LIVE A/V : PERFORMANCES AUDIOVISUELLES

LIVE AV

(english below)

Hors-série bilingue (français/anglais) dédié aux performances audiovisuelles.
MCD – Musique & Cultures Digitales publie un numéro hors-série bilingue (français/anglais) dédié aux performances audiovisuelles. Cette édition, réalisée en partenariat avec les festivals Némo – Paris-RP (France) et Elektra – Montréal (Canada) et avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DDAI), vise à rendre compte de la diversité et de la créativité d’un milieu qui constitue un espace de convergence et d’expérimentation entre les disciplines artistiques, entre l’image et le son. Le hors-série #04 A/V est le témoin d’un mouvement dont les hybridations et les développements artistiques et technologiques ne sont qu’à leurs débuts.
Au programme de ce numéro : des articles de fond pour décrypter les performances A/V à travers une différenciation des pratiques live, un panorama européen des performances audiovisuelles, les nouvelles tendances dans les arts visuels, le cinéma live, le point de vue de deux directeurs de festival – Némo & Elektra – vitrines vivantes de ces nouvelles pratiques… ainsi que les portraits des 50 artistes phares de la scène A/V :
Abstract Birds, Addictive TV, AntiVJ, Antoine Schmitt, Byetone, Carsten Nicolai, Cécile Babiole, Cellule d’Intervention Métamkine, chdh, Chris Salter, Defasten, Demolecurisation, D-Fuse, Edwin Van Der Heide, Evelina Domnitch & Dimitry Gefland, Exyst, Frank Bretschneider, Gangpol & Mit, HC Gilje, Herman Kolgen, incite/, Jean Piché, Joachim Montessuis, Jodi, Julien Ottavi, Kurt Hentschläger, LAb[au], Louis Dufort, lsd room, Matthew Biederman, Mikomikona, Mylicon/EN, Otolab, PurForm, Quayola, RKO, RYbN, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Sati, Synchronator, Tasman Richardson, Telcosystems, TeZ, The Light Surgeons, Transforma, TvEstroy, Ulf Langheinrich, UVA, XLR project, Yro, Yuki Kawamura.
Egalement dans ce numéro hors-série, un agenda des festivals internationaux dédiés à ces pratiques, qui sera actualisé sur le portail digitalarti.com et complété par le Guide des festivals numériques (MCD sortie mai 2010).

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(English)
LIVE A/V : The special issue published by MCD, dedicated to audiovisual parformances.

To mix sound and images in real time… The art of audiovisual performance has evolved in tandem with technology; we’re now building multimedia tools that can synchronize images and sounds, and creating instantaneous visuals using live cameras, internet images (WJs: Web jockeys*), even Google Earth satellite images (Satellite Jockey). From immersion to interaction, the spectator also plays an essential role in this artistic creation, which, in the beginning of the XXIst century, is only just emerging from its cocoon.

Musiques & Cultures Digitales <MCD>, via its numerous publications, has spent the last 7 years highlighting figures on the digital arts scene, and, today, is offering you this special edition, which will chart the progress of this contemporary art form. In an effort to decipher this artistic practice, which « treats eyes (not only) like ears », we’ve selected, for your consideration, contrasting, and complementary, viewpoints from various journalists, artists, academics, and other personalities closely involved in this field.

Thus, Mia Makela comments on Live Cinema, a new term which was coined recently to describe audiovisual performances; she analyzes its language and the composition of its images, contrasting it to those used in the cinema and in musical compositions. Blanca Regina deciphers new trends in VJing and the variety of visual arts. Laurent Catala shines a semantic spotlight on the diversity of terms (A/V performance, live, VJing, etc.) used to describe technical, artistic, and historical realities that often don’t concur. Gilles Alvarez re-inserts the notion of « performance » in a historical context, insisting on the « spectacular » nature – in terms of stagecraft – of the live image. Finally, taking into account aesthetic, cultural and social changes, Alain Thibault probes the future of AV performances, in particular within the context of digital art.
As we can « see », the image we’re generating of live AV is not static, but animated, resulting in a pluralistic definition.

From theory to practice: over fifty portraits of artists from the A/V scene will help us to better understand the diversity of practices and the wealth of artistic expression. This international panorama is not, of course, an exhaustive one. It will be supplemented and updated, by the online community at <www.digitalarti.com>.
The same can be said of the selection of international audiovisual performance festivals, to be completed by the new bilingual edition of the 2010/2011 Digital Festivals Guide (to be published in May 2010).

We would like to give special thanks to our partners, the french Ministry of Culture, Nemo/Arcadi and Elektra.
With 52 Portraits of Artists from the A/V Scene :
Abstract Birds, Addictive TV, AntiVJ, Cécile Babiole, Matthew Biederman, Frank Bretschneider, Byetone, Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, chdh, Defasten, Demolecurisation, Evelina Domnitch & Dimitry Gefland, Louis Dufort, D-Fuse, Exyst, Gangpol & Mit, HC Gilje, Kurt Hentschläger, Ryoji Ikeda, incite/, JoDi, Yuki Kawamura, Herman Kolgen, Ryoichi Kurokawa, LAb[au], Ulf Langheinrich, lsd room, Mikomikona, Joachim Montessuis, Mylicon/EN, Carsten Nicolai, Otolab, Julien Ottavi aka The Noiser, Jean Piché, PurForm, Quayola, Tasman Richardson, RKO, RYbN, Chris Salter, SATI, Antoine Schmitt, Synchronator, Telcosystems, TeZ, The Light Surgeons / Christopher Thomas Allen, Transforma, TvEstroy, UVA United Visual Artists, Edwin Van Der Heide, XLR project, Yro

140 pages
bilingual
english / french

Avalaible :
Print and digital format (pdf)

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