MAPPING FESTIVAL 2012 /// LINE UP


You’ve asked for it on Facebook, you’ve desperately looked for it on our website, you’ve even tried to rob us information on Twitter, but there was nothing to do about it, we’ve kept the secret until the very last minute.

Less than two months before the eighth edition of the Mapping Festival, taking place this year from May 10th to 20th in Geneva, we’ve finally decided to reveal the line-up.

For this 2012 edition, the Mapping Festival remains true to its motto “Visual – Audio & Deviant Electronics” and presents an architectural mapping of the Museum of art and history, takes you on a fairground stall, gives you the opportunity to discover La Gravière, invites you to a Secret Label Party, a new audiovisual label, and make you lose your bearings with such performances as Dieu est un DJ, Loop me or La Caputxeta Galàctica.

Want to know more? We’re getting to the heart of it …

This year, we’ve decided to unveil our program step by step. You will find below our global line-up, but some focuses will follow, to keep the party going!

But let’s not make you languish any longer…

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the line-up of the 2012 Mapping Festival:

EXHIBITION
@ Le Commun – Bâtiment d’art contemporain (BAC) /// from 10 to 20/05
Preview: 10/05

Pascal Dufaux (CA) Déjà vu
Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ/FR) Eyjafjallajokull
Daniel Canogar (ES) Scanner
Aleksandra Dulic (CA) In a Thousand Drops… Refracted Glances
Frederik De Wilde (BE) UMwelt-VIRUtopia
Danny Perreault (CA) Flow

ARCHITECTURAL MAPPING
@ Musée d’art et d’histoire /// 19/05
Bordos.ArtWorks and Invited Artists (HU)
Apparati Effimeri (IT)

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
@ Théâtre du Galpon /// Fonderie Kugler /// Cinéma Spoutnik /// Théâtre de l’Usine
Insectotropics (ES) La Caputxeta Galàctica
Insanë (CA/CH) DIEU EST UN DJ- 1st representation
Sculpture (UK) Unstable Modular Collage
Casper Electronics (US)
Tasman Richardson (CA)
Chloé Tallot + Arnout Hulskamp (FR/NL) 
Yilab (TW) Loop Me
RYBN (FR) ADM7:FLASHCRASH – 1st representation
Michael Vorfeld (DE) Light bulb music
TVestroy (CA)

FLEETING INSTALLATION
Cie Nejma & A-li-ce (FR) La Baraque Foraine 6.1

VISUAL-AUDIO CLUBBING
@ Zoo /// La Gravière /// La Fonderie Kugler
Discodeine (Kill the DJ/FR)
Remain (Meant Records/FR)
Vosper (Meant Records/CA)
El Hijo De La Cumbia (AR)
Nekochan (FR)
Label Commercial Suicide Party (UK)
Ras Mali (CH)
Tempo Moderno  (BR/IT) Discotecario Doca et Actaruss1
RomBeads (K.O.E/CH)
Monkey Freakz (CH)
Dirty Mad Sound vs The Hiiters (CH)

SECRET PARTY
@ Fonderie Kugler /// 12/05
The official launch of a brand new audiovisual agency!
The best artists of the moment and long-time favorites of the Mapping Festival, all gathered around for a full day of lectures, performances, and of course party. A wild event, keep an eye on them…

WORKSHOPS
MadMapper (CH/FR)
TagTool (UK)

And as always, the VJ CONTEST
@ Cinéma Spoutnik /// 18-19/05

More info soon…

Legoman & Mandril – Cityscape 2095 @ Mapping Festival 2011


AntiVJ present: Cityscape 2095, presented for the first time at the Mapping Festival of Geneva 19-29 May 2011

An audiovisual installation by :Legoman (3D animation), Mandril (drawing) & Thomas Vaquié (sound design)

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Shot and edited by Jerome Monnot
(additional footage by Yannick Jacquet)

Mixed A/V performances @ Mapping Festival 2011


FILMED AT MAPPING FESTIVAL – GENEVA – MAY 2011

Featuring:

RECOIL PERFORMANCE GROUP with ‘Body Naviguation‘ : two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations.

TRANSFORMA & YRO with ‘Asynthome‘ : the stage is turned into an experimental laboratory where three players, or operators, manipulate objects such as light boxes, interactive sculptures or cameras.

VJ FADER / ADRIAN SIERRA GARCIA / AYA IRIZUKI / ELSEE DALL’AVA / TILMAN PORSCHUETZ with ‘Impermanent synchronic‘ : audiovisual & experimental performance that uses synergy to explore the rhythm hidden within a human body.

LEGOMAN & STRAY DOGS with ‘Intangibles States‘ : scenography in which a multitude of projection surfaces are placed in such a way that musicians, visuals and light are fully integrated into the performance space.

IDUUN with ‘Kadâmbini‘ : handlebar mustache and aviator glasses screwed on his head, Kadâmbini is ready for the most incredible journey of his life : a journey made of nonsense, absurdity and manipulation, built of loops, lights and reversed situations.

CAGOULE with ‘Inhabitants‘ : unique fusion of live contemporary dance performance, sound and film – a theatrical experience to indulge the senses.

THE ERASERS with ‘Shot‘ : performance using cinema, improvised music, performances and the Internet as means of expression and social insurgence.

Video credits :
Camera: Jerome Monnot,Vania Jaikin Miyazaki
Video assistants: Camille Dedieu, Linda Cavaliero
Editing: Jerome Monnot

The Erasers @ Mapping Festival 2011


FILMED AT MAPPING FESTIVAL – GENEVA – MAY 2011

Shot by THE ERASERS
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For the 3rd time, The Erasers will show up at the Mapping Festival. They explore cinema, improvised music, performances or the Internet. For 2011, they prepare a surprising live-act… in a car…on a parking ! The audience arrives at a parking lot where there is only one car. On the wall in front of the car there is a large white billboard… Don’t miss it!

Video credit:
Camera: Jerome Monnot, Vania Jaikin Miyazaki
Video assistants: Camille Dedieu, Linda Cavaliero
Editing: François Moncarey – CENC

Mr Scruff All night long – Set AV – Saturday 14th January @ Zoo/Geneva

MR SCRUFF all night long with his own Vj for a Audiovisual Set for a co-production between Zoo / Usine and Mapping Festival Saturday, 14th January 2012.

All style music for everyone: Soul, Funk, Latino’s music, Jazz, R’n'R, but if you prefer Hip Hop, Reggae or House Music you can have it too.

Opening 11pm 

Price 15.- chf all night long

More infos: www.lezoo.ch

Youtribe: Mapping Festival Profile


FILMED AT MAPPING FESTIVAL – GENEVA – MAY 2011
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YOUTRIBE by THE MONTESINOS FOUNDATION & PETTER VIASSELFEBB 
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The installation YOUTRIBE uses “Youtube” as a sociological tool. The sequences filmed by amateurs are put up together in amazingly barmy “mash-ups”. The sequences taken from the Internet and assembled in pairs have nothing to envy to a Dadaist collage and give life to an artistic performance of the most mind-boggling nature. Human Comedy is having a field day and the result is projected on two inflatable screens installed for the occasion by the Montesinos Foundation and Petter Viasselfebb .

Video credit:
Camera: Jerome Monnot,Vania Jaikin Miyazaki
Video assistants: Camille Dedieu, Linda Cavaliero
Editing: Jerome Monnot

Profile Mapping Festival: Camille Scherrer – In the Woods


FILMED AT MAPPING FESTIVAL – GENEVA – MAY 2011
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IN THE WOODS by CAMILLE SCHERRER
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Camille Scherrer is a Swiss designer exploring intersections between art and technology. She focuses on interactive installations of augmented reality, where subtle computer imagery flirts with perceived reality. Camille gets her inspiration from the mountains where she grew up and created her own universe populated by animals from the wood. With her new project, Camille plays with animals’ shadows with which the audience can create a conversation with.

Software : Steve Cardinaux – SIGMASIX

Video credit:
Camera: Jerome Monnot,Vania Jaikin Miyazaki
Video assistants: Camille Dedieu, Linda Cavaliero
Editing: Jerome Monnot
Music: ‘Behind the sea’ by Possimiste
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