LOVEBYTES 2006. ENVIRONMENTS
20 - 25 MARCH
SHEFFIELD UK

The 10th Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art and Media
explores the relationship between physical and digital environments.
Featuring live music and multi-media performances, film screenings,
workshops and exhibitions of new media work from around the world.

Exhibitions run for various periods between 20 March - 11 June

Extended programme information
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/2006

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TEXT PROGRAMME
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CONTENTS
1. MAIN EVENTS PROGRAMME 23/24/25 MARCH
2. EXHIBITIONS
3. LOVEBYTES AT SHEFFIELD UNION
4. ACCESS SPACE AT LOVEBYTES
5. EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
6. TICKET PRICES AND BOOKING INFORMATION

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1. MAIN PROGRAMME 23/24/25 MARCH

ALL EVENTS AT THE SHOWROOM CINEMA UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
http://www.showroom.org.uk


THURSDAY 23 MARCH

Warp X Launch
Q&A session with the Warp X team
6pm | 120 mins | FREE

For more information Tel. 0114 213 0332 Email: [log in to unmask]

Warp X is a pioneering new digital film studio based in Sheffield, with offices in Nottingham and London, and is allied to Warp Films and Warp Records. Warp X intends to build on Warp's reputation for combining creative originality with commercial success, with releases like Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes, Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny and Chris Morris' My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117. Warp X wants to make exhilarating films with outstanding new and established creative talent.

http://www.warpfilms.com


Fuzzy Interference: Digitising the Environment
Presentation
6pm | 120 mins | FREE

To book Tel. 0114 275 2622 or email [log in to unmask]

Fuzzy Interference debates the use of digital technology in urban environments and the regeneration of cities, questioning how non-physical aspects of spatial interaction can have a positive effect on regeneration and 're-branding' a space. Panel chaired by Sue Ball (Sue Ball/MAAP), with Colin Fournier (spacelab), Jeremy Till (Univ of Sheffield), Sam Vardy and George Legg (GM Products) and Martin Rieser (Bath Spa University). Fuzzy Interference is part of Regen Month 06 / Cultural Industries Quarter Agency and Allen Tod Architects.

http://www.ciq.org.uk/regenmonth


Sprawl Performance 9pm | 120 mins The Sprawl Club - London-based sonic
innovators since 1996 - present an evening of eclectic post-digital music
by 3 artists who excel in their fields:

http://www.sprawl.org.uk

Leafcutter John Leafcutter John's 'The Forest and The Sea' features a
dynamic hybrid of electronic and acoustic songs, telling a true story, the
compositions are bound together by a meticulous narrative enriched by
haunting vocals and traditional instrumentation.

http://www.leafcutter.33-rpm.net

SI-CUT.DB Co-Sprawl curator Douglas Benford has been releasing his digital
music as SI-CUT.DB, with several albums released under this guise, since
1991. http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk

Iris Garrelfs Iris Garrelfs, co-founder of Sprawl, is known for her
emotive, improvised performances and multichannel installations. Her new
album Specified Encounters (BipHop) has been moulded from dissected,
transmuted voice sounds, settling somewhere between Arvo Pärt and
Christian Fennesz.

http://www.irisgarrelfs.com


Mark Fell & Joe Gilmore
Djs
Showroom Bar
9pm | FREE

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FRIDAY 24 MARCH

Animating the City Film Screening 1pm | 65 mins A dynamic, diverting,
sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban
lives and locales. Nine diverse but intensely personal films, selected
from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate!

http://www.animateonline.org


Playing the City Presentation 2pm | 80 mins As videogame technology gets
increasingly powerful, the dream of being able to interact and 'play' on
the streets of a living, breathing virtual city gets ever closer. The ways
in which cities and urban environments have been represented in games will
be discussed by writer/researcher Colin Harvey.


UK Film Council Digital Shorts
Film Screening
2.30pm | 50 mins
A selection of digitally originated short films by innovative UK film making talent.

http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/shorts


The Cinema of Richard Fenwick Presentation 4pm | 100 mins Award-winning
short film-maker, Richard Fenwick has continually explored ideas relating
to technology and landscape in the RND# series - an experimental sequence
of short films that mix animation, digital FX and live action. Richard
will be introducing a selection of these works and discussing his unique
style and approach.

http://www.richardfenwick.com


Japan Media Arts Festival
Film Screening
4.15pm | 60 mins
Lovebytes has worked with Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo to bring together a showcase of compelling animated shorts.

http://www.plaza.bunka.go.jp/english

Graphic Cities 05 Introduced Film Screening 5.45pm | 90 mins onedotzero
continues to unearth new visions both inspired and alienated by the
reflection of our urban environment. From explorations of local environs,
to graphic essays to poetic city travelogues, the metropolis is envisaged
as a playful, dangerous and surreal environment. Featuring brand new
international perspectives from across the globe. This is a city that
transforms itself constantly, shifting and shuddering into new forms and
expressions. Introduced by Anna Doyle from onedotzero.

http://www.onedotzero.com


Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology Film Screening 7.45pm | 60 mins The
Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology presents a reel celebrating the use of
all forms of film making technology in this compilation of innovative and
enticing CGI films, low budget shorts and animation from across the world.

http://www.ifct.org


CM von Hausswolff Performance 8pm | 60 mins Since the end of the 70s, Carl
Michael von Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as
his main instrument. His music uses drones with elegant surface details
and his concerts are often very physical experiences due to the vibrations
of the low frequencies he uses. Hausswolff has also created the soundtrack
to Thomas Nordanstad's 30-minute meditation on the Japanese island of
Hashima, showing as part of the Screen Environments (Cinema 1).

Mirrorball | Made in Japan Film Screening 9.15pm | 70 mins >From skinny
budget animations to more ambitious independent short films, this
screening of new work features a selection of class acts from Mirrorball.

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/ <http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk> 


Fennesz Performance 10pm | 60 mins Christian Fennesz is known for his
impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar and
computer; shimmering, swirling electronic sounds of enormous range and
complex musicality.

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk


A+R (Alku/Mego) Djs Showroom Bar 9pm | FREE Harsh and bloody trips along
the most extreme path of computer music, putting together sonic brutality,
crazy algebra, fractal structures and a slight ironic touch.

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SATURDAY 25 MARCH

Olsen Film Screening 12pm | 90 mins Olsen present a screening of
avant-garde / experimental films and videos with a slice of cake. Olsen is
programmed by Joe Gilmore, Sarah Handley and William Rose.

http://www.olsenorsen.org


Civic Life: Seven films by desperate optimists Screening and Q+A 2pm | 100
mins desperate optimists (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy) have spent the
last two years creating a series of films that capture different places
and communities in a single, daring take. Working with 35mm equipment,
complex film rigs and environments, not to mention hundreds of extras and
a propensity for working with both children and animals, they have
generated a body of work that is both theatrical and deeply cinematic,
experimental and highly accessible. Joe and Christine will introduce and
answer questions about the films.

http://www.desperateoptimists.com


Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology
2.15pm | See Friday for details


Hard Candy (18) USA / 2005 | David Slade Preview Screening and Q+A 4pm |
120 mins Hayley probably shouldn't be going to a local coffee shop to meet
Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet, but
before she knows it, she's mixing drinks at Jeff's place and stripping for
an impromptu photo shoot. It's Jeff's lucky night. British director (and
one-time Sheffield resident and award-winning promo director for Aphex
Twin, System Of A Down and Tori Amos) David Slade delights in the
ambiguity of their encounter, before taking his film somewhere else
entirely. Hayley isn't as innocent as she looks, and the night takes a
turn when she begins to impose her own hard-hitting investigation against
Jeff. Controversial, provocative, and superbly performed by the two leads,
Hard Candy is a serious exploration of society's darkest taboos. David
Slade will introduce this special UK preview, subject to work commitments.

http://www.hardcandymovie.com


UK Film Council Digital Shorts
4pm | See Friday for details


D-Fuse Film Screening/Presentation/Performance 4.15pm | 90 mins One of the
UK's top audiovisual artist collectives, D-Fuse present their new film
works Brilliant City and Undercurrent followed by a performance remixing
visuals and sound from Undercurrent. Named after a futuristic high-rise
development in the absurdly fast-paced city of Shanghai, D-Fuse's short
film Brilliant City presents life as observed from the 34th floor - a
mesmerizing surveillance of work and play in one of the world's most
transformed urban sites. Undercurrent is an investigation of river-based
post-industrial cities in China and the UK, by both Chinese and UK
artists, creating a series of audiovisual pieces that will be remixed live
by D-Fuse.

http://www.dfuse.com


Mirrorball | Animation Film Screening 6pm | 70 mins One of the most
amazing collections from a field that is in a state of expansive flux.
Animation is being pushed, pulled and twisted with the newest and oldest
tools available to filmmakers. Including Emiliana Torrini, Michel Gondry
and Lauri Faggioni and Devendra Banhart.

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk


Animating the City
7.30pm | See Friday for details


Aoki Takamasa
Performance
8pm | 60 mins

With a history of releases on Progressive Form, a recent collaboration on
Fat Cat with Tujiko Noriko, and a new album forthcoming on op.disc, Aoki
Takamasa is one of Japan's busiest and freshest young electronic artists.
While heavily pushing computers and software, Aoki's sensitivity to melody
and groove coupled with his approach to live performance keeps his music
warm, emotional and audience-engaging.

http://www.aokitakamasa.com


Japan Media Arts Festival
9pm | See Friday for details


Francis Dhomont Performance Workstation Studio, Shoreham St, Sheffield
10pm | 60 mins Francis Dhomont's performances promise 'nothing to see, no
musician, and no instrument, but a lot to hear'. Dhomont has worked at the
forefront of electro acoustic composition for over 60 years collecting
numerous international prizes along the way. He will be performing 'Cinema
for the Ears' an 'acousmatic' concert. The performance will make use of
the former TV Studio to break from the traditional concepts of the concert
setting; positioning surround sound speakers around the space and amongst
the audience.


V3ctor Djs Showroom Bar 9pm | FREE Leeds diy collective of musicians,
dj's, graphic artists and film and video makers promoting new and emerging
electronic artists.

http://www.v3ctor.com


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2. EXHIBITIONS

Screen Environments
Exhibition
Cinema 1
24-25 March | Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 2pm-6pm
A rolling programme of films exploring the environment featuring:

All the Time in the World The Sound of Microclimates Semiconductor In All
the Time in the World, Semiconductor have reanimated Northumbria's epic
landscape using data recordings from the archives at the British
Geological Survey in Edinburgh. The Sound of Microclimates explores the
sights and sounds of a series of unusual weather patterns in the Paris of
today.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.org


Hashima, Japan Carl Michael Von Hausswolff/Thomas Nordanstad Hashima is an
island situated just south of Nagasaki in the Chinese Sea. Once the most
densely populated place in the world, it is now deserted, an empty and
forbidden place, many Japanese think it is haunted.
http://www.drawnbyreality.info/hashima.html


Beyond Identity Leo Obstbaum and Miguel Marin Beyond Identity captures the
detail and rhythms of Tokyo through seven films which bind into a mosaic
grasping at the multiple faces of the city, the chaotic terrain, with
found contrasts and rhythms of velocity and calm.

http://www.beyondidentity.com/beyondweb.html


Brilliant City
D-Fuse
See D-Fuse event on Saturday 25 for details.

Dwelling Hiraki Sawa Exhibition Screening space above Cinemas 3+4 20-31
March | 11am-11pm Hiraki Sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a
nondescript apartment. Dwelling follows the dramatic slow and solemn
flight patterns of roaring miniaturised Boeings, Airbuses, Concordes, jet
planes and commuter aircrafts as if documenting chaotic airport traffic.

http://www.softkipper.com

Junebum Park - Various Works Exhibition Showroom Lightwell 20 March - 16
April | 11am-11pm Like a young boy playing with his toys, Junebum Park
guides and protects the people in the miniature play worlds of his video
works with touching tenderness. Through a clever shift of perspective, the
most ordinary of environments are transformed into extraordinary scenes in
which the artist's hands interfere with the forces and currents of our
everyday lives in a way that is both comic and comforting.

http://www.jbpark.com


q3apd Julian Oliver and Steven Pickles Exhibition Showroom Lightwell 14
March - 16 April | 11am-11pm q3apd transforms a virtual battlefield into a
rich environment for aural composition. The state, position and
orientation of software agents in a QuakeIII combat arena are used as
instruments in a spatialised, realtime soundscape, allowing us to 'hear
gameplay' from an entirely new angle. q3apd asks, can the dynamics of
gameplay be used as a score?

http://www.selectparks.net/archive/q3apd.htm


You Are Here Mark Fell and George Saxon Exhibition Forced Ents Studio,
Shoreham St, Sheffield 23-25 March | 11am-5pm You Are Here was developed
through a series of workshops with young people from Abbeydale Grange
School in Sheffield and artists George Saxon and Mark Fell. The work
explores the city using digital technologies and is the second in a series
of projects, the 1st of which was at Sightsonic, York 05.


Come Closer Squidsoup with Cliff Randell Exhibition Showroom 5 24-25 March
| 11am - 5pm Come Closer uses wearable technology and collaborative
interaction to explore and challenge our sense of personal space and
proximity to others. Participants in the piece become acutely aware of
each other; aware of their presence in both physical and virtual space.

http://www.squidsoup.org


Time Slice Daniel Crooks Exhibition Workstation Reception 20 March - 7
April | Mon - Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 25 March 11am-6pm Time Slice is a digital
manipulation of real-time video and photographic images of people in
transit. What could be considered the banal machinations of everyday life
are animated and manipulated, to create a surreal sense of life on city
streets and station platforms.

http://www.dlab.com.au/ <http://www.dlab.com.au> 

Bit-Scapes
HFR-LAB, coding by wojciech kosma
sound by Tobor Experiment
Exhibition Commissioned by Lovebytes
Millennium Galleries, Arundel St, Sheffield
20 March-11 June | Mon-Sat 10am-5pm,
Sun 11am-5pm

Bit-Scapes is a video installation which explores the concept of digital
reproduction and manipulation. Through the juxtaposition of the same
footage, on three adjacent screens, the process of digitalisation is
gradually manifested and the inner illusion behind the 'photographic skin'
of a digital image is finally revealed.

Bit-Scapes has been specially commissioned by Lovebytes and marks the
first anniversary of Lovebytes at Millennium Galleries - a permanent
plasma screen gallery curated by Lovebytes with the Sheffield Galleries
and Museums Trust.

http://www.hfr-lab.com


His Life is Full of Miracles Exhibition Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street,
Sheffield 10 March - 29 April | Wed - Sat 11am-6pm Site Gallery is pleased
to present a new exhibition of international animation works. The project
takes the form of a self-selection 'videoteque' at which visitors select
works from a 'menu' of international works, taking in stop-frame, digital,
drawn and lens-based animation.

http://www.sitegallery.org


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3. LOVEBYTES AT SHEFFIELD UNION
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10
To book events call 0114 2228777

Pet Projects / Director's Label (18) Film Screening Coffee Revolution
Wednesday 22 March | 8pm | FREE A selection of pop promos and short films
from the Director's Label and Darklight Festival featuring work by Pleix,
Ed Holdsworth, Woof Wan-Bau and Sam Tootal & Chris Turner, Anton Corbijn,
Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek and Stephane Sednaoui.

http://www.darklight.ie

http://www.directorslabel.com


Film Double Bill
Film Screening/Performance
Auditorium - Sheffield Union
Thursday 23 March | 7pm | £3.50

Dead Man's Shoes (18) 86 mins | UK | 2004 | Shane Meadows Dead Man's Shoes
is a gritty yet fiercely moral tale of gangland retribution. Two brothers
return to the hometown they left 8 years earlier, to find it still run by
the same gang of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs. Their purpose,
it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge. Introduced by Warp
Films.

http://www.warpfilms.com


Followed by:

Media Lounge presents The Shining as rescored by Digitonal After a short
interval, Media Lounge team up with electro-ambient tunesmith Digitonal,
for a feature-length re-scoring and re-edited screening of Kubrick's
snowbound terror classic The Shining.

http://www.medlo.net

http://www.digitonal.com


Videoblast Performance Interval Bar - Sheffield Union Friday 24 March |
8pm | FREE Flat-E provide the visual treats for a not to be missed night
of virtuoso live electronic beats and vocal manipulation, melodic
electronic dance music and beat driven clicky electronics from Tim Exile,
Ultre, Conrad & Arms and DJ N>E>D

http://www.timexile.com

http://www.littlebig.org.uk

http://www.ultre.co.uk

http://www.flat-e.com


Urban Gorilla
Performance
Foundry & Fusion- Sheffield Union
Friday 24 March | 10pm | £10 / £11 / £12
Sheffield's finest house, breaks and techno night brings techno legend Dave Clarke for one of his stunning CDJ sets, plus rising star Nathan Fake performing a live set of his trademark blissful beats with live visuals from collaborator Vincent Oliver.

http://www.urban-gorilla.co.uk


Hidden Place Performance Raynor Lounge (off Bar One) - Sheffield Union
Saturday 25 March | 9pm | £3 / £4 Sheffield elec.soc present Calika
(audiobulb records), Mint (boltfish records), Millicent (audiobulb
records) and Ochre (Toytronic records/Boltfish records) with visuals from
Microsketch and others...

http://www.elecsoc.union.shef.ac.uk

http://www.angryape.com

http://www.textura.org

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk

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4. ACCESS SPACE AT LOVEBYTES
1 Sidney St, Sheffield, S1
To book events call 0114 2495522

http://www.access-space.org

Sweet Nothings Performance Wednesday 22 March | 7pm | FREE Access Space
present an audiovisual picnic from the world of the open-source including
video, live music and performance featuring Jethro Bagust, Prevett and
McArthur, Jake Harries and Rowan Porteus. Refreshments will be served.

Blender Workshop Julian Oliver Saturday 25 March | 11am - 3.30pm | FREE
Julian will take participants through the basics of the Blender interface,
covering mesh-modelling, texturing and animation.

Supercollider Workshop Matt Gray Saturday 25 March | 4 - 6pm | FREE A 2
hour workshop on using Supercollider Server: an open source, state of the
art, text-based realtime sound synthesis server and programming language.
This introductory workshop lead by Matt Gray will cover synth creation,
scheduling and routines and sample manipulation and will focus on getting
some quick and effective results.

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5. EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

3D Project Premier Film screening HUBS, Sheffield Hallam University
Student Union, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 Thursday 23 March | 7pm | 60
mins | FREE - To book Tel. 0114 225 4147 or email [log in to unmask] A
Showcase of innovative 3D animated films created by students from
Rotherham College of Art and Technology (RCAT) in partnership with Hallam
Volunteering (part of Sheffield Hallam University Union of Students.)

http://www.hallamunion.com/vol


VJ/DJ Workshop Workshop for Abbeydale Grange students only. An exploration
of sound and moving image through a series of hands on workshops by Flat-e
with young people from Abbeydale Grange School culminating in a live audio
visual performance with DJs and VJs from the school.

http://www.flat-e.com

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6. TICKET PRICES AND BOOKING

Lovebytes at Showroom - Map
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Showroom Booking Hotline Tel: 0114 275 7727 (Open 4 - 9pm)

Ticket Prices

Individual events: £4 / £2.50 (conc)
4 Event Pass: £12 / £8 (conc)

Festival Pass: £30 / £20 (conc)

A Festival Pass gains entry to all Lovebytes events in the Showroom
Cinema. It does not guarantee a seat. You must collect tickets and be in
your seat at the start of an event; otherwise empty seats may be sold to a
stand-by queue.

A Festival Pass DOES NOT include the following events which must be booked separately:

Lovebytes at Sheffield Union - Call 0114 222 8777 Fuzzy Interference:
Digitising the Environment FREE Call 0114 275 2622 / email [log in to unmask]
Access Space events - FREE - Call 0114 249 5522

3D Project Premier HUBS - FREE - Call 0114 225 4147 Venue Contacts
Showroom Cinema / 0114 275 7727 Workstation / 0114 279 6511 Site Gallery /
0114 281 2077 Millennium Galleries / 0114 278 2600 Access Space / 0114
2495522 HUBS /0114 225 4147 Auditorium, Interval Bar, Foundry & Fusion,
Raynor Lounge and Coffee Revolution at University of Sheffield Union of
Students / 0114 222 8777

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