ALMAT @ BEK - Thresholds of the Algorithmic by Hanns Holger Rutz

Exposition for the workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This event is a collaboration between Almat and BEK Bergen for Electronic Art, and part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop. Theme: Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished transitional location where the properties of the adjacent states become evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side.

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Schedule

Setup

Monday June 4 until Friday June 8 during the day, at Lydgalleriet. Setup will be facilitated by the organisers (Espen, David, Hanns Holger - the latter two arrive on Tuesday morning), and Julie from Lydgalleriet, and Jiska Huizing as a producer / allround help.

Setup period allows for informal meeting and getting to know each other.

Opening

Friday June 8 at 7 pm. All "pieces" or propositions are installed in their current versions. Participants can choose the format of presentation (performance / installation walk through, oral, etc.), no presentation should last longer than 10 minutes.

Weekend

The exhibition is open to the public 12:00 to 17:00. The workshop begins on Sunday. We expect to schedule longer performances and introductory sessions on the weekend.

Week

During the week, from Monday June 11, the workshop will be divided into two parts. The morning session will take place at BEK, while the exhibition at Lydgalleriet is open to visitors (open 11:00 to 14:00, except closed on Monday). The afternoon session will place in media res in the gallery.

Concluding Presentation

We plan for a second public presentation more focused on performative contribution in the afternoon on Thursday June 14.

The final day is Friday June 15.

All pieces have to be taken down on Saturday June 16.

Detailed Schedule:

Saturday 09.06.

Exhibition open 12:00 – 17:00

No further workshop activities

Sunday 10.06.

Exhibition open 12:00 – 17:00

10:00 – 12:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Hanns Holger & David
13:00 → BEK :
Espen
19:00 Alicia : Public Performance

Monday 11.06.

N.B.: Gallery is closed Mondays.

We begin directly at BEK

10:00 – 13:00 → BEK :
Present / Talk :

- Kosmas
- Erin
- Stefano
14:00 – 17:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Discuss / Experiment / Perform :
17:00 - 19:00 Erin : BioSynth Time

Tuesday 12.06.

Exhibition open 11:00 – 14:00

10:00 – 13:00 → BEK :
Present / Talk :

- Daniele
- Max
- Hanns Holger
14:00 – 17:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Discuss / Experiment / Perform :
- Performance : Max
19:00 Alicia : Public Performance
17:00 - 19:00 Erin : BioSynth Time

Wednesday 13.06.

Exhibition open 11:00 – 14:00

10:00 – 13:00 → BEK :
Present / Talk :

- Niklas
- Thorolf
- Alicia
14:00 – 17:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Discuss / Experiment / Perform :
17:00 - 19:00 Erin : BioSynth Time

Thursday 14.06.

Exhibition open 11:00 – 14:00

10:00 – 13:00 → BEK :
Present / Talk :

- Eirik
- Tijs
14:00 – 17:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Discuss / Experiment / Perform :
19:00 Public Presentation :
Performing
- Daniele
- Eirik
- Max
- Erin & Max
- Tijs
- Alicia
- ...

Friday 15.06.

Exhibition open 11:00 – 14:00

10:00 – 13:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Present / Talk :

- Wrapping up and résumé: discussion
14:00 – 17:00 → Lydgalleriet :
Discuss / Experiment / Perform :
- Wrapping up and résumé
- More coding, sound and video documentation

Saturday 16.06.

Tearing down at Lydgalleriet from 10:00

- Everyone has to take care of their their work in the Gallery: means they should come everyday before the Gallery opens and possibly power down when the Gallery closes.

- Presentations ideally should be 1 hours maximum.

- In the afternoons, time is for following up the morning presentations and discussions, experimenting and further developing of the works in the exposition and possibly for performances, both internal to the workshop or public.

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