The next batch of confirmed visual artists for the first BYOB are here … Don’t forget you can literally turn up without completing the online form, just bring your own beamer and find some space.

MINUEK 

Minuek is a Audio Visual artist who started doing video for the Brighton based Wrong Music label in 2005, He has worked doing live visuals at various festivals and events around Europe and has been performing Audio Visual sets since 2008 working with node based creation tools.

He is part of the Freecode Audio Visual collective a group of artists exploring realtime audio and video that started from a performance at the Exyzt “Burningham” installation at the 2011 Fierce Festival in Birmingham. The Collective have performed various shows in unique locations over the intervening years.

He also works closely with the Brain Wash Collective providing visual effects for everything from the The Guillemots latest video to Large scale classical music events.

Minuek’s work can be seen on his VIMEO page.

HELLOCATFOOD - SKIN CELLS

hellocatfood (Antonio Roberts) is a VJ and digital artist that is obsessed with glitches, errors and the unexpected. His visual style combines bright, vomit-inducing graphics with broken and glitched gifs, film clips and retro video games.

hellocatfood has been resident visual artist at SOUNDkitchen and Bring Out Your Dead, and has produced visuals for Birmingham Laptop Ensemble and Com Truise

If it can be glitched, hellocatfood will certainly do so … DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?

and our third and final artists for display today is Cindy Clipston …

CINDY CLIPSTON - LIQUID ABSTRACTION

I have just graduated from studying fine art at the University of Northampton. The concept to my working practice is a combination of working across both still and moving imagery in an abstract form. The works purpose is for the eye to become lost and submerged into the imagery, thus to become removed from the everyday.

The idea of moving away from the everyday gives the basis to the concept, beginning with a very mundane object that I abstract in a digital photographic and manipulative way. Creating from this both still compositions and sequences which I bring into moving
compositions.

Working in video is something I have pursued for a while now and are continuing to push further in my practice. I dream of one day making visuals that can be experienced for a whole host of live genres, but with a particular interest in stage visuals/backdrops within the music industry.

Samples of Cindy’s work can be found on her VIMEO page.

It’s shaping to be a great afternoon / evening of video, visuals and to top it all off, GREAT MUSIC!  Don’t forget we have the Ableton Live sounds of Tec-Ho and the liquid groove of SWEETPEA (Rude.FM) for your ears.  

We are pleased to announce the Leicester edition of Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), taking place on Saturday 4th August at FABRIKA IAC on Humberstone Gate.

BYOB is a series of one-night exhibitions where artists are invited to bring their own “beamers” and explore the medium of projection by creating a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance.

Please send all enquiries to byobleicester@gmail.com

BYOB Birmingham is curated by Tony Coleman and Sean Clark, and is presented by Fabrika IAC and supported by Antonio Roberts (GIF animator & Glitcher).

BYOB is an idea originally conceived by Berlin-based artist Rafael Rozendaal.

BYOB Leicester is still on track with some great digital artists stepping up with their own beamers to dazzle the senses (I do apologise for some of the forthcoming analogies!).  

H3Xl3R - LIFELOOP

You’ve probably seen the post referring to a gentlemen of the mysterious coding arts?  Indeed we have H3xl3r coming over to experience some good ole British home cooking as well as bringing his new toys (live coding) and (!) Touch OSC / Touch VIZ.  If any of you would like a chat about either of the Touch products, we’re pleased to announce that there will be an informal hour chat / masterclass with Rob about them.  

More importantly though, Rob is coming along to light up the place with a piece he’s named “LifeLoop”.

You can catch a snippet of this …. HERE

H3xl3R - Hexler creates software, audio-visual installations and all sorts of experimental, computerized creations. 

pixels, waves and hyperactivity disorder

DACHUU - FREESPRITE

One of the many homegrown Leicester visual artists that I’ve had the good fortune to work alongside at a number of gigs and a part of the Leicester AV group on Facebook.  Dachuu is coming to BYOB with a piece named FREESPRITE.

DACHUU - For the past 5 years I have been working as a performing arts
technician dealing with lighting, sound, projection and digital medias on a
daily basis. I’ve found that immersing myself in creativity and technology
has led me to interactive visual work. Recently I’ve come to the
conclusion that the manipulation of imagery and visuals, both digitally and
in live performance has always been a huge part of my work.

FREESPRITE - Is an audio visual piece that explores the relationship between foreground
and background, and the progression of digital imagery.Created with a
selection of softwares - CoGe, Ableton Live and touchOsc, to create
something interactive and fun.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?

SAINT NAZAIRE

Hailing from Sunderland, I’ve had the good fortune to witness Liam Carlin’s live VJ work numerous times and am excited to see his new Saint Nazaire alter ego.  

SAINT NAZAIRE - F.E.A.R

Saint Nazaire is the collective works of co-founders Liam Carlin
and Steve Thompson. Working together Since 2011, they have begun developing
Audio/Visual installations with the ultimate goal of performing the works
live.



With an ever expanding list of influences, ranging from Bjork and Bauhaus to
L.A.’s Low End Theory and the mind blowing visuals of Warp’s Amon Tobin,
Saint Nazaire is a continuously evolving project which is going from
strength to strength.

Saint Nazaire’s goal’s for late 2012 is to release a four track EP which
will be available free to download. They also hope to make preparations for
a live show whilst raising awareness of their work.

We’ll be using Soundcloud as a means of getting the tracks heard and using
our Vimeo Channel so they can be seen http://vimeo.com/saintnazaire

More to be confirmed …. \o/

Excellent news for this BYOB. Heard of TouchOSC? TouchVIZ? Hexler? Well Rob (Hexler), author of TouchOSC and TouchVIZ is flying into the UK for this weekend to show off his live coding as well as an installation he’s currently working on. And the best bit, he has also agreed to do a quick workshop on both products \o/

Http://www.hexler.net

BYOB Leicester is and will always be dedicated to bringing the best in digital art and artists to the East Midlands. And to kickstart our run of popup exhibitions we are proud to present two internationally renown digital artists. 

Oli Sorenson (Canada) and Mowgli Art (UK) will be showing their work during BYOB, and they will remain on display at Fabrika’s Interakt Gallery for three weeks until the 25th August.

At around 8pm, we step up a gear and the party starts. We have coming all the way up the M1 the one and only DJ Sweetpea (RudeFM.com). Sweetpea has been spinning strictly vinyl for the ladies for 9 years now, and Blend have had the good fortune to VJ to her sets many times now. Expect some of the finest liquid DnB grooves throughout the night. 

We also have music from Leiceters own Tec-Ho. Mark Towers may be known to many of you for his live Ableton sets. Difficult to pigeonhole, Tech-Ho can play it all from minimal techno, to detroit house. We cannot wait to hear what he’s got up his sleeve for you all.

More DJ’s to be announced.

Facebook event : http://www.facebook.com/events/360033477391782/

We are proud to be showing a bespoke installation by Oli Sorenson at this BYOB event.  

Oli is creating a site specific installation of his Antimap series just for BYOB Leicester, and it will be viewable for three weeks after BYOB Leicester at the Interact Gallery.

With his Antimap series, Sorenson reappropriates the “mapping” technique, a process commonly used in video festivals which he (re)contextualizes in gallery spaces. In restrained interventions he lays out minimal patterns reminiscent of Daniel Buren, Op Art aesthetics or the Supports/Surfaces group, to project these onto three-dimensional shapes which he underlines as “screens that resist their role of passive receptacles and inform the video images with an additional element of perception.”

Purposefully placing his work midway between visual and media arts, he is first in line to recognize the digital era as time-subordinate, a dire determinism which alter such productions in their inability to self-archive (witnessed by the quick succession of software obsolescence), while the act of painting ineluctably crosses over the ages. Sorenson thus proposes a synthesis of means that strives to return to painting via digital tools: using the specific visual vocabulary of media arts in such a way that the canvas is perceived as a “residual” component of a vast sampling exercise, he creates the Antimap series.

We are pleased to announce the Leicester edition of Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), taking place on Saturday 4th August at FABRIKA IAC on Humberstone Gate.

BYOB is a series of one-night exhibitions where artists are invited to bring their own “beamers” and explore the medium of projection by creating a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance.

Please send all enquiries to byobleicester@gmail.com

BYOB Birmingham is curated by Tony Coleman and Sean Clark, and is presented by Fabrika IAC and supported by Antonio Roberts (GIF animator & Glitcher).

BYOB is an idea originally conceived by Berlin-based artist Rafael Rozendaal.

Follow us / hurl insults to @BYOBLeicester :)

HUGE thanks to Hellocatfood / BYOBBirmingham for the animations!  Nicely done sir :)