in spring 2015 we are gathering creative
coders, digital artists and other creatives
for the 4th edition of the biannual festival
for creative technologies in Frankfurt.
NODE15
April 27th - MAy 3rD 2015
NAxOshAllE, FrANkFurt
NODE15 FORUM FOR DIGITAL ARTS
KEYFACTS
DATE
27. April - 03. May 2015
LOCATION
Naxoshalle
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt
AUDIENCE
Over 1500 international artists and
professionals from the creative industries as
well as a broader local cultural public
http://node15.vvvv.org
Audiovisual Performance 2010
NODE is targeting emerging and professional artists and creatives (individuals and companies)
who use digital technologies either as a creative working medium or as their field of research.
These include the following disciplines:
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Audiovisual Performance 2010
Software Development, Generative Design & Data Vizualisation
Graphic-, Motion- & Animation-Design, Computational Design & Architecture
Scenography, Interaction Design, Media Design
Communication Design
Fashion and Textile Design
Artistic Research
Music, Visuals, Performance Art
Software- and Net-Art
Furthermore, NODE targets artists as they are typically transdisciplinary thinking people.
Their questions and working methods provide interesting starting points for discussions.
NODE15 Location: Naxoshalle Frankfurt
Workshop: Digital Media in Performing Arts 2010
The biennal festival NODE – Forum for Digital Arts gathers
creative coders, digital artists and creatives of the digital media
scene since 2008.
NODE aims to foster a critical reflection within the creative
coding scene and to support the creation of an innovative and
responsible movement by encouraging new collaboration,
interdisciplinary exchange and open knowledge sharing.
The main idea of the Forum is to empower individuals by
encouraging them to experiment and prototype. This way,
they are enabled to develop new ideas, to pose new questions
Open Hackspace NODE13 Frankfurter Kunstverein
2013
and to provide answers.
Audience question at NODE13
VVVV
The software toolkit vvvv is used by digital
vvvv workshops
media agencies, designers, artists universities
and other professionals in the field of digital
HISTORY & THE NODE NETWORK
media all over the world. It is a professional
toolkit used in the creative industries when it
NODE is initiated and created by developers and users of the graphical
comes to generative and interactive media
programming language “vvvv”, through this community NODE binds an
installations, interactive stages, motion design.
international network of artists and talents of the creative industry.
more info: http://vvvv.org
NODE is facilitated and supported through the partnership with MESO
Digital Interiors, a design agency with a long history of innovating the
field of interactive media. A range of partners of technology and media
production related creative industries accompany and support NODE as
participants, lecturers, panelists, sponsors, workshop hosts. This network
helps to push the exchange and interchange on innovative ideas at the
NODE festival editions.
The NODE15 Leitmotif
Wrapped in Code - The Future of the Informed Body
The NODE15 Leitmotif
Wrapped in Code - The Future of the Informed Body
The 4th edition of NODE15 Forum for Digital
Art is devoted to the negotiation of the body in
fusion with technology, to the integral role of
the body in processes of perception, and to the
body as location of implicit knowledge.
NODE15 is dedicated to the negotiation of the human body throughout the current
technological developments and highlevel technologies. How is this being expressed
in our projects, utopias, and fictions? We will talk about the integral role of the body in
processes of perception and interaction; as location of implicit knowledge, and as a tool
we constantly try to extend and optimize.
Aristides Job Garcia - Staubleben
When observing recent design developments we may assume that all is directed to an ideal state of
complete seamlessness. We see the virtualisation and dematerialisation of anything that is bound to
decay. Design is focussed on the creation of intelligent surroundings which free us from any physical
effort. Virtual reality devices can take us to any virtual space and time in a complete disembodied manner.
Critical tasks such as health and mental care are being undertaken by robots and wars are being fought
by remotely controlled drones. Roles formerly performed by human beings have undergone a process of
disembodiment. We have reached a critical point and have to wonder if this process has started to run
independently from actual human needs and nature. And in fact, we find spheres in which the body silently
reclaims the attention it deserves. NODE15 focuses on this revival of the body.
Amin Weber - No Time to Fly Adaption
The festival will address the relation of body and consciousness in the interdependent evolution of
humankind and technology. It starts from the gradual incorporation of instruments and processes into the
body. Gadgets and algorithms optimize our daily life while some people are morphing into what may be
named a cyborg.
NODE15 invites projects that investigate how these processes shape our perception and consciousness;
how they alter communication and interaction. During NODE15 coders, artists, scientists and developers
will quarrel with the question which significance to give to our flesh and shell called body.
Rodrigo Carvalho - Geometrical Dialog
NODE15 PROGRAM
EXHIBITION
SOFTlab - NODE10 Frankfurter Kunstverein
Rainer Kohlberger - Humming fast and slow NODE13 Frankfurter Kunstverein
A one week exhibition on the
leitmotif with digital and analog
positions by international artists
Ben Fry - All Streets - NODE10 Frankfurter Kunstverein
John Powers - NODE10 Frankfurter Kunstverein
NODE15 PROGRAM
LECTURES & PANELS
NODE15 invites to a one
day conference with
international speakers on
the leitmotif “Wrapped in
Code - the future of the
informed body”, to daily
artist talks and project
presentations.
Symposium NODE13 Frankfurter Kunstverein
NODE15 PROGRAM
PERFORMANCES & CONCERTS
Ryoichi Kurokawa, Novi_sad - NODE13 Frankfurter Kunstverein
Daniel Schwarz, Edisonnoside - NODE13 Frankfurter Kunstverein
Audiovisual performances and
concerts. Interactive Shows.
Choreography and Dance.
David Dessens, NODE08
NODE15 PROGRAM
WORKSHOPS
NODE15 offers six days packed with workshops
around vvvv and the creative use of technology
curated by the vvvv group. The workshops are
the central platform for discussing, teaching and
sharing knowledge.
There are introductory level courses for
beginners, advanced topics for people already
familiar with vvvv and some hardcore hacking
stuff to bleed out even those who think they
already know everything.
NODE15 PROGRAM
OPEN LAB
Throughout NODE15 there will
be open a Hackspace providing
the opportunity for open laptops,
open discussions and open
showcases.
NODE15 PROGRAM
OPEN STAGE
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Within the so called ‘Patcher
Kucha Talks’ Forum participants
have the opportunity to provide
an insight into their work and
projects in a cozy lounge
atmosphere.
NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V.
David Brüll - Direction
Gutleutstrasse 96
60329 Frankfurt am Main
FON
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