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DIGIVILLE
D-Fuse and 8GG
4pm - 6pm Sunday 19th November 2006
Digital Lounge, downstairs at Lighthouse, Zone B, 28 Kensington
Street, Brighton
FREE
The artists behind the Undercurrent
exhibition, now showing in our Digital Lounge, talk about their
work, debating themes connected to the Undercurrent project - the
city and our personal relations to urban space, cross-continental
collaboration and international exchange, as well as the contemporary
Chinese media arts scene.
The conversation will be chaired by Keith Whittle, director of /sLab
with 8GG (Jiang Haiqnig and Fu Yu) and D-Fuse (Matthias Kispert, Michael Faulkner and Keri Elmsly).
Please note that the number of people able to attend this event
is restricted and we will operate on a first come, first served
basis.
D-Fuse
is a group of London based artists, founded in the mid 90s by Michael
Faulkner, which explores a range of creative media, from art, architecture,
photography + film to live A/V performances.
Working in a trans-disciplinary method with cutting edge technology,
D-Fuse encourage their audience to reflect on the process of experiencing
art in a multi-dimensional, multi-sensory way with emphasis on the
key relationship between sound + image.
D-Fuse's visual art has been shown internationally - including The
V&A Museum [London], Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero festivals,
Nokia Labs in St Petersburg and Moscow, Mori Arts Center [Tokyo],
Rotterdam + Seoul film festivals, Eyebeam [NYC], San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz], and
the Lisbon and Valencia biennales.
Their first solo exhibition entitled ‘TRANSMIT’ at the
prestigious MU Gallery in Eindhoven, Holland, presented
a retrospective of D-Fuse’s diverse practice. www.mu.nl
Widely recognized as pioneers of VJ culture, [authors of VJ audiovisual art + vj culture,
published Laurence King] they have developed an ongoing relationship with LSO Discovery and collaborated
with groundbreaking musicians Scanner and Beck. As well as contemporary classical composers Steve Reich
[performed with The London Symphony Orchestra] and the Italian ensemble Alter Ego [who
work with Salvatore Sciarrino and Philip Glass].
8GG is leading Beijing multimedia duo Jiang Haiqnig and Fu Yu. Their work includes music,
video, installation, drama and web art, and has been shown at MOMA [New York] Cynetart [Dresden/Germany],
File International Festival [Brazil], 2004 Shanghai Biennial, Centre Pompidou [Paris], Kunsten Festival des
Arts [Brussels] and others. As collaborators in the D-Fuse project UNDERCURRENT, 8GG will be visiting the UK
in November and December for the first staging of the UNDERCURRENT video installation and as artists in residence
with /sLab, the digital media research lab at the University of Sunderland.
Digiville is our monthly event for digital and moving image artists.
Each event incorporates a diverse cross-section of the digital arts
community, from installation artists to animators and VJs, and involves
an initial presentation of work, either by individual artists or
artist groups, leading to a Q&A/discussion session, followed
by an informal ‘club night’ with DJs/sound artists and
VJs. The artists invited to present their work or perform are a
careful mix of well-known names and less established artists.
Watch this space for news of our next Digiville event or contact
us to join our mailing list and receive regular updates.
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