Netmage


Netmage is an international festival dedicated to electronic art curated by Xing and produced annually—in the city of Bologna—as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research. The festival was born in 2000 with funds provided by the European Union, when Bologna represented one of the nine major European capital of culture. The festival concentrates on an amalgam of Happenings, environments, and audio/visual installations, it does through a concentration on creative scenes and subcultural communities.
The experience of Netmage was merged into the annual Live Arts Week.

Mission

The mission of Netmage is to investigate the relationship between the "liveness" and the "ambient space".
At the crossroads of these two terms is situated the notion of "post-cinema": defined as an environmental construction capable of gathering widely diverse attitudes in a public space.
Post Cinema/Postmemory It is a cinema made of multi-projections on a number of screens with no seating, a multiplication of narrative traces, possible points of view, physical positions of the spectators; achieving a removal of the forced estrangement of the 20th Century spectator that evoke the world of the first Happenings of the 1960s, the philosophy of expanded cinema, and successive multimedia installation experiments of the 1980s.

"Live Media"

"Live Media is an open-ended term which has come into currency amongst artists and theoreticians. Live-media relates to the gathering of relatively diverse practices capable of calling to mind the wide range of research by video producers, visual artists, musicians, sound artists, VJ's, filmmakers, designers and a range of creative people issued by creative scenes and subcultural communities.
Netmage and its curators have been instrumental in coining and promoting this term.
  • utilization of electronic, digital or analogue platforms to generate images and sound;
  • interaction consisting of visual and audio elements;
  • inclusion of liveness as in any kind of performance.
Playing with stimuli, what is created in the live-media experience is a "privilege of variation" that in the first case goes from designer to public, in the second from public to executor. The confrontation is direct, dictated by the logic of the event.
"Dispositif" and practice thus represent two types of continuous variation through which Netmage questions possible currents in new media aesthetics, summoning artists and visual operators from diverse disciplines, in a context reminiscent of the Happening.
Despite the complexity born from the exploration of this kind of space, ideal internal space, the two axes—post-cinema and live media—intertwine and simply state what may be called a gathering, a togetherness of the community of producers, protagonists in the field of contemporary media, who both find themselves isolated; creating then a direct, interdisciplinary confrontation, thus filling a growing gap between hyper-connectivity on one hand, physical and social experience on the other.

History

The first edition of the festival was born in an historic watershed with a view on one side from the experiences of one of the last bastions of the Twentieth Century avantgarde, video art, and on the other toward a new front that was as yet undefined while the entire world of research visual production was poised to turn fully digital.
In the field of music, the 1990s had already anticipated a great deal of what was later to come in the visual world, pointing the way to a radical transformation in techniques, languages and methods of cultural consumption. Netmage, different from a number of other festivals dedicated to electronics born in the world of clubbing, has concentrated on the production of images, imagination and universal vision.
In eleven editions Netmage has produced and hosted over two hundred projects from over thirty countries offering a smattering of the most recent evolutions in the technological imagination and multiple currents.
Follows the list of the guests of the festival

Netmage 2001

Venues:
Link • Hangar del mercato Ortofrutticolo • Teatro Testoni • Rifugio Antiaereo Giardini del Guasto • Salara • Ex Scuderie di Palazzo Paleotti
Artists:
Venue:
Scuderie Bentivoglio
Artists:
  • Reel Crew/Dj Seam
  • Mordka/ Jake Mandell
  • Visual Kitchen Vsw/Styrofoam
  • Sun Wu-Kung
  • Lleuchtmittell /Bernd Karner
  • Visomat Inc./Dj Shake
  • Norscq presented by Batofar-Paris
  • Ogino Knauss
  • Karø Goldt/Rashim
  • VDJ Safy Sniper
  • Qubo Gas
  • J-Star screening by Onedotzero
  • Farmers manual
  • Dat Politics presented by Batofar-Paris
  • Mouts Room 101

    Netmage 2003

Venues:
Hangar dlF • Raum • Teatro San Leonardo
Artists:
  • Tim Etchells DownTime, Taxonomy, Everything
  • Christian Fennesz/Claudio Sinatti Far From Here
  • Cane Capovolto Stereo #1
  • Otolab
  • Mikomikona
  • Mordka
  • Monitor Automatique
  • Teatrino Clandestino Prima l'immagine e poi il titolo
  • Superstereo/BHF feat. Patrick Tuttofuoco
  • n:ja/Dietmar Schwarzler
  • D-Fuse Gravity
  • Bas Van Koolwijk
  • KMH
  • Ogino Knauss
  • Semiconductor
  • General Magic & Pita Feat. Tina Frank
  • Qubo Gas/Scratch Pet Land Baover Tit
  • Tarwater
  • Jollymusic

    Netmage 2004

Venues:
Sala Borsa • Raum • Cassero
Artists:
  • The Users
  • Alex Adriaansens V2
  • Mylicon/EN/Domenico Sciajno
  • Skoltz_Kolgen
  • Kim Cascone
  • Z_e_l_l_e
  • Radian
  • Fanny & Alexander/Zapruder Filmmakersgroup Villa Venus
  • Mille Rechenzentrum Rechenzentrum
  • Strohmann /Bruckmayer/Jade
  • Mugen
  • Richard Chartier
  • Saule
  • Wang Inc./Saul Saguatti Woods Roads
  • Thomas Koner Banlieue du video
  • Philippe Petit
  • Tonne Soundtoys
  • Hanna Kuts/Viktor Dovhalyuk Akuvido
  • Otolab
  • Scanner 52 Pages
  • Thomas Koner/Asmus Tietchens Kontakt der Junglinge
  • Mou, Lips!
  • Tatiana,GGTarantola,BO130,Unz,Microbo,Dario Panzeri,Matteo Mariano Un'impurità non calcolata
  • Tonne
  • Teamtendo
  • Little Fluffy Luke
  • Francesco del Garda
  • Emmanuel Gonay/Xavier Garcia-Bardon

    Netmage 2005

Venues:
Auditorium Teatro Manzoni • Galleria Accursio • Cassero
Artists:
  • Dmitry Gelfand/EvelinaDomnich Cemra Lucida
  • /triPhaze Organic Debris
  • Greg Davies/Sebastien Roux/Mattia Casalegno Grain Scape
  • Vincent Epplay/Antoine Schmitt Display Pixel
  • Oren Ambarchi/Jon Wozencroft
  • Staalplaat SoundSystem Yokomono
  • Antiopic
  • Patrick Fontana/Emeric Aelters/Pierre Ives Fave Grenze
  • Anthony Pateras/Robin Fox
  • Phil Niblock/Thomas Ankersmit
  • Pirandelo
  • Carlos Giffoni
  • Ateleia /Sadek Bazaraa
  • Scape-Berlin
  • Ogino Knauss
  • Bas Van Koolwijk/Christian Toonk RGB
  • Jan Jelinek/Karl Kliem Sound and Images
  • Monolake/Deadbeat Atlant Waves
  • Pierpaolo Leo/Claudio Sinatti
  • Ellen Alien
  • Will Guthrie

    Netmage 2006

Venue:
Palazzo Re Enzo
Artists:
Venues:
Palazzo Re Enzo • Cinema Arcobaleno • ArteFiera - Art Cafè • Teatro Anatomico – Biblioteca Ariostea - Ferrara
Artists:
Venues:
Palazzo Re Enzo • Appartamento privato - Bologna • Piazza del Municipio - Ferrara
Artists:
  • Visomat Inc./Errorsmith Halbzeug - Surface RefinementDerek
  • Derek Holzer/Sara Kolsterr Tonewheels
  • Nastro Mortal
  • VON - Choir
  • Pita/Jade
  • Anaisa Franco/Theo Firmo
  • Jade Boyd/Simona Barbera Overground
  • Dafne Boggeri/Rhythm King And Her Friends You can wake up now, the universe has ended
  • Olyvetty Nights Erase Days Erase Nights
  • Chelpa Ferro
  • Russell Haswell/Florian Hecker UPIC Diffusion #15, #16
  • Ricardo Caballero
  • emiter_francza
  • Luka Dekleva, Luka Princic, Miha Ciglar FeedForward Cinema
  • Safy Sniper
  • Doravideo
  • Julieta Aranda
  • Mylicon/EN
  • Demons, Prurient/ Carlos Giffoni
  • REV99
  • Silver Apples with Bec Stupak Joshua Light Show
  • Los Super Elegantes
  • Paul Kalkbrenner
  • Ben Klock
  • ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup DAIMON
  • Edwin van der Heide, Pneumatic Sound Field
  • Mirco Santi, Andrea Belfi Stilllivingrooms

    Netmage 2009

Venue:
Palazzo Re Enzo
Artists:
  • Pete Swanson/John Wiese/Liz Harris
  • Pierre Bastien
  • ATAK NIGHT: Keiichiro Shibuya/Evala
  • Growing
  • Keiji Haino
  • Invernomuto
  • Sunburned Hand of the Man
  • Emeralds
  • Németh/Lotte Schreiber
  • Andrea Dojmi/Flushing Device
  • Mudboy
  • Black Dice
  • The Skaters /Roland Lethem
  • Pascal Battus/Kamel Maad
  • Mattin/" " Goldie
  • Thomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli
  • Virgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter
  • Camilla Candida Donzella
  • Bock & Vincenzi

    Netmage 2010

Venue:
Palazzo Re Enzo
Artists:
Venue:
Palazzo Re Enzo
Artists:
  • Massimiliano Nazzi Life Kills
  • Barokthegreat/Michiel Klein Russian Mountains
  • Zapruder Criptofonia
  • Gaëtan Bulourde/Olivier Toulemonde Not every object used to nail is a hammer
  • Calhau! Quadrologia Pentacònica
  • James Ferraro Toilet Toad T.V. Overdrive
  • Bruce McClure Se Volessi Fare Un Fuoco Che Seza Dano Infuocherebbe Una Sala, Farai Cosi
  • Cao Guimarães/O Grivo
  • Ries Straver/Adam Lieber Mute Dog Loffa
  • Thomas Köner/Jürgen Reble Camera Obscura
  • Home Movies /In Zaire Paper Mache
  • Luke Fowler/Keith Rowe/Peter Todd The Room
  • Prince Rama I Want My Life Back
  • Pippi Langstrumpf