ReFunct Media #4 Opening: Friday, 13.04.2012, 20:00 (Exhibition: 14.04.2012 - 4.05.2012) @ LEAP

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ReFunct Media #4

Opening: Friday, 13.04.2012, 20:00
with Performances by TokTek (N), Gijs Gieskes (NL)

Free Entry (or donate what you like)
Exhibition: 14.04.2012 - 4.05.2012
With works by Benjamin Gaulon <http://www.recyclism.com/> (IE/FR), Niklas
Roy <http://www.niklasroy.com/> (DE), Karl Klomp <http://karlklomp.nl/> *
*(NL), Tom <http://www.toktek.org/Site/home.html>
Verbruggen<http://www.toktek.org/Site/home.html>(NL) and Gijs
Gieskes <http://gieskes.nl/> (NL).
Monday-Saturday 12.00-1800
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“ReFunct Media” is a multimedia installation that (re)uses numerous
“obsolete”
electronic devices (digital and analogue media players and receivers). These
devices are hacked, misused and combined into a large and complex chain of
elements. To use an ecological analogy they “interact” in different
symbiotic
relationships such as mutualism, parasitism and commensalism.
Voluntarily complex and unstable, “ReFunct Media” isn’t proposing answers
to the questions raised by e-waste, planned obsolescence and sustainable
design strategies. Rather, as an installation it experiments and explores
unchallenged possibilities of ‘obsolete’ electronic and digital media
technologies
and our relationship with technologies and consumption.
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Following ReFunct Media #1 to #3, hosted in Ireland (Imoca, RuaRed) and
in France (Gaité Lyrique), LEAP presents ReFunct Media #4, a collaborative
project by Benjamin Gaulon <http://www.recyclism.com/> (IE/FR), Niklas
Roy<http://www.niklasroy.com/>(DE), Karl
Klomp <http://karlklomp.nl/> (NL), Tom<http://www.toktek.org/Site/home.html>
Verbruggen <http://www.toktek.org/Site/home.html> (NL) and Gijs
Gieskes<http://gieskes.nl/>(NL).

download pdf (about the project)
<http://ruared.ie/Documents/defunct_refunct_catalogue_web.pdf>
http://ruared.ie/Documents/defunct_refunct_catalogue_web.pdf


Benjamin Gaulon <http://www.recyclism.com/> is a researcher, artist and has
a broad experience of acting
as art consultant, public and conference speaker and art college lecturer.
His
work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society.
He has previously released work under the name “recyclism”. He is currently
leading Data 2.0 (Dublin Art and Technology Association), he co-founded the
IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) in 2007 and is lecturer at the
National College of Art and Design in Dublin.Since 2005 he has been leading
workshops and giving lectures in Europe and US about e-waste and hardware
Hacking / Recycling. Workshop participants explore the potential of obsolete
technologies in a creative way and find new strategies for e-waste
recycling.
His research seeks to establish an inter-disciplinary practice and
collaborations
by creating bridges between art, science and activism, and by doing so,
shifting
the boundaries between art, engineering and sustainable strategy

Niklas Roy <http://www.niklasroy.com/>, born 1974 in Nurnberg, lives in
Berlin since 1999 where he
initially served as visual effects supervisor in the film industry and later
studies Visual Communication at the University of the arts. Since then he
has
worked successfully as a freelance artist.The core of his work ranges from
complex mechanics refined over electronics to purely virtual computer code
that
manifest themselves in objects, installations and performances.
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*Karl Klomp <http://karlklomp.nl/>** (aka MNK) (’79, NL) is a media artist,
vj and theater technician.
His research focuses on live audiovisual expressions and interfacing with a
fascination for glitch-art, hyper kinetic audio visuals and glitch
grabbing. He deals
with video circuit bending and hardware interfacing out of obsolete video
devices.
Together with Tom Verbruggen (Toktek) they play live audio- visual
performances (TokTek vs MNK).

Tom Verbruggen <http://www.toktek.org/Site/home.html> (aka TokTek) is a
Dutch artist who designs and deconstructs his
own electronic instruments, giving his music a unique character and
allowing him to
improvise live on stage with the help of a joystick - the central piece in
his live
equipment. Behind TokTek stands musician and visual artist Tom Verbruggen,
who
aside from building his own instruments is an improviser: synths, toys and
computer
become instruments. His eclectic electronic style has been described as
illogical
hardware bending, where the outcome creates dramatic live compositions,
which
break down into delicate and tender sound momenhast dts.In one of his
incarnations, he performs with VJ MNK (Karl Klomp) - a video artist that
hacks/bends video equipment like videomixers

Gijs Gieskes <http://gieskes.nl/>, an educated industrial designer, he now
most enjoys reappropriating
tools for new purposes, making inventive hardware projects; such as
his Feedback video log, Strobo VJ machine or PCB hand-painted circuit
board. His
work and live performances are a fantastic example of where hardware
hacking can
take you.
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LEAP
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
(Berlin Carré 1. Stock)
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13
10178 Berlin

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ReFunct Media #4 Opening: Friday, 13.04.2012, 20:00 (Exhibition: 14.04.2012 - 4.05.2012) @ LEAP

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