Bertrand Gondouin - Lecture

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.

Audio report from Tomas Nygren, Pixelvärk 2007

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:30:00 +0000

Tomas Nygren has audio recorded some of the lectures at the PixelVÄRK festival, including mine!

Gondouin presented a variety of exiting projects. Most notably was his notion in a dance perfomance setup that the interaction with the dancer made all the effort to use advanced motion-tracking methods less successful compared to using an ordinary midi-control device, since using the midi-contoller maintained the direct contact between the performers.

Pixelvärk Seminar 5 Oct 2007

There is also an audio backup at archive.org.

PixelVÄRK presentation of custom interactive visuals software, 5th october 10-16.00

Bertrand Gondouin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0000

I will participate in the "pixelVÄRK seminar" at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, friday 5th october 10-16.00.
http://www.pixelvark.se/

I will present different visual synthesizers and physical interfaces and how I develop my own methods and aesthetics with them.
I will also perform live visuals at the Opening party at Landet on friday evening (More info below).

You're welcome !

PixelVÄRK is a festival for electronic art and subcultures.
The theme for the 2007 pixelVÄRk is aesthetics, tools and methods in VJ-ing and other underground media. The festival marks the end of the Game Art focus Mejan Labs has had during the early autumn of 2007, where art related to computer games have been discussed.

pixelVÄRK seminar 5th October 10am-4pm
Seminar on VJ-ing & underground aesthetics.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12, 4th floor (Royal Academy of
Fine Art’s new studios, former IASPIS studios).
Free entrance

pixelVÄRK opening party 5th October 8pm-1am
Hunden Katten Göken & Ponnyn at Landet.
Lm Ericssons Väg 27
126 37 HÄGERSTEN

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 at Reboot 9.0

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:00:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is invited to play at the reboot 9.0 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark! It will part of the Grains & Pixels massive European tour, with a following show in London at the Roxy bar and screen the 2th of june.

About reboot:

Calling all practical visionaries of the world!

It's time to reboot our minds once again; reboot9 will take place in Copenhagen Thursday, May 31st and Friday, June 1st 2007.
Two days away from implementing, away from the status quo. Two days together with old and new friends in an informal and open festival spirit...

THE CHALLENGE
The theme for reboot9 is "human?". A big word, but a word that saturates what's happening and all ready on a deeper level has been transcending reboot the last couple of years.
We're connecting to each others as human beings once again. We're building tools to empower humans - not institutions. We're creating new iconic collaborative human manifestations. We're finding ourselves as humans and our human voices. We're humanizing our organizations and our socities. We're reestablishing links to nature we'd long forgotten. We're looking at the world together as humans - not as consumers or workers.

So when all is in going away from mechanical industrial models to human natural models where this is leading us?. What is our shared understanding of "human?". How do we organize ourselves in human institutions and organizations?. How are our tools shaping us as humans, how are we shaping our tools. Is it leading us to chaos without organization and government or nirvana?. What do we as humans want to happen, what can we imagine?

reboot9 is about looking both backwards and forwards. Backwards because history has a tendency to repeat itself but also for staying power of the discussions that we had at reboot8, reboot7 and earlier even. Forwards in order to predict by implementing and to obsolete the pretensions we forget to dismiss.

Grains & Pixels at Pikseliähky // Pixelache 2007

Bertrand Gondouin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:00:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is invited to play at Pixelache 2007 ! 2007-04-01 15:00 Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki

Pixelache is a festival of electronic art and subcultures. Pixelache presents projects experimenting with media and technology from a broad range of disciplines: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. Pixelache focuses especially in presenting activities of various international grassroot networks and communities such as the VJ community, media activists, the open source community and the demoscene.The goal of Pixelache festival is to act as a bridge between the traditional creative disciplines and rapidly developing electronic subcultures.

CYNETart award 2006 ceremony

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:00:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is awarded with the SAP Special Recognition prize award (CYNETart Preis des Unternehmens SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG) at the international Festival for computer-based art 'CYNETart 2006' ! I will receive the price with Jacob and Kristofer from the mayor of the city of Dresden and the award sponsor SAP.

The award ceremony takes place on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 8 p.m. in the Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56, D-01109 Dresden, Germany