N.I.P New Interfaces for Performance

N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance- zet in op het stimuleren van kunstenaars die werken met nieuwe middelen om interactie toe te passen in live performances. Ze richten zich nu op gebaren en beweging gericht op het interactief betrekken en uitdagen van publiek, in real-time met live media; met geluid, muziek en performance.

N.I.P. is uitgenodigd door your-space en stelt zich voor met verschillende geluidskunstenaars: TokTek, Tom Bugs en Frey. Op 19 december, 20:00 zijn er optredens in het TAC, op 20 december, 19:00 vinden er kunstenaarsgesprekken plaats in your-space, Van Abbemuseum.

Meer info:
http://newinterfaces.net/nip/

N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance is a European tour and workshop series, which will be happening over 2007 in Bristol, UK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Lisbon, Portugal. NIP is about supporting artists who are working on developing new modes of interaction in live performance. The first series will focus on gesture and movement as the means to engage, trigger and interact in realtime with live media, sound, music and performance based works.

N.I.P. is invited by your-space. On the 19th of December several artist will perform in TAC, TokTek, Frey and BOP. On the 20th they will talk at your-space in the Van Abbemuseum. The evenings start at 20:00 and 19:00.

More information:
http://newinterfaces.net/nip/

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An association of N.I.P, your-ypace and TAC, present an evening of artist lectures and presentations on new interfaces for live performance.
www.newinterfaces.net
www.polarproduce.org

Artist Lecture

‘on action, movement and displacement….’
Teresa Dillon (UK)
newinterfaces.net | polarproduce.org | offloadfestival.org

Teresa Dillon is the founder member of Polar Produce a multidisciplinary group of practitioners based in Bristol (UK), who work cross media arts, research and live performance. Her main interests are in revealing the behavioral systems, inter-relations and ecological nuances embedded within particular sites, objects and materials and exploring human/non-human relations to them. Such work has been expressed in her location based radio piece ‘Star Gone Tones’ and in participatory, site-specific performance art works including ‘Enduring Love’, ‘Measc’ and ‘Come Outside’ and the installation ‘The Listening Chair’.
Her work has been shown internationally (Europe, US and Australia) and she has published on various media topics. Alongside Polar Produce she works as an artist and as part of the sound-art duo BOP and as a freelance producer and researcher (BBC), creative director/programmer (OFFLOAD, N.I.P) and lecturer (Cambridge University). She holds a PhD from the Open University on creative collaborative, music technology processes.

Teresa’s will give a short paper titled ‘on action, movement and displacement….’ which discusses the concepts behind the N.I.P 2007 project and it’s thematic focus on gesture based interfaces within live performance.

Artist Presentations

Damien Stewart, Kathy Hinde and Tom Verbruggen will present the outcomes of individual and collaborative pieces, alongside current project developments. Stewart, Hinde and Verbruggen have been part of the N.I.P project, their work in part exemplifies some of the key artistic practices currently been used within mixed media practice.

Damien Stewart aka Frey, NZ/PT
frey.co.nz

Damien Steward makes art with machines using music, code, light and electronics. Having worked across the commerical and artistic sectors, Damien focuses on creating works of art that take their cue from ideas of performance, and that profoundly involve the audience in the experience of the artwork. Originally from New Zealand, Damien is currently based in Europe, where alongside his own practice he works collaboratively with artists such as Chris Sugrue (US), Sonia Cillari (NL), Rudolfo Quintas and André Gonçalves (PT).

Kathy Hinde, UK
kathy.hinde.co.uk

With a background in visual art and music, Kathy Hinde creates work, which combines audio and visual elements. Over the years she has specialized in developing methods for creating, mixing and projecting images live, in public, gallery and theatre spaces. Kathy’s solo and collaborative work has been shown across the UK, Europe, China and South America and she has collaborated with leading contemporary musicians and composers within the UK, such as Joanna MacGregor, Stephen Montague and the international choregrapher Jix Xing. Kathy currently works as part of the sound-art duo, BOP and media collective Polar Produce. Alongside developing her own work, she also tours with Agrare and Joby Burgess and teaches at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

Tom Verbruggen, NL
sonidogris.com

Tom Verbruggen’s work is about the communication and non-communication between electronic devices and humans, focusing particularly on his relationship with such devices.
Drawing on his fine art background, his work explores the relationships between, human touch, memory and everyday electronic objects. Performance such as “Moederkoek”, where Tom samples his mother live as she bakes a cake and his invention the Crackle-Canvas, a series of paintings that produce sound, demonstrate his unique aesthetic approach to sound and image making. Having recently moved to Eindhoven, Tom is becoming well-know on the Dutch electronic scene for his individualistic and stylish live performances, which combined hacked joysticks and everyday objects to create new forms of sound control in live performance contexts.

N.I.P is a practical, artist’s led, European workshop and touring event. N.I.P explores and promotes transdisciplary mixed media arts practice through the presentation, creation and development of interactive and participatory experiences in live, performative contexts. The current N.I.P collective is made up of tweleve practicing artists from the UK, The Netherlands and Portugal, the 2007 tour and workshop series focused on gesture based interfaces within live performative situations.

N.I.P is created and produced by Polar Produce (UK) and funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music, the Mondriaan Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with support from Watershed, Bristol, Steim, Amsterdam and Restart, Lisbon.

N.I.P collective:
Teresa Dillon, Kathy Hinde, Torsten Lauschmann, Tom Bugs (UK)
Isaac Carlos, Sonia Cillari, TokTek (NL)
Ivan Franco, André Sier, André Gonçalves, Rodolfo Quintas and Damian Stewart (PT)

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www.newinterfaces.net
www.polarproduce.org