On Friday the 29 we had a a sea of interactive light installations by Noorderlicht, wild yet danceble music by the Lowriders ft dj Slugabed and a massive 3D mapping at the Unie by Out of Order.
Marco Broeders and Erik Ruttgers of Noorderlicht presented their analogue projections using large rotating slides from their own lab. Joris Strijbos, one of the driving forces behind ‘Macular’, is a Rotterdam based artist who works in the field of expanded or live cinema. De Oplichters use old or self-made and adapted video equipment for their performances. They make compositions in real-time in which they use cameras, video mixers, screens, overhead projectors, lasers, lamps, paper, insects, musical instruments and more. www.co2ro.nl
David Louf is part of the multidisciplinary artistic duo Out of Order and works as a graphic designer and video artist. He will create for three days in a row a splendid fusing of image and sound at De Unie, creating a live soundscape by video mapping.have composed especially for the Image Festival. www.outoforder.nl
Slugabed is a British producer and deejay whose work balances between dubstep and hip-hop. His mix of G-funk, sexy sci-fi electro, boombap and hip-hop creates a new kind of explosive energy. It will be a great party, full of energy and smiles from ear to ear. Those familiar with the Lowriders’ parties know they can expect a thrilling mix of all contemporary music styles, with energy and celebration being key. Expect styles like UK funky, garage, boogie, skweee, hip-hop, beats, dubstep and grime all fused into an explosive whole. The Lowriders dj team will consist of Ruwedata, SIMcommander, Coco Bryce, Off Hand and Halp, who made his debut there. www.lowriderscollective.com
Jan Vollaard writes on pop music for NRC Handelsblad, nrc.next and various other publications. A recurring theme in his 25 years as a critic and interviewer is the relationship between sound and image as seen on record sleeves, in music videos and in live performances. In 2009, in cooperation with De Lakenhal in Leiden, he produced an article and lecture titled “Bubbles and High Art: Relating Barney Bubbles to Theo van Doesburg and contemporaries” in which he discussed the influence of the artists Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitsky and their contemporaries on album design. Vollaard is an avowed lover of art and architecture.One of his hobbies is playing the theremin, an electronic instrument which is played without touch.
In his keynote Vollaard will consider the relationship between art and album design, from Sgt. Pepper to the Sex Pistols and from hippie music to the hi-tech record sleeves of New Order and Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark. Record sleeve designers such as Barney Bubles and Peter Saville were directly inspired by examples from art and architectural history. Artists such as Peter Blake, Andy Warhol, Anton Corbijn and Banksy designed ground-breaking record sleeves and even Salvador Dali dabbled in rock & roll. The record sleeve is the ultimate in pop art, contemporary art accessible to all. Vollaard will illustrate this with visuals and, where necessary, audio under the motto “Sex and Art and Rock & Roll”.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
13:00 > 13:20 HRS
Vera is a club with a rich history that has been around since 1974, featuring concerts, movies and dance nights. Before that it was a sorority, but as the years passed the members became more and more politically active and organized lectures, poetry nights and jazz-concerts. After a few years the members voted for a direction towards live-music. Peter Weening initiated this change and nowadays still works as our mainstage promoter.
A lot of bands that later became famous first played here. To name a few: Joy Division, U2, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Franz Ferdinand, Editors and many, many more. Vera has two halls: the main hall (capacity 500) and a smaller one (cap. 80) in the former vaults (dating from the 15th century). Vera mostly relies on the effort of the 220 volunteers. They work in a great variety of groups such as Photography, Bartending, Sound, Light and of course the Art-Division!
The concert posters of the Vera Club exist since the 80ties due to a group of always changing, enthusiastic young designers. The posters are screen printed in the attic of the club that locates a small graphic studio. Besides screen printing the studio also locates facilities where the famous Vera Krant is produced. This little club magazine is made with the help of a small semi-automatic offset machine and always full of colourful illustrations.
The Vera posters are unique pieces of art, printed in a run of maximum 70 pieces, which makes them true collector’s items. The prints are often peeled from the walls even before the concerts even started. At the moment the Vera Club has 11 poster designers that print a little over one poster a month.
Studio Frontaal
Kunny van der Ploeg and Mirjam Dijkema of Groningen based collective Studio Frontaal, have both been working for the Vera Club for several years as poster designers. Their shared passion for authentic design methods -such as collage, drawing, letterpress and screen printing- brought them together collaborating on several projects. ‘The work we make for Vera, is feeding our more regular design work. We have so much freedom in creating the posters; legibility is the only requirement. Therefor the Vera club is a dream client; we explore, associate freely on themes and songs and band names and experiment with several illustrative methods. That’s how we stay fresh and inspired. It’s wonderful making your hands dirty with ink, not staring at a screen the whole day. The hand made aspect makes it very personal and gives it an immediate originality. We strive to continue this in all the work we produce; it should be authentic, surprising and personal.
Kunny van der Ploeg (1980) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Academie Minerva in Groningen and got a scholarship to study at Edinburgh College of Art to get her Masters Degree in Graphic Design. Ever since 2004 she works as an independent graphic designer for a broad variety of clients.
Mirjam Dijkema (1984) gor her BA at Academie Minerva in Groningen where she studied Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation. After that she studied History of Modern Art at the University of Groningen.
They formed the collectieve Studio Frontaal in the spring of 2009, together with Josje Kobes.
THE FENNO WERKMAN SHOW – 100 YEARS OF MUSIC VIDEO CLIPS
Fenno Werkman is a researcher for clients in entertainment industry such as Beatles, Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Bill Wyman, Paul Mccartney, Yoko Ono, Warner Brothers, Universal, EMI, Sony, VH-1, BBC, Granada, VRT, NPS, WDR, ZDF etc. Holding one of the largest private owned filmarchives in the world with film material from 1894 up to present covering almost every subject you can think of. Doing danceparties 35+ Dance Your Midlife Away for the eldery youth and from every song played we show you the original videoclip. Fenno did a keynote about 100 years of music videoclips at the Cinerama at 28 october and hosted a after at the Unie later in the evening.