Electropixel #9: Electronic body and abstract morphology of the real
A festival of emerging digital cultures and free electronic practices, Electropixel is part of an international network of electronic arts festivals. It opens up a unique space to bring together artists (audiovisual, musicians, plasticians, intermediates, performers, etc.), theorists, programmers, fiddlers and inventors from all walks of life and from the factories of everyday life.
BRUXELLES
PERFORMANCE : NETWORKED ORCHESTRAS
19:00 – 23:00 Non stop – Thrusday 25th July – € donnation
WORKSHOP : Supercollider with Exoterrism
14:00 – Thursday 25th to 17:00 – 26th July € donation
WORKSHOP : Network Orchestra and Streaming
14:00 – 18:00 Thursday 25th July – 5€
PERFORMANCE : Ciné-Organique
20:30 Friday 26th July – 5/6€
CONCERT : Corps Electroniques Fantasmes
19:00 Saturday 27th July – 5/6€
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Performance : Networked Orchestras
Thrusday 25th July at 7PM – Labokube, FREE
– G.I.A.S.O – Great international audio streaming orchestra
– OFFAL – Orchestra for females and/at laptops
Location : Labokube
Chaussée de Louvain 238, 1000 Brussels
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Performance : Cinéma Organique
Friday 26th July à 20h30 au Labokube, 5€/6€
– Phill Niblock / Katherine Liberovskaya / Guy De Bievre
A two-part set featuring:
– Live Video by Katherine Liberovskaya, with Live mixing of audio pieces by Phill Niblock, joined by Guy De Bievre improvising on electronics.
In this live set Liberovskaya mixes video with Jitter/Max/MSP from a vast personal database of clips shot over the past fifteen years. Niblock mixes between audio pieces based on diverse field recordings which are very different from his music compositions while De Bievre improvises
– Phill Niblock’s Music and Film, with Guy de Bievre on guitar, live
– Solar Return
– Harsh Noise Consortium
https://archive.org/details/HarshNoiseConsortiumEndOfOneV1Extract
– (images en mouvement)
https://www.facebook.com/formanexband/
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Concert : Corps Electroniques Fantasmes
Saturday 27th July 8.30PM – Labokube, 5€/6€
– Jenny Pickett – sensitive noise synth
– Exoterrism – live coding experimental critical beats
– Anthony Taillard – drone guitare et moteurs
– Nordlys – modular synth break experimental electronic
– TheNoiser – Harsh noise Symphonic
– Roger Léa Ana – harpe, bidules et électroniques
– Bruital Orgasm – bruit du monde, electroacoustique live
https://lemagasindeporcelaine.bandcamp.com/album/bruital-orgasme
– Muqata’a – beats master downtempo from Ramallah
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ELECTRONIC BODIES AND THE ABSTRACT MORPHOLOGY OF THE REAL
At the heart of the contemporary world and its issues, the question of the body and its development, its improvement, its enhancement through electronics and digital means, poses many questions to both the thinkers, artists and society as a whole. When we imagine “electronic bodies” we immediately think of ideas of the cyborg and the increasing possibilities of evolving the body through technology.
Donna Haraway tells us that “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction.”
It would be both a fiction but also a social relationship and a way of seeing the living from the perspective of the cybernetic. We believe that there may be other relationships between body and machine that are not only those of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics, but perhaps something more distant.
We are not all cyborgs in the making, the relationship to the machine is still external: smartphones and laptops are still the tools we use and they are not integrated or connected to our bodies. Whilst, in some cases these links are stronger, such as chips embedded under the skin that send out radio signals to communicate with machines, the future seems uncertain, the approaches multiple and open to varying points of view.