Footscray Audio Visual Social Club Events
Footscray Audio Visual Social Club (FAVSC) is a FCAC project produced by Emile Zile and co-curated by Martyn Coutts and Tim Webster, Artists In Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre. The Club is a
fortnightly meeting place for media artists, noise makers, electronics boffins, installation artists, circuit benders, DIYers, video geeks, laptop musicians, curators and those with an interest in low/hi-fi new/old-media art. Here's what FAVSC has in store for multimedia lovers to enjoy.
Electric Cinema Invitational
Join the FAVSC crew for an evening of live music and video performance in the Pit Theatre. Electric Cinema Invitational combines the talents of local and international musicians, video artists and performers for one great night out.
Tuesday 12 August
6pm – 8pm
Pit Theatre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Previously at Footscray Audio Visual Social Club
A Session with Isobel Knowles & Cassandra Tytler
Our July FAVSC session combines the talents of Isobel Knowles and Cassandra Tytler.
Isobel is prolific animator, musician and artist. Raised in Portland but now based in Melbourne, Isobel is a broadly talented producer. From producing animated shorts and cinema ads to playing trumpet on stage with Architecture in Helsinki or creating music videos for a range of local bands, Isobel does it all. Check out her talents at http://www.isobel.supermelody.com and witness some of her latest projects and screen works at FAVSC on Tuesday 8 July.
Teaming up with Isobel is film maker and video installation artist Cassandra Tytler. Cassandra works across installation and single-channel modes of practice, exploring contemporary cultural iconography, idealised reality and realised fantasy. Fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, Cassandra employs experimental scriptwriting processes that pastiche isolated, fragmented conventions into compelling, revealing stories. Her films have screened in numerous festivals in the USA, Korea, UK and Europe, and she has exhibited work in a number of galleries both here in Australia and overseas. She returns to Footscray Community Arts Centre after a recent stint in France marked by guest studio residencies and solo exhibitions. For more information on Cassandra and her work visit http://www.cassandratytler.com
Tuesday 8 July
6pm – 8pm
Pit Theatre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Open Devices Mix
Fire up your devices, home-made optics, overhead projectors, laptops, guitar pedals and CD-Rs – calling all audio-visualists, musicians, projectionists: the FAVSC Open Devices Mix is returning. Bring your gear and plug'n'play at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Tuesday 10 June.
In late 2006 we opened up the Pit Theatre up for the first Open Devices Mix. Highlights included early-generation video porta-pak optical experiments, live software video mixing, field recordings and radio collage mash-ups, impromptu DJ collaborations, ocker MC battle-raps, wall-tall video projections of experimental bi-pedal robots, psychedelic animations from Providence Rhode Island and 1960s Turkish super-hero feature film mash-ups. Join the FAVSC crew at this eye-opening and ear expanding night of freeform creativity.
Tuesday 10 June
6pm – 8pm
Pit Theatre
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings essential. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
undue noise
Hailing from the central Victorian goldfields, Paul Fletcher, Jacques Soddell and Simon Howard – the three sound and video artists of the undue noise collective – will perform at FAVSC using a diverse array of audio visual devices.
Formed in 2002, undue noise is an informal collective of central Victorian experimental musicians and filmmakers. Based in Bendigo, the group is organised by Jacques Soddell and regularly holds events that give members an opportunity to perform and exchange ideas.
In this rare Melbourne performance at FAVSC expect vacuum cleaner MIDI Interfaces, digital video, live film and Max/MSP programming.
Tuesday 13 May
6pm – 8pm
Hydra Studio
FREE
Bookings essential. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Sven König: Music to Observe Electronic Sheep
The first FAVSC event for 2008 features international guest artist, entertainer and self-described popmodernist – Sven König. This Berlin-based conceptual media genius is in Australia for the first time for Music to Observe Electronic Sheep, the unofficial tour presented by the collective dis-pose-contemporary in collaboration with FAVSC. He will perform sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! Live at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Tuesday 22 April.
Sven König is the founder of the radical mind-music-machine and sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, conceptual software that makes it possible to work with samples in a completely new way. As a performer he remixes ‘80s and ‘90s MTV aesthetics in a constant media flux. He has been invited to and has performed across a diverse range of institutions, contemporary music, sonic arts and new media festivals, and art and technology forums throughout Europe and North America including FutureSonic in Manchester, Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Transmediale in Berlin, IRCAM Centre Pompidou and Caroussel Du Louvre in Paris, The Distillery in Boston, Montreal’s Society of Art and Technology, and the Canadian Centre for Contemporary Art in Toronto.
With a blend of noise and beat boxing conspiracy, musical virtuosity and buggy software appropriation, radical plagiarism is apparent when witnessing the phenomena of Sven König in action. sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! Live presents an orgiastic electrical storm of dysfunctional MTV aesthetics – the software and artist producing an improvised audio visual remix of a symphonic orchestra in real time which seduces and satiates the viewer into a frenzy of generation X nostalgia.
Tuesday 22 April
6pm – 8pm
Hydra Studio
FREE
Bookings essential. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Jungle Bells-Audio-Visual-Drinks-Party-Rave
After seven months of fortnightly free electronic arts events in Melbourne's West, it's time to fire up the devices and have a party FAVSC-style.
The Pit Theatre at Footscray Community Arts Centre will be stacked with video projectors, overhead projectors and a sound system for one final open devices mix for the year. If you've been intrigued by the notion of VJ'ing, live audio improvisation or optical light installation, come down and see what all the fuss is about. If you have a laptop or tunes you can transport then you’re invited along to plug in and play. Bring a DVD or memory stick of your work to project alongside other artists involved in FAVSC. Celebrate the festive season with this eye-opening and ear-expanding night of free-form creativity.
Tuesday 11 December
6pm until late
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE. Refreshments provided
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
An Evening with Robin Fox
Enjoy an evening in the company of experimental artist Robin Fox on Tuesday 30 October.
Robin is a Melbourne-based sound-artist and researcher currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and collaborative settings. He works in the fields of computer music performance and audio visual diffusion and has also created a series of audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope.
Robin has performed with some of the world’s leading improvisers including Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (album Substation released by Room40 records in 2005), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Sean Baxter, among many others, and has an ongoing collaborative duo with composer/performer Anthony Pateras. This duo is documented on Coagulate, released through Synaesthesia in 2003, and Flux Compendium, released on eMego in 2006. He is also a member of Beta Erko and has recently released a solo recording.
Robin is a regular performer and speaker at festivals around Australia, including What is Music, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, SOOB, NowNOW andBig Day Out. He also performs regularly across Europe. This FAVSC appearance provides audiences an opportunity to learn about the work of this artist.
Tuesday 30 October
6pm – 8pm
Hydra Studio, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Bluebottle Artist's Talk
On Tuesday 13 November visionary designers and Artists In Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston, present an artist’s talk and presentation of their work, including The Art Unit.
Ben and Andrew established the company Bluebottle 3 in Melbourne in 1991.They have worked in every state and territory in Australia and are renowned for their creative and innovative approach to lighting and design. They have worked in theatres, galleries and museums, as well as a host of less conventional spaces. Together they have worked on an extensive range of events including installations, music performances, exhibitions, dance performances, and other special events
Ben and Andrew are highly-regarded in the arts industry as theatre lighting and design professionals, and they are both leaders in their field. The pair is interested in extending the possibilities of design and the integration of light and the surrounding environment. They enjoy working closely with people from various backgrounds to assist them in achieving their creative goals.
This FAVSC Bluebottle Artist’s Talk certainly promises to be illuminating evening.
Tuesday 13 November
6pm – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
An Evening with Brendan Lee
Brendan Lee is a local Footscray artist working in the mediums of video installation and photography and reflecting the West in new video and photographic work. FAVSC presents a night of filmic narratives and tropes portraying the underbelly of Australian cultures, including Brendan’s most recent work Proving Ground at ACCA in NEWO&.
Brendan is a founding member of the Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, and the Projekt Australian Video Art Archive. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane, and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. His works have been included in a range of exhibitions and festivals in Los Angeles, Spain, Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Athens, and he has also curated a number of exhibitions and screenings both nationally and internationally. Brendan was guest editor of Photofile 74: flick the switch and recently completed an Australia Council residency in Los Angeles. He also lectures in video art at Victoria University.
Join the FAVSC team to learn more about the work of this photographic artist.
Tuesday 27 November
6pm – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Scott Cotterell
Tasmanian Scott Cotterell is a media artist, writer and curator whose work traverses electronic music, video projection, public and street art, d.i.y. publications, conceptual installation and collaboration. Scott has worked as a writer, curator and installation consultant for contemporary art and performance spaces and as an artist with community-based cultural development organisations.
Scott has performed and presented work at numerous large-scale national festivals including Liquid Architecture and ElectroFringe and has been published in Australian Art Collector, Un Magazine,and theprogram.net.au. His work has featured in independent film, theatre and television both in Australia and Europe as well as at contemporary art exhibitions in solo, group and collaborative modes.
On Tuesday 2 October Scott hacks and reflects the database for FAVSC-goers.
Tuesday 2 October
6pm – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Open Devices Mix #3
Come down and plug'n'play at this Open mixer, Open video projectors, Open Devices Mix #3.
The FAVSC crew is opening up the Hydra Studio for another round of pixel-projection and sound-wave amplification. If you've been intrigued by the notion of VJ'ing, live audio improvisation or optical light installation, come down and see what all the fuss is about. Get your hands dirty with live A/V. See how the machines do what they do, assisted by their human servants. For the seasoned performer this is an open platform to present music, audio, visuals or untested electronic art experiments. For the beginner it's an eye-opening and ear-expanding night of freeform creativity.
Tuesday 16 October
6pm – 8pm
Hydra Studio, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
An Evening with Luke George
Tasmanian choreographer and dancer Luke George heads to Footscray Community Arts Centre to share the development of his latest work LIFESIZE, a project involving new work in dance, sound and video from Luke with Kristy Ayre, Luke Smiles and Martyn Coutts.
Luke George started dancing with Tasmanian-based group Stompin Youth Dance Company in 1994 and is now its Artistic Director and choreographer. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Luke has performed with one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies Chunky Move throughout Australia, Britain, Europe and Asia since 1999. He has also danced for choreographers Philip Adams (BalletLab), Stephanie Lake, Frances d’Ath, Jo Lloyd, Shelley Lassica, Itoh Kim (Tokyo) and Miguel Gutierrez (New York).
In January, after receiving the prestigious Russell Page Fellowship for emerging choreographers, Luke began the LIFESIZE project. LIFESIZE is a critique of the perversity of instant gratification society. As a dance work that uses media as its weapon, integrating VJ’ing and composed sound, LIFESIZE is at its core about the body – how it is lived, how it is mediated, how we view it, consume it, copy it and alter it.
Experience an evening of short sections and ideas from LIFESIZE performed by the creators.
Tuesday 18 September
6pm – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Rotterdam VHS Festival screening
Join the FAVSC team for a screening of the best of recent submissions to the Rotterdam VHS Festival. This exciting event marks the first time that this provocative video and animation festival, held regularly at Het Wilde Weten studios in Rotterdam, has been presented in Melbourne.
Whoever started the rumour that video art is boring and only for the gallery really shouldn’t miss this collection of playful, satirical, scratchy and exuberant videos including the work of Melbourne artist and one-time Footscray Arts workshop tutor Cassandra Tytler.
With special thanks to Niels Post and the Rotterdam VHS Festival team.
Tuesday 4 September
6pm – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Here’s some information on what you’ve missed at FAVSC events throughout the year:
Maribyrnong Moisture: Footscray Arts Artist in Residence FAVSC
Come see what Footscray Community Arts Centre Artists in Residence Lindsay Cox, Emile Zile, Martyn Coutts, Tamsin Sharp and Carlee Mellow have been plotting, concocting and creating during 2007 at this special FAVSC. From stop-frame animation, new dance works, and wireless camera hybrid performances to Steve Irwin tribute documentaries this night will be eclectic and elastic bucket of creativity.
Tuesday 21 August
6pm – 8pm
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
An Evening with Dale Nason
[text] Enter the world of dark-wave projectionist Dale Nason as he improvises with mobile light and freestyle voltage using video projectors attached to his body. Nason is a VJ and a teacher at RMIT and has recently returned from working in New York.
Tuesday 7 August
6pm – 8pm
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
An Evening with Paul Rodgers
Paul Rodgers has a comprehensive background in media arts site-specific installation, time based media and performance art practice in the UK and internationally and more recently in Australia, where he has been based for the last 6 years. Now, we welcome him to Footscray Community Arts Centre and invite you to get better acquainted with some of his amazing work.
Since 1997, Paul has exhibited mixed media installations at PB Gallery (2000), Stripp Gallery (1999) and the Binary Bar (1997), Melbourne. His films are represented by Lux (London) and have been screened extensively internationally at venues such as Millennium, New York (2001) and Light Cone, Paris (2001) and at festivals such as the Cote Court, 3e festival du Court Metrage, France (1994) the London Film Festival (1990) and the Polish Short Film Festival, Krakow, (1990). His work has also been broadcast on television by Channel 4, UK (1992), BBC 2, UK (1992) and SBS Television, Australia (1996) amongst others.
In 2001 Paul premiered the kinetic digital media installation, Projection Machines, at Mass Gallery, Melbourne and in 2002 he constructed the Hidden Tower. This architectural, video projection and audio based installation, which was sited in a vacant lot at the edge of the Melbourne CBD, was featured in the 2002 Melbourne Autumn Music Festival..
Tuesday 26 June
6 – 8pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Rollergrooves
An installation-performance duo in rollerskates, producing photographic and video evidence of their temporary performances and social-interruptions, the Rollergrooves appear in their signature red and white camouflage of innocuousness. Recent performances have included EmergeD Glasgow and ENDGAME Late Capitalist Realism at VCA Gallery Melbourne and now they’ll be skating on in to Footscray Community Arts Centre.
Tuesday 12 June
6 – 8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
Open Devices Jam
Calling all audio-visualists, musicians, projectionists: the FAVSC open devices mix is returning, so fire up your devices, home-made optics, overhead projectors, laptops, guitar pedals and CD-Rs and bring your gear along to plug'n'play in the Pit Theatre at Footscray Community Arts Centre. In late 2006 this venue was opened up for the first open devices mix with highlights including early-generation video porta-pak optical experiments, live software video mixing, field recordings and radio collage mash-ups, impromptu DJ collaborations, ocker MC battle-raps, wall-tall video projections of experimental bi-pedal robots, psychedelic animations from Providence Rhode Island and 1960s Turkish super-hero feature film mashups. This time anything could happen – and probably will!
Tuesday 29 May
6 – 8pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
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