/’fu:bar/ 2016

Xenomorphia & Wearing Masks: (Extra)terrestrial Calls Across The Glitch Universe

Mon Sept 19th – 21:00 – Galerija Siva

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang

In August of 2016, during multiple video conference calls, the Scwestern Sisters (Croatia) and Peter Christenson (USA) observed corrupted signals ostensibly compromising their machines’ connectivity, transmission, and controls. What initially appeared to be routine bandwidth glitches and signal latency issues soon developed into interferences that were deliberate and targeted, conscious and sentient, and something entirely different and unimaginable. What did they witness; a concealed dimension, interplanetary contact, a glitch in the time-space continuum?

For the first time, the artists present a collection of their findings as installations comprised of multichannel videos, recorded conference calls & audio, captured xenolinguistics, logs, and “written”/text exchanges between humans and unspecified extraterrestrial sources.

Title: Xenomorphia & Wearing Masks:(Extra)terrestrial Calls Across The Glitch Universe

Artists: Tea Strazicic (Croatia) Marta Strazicic (Croatia) Peter Christenson (USA)

Media: Installation & Multi-Channel Videos

Date: 2016

Contact Email: [email protected]

About the artists

Schwestern Sisters

Schwestern Sisters are an art collective.

Members Marta (1995.) and Tea (1990.) Stražičić practice various forms of digital art – primarily 3D illustration, VJing and video art. They publish their work daily, promoting it via Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram. As a collective they take part in the “MOVA” project, “New Digital Art Biennale – The Wrong”, as well as producing visual materials for the drag queen house “House of Flamingo” over the course of past two years. They graduated Animation and New media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/schwestern-sisters

facebook.com/schwesternsister/

Peter Christenson

Peter Christenson (USA) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator originally from metro Detroit. He is co-founder of Left of Centre, a guerrilla-marketing firm and artist collective, and he is publisher of Null Set Magazine. He holds a BA and MSW from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University. His current practice is rooted in new media and video, collective campaigning and protest, performance, psychosocial and interventionist art, and site-specific installation, and his research is significantly informed by his past experiences working as a social worker and licensed psychotherapist. Christenson has lectured, exhibited, and screened his work across the United States and internationally including venues like Sydney Non Objective, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, the Armory Center for the Arts, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and at festivals including Edmonton International, Unnoticed Art, Detroit-Windsor International, and at Cinequest. He’s the recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in Art & Design and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University.

Glitch playground

Tue Sept 20th 13:00 – 16:00 @ hacklab01

A basic glitch techniques workshop for beginners. This workshop merely scratches the surface of glitch tactics that are mostly freely available online and shared amongst and upgraded by artists. This workshop is meant as glitch demistification and no more then a starting point for further research. Because that’s what glitch often is – research – often without purpose or meaning.

Tools

– own laptop (local PCs are available, but not recommended)
– own sauce (own pictures for glitching, regardless of size and format)
– image viewing software (IrfanView is cool)
– an image editor [GIMP (recommended) or Photoshop]
– Wordpad ( 🙂 )
– hex editor (Bless (open source) is cool, Hexplorer also works)
– Audacity
– patience, curiosity, high tolerance for frustration 🙂

Workshop leads

Dina Karadžić (1986) acquired an MFA in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art, Zagreb in 2012.

In 2014 (co)founded and is the art director of Format C [www.formatc.hr, Os / CRO], an artist organization with a focus of interest in contemporary artistic research and collaborative production.

Actively (co)working in the area of transdisciplinary and educational practices; exhibiting in the area of visual, digital and net art; worked in the fields of stop-mo animation, custom character design and freelance illustration.
formatc.hr/j3d1n4

Vedran Gligo (1984) is a self–taught DIY hacker / artist / event organizer / project leader. Strongly applying open source principles in everyday life and practice and attempting to empower the local community by holding free and open digital workshops in Zagreb’s Autonomous Cultural Center through the hacklab01 project. Practicing in the fields of open source, frontend web development, promoting the adoption of GNU / Linux, glitch art, large scale online collaborative art, independent culture production, (h)ac(k)tivism (…) and constantly attempting to broaden his horizons.
v3d.space

Lines and roads

Tue Sept. 20th – 13:00 – Siva Galerija

“Lines and Roads” is a video installation by video artist and filmmaker Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis. It’s a result of a year long research work in glitch aesthetic. The artist uses the misentepreted software interpretation of RAW DNG format footage to reanimate frames and raise questions about archives of the digital era, focusing on hardware depletion and software longevity.
Besides screeing his work, the author will share his reasearch results at a workshop titled CinemaDNG and glitch.

About the artist

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis was born in Montélimar, France, in 1988. He is currently living and working between Paris and Brussels as both visual artist, editor and filmmaker. After a studying period in journalism at Clermont-fd university and a bachelor degree in cinema atLumiere Lyon II university, he left for Brussels to study film editing at INSAS and worked onmultiple projects, from videoclip to feature films. In 2013, he did a master in audiovisual art atSint-Lukas and directed his graduation film, “Digital Memories”, which was selected in severalfestivals (Signes de Nuit, Hamburg IKFF, IVAHM…). His artistic work explores memory, frontiersfilms, glitch art, and digital identity.

CinemaDNG glitch

Wed Sept 21st – 13:00 – 14:30 @ hacklab01

This workshop aims to teach the technical process of creating and capturing a natural software glitch that occurs with a debayering issue of cinema DNG footage in Mac OS X Mavericks and Quicklook. (Duration : 1h-30)

Workshop progress

– the starting point is a global view of the workflow and the context of the glitch technique’s discovery
– recording some test shots with a Blackmagic cinema camera that records in raw cinema DNG.
– reading the files with Quicklook and view the debayering issue.
– using an apple script to create an automation that push the down arrow to pass
– from one picture to another.
– recording the screen with screenflow to capture the glitch
– technical corrections (cropping, scaling)
looping the process to understand how to influence the glitch’s result during the shooting.
– combine this glitch technique with others.

About the artist

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis was born in Montélimar, France, in 1988. He is currently living and working between Paris and Brussels as both visual artist, editor and filmmaker. After a studying period in journalism at Clermont-fd university and a bachelor degree in cinema atLumiere Lyon II university, he left for Brussels to study film editing at INSAS and worked onmultiple projects, from videoclip to feature films. In 2013, he did a master in audiovisual art atSint-Lukas and directed his graduation film, “Digital Memories”, which was selected in severalfestivals (Signes de Nuit, Hamburg IKFF, IVAHM…). His artistic work explores memory, frontiersfilms, glitch art, and digital identity.

First Time’s Free: Dealing Cultural Capital & Making Art Addicts

Wed Sept 21st . – 15:30 @ Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb

Artist and educator Peter Christenson (USA) will chat about recent projects and research related to activism, intervention, and community-based art making highlighting a number of lessons learned during his 2015 Art & Design Fulbright Scholar residency in Scotland where he worked with a number of community partners in Dundee to produce a film series and build a cultural archive of the region.

Artist Bio:

Peter Christenson (USA) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator originally from metro Detroit. He is co-founder of Left of Centre, a guerrilla-marketing firm and artist collective, and he is publisher of Null Set Magazine. He holds a BA and MSW from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University. His current practice is rooted in new media and video, collective campaigning and protest, performance, psychosocial and interventionist art, and site-specific installation, and his research is significantly informed by his past experiences working as a social worker and licensed psychotherapist. Christenson has lectured, exhibited, and screened his work across the United States and internationally including venues like Sydney Non Objective, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, the Armory Center for the Arts, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and at festivals including Edmonton International, Unnoticed Art, Detroit-Windsor International, and at Cinequest. He’s the recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in Art & Design and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University.

Sonification – data as sound

Thu Sept 22 – 13:00 – 16:30 @ hacklab01

Focusing on treating visual data (images or videos) as sound.

What we’ll be doing:

– intro to sonification (basic process, examples and toolset)
– raw to audio process
– filters – heart of sonification
– command line tools to prepare your data
– gif sonification
– sonification of video
– sonification in Processing

Preparation:

– Windows – installed cygwin with sox and imagemagick, ffmpeg binaries in the path, irfanview with plugins (32bit version), gimp
– Linux – installed sox, imagemagick and ffmpeg binaries in the path, gimp
– OSX (latest) – homebrew with sox, imagemagick and ffmpeg binaries, gimp

For all systems download and install Audacity and Ladspa plugins (Windows and OSX – through the Audacity page, Linux via package manager – search ‘ladspa’).

Cygwin – Sox – Homebrew – Imagemagick – Audacity – FFmpeg – Processing –

Artist bio

All of my interests brought me to the generative first and then to the glitch art. I focus on area which I call ‘generative glitch’ which means: producing glitches by own algorithms. My goal is looking for new techniques and methods for it. So mainly I create tools for other people and help them create unique things.

I’m active member of Facebook groups like: GAC, G//R, GAC:TT, Sonic Art Guild, and few others.

GenerateMe

Introduction to (un)intentional errors in analogue film and photography

Sept 22nd – 17:00 – hacklab01

The lecture includes historical and theoretical introductions to utilizing (un)intentional errors in analogue film and photography that is being adopted by artists as part of their artistic aesthetic. Starting from the most typical of mechanical defects – the scratch, ranging to errors in film processing, reticulation and cross-process, to more complex chemical “glitches” like mordançage this lecture aims to give an insight into early and contemporary experimental practices in analog media that are indisputable forerunners of what we call “glitch-art” in the work of artists working with digital media.

The lecture will also cover the history and practice of the Klubvizija SC film laboratory and the worldwide network of film laboratories that Klubvizija SC is a member of, including a short overview of the current preoccupation of artists and film technicians from the laboratories researching the field of creative and technical possibilities of the film tape.

About the lecturers

EJLA KOVAČEVIĆ is a member of the Klubvizija SC film laboratory from 2011, where she frequents a series of analogue film and photography workshops. From 2013 she assists the design and implementation of the laboratory’s annual program, providing technical assistance with workshops and individual member projects and functions as a representative of the laboratory abroad.

So far, she produced several short experimental films focusing on the research of alternative chemical processes and film techniques that were presented at several film festivals in Croatia and abroad as part of Klubvizija SC’s production presentation.

ANITA BUDIMIR is a videographer and a member of Klubvizija SC film laboratory since 2014 where she attends several 16mm film workshops and finds an interest for alternative chemical processes. She authored “level.303”, a 16mm film and the 16mm music video “Encounter”, which was made in collaboration with Ejla Kovačević.

Making an image codec for artistic purposes

Fri Sept 23rd 13:00 – 15:00 @ hacklab01

The main goal in databending glitch techniques is to create nasty-beautiful artifacts.But unfortunately controlling this process is not easy and sometimes dissapointing. I’m going to show how to construct such a codec in Processing language. I’ll show building blocks and elements which play crucial work to generate databend artifacts.

Together we’ll play with this code and you’re be able to glitch your own images.

Preparation: any operating system, Processing version 2 (not 3!), images in jpeg or png format.

Processing

Artist Bio

All of my interests brought me to the generative first and then to the glitch art. I focus on area which I call ‘generative glitch’ which means: producing glitches by own algorithms. My goal is looking for new techniques and methods for it. So mainly I create tools for other people and help them create unique things.

I’m active member of Facebook groups like: GAC, G//R, GAC:TT, Sonic Art Guild, and few others.

GenerateMe

SKNAIL Zagreb Session

Fri Sept 23rd – 22:00 – Klub Attack

SKNAIL (Switzerland) is a music project created in 2011, in which Blaise Caillet single-handedly arranges and composes original music based on a combination of jazz and modern minimal electro, and “glitch” music. His compositions come alive in collaboration with six professional musicians, chosen for their individual unconventional stylistic approach to music – recording them one by one. The final recordings are arranged in music albums created by musicians who have never played together, opposing the sounds of computer errors. ( “Glitch jazz”, 2013)

SKNAIL’s second album “Snail Charmers” (2015) is a collaboration with the renowned Swiss jazz musicians Nya (voice) and Patrice Moret (bass on three tracks). The Sknail project is very well acknowledged in magazines, blogs and radio stations, and the visual art that accompanies it is displayed in exhibitions.

SKNAIL will perform on Sept 23rd 2016., as part of Fubar glitch art festival, in a live improvisation appearance with local jazz musicians who he’s never worked with prior to the show – Zvonimir Šestak (Hr) – double bass, Regis Kattie (Fr) – keyboards and Karlo Slavikovski (Hr) – trumpet. They will perform an on site glitch jazz improvisation session.

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Afterparty:

Night-long audial abductions by DJ Twitching Miasma featuring: rhythmic noise, witch-house, trip-hop, dreamwave, glitch core, psychoactive industrial, abrasive techno, phantom rave…

Location / time:

Fri Sept 23rd – 22:00 – Klub Attack

Free entrance

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