Bertrand Gondouin - Performance

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!

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.

Blipp-blopp-festival at Lava

Bertrand Gondouin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:30:00 +0000

I'm Video Jockeying at Lava for the Blipp-blopp-festival!

I will play my 3D graphitti software (wiimote) with the 8bits scrachs of CrazyQ and the Gameboy deconstructed melodies of Nitro2k01, sunday, 28th of october - 16h30 to 20h00.

About the Blipp-blopp-festival:

Den 27 och 28 oktober anordnar Microdisko i samarbete med Lava och OXO Unlimited en tvådagarsfestival för chipmusik, breakcore och circuitbending.

Helgen kommer både att innehålla live-framträdanden och workshops där du själv får pröva på att skapa chipmusik och breakcore, samt att själv circuitbenda leksaker.

Workshops

Crazy Q - Atarimusik
nitro2k01 - Gameboymusik med Little Sound Dj
Veqtor - Breakcore med Renoise
Chris Loneberg - Circuit bending

Varje workshop kommer bestå av en intrduktion i ämnet och en chans att pröva på själv.
Alla workshops pågår under varje pass, utom Atari-workshoppen som bara går i pass 1 och 4.

Lördagen 27/10/07

19.30
Peter Ericsson | VJ bzz

20.15
Babylon Disco | VJ nino s

Söndagen 28/10/07

Wii remote + Bluetooth + Max-MSP + aka.wiimote + HTTP request + Apache + PHP + XML-RPC + SLS Second Life = 16 seconds delays

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:27:00 +0000

Proud of first experiments with the Wii remote (wiimote) and Max/msp (Videos), I´m experimenting now interactions between the wiimote and Second Life!

But 16 seconds delay is a bit too much for real time interaction. I need to find a better way.

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 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 and VJ Bertranol awarded by the Prix Möbius Nordica Experimental, Pixelache Highlights 2007

Bertrand Gondouin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Prix Möbius Nordica competition and Pixelache together decided to give special awards to some of the most interesting projects in the Nordic VJ Meeting.
The jury members were Eva Bischof-Herlbauer & Gery Herlbauer (Austria) from 4youreye / Eye|Con, Gabor Kitzinger aka VJ Rio Rokoko (Hungary) and Nordic VJ Meeting programme director Petri Ruikka.

- Propaganda from Estonia
Because of the energy of their VJ performance and their skill in interpreting the music into images and visual rhythms. Their work takes into account the essential elements of VJing: the space, the audience, the other performers and the music.

- VJ Bertranol / Grains & Pixels performance
Creating a new platform for and at the same time looking into the future possibilities of integrated audiovisual performance. Creative approach in integrating real-time footage into live performance on digital platform.

- Bottega Arete + VJ Samesame + Casper Obro
Creative collaboration by using several VJ outputs together in an interesting way in live performance. Fresh and unexpected footage and the skill in taking into account the relation between the footage and display set-up.

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.