FESTIVAL

BE YOUR OWN SOUVENIR

Be Your Own Souvenir uses sophisticated cameras take a 3D picture of your body and 3D printers to create a 3D model you can take home as a souvenir!

Click here to view the printer in action! http://youtu.be/a8c4QcGCNw0

BYOS connects …

PANTHA DU PRINCE

Pantha Du Prince LIVE
Time 8:30pm-3am

Under the pseudonym Pantha Du Prince, Henrik Weber fuses house, techno, electronica and electro-acoustic soundscape into music that is at once both beautiful and fascinating. Pantha has released several recordings through the respected German label Dial Records. His previous …

CELL

James Alliban & Keiichi Matsuda

UK, 2011

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival this interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements. Personal identity is increasingly becoming a broadcasted commodity, as …

MATTHEW DEAR

Matthew Dear DJ Set
Time 8pm-6am

Alpha-ville Festival are delighted to announce that Matthew Dear will be performing a DJ set at the Festival on Saturday the 24th of September.

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop …

OLD APPARATUS

Time: 7-11pm

Old apparatus return off the back of their latest deep medi release with an otherworldly audio/visual show that has previously been performed with the likes of Fennesz and Philip Jeck.
“creakings and whirrings, musty steam clouds, subterranean groans …

SVARTE GREINER

Time: 7-11pm

Best known as one half of the delicious duo Deaf Center, Erik K. Skodvin is one of Norway’s most treasured sons and founder of the prestigious record label Miasmah. Svarte Greiner has performed in some of the most …

JACASZEK

Time: 7-11pm

Jacaszek is a talented polish electroacoustic musician and producer. He is the latest in a tradition of Eastern Europeans exploring the reaches of sentimentality in classical music. Clearly influenced by the liturgical compositions of Henryk Gorecki or John …

ILLUM SPHERE

Time: 8:30pm-3am

Described as “one of the most special and unique artists to come out of the UK” by Hyperdub first lady Ikonika. Hoya Hoya label co-owner Illum Sphere creates sound that draws influence from hip-hop as much as it …

EVERY DAY PLAY


Katy Beale

UK, 2011

A one day interactive drop-in session at Alpha-ville’s Innovation Space, enabling visitors of any age to get involved in an entertaining, creative, hands-on process. Create, explore and prototype ideas about a ‘post-digital Hackney’, and create imaginary …

DIY WORKSHOP: DESIGN A SUCCESSFUL BRAND IDENTITY AND MARKETING STRATEGY

Mark Knight, Music marketing & strategy consultant

Time: 15:00 – 15:30

This workshop is designed to provide independent & unsigned artists with ideas about how to promote themselves more effectively. Topics covered will include. Objective setting, brand image & identity

DIY WORKSHOP: LIVE GREEN SCREEN COMPOSITING WITH ISADORA

In the Picture

Time: 3:00 – 4:00pm

Participants will learn the basics about taking photos and go off and take their own pictures. The pictures have to be on the theme of “The Community You Live In”. Participants will then …

TALK: ADDRESSING MEMORY FAILURE – ARCHIVING THE UK WEB

Helen Hockx-Yu, Head of Web Archiving at the British Library

Time: 2:30 – 3:00pm

Helen Hockx-Yu leads a team of web archivists and technologists to archive and preserve the UK web. Previously, Helen was project manager of the Planets project, …

DIY WORKSHOP: SOUND CLINIC, SOUNDCLOUD

David Adams, Business Development at SoundCloud

Time: 2:00 – 2:30pm

SoundCloud will be giving a clinic to explain what tools from SoundCloud and connected applications can help you to share and promote your audio across the web, as well as …

ALPHA-VILLE SYMPOSIUM ON POST-DIGITAL CULTURE

Time: 9:30am – 4:40pm

This year’s programme addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beyond technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and …

MOBILE ROADIE

Stephen O’Reilly, Director of International Sales

Time: 1:00 – 1:30pm

Stephen has worked in the fashion, sports and music industries for over 10 years specialising in online and mobile marketing, sponsorship and PR. He studied Sound and Music Technology in …

CUT

Time: 4pm

CUT | Kristian de la Riva | 2010 | 3:05 minutes

synopsis: In CUT a lone male character attempts to cut away various body parts using ever more extreme methods to do so. A distorted ode to relationships …

ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: SOLAR SINTER

Time: 4pm

Solar Sinter | Markus Kayser | 2011 | 06:07 minutes
synopsis: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur …

HYBRID PLATFORMS AND SOCIAL TV: THE EXTENSION OF DISBELIEF

Alexandra Wall

Time: 2:00 – 2:30pm

This presentation presents a brief outline of my Alexandra Wall’s experience in the working in the digital marketing and social media industry. Alexandra will discuss her work on television show Misfits’ Social Media campaign. …

THE EAGLEMAN STAG

Time: 4pm

the Eagleman Stag | Michael Please | 2010 | 08:55 minutes

synopsis: Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, …

MEDIATING MEDIUMS – THE DIGITAL 3D

Time: 4pm

Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d | Greg Tran | 2011 | 5:24 minutes

synopsis: “Technology is on track to produce a new medium: The Digital 3d. As it escapes the screen, the digital enters into the realm …

WIRELESS IN THE WORLD 2

Time: 4pm

Wireless in the World | Timo | 2010 | 4:39 minutes

synopsis: An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language …

THE GREAT WESTERN SINGULARITY

Time:  4pm – Saturday, 24th September

 

The Great Western Singularity | Eric Schockmel | 2010 | 4 minutes

synopsis: Commissioned by jotta.com and sponsored by Intel for the REMASTERED: a jotta and Intel Visual Life Production exhibition at One Marylebone …

DREW HEMMENT

Time: 10:10 – 10:40

Dr. Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher based in Manchester England. Recent projects have been on open data, remote collaboration, new mobilities and environmental mass observation. He is Director and Founder of FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic), and

SUPER PIKIX VS WALKABOUT PROJECTION

Harajuku Zoo (Pikilipta & Prickimage)

Time: 3:30 – 4:00pm

HARAJUKU ZOO (PIKILIPTA & PRICKIMAGE) will host a workshop/presentation of the open source software SUPER PIKIX & how it is utilised for live interactive performance with WALKABOUT Projection (as used by …

NETWORKED CITIES

Fabian Neuhaus

Time: TBC

Fabian Neuhaus will present and discuss his ‘Networked Cities’ project in the Innovation Space’s Speakers Corner. For this project Neuhaus examined the spatial and temporal nature of Twitter data from four cities: Brussels, The Hague, London …

MORITZ STEFANER

Time: 10:45 – 11:15am

Moritz Stefaner joins the symposium to speak about data for social innovation. Moritz works as a freelance designer on the crossroads of data visualization, information aesthetics and user interface design. With a background in Cognitive Science …