Monday October 30, 2006

Beginning November 2 the fifth lab.30, a four-day-long Media Art Festival will start a again in my Hometown Augsburg/Germany. Lab.30 will once again serve as an interface for electronical soundscapes and visual fictions with playful projects facing the exploding tecnical possibilities and also meeting point of the virtual netlabelscene in reality. Three intensive nights full of clicks, cuts, galaktical melodies and the sounds of large cities: Soundscapes, digital playgrounds analog strokes, computer freaks, installers, sound tinkerers and video monsters, between competley averadge people from canada to columbia from oberhausen to bogenhausen: glocalisation in real time. Again there will be three days of electronic music, digital/electric art in an exposition and lot's of party in Augsburg's art house "abraxas" with international artists and performers I'm looking forward to.

"Technology gets more and more inportant in our life. And this affects as well the kind of expression of art. The playful use of technology is one important attractiveness of our festival", highlights Elke Seidel from Augsburg's department of art. She is one of the curators of this festival besides Professor Robert Rose, University of Applied Sciences for Multimedia, Augsburg and Peter Bommas, managing director of an Augsburgian theater for kids.

In the fifth year you really can see that lab.30 might really grow to a small sister of Austrian's Art & Technology Festival Ars Electronica, which has already a 27 year old tradition in that small, but quite picturesque austrian town at the river Danube, called Linz. But different to the Ars, lab.30 is focussing on music and not on art exhibition and a always very interesting conference. Additionally there's no thematically main topic in Augsburg.

If you're interested in Robotic Concerts (Pierre Bastien), crazy Supermodel Bands (Sebastian Giussani and Deniz Khan's "Midi Model Manipulation") or Websound-Acts ("SoulSeek Night") by international Artists like Saskia from Spain or Deaf Center from Norway and much, much more - Augsburg might be the place to be for you at this weekend. (If you'll be there, give me a mail or a call!)

And if you're artist - perhaps you want to apply for taking part in next's year festival?! More info at the festival page at http://www.lab30.de.

More about this festival and it's agenda at my german blog at http://www.e-thieme.de (more picture, more info and some more links).