5th – 11th Oct 2019
AKC Attack / Pierottijeva 11 / Zagreb / CRO
/’fu:bar/ is a yearly festival gathering focused on electronic error-themed reinterpretative multimedia art. The week long festival starts on the first Saturday of October and hosts an artist residency program, showcases diverse talks, workshops, performances and an inclusive group exhibition.
/’fu:bar/ is an open and free glitch art event, aimed at local communities in a physical space, and accessible to transnational communities in networked space, while including diverse local, regional and international authors and their collaborations.
- Select:
- [exhibition]
- [performance]
- [talk]
- [workshop]
- [screening]
The event is organized by the AKC Attack association in collaboration with the Format C Artist Organization. It’s supported by a number of volunteers, collaborators and participating artists, as well as media partners, the SKART Gallery, the Glitch Artists Collective, and the free weekly newsletter Glitchet. The festival program is financially supported by the National Foundation for Civil Society Development, the “Kultura Nova” Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Zagreb and various glitch art supporters via crowdfunding.
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SAT 5.10. 21:00 – SsmKOSK [SI] – zMgjtr 1 [performance @ Siva]
zMgjtr 1 A live performance that focuses on playback manipulation with sound and image. Pre-recorded compositions (both audio and video) are multiplied, merged and broken using traditional as well as hacked equipment (circuit bent CD players, VHS and DVD players)
SsmKOSK is an experimental glitchcore/breakcore/spoken word AV project from Slovenia. Until now, SsmKOSK has released three solo albums: Pičko ‘n’ troll (OFF TIR, 203), Merak (Self-released, 2015) and Ptičji mozak (Zvočni prepihi, 2018) as well as one split album with Serbian noisecore artists Segregator X and Geneza Kineza: triple split (Self-released, 2016). The project focuses on sound collage and live video collage with VHS and DVD, spoken word and breakcore beats. The live performance focuses on playback manipulation with traditional as well as hacked equipment (circuit bent CD players, VHS and DVD players, effect processors).
SsmKOSK has played in various venues around Slovenia, as well as in Serbia, Germany and Denmark and participated in the annual Klubski maraton tour, organized by the Slovene Radio Študent.
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21:00 – 22:00 JonCates [US] – Ghosttown European Premiere [screening @ Film Studio]
Ghosttown, a Glitch Western experimental feature film, critiques myths and ideologies of the American West while reworking and disrupting familiar genres.
jonCates is the founder of glitch.club and creator of the concept of Dirty New Media Art, making the Unstable Arts now known as Glitch Art since the 1990s.
jonCates [US]
MON 7.10. and TUE 8.10 – 14:00-17:00 – cyberboy666 & ichi raramuri present [NZ-DE] – Build your own Video Instrument [lecture / workshop @ hacklab01]
With today’s surge in interest for hardware audio equipment there are many options for artists to perform with dedicated sound instruments. this is still not the case for real-time video performance. both Korg and Roland have discontinued their video-samplers, leaving nothing commercial to fill this void. r_e_c_u_r is an open-source community and educational project empowering artists to build the tools they need.
Join us for a group session of electronic instrument making! Together we will solder and test diy video-instruments that each participant can take home.
Material cost for the workshop: (recommended donations)
30€ PCB and parts
12€ Raspberry Pi Zero (optional)
Places in the workshop are limited, applications are mandatory by email to [email protected].
Guergana Tzatchkova is an IT Professional based in Berlin, her interests in the creative uses of media and technology led her to study a master in Design of Multimedia and Interactive Systems and later a PhD in Theory and History of Cinema in Barcelona.
She has been working for several years on projects combining audio, video, design and programming
with both digital and physical interfaces and also on projects related to gender and politics in Chiapas (Mexico)
and Mexico City.
cyberboy666 is a video-art project created by Tim Caldwell from Wellington, New Zealand, (currently based in Berlin). Tim’s interests include experimental video-art and live video performances, DIY electronics and upcycling obsolete consumer equipment. He is also involved in outsider filmmaking and cult film curating, DIY event organising and community spaces. cyberboy666 & ichi raramuri present [NZ/DE]
MON 7.10. – 18:00 – klif [HR] – Serial Control of Panasonic AVE55 Video Mixer [lecture / prezentacija @ hacklab01]
A lecture/performance showing benefits and advantages of using serial control of a Panasonic WJAVE55 video mixer. Klif, obsessed with software control of hardware devices over the years, wrote control software for various video mixers, video matrix switchers, pan/tilt cameras, robotic systems, etc… These methods are not very popular, which is strange considering how different the output of a video mixer can look once you start automating / randomising wipes and effects.
During the lecture I will demonstrate the system – show benefits and few disadvantages, show mapping of controls to MIDI, discuss strategies of software control in performance based software – randomising, sequencing, etc…
The artwork of Ivan Marusic Klif features two aspects of media art: one is the use of electronic and digital technology in the art world context and the other is a research of relationship between human being and his/her technological environment.
From his early light installations of the 90’s to the recent software-controlled installations Ivan Marušić Klif has consistently explored and experimented with the possibilities of media, both new and obsolete, through the use of sound, light or video image, continually constructing increasingly complex immersive technologically mediated environments. Main technological focus of his recent work is controlling analog equipment using computers. He is the managing director of Vector hack festival.
klif [HR]
TUE 8.10. – 18:00 – Kunal Agnihotri [IN] – Hacking Convolution Filters [teleworkshop @ hacklab01]
Digital images can be thought of as a collection of numbers. Screens reproduce the vast range of colours by mixing different intensities of only three colors–Red, Green & Blue1. Each pixel in an image can thus be represented by specifying the RGB values. In an 8-bit image, there are 256 discrete values which are represented in the range (0-255). Thus the color red is rgb(255, 0, 0), a magenta would be somewhere close to rgb(255, 0, 200). The digital image is a large matrix of such rgb values.
More information is here. This workshop will demonstrate the use of the author’s processing script that uses convolution filters to make interesting images.
Kunal Agnihotri is a graphic designer/digital artist based in Pune, India. His work involves using image convolution and lies within the scope of generative/glitch art. Kunal Agnihotri [IN]
MON 7.10. – 20:00 – Dylan Cote & Incogito [FR] – Earthsatz [performance @ Siva]
The world, as it is shown to us by Google Earth, is intriguing… The imperfections of the shapes, the textures’ distorsions, the suspended time, are all attributes of a new kind of universe. A hybrid one, looking more like an algorithmic fiction than our tangible reality. Earthsatz tries to amplify the cold and oppressive poetry generated by this « pocket world », where life doesn’t exist and particles are replaced by pixels. Maybe we should try to contemplate it for what it really is : a fictional universe that mimics
the one we are living in, developing its
own autonomy.
Thanks to photogrammetry, we scanned some parts of the Google-generated world. We built 3D landscapes from them to play with in order to highlight their surreal characteristics. Earthatz is a wandering in this corrupted world, celebrating all its fictional, artificial and irrational aspects. As the landscapes are disintegrating and recomposing themselves, their roars are embodied in distorted and mechanical sounds. These heavy synth pads extend the figurative universe, being it’s intense echo
in the spectator’s perceptual space.
Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère work respectively in Paris and Lyon (France). They met during their studies in interaction and graphic design. Mainly working with moving image and installation
they use forms which deploy into physical or digital environment in order to serve an idea or a moment.
This process includes the music field which they are also active within.
They also pursue visual research by experiencing and diverting various techniques from their proper use, using the aesthetic potential of new media. Through motion design, code, sound creation, installation or light, they strive to set up poetical and critical spaces. Sometimes, it creates fragments of fiction which give us a view on current issues of techno-social change.
Their work has been exhibited at Scopitone (Nantes), Nuit Blanche in Paris, YIA Art Fair Brussels, Paris Electronic Week, 12×12 festival, Blue \x80, and other alternatives events.
They are both members of OYÉ, an art collective created in 2015. This association is made up of various artists, designers and researchers working together on audiovisual performance, digital installation, and live performing arts.
Their visual creations for stages have been booked at Dour, Astropolis, Inasound, La Rodia, Le Plan, Paris Event Center, l’Aerosol… Dylan Cote & Incogito [FR]
20:00 – ≈sheglitchr & Jinkstraüm [FR] – COMMUNION//DESTRUCTION [performance @ Siva]
≈sheglitchr & Jinkstraüm want to conjugate our savoir-faire to celebrate massive video data-destruction and the rise of unholy post-musical sounds. The beauty is at peace, the angels are no longer desirables, thy kingdom is our now. We want to “lock-in” glitch worshippers inside a church where statues and stained-glass windows are in constant move and fusion, where the preacher’s voice becomes a primitive drone. Where death of the sacred is the rebirth of the magnificent.
We want to redefine the notions of exposure and value while destroying known symbols of beauty, luxury and success through a performance mixing pictures, movie references, adverts, symbolic sounds, Bible extracts, dirty analog tapes for both sound and video and incense.
Camille and Christian met through a friend network five years ago and immediately connected with each other across their similar taste in literature, music, experimental art, movies, bad humour and shared love for raccoons. They have always wanted to collaborate but have never found the right formula because of the distance between them. This event would be the quintessence of a long-standing project and a wonderful opportunity to bring them together in a common form.
≈sheglitchr joined the Glitch Art movement in 2015.
She destroys pictures to create new ones. Her favorite phrase: “CREATION FROM DESTRUCTION”. Inspired by the nascent and fractured nostalgia of a time she never knew, she draws her different energies from the music she listens to and from the experiences she makes.
Jinkstraüm is a “one-man-band” headed by Christian aka Emet. At the beginning, it was all about tremolo-picking, down-tuning and immersive misanthropic fuzzy ambiance. Then,it became built less like classical music or songs to become something more organic and intuitive where sound leads the composition (did someone say “ambient?”). Basically, Jinkstraüm is a generator of sonic landscapes, sometimes quite noisy, sometimes quite moody. It’s all about a dude and his pedalboards helped with synths, voices, tape loops, radio, cat screaming in agony and/or guitars with weird tuning. It’s a constant live experience taking the form of an endless quest for fine textures and massive waves of sounds, traumatic rhythms or deep oceanic breath, but always with a certain sense of bad humour. Everything is based on experimentation.
After few EPs, few split albums and an LP, Jinkstraüm is ready to play live and open for collaborations especially with non-musician artists/performers. ≈sheglitchr & Jinkstraüm [FR]
WED 9.10., THU 10.10. 14:00, Bastien Lavaud/Syntonie [FR] – Analog Glitch Workshop [workshop @ hacklab01]
The workshop will be centered around building an analog video processor circuit, which will be a good case study to understand how composite video works. Then, participants will be guided through modifying/bending the circuit themselves to achieve new, glitchy effects.
Material cost for the workshop: (recommended donation)
10€ for PCB and parts (optional)
Places in the workshop are limited, applications are mandatory by email to [email protected].
Bastien Lavaud — imagines and creates electronics devices for arts.
Audio, video and DIY electronics enthusiast, his recent work mainly focuses on reviving old video circuits and extend their capabilities, with an emphasis on making people build them, through documentation posted online and AFK with workshops. Bastien Lavaud/Syntonie [FR]
WED 9.10. – 20:00 – Gábor Szűcs [SK] – Membrane AV [performance @ Siva]
Membrane is a journey through several glitchy creepy rooms or landscapes.
Gábor Szűcs, painter, animator, vj, teacher, lives and works in Bratislava. Gábor Szűcs [SK]
THU 10.10. – 18:00 – jonCates [US] – Glitch Art Games [talk @ Siva]
⚡ Glitches 💖 Games && Games 💖 Glitche
Glitches and games go together since forever. jonCates shares his reflections from his further adventures through the unstable arts now known as Glitch Art Games. We will see his secret new collaborations shown for the first time in public and classic game glitches that are his inspiration.
jonCates is the founder of glitch.club and creator of the concept of Dirty New Media Art, making the Unstable Arts now known as Glitch Art since the 1990s. jonCates [US]
THU – 20:00 – Kaspar Ravel [FR] – 808 not found [performance @ Siva]
A landscape of fake butterflies and impressionist music, composed and synthetized through multiple techniques ranging from deep learning to glitch art into a 30 minute narrative.
Having harvested all the butterflies I could find on the web alongside Faure, Ravel, Debussy, Satie and Lili Boulanger’s piano pieces, I feed all this data to train generative models which I then re-interprete to create an audio-visual moment that makes sense to humans
Kaspar Ravel, new media artist && off/online curator. From the subcultures of internet art 藍歌. He studied computer science and theater [at] Sorbonne University only to end up researching surreal data politics || poetics. Kaspar Ravel [FR]
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FRI 11.10. – 20:00 – Way Spurr-Chen [US] – Mistakes Humans Make: A Glitch Improv Workshop [workshop @ Siva]
Surprisingly, glitch art and improv comedy have a tremendous amount to do with one another. Both deal with celebrating errors, delighting in mistakes, and taking artistic risks. In this workshop, Way Spurr-Chen will take the audience through the basics of improv: how to embrace (human) failure, how to laugh at yourself, how to have fun taking risks, and how to weave stories and situations from thin air. Philosophical waxing about how improv can make us better glitch artists available upon request.
Way Spurr-Chen is an artist, improvisor, writer, programmer, manager, astrologer, and glitch person who runs a glitch art resource page (and once upon a time a newsletter) at www.glitchet.com. He spends his free time figuring out which interest to pursue at any given moment and trying to escape the icy grip of capitalism.
Way Spurr-Chen [US]
WED 9.10. – 18:00 – Ian Keaveny [IE] – Searching for error in obscure or obsolete Linux distributions – with reference to component mismatch, video misinterpretation and using older hardware to make Glitch art (through necessity or perversity) (with demonstrations) [lecture / demonstration @ Siva]
An examination of various errors discovered through researching old operating systems to run on older hardware in a bid to make art in the absence of money and strategies to exploit these errors to make glitch art. ( With digressions into the politics of hardware and the entry costs of making glitch art, of the basic costs of exposure including discussion of more recent technologies, such as neural nets, the high price of cuda capable video cards (is this the direction glitch art should be taking?) the need for higher and higher definition and quality video – facebook playback issues, the time it takes to upload hd content on rural broadband vs access to fibre, computational expense vs free access.
With reference to Legacy OS 2 – mp4 and other misinterpretations in a live or persistent installation which are capturable within and by the os using quick-player and xvidcap (different results given by setting 24 bit or 16bit colour both reproducible and capturable) with demonstrations. And with reference to preferred video cards and why they might work better than others – the xvesa solution.
X11 poisoning – Legacy os mini – how to break X11, and strategies for capturing and exploiting using webcams and circuit bent webcams with demonstrations.
Plus ogv misinterpretation within Gnome-mplayer on Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04, Mandriva linux and others
Cavs misinterpretation and capture in Vlc on Ubuntu 10.04 with demonstration ( with reference to strategies for using older distros and repositories and answering questions such as why use old distros at all relating back to costs of access , Exposure and computational cost)
Ian Keaveny, born In England. Studied fine art at Winchester School of art. Lived in and around Co.Offaly since moving to Ireland in the early 90’s. Exhibited Painting, Film and Glitch art nationally and internationally. Ian Keaveny [IE]
