Derek Holzer: Vector Synthesis Demonstration Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-03 | The Vector Synthesis library uses the Pure Data programming language to investigate the direct relationship between sound+image. With it, you can draw Lissajous figures, render simple two- and three-dimensional shapes, and process photographs and video into vector artwork which can be displayed on oscilloscopes using audio signals. These shapes can also be further modified in real time using external audio sources such as voice, amplified instruments, or electronic synthesizers.About / Derek HolzerDerek Holzer (USA 1972) is a sound + light artist based in Helsinki & Berlin, whose current interests include DIY electronics, audiovisual instrument building, the relationship between sound and space, media archaeology, and participatory art forms. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand. #vectorhackfestival #vectorhack http://macumbista.net
Vector Hack 2022. / Conference III / Hardware Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-08 | .All times are Central European Time/CroatiaModerated by Derek Holzer (US/SE)15:00-16:00Bernhard Rasinger (AT)Laser safety16:15-16:45Darko Fritz (HR) & Ivan Marušić Klif (HR)Scan processing via VGA port for “Imaginary Future: Tourism”16:45-17:15Arto Chydenius (FI)Voltage17:15-17:45Andrew Duff (UK)The appeal of the oscillographic image18:00-18:30Panel
Screening 2 Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-07 | ..DataSpaceTime with Gryphon Rue : Erosvectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/dataspacetime-with-gryphon-rueEric Lennartson : Alias 3 vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/eric-lennartsonCharles Deluga : Rites of the Forest vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/charles-deluga
Screening 2 / CHECK DESCRIPTION FOR UPDATED LINK Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-07 | ..PLEASE GO TO THIS LINKyoutu.be/fCLsw4ToFwkWE FOUND SOME ERRORS IN THIS VIDEO FILEDataSpaceTime with Gryphon Rue : Erosvectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/dataspacetime-with-gryphon-rueEric Lennartson : Alias 3 vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/eric-lennartsonCharles Deluga : Rites of the Forest vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/charles-deluga
Screening 1 Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-06 | ..Jen Kutler: Cathode Ray Gunpoint vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/jen-kutlerEric Souther: Frequencies of Deep Time vectorhackfestival.com/2022/project/eric-souther
Vector Hack 2022. / Conference II / Software Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-06 | .All times are Central European Time/CroatiaModerated by Derek Holzer (US/SE)15:00-15:45James Lehman (USA)Laserboy – live demo16:00-16:45James Ball (UK)Oscirender17:00-17:45Kevin Kripper (AR)Vector synthesis for Vsynth – live demo18:00-18:50Panel
Vector Hack 2022. / Conference I / History Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-05 | .All times are Central European Time/CroatiaModerated by Derek Holzer (US/SE)15:00-16:00Lenka Dolanová (CZ),A Dialogue with the Demons of the Tools: Steina and Woody Vašulka16:15-16:45Jen Kutler (USA)16:45-17:15Vibeke Sorensen (USA/DK)17:15-17:45Louise Ledeen (USA)18:00-18:30Panel
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 1 / RIjeka 02.10.2020. Vector Hack Festival 2022-10-04 | 0:00 Introduction6:19 Francesca Franco: Algorithmic Signs: curating early computational generative artvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/francesca-franco35:53 Tomislav Mikulić: From plotter to videovectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/tomislav-mikulic1:20:23 Panel with:Franceasca FrancoTomislav MikulićChris KingDerek HolzerIvan Marušić Klifwww.vectorhackfestival.com
Branimir Štivić / E N T A N G L E M E N T S 2.0 : EXHALE / Vector Hack @ 25fps festival Vector Hack Festival 2021-10-11 | Vector hack had a curated performance selection at 25fps experimental film festival's Expanded cinema programme. Branimir Štivić performed "E N T A N G L E M E N T S 2.0 : EXHALE" 25.09.2021. @ Kino SC, Zagreb, Croatia https://www.25fps.hr/en/film/e-n-t-a-n-g-l-e-m-e-n-t-s-20-exhale
Hrvoje Radnić / Spheres etc. / Vector Hack @ 25fps festival Vector Hack Festival 2021-10-11 | Vector hack had a curated performance selection at 25fps experimental film festival's Expanded cinema programme. Hrvoje Radnić performed "Spheres etc." 25.09.2021. @ Kino SC, Zagreb, Croatia https://www.25fps.hr/en/film/spheres-etc
Vector Hack 2020 Aftermovie Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-26 | 01-10/10/2020 Rijeka - Ljubljana - DubrovnikTen days of oscilloscopes and lasers in less than two minutes.Video by Mara PrpićMusic by Dirk de Bruin and Eric Lennartson
Vector Hack 2020 / Hansi Raber presents Three short oscilloscope performances Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-11 | Three short oscilloscope performances0:00 Intro1:46 Lena:k 17:18 Hansi 3d28:25 Jerobeam FendersonHansi Raber, creator of Oscistudio and Oscilloscope, hacked a new tool that allows showing oscilloscope livestreams in the web browser, while only streaming the audio signal. It combines an existing oscilloscope simulator (dood.al) with an existing streaming server (icecast). It is the best emulation of oscilloscope we have seen so far. Viewers can adjust oscilloscope simulator settings themselves.You can watch the performances directly in your browsers at vh.asdfg.me or as this live video stream!Simulator works with Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.Probably won’t work on mobile browsers.
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 5 / Dubrovnik 10.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-11 | 0:00 Intro20:00 Intro talk31:20 James Nolan Gandy "Visual Representations of Mechanical Harmony"vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/james-gandy(this video has no sound)47:41 James Lehman "LaserBoy"vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/james-lehman1:20:56 LaserBoy Panel:James LehmanDerek HolzerIvan Marušić KlifChris King1:59:22 Vector Hack Panel:Joseph HydeIvan Marušić KlifDerek HolzerChris King2:49:00 Final program announcement:Hansi Raber
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 6 / Live from Rijeka Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-09 | Recordings of live performances in Exportdrvo, Rijeka on 04.10.2020.00:00:00 Dirk de Bruin (NL)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/dirk-de-bruin0:09:20 Branimir Štivić (HR)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/branimir-stivic0:41:29 Phosphorm workshop presentation / participants Mara Prpić, Tomislav Madžar, Igor Crnković / workshop leader Branimir Štivić / Phosphorm coded by Andrei Jayvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/andrei-jayandreijaycreativecoding.com/PHOSPHORMVenue camera by Goran Pleić and Ivan Marušić KlifEditing and postproduction Ivan Marušić KlifThanks to Alberto Novello for lending us his phosphorescent screen for performance by Dirk de Bruin
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 5 / Live from Rijeka Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-08 | Recordings of live performances in Exportdrvo, Rijeka on 03.10.2020.0:00 Alberto Novello (IT)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/albertonovello33:00 Ivan Marušić Klif (HR)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/klifVenue camera by Goran PleićEditing and postproduction Ivan Marušić Klif
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 4 / Live from Rijeka Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-07 | Recordings of live performances in Exportdrvo, Rijeka on 02.10.2020.0:00 Hrvoje Radnić (HR)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/hrvoje-radnic22:25 Optokoppler (AT) / Bernhard Rasinger and Philipp Haffnervectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/optokopplerVenue camera by Goran Pleić and Ivan Marušić KlifEditing and postproduction Ivan Marušić Klif
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 4 / Ljubljana 07.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-07 | 0:00 Miha Vipotnik: Video Graphics (17 min, 1976/1977.)vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/miha-vipotnikRealised with SCCA / DIVA archive. 19:32 Panel:Miha VipotnikIvan Marušić Klif48:40 Tadej Droljc: “Composing with Audiovisual Gestalts”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/tadej-droljc(there were some serious technical issues during this presentation. Edited version will be available soon)Panel:Tadej DroljcIvan Marušić Klif
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 3 / Rijeka 04.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-04 | 0:00 Shojiro Nakaoka: “Image Club” vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/shojiro-nakaoka14:44 Michael Honeycombvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/michael-honeycomb32:41 Ted Davis: "Oscilllines"vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/ted-davis45:02 Joseph Hyde: “Signal Study #1”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/joseph-hyde
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 3 / Rijeka 04.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-04 | 0:00 Intro11:59 Bernd Ulmann: Analog chaos41:30 Stefanie Bräuer/Ted Davis: Affordances of Affordable Digital to Analog Conversionvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/ted-davisvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/stefanie-brauer1:07:50 Panel Discussion:Bernd UlmannStefanie BräuerTed DavisDerek HolzerChris King1:47:46 Andrei Jay: PHOSPHORM AV synthesizervectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/andrei-jay2:18:04 Paloma Kop: Modulating Materialvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/paloma-kop2:45:15 Christopher Robin Short: Radiator: The Laser Synthesizervectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/christopher-short3:15:40 Panel Discussion:Andrei JayPaloma KopChristopher Robin ShortDerek HolzerChris KingIvan Marušić Klif
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 2 / Rijeka 03.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-04 | 0:00 Intro0:29 Skooby Laposky: “The Modulated Path: Ben F. Laposky’s Pioneering Electronic Abstractions”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/skooby-laposky35:44 Benjamin Heidersberger/Bernd Rodrian: “Heinrich Heidersberger: Rhythmograms. 1950’s Vector Graphics before Digital Computers”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/benjamin-heidersberger-bernd-rodrian1:13:55 Panel:Skooby LaposkyBenjamin HeidersbergerChris kingDerek Holzer
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 2 / Rijeka 03.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-03 | Charles Deluga: “Isle of Lotus”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/charles-delugaAnthony Elliott: “PWM Movie”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/anthony-elliottDerek Holzer: “Ocular Pathogen Transmission”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/derek-holzerEric Lennartson: “10 million HZ”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/eric-lennartson
Vector Hack 2020 / Screenings 1 / Rijeka 02.10.2020 Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-03 | 0:00 Paloma Kop: “Signal Culture Series”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/paloma-kop7:32 Rue Bainbridge: “Iner Plats”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/rue-bainbridge14:08 Tomislav Mikulić: “Works 1972-1979. “vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/tomislav-mikulic27:14 Potar Anar: “Balade en bord de Deûle”vectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/potar-anar
Vector Hack 2020 / Talks 1 / RIjeka 02.10.2020. Vector Hack Festival 2020-10-02 | 0:00 Introduction6:19 Francesca Franco: Algorithmic Signs: curating early computational generative artvectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/francesca-franco35:53 Tomislav Mikulić: From plotter to videovectorhackfestival.com/2020/project/tomislav-mikulic1:20:23 Panel with:Franceasca FrancoTomislav MikulićChris KingDerek HolzerIvan Marušić Klifwww.vectorhackfestival.com
Vector Hack 2020 Announcement - Rijeka - Ljubljana - Dubrovnik - Vector Hack Festival 2020-09-22 | We are proud to announce the lineup for the Vector Hack 2020. Please check out the participants profiles on the Vector Hack site , we will also be announcing a few more surprises in the next week. vectorhackfestival.com/2020/participants Complete program with time table will launch very soon! Potar Anar / Stefanie Bräuer / Ted Davis / Charles Deluga / Tadej Droljc / Anthony Elliott / Francesca Franco / James Nolan Gandy / Benjamin Heidersberger / Evan Henry / Derek Holzer / Michael Honeycomb / Joseph Hyde / Paloma Kop / Skooby Laposky / James Lehman / Eric Lennartson / Ivan Marušić Klif / Tomislav Mikulić / Shojiro Nakaoka / Alberto Novello / Optokoppler / Hrvoje Radnić / Rue Bainbridge / Christopher Robin Short / Bernd Rodrian / Branimir Štivić / Bernd Ullman / Sofy YuditskayaVideo by Ivan Marušić Klif
Chris King: Venerable Vectors Vector Hack Festival 2020-07-24 | Chris presents a highly incomplete survey of work taken from throughout this history of vector based image making practices ranging from very early experiments through to modern vernacular and academic projects in order to try and place the current interest in vector based work in a wider historical context and reveal some of the lesser known roots of the art form. After a short talk there will be time for the audience and festival attendees to discuss what they have experience at vector hack and where it might go next.About / Chris King is an artist, educator conservator primarily concerned with historic and contemporary electronic video and media art. His blog and online discussion group video circuits explores early abstract and synthetic image making practices such as video synthesis, experimental animation, visual music, cymatics and graphic scores. Chris regularly performs live visual music using electronic video and audio synthesis techniques. He also teaches workshops on these techniques and the history and context of electronic intermedia and visual music practice. He currently works as an assistant time based media conservator at Tate. #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival #videocircuits http://videocircuits.blogspot.com
Derek Holzer: A Media Archaeology of Vector Graphics (PART TWO) Vector Hack Festival 2020-06-14 | The development of any kind of technology combines utopian and dystopian tendencies, and nowhere is that more true than in the development of computer vector graphics. Taking the activation of the AN/FSQ-7 computers at the heart of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) defense stations in the United States in 1958 as its starting point, this talk explores the military/scientific legacy at the heart of modern computing and attempts by artists of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s to decouple these tools from their destructive origins.Derek HolzerDerek Holzer (USA 1972) is a sound + light artist based in Helsinki & Berlin, whose current interests include DIY electronics, audiovisual instrument building, the relationship between sound and space, media archaeology, and participatory art forms. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand.http://macumbista.net
Derek Holzer: A Media Archaeology of Vector Graphics (PART ONE) Vector Hack Festival 2020-06-14 | The development of any kind of technology combines utopian and dystopian tendencies, and nowhere is that more true than in the development of computer vector graphics. Taking the activation of the AN/FSQ-7 computers at the heart of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) defense stations in the United States in 1958 as its starting point, this talk explores the military/scientific legacy at the heart of modern computing and attempts by artists of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s to decouple these tools from their destructive origins.Derek Holzer (USA 1972) is a sound + light artist based in Helsinki & Berlin, whose current interests include DIY electronics, audiovisual instrument building, the relationship between sound and space, media archaeology, and participatory art forms. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand.http://macumbista.net #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Joost Rekveld: Dialogues with Machines Vector Hack Festival 2020-06-07 | Joost Rekveld is an artist who is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. He explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. His films, installations and performances are composed documentaries of the worlds opened by these systems. In their sensuality they are an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. In his artist’s presentation, Joost will demonstrate his working methods by discussing the fairly recent strand in his work that relates to analog electronics and different varieties of vector displays.Ljubljana / 07.10.18About / Joost Rekveld is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. In his films, installations and performances, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. His work is an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. He has been giving lectures since 1993, has been teaching interdisciplinary art since 1996, and from 2008 to 2014 he was the course director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He currently an artistic researcher at the KASK School of Arts in Ghent.http://www.joostrekveld.net #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Ted Davis: XYscope - Processing Vector Graphics on Vector Displays Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-23 | XYscope is a library for Processing that enables drawing generative vector graphics onto vector displays (oscilloscope, Vectrex, laser). By converting the image paths coordinates into an audio signal, comprised of two custom wavetable oscillators, it can be retrieved when fed into the display’s analog inputs (for example, an oscilloscope set to XY-mode). XYscope was made open source in July 2017 and has since been adopted by artists interested in exploring the unique visual possibilities that reside in analog vector displays. This talk will outline my developments leading up to the release of XYscope, inspirations that led to it’s creation, furthermore a selection of media installations created with it since. Zagreb / 04.10.18About / Ted Davis: Ted Davis is an American media artist and designer based in Basel, Switzerland, where he is an Interaction Design Lecturer within the Visual Communication Institute at the Academy of Art and Design HGK FHNW. His own work and teachings focus on image making via programming new and newer media, along with embracing the error and glitch while questioning the ideal and mimetic conditions digital media is asked to encompass.http://teddavis.org #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Philip Baljeu: Oscillographic Systems: Theory and Practice. Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-16 | A personal discussion of designing Oscillographic Synthesizers– from initial research and hand built units to commercial designs. All the mistakes made and lessons learned. #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Joost Rekveld: Lightning Empiricism: Analogue Computing and Interactive Exploration (PART ONE) Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-09 | Analogue computers were in common use between 1950 and 1975; they made supersonic airplanes, missiles and nuclear reactors possible, calculated Dutch flood defenses and helped put man on the moon. Despite this, most current histories of computing hardly mention analogue computing or omit it altogether, and present a curiously linear account of progress. In his keynote, Joost Rekveld will link different strata of the history of analogue computing to past and future potentials in the audiovisual arts. The thinking of generations of scientists and engineers was informed by practices of electronic simulation, in which physical analogies were enlisted to make electronic models that mostly worked in real-time. Oscilloscopes and vector displays were an integral part of these simulators, and made the analogue computer the most important tool for interactive explorations until personal computers became ubiquitous in the eighties of the last century. Joost will discuss some of the direct links between these analogue simulators and the early history of audiovisual electronic instruments, and will argue that the analogue computer is the forgotten ancestor of the modular synthesizer in both audio and video. Zagreb / 04.10.18About / Joost RekveldJoost Rekveld is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. In his films, installations and performances, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. His work is an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. He has been giving lectures since 1993, has been teaching interdisciplinary art since 1996, and from 2008 to 2014 he was the course director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He currently an artistic researcher at the KASK School of Arts in Ghent.http://www.joostrekveld.net#vectorhackfestival #vectorhack #analoguecomputer #analogcomputer #mediaarchaeology
Joost Rekveld: Lightning Empiricism: Analogue Computing and Interactive Exploration (PART TWO) Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-09 | Analogue computers were in common use between 1950 and 1975; they made supersonic airplanes, missiles and nuclear reactors possible, calculated Dutch flood defenses and helped put man on the moon. Despite this, most current histories of computing hardly mention analogue computing or omit it altogether, and present a curiously linear account of progress. In his keynote, Joost Rekveld will link different strata of the history of analogue computing to past and future potentials in the audiovisual arts. The thinking of generations of scientists and engineers was informed by practices of electronic simulation, in which physical analogies were enlisted to make electronic models that mostly worked in real-time. Oscilloscopes and vector displays were an integral part of these simulators, and made the analogue computer the most important tool for interactive explorations until personal computers became ubiquitous in the eighties of the last century. Joost will discuss some of the direct links between these analogue simulators and the early history of audiovisual electronic instruments, and will argue that the analogue computer is the forgotten ancestor of the modular synthesizer in both audio and video. Zagreb / 04.10.18About / Joost RekveldJoost Rekveld is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. In his films, installations and performances, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. His work is an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. He has been giving lectures since 1993, has been teaching interdisciplinary art since 1996, and from 2008 to 2014 he was the course director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He currently an artistic researcher at the KASK School of Arts in Ghent.http://www.joostrekveld.net
Ida Hirsenfelder: Expanding Spaces. Early computer Art in Slovenia Vector Hack Festival 2020-05-02 | The lecture is based on the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM exhibition Pioneers of Computer Art (2016) presenting eleven artists and groups who had created works by the use of computers in the early years of their usage from the 1960s to 1980s. The exhibition did not show their most know works but the works which announced – much ahead of their time – the ways in which media will play out its role in the society and the effect it will have on perception, physical bodies, the environment, etc. The pioneers of computer art in Slovenia worked in a socio-political and academic context that allowed them to use technical tools owned by public institutions. Their experimental works received their place on the margins of public institutions (national televisions, national radio stations, universities), yet they were not excluded for them but created autonomous zones inside the public institutions. The artists predominantly utilised technological systems to help them understand how their own culture works, to be able to test the boundaries of perception, to free the mind of its own cultural codes by the use of automated computational systems, to provoke the social, cultural and perceptual presumptions.Ida Hiršenfelder works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM on projects related to digital archives. She is a coordinator and editor of Network Museum, a repository for contemporary audio-visual art. She is also the museum’s on-line editor. From 2007 to 2013 she was a digital archivist at Center for Contemporary Arts SCCA–Ljubljana, where she was co-developing DIVA Station, Digital Video Archive with a great interest for media archeology, archives and their disappearance – the digital life and the digital afterlife. She is an advocate and user of free and open source software, and creator of experimental sound-art under an alias beepblip. beepblip.org #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Robert Henke: Lumière Laser Performance Demonstration Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-25 | Lumière is a concert series by Robert Henke exploring the artistic dialogue between high precision lasers and percussive sounds. It is based on a unique vector graphics software, which the artist is developing since 2010. Drawing with lasers requires the precise and fast movement of small mirrors. This imposes severe limits on the achievable complexity. Lumière embraces these properties with its minimalist approach. The software allows the generation of rapid successions of visual shapes and associated sonic events, and the manipulation of them in real time. During this presentation, Henke will explain the basic concepts of the Lumière software and demonstrate various parts of the work he has developed with it over the years. Zagreb / 03.10.18Robert Henke is a composer, installation artist and software developer, born 1969 in Munich, Germany. He is mainly known for his contributions to contemporary electronic music and for his laser works.Coming from a strong engineering background, Henke is fascinated by the beauty of technical objects. Developing his own instruments and algorithms is an integral part of his creative process. He utilises mathematical rules, controlled random operations and complex feedback loops to build the machines driving his art. Many of his installations change slowly and over long periods, and are specifically conceived or adapted for unique locations and their individual properties.Robert Henke’s musical work has a particular focus on rhythm, timbre and color, and he is recognised as a pioneering explorer of surround sound and wave field synthesis. His long term musical project Monolake, founded in 1995, became one of the key icons of a new electronic club music culture emerging in Berlin after the fall of the Wall.Robert Henke is also one of the main creators of the music software Ableton Live, which since its invention in 1999 became the standard tool for electronic music production and completely redefined the performance practice of electronic music. He writes and lectures about sound and the creative use of computers and held teaching positions at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains – Le Fresnoy, in Lille, France.His installations, performances and concerts have been presented at Tate Modern London, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, PS-1 in New York, MUDAM in Luxembourg, MAK in Vienna, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, STRP Biennale Eindhoven, and on countless festivals including Unsound, CTM, MUTEK, Sonar, New Forms Festival, and others. http://roberthenke.com #vectorhackfestival #vectorhack
Roland Lioni: Axoloti the Portable Vector Machine Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-25 | Axoloti is a standalone portable microcontroller board programmable with a patcher environment similar to a modular audio synth. Axoloti is intended mainly as a diy musical instrument. Roland Lioni will give a short introduction how to use Axoloti in conjunction with a xyz display to make oscillographics and 3d vector shapes and will show some patches he uses for his live performances. Ljubljana / 06.10.18About / Roland Lioni aka akirasrebirth is a video artist based in Bolzano, Italy. He works with analog video synthesis, focusing on vector synthesis and glitch art. He’s also highly active in the DIY scene, organising audio and video bending workshops. Roland is a founding member of the 4-man band Vector Decay and of the DIY-electronics collective Secret Media Lab. He worked with the duo kvsu to create two audio-visual performances for the festival transart (sen xor and acousmatic strings) and performed live with many bands. http://www.akirasrebirth.com #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Ivan Marušić Klif: REWereHere – A Scan Processing App Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-18 | REWere Here is a free, open-source scan processing app that evolved from Klif’s performing patches. It is designed as plug’n’play audio-visual instrument for live performance and as an educational tool. It uses computers sound card to display low resolution Rutt/Etra type video on analog oscilloscope. In this talk Klif will demonstrate the app and explain how the original patch evolved over time and how he used it in his own art projects. Ljubljana / 05.10.18About / Ivan Marušić Klif: The artwork of Ivan Marusic Klif feature two aspects of media art: one is the use of electronic and digital technology in the art world context and the other is a research of relationship between human being and his/her technological environment.From his early light installations of the 90’s to the recent software-controlled installations Ivan Marušić Klif has consistently explored and experimented with the possibilities of media, both new and obsolete, through the use of sound, light or video image, continually constructing increasingly complex immersive technologically mediated environments. Main technological focus of his recent work is controlling analog equipment using computers.http://i.m.klif.tv
Jerobeam Fenderson: How to Draw an Owl Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-11 | …about the interdisciplinarity in finding case-specific approaches for audiovisual representations of time-based vectors on an oscilloscope.Jerobeam Fenderson is a sound artist and electronic technician, based in Austria. His Oscilloscope Music project is an audiovisual experience, where images are drawn with sound. Waveforms are fed simulataneously into a set of stereo speakers and the X/Y-inputs of an oscilloscope. The identical signal is observed by both listening and looking at it. The process of creating sounds that look good rules out most conventional methods of synthesis and mixing, but at the same time opens up a mesmerizing dimension of synesthetic geometry.http://oscilloscopemusic.com
Jonas Bers: Analog Scan Processing Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-11 | Part lecture, part live demonstration; this talk will provide a friendly overview of the technical aspects of analog scan processing using a modular synthesizer. Topics covered will be: comparison of audio and video signals, basic anatomy and mechanics of a CRT television, how to display video on a vector display, and methods for achieving artistic effects, such as the Rutt/Etra luminance displacement technique. Ljubljana / 05.10.18
Hansi Raber: One Hundred and Three Tests (OsciStudio/Livecoding Demo) Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-08 | This talk will go through some of Hansi’s favorite programming tests of the past 18 months. It will give a glimpse into the mathematics and coding strategies for making oscilloscope music and feature a messy but interesting algorithm to solve the geometry clipping problem.Zagreb / 04.10.18.
Stefanie Bräuer: Oscilloscope Imagery in Early 1950s Experimental Film Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-08 | Oscilloscope Imagery in Early 1950s Experimental Film. Mid-Century Forays into the Intersection of Electronics and Filmmaking: This talk explores films from the early 1950s that merged electronic images with cinematic procedures, such as animation and montage. This combination of cinematography and oscillographics marks a shift from the mechanical-kinetic to the analog-electronic paradigm. With concrete examples, the role of sound, space, and abstraction will be examined.Stefanie Bräuer (*1986) is an art historian who works at the intersection of art history, media studies, film history and the history of science. Currently, she pursues a doctoral thesis at the Institute for Media Studies within the University of Basel. Her dissertation explores the implementation of oscilloscopic imagery in early 1950s experimental film. Parallel to her research, she taught courses on the history of audiovisuality as well as on the theory and culture of digital media at universities throughout Switzerland and Germany.https://medienwissenschaft.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/stefanie-braeuer/
Douglas Nunn: Software for vector synthesis and performance Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-04 | The appeal of vector graphics may derive from the seemingly infinite resolution, the line-based aesthetic, and the intrinsic impermanence of the display. Other motivations lie in repurposing obsolescent hardware, reimplementing historical devices, or simply diverging from mainstream approaches to video. It is hypothesised that vector displays fell out of use when computers lacked the power to fully exploit them, and that this limitation no longer applies. Many audio tools are well suited to vector synthesis as both need complex timed control of multiple parameters. The wide range of creation/performance methodologies allows varying degrees of audio/video correlation. At one extreme, visuals may be independent of the audio. However, audio tools allow simultaneous synthesis in both the visual and auditory domains. Alternatively, there are many ways to derive visuals from the audio, sometimes with identical signals driving the display and loudspeakers. This talk discusses software options for vector synthesis in both performance and studio environments, and presents experimental results from using Pure Data, ChucK, and a modified Vectrex games console. Examples include simulating chaotic oscillators and video vectorisation. Zagreb / 03.10.18
Andrew Duff: A modular synth and a modified games console from the 1980s. Vector Hack Festival 2020-04-04 | I was chatting with an old friend who I don’t see very often. He knows I like messing about with sound and old synths, but when I told him I was currently using about £1k’s worth of modular synthesizer to draw shapes on the screen of a weird old games console he burst out laughing! This talk will present and reflect upon pieces of art, design and cultural artefacts that I think are important and influential in forming the basis of my oscillographic experiments since sharing instructions online about how to modify an increasingly expensive 1980s Vectrex games console. Zagreb / 02.10.18About / Andrew Duff Andrew Duff is a sound artist and organiser of the University of Sussex based Brighton Modular meet. Since the late 1980s, Andrew has amassed a large collection of electronic music, and collected, modified and experimented with a range of, generally, Japanese analogue synthesizers, DJing, recording music and performing live at club nights and various other events. Since completing a Masters in Design and Digital Media in 2000, he has been involved in teaching and academic research, whilst developing his own work.andrew-duff.co.uk
Bernhard Rasinger: The Schizophonic Life of Resonant Filters Vector Hack Festival 2019-11-02 | Bernhard Rasinger will present his performance system, which combines a modular synthesizer and state of the art laser technology. He will go into depth about his performance principles such as the duality of things and schizophonia. The technical corner points of this talk are the beauty of resonant multimode filter circuits, chopping up circles with comparators and the secret power of amplitude modulation. This talk is based around a modular eurorack synthesizer.About / Bernhard Rasinger:He performs on a system that combines a modular synthesizer and state of the art laser technology to create a lucidly hypnotic audiovisual experience. (BR-Laser, Tearing light from sound, LaserBros.) Bernhard Rasinger is engineer, visual sound artist and cofounder of the art association NewJörg Vienna. He is a regular guest at international experimental music festivals, music fairs and soldering workshops. Performances include Ars Electonica in Linz, Superbooth in Berlin, Modular Days Barcelona, Machines in Music in New York and Gigamodular Tokyo.http://www.br-laser.com #vectorhack #vectorhackfestival
Darko Fritz: Analogue and Digital Vector Art in the New Tendencies (1961-1973) Vector Hack Festival 2019-08-12 | Dot and line are building blocks of a visual language since the very beginning of drawings made by humans. Today this vocabulary may be translated into ‘pixel’ and ‘vector’ resulting into raster or vector images. Lecture examines the histories of hand-made, electronic and digital vector art within the international art network the New Tendencies from 1961 to 1973. NT started as an international exhibition of in Zagreb 1961 presenting analogue instruction-based, algorithmic and generative art and developed into an international network of artist, critics, curators, art historians and gallery owners. In following editions NT inaugurated the participative art and arte programmata (nt2, 1963), immersive environments (nt3, 1965), visual research with computers (t4, 1968) and finally presenting both analogue and digital visual research next to conceptual art (t5,1973). (New) Tendencies amplified of the use of new technologies and new materials in art, through positive approach of using machines in in art process. NT was since beginning kind of umbrella network, concerning different art groups. Computer visual research was inagurated in NT after influence of information aesthetic theories by Max Bennse and Abraham Moles. Since 1968, NT presented and connected nodes of digital art practitioners form around the world, as artists groups ‘ars intermedia’ (Vienna), Compos 68 (Utrecht), Grupo de Arte y Cybernética (Buenos Aires), artists grouped at the university computer centre in Madrid and Paris (G Vincennes, scientific research centres (Boris Kidrič, Ruđer Bošković, Vinča) and corporate teams that produced art at Bell Laboratories, IBM, MBB Computer Graphics, CalComp and finally digital art networks as the Computer Arts Society London. Zagreb / 02.10.18. About / Darko FritzSince the late 1980s, the work of artist, curator and researcher Darko Fritz has revolved around a significant investigation into the use of technology in culture. His curatorial work and research on New Tendencies and early digital art has earned international acclaim with exhibitions at HDLU, Zagreb (2000), Neue Galerie, Graz (2007), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008-09) and Akbank, Istanbul (2014). Fritz edited Media Art in Croatia at the portal Culturenet. The research “The beginning of digital arts in the Netherlands (1955 – 1980)”, was awarded by the grant by Mondriaan Foundation. Fritz is founder and programmer of the grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art since 2006.Member of professional organizations HDLU (visual arts), ULUPUH (design), and AICA (art criticism). http://darkofritz.net
