The evening event of the CODED CULTURES festival in Vienna is situated at the »Hofstallungen« (MUMOK) of MuseumsQuartier Vienna.

Pecha Kucha Night

Devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture) in Tokyo, Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers and architects to meet, network, and show their work in public. As we all know, depending on who speaks, a presentation can last for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images for his/her presentation, each shown for 20 seconds – giving 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame before the next presentation is up. Since its introduction in 2003 Pecha Kucha has spread over more than 150 cities with events on a regular basis. Since 2007 the communications agency brainiacs and BKK-3 architecture organize Pecha Kucha Nights in Vienna.

For more information: www.pechakucha.at

Tetsuya Umeda (Live Performance)

Tetsuya Umeda, emerging artists from Japan, is well known for his unique sound-performances using everyday objects and subtle electro-acoustic elements. His self made sound tools and custom made sound-systems create an atmosphere of improvisation and composition. He has participated in a large number of exhibitions and events, including “Festival Beyond Innocence” (Osaka, 2002-2007), “Instal” (Scotland, 2006), “Sound Art Lab” (Osaka, 2005), “the listening project” (London, 2006), “waitool sounds” (San Francisco, 2007), “Sound Effect Seoul” (Seoul, 2007), “Blurrr” (Tel Aviv, 2007) and others.

MINIMAL TOKYO & TRUST REC. (Visuals: DEXTRO)

Minimal Tokyo is an international collective of DJs, producers, designers and media artists. Since 2007 Minimal Tokyo has been running one of Tokyo’s top events for electronic dance music with a minimal flavor: minimal techno, click house and tech house, inviting both talented underground producers from Japan as well as internationally re-known artists from all over the world. Minimal Tokyo also closely collaborates with visual artists: photographers, graphic designers and moving image artists striving to create a perfect balance between electronic music and digital visuals.

Trust Records is following its vision of cold, funky machine beats for over 10 years now. TRUST is Vienna’s main outlet for Detroit-style underground electro, techno bass and futuristic breaks. The label is run by DJ Glow, and besides local talent like Microthol, Epy and Lok44 the label’s roster has meanwhile expanded to include respected international artists like Urban Tribe or Clatterbox.

The Coded Cultures EXHIBITION was curated by a SELECTION COMMITTEE: – Masaki Fujihata (Tokyo National University of the Arts) – Yukiko Shikata (NTT-InterCommunicationCenter, Tokyo) – Christa Sommerer (Interface Culture, University of Art and Design Linz) – Manfred Faßler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.) – and the curational team of CODED CULTURES (Georg Russegger, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Michal Wlodkowski)

Participants (Exhibition):
BCL (Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel) (AT/JP)
exonemo (JP)
Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)
Walter Langelaar (NL)
Saita Kazuki / SoichiroMihara / Hiroko Mugibayashi (JP)
Yuko Mohri (JP)
Martin Pichlmair & Fares Kayali (AT)
Saso Sedlacek (SLO)
SHIMURABROS. (JP)
Ludic Society (Margarete Jahrmann, Gordan Savicic, Phillip Lammer) (AT)
Tetsuya Umeda (JP)
Mamoru Okuno (JP)

Location:
Freiraum, MQ Vienna MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna, Austria

• CODED CULTURES Exhibition

Von 27. – 31. Mai findet das Festival Coded Cultures, veranstaltet von der Gruppe 5uper.net, statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine neue Generation von Medien- und Entwurfskulturen und deren kreative Praktiken. Vielfältige Szenen und Projekte, die unter Zuhilfenahme von elektronischen Medien neue Anwendungsbereiche schaffen, werden vernetzt und für Außenstehende zugänglich gemacht. Damit thematisiert das Festival kulturelle Enwicklungsprozesse an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Technologie, Wissenschaft und Design.

Eröffnung: 27.05. 2009, 19.00 Uhr, Freiraum/quartier21 – MQ

Welcome
Dr. Wolfgang Waldner (Director MQ)

General Opening
5uper.net feat. Dr. Georg Russegger

Exhibition Opening
Dr. Gerald Bast (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

• CODED CULTURES Website

The works presented will be those by Asian artists from the Ogaki Biennale in 2006 in Japan, along with experimental animation works, which are completely different from what is accepted as “Japanimation” or “Japan Cool,” and with modern computer music projects by Masahiro Miwa and his students.
The students involved in the seminar on Open Source formulate their positions in the following way: » In the context of educational institutions, it is important to pose the question towards the access of free software / media in order to give an alternative to the dominant proprietary software / media. The proprietary media mainly used on the labor market, has shaped the knowledge and skills of students, creating a dependency on these tools. There is a need to understand and not allow ourselves to be blindly subjected towards the structures imposed on us during our educational process.« – Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Philip Leitner, Ivette Mrova.

25.5.-27.5.2009
University of Fine Arts
Workshop: Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka
Akbild, Semperdepot, Lehargasse 8, M1
25.5.: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
26.5.: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
27.5.: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.