MR.ini16
MR.ini are artist-showcases featuring artists presenting their creation, focusing on its technological, conceptual and methodological aspects of the work. The evening start with a contextualization, followed by the artist’s presentation and an open discussion / confrontation accompanied by music à la carte.
MediaRuimte is supported by the Flemish Authorities.
About Synchronator–
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if it were an oscilloscope screen.
SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to use a combination of current digital and analogue means in order to make more use of the characteristic visual qualities of such techniques.
Initially developed within the framework of a residency at Impakt in April/May 2006, SYNCHRONATOR has been performed at several festivals, including Avanto in Helsinki, the Melkweg in Amsterdam, Club Transmediale in Berlin, Donau Festival in Krems and Today's Art in The Hague.
A first SYNCHRONATOR video was released in august 2006 and is currently distributed by the Netherlands Media Art Institute.
About Blevin Blectum–
Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician. Recently relocated from the industrial armpit of Oakland, California, to the humid lovecraftian greenery of Providence, Rhode Island, Blevin releases her soon to be classic fourth solo album, GULAR FLUTTER, on an unsuspecting public via the AAGOO label (New York).
Blevin is alternately known as one half of the recently reformed and reunited groundbreaking digital duo Blectum From Blechdom, recipients of the 2001 Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Musics (for their album "The Messy Jesse Fiesta"). Blevin moonlights with audio/video band SAGAN alongside her husband and fellow e-musician Lesser, keyboardist Wobbly, and video artiste enfant terrible Ryan Junell. SAGAN released their debut CD/DVD, "Unseen Forces" on the Vague Terrain label (Matmos' vanity label) in 2004, and followed it up with limited edition green vinyl 7" and mini-CD on Oakland's 333 label (the 'Resting Pleasures' EP, 2006).
Blevin produces continued electronics with a more oblique slant on the basic BFB sensation of things-not-quite-right-here, clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves as a coal-powered spacecraft from some steampunk parallel universe potentiality, puffing and straining as it struggles to reach escape velocity, chopped, noise-reduced and timed/stretched to the breaking/boiling point, generally fucked-with samples of everything from hand-slapped rain-drenched leaves in courtship gardens and antique broken Beatnik banks to ProTooledFree classic utterly danceable disembodied-blissful-transvestite-stand-up-comic vocals.
Blevin holds degrees in music from Oberlin Conservatory (B.A., Ohio, USA) and Mills College (M.F.A., California, USA). She was the recipient of a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California. She has toured extensively through the United States and Europe since 1998. In 1999 she was the winner of the 1999 New Langton Arts Music award for her first solo CD "Pirate Planets" on the Phthalo label out of Los Angeles. Her second and third albums, "Talon Slalom" (2004) on Deluxe Records, and "Magic Maple" (2006) on the Praemedia label, were greeted with much critical acclaim.