LPM 2010 – LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING

LIVE VIDEO PERFORMERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND VJ MEETING

27 – 30 may 2010 Brancaleone Rome, Italy

From 27th to 30st of May 2010, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the eight edition of LPM – Live Performers Meeting: an international meeting of  live video performers, visual artists and vjs, focused on live video performances.

CLICK HERE for a full list of workshops and events!

Rome 2009 edition, registered the presence of 362 artists coming from Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Turkey. During the whole four days, 289 performances, workshops and showcases, gave life to each area of the 900 square metersspace of Brancaleone, enhanced with 15 projectors and as many screens.

For the second consecutive year, the edition of LPM settles in an exclusive location, the long-standing Brancaleone that withits structure, perfectly fit the growing needs of a meeting, that yearafter year has definetely enlarged its range of contents, artists and
audience.

LPM once again,will use its 4-day formula, creating a truly unique event and granting a program full of workshops, project showcases, software and brand-new products.

Each of the 4 days, is characterized by a different theme and will proceed with the following schedule:

• 15:00 – 21:00 Workshop
• 15:00 – 16:00 Lectures and conferences
• 16:00 – 18:00 Presentation of projects and products
• 18:00 – 04:00 Performances and VJ / DJ sets

Installations and exhibition stands will be active throughout each day and broad areas of discussion and exchange will be available for the whole event.

LIVE VIDEO is obviously the main focus of the four days and each day is highly characterized by the different themes and scenes contributing to the event.

THURSDAY 27: DIGITAL
FREEDOMS

Digital Freedoms is a day of meetings that will reunite together leaders and creators of the italian digital and electronic culture. The intent is to bring together theorists, ideologues, experts, activists and artists for a single date, to present and discuss the most important updates of this sector. The core theme of the day is the essence of culture, politics and communication throughout new medias, always keeping straight and firm the spirit of freedom that characterized them for decades. As coordinators of the day, a committee of excellence,
Luigi Pagliarini (Artificialia), Simona Lodi (Piemonte Share), Arturo Di Corinto (FHF), Filippo Martorana (Linux club), Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi (Art is Open Source).

FRIDAY 28: BREAKBEAT

This first day is devoted to electronics tunes, the very root of performative video that, in different ways, links together all the participants at the meeting, conferences, projects, performances and VJ sets. It will be accompanied by the dense sounds and incessant beat of electronic club music, with the broken rhythms of breakbeat and drum’n'bass. In addition to the technologies available this year, LPM has to “offer
at the mercy” to the participants vjs, a DJ of excellence:

SHY FX.

SATURDAY 29: ELECTROPOP + TECHNO + ELECTRO

In the second day devoted to electronics tunes, the central role will be played by projects more sensible to different sub-genres of electronics: 8-bit electronics, and electropop. Rhythms and sounds generated by
Nintendo images, unique softwares, samplers, mini-synthesizers and vocoders, for an entertaining and “light” atmosphere, ready to involve and drag audience and participants. From to 2 to 5 am, the area will be invaded by the pulsating tunes of Techno and Electro.

SUNDAY 30: VISUAL GENDERS

A full day of Queer independent culture, a summary of the several projects active at a national and international level to experience the language of representation in terms of gender, politics and sexual orientations, aiming to deconstruct stereotypes and ideological power relationships.

Background videos and music will be shown during dinner, and after dinner a dedicated AV performance and vjset will be set. As usual, at the end of the evening, an open time for VJs will take place: vjs can perform freely, taking advantage of the many available video consoles, beamers and monitors.

LPM 2010 keeps the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of information and ideas among  vjs, visual artists, live-video performers and passionates. Experimentation is one of the founding elements of its philosophy. LPM is a non-profit organisation where any gained fund is invested in supporting the research and development of the live visual field.

Similarity of ideals and common roots has prompted LPM to join the  Avit network, whose aim is to improve and promote the culture of veejaying events worldwide. After the first festivals in England, the Avit network expanded worldwide, establishing collaborations as C23 in Germany (AVIT Berlin), Vision’r in France (AVIT France) and LPM in Italy. This partnership of “network“ and “meeting” is possible thanks to a common cultural background and a strong affinity of spirit and purposes.

LPM is not a festival, it is an opportunity of meeting to get a glimpse of what visual-artists are creating or, even better, what they could create. Therefore, and in order to allow so many interesting artists to perform, the maximum length of a performance is 30 minutes.

LPM is produced and managed by Flyer Communication (www.flyer.it), Linux Club (www.linux-club.org), FLxER.net (www.FLxER.net) and FLV – Flyer Live Visuals (livevisuals.flyer.it), thank also to the cooperation of important international partners.