InProcess:ing and Madlab present an OpenLab Workshop
Friday, 18th June 10.30am-4.30pm
WORKSHOP FULL – £15/£10 students - buy your ticket via Eventbrite
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/intro-processing-for-everyone/
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org
openlabworkshops.org

InProcess:ing and Madlab are pleased to welcome Evan Raskob – founder and organiser of Openlab Workshops – making art and music with open source/free software around London and the UK.

This condensed one-day version of the regular Openlab 5-evening course will be a relaxed but project-focused introduction to programing in Processing and interactive art and design in general. We will spend the bulk of the day on basic methods of working with code, general workflow and feeling your way around the Processing environment, along the way building some small projects and gaining inspiration from art, design and technologies such as Wii remotes, RFID, OSC, video and more. The material is flexible, based on the needs and wishes of the people attending.

UPDATE: We’re really pleased the workshop is fully subscribed – but do get in touch if you’ve missed out and are disapponted – info [at] cybersonica.net (a stand in contact address ’til the cybersonica.org mailserver gets sorted). We are hoping to run other Processing and related workshops in the future and we’d be keen to find out if there’s any interest.

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Evan Raskob a.k.a. PixelPusher – pixelism
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/v1-4-evan-raskob-pixelism/
Thursday, 17th June, 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org

• ‘In-the-flesh’ presentation by London based live video performance artist or “pixelist” Evan Raskob a.k.a. PixelPusher – demonstrating his homemade software that generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along)

• Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved;
• Visit the InProcess:ing website to catch up with developments and future plans, watch past presentations and follow up on interesting links;
• Join the forum and share your favourite Processing sketches, suggest practitioners/work for future presentations, offer useful techniques and online resources and tell us what you’d like to see from the project.

For more details including biogs, photos and links and to sign up and share – inprocessing.cybersonica.org.

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou – exploring designs via computational tools
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/v1-3-yiannis-chatzikonstantinou-exploring-designs-computational-tools/
Thursday, 20th May 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org

• Telematic presentation by Delft based architect Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
• ‘In-the-flesh’ presentation by Liverpool based digital ‘videosmith’ Sam Meech;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along)

For more details including biogs, photos and links and to sign up and share – inprocessing.cybersonica.org.

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Simon Blackmore – data sculpted trees
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/v1-2-simon-blackmore-data-sculpted-plants/
Thursday, 22nd April 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org

• In-the-flesh presentation by Manchester based artist Simon Blackmore – also of the Owl Project;
• Prerecorded presentation by Cologne based artist Jens Heinen of Visionlabz and “lightwriters” Lichtfaktor;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along)

For more details including biogs, photos and links and to sign up and share – inprocessing.cybersonica.org.

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
jonobr1 – ‘You’re Just My Type’
Thursday, 25th March 7-10pm
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/v1-1-jonobr1-youre-just-my-type/
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• Telematic presentation by Venice, CA based graphic designer jonobr1 – ‘You’re Just My Type’
• In-the-flesh presentation by Manchester based interaction designer Elliot Woods of Kimchi & Chips
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along)

For more details including biogs, photos and links and to sign up and share – inprocessing.cybersonica.org.

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Launch Event: Thursday, 18th February 7-9pm
(and third Thursday of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

To register interest or get involved contact:
dave[AT]madlab.org.uk and/or lewis[AT]cybersonica.org

“Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.”

InProcess:ing focuses on the Processing language, environment and community as the vehicle to support and encourage creative collaboration and meaningful exchange between a diverse group of practitioners, creatives and hobbyists. It aims to create a playful, experimental space and a supportive framework in which people can share their work, realise new technological ideas, be inspired, challenged and stretched.

Join us at the launch event to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved.

Participate…

Bring along Processing sketches you’re working on for our informal ‘open-laptop’ session between 7-8pm.

Contact us if you’d like one of the 10 minute ‘show-and-tell’ slots between 8-8.30pm to informally present a ‘work-in-progress’ to the group – or sign up at the event itself if a space is available.

Share links and a 100 word review of some of your favourite Processing work.

Special Presentation…

Learn how to make a 3D scan with a projector, camera, and Processing using a technique and open source tools – openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=1995 – developed by Kyle McDonald. Kyle will be making a telematic presentation about the history of “structured light” scanning, one of the techniques used for Radiohead’s recent “House of Cards” video. He’ll go over the basic theory on how it works, work through the process of capturing a bust in 3D and exporting it to Blender for further experimentation and finish up with some discussion on where to take the technique next.

Kyle McDonald is a media artist currently based in upstate New York. Kyle is heavily involved in the open-source tech scene, with work ranging from alternative sensors and interfaces to experimental noise instruments and immersive large-scale interactive installations. He is also a contributor to other projects like Open Frameworks, Processing and Arduino. Kyle is currently completing his Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

www.instructables.com/id/Structured-Light-3D-Scanning/
code.google.com/p/structured-light/
www.flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/sets/72157613657773217/

Madlab is a  A 1000 sq. ft. former shop in the Northern Quarter of Manchester – a space you can get together with like-minded individuals and work on your urban gardening, crochet, hacking, programming, media arts, filmmaking, animating project without worrying that you’re in a library, coffee shop, pub or other unsuitable venue. We know hackers and craftspeople need work space and may need to get down and dirty – we also know sometimes you need a quiet area to present and show works to your peers – so Madlab is there to support both – and the interactions that result.

P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
www.kinetica-artfair.com
Live Showcase: Saturday, 6th February, 6-8pm
VIP OPENING PERFORMANCE EVENT: £20 (Limited tickets available)
FULL TICKET: One day Art Fair entrance plus all events and performances: £14/£12 conc
ONE DAY: Art Fair entrance only: £8/£6 conc
WEEKEND PASS: Includes Art Fair entrance for Sat, Sun and all Art Fair events and performances on these days: £20. Please note that Full and Weekend Pass ticket holders must sign-up to events on the day.
For bookings please go to Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
Nearest tube: Baker Street
Nearest overground: Marylebone
More details: social.cybersonica.org

D-Fuse
Scanone
vc Kristi and Oddscene
PRICKIMAGE vs MURPHY

For Kinetica Art Fair ‘10 and the unique Musion Eyeliner 3D holographic projection system Cybersonica have selected a line up of exceptional audiovisual talent drawn from previous Cybersonica Socials – our irregular live showcase – and AV Lab ‘08 – our week-long residential creative & practical workshop.

The Kinetica Art Fair provides collectors, curators, museums and the public with a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading international galleries, artist’s collectives, curatorial groups and organisations specialising in kinetic, electronic and new media art. Kinetica’s aim through the fair is to popularise artists and organisations working in these genres and to provide a new platform for the commercial enterprise of this field. Alongside the fair there will be special events, screenings, tours, talks, workshops and performances. These events will involve some of the world’s most eminent leaders in the fields of kinetic, electronic and new media art.

An annual celebration of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual experimentation, Cybersonica is a key destination for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. Now in its eighth year, its rolling programme of collaborative events and projects brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases the freshest and latest work in the field.

Widely recognised as pioneers of VJ culture, D-Fuse <www.dfuse.com> are a group of London based artists founded in the mid 90’s by Michael Faulkner who explore a range of creative media – from art, architecture, photography and film to live AV performances.

Scanone <www.myspace.com/scanone> creates intelligent and sharp beat structures reinforced with heavy bass, emotive synth lines and sci-fi fx… a sound that borders a myriad of underground genres. His work has featured on numerous short films, animated sequences, TV adverts, soundtracks, scores and live performance for events.

Voice controller Kristi <www.myspace.com/vckristi> delivers edgy electronic grooves and live, gutsy vocal FX merged with the evolving and surrealist imagery of Oddscene <www.myspace.com/oddscene>.

PRICKIMAGE vs MURPHY is a fresh collaboration fusing the the kinetic and potent visuals of moving image artist Barry Gene Murphy <www.barrygenemurphy.com> with the irreverent, full of fantasy, humor and intrigue visuals of Prickimage <www.prickimage.com>.

More details, including artist biographies and media links can be found at the Cybersonica Social website: social.cybersonica.org

Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment
FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L14DQ www.fact.co.uk
Preview: Thursday, 17 December 2009, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Booking: rsvp@fact.co.uk

FACT explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between videogame spaces and real spaces with an exhibition featuring artists including Bill Viola, Blast Theory, Aram Bartholl, Cao Fei, Ludic Society and more, alongside playable, commercial games that push the limits of the medium. Space Invaders is part of a season of gaming at FACT which includes interactive games events, competitions and a game-themed film programme.

Gallery 1 & 2, Media Lounge, Public Spaces and online, FREE entry
Space Invaders is open to the public from 18 December 2009 to 21 February 2010

Opening Night 8-Bit Performances
Music shaped by computer game culture selected by Cybersonica; Firebrand Boy (Glasgow) and the Kittenrock label use gameboys, Nintendos and other consoles to get you dancing! Plus a special Marching DS Orchestra with kids, siblings and parents led by Ross Dalziel of SoundNetwork.

Then follow the 8-bit music over to Chameleon for an afterparty:
8.00pm-9.00pm, Soundmatrix – a Liverpool-based musician who makes glitchy, 8-bit beats on a Gameboy running LSDJ
9.00pm-10.00pm, Syphus – a UK-based demoscene and chiptune musician who has been composing and performing for most of his life

Breakfast With The Artists
The Box 18 December
10:30am-12:30pm
Price: £4.00/£3.00 (Members & concs)

Join us for breakfast with a selection of Space Invaders artists, who will be in discussion with Neil Thompson, Studio Art Director at Bizarre Creations, formerly of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

More details, including artist biographies, media links and a downloadable 60 minute mix of “some of the best modern chip sounds from the past few years along with a few classics” compiled by Jellica of Kittenrock can be found at the Cybersonica Social website: http://social.cybersonica.org

Wednesday, 23 – Tuesday, 29 September 2009

5 artists – 5 events – 500 miles! (roughly)

With support from Arts Council England, Cybersonica’s Autumn 09 programming included the first outing of the Road Trip – a hectic week of roving activity and collaborative programming that saw a small but select group of invited UK and international artists make a succession of interventions – artist talks, demonstrations, performances, workshops, exhibition, installation etc. – to bridge and contribute to a series of events in London, Leeds and Liverpool.

Road Trippers included:

• Matthew Davidson a.k.a Stretta of the monome community – Boston, USA
• Jens Heinen of Visionlabz and Lichtfaktor – Cologne, Germany
• Simon Blackmore, Tony Hall and Steve Symons of the Owl Project, Manchester, UK
• Gareth Goodison of captincaptin and TINT – London, UK
• Mike Blow of Evolutionary Art – Brighton, UK

and Road Trip ’stopovers’ took in:

• Musion Academy, London
• i-Design 09, London
• Unconference @ Expo Leeds
• Interface Amnesty @ AND Festival, Liverpool
• ‘Market Day’ with Kinetica Museum and TINT @ Old Spitalfields Market, London

For artist biogs, descriptions of works and more detail visit the
Programme page.

For photographs visit the Cybersonica 09 Road Trip
Flickr set - or use the lovely
Road Trip TiltViewer.

For videos from Jens Heinen’s i-Design 09 presentations visit
Cybersonica on Vimeo.

For additional blogosphere posts and media check out the following links:

Interface Amnesty:

• video: http://fact.tv/videos/watch/715
• pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelh8/sets/72157622338658741/
• the noise of the day (mental!) from Neil Morrin of DefNetMedia who was live podcasting from the stage: http://bit.ly/audioamnesty
• the downloadable software: http://pixelh8.co.uk/pixelh8-music-tech-master-stroke-and-beta/
• some good music tech geek links namedropping AND: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/pixelh8-master-stroke/, http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2009/09/pixelh8-master-stroke-ds-beta-now.html (which got syndicated to about 30 other sites) &
• http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/09/27/pixelh8-unveils-new-homebrew-music-software-for-ds/ & http://null-void.co.uk/blog/2009/9/28/pixelh8-releases-the-and-interface-amnesty-pixelh8-music-tec.html

i-Design 09:

• articles: http://www.designweek.co.uk/we-need-more-consistent-backing-of-interaction-design/3005471.article

Stretta

• blog post: http://stretta.blogspot.com/2009/09/return-to-boston.html
• photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=114519&id=794752839&l=f122d4db27

The Cybersonica Road Trip was supported by Arts Council England, i-Design 09, Sound and Music’s Expo Leeds, Kinetica Museum, Musion Academy, SoundNetwork and FACT.

Thursday, 24 September 2009, 9am-7.30pm
University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
www.idesign-london.com
Conference: Standard £135, Design Week Subscriber £99, Students £75
Online Booking: www.amiando.com/idesign_09.html
Exhibition, Talks and Portfolio Clinic (must register): FREE
Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus

i-Design 09 is an essential one day conference and showcase for anyone with an interest or passion for interactive design and the digital arts. The programme aims to inspire, entertain and explore how our digital future looks set to unfold and the central role interactive design will take in our cultural, work and social life.

Cybersonica’s contribution to i-Design 09 includes:

• Virtually Real – an exhibition of digital interactive artworks and installations, technology showcases and demonstrations in the Old Gymnasium that present our unique – and often sonic – viewpoint on the i-Design 09 theme;
• Two 5D Interludes by MOTH & Jens Heinen of Lichtfaktor and Visionlabz within the i-Design Conference programme;
• and as part of the i-Design 09 early evening Film Screenings in the Old Cinema – a re-enactment by MOTH & VC Kristi of Plinth – their recent site-specific audiovisual performance responding to the De la Warr Pavilion (the UK’s first public building designed in the Modernist style).

It features the following contributing artists, works and collaborators:

• Two interactive works by Squidsoup – Ghosts – text-based communication in the digital age – and a commission for PortablePixelPlayground Glowing Pathfinder Bugs – which enables you to engage with a hybrid centipede/caterpillar in a recreation of its natural habitat – the sandy desert of Faroffistan.
• Soda’s Generative Art System – a custom and highly reconfigurable native windows application that takes feeds of still and video images and text and montages them together in real time, never repeating.
• The Sancho Plan’s Spacequatica installation – play drumpads to explore an audiovisual aquarium populated by a varied cast of musical sea creatures.
• VisionLabz‘ Gold – your movements effect a screen of dynamic, glistening, golden fluid.
• Kinetica Museum featured artist:
  • Balint Bolygo’s Epicycloidoscope – a visual theremin producing complex lightwaves by a moving laser beam
• TINT featured artists:
  • Tanja Vujinovic’s Extagram 2 – part of a series of tactile-sonic objects that recode events into audio-visual noisy data streams
  • David Strang & Vincent Van Uffelen’s Transmission+Interference – uses laser light to transmit audio signals through hacked laser pointers that are received by photocells and amplified through speakers.
  • Stuart Dunbar’s Bad Faith – what at first glance appears to be a solid sculpture shifts it’s position in relation to the speed and distance of the viewer via motion sensors and servos.
  • captincaptin’s Circling Sounds – a single user, 10 speaker immersive sound installation using found and engineered audio recordings.
• Jason Bruges Studio’s Study In White – a new piece by the studio continues its exploration of the relationships between qualities of light and depth of surface.
• SHOWStudio – an online fashion and art project that documents the creative process of the interactive and motion image projects it broadcasts via its online studio presents some of its latest work.
• Musion Academy – the company behind the Madonna and Gorillaz holographic performances present the Musion Academy – a forum for visual artists, creatives, academics and digital artists to come together and explore new technology and holographic projection.
• MOTH – bridge the divide between club visuals and street art, generating site-specific HD 720p video graffiti designed in response to the morphology, texture and ambience of the spaces and structures of the outside world.
• Lichtfaktor – the Cologne based “light-writing” team use light to give expression to their creativity taking advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night.
• OWL Project – the collaborative group of Manchester based artists who share interests in human interaction with technology and process led art – exhibit, demonstrate and contruct their distinctive range of wooden musical and sculptural instruments.
• Monome – design adaptable, minimalist interfaces in the catskills and seek less complex, more versatile tools: accessible, yet fundamentally adaptable – presented by Boston based Matthew Davidson aka Stretta – musician, software interface designer and monome virtuoso who fuses the worlds of harmonic theory and intelligent software.

with the following schedule:

For artist biogs, descriptions of works and more detail visit the Programme page.

University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
Thursday, 24th September 2009, 9am-7.30pm
Conference: Standard £135, Design Week Subscriber £99, Students £75
Online Booking: www.amiando.com/idesign_09.html
Exhibition, Talks and Portfolio Clinic (must register): FREE

More details at:
www.idesign-london.com

Leicester Square Gardens, WC2
4th – 14th June, 9am-7pm
Launch event: Thursday, 4th June, 11am,  Leicester Square Gardens, WC2
Evening talk with Martyn Ware: Thursday, 4th June, 7pm, Westminster Reference Library, St Martin’s Street, WC2H 2HP
Please RSVP to: alexa@arts-com

More details at:
www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/artsandentertainment/
soundlife.cfm
www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/artsandentertainment/
soundlife2.cfm
www.futureofsound.org/event07.htm

Saturday 25th April
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Afternoon Workshop and Talks: 2-5pm, £4/£3 concs
Evening Showcase & Installations: 7-11pm, £7/£5 concs
To book and for more info: boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk +44 (0)117 9172300/01
www.futureofsound.org
www.arnolfini.org

Tuesday 24th March
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Symposium: Media Resources Building, Screen 1, 2pm-6pm, Free
Showcase: The Great Hall, 7pm-10pm, Free
To book and for more info: a.ouzman@gold.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7919 7640
Nearest tube: Canada Water – replacement buses to New Cross/New Cross Gate
Nearest overground: New Cross/New Cross Gate
www.futureofsound.org

Presented by Future Of Sound, Goldsmiths Screenschool, Sound Practice Research Unit and Centre for Contemporary Music Culture, Illustrious and Sonic Arts Network

SYMPOSIUM ON SYNESTHESIA
Media Resources Building, Screen 1, 2pm to 6pm

Keynote speaker: Andrey Smirnov - asmir.theremin.ru
“Graphic Sound: technology, music and science”
Andrey Smirnov is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and researcher and developer of electronic music techniques. He is a founding director and the Senior Lecturer of the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory. His SOUND_in_Z project was recently on at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Presentations from experimental artists, including:
Andy Cameron – www.futureofsound.org/4.htm
Dr Mick Grierson: Oramics – www.mickgrierson.co.uk
Derek Holtzer: Tonewheels – www.umatic.nl/tonewheels_historical.html
Rob Mullender: Photophonics – silentlight.blogspot.com

SHOWCASE
Great Hall, 7pm to 10pm

Hosted by Martyn Ware, founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17 and a pioneer in electronic music. Using a ground breaking 3D surround sound system, this multi-sensory show fuses an international collective of cutting edge audiovisual practitioners.

body>data>space - www.bodydataspace.net
Andy Cameron – www.futureofsound.org/4.htm
Sophie Clements – www.sophieclements.com
Tal Rosner – www.talrosner.com
Scanner – www.scannerdot.com
The Sancho Plan – www.thesanchoplan.com
Andrey Smirnov – asmir.theremin.ru
United Visual Artists - www.uva.co.uk

More details at the Future Of Sound website - www.futureofsound.org.

Sunday 1st March, 8-10pm
P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
VIP OPENING PERFORMANCE EVENT: £15 (Limited tickets available)
FULL TICKET: One day Art Fair entrance plus all events and performances: £12/£10 conc
ONE DAY: Art Fair entrance only: £5
WEEKEND PASS: Includes Art Fair entrance for Sat, Sun, Mon and all Art Fair events and performances on these days: £20
Please note that Full and Weekend Pass ticket holders must sign-up to events on the day.
For bookings please go to Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
Nearest tube: Baker Street
Nearest overground: Marylebone
www.kinetica-artfair.com
social.cybersonica.org
www.cybersonica.org

Threep & Vent Media, VC Kristi & Oddscene, Steve Nosurname & Barry Gene Murphy

Cybersonica Social creates a little slice of Cybersonica - London’s annual celebration of music, sound, art and technology – for a brief but enjoyable two hours this Sunday evening at the Kinetica Art Fair.

The seventh in a now somewhat irregular night, the evening features a select line-up of new and previously featured talent including the idiosyncratic granular textures and analogue rhythms of Threepaccompanied by the minimalist visual waveforms of Vent Media; the edgy electronic grooves and live, gutsy vocal FX of VC Kristi with the evolving and surrealist imagery of Oddscene; and the old-skool electro to 8-bit freakouts to drum n’ bass mentalism of Steve Nosurname with the kinetic and potent visuals of moving image artist Barry Gene Murphy.

Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art opens in London on Friday 27 February – and carnivorous art, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical drawing machines, subliminal installations, pole dancing robots, light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the exhibits to be found there – providing unparalleled opportunities for the public and collectors alike to view and buy work from this thriving international movement and to participate in the programme of talks, workshops and performances.

Longtime Kinetica Museum collaborators, Cybersonica’s contribution to the Art Fair showcases established names and emerging talent who make their own music or audiovisual work using inventive technologies and then perform it live (as opposed to just pressing play in Ableton Live). We strongly recommend progressive electronic music makers, audiovisualisers, digital artists and fans looking for somewhere to meet like-minded people, share ideas and enjoy fresh, vibrant music and performance to come along and check it all out.

For biogs, photos, links, video & downloads visit the Cybersonica Social website < social.cybersonica.org>.