ARTEFACT festival - 13>18 FEB 2007 - art & new media

ARTEFACT FESTIVAL
13>18 Feburary 2007
festival for ART & NEW MEDIA
STUK arts centre
Leuven - Belgium
www.artefact-festival.be


Presence and absence. Visible and invisible. This year, ARTEFACT
focuses on artists working within these fields of tension. When do
things become invisible, or where are they appearing? The confrontation
with the visitor's view is most important and the art works very often
seem to look back. STUK is filled with empty, but promising spaces,
images and constructions. Mirrors and virtual mirrors appear
everywhere. Light surprises in the dark. See or don't see, but come and
watch.

During the ARTEFACT festival, an experimental program is presented
throughout the STUK building. The international program doesn't focus
on 'new technology' as such. It rather places themes and research areas
in the field of new media in a larger context.


INSTALLATIONS & VIDEO
Wesley Meuris - the incredible nightlife in the tropical forest / Jim
Campbell - home movies - divide - reconstruction / Maurice Van
Tellingen - monitor - loudspeaker - venster / Michael Snow - solar
breath (northern cariatyds) / Christophe Girardet - absence / Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer close up / Matthias Muller - phantom / Lawrence Malstaf -=

tollen / Jonathan Schipper - invisible sphere / Wim Janssen - slightly
displaced, yet still focused / Workspace Unlimited -
spac(e)scapes_mirror / John F. Simon, JR. - every icon / Vuk Cosic -
ascii history of moving images / Zoe Beloff - the ideoplastic
materializations of eva c. / Victor Kossakovsky - svyato / Sam
Taylor-Wood - prelude in air - ascension - strings / Herman Asselberghs
- futur anterieur

PERFORMANCES
Brice Leroux - quantum quintet / Arco Renz - P.O.P.E.R.A / Monolake -
studies for thunder live / Jaap Blonk & Golan Levin - ursonography

SYMPOSIUM on LOCATIVE MEDIA
Tapio Makela / TROIKA / Peter Westenberg / Marc Godts

MUSIC
Bernard Parmegiani / Bernhard Gunter / Ictus - for Philip Guston -
Morton Feldman / Thomas Brinkmann - klick live / Sleeparchive / Kode9
+ the Spaceape / Virus Syndicate / Nathan Fake / Andy Stott

more info on: www.artefact-festival.be=