Programme:
- Introduction: Wolf Helzle, media artist
- “Stuttgart Crossing” with mimiZ (20 min.)
electro-acoustic improvisation on percussion and computer
- “Improvisation System #1” with Yoshihisa Suzuki (10 min.)
percussion and voice-vocoding
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~yoshs02/otunnel_web.html
- “Anangraon Variations” with Satoshi Fukushima (20min) 3-way-audio-interchange
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~shimaf02/ANAGRAON/
- brief presentation of the works by Masayuki Akamatsu
- “sein&zeit” with Masayuki Akamatsu and Yoshihisha Suzuki (20 min.)
audiovisual performance using live television
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/sein_zeit/
Media artist Masayuki Akamatsu was born in 1961 in Hyogo (Japan). He studied psychology at the Kobe University and at that time began to compose audiovisual works on a computer. Today he is professor at IAMAS (International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences) in Ogaki near Kyoto. Akamatsu realised numerous performances and installations in the field of media art, using a computer and digital networking. His focus lies on the relationship between artwork and audience, and the autonomy of art and its development. Some of his works are: “incubator” (2000, audiovisual installation with 50 computers), “Time Machine” (2002, a project which is dedicated to visualising the spectator´s experience of time and real time processing) and “Flesh Control” (2002, in which the artist's body is controlled by a computer). Akamatsu also works as a live performer in electronic music, he published several books ("Trans Max Express", Ritto-Music, 2001, (Co-author) and "Cocoa+Java", Kobun-sha, 2001) and organised events such as the “DSP Summer School”.