Experience and explore the latest creations in digital arts and interaction design. The work presented will combine interactivity, digital print, sound and 3D audio-visual mapping.

In its second year, Alpha-ville presents a strong curatorial programme focusing on increasing the exposure of quality digital arts within an interdisciplinary context. Under the theme 'Visionary Cities', Alpha-ville 2010 aims to break the boundaries of traditional disciplines, fostering new collaborations that use innovation and creativity to develop unique experiences. Expect two days of groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.
 

Large Format Digital Print Installation

Ship of Fools by Jinhyuk  Ko, 2010 (South Korea)
Ship of Fools represents a series of imaginary images and drawings about architectural possibilities of madness based on the notion of ‘Scale’ and the process of ‘new realisation’. Autobiographical project that breaks the boundaries between the artist own ‘abnormality’ and ‘normality’. In the project, architecture becomes a vessel where we pour our imaginations which are generated by our memories.

Interactive Installation
Eternal Summer Storm by Ka Fai Choy (SG/UK)
New media artist and contemporary performance director, Choy Ka Fai has created numerous multi-disciplinary projects that situates his work at the intersections of visual arts, dance and theatre.  His body of work reflects on human conditions at the convergence of art, design and technology. His works have toured to major arts institutions and festivals internationally, including Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt Berlin, 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial Japan, and the Edinburgh International Festival 2009.

Eternal Summer Storm speculates on a future digital library of body movements or dance techniques that can be experienced beyond the audio-visual conventions of historical documentation. The project translates acoustic muscle vibration as sonic waveform, and maps it onto a different body in real-time. The piece attempts to recreate legendary Japanese dancer Tasumi Hijikata’s Butoh dance choreography and experience in A Summer Storm (1973) from the only archival footage shot in Kyoto.

Information aesthetics, data visualisation installation
Revisit by Moritz Stefaner (DE)
Information aesthetics is an emergent trend in digital culture that combines visualisation and data graphics. Designers and new media artists are joining scientific, informatics, and medical imaging specialists to create purposive, predictive, and creative representations of information.

Moritz Stefaner works as a freelance information visualiser, and researches new forms of interactive visualisations on the crossroads of interface design, data visualisation and information aesthetics.

Revisit is a real–time visualisation of twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. It provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies.

Music performance
Partial Gathering (UK)
Engaging electronic beats fused with volatile string textures, Partial Gathering make musical paint and throw it around with reckless abandon. They are the hunters and gatherers of new sounds in a violent aural killing field. This is not pushing boundaries but denying them.

Less than one year since their formation, Partial Gathering have already appeared at some of London’s most cutting edge and prestigious new music events.

Making their debut performance at the National Portrait Gallery, the pair was then invited by the infamous Oubliette Art Collective to perform at their Home is where your art is exhibition in Mayfair. They have played at Resonance FM’s Rockfort club night at Café Oto, the Royal College of Music, The Forge and Gabriel Prokofiev’s Nonclassical Club.

Live audio-visual mapping performance
Animetro by ESProjections (UK)
ESProjections are 2 multimedia artists from Bristol. Their work combines video projections, mapping techniques and live music.

This one-off performance developed solely for Alpha-ville combines striking mapped projections and immersive sounds, manipulated in real-time to evolve a virtual metropolis unable to rest.  The imagery will represent an abstract vision of a future cityscape.