3.12.2010 - Friday

17:00 - 22:00
Zacheta - National Gallery of Art

Pokaz i podsumowanie konkursu CHOPing / ogloszenie wyników, przekazanie płyt DVD + dodatkowe koncerty

4.12.2010 - Saturday

10:00 - 22:00
Zacheta - National Gallery of Art

Workshops (10:00 - 14:00)

» Host - Jarek Grzesica

» "MaxMSP/Jitter - generative composition: from chaos to structure" - Paweł Janicki - WRO

» "User’s guide for the Jeskola Buzz modular studio" - Paweł Ryttel (Xlorite) - WEF

» "Technology in the artist’s hands...DIY for everyone" - Piotr Michałowski (Nmls) - WEF

Discussion panels (16:00 - 22:00)

» "History of the tools for recording and editing sound and their influence on the users" - Wojtek Morawski - ESKULAP

» "ChoP: Multicultural Collaboration" - Grzegorz Bojanek - WEF

» "VISUAL MUSIC - optical ways of sound recording, and the artistic outcomes of the method" - Krzysiek Cybulski - WEF

» "Using supercomputers in artistic projects" - Marek Zawadzki - PCSS

» "How to mix electronic and jazz music – presentation and discussion" - Mariusz Adamiak -  WSJD

» "Technology versus liberation of imagination" - Jerzy Kordowicz - Polskie Radio

» "Music and three-dimensional environment: Will the popularisation of game engines or Internet communities such as SecondLife form the interactive form of video clips?" - Przemysław Moskal  - Visual Artist via Skype (with Jarek Grzesica)

» "Decline of music TV as a chance for independent culture" - Kamil Pączkowski - MTV Polska

» "SOFT BORDERS 2010 Upgrade!Warsaw" - Roch Forowicz - ASP

» "To what extent is the creative process supported by the modern tools and to what extent our creativity is dulled by them?" - Maciej Polański - Estrada i Studio

23:00
Zaklęte rewiry

Nippanappa (Vibrasugrum / Stockholm) & Guiddo + vj Matemito Braun
Jarek Grzesica
Mathias Nova (Wroclaw)
Krzysiek Cybulski & Xlorite
Nmls
Mikolaj Menes
Bulbuloid
Omnibrain

Wojtek Morawski - (1986) - culture scientist and musician interested in drone/ glitch/ minimal music. What interests him the most is Sound as a meta date - information about information (ambience, surrounding, sound reflections). The main report is the information about the space. His music is full o high pitched notes and sounds, which he truly loves. Fan of acoustic researches and alternative history. Vegetarian.

Title: "History of the tools for recording and editing sound and their influence on the users"

In my speech I want to focuse on relations beetwen sound technology and their users in historical perspective. Different ways of thinking about sound are always based on tools that ones work with. Understanding subtel limitations of tools we work with, makes us able to recognize what our sound efforts really are.

Grzegorz Bojanek- (1975), also known as Eta Carinae, is the founder of the net label: www.etalabel.com. Since 2007 he has been the artistic producer of Warsaw Electronic Festival. As an artist he consequently introduces field recordings and electroacoustic sounds into his compositions which are the combination of the modern melodics ambient and sometimes noise. He cooperated with many artists from USA, Canada and China. Grzegorz is the co-founder of ChoP project where he concentrates on multicultural collaboration between China and Poland.

Title: "ChoP: Multicultural Collaboration"

ChoP has been strongly supported by WEF since it was founded in 2006. ChoP Tour in China 2009 and Zen Lu’s tour in Poland this year were a big success. This year British video artist and director Isaac Julien invited ChoP to take part in his latest project. Both founders of ChoP, i.e. Grzegorz Bojanek and Zen Lu were invited to take part in the 8th Shanghai Biennale. They played 5 live-acts which became a live score for Julien’s film "Better Life". All participants will be able to watch and discuss Julien’s film during the closed screening, available only for WEF members.

Krzysiek Cybulski - experimenting composer and bass player. For the last few years he's focused on digital sound processing, mostly in live context. Having background in improvisation using traditional instruments, he created his own live setup in the modular software environment "Reaktor", which lets him improvise his live sets from scratch. Since 2008 a member of Warsaw Electronic Festival society.

Title: "VISUAL MUSIC - optical ways of sound recording, and the artistic outcomes of the method"

Short lecture about the ways of recording sound on film, and about possibilities which the technology opened for creative artists. Presentation of footage by animation artist Norman McLaren, experimental and commercial music instruments based on optical sound recording method, and the presentation of interactive software by Krzysiek Cybulski and Piotr Barszczewski, which transforms video to sound in real time."

Marek Zawadzki - HPC Systems Administrator, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. Marek leads the Data Processing team in PSNC. Graduated from Poznan University of Technology and Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ, USA). His team is responsible for supercomputing infrastructure of PSNC (clusters and SMP systems) and manages the hosting cluster of Microsoft Innovation Center (a platform for various projects in cooperation with Microsoft).

Title: "Using supercomputers in artistic projects."

Nowadays, high performance computing systems can perform quadrillions operations per second, meaning the can analyze and process large amounts of various data in a short period of time. In our discussion panel, we'll try to answer the question how to harness this potential in a non standard way, normally reserved for simulations in the area of physics, chemistry, biology, etc.

Roch Forowicz - (1978) In 2005, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. Since 2007, he has been working as an assistant at the Inter-University Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Organising Upgrade!Warsaw since 2007. Curator and co-founder of 2.0 gallery in Warsaw. Participant of many expositions and festivals, such as FILE festival (BR), HAIP Festival (SI), Liwoli09 (AT), Paraflows 09 (AT), Urban Research (DE), Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej - Zamek Ujazdowski (PL), Komuna Otwock, Entropia, STUDIO, WEF, Krytyka Polityczna etc. Through his artistic activity, Roch Forowicz refers to the ‘city surveillance’ culture – constant supervision by means of CCTV and data processing and filing software and devices. His activity is radical, often characterised by illegal ‘hacktivist’ interventions, consisting in intercepting and using technological devices against their creators’ will.

Title: "SOFT BORDERS 2010 Upgrade!Warsaw"

Presentation of Upgeade!Warsaw node, perepared for UPGRADE!INTERNATIONAL 20101 „Soft Borders“ Sao Paulo. Presentation include parts of art projects developed by several Artists: Paweł Janicki "Mapping Chopin", "The Tangled Sky". Karol Radziszewski "Fag Fighters". Krzysztof Żwirblis ”Housing estate television (Zielona Góra)”, „Unselfish urban space - winter garden“. Roch Forowicz „Detection”.

Jerzy Kordowicz - radio journalist, publicist, producer and promoter of electronic music. Since 1977 he has worked for Channel 3 of the Polish Radio where he hosted various programmes, such as “Studio Nagrań”, “Klasycy syntezatorów”, “Top Tlen”, “Nastroje el-muzyki” or “Studio el-muzyki”. He was one of the co-creators of the programme “Nie tylko dla orłów”. At present he hosts the programme “Studio El-muzyki” broadcasted at night, from Monday to Tuesday, between 00:00 and 2:00a.m. Jerzy Kordowicz has incredible knowledge on the origins of electronic music, in the course of his journalist career he was able to observe the changes occurring both in the approach to technological means and in new variations of electronic music. In his programme he has presented also the artists from the WEF stage.

Title: "Technology versus liberation of imagination"

Paweł Janicki - (1974) - is an independent media artist and producer working in the field of media art, microsound aesthetics and algorithmic composition, is a creator of audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances; is associated with the WRO Center for Media Art, where he currently directs the WRO Laboratory.

Title: "MaxMSP/Jitter - generative composition: from chaos to structure."

Przemysław Moskal - (1973) is an artist and professor of interactive media at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. His interactive installations and screen based projects have been exhibited internationally at numerous new media art festivals. His art works can be viewed on the Internet at www.laksom.com

Title: "Music and three-dimensional environment: Will the popularisation of game engines or Internet communities such as SecondLife form the interactive form of video clips? "

Kamil "Pączek" Pączkowski - (1979) - master of Economics with thesis subject “Funding in the Arts”" and an ex-student of film and tv production. For last 5 years has been working for MTV Networks Polska where he manages special sponsorship projects such as MTV Unplugged, VIVA VIP, VIVA COMET AWARDS and many others. In his spare time he does things connected to design and film and he looks for the right space for his cafe.

Title: "Decline of music TV as a chance for independent culture"

Discussion dedicated to changes that are happening in popculture media industry and to their impact on independent arts.

Piotr Michałowski - audio artist who is collaborating with Warsaw Electronic Festival since 2008. Using stage name Nmls he produces music in genres like: Ambient, Downtempo, Breakbeat, Chillout, IDM. His music is characterized by melodious atmosphere and combining synthetic sounds with acoustic instruments (sometimes very much processed). His music was released on compilations in WEFREC and Bosson Higgs Rec. Close to the end of the year 2010 his solo EP containing music based on F. Chopin's compositions will be released.

Title: "Technology in the artist’s hands...DIY for everyone"

The lecture will deal with the matter of making analog devices for generating and processing sounds based on readily available schematics. The main purpose is to familiarize the participants with the basics of electronics and it’s use in music, to define the most important and most commonly used electronic components and to teach how to read schematics. The lecture will be completed by the presentation of few devices and discussion.

Paweł Ryttel- (aka Xlorite) uses Jeskola Buzz for several years. The sound is 100% synthetic and oscillates in the genres of IDM, Abstract, Ambient, Noise. In appearances on stage presents mostly improvisation and rarely his tracks. He avoids publishing of his work on records because his songs all the time live and evolve and often can not call them a final version. He works in a duo with Piotrek Michalowski as Ambot creating IDM and also with Krzysiek Cybulski presenting improvisations in IDM/Minimal/Abstract.

Title: "User’s guide for the Jeskola Buzz modular studio"

- The history, evolution and general principles of the program.
- Explanation of hex record.
- Chaining audio plugins and automation.
- Presentation of selected generators and how to use samples and VST plugins in Buzz.
- Control parameters using the Peer Control plugins.

Mariusz Adamiak - a cult figure in the world of jazz music: an organiser and promoter of jazz music. The manager of the jazz club “Akwarium”, the founder of Radio Jazz and Jazz a Go Go magazine as well as of “Agencja Akwarium”. Since 1992 he has run the Warsaw Summer Jazz

Title: "How to mix electronic and jazz music – presentation and discussion"

Jarek Grzesica - curator and founder of the Warsaw Electronic Festival, President of the Art and Technology Foundation responsible for promotion of the new media projects, producer and promoter of electronic and experimental music, musical journalist, author of texts and workshops on technological aspects of sound and visual production. In 2005 he was granted a scholarship of the US Department of State, “Current Trends in Media Art”. Author of many radio projects: “Future Shock” programme at Jazzradio. Co-author of “Future Sessions” – night radio concerts featuring the promoted artists on the Polish Radio – hosted together with Mateusz Kwiatkowski.”

Maciej Polański - the Editor of the Estrada i Studio magazine: he have written hundreds articles on technology, music software/hardware tests, special reports and tutorials. He is passionate about sound design and innovative signal processing methods. However, he strives to keep balance between love for vintage gear and his fascination for the digital domain. A sound engineer experienced in working on audio post-production projects for short films and TV spots, former member of Star Of ’77 house music producer duo. A graduate of Warsaw University, majored in Marketing and Management.

Title: "To what extent is the creative process supported by the modern tools and to what extent our creativity is dulled by them?"