Bertrand Gondouin - Collaborative

Växthusprojektet - Greenhouse Project - Dramatiska Institutet

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:30:00 +0000

I'm invited by the scenographer Johan Rödström to create an interactive video for his "Greenhouse project" at Dramatiska institutet. I'm going to work with wireless accelerometers, thanks to the Lilypad Arduino!

Multimedia as a helping device in dance teaching and choreographic process

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0000

I'm giving a workshop and lectures at the Choreography Department of Tallinn University,Estonia.24-26th april 2008.

What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion. Can the body function as a visual instrument ?

Topics:

Presentation of the Laeterna Machine Digital Dance Collective
Overview of electronic devices, sensors and their usage
Overview of mainstream electronic devices and their usage
Live video mixing history and interactive visuals software
The virtual space: Social Networks and VR
Drawing in space: from gesture to artificial intelligence

Workshops:

Live Video Editing, Motion Tracking, Video Publishing on the internet, 3D drawing with the Wii Controller. and my Tag Cloud!

Grains & Pixels Partner of Post Me_New ID

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is partner of the Post Me_New ID research project!

Post Me_New ID

An action research project with a focus on the future of the body

network, create and share
Post Me_New ID examines the complexity of 21st century European identity through an exploration based on the effect of digital technologies of the body and identity. An active and public Blog is fed by a series of debate led Research Engines with a Forum, Book and DVD as the end products. In addition a series of Creation Processes will result in a public Installation / Performance.

Post Me_New ID is a co-production between body>data>space (London, UK), CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), TMA | Trans-Media-Academy Hellerau (Dresden, Germany) and Kibla (Maribor, Slovenia) supported by the European Union within the Culture 2007 Programme.

Post Me_New ID practically explores the physical and digital social networking of creation processes for interdisciplinary artistic projects and envisions the artistic outputs of generations to come.

This project is a driver for a learning exchange and knowledge transfer in a diverse group of skilled experts. It brings together artists, curators, academics, psychologists, creative technologists and new media producers working in a value chain of shared expertise - from process to product and to the public.

What is the current and future condition of the post-human body?
What is the relationship between identities and digital culture?
How will digital and physical mobility affect and interact with future gender ideologies and multi-cultural scenarios?
How will the creative participation of audience as players (not just spectators) affect and change artistic processes, the tools in use and the culture created?

We are researching and exploring the following key themes:

Wearables / Prosthetics / Robotics
Telematics / Generative / Real Time
Next ID / Multi Selves / Avatars
Monsters /Heroes - human / non-human / the “other”
Engendered bodies - shifts in gender psychologies

The long-term aim of the project is a sustained knowledge network that will foster understanding of individual as well as collective identities rendered by 21st digital culture.

The 14 partners for Post Me_ New ID are:

A4-nulty priestor - Bratislava
Brunel University - London,UK
Charles University - Czech Republic
Grains and Pixels - Sweden
Hellen Sky - Australia
Leeds University - UK
M2F Creations - France
Multiplace - Slovakia
PROJECT DCM Foundation - Romania
Rehearsal.org and Ignite - London,UK
ResCen Middlesex University - London,UK
SKA CULTURE - China
Swap-Project - Portugal
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music - Tokyo, Japan

FRINGE

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000

I'm performing at the Fringe!

with Nils Claesson, Johan Mattsson, and the nano
technology students from Konstfack.

For more information about Fringe gatherings please visit http://www.fringe.nu

The idea of fringe is to provide a meeting point for participants of the local new media art scene in Stockholm.

Fringe events always contain a number of presentations - by the fringe people, to the fringe people. Sometimes these are just regular presentations, but sometimes installations, performances, happenings, dance, screenings or other formats. There's always something to drink and usually something to eat. Additionally, fringe organizes workshops and other events.

For more than four years fringe has brought together people, many of them from the Interactive Institute Play Studio and the Art and Technology department at Chalmers in Gothenburg. Many of their members have now moved to Stockholm and decided to bring the fringe with them and connect it to the already existing local media scene.

The Stockholm Fringe is supported by the Interactive Institute and will also attempt to function as a platform to distribute knowledge in the form of workshops and the like.

Interdisciplinary Studies Course, Konstfack, Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0000

I'm guest lecturer at Konstfack for an Interdisciplinary Studies Course organized by Nadia El-Imam (more info below). I will present a short history of live visuals production tools and software + projects I'm involved in. Students will be invited to mis/use my "Sramble" software using their own digital materials. Scramble will be used in an semi-immersive environment / fake Second Life using the Wii remote control as the main control interface.

Course Background:

As we spend more and more of our time socialising and conducting the business of our everyday lives Online, we see the rise of economies of the virtual; over the past eight years alone, Real-money trade of virtual property ('RMT') has burgeoned into a 2 Bn USD market. With the emerging visibility of new relationships and communities we see the emergence of new forms of ownership related to the accumulation of meta-data; these can be seen as attempts to obtain outwardly extending, all- encompassing ownership of information as opposed ownership of content, or enclosures of information. In order to identify and meet the challenges these developments pose to our lives in general and work in particular, we need to understand human experience in these environments. Exploring relationships between embodiment and enclosure as related to ownership is a central concern, obliging us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied contexts.

Course Description:

We are de-constructing idea of ownership as related to embodiment and the boundaries of integrity or ìthe state of being wholeî. This obliges us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied environments. With its central concern with the implications of ìpost humanî experience and embodiment, the course finds its natural home and setting in Second Life (SL), the Linden Labs online platform, and students are expected to participate in related seminars and lectures. Students are also expected to make presentations that explore and relate the different aspects of implementation using the Second Life platform with ones they make in a designated physical space.

Grains & Pixels Lecture at the Open in Process event, London

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:30:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is giving an open lecture on AI in the context of performance at the Open In Process Event in London.

Open in Process body>data>space | Tue 5th June 2007 | 6.30-9.30pm | 3GBP

body>data>space are hosting two more exciting 'Open in Process' events in May & June. These nights take place as live open debate & presentation events focusing on the making processes for interactive arts. Speakers for the 5th June - Grains & Pixels (Sweden) working with AI & performance and Paul Sermon (UK) well known internationally for his pioneering work with telematics. More info & how to book

body>data>space merge live audio-visual interaction with telematics and the new generation of intelligent materials and wearables computers. body>data>space takes installations and live performances into large-scale public environments and architectural builds, shifting the relationship between the artist, the media/content and the user/audience.

Grains & Pixels rehearsal in the Placard: Live cinema without the cinema

Bertrand Gondouin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

the placard headphone festival → 2007 → PlacardX -Pixelache helsinki - saturday

Grains & Pixels is having a rehearsal during the Placard Headphone festival. It's almost impossible to play without the visual feedback, but that's the challenge!

.16:00 (EEST) .Grains & Pixels. - .Grains & Pixels. - (+) - .Live cinema without the cinema.

Dance at school with Sys-Org

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:37:00 +0000

2004-06-03/04 Albi (fr) - salle de Pratgraussals
Organisée par l’équipe départementale des formateurs de l’Education Nationale en éducation physique et sportive, en partenariat avec l’Association Départementale pour le développement des Arts, l’Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Danse du Tarn, les villes d’ALBI, CARMAUX, CASTRES, GAILLAC, MAZAMET.

http://www.laeterna.net