CLOUD SOUNDS exhibition: NIMk 19 Feb – 29 April, 2011

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From February 19th – April 29th, 2011, the exhibition CLOUD SOUNDS will be on at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) in Amsterdam.

Included in the exhibition will be artists Evan Roth and Roel Wouters who will both be speaking at the upcoming Video Vortex #6 conference, in the “Online Video Art” session taking place on Friday, March 11th. As part of Video Vortex #6 Evan Roth will also be offering a workshop hosted at NIMk on Thursday, March 10th about animate GIF mashups and collaborative video making.

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Jonas Bohatsch, vinyl (2009-2010)

CLOUD SOUNDS

Opening: Friday, 18 February
5:00 pm –  Performance Offener Schaltkreis in the Melkweg
6:00 pm –  Opening of exhibition at  Netherlands Media Art Institute. At 6:30 pm an electronic experimental audiovisual set by Funckarma & VJ Loudanov

**For more information on the opening: http://nimk.nl/eng/cloud-sounds-opening

Exhibition: 19 February – 29 April
WITH:  HARM VAN DEN BERG, JONAS BOHATSCH, STIJN DEMEULENAERE, ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC, AARON KOBLIN & CHRIS MILK, LOVID, HAAG/RUMORI/WINDISCH/ZELLER, JÖRG PIRINGER, EVAN ROTH, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, ROEL WOUTERS & JONATHAN PUCKEY

The eleventh edition of the annual 5 Days Off festival will take place from March 2-6, 2011, showcasing the latest developments surrounding electronic music. 5 DAYS ON is the title of the arts programme of the festival. The culture of electronic music, DJs and VJs, remixing and clips is also the starting point for the exhibition CLOUD SOUNDS at NIMk, Paradiso and Melkweg, opening on 18 February.

In CLOUD SOUNDS, the participating artists use musical subjects and processes for their work. Cloud Sounds explores production methods in the visual arts in which input from the public is essential. Social media and other Web 2.0 participatory processes on the internet create new possibilities for the production of art. A number of artists make use of  online possibilities such as crowdsourcing or mechanical turking, in which internet users cooperate and enable the realisation of the artwork. In this context, at various points, visitors, fans or online participants wittingly or unwittingly join in ‘producing’ the end result. The admonition ‘don’t touch’ is replaced by ‘join in’.

**For more information on the works in the exhibition: http://nimk.nl/eng/cloud-sounds-works

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CLOUD SOUNDS  is part of 5 Days On. There will be special performances, presentations and workshops during the 5 Days Off festival (2–6 March) by Duncan Speakman & Émilie Grenier, Nomadic Sound System (Benjamin Newland) and Dirk Oosterbosch, Mark Wubben & Elco Wagenaar.

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