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This is the official documentation video of
NODE10 - Forum for Digital Arts, November 2010, Frankfurt, Germany
http://node.vvvv.org

The purpose of NODE is to facilitate the exchange between art, design and engineering in interactive and generative media. The 'NODE - Forum for Digital Arts' emerged in 2008 from an initiative of developers and users of the graphical programming language vvvv (http://vvvv.org).

At first, NODE was meant to support the community of people using vvvv to create artistic and creative software projects, but it quickly changed into an international forum for knowledge exchange between designers, artists and engineers of various fields believing in the powers of programming and digital technologies.

The second edition was held in November 2010 in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein (www.fkv.de). Through the exhibition and lecture panel 'abstrakt Abstrakt - the systematized world' (curated by Marius Watz & Eno Henze) we seeked to analyze the nature and effect of abstraction systems.

With an unbelievable longlist of vvvv workshops we made heads spinning and with the performances we created astonishment. NODE10 was a week long highly creative rush of discussions, theoretical and practical lectures, workshops, presentations and events.

Thanks everybody who made this week in November 2010 such a good time.

Festival Direction - David Brüll
Managing Director - Ingolf Heinsch
Organisation Assistent - Valérie-Françoise Vogt
Curation - Eno Henze, Marius Watz
This video: Judith Holzer. Sound by Jakob Korn (http://www.uncannyvalley.de) & Nu
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/12263541 by Strukt)

Technical Direction - Markus Berger & Björn Schwarzer
Workshop coordination - Joreg (vvvv group)
Local PR - Hans Romanov
Design, Motion Design, Stage Direction: Thomas Hitthaler & Andreas Koller (Strukt)
+ many many more

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Chorégraphie: Dominique Boivin
assité de Christine Erbé

Danseur: Aurélien Leglaunec

Création Vidéo: Christoph Guillermet
Création Son: François Cafenne
Création Lumière: Eric Lamy

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render from real-time synthesized scene for IAMTECHNO festival

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x=x (v.2011)

Using as the title a Ludwig Wittgenstein formula, this composition deals with references, meanings and similarities. Is there something that is completely identical to another? How far you can make copies without changing the original? Do the copies themselves change the meaning of the original? Questioning tautological concepts, the performance aims to show in sound and image, this relationship. The work is performed using video-mapping techniques, creating illusions of three-dimensional depth to the viewer. On two symmetrical screens, shapes and objects are opposed, seeking to analyze, through images and sounds, the relations of equality, reality, their significant and meaning.

The composition is divided into five parts, each one dealing with a theme in some way related to the work title. In the first part, the images speak of identity. Something or someone can be exactly like another? what characterizes the identity? Why do people constantly seek an identification with a group, trying to fit into labels that would ensure an identity "itself." The second part deals with the relationship between signifier and signified. Testing the limits of language, a poem is spoken beginning with phrases that have meanings and logic and, over time, deconstructions in the syntax and the creation of neologisms lead to a search for the ineffable, the whole that is beyond language. The next part subject is the illusion of the senses. Optical illusions suggest that what we see is not always the truth, if it really exists. In the fourth part, are treated opposites (x equal to not x). With minimal use of colors, graphics will fight for a space on the screen. The final part is about the limit of use of the words. There are no words sufficient to noun everything that exists, so gaps are formed. In an attempt to create a utopian spectrum that could name everything, words and phrases are broken down, leaving its original form and seek to belong to a continuous thread that connects all that exists.

x=x (v.2011)

Usando como título uma fórmula do filósofo Wittgenstein, esta composição trata de referências, significados e semelhanças. Existe mesmo alguma coisa que seja totalmente idêntica a outra? Até onde é possível fazer cópias sem alterar o original? As próprias cópias alteram o sentido do original? Questionando conceitos tautológicos, a performance busca mostrar, em som e imagem, estas relações. A obra é executada a partir de técnicas de video-mapping, criando ilusões de profundidade tridimensional para o espectador. Em duas telas simétricas, formas e objetos se contrapõem, buscando, através das imagens e sons, analisar as relações de igualdade, realidade, seus significantes e significados.

A composição é dividida em cinco partes, cada uma tratando de um tema de alguma forma relacionado ao título. Na primeira parte, as imagens falam de identidade. Pode algo ou alguém ser exatamente igual a outro? o que caracteriza a identidade? Por que as pessoas buscam incessantemente uma identificação a um grupo, tentando se encaixar em rótulos que assegurariam uma identidade "própria". Na segunda parte é tratada a relação entre significante e significado. Testando os limites da linguagem, uma poesia é narrada começando com frases que tem significados e sentidos lógicos e, ao longo do tempo, a desconstrução da sintaxe e a criação de neologismos levam a uma busca pelo indizível, o todo que está além da linguagem. Em seguida o tema é a ilusão dos sentidos. Ilusões de ótica propõem que o que vemos nem sempre é a verdade, se é que ela realmente existe. Na quarta parte, são tratados os opostos (x igual a não x). Com o uso mínimo de cores, elementos gráficos vão lutando por um espaço na tela. Já na parte final, é questionado o limite do uso da palavra. Não existem palavras suficientes para dar conta de tudo que existe, logo lacunas se formam. Na tentativa utópica de criar um espectro que consiga nomear tudo, palavras e frases se decompõem, saem de sua forma original e buscam pertencer a um fio contínuo que liga tudo que existe.

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