Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010

NEWSLETTER JULY 2010 Ahrenshoop Kuenstlerhaus LUKAS / Kronach Leuchtet / Montepulciano




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Philipp Geist/ Videogeist NEWSLETTER July 2010
http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

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1.) Kronach Leuchtet (Germany) Installations & Exhibitions
2.) Montepulciano (Italy) - 35° CANTIERE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE
3.) Ahrenshoop (Germany) Kuenstlerhaus Lukas A-I-R / Kuenstlerstipendium
4.) REVIEW Montreal Mutek TIME DRIFTS & Milano A/V Live NOCCI | Geist Movie ONLINE
5.) Interview Montreal (Eng)

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1.) Kronach LEUCHTET (Oberfranken) Light Fesival 16. - 25. JULY 2010

Philipp Geist @ Kronach Leuchtet

I.) 21/22. JULI 2010
Festung Rosenberg
ZEITENLICHTER / TIME LIGHTS
Video-Licht-Sound Installation von PHILIPP GEIST mit der Schauspielerin ULRIKE MAHR
http://www.videogeist.de/GeistKronachRosenberg.html
http://www.videogeist.de

II.) 16. - 25. JULI 2010
Alte Markthalle
LIGHTING UP TIME
Fotoarbeiten in Leuchtkästen von PHILIPP GEIST
Photo Works / Light Boxes
http://www.p-geist.de

III.) 16. - 25. JULI 2010
Amtsgerichtsstraße 35
Riverine Zones
Wasser-Video-Installation von PHILIPP GEIST (2006-2010)
Water-Video-Installation
http://riverine.videogeist.de


I.) ZEITENLICHTER / TIME LIGHTS - Festung Rosenberg in Kronach (Oberfranken)
Video-Licht-Sound Installation von PHILIPP GEIST mit der Schauspielerin ULRIKE MAHR
?Kronach Leuchtet" - Lichtfestival
Dienstag 20. und Mittwoch 21. JULI 2010 von 21 bis 24 Uhr

Anlässlich des Lichtfestivals ?Kronach Leuchtet" in Oberfranken zeigt der Berliner Künstler Philipp Geist (1976) die Videoinstallation ?ZEITENLICHTER / TIME LIGHTS" an der barocken Festung Rosenberg. Als zusätzliches Highlight wird die Schauspielerin Ulrike Mahr mit einer Performance zum Thema Zeit eine weitere Ebene in die Installation einbringen und an verschiedenen Stellen auftauchen. In seiner Arbeit interpretiert Geist die Themen Zeit und Raum. Dabei verzichtet der Künstler auf den Einsatz von Leinwänden und projiziert direkt auf die Mauern des ältesten Bauwerks der Festung, den Rosenturm aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Ebenso projiziert Geist auf weitere Teile des Innenhofs der Festung und auf Nebel. Die Verbindung zwischen der festen, greifbaren Wand und der transparenten, flüchtigen Projektionsfläche des Nebels verweist auf das Zusammenspiel zwischen historischen Relikten und unserer Vorstellung vom damaligen Leben. Die ziehenden Nebelschwaden stehen als Metapher für die Flüchtigkeit der Zeit und ihre Vergänglichkeit. Gleichzeitig ist Geschichte erlebbar, indem man die alten Zeiten anhand der steinernen Bauten vor seinem geistigen Auge wieder auferstehen lässt. Das Phänomen Zeit wird aber auch durch das projizierte Bild selbst beschrieben: Abstrakte Passagen, die sich aufbauen, überlagern und gegenseitig verdrängen, symbolisieren die ständigen Veränderungen im Lauf der Zeit und ihre Konstanten: das Entstehen und Vergehen. Verschiedene Bilder bleiben kurzfristig gleichzeitig stehen und bilden ein fragmentarisches Ganzes. Die Arbeit tritt so in einen Dialog mit dem Ort, denn auch die Festung Rosenberg wurde durch verschiedene Epochen hindurch ständig erweitert, und gerade der Rosenturm als Mittelpunkt der Festung änderte seine Gestalt mehrere Male. Der Dialog findet aber auch mit den Menschen statt, die in den Innenhof der Festung Rosenberg ein- und ausgehen: An der Schwelle zwischen Außen und Innen wird der Besucher selbst Teil des projizierten Bildes.
Philipp Geist entwickelte ebenso eine Licht- und Audio-Installation für die unterirdischen Festungsgänge, die nur selten zugänglich sind. Hier entsteht ein Zeittunnel, der von einer Seite aus begehbar ist. Die Besucher steigen hinab und verlieren die Orientierung, die durch Zeit und Raum vorgegeben ist. Die dunklen Gänge versetzen einen Jahrhunderte zurück, und man weiß nicht, wo in den Tiefen der Festung man sich befindet und an welcher Stelle man auftauchen wird. Zusätzlich verwirrt werden die Besucher der Installation durch Stimmen, die die Gänge mit Begriffen und Zitaten zum Thema Zeit füllen.

Philipp Geist arbeitet international als Licht- und Multimediakünstler. Im Dezember 2009 bespielte Geist über einen Zeitraum von neun Tagen den königlichen Thron in Bangkok mit einer Video-Mapping-Installation anlässlich des 82. Geburtstags des thailändischen Königs Bhumibol Adulyadej. Die Installation wurde von 2,5 Millionen Besuchern vor Ort gesehen. Im Juni 2010 zeigte er im Rahmen des internationalen Medien-Festivals Mutek die Außen-Installation ,Time Drifts' am Place des Arts im Zentrum von Montreal. Im Januar 2008 entwickelte Geist für die Piazzetta am Kulturforum in Berlin die Lichtinstallation 'Time Fades'. Im September 2007 bespielte er das zeitgenössische Kunstmuseum 'Palazzo delle Esposizioni' im Zentrum von Rom mit der Video-Mapping-Installation 'Time Lines'. Im Dezember 2005 realisierte er das Fassaden-Projekt 'Winterzauber' in Zürich. Im Februar 2006 eröffnete er im Kontext der Ausstellung 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' den Salon Noir in der Neuen Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Gemeinsam mit dem Sinfonieorchester OBC Barcelona und der finnischen Soundformation Pan Sonic eröffnete Geist 2004 das Sonar Festival im Auditorium Barcelona. Geists Projekte sind in erster Linie gekennzeichnet durch ihre Komplexität in der Integration von Raum, Ton und Bewegbild.

http://www.p-geist.de | http://www.videogeist.de


Ulrike Mahr: Die in Kronach geborene Schauspielerin ist Initiatorin und Mitbegründerin der Faust-Festspiele Kronach sowie Gründungs- und Ensemblemitglied der Freien Werkbühne Kronach.
Von 1995-2004 war sie Co-Festspielleiterin und Ensemblemitglied der Faust-Festspiele. In diesen Aufbaujahren trug sie nicht zuletzt durch die Rolle des weiblichen Mephisto in Faust I und II, (war Logo und Markenzeichen) dazu bei, diese bundesweit bekannt zu machen.
Auftritte u.a. mit Mephisto/Faust-Performance, Soloprogramm als ?Agentin Jamie Bond" sowie Mitwirkung bei Theater- und Kurzfilmproduktionen in Hamburg, Frankfurt und Berlin. Sie lebt in Hamburg und Kronach und betätigt sich als Künstlerin neben dem Schwerpunkt Schauspielerei - v.a. für Film - auch in der Malerei und im Design. Mehrmalige Aufenthalte in Los Angeles und China führten zu Weiterbildung in Schauspiel und in den asiatischen Kampfkünsten.

http://www.redcarpet-actors.com | http://www.ulrikemahr.de


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2.) Montepulciano (Italy)

35° CANTIERE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE
FONDAZIONE CANTIERE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE

23. JULY 2010
Venerdì 23 luglio

Teatrino di S. Biagio ore 17.00
Recital per pianoforte
Simona Coco, pianoforte
Musiche di Schumann, Beethoven, Ravel, Montalbetti (PRIMA ASSOLUTA)

Chiesa di S. Bernardo Ore 18.30
Recital per archi
Solisti della Royal Northern College of Music Manchester
Musiche di Ligeti, Ravel, Isae, Britten, Schubert

Piazza Grande Ore 22.00
'What's Happening?!'
ElectroAcustic - Video concert
Philipp Geist, video art
Fabrizio Nocci, music composer & live electronics
Ensemble Tetraktis, percussions

--> Please finde the complete programm here
http://www.fondazionecantiere.it/cantiere/programma

'What's Happening?!'
sound/ image performance project

Electroacustic VideoConcert

Es handelt sich um intermediale Performances, eine Fusion zwischen elektronischer Musik, Video-Installationen und Percussion, welche ein beträchtliches Aufgebot an künstlerischen Strategien, Traditionen und Feinheiten aufweist. Die Künstler verwenden hierzu eine große Bandbreite an Medien und Technologien und teilen ihr leidenschaftliches Interesse für innovative Forschung auf diesem Gebiet untereinander, sowie mit ihrem Publikum.

Im Rahmen ihrer Performance erfassen sie Unterschiede, Ähnlichkeiten und Überschneidungen zwischen den verschiedenen kreativen Ausdrucksformen und stellen diese mittels verschiedener Medien dar.

What's happening? ist eine Fusion aus Musik, die das Auge hört, und Bildern, die das Ohr sieht.

percussion quartet tetraktis (rome/ italy) http://www.tetraktis.org/
composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy) www.myspace.com/ncco1
visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany) http://www.videogeist.de

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What's happening? è un concerto multimediale in cui si incontrano tre forme di espressione: l'elettronica, la video-arte e le percussioni. I percorsi dei tre artisti coinvolti, pur partendo da ambiti di intervento differenti, sono accomunati dalla forte attenzione alla ricerca e all'interazione.

La struttura dello spettacolo è fissata ed i materiali da utilizzare (composizioni, brani di elettronica, video) sono stabiliti ma è all'interazione "live" e all'improvvisazione che viene lasciata la componente registica. C'è in questo progetto la volontà di una comunicazione del ricercare, si racconta e si rappresenta la tensione verso un linguaggio nuovo, verso l'interazione profonda tra linguaggi diversi.

What's happening? è musica per gli occhi da ascoltare e visioni per le orecchie da vedere.

Philipp Geist, Video-Art
Fabrizio Nocci, Musik und Live-Electronics
Tetraktis, Percussions

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please watch the last performances in Scilla
Italy, SCILLA
Circuito Festival Internazionale Musae 2009 - Scilla, Calabria
ex Scoglio di Ulisse
18. Sept 2009
http://www.vimeo.com/6768652

Rom Goethe Institut (Italy - Tour)

'What's Happening?!' MOVIE ONLINE
sound/ image performance project


Movie ONLINE 01/ 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npW2H4KQMo

Movie ONLINE 01/ 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npW2H4KQMo

Electroacustic VideoConcert
Auditorium des Goethe-Instituts


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3.) Ahrenshoop A-I-R (Artist in Residence) Kuenstlerhaus LUKAS

Sunday 25.07.2010 - Open Day at KÜNSTLERHAUS LUKAS / TAG DER OFFENEN TÜR

Open studios from 3 p.m. onwards
Philipp Geist (Berlin) - video
Ute Gallmeister - painting (Anklam)
Matthias Moravek - painting (Berlin)

Reading and Concert at 5 p.m.
Kathrin Gerlof - prose (Berlin)
Marko Nikodijevic - composition (Stuttgart)
plus one guest of honour from the FAMAKunststiftung

The Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists' House Luke) is a place of artistic work and international gathering. It promotes professional artists in the genres of fine arts, literature, dance and music through the awarding of residence scholarships and focuses on interesting cooperation between the different genres. Thereby, the international context with the Baltic littoral states lies in the center of attention.

An additional international exchange program on the one hand promotes above all artists from Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania with travel scholarships and on the other hand invites holders of scholarship from partner countries to Ahrenshoop. The Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists' House Luke) helps promote artists to realize selected projects and gives them publicity in cooperation with national and international partner institutions.

The association Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop (Artists' House) has been given responsibility for the Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists' House Luke). From January 2006 onwards, the association will continue the experienced work of the Stiftung Kulturfonds, an official foundation for the promotion and financing of works of culture. The local authorities of Ahrenshoop provide for the preservation and maintenance of the building....

MORE Please visist --> http://www.kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de



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4.) REVIEW - REVIEW - REVIEW - REVIEW - REVIEW - REVIEW - REVIEW
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Montreal/ MUTEK 2010 Festival

TIME DRIFTS by Philipp Geist

Video Mapping & Light Installation June 2th - 6th 2010
Place des Arts (Place des Festivals)

Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation
by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)
http://www.vimeo.com/12816319

Installation Views Time Drifts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/with/4671545403/

Interview Le Lien Multimedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYuHIXmJ84

Installation Views/ Review
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pgeist/tags/timedrifts/
http://www.videogeist.de/GeistMutek2010.html
http://beta.mutek.org/festivals/montreal/2010/artists/455-philipp-geist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/
http://bit.ly/dqrhXF


MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.


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Milano (Italy)

16 giugno 2010
Teatro Franco Parenti
via Pier Lombardo, 14 - Milano

GiovaMi members 2010: free admission
Membership 2010: 15?

PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT) live media performance
composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
http://www.myspace.com/ncco1
visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
http://www.videogeist.de

Watch A/V SEt ONLINE

NOCCI | GEIST Milano 2010
http://www.vimeo.com/12673836


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5.) INTERVIEW PHILIPP GEIST (ENGLISH)
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Watch Interview Philipp Geist (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYuHIXmJ84&feature=related


LienMultimedia -- 8. Juni 2010 -- L'artiste berlinois Philipp Geist présentait sa dernière composition, Time Drifts, une oeuvre publique composée de projections lumineuses sur la façade d'un édifice, le sol et du brouillard à la place des festivals lors de MUTEK. « Je projette des mots qui font référence au temps en trois langues, allemande, française et anglaise, explique-t-il. Pour moi, c'est important que les gens soient dans l'installation, c'est une caractéristique de ces oeuvres. Aussi j'utilise le sol, les murs et la fumée comme toile. Dans le brouillard, il est possible de voir les mots de façon très éphémère et je trouve que c'est une belle métaphore pour représenter le temps qui passe


The Berlin artist Philipp Geist presented his latest work, Time Drifts, a work composed of public
light projections on the facade of a building, the ground and fog instead of festivals during MUTEK.
"I plan to words that refer to time in three languages, German, French and English, says
it. For me, it's important that people are in the facility, a characteristic of these works.
So I use the floor, walls and smoke as canvas. In the fog, it is possible to see the words
very fleeting and I think it's a beautiful metaphor for the passage of time


http://www.lienmultimedia.com/




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http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

Facebook Page Videogeist/ Philipp Geist
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VIDEOGEIST-Philipp-Geist/186309069852?ref=ts

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/

Blogs
http://videogeist.blogspot.com
http://riverinezones.blogspot.com
http://videogeist.tumblr.com/

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/VIDEOGEIST

Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/videogeist

Twitter
http://twitter.com/videogeist

Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/videogeist





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Studio Philipp Geist
Post Box 080311
10003 Berlin/ Germany

http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010

*** MOVIE ONLINE *** Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)

Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)




'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist
02. - 06. June 2010

Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)
at Place Des Festival

Artist Website ( videogeist.de | p-geist.de)

The Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist has developed his video installation 'Time Drifts' for the square Place Des Festival next to the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvases and projects directly on parts of the facade, on the ground of the whole square, on stairs, and on fog streaming into the square.

The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall/square and the transparent, dissolving projection ground. Words are projected onto the ground, and they are reflected into the fog. Fog is, similar to time, always in a flux, you cannot hold or keep it. This concept refers to the characteristics of museums and to their function as a place for conservation and for providing the visitor with both facts and imaginations: The dissolving projection ground symbolizes the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of life in the past and present, but knowledge is also secured and preserved in the form of text, clearly visible on the concrete. The people become part of the projected images while walking around the square and entering the building. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the visitors.

This methodical approach to the theme 'time' is supported by the projected images themselves. Words that relate to the topic both directly and indirectly cover the whole ground of the square. Some terms and sentences are obvious references, some invite the visitor to think about the phenomenon of time and its historical and cultural connotations. This cultural consideration will be enhanced by the fact that the texts will be in the two official languages of Québec, English and French, and additionally in German, which is the artist's mother tongue. There will be single words, quotations and proverbs by various authors. The installation invites the visitors to stay and contemplate, to detect meanings in the thick carpet of partly overlapping words. The carpet's threads of words are woven chaotically, and it takes time and movements across the square to see and decipher them. It is the poetry of the texts and the dream-like atmosphere that will transform the location.

In the images which are projected onto the facade, Geist creates a pictorial, abstract imagery at the computer which also refers to time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images which is always in a state of flux. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time.

MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.

Philipp Geist works internationally as a light and multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. The Berlin artist Philipp Geist (1976) showed a 4D mapping installation on the facade of the royal throne in Bangkok on the occasion of king Bhumibol's 82nd birthday in December 2009. The one-hour-show was the central part of the celebrations and was seen by 2-3 million of visitors. In 2008, during the 'Long Night of the Museums', he showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In this installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog.In September 2007, he realized the video installation 'Time Lines' on the entire front of the Palazzo delle Espozioni in Rome at its re-opening after it had been closed for five years. The installation was opened by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and was seen by approx. 20.000 visitors. In 2005, he realized the large project 'Winterzauber' ('Winter Magic') for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' ('Melancholy, Genius and Insanity') in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.Further projects are characterized by their complexity and the integration of the location, the sound and moving images.

Freitag, 18. Juni 2010

NOCCI | GEIST Milano 2010 *** MOVIE ONLINE ***



Italy, Milano
16. June 2010

Teatro Franco Parenti
via Pier Lombardo, 14 - Milano

PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT)
live media performance

composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
myspace.com/ncco1

visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
videogeist.de

Sonntag, 13. Juni 2010

NEWSLETTER June 2010

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Philipp Geist/ Videogeist NEWSLETTER June 2010
http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

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Montreal/ MUTEK 2010 Festival

TIME DRIFTS by Philipp Geist

Video Mapping & Light Installation June 2th - 6th 2010
Place des Arts (Place des Festivals)

Installation Views/ Review

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pgeist/tags/timedrifts/
http://www.videogeist.de/GeistMutek2010.html
http://beta.mutek.org/festivals/montreal/2010/artists/455-philipp-geist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/
http://bit.ly/dqrhXF


MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.


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INTERVIEW PHILIPP GEIST (ENGLISH)
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Watch Interview Philipp Geist (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYuHIXmJ84&feature=related


LienMultimedia -- 8. Juni 2010 -- L'artiste berlinois Philipp Geist présentait sa dernière composition, Time Drifts, une oeuvre publique composée de projections lumineuses sur la façade d'un édifice, le sol et du brouillard à la place des festivals lors de MUTEK. « Je projette des mots qui font référence au temps en trois langues, allemande, française et anglaise, explique-t-il. Pour moi, c'est important que les gens soient dans l'installation, c'est une caractéristique de ces oeuvres. Aussi j'utilise le sol, les murs et la fumée comme toile. Dans le brouillard, il est possible de voir les mots de façon très éphémère et je trouve que c'est une belle métaphore pour représenter le temps qui passe


The Berlin artist Philipp Geist presented his latest work, Time Drifts, a work composed of public light projections on the facade of a building, the ground and fog instead of festivals during MUTEK.

"I plan to words that refer to time in three languages, German, French and English, says
it. For me, it's important that people are in the facility, a characteristic of these works.
So I use the floor, walls and smoke as canvas. In the fog, it is possible to see the words
very fleeting and I think it's a beautiful metaphor for the passage of time


http://www.lienmultimedia.com/



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Milano (Italy)

16 giugno 2010
Teatro Franco Parenti
via Pier Lombardo, 14 - Milano

GiovaMi members 2010: free admission
Membership 2010: 15?

http://primavera.giovami.org/main.php?t=prima

h. 19.00 - SPECIAL PREVIEW (guests only)
h. 21.00 - OPENING

main floor
h. 21:30 MUSETTA (IT) live

h. 22:30 PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT) live media performance
composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
http://www.myspace.com/ncco1
visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
http://www.videogeist.de

h. 23:30 BERKANA (IT) vs, ATC (IT) live set
Visual by GOTHAM TV (IT)

first floor
eco art by ALESSANDRO ACERRA (IT)
photography by PIETRO LUCERNI (IT)
paintings by TOM PORTA (IT)
multimedia by MINIMUM (IT)
VideoArt.EXE Experimental Emerging VideoArt by MUSAE
Special Art Selection by MUSAE



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Studio Philipp Geist
Post Box 080311
10003 Berlin/ Germany

http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

Freitag, 11. Juni 2010

Interview (English) Philipp Geist et le temps qui passe

Philipp Geist et le temps qui passe
L’artiste berlinois Philipp Geist présentait sa dernière composition, Time Drifts, une oeuvre publique composée de projections lumineuses sur la façade d’un édifice, le sol et du brouillard à la Place des festivals lors de MUTEK. « Je projette des mots qui font référence au temps en trois langues : allemande, française et anglaise, explique-t-il. Pour moi, c’est important que les gens soient dans l’installation, c’est une caractéristique de ces oeuvres. Aussi j’utilise le sol, les murs et la fumée comme toile. Dans le brouillard, il est possible de voir les mots de façon très éphémère et je trouve que c’est une belle métaphore pour représenter le temps qui


Mutek - A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC!

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A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC
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A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC!

With the 11th edition coming to a close, we are particularly proud of how the festival was received this year. All told, MUTEK 2010 tick-tocked through its five days as cleanly as a Swiss watch, with a revolving line-up of high-calibre international talent filling diverse and quality showcases attended by consistently attentive and enthusiastic audiences.

From our vantage point, after last year's landmark 10th anniversary, going into an 11th edition was a bit of a risk in how to move forward. So we're incredibly satisfied to see that MUTEK 2010 will be remembered most as a theatre of superb musical discoveries. That's how the festival started many years ago, and those are the principles for success that we still abide by today.

Among the many surprises that played the stages this year were German live-electronics trio BRANDT BRAUER FRICK, who delivered a blistering Sunday night set that managed to rekindle the energy levels of every one in the room; GUILLAUME COUTU DUMONT & THE SIDE EFFECTS, who set the Metropolis on fire during Saturday's jam-packed all-nighter; and young newcomers like the charming NICOLAS JAAR, the melancholic, surreal JON HOPKINS, and Savoy room discoveries like WOO + INCREDIBLE BOB and CHRIS HRENO.

Meanwhile MORITZ VON OSWALD, NURSE WITH WOUND, MINILOGUE and MOVE D stood out brightest amidst a strong showing by veteran artists, delivering sets that managed to put their long and illustrious careers into new perspective. For sheet amiability, MATMOS ravished the festival with an opening night performance that was at once refreshing and inspiring. TIM HECKER and BEN FROST showed that noise and experimental rock were by no means incompatible bedfellows, while KING MIDAS SOUND, DEMDIKE STARE and IKONIKA demonstrated the many faces and facets of bass music to completely captivated audiences. Sunday's Piknic, moved to the Metropolis on account of rain, saw PÉPÉ BRADOCK erase the memories of everyone there and hypnotize audiences into forgetting where they were for three hours straight.

The 2010 edition featured a particularly impressive showing by local Canadian artists. Stephen Beaupré's GEMMIFORM, THIERRY GAUTHIER's NORD/SUD and AUN's BLACK PYRAMID, all world premieres, stood out for their stunning visuals and haunting soundtracks. Equally inspiring was NICOLAS BERNIER and MARTIN MESSIER's LA CHAMBRE DES MACHINES. The sheer energy and physicality of their performance on custom-made sound boxes set the festival's A/Visions series to a blistering start. Late-night Ectoplasmes3 performances by Montrealers HERMAN KOLGEN and JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ stood on par with ELEH's explorations of composition and sound, while the Metropolis' Savoy room was bursting at the seams from memorable sets by BOWLY, KRESSEL, SNORK, XAVIER LEBUIS and SPOOLOOPS. The artistic success and large following of the Expérience and Ectoplasmes series, as well as the positive echoes surrounding performances by locals throughout the five days, enriched the festival and confirmed its place as a leader in promoting Canadian talent and artists working on the cutting edge of exploration and creativity.

Despite a capricious weather forecast, MUTEK's first major outdoor concert was an undeniable success, attracting a wide-ranging 10,000 spectators to the Place des Festivals in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. Everyone there agreed: the performance by SEÑOR COCONUT & HIS ORCHESTRA, featuring the suave vocals of Argenis Brito, was a stellar first volley in planting MUTEK's flag right in the center of the city for all to see. Special mentions go out to LE GOLDEN for the assured performance that opened the night. Meanwhile, the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

We would like to thank all of the artists, partners, volunteers and friends that supported this 11th edition. Above all, the MUTEK team thanks its core public, who have invited the festival into their way of life and who adhere and trust the vision of its programmers. A standing ovation for MUTEK 2010's public!

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OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS

POLL: THE BEST OF MUTEK 2010

While the MUTEK staff has its definite favourites of 2010, we would love to hear what performances made your top five list for this 11th edition. Follow this link to vote!Results in the next newsletter.


MUTEK 2010 PHOTOS, REVIEWS AND MORE

Don't forget to check our photo gallery, on the 2010 festival homepage, for a stream of festival moments and memories.

You'll also notice that we've been tagging reviews and articles about the festival all week long; these are available on the festival homepage as well. For a complete day-by day review, don't miss the URB MUTEK coverage. Headphone Commute offers a quick weekend roundup, while the Andy Battaglia provides a thoughtful piece on the many moods of MUTEK on Artforum.

Finally, don't forget to check out a series of MUTEK 2010 videos recorded by our MUTEK.MX team, as well as the video clips captured by our MUTEK.AR guests!
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Freitag, 4. Juni 2010

TIME DRIFTS by PHILIPP GEIST Installations Views Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010) at Place Des Festival (Places des Arts)

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Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)

at Place Des Festival




Artist Website (www.videogeist.de | www.p-geist.de)



'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist

02. - 06. June 2010



The Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist has developed his video installation 'Time Drifts' for the square Place Des Festival next to the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvases and projects directly on parts of the facade, on the ground of the whole square, on stairs, and on fog streaming into the square.



The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall/square and the transparent, dissolving projection ground. Words are projected onto the ground, and they are reflected into the fog. Fog is, similar to time, always in a flux, you cannot hold or keep it. This concept refers to the characteristics of museums and to their function as a place for conservation and for providing the visitor with both facts and imaginations: The dissolving projection ground symbolizes the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of life in the past and present, but knowledge is also secured and preserved in the form of text, clearly visible on the concrete. The people become part of the projected images while walking around the square and entering the building. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the visitors.



This methodical approach to the theme 'time' is supported by the projected images themselves. Words that relate to the topic both directly and indirectly cover the whole ground of the square. Some terms and sentences are obvious references, some invite the visitor to think about the phenomenon of time and its historical and cultural connotations. This cultural consideration will be enhanced by the fact that the texts will be in the two official languages of Québec, English and French, and additionally in German, which is the artist's mother tongue. There will be single words, quotations and proverbs by various authors. The installation invites the visitors to stay and contemplate, to detect meanings in the thick carpet of partly overlapping words. The carpet's threads of words are woven chaotically, and it takes time and movements across the square to see and decipher them. It is the poetry of the texts and the dream-like atmosphere that will transform the location.



In the images which are projected onto the facade, Geist creates a pictorial, abstract imagery at the computer which also refers to time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images which is always in a state of flux. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time.



Philipp Geist works internationally as a light and multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. The Berlin artist Philipp Geist (1976) showed a 4D mapping installation on the facade of the royal throne in Bangkok on the occasion of king Bhumibol's 82nd birthday in December 2009. The one-hour-show was the central part of the celebrations and was seen by 2-3 million of visitors. In 2008, during the 'Long Night of the Museums', he showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In this installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog.In September 2007, he realized the video installation 'Time Lines' on the entire front of the Palazzo delle Espozioni in Rome at its re-opening after it had been closed for five years. The installation was opened by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and was seen by approx. 20.000 visitors. In 2005, he realized the large project 'Winterzauber' ('Winter Magic') for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' ('Melancholy, Genius and Insanity') in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.Further projects are characterized by their complexity and the integration of the location, the sound and moving images.



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Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)

at Place Des Festival





'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist

02. - 06. June 2010




Montreal Installation Time Drifts (Mutek Festival 2010)