Emile Zile

Documentation of the live video and orchestra performance, March 21 at World Music and Dance Center in Rotterdam.

http://www.wmdc.nl/engels/program/content/Archive/2009/1809.php

https://youtube.com/watch?v=spWsixjmKXo

A late upload following recent activity, travel and shows. I found some time to go through a pile of  unlabelled documentation dv tape from recent trips. Two performances included here, Marclay’s ‘Screenplay’ videoscore and Mengbo’s performative quake mod ‘Q2008’, recorded on hot, humid nights during last year’s E-Arts festival in Shanghai. These were highly enjoyable public open air concerts with grandparents, kids and media art enthusiasts congregating in the corner of a large public park, I have written about it in more detail here https://emilezile.com/?p=93

http://www.shearts.org/index.php/?page_id=18

A giant of the Japanese impro scene, Otomo Yoshihide is performing at Steim Amsterdam this Sunday afternoon. The man behind a plethora of solo releases and the phenomenal collaborations I.S.O. and Ground-Zero. Performing solo and duo with Dj Sniff. Tip: get there early it will be packed.

http://www.steim.org

The artist as filter. The artist as curator. The curator curating the artists to curate.

Curated by Marina Fokidis.

Includes selections by Amsterdam-based kunstenaars Linda Wallace, presenting clips of people singing the Divinyls ‘When I Think About You I Touch Myself, Matthieu Laurette’s collection of Artist biopic film trailers continuing on from his exhibition Artist Biopic Cinema at Smart Project Space and Ahmet Ögüt’s recycling of viral video, film and television.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=randomrules09&view=playlists 

http://www.pulse-art.com/newyork/

PULSE PLAY > New York 2009
Random Rules: A Chanel of Artists’ selections from YouTube
Curated by Marina Fokidis

Many believe that since the launch of YouTube in 2005, the history of the moving image has diverted from its canonical route. The website, which makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer to post a video, reaches millions of people daily.

Like no other time before, it is now possible for amateur videos, music videos, film footage, commercials and news segments as well as (in some cases) artists’ videos to be mingled together in a random way, free of any preconceived hierarchy or system. According to Fokidis, the active use of YouTube is a form of curating and “Different people’s ‘playlists’ are transformed into exhibitions and “tagging” becomes a process of random archiving.” For PULSE PLAY>Random Rules, Fokidis has invited several emerging and established artists to create their very own playlists thereby presenting these artists not only as artists, but as curators and as collectors as well. Artists include Andrea Angelidakis, Aids 3D, AVAF, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Erick Beltran, Keren Cyter, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Dora Garcia, Rodney Graham, Annika Larsson, Matthieu Laurette, Ingo Niermann, Miltos Manetas, Ahmet Ogut, Angelo Plessas, Lisi Raskin, Linda Wallace.

The selections will be available simultaneously in the video lounge at the Fair and online as a YouTube Channel

A very meta group show organised by Constant Dullaart, opening Friday 13th February. I’m playing some digital music files through fx units at midnight – hyped party mix for the kunst lovers and culture mongers…

Contemporary Semantics Beta delicious show
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 8:00pm

Arti et Amicitiae
Street:
Rokin 112

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Rokin+112%2C+Amsterdam%2C+Netherlands

Lets do a show in which, like is possible on del.icio.us, the inspiration that leads up to an art work is visable, but now physical, not only existing as a jpeg or url (it can be a poster reproduction of a Malevich, a remake of a sculpture, a print out etc etc). And show this together with the final work that this inspiration led to. A show in which it is clear that del.icio.us influences the participating artists by sharing their references, thereby aiding their research. A show that discusses the development of contemperary semantics in net-art 2 point oooh, by showing different aproaches of artists dealing with the vast information flow of the internet, its dialectics and developing anthropological values. The fact that these mostly young artists are dealing with an abundance of visual representations of previous non net art, and the flirtation with kitch, trash and popculture which dominates the internets will play a big part in the show.

participating artists:

Ola Vasiljeva
Harm van Den dorpel
Pascual Sisto
Martijn Hendriks
Ryan Barone
Guthrie Lonergan
Jan Robert Leegte
Constant Dullaart
Frank Koolen
Jon Rafman
Chris Coy
Ellis McDonald

Opening Friday the thirteenth of Februari from 8 pm till 00.00 am, with automated d.j.-ing.
EMILE ZILE WILL PERFORM FROM 00:00 TILL 01:00

Goodiepal has a mission. Goodiepal is a brilliant thinker. Take Goodiepal seriously.

I first met Goodiepal at Impakt festival in Utrecht 2005 CE. At the time he was traveling with a mechanical bird and a constellation of model planets. The performance he enacted was beguilling, charming, open and expansive, the audience in the small theatre were utterly transfixed. I then travelled with Annemiek and Goodiepal to Rotterdam where he performed at De Player the following night.

I find him utterly engrossing and provocative, and recently had the pleasure of another ascent into Goodiepal’s theories, this time at the weekly sound art session DNK in Amsterdam. A hyper-extended theory of time and space, music creation and digital transmission, evolution, memes, genes and dreams. The intelligences of water and electricity, the future of recorded music and electronic music composition. His condensed school program ‘mort aux vaches extra ekstra’ can be sourced from the following location, get comfortable and prepare for primitive future shock:

http://i3hypermedia.com/audio/Alku69_MAVEE_Walkthrough.mp3

http://www.dnk-amsterdam.com/index.cgi?dept=AGENDA&article=117

http://brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/parl/index.htm

http://www.stdsps.nl/

An idea whose time has come, collective self-immolation of all trappings of web2.0. An idea that was banging around Tbos head and mine last week. Happy to see the excellent Worm venue in Rotterdam tuning into the zeitgeist.

Screw your newyears resolutions and dive into 2009 with a collective Web2.0 suicide! WORM’s own medialab moddr_ has conjured up a machine that lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. We provide you with an opportunity to escape back into reality through an *actual* social event, with real people and real drinks at a real bar … meatspace that is. 

No need anymore for your MySpace to be LinkedIn to your FaceBook, just bring your usernames and passwords and join in on WORM’s Cyber_Catharsis 2009!”

Fri 09 Jan / door opens @ 21:00u / start @ 21:00 / free
WORM.EVENT, WEB 3.0 SUICIDE NIGHT

Dive into 2009 with a collective Web2.0 suicide!
http://www.wormweb.nl