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NODE10 – Forum for Digital Arts [Events, vvvv]

This is a guest post by Marius Watz, one of the curators of the NODE10 exhibition.

NODE10 – Forum for Digital Arts
Frankfurter Kunstverein, November 15-20, Frankfurt am Main

NODE10 was the second installation of the NODE festival, a project created to support the community of VVVV, the popular tool for realtime video synthesis. VVVV is a visual programming environment, similar to Max/MSP and Pure Data but with a strong bias towards realtime graphics and complex multimedia installations. This week-long event included live events, a theoretical symposium as well as the exhibition “abstrakt Abstrakt – The Systemized World” (to be covered in detail in a follow-up post).

But the core of NODE10 was really its extensive programme of practical workshops, ranging from basic tutorials to advanced topics:

- Digital Media in Performing Arts
- Visual Music
- Projection on the Things
- Effects and Shaders
- Plugin Coding
- Character Animation
- Data Visualization
- Boygrouping & Multiscreen Setups

See the NODE10 Flickr group for more pictures from the festival.

VVVV

Originally created as an in-house development tool for the media design agency MESO, VVVV is now being developed by the independent VVVV group. Among its most notable features: Support for GPU shaders, integration with hardware control interfaces like MIDI, DMX and OSC as well as the unique Boygrouping feature which makes networked rendering effortless.

At NODE10 much attention was given to VVVV’s newest feature, the ability to write plugin nodes directly in C#. This provides a powerful bridge between the ease of patch-based programming and more conventional procedural programming. Simply put: The best of two worlds.

Event: Abstract Birds – Genesi

The performance Genesi by Abstract Birds showed off VVVV’s full potential, featuring shader-heavy graphics and smart audio-responsive animation.

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Event: Paul Prudence

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NODE10 Lecture Day

Moderated by Eno Henze, the NODE10 lecture day expanded on the topic of the ‘abstrakt Abstrakt’ exhibition. Presentations touched on computer culture, complexity in biological systems, cybernetics and technological utopia.

Lecturers: Eno Henze, Frieder Nake, Klaus Mainzer, Ludwig Engel, Lutz Dammbeck, Marius Watz, Matthias Böttger, Sebastian Oschatz, Stefan Bergheim

Exhibition: NODE Deluxe

Selected from a public call for submissions, NODE Deluxe took place at MA*, the former location of a diamond exchange. Works included robotics, plotter drawings and interactive audiovisual installations.

Artists: Daniel Stempfer, Daniel Tauber, Envis Precisely, Florian Egermann, Jonas Bohatsch, Stefan Schwabe.

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Demo night: Patcher Kutcha

No festival would be complete without a fast-and-loose demo session. NODE10′s version was Patcher Kutcha, hosted by MESO’s Max Wolf.

NODE10 – Festival credits

NODE10 Forum for Digital Arts is an event by NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur, in cooperation with Frankfurter Kunstverein.
Partners: MESO Digital Interiors, Satis&Fy
Festival direction / Production direction: David Brüll, Ingolf Heinsch
Program direction workshops: Joreg
Curation‚ ‘abstrakt Abstrakt‘: Eno Henze, Marius Watz
Curation ‘NODE Deluxe’: David Brüll, Ingolf Heinsch, Valérie-Françoise Vogt
Technical planning: Markus Berger, Björn Schwarzer
Program editorial & design: Valérie-Françoise Vogt
Website editorial: David Brüll, Ingolf Heinsch, Valérie-Françoise Vogt
Webdesign & booking system: MESO Web Scapes
Corporate- & Motion-Design: Thomas Hitthaler, Andreas Koller (Strukt GmbH)
Graphical support: Alexander Balzien, Valérie-Françoise Vogt
Vvvvinissage: Ingolf Heinsch, Hans Romanov
Helpers coordination: Nicole Forster, Nina Jahn
Artists supervision: Patrick Raddatz

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More photos from the festival available here.

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