Lectures by Jenna Sutela and Francesco D’Abbraccio

Performances by Lexachast, Lorem, N1L, Bill Kouligas

Lexachast - LIVE A/V
https://lexachast.com/
http://www.amnesiascanner.net/
https://soundcloud.com/amnesia-scanner
https://harmvandendorpel.com/

Lexachast is an ongoing collaborative work by Amnesia Scanner, Bill Kouligas and Harm van den Dorpel.

Initially birthed as a joint, improvised performance between Amnesia Scanner and Kouligas at the ICA, London in 2015, it was later recreated and extended with visual artist van den Dorpel into a 15-minute online-only audiovisual work – known simply as Lexachast. Since then, it has expanded into a live show that has been performed at Transmediale / CTM Festival, Unsound Krakow & Adelaide, and LEV Festival. Now to be released on PAN, is a new document of Lexachast in its current, full-grown form. Whilst broadly inspired by the experience derived from and exposure to algorithmic patterns as generated by visual artist Harm van den Dorpel’s specially-devised program, the work is a sonic reference to the fallouts of avant-EDM and cyberdrone. This in turn is simultaneously mirrored by the perturbing visuals, created by a unique algorithm that sources and blends various filtered imagery from DeviantArt and Flickr in real time – with a bias towards the NSFW, extreme banality, and ornamental melancholia. The results were a perfect fit for the deliberate intention of non-intent, an anti-video of sorts, which ended up as a defining element for the project. The vinyl version of the release comes in different cover variations, created with Harm van den Dorpel’s ever-evolving, image-sourcing algorithm. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker and comes as a limited vinyl edition and digital formats.

Amnesia Scanner is a Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala. Founded in 2014, Amnesia Scanner’s approach is informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience. System vulnerabilities, information overload and sensory excess inform their work, which has found a home in both clubs and galleries. Building on their mixtape AS Live [][][][][] (2014), Amnesia Scanner’s critically-acclaimed audio play Angels Rig Hook (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young Turks, AS and AS Truth (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools. Amnesia Scanner’s grandest musical statement came in 2018 when they released their critically acclaimed debut album Another Life on PAN. Coupling pop song structures with avant-EDM productions the album evocatively explores a schizophrenic present marked by narratives of a slow apocalypse or salvation via technology. From lullabies to overheated doombahton and nu-metal-gabba Another Life’s mood swings between trill hope and casual threat. Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, Lafayette Anticipations in Paris and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. They collaborate with PWR Studio for their design and visual direction.

Lorem - LIVE A/V
https://soundcloud.com/l_o_r_e_m

Lorem is a music-driven multidisciplinary project working with neural networks and artificial intelligence (AI) systems to produce sounds, visuals and texts. In the last three years, Lorem built a collaborative platform involving AI artists (Mario Klingemann, Yuma Kishi), AI researchers (Damien Henry, Nicola Cattabiani), Videoartists (Karol Sudolski, Mirek Hardiker) and music instruments designers (Luca Pagan, Paolo Ferrari) in the processes. Adversarial Feelings is the first release by Lorem, and it’s a 22 min AV piece + 9 music tracks and a book. The record was released on APR 19th on Krisis Publishing via Cargo Music UK

N1L - LIVE A/V
https://soundcloud.com/n_1_l

N1L is an A/V artist, producer/dj based between Riga, Berlin and Cairo. His work intersect sound and visuals in different contexts/forms, from fluid “club” music experiments, industrial noise performances, collaborations with contemporary dancers or sound design for site specific art installations. He will present a premiered A/V performance based on his latest piece “Neural Uberization” - exploration into extremes of attention economy in the era of late capitalism.

Bill Kouligas - DJ SET [PAN]
https://soundcloud.com/pan_hq

Jenna Sutela - LECTURE / SCREENING
https://jennasutela.com/

Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living materials. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela’s work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Serpentine Galleries. She is a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-20.

Francesco D’Abbraccio - LECTURE / PERFORMANCE
http://www.krisispublishing.com/

Francesco D’Abbraccio is an Italian musician, visual artist and independent researcher. He is active in underground music and art scene since 2008 with electronic experimental duo Aucan (more then 400 live performances across Europe, Africa and Asia), with the collective Krisis and recently with his new audiovisual project Lorem. Focusing on politics of representation and transmedial culture, he realised projects for a wide variety of institutions. His work has been exhibited at London Design Biennale, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Museo Triennale di Milano, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna di Roma, Museo MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa di Venezia. He is creative director of Krisis Publishing, an independent publishing and curatorial platform investigating the impact of media culture on contemporary societies. In 2013 he founded Studio Frames, a small multidisciplinary design studio based in Brescia.

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