Past sessions

Susi Sie / Between Art and Science

Introduction, background, how I came to the idea of filming liquids and particles, why working strictly analog, showreel, photos of working process, studio, private projects, client projects.

Quadrature / Personal views on objective data

Quadrature will speak about their current works and projects, possible cooperations between art and science from an artist perspective, artistic practice in relation to data as material.

Doron Sadja / Mapping the Perceptual Landscape

In 'Mapping the Perceptual Landscape', Doron Sadja will give an overview of his practice followed by a discussion of auditory and visual phenomena, approaches to site specific performance, and the importance of losing control of your electronic instruments.

Kasumi / Movie screening: Shockwaves

SHOCKWAVES is a 80 minute film that depicts a man’s subconscious mind in the the moments before his death, exploring the formation of our memory and collective consciousness. The media artist Kasumi deploys an astonishing 25,000 public domain film samples, rotoscoped and live action film clips, d...

Gajek / How paintings obtain another dimension.

Overview of past and current projects in painting involving 3D technique, creation process, how the utilized 3D anaglyph technique works, previous works in performance, silkprint, installation and painting.

Martìn Romeo / Ephemera - immaterial work

The artist will show his latest work Ephemera - interactive olfactory installation, which consists in distill the real world in data that take on new olfative return. The audiences will be invited to follow the next Interactive Art workshop to be held on October 16 at Artistic Workshop Series.

Kiritan Flux / Performing in Physical and Mental Space

Throughout my work in the field of improvised live video art ('VJing') one special focus has always been the 'set and setting' of the performance. Who am I besides the operator of my instruments? In which local and cultural context do I present my art right now? I deliberately use such questions ...

Darsha Hewitt / The World's Most Obsolete Portable Drum Machine

A listening session and Sample Salon with the Wurlitzer Sideman 5000 and Darsha Hewitt Manufactured in 1959 and often referred to as the cadillac of drum machines, the Wurlitzer Sideman 5000 is the world's oldest commercially available rhythm generator. Weighing in at 25 kg, this electromechanica...

Krisjanis Rijnieks / Projection Mapping with the Raspberry Pi

Personal background, creating a projection mapping tool for the Raspberry Pi, my master's thesis, projection mapping workshops, further development of the projection mapping tool, invitation to join my next workshop.

Servando Barreiro / Live coding with puredata

generative graphics for video/mapping installations in pd and live coding.

Kasia Justka / Singing kitchen

audio-visual feeding performance smelly sounds / cooking / diy circuits / modular synth kitchen

Mirko Petrovich / NONLINEAR (Random Walk)

Audiovisual improvisation driven by feedback, feedforward and open-loop systems. 'NONLINEAR' performance is an attempt to tame a chaotic system based in custom analog/digital hardware, code and video synthesis to attain a symbiotic behavior between gesture, image and sound.

Nenad Popov / Sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea

Audio-visual performance, ~20min, single channel video and stereo sound, analog synths.A tension between synthetic and natural. Algorithm struggles to keep up with the reality of turbulent sea in the video slowed down to the extreme of perception.

Lauren Moffatt /

At MIRA Berlin Lauren is going to hold a conference curated by Scope Sessions. She will also participate in the round table focusing on the tools and techniques each artist uses to create unique digital content.

MBJ Wetware /

At MIRA Berlin she is holding a conference curated by Scope Sessions. MBJ will also participate in the round table focusing on the tools and techniques each artist uses to create unique digital content.

Carla Chan /

Carla Chan is going to hold a conference curated by Scope Sessions and BLACK MOVES will be screened at the MIRA Dome.

Patrick K.-H., Andreas Karaoulanis / 'Alice Wonderland meets Monty Python' - (un)imation of Patrick K.-H.

(un)imation, unmusic, (un)struments

schnellebuntebilder / Recent and upcoming projects of schnellebuntebilder

Animation, interaction, virtual reality, digital art, data viz, vvvv

Thomas Heidtmann, Soma Holiday & Jemma Woolmore // Lacuna Lab / lacunalab

Creation of Tycho, brief history of the artists, story and first exhibition of Lacuna Lab

Koolik / The Importance of Passion as a Foundation

How passion plays a roll in advancing your life and career

Siciliano Contemporary Ballet / From emotion to movement

Siciliano Contemporary Ballet is an up-and-coming dance company based in Berlin, Germany. After a history of choreographic success in Italy, Greece, Spain, and Germany, Salvatore Siciliano founded the company in January 2015. The company has flourished in the Berlin arts scene, transforming alter...

Kalma / Sonification of light

An overview of past and recent proyects: mapping, vjing, interaction. Presentation of the upcoming installation 'Blow my mind' and interactive work based on a fire interface.

Robert Seidel / On Film between Painting and Sculpture

The Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel dissolves boundaries of genre by extending the clarity of the drawing – through the flow of painting, the spatiality of sculpture and temporal elements – into an abstract-film narrative. Besides the silver screen, conceptual, as well as real visual projection...

Carla Chan / Poetic data: Humanising the digital - Carla Chan discusses digital manipulation of the erratic forms of nature

Carla will present her latest video works and talk about her creation process which will cover her 2 years research of immersion topic and artistic decision. Her artist decision dissuasion will focus on the role of computer in media art making process.

Yoko Seyama & Wolfgang Bittner / Expanded Spaces / Light Circuits

immersive audio-visual environment, expanded cinema, modular spaces, light design, generative art, image - sound - space interaction, architecture, presentation of prototype of new collaborative work

Lucas Gutierrez / Audiovisual empanada

A presentation of selected works, beautiful mistakes, current AV show and upcoming projects. Plus a Towel.

Martin Backes / A (brave) new [digital] world?

techno-culture, media sociology, science, technology, society, politics, privacy, surveillance, human perception, ideologies, art

Christin Marczinzik / VR Experiences & Media Installations – Perception on SWING as an example

Christin will speak about her background / personal projects / showing making of SWING VR from idea, concept, design, VR research to realisation / future & tendencies.

RaumZeitPiraten / Rhizomatic engineering - crossing all borders as cultural pirates

rhizomatic, optoacoustic, machine, technology, engineering, light, sound, performance, environment, urban, intervention, art

Wolfgang Spahn / Uncovering The Invisible

Berlin based Austrian artist Wolfgang Spahn introduces the analogue aesthetics and techniques that lay at the core of most of his multimedia installations. Starting in the 1990s with modifications of the classic photo slide Spahn decided to stretch the boundaries of slide projections by adding co...

Marco Donnarumma / Aesthetic and politics

There is a tendency in art and technology artworks to equate the artistic value of an artwork with its level of displayed beauty and uncritical engagement. This implies discarding the political aspects that are implicit to art and technology; it means to isolate artistic practice in a limbo of di...

DEFASTEN / Geometry and Cinema

A look at some past, recent and upcoming projects, including a new work featuring audio by Kode9 of Hyperdub Records.

Mirko Petrovich / Code space: developing tools for performing arts

In this talk I will share my experience working in the field of performance arts as a coder. I will show and discuss the technical and artistic challenges I have been facing working with real time video processing, motion tracking, mapping, sound generation and spatialization, light, sensors and ...

Natalia Sookias / Sculpting Light

Natalia will tell us a story about light, sound, Armenian dragons and cinematic sources.

MXZEHN / Small Town - Big Screen / Live Video Performance from Weimar

In the talk Stefan Kraus will talk about his journey as a VJ, starting out with networks of analogue devices, taking VJing to the University, entering the digital realm with MXWendler, discovering videomapping and finally building live AV performances with TouchDesigner. Analogue VJing, Early Di...

MF / Fractal as an effective approach to sound generation

What is additive synthesis, how fractal makes sound generation an effective and organic process, what tools are involved in the initial stage of ideation & prototyping the device, brief demo of Polyphylla.

Sebastian Arnold / Senode: Music from Finite State Machines

Sebastian uses his drum kit to interact with melodies and sequencer patterns. To be able to access music through the drum sticks, he developed Senode, a tool for non-linear composition and performance. The outcome is a graph-based representation for music that can be interpreted by a computer and...

Klara Ravat / Perceptual experimentation

Olfactory experimentation and experimental film.

M. Kardinal / Distorted landscapes: the inner gestural nature of moving images

With the metamorphosis of the image – when treated in unexpected ways, especially under malfunction – I try to develop a Poetry of failure and dive beneath the surface of the image, and discover the “unconscious” in the image. The visible and the invisible in the image. They coexist but the “unco...

Taylor Dunne / Screening: KATAH-DIN (33min. 16mm. 2014)

KATAH-DIN (33min. 16mm. 2014) The people who for centuries lived in what is now Maine were the Wabanaki, an Eastern Algonquin word meaning people of the dawn. Called this because they lived where the sun first strikes the continent at the peak of Katahdin. This place was home to a Wabanaki woman...

Tatiana Vilela / Playful performances : another way to look at games

Games are meant to be played as a matter of course. Yet there exist games as much interesting to watch being played as actually playing them. They are not just games to play but games to perform. How can performance improve the gaming experience ? Do the collective judgment or the desire to enter...

Theresa Baumgartner / Warped Vision

In a first degree access to creating visuals Theresa manipulates live captured and live generated content with both analogue and digital tools. The findings of that process is a distorted picture of the immediate present, the now ripped apart into various layers.

Plus [+] / Music for the Eyes

Personal work, Q&A

IOCOSE / NoTube: Investigating the dark side of meaning production

NoTube Contest, First-Viewer Television, YouTube, social media, user generated content, curating YouTube

MyungDuk-Kim / Transform/ Sounds-Movements visual works

Simple relationships between visual and sound rendering, corresponding to Movements.By defining this relationship, create a Sounds object that can be ’communicated’ with Movements and Visual.Focus on the activity of presenting motion while sounds triggered. The combination of these different med...

Julien Bach / Augmented Illustration & Engaged motion-design

Video-mapping, augmented illustration, collaborative work, future of motion-design, social engagement

Lola and Yukao / Lola and Yukao Meet 'Nuits génératives' - AV Performance

Dasein / 'Faceless Country' - AV Performance

Clint Enns / Lost Images Found: Resurrecting Past Lives

Exploring the art of decontextualizing (and re-contextualizing) lost and discarded media. By creating an archive of found images and working in the milieu of found footage appropriation, the artworks created are an attempt to resurrect abandoned cultural artifacts.

Ira Konyukhova / Image, sound, talk: an attempt of deconstruction film

Film as a philosophical and artistic medium, deconstruction principe, power and weakness of language superposed with moving image.

Elisabeth Rhies / Formulas for Beauty

Is it possible to develop some kind of formula or system and use it as the basis for the creation process of images? And who is able to use this formula? Everyone? What does it take to create something beautiful? Can coincidence or a formula do so, or is it that one needs the hand of a genius?

Theresa Baumgartner,Alis / Warped vision

Alis and I will present a short live set. After that I will talk abut the idea, concept and technical approach of the visual part

Alona Rodeh / Safe and Sound: a personal reflection on the nature of alarming systems

Alona Rodeh was born in 1979 in Israel and is based in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Holding an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2009), Rodeh has presented large-scale commissioned projects and solo shows at several international venues including Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herzliy...

Susi Sie / Between Art & Science

My background / how I came to the idea of filming analog moving structures / showing master films / showing making of scenes and describing the process / struggle between artwork and client work

Christian Rauch / STATE Festival

A quick tour behind the scenes of STATE Experience Science, a collective of independent scientists, artists and cultural producers, working to make science accessible and facilitate creativity without borders. Last year's STATE Festival featured 4 days of events in 2 locations in the heart of Ber...

Nenad Popov / Ways of Knowing

Reflection on the State festival. Inspiration through science. Towards embedding citizen science in artistic practice.

Pablo Rojas / 19th century maladies vs. 'the wonders of science' calendar syndrome

The everyday growing branches of science, especially biology, hold the possibility to provide the general public with an infinite variety of innovative topics and colorful images. Such information could potentially be used as a novel source of inspiration for the creation of art pieces. Although ...

Vj Fader / I'm on EDMT

EDMT is an interactive audio visual app designed by media artist Fader. He's combining years of his experience as a visual and software designer into one amazing app. It allows you to 'play' with your phone and tablet to create wonderful visuals and make beautiful sounds. There are several engagi...

Kash / Intuitive Journeys

MAGIC OF CIRCLE videogram is video based on around hundred sequences from inner meditative journey made in photoshop during several months in 2014. Those circle graphics are then morphed into meditative videogram with idea to catch us in present state of absolute film that is ongoing inside of ea...

CloneProduction / CloneProduction

Irwin will talk about why he is using his own tool to VJ and how he got to this point.

Roberto Cuellar / Light sculptures

Robert will talk about his light sculptures. His sculptures are usually made of wood and the design is based on 2D silhouettes which is then extend to 3D. Lighting plays a big role in his work. For B-Seite he produced a special sculpture that is projection mapped.

Embedded Artist / The Embedded Artist System

In this talk Spahn and Steiner introduce their open source Embedded Artist System and talk about its capabilities, the motivation behind it and the development process.

Karla Brunet / The Sea: Art, Technology and Environment

I will present my artwork related to the environment, more specifically to the sea of my surroundings. It's a mixture of formats: photo exhibition, interactive installation, DIY sensors, data visualization, video art, VJing, databending and web art, all having the same source, the sea and its und...

Riko Murakami & Haruka Mitani / Performance Dance and Film improvisation Super 8 and Butoh dance

'Dance with Film' An improvised meeting of Butoh dance and hand-made Single 8 films of Butoh dance. Butoh is a journey to the Self. In this performance we explore existence and feeling beyond the mirage of film. There is no beginning and no ending.

Pierce Warnecke / Audio-visual works

My work stems from interest in the effects of time on matter: modification, deterioration and disappearance. Whether the focus is on digital forms or rough materials, large scales of time or microscopic details, the goal of my work is to re-adapt existing objects and materials into parallel conte...

Tebjan Halm & Elias Holzer / 50, that next big thing

In the past few years we’ve been eagerly working on a complete rewrite of vvvv which lead to a new visual programming language in combination with a development and runtime environment. In this talk we’ll give you a short introduction into the key features of this new language we’re internally ca...

Transforma / Transforma: 2001 bis 2014

A chronological presentation of selected works from the world of transforma.

Marcel Schwittlick / Current Status

It's just me showing my work.

Marcellina Wellmer / Crossing the border - RANDOM IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL MEDIA

Generative factor in a visual message, connected with electronic devices, used in a set of variable objects. Hybrid of media and cultural&philospohical garbology. Reverse engineering.

Ioann Maria / Privacy and online freedom of expression.

This Session will attempt an open discussion that addresses issues of privacy and online freedom of expression. We want to discuss if and why privacy matters. How does that relate to contemporary artists and the tools they (we) are using? Is there a space for a political statement? How much stren...

Kevin Rice / Photochemical Intiatives

Kevin Rice, a member of Process Reversal, will be presenting on behalf of the collective. He is a self described ‘film archivist’ whose practice focuses on the study of photochemical theories, the development of lab resources for filmmakers, and the documentation of various darkroom odysseys on m...

So Kanno / Signal, noise and machine

Such as drawing machines which is not perfectly controlled by numbers, 3D printed sculpture and garment which uses errors and imperfectness of system intentionally. Predicting the future but not forgetting critical point of view for technology.

Kris Limbach / On improvised Cinema

Kris Limbach will perform a short improvised piece to give an insight in his techniques and workflow

Derek Holzer / Probing the Past: A Media Archaeology of Handmade Electronic Sound

The utopias of electronic sound have hardly changed in its hundred-year history. We still want to imitate existing instruments, create sounds which have never been heard before and realize complex compositions without the need of an orchestra. It is only the tools which have become more complex. ...

Imanol Gomez / Science Inspires Art

The talk will focus on how art and science are moving towards one another. It should not be forgotten that both have always been characterised by creative and imaginative processes. Many artist have found their inspiration by the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Tod...

Juan Carlos Duarte Regino / Audiovisual Interactions and ludic design for ludic interfaces

The talk will review some own project and other state of art related examples around the interactive aspect of live visuals. The use of open source technologies expertise and knowledge share has enhanced the scene of creators and artists looking to use alternative tools for creation of locative a...

Quadrature / From a visual journey into another dimension.

After introducing themselves and their work, they will focus on the problems for media artists to be part of the traditional gallery-marked in the art business. Even so a lot of Art projects, which use modern technology and try to bring it into a different not consumer-based context, are quite su...

Miller Puckette / How to have fun with a six channel guitar pckup

Puckette demonstrates what happens when you put individual pickup coils on each string of your guitar, opening up a wide range of sonic possibilities beyond what you can get out of an ordinary pickup. Techniques like filtering and distortion can be applied to the signals before they're mixed. T...

3ez / From a visual journey into another dimension.

Probably known mostly about his former old project called Jonnyzeb as surf movie producer, Bruno Bez has released a series of experimental board sports movies with a good dose of imagination and a ludic taste from Brazil around the world. Traveling, filming and producing in extreme places, Bez ha...

Richard Tuohy / Dot Matrix - A strategy for direct film

After a brief contextualising introduction, I will perform my two x 16mm projector expanded cinema piece Dot Matrix (2013, 16 minutes). I will then give an account of the works origins and my working proceedure for its creation. I will contrast this film with two earlier works of mine - Flyscre...

Wolfgang Spahn / VGA-Hacking or Materiality in a Digital World

Name Yun Pike is known for manipulating a TV set with a magnet. One might think that after we abandoned monitor tubes the combination of TV and magnetism is gone as well. But similar is still possible today by manipulating the monitor signal. The fact that VGA is a signal based on electric curren...

Ercan Engin Kuruoglu / Making the Picture of the Early Universe

This talk will summarise the efforts to make a picture of the universe just after big bang. We will introduce the big bang theory, the satellite missions to measure cosmic microwave radiation and how we utilized the Information Theory of Shannon to obtain the earliest picture of the universe. We ...

Lichtpiraten / Make love not art

die LiCHTPiRATEN zeigen uns, dass nichts aussehen muss wie es gerade scheint langsam begreifen wir, dass wir in einer kuenstlichen welt leben, die aussieht wie sie aussehen soll. die oberflaeche der dinge die uns bestimmen sind erdacht, gestaltet und in unseren alltag geschmuggelt. die LiCHTPiRAT...

BildPeter / Conquering the world though Art & Science

The talk will give an overview of the three main fields of BildPeters work: digital art, film/photography and science. It will touch fields like: VJing with Quartz Composer. Video generation with Processing and OpenFrameworks. Filming with DSLRs. Science with an iPad.

VJ Fader / Breaking the Screen

I will discuss how my work have progressed into areas such as video mapping and stage design in the past 10 years. My presentation will focus on the deconstruction of the rectangular video screen where the form is just as important as the content.

Vj Chuu / Guruguru kun

Chuuu recently works on the intersection of noise music and live drawings. In his talk, we will give some close-ups to art practices. Follow him on his blog: chuuu.hateblo.jp

Mahir Duman /

Trashpuzzle /

During three years Trashpuzzle developed. New people joined the group, equipment has evolved and they gave dozens of shows in clubs around Berlin and other cities. Antique episcope has been replaced by beamer. The transport band is filmed by a live mix of two cameras that are hidden in a black bo...

Martin Meyer / Sinsynplus

After his talk, Martin will immediately change spaces and head back to zeitraum.exit to prepare his performance project , that will be performed at 10pm! Will will join them after our session!

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Agnieszka “Bronka” Bronowska / Mixing art and science – enthalpy, entropy, visual narration, and dance

In my talk I will briefly introduce the concepts, data sources, and tools, which can be used by visual artists in their work. I will focus on the need for motion graphics, especially in depicting the phenomena which involve dynamic components hence the entropic terms (e.g. drug-receptor interacti...

FELD - Studio for digital crafts /

The talk will be about the role of custom software and manufacturing techniques as part of the design and prototyping process in our daily work and thinking. We will present some of our recent projects and discuss the processes and technologies behind them.

Valentina Ferrandes /

Valentina will present her project “Berg“, an exploration of Teufelsberg Listening Station comprising a video and a GPS triggered soundscape for iPhone and iPad.

Andrea Familari aka. Fax /

Drøp is an electronic music project born in Berlin in 2010 by Giuseppe Bifulcosound designer and engineer. It focuses on sounds investigation and experimentation, not that much in an aesthetic meaning, rather than in a perceptual and sensorial one, considering the sound as a bundle of information...

Julien Bach / Video mapping Jam

Julien will present a selection of his past work, mostly video mapping, and also introduce a community event he will start in January : A video mapping jam evening, happening once every two months in the Atelier.

StratoFyzika / Writing movement in interactive mediated spaces

In this talk StratoFyzika will speak about their experience in experimenting with audio-visual-movement performances and recent collaborations with other artists. The use of sensors and wearable technologies, mapping the parameters of human movement to those possible in the world of sound and pro...

Georgina Espasa / Half a Quarter

During this talk Georgina will present the creative process of her latest work: a documentary film (“Half a Quarter”) that took her three years to complete and is linked to her personal evolution, and relates to her understanding the roots and the assimilation of her family legacy. The film will ...

Tarik Barri / Versum: audiovisual composing in 3D

Tarik will present his ‘Versum’ software, which was originally developed as a 3D audiovisual sequencer for the purpose of creating music by flying through melodies within a virtual space. The software has been gradually adapted to be a purely visual tool and works with any kind of music. At the e...

TorpeDeArte Kollektiv / TelevisArte Installation

The project is based on TorpeDeArte’s shared perception of art as an active form of research. We don’t believe in one path for the creative process. There are infinite means to reach any one end and infinite unimaginable ends awaiting to be discovered. All we need is to establish a creative publi...

pixelnoizz / touch.gl

David Szauder will present touch.gl, an app to create a glitch composition using your fingers. glitch.gl offers several glitch method options, noizes, databending, offsets for composition from different sources, such as camera input or image files. touch.gl was recently exhibited in the Centre Po...

Malte Steiner / Open source game engines and realtime 3D for visuals

n his talk, Steiner will show the use of open source game engines for live visuals and interactive art pieces from the humble beginnings in late 90s towards today. He currently develops and shares a system based on the engine Panda 3D which can be programmed in Python. With the implementation of ...

Tim Vis / Mixing after SD video

Now that we have overcome the limited possibilites of old-style SD mixing by the development of new Hard and Software, there is the opportunity to redefine the VJ as a performer, not only beeing a controller of some software, which he was mostly after SD-Video outputs on the computers have been s...

Elektro Moon / Patch:audio_visual lab

will present P a t c h :audio_visual lab – international festival dedicated to the contemporary digital art forms, which they organize in Krakow, Poland as an AV Node member. This year it will take place from 10-12 Oct at the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in the center of Krakow (exhibi...

VJ Radiance /

She will talk about her personal approach to creating video material coming from a fine arts / printmaking and graphic design background and through a selection of projects. This includes ‘Memento Mori‘ which uses stop motion collages to remix religious iconography, and ‘The Space Between Us’ wh...

Joel Dittrich / White Noise/Black Noise

WHITEvoid /

Lights are screens and screens are lights. pixels become physical and tangible. buildings and spaces are shaped by computer generated patterns and mathematical algorithms. in the age of projection mapping the real and the digital world are merging to form a new reality. real and virtual worlds ar...

VJ Juladi /

As VJ Juladi she creates new imagery and makes sounds visible. She specializes in analog and handmade visuals. Responding live to music, she experiments with the movements of her hands and body in addition to placing various objects in front of the camera: feathers, leafs, fabrics, fire, etc. to ...

Rainer Kohlberger / The void beyond this feeling

«My talk will examine the colors of noise, the worms in my signals and the serendipity of music. The black square is the feeling. The white field equals the voice beyond this feeling. The metal machine will display my work.»

Sébastien Bourdeauducq / Story and development of the Mixxeo digital video mixer

Many video artists need a device that can blend video streams from two or more computers. A common solution is to use SD analog video and a commercially available mixer such as the Edirol V4. But the move to the better quality of digital video and the high cost of commercial digital mixers has pr...

ReVerse Bullets / Kunst, Kultur & Kino Collage

“Kunst, Kultur & Kino Kollage” will be an examination of the process of re-appropriating the images and sounds of pop culture, propaganda, educational films, and the tools of the populist media to create subversive audiovisual art. The talk will feature an analysis of the creation of the debut Re...

Tokyo Data Collective /

Their performance De Koog is a multi-media exploration that fuses together electronics and acoustics, light and sound, man and machine. It can be watched, touched, played, heard and experienced both as performer or audience. Its eyes and ears take in data from the surroundings and it responds to ...

A-LI-CE /

For this years LPM edition, she will premiere the Piece «Parade: Ouverture», which is the first act of the “Parade A/V live performance project”, inspired freely on “The Atrocity Exhibition” of the writer J.G. Ballard. In collaboration with the sound artist Swub, it deals with spam messages, whit...

pussykrew /

In 2010 they’ve started their audio-visual noise project – Domestic Violence, which merges field recordings, live coding and audio-responsive glitches, by using self-made interfaces, controllers and patches. Domestic Violence performed in Finland, Germany, UK, Italy and Poland. work by Tikul & Je...

Gabriel Shalom /

Kasia Justka aka pani K. /

Kasia is a one man studio, audiovisual composer, video-maker and live performer who loves to experiment. She is driven by a desire to find beauty in an ugly world and amplifies images, sounds and lights with her inner emotions, feelings, intuitions. Her work is a combination of the harsh and deli...

Aude Rose /

Aude Francois also called Aude Rrose is multi-disciplinary artist living between Paris and Berlin, working with performance, photography, sound and live video. She regularly presents her video performances in international festivals. Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy ...

Mey Lean Kronemann & David Sanz Kirbis /

David and Mey are currently working on their project Tower of Babel, an emergent robotic sculpture that builds itself. A pack of small, autonomous robots is trying to climb on top of each other in order to form a tower. At some point, the tower gets too high and the robots fall down. This project...

Vanessa Ramos-Velazquez /

She is currently collaborating with legendary electronic musician/producer A Guy Called Gerald for her interactive performance Coded Narratives, and with sound artist Derek Holzer will debut her live videomicrography performance.

Geso /

Geso is the moniker he uses for his most personal and experimental work, specially focused in video-art and visual performances. His videos are a combination of glitches, geometric graphics, landscapes and images from nature, evoking a short of lost paradise or residual image from a better world....

Alex Haw /

His work, which spans the scales from buildings to installations, masterplans to furniture, seeks a synthesis of mind & body – creating meaningful, pleasurable, enduring and immersive experiences. Much of his work involves cutting-edge fabrication technologies and digital mapping, exploring the c...

Jem The Misfit / Performance as process

Jem about her Talk: “For scope sessions I will present a selection of projects from 2012 that range from large scale festival VJing to new AV collaborations, as well as the strange world of VJ competitions. Through these projects I will give some insight into my background and work process and di...

Zan Lyons / Cross-disciplinary AV production

In his talk he gives an insight to his special mix of violin play, computer synthetics, video timelines and ideas about it.

Onyx Ashanti / The Beatjazz Controller System

equations relative to each other are beginning to synergize. aesthetic based on function is proving to be a decent guiding principle for not just design, but sonic interval interpretation, formerly called music. the rabbit hole has heiroglyphs on the walls of its interior. the myth construct has ...

Max Schneider / 9 Evenings Reconsidered: The 10th Evening

The talk will focus on a student project cooperation between the Academy of Visual Arts and the Academy for Music and Theatre in Leipzig conducted in 2011/12. The project “9 Evenings reconsidered: The 10th Evening” is based upon the milestone media arts event “9 Evenings” (1966 New York). Over th...

Jakob Wierzba / Hacky Live Video 3Dification

He will talk about works that deal with the transformation of 2D video into a 3D representation by hacking a set of common tools whilst avoiding frameworks, and how this can help to get the viewer to “feel the algorithm”. Tech meat: C, OpenGL, MIDI glued together by PHP and fueled by UNIX and DIY...

Melody Panosian / From bad to worse. Ruby-I in talk with Swimsuit Tissue.

At Scope Sessions – artist talks & media salon, Ruby-I and the traveller Swimsuit Tissue have a talk about Swimsuits alter ego Leni Riefenstahl. Ruby-I is a archetypical female Cyborg – partly human and partly automata. Ruby-I is like a talk show host, however, in an opposite manner. Because she ...

Andreas Nicolas Fischer / Schwarm

In his talk, A. N. Fischer is going to talk about his artwork “Schwarm”, a software that creates constantly changing, abstract composition running in real time. As this work comes to life through software that executes a coded behaviour, the computer system becomes an integral part of the creatio...

Frieder Weiss / Intermedia Dance Performances with Motion Sensing

With his background in computer science and automation technology, he started developing interactive systems in 1993. For many years he was codirector of Palindrome Performance group, developing media performances which toured worldwide and have received numerous awards. While his early works wer...

Felix Bonowski / Reverse modelling

In his talk, he will give some insight into how mathematical modelling can be used as an artistic tool to break the determinism of man-machine interaction and create a corporeal experience in a world without haptic feedback.

Mark Coniglio / The Past and Future of Technology & Performance

Media artist, composer and programmer Mark Coniglio will present an artist talk that combines an overview of the history of interactive/media-intensive performance with a consideration of how to take keep this work meaningful in the future.

Adam Magyar / Scripted Rhymes

Seemingly, state of the art devices give you everything you need for completing your photography projects. But what if the image you have in mind demands even more and you need to reach for fields outside photography? In Scripted Rhymes, imagemaker Adam Magyar tells the story of his journey down ...

Berlan Allee / ”BERLAN ALLEE” Radio Show & ”SAROSEDA Collective

Next, Arash Salehi the founder of SAROSEDA will briefly present their collective. SAROSEDA is a digital art collective which tries to reach new forms and concepts in Iranian Contemporary Art scene by introducing the potential of collaboration between different disciplines in the shape of organizi...

Dalibor Knapp / CAS presentation

Dalibor will introduce us the department and the areas they work in, but centerpiece of this talk is show some of the spectrum of works being done by the students.

Stanislav Abraham /

He will show us his work in progress on the topic of disembodied human voice in relation to phonographic technologies, speech synthesis and text to speech.

Katerina Bilkova, Fabian Scharpf /

She will perform “Outer Scan” and explain the technique behind it. Using a regular scanner, images of different analog objects are animated using a Quartz Composer patch and accompanied by live audio performed by Fabian Scharpf with Max/Msp.

Alexandra Moralesova /

Together with our second speaker, Stanislav Abraham, she will show us her new Performance “Gardening”. Gardening is a kind of semiotics, the performance tries to find the way through the garden’s syntax and plays with its visible and notional elements. The strategy to this inquiry lies in remedia...

YUKIJUNG /

After a short introduction to her design studio, YUKIJUNG will share her know-how with the audience by explaining her usual conceptual approach in planning an architectural multimedia scenography on the basis of two exemplary projects: the multimedia tour through history „Promenades sous les étoi...

Ioann Maria /

In her talk Ioann Maria will present her current work in progress “Artificial Rat”, which is open for interdisciplinary collaboration. The Project aims to investigate the nature of human-machine relationship, provoking an interaction between the two. The artificial rat should appear to respond to...

Giorgos Kakanakis /

Under the title “Real time forms are rich only if they are rich in flaws”, Giorgos will give a fragmented dialogue consisting of a non-linear presentation of The Erasers’ work in real time audio visual performance, a brief discussion on the possibilities of live cinema/real time film, moments of ...

Konkreet Labs /

In their presentation Shai Levy and Marc Tiedemann will give a live performance of their app, talk about its development through the many stages of conceptualizing, researching and creating and will share their thoughts on the pros and cons of using a touch-screen a creative medium.

Reynold Reynolds /

During his presentation Reynold will show works made in his Berlin studio (Six Apartments) and some older works from his collaborations in New York with Patrick Jolley (The Drowning Room).

Pikilipita /

When mixing with these tools instead of your usual laptop, the performer can be much closer to the audience, creating a totally new experience both for the artist and the performer. At scopesession clement will demonstrate how this works using two of his newest pieces of software: PS24VJ with run...

MFO /

Thorsten Fleisch /

Sansculotte /

Along the way will be mentioned: pure data, glsl, digital cut-up, appropriation and information overload.

Andreas Karaoulanis /

A technique that can be used in various forms, from live dj ing to theater and dance performances. Software used VDMX ,a firewire camera plus lots of white A3 papers, black markers!

Christoph Rittweger /

Tetsuya Hori and Yurie Ido /

Tetsuya Hori and Yurie Ido will present their video performance “dead” and explain their collaborative work.

Larissa Wunderlich / SYNÆSTHESIA!

'This project will be the master thesis for my studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since I’m a synesthete myself, synesthesia is a topic that is present in my life for many years. The idea of involving this topic into my work first came to my mind about three years ago. It developed and gre...

Carrick Bell /

Sébastien Bourdeauducq / Milkymist One

Developer Sébastien Bourdeauducq will present the The Milkymist One, an open hardware product that concentrates all the processing power and the interfaces of an heavily interactive VJ setup into one small box. With a unique combination of built-in interfaces such as MIDI, DMX512, analogue video ...

VisualBerlin / VisualBerlin

VisualBerlin management board member Aude François and co-founder Kiritan Flux will present Berlin’s number one video-arts and VJ association VisualBerlin, how it all started in 2005 and what it has developed to today. Members and projects will be presented and people will have the chance to ask ...

Alex Corbi /

This session, we’ll welcome Alex Corbi who will show us his work under Arduino and Processing. He will start simple, and then more complex. After his presentation, we can get to the computers, and try, share, get started, ask questions, manipulate a bit, have a look over the functions and possibi...

Servando Barreiro /

Malte Steiner /

VJ Fest Istanbul / VJ Fest Istanbul

Pierce Warnecke /

Mauritius Seeger / Digital techniques in interactive art.

Mauritius Seeger, VJ, digital artist and programmer will talk about how specialised software can be used to build engaging and responsive artworks and installations. Mostly using examples from his own work he will present the challenges and solutions encountered when trying to make interactive so...

A MAZE / A MAZE

Thorsten “Storno” Wiedemann presented the idea of A MAZE and talked about past and future projects.

Grafitti Research Lab / Grafitti Research Lab

Mirae Rosner and Jesse Scott of the Berlin cell of GRL talked about past and ongoing projects in Berlin, built “LED throwies” together with the audience and brought their “BlitzTag” installation to play with.

Willy Sengewald /

David Croft /

David Croft will be introducing a project to create a wall art installation that dynamically and fluidly interacts with the viewers by monitoring the position of their bodies to give a natural-feeling experience. He’ll describe the theory behind the hardware, give an overview of the software, and...

Eric Dunlap /

Movement and Video Artist Eric Dunlap will discuss his work creating dance and video pieces, producing VJs, and construction audience interactive video installations.

Ilan Katin / Re:tired VJ

In anticipation of the retirement of this media Ilan presented each piece of media and in the process of doing so talked about his approach to creating and performing with the material as well as reflected on his thoughts about live video performance in general.

Peter Kirn / PIXELS AND PICS: Etudes in Code, For Non-Coding Artist

Slides of the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/peterkirn/etudes-in-code-with-processing

Arran Hearn /

Australian designer and artist Arran Hearn showcased his video-mapping work titled “isometric cubes” and Julien Bach of Atelier Überall presented a whole workflow for mapping onto them, with both 2D & 3D templates.

Aude Françoise /

Aude Françoise video artist working on a project of argentic black and white fotography with long exposure, exploring the metamorphosis of the body acting with white elements…

Pixelnoizz /

Media artist and programmer David Szauder aka. pixelnoizz presented his QuartzComposer based tool “get control”. This was the first public presentation of the software as proof of concept that will show live video sequencing and frame manipulation with a drawing tablet and further aspects (live e...