Argosfestival: Coded Interference

Each year the argos festival offers a stage forms of artistic
expression within the domain of audio-visual media. In 2003 the
festival will unravel its web throughout the Belgian capital once again.
Seven cultural locations in the city - Cinema Nova, the Filmmuseum,
Recyclart, Kaaitheaterstudio's, Ztablissements d'en face projects,
Kanal 20 -/FoAM/tmp/ and argos - offer room to film and video,
concerts, exhibitions, lectures and debates, performances and
encounters.

Coded Interference

More than a mere sequence of ones and zeroes, new media and electronic
arts garble the conventional codes - a generic term for various forms of
prearranged expressions - into a new mode of producing and reading
artworks. The new media segment of the argosfestival Coded Interference,
curated by Nat Muller, investigates, through discourse as well as through
presentation, precisely those moments when something goes wrong with that
'code', when the system is inhibited by (external) circumstances. This area
of tension is elucidated by artists, scientists and designers with a
symposium in the Kaaitheaterstudio's. Navigating between being committed and
keeping critical distance, they discuss, refute and question theory as well
as practice. With the audio-visual Life's A User Manual by Michelle Teran
and the performance installation Little Solar System by Icelandic Haraldur
Karlsson, Coded Interference comprises multimedia performances as well. In
conclusion Dutch Edwin van der Heide presents his new installation Sound
Modulated Light #1 at Kanal 20 - /foam/tmp/, a monumental interactive
audiovisual work consisting of, among other things, dozens of (fluorescent)
lights and a seething soundscape.

Kaaitheaterstudio's, 25 October: symposium Coded Interference (with Edwin
van der Heide, Kristina Andersen, Mark Hansen, Michelle Teran, Nat Muller)

Recyclart, 23 and 24 October: performances with Michelle Teran en Haraldur
Karlsson

Kanal 20 - /foam/tmp/, 17 October - 2 November: installation Edwin van der
Heide

Kanal 20 - /foam/tmp/, 24 October: Code 31, Code Communication's Camp


Information about the interdisciplinary program, dates, venues and
much more can be found on
http://www.argosarts.org/festival

argos, werfstraat 13 rue du chantier, b-1000 brussels
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