Workshops :
STOP MOTION // 12.00 – 14.45
SONIC SIGHTS // 17.00 – 19.00
DIRTY ELECTRONICS // 17.00 – 21.00

Round Table :
Koumaria Residency a “Temporary Symbiotic Collective Art Process” // Κυριακή 20 Μαΐου, 20:00

Performance :
Το I.S.E. Ensemble σε έναν ζωντανό αυτοσχεδιασμό με καλεσμένη τη Σαββίνα Γιαννάτου // Κυριακή 20 Μαΐου, 21:00

Stop Motion Animation
Παιδιά και γονείς, χρησιμοποιώντας υλικά όπως πλαστελίνη, χαρτί, παιχνίδια και αντικείμενα, δημιουργούν ομαδικά το δικό τους art video με βάση την τεχνική του stop-motion, πάνω σε ιδέες και τη φαντασία των συμμετεχόντων.
Θα γνωρίσουμε τις βασικές αρχες του Stop Motion Animation, τις οποίες μπορούν να αξιοποιήσουν και να χρησιμοποιήσουν γονείς και παιδιά και σε άλλες ιδέες τους με όποιον εξοπλισμό διαθέτουν στο σπίτι (computer, web cam, φωτογραφική μηχανή)

Για οικογένειες: Γονείς και παιδιά 8-13 ετών

Φέρνουμε μαζί μας ότι σχετικό εξοπλισμό έχουμε, από βίντεο κάμερες μέχρι φωτογραφικές μηχανές, laptops .

Instructor: Κλεοπάτρα Κοραή (Medea Electronique) Σκηνοθετης-Animator

Σάβ.19 Μαϊου 12.00 – 14.45 //κόστος 20 ευρώ (2άτομα,παιδί+γονιός)
Κυρ. 20 Μαϊου 12.00 – 14.45 //κόστος 20 ευρώ (2άτομα,παιδί+γονιός)

Για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή : http://form.jotformeu.com/form/21352922544349

Το Sonic Sights
αποτελεί ένα project βασισμένο στη χρήση πολλών διαφορετικών και καινοτόμων τεχνικών ηχογράφησης και μαγνητοσκόπησης. Ταυτόχρονα οι οπτικές έρευνες θα συνδυάσουν τους ήχους/εικόνες και θα προσθέσουν μία επιπρόσθετη διάσταση του πώς αντιλαμβανόμαστε και συνειδητοποιούμε κάθε περιβάλλον. Οι συμμετέχοντες θα εξερευνήσουν τον εκθεσιακό χώρο και θα συγκεντρώσουν υλικό τόσο από τις εκδηλώσεις όσο κι από τα περιβάλλοντα κτίρια που αποτελούν σημεία αναφοράς του ιστορικού κέντρου της Αθήνας. Τα sessions θα παρέχουν στους συμμετέχοντες την ευκαιρία να παρακολουθήσουν από κοντά τη δημιουργική και τεχνική διεργασία καθώς και να διευρύνουν την καλλιτεχνική τους άποψη. Το workshop θα τους επιτρέψει να εξερευνήσουν τα στοιχεία κλειδιά και να τα ενώσουν με τη χειροπιαστή εμπειρία της καινοτόμας χρήσης των νέων τεχνολογιών από τα μέλη της Medea Electronique. Η χρήση freeware θα επιτρέψει στους συμμετέχοντες να «πάρουν σπίτι τους» διαφορετικές τεχνολογίες με σκοπό να συνεχίσουν να ανακαλύπτουν τις νέες τεχνολογίες οποτεδήποτε.

Instructors: Tim Ward – musician (Medea Electronique)
Μανώλης Μανουσάκης – musician, composer (Medea Electronique)
Παναγιώτης Γούμπορος – video artist (Medea Electronique)

Σάββατο 19 Μαϊου 17.00 – 19.00 // κόστος 7 ευρώ
Κυριακή 20 Μαϊου 17.00 – 19.00 // κόστος 7 ευρώ

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Το Dirty Electronics 7-Segment Display
σχεδιάστηκε για το Athens Video Art Festival κι αποτελεί μία αναλογική συσκευή ήχου και φωτός η οποία είναι εμπνευσμένη από τα παλιού τύπου ψηφιακά ρολόγια. Κάθε συσκευή είναι προγραμματισμένη να παράγει ήχο μέσω της χειροκίνητου χειρισμού και του απλού ηλεκτρονικού προγραμματισμού. Στο πλαίσιο του workshop οι συμμετέχοντες θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να κατασκευάσουν και να τεστάρουν τη δική τους συσκευή, ενώ δεν είναι απαραίτητη οποιαδήποτε προηγουμένη γνώση.

Instructor: John Richards (Improviser-Sound Artist)

Σάββατο 19 Μαϊου 17.00 – 21.00 // κόστος 40 ευρώ
Κυριακή 20 Μαϊου 17.00 – 21.00 // κόστος 40 ευρώ

Για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή :
http://form.jotformeu.com/form/21315070421336

By artist collective Medea Electronique

http://www.medeaelectronique.com/

Deadline July 15^th 2012

Residency

Since 2009 the artist collective Medea Electronique has organized an annual 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece, focusing on improvisation and new media practices.  Avant-garde artists from all over the world, inspired by the Greek natural landscape, come together to create a multicultural and cross-media ‘dialogue’ culminating in a collective presentation in Athens at the end of the residency. Past residents have formed lasting friendships and new artistic partnerships.  For us the residency serves as a model for future creative collaborations.

The residency is held at an organic olive oil farm at the foot of Mount Taigetos in Sparta. The base for the residency, a modern and comfortable house, features dormitory-style bedrooms, large and comfortable common rooms (featuring fireplaces and magnificent views of the surrounding mountains and fields), two primary spaces for project development and practice, terraces, rooftop overlooks, and a large and modern kitchen.  (A second building is being constructed which may be ready for this year’s residency.) The surrounding hills, mountains, villages and the not too distant sea, coupled with a vast expanse of sky, stars, and ever-changing mountain vistas, afford the residents amble space and opportunity for creative work.  Meals are taken communally, with an emphasis on fresh and local produce and traditional recipes. In this environment artists not only have the chance to live and work together interacting with the Greek landscape, but also to trade their experiences concerning everyday life and culture.  Chores are undertaken collectively, but there is ample time for residents to work, create, explore the surroundings and enter into new artistic partnerships.

The residency is held in cooperation with the Onassis Cultural Centre (http://www.sgt.gr/en), who will host the performance of the residency results as part of a major international 3 day event entitled Across the Great Divide—Creative Human—Machine Improvisations.  This event will feature workshops, lectures, performances and demonstrations by many of the leading artist/theorists working in the field of human—machine artistic interactions, including George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker.  Residents will have the unique opportunity to participate in this event, and interact with these, and other, participating artists.

Accordingly, the theme of the residency this year is Machine-Human Improvisational Interactions, and applicants to the residency are requested to submit with their application a project description that speaks to this theme, and evidence of prior work undertaken in this area.  We construe the theme broadly, and it raises a number of questions that residents may want to pursue   How do machine-human improvisations reveal features of what improvisation itself is, or could be?  What do such interactions tell us about what it is to be human, or to be a machine?  How might we remain humanists as artists yet embrace new technologies and their potentials?  Can machines help us overcome artistic limitations, or do they create new ones?  Are new modes of improvisation suggested by software and hardware systems?  Have the use of new technologies in art changed the notion of what a body is, or what a machine is?  How can we integrate new technologies into art that focuses on nature and the environment?  Is a new age of improvisations powered by machines potentially freeing, or stultifying–should we be excited by the possibilities, or worried by what might follow?

We invite applications from artists working across the spectrum of new media arts (musicians, dancers-performers, video artists, photographers, e.t.c.) to participate in the residency.  We will select up to 6 participants  from the applications received.  We are excited by the fact that innovative artist Miya Masaoka will be in attendance for the end of the residency to both work with the residents, and participate in the collective work.  It is possible that other guest artists may “drop in” during the course of the residency.

Medea Electronique, being an eclectic art collective, is interested in people from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds.  Past residents have come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, and from numerous countries.  While assorted nationalities and ethnicities have been represented, the common language of the residency is English (although fluency is not necessary, an ability to interact with other artists in English is necessary).

The residency provides:

A.In terms of hospitality

1)    transportation from Athens to the residency and back.

2)    housing and food supplies in Sparta

3)    Internet connection while in Sparta residency

4)    housing in Athens during the presentations

While there are few expenses the residents need to consider while at the residency, it is worth having some funds for trips to local cafes and the like.

Notes:

• Rooms, Bathrooms in Sparta are shared
• Cooking and cleaning the house during our stay is undertaken collectively

B. In terms of equipment

1) A Mac Pro with Logic and Final Cut, assorted plugins

2) A 32-channel digital mixing desk, high-end monitoring (8 Channel Diffusion Set UP)

3)  A range of studio microphones and sound processors

4)  2 digital recorders (Olympus LS11, Tascam HD2)

Notes:

• You ought to bring your own equipment/instrument and computers

We do not provide…

Unfortunately no artist fee is to be given for the presentations/performances.  Residents are also responsible for their own transportation to and from Athens.

Paperwork to submit

1)     A participation form (Download Here)

2)    A personal statement saying why you want to participate.

This statement should speak to this year’s theme.

3)    A small sample of your individual  work (site, demo, pictures etc)

4)    First draft ideas for projects related to this year’s theme

5)     Your C.V.

Please read the Terms and Conditions before applying here

Please submit all inquiries preferable online at

info@medeaelectronique.com

or at (Please only regular Post)

Manolis Manousakis

Feidiou 11 Gerakas

15344

Greece

Η Medea Electronique στον Κινητήρα με σημαντικούς καλεσμένους.

Πότε: 28 Απριλίου Ώρα: 21.15

Πού: Κινητήρας studio, Artistic Residency Centre, Ερεχθείου 22, Ακρόπολη

Διάρκεια:70’

Η Medea Electronique παρουσιάζει στις 28 Απριλίου στις 21.15 στον Κινητήρα την performance «On Identity» και του «Instant Synthesis Ensemble», συμπράτοντας με προσκεκλημένους καλλιτέχνες. Ανάμεσα τους  θα βρίσκονται η Σαββίνα Γιαννάτου (αυτοσχεδιασμός / φωνή), η Μαργαρίτα Κουρτπαρασίδου (κρουστά), ο Μάριος Δαπέργολας(βιόλα)  και ο Alessio Castelacci (performance).

Είσοδος: 10 ευρώ

Το I.S.E. (InstantSynthesisEnsemble) χρησιμοποιεί τη δημιουργική ενέργεια του αυτοσχεδιασμού, μερικές φορές παίρνοντας σαν αφετηρία μία προκαθορισμένη φόρμα ή πλάνο, αλλά το ίδιο συχνά δίνοντας ελεύθερο πεδίο στα δημιουργικά ένστικτα, εστιάζοντας στο τι συμβαίνει «εκεί και τότε». Το σχήμα συνδυάζει καλλιτέχνες από ποικίλα πεδία, όπως κίνηση, ήχος, εικόνα  – τα μουσικά στοιχεία έλκονται από liveelectronics, ενόργανο αυτοσχεδιασμό, soundart, noiseart, ηλεκτρακουστική μουσική, circuitbending και computerprogramming, τα οποία διαδρούν με τον εικόνα και την κίνηση. Το I.S.E. σηματοδοτείται από την ισχυρή επιθυμία των μελών του να βυθιστεί στην τέχνη και την αχανή πηγή ενέργειας του αυτοσχεδιασμού. 

Συμμετέχουν: Θοδωρής Ζιούτος, Αλέξανδρος Δρυμονίτης, Ιωάννα Καμπυλαυκά, Σταύρος Αποστολάτος, Guido De Flaviis, Παναγιώτης Τσαγκαράκης, Μανώλης Μανουσάκης, Tim Ward, Δημήτρης Τιγκας.

«On Identity (Περί Ταυτότητος)»

Μια σπουδή πάνω στις πολλαπλές πτυχές της ανθρώπινης ταυτότητας. 

Το έργο αναδημιουργείται σε κάθε παράσταση, μέσω του οδηγημένου αυτοσχεδιασμού πάνω σε δοσμένα κείμενα, εικόνες, καταστάσεις…..όπως ακριβώς και οι ταυτότητες, όπως ακριβώς κι εμείς. Η παράσταση OnIdentity δημιουργήθηκε κατά την διάρκεια του Residency “Koumaria 2011” (www.koumaria.gr) και παρουσιάστηκε στην Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών ως μέρος του τελικού αποτελέσματος του Residency.

Σύλληψη: Ιωάννα Καμπυλαυκά
Συμετέχουν: Allesio Castelacci, Ιωάννα Καμπυλαυκά, Παναγιώτης Γουμπουρος.
Σαξοφωνο: Guido de Flaviis.
Παραγωγή – Medea Electronique

Medea Electronique

Η MedeaElectronique (www.medeaelectronique.com) δημιουργήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 2006. Το όνομα της είναι εμπνευσμένο από ένα παιχνίδι των λέξεων –Medea (Μήδεια) και Media (Μίντια). Απαρτίζεται από δημιουργούς που μοιράζονται μια διάθεση για  πρωτοπορία, κινούμενοι στον ευρύτερο χώρο της σύγχρονης τέχνης: μουσική, κινούμενη εικόνα, ζωγραφική, πολυμέσα, ρομποτική,  διαδραστικές τεχνολογίες και παραγωγή πολυμεσικών εκδηλώσεων,  συγχωνεύοντας ξεχωριστά πεδία έρευνας και πρακτικής σε μια προσπάθεια ανάπτυξης ενός ιδιαίτερου ύφους.
Πρώτος καρπός της συνεργασίας τους ήταν το «Peirama 1» που παρουσιάστηκε με επιτυχία στο μουσείο Μπενάκη, στην Ιόνιο Ακαδημία στην Κέρκυρα και στο φεστιβάλ NWEAMO στο Σαν Ντιέγκο των ΗΠΑ το 2007.  Ακολούθησε το έργο «Case of Emergency», µε παρουσίαση στην Ελλάδα σαν opening act στην συναυλία των FSOL στην Αθήνα, συµµετοχή στο LPM στην Ρώµη και στο ΕXIBIT στην Βενετία, και το πιο πρόσφατο έργο «Μονοτονία», το οποίο παρουσιάστηκε στα εγκαίνια της Στέγης Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών του Ιδρύματος Ωνάση.
Μικρότερα έργα τους (video art, electroacoustic music, live electronics) παρουσιάζονται σε διάφορα φεστιβάλ, συναυλίες, καθώς επίσης και στο ετήσιο Residency Koumaria (www.koumaria.gr).
 www.medeaelectronique.com

Υπό την αιγίδα Κινητήρας studio, Artistic Residency Centre, Ερεχθείου 22, Ακρόπολη, Αθήνα 11742, Τηλ: 210.9248 328 email: info@kinitiras.com www.kinitirastudio.com Facebook: Kinitiras Studio

Πότε: 28 Απριλίου
Ώρα: 21.15
Πού: Κινητήρας studio, Artistic Residency Centre, Ερεχθείου 22, Ακρόπολη
Διάρκεια:70’
Είσοδος: 10 ευρώ
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DATES
1st Period: (18 – 24 Aug. 2012)

At Music Village

www.music-village.gr

An exploration of new media and technology, focusing on
collective and symbiotic production methods.

Workshop Languages: Greek & English

Medea Electronique

Tim Ward (Sound Artist)
Manolis Manousakis (Sound Artist)
Yannis Lolis (Video Artist)
Ioanna Kabylafka (Dance Artist)
Kleopatra Korai (Director, Animator)

Overview

For the first time, the Music Village hosts a series of creative artistic workshops by the Medea Electronique team, focusing on contemporary new media and collective production techniques.

The workshops will be based around a thematic approach to learning, and will consistently seek to ground their activities in site-specific aspects of the Music Village environment and the skills and experiences of the participants.

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to gain invaluable direct hands-on experience with the very latest technological tools used within the fields of electronic music, video art, stop motion animation and performance. They will also benefit from meeting and working with experienced professional practitioners in each different field, drawn from both Greece and beyond.

In keeping with the site-specific aspect of the micro-residency idea, the workshops will culminate in performances and installations, together with electronic documentation, that emerge from the different creative teams that emerge during the workshop-residency process.

Video Art / Stop Motion Animation
We will become familiar with various methods for the artistic manipulation of images, and their associated software systems. Using various everyday objects (mobile phones with cameras, smart phones etc.) the first meeting will be based around the creation of various different images, which will then be used in the second meeting as the basis for creative transformations. These will then become the protagonists of short stories and films and, employing the ideas and imaginative material they give rise to, we will create our film projects.

We should bring with us whatever associated tools we already have access to, from video cameras through to photographic cameras, smart phones and computers.

Music
We will create our own musical/sound constructions using a range of different resources – Tupperware, magnets, cables, tablets, circuits etc. At the same time we will learn to construct and manipulate sounds using computer technology and the various software tools that are available (Logic, MaxMSP, pD, Reaper, SoundHack, Cecilia etc.). In the final stages of our workshops, we will create – all together – a sound orchestra that we can use to stretch (and at times break) the boundaries of what might be considered as ‘music’. This orchestra will then take to the stage and provide the sonic accompaniment to the final group project.

Movement
Our typical motion habits – the movements made during our everyday lives – can take on a special interest and be transformed into small choreographic works. In this workshop small movements will be transformed into larger expressive works, in solos, duets and trios.

In the first two days we will discover the possibilities of our bodies, their characteristics and abilities, in order to be able to form kinetic decisions, and through a series of improvised physical exercises to be able to free our creativity. The second two days we will come into contact with external forces and resources: another body in motion, a sound environment or video image.

for more info visit the organizers web site at www.music-village.gr or contact

Tim Ward at workshops@medeaelectronique.com

www.music-village.gr/images/stories/PDF/performance.pdf

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Details
The SoundscapeLandscape project is based around the use of many different innovative techniques in field recording (both passive methods of simply capturing the sounds around us and new inquisitive practices). At the same time visual investigations will both partner the sounds and add a further dimension to how we perceive and make sense of each environment.

The Landscapes/Soundscapes project starts with an initial micro-residency, which aims to explore these themes as they operate within two different physical environments: the Koumaria Estate and the Onassis Cultural Centre. What are the sound marks and shaping agents in each place? How do these elements transform themselves and their new environment when they area transferred from one place to the other? What new elements would we understanding about both places if we walked around the Onassis Cultural Centre when it was resounding on all levels and in all corners to the soundscape of Koumaria? What insights would emerge if the process were to be reversed?

The project will culminate in a site-specific installation, addressing many of the questions that arise when we listen in and to each space. Through the cartography that emerges, the new Onassis Cultural Centre (www.stg.gr) will better find its sense of place within the sonic environment around it, and its own sonic identity in terms of the sound within it.

Background
By now it is a well-established practice to listen to the sounds of the real world recontextualized as recordings and to encounter them under various guises as or within music. It was over thirty years ago that Schafer (Murray) first coined the term ‘acoustic ecology’ and set out his guidelines for a new kind of listening, with the whole world as a universal ongoing musical composition. Schaeffer (Pierre) approached sonically similar territory from a quite different perspective, but in the same way also found it vital to set down his own prescription for establishing a new way to listen, extended this to form a new musical grammar.

If we step forward to today, we find that the ideas of ‘reduced listening’ and the ‘soundscape’ are as potent as ever. They are certainly more mainstream – a consistent presence in the gallery, improvisation venue and concert hall – but beyond this their influence can be felt in everyday life to an increasing degree. We all construct our own personal sonic map that is made up of an increasingly complex amalgam of the different environments we encounter during our daily routine. Today, perhaps more than every before, we are aware of both what we hear and of when and how we are listening, and even (sometimes) of the multitude of different agents and environments that seek to intervene in our listening and shape or direct the process.

Credits

More info soon at www.soundscapeslandscapes.gr

contact info Timothy Ward timward03@gmail.com

SoundscapesLandscapes
A Project by Medea Electronique
at the Koumaria Residency,
April 6th-9th,, 2012.

For more details contact Tim Ward at timward03@gmail.com

Overview
On the first weekend of April, 2012, the Koumaria Residency will host the Medea Electronique project SoundscapesLandscapes. Within this four-day microresidency, sound and video artists and performers will meet together within the Taigetos mountain range and explore the create of a new form of artistic digital cartography.

Details
The SoundscapeLandscape project is based around the use of many different innovative techniques in field recording (both passive methods of simply capturing the sounds around us and new inquisitive practices). At the same time visual investigations will both partner the sounds and add a further dimension to how we perceive and make sense of each environment.

The Landscapes/Soundscapes project starts with an initial micro-residency, which aims to explore these themes as they operate within two different physical environments: the Koumaria Estate and the Onassis Cultural Centre. What are the sound marks and shaping agents in each place? How do these elements transform themselves and their new environment when they area transferred from one place to the other? What new elements would we understanding about both places if we walked around the Onassis Cultural Centre when it was resounding on all levels and in all corners to the soundscape of Koumaria? What insights would emerge if the process were to be reversed?

The project will culminate in a site-specific installation, addressing many of the questions that arise when we listen in and to each space. Through the cartography that emerges, the new Onassis Cultural Centre (www.stg.gr) will better find its sense of place within the sonic environment around it, and its own sonic identity in terms of the sound within it.

Background
By now it is a well-established practice to listen to the sounds of the real world recontextualized as recordings and to encounter them under various guises as or within music. It was over thirty years ago that Schafer (Murray) first coined the term ‘acoustic ecology’ and set out his guidelines for a new kind of listening, with the whole world as a universal ongoing musical composition. Schaeffer (Pierre) approached sonically similar territory from a quite different perspective, but in the same way also found it vital to set down his own prescription for establishing a new way to listen, extended this to form a new musical grammar.

If we step forward to today, we find that the ideas of ‘reduced listening’ and the ‘soundscape’ are as potent as ever. They are certainly more mainstream – a consistent presence in the gallery, improvisation venue and concert hall – but beyond this their influence can be felt in everyday life to an increasing degree. We all construct our own personal sonic map that is made up of an increasingly complex amalgam of the different environments we encounter during our daily routine. Today, perhaps more than every before, we are aware of both what we hear and of when and how we are listening, and even (sometimes) of the multitude of different agents and environments that seek to intervene in our listening and shape or direct the process.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspasiakoulira/sets/72157627820114839/

Since Thursday we are in London shooting Fragments of the Unseen London. After several problems we had with private security forces we almost reached our goal.
We have uploaded a small making off with Ioanna and several pictures taken by Michael. We are performing in Leicester at DMU this Wednesday. Soon we will be uploading the third Fragment, you can check the previous ones at www.theunseen.gr.

By Stavros Apostolatos and Aspasia Koulira

By Kleopatra Korai