Performers:
Anna Nazo | Mowgli | Mark Pilkington
Live performance has always been an integral part of the contemporary media art discourse. FLUX Live: AV presents three exceptional audiovisual performances that combine sound, visuals and technology in their creations. The works will be complemented with artist interviews throughout the event that will deeper explore the performer’s creative practice and rationale behind their work. We will discuss how a time-based practice enables bold and creative expression for media artists and the impact of live performance on a contemporary audience.
Performance artist Anna Nazo will present Flame 2.0 involving spoken word poetry co-written with AI, sound and imagery that are computer generated from artist's brainwave data and drone performance. Trans media artist and performer Mowgli will showcase Eye of the Beholder, an improvised audiovisual performance with analogue audio and real-time generative compositions. Mark Pilkington, composer and performer of electroacoustic music, will feature a number of audiovisual works including Birth, Current 9 and Synergies. His works extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual environments.
About the Artists:
Anna Nazo
https://cargocollective.com/annanazo | IG: @annanazo
Anna Nazo is a London-based performance artist whose practice engages computing technologies, philosophy and science. Her current focus is on AI poetry, drones, brainwave CGI, 360/VR video. Within live digital-physical audiovisual performance Anna’s work investigates questions of intelligence diversity and ethics of the technological.
Flame 2.0
Flame 2.0. Performance for Entanglement: Just Gaming, RCA Visual Cultures Lecture Series, Zoom/ Royal College of Art, London, UK. 25th June 2020. 0.07’.
Flame 2.0 is a Zoom 360 digital-physical AV performance presented by Anna Nazo’s avatar ‘α Phoenicis (Ankaa)’. The work involves spoken word poetry co-written with AI, sound and imagery that are computer generated (CGI) in real time from artist's brainwave data (EEG), and drone performance.
Using a 360 degree video archive, the work engages in a live conversation with its earlier iterations, multiple platform live streamed performances conducted from home during the lockdown in London, including Flame, a performance for Stay LIVE At Home programme, organised by Performistanbul, Live-streamed on Zoom and Instagram @annanazo, Istanbul, Turkey / London, UK, 3rd May 2020, 0.20’; and Undulation, a performance for So remember the liquid ground, a public program in a partnership between the RCA CCA and Gasworks, Online/ London, UK, 15th June 2020, 0.20’
Anna has exhibited and performed in the UK and internationally including at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2018); Victoria & Albert Museum: Digital Futures, London (2016, 2018); Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2019); National Museum of Art of Latvia: RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga (2019); Iklectik Art Lab: ArtFutura Festival, London (2019); Copeland Gallery: NSF Crxss Platfxrm Festival of Street Culture, London (2018); Exposed Arts Projects, London (2018); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2016); Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2015); MozEx exhibition curated by the Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2016); The Artist Project, Toronto (2015); Somerset House , London (2013); NYC Creative Tech Week, New York (2016); Performistanbul, online/ Istanbul (2020); Gasworks, online/ London (2020); SymbioticA Lab Conference, Perth (2018). Anna is a PhD Candidate and Tutor in Fine Art (Performance & Technology) at the Royal College of Art, UK.
Mowgli
https://mowgli.tv/ | IG: @mowgli_tv
I am a trans-media artist and performer with an interest in sustainability, re-purposing and the intersection between art and technology. My work, which questions perception, consciousness and our role in the universe, often combines emerging and obsolete technologies with found objects to create new and unforeseen experiences. From audiovisual live-shows at the British Film Institute Southbank to award-winning interactive installations for Burning Man, light art for the V&A and pilot programmes for the BBC, my solo and collaborative work spans the senses and creative disciplines. I am currently co-director of VJ London and resident VJ for Crux AV London.
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder is an improvised audiovisual performance. All the audio is hardware generated with mostly analogue devices while the visuals are real-time generative compositions which are manipulated live.
It explores the interactions between audio and video cycles from a fractal perspective, striving to create a trance-like state in the viewer. Due to its improvisational nature, the performance is always tailored to the time and space making it site-specific. In its many iterations, it has ranged from beat-less melodic ambience to mid-tempo dancing grooves and from single screen visuals to 360-180 dome projections.
Eye of the Beholder was premiered at Shambala Festival 2019 and has been performed at events and exhibitions including Mars & Beyond which was featured in Forbes and Crux AV. During the lockdown it has and will be streamed live on my Facebook page and on third-party streaming events.
Mark Pilkington
https://markpilkington.org.uk/ | Twitter: @dapilk | Instagram | Facebook
My artistic practice encapsulates both sounds and images as a means to extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual environments. Forging immaterial and creative labor through a network of interwoven and augmented territories, my work increasingly queries the way technology carries great critical and creative potential. I received a PhD in Music from the University of Manchester 2009-2012. Composed music using multi-channel sound, sonification and data visualisation at the NOVARS research centre. Currently researching and performing audio-visual composition with Dr. Oliver Carman at the University of Liverpool. My music has been performed and screened internationally at ICMC, ARS Electronica, ZKM | Karlsruhe, MANTIS festival and the Open Circuit Festival.
Thought Universe is a solo music project of Dr. Mark Pilkington a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. Thought Universe emerged from the 90’s underground electronic music scene of Manchester in the North West of England. It's music that reflects the emotional energy of the electronic sound of analogue and digital synthesisers. It follows an angular, yet strangely warm melodic profile, thoughtfully syncopated rhythms, noise textures pushing beyond the conventions of techno and ambient music. Incorporating electroacoustic practices and algorithmically designed music reaching far beyond the dancefloor, offering a sound world that is simultaneously playful and sophisticated, clinical and organic. A Thought Universe performance embodies a physicality through movement, lightning keyboard skills and an intensity that captivates the audience. Artist and machine coexistence within a tapestry of sound in space revealing contorted realities and extended narratives. Thought Universe has released recordings on Skam (UK), Mainline (DK), Recordcamp (USA), Del Riada (UK) and on his own imprint TUM (UK).
https://thoughtuniverse.bandcamp.com/
Anna Nazo
https://cargocollective.com/annanazo | IG: @annanazo
Anna Nazo is a London-based performance artist whose practice engages computing technologies, philosophy and science. Her current focus is on AI poetry, drones, brainwave CGI, 360/VR video. Within live digital-physical audiovisual performance Anna’s work investigates questions of intelligence diversity and ethics of the technological.
Flame 2.0
Flame 2.0. Performance for Entanglement: Just Gaming, RCA Visual Cultures Lecture Series, Zoom/ Royal College of Art, London, UK. 25th June 2020. 0.07’.
Flame 2.0 is a Zoom 360 digital-physical AV performance presented by Anna Nazo’s avatar ‘α Phoenicis (Ankaa)’. The work involves spoken word poetry co-written with AI, sound and imagery that are computer generated (CGI) in real time from artist's brainwave data (EEG), and drone performance.
Using a 360 degree video archive, the work engages in a live conversation with its earlier iterations, multiple platform live streamed performances conducted from home during the lockdown in London, including Flame, a performance for Stay LIVE At Home programme, organised by Performistanbul, Live-streamed on Zoom and Instagram @annanazo, Istanbul, Turkey / London, UK, 3rd May 2020, 0.20’; and Undulation, a performance for So remember the liquid ground, a public program in a partnership between the RCA CCA and Gasworks, Online/ London, UK, 15th June 2020, 0.20’
Anna has exhibited and performed in the UK and internationally including at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2018); Victoria & Albert Museum: Digital Futures, London (2016, 2018); Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2019); National Museum of Art of Latvia: RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga (2019); Iklectik Art Lab: ArtFutura Festival, London (2019); Copeland Gallery: NSF Crxss Platfxrm Festival of Street Culture, London (2018); Exposed Arts Projects, London (2018); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2016); Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2015); MozEx exhibition curated by the Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2016); The Artist Project, Toronto (2015); Somerset House , London (2013); NYC Creative Tech Week, New York (2016); Performistanbul, online/ Istanbul (2020); Gasworks, online/ London (2020); SymbioticA Lab Conference, Perth (2018). Anna is a PhD Candidate and Tutor in Fine Art (Performance & Technology) at the Royal College of Art, UK.
Mowgli
https://mowgli.tv/ | IG: @mowgli_tv
I am a trans-media artist and performer with an interest in sustainability, re-purposing and the intersection between art and technology. My work, which questions perception, consciousness and our role in the universe, often combines emerging and obsolete technologies with found objects to create new and unforeseen experiences. From audiovisual live-shows at the British Film Institute Southbank to award-winning interactive installations for Burning Man, light art for the V&A and pilot programmes for the BBC, my solo and collaborative work spans the senses and creative disciplines. I am currently co-director of VJ London and resident VJ for Crux AV London.
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder is an improvised audiovisual performance. All the audio is hardware generated with mostly analogue devices while the visuals are real-time generative compositions which are manipulated live.
It explores the interactions between audio and video cycles from a fractal perspective, striving to create a trance-like state in the viewer. Due to its improvisational nature, the performance is always tailored to the time and space making it site-specific. In its many iterations, it has ranged from beat-less melodic ambience to mid-tempo dancing grooves and from single screen visuals to 360-180 dome projections.
Eye of the Beholder was premiered at Shambala Festival 2019 and has been performed at events and exhibitions including Mars & Beyond which was featured in Forbes and Crux AV. During the lockdown it has and will be streamed live on my Facebook page and on third-party streaming events.
Mark Pilkington
https://markpilkington.org.uk/ | Twitter: @dapilk | Instagram | Facebook
My artistic practice encapsulates both sounds and images as a means to extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual environments. Forging immaterial and creative labor through a network of interwoven and augmented territories, my work increasingly queries the way technology carries great critical and creative potential. I received a PhD in Music from the University of Manchester 2009-2012. Composed music using multi-channel sound, sonification and data visualisation at the NOVARS research centre. Currently researching and performing audio-visual composition with Dr. Oliver Carman at the University of Liverpool. My music has been performed and screened internationally at ICMC, ARS Electronica, ZKM | Karlsruhe, MANTIS festival and the Open Circuit Festival.
Thought Universe is a solo music project of Dr. Mark Pilkington a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. Thought Universe emerged from the 90’s underground electronic music scene of Manchester in the North West of England. It's music that reflects the emotional energy of the electronic sound of analogue and digital synthesisers. It follows an angular, yet strangely warm melodic profile, thoughtfully syncopated rhythms, noise textures pushing beyond the conventions of techno and ambient music. Incorporating electroacoustic practices and algorithmically designed music reaching far beyond the dancefloor, offering a sound world that is simultaneously playful and sophisticated, clinical and organic. A Thought Universe performance embodies a physicality through movement, lightning keyboard skills and an intensity that captivates the audience. Artist and machine coexistence within a tapestry of sound in space revealing contorted realities and extended narratives. Thought Universe has released recordings on Skam (UK), Mainline (DK), Recordcamp (USA), Del Riada (UK) and on his own imprint TUM (UK).
https://thoughtuniverse.bandcamp.com/