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UM: International Festival for Experimental Intermedia // Lisbon 12-15 November

Next Saturday the 14th of November I'll be playing in Lisboa in a night which is part of the UM Festival - it's gonna be at Music Box and starts at 23:00. This is the second edition of this festival which focuses on new, experimental media. As they put it:

UM: International Festival for Experimental Intermedia is a four-day festival programme taking place between 12-15 Nov 2009, across various venues in central Lisbon, with the exhibition continuing until 23 Nov.

The event includes exhibitions, workshops, talks, concerts, performances and public works, with internationally renowned artists, musicians, academics, designers, architects and practitioners taking part.

UM aims to go beyond the limited term of ‘media art’ and instead present ‘intermedia’ practices, as a combination of art forms, which focus on concept, communication, realisation and implication. Within the exhibition, talks and workshops emphasizes is placed on cross-over, experimental and socially engaged practices, which take risks, extend ideas and bring together different approaches and techniques.

As one of the only kind of festival’s currently taking place in Portugal, UM aims to support the presentation and dissemination of contemporary intermedia practices from Portugal, as well as bring leading international artists to the country. Drawing on open curational approaches to programming, this year music promoters and curators, QuJunktions (UK) and Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä (FI/DE) from the Digital Media class, The Berlin University of the Arts/Universität der Künste Berlin have been invited to input into the programme selection.

Bass Clef

I was initially going to participate with a full on installation piece but later, due to a lack of time and some underdeveloped ideas, the organization decided to have me playing music! Unfortunately I won't be able to see the whole festival, but the programme is absolutely sick, with exhibitions and workshops by the STEIM, André Gonçalves, Rafael Toral, and many more, spanning over 3 days. Saturday night participants get loose with the sounds of Bass Clef, Andre Wakko and myself!

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