SCHEDULE

All 3 days will feature convention style tabling from toolmakers and artists and interactive video art installations.

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Friday August 15

1130am:
    Doors open to public

Presentations

  

1pm: Synopsis Video Art 
    Award-winning video artist Denise Gallant presents the background of the the Synopsis video system, which they designed nearly 40 years ago in collaboration with Rob Schafer.  

2pm: Creative Entropy: Harnessing Uncertainty in Video Art
    Aaron F. Ross, aka Dr. Yo, presents a conceptual overview of randomness and chaos as creative tools in video art.

3pm: Processing the Female Form: Co-opting NSFW Online Platforms with Experimental Video Streams
    sarah sarah turner turner explores “not safe for work” online distribution sites as a way to bypass censorship on traditional platforms. This practice has inspired new works, new  Forrelationships, and a new dynamic between on-screen and off-screen content creation.

4pm: ISI VP-8: Image Processing with 1970s Analog Computers
    Thomas Fang and Matthew Rempes demonstrate the Interpretation Systems Incorporated VP-8 Image Analyzer, an analog computer used for realtime raster and vector image processing in the 1970s.

Art Gallery Opening Party

5-8pm
Featuring

• Sean Russell Hallowell performs audiovisual music for the medieval hermitage, and talks on their custom designed Video Synthesis System
  
• Hypnogenesis: A Video Synthesis Arcade Game from Allen Riley
  
• Live Glitch Video Portraits from Kit Young
  
• Glitch Artists Collective Pavillion ft rdklinc, jonCates, & trizzytrunks.
  
• The Retina Video Synthesizer, a hand-built, one-of-a-kind, analog modular video synthesizer designed and built by Madonno Productions.
  
• Liquid Lightscape from Lia Coleman
  
• Surface Tension, a multi channel audio reactive CRT sculpture from Alex Pelly
  
• And more interactive installations from Shana Palmer, Los Datos, Gork_online, Schwaaa, Aaron F. Ross (Dr Yo), Dr. Rek, Cyclop Toad, and Adam Sladek
  

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Saturday August 16

11:30am:
    Doors open to public

Presentations

12pm: Painting with Polygons - a dive into DRUGS™’s circuit bent PS2
    Colston Byrd explores the possibilities of a familiar and alien device, the circuit bent PS2 developed by the DRUGS™ team. 

1pm: Vsynth Show & Tell
    Developer Kevin Kripper presents a show and tell of the latest updates to the Vsynth visual programming toolkit for MAX/Jitter.

2pm: History and Process of Liquid Light Shows
    Steve Pavlovsky discusses the history of liquid light shows and analog visuals from the 1960’s to today

3pm: Analog Operators for Video Synthesis
Lars Larsen of LZX Industries discusses their pursuit of reusable analog building blocks for video synthesis.

Live Audio Visual Performances

5-8pm
Featuring

• Eva Aguila performing eurorack synthesizers and field recordings gathered from rural Michoacán
  
• Knob Fondler performing “Intelligent Bootyshakin’ Music”
  
• sarah sarah turner turner performing “Dolphin Connection”
  
• Eric Schlappi + Bastien Lavaud performing semi-improvised modular electronics
  
• Alex Pelly, Andrei Jay & Lia Coleman performing live video & audio synthesis with liquid lights and cymatics
  

    

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Sunday August 17

1130am:
    Doors open to public.

12:30-130pm
    Guided tour of installations and tablers from Andrei Jay.

2-3pm
     Guided tour of Synth Library Portland.

3:30-430pm
    Screening video art from:

• NeimannsLand & Morten Berthelsen(v), Bjarke Niemann
  
• NiemannsLand
  
• Aaron F. Ross (Dr. Yo)
  
• cyberboy666 & jhl
  
• cyberboy666 & bj leo
  
• cyberboy666 & jannah quill
  
• Andrei Jay
  
• James Connolly & Monica Panzarino
  
• Monica Panzarino
  
• Agamemnon Juunes
  
• schwwaaa
  
• cskonopka
  
• Will Erokan
  
• Ed Mellnik
  

5pm
    Doors close.