International Cities of Advanced Sound

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND

INFORMATION BOOKLET AND MEMBER DIRECTORYCREATED APRIL 2014

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND2

Founded in 2008, ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound – is a global network of independent non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music, and related arts.

The ICAS network aims to support its members in building sustain-able infrastructures to support, promote, and encourage experi-mental and critical sound cultures. Using a palette of transdis-ciplinary approaches, ICAS member organizations reflect on the aesthetic and societal agency of contemporary sound creation with regard to transformational processes induced by digital technology, and actively engage in building bridges between art disciplines, cultural fields, scenes, genres, and audiences.

Activities within events and festivals organized by ICAS members include concerts, performances, commissioned work, exhibitions, participatory projects, educational workshops, conferences, publi-cations, and the curation of informal spaces for knowledge-sharing within and among fields.

ICAS also serves as an interface to intensify dialogue between its members via knowledge exchange, artistic co-productions, mobil-ity of cultural workers, and more. The network also seeks to foster communication with decision makers in cultural, political, and eco-nomic fields, propose alternative criteria for measuring success and regulating exchange, and increase public awareness concern-ing the issues addressed by ICAS and its member organizations.

ICAS is comprised of 34 organizations over 4 continents. Over 250 events were presented in 2013. More than 50 co-commissioned works have been produced over the past several years. Support is received from the EU Culture Programme, the Goethe- Institut, the Trust for Mutual Understanding and more. The ICAS media partner is The Wire, UK.

FACT & FIGURES

WHAT IS ICAS?

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EUROPE04 Alpha-ville [UK]05 Arcadi Ile-de-France [FR] 06 Association Electroni[k] [FR] 07 Asociación MUTEK.ES [ES]08 Cimatics [BE]09 DISK – Initiative Bild & Ton e.V. [DE]10 Dis-patch Collective [RS]11 Dis-Play [ES]12 Foreningen Insomnia Festival [NO]13 Full Pull [SE]14 Fundacja Tone – Muzyka i Nowe Formy Sztuki [PL]15 FutureEverything [UK]16 MeetFactory o.p.s. [CZ]17 MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art [SI]18 Nuproductions AS [NO]19 ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst [AT]20 Technè [FR]21 Rokolectiv Festival [RO]24 Rotation [FR]25 Skaņu Mežs Association for Adventurous Music and Film Art [LV]26 Stichting The Generator [NL]27 Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. [DE]28 Ultrasound Foundation [HU]

NORTH AMERICA29 Communikey [US]30 Decibel [US]31 ISSUE Project Room [US]32 MUTEK [CA]33 MUTEK.MX (TECNOLOGÍA EN MUTACIÓN S.A. DE C.V.) [MX]34 New Forms Media Society [CA]35 The Bunker [US]36 VIA [US]

SOUTH AMERICA 37 Agencia Nossa! [BR]38 SOCO Festival [UY]

OCEANIA39 Room40 [AU]

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND4EUROPE

ALPHA-VILLE London, UK est: 2009

INITIATIVESAlpha-ville Festival of Art, Technology and Digital Culture // International Symposium on Post-Digital Culture // Exchange Conference // Alpha-ville LIVE series // Alpha-ville Screenings.

MISSIONAlpha-ville is a London-based project established to support artists and creatives who explore new territories and push boundaries even further with the use of digital media and

technology. Through our activities Alpha-ville facilitates connections and exchange between the fields of art, technology and design. Since its inception, Alpha-ville has worked with a wide array of organisations including British Film Institute, Kings Place, Whitechapel Gallery, Hackney Empire Theatre, Hackney Picturehouse, Athens

International Festival Digital Arts and New Media, V&A Digital Design Weekend, and Microsoft.Alpha-ville organises events and conferences, curates programmes and offers consultancy services in the fields of art, design and technology. In addition, Alpha-ville has also commissioned three works thus far: CELL, Grey Matter and Patch Slam.

FUTUREAlpha-ville continues providing its live platform for groundbreaking artists to collaborate, network and showcase work. In addition, new agency services are being developed to offer creative and artistic direction, artist management and online project development.

alpha-ville.co.uk

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ARCADI ILE-de-FRANCE Paris, FR est: 2003

INITIATIVESNémo Festival // ACME Production fund for digital arts // Biennial of Contemporary Digital Art of Paris 2015

MISSIONMain goals pursued by Arcadi Ile-de-France are to: support art production of emerg-ing artists; develop innovative actions in the field of artistic & cultural engineering; observe and cooperate for the evolution of cultural social background; widen and gather new audiences to local cultural offer.Within this wireframe, Némo Festival, ACME Production Fund, and the upcoming Digital Art Biennial consolidate the work of more than 500 artists through this past decade at local, national, and international scales.

FUTUREWe represent the first historical French regional fund for new media, and for several years now we have been federating about 20 venues for producing and showing contemporary digital artists. Be it Belgium, Canada, Germany, UK, European, or Asian partners, our exchanges and work methods are worldwide. We federate actors of all sizes in the electronic culture open field, in order to help achieving demanding and experimental artwork projects that wouldn’t be able to be developed within the short-sighted economic system. We tend to articulate an institutional credibility with an up-to-date, realistic artistic production and dif-fusion activity.

arcadi.fr festivalnemo.fr


ASSOCIATION ELECTRONI[K] Rennes, FR est: 2004

INITIATIVESMaintenant Festival // Origami

MISSIONFor 14 years, Association Electroni[k] has been dedicated to contemporary creation in the fields of sound and image, focusing on multi-disciplinary and innovative projects. Early-on, the organization aimed to promote electronic arts through live shows,

performances or installations. It has now broadened to other disciplines and aesthetics such as graphic arts, contemporary or electroacoustic music, while asserting its singularity. Cultural activities set up with different publics (school groups and families, students, persons with major social problems, etc) are now an integral part

of the Elektroni[K] project and goes beyond the days dedicated to the Maintenant festival organized in October each year. The organization is active year-round via residencies among school groups, workshops, the Belle de Nuit shows, cartes blanches, etc.

FUTUREAssociation Electroni[k] aims to seed more and more new creations and productions. The festival will continue to take place every year in Rennes, France in October. We are creating a new organization called “Origami”, which works with research labs, companies, and universities in order to create new technological projects. This new organization could also support a new event that is bigger than Maintenant festival. Association Electroni[k] is glad to cooperate on new projects with any countries and continents, with a special interest in North America, Asia, and Europe.

electroni-k.org maintenant-festival.fr


ASOCIACIÓN MUTEK.ESBarcelona, ES est: 2009

INITIATIVESMUTEK.ES – International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music

MISSIONMUTEK.ES’s principal activity is the presentation of the MUTEK.ES festival during the winter season in Barcelona. Each festival edition is committed to showcasing the finest emerging and established digital arts talent to local audiences, supporting the Catalunyan and Spanish artistic community by providing it with an internationally recognized platform within an environment of discovery, experimentation, and exchange.As the only MUTEK chapter based in Europe, MUTEK.ES provides a unique landing spot for MUTEK’s American branches on the European continent. MUTEK.ES thus has a strong focus on presenting new artists, projects and trends in digital creativity that are emerging in the Americas.

FUTUREWorking to position the festival in a larger EU scale to connect Barcelona as a media arts destination during the winter period, MUTEK.ES remains very interested in the Americas especially central and south Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile.

mutek.org/en/spain/2014


CIMATICS Brussels, BE est: 2002

INITIATIVESCimatics Agency // The Digital Now

MISSIONA production agency dedicated to art & innovative technology, Cimatics aims to challenge traditional approaches of contemporary art by supporting emerging and established artists working on the fringe of art, science, and technology. A strong focus is set on long-term cooperations between artists and the arts industry. Sustainable relationships are emphasized especially with cultural institutions, museums, galleries and art collectors.Cimatics aims to make a significant contribution to the development of new ways of making, presenting, and experiencing contemporary and digital art. The organization promotes and organizes the work of these artists, presenting their art works within some important events, galleries, exhibitions and cultural centres in Europe and worldwide.Services provided by the Cimatics agency to institutions range from arts consultancy and advice, to curating, financial, and project management. Cimatics also works on long term collaborations including the development of an artist’s career and its international visibility.

FUTURECimatics aims to establish an international production and management agency for Post-Digital Arts. Countries of interest for future collaborations include especially India, China, and Korea.

cimatics.com thedigitalnow.be


DISK – INITIATIVE BILD & TON e.V.Berlin, DE est: 1999

INITIATIVESCTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Art //

CTM Agency

MISSIONDISK Berlin aims to stimulate, support, and promote the production and diffusion of innovative music and related artforms. A central axis in the independent arts scene in Berlin and internationally, DISK is also committed to sustaining its longstanding relationship with likeminded cultural bodies and nurturing likeminded local and international non-profit initiatives. DISK produces the CTM festival, a prominent yearly international rendez-vous that, since 1999, has presented the most outstanding international productions in adventurous, experimental, and electronic music and audiovisual performance while reflecting artistic, social and technical developments in music culture via a daytime conference and exhibitions. In 2014 DISK launches CTM Agency, which aims to encourage the production and diffusion of experimental sound art, innovative music, and visual arts. CTM Agency offers bookings for special artists & projects, consulting ranging from event conceptualization to fundraising, production and administration, and also organizes year-round concerts in Berlin. DISK is a co-founder of Inn.to, a cooperative building in Berlin with artist studios and offices for cultural projects, and of General Public, a non-profit project space located on the building’s ground floor. DISK is a member of Initiative Neue Musik Berlin and of the Dach/Musik network.

FUTUREAs a festival and organization that works both locally and globally, DISK is open to collaboration with like-minded organizations that see themselves beyond national boarders.

ctm-festival.de diskberlin.de ctm-agency.de


DIS-PATCH COLLECTIVE Belgrade, RS est: 2002

INITIATIVESDis-patch Festival (past) // KidsPatch Festival

MISSIONThe Dis-patch collective grew out of the activities of Belgradeyard Sound System, a pioneering or-ganization in cutting-edge music, related arts and independent culture in the region of Southeast Europe. In 2002, it kickstarted its central project - annual Dis-patch Festival of cut-ting-edge music and related arts - which ran until 2010 present-ing 9 editions of international, trans-disciplinary program rich in performances, commissions, collaborations and special projects. The collective also realized a number of touring projects around Europe, USA and Canada, the most prominent of which where two ViceVerse tours with Communikey festival.Since 2010, Dis-Patch initiates a number of individual curatorial projects, collaborations, commissions, events, exhibitions and more in the fields of music, visual arts, and education as well as site-specific and nomadic projects. It continues to develop Kid-sPatch, an annual festival and initiative premiered in 2008 and dedicated to creative collaborations between artists and children.

FUTUREFollowing the end of the Dis-patch festival, we aim to continue working as a nomadic collective for site-specific projects and special, process-based multidisciplinary collaborations across the globe, as well as to help artists produce special projects, initiated and curated by us. Beside strong ties to the Communikey festival, we seek collaboration with USA-based, Canadian, Australian and South American initiatives. While open to collaboration in Europe, we are especially interested in realizing mobile, nomadic and engaged projects in Central and South America, Africa or the far East.

dis-patch.org dis-patch.com kids-patch.com


DIS-PLAY Canary Islands, ES est: 2006

INITIATIVESDIS-PLAY FEST // DIS-PLAY PRO // DIS-PLAY LAB // KIDS-PLAY

MISSIONDIS-PLAY is a platform for the dissemination of sound research and related arts that brings together electronic musicians and related professionals from the Canary Islands, Spain, and Europe, to promote art and technology proposals related to experimentation, implementation and creation processes on different multimedia platforms through activities like exhibitions, audiovisual concerts, multichannel audio performances, workshops, conferences, and other types of sound art and new media live performances or presentations. DIS-PLAY follows 4 working lines: DIS-PLAY Pro International exhibition held in different cities; DIS-PLAY Fest International festival in Canary Islands; DIS-PLAY LAB Research Centre in Canary Islands; and KIDS-PLAY Festival of interaction and creativity for children. We are currently operating 3 of these lines, with the opening of the 4th component (dis-play LAB) scheduled for April 2014. Over the next years we would love to expand this laboratory of audio-visual experimentation and related arts to provide the Canary Islands with a much needed space for knowledge exchange and performance opportunities in these types of art forms, both for local artists as well as for hosting residencies from international artists.

FUTUREWe definitely would love to work with as many ICAS organizations and other individuals/organizations as possible. We are especially interested in cooperating with initiatives such as the Dis-patch collective’s KidsPatch program.

dis-play.es


FORENINGEN INSOMNIA FESTIVAL Tromsø, NO est: 2007

INITIATIVES

Insomnia Festival

MISSION

We aim to show and explore good music - art and ideas. Insomnia festival is all about taking care of our cultural herritage from the electronic music scene in Tromsø. We aim to bring new emerging artists from the northern part of Norway out to the world and at the same time bring the world to the desolated island Tromsø.

We are in the making of the 13th edition of the festival in 2014.

FUTURE

We aim to expand into an organisation that is active year-round in supporting and present music and art in various venues in Tromsø.We are open to collaboration with all likeminded organizations.

insomniafestival.no


FULL PULL Malmö, SE est: 2005

INITIATIVES

Full Pull Festival

MISSION

Full Pull is an organization for electronic/experimental music, art and urban interventions. Founded in Malmö, Sweden, Full Pull arranged an annual festival in collaboration with numerous partners in the field of music and art in the Öresund region from 2005 until 2011. The regional network of big and small creative nodes is the organic basis and form of Full Pull – constantly open to experiments that favors exploration, innovation and exchange in musical and artistic practice as well as between cultures and countries.

FUTURE

Full Pull is at the moment re-thinking and re-forming what a festival can be and how to engage with the local culture and community. We plan to present a new festival concept in 2015.

full-pull.org


FUNDACJA TONE – MUZYKA I NOWE FORMY SZTUKI Krakow, PL est: 2008

INITIATIVESUnsound Festival (Krakow, NY, Adelaide) // Unsound Productions

MISSIONTone Foundation was established in 2008 as an organization responsible for the annual Unsound Festival, which promotes electronic, experimental and postclassical music as well as related visual arts. Tone Foundation organizes various cultural projects aiming to initiate intercultural dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, experts from the field of culture, and institutions of culture, focusing on activating the collaboration between individuals and institutions from Central and Eastern Europe and those from the Western Europe and USA. Those ideas have been implemented through the realization of several projects, such as touring versions of Unsound Festival, which have taken place in a few capitals of Central and Eastern Europe as well as an annual (since 2010) edition of Unsound festival in New York City. The NY edition has became particularly important raising Unsound Festival’s profile internationally and enabling to promote artists from Central/Eastern Europe as well as foster many lasting artistic collaborations.

FUTUREWe are very open to all kinds of collaborations, but remain interested in developing projects in areas that are not perceived as traditional centres of culture or strictly related to festivals. Our focus remains the development of special projects and commissions with artists interested to reach out of their creative comfort zone and breaking boundaries (also in geographical terms).

unsound.pl


FUTUREEVERYTHING Manchester, UK est: 1995

INITIATIVESFestival and Innovation Lab

MISSIONOur vision is to give rise together to a truly participatory culture and society, with art and research at the centre of things, and everyone, everywhere able to realise their creative potential, and shape their world for the better.FutureEverything is an internationally recognised R&D hub for digital culture that presents industry conferences, innovation projects, research prototypes, artworks and live experiences showcasing a digital future. In 2015 FutureEverything will celebrate it’s 20th year.

FUTUREIn 5 years, we aim to be recognised as having made a major difference to culture and society. Our festival will be thriving, international, and secure. We will have defeated the neo-liberatarian wing of the openness movement – placing community at the centre of open culture and the Network. We are open to collaboration with all likeminded organizations.

futureeverything.org


MEETFACTORY Prague, CZ est: 2001

INITIATIVESMeetFactory art-centre (3 galleries, theater, music hall, artist-in-residence program)

MISSIONMeetFactory is a non-profit international centre for contemporary art, with the mission to foster a dialogue between genres and make current art accessible to the widest public. We support original projects in visual arts, theatre, and music as well as interdisciplinary and experimental platforms. We aim to create a space where art is alive and artists are present, enhancing a direct exchange between international artists and the visitors, as well as between different fields and generations.The MeetFactory program consists of four pillars: The music program presents the international independent music scene via 6-8 performances per month. The theatre program focuses on contemporary prose, as well as experimental interdisciplinary projects. Three galleries offer space for critical confrontation of the national and international art scenes. Our international Artist-in-Residence program is the largest studio program in the Czech Republic, with 15 studios that annually host over 30 visual artists, curators, musicians, theatre directors or writers.

FUTUREFollowing the extension of building lease from Prague’s City council, MeetFactory will engage more in sustainability and ecological programs in the coming years. Artists-in-residence programme aims for more non-visual arts residencies (eg. music, theater) and together with the gallery department, will initiate creation of commissioned works by both Czech and international artists.

meetfactory.cz/en


MUSEUM OF TRANSITORY ART - MoTA Ljubljana, SI est: 2002

INITIATIVESSONICA – Festival of Transitory Art & SONICA Series // T.R.I.B.E. // ArtistTalk

MISSIONMoTA is a multidisciplinary platform dedicated to the research, production and presentation of transitory, experimental and live art forms. As its name indicates, MoTA examines the ideas of the museum (what is its role today and in the future), transitoriness (in either space or time), and art (what is art in relation to life). A museum without a physical space, MoTA programs are realised in different locations and contexts, both physically and virtually. MoTA organizes support actions for transitory art in the form of continuous events, exhibitions and educational programs throughout the year in cities across Europe and beyond. MoTA’s approach to artistic production is collaboration. With this methodology, MoTA aims at overcoming social differences and exclusive modes of working. MoTA also runs the first regular artist-in-residency program in Slovenia, with the purpose to give a living and working environment to foreign artists in Ljubljana.

FUTUREWe aim to run an internationally recognized gallery, MoTA Point, devoted to sound art, ephemeral art, experimental art projects as well as a social interactive space for art and ideas. We are busy building the museum collection and developing the TRIBE network within Eastern European countries and expanding the ArtistTalk platform. MoTA is open to collaboration with artists and organizations worldwide.

motamuseum.com sonica.si transitoryart.org artisttalk.eu


NUPRODUCTIONS AS Stavanger, NO est: 1999

INITIATIVESNumusic Festival // Nuart Festival

MISSIONStockhausen to Techno”, Numusic is dedicated to providing a dynamic annual festival platform for new, advanced and electronic music in an environment of discovery. The festival strives to reflect current movements within electronic music culture as well as provide a platform for the more esoteric outer reaches of electronic experimentation. Numusic specialise in commissioning unique productions and have worked with some of the worlds leading composers and producers of their time, Steve Reich, Jeff Mills, Karlheinz Stockhasuen, Underground Resistance, Arvo Part, Four Tet, and Pierre Henry are just a few of the names that have performed alongside emerging newcomers the past few years.

FUTUREFirst and foremost we aim to continue to provide a relevant re-gional and national platform for the genres we represent. Numusic recently established a monthly “live” club platform that we hope to develop further over the coming years. Numusic are always open to dynamic collaborations, particularly cross platform events and will continue to pursue, promote, produce and present acts and events under and (mis)represented by mainstream culture.

numusic.no nuartfestival.no


ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst Graz, AT est: 1968

INITIATIVESmusikprotokoll festival

MISSIONFunctioning as a kind of laboratory, musikprotokoll invites the audience to embark on an exploratory journey to discover the latest developments and trends in music, with all the artistic risks that this entails. From orchestral music with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien to chamber music, from live performances to sound installations, musikprotokoll highlights a wide range of intriguingly heterogeneous forms and genres and presents works that are for the most part developed and produced specifically for the festival. Dedicated to contemporary and experimental music and intermedia activities, the musikprotokoll programme features outstanding protagonists of current artistic trends and has throughout the festival’s long history always placed Austrian positions in an international context. Founded by Emil Breisach in 1968, musikprotokoll is organised annually by ORF (Austrian Broadcasting). It is a coproduction of its two stations, Radio Österreich 1 and Radio Steiermark, which broadcast the presented works in cooperation with the steirischer herbst festival.

FUTUREWe would like to continue to be a platform for the different scenes of the ever-changing new and experimental music fields. We are interested in cooperations with everybody (coming from whatever country and continent), as long as it fits into the musical profile of our festival, which is dedicated to all possible forms of new and experimental music.

musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst

musikprotokoll.orf.at


TECHNÈ Marseille, FR est: 2008

INITIATIVESRIAM - Festival for unlimited art & music

MISSIONThe International Meeting of Multimedia Arts (RIAM) is an initiative of the non-profit association “Technè”.We chose not to represent “digital arts” as an independent area, but to establish an animated dialogue with other experimental and innovative artistic forms.We put the accent on a limited selection of artists, to whom we bring a substantial support via dissemination and production of their work, presenting them in different spaces. Concerning production, we deal foremost with producing exhibitions and music performances, and secondly with the production of DVDs, vinyl releases, publications, etc. in support of these works.We are also concerned by the importance of building networks of organisations, places and artists, not only in our artistic field, but also in those that include the latest ideas within artistic and theoretical developments. Beyond a large work of diffusion, we focus on supporting artists’ production (before and after each edition of RIAM), creating a dialogue and real synergy that brings artists, works, audiences, and organizations together and that connects RIAM to new and existing networks.

FUTUREOver the 5 next years we would like to open an art centre with a residency space, where different artists could come from around the world and share their diverse knowledge with one another; a place where one can share and create, with the ambition to present those works within the RIAM festival.

riam.info


ROKOLECTIV FESTIVAL Bucharest, RO est: 2006

INITIATIVESRokolectiv Festival // Individual events

MISSIONRokolectiv is Bucharest’s biggest and most relevant electronic music platform. The festival takes place every year, in April, on the rooftop of the Museum of Contemporary Art and other alternative venues in Bucharest, with a duration of 4 days and a program spanning from live performances, audio-visual installations, documentary film screenings to site specific projects. The festival supports upcoming international artists and highlights off-beaten music trajectories constantly crossing and feeding each other, while simultaneously being fed and feeding the big pot called pop.The line up favors every year an array of juicy, bold performers and DJs, and less of the ‘usual suspects’ - those artists pampered and glamourized by the leading off- and online publications -, while also paying tribute to the local pioneers of electronic music.

FUTURERokolectiv Festival is looking at continuing the development of the local scene, in a city that precipitated to jump over big gaps left behind by decades of discontinuous, fragmented electronic music history. In order to give the festival continuity throughout the year, a wide range of events – dedicated showcases, special concerts, exhibitions etc. – are evisaged periodically, with local and international partners. Write us at the details below for any cooperation initiatives.

rokolectiv.ro

EUROPE01. Alpha-Ville02. Arcadi Ile-de-France03. Association Electroni[k]04. Asociación MUTEK.ES05. Cimatics06. DISK - Initiative Bild & Ton e.V.07. Dis-patch Collective08. Dis-Play09. Foreningen Insomnia Festival10. Full Pull

11. Fundacja Tone — Muzyka i Nowe Formy Sztuki12. FutureEverything13. MeetFactory o.p.s.14. MoTA — Museum of Tran-sitory Art15. Nuproductions AS16. ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen Herbst17. Technè

18. Rokolectiv Festival19. Rotation20. Skaņu Mežs Association for Adventurous Music and Film Art21. Stitching The Generator22. Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.23. Ultrasound FoundationNORTH AMERICA24. Communikey25. Decibel26. ISSUE Project Room

27. MUTEK28. MUTEK.MX29. New Forms Media Society30. The Bunker31. VIASOUTH AMERICA32. Eletronika Festival33. SOCO FestivalOCEANIA34. Room40


ROTATION Toulouse, FR est: 2002

INITIATIVESLes Siestes Electroniques //Audimat

MISSIONLes Siestes Electroniques is a music festival that falls into two editions. One takes place every year since 2002 in Toulouse and the other since 2011 in Paris. Its ambitious motley line-up focuses on electronic musicians as well as traditional, electro-acoustic or pop music and aims at a professional audience as well as the general public. The fact that its open air and daylight concerts are free of charge makes Les Siestes Electroniques a rare and precious oc-curance within the landscapes of European festivals.

In addition to creating an annual festival, the Siestes team curates and produces Audimat, a French language critical review/journal about pop music. With contributions from French as well as Aus-tralian, German, Swedish, American or British authors, Audimat’s editorial line is halfway between an academic review and hi-fi fanzine. The magazine’s goal is to cover pop music neither via a non-journalistic nor purely academic manner.

FUTURELes Siestes Electroniques aims to produce more original content, in-situ works, and premieres through its festival, while also devel-oping b2b meetings and external special projects as guest cura-tors. Interested in collaborating with organizations worldwide, les Siestes have lately been very active in cooperations in non-Western countries such as Congo and Vietnam.

les-siestes-electroniques.comrevue-audimat.fr

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ADVENTUROUS MUSIC AND FILM ART Riga, LV est: 2007

INITIATIVESSkaņu Mežs Festival // Year-round oncerts, seminars, workshops, sound art exhibitions

MISSIONThe Skaņu Mežs Association supports the promotion and production of experimental music and related arts via concerts, exhibitions, commissioned works and educational events. Since 2003 the association organizes the yearly Skaņu Mežs (Sound Forest) festival, the largest event for adventurous music in the Baltic states. Single concerts under the brand of Skaņu mežs are also being organized since 2000.

FUTURESkanu Mezs is curious about any interesting co-operations that would bring exceptional music to audiences.

skanumezs.lv/en


STICHTING THE GENERATOR The Hague, NL est: 2001

INITIATIVES

TodaysArt Festival //TodaysArt Agency // various other TodaysArt projects

MISSIONTodaysArt is a unique, citywide festival, recognized globally as an influential event for innovative and inspiring developments within contemporary visual and performing arts, design, architecture and digital culture. The transdisciplinary and adventurous program features large-scale, innovative productions, offering a platform for local, national and international creative talent and established artists. The event investigates and activates the social possibilities of art, sound, vision and technology where it intersects with urban spaces, using and transforming the city’s cultural and social infrastructure and built environment to create inspiring settings. TodaysArt aims to reach as many people as possible in the experience of contemporary adventurous arts and culture and aims to keep evolving into an innovative and essential format for the presentation and development of today’s arts and culture.

FUTURETodaysArt is very open to collaborations with anybody, while remaining internationally oriented and with a preference for organizations that frequently operate beyond sound and music.

todaysart.nl todaysart.org


TRANS-MEDIA-AKADEMIE HELLERAU e.V. Dresden, DE est: 2001

INITIATIVESCYNETART – International Festival for Computer Based Art and Transdisciplinary Media Projects // microscope sessions //Ferienakademie

MISSIONThe non-profit Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau is dedicated to practical, theoretical, and artistic research on body-related communication and technologies of perception. Its public activities focus on the promotion of current technological tendencies and a mediatization of influenced culture, and makes relations between applied media technologies and their aesthetic, social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions visible. Through project development, artist residencies, workshops, and especially through the organisation of the CYNETART-Festival, the association focuses on testing artistic production methods and scientific methods of reflexion, development of prototypic models, and collaborative work between the arts and the sciences, as well on the development of sustainable event formats for adequate mediation of their results. CYNETART festival is an international high-level festival for computer based arts and transdisciplinary media projects. CYNETART festival is an experimental space at Festspielhaus Hellerau (European center of the Arts Dresden) where artists can experiment and play with future art, music and ideas.

FUTURETMA Hellerau is cooperating locally with HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts and the DAVE festival in Dresden as of 2014. In addition to collaborating with many of the European ICAS members, TMA Hellerau is interested in working with individuals and organizations in South Amercia, Ukraine, Iceland, and Hong Kong.

cynetart.de t-m-a.de


ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION Budapest, HU est: 2000

INITIATIVESUH Festival // various events, concerts, showcases of Hungarian talents abroad

MISSIONHelping one to learn to listen is like helping one to learn to read. The Ultrasound Foundation aims to provide a new type of joy to people, by means of challenging audiences so that in the end of the day they associate a wider meaning to the word “music” than before. Not focusing on genres is a principle that reflects our overall activity. Any given member of our audience is likely to hear music s/he did not “intend to”; or from another point of view: explore something new. It is our deliberate strategy to juxtapose artists not just from different genres, but also with different approaches and moods. At our festival the audience can hear a funny, joyous, or even ecstatic performance next to a more “difficult” or abrasive show; we juxtapose the cerebral with the visceral, the intimate with the abstract, etc. We are confident that such exploration, inter-cultural communication (let it be between national cultures and/or subcultures) is a fertile ground for creative ideas, and again a source of a new type of joy.

FUTUREWe are working towards being able to produce the festival on yearly basis, while avoiding institutionalization of the organisation, and would like to create a residency programme for musicians, sound artist in collaboration with an independent (from state) art centre based in Budapest. We are especially interested in collaborating with organizations in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

uh.hu

29ICASNETWORK.ORGNORTH AMERICA

COMMUNIKEY Boulder, US est: 2004

INITIATIVESCMKY Festival // one off events

MISSIONCommunikey (CMKY) is a Boulder-based interdisciplinary organization dedicated to social, cultural and ecological innovation through creative process. We facilitate forward thinking cultural experiences that emphasize the intersection of sound, design and technology in artistic forms that are under-represented. Communikey forges a creative exchange across cultures, backgrounds, and mediums while fostering the development of the local arts community.

FUTUREInterested in developing national umbrella for the North American organizations within ICAS, to allow for deeper cooperation between North American members, including sharing of staff, co-grant writing, co-commissions. Internally, in consideration of new platform for expression - IE, what is the next manifestation of “festival”, and strengthening the year round operating system for our organization to allow for full time paid staff.

cmky.org

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND30NORTH AMERICA

DECIBEL FESTIVALSeattle, US est: 2003

INITIATIVESDecibel Festival // Decibel Events // OPTICAL // dB Conference

MISSIONFounded in 2003, Decibel Festival has become a unique platform for exposing attendees to leading-edge music and visual art from around the globe. With a focus on live performance, interactive multimedia art, state-of-the-art sound and technology based education; Decibel strives to educate and entertain attendees through diverse, technologically driven programming. Centered in Seattle, Decibel inherently has a Pacific Northwest perspective that influences the curation, sustainability and partners we choose to work with. Decibel also helps build awareness of the global electronic music community through a largely international program (e.g. over 1,000 artists booked from over 40 countries over the past decade). In addition, Decibel Events produces over 75 one-off events annually, ranging from intimate club performances to massive international festival stages.

FUTUREWe will be further developing the following four divisions of Decibel into unique business entities (Decibel Festival, OPTICAL, dB Conference, Decibel Events). We plan to position Decibel Events as a full production company with expertise in curation, production, promotions and overall event coordination. We will continue working with our N.American festival partners on curation, promotions and shared opportunities in general and hope to collaborate with EU festivals and organizations to establish a stronger bond between N.America and Europe.

dbfestival.com


ISSUE PROJECT ROOM New York, US est: 2003

INITIATIVESISSUE Project Room

MISSIONISSUE Project Room is a pioneering performance center, presenting time-based work by emerging and established experimental artists that expand the boundaries of creative practice and stimulate critical dialogue about art and culture in the broader community. ISSUE plays a vital role in NYC’s cultural ecology, facilitating the commission and premiere of new works and presenting a diverse array of artists working across and between the disciplines of sound, dance, film, performance and literature. Programming places on underrepresented creative practicioners often as a result of the artists’ gender, sexuality, or geographic location.

FUTUREIn 2008, ISSUE was awarded a 20-year lease on a theater space in the historic 110 Livingston Street building in Downtown Brooklyn. ISSUE commenced full-time programming in the new space in 2012. Offering a centralized location and an audience capacity more than double that of any previous space ISSUE had occupied, the new theater has helped facilitate a degree of publicity and awareness unique for our community of under-recognized artists.In 2012, ISSUE completed a $4 million city-funded capital campaign to carry out necessary renovations to bring the space to code and adapt it for multidisciplinary performance. Working with NYC’s Department of Design and Construction, architect WORKac completed design plans by the end of 2013, with a grand re-opening in 2015. The space will serve as Brooklyn’s first permanent home for experimental art and function as a critical catalyst for the cultural revitalization of downtown Brooklyn.

issueprojectroom.org issueprojectroom.tumblr.com


MUTEK Montréal, CA est: 2000

INITIATIVESMUTEK – International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music

MISSIONMUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art. Its mandate is to provide a platform for the most original and visionary artists currently working in their fields, with the intent of providing an outlet of initiation and discovery for the audiences we seek to develop.MUTEK’s principal activity is the annual presentation of its namesake festival, which has taken place in Montreal since 2000. Since its first edition, the MUTEK festival has distinguished itself as an international rendezvous for original and avant-garde programming. In terms of content, the festival’s range strives to be diverse, with interests in both the experimental and the playful sides of digital creativity. Each edition offers a notable array of Canadian, North American, and even international premieres. MUTEK has strived to expand its sphere of activities beyond the core festival from early on. These initiatives have multiplied since 2002, both in Montreal and on the international scene: showcases, tours, and international editions of the festival, not to mention a record label.

FUTUREWithin the ICAS network, MUTEK is interested in the development of the group’s North American branch, as well as participating in different regional initiatives and special one-to-one reciprocal collaborations such as the Vice Verse tour developed between Communikey and Dis-patch several years ago.

mutek.org


MUTEK.MX (TECNOLOGÍA EN MUTACIÓN S.A. DE C.V.)

Mexico City, MX est: 2003

INITIATIVESMUTEK.MX – International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music

MISSIONMUTEK.MX’s principal activity is the presentation of the MUTEK.MX festival in October of each year. Each festival edition is committed to showcasing the finest emerging and established digital arts talent to local audiences, supporting the Mexican artistic community by providing it with an internationally recognized platform within an environment of discovery, experimentation, and exchange.

MUTEK.MX aims to work as a solid and trustable platform which can provide bridges to the Latin American artistic scene via ICAS and other networks. The organization works as a strong platform for promotion and project management for the Mexican artistic community, propelling them onto the world stage.

FUTUREMUTEK.MX aims to grow in the educational and social (public space) area, creating an equal balance of importance in this programming compared to the rest of our festival content. Our interest is to work with the full ICAS network and other interested individuals and organizations in order to promote artists from our region. We also wish to work as a platform to conceive all kind of local and international collaborations and events in Mexico.

mutek.mx

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NEW FORMS MEDIA SOCIETY Vancouver, CA est: 2000

INITIATIVESNew Forms Festival

MISSIONNew Forms Media Society is a non-profit society and media arts organization that nurtures and connects local and international arts, electronic music and grassroots communities through the annual New Forms Festival. By promoting the international visual arts and electronic music world, the NFF facilitates multimodal art works and engages in discussion on their role in our cultural environment.

Since its inception, an integral element of the NFF is the recognition of independent and groundbreaking artists; the NFF aims to showcase and increase awareness of these artists and their work within our community and beyond by promoting them within a larger milieu. The NFF is part of a larger, international, multi-media festival movement, which explores the ever changing and evolving world of art and creates a platform for artistic growth. The society wishes to make media art, electronic music, film, technology based installation and performance accessible to a wider audience.

FUTURENew Forms NY and ISEA 2015 are the major initiatives on the horizon. Also, ongoing programming year round and an online portal are currently in development. We have confirmed Science World for the 2014 festival and are in talks with the Museum of Vancouver for 2015.

2013.newformsfestival.com


THE BUNKER New York City, US est: 2003

INITIATIVESThe Bunker // Beyond Booking

MISSIONFor over a decade, The Bunker has been a storied night of musical exploration in New York City. The adventurous electronic music lineups—which bring together fringe artists who also know how to move a dancefloor—made the party legendary amongst NYC cognoscenti. The Bunker is an ongoing night of musical exploration, constantly evolving since it started in 2003. The Bunker is a party for music-obsessed people who want to dance to interesting sounds in a room full of likeminded folks, thrown by people who live to do just that and strive to perfect the experience.

Beyond Booking is The Bunker’s in-house booking agency, representing its resident DJs, frequent guests, and label artists, helping them book solid tours of the best parties in North America.

Starting a record label was the next natural step in The Bunker’s evolution, featuring contributions from artists who frequent the shadows of the party and established guests.

FUTUREThe Bunker already cooperates regularly with all North American ICAS members, as well as Unsound Festival. We are open to any and all ideas for further collaboration.

thebunkerny.com


VIAPittsburgh, US est: 2010

INITIATIVESVIA Festival // monthly events // music booking // art curation // custom a/v projects

MISSIONVIA is a platform for the intersection of emerging music, new media art, and technology. VIA brings together artists from home and around the world for custom, collaborative performances, exhibitions, special projects, lectures, workshops, and interactive events IRL and online.

FUTUREVIA is working to create an audio-visual artist agency by end of 2014. Other 2014 goals include acquiring a fiscal partner and a presenting festival sponsor. 2015 goals include stabilizing a full-time team of 5 and finding a dedicated venue in Pittsburgh. Our primary focus for collaboration is to work with our North American partners on how our agency could operate within the larger festival framework: whether touring visual artists, co-presenting events IRL and online, and/or developing special projects together that could tour throughout the entire network.

via-pgh.com

37ICASNETWORK.ORGSOUTH AMERICA

ELETRONIKA FESTIVAL Belo Horizonte, BR est: 1999

INITIATIVESEletronika Festival

MISSIONEletronika is a music platform presenting electronic music and related arts. Our mission is to support Brazilian musicians and artists, to bring international artists to Brazil, and to establish a partnership with international festivals.

We also aim to promote workshops and seminars in order to discuss the Brazilian music scene and live images is one of main initiatives.

FUTURELast year, Eletronika established a partnership with Novas Frequencias Festival from Rio de Janeiro to promote a common program regarding international artists. Also, we are increasing the participation of Brazilian artists. In 2015, we want to invite South American artists to extend our network with the region.

festivaleletronika.com.br

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND38SOUTH AMERICA

SOCO FESTIVAL Montevideo, UY est: 2010

INITIATIVESSOCO Festival

MISSION

SOCO Festival is an international music festival from Uruguay dedicated not only to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music but also to a broad range of activities that combine art, design and technology under the common underlying connection to sound.One of the main objectives of this festival is to strengthen the relationship between art, music and ideas, positioning Uruguay within a regional and global context. It seeks to disseminate and spread the democratic values that are inherent in experimental music and its associated artistic practices.

FUTURE

SOCO aims to become a local reference in relation to advanced sounds and related visual arts for the local government, and also to become part of a regional network of festivals and small organizations that allow for collaboration on and creation of new projects. SOCO is interested in collaborating with individuals and organizations worldwide.

socofestival.org

39ICASNETWORK.ORGOCEANIA

ROOM40 Brisbane, AU est: 2000

INITIATIVES

Label // Open Frame Festival // various events

MISSION

Here, on this island in the deep south, we find ourselves reaching outward and inward. Transmitting and receiving over great distance. Room40 has been one amplifier beacon, connecting to the outside world since 2000. Room40 is many things to many people, but at the core of us, is a passion for sound and its ability to create profound experience for those who choose to listen. Room40 also runs the annual Open Frame Festival of sound and media, as well as various one-off live sound events.

FUTURE

In 2015 we’re 15 years old. We’ll be celebrating with a series of modest events around the place. Building some new bridges in Oceania. We’re also doing a little gazing over the shoulders into some of the past work done and refocusing, with the aid of hindsight, on where we have been coming from and indeed, heading too.

room40.org penframe.room40.org

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND40CONTACT

EUROPE

Alpha-ville Estela Oliva – Founder, DirectorCarmen Salas – Founder, DirectorUnit 6, 51 Tudor Road London, UK, E9 7SN +44 0 771730353 (Estela)+44 0 7455 525 232 (Carmen)[email protected] [email protected]

Arcadi Ile-de-FranceGilles Alvarez – Director, DigitalJulien Taïb – Production Manager 51 rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis CS10106 75468 Paris, FR, Cedex 10 +33 155 790 000 [email protected]

Association Electroni[k] Cyril Guillory – General Coordinator Gaétan Naël - President 3 rue de Lorraine 35000 Rennes, FR +33 6 98 65 80 00 [email protected]

Asociación MUTEK.ES Alberto Nerone – General & Artistic Director Sicilia 125, 7to 5ta 08013 Barcelona, ES+34 636 021 360 [email protected]

CimaticsNicolas Wierinck – Director Onderwijsstraat 511070 Brussels, BE+32 475 497 110 [email protected]

DISK - Initiative Bild & Ton e.V. (CTM)Oliver Baurhenn - Managing Director Jan Rohlf - Communications Director Remco Schuurbiers - Technical Director Schönhauser Allee 167c 10435 Berlin, DE+49 30 57702486 [email protected]

Dis-patchRelja Bobić - Artistic DirectorNana Radenković - KidsPatch DirectorNeda Šorak - Project Coordinator Ljube Stojanovića 34/111 000 Belgrade, RS+ 381 64 162 47 [email protected]

Dis-PlayLuis Ortiz –Music Director Amanda Lopez – Visual Artistic Director Aurora Ramon – Production Rafa Valido – CoordinatorPaseo de la cornisa, 25 35011 las palmas de Gran Canaria, ES+34 647889415 [email protected]

Insomnia Festival Christian Hollingsaeter – Director Gaute Barlindhaug – Admin, CuratorTomi Pieski – Head of Booking Pb. 41 9251 Tromsø, NO +47 984 20 645 [email protected]

Full Pull Mathias Holmberg – Artistic Director Kristianstadsgatan 9B 214 23 Malmö, [email protected] Fundacja Tone Muzyka i Nowe Formy Sztuki Mat Schulz – Artistic Director Malgorzata Plysa – Executive Director Ewelina Jędrasiak – Production Manager Ul. Szewska 20/6 31-009 Krakow, PL +48 12 422 11 58 [email protected]

FutureEverything Drew Hemment – Founder & CEO Tom Higham – Executive Producer Simon Webbon – Marketing Manager Michael Duffield – Administrator 39 Edge Street Manchester, UK, M4 1HW+44 161 834 1300 [email protected]

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MeetFactory o.p.s. Michal Brenner – Music Curator Zuzana Jakalová – Residency Curator Marek Lakomý – Director Ke Sklárně 3213/15 150 00 Prague, CZ +420 251 551 796 [email protected]

MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art Martin Bricelj – President, Artistic Director Neja Tomšič – VP, producer, Int’l CoordinatorLuka Zagoričnik – Program AdvisorGosposvetska cesta 121000 Ljubljana, SI+386 40809809 [email protected]

Nuproductions ASMartyn Reed – Founder & Director Tarjei Nygård - Festival Manager Nytorget 17 4013 Stavanger, NO+47 91990044 [email protected], [email protected]

ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbstElke Tschaikner – Artistic Director Susanna Niedermayr – Co-CuratorFränk Zimmer – Head of Production Marburger Straße 208042 Graz, AT +43 1 50101 18847 [email protected]

ROKOLECTIV FESTIVAL Cosmin Tapu – Co-Founder Mihaela Vasile – Co-Founder Eliza Moroiu nr 7, sector 4 Bucharest, RO+40 743181570 [email protected]

RotationSamuel Aubert – Curator, Director 27 rue d’Armagnac 31500 Toulouse, FR+33 614 240 147 [email protected]

Skaņu Mežs Association for Adventurous Music and Film Art Viestarts Gailitis – Manager, Programming Rihards Endriksons – Programming, PR Saules aleja 1-2, 1002 Riga, LV +371 29464264 [email protected]

Stichting The GeneratorOlof van Winden - Director Tim Terpstra - Project Manager, Curator Stacie Lyons - General ManagerWeimarstraat 1E 2562 GM The Hague, NL +31 70 345 5821 [email protected]

TechnèPhilippe Stepzcak - Dir. & Programmer Pedro Morais - Writer & Programmer Sabrina Reinling - Admin 61 rue Jean de Bernardy 13001 Marseille, FR +33 9 52 52 12 79 [email protected]

Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. Thomas Dumke – Project Manager Karl-Liebknect-Str. 56 01109 Dresden, DE+49 351 88 96 665 [email protected] [email protected]

Ultrasound FoundationAndras Nun – Main OrganiserGergő Kiss – Organiser Krisztián Puskár – Organiser Zsófia Tóth – Organiser Lehel u. 14.1134 Budapest, HU+36 20 801 9073 [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF ADVANCED SOUND42CONTACT

NORTH AMERICA

CommunikeyKate Lesta - Managing & Creative DirectorMatthew Krall - Assistant Director650 Pennsylvania AveBoulder, CO, 80302, USA+1 720 297 1670 (Kate)+1 303 641 6432 (Matt)[email protected]@communikey.us

DecibelSean Horton - Founder, President, Curator 8816 10th Ave SWSeattle, WA, 98106, USA+1 206 313 4627 [email protected]

ISSUE Project RoomLawrence Kumpf - Artistic Director Matthew Walker - Development Director Amirtha Kidambi - Operations Eve Essex, PR 22 Boerum PlNew York, NY 11201, USA +1 718 330 0313 [email protected]

MUTEK Alain Mongeau – General & Artistic DirectorKatharina Meissner - Development 175 Roy E.Montréal, Québec, CA, H2W 1M3 +1 514 871 8646 [email protected]

MUTEK.MX (TECNOLOGÍA EN MUTACIÓN S.A. DE C.V.) Damián Romero – General & Artistic Dir.Huichapan 1-5 Condesa Cuauhtémoc México D.F. C.P. 06140 +52 55 6553 3911 [email protected]

New Forms Media SocietyMalcolm Levy – Director 255 East 2nd StreetVancouver, British Columbia, CA+1 604 728 0284 [email protected]

The BunkerBryan Kasenic – Owner & Operator 302 Bedford Avenue, #434 Brooklyn, NY, 11249, USA +1 917 647 3336 [email protected]

VIA Pittsburgh LLCLauren Goshinski – Co-DirectorQuinn Leonowicz - Co-Director273 Fisk StreetPittsburgh, PA, 15201, USA+1 412 889 7619 (Lauren)+1 732 598 4430 (Quinn)[email protected]@via-pgh.com

SOUTH AMERICA

Eletronika FestivalMarcos Boffa – Director Rua Cristina, 1213 Santo Antonio05432-070 Belo Horizonte, BR+55 31 2532 8201 [email protected]

SOCO FestivaMartin Craciun – Director Hernán González - Artistic Advisor Alejandro Cruz - Production Mariana Diaz - Communications 26 de Marzo 3286, apt 102 CP11300 Montevideo, UI +59 8 99 642 967 [email protected]

OCEANIA

Room 40Lawrence English – Director PO Box 191 Red Hill, Qld4059 Brisbane, AU+61 412 957795 [email protected]

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