Tiger Beer presents Tiger Translate – a mash-up of music and art, as East meets West right here in Auckland.

Music: DJKkentaro (Japan), Muscles (Live) (Melbourne), The Naked & Famous, An Emerald City,The Drab Doo Riffs, A.D.A.M, Stinky Jim, The Turnaround vs. The Hit It & Quit It Revue, Homebrew, The North Shore Pony Club, Nick D and Boomio Sound.

Artists: Cut Collective, Cherry Sprinkles, Fuman, Submariner, Askew One, Berst, Qubic Store and ‘The Busy Nice’.

Top VJs Dub Module, The Analog Club, TommeeTelleeVision, geeyouwhy? & Quango and Lotech are also set to wash the venue in holographic and multi-media displays. DJ Kentaro will be bringing his own VJ.

Tiger Translate was a concept established in 2005, and fuses music, art and interactive entertainment.

Tiger Translate exhibitions have been held in major cities around the world including New York, Copenhagen, Beijing, Bangkok and Berlin.

19-21 Feburary 2010 | Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland

Our favourite festival is back! After a fantastic event in 2008 we’ll really happy to be back involved with next years event. The line up is looking great with acts including – Lupe Fiasco, Basement Jaxx, Jamie Lidell, Spektrum, Mystro, Sola Rosa and true NZ video pioneers Pitch Black.

Check out the Splore site for all the information – www.splore.net.

Here are the TV spots we’ve made up for the festival:

JANUARY 15 | MT SMART STADIUM

Another year, another Big Day Out. An interesting mix of old and new. TV on the Radio should be awesome.
Expect a big camera mix in the Boiler Room this year with lotech mixing till 5.30 then Ariki Spooner is taking over the cut through the evening.  VJ groupies stress not though, there will be special apperances from the likes of DurtyMac, music video extroidanaire Chris White and the master of cardboard puppetry Kim Newall thoughout the day.

Short Fuse and Intersect
A night of short films and VJing.
Thurs, Sept 14th | $8 | Film Archive, Wellington (84 Taranaki Street)
Short Fuse films – 8:15pm | Intersect VJ Sessions from 9pm

The Moving Image Centre | Galatos St, Auckland
April / Sat 22nd / Sun 23rd / Fri 28th
May / Fri 5th

Interdigitate represents an outstanding opportunity to exhibit new media work and live performance at the highest level within New Zealand. Interdigitate features specially commissioned work by New Zealand’s leading audio visual artists. Designed to take place over three consecutive weekends, this years programme is laced with art practioners across a multitude of disciplines.
The Moving Image Centre sees Interdigitate as an essential part of it’s annual programme. The artists we have selected reflect and share an artistic vision of screen based work that is at the cutting edge of new media art, installation and performance.

» MIC’s Interdigitate Home

10th March | M.I.C. Galatos St
The German electronic-music composer Carsten Nicolai (known as alva noto) makes you think about the future of music and when he performed his work, it was easy to feel that he was part of a much larger societal movement. The New York Times

Carsten Nicolai (born 1965 in Karl Marx Stadt, now Chemnitz) is an artist using various media, such as sound, image, sculpture and computer, as hybrid tools in order to research the “codification of the world”. Nicolai’s work questions creativity, coincidence and artistic creative power. A lot of his works are directly linked with the natural sciences. The physics of oscillation in particular are a frequent means of his work and are not limited by audibility and visibility, but trying to make natural phenomena visible.

Local support by lotech & Umatic, experemental audio by Simon Flower.

Now in its 5th year, Intersect is a video art festival exploring the mediums of live video art and VJing. Throughout the day there will be workshops and discussion from video artists including the Axis of Weevil, Dnation, lotech, and Optrix. Talks include an introduction the video art and performance through to advanced content creation and performance workshops. Some of New Zealand’s most prominent VJ’s will be hosting discussions and will hold an informal Q&A to conclude the event.

1100 – 1300 | Introduction Workshop
An introduction to the basics of VJ’ing. From the basics of video formats & styles through to an VJ specific software & mixers, video projectors and other hardware. Hosted by Simon Barker (lotech)

1400 – 1500 | Analogue VJ / Digital VJ
As the technology has progressed so has the style and methods of VJ’ing. Ben & Dan of Optrix look into the change from analogue based mediums to modern digital based systems.

1500 – 1600 | Content Creation
Kim & Paul of the Axis of Weevils discuss the creative process from the initial concept through production to performance.
1600 – 1700 | Visuals & Stage Design
Robert Appierdo, aka Dnation has provided visuals for live theatre, dance, and live music events and will share his experience in integrating visual content into different environments and performances.

1700 – 1730 | Where to from here? / Q&A

$20 | Introduction & Advanced Workshops
$10 | Advanced Workshops Only (from 2pm)

Hosted at MIC, 17 Galatos St, Auckland
www.mic.org.nz

BOUNCE!
The Intersect After party
featuring some on New Zealand & the Worlds best VJs.
Galatos Lounge, from 9pm