CHINESE NEW YEAR
2007 is Golden pig year.
Kai-Per-Alex
February, 2007
THIS WEEK AT MEDIAMATIC
This week at Mediamatic:
– Thu 22 February 19.00 hrs.
Invasion of the BACTERIA in Second Life
a lecture by software designer Matt Biddulph (Londen)
Matt Biddulph was recently contracted by the renown scientific journal Nature.com to build gigantic bacteria in Second Life. He managed to render island-sized bacteria so that scientists can walk around on their own cellular models during their free time.
– Fri 23 February, from 19.00 hrs
Harp KARAOKE
Sing along with harpists Maximilian Ehrhardt en Anastasia Makropoulou. You can choose from 30 songs in their repertoire. Present your own harp rendition of White Stripes songs, or whatever else you think might win over the girls.
– Wed, Thu & Fri 18.00 – 23.00:
DIY Sushi, make your own sock puppet and SEDUCE the human avatars of The Girlfriend Experience.
Location: Mediamatic, Post CS building, ground floor, Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam
BOOK LAUNCH OFOFFJOFF
by JOFF & Julia Born
Sat 17 February 2007, 21:00 – 22:00
Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
Special price this night only!
Photography by Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm
Text by Mo Veld
Distribution www.ideabooks.nl
ISBN 978-90-9021583-9
Retail price € 25
The booklaunch is the beginning of the clubnight #072
Party from 22:00 until 3:00, featuring
DJs Fantastic Men
(Jop van Bennekom & Gert Jonkers)
My Little Soundsystem
Karl Grandin (SE)
Stabilo Boss (CH)
Vela (CH) & Voin de Voin (BG)
Link: www.myspace.com/crmgybk
TENT. EVENT
ANIMATION ACCORDING TO THE ART OF THE OVERHEAD
THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARI 2007, 20.00 hrs: TENT.EVENT
In the exhibition Borderline Behaviour – drawn towards animation, the contribution of The Art of the Overhead consist of a growing collection of overhead slides submitted by artists, graphic designers, filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, et cetera. The archive is displayed in an interactive wall-mounted folder system. Each folder contains the work of one artist and the exhibition visitors can browse the archive by taking down the folders and projecting the overhead slides themselves.
On Feb 15th, TENT. presents a live version of the archive: The Art of the Overhead compiled an evening with poetic, psychedelic and rudimentary projections by Katrin Bethge, a workshop overheadbots by ‘derstrudel’ and an overhead lecture on the concept of The Art of the Overhead and the overhead archive. Linda Hilfling and Kristoffer Gansing (dk/se) present the lecture: ‘OHistory!’ The Art of the Overhead is a small festival celebrating artistic expression in a medium that is almost forgotten in the age of digital reproduction: the overhead projector. Business graphs, statistics, mathematic formulas, grammar, famous quotes. We know them all from endless PowerPoint presentations. But no mouse clicks are needed, only the manual turning of a slide, because before there was PowerPoint, there was the Art of the Overhead. Hamburg-based artist Katrin Bethge projects lights, color, abstract forms, textures and pictures on walls, rooms or urban environments. Her work is an analogue process, developing a kind of abstract storytelling, a life-made hand-made film, while ordinary rooms loose their origins and change places or different ages.
Don’t miss this artist presentation! Build your own ‘overheadbot’ with ‘derstrudel’. With their workshop, anyone can build and design his own unique small overhead robot. They use small printed circuits boards, so the circuit can be soldered very quickly! ‘derstrudel’ provides the smallest motors, solar panels and various electronic components. For individual design and look they also provide lots of different materials like: shiny paper, colored foils, wire, springs, etc. Electronic know-how is not required. ‘Overheadbots’ live on overheads, a bit like parasites they sit on top of the overhead and convert its light into their proper motion. The ‘overheadbots’ are completely autonomous; all their energy is delivered by the overhead. (derstrudel are: Christian Faubel, Sebastian Noth, Markus Mildenstein and Yuila Sandamirskaya.) TENT.
Centrum Beeldende Kunst> Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam Netherlands
+31 (0) 10 4135498
tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl
WALTER KÄCH
I came across these pages from a book on Lettering by Walter Käch, a teacher of Adrian Frutiger. If you’re interested, the pages are online.
Best, Thijs.
Link:http://www.kleindaten.de/kaech/
TYPE AS SCIENCE
Gerard Unger is giving an oration to accept his function as professor of Typography at the university of Leiden.
It is called: Type as (vehicle for) science
It takes place at:
Poortgebouw (next to central station)
Rijnsburgerweg 10, Leiden.
It is in dutch.
Those interested can look on the
WHITE IN ALL OVER
Besides to the global warming we had this beautiful snow today. It might be something we should register for the possibility of not having it again the whole year or till the next year.