Optronica

How can you not attend something
with a name as cool as Optronica?
THE GUARDIAN
Optronica's cutting-edge fusion of music and cinema
offers a dazzling vision of the future.
TIME OUT
Brain-child of audiovisual artists/producers Addictive TV and new-media curators Cinefeel , both who have championed live AV and the art of the VJ for over a decade, Optronica is the London based visual music festival organised in collaboration with the British Film Institute .
Optronica is currently on the road, presenting selections of audio/visual delights abroad. More info here: www.optronica.org
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OPTRONICA EXHIBITION @ LE CUBE, PARIS
Anglo-French curators Cinefeel were commissioned by multimedia venue Le Cube in Issy, Paris, to curate the "Optronica - Hybridations Sonores & Visuelles" exhibition which opens on January 31st 2008 and runs for six months until July 26 2008 .
The exhibition showcases a generation of innovative artists who explore the synergy between music and visuals, and who are also developing new techniques and new tools. From video scratching to audiovisual remixing, from generative art to interactive work, the programme of video installations shows diverse aesthetic trends in contemporary visual music and the current AV scene.
More info here: www.optronica.org and www.cinefeel.org
OPTRONICA SCREENING TOUR
We are currently touring the screening programmes Best of Optronica 2007 and Video In Demand, both which will be shown at Roma's Festa del Cinema (Oct. 19), Holland's STRP festival (Nov 22-25) and AVion in Bucharest (Nov.30).
OPTRONICA - AN EVENING AT C/O POP, COLOGNE, 16.08.07
As part of the C/O POP music festival in Koln, Optronica presents an evening of audiovisual delights on Thursday 16th August at the Cologne Museum of Applied Arts (Museum für Angewandte Kunst), with performances from audio/video remix wizards Addictive TV and AV experimentalist duo Semiconductor. Other participating artists include EZ3kiel from France with their brand new DVD-Rom project Naphtaline; plus screenings and DVD installations curated by Cinefeel.
More info: www.c-o-pop.de
OPTRONICA - MARCH 14-18, 2007, LONDON
Optronica 2007 was presented as part of the PlayStation Season, once again bringing visual music to the big screen. IMAX performances were World premières of brand new shows from ground-breaking artists DEAKIN & FRANGLEN of LEMON JELLY, prolific graphic designer and musician TREVOR JACKSON, and - produced by FORMA - a special one-off collaboration between Austrian electronic music pioneer FENNESZ and New York video artist CHARLES ATLAS. Friday 16th March saw some serious film remixing at the BFI IMAX with a double-bill of leading UK audiovisual artists ADDICTIVE TV performing a special World Cinema remix set and the UK premiere of renowned director PETER GREENAWAY's Tulse Luper VJ performance, produced by NoTV.
At BFI Southbank, headlining Optronica Lab, we premiered in the UK the brand new show from German audiovisual act RECHENZENTRUM. For the first time in the UK, we also welcome acclaimed Japanese audiovisual artist RYOICHI KUROKAWA and the highly innovative Spanish group REACTABLE. Plus new shows from leading British audiovisual acts SEMICONDUCTOR, VITASCOPE and ULTRE + FLAT-E. On Saturday 17th, there was a fantastic audiovisual club night at the ICA with headliners SPEEDY J & U.S. visual artist SCOTT PAGANO who've just collaborated on a new 5.1 DVD project together; plus a rare and exclusive EBN audiovisual set from EBN's Gardner Post and Brian Kane, leading AV act EXCEEDA, VJ ANYONE & MOTORBOY, and a guest spot from hosts ADDICTIVE TV.
Presented as part of the Playstation season, Optronica 2007 was produced and programmed by new-media curators Cinefeel and artists/producers Addictive TV in partnership with the British Film Institute .
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