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[André Rangel]

Festival Press Release, March 17

March 17th, 2010 | Filed under General

Announcing the Intermedia Festival: Indianapolis, April 23-25
The Intermedia Festival (http://music.iupui.edu/intermedia/) is a  
unique series of concerts and events presenting futuristic modes of  
artistic performance. The Intermedia Festival will highlight new  
telematic and media arts performed by artists throughout North  
America and Europe. Telematic art synthesizes live traditional  
performing arts with computers, media and telecommunications. While  
more than 100 performers will travel to Indianapolis, others will  
participate through the Internet interactively with collaborators at  
the festival. Events for the Festival will be held in the new  
downtown Indianapolis Public Library and in the Informatics and  
Computer Technology Complex at IUPUI.  Admission is free and open to  
the public for all events.

“We want the public to be involved in this event and particularly  
hope that other artists embrace this Festival and come to learn and  
explore new ways of doing things,” said Scott Deal, a professor at  
IUPUI’s Department of Music and Arts Technology and the director of  
the Festival. “As an artist, one is always hoping to present work in  
a way that gets people thinking. Our hope is that the Festival  
audience takes away a renewed sense of potential.” For IUPUI’s  
Department of Music and Arts Technology, this festival is a  
departmental effort involving faculty and students. The festival will  
also involve collaborating with a variety of community arts groups  
such as Dance Kaleidoscope and Butler University Dance Program.

Concerts
The Festival will present ten media-rich concerts between Friday  
evening and Sunday afternoon, April 23-25. Live dance, music, visual  
arts, drama, videography, scientific presentation, commentary and  
discussion will come together to create a provocative and compelling  
set of experiences. Noted guest artists featured at the Festival will  
include San Francisco-based singer Pamela Z, New York composer and  
computer artist Luke Dubois, singer Bora Yoon, eco-acoustic composer  
Matthew Burtner, Indianapolis-based electro-acoustic ensemble Big  
Robot, and Dance Kaleidoscope. The Friday evening opening concert  
will feature Pamela Z followed by a Dance concert that will feature  
the Indianapolis-based Dance Kaleidoscope in concert with other  
dancers and media onstage, and with dancers from Florida State  
University interacting online and on-screen.

Installations
Several groups will be presenting mobile art installations throughout  
the Festival in the downtown vicinity.  The Washington DC-based  
Floating Lab Collective will present their work titled “Scream At  
The Economy”, a participatory project that invites people to call a  
phone number and scream at the economy. The archived screams will be  
recorded as mp3 files. The musical composition will be played in the  
“screamer”, a portable speaker system, that will perform in public  
spaces. The Florida-based Mobile Performance Group is a collective of  
new media artists who disseminate their works by using automobiles,  
video projection, cell phones, FM transmission, wireless hotspots,  
and any other technologies that allow artists to engage the public.  
The Occupation Forces Project, by New York artists Mark Skwarek,  
Joseph Hocking, and Serial Krusher, is a piece that simulates of an  
invasion of earth by an alien occupation force. The project will be a  
free, downloadable, mobile application or projected augmented  
reality, which will allow users to view an alien invasion army  
through their mobile devices at various stations throughout the  
Indianapolis Library and in the downtown area. Portuguese computer- 
artist Andre Rangel will present “Graffonic”, a work utilizing  
video tracking and laser pointers to assist participants in creating  
a reactive work of art.

Fixed Media Works
The Virtual Reality Theater (VRT) at IUPUI is a 3-D environment in  
which interactive and immersive art works will be presented, created  
specifically for this space in the ICTC building at IUPUI.   
Additionally, screenings of cutting-edge video pieces that combine  
visual art with music and sound will occur at Library. New York  
computer artist and composer Luke Dubois and IU Bloomington Professor  
Margaret Dolinsky will present multi-media works in spaces inside the  
public library downtown. The Festival will also highlight the work of  
over a dozen video artists from throughout North America, including  
notable artists such as Phil Kline, Maggie Payne, and Tom Lopez.

Additional Information
The Intermedia Festival is made possible by an Indiana University New  
Frontiers grant from the Lilly Foundation. The Festival is being  
produced in partnership with the Indianapolis Marion County Public  
Library, the Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL), and  
the Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center, “We want the  
public to be involved in this event and particularly hope that other  
artists embrace this Festival and come to learn and explore new ways  
of doing things,” said Scott Deal, a professor at IUPUI’s  
Department of Music and Arts Technology and the director of the  
Festival. “As an artist, one is always hoping to present work in a  
way that gets people thinking. Our hope is that the Festival audience  
takes away a renewed sense of potential.” For IUPUI’s Department  
of Music and Arts Technology, this festival is a departmental effort  
involving faculty and students. The festival will also involve  
collaborating with a variety of community arts groups such as Dance  
Kaleidoscope and Butler University Dance Program. and the Music and  
Arts Technology Department at IUPUI. Free tickets for the Intermedia  
Festival will be available in April, or at the door during the festival.

Over 100 performing artists will travel to Indianapolis to present  
their works.  In addition to the featured guest artists, participants  
will be coming from Vancouver, New York, Lisbon Portugal, Chicago,  
Washington DC, Yale University, Oberlin College, University of  
Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Virginia, Florida State  
University, University of Miami, Duke University, Bowling Green  
University, Temple University, Emory University and Virginia Tech  
University, to name a few.  Regional participants will include  
artists from institutions such as IUPUI, Indiana University  
Bloomington, Ball State University, Butler University, University of  
Kentucky, University of Louisville, and University of Cincinnati.   
Telematic performances between artists over the Internet will occur  
as a result of new technologies developed in the Telematics Lab at  
the Donald Tavel Arts Technology Research Center at IUPUI.




ANDRÉ RANGEL
Scholarship Fellow FCT, 2009
Science and Technology of Art Researcher, UCP 2008
PhD Student, UCP 2008
MFA, UCP 2002
http://andrerangel.pt
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Guest Assistant
FBAUP - University of Porto, School of Arts
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Art Director - 3kta
Custom Software and Intermedia Concepts
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