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Robert Henke pres. CBM 8032 AV

Friday 03.09. 20:00  - Congress Dogana

Robert Henke pres. CBM 8032 AV

 

The CBM 8032 AV project is an exploration of the beauty of simple graphics and sound, using
five Commodore CBM 8032 computers. This work is about the ambivalence between a
contemporary aesthetic and the usage of obsolete and limited technology from 40 years ago.
Everything presented within the project could have been done already in the 1980, but it
needed the cultural backdrop of 2019 to come up with the artistic ideas driving it.

Robert Henke is a composer, artist and software developer, mainly known for his contributions to electronic music and for his laser works. His audiovisual installations are based on self written software and explore a fragile balance between determination and chance operations to create complex behaviours and endless variations in expression. His musical work oscillates between ambient, contemporary music and club. His long term project Monolake became one of the key icons of a new electronic club culture emerging in Berlin after the fall of the Wall. He is one of the main creators of Ableton Live, a software which became the standard for music production and completely redefined performance of electronic music. He writes and lectures about the creative use of computers and held teaching positions at CCRMA/Stanford University, at IRCAM, and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains - Le Fresnoy, in Lille, France. His works have been presented at Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, PS-1 in New York, MUDAM in Luxembourg, MAK in Vienna, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, and on countless festivals including Unsound, CTM, MUTEK, Sonar, New Forms Festival.

 

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