Cartes Flux 2010 Catalogue

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festival of new media art

Contents
Foreword 2
Cartes 4
Program overview 5
FixC 14
AV­arkki 18
Alternative Party 30
Artists 32
Installations 33
Screening 50
performances 72

FOREWORD
The Fascination of
Art and Digital Technology
The fourth Cartes Flux Festival of New Media Art opens on 13 October and runs
until the 24th. This year’s festival off ers the latest trends in new media, exciting
concerts and thought-provoking performances, both Finnish and international.
Workshops and meetings with artists will also provide an opportunity to experience
the thrill of learning new things.
The festival venues are the Exhibition Centre WeeGee and Kino Tapiola in
Espoo and the Cable Factory in Helsinki. Over the years, the festival has grown
and developed new forms of collaboration, and the huge input of artists during
the festival has become more solid. Great thanks are due to you all.
For me personally, both art and digital technology are fascinating in the
extreme. In fact, some people are completely dependent on them. Having given
up coff ee a year ago, I oft en fi nd myself drawn by its bewitching smell, inviting
me to have a cup. The world of art and digital technology has the same eff ect:
it pulls us in and takes us captive.
We are oft en overcome by an initial fear that we might not understand. That
fear can make us abandon something vital, all for no good reason. The best and
most memorable experiences are surely those when we dare to let ourselves be
carried away by our emotions and senses.
Although my age might suggest that I am relatively inexperienced, being
close to art makes one learn fast and understand things better. At its best it can
quite unexpectedly open the viewer’s eyes. Even established truths may open
up almost therapeutically, but only if we are prepared to be awakened.
So stay awake and ready to receive!
PÄ PÄIVI I V I MMEROS, E ROS ,
Acting Director, Centre of Art and Technology Espoo and
Secretary of the Foundation of Art and Technology Espoo
CARTES FLUX 2010 CARTES FLUX 2010
FOREWORD
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CARTES
CARTES CARTES
Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo
CARTES –Centre of Art and Technology Espoo operates mainly within the fi elds
of electronic and media art, aural and visual. The role of Cartes is critically
productive, by presenting site specifi c projects as well as traveling productions
it strives to challenge interdisciplinary encounters between the many
actors of culture and technology.
In the new media art and design of today, the recent shift of focus from
interactive to participatory media signals a new sensibility. Through usercentered
design and technology development enlaced with media art the
productions of Cartes are at the focal point of festivals, workshops and artist
installations carried out or governed by Cartes.
The challenge is to invite the audience to think, feel and act – the search
for the new always involves the questioning of the status quo of existing
models and practices.
The Foundation of Art and Technology, Espoo, that governs Cartes was
established in 1989 by the City of Espoo, Helsinki University of Technology
and Sibelius Academy.
Cartes Offi ce and Studio are located in the WeeGee House, Tapiola, Espoo.
This Constructivist building, originally designed as a printing house
in the 1960´s by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a
unique exhibition center. It contains over 20’000 square meters of living
culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Cartes – Centre of Art and Technology Espoo
PL 6664, 02070 Espoon kaupunki, Finland
WeeGee, Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
tel. +358 (0)9 816 32 007
mail@cartes-art.fi
www.cartes-art.fi
CARTES FLUX 2010
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FLUX 2010
PROGRAM
The exact locations and updated
program can be found online!
PROGRAM
MAIN VENUES
TRICKSTR
Cable Gallery, Gallery, Cable Factory, 7 – 23 Oct 2010
Cable Gallery
Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1, Helsinki
Open: Tue 11 – 18, Wed - Fri 11 – 17, Sat - Sun 12 – 16
SCREENING & FESTIVAL CLUB
Kino Kino Tapiola, 21 Oct 2010, 18 18 – 23
SCREENING AT ALTERNATIVE PARTY
Cable Factory, 23 Oct 2010, 2010, 14 14 – 17
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Espoo
Open: Tue, Fri - Sun 11 – 18, Wed - Thu 11 – 20
INSTALLATIONS
WeeGee, Kino Kino Tapiola & Cable Cable Factory, 13 – 24 Oct 2010
Kino Tapiola
Mäntyviita 2, Espoo
The installations can be viewed also from outside.
FIXC+ / FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
WeeGee, 13 – 24 Oct 2010
SCREENINGS AT AV­ARKKI
Frame´s Frame´s Project Room, Cable Factory, 23 – 24 Oct 2010, 12 – 16
Admission to all events is free of charge.
Except a festival ticket required for the Screening at Alternative Party!
ARTIST TALKS, LIVE PERFORMANCES & WORKSHOP
WeeGee, 20 20 – 24 Oct 2010
> www.cartes­art.fi/flux2010

INSTALLATIONS CARTES FLUX 2010
SABRINA HARRI &
ALEXIA DE VILLE DE
GOYET: UNTITLED /
POETICS OF SPACES #4
MARTIN BIRCHER:
TYPE CASE
2010
PATRICK BERGERON:
LOOP­LOOP
05:00 min. loop, 2008
NATALIE BEWERNITZ
& MAREK GOLDOWSKI:
UNVEILED PRESENCE
(SECRET SOUNDS 3)
ATELIER HAUERT
REICHMUTH &
VOLKER BÖHM:
TRICKSTR
2009
2010
2007 –
The Cube is inhabited
by a distant and hypnotic
sound that makes its surface
slightly shiver.
Type Case does what it has
always been supposed to do:
Using animation and time
shift s this video creates a
Exploration of characteristic
sounds and acoustic properties
it helps to deliver the news.
A low-resolution display
scenario as if seen from a
window of a train going to
of the City of Helsinki.
The Trickstr is an alchemist,
a magician, creating
realities in the duality of
time and illusion...
presents the headlines from
an online newspaper via
Hanoi in Vietnam.
RSS feed.
CABLE GALLERY (CH) WEEGEE / DOWNSTAIRS (DE) WEEGEE / FOYER (CA) WEEGEE / FOYER (CH/FI) WEEGEE / FOYER (FI/BE)
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INSTALLATIONS CARTES FLUX 2010
BIANCA DUGARO:
BALTIC SEA
07:40, 2010
BIANCA DUGARO:
SKYPING WITH FRITZ
BIANCA DUGARO:
DES POULETS
02:40, 2010
BIANCA DUGARO:
POUPEES DANSANTES
05:20, 2010
02:40, 2010
BIANCA DUGARO:
SOUVENIR I & II
7 7 & 5 min. video loop, 2010
The view of the Baltic Sea
through the window of a direct
An essay of trying to direct
a performative action
A potray of toy chickens
commenting on chicken
Dollhouse dolls performing
a choreographic dance in a
fl ight from Helsinki to Zurich.
through the Internet
between two persons.
breeding.
theatralic atmosphere.
The work is based on
personal impression of
the experience of being
in a nostalgic Tapiola
environment.
KINO TAPIOLA (CH) WEEGEE / FOYER (CH) WEEGEE / FOYER (CH) WEEGEE / FOYER (CH) WEEGEE / FOYER (CH)

INSTALLATIONS CARTES FLUX 2010
ALEXANDRE DEL
TORCHIO:
SILENCE IS SEXY 1.1
PASI RAUHALA:
METABOLISM
ERIC MUTEL:
IN CRYO VIDEO
GUY MCLINTOCK:
THE FLASH
MOUNTAINS
LEO KOIVISTOINEN:
COLOR ME BLOOD RED
2010
2006 –
2009
2009
2010
An installation, which
places the spectator in
the heart of a sensory and
mental experience, inside
The work is an interactive
installation, that portrays
human metabolism in a
humorous way.
a container.
Based on the photographic
instant – fi xed, frozen,
preserved memories – this
work is an attempt to set the
photograph in motion, to give
it depth and volume.
The Flash Mountains are an
attempt to reinterpret the
visual and physical interactivity
of mountains.
Average color of each
frame of the fi lm Color
Me Blood Red (1965) with
untampered sound.
WEEGEE / CARTES KINO (FI/GB) WEEGEE / FOYER (CA) WEEGEE / CABINET (FR/FI) KINO TAPIOLA (FI) CABLE FACTORY / YARD (FR)
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ARTIST TALKS / WORKSHOPS / PERFORMANCES / CONCERTS CARTES FLUX 2010
ERIC MUTEL &
LAURA MURTOMAA:
MUTE (A MOMENT
INSIDE ICE)
DIALOGUES –
UNDERGROUND
Kino Tapiola, 21 October 2010
18.00 – 23.00
MARKO TIMLIN:
CONCERT
SIBYLLE HAUERT:
TRICKSTR
PESSI PARVIAINEN:
THE SEMI­AUTOMATIC
WeeGee, 22 October 2010
WeeGee, 20 October 2010
GUITAR
WeeGee, 22 October 2010
Performance
WeeGee, 23 – 24 October 2010
at 14.00, 16.00 & 18.00
Eric Mutel: Artist Talk
WeeGee, 20 October 2010
ARDUINO WORKSHOP
MAREK GOLDOWSKI &
NATALIE BEWERNITZ
WeeGee, 22 – 23 October 2010
18 – 22 & 12 –18
SAMI KLEMOLA:
CONCERT
WeeGee, 22 October 2010
WeeGee, 24 October 2010
JUHANI RÄISÄNEN:
SORMINA
WeeGee, 22 October 2010
ARTIST TALKS ARTIST TALKS HEADPHONE CONCERTS PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE & TALKS

KINO TAPIOLA & CABLE FACTORY
CARTES FLUX 2010 / SCREENING
SHANCHINDRA KUMAR
DASS (IN/FI)
PEKU LAPISTA
04:55 min. 2008
JONAS NILSSON:
SELF­MUSER
01:36 min. 2008
SIGBJØRN BRATLIE
& ASKILD VIK
EDVARDEN: BOX. NO.
“ELVIS IS DEAD”
09:50 min. 2009
GER GER:
PLAY!
02:04 min, 2007
ROBERTO
SANTAGUIDA:
MIRASLAVA
07:25 min, 2007
An interview with
Pekka Fofonoff .
I´ve been far too used to an
easy life. Instead of having to
Box. No. ”Elvis is dead” is
a short fi lm in shape of a
Entertainment can have
positive impacts on us,
it can destroy and break.
Unachievable fantastic sim
worlds, growing frustrations,
off endings, suppressions of
A young man, his life in
tatters, seeks redemption by
earn it, I have just been given
everything and it´s almost
personal ad.
fl eeing from the city.
paralyzing. The world is my
playground.
problems ... Play!
(CA) (DE) (NO) (SE) (FI)
> Part 1
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KINO TAPIOLA & CABLE FACTORY
CARTES FLUX 2010 / SCREENING
KAISU KOSKI:
BLOOD TEST
03:47 min. 2007 2007
CHRISTIAN
LINDBLAD:
ELEVAATIO
07:25 min. 2009
MARTIN MESSIER:
AUTOPORTRAIT –
LENTO CON FUOCO
04:00 min. 2009
MARTIN MESSIER:
AUTOPORTRAIT –
PRESTO CON AMORE
03:34 min. 2009
GER GER:
BLACK BALLOONS
4:26 4:26 min. 2008
The prickling motion of a
needle penetrates the skin.
A journey through textured
landscapes at the edge of the
human body. Modern in its
formal approach this fi lm is
simultaneously post-modern
in its treatment of the subject.
Combinative 2D shapes gracefully
fall across the screen.
A submerged face, latent,
despite the tension between
A breathless body, articulated
through a surgical dissection
Deserts as environments of
extreme heat may cause seri-
Together with the haunting
music, they make us aware of
air escaping out the nostrils
and water gradually seeping in.
our perception of fi gure and
ground.
Like two confl icting elements
in a single body — a struggle
of time. Like a collection of
fragments, a being grown
increasingly fractured – likely
as it searches for itself, for the
ous stresses and fragilities in
diff erent manners. Contrasts of
vulnerability and eternal unbreakables.
The appearance of
experienced internally, in
weightless time.
moments it is made of.
balloons and cactuses side by
side, a love-hate relationship
with dangerous consequences.
(DE) (CA) 37:00 min
(CA) > Part 2
(FI) (FI)

KINO TAPIOLA & CABLE FACTORY
CARTES FLUX 2010 / SCREENING
SIMONE HOOYMANS:
BROKEN HORIZON
04:44 min. 2008 2008
ROBERT HAMILTON:
WINONA
05:45 min. 2008
NAVI LEE:
PHONE TAPPING
10:20 min. 2009
PAULIINA SALMINEN:
8 CROSSINGS
05:30 min. 2008
PATRICK BERGERON:
LOOP­LOOP
05:00 min. 2008
The fi lm uses a variety of
media such as 3D animation,
“… They give us those nice
bright colors. They give us the
How can the camera contain
everything in the city and
The fi lm follows the constant
movement of people, from left
Parallel tracks laid across the
screen expose the content of
pencil drawing, photography,
and graphic design. It clearly
communicates its simple
message of our need for
sustainable development.
greens of summers. Makes you
think all the world’s a sunny
everything within? The night
moves on. The panorama
to right and right to left , from
one side of the river to the
this fi lm in its entirety. Accelerating
panning and zooming
day, Oh yeah… So mama don’t
take my Kodachrome away.”
view unfolds in a whirlwind
of colored lights, and we are
other. As their paths crisscross
some of their thoughts are
entreated to a multitude of
voices and stories.
revealed to us; the fl owing
waters remain the only stable
camera movements, in sync
with railroad track sounds,
takes the viewer into an
exploration of the sequential
Kodachrome,
lyrics by Paul Simon.
substance.
structure of time.
(CA) (FI) (KR/FR) (CA) 41:00 min
(NL)
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KINO TAPIOLA & CABLE FACTORY
CARTES FLUX 2010 / SCREENING
THORSTEN FLEISCH:
DROMOSPHÄRE
10:00 min. 2010
JOSÉ VONK:
FENCES
06:00 min. 2008
BRANDON BLOMMAERT:
GREYCON4
06:36 min. 2007
TIJMEN HAUER:
TALKING HEADS
04:00 min. 2008
NICK BRIZ:
FROM THE GROUND UP
IN ORDER, EMBRACE
01:39 min. 2007
Dromosphäre is a visual
study of velocity.
Fences is a short abstract
handmade fi lm, creating
optical illusions by exploring
graphic fence and wheel
A scientist working for a better
tomorrow, through schemes
An endless amount of television
presenters morph into
one resulting in an incomprehensible
and bewitching fl ood
A video created out
of binary code.
and manipulations that
ultimately don’t work out in
structures.
his favor.
of information.
(US) (NL) (CA) (NL) 28:00 min
(DE)
> Part 3

WEEGEE
FIXC+ / FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
The locations and updated program
can be found online!
FIXC: FIXC+
FILMS & INSTALLATIONS AT WEEGEE 13 – 24 OCT 2010
tupäivät Film Festival, A Life Of Ones Own, the
story of a lonely journey to the unseen future by
Kari Yli-Annala.
FixC participates also in the Alternative Party
with a set of space-themed video loops. The
loops include Maria Duncker’s brand new Tuning
Out where a space voyage starts from below
the surface.
Music and more moving images by FixC will be
available at the opening of the Cartes Flux 2010
festival on 13 October 2010.
WeeGee foyer feature three pieces: Seppo Renvall’s
Snadeja stooreja stadista presents Aslak Kristianson’s
Helsinki stories with Renvall’s uncompromising
visuals; Juha van Ingen’s Hyperloops
exercise the viewers’ optic nerves in subtle ways;
and Jarkko Räsänen’s Horizon for TV presents a
salute to classical analogue video. The WeeGee
cabinet features Like Consciousness, the latest twochannel
video installation by Rita Jokiranta.
There is also a FixC screening, which includes
Erkka Nissinen’s international festival hit Vantaa,
a musical journey that makes one very hungry,
especially aft er listening to the compositions of
Karlheinz Stockhausen; and a winner of the Ket-
FixC is a Helsinki-based independent artist cooperative
launched in April 2007 to generate,
distribute and promote video art, media art and
experimental cinema, to produce curated touring
exhibitions, and to arrange screenings.
The collaboration with the Cartes Flux festival
is the fi nale of FixC+, a touring screening
event organized by the FixC cooperative. FixC+
was presented in 2010 in the Norrtälje Konsthall
in Sweden, at the Crosstalk Video Art Festival in
Budapest, Hungary, and at the Surpass Festival in
Portbou, Spain.
FixC participates in the Cartes Flux festival
with an extensive program: TV monitors in the
> www.fixc.fi
Thanks to The Arts Council of Finland.
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WEEGEE
FIXC+ / FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
RITA JOKIRANTA:
LIKE UNCONSCIOUSNESS
10:00 min. loop. 2010
JUHA VAN INGEN:
HYPERLOOPS
2009 – 2010
JARKKO RÄSÄNEN:
HORIZON FOR TV
SEPPO RENVALL:
2009
HELSINKI STORIES
6 6 x 04:00 min. 2008
A two-channel video installation
in which natural phenomena and
Juha van Ingen’s hyperloops
consist of series of images that are
traces of human activity, abstract and
documentary are parallelled. The work
repeated several times per second.
In the viewer’s eyes, the fast-paced
challenges the viewer also to refl ect
on the perception. There is a suspense
between the parallell views, and under
the surface are threat or anxciousness
hiding, escaping the gaze, but leaving
an uncertain feeling of it in one’s mind.
hypnotic fl ow of images becomes
a new dimension.
Comprising a television set and
an upside-down VHS camera,
the installation creates an endless
real-time continuum. The technical
properties of the equipment generate
a horizon on the monitor which also
reacts to the audience.
Helsinki Stories is a six-part series
of short fi lms Renvall has made to
songs about Helsinki written by
Aslak Kristiansson. The songs are
stories about life from the streetwise
perspective, echoes of local culture
from the former working-class district
of Kallio.
* Snadeja stooreja stadista
WEEGEE / FOYER > WEEGEE / CABINET

WEEGEE
FIXC+ / FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
FIXC+
PROJECTION
SEPPO RENVALL:
INSIDE
05:00 min. 2004
SEPPO RENVALL: BACK
TO THE HUMANITY
04:16 min. 2007
RITA JOKIRANTA:
TIME FLOATS
07:57 min. 2007
MARIA DUNCKER:
ALUMINIUM
04:35 min. 2003
ERKKA NISSINEN:
NIGHT SCHOOL
12:50 min. 2007
MARIA DUNCKER:
PORN
02:10 min. 2003
KARI YLI­ANNALA:
GUARDIAN CREATURES
02:51 02:51 min. 2005
JUHA VAN INGEN:
NATURE MORTE
04:30 min. 2007
WEEGEE / FOYER >
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FIXC+ / FILMS & INSTALLATIONS WEEGEE
FIXC+
SCREENING
KARI YLI­ANNALA:
A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN
09:00 min. 2008 2008
SEPPO RENVALL:
EXOTIQUE
09:00 min. 2009
MARIA DUNCKER:
LOVEBITES
01:00 min. 2004
JUHA VAN INGEN:
FLUTTER
03:31 min. 2006
ERKKA NISSINEN:
VANTAA
11:50 min. 2008 2008
RITA JOKIRANTA:
CHASING YESTERDAY
03:24 min. 2007
MARIA DUNCKER:
TIENVIRSI
02:19 min. 2009
SEPPO RENVALL:
PLANET OF THE APES
02:45 min. 2006
WEEGEE / CABINET >

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CABLE FACTORY
AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
AV­ARKKI
SCREENINGS AT CABLE FACTORY
SAT 23 OCTOBER / 12 ­ 16
SUN 24 OCTOBER / 12 ­ 16
TELLERVO KALLEINEN
& OLIVER KOCHTA­
KALLEINEN:
DREAM LAND
Frame´s Project Room (next to AV-arkki),
Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C, 4th fl oor
01:00:00, 2009
In a wide-ranging media campaign
Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen asked
Finnish people to send them descriptions
of the dreams that featured the
current president of Finland. Out of
the 85 they received, the artists chose
20 that they dramatized and shot.
individual works and curated compilations, and
through collaborating on projects, it off ers its
expertise in media art. It also has a distribution
archive which is open to curators, researchers,
teachers, critics and artists by appointment. AVarkki
aims to promote its members’ interests and
media art and media culture in general.
AV­arkki – the Distribution Centre for Finnish
Media Art, is a non-profi t artists’ association. It
was founded in 1989 and now has approximately
170 Finnish artists as its members. AV-arkki’s main
purpose is to distribute Finnish media art and
experimental fi lms to festivals, events, museums
and galleries worldwide. AV-arkki off ers events
* Unimaa
> www.av­arkki.fi > Part 1
fi ction
Image: Sini Pelkki, Passage, 2009

AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS CABLE FACTORY
MARI KESKI­KORSU:
CANARY COFFEE III
05:31 min. 2009
MARKUS RENVALL:
LITTLE RED RIDING
HOOD AND SISTER
MIKKO KUORINKI:
STREAM­ENTERER
(RIVER)
PINK TWINS:
APPETITE FOR
CONSTRUCTION
05:00 min. 2009
02:50 min. 2009
07:14 min. min. 2008
The Canary Coff ee series shows friendly
coff ee drinking rituals which gain po-
A Little Red Riding Hood is wandering
in a forest with her sister. The work
A person succumbs to
the fl ow of a stream.
litical meanings when placed in specifi c
spatial contexts. The location of Canary
deals with her real possibilities and the
issue of who really makes everything
Coff ee III is a tourist beach which is also
a destination for African refugee boats.
possible for a child. The absent adult is
part of the narrative.
The completely abstract video draws
connections from modernist ideals
to the visual language of Pink Twins’
digitally generated moving image.
From systematic constructions to
explosions of colour and form, the
video celebrates light, form, colour
and function, all rendered in glorious,
* Punahilkka ja sisko
chaotic 3D.
experimental experimental fi ction experimental
> Part 2
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CABLE FACTORY
AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
MIIA RINNE:
SOCIAL PHYSICS
PIRJETTA BRANDER:
GARDEN
HARRI LARJOSTO:
SORT OF PANDEMIC
02:50 min. 2009
03:54 min. 2009
28:00 min. 2009
SHACHINDRA KUMAR
DASS: PEKU FROM
LAPLAND
04:55 min. 2008
Experimentations with boxes, fi lm and
sound. The underlying question is of
A contemporary interpretation
of the idea of paradise.
A delivery man experiences it all
– and sees grey people – on the out-
An interview with Pekka Fofonoff .
how to make this life a little bit easier.
skirts of a city during his working day.
The fi lm focuses on the global human
act of keeping the system running.
* Sosiaalinen fysiikka
* Kulkutauti
* Peku Lapista
documentary experimental > Part 3
animation experimental

CABLE FACTORY
AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
MARIA DUNCKER:
THE HOLY ROAD
ROSA LIKSOM:
FINLANDIA /
SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE
SIMO ROUHIAINEN:
UNDER THE SKIES
OFTHE WORLD
KALLE HAMM:
THE STARFISH
02:19 min. 2009
15:38 min. 2009
32:00 min. 2009
04:18 min. 2009
Hymns came out when I was teaching
myself to play the harmonium in a
Ladies in blue Afghan burkhas
perform misplaced settling down
rituals in Helsinki suburbs over the
four seasons.
An experimental fi lm based
on the imagery of internet and
Shot in Helsinki, The Starfi sh is a
remake of Man Ray’s 1928 Paris-made
freely improvisational way some ten
years ago. And they still come. Other
surveillance cameras.
fi lm – LÉtoile de Mer.
things that I’ve done for a long time
are sewing multi-national costumes
out of plastic bags and experimenting
with camera obscura.
* Tienvirsi
* Maailman Taivaan Alla
experimental experimental experimental > Part 4
experimental
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CABLE FACTORY
AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
NINA LASSILA:
WOMAN
ANTTI TANTTU:
OCHO
HANNE IVARS:
GOOD WILL
00:58 min. 2009
03:42 min. 2009
02:20 min. 2009
MINNA RAINIO &
MARK ROBERTS:
MIKSI HALUAT LAPSEN?
38:00 min. 2009
A declaration of a real woman. The
video shows the protagonist’s attempt
Ocho is a short fi lm about encountering
endless loneliness.
Good Will – when being helpful gets
you in a bind. The doll animation
The fi rst form that the parent going
for child adoption need to fi ll in has
at being “a fucking real woman” in the
world’s most beautiful city, Paris.
happens in a world without borders.
The short story borrows elements from
the question, Why do you want to have
a child? The form only allows two lines
fairy tales and Greek and Christian
myths. Good Will is the fi rst part in an
to answer such a big question. To get
a biological child parents do not need
animation series of the same name.
to fi ll in forms, analyze and justify
their reasons.
* Why do you want to have a child?
experimental animation experimental experimental

CABLE FACTORY
AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
INGRID UNG:
ÄLVA
TEEMU MÄKI:
WHAT FOR?
PAULIINA SALMINEN:
8 CROSSINGS
SINI PELKKI:
PASSAGE
15:27 min. 2009
05:21 min. 2009
05:44 min. 2008
00:48 min. 2009
A fairy tale about a journey to the elf
world. As a present elves always give
you the three things you need most in
your life. Here, they are dream wings,
a heart and a birdsong book.
A video based on Teemu Mäki’s poem
What for? An actress, Noora Dadu,
A river divides the town of Guwahati
in North-Eastern India. On one bank
An endless search for an image
amongst dust and light. A wide shot
recites the poem at a supermarket and
on top of a building with the Helsinki
is a village, on the other a city. A group
of people shuttle between the two
of the light refl ected by an empty slide
projector transforms into a close-up
skyline as the backdrop.
realities every day. Which side do you
belong to?
of the dust and dirt of the projection
and back into the wide shot. Passage is
a fi lm about a work’s creation process
and ways of seeing, fi nding and captur-
* Mitä varten?
ing a moment.
experimental experimental > Part 5
fi ction
experimental
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AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
PILVI TAKALA:
REAL SNOW WHITE
JOHANNA LECKLIN:
A SUMMER JOB
HELINÄ HUKKATAIVAL:
MILK (HUKKATAIVAL)
HANNA OJAMO:
RUSH
09:15 min. 2009
07:00 min. 2009
03:00 min. 2009
02:41 min. 2009
The absurd logic of the “real
character” and the extreme rules of
A re-told story about a disastrous
summer job. One aft er another the
A mechanical toy cow and an
enigmatic woman walk together
Rush is a short fi lm about industrialization
and its impact on people’s
Disneyland become apparent when a
real fan of Snow White is banned from
three characters recount parts of the
same story of a choreography job that
for a while.
lives in post-war Europe. The fi lm
is the third part in a series based on
entering the theme park dressed as
Snow White.
almost led the person from the throes
of the mafi a to sex slavery.
black and white archive material.
experimental experimental fi ction experimental

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AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
MINNA SUONIEMI:
MISS KONG
ANNELI NYGREN: WHO
IS ANNELI NYGREN?
NIINA SUOMINEN:
GOOD STUFF
04:35 min. 2008
14:57 min. 2009
08:13 min. 2009
MAARIT SUOMI­
VÄÄNÄNEN:
UP AND ABOUT AGAIN
09:49 min. 2009
Miss Kong shows an overweight
woman jumping rope. The work
Gallery staff are preparing for an
exhibition by the mysterious artist
In this game one person’s loss isn’t
another one’s gain – everyone loses.
Up and About Again is moved by
motion and laid back in the outback.
is shot in close-ups on a speeded
up 16 mm fi lm and, when seen in
Anneli Nygren.
In the world of losers diff erent laws
prevail and there is always plenty
of good stuff around. All the food
used for the animation was collected
A car covered in thick snow drives
across the dreamlike summer
slow-motion, unsparingly reveals
the movements of the fl esh.
landscapes. Something has turned
the everyday upside down. Fear
from bins.
is hidden.
* Kuka on Anneli Nygren?
* Hyvä meininki
* Jalkeilla taas
fi ction > Part 6
animation fi ction experimental
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AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
HETA TAPIO:
JACKET OF ORPHEUS
JUHA MÄKI­JUSSILA:
BUTTERFLY
TERO PUHA:
IN LOVE WITH LUST
JUHANI KOIVUMÄKI:
SIN
10:00 min. 2009
01:50 min. 2009
11:12 min. 2009
02:50 min. 2010
The work investigates the memory –
and memories; the elements brought
by time; how the mind forgets and
remembers; how time reduces. Is it
possible to prevent transience through
visualization?
Butterfl y is an experimental collage
fi lm about people who share an interest
An ardent journalist has tracked
down the reclusive former trash artist
A video work about the desire
for the forbidden.
in cookie cutters.
Cheryl Love. By looking back into
the colourful career of the voluptuous
star, the journalist aims to shed light
into what really happened before her
tragic downfall.
* Orfeuksen takki
* Synti
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AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
LAURA HORELLI &
ANU PENNANEN:
RELAY
NIINA LEHTONEN­
BRAUN: POSTCARDS
MIKKO KALLINEN:
LIGHT LIFE
ANSSI KASITONNI:
MASA
14:40 min. 2009
15:00 min. 2009
10:45 min. 2009
14:03 min. 2009
Relay is based on a performance
where the makers invited eight
The work is a collection of 19 video
postcards from the important and
everyday moments of the fi lmmaker’s
life. The postcards portray memories
of being with friends and family, lost
moments and staged events. They were
fi lmed in Finland, Vienna, Berlin and
Bayern in 2000–2009.
A dance fi lm that investigates
movement less through a dancer’s
physical body than through his
costume fi tted with lights which
he wears in a dark space. The
choreography advances from the
movements of abstract dots of light
towards the visible, physical dancer.
A guinea pig employs all kinds of
means to escape from its cage. Finally
it succeeds at least in something.
participants to highlight a cause by
running a lap of honour at a sports
stadium in Finland. The participants
were paired. Whilst one of them ran,
the other one discussed the topics
central to the running group.
* Viesti
> Part 7 animation experimental experimental > Part 8
documentary
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AV­ARKKI / SCREENINGS
ELENA NÄSÄNEN:
WASTELAND
EEVA­MARI HAIKALA:
CANDY FLOSS
14:20 min. 2009
16:01 min. 2009
ANNETTE ARLANDER:
YEAR OF THE RAT–
DRIPPING (SHORT)
MARKO LAMPISUO:
A SORT OF GARDEN
14:57 min. min. 2008
06:47 min. 2009
A feminist western about environmental
activists. Five women walk on an
A woman makes herself a wig
out of Candy Floss.
With a lilac scarf on my shoulders
I stand in the sea, take water in a
arid plain. In the aft ernoon they hide in
the woods from a patrolling helicopter.
jar and pour it back to the sea on
the northern shore of Harakka
As the sun sets, they reach an industrial
site and break in.
Island approximately once a week
before sunset between 26th Janu-
A realistic and personal account of a
man’s fi rst year as a father. Wonderful
things happen but the love and
interaction falter. The narrator is
glued to his window with a view of his
neighbour’s abandoned, over-grown
ary 2008 and 24th January 2009.
lot – a sort of garden.
* Hattara
* Eräänlainen puutarha
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Alternative Party 2010
Space, the forgotten frontier
22 – 24 October 2010
Merikaapelihalli, Cable Factory, Helsinki
alternative party 2010 alternative party
ranges a yearly festival and numerous
smaller events to promote and support
the demoscene culture.
Demos are non-interactive audiovisual
productions. They are technical
works of art that oft en resemble animated
movies, but are actually processed in
real-time by the underlying computer
platform. Demos consist of 2D or 3D
graphics and eff ects, music tracks, and
program code for animating and combining
the audiovisual elements. Every
demo is a stand-alone program that can
be run on its target platform, which is
usually a computer or a mobile device.
Alternative Party is a registered nonprofi
t organisation for advancing and
supporting digital culture, new media
art and the demoscene. The organization’s
goal is to encourage media artists
fi nd fresh perspectives and working
methods, and to provide a contact hub
for people interested in groundbreaking
new digital media art forms.
The roots of the demoscene culture
are strongly linked to Europe. Many internationally
recognized demo groups
and individual demo artists are Finnish,
and demoscene is in Finland is strong.
The Alternative Party organization ar-
exhibition, retro computers, technology
and the demo scene competitons
in to a relaxed atmosphere of digital art
and science. This year we are looking to
the stars as the theme is space.
Alternative party strongly supports
creativity and alternative ways of thinking
and doing creating an inspired
cross-art environment. This years festival
off ers a versatile program from
demo-competitions to musical shows
and speeches by infl uential people of
the digital world. Examples of former
guests: Jeri Ellsworht, Al Lowe, Front 242,
Brad Templeton and Sophie Willsson.
Alternative Party is a festival of digital
culture and a demoscene-event uniting
both art and science. This annual event
held in Helsinki, is one of the most
unique and interesting happenings in
digital culture throughout Finland; a
creative, fun, warm and welcoming atmosphere
enjoying the possibilities of
technology. A cornerstone for the mood
of the event is a dim hall where the audience
is surrounded by monitors and
screens overfl owing with lights, soft -
spoken people and electronic music.
The Alternative Party 2010 combines
music, new-media arts and electronics
> www.altparty.org
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Photos by: Sami Koistinen, Markus Räty, Jussi Mononen & Vesa Härkönen. Härkönen.
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EXHIBITING & PERFORMING ARTISTS CARTES FLUX 2010
Screening – Patrick Bergeron, Brandon Blommaert, Sigbjørn Bratlie & Askild Vik Edvarden,
Nick Briz, Thorsten Fleisch, Ger Ger, Robert Hamilton, Tijmen Hauer, Simone Hooymans,
Kaisu Koski, Shanchindra Kumar Dass, Navi Lee, Christian Lindblad, Martin Messier,
Jonas Nilsson, Pauliina Salminen, Roberto Santaguida, José Vonk
Installations – Atelier Hauert Reichmuth & Volker Böhm, Patrick Bergeron,
Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Martin Bircher, Bianca Dugaro, Sabrina Harri &
Alexia De Ville De Goyet, Leo Koivistoinen, Eric Mutel, Pasi Rauhala, Alexandre Del Torchio
live – Sami Klemola, Dialogues – Underground, Eric Mutel &
Laura Murtomaa, Pessi Parviainen, Juhani Räisänen, Marko Timlin
Fixc – Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen, Rita Jokiranta,
Erkka Nissinen, Seppo Renvall, Jarkko Räsänen, Kari Yli-Annala
Av­arkki – Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Pink Twins, Mikko Kuorinki, Markus
Renvall, Mari Keski-Korsu, Shachindra Kumar Dass, Harri Larjosto, Pirjetta Brander, Miia Rinne,
Kalle Hamm, Simo Rouhiainen, Rosa Liksom, Maria Duncker, Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts,
Hanne Ivars, Antti Tanttu, Nina Lassila, Sini Pelkki, Pauliina Salminen, Teemu Mäki, Ingrid Ung,
Hanna Ojamo, Helinä Hukkataival, Johanna Lecklin, Pilvi Takala, Maarit Suomi-Väänänen,
Niina Suominen, Anneli Nygren, Minna Suoniemi, Juhani Koivumäki, Tero Puha, Juha Mäki-
Jussila, Heta Tapio, Anssi Kasitonni, Mikko Kallinen, Niina Lehtonen-Braun, Laura Horelli &
Anu Pennanen, Marko Lampisuo, Annette Arlander, Eeva-Mari Haikala, Elena Näsänen
CARTES FLUX 2010 INSTALLATIONS
INSTALLATIONS
Cable Gallery & Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1, Helsinki
Open: Tue 11 – 18, Wed - Fri 11 – 17, Sat - Sun 12 – 16
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Espoo
Open: Tue, Fri - Sun 11 – 18, Wed - Thu 11 – 20
Kino Tapiola
Mäntyviita 1, Espoo
The installations can be viewed also through the windows.
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ATELIER HAUERT REICHMUTH & VOLKER BÖHM (CH)
TRICKSTR
TRiCKSTR is an audiovisual environment. It consists of a large pixel
light wall, loudspeaker, a pressure-sensitive and camera-monitored
action arena, as well as a generative and interactive sound and image
soft ware. In addition, this complex environment includes a voice that
demonstrates the readiness to communicate whenever humans step
into the action arena. When there is no longer anyone on the action
fl oor, Trickstr enters regenerative mode, i.e., lapses into contemplation
about itself.
Volker Böhm is a Basel-based musician, sound designer and programmer. He
has a lectureship for electronic music at the local Music-Academy and is head of
the Audiodesign department at the Electronic Studio Basel, ESB. Apart from his
teaching activities he is engaged in artistic fi elds such as Contemporary Music,
Theater, Sound-Installations and electro-acoustic Improvisation.
WWW.TRICKSTR.CH
WWW.HAUERT­REICHMUT.CH
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an audiovisual environment with artificial personality atelier hauert reichmuth
volker böhm
INSTALLATIONS
Sibylle Hauert, born 1966 in Basel, lives and works in Basel. Artist and performer
in the fi eld of new media installation and research with an educational and training
background in theater and music. Since 1994, Sibylle Hauert has been creating
compositional works for the computer. Since 2000, she has worked on self-built
electronic systems in connection with developable creative soft ware programs to
stage and provoke real movement and sensual perception through electronic installations
or performative Tools. Her research involves the area of interface design
which she then creatively transfers into spatial settings or installations.
Daniel Reichmuth, born 1964 in Switzerland, lives and works in Basel. Artist and
performer in the fi eld of new media installation and research. Daniel Reichmuth
has an educational and training background in theater, movement and electonic
engineering. Since 2000, he has worked on self-built electronic systems in connection
with developable creative soft ware programs to stage and provoke real movement
and sensual perception through electronic installations or performative Tools.
His research involves the area of interface design which he then creatively transfers
into spatial settings or installations.
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INSTALLATIONS
A project by Atelier Hauert Reichmuth & Volker Böhm (CH)
Gable Gallery 7 – 23 October 2010
Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1, Helsinki
Open: Tue 11 – 18, Wed - Fri 11 – 17, Sat -Sun 12 – 16
The Trickstr is an alchemist, a magician,
creating realities in the duality of time and illusion...
A massive presence is established in the
space by a pixel light wall, a gigantic illuminator
fi nely articulated through many individual
lamp modules. The eye is captivated
by moving image patterns: rhythmical, abstract
ornamentation dissolves into chaotic
disorder; cycles oscillate producing pulsating
light waves; color in gradients of sepia
gives the impression that the physical materiality
of the illuminator itself changes.
The impression of movement and dynamics
is intensifi ed by sound, which is so
closely coupled with the image that it is impossible
to tell whether the sound has evoked
the image or vice versa. Whether through
light or darkness, sound or silence, space is
dynamically activated by the machine – also
by means of a repeatedly occurring voice!
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Slightly irritating; the machine speaks;
the sound is suddenly loaded semantically
and appears no longer bound to the moving
light image. Trickstr’s recited leaps of
thought concern a critic of the multiple
worlds and levels of which Trickstr itself has
been constituted. Specifi c topics include
the invention and developmental history
of electricity, the computer, robots, and automats.
The very concept of invention itself
is explored, as well as the defi nition of
art since the 20th Century. In fact, Trickstr
aims to question all formal systems, in particular
their assumed irrefutability as well as
their fallibility.
This fallibility is humorously underscored
by Trickstr’s own frequent error
messages. Paradoxes and contradictions
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within and between fi elds of thought are
also pointed out. The voice is synthesized, it
is a trick and a deceit, a counterfeit simulation
of human communication. We fi nd
ourselves seduced into anthropomorphizing
this abstract environment. But just as a
text has been formulated, it starts to dissolve
again into its individual tonal parts which
then merge with the sound machine.
The fact that the machine can also be
infl uenced is discovered when the exhibition
visitor enters the action space, a slightly
raised stage located at some distance from
the light wall. By treading on this platform,
the player is confronted with his or her own
pixelated image and the trademark sound of
Trickstr announcing it is awake from its selfabsorbed
mode. Trickstr is ready to play!
INSTALLATIONS
Diff erent modules alternate trickily back
and forth: sometimes the machine reacts
intensely and dynamically to the player’s
movements. Just the smallest shift s of weight
give rise to light storms and sound tempests;
then the machine again demonstrates its
sluggishness and forces the player to move
faster and faster; at times it is a game to be
played; at others it is a sound landscape to
be explored. Then once again the aim is
to just dance, really dance, the way Trickstr
loves it!
The player alone can decide how long
this interactive mode is to last; as soon as
the stage is empty, Trickstr – aft er personally
saying good-bye – once again falls back into
its generative state.
> www.trickstr.ch
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INSTALLATIONS
NATALIE BEWERNITZ & MAREK GOLDOWSKI (DE)
UNVEILED PRESENCE (SECRET SOUNDS 3)
HD­Video with multichannel sound, 2010
WEEGEE
In their long-term project Unveiled Presence (secret sounds) started in 2006/2007
in New York City, the media artist duo Natalie Bewernitz and Marek Goldowski
are exploring characteristic sounds and acoustic properties of the city of Helsinki.
The investigations are expanding in the areas of airborne sound and solid-borne
vibrations. The project is inspired by the readymade À bruit secret (With hidden
sound) created in 1916 in New York by Marcel Duchamp. During the month of may
2010 they used measurement equipment like laser-vibrometry for capturing hidden
vibrations of found objects and places through rays of light. As a fi rst step the
material will be arranged to an atmospheric audio-visual installation.
Natalie Bewernitz and Marek Goldowski have been working since 2000 as an artist duo in new
media art with the current focus on audio and video installations. Both have studied at the
Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2007 they fi nished an artist residency at Location One,
New York. Their works have been shown internationally in places such as the Chelsea Art Museum,
New York, at the 798 Art Fesitval Beijing, the ISEA Singapore 2008, Siggraph Asia 2009
Yokohama, Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord Berlin and recently at ISEA2010 RUHR.
WWW.SOUNDINSTALLATION.NET
WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT OF CARTES,
HIAP, POLYTEC (GERMANY)
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INSTALLATIONS WEEGEE
MARTIN BIRCHER (CH/FI)
TYPE CASE
2010
The installation Type Case is a low-resolution display with 125 rectangular
pixels of diff erent sizes. These are formed from the refl ecting light
of digitally controlled LEDs, embedded in each section of a European
printers’ type case. Due to the standardized fragmentation of its
compartments, the density of visual information is decreased towards
the objects’ centre. Viewed close by, it is nearly impossible to recognize
more than a fl icker – however aft er moving some distance away, it becomes
distinguishable, that the lights and shadows give a representation
of the latest headlines.
Martin Bircher, born 1978 in Aarau, Switzerland, served his apprenticeship as an
electrician and studied Fine Arts. In 2006 he migrated to Kouvola, Finland, where
he works as a media artist and a full-time lecturer for Digital Media. The interest in
his artistic work lies in combining antiquated items and cutting-edge technology in
order to create objects with new purposes.
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ARDUINO WORKSHOP HOSTED BY MARTIN BIRCHER
AT WEEGEE, 22 – 23 OCT 2010
WWW.SABRINAHARRI.BLOGSPOT.COM
WWW.HARRIDEVILLE.BLOGSPOT.COM
WEEGEE
INSTALLATIONS
SABRINA HARRI &
ALEXIA DE VILLE DE GOYET (FI/BE)
UNTITLED / POETICS OF SPACES #4
2009
The cube is inhabited by a distant and hypnotic sound that makes its
surface slightly shiver. The fi eld recording sculpts a perspective and
distance as we would be physically cast outside of a scene. At one point,
one can hear a dim echo of a conversation between a man and a woman.
Harri & de Ville de Goyet is a duo that started aft er meeting accidentally in Helsinki
in 2005. They began working with hybrid forms of video performance and now, for
more than a year, they have extended that practice to sculptures and installations,
mixing their backgrounds and interests.
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INSTALLATIONS
BIANCA DUGARO (CH)
SOUVENIR I & II
7 min. & 5 min. video loop, 2010
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KINO TAPIOLA
The work is based on personal impressions of the experience of being
in a nostalgic Tapiola environment. The compilation of fi lm material
is an experiment with form that uses the architecture and environment
of Tapiola, technical interventions and re-composing of images.
Choosing super 8 has the eff ect of amplifying the nostalgic idea of a
memory. Walking through Tapiola is like going 50 years back in time,
creating the association of a utopian, surrealist and futuristic place.
The past and the future are present in the same moment.
Dugaro works with photography, video and installations. Through these diff erent
media she creates representations of imaginary world and memories, the process
of perception and the refl ections and forms of the digital world. Dugaro is using
photography, video and fi lm as a process and a tool, focusing on the relationship
between the photo and the photographed object.
VIDEO: BIANCA DUGARO
WWW.BIANCADUGARO.NET
SOUND OF DES POULETS & POUPES DANSANTES:
EMY AMSTEIN
WEEGEE
1 Poupees dansantes 02:40, 2010
A sequence of diff erent photographs of dollhouse dolls in front of a black
ground gives the impression of a choreographic dance in a theatralic
atmosphere. The copy-paste movements develops the dolls become more
and more individual and expressive due the coincidental combinations.
2 Des poulets 02:40, 2010
INSTALLATIONS
Six young chicken are sitting in box looking directly towards the spectator.
The same box is repeated six times on the same screen and remembers the
chicken breeding. Small movements are created by the diff erent focus. It is an
experimentation by copying and stringing together the same action in variable
successions and diff erent rates and lenght.
3 Skyping with Fritz 05:20, 2010
An esseay of trying to direct a performative action trough the Interet between
two persons. The involved persons are in diff erent places, trying to communicate
by seeing and hearing each other virtually but without a concrete contact. Fritz
is playing with a small toy-barrel-organ putting it on the computer corpus to
amplify the sound. The repetition of trying to play the song without laughing
becomes more and more exhausting both for him and for the audience.
4 Baltic sea 07:40, 2010
BIANCA DUGARO (CH)
SELECTED FILMS
02:40 / 02:40 / 05:20 / 07:40, 2010
The view of the Baltic Sea trough the window of a direct fl ight from
Helsinki to Zürich. The presence and absence of sound has an important
impact on the perseption. The moving clouds passing by seem endless untill
it stops on the countryside.
1 2 3 4
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INSTALLATIONS
LEO KOIVISTOINEN (FI/GB)
COLOR ME BLOOD RED
2009
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Average color of each frame of the fi lm Color Me Blood Red (1965)
with untampered sound.
Finnish born artist Leo Koivistoinen has studied photography and media arts in
England and is currently living and working there.
IN COLLABORATION WITH VTT.
WEEGEE
INSTALLATIONS
GUY MCLINTOCK (CA)
THE FLASH MOUNTAINS
2010
The Flash Mountains are an attempt to reinterpret the visual and physical
interactivity of mountains. By partially depicting an object, and
emphasizing the juxtaposition of positive and negative space, the work
explores interactions, understandings, and interpretations of common
forms. The work challenges the viewer to piece together a form that
may be easily understood in a traditional context, but has been pushed
far beyond our intuitive threshold. The Flash Mountains create a world
that constantly bounces back and forth between information defi ciency
and information overload.
Guy McLintock was born in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, to British parents. He
immigrated to Canada when he was young and is now a Canadian Citizen, holding
both British and Canadian passports. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from
the University of Calgary in 2010 and is now doing his Masters in Architecture at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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INSTALLATIONS
ERIC MUTEL (FR/FI)
IN CRYO VIDEO
video installation, 2006 –
Based on the photographic instant – fi xed, frozen, preserved memories
– this work is an attempt to set the photograph in motion, to give
it depth and volume. Change in physical states, media in confl icting
relations, confrontation of materials and processes, this proposal into
artistic experimentation became in equal parts a fi eld of inquiry into
the science, biology, and geology of the image, a test tube for video
matter, an experimentation into the life and loss of the image.
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Photography, medium of the frozen memory, is treated here as an organic,
aqueous, ephemeral, living material, handled like a skin, aff ected
by ice, a living memory, a resisting, uncontrollable material, a space of
imperceptible movement. Threatened, weakened, photography is frozen
in ice, destroyed but hyper-preserved, it becomes the raw material of
its own evolution and disappearance as it takes part in the thaw of its
backing. From the analogical and organic images, through frozen liquid
material, digital and video virtualities are projected.
WWW.ERIC.MUTEL1.FREE.FR
PRODUCTION: LE FRESNOY, STUDIO
NATIONAL DES ARTS CONTEMPORAINS © 2006
WEEGEE
PERFORMANCE
ERIC MUTEL (FR/FI) & LAURA MURTOMAA (FI)
MUTE (A MOMENT INSIDE ICE)
performance / first version
Eric Mutel’s installation In Cryo Video enables the audience to
spend a moment inside ice. The performance with Mutel and Laura
Murtomaa combines Mutel’s ice videos with Murtomaa’s music.
The audience attends the performance alone and together at the
same time.
WeeGee, Cabinet
Sat 23 Oct & Sun 24 Oct,
at 2.00, 4.00, and 6.00 pm.
The performance lasts for about 20 min., max. audience 15 people.
French born Eric Mutel is working as a visual artist, with photography, visual
art installation, video, set/stage design, sculpture, environmental arts and
performance collaboration. He is focusing on projects mixing and bridging visual
arts and live stage events/performances, with interest to experiment with new
technologies and new medias, towards the use and perception of images, memory,
body, movement, time, space, energy, tension, force.
Laura Murtomaa is a versatile musician-composer and performance-artist. She
works widely in the fi elds of the theater, dance and live-art. She has made music
and sounds for a considerable amount of theatre and dance performances,
animations and movies. In the last few years she has also been busy with solo
performances where she explores the boundaries of sound, music, movement and
gender. Her fi rst long-play is about to be published.
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INSTALLATIONS
PASI RAUHALA (FI)
METABOLISM
2010
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The work is an installation that portrays human metabolism in a humorous
way. Metabolism is a biological process wherein nutrients are
processed to supply energy and raw material for the use of a cell or an
organism.
Pasi Rauhala (b. 1978, Finland) is visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki,
Finland. He works with installation, happening, photography, video and sculpture.
His works have been shown at many exhibitions and art festival. Thematic of his
latest works are absurd humor, scale, recycle and small moments of everyday life.
WWW.PASIRAUHALA.COM
PRODUCTION:
LE FRESNOY –
STUDIO NATIONAL DES ARTS CONTEMPORAINS
© 2009
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INSTALLATIONS
ALEXANDRE DEL TORCHIO (FR)
SILENCE IS SEXY 1.1
With this device, I place the spectator in the heart of a sensory and
mental experience, which acts directly on its marks. The spectator
meets himself in a stuff y and isolated space (the anechoic room),
a situation which he provoked but does not control. He is in the
wait and the discovery, in a black and restricted space limiting his
movements. Brilliant fl ashes don’t return him the sense of the view
but on the contrary, it is “blinded” by too much light as it is by too
much black.
2009
Working with visuals and sound, my work is about the environment, whether distant
or close. With suspended moments and thresholds to be crossed, it creates a kind of
‘fl oating world’ where the perceived reality suggests another space, other states of
consciousness. I try to create spaces that provoke fantasies by referencing cinema,
literature, science and technology, art and live music.
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SCREENING CARTES FLUX 2010 CARTES FLUX 2010 SCREENING
SCREENING
SCREENING AT KINO TAPIOLA
THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER / 18 – 23
Kino Tapiola, Mäntyviita 2, Espoo
A live performance by Dialogues Underground aft er the screening.
CARTES FLUX SCREENING
AT ALTERNATIVE PARTY 2010
SATURDAY, 23 OCTOBER / 14 – 17
Symbio Space Bar, Hima & Sali, Cable Factory
Note: ticket required
Please remember to buy your Alternative Party weekend tickets
from www.altparty.org/tickets. Weekend full of programme from
Friday 22nd at 17 to Sunday 24th till 16 at three stages.
Cartes Flux 2010 presents a selection of Finnish and international fi lm
shorts made within the last few years. The Festival screenings take place
on Thursday, October 21st, at Kino Tapiola in Espoo, and on Saturday,
October 23th, at the Cable Factory, Helsinki, as part of the Alternative
Party event. The majority of the artworks are either fully digitally generated
or the audiovisual material has been manipulated in a way that would
not have been possible without digital technology. In order to provide a
more complete spectrum of things happening currently in New Media,
the selection also includes some more traditional fi lm or video works.
In these, the focus is on experiments with the narrative form rather than
technological experimentation.
ROBERTO SANTAGUIDA:
MIRASLAVA
07:25 min, 2007
GER GER:
PLAY!
02:04 min, 2007
SIGBJØRN BRATLIE
& ASKILD VIK
EDVARDSEN: BOX. NO.
“ELVIS IS DEAD”
09:50 min. 2009
JONAS NILSSON:
SELF­MUSER
01:36 min. 2008
SHANCHINDRA
KUMAR DASS:
PEKU LAPISTA
04:55 min. 2008
GER GER:
BLACK BALLOONS
4:26 min. 2008
MARTIN MESSIER:
AUTOPORTRAIT –
PRESTO CON AMORE
03:34 min. 2009
MARTIN MESSIER:
AUTOPORTRAIT –
LENTO CON FUOCO
04:00 min. 2009
CHRISTIAN LINDBLAD:
ELEVAATIO
07:25 min. 2009
KAISU KOSKI:
BLOOD TEST
03:47 min. 2007
PATRICK BERGERON:
LOOP­LOOP
05:00 min. 2008
PAULIINA SALMINEN:
8 CROSSINGS
05:30 min. 2008
NAVI LEE:
PHONE TAPPING
10:20 min. 2009
ROBERT HAMILTON:
WINONA
05:45 min. 2008
SIMONE HOOYMANS:
BROKEN HORIZON
04:44 min. 2008
NICK BRIZ:
FROM THE GROUND
UP IN ORDER, EMBRACE
01:39 min. 2007
TIJMEN HAUER:
TALKING HEADS
04:00 min. 2008
BRANDON BLOMMAERT:
GREYCON4
06:36 min. 2007
JOSÉ VONK:
FENCES
06:00 min. 2008
THORSTEN FLEISCH:
DROMOSPHÄRE
10:00 min. 2010
Screening Part II is selected by
Dr. Lily Díaz, Professor and
Head of Research, Department
of Media, Aalto University
School of Art and Design.
Screening Parts I & II are
selected by the Flux Team.
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part I
37:00 min
part II
41:00 min
part III
28:00 min

SCREENING PART I
ROBERTO SANTAGUIDA (CA)
MIRASLAVA
07:25 min / 2007
A young man, his life in tatters,
seeks redemption by fl eeing from the city.
Miraslava is an experimental documentary that follows the thoughts of
the narrator across the course of a day contemplating his place in the
world, Through exposing his dreams, disappointments, and the struggles
of the daily grind, the fi lm shows that we can let it all go for something
much simpler.
Since receiving his BFA in fi lm production from Montreal’s Concordia University in
2004, Roberto Santaguida has worked in documentary fi lm. In 2005, he was chosen
for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Screenwriting Mentorship Program and last year,
served as the screenwriter-in-residence at Romania’s Centrul de Cultura Rosetti
Tescanu - George Enescu. Miraslava” is Roberto’s fi rst fi lm.
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DIRECTOR/PRODUCER / SCREENWRITER /
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITOR:
ROBERTO SANTAGUIDA
CAST: ERIN PEACH, JEN COAL, SABRINA HALE
WWW.GERGER.COM
PART I
Entertainment can have positive impacts on us, it can destroy
and break. Unachievable fantastic sim worlds, growing
frustrations, off endings, suppressions of problems ... Play!
[technology]
Live pitching of audio sample with distance sensor on the ground.
Sensor equipped rocking dog as music score controller.
SCREENING
GER GER (DE)
PLAY!
02:04 min / 2007
Ger Ger, media artist, born in 1981 in Vienna, currently lives and works in Berlin
and Los Angeles. He feels drawn to art and digital media early on in life, receives
his fi rst honors and awards aged fourteen. M.A. in Digital Arts and Visual Media
Design. Study at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Scholarship in Visual
Communication at the University of Arts in Berlin.
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SCREENING PART I
SIGBJØRN BRATLIE & ASKILD VIK EDVARDSEN (NO)
BOX. NO. “ELVIS IS DEAD”
09:50 min. / 2009
Box. No. ”Elvis is dead” is a short fi lm in shape of a personal ad. The
fi lm uses the language, the set phrases and the clichés of lonely hearts´
columns in newspapers or the Internet: A young man looking for a girlfriend
or a wife describes himself and his everyday life. However, as the
main character elaborates on his story in a way he believes will make him
look attractive in the eyes of his wife-to-be, he gradually fi nds himself
more and more trapped and entangled in the clichéd language he has to
resort to. His story becomes more and more like fi ction – full of ruthless
lies, deceit, boisterous bragging and South American love serenades.
Sigbjørn Bratlie works with installation, video and photography, oft en in collaboration
with other Norwegian artists. He has exhibited extensively across Norway, most
recently at Kunstnerforbundet, LNM, plus Galleria Huuto Viiskulma, Helsinki.
Askild Vik Edvardsen has worked on feature fi lms in both Sweden and Norway,
most notably Fatso (2008) and Pingpong-kingen (2008), for which he won the
Cinematography Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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WWW.SIGBJORNBRATLIE.COM
WWW.JONASNILSSON.ORG
PART I
I have been far too used to an easy life. Instead of having to earn it,
I have just been given everything and it´s almost paralyzing. The
world is my playground. I do what, when I want, how I want to do
it. I have been trying to see what sets apart my amazing interactions
from my mediocre ones. I looked at all of them. All the crazy
blowouts. All the crazy nights. For all of them that I really feel good
about there is one common theme, self amusement.
SCREENING
JONAS NILSSON (SE)
SELF­MUSER
01:36 min. / 2008
Jonas Nilsson is an artist who works with contemporary art, moving image as his
major way of expression. Born 1964 in Sweden. Master of Fine Art degree in the year
2000 at Norwich School of Art & Design, UK. Founder and project manager of Art
Video Screening, an international annual event and platform focusing on videoart
and the initiator and head co-ordinator for Örebro International Videoart Festival.
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SCREENING PART I
SHANCHINDRA KUMAR DASS (IN/FI)
PEKU LAPISTA
04:55 min. / 2008
An interview with Pekka Fofonoff .
Shachindra Dass was born in India in 1970. He graduated from the National Institute
of Design in India. He has worked with animation, video art and environmental art.
He lives and works in Helsinki.
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WWW.AV­ARKKI.FI
WWW.SOUNDNOMADS.COM
PART I
SCREENING
GER GER (DE)
BLACK BALLOONS
04:26 min. / 2008
Deserts as environments of extreme heat may cause serious stresses
and fragilities in diff erent manners. Contrasts of vulnerability and
eternal unbreakables. The appearance of balloons and cactuses side
by side, a love-hate relationship with dangerous consequences.
[technology] When balloons explode, sensors on the inside of the balloons become
exposed, leaving sounds behind. Out of complete silence, a soundscape gradually
emerges. Light sensors power the master track ... One of the balloons diff ers from
the others, simulates, by means of a distance sensor, a water balloon, now silent due
to the explosion and lost water. RT sound processing from the assessed sensor data.
Ger Ger’s Sound Nomads project is comprised of a combination of sound art,
music, public art, performance, interactive installations as well as video. The
constant search for noises, sounds and rhythms lies as central to Sound Nomads
as the creation of ephemeral interactive sensor based playgrounds.
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SCREENING PART I
MARTIN MESSIER (CA)
AUTOPORTRAIT: PRESTO CON AMORE
03:34 min. / 2009
A breathless body, articulated through a surgical dissection of time.
Like a collection of fragments, a being grown increasingly fractured
– likely as it searches for itself, for the moments it is made of. Then
the intensity of the cry, until the pain is exhausted. An act of desperation,
pulverized, until man fi nally becomes machine, a mechanical
monster. And yet, the universe stays put.
Holding a diploma in drums for jazz interpretation, Martin Messier has completed a
bachelor’s degree in electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal, and
De Montfort University in England. His curiosity for graphic arts has brought him to
explore the relationship between sound and image, in which he discovered videomusic
and digital motion graphics. Based on strong aptitudes for rhythm, Martin’s
esthetic can be defi ned as a complex, left fi eld and happily strange sound amalgam,
constantly playing with construction and deconstruction.
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VIDEOMUSIC: MARTIN MESSIER
PHOTO: VÉRONIQUE BÉLAND
WWW.MMESSIER.COM
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MARTINMESSIER
VIDEOMUSIC: MARTIN MESSIER
PHOTO: VÉRONIQUE BÉLAND
WWW.PERTE­DE­SIGNAL.ORG
PART I
SCREENING
MARTIN MESSIER (CA)
AUTOPORTRAIT: LENTO CON FUOCO
04:00 min. / 2009
A submerged face, latent, despite the tension between air escaping
out the nostrils and water gradually seeping in. Like two confl icting
elements in a single body — a struggle experienced internally, in
weightless time. Then eyes that fi nally open, renewing hope of seeing
the head emerge from water. Getting some air. Something like a dream
of waking up, maybe. Features are then obliterated in the waves, the
better to dissolve one’s being.
Perte de Signal is a non-profi t organization that contributes to the dissemination
of emerging digital artists and culture on the national and international scenes.
Its principal activities are the distribution of the work of innovative artists and the
production of media arts projects.
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SCREENING
CHRISTIAN LINDBLAD (FI)
ELEVAATIO
07:25 min. / 2009
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A black and white experimental fi lm that observes a slow transformation.
Black turns into white, darkness is fi lled with light. The viewer is
seduced into a hypnotic journey in a sea of small abstract fi gures that
slowly fi ll up the whole space.
Christian Lindblad was born in 1963. In 1985 he graduated from the Helsinki
Theatre School and started working on stage as an actor. Soon he´s interests turned
towards directing screenplays and only a couple of years later, fi lm-making. The
next step was to invest in an Arrifl ex SR 16mm camera and starting to shoot. He also
took part in many fi nnish fi lms as camera-assistant and lighting assistant. In 1989
he completed his fi rst fi lm, Love Tank and in 1993 he´s fi rst feature fi lm Ripa hits
the skids. Immediately aft er he started planning he´s fi rst animationfi lm Space-Pigs
which was completed aft er a long period of time in the year 2000. Since that he has
been concentrating exclusively on animation except some sidesteps in the opera.
CAMERA: KAISU KOSKI AND JORIS WEIJDOM
PRODUCTION: DAS ARTS, AMSTERDAM
WWW.LIVINGORGANISM.ORG
PART II / SELECTION BY LILY DIAZ
SCREENING
KAISU KOSKI (FI)
BLOOD TEST
03:47 min. / 2007
The piece is a poetic and clinical thriller raising questions about the
body intelligence and its interior/exterior. Bloodtest depicts the body’s
landscape with a closed-circuit camera.
Kaisu Koski is a Finnish media artist and researcher, based in the Netherlands. She
studied in the Faculty of Arts and Design in the University of Lapland, and defended
her PhD in Media Studies in 2007. Kaisu has also completed the graduate program
in performing arts in the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Her art practice is intertwined
with an academic research, in which she unravels the dialogue between art
and biomedical sciences. Kaisu currently carries out her postdoctoral research in
collaboration with the University of Lapland and Leiden University.
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SCREENING
PATRICK BERGERON (CA)
LOOPLOOP
05:00 min. / 2008
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In a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam, the houses boarding the railroad
are passing by. Using animation and time shift s this video runs
forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the
way memories are replayed in the mind.
LoopLoop is made from one video sequence. The 1000 images of
this sequence have been stitched into one long panoramic image.
Into this long still image, I integrated other moving elements and
built smooth transitions over it.
Video artist and researcher, Patrick Bergeron modifi es and manipulates the image
and its details. His work is a mix of animation, experimental fi lm and documentary.
For the last 15 years, he has been working in special eff ect for the fi lm industry and
worked on fi lms such as The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix.
WWW.PATRICKBERGERON.COM
LOOP­LOOP IS PRESENTED ALSO AS
AN INSTALLATION AT WEEGEE 13 – 24 OCT 2010
PART II / SELECTION BY LILY DIAZ
SCREENING
PAULIINA SALMINEN (FI)
8 CROSSINGS
05:30 min. / 2008
The town of Guwahati is divided into two parts by a river. On one
bank, the village, on the other, the city. In the middle a group of
people shuttle between two realities. Which side do you belong to?
Aft er her studies at Turku School of Arts and Communication, Pauliina Salminen
moved to Marseille where she obtained a DESS degree in the cinema department of
Université de Provence. She has directed documentaries and made video installations
and interactive pieces. Her work lies within the borders of cinema and media
art, dealing with subjects such as the research of one’s identity and environment.
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SCREENING
NAVI LEE (KR/FR)
PHONE TAPPING
10:20 min. / 2009
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The film is built up from that single, imperceptible instant that signals
the shift from day to night, a fl eeting moment in which what was, is
no more, where things might acquire fresh signifi cance. A voiceover
guides us through the city, while the camera seems to be searching for a
specifi c plot of land, for the coincidence between narrative and image.
The topography of the site continues to advance, while in parallel there
emerges a second topography – mental this time, – until, perhaps,
they meet, somewhere here, in a new psychical space. Using the city of
Seoul, it is a personal story that is being told. Our role is to follow it
and select a locus of interpretation: truth, (urban) folktale…
Born 1978 in South Korea. Aft er studying visual communication at the Ecole
Nationale Superieure d’Art de Nancy, Hee Won ‘Navi’ The LEE includes Fresnoy –
Studio National des Arts Contemporain. His research and practice various artistic
blend clothing infl uences ranging from cinema to graphics, sound installation. His
works are moving and using more and more new media across a digital world.
WWW.NAVI­LEE.BLOGSPOT.COM
WWW.VIDEOOUT.CA
PART II / SELECTION BY LILY DIAZ
SCREENING
ROBERT HAMILTON (CA)
WINONA
A day spent at the Winona Peach Festival in Winona, Ontario.
A series of visual studies of people at a crowded fair.
05:45 min. / 2008
I am interested in the moment when a person is lost in thought in a public space.
The technique used in this piece is time-lapse animation, which allows me to speed
up or slow down images. It was shot over a period of six years at four fairs with
ordinary digital still cameras. A digital still camera does not invade privacy in the
same way as a video camera. The audio is recorded separately from many sources
and stands in a contrapuntal relations to the images.
Robert Hamilton’s current series of video works addresses human movement in
public spaces. He is particularly interested in densely populated cities. Through
stop-motion photography he is able to survey the crowds, the environment
and how one informs the other. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and teaches at
McMaster University.
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SCREENING
SIMONE HOOYMANS (NL)
BROKEN HORIZON
04:44 min.
In a mysterious landscape the concept of feasibility is
overtaken by the course of changes.
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PART II / SELECTION BY LILY DIAZ
Simone Hooymans (1974) studied fi ne art at the School of Arts in Arnhem and
fi nished a fi ne art postgraduate study at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. Hooymans
makes short fi lms, installations and charcoal/ink drawings.
MADE IN COMMISSION OF FILM AND VIDEO STUDIO
STICHTING DZIGA.
WWW.SIMONEHOOYMANS.COM
WWW.EYEFILM.NL
WWW.VIDEOOUT.CA
WWW.NICKBRIZ.COM
PART III
Attempting to strengthen my relationship with the digital medium
I set out to create a video out of binary code. Binary code is a
system of ones and zeroes at the core of everything digital; It is the
foundation. The result was for me an entirely new form of exploring
the digital medium’s natural aesthetics.
SCREENING
NICK BRIZ (US)
FROM THE GROUND UP IN ORDER, EMBRACE
01:39 min. / 2007
Nick Briz is a new-media artist living and working in Chicago IL. He has been
an active participant in “dirty” new-media, specifi cally through his research and
writing on glitch art as well as through his lectures and curatorial work in a number
of institutions and events. He is currently working towards an MFA in Film, Video
and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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SCREENING
TIJMEN HAUER (NL)
TALKING HEADS
04:00 min. / 2008
An endless amount of television presenters morph into one resulting
in an incomprehensible and bewitching fl ood of information.
Tijmen Hauer is an Amsterdam based artist and fi lmmaker. Since having graduated
from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2005 his work has been presented at fi lm festivals
and exhibitions around the world. With his short fi lms Hauer is developing a
direct and catchy oeuvre which refl ects on contemporary society and the place of the
individual within it. Hauer also works as a guest curator for the Filmbank, the Media
Art Friesland Festival and Theater Zeebelt and also as a freelance director and editor.
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PART III PART III
WWW.TIJMENHAUER.NL
WWW.EYEFILM.NL
WWW.VIDEOOUT.CA
A scientist working for a better tomorrow, through schemes
and manipulations that ultimately don’t work out in his favor.
SCREENING
BRANDON BLOMMAERT (CA)
GREYCON4
06:36 min. / 2007
Brandon Blommaert grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied Print Media at the
Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. He currently works in animation, still
images and sounds in Calgary.
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SCREENING
JOSÉ VONK (NL)
FENCES
06:00 min. / 2008
Fences is a short abstract handmade fi lm, creating optical illusions by
exploring graphic fence and wheel structures. The title refers to the
‘fence phenomenon’, which was fi rst observed in 1821 by the Scottish
publisher John Murray (J.M.): the spokes of a wheel which are viewed in
motion through a series of vertical bars, assume the optical illusion of a
curvature of the spokes. This perception was the overture to the invention
of fi lm. As underlying theme for the soundtrack, Hans Muller has
chosen the noise heard when a stick is dragged along metal railings. The
music is recorded through a MIDI driven grand piano.
José Vonk studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and attended various animation
workshops in the Netherlands, the UK and Japan. In 1977 she founded the animation
studio De Dames, together with Helga Kos. She also works as a teacher at the
Audiovisual department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
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PART III PART III
DIRECTOR, ANIMATION, CO PRODUCTION: JOSÉ VONK
PRODUCTION: ASTRID WORTELBOER
COMPOSER: HANS MULLER
SOUND MIX: RONALD BOSDAM
WWW.EYEFILM.NL
WWW.FLEISCHFILM.COM
A visual study of velocity. The ephemeral phenomenon becomes
palpable through an apparatus the fi lmmaker build himself. A
speed sculpture begins a relativity dance along space-time avenues
lined with uncertainty trees. A research on the representation of
four dimensional space-time, described by Albert Einstein in his
theory of special relativity, led to the making of this fi lm. Using a
scale model of a sports car and a dolly synchronized to the shutter
of the still camera, Fleisch has produced a capturing visualization
of the phenomenon of speed, which playfully references to Paul
Virilio and Jeremy Clarkson.
SCREENING
THORSTEN FLEISCH (DE)
DROMOSPHÄRE
10:00 min. / 2010
Thorsten Fleisch made his fi rst fi lm experiments with his dad’s super 8 camera when
still in school. Studied experimental fi lm with Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule
in Frankfurt/Germany. His fi lms received several awards and are shown at festivals
worldwide like: New York Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Ottawa
International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
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LIVE
TALKS
WORKSHOPS
CONCERTS
The exact locations and updated
program can be found online!
DIALOGUES – UNDERGROUND
Kino Tapiola, Thu 21 October 2010 / 18 – 23
ARDUINO WORKSHOP
WeeGee, Fri 22 October 2010 / 18 – 22
WeeGee, Sat 23 October 2010 / 12 – 18
HEADPHONE CONCERTS *
SAMI KLEMOLA & TIMLIN
WeeGee, Fri 22 October 2010
ARTIST TALKS *
PESSI PARVIAINEN & JUHANI RÄISÄNEN
WeeGee, Fri 22 October 2010
*
CARTES FLUX 2010
Artist talks are an opportunity for artists
participating the Festival and guests to
meet and talk. In headphone concerts music
reaches the ear directly, via headphones
rather than loudspeakers.
KINO TAPIOLA
DIALOGUES ­ UNDERGROUND (FI)
CONCERT
live performance at kino tapiola / thu 21 oct 2010
Dialogues Underground is an audiovisual-project by sound artist
Oravainen, rap-artist Paleface, VJ Group Random Doctors,
producer/mc Blunttech and VJ Klaustrofobia.
Live performances are based on improvised interactive dialogue
between experimental electronic live music, turntablism, spoken word,
rap, poetry and live visuals: video and still footage, motion graphics
and live cameras.
Oravainen: www.myspace.com/oravainen
Paleface: www.myspace.com/mcpaleface
Blunttech: www.mikseri.net/blunttech
VJ Random Doctors: www.myspace.com/randomdoctors
VJ Klaustrofobia: www.myspace.com/vjklaustrofobia
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PHOTO BY: SAMPO REPONEN
LIVE PERFORMANCE

HEADPHONE CONCERTS
TIMLIN (DE/FI)
A CONCERT OF EMERGENT SYSTEMS
Improvisations with a Sensor-Sound-Machine
headphone concert at weegee / fri 22 oct 2010
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WEEGEE
Timlin employs improvisation and non-linear digital sensor systems
to create music in which a delicate balance exists between the human
and machine. A music at once intuitive and outlandish. Explosive and
subdued. Violent and meditative. Timlin has developed an intuitive
interaction with his custom made Sensor-Sound-Machine maintaining
a subtle balance between order and chaos. His music happens in realtime,
oft en surprising the artist as well as the audience. His performances
are eff ectively a dialog between man and machine.
Marko Timlin is a Helsinki-based sound artist, composer, musician and inventor of
digital and analogue instruments. In recent years he designed an interactive music
system called Sensor-Sound-Machine, which is based on a combination of ultra sonic
sensors, solar panels, microprocessors and musical soft ware. Timlin has studied Jazz
drums at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and Music Technology at the
Centre for Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy and McGill University, Montreal.
WWW.TIMLIN.DE
WWW.FIMIC.FI/FIMIC/KLEMOLA+SAMI
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SAMIKLEMOLA
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DEFUNENSEMBLE
WEEGEE
HEADPHONE CONCERTS
SAMI KLEMOLA (FI)
CONCERT
headphone concert at weegee / fri 22 oct 2010
The concert of Sami Klemola is build of harsh abstract electronic
sounds, with a taste of sinewaves and glitchy rhythms.
Sami Klemola, a Helsinki-based composer has studied composition and electronic
music at the Sibelius Academy, the Amsterdam Conservatory, and IRCAM in Paris.
Klemola’s output includes orchestral music, chamber music, solo works, sound
installations and electroacoustic works. He is active as improviser with acoustic or
electronic medias and works also as cordinator of Finnish electroacoustic group
defunensemble.
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ARTIST TALKS
PESSI PARVIAINEN (FI)
THE SEMI­AUTOMATIC GUITAR
Artist talk at weegee / fri 22 oct 2010
The Semi-Automatic Guitar has an attached robotic device
that plays the guitar’s strings. The guitar’s neck is still handled
by the guitarist – hence the name.
Pessi Parviainen works in the convergence zone of music, visual art, and performance.
Having recently begun doctoral studies at Theatre Academy Helsinki, his
research takes a systemic approach at musicianship, considering the musician to
be more than simply a sound source.
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WEEGEE
WWW.PESSIPARVIAINEN.COM
WWW.SORMINA.COM
WEEGEE
ARTIST TALKS
JUHANI RÄISÄNEN
SORMINA
Artist talk at weegee / fri 22 oct 2010
Sormina is a wireless electronic musical instrument. It creates sound
art, ambient soundscapes, using synthesized sound. Sormina has a
handheld interface that connects to computer soft ware using bluetooth
technology. The construction of Sormina enables turning eight controllers
at the same time, which allows subtle control of the sound created.
In addition to sound, Sormina produces live video using camera input
and video image processing. The video part is programmed using Jitter
soft ware. Sound is produced using Reaktor 5 programming. Other programming
is made with MAX/MSP. The development of Sormina has
taken place as a doctoral research project of Juhani Räisänen.
Juhani Räisänen is a sound artist working mainly with interactive music. Räisänen
has developed his own artistic tool, a wireless electronic instrument called Sormina.
Räisänen has a background in theatre, music and media art. He is currently
completing his doctoral dissertation in the Aalto University, School of Art and
Design. He has also worked with dancers in a group called Digital Multa.
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WORKSHOP WEEGEE
WORKSHOP
Arduino Workshop, trainer Martin Bircher
WeeGee, Fri Oct 22, 18 – 22 & Sat Oct 23, 12 – 18
Ever wondered how you could automatically turn on
granny’s old vacuum cleaner – scaring burglars away –
when someone is moving in the hallway?
If so, Arduino will be your thing: It is a prototyping platform, which makes it
quite simple to add interactivity to your project. With some lines of code, written
in the free Arduino soft ware and uploaded to the Arduino board, you have
a lot of power at your hand. Arduino applications can be communicating with
soft ware on a computer or run stand-alone. In the Arduino workshop at Cartes
Flux 2010 the participants learn how to install Arduino, basic programming
skills, rudiments of electronics, to connect diff erent sensors/actuators to the
board and much more. The workshop is aimed at creative people, who are new
to Arduino but might have some experience in basic coding.
Workshop – The workshop will be held in English. Participants are required to bring
their own Mac or Windows computers with them, onto which the Arduino soft ware will be
installed. Material costs € 50 (Arduino Uno, USB, Paeae Starter Kit w / Medium breadboard).
Martin Bircher – The workshop trainer Martin Bircher was born 1978 in Aarau,
Switzerland and lives in Finland, where he works as a full-time Lecturer for Digital Media at
KyAMK University of Applied Sciences. He is a media artist and an electronics enthusiast,
has a background as an electrician and holds a degree in Fine Arts. He has been using
Arduino for over four years in education and own projects. Martin is not only passionate
about digital culture but also about sharing his knowledge.
CARTES FLUX 2010
FESTIVAL TEAM & COLLABORATORS
Cartes Flux 2010
Festival of New Media Art
13 – 24 October 2010
Cartes Centre of Art and Technology Espoo
Espoon Taide- ja Tietotekniikkakeskus Cartes
WeeGee, Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
PL 6664, 02070 Espoon kaupunki, Finland
Tel: +358 (0)9 816 32 007
Fax: +358 (0)9 816 32 008
www.cartes-art.fi
Cartes Flux Team: Päivi Meros, Sanna Kaitakari, Laura Räsänen
Curator for Screening Part II: Dr. Lily Diaz
Editors: Laura Räsänen & Sanna Kaitakari
Translations: Tomi Snellman
Layout: Sanna Kaitakari
P. 1: Trickstr by Atelier Hauert Reichmuth & Volker Böhm
P. 80: WeeGee Miniature by Bianca Dugaro
Printed in: Trio Off set oy
All copyrights remain with the respective Artists.
2010
Limited places – sign up: mail@cartes-art.fi > www.arduino.cc > www.cartes­art.fi/flux2010
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