Keynote Michael J. Morgan

Sunday, 10:00 – 10:40, De Balie

Michael J Morgan (UK) lectures at City University, London. His area of research is the experimental psychology of vision, from neuroanatomy to perception and psychophysics.

Session 8 Spatial Perception

Sunday, 10:40 – 12:00, De Balie

How do we perceive space? How do artists reflect on the experience of space and heighten the sense of space using sound and vision in sometimes radical or radically reduced ways?

With Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Hans Christian Gilje and Jacob Kirkegaard.

Hans W. Koch: two rooms, flipped

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00, STEIM

Musician and composer Hans W. Koch thoughtfully and delightfully remodels our ordinary tools and spaces to expose unnoticed characteristics. He will be working on an installation that connects two distant spaces within STEIM through an analytical feedback system where each room influence the other and sounds are generated by found objects within building.

Session 9 Gardeners of the Future

Sunday, 13:00 – 15:00, De Balie

In order to survive the near future, humans need to rapidly adapt to the challenges ahead. Artists will play an important role in ‘gardening’ the future, not only by shifting from computer technology to biology and genetic engineering, but also by starting to understand the universe as a single, large natural algorithm that needs gardening in order to function in a sustainable way.

With Roger Malina, Paul Prudence and Philip Beesley.

Conflux

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 13:00 & 14:00, Melkweg Mediaroom

Sound artist Yutaka Makino examines with painstaking precision how sound can uniquely manifest within its given boundaries. He will be preparing for a series of intimate performances that will be held everyday in a space that he has defined for his composition.

Sonic Hub

Sunday, 15:00 – 18:00, De Balie

Sonic Hub offers an opportunity for people from media arts and culture in the Netherlands and beyond to meet, present, exchange and discuss their projects, be it labels, festivals, magazines or spaces, in an informal setting at De Balie.

Beyond Space

Sunday, 19:30 (doors 19:00), Planetarium Artis

An extraordinary programme in a remarkable location: the Beyond Space event in the Planetarium at the Amsterdam Zoo (Artis) includes the international premiere of a composition by the recently deceased innovative composer Maryanne Amacher in acknowledgement of her lifelong dedication to her craft; a new audiovisual work by the Italian multi-talent TeZ; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand explore the potential of laser and light projections on the Planetarium dome and on soap bubbles, accompanied by live audio by Francisco López; and the British designer Paul Prudence guides the visitors through an visual spectacle specially designed for the Planetarium dome.

Shop at Sonic Acts!

During Sonic Acts, WORM.shop will offer an eclectic selection of books, magazines, CDs, DVDs and other media on electronic music, sound art, noise, avant-garde, music, film, sonology, activism, underground culture, DIY, and art & media related to the festival programme.