LAVA at 2012 Live Performers Meeting: Rome, Italy

Hello LAVA fans,

although there’s no meetup this month (we’ll get back on track next month, promise!) a couple members of the LAVA community have been invited to perform at the Live Performers Meeting AV festival this month in Rome, Italy, from May 31st to June 3rd. Tim Abad, James Cui, and Eric Medine will be performing at the festival as well as teaching multimedia workshops.

LPM is an annual multimedia festival featuring live visuals, art and tech workshops, video installations, and all kinds of multimedia work. It is designed as a place of dialogue, comparison and exchange of ideas and information between artists and fans in the field that are accustomed to meet, communicate and interact mostly in the virtual space of the network. In October of 2012 LPM will hold a festival in Mexico City as well.
Where:
Planet Alpheus
Via del Commercio, 36, 00154 Roma, Italy
+39 06 574 7826 ‎ · alpheus.it
When:
May 31st to June 3rd, 2012
Noon to Midnight (or thereabouts)
http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/

Tim Abad

TIM ABAD (http://www.facebook.com/timabad)
Link to performance: http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/artists/timabad/performances/vj-tim-abad/
VJ Tim Abad is a multimedia specialist from the United States. Seeing a need for 8-bit visuals in Los Angeles, he went home and hacked his 27 year old nintendo entertainment system into a visual theremin and recruited multiple others for thrashing. With an army of visual thermins, circuit bent nes’s, and a analog switcher, he offers live 8-bit video glitch chaos. Mentored by some of the best VJ’s in the United States since 2005, Tim is versed in many styles of live video performance, and has performed with countless top Electronic and mainstream recording artists at the largest music festivals, Vegas clubs, and EDM gatherings.

For the festival, Tim will be doing a 60 minute VJ set.

AV Mixer Pro

JAMES CUI (http://www.neuromixer.com)
Link to performance: https://flxer.net/vjfader/performances/av/
For the festival, James will be performing with Mandy Mozart from Salzburg, a journey through electroacustic dancemusic and Nouveau Glitter eye candy. He will also be running an AV Mixer Pro Workshop, a hands-on workshop on how to master the AVmixer Pro VJ software. He will guide the students from overview to more advanced tips and tricks on how to use this powerful live visual performance software.

Created by Neuromixer, AVmixer Pro is a three channel video mixer with real-time effects designed for live visual performance at concerts, dance parties, and corporate events. It has a simple interface that mimics the traditional DJ mixing style. All of the on-screen UI elements are touchscreen friendly for quick and fast interaction. Additionally it is compatible with MIDI so you may control all main functions via your favorite MIDI controller or iPad.

AutoComplete Hive Mind Cannibals

ERIC MEDINE (http://www.ericmedine.com)
Link to installation:
http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/artists/ericmedine/performances/autocomplete-hive-mind-cannibals/

Link to workshops:

Eric will be showing his video installation “AutoComplete Hive Mind Cannibals” (http://vimeo.com/35440751). This video installation project uses Google’s “autocomplete” function for such open ended questions such as “why does”,”why won’t”,”where is”,”how big”,”how small”,”when will”,”where can”,”who is”,”how do”, and “is there”. The results of these searches are the aggregate of all searches that have ever been made using these terms, and are displayed as text, which behaves like “food” for animated and programmatic “animals”. Search engines embody the collective mind of whoever has looked up anything on Google… and these animals eat that mind!
Eric will also be running art and technology workshops on the subjects of touch-screen OSC interfaces and using the Kinect motion controller to create visuals.
About LPM:
http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/
The eleventh edition of LPM Live Performers Meeting begins on May 31, 2012 in Rome.

LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world.

In fact it is this community of artists that made of the 2011 Rome edition a surprising event. It hosts not less than 484 artists, 228 performances, workshops and showcases, recording an overall amount of 32 participant countries: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United States, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Hungary, Uruguay, Ukraina.

This year LPM returns with a new location: Planet Alpheus in Rome, a multifaceted area of 3,000 square meters perfectly suited to accommodate the different souls of the Meeting. Part of the Meeting will take place at the Teatro Valle, a historic landmark in Rome, which will host some installations, av performances and vj / dj set.
Again, this XI edition seeks to promote the practice of live video performance, thanks to a rich and unpredictable programme aimed at exploring different themes through new audiovisual languages, techniques and technologies.
The daily schedule of the event:
15:00 to 21:00 Workshops
15:00 to 16:00 Lectures and conferences
16:00 to 18:00 Presentations of projects and products
18:00 to 04:00 AV Performances and VJ / DJ sets
Vj, artists, designers, professionals and the general public will be involved in the manifold planned activities: from experimental audiovisual performances, architectural mapping shows, and DJVJ sets to workshops, roundtables, and presentations of products and hardware, with a special regard for Free and Open Sourceprojects. Meeting areas devoted to the interaction among the hundreds of participants will be the corollary for the whole duration of the event.
Registration to the meeting is FREE and you can subscribe by following the procedures of registration in the “participate” section of the website. To give the opportunity to host most of the performances we receive, the maximum duration of each show is 30 minutes. Registration is open until March 26, 2012.
LPM is produced with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Commission and in collaboration with international partners and co-organizers, the project includes a second edition in 2012 in Mexico City, with a series of previews and promotional events focused on live video to be held in France, Hungary, Greece and Italy, during the most important European festivals and cultural events.
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