open_digi

'open_digi' events aim mix live digital artists and activists working online and from other digital media, talking about and showing their work and ending with a digital jam session with visual projections and sounds mix. open_digi home base is Brixton, South London.

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REFEREE's MATCH REPORT ... "Though everyone is either punch-drunk, or plain drunk, a winner has to be chosen. Clearly UNOSUNOSYUNOSCEROS won the first round, but considering the penalties he accumulated and SUBCULTURE'S final death blow, the results are far from certain. The ref, unable to reach a verdict, left the decision in the hands of the public, who are slightly more in favor of SUBCULTURE." ... read more y en espagnol

	Buses 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343 Train: Peckham Rye Station

SUM(1,4,6) is one of the closing events of node.London March '06 new media arts season at the huge and diverse spaces of the Area10 arts venue (3D tour here) in Peckham, south east London. Starting in the early afternoon and into the night the programme will host meetings, concerts, digital shorts, installations, performances, VJs and DJs, laptop musicos, cyber-wrestlers, CCTV hackers and circuit benders + much more.
For full programme check below or http://www.nodel.org/events.php?ID=1

check out arcangel
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Arcangel (Mexico City) vs SUBCULTURE (LA). Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in the wrestling ring to hack a web page live. The artists will duel – using images, sounds, flash, HTML and javascript – for two hours assembling and disassembling the work and coding of their opponent. Lele Luchetti (from Valencia), announcer/referee, will comment live as the battle develops. The winner will be resolved by popular acclaim.

FIGHT SITE LIVE HERE http://www.infomera.net
from 21:00 GMT Saturday April 1st '06

Use the email inputs to left and right to choose your net champion and at the SUM(1,4,6) event you will be presented with a special FREE fan item from your champion of choice.

check out subculture
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SUM(1,4,6) includes

DIGITAL PERFORMANCES
10pm-11pm and 11.30pm-12.30pm (Main Hall)
NET.CAMPEONES (see above)

9pm - 10pm (Main Hall)
live CCTV manipulation and live city sounds from clebrated London based net-artist Stanza

VISUALS
1am-2am
(Main Hall and other times in Sawmill)
multiAmaze 3D sound sensitive animated visuals from London digital and network artist, atty

1am-2am
(Main Hall and other times in Sawmill)
CLAVE 3Dimensional interactive datascapes of video and audio data from Ruairi Glynn

1am-2am
(Main Hall and other times in Sawmill)
PIXEL LAB Processing, 3D and other digital animated visualisations from Elout de Kok (Amsterdam)

SCREENINGS
exploding cinema presents full programme of digital screenings http://www.explodingcinema.org 4pm and repeat 9.30pm

FEET UP
Slackers Lounge with Turkish Tea stall and OpenLab workshop 3pm onwards

INSTALLATIONS
most installations will only be shown during the afternoon and early sessions, 3pm to 9pm

CYCLONE.SOC by Tom Corby & Gavin Baily

node drawings #4 & #5 low-fi
spax-oid Cube Joel Cahen & Julian Ronnefeldt

Human Conducted Tele-Vision Apparatus Georgia Chatzivasileiadi

Unfurnished Mónica de Miranda

Radio Noodles Safetycat

Cityscapes: Social Poetics Public Textualities Maria Mencia (AHRC funded)

Times of Play Edgar Oliveira

Anaraknaphobia Renegade Electrons

Folk Songs for the Five Points The Folksong Collective

SCAN featuring PeacePod and Talkaoke http://www.scan.fm

Around One (changing Winds) Paulo Henrique

Deptford TV Adnan Hadzi

SOUNDS
1am-2am (Main Hall)
Man from Uranus live analog wig out

1am-2am (Sawmill)
Neuschul the full acid breakfast badger-core audio visual set from cornwall’s finest farm hands

11.30pm-1am (Sawmill)
Lektrolab Dance Party End of term dancefloor monster mash. DJs Emma Davidson and Paul B. Davis of Lektrolab

11pm-11.30pm (Main Hall)
openlab->cracktuxan audio/visual performance using only free and open source software from OpenLabChun Lee and Olivier Laruelle in collaboration with OpenLab

10.30pm-11.30pm (Sawmill)
Death Biscuit eejeet rave, busted disco and familiar mutants.

10pm-10.30pm (Sawmill)
slub projecting their screens for the curious, but are just making music as best they can.Ade Ward and Dave Griffiths

9pm-10pm (Sawmill)
Noakes Pressure vs Yimkinan augmented DJ set/distressed signals and a little live manipulationDavid Lintern and Projector

7.30pm - 9.30pm (Music Room)
Improvised music programme Benedict Drew, Matt Davis, Mattin, Rob Flint (vj) in collaboration with Small But Perfectly Formed

Initiated in December 2002 by open_digi and OFFLINE before the US/UK invasion of Iraq the >wartime< project now brings together over 150 participating digital and network artists to produce work reflecting on and reacting against wars, past, present and future. LIVE shows of the >wartime< project ocurred 27 times all over the world, check here

'open_digi' is presented by and association with

+ club.net-art
the live events arm of http://www.net-art.ws

Soundtoys.net by stanza
Convergence
New audio visual experiences, online and offline.
Soundtoys features offline contributions from.
julian baker , pelado, stanza, boredom research, andy forbes, squidsoup, jey malaiperman, andrew allenson, rechord , iriealists, amy alexandra, karsten scmitt , ixi, golan levin, leafcutter john, michaelmedia .... and more

Soundtoys features online contributions from.
ian andrews, antionne schmitt, andy wilson, soda, backeria, rain ashford, adam rogers , michael van der haagen, brian judy, jim andrews , peter luining, sub meta ... and more
The merging the audio visual is increasingly becoming a central issue in the development of interactive media. Web artists are fusing the arts, incorporating a wide range range of approaches to the medium of the internet and audio visual practice. Artists are producing new audio visual experiences, and this includes art , games, generative music, interactive environments. Advances in computer and online technologies have provided a whole new way of artistic expression and experience which incorporates opportunities for non linear experience and interactivity as well as this convergence. Artists are attracted to a sense of connection and convergence which is one of several qualities inherent to the internet as a medium for creative expression; sound, visual effect, time, movement and interaction all provide new parameters for the development of contemporary art.

Artists have always been influenced by technology. The convergence of hardware and software has enabled many types of creatives to meet or converge. We are now seeing the emergence of a new art form. As the newness unfolds a history will unfold with it. At the moment there is a blurring of the boundaries as many approaches are adopted, and this is confused further because of the constantly changing and developing nature of technologies which also allows for the artwork themselves to change. We are starting to see a much bigger emphasis on works that generate and evolve. Formal relationship to art will change as the artists relationship to the process changes.

Online, we have net art. Artists that are specifically addressing the uses and abuses of the internet as a medium for creative expression. Within this context artists are exploring many technologies including shockwave, flash, vrml, java. And offline we see more application driven interface experiments using technologies such as max, and exploiting multi user systems, generative audio, and graphics displays.

This exhibition addresses the blurring of these boundaries and presents artists working at the edge of software development and art practise and the new musical interface.The exhibition offers insights into the diverse and creative nature of the web which is available to today's artists. These works can been seen as a new art form, or as a contribution to the new music and electronica.

+ OFFLINE
international association of net art practicioners dedicated to the execution of public offline events and installations using network and digital media. Members include 3code (JP, ES), 6168.org (CA), 8081 (IT), alundale (FR), arcangel (MX), area3 (ES AR AU), atty (UK), dextro (AT), dream7 (US), elout (NL), fakeshop (US), fllanos (MX), gabriel (ES), HELLO (KR), kalx (US), lokiss (FR), oculart (US), real (NL), recombo (BR), redsmoke (US), RSG (US), salsabomb (US), snarg (US), stanza (UK), subculture (US), superbad (US), toxi (UK), vibri (UY), vuk (SI),