Italy Bound – Code_In_Motion & Tomorrow Now

Tomorrow I head off to Italy to participate in a couple of events that have code based generative art works with sound responsiveness as the main theme.

The ‘2007 edition of Code_in_Motion, part of the electronic arts programme of Club to Club festival, curated by Associazione NADA, deepens its survey about code as a graphic creative tool and its interaction with sound in clubs.’ I’ll be joining Andreas Köberle (Eskimoblood) in Turin on the 9th November where we will give a short talk about our work, then later in the evening present a night of real-time visuals, along with Claudio Sinatti, in three of Turin Clubs to the sounds of minimal tech house.

Further south in Venice at the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, ‘Tomorrow now – Engage the code’, will include performances by Marius Watz + Alexander Rishaug, TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci) and myself (Transphormetic) where ‘personally programmed software allows for an audio-visual performance stream in real time’. The event, part of a program of conferences, Tomorrow now – Contemporary Artistic Practices in Digital Culture, takes place at the Junghans Theatre on 13th November 2007.

Connecting the two events are Fabio Franchino and Andrea Clemente, two members of the cultural Association NADA who will be providing a workshop at the former event on sound reactive generative art and will be lecturing at the latter. NADA deals specifically with software art and is the developer of Code_in_motion, ‘The project, which gathers artists, designers and programmers from different cultural and professional backgrounds, explores the potentialities of programming as a means of generating new graphics and its possible interactions with electronic sounds’