Cirkulacija 2 art tools fair

art tools fair

art tools fair

events 5/6 february in Rijeka and 9 february in Ljubljana at Cirkulacija2

from our side will take part:

Paula Pin, Spain
Dmitry Mrorzov, Russia
Nataša Muševic, Slovenia
Robertina Šebjanic, Slovenia
Boštjan Čadez, Slovenia
Dominik Mahnič
Borut Savski, Slovenia
Stefan Doepner, Germany/Slovenia

from Croatia:

Radiona, Croatia
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Information regarding the Rijeka event:

new:

Presentations in Rijeka: the whole thing is planned as a fair, with tables and stands where everyone can display their projects and interact with visitors; but, to add more dynamic to the whole event, we were thinking of giving each participant an opportunity to present his/her project(s) by simply putting on a spotlight and/or giving them a microphone so they could be in focus at that moment; there won’t be any stage for that purpose, so the participants don’t have to move from their place of display; presentation can be up to 25 minutes long, but also much shorter than that, and it can look however each participant wants – they can talk about the idea, the process of construction, show how it works… in other words, it doesn’t have to be in any way different from the moment when a visitor approaches to you and asks you about your project and how it works! So, it can be pretty informal and relaxed, without any stress

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technical requirements mentioned, there is a pretty powerful sound system installed at the venue, and we also have another one if needed. Tables, lights and power sources will be there!

Apart from Cirkulacija 2 and Radiona, in Rijeka we’ll have some local artists and enthusiasts presenting their work; also, AND from UK will bring 5-6 artists/projects from different parts of Europe (there is also a project from Korea that recognizes face forms from “looking” at clouds)…

The idea is to start preparing the venue on Thursday morning (February 4), because on Wednesday evening it will still be occupied. We will engage one or more technicians from the company we usually work with, so they will be at the disposal and can bring the necessary equipment we will need. We also plan to get volunteers that could help. So, we have the whole Thursday and big part of Friday to set up everything.

Fair will open on Friday at 5 pm. We plan to start with the half an hour project presentations at 6 pm (altogether 10 presentations), and then at 11 pm Radiona will start with the concert with their devices. We plan to end that day sometime around midnight.

On Saturday we’ll start at 10 am and begin with the second round of presentations between 11-12. Your performance can start around 8 pm.

We usually cooperate with the nearby restaurant so we’ll give you lunch and dinner coupons you can use there during you stay!

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Information regarding the Ljubljana event and the travel to and from Rijeka:

On the 4th in the morning around 10.00 the Ljubljana group would start to Rijeka, so far we’re planning to get a transporter with a driver. Meeting 9.30 at Cirkulacija2, Tobačna 5.
On Sunday the 7th we will drive back to Ljubljana latest at 11.00
We will have 2 days of presentation in Rijeka and we hope to have at least one evening performance event.
In Ljubljana we will have one day of presentation and a performance final party in the night.

Paula, Dmitry and both Synthomir guys from Radiona will stay at Hostel Park.

Participants, there projects and needs: (about participants from Croatia we don’t have much information yet)

Borut Savski /Cirkulacija2 will bring most of the small arduino systems/ gadgets:

1. Cirkulino midi sequencer (interface for time and pitch sequencing with enhanced functionality)
2. XGMidi synth module with LCD to play XG midi voices
3. Moire generator of visual moire effect with highpower LEDs
4. Wardenclyffe Tower sensorized sound generating piece (raspberry pi and arduino)

and maybe:
5. Bride’s Harp (rubber strings)

I will use a small mixer and recently built black box amplifier for sound

Together with Stefan the C2 positioned sound system:
1. A couple of IBalls wireless midi controllers with XYZ sensors
2. 2 pieces of XY positioned loudspeakers
3. A couple of IBalls wireless sensors to be used with computer

paula pin Pechblenda Lab . presentation

+ presentation of the HardGlam serie: diy tools for gynecological explorations

+ performance

Boštjan Čadez

Projection Scanner

is a MIDI controlled mirror which allows one to redirect the projection to any position in an area constrained by a cylinder shape. Its advantage over similar platforms is that it allows continuous rotation in one of the axes. it consists of 3d printed mechanics and a controller board based around a Teensy 3 microcontroller board.

Robertina Šebjanič
presents her DIY hydrophones.
She would like to go to record with the public the underwater sounds in Rijeka and then similar maybe in Ljubljana
+performance:
audio: Robertina Šebjanič
video Robertina Šebjanič and Lina Rica

Aquatic reminiscence, features underwater sound recordings, collected in rivers and seas (Donau in Linz, Adriatic sea and Norwegian Sea ). With experimental DIY hydrophones recorded underwater field recordings are imbued live during the performance into a new sound waves landscape.

Dmitry vtol Morozov

… synths(?), …

Nataša Muševic Dot

Fair: Sonorose
Nataša Muševič Dot will be presenting her latest experimental research project Sonorose (with Zavod Rampa) during which she intents to investigate the possibility of developing a zero-distortion organic shaped speaker based on the topology of flowers. Bionic acoustics being the main field, the author experiments with developing phase plugs and speaker driver surface that would enable all different sound wavelengths to sum up more accurately than on conventional drivers. Speakers shaped like flowers will be 3d modeled based on the acoustic properties of different sound wavelengths. The author opens up the debate and invites the observers to think about which flower would suit as the origin for a perfect speaker and why. She will exhibit her organic shaped speakers built until now and showcase the importance of bionic shapes used for sound.

Performance: Dot will be presenting an experimental sound performance based on the material from her upcoming music releases with various sounds from etno,digital noise landscapes,choirs and effects all recorded by the author. The mix of tribal sounding spaces with experimental noise will take you on a minimal journey through a sound-field composition. The author poses a question of our tribal identity in this digital world. Although our tribes have moved to the internet, is there any weight to the sound of human chanting still there? Does a digital world include the sound of people at all?

Dominik Mahnič

DIY LED and laser dia-projectors

Mahnič will present his development on different mobile, low cost hand dia-projectors and possibility of use.

Stefan Doepner / Cirkulacija2

1. sonicPartner – autonomous driving robot platform with bluetooth soundsystem
2. midiRegister – a 8 fader MIDI interface, inspired by pipe organ registers, with MIDI editing
3. stringBaton – 2 models of a simple made one string guitar with relay-coil pick up
4. forceBoard – a 8 force/pressure sensor MIDI interface for synthesizer and computer.

Together with Borut the C2 positioned sound system:
1. A couple of IBalls wireless midi controllers with XYZ sensors
2. 2 pieces of XY positioned loudspeakers
3. A couple of IBalls wireless sensors to be used with computer

I will bring my own small sound system and a PC, will need a bigger table and electricity

Radiona

Radiona / Makerspace – Association for Development of ‘do-it-yourself’ Culture has been founded in order to enhance the visibility of makers’ open source culture and self sustainable production, as well as with an aim of connecting all possible fields of art, science and technology. The objective here is to create new realities of networked and collaborative intermedia and new media practices in line with world trends such as DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIWO (do-it-with-others). Radiona.org focuses its activities on education, research processes, artistic projects, curatorial practices, international and domestic inter-sector collaborations, renewable systems and social awareness related issues…

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Artists bios:

Boštjan Čadež (b. 1979 in Ljubljana) is an intermedia artist. He studied industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. During his studies, he received an award for outstanding accomplishment for the design of the Sporty tyre, which is still produced by the company Sava. At the same time, he was active as a graffiti and street artist, and he published three compilations of audio reactive animations on the website of Winamp, a very popular mp3 player at the time. With the interactive computer toy Line Rider, designed under the supervision of Professor Zdravko Papič, he had success in the global market and for this work he received a prestigious award for innovation at the computer game developers conference in San Francisco. Afterwards, in collaboration with artist Velibor Barišič, he took part in the PPP Box project in which major galleries at home and abroad exhibited the works of several dozens of artists. Since 2009, he has been focusing on the field of real-time generated and generative computer graphics.

Nataša Muševič Dot is an multimedia artists and a music producer from Ljubljana(Slovenia) currently working on the field of experimental acoustic research. She finished her sound engineering studies in UK in 2008 and has been co-running Immigrant Recordings during her years abroad. Her music has been supported by the likes of Richard Dorfmeister and Laurent Garnier. Since Nataša moved back to Slovenia she has been working on both collaborative experimental multimedia art projects such as Magnetic Matrix (with Marko Batista), Sonosthesia (with Jernej Marušič), Hacking Households (BIO50 group) and solo projects like Intervals (Križevniška Church, LJ) and Trees (Gallery of Modern Art, LJ), produced by Društvo Ljudmila and Zavod Projekt Atol. Nataša is also one of the original co-founders of Poligon Maker Lab and an eager CC Slovenia – Public Lead representative. Her latest sound installation entitled Trains is currently exhibited at Kersnikova ulica in Ljubljana by Kapelica Gallery.

Robertina Šebjanič (SI) based in Ljubljana/ intermedia artist, is working in the cross field of art – technology – science, with special focus on Living systems ( Marine environments). Her project are realised as: AV performances, noise/sound art, symposiums, installations, immersive environments…The context for her ideas and concepts is often realized in collaboration with other authors (artist, scientist, humanist, makers, hackers…), and through interdisciplinary and informal integration embodies in her work. She is member of Hackteria Network, Ljudmila, UR Institute and Theremidi orchestra.

::vtol:: is a project of the Moscow media-artist, musician and engineer of strange-sounding mechanisms – Dmitry Morozov. Starting in mid 00s, Dmitry actively began using DIY and circuit-bent instruments for his own music projects, as well as making instruments for other musicians and media artists at the same time.He is the first serial music and video synthesizer producer in all of post-soviet territories, after the collapse of USSR. Besides making music and instruments, Dmitry creates audiovisual art-installations and advocates circuit bending and DIY electronic in Russia by means of lectures and workshops. As artist and musician he has participated in many art festivals and gigs in Russia, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey, USA, China, Hong Kong, Lithuania and Israel.

Paula Pin je transhekfeministična performerka in raziskovalka. Iz likovne umetnosti je diplomirala v Barceloni in Sao Paulu. Njeno ustvarjanje sega od risanja prek abstraktnih videov in predelovanja elektronskih naprav do raziskovanja na mejah biologije, umetnosti in queer znanosti. Interaktivne kinetične skulpture, imerzivna okolja, avdiovizualne instalacije, performans in direktna akcija so zvrsti, ki jih uporablja za odpiranje novih kanalov za posredovanje želja in občutij, vedno s telesom v središču, povezujoč naravo in tehnologijo.

Dominik Mahnič (1981) je leta 2008 diplomiral iz slikarstva in videa na ALUO v Ljubljani, leta 2013 pa na isti fakulteti zaključil magistrski študij videa. Je ustanovitelj zveze mestnih jagrov, vodič po kraškem podzemlju, krajinski slikar ter razvijalec dia-projektorjev.

Stefan Doepner, born 1966 in Bremen, studied painting, experimental film and intermedia arts at the University of Arts Bremen. Doepner primarily works in the field of technology based art, robotics and sound. Since the early 1990s he has confounded several art groups and initiatives: Verein23, SOPHIE studio gallery, and Media AccessBureau (all in Bremen); f18institute for Art, Information and Technology in Hamburg; Obrat and Cirkulacija 2 in Ljubljana. Since 1997 he collaborates with Stelarc. Doepner participated at the documenta 9 project Van Gogh TV (1992); exhibited at Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2006); Smart2006, Bremen; Synthetic Times: Media Art China, Beijing (2008); Ars Electronica, Linz (2008); Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana (xxx); MedienKunstLabor, Kunsthaus Graz (with Cirkulacija 2, 2009).
With the f18institut’s Playground Robotics project he exhibited in Basel, Bern, Solothurn and Ljubljana (2004). Between 2010–2012 Doepner worked with Marc Dusseiller and Boštjan Leskovšek on the NanoŠmano project on nano scale material, life-forms and tools. With Cirkulacija2 he realized the total art platform project (2010–2013); 2014-15 the international art_sound festival The Noise is Us in Ljubljana.

Borut Savski, born in Ljubljana in 1960, is an intermedia artist who places great emphasis on sound – the combination of technical solutions for unorthodox instruments and autonomous audiovisual structures/sculptures. The sound experiments in the Radio Študent studio in Ljubljana since 1994. In 1999, he presented the first cybernetic sound installation “Sound Biotope” in the Kapelica gallery in Ljubljana. His essay “Sound” as a metaphor which encompasses the author’s core preoccupations. Later, he continued developing independent concepts and instruments and collaborations with other artists. In the period from 2006 to 2010, the worked on writing the music for three dance performances by Mateja Bučar. In 2006, he co-organized the Intermediate Spaces festival with KUD Trivia. In 2007 he co-founded the intermedia initative Circulation 2. Collaboration on the project Etnobanda. After 2010, he collaborated with Bogdana Herman on the project of Newly-Composed Slovenian Folk Songs. A series of interactive autonomous structures/sculptures High-Tension Structures. Currently focusing on haptic interfaces and interactive mechanisms.

Radiona / Makerspace – Association for Development of ‘do-it-yourself’ Culture (Združenje za razvoj kulture “naredi sam”) je bilo ustanovljeno z namenom, da bi povečalo prepoznavnost kulture odprte kode in samooskrbne proizvodnje ter da bi povezovalo vsa mogoča področja umetnosti, znanosti in tehnologije. Cilj je ustvariti nove realnosti mreženih in kolaborativnih intermedijskih in novomedijskih praks v skladu s svetovnimi trendi, kot sta DIY (naredi sam) in DIWO (naredi z drugimi). Radiona.org se pri svojem delovanju osredotoča na izobraževanje, raziskovalne procese, umetniške projekte, kuratorske prakse, mednarodna in domača medpodročna sodelovanja, obnovljive sisteme in vprašanja, povezana z družbeno ozaveščenostjo.

Cirkulacija² je interdisciplinarni in večmedijski center za produkcijo in predstavljanje tehnološko podprte umetnosti. Deluje kot kulturno umetniško društvo oz. umetniški kolektiv, aktiven na področjih tehnološko podprte umetnosti, robotike in zvoka. Projekti, ki jih razvija so umetniške narave, pri čemer je pomemben del njegove dejavnosti tudi razvoj lastne tehnologije (naprave, programiranje, prototipi ipd.). Njegovo delovanje je mednarodno vpeto, za svoje inovativno delo pa je kolektiv prejel tudi Zlato ptico 2009, ki jo podeljuje Liberalna akademija. Jedro skupine tvorijo člani (Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek, Borut Savski), skupina pa je za izvedbo posameznih projektov razširjena tudi z drugimi umetniki, tehnologi in inženirji. Kolektiv Cirkulacije² je pomembna stalnica ljubljanske intermedijske in splošno kulturne ponudbe predvsem zaradi raziskav v sferi socialnih eksperimentov. Z vztrajnim redefiniranjem iskrenega sodelovanja med umetniki ter na relaciji ustvarjalec – konzument kulture, proizvaja nova razmerja in uspešno figurira kot originator inovativnih situacij. Intelektualna in razvojna neodvisnost pozicionirata Cirkulacijo2 kot svojevrsten etični kompas celotne intermedijske scene ter kot trajni opomnik na družbeno relevantnost kulturne produkcije.