AV Social

The AV Social returns with another magnetic program of audiovisual works for its next event scheduled at the British Film Institute. This again is a special one because The AV Social will be included in the BFI's long weekend of celebration for it's 75th anniversary.

Our lineup for this edition will feature DVJ extraordinaire Dan Tait, playing for us a newly updated version of visual IDM, initially shown at Sonar 2008. MTV + OneDotZero award winner Quayola also headlines with his latest edition of Path to Abstraction a multi-screen sound and vision piece, delivered from a single laptop. Likewise, Oli Sorenson will launch his latest DVD album Subject Zero, with an extended live remix of this work. But look out, do make sure to come early and catch the unsigned talents of 8bit artists Steve and Pikilipita, warming up with an AV set performed exclusively from games consoles. The AV Social, a social networking opportunity for London’s audiovisual community.

The AV Social – 26 September, 9pm-2am

British Film Institute
Belvedere Road
South Bank
Waterloo
London SE1 8X

Dan Tait (Leeds, UK)
Quayola (London, UK)
Oli Sorenson (London, UK)
Steve and Pikilipita (London / Bromley, UK)

Dan Tait has been DJing for 15 years, and since embraced many strands of House music. Renown for his technical skills, he is often seen carving up tracks so hard with live effects that they feel like studio remixes. Recruited within Pioneer’s testing team in 2002, he performed the very first DVJ live set at WMC’s closing party, Space Miami in 2004. Originally from Leeds, his audiovisual sets have since taken him to Russia, Taiwan, Singapore as well as across Europe and America.

Quayola is based in London, he explores forms of expression between video, installation, live performance and print. His works create gaps and bridges between the photographical and the graphical, seduce with the coexistence of recorded sources and computer-generated elements – within a same image. Quayola has shown his work and received commissions from The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Yokohama Art Centre, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Le Cube, Beijing Film Academy, Cimatics, Lovebytes, MTV, Onedotzero, Faster Than Sound and more.

Oli Sorenson is a compulsive multi-tasker. He has provided visuals for countless musical acts, including recent partnerships with Meat Katie and Sander Kleinenberg. Nokia, Bacardi, Manga, EA Games, and more have commissioned him. He regularly gives workshops, lectures and writes articles on the audiovisual phenomenon. So far, he’s released four solo DVDs on various labels and a few more within collectives. He’s produced events entitled AVIT, VJ Cult, The AV Social and just recently launched Ne1co – a label / agency hybrid, tailored for audiovisual performers.

Steve and Pikilipita never worked together before The AV Social, but have scores of creative ideas in common. From either sides of the audio and visual realm, both work assiduously within the limited range of the “8 bit” style, very synthetic compositions, refreshingly delivered without using any laptop, but exclusively via games consoles. Pikilipita is a French software developer with a taste for japanimation, whilst Bromley based Steve is thought the youngest act to release on Firstcask records, at age 15.

September's edition of The Av Social would like give warm thanks to Pioneer Pro DJ for suppying Plasmas screens, DVJs and a SVM100 mixer.

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