconic Amsterdam venue OT301. Navigating disparate realms of electronic music amidst immersive sound worlds and flashing clouds of haze, the night features electrifying sets by NON Records co-founder NKISI and Manchester bass-techno veterans Szare as well as audiovisual performances by celebrated Berlin-based visual artist Rainer Kohlberger, Peruvian composer CAO and Australian artist Michael Tan, newly-formed electronic duo Whitespace and Greek lighting artist Zois, and Amsterdam-based duo Vito Willems & Bin Koh.
Special Events: Immersive Installations
FIBER Weekends 2018 also presents the openings of two new installations: LFS2 by Mariska de Groot & Dieter Vandoren and If/Then by Gabey Tjon a Tham. Presented in collaboration with KIKK Festival on Friday, 30 November, LFS2 is an environment formed by a network of elements scattered in space that interact with each other through light and sound signals. The Hague-based artist Gabey Tjon a Tham unveils If/Then at 4Bid Galleryon Saturday, 1 December. Commissioned by FIBER and created with the support of the Crossing Parallels programme (TodaysArt & TU Delft), the installation attempts to make sense of the non-human systems of time that we interact with daily.
Full FIBER Weekends 2018 programme
PART I:
The Rest Is Noise in collaboration with FIBER
Date: Friday 23/11 | 19:30 - 1:00
Location: Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij
Lineup: Alva Noto presents UNIEQAV (live a/v), object blue (live), Valery Vermeulen (lecture-performance)
PART II:
Coded Matter(s) Conference + Sensory Cinema
Date: Saturday 1/12 | 11:00 - 20:45
Location: Lab111
Lineup: Alan Warburton (keynote), Christian ‘Mio’ Loclair, Kevin Bray, Michelle Kasprzak, NXS WORLD, The Rodina + more to be announced
Sensing Shifts: Club + Performance Night
Date: Saturday 1/12 | 21:00 - 05:00
Location: OT301
Lineup: NKISI (live), Szare (DJ), Rainer Kohlberger (live AV), CAO & Michael Tan present The Burial Theme (live AV), Whitespace & Zois Loumakis (DJ & light installation), Vito Willems & Bin Koh (live & light installation)
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Opening LFS2 (2018) by Dieter Vandoren & Mariska De Groot
Date: Friday 30/11
Location: TBA
Opening If/Then (2018) by Gabey Tjon A Tham
Date: Saturday 1/12
Location: 4bid Gallery, OT301
Tickets
FIBER Weekends 2018 Performances Passes (€32) and Day Passes (€30), as well as individual event tickets are available at fiberweekends.nl/tickets
Confirmed Partners
Funding Partners:
FIBER is kindly sponsored by Stimuleringsfonds, Creatieve Industrie, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds Podiumkunsten, and Goethe Institute
Creative Partners: Programme and Location partners
Waag, Crack Magazine, KIKK Festival, Lab111, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and OT301
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Note for the editorial team (not for publication):
FIBER images are obtained through this link
The FIBER logo can be downloaded here
Credits festival image: Goys & Birls
For more information please contact:
Phil van der Krogt, Marketing & Communications
press@fiber-space.nl | +31(0)624416710
jarl@fiber-space.nl | +31(0)641235624
About FIBER
FIBER is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary organization that presents new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and experimental electronic music. The team works year round with a vibrant network of artists, designers, researchers and developers to present mind-bending experiences to a broad audience. Special attention goes out to the support of up-and-coming talents across numerous creative disciplines.
In addition to FIBER Weekends 2018, the team organises the biennial FIBER Festival, Coded Matter(s) lecture series, recurring small-scale events and exhibitions, FIBER podcast and Studio Visits in Amsterdam, bringing together a diverse crowd of new talent, established artists and curious visitors. FIBER aims to explore hybrid forms of art, the power of media and network technology, and encourages an exchange of views between the makers and their audience.
Links Festival website: fiberweekends.nlTickets: fiberweekends.nl/tickets Documents Images ]]>At the end of 2016 Rex Tillerson, the former wingman of Donald Trump, expressed a worrying vision of the future: “Climate change is an engineering problem”. The belief in the total makeability of a planet is anchored in a marriage between governments and big-tech companies. Terraforming - the process of changing a planet’s climate and atmosphere for human life - was once the domain of visionary sci-fi writers, artists and space research. Today we’re entering a new space race where private companies such as Google and Space X aim to colonise and terraform Mars.
The belief in the makeability of a planet as a technological utopia seems to be at odds with the current problems around climate change and the large-scale damage to the earth. In what way do Silicon Valley’s ideas influence the future of man? What will happen if these visions are exported to space? Terra Fiction questions these developments and presents alternative scenarios to shape life on earth and beyond.
Pippa Goldschmidt is a writer with a background in astronomy in her short stories she reflects on current practices of space colonisation and its impact on earth. E. J. Swift’s stories explore the geopolitical impacts of climate change. She will discuss the role of speculative fiction in imagining alternative worlds, and how it might offer us a vision for a better future. Solarpunk researcher and technology theorist Jay Springett lays out the strategic narrative of land-as-platform which grafts the organisational logic of the digital ecologies back onto living soil. Miha Turšič presents a new Waag project and asks the question: what can we learn about life by studying outer space? Art-scientist Ivan Henriques will represent Symbiotic Machine for Space Exploration a project that aims to create an autonomous system for enhancing terrestrial ecosystems and facilitating atmospheric formation on other planets.
Next to these presentations the evening program consists out of short movies, material explorer Margaux Hendriksen will screen her Scramble for the Moon project, a speculative design project with which she graduated at The Material Futures Master at Central Saint Martins in London; Matthew C Wilson will screen his film The Age of Autonomous Exploration which is currently on display as part of the Dissident Gardens exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut. The evening will be concluded with a panel discussion.
Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction is the 2nd edition of the Worldbuilding trilogy. The digital culture platform FIBER investigates the role of art and culture in proposing sustainable, future living environments. Following the lecture program, FIBER presents in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut Terra Fiction Lab. on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 September participants will be working on narrative prototypes for new artistic works.
This event is made possible by the support of Creative Industries Fund NL and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. Coded Matter(s) is presented in collaboration with Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond.
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On Thursday 27 September FIBER and De Brakke Grond present Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction an evening programme about digital culture and imagining future worlds and sustainable living on earth and beyond. Speakers working on the cross-section of art, literature, science and design reflect on the new relationship between man, technology, earth and life in space.
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Title: Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction
Date: 27 September 2018
Location: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam)
Address: Nes 45, 1012 KD Amsterdam (NL)
Time: 20:00-23:00 | Doors: 19:45
Tickets: € 16 | Students: € 12 (no student card, no entry)
Ticket link: https://tickets.frascatitheater.nl/brakkegrond.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=16212&el=true
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Website Coded Matter(s)
https://www.codedmatters.nl/event/terrafiction/
Website De Brakke Grond
https://www.brakkegrond.nl/agenda/naar-een-nieuwe-wereld
Images from left to right: Terra Fiction Main Image by Margaux Hendriksen / Image from Multiphysics Imaging Technology Inc / Still from Margaux Hendriksen's project 'Scramble for the Moon' 2017 / E.J. Swift / Jay Springett / Pippa Goldschmidt / Miha Turšič, Ivan Henriques
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ABOUT CODED MATTER(S) - WORLDBUILDING TRILOGY
According to writer Mark Fisher, in our current capitalist system it is almost impossible to think of other world systems, but with the current climate problem it is clear that change is necessary. Within Worldbuilding, FIBER explores how artists, designers, coders and thinkers propose alternative worlds through experiments in a critically productive way. In the first edition Big Bias, we looked at prejudices in smart technology, in the second edition of Terra Fiction, into interdisciplinary collaborations between art, science, design and literature to present new relationships between ecology, technology and people.
Since 2013, Coded Matter(s) has been a platform for artists, designers, startups and cultural practitioners to explore cutting-edge artistic production and new ways of understanding digital technologies and and their impact on our world. In 2018, Big Bias (May 17), Terra Fiction (September 27) and Engine Spaces (Nov/Dec), will explore the overarching theme of Worldbuilding though lectures and screenings. Worldbuilding is a narrative technique that originates from science fiction and transmedia storytelling and is used as an artistic method to reflect on complex subject such as climate change, terraformation, circularity and human-machine relationships.https://www.codedmatters.nl
ABOUT FIBER
FIBER is an Amsterdam based platform that supports and presents talented makers and thinkers who are operating at the intersection of audiovisual art, digital technology, music and societal issues. The platform functions as a platform for emerging young artists and connects them to urgent international developments, new public knowledge and work opportunities.
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]]>We are increasingly confronted by the dangers and faults of the tech-utopia promised by Silicon Valley. ‘'Smart' soap dispensers that can’t recognise the hands of people of colour. Accidents with self-driving cars. Cambridge Analytica’s illegal harvesting of over 50 million Facebook accounts. On Thursday evening May 17th, Amsterdam based FIBER, in collaboration with the Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, presents a new season of Coded Matter(s), which reimagines the narrative technique of Worldbuilding to explore how art and design can envision a better world.
Coded Matter(s): Big Bias is the first edition of the Worldbuilding trilogy and gives the public an insight into the role that makers (artists, designers, thinkers) and companies play in tackling ethical problems surrounding practices such as big data and artificial intelligence, and also explores the role played by digital art and culture in developing more inclusive technological worlds and applications.
In his lecture-performance, artist and queer theorist Zach Blas explains how big tech companies use magic and mysticism to conceptualise the application of data. The Flemish designer and researcher Femke Snelting is investigating how we can better understand the relationship between humans and digital infrastructures by considering how issues relating to race, gender, age and species are taken into account when collecting body data. The African-American artist, coder and writer Mimi Onuoha unveils the bias of authorities by showing which data they refuse to collect or choose to exclude.
Since 2013, Coded Matter(s) has been a platform for artists, designers, startups and cultural practitioners to explore cutting-edge artistic production and new ways of understanding digital technologies and and their impact on our world. In 2018, three events, Big Bias, Terrafiction and Engine Spaces, will explore the overarching theme of Worldbuilding though lectures and screenings. Worldbuilding is a narrative technique that originates from science fiction and transmedia storytelling and is used as an artistic method to reflect on complex problems such as climate change, circularity and human-machine relationships.
For tickets & more information visit the websites: https://www.brakkegrond.nl/agenda/een-avond-over-de-verborgen-vooroordelen-in-slimme-technologie and https://www.codedmatters.nl/event/coded-matters-big-bias
This event is made possible by the support of Creative Industries Fund NL, Het Nieuwe Instituut, MU Artspace and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Event info:
Date: 17th May
Time: 20:00-23:00 | Doors: 19:45
Location: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam)
Address: Nes 45, 1012 KD Amsterdam (NL)
Tickets: € 16 | Students: € 12 (no student card, no entry)
About Coded Matter(s)
Coded Matter(s) is FIBER’s ongoing events series that explores various forms of digital culture, artistic and critical application of code and digital technologies. It shares the work of interdisciplinary artists, designers, creative coders and thinkers and their making processes. Talks are combined with short films, project demonstrations and masterclasses to stimulate new ways of thinking. Previous editions have explored the rise of the blockchain, algorithmic culture, live coding in club contexts and how the shape and depiction landscapes changes with technological developments and computer vision.
About FIBER
FIBER is an Amsterdam based platform that supports and presents talented makers and thinkers who are operating at the intersection of audiovisual art, digital technology, music and societal issues. The platform functions as a platform for emerging young artists and connects them to urgent international developments, new public knowledge and work opportunities.
About Vlaamse Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond
Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond offers the most significant contemporary art productions from Flanders, including visual art, literature, dance and theatre, music, performance, film, design, fashion, architecture and new media. The emphasis is on innovation, building bridges and artistic guts.
Tickets & Location InfoFacebook EventFIBER WebsiteCoded Matter(s) WebsiteDutch Press Release (Digital Version)]]>The 10-day exhibition in collaboration with Looiersgracht 60 shows works of Semiconductor (UK), JODI (NL) & MFP (UK), Quadrature (DE) and Ralf Baecker (DE). The Conference presents Memo Akten (UK), Refik Anadol (TR/US), Jussi Parikka (FI/UK) and Femke Herregraven (NL). They are just a few of the names that fill the two-day international conference at De Brakke Grond. The music- and performance program accomodates Sendai (BE), Sky H1 (BE), Pita (AU) and Recent Arts (DE/ CHL). The FIBER team was inspired by the connections between today's experimental art and a renewed interest in the ancient field of alchemy. Through an extensive program of conference talks, a public exhibition, AV performances, and live electronic music, the festival explores the theme Prima Materia; alchemical thinking and making in art, design and music.
Prima Materia shows the work of artists and designers who question and reimagine the relationship between man, technology and matter. Technology has a profound effect on nature and can help us find a sustainable and emotional relation with the earth. At the same time it is getting harder and harder to predict our future as a human race in the context of fast technological developments of things like artificial intelligence, big data and decentralised networks - developments that feel almost like organic, all-encompassing forces of nature. The human scale and the tools that we use to interpret the world with are being radically transformed. We seem to be caught in the middle of invisible forces.
FIBER Festival 2017 program highlights
AV & Music Performances | Friday 12th of May and Saturday 13th of May | De Brakke Grond and Club Shelter
The Music & Performance program is divided into two evening performances and a long club night;
Friday night, 12th of May De Brakke Grond will be transformed into a mysterious festival location with three spaces, where image and sound meet in a very special way. The visitor will be submerged in a night full of electronic live acts and audiovisual performances. FIBER presents two audiovisual premières: The Mylar Topology by British artist Paul Prudence, is a hypnotic journey through a liquid universe with deep pulsating sounds on a panoramic screen. The newer than new installation-performance Phyllotaxis by Rotterdam media artists Joris Strijbos & Daan Johan, from the internationally known Macular collective, presents two enormous spinning discs, that entrance the audience with a series of cosmic light patterns.
The Red Space is dominated by the mesmerising and experimental live-sets of British producer Ali Wade and the modular synthesizer magician and Editions Mego label holder Pita. Both recently released two gorgeous albums: Ali Wade’s serene debut album ‘Geomorphology’ and Pita’s ‘Get In’; a beautiful and deep dystopian sonic journey. The foyer of De Brakke Grond will function as a lounge area and among others DJ’s Merites (Photic Fields), Sébastien (Field Records) and Arif Malawi together with exquisite Flemish beer will give the visitor an alchemic night experience.
Saturday night, 13th of May FIBER Festival and Club Shelter join forces to organize a full concert and club night. The first part of the evening contains three intense, live listening experiences, each supported by a special scenography and a top quality sound system; one of Shelters unique selling points.
During the Club night the audience will be submerged into the new narratives of the international club scene accompanied by a unique light scenography. It will be a long journey through a techno orientated musical landscape with dj’s and live acts. The first names are:
Exhibition| Friday 12th of May till Sunday 21th of May | Looiersgracht 60
The exhibition Prima Materia, is a collaboration between FIBER and Looiersgracht 60, centre for art, design and architecture, and presents artists that use technology to rethink mankind’s position between the stars and the soil. Taking their cues from the centuries old practice of alchemy and its search for the prima materia, which was said to connect everything in the cosmos.
The exhibition is divided in three themes: State of Matter about new ways to look at matter, Artificial Perception that broadens our perspective on the world through artificial intelligence, and New Ecologies about future perspectives on technology, nature and the universe.
We name Semiconductor (UK), JODI (NL) & MFP (UK), Quadrature (DE), Ralf Baecker (DE) and Monique Grimond (NL/US). Besides a selection of existing installations, FIBER has initiated two new works: the never ending film installation ‘Origin: Sustained’ from upcoming The Hague artist Mischa Daams (NL), and the alchemic photographic work The Modeling from Michiel Pijpe (NL). FIBER furthermore enables the presentation of two more new works from dancer and programmer Christian Loclair (DE) and designer/ investigator David Benqué (UK).
Opening: Thursday 11/05, 8 PM / Exhibition: Friday 12/05 – 21/05
Extra program
On Friday 12th May, during the first FIBER festival day, De Brakke Grond opens an exhibition called Of Alchemy and Magic. Curator Karen Verschooren (STUK) shows a second act of Artefact 2017, at the invitation of FIBER and De Brakke Grond . The exhibition, with works from Tobias Revell, Frederik De Wilde, Femke Herregraven, RYBN.org and Verena Friedrich, investigates if concepts as ‘alchemy’ and ‘magic’ can help us in our relationship with technology, which by times is so complicated that it mesmerizes us.
Conference| Friday May 12th and Saturday May 13th | De Brakke Grond
The two-day international conference in De Brakke Grond gathers front runners in art, design and music, students and lovers to enjoy an immersive program of keynote speakers, artist talks, informal panels and demonstrations. On the Main stage we can find keynote lectures and presentations about today's subjects in art, technology and society. They will discuss the influence and applications of bots and artificial intelligence with artist-programmer Memo Akten (TR/UK) , internet artist Darius Kazemi (US) and Hannah Davis (US). Academic researcher and writer Jussi Parikka (FI/UK), artist-designer Femke Herregraven (NL) and filmmakers Semiconductor (UK) give presentations around the relation between deep time, matter and technology The Flemish technology philosopher Yoni van den Eede (BE) questions the ‘optimisation of thinking’ in our western culture. In the Rode Zaal (Red Space) en Tuinzaal (Garden Hall) FIBER collaborates with V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, to showcase young talents and studios from the creative industry.
LABS| Friday 12th of May till Sunday 21th of May | De Brakke Grond
Under the heading FIBER LABS a group of over 50 artists, designers, investigators, programmers, data specialists, architects and image makers join four LABs to work on prototyping new projects. Two special LABs are Choreographic Coding Lab from Motion Bank (The Forsythe Company) – in which dancers, programmers and choreographers investigate the fusion of technology and dance– and the two day Architectural Intelligence Lab of international architect and data-designer Refik Anadol.
FIBER program
Festival data May, 11 - 14 2017
May 11
Opening Exhibition* (20.00) Looiersgracht 60 *The exhibition is complimentary and can be visited from May 12 to May 21.
May 12
Conference day 1 De Brakke Grond
Concert night day 1 De Brakke Grond
May 13
Conference day 2 De Brakke Grond
Concert night and club night Shelter
May 14
More info available soon
FESTIVAL LINEUP (Per category in alphabetical order)
Artificial Afterlife (2016), Amy Whittle (NL) | Brume (2016), Sebastian Wolf (DE) & Michael Kugler (US/DE) | The PRESAGE™ Range (2017), David Benque (UK) | Liquid Solid (2016), Nikki Assmann & Joris Srijbos (NL) | MATERIAL WANT (2016), JODI (NL) & MPF (UK) | Random Access Memory (2016), Ralf Baecker (DE) | Satelitten (2015), Quadrature (DE) | States of Matter (2017), Studenten Digital Media at the University of the Arts Bremen (DE) | STONES (2016), Quadrature (DE) | TerraEconomics (2016 - 2017), Monique Grimond (US/NL) | Terra0 (2017), Paul Seidler, Paul Kolling, Max Hampshire (DE) | The Aerographer (2016), Luiz Zanotello | The Modelling (2017), Michiel Pijpe (NL) | Where Shapes Come From (2016), Semiconductor (UK) | Christian Loclair (DE)
AV & Music Performances
Ali Wade (UK) - live | ENA (JP) | Macular (NL) - live AV | Mattikk (NL) | natural/electronic.system (IT) | Pan Daijing (CH) - live | The Mylar Topology / Paul Prudence (UK) - live AV | Pita (AU) - live | The History of Darkness / Recent Arts (DE) - live AV | Sendai (BE) - live | Sky H1 (BE) - live | TVO (UK) - live | The Mirror & The Mask / Pierce Warnecke & Yair Elazar Glotman (DE) - live| Free Foyer programme: Arif Malawi (DE/NL) - DJ | Sébastien (FR) – DJ | Merites (NL) - DJ
Conference
Cecilia Jonsson (SW/NR) | Cis van Heertum [Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica] (NL) | Darius Kazemi (US) | David Benqué (FR/UK) | Denisa Kera (CZ) | Dr. Janneke Wesseling (Leiden University) [Critical Making], Florian Cramer, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Lucas Evers (Waag Society) en Marie-José Sondereijker (West Den Haag) (NL) | Femke Herregraven (NL) | Füsun Türetken (TR/NL) | Hannah Davis (US) | Jussi Parikka (FI/UK) | Maaike Bleeker [UU] (NL) | Martin Howse (UK/DE) | Memo Akten (TR/UK) | Michelle Kasprzak (CA/NL) | Nick Ervinck (BE) | Nicolas Nova (FR/CH) | Paul Prudence (UK) | Quadrature (DE) | Ralf Baecker (DE) | Refik Anadol (TR/US) | Gaby Wijers [LIMA] (NL) | Ruairi Glynn [Bartlett School of Architecture - Design for Performance & Interaction] (UK) | ScanLAB Projects (UK) | Scott de Lahunta [Motionbank] (DE) | Semiconductor (UK) | Stefanie Wüschitz (AT) | Thijs Hagendijk [UU] (NL) | Though Collider (NL/UK) | Tobias Revell (UK) | Yoni van den Eede [Culture, Emancipation, Media & Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel] (BE)
LABS
De Brakke Grond & FIBER invites: Choreographic Coding Lab [Motion Bank], Refik Anadol [UCLA] (TR/US) , Darius Kazemi (US) |Denisa Kera (SFIS, Arizona State University) (CZ/US) & Yair Reshef (TAMI & Shenkar college of art & design)
WATCH THE FESTIVAL TRAILER HERE
FIBER FESTIVAL
FIBER Festival attracts over 50 participating speakers and artists, 2500 visitors and a wide selection of local companies and organizations, who will connect in the city of Amsterdam to create a dense program of audiovisual performances, live/DJ sets, installations, conference talks and labs. FIBER connects with both a local and international audience of young, professional creators and enthusiasts who are operating at the frontiers of digital technology, to create or consume immersive and mind-bending experiences.
Through the lens of cutting-edge artistic works, FIBER explores the impact of technology on culture, society and nature. The festival gathers artists, thinkers and an adventurous crowd to experience new narratives that give insight to complex topics like artificial intelligence, bots, digital production techniques, hybrid materials and questions how technology can influence the future.
Theme FIBER Festival 2017 Prima Materia
The FIBER team retrieved its inspiration by fascinating over connections between todays experimental art and a renewed interest in the ancient field of alchemy. Through an extensive program of conference talks, a public exhibition, AV performances, and live electronic music, the festival explores the theme Prima Materia; alchemical thinking and making in art, design and music.
Prima Materia shows the work of artists and designers who question and reimagine the relationship between man, technology and matter. Technology has a profound effect on nature and can help us find a sustainable and emotional relation with the earth. At the same time it is getting harder and harder to predict our future as a human race in the context of fast technological developments of things like artificial intelligence, big data and decentralised networks - developments that feel almost like organic, all-encompassing forces of nature. The human scale and the tools that we use to interpret the world with are being radically transformed. We seem to be caught in the middle of invisible forces.
Back in the day alchemists speculatively worked with matter to understand the design of the universe. Their main focus was reaching the mythical Prima Materia, the metaphysical matter that would connect everything in the cosmos. For a long time alchemy was considered a mystical pseudoscience, but it now becomes unmistakably clear that it is a precursor for contemporary science and the development of our knowledge about matter. FIBER points out extraordinary similarities between the work of alchemists and the modern interdisciplinary artists, designers, programmers and engineers.
Tickets
The Early Bird passe-partouts are all sold out.
Regular tickets can only be purchased online from March 21st through this link: http://2017.fiberfestival.nl/tickets/
Confirmed Partners
Funding Partners: FIBER is kindly sponsored by
Sponsors
Mediapartners
Creative Partners: Location and Program partners
Note for the editorial team (not for publication):
De FIBER pressroom can be reached through this link. There you will find all previous press releases. Relevant images can be downloaded here
The FIBER logo can be downloaded here
For more information please contact:
Sandra van Beers, Marketing & Communications / sandra@fiber-space.nl / +31(0)646220363
Jarl Schulp, Director / jarl@fiber-space.nl / +31(0)641235624
]]>The new partners proudly present Sendai as their first name for the FIBER-Shelter concert night. Sendai’s post-techno machine music disorients, fascinates and confounds the listener. Sendai is the collaboration of Belgian producers Yves De Mey and Peter Van Hoesen, exploring the outer limits of electronic music. Combining De Mey’s modular synths and Van Hoesen’s sound design skills, they create a broken, minimalistic and uncompromised sound world. At FIBER Festival they will perform their latest album ‘Ground and Figure’ – a vast and spacious journey through texture and tone, atmosphere and abstraction. The full FIBER programme will be announced Tuesday 21st of March.
The performance and club night is a prominent FIBER Festival component. Shelter perfectly suits the other two cultural FIBER hotspots; Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond and exposition centre Looiersgracht 60. There are multiple motivations for the Shelter choice. Main reason is the excellent sound system which allows a refined listening experience. Second would be Shelter’s focus on new narratives within the Techno Landscape. Next to its musical cornerstones of distinct House and Techno, the young club’s programming is set on curating sounds from the vanguard of dance music, showcasing electronica from the defining outreaches of the industry. And that’s exactly where FIBER and Shelter found each other. It’s in these outreaches where they create an evening full of new and experimental live electronica.
Theme FIBER Festival 2017 Prima Materia
The FIBER team retrieved its inspiration by fascinating over connections between todays experimental art and a renewed interest in the ancient field of alchemy. Through an extensive program of conference talks, a public exhibition, AV performances, and live electronic music, the festival explores the theme Prima Materia; alchemical thinking and making in art, design and music.
Back in the day alchemists speculatively worked with matter to understand the design of the universe. Their main focus was reaching the mythical Prima Materia, the metaphysical matter that would connect everything in the cosmos. For a long time alchemy was considered a mystical pseudoscience, but it now becomes unmistakably clear that it is a precursor for contemporary science and the development of our knowledge about matter. FIBER points out extraordinary similarities between the work of alchemists and the modern interdisciplinary artists, designers, programmers and engineers.
Festival Program
The FIBER Festival tales place from May 11-14 at several locations in Amsterdam. The Full FIBER experience includes an extensive two-day program of conference talks, a public exhibition, two nights of AV performances and live electronic music.
The exhibition, organized together with the Looiersgracht 60, carries the same name Prima Materia and will be opened on Thursday evening May 12. The 2-day conference, the meeting place for genre-breaking makers, researchers and an adventurous audience, will start Friday morning at De Brakke Grond location. At night the Brakke Grond will transform into a magical concert hall where the FIBER public can wander through a setting of AV installations, live music performances and Dj-sets. The FIBER audience will spend Saturday night at the new club Shelter where they’ll be immersed in a series of live performances and a spherical club night with a special scenography and alchemic sounds from today’s club culture. We’ll close the festival weekender Sunday night with a special evening program.
FIBER FESTIVAL
FIBER Festival attracts over 50 participating speakers and artists, 2500 visitors and a wide selection of local companies and organizations, who will connect in the city of Amsterdam to create a dense program of audiovisual performances, live/DJ sets, installations, conference talks and labs. FIBER connects with both a local and international audience of young, professional creators and enthusiasts who are operating at the frontiers of digital technology, to create or consume immersive and mind-bending experiences.
Through the lens of cutting-edge artistic works, FIBER explores the impact of technology on culture, society and nature. The festival gathers artists, thinkers and an adventurous crowd to experience new narratives that give insight to complex topics like artificial intelligence, bots, digital production techniques, hybrid materials and questions how technology can influence the future.
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FIBER program
Festival data May, 11 - 14 2017
May 11
Opening Exhibition* (20.00) Looiersgracht 60
May 12
Conference day 1 De Brakke Grond
Concert night day 1 De Brakke Grond
May 13
Conference day 2 De Brakke Grond
Concert night and club night Shelter
May 14
Concert afternoon / night More info available soon
*The exhibition is complimentary and can be visited from May 12 to May 21.
For more information: www.fiberfestival.nl
The full line-up will be released March 21st.
Tickets
The Early Bird passe-partouts are all sold out.
Regular tickets can only be purchased online from March 21st through this link: https://fiberfestival.eventbrite.nl
Confirmed Partners
Funding Partners: FIBER is kindly sponsored by
Creative Partners: Location and Program partners
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Note for the editorial team (not for publication):
FIBER images are obtained through this link
The FIBER logo can be downloaded here
For more information please contact:
Sandra van Beers, Marketing & Communications / sandra@fiber-space.nl / +31(0)646220363
Jarl Schulp, Director / jarl@fiber-space.nl / +31(0)641235624
About FIBER
FIBER is an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary organization, that presents new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and the experimental and deeper corners of electronic music. The team works year round with a vibrant network of artists, designers, researchers and developers, who aspire to introduce mind bending experiences to a broad audience. Special attention goes out to the support of up and coming talents across numerous creative disciplines.
Next to small-scale events and exhibitions, the team organizes the recurring FIBER Festival, Coded Matter(s) series, the FIBER podcast en Studio Visits in Amsterdam, which brings together a diverse crowd of new talent, established artists and curious visitors. FIBER aims to explore hybrid forms of art, the power of media- and network technology, and encourages an exchange of views between the makers and their audience.
]]>FIBER x The Rest is Noise is supported by VSBfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Fonds 21.
PROGRAMME
Paul Jebanasam & Tarik Barri - Continuum (live AV)
In one of the best audiovisual performances of the year year, Paul Jebanasam presents his latest album "Continuum" with Dutch visual artist Tarik Barri, known for his live visuals for artists such as Thom Yorke, Nicolas Jaar and Monolake.
Scott Monteith (a.k.a. Deadbeat) - Qawwali Quatsch, live show with visuals by Rainer Kohlberger (live AV)
In the first exciting audiovisual performance of the evening, Scott Monteith (aka Deadbeat) and visual artist Rainer Kohlberger present Monteith's latest album 'Qawwali Quatsch" which appeared on Field Records early this month. The AV performance Qawwali Quatsch is commissioned by FIBER and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and presented in collaboration with Field Records.
The AV performance Qawwali Quatsch is commissioned by FIBER and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and presented in collaboration with Field Records.
Merites (Photic Fields / First Notions, NL)
Before and after the shows Merites (Photic Fields / First Notions, NL) will play his favourite music.
Pre-concert talks
Prior to the concerts there will be an introduction talk with all the artists, moderated by Kristina Andersen. Kristina Andersen is an artist and researcher based at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam.
INFO
Date: Friday January 6th, 2017
Time: 19:00 - 00:00
Start talk: 19:30
Start concerts: 20:30
Location: Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam (main room)
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: @fiberfestival
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/709988942482062/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FIBER-169577819730388/
Blijf up to date voor het laatste nieuws via de website en het Facebook event.
TICKETS
Deur €17,00 / CJP & Studenten €13,50
Ticket link: http://bit.ly/2f1DuHl
Full Programme
Marshmallow Laser Feast (UK) - Presentation
Robin McNicholas is part of Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF), a London-based design studio always looking to create ground-breaking experiences that immerse and amaze in completely unexpected ways. MLF is known for their spectacular projects such as Meet Your Creator and Forest. Recently they've turned towards using VR which resulted in a range of projects of which Robin will present three during the event; Lithium, In the Eyes of the Animals and Gravitational Waves & Exoplanets. All these projects explore the notion of the landscape from the ground till beyond.
LOLA Landscape Architects (NL) - Presentation
LOLA (LOst LAndscapes) Landscape Architects is an office for progressive landscape architecture. LOLA (LOst LAndscapes) designs and studies landscapes that are forgotten, derelict or on the verge of change. At Coded Matter(s) one of LOLA’s founders, Eric-Jan Pleijster, will explain how they develop sublime landscapes, the challenge of creating innovative shapes and why landscapes are a slow medium.
Catalogtree (NL) - Presentation
We often cannot see the layers of infrastructures – like energy, transportation or data networks – that have direct impact on the form and future of natural landscapes. During the event Arnhem based multidisciplinary design studio Catalogtree will present their work that visualises and maps these landscape transformations through data-visualisation and advanced cartography.
Julius Horsthuis (NL) - Screening
Julius Horsthuis is a visual effects (VFX) designer and fractal artist. After developing an interest in computer graphics he worked intensively on the VFX of many big Dutch films. The last few years Julius started experimenting with fractal environments created many short films, and immersive (VR) experiences, which have been exhibited in galleries and film festivals around the world. During Compiled Landscapes you can experience a special selection of Julius’ VR landscapes in the entrance hall of de Brakke Grond. Next to this we will show one of his short fractal films.
Theo Tagholm (UK) - Screening
Theo Tagholm is a motion graphics designer and art director based in London. His background in fine arts underpins his creative work and maintains a creative space for innovation. His film Plain Sight has been picked by the Vimeo staff and lead to Simulacra which will be shown at Compiled Landscapes.
Michelle Kasprzak (CA / NL) - Moderator
Our moderator Michelle Kasprzak has the talent to unravel complex issues and make them accessible for a broad audience.
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Expert Meeting
Prior to the evening programme there will be an expert meeting about Virtual Reality and the use of scanning technologies, such as LIDAR scanners and Kinects. Artists and designers use these tools in order to create hybrid VR experiences where 3D worlds are mingled with scanning data. We are especially interested how these tools have the potential to create new landscapes. We invite artists, designers, scientists, architects, 3D experts and developers to apply and share their experience and vision on VR as well as 3D scanning technologies and datasets. More info here.
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Info
Date: Thursday March 24, 2016
Time: 20:00 - 23:00 | Doors: 19:30
Location: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Tickets
Door: €16 / Presale: €14 / CJP & Students: €12
Coded Matter(s) #13: Compiled Landscapes tickets
Tickets are sold through the website of De Brakke Grond or at the door on the day of the event. CJP or student cards will be checked at the entrance.
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The blockchain is a decentralised ledger that forms the basis behind the controversial technology Bitcoin. The technology enables to send a message from one party to the other in which the integrity of the message isn’t affected. This is possible because the transaction is embedded within a decentralised system of computers that stores all the transactions. There are various applications to think off: from smart contracts, to alternative energy consumption contracts and well managed royalties for artists.
Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation, a global organization that looks at collaborative production practices that enable freedom, fairness and sustainability. He will contextualize these potentials as part of his ongoing research on peer-to-peer practices around the world, reflecting on how this phenomenon can contribute to a new social order that prioritizes achieving common goals over for-profit corporations.
With Michel Bauwens, Vinay Gupta, Primavera de Filippi, Jaromil with an introduction on the blockchain by moderator Michelle Kasprzak.
This event is made possible with the support of The Creative Industry Fund NL and The Art Of ImpactEXPERT MEETING
From 13:30 till 16:00, prior to the evening programme, an expert meeting will take place at de Brakke Grond. The central question will be: What does the blockchain has to offer for artistic and design practices? This meeting is initiated by FIBER, V2_ en de Brakke Grond and is meant for artists, designers and architects with some knowledge about the blockchain. Examples could be the distribution of work, (fractured) authorship, archives of work, speculative artworks that explore possibilities or pitfalls or new approaches to collaboration and public knowledge sharing. The meeting is by invitation only but you can pitch yourself a spot by filling out this online form. We’ll make a selection of the applicants upon which they’ll receive an invitation.
The expert meeting is part of de Brakke Grond’s All Future Memories, FIBER’s Coded Matter(s) and V2_’s Data in the 21st Century.
SPEAKERS
Michel Bauwens (BE) is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Bauwens travels extensively giving workshops and lectures on P2P and the Commons as emergent paradigms and the opportunities they present to move towards a post-capitalist world. http://p2pfoundation.org He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, who have organised major global conferences on the commons and economics. http://commonsandeconomics.org
Vinay Gupta (UK) has created disaster relief programs like STAR-TIDES with the US National Defense University and shares his expertise on open-source platforms. Gupta has also produced Hexayurt Country, a national plan to reconstruct Haiti after the earthquake. His projects, including Hexayurt, stem from devising Six Ways To Die, a best-practice guide to managing global systems during crises. Having started with E-Gold in the 1990s, he has now taken the lead in discussions of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether and the strengths of radical decentralization. Gupta holds the position of associate fellow at University College London’s Institute for Security & Resilience Studies and recently collaborated with the Guggenheim’s Azone project.
Primavera De Filippi (FR) is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of “governance-by-design” as it relates to online distributed architectures. Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergent decentralized technologies —such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based applications —and how these technologies could be used to design new governance models capable of supporting large-scale decentralized collaboration and more participatory decision-making.
Denis Roio (IT/NL) (aka Jaromil) is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. He has been involved in Bitcoin since the early days and since 2000 he has been dedicated to building Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit.Jaromil is leading D-CENT development of Freecoin, a blockchain-enabled digital social currency and has been invited at the reinvent.money event on the 26th of September by organiser Paul Buitink to explore the opportunities of Bitcoin beyond its function as currency. More info here.
Michelle Kasprzak (CAN/NL) is a curator and writer. She has written critical essays for HOLO, Volume, C Magazine, Rhizome, CV Photo, Public, Mute, and many other media outlets. She also founded one of the world’s leading art curating blogs, Curating.info (2006-2015). Most recently, Michelle curated No Limit, a show of new work by UBERMORGEN at the Kasseler Kunstverein. Michelle has held a range of curatorial roles at organizations such as V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), and New Media Scotland. Michelle has been a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) since 2008.
INFORMATION
Date: Do 25 feb 20:00 - 23:00 (Doors open: 19:45)
Price: presale €14,- / door €16,- / Combi-ticket (CM #12/#13) € 24,-
Location: Brakke Grond, Expozaal. Nes 42, 1012 KD, Amsterdam
Language: English
Expert Meeting: Do 25 feb 13:30 - 16:00 / More info: http://www.codedmatters.nl/workshop/expert-meeting...