CultureLab Newcastle

Schedule:

6:00 Akihiro Kubota installation - Open Digital Perception: WYSIWYS (What You See Is What You are Seen)

6:30 Yutaka Makino performance

7:15 Akihiro Kubota performance - Algorithmic Free Improvisation:PPGP (Prepared & Processed Guitar Performance)

8:00 Artists' Talk

http://www.yutakamakino.com/

Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Los Angeles. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computer music and science, involving research in spatial perception, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works range from sculpture to sound works including performance, computer music composition and spatial sound installation. He has been working on spatial compositions for Wave Field Synthesis. His recent commission work, Amorphous for Wave Field Synthesis, was premiered at the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2008 with the Foundation Game of Life's 192.8ch Wave Field Synthesis System.

His works have been recognized/performed at numerous festivals and competitions internationally, including the Bourges International Competitions of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France), MusikTriennale Köln (Germany), the International Gaudeamus Music Week (The Netherlands), The Night of the Unexpected (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands) and Seoul International Computer Music Festival (South Korea) among others. In 2007, He was awarded the Prix Ton Bruynèl for his composition, Cryosphere.

With Takuro Mizuta Lippit of STEIM, he frequently performs as Audile.

Akihiro Kubota
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/
http://www.myspace.com/ltjq
http://cellautoband.net/

Akihiro Kubota (b.1960.6.23) is a sound and software artist/researcher in the post-digital era. His main interests include digital AV performance, software art and interface/interaction design. He is also a member of "Akihiro Kubota LapTop Jazz Quartet" and "Cellular Automaton Band". His recent works are "materialAV" (2003) at ICC, Tokyo, "Connected Spaces" at NIME06, Paris, "Comtemplations" at Sonorities 2007, Belfast, "String Quartet No.2 - Reflective Intervals"
(2008) at ZAIM, Yokohama and "Pureφ - Abstract Painterly Interface"
(2008) at YCAM, Yamaguchi. Currently, he is working as a professor/chairman of Art and Media Course, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan.