Art's Birthday 2005
Roberto Paci Dalò, Elizabeth Fischer, Anna Friz, Alberto Guedea, Francesca Mizzoni, Absolute Value of Noise, Michael North, Jean Routhier, Ken Roux and Igor SantizoJanuary 14 to 17, 2005 - various concerts and events.
Reverie | Art’s Birthday 2005 – global audio-streaming events.
http://reverie.aaeol.ca and http://artsbirthday.net
January 14 – 17, 2005
International web-streaming, radio broadcasts and performances at Mlab (Helsinki), Kunstradio and Ars Acustica (Vienna), Studio XX (Montreal), Modern Fuel Gallery (Kingston), Video Pool (Winnipeg), The New Gallery and EMMAX (Calgary), The Western Front (Vancouver), Radio Kinesonus (Tokyo), and other participants.
Events at the Western Front:
Two nights of concerts featuring solo works and collaborations.
Friday, January 14th at 8 pm – $10/$5 – Night 1.
Saturday, January 15th at 8 pm – $10/$5 – Night 2.
(If you come to both nights, a two night pass is $15/$10).
Sunday, January 16th from 11 am to 3 pm – free admission – network audio exchanges with Vienna. Jamming between Vancouver and Vienna.
Sunday, January 16th from 3:30 pm to 6 pm – Art’s Birthday Bingo Fundraiser.
Monday, January 17th – 24 hour web-cast at http://aaeol.ca – DREAM telephone-art and other streams – to celebrate Art’s Birthday, sound artists and poets will call-in at the time of their own birth. An answering machine will relay the calls to the Internet.
Monday, January 17th at 7:30 pm – The Upgrade 2.0 – artist talk and discussion.
All of the performances will also take place in their virtual locations within Reverie (http://reverie.aaeol.ca). Artists who are interested in participating in Reverie or the DREAM telephone-cast can contact Peter Courtemanche at 876-9343 or reverie-info@front.bc.ca.
“Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners – working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art.