Screening
Visible Bits Audible Bytes 2017
3 Mar 2017
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The eighth annual Visible Bits, Audible Bytes brought together another set of stunning, genre-breaking audiovisual works to Phoenix. Fusing old and new technologies, the pieces – curated by Bret Battey at De Montfort University’s Music, Technology and Innovation Centre – redefine the potentials of audiovisual art in the 21st century.
The full lineup was: Simulacre (2016) by Line Katcho [Canada]; Kaze no Yume (2011-12) by Bob Coburn [USA] and Interstitial Traces (2013) by Bob Coburn & Celia Eid [Brazil/France]; Estuaries 1 & 2 (2016-17) by Bret Battey [USA/UK]; Vehicles (2015) by Matthew Schoen [Canada]; Epithymetikòn (2014) by Diego Capoccitti [Italy]; Cités (2015) by Miriam Boucher [Canada] and Sweat (2016) Raven Kwok/Karma Fields [China/USA].
A selection of the works screened for this edition of Visible Bits, Audible Bytes can be viewed below.
189D0 / Sweat — Raven Kwok / Karma Fields
Embedding 2D geometric intersection solving into leaf nodes of a quad-tree structure, System 189D0 is programmed using Processing, and produces the visual for Karma Fields‘s track Sweat.
189D0 from Raven Kwok on Vimeo.
Estuaries 1 — Bret Battey
Created using a new animation technique based on visualising routines mathematicians use to find solutions to complex, multi-variable problems, Estuaries 1 evokes an ‘unstable stasis’ through use of image and music processes that cannot be fully controlled.
Estuaries 1 (2016) from Bret Battey on Vimeo.
Vehicles — Matthew Schoen
In Vehicles – loosely inspired from the essay ‘Vehicles’ written by Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg – an imagined structure is revealed from its smallest components to the larger and more complex entities they compose.
Simulacre — Line Katcho
Exploring a tight and precise synchronization between image and sound, Simulacre is an audiovisual work in which complex visual structures counterpoint uncluttered musical arrangements.
Simulacre from Line Katcho AKA La Hyèna on Vimeo.