RESFEST 05

Resfest in Amsterdam 8-9th October

RESFEST makes its long awaited Holland debut
this weekend with special guest speakers
Johan Kramer (11:59) from Holland
and Oury Atlan (Over Time) fromParis;
and full on launch party with OPTIMO, BOOZOO
BAJOU and WHO MADE WHO at Nighttown Rotterdam on
Friday Oct 7th.

RESFEST NL's other highlights include
live graffiti at De Balie by local R'dam crew Anti Strot,
art installations by A Blue Chicken,
photo and art in the CODE/Carhartt Gallery
and an exhibition of OS GEMEOS
unique works from Ginga
plus big sound club screenings of the exclusive Dutch Mix,
Videos That Rock, Ginga and Just for Kicks at Sugar Factory &
Bitterzoet. Expect more surprises.
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Shorts 1

Cutting-edge digital techniques intertwine with narratives that draw on radically divergent sources in this eclectic group of short films. Over Time is an emotive ode to Jim Henson's creative genius by a French student group, while Winner Take Steve is a short commentary of the competitive spirit of Middle America by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. Serious critical insights on the roots of terrorism and perceptions of cultural outsiders can be found in Flesh and 11:59, while the program's remaining pieces include some of the most visually groundbreaking, hilarious and poignant recent work in the realm of short form film, video and animation.

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Shorts Three

In RESFEST's third shorts program, hidden and frightening creatures and unseen forces mingle in a vortex of dark humor, grotesque imagery and harrowing narratives. Renegade director Chris Cunningham emerges from the shadows to present his new short Rubber Johnny, a troubling portrait of a mutant child exiled by his parents to a subterranean purgatory. In Little Pony, Stylewar's Filip Engström creates a bizarre aerial duel between a cigarette-smoking ace and a squadron of enemy flyers in the skies above a typical American living room on Christmas Eve, while Australian daredevil filmmaker Nash Edgerton pushes himself to the limit in his heart-stopping stunt film, Lucky. This collection of visually astounding work harnesses thrills, monstrous forms and mysterious encounters to create edge-of-your-seat entertainment.

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Cut and Paste

As digital technologies have become ever more affordable and advanced, a generation of filmmakers inspired by the collage art of yesteryear has grown adept and stitching together and recontextualizing elements of the world around us. The Cut and Paste program runs the gamut of these styles, from video mash-ups to gorgeous handmade animation, demonstrating the unique emotional and cognitive impact of being able to see creators' fingerprints on their work.

Amsterdam Venues

de Balie
www.debalie.nl
Kleine Garmanplatsoen 10, 1017 RR, Amsterdam
Tickets: 31 20 55 35 100/151
from 13.00 to 20.30hrs

The box office is open every day from 17.00 to half hour before screening starts.

6 euros – single screening ticket
16 euros – Day Pass

Bitterzoet
www.bitterzoet.com
Spuistraat 2, Amsterdam

Sugar Factory
www.sugarfactory.nl
Lijnbaansgracht 238. Amsterdam
Advance Tickets at Concerto 31 20 623 5228

Program

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reblogging architecture

tracking the story, or who's blogging whom

I found it first on eyebeam reblog
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/

reblogged from we make money not art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007141.php

cited from boing boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/04/floating_houses_rise.html

we make money not art cite
Via Archinect < Der Spiegel.

and archinect cites arts and letters daily
http://aldaily.com/

who cite der spiegel by linking to it
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,377050,00.html

and the original aticle on the english version of the der speigel site states
Translated from the German by Gareth Davies

and the article?

The dutch have designed houses capable of floating in the event of a flood.

"There are 37 houses strung along this branch of the Maas like a row of beads. At first glance, they seem quite unremarkable. Two storeys high, semicircular metal roofs and yellow, green or blue facades - hardly any clues let on that these are The Netherlands' first amphibious houses. The cellar, in this case, is not built into the earth. Instead, it is on a platform - and is much more than a mere storage room. The hollow foundation of each house works in the same way as the hull of a ship, buoying the structure up above water. To prevent the swimming houses from floating away, they slide up two broad steel posts - and as the water level sinks, so they sink back down again. "

The idea of a floating platform on poles is not new. I've seen it used around northern rivers NSW.

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swarm at vuspace

SWARM: A new media collaborative exhibition by Sue Kneebone and John
McCormick

Swarm pays homage to the incredible range of forms and behaviours available in the natural world by borrowing from this diversity to create colonies of digital nano-machines. Swarm will simulate the motion and interaction of biological systems to create patterns of swarming behaviour among the created creatures.

Swarm considers the aesthetics and social consequences of nano and bio technology and in particular will look at the collective behaviour of swarms applied to realm of biotechnology, the hypothetical possibilities
of future adaptive purposes of nano-machines, possible individual characteristics of these creatures and the role of adaptive evolution in shaping their anatomy to suit their purpose.

Swarm will create fictive nano-machines and environments containing the swarms, which will be projected onto all surfaces of aaca chamber creating an immersive walkthrough environment. Computer screens
throughout VUSpace will allow the participant to interactively engage with members of the swarm in order to experience more intimately their individual and collective capabilities.

For more information, images or other enquiries please contact Tristian Koenig

Opening: 12th October, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Dates: 12th October - 2nd November
Hours: Mon - Wed, 1 - 5pm

VUSpace
Victoria University
St Albans Campus
Level 1 Building 9
McKechnie Street
St Albans 3021
+ 61 3 9919 2782
vuspace@vu.edu.au
http://vuspace.vu.edu.au

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Losing Ground by Sue Kneebone conveyed a message of ecological degradation due to unsustainable agricultural practices in Australia. The salt floor, mirrors and overlay of film and sound were a reminder of what is being displaced through environmental decay. The sound and images included river water, wheat blowing in the wind from the Wimmera region and morning chorus of birds from the Mallee. A bricolage of antiquated fragments embedded in the salt floor recalled evidence from the darkness of the colonial past and its ongoing legacy.


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