THE FIELD

The Field<< BACK TO ALPHA-VILLE LIVE
Saturday 6th October, from 7pm (Hackney Empire)
Kompakt Records, Sweden
LIVE SOLO
GLITCH, DRONE, EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, TECHNO
Axel Willner is an artist that needs no introduction. Since his first album in 2005, the year he …

BYETONE

BYETONE

<< BACK TO ALPHA-VILLE LIVE
Saturday 6th October from 7pm. (Hackney Empire)
Raster Noton, Germany
LIVE AUDIOVISUAL
#techno, #glitch, #postindustrial, #minimal

Olaf Bender aka Byetone is a sound and visual artist as well as co-founder of the German label …

BE YOUR OWN SOUVENIR

Be Your Own Souvenir uses sophisticated cameras take a 3D picture of your body and 3D printers to create a 3D model you can take home as a souvenir!

Click here to view the printer in action! http://youtu.be/a8c4QcGCNw0

BYOS connects …

PANTHA DU PRINCE

Pantha Du Prince LIVE
Time 8:30pm-3am

Under the pseudonym Pantha Du Prince, Henrik Weber fuses house, techno, electronica and electro-acoustic soundscape into music that is at once both beautiful and fascinating. Pantha has released several recordings through the respected German label Dial Records. His previous …

CELL

James Alliban & Keiichi Matsuda

UK, 2011

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival this interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements. Personal identity is increasingly becoming a broadcasted commodity, as …

MATTHEW DEAR

Matthew Dear DJ Set
Time 8pm-6am

Alpha-ville Festival are delighted to announce that Matthew Dear will be performing a DJ set at the Festival on Saturday the 24th of September.

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop …

OLD APPARATUS

Time: 7-11pm

Old apparatus return off the back of their latest deep medi release with an otherworldly audio/visual show that has previously been performed with the likes of Fennesz and Philip Jeck.
“creakings and whirrings, musty steam clouds, subterranean groans …

SVARTE GREINER

Time: 7-11pm

Best known as one half of the delicious duo Deaf Center, Erik K. Skodvin is one of Norway’s most treasured sons and founder of the prestigious record label Miasmah. Svarte Greiner has performed in some of the most …

JACASZEK

Time: 7-11pm

Jacaszek is a talented polish electroacoustic musician and producer. He is the latest in a tradition of Eastern Europeans exploring the reaches of sentimentality in classical music. Clearly influenced by the liturgical compositions of Henryk Gorecki or John …

ILLUM SPHERE

Time: 8:30pm-3am

Described as “one of the most special and unique artists to come out of the UK” by Hyperdub first lady Ikonika. Hoya Hoya label co-owner Illum Sphere creates sound that draws influence from hip-hop as much as it …

CUT

Time: 4pm

CUT | Kristian de la Riva | 2010 | 3:05 minutes

synopsis: In CUT a lone male character attempts to cut away various body parts using ever more extreme methods to do so. A distorted ode to relationships …

ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: SOLAR SINTER

Time: 4pm

Solar Sinter | Markus Kayser | 2011 | 06:07 minutes
synopsis: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur …

THE EAGLEMAN STAG

Time: 4pm

the Eagleman Stag | Michael Please | 2010 | 08:55 minutes

synopsis: Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, …

MEDIATING MEDIUMS – THE DIGITAL 3D

Time: 4pm

Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d | Greg Tran | 2011 | 5:24 minutes

synopsis: “Technology is on track to produce a new medium: The Digital 3d. As it escapes the screen, the digital enters into the realm …

WIRELESS IN THE WORLD 2

Time: 4pm

Wireless in the World | Timo | 2010 | 4:39 minutes

synopsis: An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language …

THE GREAT WESTERN SINGULARITY

Time:  4pm – Saturday, 24th September

 

The Great Western Singularity | Eric Schockmel | 2010 | 4 minutes

synopsis: Commissioned by jotta.com and sponsored by Intel for the REMASTERED: a jotta and Intel Visual Life Production exhibition at One Marylebone …

BIOSYNTHESIZER

Ka5 (Ka Fai Choy) & Mark McKeague

SG & UK, 2011

Times: || SATURDAY 24 (14:45 – 15:00) || SUNDAY 25 (14:00 – 14:15)

Biosynthesizer is an audio-visual experiment exploring the possibilities of human circuit bending. Hacking into the electric potential …

WRITTEN IMAGES

Martin Fuchs & Peter Bichsel

CH, 2011

Digital technologies are successful tools in contemporary design. Their ascent, however, is a continuation of well-tried and reliable analog processes. No matter whether paper or digital approach — the designer organizes elements by

EDITS

Dean McNamee & Tim Burrell-Saward

UK, 2011

Originally installed as part of Wikipedia’s official 10th anniversary party, at the Louise T Blouin Foundation in West London in January 2011. Alpha-ville are pleased to present a re-formulated version of this installation,

ROT.SKECTH

Jean Helfenstein

US, 2011

Rot.Sketch is an HTML5 experiment that allows user to create abstract graphics using a drawing process inspired by the Spirograph.

{lang: ‘en-GB’}…

THE GODOT MACHINE

Ollie Palmer

UK, 2010-11

The Godot Machine is a device which monitors and prevents the movement of a single ant.An ant sits atop a white globe, monitored from above by a camera. As the ant moves forwards, the sphere rotates

PRESSPAUSEPLAY

Time: 12pm | Saturday, 24th
             4pm | Sunday, 25th

PressPausePlay | David Dworsky & Victor Köhler | 2010 | 1h20 minutes

PressPausePlay is a film about the digital culture, hopes and fears. Premiered at South By
SouthWest, this documentary

FBFACES

 

Joern Roeder & Jonathan Pirnay

DE, 2011

“fbFaces“ is a project by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay. It explores the issue of data accessibility on the Internet; a topic that is gaining more and more importance and currency in

STARDUST

Time: 4pm

Stardust | Nicolas Provost | 2010 | 20 minutes

synopsis: The video works by Nicolas Provost are characterised by their cinematic language, used in both experimental and narrative short films. He uses the language of film to manoeuvre …

NINE POINT FIVE

Dean McNamee & Marcin Ignac

DK, 2010

Nine Point Five is an interactive visualization of earthquakes over the past 30 years. It uses the newly developed WebGL technology to create an fluid and interactive in-browser experience, presenting the events over …

ANDY STOTT

Andy Stott

Time: 8:30pm-3am

Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the
‘Replace EP’ – a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style
taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic …