New Forms Festival
New Forms Festival #10
The convergence of media art, electronic music and digital culture
September 10 – 18, 2010
New Venue for the New Forms Festival which celebrates its 10 year anniversary. A milestone for this electronic, preformance, artistis, digital and avant gard festival. All events at W2/Storyeum – 151 West Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC. The Festival and Exhibition Opens on Sept 10th, featuring over 15 art installations and performances by a number of Vancouver’s emerging electronic artists. Sept 11th focuses on the next level of dub infused music with SLUGABED, BLUE DAISY, ILLUM SPHERE, and NASTY NASTY. Sept 12th showcases BEAT NATION, a collective of Indigenous artists working in traditional and new media environments. Sept 17th, New Forms serves up a new experience on the dance floor with SCOTT W, JASON LEV and OMAR-S, one of the most influential dj/producers in House and Techno today.
New Forms #10 presents four eclectic and innovative nights of electronic music featuring both Vancouver-based artists and others from around the world. Based at W2/Storyeum, the festival celebrates electronic music ranging from bands, hip hop, dubstep, techno and house to disco. The focus of New Forms has always been exposing a wide range of musical genres while showing new innovations in their musical exploration.
Friday, September 10th: Opening Gala (& SWARM AfterParty)
The festival opens with a gala evening featuring Basketball, Love & Electrik, No Gold, Love Dancing, Babe Rainbow and Resorts in free performances starting at 10pm. From laptops to bands and everything in between; this lineup showcases the diversity of Vancouver’s electronic music scene today. This event is an open invitation for the community and newcomers alike to check out and enjoy the exhibition and music. Light projections by Peter Hagge. Curated by Chris Wang.
W2/Storyeum, 151 West Cordova Street, 10pm, Free
Saturday, September 11: The Opposite of Fear
A night of music that builds sonic bridges between dubstep, funk, hip hop, static, bass, experimentalism and visual sound. Featuring “the new guard” in electronic music, Blue Daisy (UK), Slugabed (UK), Illum Sphere (UK), NastyNasty (US) , Michael Red and Lomax, the night reclaims an enlightened and joyful mindset through truly next-level genre-defying live electronic music.
Curator: Michael Red.
W2/Storyeum, 151 West Cordova Street, 10pm, $20 advance / $25 at the door.
Sunday, September 12th: Beat Nation
Beat Nation is a ground-breaking collective of indigenous hip hop artists working in traditional and new media. Beat Nation is about music, it’s about art and it’s about the spirit of Indigenous peoples and cultures. Beat Nation will present a fresh line up of performers, from Cree to Inuit to Haida to Mohawk and more; the roots of hip hop are there but they have been ghost-danced by young Native artists who use hip hop culture’s artistic forms and combine them with Aboriginal story, experience and aesthetics. The evening features Sista Hailstorm, Urban Buffalos, Ostwelve, Skeena Reece, Peter Morin and Christie Charles. Co-curators: Tania Willard & Skeena Reece. Produced by Glenn Alteen, grunt Gallery and Paul Armstrong, International Arts Initiatives.
W2/Storyeum, 151 West Cordova Street, 8pm, $5 at the door or by donation.
And on Friday, September 17th the festival presents Body, a celebration of dance music through collaboration between local and international artists. The evening features Omar-S The Best (US), Scott W (Canada) and Jason Lev (Canada) with video projections by Shawna McLellan and Nicolas Sassoon. The night will deliver a new experience on the dance floor through installation and sound.
Curators: Cedric Meister and Josh Bartholemew.
W2/Storyeum, 151 West Cordova Street, 10pm, $20 advance / $25 at the door.
Tickets for the September 11th and September 17th performances at: Zulu, Highlife, Scratch and Beatstreet and online at www.clubzone.com
NEW FORMS #10 – EXHIBITION: TRAVERSING ELECTRONIC NARRATIVES
This year’s New Forms presents the largest media arts exhibition of its kind in the history of Vancouver.
At W2/Storyeum from September 10 through the 18th, TRAVERSING ELECTRONIC NARRATIVES focuses on the diversity and ingenuity of the media arts scene in Vancouver, and how it speaks to the greater world of art today. Presenting Vancouver-based artists, the exhibition is a narrative involving video, sound, sensors, mobility, location, interactivity, participation, diversity and history. Featuring work developed in Vancouver over the past 10 years, the exhibition speaks to both the development of the local media arts scene as well as how it relates to the larger history of the city over the last decade.
Themes of change, location, surveillance, exploration, myth, travel and meditation take us from direct documentation and stories about this land to journeys of physics far beyond the confines of the exhibition. Curated by Malcolm Levy, Traversing Electronic Narratives is a story of growth, experimentation and the multiplicity of artistic experiences that play a role in media arts today. Free / by donation.
Included in the exhibition is Gramorail (Artists: Vancouver Design Nerds and eatArt)
The Gramorail is a pedal-powered marriage of kinetic sculpture, vehicle and stage. The vision was to design and build a contraption complete with a human-powered engine, rails and a human-powered DJ sound system attached to a gramophone. A fascinating and interactive piece, Gramorail allows people to create sound and technology through their own energy. It is part of a greater goal of creating projects that use art to educate people about the role energy plays in our lives, and to raise questions about the social and environmental impact of energy use.
Exhibition Artists include:
Alex Beim: Block
Beat Nation – Jolene Nenibah Yazzie (Navajo), Skeena Reece (Tsimshian), Peter Morin (Tahltan), Nicholas Galanin (T’lingit): (Curated by Tania Willard and Skeena Reece)
Jim Bizzochi: Winterscape / Cycle
Celia King and Joel Snowden: A440Hz
Khan Lee: Soapbox
Olo J Milkman: Amaranthian and Arugulan Text & Diagrams
NeoGrafik
Salazar: Traversing Ambient Narratives
Sarah Shamash: (dis) location
Matt Smith: Errosive
Times Neue Roman: Band in a Box
Vancouver Design Nerds and eatArt: Gramorail
Paul Wong: EAT (2002-10)
Storybox – various artists as below (Curated by W2 and Urban Ink)
Frederick Brummer / Rupinder Sidhu: AudioBox
Cease Wyss / Shawn Chappelle: Resistance for Existence
Su-an Ng / Sepideh Saii: Myth in Magic
Justin Sekiguchi / Lenke Sifko: Mother Tongue
Krista Lomax / Sammy Chien: ShadowBox
Free / by donation. Sept. 10-18, noon-7pm daily, Opens Step 10th at 8pm. W2 Storyeum (151 W. Cordova).
Full information at: www.newformsfestival.com
New Forms Festival #10 is supported by the City of Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Canadian Heritage through Arts Presentation Canada and sponsored by the Georgia Straight and CBC Radio 3.
NEW FORMS FESTIVAL #10
This convergence of media art, electronic music, and digital culture features four nights of electronic music and an eight-day exhibition of media art. Opening gala (Sept. 10) features free performances by local acts Basketball, Love & Electrik, No Gold, Love Dancing, Babe Rainbow, and Resorts; “The Opposite of Fear” (Sept. 11) includes the UK’s Blue Daisy, Slugabed, Illum Sphere and NastyNasty from the US; “Beat Nation” (Sept. 12) showcases a collective of indigenous hip-hop artists working in traditional and new media; “Body” (Sept. 17) is a celebration of dance music with Omar-S & others. Sept. 10-18, All events at W2 Storyeum (151 W. Cordova). Free – $25. Info www.newformsfestival.com/.
