Visitors can look over the shoulders of the artists at work, or have a talk with them on every Saturday and Sunday from 15pm to 18pm. The project will end with a finissage on 25th of September, when the participants present the turn-out of their work. Of course there will be also partying and an open session at the Tagtool.

Kid’s-patch is an innovative lab, a mini-festival for young people, which is realized by workshops and presentations within the fields of music, graphical art, performance art and modern/new media. By the direct and playful work with children artists get the opportunity to gain new perspectives on the process of creating and presenting creative content. The programs are designed so that it is an innovative and entertaining approach close to children and youth fields of contemporary art and culture.

Friday, August 20th 2010 /// Performance starts at 21.30
MUSEUMSINSEL – Pergamonmuseum – Museum for islamic art

Entry fee 7 Euros, with advance booking 5 Euros

Ramadan is both a time of inner cleansing and of opening yourself to the community – the inside meets the outside. “SEYAHAT – A Journey” follows this path in three parts.

The ensemble DESTAN fuses musical improvisation, performative drawing and urban dance. Communication from individual action, structure out of spontaneity.

Urban dance: Kadir Memis “Amigo”
Trumpet: Ritsche Koch
Drums: Christian Marien
Tagtool: Thomas Bratzke aka “Zast”, Maki Dorninger

Ange Taggart’s artist in residence programme in Dundee ended a couple of weeks ago. The Final Gathering event gave the opportunity to get a glimpse of her work involving the Tagtool.

“I’m happy there is now an active group of people keen to utilise the tool in the city. The grand plan is to establish a core Tagtool interest group to support and encourage the use of the tool in the city. Laura Simpson from Nine Trades project will initially communicate with key players to get the ball rolling.”

A photo taken during the double Tagtool session at the Final Gathering.

“I’m delighted to say that a few things are already underway, we have several arts and community organisations with ideas in the pipeline, and at least ten people/organisations who want to build their own Tagtool.”

Amelie at the age of 3 is playing with the Tagtool. She is definitely one of the youngest Tagtool users and obiously enjoying herself, while Ange is taking care of the parents.

“At the moment it would help engage with young people. Especially with those who are not confident with their literacy and not confident with themselves that they are any good at anything. The fact is they can pick up that little pen and do a scribble and we get art at the end of it. It will help the fun element of learning, helping them to mix with other people, team building, there are loads of things it can address.”

Ange also posted some responses she has recieved during the recidency – here is a handwritten letter from enthusiatic parents.

Finally there is a video from the Tagtool session at the Hannah Maclure Centre. It’s a timelapse of Tagtool art at the Guerrilla Gallery launch party. The Tagtool was used by members of the public throughout the night in response to live music from Esperi and Edward Shallow, and a DJ set from Captain Congo.

Also check out the rest of the Nine Trades of Dundee Blog!

Each evening there will be live drawing performances by Frances Sander, Lennie Lee, and other artists from the studios, artist jams and also public ‘have a go’ sessions.

The ‘Hackney Wicked’ is a really big festival with lots to see and do throughout the weekend. All the galleries and artists’ studios in the area will be staging events and exhibitions, so if you are in London and want to find out more about what’s on where, check out the festival website.

For more information on the work of Frances & Dima, check out their blog Drawinglive News.

Cosmic Space Disco

Space Floor (Psytrance, Progressive, Fullon)
Live Acts: Jaia (Tribal Vision Records/France)
DJs: Kajola (Zero Gravity Records), Djane Nicoletta (Altar Records), Sinus (24/7 Records), 8Zack (United Fraggles)

Disco Floor (Progressive, Minimal, Elektro)
DJs: Pola Riot DJ-Team, Sai (Waldwegmuzik), Itzon (Zero Gravity)

Chill Floor (Ambiente, Chill out, Downbeat)
Live Acts: Jaia (Tribal Vision Records/France)
DJs: Weg-Erbauer (weg-erbauer.com), Djane Nicoletta (Altar Records)

VJs
Live Drawing Visuals by the Drawing Spaghetti Monster; Weg-Erbauer, The Funny Astronaut

Deko
Phaidon (Belgium)

Public transport:
U1, U2, O, 5, 80; S-Bahn-Linien 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 und 15

PRESALE (limited): starting 26.04.2010

€ 13,00 @ „Aurin“ (Kircheng. 25, 1070 Vienna) and wienXtra Jugendinfo (Babenbergerstr. 1, 1010 Vienna)
@ the gates – € 14,00 < 24:00 Uhr < € 16,00

Location:
CLUB PLANETARIUM
Oswald Thomas Platz 1
1020 Vienna

“E-Werkstatt” focuses on the transfer of know-how, as well as on the production and the presentation of projects involving electronic media. Kunstwerkstatt Tulln is our location for meetings and events.

We started off with a small warm-up session on the 3rd of July. This was primarily to promote a bigger project in November with workshops and a big party. So if you are around of Tulln, stay tuned!!

Here’s a little video and some fotos of our warm-up session.

Posted by Tinet on Saturday, July 17, 2010

Last night we did the magical Tagtool session at the Freie Internationale Tankstelle, right next door from us. We had been passing by the place every day for years, curiously checking out what was going on there and trying to think of something nice we could do there. Then Ilan got the idea of doing a Tagtool collaboration, where I would draw images and Ilan would move them around. We had only collaborated on something once before, and since a bit of drama and conflict and schlepping around huge projectors is always good for maintaining a healthy relationship, I said why not.

So after living here for four and two years respectively, we finally said hello to Dida who uses the old little gas station as a studio and art space, and he thought our idea sounded fun.
We actually don’t have any documentation of the main show, where we told the story about the wee wild piggy who finds a tank in the forest, set to the tone of all the songs I could find about pigs and/or tanks that I liked.

We do have some photos from the second show we did, though, which was entirely improvised, and even more fun, anyway.

Read the rest of the blog at kommiekomiks.com

Dima Berzon has demoed Tagtooling in stereoscopic 3D with drawings by Frances Sander. This was achieved in post production, by compositing several flat layers of Tagtool painting into a 3D world. To view the clip in 3D, you need red and cyan colored glasses like this:

Frances writes about the process on their blog Drawinglive News:

For this experiment Dima asked me to do a set of three Tagtool drawings. In the first session I was to draw only the background. Then, against a green screen ‘background’ I drew only what was to appear in the middle ground. (I found this quite difficult, trying to remember my previous drawing so that I could make the middle ground look convincing when the three sessions were put together). In the third session, again against the green background, I drew only the foreground elements of the composition.

I watched a high resolution version of the clip on a large TV set, and I found the spacial effect very convincing. This definitely shows the potential of eventual 3D features for the Tagtool software.

If you don’t have the 3D glasses ready, here’s the mono version of the clip:

Improvised & animated sights and sounds. Live drawing & animation by Maki & iink on the Tagtool, live music by Philip Zoubek (Fender Rhodes).

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