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INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND INFORMATION BOOKLET AND MEMBER DIRECTORY CREATED APRIL 2014 2 INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND WHAT IS ICAS? Founded in 2008, ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound – is a global network of independent non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music, and related arts. The ICAS network aims to support its members in building sustain- able infrastructures to support, promote, and encourage experi- mental and critical sound cultures. Using a palette of transdis- ciplinary approaches, ICAS member organizations reflect on the aesthetic and societal agency of contemporary sound creation with regard to transformational processes induced by digital technology, and actively engage in building bridges between art disciplines, cultural fields, scenes, genres, and audiences. Activities within events and festivals organized by ICAS members include concerts, performances, commissioned work, exhibitions, participatory projects, educational workshops, conferences, publi- cations, and the curation of informal spaces for knowledge-sharing within and among fields. ICAS also serves as an interface to intensify dialogue between its members via knowledge exchange, artistic co-productions, mobil- ity of cultural workers, and more. The network also seeks to foster communication with decision makers in cultural, political, and eco- nomic fields, propose alternative criteria for measuring success and regulating exchange, and increase public awareness concern- ing the issues addressed by ICAS and its member organizations. FACT & FIGURES ICAS is comprised of 34 organizations over 4 continents. Over 250 events were presented in 2013. More than 50 co-commissioned works have been produced over the past several years. Support is received from the EU Culture Programme, the Goethe- Institut, the Trust for Mutual Understanding and more. The ICAS media partner is The Wire, UK. ICASNETWORK.ORG // TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 EUROPE 04 Alpha-ville [UK] 05 Arcadi Ile-de-France [FR] 06 Association Electroni[k] [FR] 07 Asociación MUTEK.ES [ES] 08 Cimatics [BE] 09 DISK – Initiative Bild & Ton e.V. [DE] 10 Dis-patch Collective [RS] 11 Dis-Play [ES] 12 Foreningen Insomnia Festival [NO] 13 Full Pull [SE] 14 Fundacja Tone – Muzyka i Nowe Formy Sztuki [PL] 15 FutureEverything [UK] 16 MeetFactory o.p.s. [CZ] 17 MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art [SI] 18 Nuproductions AS [NO] 19 ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst [AT] 20 Technè [FR] 21 Rokolectiv Festival [RO] 24 Rotation [FR] 25 Skaņu Mežs Association for Adventurous Music and Film Art [LV] 26 Stichting The Generator [NL] 27 Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. [DE] 28 Ultrasound Foundation [HU] NORTH AMERICA 29 Communikey [US] 30 Decibel [US] 31 ISSUE Project Room [US] 32 MUTEK [CA] 33 MUTEK.MX (TECNOLOGÍA EN MUTACIÓN S.A. DE C.V.) [MX] 34 New Forms Media Society [CA] 35 The Bunker [US] 36 VIA [US] SOUTH AMERICA 37 Agencia Nossa! [BR] 38 SOCO Festival [UY] OCEANIA 39 Room40 [AU] 4 INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND EUROPE ALPHA-VILLE London, UK est: 2009 INITIATIVES Alpha-ville Festival of Art, Technology and Digital Culture // International Symposium on Post-Digital Culture // Exchange Conference // Alpha-ville LIVE series // Alpha-ville Screenings. MISSION Alpha-ville is a London-based project established to support artists and creatives who explore new territories and push boundaries even further with the use of digital media and technology. Through our activities Alpha-ville facilitates connections and exchange between the fields of art, technology and design. Since its inception, Alpha-ville has worked with a wide array of organisations including British Film Institute, Kings Place, Whitechapel Gallery, Hackney Empire Theatre, Hackney Picturehouse, Athens International Festival Digital Arts and New Media, V&A Digital Design Weekend, and Microsoft. Alpha-ville organises events and conferences, curates programmes and offers consultancy services in the fields of art, design and technology. In addition, Alpha-ville has also commissioned three works thus far: CELL, Grey Matter and Patch Slam. FUTURE Alpha-ville continues providing its live platform for groundbreaking artists to collaborate, network and showcase work. In addition, new agency services are being developed to offer creative and artistic direction, artist management and online project development. alpha-ville.co.uk ICASNETWORK.ORG 5 EUROPE ARCADI ILE-de-FRANCE Paris, FR est: 2003 INITIATIVES Némo Festival // ACME Production fund for digital arts // Biennial of Contemporary Digital Art of Paris 2015 MISSION Main goals pursued by Arcadi Ile-de-France are to: support art production of emerg- ing artists; develop innovative actions in the field of artistic & cultural engineering; observe and cooperate for the evolution of cultural social background; widen and gather new audiences to local cultural offer. Within this wireframe, Némo Festival, ACME Production Fund, and the upcoming Digital Art Biennial consolidate the work of more than 500 artists through this past decade at local, national, and international scales. FUTURE We represent the first historical French regional fund for new media, and for several years now we have been federating about 20 venues for producing and showing contemporary digital artists. Be it Belgium, Canada, Germany, UK, European, or Asian partners, our exchanges and work methods are worldwide. We federate actors of all sizes in the electronic culture open field, in order to help achieving demanding and experimental artwork projects that wouldn’t be able to be developed within the short- sighted economic system. We tend to articulate an institutional credibility with an up-to-date, realistic artistic production and dif- fusion activity. arcadi.fr festivalnemo.fr 6 INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND EUROPE ASSOCIATION ELECTRONI[K] Rennes, FR est: 2004 INITIATIVES Maintenant Festival // Origami MISSION For 14 years, Association Electroni[k] has been dedicated to contemporary creation in the fields of sound and image, focusing on multi-disciplinary and innovative projects. Early-on, the organization aimed to promote electronic arts through live shows, performances or installations. It has now broadened to other disciplines and aesthetics such as graphic arts, contemporary or electroacoustic music, while asserting its singularity. Cultural activities set up with different publics (school groups and families, students, persons with major social problems, etc) are now an integral part of the Elektroni[K] project and goes beyond the days dedicated to the Maintenant festival organized in October each year. The organization is active year-round via residencies among school groups, workshops, the Belle de Nuit shows, cartes blanches, etc. FUTURE Association Electroni[k] aims to seed more and more new creations and productions. The festival will continue to take place every year in Rennes, France in October. We are creating a new organization called “Origami”, which works with research labs, companies, and universities in order to create new technological projects. This new organization could also support a new event that is bigger than Maintenant festival. Association Electroni[k] is glad to cooperate on new projects with any countries and continents, with a special interest in North America, Asia, and Europe. electroni-k.org maintenant-festival.fr ICASNETWORK.ORG 7 EUROPE ASOCIACIÓN MUTEK.ES Barcelona, ES est: 2009 INITIATIVES MUTEK.ES – International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music MISSION MUTEK.ES’s principal activity is the presentation of the MUTEK. ES festival during the winter season in Barcelona. Each festival edition is committed to showcasing the finest emerging and established digital arts talent to local audiences, supporting the Catalunyan and Spanish artistic community by providing it with an internationally recognized platform within an environment of discovery, experimentation, and exchange. As the only MUTEK chapter based in Europe, MUTEK.ES provides a unique landing spot for MUTEK’s American branches on the European continent. MUTEK.ES thus has a strong focus on presenting new artists, projects and trends in digital creativity that are emerging in the Americas. FUTURE Working to position the festival in a larger EU scale to connect Barcelona as a media arts destination during the winter period, MUTEK.ES remains very interested in the Americas especially central and south Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile. mutek.org/en/spain/2014 8 INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND EUROPE CIMATICS Brussels, BE est: 2002 INITIATIVES Cimatics Agency // The Digital Now MISSION A production agency dedicated to art & innovative technology, Cimatics aims to challenge traditional approaches of contemporary art by supporting emerging and established artists working on the fringe of art, science, and technology. A strong focus is set on long-term cooperations between artists and the arts industry. Sustainable relationships are emphasized especially with cultural institutions, museums, galleries and art collectors. Cimatics aims to make a significant contribution to the development of new ways of making, presenting, and experiencing contemporary and digital art. The organization promotes and organizes the work of these artists, presenting their art works within some important events, galleries, exhibitions and cultural centres in Europe and worldwide. Services provided by the Cimatics agency to institutions range from arts consultancy