Friday, September 17th

@ W2: 151 W. Cordova / 10pm – late
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Tickets: $20 in Advance / $25 at the door
Available at:

Zulu (1972 West 4th Av),
Scratch (726 Richards St) and
Beatstreet (439 West Hastings)
Highlife (1317 Commercial Drive)

Body is a one night event of this years new forms festival.  It is a celebration of dance music through collaboration between local and international artists.  The focus of the night will be in delivering a new experience on the dance floor, through installation and sound.

Line up ::

Saturday, September 11th

@ W2: 151 W. Cordova / 10pm – late
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Tickets: $20 in Advance / $25 at the door
Available at:
Zulu (1972 West 4th Av),
Scratch (726 Richards St) and
Beatstreet (439 West Hastings)
Highlife (1317 Commercial Drive)

reclaiming a joyful and enlightened mindset thru truly next-level genre-defying live electronic music. building sonic bridges between dubstep, funk, hip hop, static, bass, experimentalism and visual sound. this is “the new guard”.

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S L U G A B E D
live
numbers, ramp, planet mu, stuff / brighton.uk

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I L L U M S P H E R E
live
fat city, 3024, hoya:hoya / manchester.uk

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B L U E D A I S Y
live
black acre / london.uk

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N A S T Y N A S T Y
live
frite nite, bad acid, seclusiasis / oakland.usa

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M I C H A E L R E D
live
low indigo, lighta! / vancouver

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L O M A X
vj
vancouver

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Tickets – $20 advance / $25 at the door

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151 W. Cordova / 10pm – late

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Sound System – Taal Mala

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NFF10 Installations – all night

http://www.myspace.com/bluedaize
http://www.work-ethic.net/blogs/music/blue-daisy
http://www.work-ethic.net/features/illum-sphere
http://www.myspace.com/slugabedmusic
http://www.myspace.com/nastynasty
http://www.myspace.com/krashhazzard
http://electronicexplorations.org/the-show/105-nastynasty
http://www.myspace.com/michaelred4
http://lowindigo.blogspot.com
http://www.creativetechnology.org
http://thequietus.com/articles/03311-sonic-router-008-your-dubstep-column-profiles-slugabed

September 10^th, 2010 : 10 – 3
FREE, Open to the Public
151 Cordova St, Vancouevr BC
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Line up ::

Love & Electrik gets you with a classic style but also sends you light years into an unknown but beautiful future. Enter Roxy, a quirky, yet sexy woman that embodies the LOVE…Love for a soulsonic force that guides her voice and her life. Enter Kevin, he is the ELECTRIK…he’s the pulse, the manipulator of rhythm and synthesizer of sound!

With the sexy, playful single, “Sex Video” now available on Beatport.com and coming soon to iTunes, through Tremendous Records (Last Gang Records), the duo have already been chosen as the opening acts for the likes of LaRoux, Chromeo, Amanda Blank, Little Dragon, Devlin & Darko (Spank Rock DJ’s), & The Very Best. With all this momentum, Love & Electrik aren’t just heading towards any other explosion but instead, a Big Bang!

www.myspace.com/loveandelectrik
twitter.com/loveandelectrik

*feature/interview in ion magazine
http://www.ionmagazine.ca/2009/10/music-love-and-electrik/

*feature/interview from fenchurch clothing
http://www.fenchurch.com/family/fenchurch-people/?/Love+%26+Electrik/488

*featured on discobelle – free dl link for “sex video” single
http://www.discobelle.net/2009/06/24/sex-video/

about tremendous records
http://www.myspace.com/tremendousrec
last gang records
http://www.myspace.com/lastgangrecords

Artists:

Gramorail began with a whimsical vision by the Vancouver Design Nerds to design and build pedal-powered cars that would connect to one another and form a human-powered “party train”; a train that could be paraded along unused rail corridors in Vancouver.  Gramorail brings attention to the city’s rich rail heritage and promotes a sustainable mode of transportation.

Over the last year the project has taken on an identity of its own and the spectacular vision has been realized with the completion of two railcars!

Built by an ever-growing cast of contributors, including members of the Nerds in partnership with eatART, the railcars are a kinetic sculpture that acts both as vehicle and stage.  It features a sound system projected through a larger-than-life gramophone, a hand-crafted chess board, and 100 feet of track that can be transported to public events, celebrations and festivals in Vancouver and beyond!

Powered by an “engine” of 4 people on the locomotive car, the Gramorail can accommodate 6 to 8 passengers in the luxurious and finely crafted gramophone passenger car.

Gramorail is making its 4^th public appearance at the New Forms Festival, preceded by eatART Powers the VAG in July, eatART’s Wavelength Film Festival & Masquerade in August, and Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada earlier this month.  It will also be at the Sustenance Festival at the Roundhouse Community Centre from Oct. 8^th -16^th.

Biography:

The Vancouver Design Nerds are a network of collaborators from various backgrounds who share a desire to engage in design opportunities with a spirit of creative play and to challenge the normative environment of the city.

eatART fosters new media art research with a focus on large-scale, kinetic and robotic sculpture. Their projects use art to educate people about the role energy plays in our lives and to raise questions about the social and environmental impacts of energy use.

grunt gallery show during New Forms!

LoopLoop >> Recorded Memories
Exhibition Dates: Thu, September 9 – Sat, October 16, 2010
Opening Thursday Sept. 9, 8-11pm
Using animation, sounds, warping and time shifts this 5 min video loop runs forwards
and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind. LoopLoop is made from an image sequence Patrick Bergeron captured in a train traveling to Hanoi in Vietnam. Bergeron filmed the houses along the railroad. The 1000 images of this sequence have been stitched into one long panoramic image. Moving elements have been seamlessly integrated into the panoramic still activating it in subtle and surprising ways.

While traveling in South-East Asia, Bergeron captured the day-to-day events,
places, and people he encountered:

“When I came back home, many experiences and details had already been forgotten.
My brain failed at accommodating the abundance of the subjects met. When I look at the video tapes of my travels, I remember those past events. My memory is activated by these images. By watching them several times, I detect new interesting facts; a dog hidden in a corner, a sign on a wall, a strange person. For now on each one of these new details, unperceived before, takes part and contributes to my memories and souvenirs.”

Video artist and researcher, Patrick Bergeron, modifies and manipulates the image and its details. He is interested in the concepts of speed, memories and the image components. His work is a mix of animation, experimental film and documentary. For the last 15 years, he has been working in special effects for the film industry and has worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix.

The A440hz visual art installation is an artistic collaboration investigating our musical universe, spanning the entire electromagnetic spectrum and extended to include human hearing, consciousness and the periodic table of elements. As the octaves rise through the harmonic series they reveal fascinating connections between chemistry and physics, neurological and biological processes, and sense perceptions (sound and light).

Visual artists include Erica Stocking, Eben Bender, Michael Black, Emma Lehto, Peter Taylor, Kenny Roux, olo J. Milkman, Angela Fama, Mandy Hardwick, Char Hoyt, Robert Mearns, Office Supplies Incorporated, Celia King & Joel Snowden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heIvRfUygoY

Biography:

Joel James Blaire Snowden is a video artist and editor. A founding member and an artistic director of Pointless Hysteria, the renowned performance gallery across from Woodward’s, Joel has collaborated on countless experimental videos in several disciplines, including dance, performance art, spoken word and conceptual science. He is currently editing a documentary on International Development, Religion and HIV/AIDS in Malawi, South Africa, and his interest in a physical reality that drives us all continues to drive his focus.

Celia Jacqueline King is an inter-disciplinary artist, international award winning published author, curator and producer: her print artists books, sculptural and video book media exhibiting in Italy, Japan, Canada and USA. She has curated and produced many Vancouver artists group exhibitions with A440Hz, New Forms Festival, Misanthropy Gallery, Word on the Street and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. An Honours Graduate in Interdisciplinary Fine art and Alumni Emily Award 2000, Celia is currently engaged in the A440hz new artistic practice artists book and interactive media, with support of Inter-Arts, Canada Council for the Arts.

September 10-18^th 2010
W2 Storyeum
151 Cordova St, Vancouevr BC
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Opening: September 10^th at 8 PM
Hours: 12 – 7  (Daily)  (FREE by Donation)

NFF TEN: ‘Traversing Electronic Narratives’ focuses on the diversity and ingenuity of the media arts scene in Vancouver, and how it speaks to the greater world of art today.  Strictly working with locally based artists in Vancouver, the exhibition tells a narrative involving video, sound, sensors, mobility, location, interactivity, participation, diversity and history.  Looking at work developed in Vancouver over the past 10 years, the exhibition speaks to both the development of the media arts scene in Vancouver over that period of time as well as how this relates to the greater history of the city during this period.  Themes of change, location, surveillance, exploration, myth, travel and meditation take us from direct documentation and stories about the land where the exhibition takes place, to journeys of physics far beyond the confines of the exhibition.  At its core Traversing Electronic Narratives is a story of growth, experimentation and the multiplicity of artistic experiences that play a role in media arts today.

Curated by Malcolm Levy

Malcolm is a curator, artist and filmmaker living in Vancouver, BC.  Malcolm was the Curator of CODE Live at the 2010 Winter Olympics.   Past curatorial, film and video installation works have been presented in India (Sarai), Australia (Next Wave), China (INIAF), Germany (Club Transmediale) and Canada (FCMM, VIDFEST, CBC 120 Seconds).  Malcolm was the co-founder of the New Forms Festival in 1999, and served as the Artistic Director for many years.  Full length documentary projects include ‘Shambhala’ (2001-2008) and ‘Walking on Glass’ (2006-2009, currently in post-production.  Malcolm is currently working on the building and programming the Media Lab for the grunt gallery and working on his Masters in Media Studies at the New School in New York.  His artwork is represented by Grace Gallery in Vancouver.

Artists:

Alex Beim (Block)
Beat Nation (Curated by Tania Willard and Skeena Reece)
Celia King and Joel Snowden: A440Hz
Jim Bizzocchi
Khan Lee
Matt Smith
NeoGrafik
Olo J Milkman
Paul Wong
Salazar
Sarah Shamash
Storybox (Curated by W2 and Urban Ink)
Frederick Brummer/Rupinder Sidhu: AudioBox
Cease Wyss/Shawn Chappelle: Resistance for Existence
Su-an Ng/Sepideh Saii: Myth in Magic
Justin Sekiguchi/Lenke Sifko: Mother Tongue
Krista Lomax/Sammy Chien: ShadowBox
Times Neue Roman: Mobile SWARM featuring Times Neue Roman
Vancouver Design Nerds and eatArt: Gramorail

8pm-12am
151 Cordova St, Vancouevr BC
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Beat Nation Line up ::

Sista Hailstorm
The Starmakerz – Manik1derful and Magic Touch
Skeena Reece
Ostwelve
Christie Charles

Originally conceived as an exhibit and a website, Beat Nation has evolved as a collective of Native hip hop artists working in traditional and new media environments.

“Native graffiti art, indigenized ipods, Inuit break dancing, indigenous-language hip hop and video, Indian bling and urban wear: the roots of hip hop culture and music have been transformed by indigenous cultures and identities into new forms of visual culture and music that echo the realities of Aboriginal people. Beat Nation is about music, it’s about art and it’s about the spirit of us as indigenous peoples and cultures” Tania Willard: Co-curator Beat Nation
www.beatnation.org

Artists: Times Neue Roman

Times Neue Roman will travel the streets of SWARM during the opening night of the New Forms Festival, playing their brand of music out of a U-HAUL Truck, equipped with full projections and a sound system.

Biography:

Times Neue Roman rock with a general tone and attitude of teenage immortality. Comprised of an award winning poet, Arowbe (Robert Bolton) and composer, Alexander The, TNR’s peerless ‘one of one’ sound has been called “nintendo-punk-rap” and “post-rap” by media and supporters.  Since debuting
at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2008, Times Neue Roman have been rousing crowds at basement jams, rooftops, auto-garages, house parties, shitty pubs, glitzy clubs and out the back of a U-HAUL truck.
Their most recent release “Talking Sporty” (YYZ Records) is included in the newly formed Pabst Blue Ribbon music program, and a coinciding vinyl release with Art Metropole.
www.timesneueroman.com
myspace.com/timesneueroman

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