Optronica Festival Returns

There's a reason your highschool never had an "Audio Club" or a "Visual Club." It's for the same reason that MTV is such a huge hit, the same reason that your friend's post-rock band only became interesting after they bought that slide projector. It's because sight and sound tend to work well together as a distinct "AV" unit, affecting the senses simultaneously, causing discreet parts of the brain to together and generally making things seem really awesome.

Organizers at the Optronica Festival happen to understand this particular secret of the universe, having put together a five-day event of multimedia performances and lectures on the subject. From July 20 through 24, the London festival will feature Warp Records artist Plaid with video artist Bob Jaroc, DJ Spooky's "film remix" of the 1915 landmark Birth of a Nation, aptly titled Rebirth of a Nation, and a showing by ex-Kraftwerker Karl Bartos. Video killed the radio star killed the video star:

July 20
Plaid & Bob Jaroc + The Mellowtrons - BFI IMAX, 9.15pm

July 21
Karl Bartos - BFI IMAX, 8.30pm

July 22
Karl Bartos Lecture: The Interpositions of Media - NFT3, 6.20pm
Optronica Lab: People Like Us + The Sancho Plan + Skoltz_Kolgen - NFT3, 8.20pm
DJ Spooky "Rebirth of a Nation" + Exceeda - BFI IMAX, 8.30pm
Addictive TV "The Eye of the Pilot" - National Theatre Flytower, 10.30pm

July 23
Optronica on Screen - NFT3, 2.00pm
Media Remixed - NFT3, 4.00pm
Big in Japan featuring Masakatsu Takagi - NFT3, 6.00pm
Optronica - The Spitz, 9.00pm

July 24
Optronica on Screen - NFT3, 4.00pm
The Best of Mixmasters 2000-2005 - NFT3, 6.00pm

Posted by Joel Ebner on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:00am