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Anarchy Dance Theatre + UltraCombos – Seventh Sense [TW]
‘Seventh sense’ will celebrate its European premiere at TodaysArt. This exclusive performance is done by the Taiwanese Anarchy Dance Theatre, led by choreographer Chieh-hua Hsieh and interactive designers UltraCombos. Modern dance and interactive digital environments are beautifully merged in this…
Ben Frost + Daníel Bjarnason + Sinfonietta Cracovia – Music for Sólaris [IS/PL/UK]
TodaysArt is delighted to present this Dutch premiere as the official opening concert of the festival. Get carried away into the world of Stanislaw Lem’s novel ‘Solaris’. ‘Music for Sólaris’ by Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason is an ambitious project that…
Bill Kouligas – DJ [GR]
Bill Kouligas is a Berlin based artist who runs the label Pan and also Family Battle Snake, his long running solo experimental music project. He has collaborated with the likes of Joseph Hammer, Destroy All Monsters, Sudden Infant, C Spencer…
Braun Tube Jazz Band [JP]
In collaboration with Nippon Television Europe (NTVE), TodaysArt has created a program that focuses on Japan. After composing a number of musical pieces Ei Wada (b. 1987) subsequently switched his attention to outmoded electrical appliances, interested in their supposed obsolescence. He recontextualized and modified…
Bruno Spoerri – Live [CH]
Bruno Spoerri (1935) is a saxophonist, installation artist, composer and electronic and interactive music specialist. As saxophonist or musical arranger Spoerri has worked with numerous jazz groups including the Metronome Quintet, the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg and his own bands.
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Chris Salter + TeZ + David Howes – DISPLACE 2.0 [CA/IT/US]
In collaboration with Jorg Hempenius, Jonathan Reus, Harry Smoak, David Szanto and Caro Verbeek
‘Displace’ is a performative environment and laboratory where your sensory experience is put in the foreground. Informed by sensory anthropology, the project has been developed by a team
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Cymatical – BioDome [NL]
Cymatical bestaat uit een samenwerking tussen Beer van Geer (Universal MediaMan), Jarno Burger en Dennis de Bruijn. De dome installatie die zij ontwikkelden maakt het mogelijk om licht te projecteren in een hoek van 360 graden, waardoor de bezoeker volledig in…
Dead-cert & Pre-cert Home Entertainment DJ’s (Andy Votel & Demdike Stare) [UK]
After the Pre-Cert Home Entertainment program in Theater aan het Spui, Demdike Stare (Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty) and Andy Votel will grab their record bags and move to the foyer of the Lucent Danstheater. As Dead-cert & Pre-cert Home
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DEFRAME [NL]
DEFRAME is a collective of visual artists and audiophiles, whose focus lies on audiovisual installations and live visual performances. Its members share a passion for creating immersive experiences, exploring the possibilities of current media technology and are known for their…
Dick Raaijmakers – Ideofoon I [NL]
Dick Raaijmakers (b. 1930) is generally considered as both the founding father and godfather of electronic music, and he is one of the founders of Zeebelt, a magnificent platform in The Hague for creative young talent. He has however also…
Dieter Vandoren – Integration.04 [BE]
Dieter Vandoren will present the performance ‘Integration.04’, his ArtScience graduation project. Dieter Vandoren’s performance instrument integrates three spaces into one synesthetic medium: physical space, digital space and bodily space. The performer’s expressive intents translate directly into bodily manipulations of the immersive…
DNK DJ UNIT (DJ Too Young + DJ MFK) [NL]
DNK DJ UNIT (DJ Too Young + DJ MFK) plays a mixture of UK bass, future bass, Cali beats and basically all the hottest tunes of the left-field beat scene.
DNK-Amsterdam [NL]
DNK-Amsterdam – Heatsick (live), Gert-jan Prins (live), Bill Kouligas (DJ Set), DJ UNIT: DJ Too Young, DJ MFK
DNK-Amsterdam organizes concerts with modern music, in all its different forms, presenting composed and improvised electro-acoustic, electronic, and acoustic music as well…
Einóma – Live [IS]
Einóma is a collaboration between the Icelandic duo Bjarni Gunnarsson and Steindór Kristinsson. Having released two highly acclaimed albums, ‘Tvenna’ and ‘Lost&Found’, as well as various 12″, remixes and compilation tracks inspired by their work on short films, the pair…
Elise Morin + Clémence Eliard – Waste Landscape [FR]
The Atrium of The Hague’s city hall will host ’Waste Landscape’, a 500 square meters artificial undulating landscape covered by 65.000 unsold or collected CDs, which have been sorted and hand-sewn. This reflecting slick of CDs forms a strangely beautiful…
Exhibition: Commons Tense – New Media Arts from Turkey [TR]
Commons Tense / Müşterekler Zamanı – New Media Arts from Turkey
Electriciteitsfabriek
15 September – 30 September
Address: de Constant Rebecqueplein 20, Den Haag
Opening: Saturday 15 September 19:00 – 22:00
Openingstimes exhibition:
thursday- friday: 15:30…
Exhibition: Global Groove [INT]
TodaysArt 2012 & E.ON present: Global Groove
Location: Electriciteitsfabriek – de Constant Rebecqueplein 20
Opening: Saturday 22 September 14:00
Dates: 22 – 30 september
Admission: Free (Pay What You Want)
Opening times:
Thursday – Friday:…
FilosofischeStilte – Live [NL]
FilosofischeStilte is the half Dutch, half Surinamese, 18 year old Luuk Graham from The Hague. He started producing music in 2010. FilosofischeStilte makes beats which can’t really be attributed a specific label. He uses a lot 8Bit arpeggiators, Commodore 64…
Frouke ten Velden / F [NL]
VJ Frouke ten Velden, aka F, graduated at the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2009 and became part of the DJ collective Onderstroom. During her studies she shifted her focus to the moving image and video projection. She prefers…
Gabey Tjon a Tham – ))))) repetition at my distance [NL]
Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working with a variety of media and art forms. She creates site-specific installations and aims to engage the audience. “))))) repetition at my distance” is a kinetic/light/sound installation based on a subjective…
Gert-Jan Prins – Live [NL]
Gert-Jan Prins has been known for twenty years as one of the most challenging sound artists in the Netherlands. He is an autodidact who focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic ‘noise’. In his work, Prins makes connections…
Heatsick – Live [NL]
The solo project of Berlin-dwelling Brit Steven Warwick, Heatsick batters a solitary Casio through a myriad of effects, looping up a coarse, crisp and twinkling house music into a wonderfully queasy eternity, teasing out melodic and rhythmic mantras to an…
Ikonika – DJ [UK]
Ikonika (real name Sara Abdel-Hamid) is an electronic musician, producer and DJ. Her debut 12″, “Please/Simulacrum” was released in 2008 on Hyperdub Records. She has also released music on Planet Mu and Warp Records. Ikonika’s music combines melodic synth patterns,…
InnerAct – Canto Ostinato Audio Visual (Gwyneth Wentink + Wouter Snoei + Arnout Hulskamp) [NL]
The world premiere of ‘InnerAct’, an audiovisual performance centered around the revolutionary musical piece ‘Canto Ostinato’, will take place amidst the metallic dunes of ‘Waste Landscape’ at TodaysArt. Gwyneth Wentink (harp), Wouter Snoei (electronica) and Arnout Hulskamp (visuals) will…
Jorick.TV [NL]
Jorick.TV will connect anything that is not supposed to be connected. He links lights to visuals and vice versa. There’s no such thing as a frame. As the appointed lights and visuals chief in the PIP Countryclub, he is used…
Joris Strijbos – Homeostase [NL]
The installation “Homeostase” by Joris Strijbos is the physical output of a broader research into Artificial Life, Cybernetics and Emergence. It is a kinetic sculpture which communicates with the audience using light. Multiple rotating objects are programmed to…
Julien Mier – Live [NL]
As a kid, Julien was raised on Captain Beefheart, Mouse on Mars, Sugarcubes, Brian Eno and Sigur Ros, and had years of classical music training before moving on to the digital realm. Inspired by nature as well as improvisation, he…
Koen Nutters – DJ [NL]
Nutters is a musician, composer and organizer of music, bands, events, concert series, exhibitions, installations and performance pieces. He is one of the founding members of the international “N collective” (2002 – 2009), the artistic director of the DNK-Amsterdam concert…
Lars Laumann + Rein Vollenga – Untitled (Love Parade) [NL/NO]
The installation ‘Untitled (Love Parade)‘ by Lars Laumann and Rein Vollenga is presented in collaboration with West.
Lars Laumann (Norwegian, 1975), draws inspiration from the outskirts of popular culture, particularly from the phenomenon that exists on…
Le Source – DJ [NL]
Le Source started spinning records back in 2002, but it took some time before he went on to play at clubs. His choice of music gradually shifted over the years from nu-skool breakbeat to a bold blend of electro, punkfunk,…
Lowman – DJ [NL]
Lowman is a graphic designer and organizer of music nights such as Drop and Various Artists. He also has a big passion for music and is a sucker for vinyl. Expect an eclectic mix comprised of his broad musical spectrum…
Mariska de Groot – CINECHINE [NL]
BNG Workspace is the annual project contest at Filmhuis Den Haag, which explores the boundaries of the film medium. CINECHINE is the winner of the BNG Workspace project prize 2012: with this project, Mariska de Groot translates the principle of…
Mark Van Hoen – Live [UK/US]
Former Seefeel member Mark Van Hoen will present an audiovisual live performance. Van Hoen began to create electronic music in 1980 and in the late 90’s he collaborated with Lush, Cocteau Twins, ex-members of Slowdive, as well as legends Robert Fripp…
Martin Bricelj Baraga + Andre Goncalves – DarkStar [SL]
The second version of DARKSTAR, the new installation for public space by of MoTA (Museum of Transitory Art) artist Martin Bricelj Baraga in collaboration with Andre Goncalves will be on view and experience at the Atrium of The Hague’s City Hall. DARKSTAR…
Matthias König – The Sun Never Sets [DE]
Matthias‘ aim is to create work that triggers the spectator’s immediate reaction to the physicalpresence of visual and sonic elements. The emphasis lies on the pure experience delivered by the art work, and its transformation that takes place while the…
Menno van den Berg – Deflecting Particles [NL]
‘Deflecting Particles’ is an interactive kinetic installation by Menno van den Berg mainly made out of wood, dowels and balloons. By turning the lever of the machine you decide if the balloons turn counterclockwise or clockwise. Wind is a…
Microseq + Emmanuel Flores Elías – #008000 [CY/MX]
‘#008000′ is an audiovisual performance by Microseq in collaboration with Emmanuel Flores Elias. Microseq creates an immersive post-digital sonic world which pursues musical discourse in terms of developmental sound design, where different styles and forms are being introduced, decomposed and…
Mike Rijnierse [NL]
Mike Rijnierse, creator and co-creator of great TA performances such as THX in 2007 and Station to Station in 2008, will perform a site specific work’ in the Electriciteitsfabriek; 100 striplights will hang from the steel construction of the building…
MOHN (Wolfgang Voigt + Jörg Burger) – Live [DE]
The influential electronica pioneers Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger have been creating electronic music for over two decades, separately and together, using a whole range of aliases. Having tried their hand at many different sub-genres and consistently receiving high praise…
Mouches Volantes – Live [NL]
Mouches Volantes is a soundscape and beat collage duo from The Hague consisting of Thijs Geritz and Wouter Blok, two graphic designers that ventured into the world of sound in 2007. They produce electronic sound and video art and organize…
Nam June Paik + John Godfrey – Global Groove [KR/US]
“This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch to any TV station on the earth, and TV Guide will be as fat as the Manhattan telephone book.” So begins Global Groove,…
Nik Nowak – Panzer [DE]
Nik Nowak, a graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, created a wholly diverse range of “Mobile Boosters”, i.e. portable or at least flexible sound systems. These innovations culminated eventually (after several predecessors) in the so-called “Panzer” (Tank).…
NIMk – Same, Same, But Different – Screenings [INT]
‘Same, same, but different’ consists of five works that use well-known images and music, from commercials, films, art, pop music and comics, but which are given a new meaning. They are about new versions of old icons, giving rise to…
Onno Dirker + Peter Zuiderwijk – Sometimes Thoughts String Along [NL]
The creators of the TodaysArt 2010 ‘Beamfever’ intervention and ‘Power To The People’ installation bring you a new delicate work.
Open Reel Ensemble [JP]
In collaboration with Nippon Television Europe (NTVE), TodaysArt has created a program that focuses on Japan. One of the highlights of this program is the ‘Open Reel Ensemble’ of Ei Wada, in collaboration with Kimitoshi Sato,Haruka Yoshida, Takumi Namba, and Masaru Yoshida. The ‘Open Reel Ensemble’…
Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland – Screening [INT]
In October of 2011, a small group of filmmakers, photographers and musicians (Tim Navers, Kim Høltermand, Deru and Scenic) travelled to the remote countryside of Iceland to document their experience with the landscape, traditions and people encountered along the way. The…
Pantha du Prince + The Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light [DE/NO]
In his last experiment, “Elements of Light”, Pantha du Prince (Hendrik Weber) works on the interface between electronic and classical composition. Weber worked with the Norwegian conductor, instrumentalist and electro-acoustic composer Lars Petter Hagen to create a 40-minute symphony for carillon, live…
Pazes – Live + DJ [BR]
Pazes is the project of Brasília via São Paulo producer Lucas Febraro. His music consists of spaces built on shimmering electronic beatscapes, drawing on the lilting cadences of his home country. His unique sound earned the young producer a spot…
Pecha Kucha Den Haag [NL]
On Saturday afternoon, Pecha Kucha The Hague will host an evening full of presentations and creatives; from designer to musician and from advertiser to cultural organizer. Expect inspiring, funny and handsome speakers that come to talk about wildly diverging topics.…
Periphery [INT/NL]
TodaysArt Periphery is a part of the festival in which local partners (independently or in collaboration with TodaysArt) present contemporary visual and performing arts programs. In 2010, TodaysArt introduced the Periphery as a new component of the festival program. In…
Phon.o – Live [DE]
Phon.o has been active for quite some years now, starting out playing records with his buddy Apparat in the early 90s. After a mind boggling appearance at TA2007 as part of CLP (Chris de Luca vs Phon.o), Phon.o returns to…
Raumlaborberlin – Vortex [DE]
At the heart of the festival on the Spuiplein the ‘Vortex’ will be built, a large construction designed by Raumlaborberlin and realized in collaboration with Refunc, created over the course of several weeks from the rubbish that the people in…
REWIRE x TodaysArt [NL]
After successfully cooperating in the past under different monikers, it’s now time for REWIRE and TodaysArt to engage once more. As the two organizations share similar views on emerging music, but from different perspectives, it seems only natural to collaborate.…
Roll The Dice – Live [SE]
Roll the Dice is composed of the duo Peder Mannerfelt, member of Fever Ray and solo performer The Subliminal Kid, and Malcolm Pardon, film and TV composer. The haunted atmospheres of their self-titled debut album in 2010 gained the duo…
Ryoichi Kurokawa – syn_ [JP]
Ryoichi Kurokawa works intensively with audiovisual media since 1999. He describes his work as time based sculptures in which digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and minimalistic forms and complex structures coexist. Kurokawa was one of the great successes…
Sebastien Wierinck [BE/FR]
TodaysArt co-produced the works ‘Entuber La Haye 1.0’ (presented at TodaysArt 2008) and ‘Entuber La Haye 2.0’ (presented at TodaysArt 2010) by Sebastien Wierinck. We are thrilled to announce that the City of The Hague – adviced by Stroom Den…
Shigeto – Live [US]
Shigeto (Zach Saginaw) grew up being influenced by his father’s love of Motown Jazz and R&B. After learning to play the drums and studying music, he discovered his talent for creating electronic music. His vividly beautiful compositions, driven by relaxed…
Slant Azymuth (Demdike Stare + Andy Votel) – Live [UK]
Het label Pre-Cert Home Entertainment heeft een verzameling muzikaal en non-muzikaal geluid op vinyl gearchiveerd. Het onderzoek voor het archief werd gedaan door Demdike Stare (Modern Love) en Andy Votel (Finders Keepers) in Noord-Engeland. Dit open wegwerp-archief, dat gedeeltelijk uit…
Symposium: Bright Collisions [INT]
TodaysArt 2012 Symposium: Bright Collisions
Location: Royal Academy of Art – Auditorium, The Hague, NL
Dates: 20 – 22 September
Admission: Free – register below.
As part of the 8th edition of the TodaysArt Festival, the three-day symposium…
TeZ – Non-Hertzian Wave Transmission (2.1) [IT/NL]
Experimental evidence has validated the existence of scalar, non-hertzian waves able to defy traditional notions of electrodynamics, propagating in a vortex fashion through orthogonal space-time dimensions to ours, and reaching faster-than-light speeds. These waves carry and modulate quantum energy information. A…
The Game of Life – Wavefield Synthesis [NL]
Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) is the first sound production technique with which sound is actually – in the physical sense instead of psycho-acoustic – truly spatial. The Game of Life owns the only mobile and live WFS system…
The WORM no-stars – Nouvelle noisette dévant la lettre [NL]
WORM will bring two of their staff, Listentomerijn en Vonndorn. With a series of great musical salto deluxes – such as stars crashing on water – they produce an infinite number of stimulating tones, usually rhythmical and ranging from long…
Thursday: Atiq & EnK – Live [NL]
After residing in the shadows of the musical landscape for more then three years, Atiq & EnK are popping up on the radar once again. These past years were used to create and craft their own unique sound and resulted…
Thursday: Illesta & Girus PM – DJ [NL]
Illesta & Girus PM from The Hague have been DJ-ing together for over 10 years with gigs at Paard Van Troje, Supermarkt, 330LIVE and TodaysArt. They have an all-round love for quality, electronic music but especially a deep rooted love…
Tomás Navarro – True Hologram [ES]
Tomás Navarro studied Fine Arts in Barcelona’s University, devoting himself to the cinematic industry. In 2010 he moved to the Netherlands in order to attend the Lens-based Digital Media course at Piet Zwart Institute. Now, granted by CONCA Spain, he…
tomlaan – InFader [NL]
‘InFader’ is een installatie van tomlaan in de vorm van een vijf meter lange crossfader die het publiek heen en weer kan bewegen. Aan beide uiteinden van de fader is een nummer hoorbaar, staat de fader schuif in het midden dan…
Torus – Live [NL]
Torus, the young Joeri Woudstra from The Hague, is heavily inspired by the LA beats scene with artists such as Flying Lotus, Matthewdavid, Ras G, Shlohmo etc. and all kinds of hip hop. His experimental beats are comprised of samples,
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Unit Moebius vs Schmerzlabor – 20 Years of Bunker Records – Live [NL]
On Saturday, Panzerkreuz, Bunker Records and Acid Planet will take over the Vortex. To celebrate 20 years of Bunker Records, they are presenting ‘20 YEARS OF PANZERKREUZ PAIN RESEARCH: NON-STOP HUMAN VIVISECTION AND OTHER ANIMAL ABUSE’
None other than Guy…
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