PLEASE PRINT THIS FILE FOR YOUR RECORDS --------------------------------------- English Version IMPORTANT * THE LOVEBYTES FESTIVAL IS AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS WORKING AT THE CREATIVE EDGE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY EXPLOSION AND A CHANCE TO SEE SOME OF THE WORLDS MOST INNOVATIVE AND EXCITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND MEDIA HERE IN SHEFFIELD. * EVENTS RUN FROM 22-25 MARCH AND FEATURE AN INTERNATIONAL LINE UP OF LIVE MUSIC AND MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES COMPLEMENTED BY SCREENINGS, WORKSHOPS, DEBATES AND PANEL SESSIONS. THE FESTIVAL BRINGS TOGETHER A WIDE RANGE OF COMPUTER ART INCLUDING MUSIC, FILM, INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE, VISUAL ART AND DESIGN. * LOVEBYTES HAS COMMISSIONED SIX ARTISTS TO CREATE SOUND BASED MULTI-MEDIA ARTWORKS, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH WERE PRODUCED AT LOVEBYTES' MEDIA LAB IN SHEFFIELD. THESE WORKS WILL BE EXHIBITED AROUND THE SHOWROOM AND WORKSTATION AND WILL RUN FOR SIX WEEKS FROM 22 MARCH. * FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LOVEBYTES AND THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL PROGRAMME VISIT HTTP://WWW.LOVEBYTES.ORG.UK EMAIL INFO@LOVEBYTES.ORG.UK. FOR BOOKING INFORMATION CALL 0114 221 0393. day 1 thursday 22 march 18.00 science + progress//screenings//showroom 2 three short films by finnish director mika taanila tackling the theme of art and technology. mixing film, video, archive, animation and retro- futurist soundtracks. (80 mins) 20.15 onedotzero: wow and flutter 2000 //screenings//showroom 2 chunky programme of new short films curated/commissioned for their innovation in motion graphics and digital effects, blurring boundaries between personal and commercial work. also included in the programme is a preview of a film by eve wood and slackjaw film which provides an insight into sheffield's music scene between 1972-82.(90 mins approx) 20.00 vector djs//showroom bar//free entry the leeds based techno/electronica collective//vector//take a special outing in sheffield for the festival. (ends 11.30pm) day 2 friday 23 march 10.00 reaktor/native instruments//workshop//showroom 5 the launch of 'generator' a software synthesis application some years ago, provided a point of entry into digital synthesis and means of escape from traditional sequencing software. its development has closely coincided with the emergence of experimental techno and minimal electronica. the latest version of reaktor combines generator with other software components to form a complete sound design studio. presented by solar-x. 11.00 console cinema//presentation//showroom 3//free entry the film & television industry has been trying to figure out what the perfect working relationship is with the games industry. running parallel to this, the games industry has been thinking about the exact same thing. presented by jonathan freedman from sony leeds studio. 12.45 science and progress//screenings//showroom 2 see thursday 22 march screening for details. (80 mins) 14.30 digital visions//artist presentation//showroom 3 paul granjon, nick crowe and brian mcclave present recent work with new and experimental film forms including cctv, stereoscopic video and interactive online narratives. the session includes the public premiere of fossil//a 3d stereoscopic film by brian mcclave and george millward, commissioned by university for industry (ufi) for learn direct. along with a screening of nick crowe's discrete packets (http://www.nickcrowe.net/) (commissioned by da2) and paul granjon will discuss his cctv soundscape which has been specially commissioned by lovebytes and is exhibited in the showroom (22 march//26 april). 17.00 calculated and cybernetic pioneers//screenings//showroom 2 an excursion into the work of precursors and experimenters in electronic cinema. featuring groundbreaking films by stan vanderbeek, tony conrad, the whitney brothers and other luminaries. (100 mins) 17.00 metasynth /ui soft//workshop//showroom 5 a unique piece of software offering inventive means of creating sound with a highly intuitive visual interface. this session explores what metasynth can do and how it is used by the artist. presented by raphael elig. 19.00 terre thaemlitz//artist presentation and screening//showroom 2 as a producer thaemlitz uses digital sound manipulation not for its sonic results, but because it fosters a symbolic relation to non-essentialist identity politics including queer pansexuality and transgenderism. terre discusses these themes followed by a screening of his new work: interstices: there was a girl/there was a boy. (commissioned by lovebytes) 21.00 oval//performance//showroom 3 in commenting on digital technology, oval use their own software as well as physical manipulations of cd to expose the process and the equipment. oval's music is a by product of theory and theoretical demonstration, forming a rich textural and often melodic soundtrack created out of cold electronic tones. 22.00 microstoria//performance//showroom 3 a collaborative project between markus popp (oval) and jan st. werner (mouse on mars/lithops). where oval excludes authorship of music, microstoria explores authorship, primarily in relation to improvisation. the tones used in composition are mechanised, yet paradoxically rich. the resulting pieces are organic in feel, a striking result when viewed in context with their origins. 22.45 performance and djs//showroom bar//free entry throughout the evening artists and djs will be doing more informal sets. (ends 1am) alex peverett (team doyobi) hecker, dj terre thaemlitz, dj day 3: saturday 24 march 10.00 max//workshop//showroom 5 a leading development environment for real-time interactive music and media. originally developed at ircam, a music research institute in paris, it now has widespread use in experimental music, techno, installation and video art. presented by eric singer. 11.00 msp//workshop//showroom 5 msp is a set of extensions for max (see above) that let you do real-time native synthesis and signal processing. used by sound designers, educators, researchers, and musicians who want to develop interactive performance instruments. presented by eric singer. 13.00 onedotzero: wow and flutter 2000 //screenings//showroom 2 see thursday 22 march screening for details. 14.30 non-physical distribution//panel debate//showroom 3 creative work that once could only have limited circulation can now be disseminated right across the globe thanks largely to the internet and the web. this has enormous implications for artists working in the fields of both moving image and music, potentially opening up massive audiences. this panel of artists, curators and commentators gathers to discuss the new freedoms and pitfalls of digital distribution, looking at areas of copyright, commercial exploitation, the role of venues and new forms of creativity. panellists include: vicki bennett (peoplelikeus), sean dodson (the guardian), hogge (cube cinema), terre thaemlitz (comatonse), taylor deupree (12k). 16.45 terre thaemlitz//artist presentation and screening//showroom 2 interstices: there was a girl/there was a boy. see friday 23 march for details. 18.00 d-film: 2001 programme//screenings//showroom 2 uk premiere. bart cheever, producer of american website www.dfilm.com has long been dedicated to compiling the best leading-edge digital film for online viewing and festival touring programmes. expect to see landmark international work that will point towards the future of digital creativity and moving image on the web. (90 mins approx) 20.00 richard chartier//performance//showroom 3 a minimalist sound artist, painter and graphic designer. his work focuses on digital, ultra-minimalist sound and the conceptual relationship between sound, silence and the art of listening. 21.00 taylor deupree//performance//showroom 3 taylors increasingly refined sonic mission is to push the boundaries of minimal, ultrasynthetic sound art. moving toward stillness through symbiotic audio-visual creations, tonal experiments and use of frequency and rhythm. 21.00 star wars fan films//screenings//showroom bar//free entry no film has inspired more fan films than star wars. we present the most outstanding and idiosyncratic, running the gamut from the bad to the sublime. (repeated at 22.00) 21.00 - late absynthesis//national centre for popular music//free entry sheffield's ever popular night of absinthe fuelled revelry, not quite right music, film and twisted performance joins forces with the lovebytes festival, featuring the following djs. (ends 2.00am) cercle records showcase cosmiche felix kubin lithops 1884 le contessa.(performance) 22.00 live events at the national centre for popular music (ends 2.00am) hiaz (farmers manual)//live sound/video performance//ncpm founder member of the video band skot and member of farmers manual. playing and working with recorded visual material on the basis of live sampling, constructing new forms of visual media. hecker//live//ncpm uk debut performance by independent composer in the fields of computer music and digital production. recording for labels like mego and or. current activities also include audio publishing and interconnection in new formats, e.g. mp3 via the fals.ch web project. autechre//live//ncpm the english duo of sean booth and rob brown, don't so much write songs as program ecosystems. autechre have spawned a genre unto themselves, their rhythm, strings and clipped melody shards epitomise anti-dance intellectual purism. russell haswell//ncpm performance from prolific mego artist and or records label manager. jean shirt //dj//ncpm taking us on a "seriously contrary and unstable" journey into a post ikedian wasteland. one half of shirt trax, known for psychosis, random gravity, extreme restraint and frantic exuberance. day 4 sunday 25 march 11.00 nato.a//workshop//showroom 5 a suite of 'externals' for the max programming environment which facilitate real time video manipulation and other functions. the respected programmer jeremy bernstein presents two nato workshops. part one. 12.00 nato.b//workshop//showroom 5 part two. 14.00 live events at the national centre for popular music bar//free entry mira calix//dj//ncpm bar divergent electronica and techno from the well known warp artiste felix kubin//live//ncpm bar revisiting the early electronic scenes such as neue deutsche welle and sci-fi pop, kubin celebrates an anti-organisational principle that links him to a whole network of like-minded navigators awe-struck by obscure terrorist factions, b-movie sequels and pop fodder. his own 'gagarin' label and his work with imprints such as diskono ask all the questions that proper musicians keep to themselves. peoplelikeus//dj//ncpm bar the work of vicki bennett, whose recordings feature her unique "plunderphonic" styling. dadaist samplings and reshuffling of cultural oddities from discarded lps is a recurrent theme, as is the use of intercepted radio broadcasts gutted and completely re-contextualised. 14.00 d-film: 2001 programme//screenings//showroom 2 see saturday 24 march for details. 17.00 calculated and cybernetic pioneers//screenings//showroom 2 see friday 24 march for details. ongoing jim brouwer//video installation//ncpm windows jim is showing a development of work first seen in his degree show. a video clip is copied onto several windows and put through algorithmic video editing software, re-sequencing hyper-spliced fragments of image and sound into a series of syncopated patterns. in this piece the domestic routine of preparing food becomes 'orchestrated'. the banal process takes on a 'musical' quality, as if possessed by the spirit of an unhappy drum machine. dave corbett//video installation//showroom 2 '[shuffle] i don't know' is a generative cut-up digital video, a real-time sequencing of sentences. the results can be interpreted as poetry, instructions, declarations, ambiguities, depending on the words that are triggered and the rules govern their construction into sentences. the work is constantly self-generating over an unforeseen duration. dave is a recent graduate from hull school of art and design, time based media programme. this new work was commissioned by lovebytes. m fell //installation//location tbc first shown at the international symposium on electronic art in paris 2000, uk premiere. exploring the notion of intentionality and its opposite in the use of complex tools. light sensors are fixed to the side of a building, and passers by are invited to activate these using torchlight. when activated, the sensors trigger streams of sound. light submerged//paul harrison//video installation//workstation foyer this new work by sheffield based artist and filmmaker paul harrison suspends a 'slice' of moving water impossibly in space, created by projecting a series of beautifully composed video sequences onto a sheet of glass. the artist has meticulously collected digital video footage from the north of england's seashores to make a work which challenges the boundaries between the actual and imagined, revealing hypnotic patterns in natural sounds and images. commissioned by lovebytes.(22 march:5 april) cctv soundscape//paul granjon//installation//showroom lightwell the landscape comprises an industrial zone and a country zone: a model landscape over which a video camera hovers. the installation addresses issues of global video surveillance and machine/nature dichotomy. it provides an interactive tool for generation of non-linear audio-video material with a fictional quality. commissioned by lovebytes. (22 march:26 april) geo_try_01//george rogers//sound installation//ncpm foyer. a sound revolves at ten ticks per-second, the same rhythm as the flashes of light generated by the dream machine designed by brion gysin. the flickering light induces alpha waves to defeat beta waves normally active in the "awake" brain. by subtly shifting facial positioning and proximity to the machine, an alpha range of interruptions (8-13hz) opens to the user. george is currently studying phonic art at hull school of art and design, where he developed the work. fifty fifty//digital works//location tbc ffmix01 (fiftyfifty 2001) is a compilation cd-rom of digital creators from barcelona + 3 special guests (lia /re-move, netochka neznanova / 0f0003, magda scylla / optisonics). Interactives, sound and video show the deliciously varied panorama of today's digital creation. fiftyfifty is a digital label, a cultural agitator and a distributor of digital art. 35 mm | design in miniature//graphic design exhibition//workstation upper foyer. drawing together work by some of the most exciting and creative artists/designers working within the field of contemporary new music/electronica/glitch, call it what you will. their work is often characterised by a network of loose collaborations, which has generated an exciting and vibrant body of work. 35 mm is curated by Fallt designers Fehler. other information this programme maybe subject to change without further notice. please consult the lovebytes information desk at the showroom cinema box office (22-25 march) for latest changes, updates and additional events or call 0114 221 0393. venues showroom cinema. national centre for popular music. workstation foyer gallery. all venues are based in sheffield's cultural quarter on paternoster row, s1. travel road take junction 33 off the m1 and follow signs for sheffield city centre and the cultural industries quarter. street parking is available near the venues and there is a car park behind the national centre for popular music. rail and coach the railway station is situated right next to the cultural industries quarter and on leaving the station you will be able to see the showroom cinema. the bus station is just beyond the railway station. Prices festival pass : £50 / £35(conc) includes entry to all* events and a free festival catalogue (individual price £5.00). * workshops have limited spaces and must be reserved in advance on a first come first served basis. (limited number of festival passes. concessions for students, unemployed and senior citizens with proof of status shown at the time of booking). individual event tickets: £5.00/ £3.50(conc) oval/microstoria (showroom 3, friday) : £7 / £5(conc) taylor deupree/richard chartier (showroom 3, saturday) : £7 / £5(conc) autechre, hecker, haswell, hiaz, shirt (ncpm, saturday) : £8 / £6(conc) in advance call 0114 221 0393 or email: bookings@lovebytes.org.uk hotels to locate bed and breakfast accommodation or smaller hotels, please call destination sheffield on +44 (0) 114 201 1011. all hotels listed are approximately 10 minutes from the cultural quarter. HOTEL BRISTOL*** +44 (0)114 220 4000 FREE PARKING AT THE NCP CAR PARK NEXT TO THE HOTEL. 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