Semibreve 2024: Chasing Waterfalls – Hidden Edges (Myriam Bleau & Lucas Paris)

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Chasing Waterfalls – Hidden Edges (Myriam Bleau & Lucas Paris)
Edigma Semibreve Award 2024

Consisting of a twisted screen structure with an unconventional, fluid, and organic shape, Chasing Waterfalls is an audiovisual installation which evokes a suspended waterfall. AI generated animations of flowing water, seemingly organic but machine made, slowly decompose into pixelated flows of information and data patterns. While the mainstream unfolds on the surface of the structure, ephemeral elements are revealed on different intersecting planes using anamorphic effects, thus only meaningful when seen from a specific angle.
As the title is a nod to the 90s TLC song, the work playfully questions the relentless pursuit towards dematerialized information, especially through machine learning and the fast encoding of human knowledge within models barely larger than 1GB.

Hidden Edges is the new creative collective founded by Myriam Bleau and Lucas Paris. Within this instance, the two artists who are often seen on stage explore the installation format. The duo explores the more abstract edges of their personal aesthetics, through their deep technical expertise designing and creating software and machines.

Lucas Paris creates AV works, digital sound and industrial design. His main focus is in synthesis, with its mathematical potential for abstract manipulation of matter and perception. His recent works have extended an earlier focus in emotion, perception and physicality into content that is critical and satirical of consumption, advertising and social media psychosis.

Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she has created gestural electronic music performances, audiovisual interfaces, installations and interactive devices that articulate sound, light, movement and symbols. Her work investigates performance, both as a codified cultural manifestation, and as an embodied (re)enactment of symbolic systems through human and non-human agencies.

Schedule:

25.10
14:30 — 18:30*
21:30 — 00:00 **

26.10
14:30 — 18:30*
21:30 — 00:00 **

27.10
14:00 —17:30**

*Free admission
**Access limited to festival pass holders and Theatro Circo daily tickets

Hidden Edges is supported by the Quebec Office Barcelona

Semibreve
Electronic music and digital art festival

Semibreve is an exploratory electronic music and digital art festival taking place in Braga, Portugal. Since 2011 Semibreve has consistently presented a forward-thinking programme featuring some of the most revered electronic music and cross-disciplinary work by artists from around the world, as well as maintaining an active role in the promotion of the digital arts in Portugal.
Semibreve prides itself on curating a carefully-considered programme that is challenging and accessible. Semibreve’s emphasis on its stunning site-specific locations and world-class venues, together with a shared ethos centred around inclusiveness and community, by promoting a diverse programme at an affordable ticket price, has brought about sold-out events and well-deserved international acclaim.

Full program at www.festivalsemibreve.com.

Theatro Circo Daily Program

25:10 / Friday
21:30 — Chris Watson & Izabela Dłużyk
23:00 — Christina Vantzou

26.10 / Saturday
21:30 — Shida Shahabi
23:00 — Kevin Richard Martin

27.10 / Sunday
15:00 — Carmen Villain
16:30 — Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvador

Promoter The Semibreve Festival is organized by the AUAUFEIOMAU association, with the support of the Municipality of Braga.

Support Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. RTCP – Network of Portuguese Theatres and Cinemas