Since 2008, NODE – Forum
for Digital Arts has attracted
internationally renowned names
in the areas of digital art, creative
software, design, electronics,
and the adjacent sciences to
Frankfurt. NODE15 is the fourth
edition of the festival.
NODE15 – Forum for Digital Arts
Mo. 27.04. – Sun. 03.05.2015
Wrapped in Code – The future of the informed body
In its fourth rendition, the international NODE – Forum for Digital Arts is
dedicated to the leitmotif „Wrapped in Code – The future of the informed
body“. For one week, 27. April - 3. May 2015, the festival for digital art and
culture will focus on the advancing melding of the human body with technology, will take up the current debate regarding its fundamental effect on
our society and will take a look at the future.
Designers and artists incessantly scour the market for niches for new ideas.
Every day resourceful product developers put new devices on the shelves,
with which the human body can more effectively, more beautifully, more
casually and more intelligently communicate with digital machines. Everything is now measurable, every human motion can be filed and processed.
The body can be digitally measured, directed, optimized and eliminated.
This raises the question: how will the perception of our bodies change in the
future and what does this mean for each one of us?
The festival assembles international participants and speakers in the areas
of design, art, culture and science, who newly define the borders between
design and programming. During the day, the Naxoshalle, in over 50
programming workshops, will offer practitioners a forum in which to experiment with digital technologies and to exchange know-how and techniques. Parallel at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm there will be lectures,
concerts, performances and exhibitions, all to do with the keynote of
NODE15. The Mousonturm will be the stage on which the artists, designers
and developers present their drafts of the future, the interconnected body
and their interpretation of digital interactive media. They will also invite the
interested public to discuss the guiding theme with them.
NODE15 – Program highlights
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
Waldschmidtstr. 4, 60316 Frankfurt/Main
For the full program: node15.vvvv.org
Monday – 27.4.
Opening & Vernissage
6 p.m.
Movement C
8 p.m. | 9:30 p.m.
Foyer
Saal
Dance performance in an audio-visual environment
Ulf Langheinrich (AT) with Yuebing Luo (CN) as performer
Thursday – 30.4.
Symposium
10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Saal
Wrapped in Code – The future of the informed body
Peter Kirn, Sebastian Oschatz, Robert Henke, Anna Biselli, Mark Farid, et al.
Repetitive Beats and 9:30 p.m.
Repetitive Conditionals
Saal
PANEL & CONCERT
Sam Aaron (GB) & Gregor Schwellenbach (DE)
27.4. - 3.5.
Exhibition »The Informed Body«
Mousonturm & Naxoshalle
Opening times: Mo - Wed 6 p.m.- 12 a.m.
Thu10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Fr – Sat 12 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Sun12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Guided tours
Guided tours with curator
Tue - Sat
Fr & Sat
7:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
NODE15 – Program highlights
Naxoshalle
Entrance: Waldschmittstr. 19, 60316 Frankfurt/Main
For the full program: node15.vvvv.org
27.4. - 3.5. 50 programming workshops
(Highlights)
3D Printing – vvvv and
OpenSCAD
Interacting with Choreographic Installations
In the workshop, basic 3D printing processes will be introduced and conveyed.
The participants will experiment with
programs and tools such as OpenSCAD,
an editable CAD modelling software, vvvv,
a visual programming language and other
programs used for 3D printing.
In a hands-on approach advanced participants of this workshop will gain an
impression of the program ‘Pathfinder’,
which is interdisciplinarily applicable with
‘Motioncapturing’ – the digital capturing
of motion.
Generative Design
Algorithms
Connecting Things to the
Internet of Things
In the context of the workshop general
methods and capabilities of generative
design will be examined. The focus here
will be on the underlying algorithms.
The workshop shows how to work with
hardware und software solutions, and how
these can be connected on a web-based
level.
NODE – Verein zur Förderung
Digitaler Kultur
NODE – Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur has been promoting since
2008 the creative use of technology, experimentation with and testing of
engineering, and the interdisciplinary exchange on its connections with
and effects on our society. A further goal of NODE is the critical reflection
within the scene. The forum supports the innovative and responsible use of
technology by promoting interdisciplinary cooperation and the discussion of
digital transition, technologies, areas of applications and the resulting consequences.
The non-commercial society is carried by a team of critical technology enthusiasts who – as media artists, designers, and scientists – grapple with
subject matter on a professional level and discuss it with society in an open
forum.
Contact
David Brüll
Jörn Klein
T.
0163 - 2897017
[email protected]
T.
0177 - 3845794
[email protected]
Festival Director
Press coordination
NODE – Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V.
Gutleutstraße 96 / 60329 / Frankfurt am Main
node15.vvvv.org
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Aventis Foundation