REPORTS - 2009
LPM - Live Performers Meeting
The LPM project was born in 2004 with the aim to answer to the need for creating a space-temporal referential field where to meet, know each other and share vjing related experiences. Nowadays LPM is an international meeting dedicated to artists, professionals and passionates of veejaying, visual and live video performance.
SEVENTH EDITION Besides the relevant news of this year has been the introduction of many workshops held by some of the international artists who took part in the meeting: PUREDATA (Italy/Spain) promoted by Husk, artist participating in the informal european net of activists/hackers Estereotips, which organizes multimedia projects through the use and manipulation of diverse digital tools and working with free software.
LPM 2009 closed its seventh edition with a smash hit, expanding locations and contents. An historical location, the Brancaleone in Roma, hosted the four days of the Meeting, with a broad program of A/V performances, workshops and showcases of projects, softwares and cutting-edge products. Four days, each one focused on different basic themes: Digital Freedoms, 8 Bit/Eletrropop, Breakbeat/Techno/Electro, Visual Genders.
For the Digital Freedoms session, dedicated to digital freedoms: the exhibition of the first works submitted to the contest RomaEuropaFAKEFactory, curated by ArtisOpenSource and Marco Scialdone and the official preview of MUV, festival of digital arts, electronic music and audiovisual experimentation, with the Vjsets by InFlux and A.C.H. pluse the AV performances by Cassino&Laben, The Clover, and the djset of Ponz.
Among the many Vjsets VADE, video artist and eclectic software developer - researcher for the NYU's Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (New York, USA) and DUBASSY, video artist and vj active in the international clubbing scene since more than 7 years (Barcellona, Spagna).
For the Elettropop/8 bit session: the official preview of Electrode '09, with Sonic Visioneer and Misantropeak, the AV performance by LeCollagiste - an historical and fundamental charachter of the french and international Vj scene. VJ, motion designer, blogmaster and developer - and the workshop by Pikilipita - a duo of artists coming from French-Switzerland living in London, who create original animation with their cartoons and their own self-designed VJ softwares working on different non-conventional: at the moment their favourite platform is the "Sony Playstation 2".
For the BreakBeat/Elettro/Techno session: the performance "Minimo Sazon" by The International Chiles and Case of Emergency by MedeaElectronique - a collective of artists who since many years explore innovative process in music, video, design, paintng, multimedia, and interactive technologies, operating in diverse context, such as multimedia theater pieces, electroacoustic compositions and the interaction between human being and robotics.
Visual Genders is the basic theme of the last day, with visuals dedicated to the Queer world and to the fleeting border among sexual genders. Among the main charachters: the AV performance by Nihilista - a trio based in London whose work blends "old school performing techniques" and vjing. Nihilista identity was born in the London queer culture, inspired by the street life and night clubbing in the Big Smoke London, with a magic combination of dirty rock'n'roll and electro drag queen burlesque. The Vj set of Boxicus a visual artist, queer activist and co-founder of Sabotage project. His Vj sets propose a strong critic towards topics like pornography, consumism, desperation and alienation.
VVVV (UK, London) held by Pedro Mari aka Defetto, italian artist based in London who uses generative art systems in order to create different kind of artworks, from single stills to motion graphics, music videoclip, live visual and real-time interactive applications.
QUARTZ Composer (UK, Belfast) held by Shakinda, one of the best visual talents in UK, he explores the color use and theory applicated to live video. He was also among the finalists of the International Vj Battle organized by Edirol, the leading company in the field of live video hardwares.