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We are all the more pleased that festival events such as MIRfestival form an important part of our agenda at the Cultural

Organization of the City of Athens.

In September, artists of all persuasions will join forces in creating a cultural narrative both personal and human. Their

concerted efforts will help everyones aesthetic taste and predilections to develop through a powerful and original

contemporary sound and vision.

Warmly supported by the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens, the 1st MIRfestival in Athens proposes an

array of artistic events, concerts, performances, videos, projections, installations, exhibitions in an original and potent

series of interventions by artists and groups from many countries for everyone in Athens to enjoy.

This joint effort realizes our quest to promote a cultural policy of cultural productions of the highest caliber.

We look forward to the challenges in order to seize the opportunities.

We wish you every success!

Sofie Daskalaki - Mytilinaiou

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MIR: a festivity for universal voyagers. Passing by artists, creators of ephemeral and unique works, stop on MIR for a while

to emit their signal before they continue their trip in time and space. Having shared the glimpse of a frivolous vision with

the audience before they go. Having revealed to us something which still has the power to make us think, something

which can make us active, something which can open horizons for us in different dimensions of the reality.

As it lands, a fresh wind stirs the city This is how we dreamt of it.

MIRfestival orbital station is put into orbit in a city changing every day, in a city crying out loud. In a city over-fed with

show, and over-consuming it, but producing very little though on contemporary live performance and its hybrid forms.

MIRfestival aims to set up the dialogue. To be a place of meeting about the experiment, where the inherent thirst will be

exchanged with international creative fever, but a place where these two will be meeting on equal terms.

Live performance: Flesh and bones, public performance, public statement on burning issues, or on things that make us

feel human. Fictional opens its heavy red curtain letting us see mysterious worlds full of symbols. What is re-enacted can

overstep interpretations and keep the aenigma alive. And if every artistic experiment is an aenigma asking to provoke the

spectator, every festival programme is a crossword puzzle, made up of intersecting works of art. Memory, nostalgia of the

future and intuition make up ours.

The satellite MIRfestival is put into orbit full of fascinating artistic projects many of which were produced especially for its

audience.

A space of breathing for imagination, in a hard, discouraging reality. Persistence in Utopia could mean despair, but it could

also mean hope. Opting for hope is a statement, as it is a statement to take action in a cultural landscape devouring its

children. At any cost.

Personal stake? Collective utopia? A real vision inspiring a team of people to invest on it? Thankfully all three of them.

Thanking all those who assisted us in this first flight (especially the Cultural Organisation of the Municipality of Athens, the

Unification of Archaeological Sites and our sponsors), we express our hope that MIRfestival will soon find the support it

needs to continue the voyage.

In a general condition in which money is worshiped and people usually concentrate on personal profit, finding a team

of incredible collaborators who deposit and invest in a shared vision, is so unexpected that it looks like a myth. I am still

searching the proper way to express my gratitude to them MIRfestival is its population.

Christiana Galanopoulou

MIRfestival director

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DBUT v spomin prihodnjegaDBUT In Memory of Coming/ creation : 2007 | 60

It was a theatre performance. It had nothing to do with the Beginning. Yet one

could not do without the other. And then there was a fall. It was a fall into a

body. It was something that happened long ago and would still go on.

The lead was caught in limbo. It was a dream of the fallen, a dream of

separation and of exile. Then something mysterious happened. A memory

unfolded, about an ancient mystery of the body as a passage to the

netherworld. The dreamer woke up in her dream and she knew that a hidden

path winded through the theatre back into life and unity. She was there to

pay her debt. She could see herself in her own dream. And her body would

become a crack, through which it could see to the other side of the mirror.

In the exact moment of her transition, she had to leave the image of the fallen

behind. She stepped from the mirror of her memory. A new life sprang forth

from the ashes of the past. In this new dream, everything has become what it

has always been: its other.

Mala Kline

Dbut is not Mala Klines actual dbut. Rather it is the creation of a unique

artist, who, using a Lynchian atmosphere takes her viewers on a pathway

between worlds and guides them through her work as if through a labyrinth

of meanings. The piece begins with a diva complaining about work conditions

and how she simply cannot do it, and flows into a dance solo that both

physically and on an abstract level opens a new landscape on the stage,

and ends, as they say in fairy tales, happily ever after. The live performance is

accompanied by powerful sound and video images.

Dbut - In Memory of Coming was created by a team at numerous artistic

residences (Girona, Lisbon, Berlin). It emerged under the auspices of the

Mediterranean project entitled Sites of Imagination.

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/ Additional sound design by: Felix Andriessens

/ Light design: Jaka imenc

/ Costume design: Maja op

/ Video: Hanna A. W. Slak, Guillaume Cailleau, Jan Wilhelm Schoeningh

/ Photography: Hanna A.W.Slak

/ Editing: Guillaume Cailleau

/ Graphic design: Metod Blejec

/ Producers: Tamara Brai, Alma Selimovi

/ Assistant producer: Brina Pungeri

/ Production: Bunker Ljubljana

/ Partner: Festival Ljubljana

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Mala Kline is a performance artist and choreographer. Much of her professional knowledge and experience was acquired through her work with Mark Tompkins, Meg

Stuart, Josef Nadj, Jordi Cortes Molina, Vera Mantero, Mark Tompkins, Lloyd Newson, Meg

Stuart, Jan Fabre, amongst others. She has danced in pieces by Iztok Kova and Wim

Vandekeybus. She has co-choreographed work with Maja Delak. Her first big independent

choreographic work Campo de Fiori was very successful. She is completing her studies in

philosophy.

Belgian Robert Michael Hayden has been performing for 25 years as an athlete, actor, dancer, and most recently sound composer/musician.

Since May 2002, he has been a dancer/actor of the Belgian dance company Ultima Vez /

Wim Vandekeybus based in Brussels. Recent productions include BLUSH, SONIC BOOM,

PUUR, and currently, SPEIGEL (Mirror).

Bunker cultural non-profit organization produces and presents contemporary theatre and dance performances, organizes different workshops and other educational programmes,

carries out various research methods in the field of culture and brings together one of the

most noted international festivals, the Mladi levi festival.

Mala Kline . Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Josef Nadj, Jordi Cortes Molina, Vera Mantero, Mark Tompkins, Lloyd Newson, Meg Stuart Jan Fabre, . Iztok Kova Wim Vandekeybus. Maja Delak. , work Campo de Fiori, . .

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time, movement and stillness.

Perhaps this work by Cristian Chironi should have been called Rew or

Backwords. It is a journey backwards in time through the image. A journey

appealing to memory. Sailing, inhabiting frames, possible reconstructions,

mental projections.

The concept is simple: a selection of 7 photographs portraying his father, a

passionate football player in different sides (Oranese Calcio and others), posing

with team and coach. Group photos belonging to different years, presumably

1980, 1978, 1971, 1968, 1962... full scale, where a living player sets in: Cristian

Chironi. ()

Yet, Poster is not a slide show, it is rather a performance, of which C.C. is the

designer, the maker, the performer. Or, from a different perspective, he is

director, protagonist, stage hand and individual. A process executed, as in

the previous performances (Singer, Rowenta) systematically and without any

theatrical affectation. There is nothing to feign: functionality and fluency in the

execution. Clearness in moving in ones personal history.()

Then there are variations on the representation. Several plastic attitudes,

according to epoch and cultural models, the skids of which are perceived as

the album in the form of poster unfolds. C.C. standing, side glance, crouched

on the floor in the first row, hands on his private parts, with a slightly broken,

swaggerer smile to a companion ().

It is a process, made of in/out, to the uncovered mechanicalness of which we

gladly submit, because it succeeds in gaining the trust of the audience who,

once they realize the rhythm, stop to look. We are no more used to dwelling

on an image and this unusual hold-up requires an auteur rhythm. C. C. clearly

looks at images with those pauses, so do we. The stasis, the pose, make the

visual patrimony of each single viewer emerge. Individual and collective

memory are projected on the freeze-frame of the tableaux vivants.

Again on adherence and detachment. In Poster, the performer enters and

leaves the images just for a few instants, wearing face mask and clothes,

which he later abandons to become an individual again. Yet, there is also

another level of processing for affective time: photographs part from our

look. While turning over the photographic curtains one by one, ranging from

recent colour, to the staggered chromatisms of the seventies, to the black

and white and sandblasting of the fifties, the tableaux leave C.C. progressively

alone, firmly planted on the pedestal, now further away from the photograph

presented, as much as his psychology from that image and that story.

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Milena Ugren Koulas

Nothing/ creation : 2008 | 17

/ Choreographer and performer:

Milena Ugren Koulas

/ Music: Lubos Fiser (15 prints after Durers Apocalypse),

/ George Koulas

/ Lighting design: Aleksandar Jotovic

/ Production: / Jeunesses Musicales

Cyprus

/ Commissioned by: New Europe Dance Festival

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The creation of this solo came out of boredom

of myself, tiredness, feeling old and consumed.

Milena Ugren Koulas

Milena Urgen Koulas . Rotterdamse Dance Academy 2003. , : Andre Gringras, Rinus Sprong, Tom Stuart, Sanja Hasagic, Xing Liang Dylan Newcomb. , Jacek Luminski Silesian Dance Theatre . 2004 . , . 2005 DanceWEB Europe Scholarship Program . ( ImPuls Tanz). Aftermath (2006). New Europe Festival, , While walking (2007) & Nothing. , , ( ).

Milena Urgen Koulas was born in Serbia. She graduated from the Rotterdamse Dance Academy in 2003. During her time in The Netherlands she worked with several

choreographers namely: Andre Gringras, Rinus Sprong, Tom Stuart, Sanja Hasagic, Xing

Liang, Dylan Newcomb. Later, she worked with Jacek Luminski in Silesian Dance Theatre

in Poland. Since 2004 she has been living in Cyprus. She has been performing with almost

all Cypriot companies in Cyprus and abroad. In 2005 she was awarded with a scholarship

from: DanceWEB Europe Scholarship Program in Vienna (part of ImPuls Tanz Festival).

Her first choreographic piece was Aftermath (2006). She was awarded the 3rd prize in

choreographic competition in New Europe Festival, Prague, for While walking (2007) &

Nothing. She has presented her choreographies in Cyprus, Turkey, Croatia, Czech Republic.

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While Walking/ creation : 2007 | 17

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Milena Ugren Koulas

/ Music: / George Koulas, /

Irineos Koulouras, Rhinocerose (Installation Sonore)

/ lighting design: Panayiotis Manousis

/ Production: / Pelma

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The work carries the choreographers

signature, her idiosyncratic movements,

emotional tension and her ability to distort

the body. She has created a piece that is

distinctly feminine. It investigates emotions

of solitude, the beginnings, strength and

disgrace.

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The dancetheatre performance The parrots silence is an open investigation

of the boundaries between human and animal, silence and babbling, aphasia

and speech, through a dangerously naive story. Everyone is excited and they

demand attention. They are waiting for the parrot to say something to them.

Anything. They know that he speaks non-stop, they know that he speaks of

everything. The parrot is coming, he is ready to give a speech, But, without

any reason at all, the parrot will not speak.

Fingersix / Sofia Mavragani

/ The parrots silence*/ Creation : 2008 | 40

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/ performed by: / Pavlina

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Drosos Skotis.

& / Music composition & perofrmance:

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/ Costumes: / Danai Kavadia &

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* MIRfestival* Performance created for MIRfestival

H 1978. ..... /dance maker Arnhem/ (2001-2005), Mary O Donnell, Eva Karczak, Angus Balbernie, Peter HuLton, Peggy Olislaegers, Nol Tilanus. 2005, , : T , to beast or not to beast, be be bomb, Made in kozani. / . H M_dancethatre solo, . / . .

Sofia Mavragani was born in Athens in 1978. Graduated from Athens School of Economics, and from the EDDC-European Dance Development Centre, ArtEZ-University

of Arts, Arnhem, NL, Bachelor in Dance (2005). During her studies, she worked with

Mary O Donnell, Eva Karczak, Angus Balbernie, Peter HuLton, Peggy Olislaegers, Nol

Tilanus amongst others. In 2005 she moved back to Greece, where she choreographed

the productions: To aspromavro teras and To beast or not to beast, be be bomb, Made

in kozani. Her last work, M_dancetheatre solo has been performed in several cities in

Greece and abroad. Meanwhile, she worked as performer/choreographer for theatre

performances and video art projects She teaches composition and improvisation

workshops.

To Fingersix 2005 : (GR), Melina Seldes (AR), Marta Navaridas (ES), Eugenie Rebetez (CH), Danielle ES Brown (US), Alessio Castelacci (IT). Fingersix 6 , . 6 , 6 , ARTEZ, DANCE-MAKER Arnhem/ . , fingersix, , , . www.fingersix.com

Fingersix was founded during the summer of 2005 by: Sofia Mavragani (GR), Melina Seldes (AR), Marta Navaridas (ES), Eugenie Rebetez (CH), Danielle ES Brown (US), Alessio

Castelacci (IT). Fingersix offers the space within which 6 young choreographers connect to

one another, envision and create. The 6 members, originating from 6 different countries,

met in Holland where they completed studies of choreography in the ARTEZ, DANCE-

MAKER department of Arnhem Academy of Dance in Holland.

Carrying different cultural identities, experiences and artistic approaches they founded the

network fingersix, amining at the support and enrichment of their activities, the creative

exchange, collaboration and communication. www.fingersix.com

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Soil-salt-water/Mediterranean

My solo is autobiographical. It is a travelogue and at the same time a quest

for identity. In association with composer Takis Barberis, this solo narrates five

journeys. Impressions, sounds, sketches, colours. This solo is a travel diary:

France, Portugal, Morocco, Greece. Countries in which I have lived. Countries

in which I have enjoyed being a foreigner. For being a foreigner means being

a foreigner also to yourself. I say: Even in my body I am not at home. This is a

pleasure, a kind of abandonment of our self, of great revolutions with our body.

Every day. In another language. Every day I dance that other language.

I would like to dance in the same way that someone writes a poem, that is, in

a very distinctive, extremely personal manner and, at the same time, utterly

universal. This may be arrogant or ambitious. I dont know. I simply try to be

honest to myself.

My fifth journey is a return. It is a departure that is not yet familiar with itself; it

is my possible future, my nostalgias to come; what is yet to be written. The sum

total and the balance.

Jessica Hnou

A narrative in chapters: Jessicas Exiles

Countries, floras and landscapes of archetypal materials and colours on a flat

earth, marked by the slippery, unexpected, risky trajectories of its travelers,

produce a writing that hastily proceeds to leave a window open to a

panoramic view of the collective.

Takis Barberis electric guitar, the point of reference for each new departure, can

also be read as a new return, intensifying the feeling of a road movie, in which

there is no expedience things happen in time.

This time, Jessica captures her personal journey by charting an austere

geography of meridians, which each time signal a different age, another way to

inhabit the world.

Next to sensitivity, a merciless attitude, which may be necessary in order to

be able to leave, or to refuse, is articulated through a physical intensity which

shatters the linear reading of time.

Provocative and ironic in this exile, Jessica loses her memory and invites the

viewers gaze to regain it. She liberates her body from the bondage of her

origin and invents her own flag. In the context of this powerful structure, she is

able to seek and realize her freedom.

Paraphrasing Franois Ricard from his short story Agns last afternoon, Jessica

inhabits her body as her true, unique and irreplaceable homeland.

Penelope Iliaskou

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/ Artistic support:

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/ Music: / Takis Barberis /

using extracts by: Charles Aznavour (FR) Jos Afonso (PT) Mablem Hamid El

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A multifaceted personality, Jessica Hnou, who cannot sit still in one country, apart from having worked as dancer with important international artists, such as Susan

Buirge in France and Sofia Fitas in Portugal, apart from having taught contemporary

dance in unexpected organizations, such as prisons in France and the Circus School in

Lisbon, has also founded and worked as chief editor of the magazine Espao Corpo for

the performing arts. She has produced five projects with her personal art ensemble,

Choroergotaxia. She established Choroergotaxia in 2004, when she came to live in Athens,

where she lives and works as an artist. Her postgraduate studies (DEA) in Dance at Paris VIII

has shaped her development as an artist.

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Pedestrian / Marilena Petridou (ZHTA group, YELP) focuses on site-specific projects. Her research field is the perception of space and time, the real/imaginary and metaphysical,

and also the humorous aspect of things. She uses movement-voice, sound-music and

image in equal proportions. The performers are multifaceted, and their roles-qualities

change in response to the requirements.

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/ Music: / Nikos Veliotis

/ Costumes: pedestrian- / Marilena Petridou

/ Makeup: / Sissy Petropoulou

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* MIRfestival .* This work was conceived especially for MIRfestival 2008 and the specific location.

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Man[o]euvre is a site-specific performance. It uses movement and the visual

element in order to mark a linear journey along the Thessalonikis Pedestrian

Street at a specific time of day, the dusk. During the performance, two

characters-beings come face to face with their transformations, the immaterial

world and themselves.

A linear manoeuvre which borrows images, movements and feelings from

the Orient as well as the distinctive ambiance of the Kerameikos area, where

todays urban life meets the ancient past..

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Eekuipoiz (Christos Kaoukis & Marion Renard) is a Greek-French contemporary circus group, which has developed its own choreographic vocabulary, using dance, theatre,

joggler techniques and object manipulation. They were established in 2004 and is the first

group which works exclusively with juggling and object manipulation in Greece. They

have produced five projects exclusively of J&OM. They have cooperated with musicians

and visual artists and have recently began studying the introduction of circus and street

art techniques to the contemporary urban landscape through site-specific productions

in cooperation with Motus Terrae. They have participated in various festivals in Greece

and Europe, including their invitation to study with Jerme Thomas and the selection of

[nn+] in the final phase of the Jeunes Talents Cirque competition in France.

Motus Terrae . eekuipoiz Motus Terrae [non++] MIRfestival.

Motus Terrae has chosen to operate as a core for artistic exploration and production,

focusing on artistic expression in urban spaces.

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ex-Corean Market, Electric Railway tracks, Gazi)

A performance-installation about dialogue is installed in the city and observes

dialogue geographically. Thessalonikis Pedestrian Street: Like a communication

channel or like a junction connecting different city areas. Circus and urban

theatre techniques in the contemporary urban landscape.

The cooperation of eekuipoiz and Motus Terrae establishes a joint space

connecting the need to explore the public space and the need to develop

a new vocabulary regarding object manipulation and the performers body

under not purely theatrical conditions.

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Misty recollections / Greece

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Yann Leguay operates on LPs He mixes while playing vinyl on two decks, on

which he makes cuts by surgical tools connected to sound sensors. An almost

acoustic electronica, its sound first building on beats and scratch and then

getting lost in the noise of the vinyl destruction.

Yann Leguay,

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French Yann Leguay, who has studied sound and performance at the famous

National Contemporary Art studio Le Fresnoy and other major educational

institutions, and with participations in group shows and festivals in France,

Holland, Belgium, Hong Kong, impresses with his bold sound and weird,

almost industrial images.

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recollections MIRfestival.

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In Misty recollections, Absent without leave attempt to complement

sonically and visually the melancholy feeling of dim recollections of

abandoned countryside. Misty recollections will be presented at MIRfestival for

the first time. Part of the project is a movie by Yorgos Mastrokostas and Eftychia

Ramantza, which is integral to the sound.

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Absent without leave is the personal musical ensemble of Yorgos

Mastrokostas, whose sound covers a wide range of post-rock and shoegaze

sounds through to ambient and electronica. He has already made a large

number of official productions and soon to arrive circulations in several

international independent labels. He has participated in many projects in

Greece and other countries.

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Since Africa is a vast land, we decide to create a caravan to cross it. The caravan

is made up of a series of an heterogeneous mixture: refugees and tourists,

merchandise and camels, creoles and Bedouins. From a distance, though,

it looks like an uninterrupted unity moving slowly in the desert trying to find

its orientation.

Of course nothing is true. In fact we never set off. Moving is always impossible

(frustrating). Everything is an invention that feeds our need to listen to the

animal buzz, to falsify our origin. Perhaps what we are is rather a crowd

wearing blue animal masks, banging pieces of wood on carton boxes, just

making noise.

Europevessel Afrika project takes its new form for MIR and closes this years

festival.

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Through this combination of means and materials KINE & QUEEN MAKITA

are developing their plans, which they always present in audiovisual

performances. Recordings, film, sculpture, computers and analogue projectors,

text and music are some of the structural elements selected to support the

frame of their constructions, which is supported by the constant repetition of

its separate parts.

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MiniMaxiMuM ImproVision is a flexible group of experimentation with

natural and electric instruments, prerecorded sounds, objects and images

in order to create a cinema-like ambiance. They stage improvisations and

produce alternating soundscapes in a narrative flow of sounds and music

themes.

Since their inception in 2005, they have appeared under different line-ups

with Steve Reid and ieran ebden at House of Art (Athens), the 5th strange

screen festival at the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum, at the oheme del mar in

Ermoupoli, the Yuria festival at the Vinyl Microstore (Athens) and the 5th avant-

garde film festival at Cine TRIANON (Athens).

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www.novi-sad.net

Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) is a graduate student from the

Economic University of Piraeus. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, he began generating sounds in

2005. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured

ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a

hyper structure of iconoclastic form. Every sound that occurs is treated with

a sculptural integrity and his sonic power operates on a level in which the

audience participates as transcendental listeners.

Some of his projects are primarily focused in architectural acoustics and the

relationship between architecture and sound.

His debut album Misguided heart pulses, a hammer, she and the clock has

been critically acclaimed, worldwide. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording

session at the prestigious VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National

Radio. This work, will be released from Staalplaat [NL] in the Mort Aux Vaches

series. This is exactly the project Novi_sad will be presenting at MIRfestival. It is

an immersive and intense set in absolute darkness, based in source recordings

from 3 different continents.

Novi_sad is currently working on a project based on various methods of

audio analysis in extremely unique recordings, called Sirens. In this project,

he explores the aesthetics of information on sound by using quantitative data

from major stockmarket crashes in history.

Novi_SadE/ Greece

The Spectors

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Stammheim.

Because of The Spectors wish to preserve anonymity, it is difficult if not

impossible to compile a bio that is complete and accurate as far as hard facts

are concerned. This, together with the obscure nature of the band, makes The

Spectors history more a question of myth than biography.

The Spectors help deal with the confusion of jobs, girls and they make music

to come home to and listen to after Stammheim.

The spectorsE/ Greece

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Christos Papakonstantinou (b. 1966) is a self-taught electric guitarist. He

has been working with experimentation and improvisation since 1996. He

uses the guitar and everyday objects in different ways in order to create sonic

ambiances.

The wind, the fan, kitchen and bathroom appliances, hammers, metal objects

are among the tools he uses in combination with his guitar in a playful mood,

since it is often fun to use something in a different way than the one in which

it was designed to be used, or even to destroy it, abandoning functionality. His

influences include rock music, the Aeolian harp, the Fluxus movement, sound

art, conceptual art.

He has performed at the Mikro Mousiko Theatro (2002, -3, -4, -5) and

Platformes in 2008.

/Christos PapakonstantinouE/ Greece

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label Echo Music.

Highlights.

A project of electronic music without image! In total darkness, we give

our eyes a chance to rest from the constant alternation of images and at

the same time make Sound an independent protagonist in harmony with

the environment. The concept of a stage is discarded and virtuosity becomes

secondary so that performers and audience may experience an intense

personal experience, free from aesthetic and ideological preconceptions.

mecha/orga is a project by Yorgis Sakellariou. In the last five years, he has

produced 5 CDs and performed in concerts and festivals in Greece, Holland,

the UK, France, Belgium and Germany.

He has established the experimental music lable Echo Music.

He is member of the Contemporary Music Research Centre and contributes to

the magazine Highlights.

www.mecha-orga.com

Mecha/rgaE/ Greece

Free Piece of TapeE/ Greece

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Dog Star Man, / Going Under).

Free Piece Of Tape were formed in Athens in 2001 by Giorgos Axiotis and

Efthimis Theodosis. Their music is based on free improvisation as much as in

real-time composition. Their audio arsenal is mainly dominated by analog

and electroacoustic instruments, some of them constructed by the group

itself. Their primary interest lies in exploring the boundaries of real-time audio

performance and at the same time articulating a musical language ranging

from freeform drone compositions to dense multi-layered cut-ups. Apart

from live performances and the occasional CD-R giveaways, FPOTs activities

also involve an affection for the moving image. These activities range from

audio-visual performances/installations/workshops (Synch Festival, Videodance

Festival, Strange Screen Festival) to live audio soundtracks for experimental film

and dance (Dziga Vertov / Man with a Movie Camera, Stan Brakhage / Dog Star

Man, Zita Dance Co / Going Under).

www.freepieceoftape.blogspot.com

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#1*E/ Greece

/ sound installation, 2008

* MIRfestival.* This installation was conceived and realized for MIRfestival

Me of curseE/ Greece

PalindromE/ Greece

Palindrom project ( modrec) 2005. H 2006 , . pop . Club (support Gruff Rhys), 1o Burnt Festival ( ), 2008 (KinkyKong) P. project (, ) (, , ) 2008 1 .

Palindrom is the project of Dimitris Aronis (guitarist in post rock band modrec) located in Athens. He started performing in 2006, even though his

first songs and recordings are much older. He creates pop songs, singing and

playing classic guitar usually mixed with glocks and pianos so sometimes he

performs with a little help from Evangelie (piano, vox, glockenspiels) and other

friends. Some of the most important gigs took place at small music theatre

(Burnt Fest), AN club (supporting Gruff Rhys), European Music Day 2008 (Kinky

Kong) and theatre Roes. Palindrom prepares the recordings of his debut

album which is expected in 2009.

www.myspace.com/palindroms

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Me of Curse (guitarist and composer in post punk group Victory Collapse)

composes and records his songs at home (although he has not released any

of the material yet) and is influenced by 60s psychedelia, folk and blues. In MIR

Festival he is presenting his songs in an acoustic performance.

www.myspace.com/meofcurse

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Marinos Koutsomichalis composes music since 1999. Since then, he has

been experimenting constantly in various music styles and genres, from songs

to ambient recordings and noise. He works in both improvisation and scored

music. He writes for electronic media and acoustic instruments and ensembles.

His research mostly focuses on tonal harmony and psychoacoustics. His

objective is to achieve expression without formalistic limitations. Besides his

music research, he has also worked in photogrpaphy, the cinema, computer

graphics and VJing, poetry and literature as well as conceptual art.

www.marinoskoutsomichalis.com

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Yorgos Poulios was born in 1984. He lives and works in Athens as assistant

tailor. He began his music research in 2003 as a member of various short-lived

ensembles, in which he programmed music and played the synthesizers.

Seeking a more personal sound, he moved down a more experimental

path, working on his own. His work is characterized by vivid textures, noise

outbreaks, and grainy clouds, often in a romantic mood. He has also worked for

the theatre as a composer and sound designer.

www.myspace.com/amniakosakos

#1

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#1 is a sound installation structured on distinct shades of sounds, which are

due to mix with the surrounding natural sounds from time to time. Cars, voices,

glasses, whispers, electric appliances and other everyday noises which usually

cause indifference or irritation, are now supposed to act in counterbalance

with the work.

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Dash dot Dash is a group formed in 2008 by musicians, sound artists and

visual artists. It experiments with visual arts and sound.

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Magic moving image

Beauty sleeps in the images surrounding us. Beauty attracts us like a magic moving image. Beauty is no more than a

utopia among the other ones; a utopia that will always escape us.

Utopia is a small empty plot amidst our built-up reality. A small breathing space thanks to which we survive. Utopia, or our

ability to conceive utopian worlds: that is the proof of our freedom.

Shall we speak of utopias? Shall we speak of the reality from which we try in every way to escape? Of the dream to which

the hero of Brazil fled? Of the dream to which Bladerunner escaped? Shall we speak of the heros island in Solaris? There

is a magic moving image for each one of us, which, like a magnet, draws our inner gaze towards a bright, hypothetical

future and provides us with the faith we need to survive.

Humanity carves its escape from a bleak future on a rock. It builds satellites and other space toys, thinking they will

guarantee its possibility for a final choice. Humanity is a paper kite trapped inside its frame; a child who believes that

inside the camera obscura there is a bouquet of flowers; a child who launches spermaceti candles pretended spaceships

while weapons multiply around it like a rain of darts. Fears (Venturelli), obsessions (Elisabeth), painful observations

(Avgitidou, Lapid), realisations (Mistriotis), dreams of a utopian society (Beveratos, dreams of an imaginary, aware citizen

(Personal Cinema & The Erasers). The artists taking part in this exhibition talk about utopia and its traps, about dream and

reality.

Christiana Galanopoulou

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( )/ I see (or certain white points)*

/ Video, 2008

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* To MIRfestival* Video conceived and realized for MIRfestival

/ Kostas Beveratos

/The type error news

/ Video, 2008

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As it reaches the limits, from time to time it gives the impression that itll

escape. Will the white kite escape?

Within the square frame, mountain/earth and sky are in proportion, just like

yin and yang inside their circle. The paper kite charts an indistinct course. When

it moves against the backdrop of the sky, its visible; when it moves against

the backdrop of the mountain, it almost doesnt exist. It is a game between

what we see, and what exists which we do not perceive. The viewer might say

that one would not notice the fixed frame if not for the kite. The dot is more

significant than the landscape

Eleni Panouklia

Vision does not constitute a certain way of thinking, or a self-presence: it

is the medium that allows me to be absent from myself, to be present from

inside in the fissure of being, at the end of which, and only there, do I enclose

myself within myself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind & Cezannes Doubt (translated into

English from the Greek translation by Alexandra Mouriki, Nefeli Publishers,

Athens 1995).

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All the technological achievements for which we pride ourselves have not

changed for a moment the ratio between affluence and wretchedness. Striving

for supremacy and domination has consistently been the only timeless value

for humanity, whether its been carried out through use of a club, a sword, or

intercontinental missiles. From the moment humanity prevailed over nature, it

has remained essentially at a standstill.

The title places all the crucial issues that the work deals with within the context

of a practical joke. Whatever you will read or hear appears to have come from

a series of typos that insinuated themselves into the world of media, ultimately

taking up real journalistic space. As the publisher apologetically confesses, it

was not the typo demon but the demon of the collective conscience that

intervened

Everything around us is a utopia. Life as a whole and each one of us is a utopia.

Coincidences beyond any prediction or planning; seeds that thrived in the

most adverse conditions. Matter, the Sun, life, me, you: we are all a utopia. No

one can predict the utopia that will ensue, much less give it direction. Just like

me, every thought I have is a utopia; seeds and fertilizer for the utopias of the

future.

Excerpts from an interview by Kostas Beveratos to Angeliki Krinea on

16/4/2008, on the occasion of his Type Error exhibition at Booze Cooperativa.

Reprinted from the exhibition newspaper.

http://thetypeerrornews.blogspot.com/

1972 . (1995), (2004) Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (2003-04). 2007 . . .

Eleni Panouklia was born in 1972 in Agrinio, Greece. She studied Chemistry at the University of Patras (1995), Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2004) and Sculpture

at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (2003-04). In 2005 she was awarded the Greek State

Scholarship and in 2007 she completed her postgraduate studies in Sculpture in Athens.

She has realized two solo exhibitions and taken part in numerous group shows. Panouklia

lives and works in Athens, Greece.

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Kostas Beveratos was born in Athens, Greece, at year 1965. He studied graphic design and music. He is professionally occupied as a free lance graphic designer. He has

participated individually or in collaboration several art events, either as visual artist or

musician. As a musician he has composed music for dance and theater shows and has

performed as a drummer at several jazz clubs and theatrical productions.

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TV DROP 2.0

/ Video, 2007 | 5 loop

/ France

Bruno Elisabeth

Rich and famous

/ Interactive video installation, 2007

/ France

K/ Artist: Bruno Elisabeth

Mo/ Music: Morgan Daguenet

3D animation: Florian Brillet

/ Production: Studio National Le Fresnoy

K/ Artist: Bruno Elisabeth

Mo/ Music: M. Baroty & J-P Decerf

MAX MSP Jitter prog: Morgan Daguenet

Bruno Elisabeth Vire 1972. (, / ),

Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains (,

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Bruno Elisabeth was born in Vire, France in 1972. After a fine art thesis (Paris University , Pantheon-Sorbonne), graduate from Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts

contemporains (Tourcoing, France). Lives and works in Rennes.

()/ Exhibitions (Slection)

- Studio, Galerie les filles du Calvaire, Paris, 2007.

- Territoires de limage, LAB-Labanque, Bthune, 2007

- Nuits Electroniques de lOsosphre, festival pluridisciplinaire autour des cultures

numriques, La laiterie, Strasbourg

- Panorama 7, Studio national des arts contemporains, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing

(Nord), 2005

- Le Fresnoy Lille, galerie Espace le Carr, Lille, 2006.

- Panorama 6, Studio national des arts contemporains, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing

(Nord), 2005.

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During the night, when ordinary people sleep, the screens of cable TV links

come to life and reveal their digital substance. The result is an assemblage of

TV found footages edited with the intention of creating an allusive narration.

TV Drop explores the plastic potentialities of these random images. The

soundtrack used is a free right music from the 80s proposed to different

film-makers during a call for projects.

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Rich and famous is a machine to see, which thrives on our desire to see.

Unlikely cross between a slot machine and a Scopitone (French film juke-

box from the 60s), this hybrid machine develops a sort of mild rearranging

madness to tell each time a different version of the evening of a serious

gambler in the throes of his addiction. The video, wich is more on the side of

allusion than narration, is itself directly tied to the result of a chance event. A

token is inserted into the machine, its trigger lever is released, and the machine

then pulls the invisible strings of the construction of the story. No matter what

the symbolic figures presented in the resulting combinations mean for the

future, success, or loss, chance sets up the desire for the game.

This work reaffirms my interest for luck and games of chance. Two main

models of the game are at stake here : the randomness of the chance draw, as

well as the vertiginous hypnotism of the rotating figures and the mechanical,

repetitive motion. The vertical effort impinging on the mechanical arm sets

off the rotation and then the fall, the casus, the outcome of chance as if from

above. Everything about the wheel and the arm signify the symbolic presence

of randomness. No competition here, no skill or demonstration of wit : on the

contrary, what matters is the absence of judgment and the perfect equality of

all with respect to the enigmatic sanction of chance.

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BJR 3000 (Flchettes/ B/ Darts)

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/ France

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/ Courtesy Galerie Jrme de Noirmont, Paris

Yaron Lapid

The New Zero

/ video installation 2008 | 87 loop

-/ Israel-UK

O Benjamin Sabatier 1977. . Palais de Tokyo 2002, - 35 . , Peinture en kit, Noirmont Prospect . Benjamin Sabatier , , , .

Benjamin Sabatier born in Le Mans in 1977. Lives and works in Paris.Noticed as early as on his first exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo in March 2002, where he

realised the installation/happening entitled 35 hours of labour., his first personal show in

a gallery was held at Noirmont Prospect the next year. Entitled Peinture en kit (Painting in

kit form), it was a true success. Benjamin SABATIER places the work of art at the heart of

contemporary socio-economic reality and interrogates on different features of our society

- standardisation, complete consumerism, the alienation of work and by work, the infinite

repetition of gestures - and the place that these essential sociological reflections occupy

in current art...

http://www.denoirmont.com/artiste.php?id=20

Yaron Lapid 1974. Bachelor Bezalel (2005), MFA - Goldsmiths College ( , 2007). . , . , . .

Yaron Lapid was born in Israel in 1974. After his Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2005), he did an MFA Fine Arts specializing

in video / documentary at Goldsmiths College (University of London, 2007). He lives

in London. He works as a film or video director, photographer and film editor. He has

exhibited in Israel, UK and many countries abroad. His videos have been part of the

programme of many international film festivals.

http://www.finderandkeeper.co.uk/

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BJR 3000 (Flchettes), something between a work and a game, leads us to

the heart of the construction of the work of art. The viewer/launcher is brought

face to face with the birth of a work which cannot be completed. What were

dealing with here is a programmed non-consummation; we are at the core of

the creation of a work, the meaning or the purpose of which has to be sought

out in the effort to construct something which, ultimately, will not be able to

take on flesh and bone. BRJ 3000 places the concept of creation somewhere

between the myth of Sisyphus (the tragedy of human existence, and human

labour) and Charlie Chaplins burlesque in Modern Times.

The New Zero is an ongoing artistic project, which plays on the nature of

photography and its ability to assemble and disassemble layers of history.

In 1999 Yaron Lapid found on the floor of a recently demolished area in west

Jerusalem, several envelopes. The envelopes contained hundreds of black

and white photographs and negatives, which were probably the leftovers of a

former photographic studio.

The artist has reprocessed the found material to create an atypical family

album composed of moving portraits that fluidly fade into black before

revealing their main features. By reversing the conventions of documentary

editing, the video focuses on marginal details such as body posture, clothes

and accessories to suggest the habits and costumes of Jerusalem in the 70s,

providing hints of the atmosphere of that time.

The loop reinforces the sense of a stratified past that cannot be pictured at

once, but has slowly informed the layers of this multifaceted society. A society

in which the most basic human encounter, eye to eye, is not always effortless

and where formal differences often demark profound cultural oppositions.

These photographs, which have crystallised a particular moment of individual

histories, form a visual archive whose gaps can be filled by the viewers

imagination and inner projections.

Gaia Tedone

I was born in 1974 in Israel. My interest in art began when I was backpacking in

South East Asia, and discovered the cameras ability to capture subtle moments

in human consciousness. Since then, my prime interest in making art had been

to try and distil this decisive moment in which, for a brief second I can see

through layers of habit and culture, a person.

Yaron Lapid

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* To MIRfestival* Video conceived and realized for MIRfestival

/ Alexandros Mistriotis

#7/ #7*

/ video installation, 2008

/ Greece

* H MIRfestival 2008* The reprocessing of his work was done especially for MIRfestival 2008

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/ Performers: / Angeliki Avgitidou,

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Recitation is a comment on the meaning of the word homeland, but also

on identity, memory and difference. With the well known I. Polemis poem

as a background, familiar to most of us from our school time, the optimistic

command of our childhood turns into a collective illusion of the contemporary

reality.

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Angeliki Avgitidou studied Architecture in Tehssaloniki and Fine Arts in London. She has exhibited internationally in places including the ICA in London and the French Museum

of Photography. In her work she deals with process, everyday actions, banality, whatever is

overlooked or remains unnoticed.

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Alexandros Mistriotis was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1973. He grew up in Athens. He studied in France at the Marseille Higher School of Fine Arts. Since 2004 he has been living

and working in Athens. He has worked for considerable periods in literature, painting,

experimental and non experimental cinema, photography and hybrid multi-media

languages, with an aim to synthesize them. In recent years, his work has involved the

synthesis of multiple screenings and the mixing of images in real time, either in space

or on stage. He has participated in international video art festivals and was part, in the

capacity of director, of the team that presented the video installation Knight Riders. He

recently acted as scenario editor for the performance Lights On You by choreographer

Jenny Argyriou.

A play of his was staged at the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre and he has also

collaborated as a video artist on National Theatre productions.

His video works can be found in, among others, the Beltsios and Ioannou collections.

alexmist@yahoo.fr

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The most wondrous and doubtful thing about the world is that it exists. The

thousands of forms that fill it give it what they take away from it. They give it

space and at the same time they stifle it. What would a world be like without

forms?

Its difficult to talk about forms without imprisoning or being imprisoned.

Somewhere among the images lies what we have been trying to say. If there is

even the tiniest truth somewhere in the world, no image can articulate it fully.

Even if we try with all our might, with all our thirst and sincerity.

If we rush from one thought to the other and from one word to another, and

if the images multiply and erase one another, it is because there are moments

when something flashes and so we keep on hoping, like the bodies of fish

flash for an instant in the water, like lightning that freezes everything and

blinds the eyes. These moments make us insist and so the world becomes a

choice, something we gaze upon because we choose to and not because we

found it in our mind, gnawing at us. Each morning the world begins to dance

again before our eyes and we start walking along its roads again, thirsting for

those lightning bolts and that precious bewilderment. Love (Erotas) and the

question (erotisi) are kindred things.

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Vanitas seeks to exploit the potential of the Camera Obscura by perceptually

transforming objects and spaces using its unique visual qualities. Unlike

conventional Camera Obscura projections however, the imagery is created

using synchronicity, juxtaposition, transparency and transition and the

manipulation of light and ordinary objects. Objects appear to reside in a void

where there is an absence of surrounding visual reference, causing the imagery

to appear disconnected from any context. Vanitas records this live imagery

initially experienced as a projective installation.

Jacki Storey

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Unmediated film of Camera Obscura Installation/Unmediated film of Camera Obscura Installation2006 | 4 loopB/ UK

Jacki Storey . . Vanitas Jacki 2006. The Camera Obscura and the Pursuit of the Uncanny ( Camera Obscura ). .

Jacki Storey is based in Gloucestershire, England, UK. She studied Sculpture and Fine Arts in Gloucestershire. Vanitas was created following her practice based Fine Art PhD of 2006

at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. The title of her thesis isThe Camera Obscura and

the Pursuit of the Uncanny. She has exhibited in England and internationally.

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Devis Venturelli 1974. . 2002, , , . , , , . , , INVIDEO (), TTV Festival (), Videoformes ( ) VideoDance . 2005 , Stefano Scheda, ZKM . .

Devis Venturelli was born in Faenza in 1974. He studied Architecture at Ferrara University. He started his artistic work in 2002 mixing different media such as video, performance and

photography. Crossing different disciplines, he produces film, video and performance, he

designs art exhibition and architectural work. His film was showed in Film Festivals beet-

wen art film, performing and visual art amongst others in INVIDEO (Milan), TTV Festival

(Riccione), Videoformes (Clermont Ferrand) and VideoDance festival in Athens. In 2005

he was invited for a residence, with Stefano Scheda, in ZKM Center for Art and Media in

Karlsruhe.He lives and works in Milan.

Absurd symptoms and a mysterious infection forms puzzle the doctors of a

hospital. It turns out difficult to do a scientific diagnosis when the symptom is

taken to the limit of the improbability

Protagonista di un film che non voleva fare. Ovvero lartista (2007) is a sort

of biographical homage to the italian artist Stefano Scheda (www.lipuarte.it/

desc.php?UID=&id_autore=42&artist=Stefano_Scheda), in which he appears as

hopeless protagonist, prey to himself and slave of his metteur en scene.

In the narration of this biographical work, the artist is a prisoner of his obses-

sions. The nervous cuts and an editing to the limit of the animation, clearly

underline the themes of his fears: hybridization, promiscuity, viral illness,

contamination through the physical liquids, hysteria for the contact and the

interaction Sexual identity doesnt result exclusion of it. The representation

of a sort of pathology, which almost corresponds to the state of being normal

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Second Front performance Second Life. 2006, , performances . performances, , , SLate, Eikon, Realtime Arts, The Avastar, Exibart.http://www.secondfront.org/blog/

Second Front (Second Life)Grand Theft Avatar2008

Virtual performance - video documentation

Who is behind mask of the avatar? For a panel at the San Francisco Institute of Art, Second Front hijacked the personas of panel discussion members, Camille Utterback, Scott Snibbe and Christiane Paul. With disguises activated, Second Front then proceeded to perform a virtual bank robbery, engaging in a furious gun battle, helicopter chase and looting the Lynden Treasury of millions of Lynden Dollars. This playful detournement of identity underscored the facade of online embodiment.Does that work?

Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Founded in 2006, Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of virtual embodiment, online performance and the formation of virtual narrative. Since 2006, they have already performed extensively, including in Vancouver, Chicago, New York, and has been featured in publications including SLate, Eikon, Realtime Arts, The Avastar and most recently in Exibart.http://www.secondfront.org/blog/

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/ SH/ US)The EKMRZ-trilogy2005-09

Ubermorgen.com (AT/CH/US), Alessandro Ludovico (IT), Paolo Cirio (IT)1. GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself2005-08

Digital Actionism www.gwei.org

Google (AdSense), . Google. , Google . Google ! , , . Google GTTP

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UBERMORGEN.COM (T/CH/US), Alessandro Ludovico (IT), Paolo Cirio (IT)1. GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself2005-08

Digital actionismwww.gwei.orgWe generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end we own it! By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisement mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model. After this process we hand over the common ownership of our Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH/US), Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT)2. Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime2006-07

Media hackingwww.amazon-noir.com

( Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Ludovico, Lizvlx, Bernhard) Amazon, - , - Paolo Cirio. online show, 3000 . Lizvlx UBERMORGEN.com , Cirio copyright ( ) Ludovico Bernhard Amazon.com, . , . (Amazon.com) , massmedia. http://www.amazon-noir.com/thieves.html

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH/US), Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT)2. Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime2006-07

Media hackingwww.amazon-noir.com

The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Ludovico, Lizvlx, Bernhard) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated robot-perversion-technology coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. A subliminal media fight and a covert legal dispute escalated into an online showdown with the heist of over 3000 books at the center of the story. Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM had daily shoot outs with the global massmedia, Cirio continuously pushed the boundaries of copyright (books are just pixels on a screen or just ink on paper), Ludovico and Bernhard resisted kickback-bribes from powerful Amazon.com until they finally gave in and sold the technology for an undisclosed sum to Amazon. Betrayal, blasphemy and pessimism finally split the gang of bad guys. The good guys (Amazon.com) won the showdown and drove off into the blistering sun with the beautiful femme fatale, the seductive and erotic massmedia. Thieves of the invisiblehttp://www.amazon-noir.com/thieves.html

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH/US), 3. The Sound of eBay2008-09

Net artwww.Sound-of-eBay.com

ebay . , . ! Sound of ebay soundtrack peer-to-peer hyper . bots Sound of ebay . , , .

; ebay ( ) email . generate ebay teletext ! ...

Ubermorgen.com (AT/CH/US)3. The Sound of eBay2008-09

Net artwww.Sound-of-eBay.com

eBay has become the largest marketplace in the world. eBay is romantic and seductive, not like the local fleamarkets in Paris (Le march aux puces de Saint-Ouen) but sexed up a million times bigger and spherically transcended, much more effective and thoroughly commercialized. We love it! The Sound of eBay is the affirmative high-end low-tech contribution to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hyper-catastrophic shock-capitalism. The sound is cool, the machine produces masses of songs and replicates millions of times throughout the networks. How does it really work? You simply enter any eBay username (your own or someone elses) and add your email address so we can notify you as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Then click generate and the complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is transformed into your unique but uniform song, presented in teletext porn style! We sell out your human needs digitally...

UBERMORGEN.COM lizvlx Hans Bernhard, etoy. , , software art, pixel- painting, , net.art, (media hacking) Gesamtkunstwerk. . , . Ubermorgen - . http://www.ubermorgen.com

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel- painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of ones working materials, that also include rights, democracy and global communication. Ubermorgen is the German word both for the day after tomorrow or super-tomorrow. http://www.ubermorgen.com

O Paolo Cirio, AKA bidibid, agitprop , . video, street art, body art, public art, interaction design (illegal art). portal. software-art epidemic net.art . web designer web developer. http://www.paolocirio.net

As agitprop Paolo Cirio, AKA bidibid, organizes illegal events, from net-strikes to happenings on the street and various radical culture jamming actions. He works with video-art, street-art, body-art, public-art and interaction-design, especially in the field of illegal-art. He is an activist against the NATO militarism (he curated a international anti-NATO web portal). He was part of the software-art collective [epidemiC] and collaborated with many other historical Net.Art groups. Currently he works freelance as web designer and web developer. http://www.paolocirio.net

Alessandro Ludovico media Neural 1993 (http://english.neural.it). Virtual Reality Handbook (1992), Internet Underground.Guide (1995), Suoni Futuri Digitali (Future Digital Sounds, 2000) Nettime community Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers) . Documenta 12s Magazine Project. Computer Art & Interface Aesthetics Academy of Art .

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from 1993 (http://english.neural.it). He has written: Virtual Reality Handbook (1992), Internet Underground.Guide (1995), Suoni Futuri Digitali (Future Digital Sounds, 2000). Hes one of the founding contributor of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers) organization. Hes also an advisor for the Documenta 12s Magazine Project, and has lectured all over Europe and Canada. He teaches Computer Art and Interface Aesthetics at the Academy of Art in Carrara.

Personal Cinema & the Erasers (GR)Folded in 2008

www.foldedin.net

Folded-in project web 2.0. YouTube , / (prosumers) web , - . project YouTube, (tags) . Folded-in - . ; ; : Alison Williams, Robert Aliaj Dragot , , , ,The Centrals, Koen Wastijn, , , Genco Gulan, Reggy Timmermans, Beatrijs Albers, Irena Paskali

Personal Cinema media arts. projects , . , , , , . Personal Cinema , , . , , , . www.personalcinema.org

erasers : live cinema/ / performance / internet/ . erasers : , project . , : instructors curators. www.theerasers.blogspot.com

Personal Cinema & the Erasers (GR)Folded in 2008

3D multiplayer online videogamewww.foldedin.net

Folded in is a project about the notion of borders and their representation in the social networks of the web 2.0. User-generated systems like the Youtube show that users tend to reproduce in the web the same prejudices, superstitions and nationalistic beliefs of the real world and shape similar types of borders and even conflicts in the form of video wars. The project attempts a detournement of the representational space of YouTube, by transforming it into a gamespace, and by respectively turning the selected videos and the tags into game elements. Users are asked to cross tag - borders, conquer and map territories evaluating the data they watch. The Folded in project wishes to contribute to the semi utopian idea of the creation of the thoughtful gamer. What type of sociality does the Social Web produce and for whom? Can liberate ourselves from prejudices and beliefs through play?Participating artists: Alison Williams, Robert Aliaj Dragot , Nicolas Kozakis, Dimitris Dokatzis, Fotini Georgakopoulou,The Centrals, Koen Wastijn, Kostas Beveratos, Babis Kadilaptis, Genco Gulan, Reggy Timmermans, Beatrijs Albers, Irena Paskali

Personal Cinema is a network active in the field of media arts. It plans and organizes projects and activities that encourage the critical stance toward the new forms of production, presentation and distribution of audiovisual products; the forms that at the very end, define the kind of social, cultural and political conditions, which in their turn, connect the multitude to the power structures. Personal Cinema, anticipates cooperation with social and artistic networks, groups and individuals, that take a similar stance and consider necessary the creation of a visible space of debate; with those people that are engaged in constant inventions to render explicit and clear the signal from noise, thus to say, the two unequal parts that compose the current pseudo-dialectic of information. www.personalcinema.org

The erasers are a group whose work is based on the integration of various seemingly diverse elements such as: live cinema/ improvised music/ performance_actions/ the internet/ and installation techniques. The erasers are an open circuit : they are as few or as many as each project demands and they all function within the free association that the erasers are. The erasers search for the possibility of presenting their work to an open and unbiased audience has led them to work under various pseudonyms, some of these being: the instructors and the curators. http://www.theerasers.blogspot.com/

Nils Andres - Brand Science Institute, CEO (DE)Hatebook2007

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Hatebook Facebook. Hatebook . /hate . internet . project, , Skynews, CNN , Hatebook . , 70.000 .

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Nils Andres - Brand Science Institute, CEO (DE)Hatebook2007

Social networkwww.hatebook.org

Hatebook is a social-network community and a parody to Facebook. At the beginning Hatebook was just a fun project that was build because of the social-networking craze of our time. Hate itself was more a description not the topic that we are honestly following. Hatebook makes fun of the current social-network scene and the people who take this whole business too seriously. What started out to be a fun project between friends has taken onto some of the worlds largest media companies such as Skynews, CNN and other newspapers who publicized this network and its fun orientation. From that time over 70.000 active members uploaded themselves up to now.

Nils Andres work on the sides of the research and academic spheres seeks to bring innovation and novel thinking to brand management approaches and to find new sales areas and functional