For SCOPE’s may edition, we put a spotlight to the upcoming 13th edition of
Live Performers Meeting in Rome, happening 23rd to 26th of may 2013.

We will talk about our own experiences there, why the meeting is important for Europe’s visual arts scene, and we are very happy to announce 2 visual performers/collectives that will give us a preview of brand new audiovisual performances recieving its premiere at this years LPM!

May 9th, 8pm, Panke Berlin.
Save the date!

Tokyo Data Collective – 20:00

Tokyo Data is a creative collective who understands its mission to engage emerging contemporary New Media artists and initiate transdisciplinary work between the universes of video art, acoustic architecture, performing arts, motion, interactive design, photography and graphic arts.

Their performance De Koog is a multi-media exploration that fuses together electronics and acoustics, light and sound, man and machine. It can be watched, touched, played, heard and experienced both as performer or audience. Its eyes and ears take in data from the surroundings and it responds to these stimuli with jittering visuals, harsh synthesis and animal screams. DeKoog involves Alexandre Maurer (Berlin/DE), Alexandre Gaeng (Zürich/CH) and Sam Andreae (Manchester/UK).

Visit Tokyo Data Collective on their LPM network profile:
http://flxer.net/tokyodatacollective

A-LI-CE – 21:00

A-li-ce, based in Paris, works as video designer, live performer and VJ since 2004 around Europe. She uses a bunch of techniques from paper, animation and video, bridging the gap from hyperrealities “wonderland” to sophisticated, dark visual worlds.

Her work deals with identity, humor, and acidity. She presented her work at audiovisual festivals like Mapping (Ch), LPM (It), Visual Berlin Festival (De), and Vision’R (Fr), including VJ solos and collective projects with ‘Homemade Collective’ and the duo ‘:NÄ:’. Her music videos and short animation movies have been screened in festivals as the International Animation Film Festivals of Moscow ( 2011) and Stuttgart (official music video selection, 2011), Cinemabrut (2010) and many more.

For this years LPM edition, she will premiere the Piece «Parade: Ouverture», which is the first act of the “Parade A/V live performance project”, inspired freely on “The Atrocity Exhibition” of the writer J.G. Ballard. In collaboration with the sound artist Swub, it deals with spam messages, white lights, birds, electricity, schizophrenia, and Abba music.

Visit A-LI-CE on her LPM network profile: http://flxer.net/a-li-ce

Pussykrew - 20:00

Duo Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas (Tikul & Jendrek), known collectively as Pussykrew, make art that eludes convention and merges the erotic and the ethereal with exquisite finesse. Using both visual and sonic media, the two artists marry the maximalist sensations of glitch with minimalist destructiveness to give performances that are beyond experimental. They are Berlin based artists who are collaboratively working within the area of new media. Their interdisciplinary practices range from audio-visual performance, live coding, multimedia installations to sound experiments, sensor based technologies and DIY electronics.

During their production of live visuals, video installations and videoclips they have collaborated with Leila, Darkstar (WARP Records) HTRK (Work, work, work Tour 2011 – Ghostly International), Raime (Blackest Ever Black) and Oni Ayhun amongst others.

In 2010 they’ve started their audio-visual noise project – Domestic Violence, which merges field recordings, live coding and audio-responsive glitches, by using self-made interfaces, controllers and patches. Domestic Violence performed in Finland, Germany, UK, Italy and Poland.

work by Tikul & Jendre has been presented at digital arts and video festivals around the world. They are constantly trying to challenge the viewer, through exploration of identity / queerness of human body / architectural objects and their transformations, synthetic-organic textures, glitch aesthetics, physicality of image and sound.Their works are attempting to bend the perception of time – intensify the senses and reactivate the dismissed areas of psyche.

Gabriel Shalom - 21:00

Gabriel Shalom is a director, audiovisual artist and composer living and working in Berlin, Germany. His signature work takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions (videomusic). Taking inspiration from musique concrète, he explores the hidden musicality of everyday objects, unusual handmade electro-acoustic instruments, and manipulation of traditional instruments. He understands video to be a fundamentally audiovisual medium and strives to create highly synaesthetic works. His five channel videomusical installation The Tosso Variations premiered in his solo exhibition at MU Eindhoven. He has written and spoken extensively on Hypercubism, his theory of object-oriented aesthetics. He has been commissioned by brands such as MINI, Sony and BMW Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, ZKM Karlsruhe and the CAMP Festival in Stuttgart. He is a member of the 2012 class of the Art Directors Club Young Guns.

In addition to his audiovisual work, Gabriel is a director of experimental narratives. His video essays are meditative reflections on the zeitgeist, often influenced by his theory of aesthetics, Hypercubism. His company KS12, founded together with partner Patrizia Kommerell, is a creative studio for experimental storytelling. KS12 has been commissioned by various media arts festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin), STRP (Eindhoven), and NODE Forum for Digital Arts (Frankfurt), as well as companies and organizations such as Wieden + Kennedy, British Council, BOX 1824 and Meiré und Meiré.

Kasia Justka aka pani K. - 22:00

Kasia is a one man studio, audiovisual composer, video-maker and live performer who loves to experiment. She is driven by a desire to find beauty in an ugly world and amplifies images, sounds and lights with her inner emotions, feelings, intuitions. Her work is a combination of the harsh and delicate. Electricity is what she is sure of and relies on. Making narrative cinematic concerts, she invents new paradigms of audio-visual performance, installation art and short films.

Kaska was born in Warsaw, was educated at the National Film School in Lodz (Poland), and now lives in Berlin. She has created visuals for Schneider TM, Murcof, Deadbeat, Lady Aarp, Makaruk, Vitor Joaquim and has performed her work at Electrovision (London), noise=noise, Transvisualia Warsaw, Cynetart Dresden, Unsound Krakow, wro, Hau and at the Volksbühne (Berlin).

At the moment she is working mostly on her own audio-visual projects and interactive installations.

Scope Sessions is aiming to head out to inspiring art festivals and do some artist interviews “on location”. The motivation for this Festival Specials started already some years ago, and we were contributing with our artist talks at Freemote Festival, Utrecht/NL 2011 (where we met Tarik Barri already), B-Seite Festival, Mannheim 2012 and LPM in 2012.

For this years LPM edition we applied already with our Scope Session format, and just got the feedback of our partner to push a bit the bells that YOU can still participate at LPM with a performance / vj set or just as a guest!

Follow the link to gather more information:
http://2013.liveperformersmeeting.net/participate

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 31ST !!

See you in Rome!

Aude Rose - 20:00

Aude Francois also called Aude Rrose is multi-disciplinary artist living between Paris and Berlin, working with performance, photography, sound and live video. She regularly presents her video performances in international festivals.

Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy and intimate universes, exploring various forms of interplay between body, images in motion, deconstructive narrations and self-mythology. Her performances articulate live scenography protocols integrating video as an environment medium, often using real-time camera feedback, considering the black box as a possible oneiric space, where sounds and images communicate in a poetic and narrative journey.

She has developed several successful collaborations with international acoustic and electronic musicians, sound and video programmers, producing series of audio-visual performances where she manipulates time and images in evolving structures.

Mey Lean Kronemann & David Sanz Kirbis - 21:00

Mey Lean Kronemann is a media artist from Berlin with a passion for robotics and emergent behaviour. Her works have been internationally exhibited and presented at media art festivals and conferences, and were awarded by Digital Sparks (Honorary Mention, 2008), Japan Media Arts Festival (Jury Selection Work, 2011) and Art of Engineering (prize award, 2012). Mey has studied Interaction Design in Malmo, Sweden, and Product/Interface Design in Potsdam, Germany, where she graduated in 2009, and was a research fellow in 2010.

David Sanz Kirbis is a multidisciplinary experimenter interested in how things work and in finding creative solutions to technical projects. He is currently working as researcher towards a PhD in the field of Art and Technology at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. With an eclectic background as computer technician, product design engineer, and independent filmmaker he is interested in design, mechanics, electronics, programming, robotics, philosophy and photography. David was recently hosted as fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, directed by Golan Levin, at the Carnegie Mellon University.

David and Mey are currently working on their project Tower of Babel, an emergent robotic sculpture that builds itself. A pack of small, autonomous robots is trying to climb on top of each other in order to form a tower. At some point, the tower gets too high and the robots fall down. This project is supported by Fundación Telefónica’s VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards.

t.b.a – 22:00

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez - 20:00

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist, multimedia specialist, and researcher from Brazil and the U.S., and currently based in Berlin. A Fulbright scholar at the University of Kansas, she pioneered a special program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Art, Design, Video & Film and Choreography. Her transmedia experiments led her to develop an artistic practice in performance art, installation, videoart, videodance and cameraless films. As a choreography student of the late Labanotation expert Janet Hamburg, she danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

She is currently collaborating with legendary electronic musician/producer A Guy Called Gerald for her interactive performance Coded Narratives, and with sound artist Derek Holzer will debut her live videomicrography performance.

Geso- 21:00

Also known as Pablo IA, is an active/creative mind involved in different art and design fields. As graphic designer and art director for his own studio GeeOhDee, as artist exhibiting his work in galleries and festivals (previously in collaboraton with his brother, Javier IA), as Dj, Vj and promotor of electronic music events and of course, as publisher and curator for his main project: Belio Magazine, an art publishing house and organization who runs exhibitions, concerts, festivals, conferences and workshops, apart of publishing magazines and books since 1999. Pablo IA actually lives and works in Berlin.

Geso is the moniker he uses for his most personal and experimental work, specially focused in video-art and visual performances. His videos are a combination of glitches, geometric graphics, landscapes and images from nature, evoking a short of lost paradise or residual image from a better world. The concepts that often dominate his work are related to different levels of communication and its paradoxes, the digital language and errors, usually revealing a connection with different aspects from human conscience and spirituality, like altered states of mind.

Alex Haw - 22:00

Alex will present a series of atmos projects that explore optical space, architectural interactivity, participatory surveillance and 4-dimensional interactivity – all at breakneck speed, with 1000s of slides.
Alex Haw is director of the award-winning UK art/architecture practice atmos

His work, which spans the scales from buildings to installations, masterplans to furniture, seeks a synthesis of mind & body – creating meaningful, pleasurable, enduring and immersive experiences.

Much of his work involves cutting-edge fabrication technologies and digital mapping, exploring the connectivity of people to their precise place in the world.