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Beyond Music+Arts Symposium

3/12/2014

Beyond Music + Arts was a one-day symposium aimed at reporting on ground-breaking projects challenging forms and conventions in music and art through the use of digital technologies. Throughout the day, speakers from the worlds of art, technology and music shared their explorations of the collision between sound, image and code. They also debated on how these new practices are transforming the way we create, present and experience art in the digital age. SPEAKERS Quayola (UK / presented by Alpha-ville) Mira Calix (UK / presented by Alpha-ville) Felix Faire (UK / presented by Alpha-ville) Xavi Tribó / Glas...

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Dream:ON @ Goethe Institut London

14/11/2014

Dream:ON Trailer from Alpha ville on Vimeo.

DREAM:ON // Dream:ON is a digital art screening event curated by Alpha-ville commissioned by Goethe-Institut London. Encompassing a unique and innovative perspective on contemporary art practice, the programme presents an exploration of the subconscious through the lens of artists using a variety of digital techniques to convey uncanny visions. The first event took place on Saturday 22 November 2014 at the Goethe Institut London featuring a screening followed by a panel discussion with artists Andreas Nicolas Fischer and Vera Maria-Glahn from FIELD.

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Alpha-ville at Google IO Extended in London

15/07/2014

Client: Google / Wonder Date: 25 June 2014

Alpha-ville was invited by Google to bring digital art to the Google IO Extended event that took place at XOYO London. Google IO is a developer conference, and the London Extended events were organised by 3Beards and Wonder.

For this project, Alba Corral created two types of visual experiences:

1. Real-time Digital Paintings Alba presented a series of live digital paintings using processing and live drawing. Check out a couple of screenshots below:

2. Interactive Environment We also experimented with a series of interactive visuals using kinect cameras to track the...

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Alpha-ville LIVE presents HERMAN KOLGEN

21/04/2014

Alpha-ville returns with a special edition of its LIVE series featuring for the first time in London the emotionally intense multimedia creations of award-winning Montreal-based artist Herman Kolgen. On Sunday 18th May, Alpha-ville LIVE presents a double bill programme with Kolgen’s most impressive audiovisual performances Inject and Dust at Kings Place, London.

Inspired by 1920 Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray’s photography Elevate de Poussiere, Dust explores the changes in the state of matter. At the edge of the imperceptible, pigments are suspended around a magnetic field, random fibrous networks take sh...

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Exchange Conference

21/01/2014

Image: Eno Henze.

Alpha-ville Exchange from Alpha ville on Vimeo.

On 17 January, Alpha-ville EXCHANGE took over the fourth floor of London’s Rich Mix. Attracting a diverse range of artistic practitioners and creative professionals, EXCHANGE was presented as an evolution of the 2011 Alpha-ville Festival which offered a unique space for artist to present their work and inspiration and for everyone in the room to explore collaboration and shared interests across disciplines. Informal, open and engaging, the day was a rare chance for cross-pollination between the art, design and tech communities.

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Alpha-ville Live at BFI

20/10/2013

Alpha-ville teamed up with BFI Southbank Sonic Cinema to present the UK premiere of Ryoichi Kurokawa’s audiovisual concert Syn_.

The event was held on 26th September as part of the BFI Sonic Cinema series and was Ryoichi’s first visit to the UK since 2010. A sold out NFT 1 opened its doors to a mind blowing 45 minute performance that exceeded expectations due to the exceptionally high quality of the sound and visual show.

Read more about the event: It’s a syn by Design Week Syn on Creative Applications. Synesthesia on POSTMatter syn_ by And Then Patterns

For the occasion of this event, Ryoichi Kurokawa rele...

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Alpha-ville LIVE at Hackney Empire

24/09/2012

– Alpha-ville LIVE

MURCOF + SIMON GEILFUS (ANTIVJ) // THE FIELD (Kompakt) // BYETONE (Raster-Noton) Saturday 6th October 2012 Hackney Empire Doors open at 7pm.

Alpha-ville LIVE is a carefully crafted event dedicated to exploring the relationship between electronic music, digital art and visual practices. Taking place at the iconic 1901 theatre Hackney Empire, it will be a special evening featuring the London premiere of the collaboration between Murcof & AntiVJ, alongside an intimate live solo by The Field, a full audiovisual experience by Raster-Noton’s label co-owner Byetone.

This will be our firs...

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