07.08.03 - garage - 21:00
reformat c(lub) II
   
club transmediale (Berlin/D) - presents BUG BUTTON – the repelling
club transmediale – festival for digital music and related visual arts - is an experimental platform for new forms of electronic music and media art in the context of sound- and club culture. club transmediale cooperates with the international media art festival transmediale and annually realizes a several day festival held simultaneously with the transmediale festival in February.
In the tradition of the (non)voluntary nomadism of berlins club culture, club transmediale annually builds a completely new club-infrastructure at a changing venue. Its aim is to present the most outstanding international productions in electronic music and audiovisual performance, as well as to reflect recent artistic and technical developments in panels, screenings and artist presentations.
club transmediale encourages the crossover of institutional, academic and subcultural contexts. It tries to uphold the idea of the "club" as a physical space whose uniqueness lies in its relative non-definition, giving a wide scope for the interplay of divergent media, formats and artistic approaches. CTM wants to provide a platform for the experimental development of the potentials of electronic music and its interaction with visual art. In addition, it aims to make the results of this process accessible to a wider audience.
> http://www.clubtransmediale.de


1. Oliver Baurhenn (Ger)
independent curator, part of the medialab aroma, berlin. Coordinating the screenings and curating installations at the club transmediale.
> www.zuviel.tv


(curated by Antje Weitzel and Mirjam Wenzel, freelance curators, Berlin / München)

The dummy term 'pop', which has been appropriated by the most diverse fields and interest groups, forms a loose correlation between the presented video material, in which role models and templates for identification are outlined. In so doing, the works play with the genre-specific repertoire on a level which is less musical and more visual. At its centre stand 'youth-cultural' themes of trend and lifestyle design as well as self-promotion with high publicity value.
The videos access these scenarios, attitudes and rituals. However, they also deconstruct them in a humorous and ironic fashion, by caricaturing the exaggerated stereotypical elements of their
production. Simultaneously, this deconstruction does not just comment on the prototypical store of gestures, poses and order of events in commercial music clips but also on the pop business in general.
The programme places artistic videos side by side with music clips and transcends the borders between the various areas and contexts in which music videos are currently produced and received.

Disk Dusk - video by Rosa Barba - audio by Mouse on Mars
Little Computer People - video by Dare Art - audio by Anthony Rother
Impossible - video by Falk Büttner - audio by Figurine (Monika)
T.B. tonight live - video by Tobias Bernstrup - audio by Tobias Bernstrup
Diddle my Skittle - video by Peaches/Kara Blake - audio by Peaches (kitty yo)
On fire - video by Undine Goldberg - audio by Brian Eno
Scarborough fair canticle (interlude) - video by Undine Goldberg - audio by Simon & Garfunkel
Glamour Girl - video by Deborah Schamoni - audio by chicks on speed
Bizarre Love Triangle - video by Oliver Husain/Michael Klöfkorn - audio by Commercial Breakup
Charlies Angels - video by Pink Productions - audio by Destiny’s Child
Summer `98 - video by Annika Stroem - audio by Annika Stroem
sick of you - video by Zilla Leutenegger - audio by The Moles
Turbu Outrun - video by Daniel Jürgen Lege - audio by Jereon Tel (enduro)
Popcorn - video by Philipp Menzel - audio by Hot Butter
Vergiftet - video by Oliver Husain/Michael Klöfkorn - audio by Jan Delay


2. Marc Weiser + Lillevän (D/IRL) performance
Marc Weiser is the musician behind the audiovisual project Rechenzentrum and also performs under the name of Marc Markovich. He is part od the curatorial team of club transmediale. Rechenzentrum’s influences are various artistic directions, Lettrisme, Dada... also Burroughs' Cut-Up techniques, Punk and others. The common threads in these directions were on the one hand: the search for what lies beneath the surface of the music or the moving image (the samples from film and music we choose for their potentiality, not their hookline). On the other hand, interested in taking communication of music and entertainment to other levels, questioning the role of artist, the role of public personality. Rechenzentrum’s latest work »Directors Cut« will be released this September as a joint CD/DVD on Mille Plateaux. It has been rewarded a honourable mention at this years Ars Electronica.
> http://www.rechenzentrum.org


Lillevän Lillevän was born in 1965 in Sweden, grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Berlin. Video artist, countless performances and live video concerts in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Member of the collective which founded and run Berlin's infamous club »IM Eimer«; since 1997 continuous collaboration with Marc Weiser (Audio) under the name »Rechenzentrum«. Videos for and with numerous artists including Tarwater, Christine Hill, Zbigniew Karkowski and Zeitblom. Lillevän recontextualises, combines and politicises existing film images and fragments. »The aesthetics of the image are not to be found in its beauty, density and completeness, but in its transparencies and potentials.« The images are a communicative medium interacting with the music. The selection of the images can either support the sound, or work against it, the aim being to achieve a dialogue. Interference and broken imagery is a central dramaturgical element in the creation and performance. For Lillevän a working process takes place in a Godard-like search for the relationship between images, intensities and textures. »I always prefer to take the risk of failing with a live experiment, than to perform a well tested concept; improvisation is a decisive working principle. One should never be satisfied with the modes of presentation.« Lillevän sees his collages as a multi-layered process, giving each viewer the opportunity to focus on a different details and moments. Human perception remains the final interactive element of live video composition.
> http://www.lillevan.com
> http://www.rechenzentrum.org


3. Miko Mikona (D) performance
Miko Mikona focuses on the dynamic and transformative abilities of technical generated sound and image. By the use of cameras and self-developed analogue electronic devices they re-use overhead projectors as opto-acoustic synthesizers. Overlaying black and white structures on transparent films create complex moiré and interference patterns, which then are converted into electric signals and thus into sound. This way Miko Mikona uses the potential simultaneousness of analogue switchgears and sets the paradigm of the synthesizer (analogue modulation) against the one of the digital sequencer (serial bars).
> http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html


4. Datenreport (NL/D) performance
Datenreport (Huib Emmer & Remco Schuurbiers) live electronic music with live video. Noises, heavy beats, strange voices interact with digital image processing, abstract images and weird figures. As a starting point they work with very short samples, mostly obscure crime and trash movies. The performances are to some extent fixed, but a large part is created while performing, thus ensuring a flexible composition.
> http://www.datenreport.org


5. Cécile Babiole (F) visuals
After being a video maker and 3-D animation designer and director, Cécile Babiole turned to the creation of dynamic environments and live treatment of sounds and images (real time processed). Her last installations et performances combine high and low technologies and are usually related to the link between on-and off-line perceptions. Her work was rewarded by several awards: Imagina, Images du futur, Ars Electronica, Festival de l'Audiovisuel Museographique, The Locarno Festival, SCAM Prize, Villa Medicis Hors les Murs Grant...
> http://www.babiole.net


6. Jan Rohlf (D) visuals
Jan Rohlf is a visual artist and designer as well as part of the curatorial team of club transmediale. Music being a major source of inspiration for his works he has also been an active contributor to Berlin’s experimental club scene since the mid nineties with installations, kinetic light sculptures, video and graphic works.
> http://www.galerie-wieland.de


7. David Galbraith is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist currently living in Berlin whose work has been included in Greater New York (P.S.1/MoMA), Song Poems (New York/Los Angeles/Dallas) and Animations (P.S.1/MoMA and Kunst Werke Berlin), among other recent group exhibitions. Two-person shows with his collaborative partner Teresa Seemann include Secret Chance Landscape at Innocence & Mystery (2003, Berlin), Waveform at The New Museum of Contemporary Art (2001, New York), and Crude, Protean and Full of Possibility at the Soap Factory (2001, Minneapolis).

His sound installations, solo recordings, and live performances feature the custom electronic sound modules he has designed and built for over 10 years.

The Experimental Makeup, David's roots electronica duo with with Michael J. Mahalchick, has performed widely since 1999 with dates in New York, Los Angeles and Munich.

Towards an Iron Lap, the debut CD by Iron Lap, David's electronoise duo with Blain Kennedy, is reviewed in the current issue (#11) of The Sound Projector (U.K.). It appears alongside a review of The Experimental Makeup's first CD, XPRMNTLMKP, both on Sounds Okay (Brooklyn).
>http://www.soundsokay.com/