The Swedish techno legend, Håkan Lidbo, has teamed up Berghs School of Communication. The students were given one track each to make a visual interpretation. The most significant audio elements in the music should have  a visual counterpart and they should synch together. The project has been collected on a DVD that you can buy from Håkan’s web site. A release party will be held tomorrow night (Wednesday june 16) at the notorious 2:35.1 night club at Berns in Stockholm. Watch more examples at Håkan’s web site.

Video by Philip Cronerud & Richard Feldeus

21st of february I joined in the Share jam to try out some new visual material from my visual culture+lifestyle design/art-project which I named Alter Modern Times. The title is inspired by Nicolas Bourriauds´s bookAltermodern (Tate Publishing, 2009) and by Charlie Chaplin´s film Modern Times (1937). It is a journal based art project (video /sound /graphics /photography), which sprung out of the idea of what energies displacement creates, thoughts on what´s next after postmodernism and a will to explore and invent alternatives to the 9-5-lifestyle

This citation from the foreword of Altermodern pretty much sums up the base of my project. ”Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This ‘reloading process’ of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.  /- – -/.

Under the threat from fundamentalism and consumer-driven uniformisation, menaced by massification and the enforced re-abandonment of individual identity, art today needs to reinvent itself, and on a planetary scale. /- – -/ It is neither a petrified kind of time advancing in loops (postmodernism) nor a linear vision of history (modernism), but a positive experience of disorientation through an art-form exploring all dimensions of the present, tracing lines in all directions of time and space. The artist turns cultural nomad: what remains of the Baudelarian model of modernism is no doubt this flânerie, transformed into a technique for generating creativeness and deriving knowledge.”

Alter Modern Times live audio visual performance:

#01 Share, Issue Project Room, New York City [US] 21 february
#02 O-Space, One Arm Red, New York City [US] 04 march
#03 Share, Issue Project Room, New York City [US] 16 march
#04 Hvorslev Kunstforening, Ulstrup Castle, Aarhus [DK] 16-17 april
#05 Volt Festival, Uppsala [SE] 5 june
#06 Norberg Festival [SE] 29 july
#07 Berlin [DE] TBA
#08 Paris [FR] TBA
#09 San Francisco [US] TBA

More posts on this soon!

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Photo: Ricardo Fernandez

More info:

http://www.share.dj – click New York

http:// …Alter Modern Times – project website up soon

Wouldn’t it have been awesome if there were a couple of Shares in Sweden? Share is a network of meeting places for audio-visual jams. They are all over the world with strongest representation in North America and Europe. Share has tips for how to quickly set up your own Share, if someone would like it.

New Media Meeting 2008 har ett screeningrum där Joel Dittrich och Max Sokoleski deltar med en dokumenterande film:

“(Non)Time will tell/In 3.5 D”

Joel Dittrich [Svaj, VJ Union, I <3 AG Studios]
Max Sokoleski [Smuts, Maxxal]

Research in the now and there, here and then. How do one experience the (re)mediation of space and time during a live cinema/VJ-ing or live audio visual performance? For example, is it possible to take the media into the room, instead of the opposite?

This film is the documentation of a live audio visual performance by Joel Dittrich and Max Sokoleski, which took place at Konstfack 23.05-2008. Their collaboration started with this project and what you see is an outcome of the artistic part in the research for Dittrichs diploma work, at the Department of Art Education at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design.

It all emerged out of the theories on remediation [Bolter and Grusin 2000] and thoughts on synesthetic experiences. [Asplund 2003]

The article is beeing published late 2008, until then, take 13 minutes to sit back and enjoy your self!

http://newmediameeting.se