Thu Nov 26, 2009 00:00 - Tue Oct 27, 2009

France

FESTIVAL MULTIMEDIA GAMERZ 05
- Exhibitions, from November 26th, 2009 to December 4th, 2009
- Performances , november 27th, from 9.30 p.m. until 12 p.m.

Dedicated to games and their diversion in contemporary creation, GAMERZ gathers - every year in Aix-en-Provence- artists, researchers, as well as international artists specialized in digital creation around a rich, innovative and play program at the border of arts, sound creation and new technologies.
Involving interactive fields and new technologies in contemporary art, GAMERZ Festival makes discover and shares these new creations to a larger and more diverse audience.
Coming from different European networks of creation, the artists join GAMERZ to decipher codes of the video games culture placing the audience at the core of an interactive and playful world thanks to exhibitions, performances, debates and workshops.
This is a major meeting around multimedia culture and a new artistic dimension. Since 2006, GAMERZ imposed itself as a hunter of new ways of expression.
On the occasion of this 5th edition (from November 26th,2009 to December 4th,2009 in Aix-en-Provence) , GAMERZ FESTIVAL introduces a huge multimedia playing field, which welcomes the production of about thirty artists within six different places for a week.
Taking place in the Fondation Vasarely, in the Ecole Supérieure d’Art, in some rooms in Seconde Nature and in different cultural places in Aix-en-Provence, GAMERZ is a real cultural tour that shakes the town.





ARTISTS:
[list]Tania Fraga (Bra)
Ivan Chabanaud (Fr)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi (Nl)
Rick Castro (Bra)
Rodrigo Garcia Dutra (Bra)
Antoine Millan (Fr)
William Flink (Us)
Damien Aspe (Fr)
Douglas Edric Stanley (Us)
Fenshu (Fr/Sl)
Chantal Harvey (Nl)
Isabelle Arvers (Fr)
Jakub Dvorsky (Cz)
Djeff Regottaz (Fr)
Evo Szuyuan (Brigit Lichtenegger) (Nl)
Jankenpopp (Fr)
Pierce Portocarrero (Us)
Loic Kessous (Fr)
Compagnie Entropia (Fr)
Bernhard Drax (Us)
Paul Destieu (Fr)
Pascal & Marie Silondi (Fr/Cz)
Benjamin Nuel (Fr)
Arahan Claveau & Nebulosus Severine, Chantal Harvey (Nl)
Colin Ponthot (Fr)
Carla Broek (Be)
Gilles Desplanques (Fr)
Serenity Mercier (Ca)
Collectif Dardex-Mort2Faim (Fr)[/list]

Fri Feb 06, 2009 00:00 - Wed Dec 17, 2008

France

Performances Night / Festival multimédia GAMERZ 04:
In Aix-en-Provence (FR.),
February 6 th 2009,
from 9 p.m. until 12 p.m.

I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E. -Immersive Media Dance Integrating in Telematic Environments-
I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E. creation is an international co-production performance in the field of technological art with a strong emphasis on "future prototyping and fabrication of life". It brings together practitioners from areas of visual arts, performing arts, sound art, dance, robotics, computer science, biology, biotechnology, genetics, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and philosophy in order to realize a performance to be presented and toured in several European countries.

Team:
artistic director : Pavel Smetana (Cz) // original electronic music : Luka Princic (Slo) // dancer & musical performer : Jurij Konjar (Slo) // motion capture & 3D : Michal Masa (Cz) // production & light design : Stephane Kyles (Fr/USA) // video creation : Romain Senatore (Fr) // Quentin Destieu (Fr) // technical production: Jan Sebek (Cz)

Confipop -4 bits Gameboy live-
Confipop is a chipmusic Marseille based artist who makes music with a Gameboy and some modified sound toys. Native from the techno free party, he has been making music under different pseudonyme since 1996. As the best dancefloor’s friend, Confipop makes a happy and groovy dancing music, which goes from reggaeblip to technoblop, with the specific 4 bits sound of the gameboy: a modern music with old forgotten gamesound, very appropriated to have fun. Building his own toys/instruments, Confipop is an adept and a teacher of “circuitbending”, which consists in modifying toys in order to make music rather than buying expensive instruments. Confipop is running the Marseille Micro_HQ with chipmusician Dubmood, organising workshops, seminars and concerts dedicated to chip music with the French organisations La Cyber Nostra and Freesson, booking artists and broadcasting regular radio-shows on radio Galere.

More informations @
www.festival-gamerz.com

Thu Jan 08, 2009 00:00 - Wed Dec 17, 2008

France

Festival multimédia GAMERZ 04:
In Aix-en-Provence (FR.), from January 8 th until February 6 th 2009.
Opening on Thursday January 8 th, starting at 7 p.m.

What is going on when video games turn to be a medium that allows artists to create? When artists invest fields such as virtual universes, or network? When contemporary art meets entertaining and freaking universes?
Back from Istanbul and for the fourth time, the international event GAMERZ spreads over the city of Aix-en-Provence, taking over three locations of contemporary art. From early 2009, a real cultural tour emulates the city during a month, inviting the public to discover the new creation through a serie of exhibitions, meetings, and performances.
Away of a simple festival, GAMERZ deploys a deep work over artistic creations and new interventions around creative processes.
Realized in cooperation with Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey, Austria, England, and in collaboration with Second Nature association, M2F Créations is undertaking a real inter-cultural exchange and proposes an intense rendez-vous with contemporary art in the region of P.A.C.A.

More informations @
www.festival-gamerz.com