International Week Workshop & TAF: Workshop Nou&Herkauw

Nou&Herkauw and Academy for Popculture
Adri Schokker and Michel Pitstra, two teachers at the Academy for Popculture and creative artists at Nou&Herkauw will host the workshop.

Nou&Herkauw is a collective of artists, and students who work in several disciplines such as media art, graphic design, illustration, and theatre. In collaboration with students of the Academy for Popculture they develop all kinds of interactive VJ performances for cultural events and dance events through out Holland. The setup of Nou&Herkauw is most similar to an OpenLab. The basic idea of a performance is that it starts with totally nothing and that all the visual content is created on the spot during the event. This can be anything! Last on the TAF party in the Klubi, Nou&Herkauw created a film set in which participants could shoot their own Sweeded movies, make animations, and use there tweets as typo-visuals. All the footage were mixed by the Veejays of N&H

Return of the Living Digital @ TAF
What is the relation between the real tangible world, as we know her, and our digital empire? Where are the physical, tangible roots of our digital, graphical user interfaces? And how did they transform to the digital? What is the relation between Me and my ‘Facebook ME’? Is the mediated ME a part of our consciousness, or just a collection primal data?
What would the world look like if we transform all the digital back to the tangible? What would the Klubi look like if you apply the architecture of Facebook on the architecture of the Klubi?

These questions are the starting point of the development of an interactive visual performance for the official TAF party at Friday… The public is invited to participate as much as possible.
During the workshop week, we will explore interesting, absurd, provocative, and funny ways to bring the digital back to the land of the living. All means are allowed as long as the results can be presented in an interactive of performative form.

The objectives of the workshop are:
- An exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge between international students.
- Gaining more knowledge of developing and realising interactive performance concepts.
- An introduction to VJ techniques and culture, creative programming (Isadora, Processing, Max/Msp Jitter), and theatre performance.
- Establish a durable collaboration trajectory between the participating students and Universities

N&H at Northern Dutch Film Festival, November 2009