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Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes is a screening series bringing exceptional audiovisual artwork to Leicester audiences. All events were curated by Bret Battey and held at Phoenix Cinema and Gallery, Leicester, except as otherwise indicated.

 

2024-25 — Visible Bits, Audible Bytes Retrospective

Fri 6 Dec 2024 – Sun 30 Mar 2025

Installation in Phoenix Gallery 2 on two screens

  • Screen 1 — Montreal: Gesture and Texture
    • Myriam Boucher — Nuées (2016)
    • David Arango Valencia — Débridement Gold (2018)
    • Katie Finn (animation) and Joseph Sims (sound) — e(mi) (2022)
    • Line Katcho — Simulacre (2016)
    • Félix Bonjour — Survol (2019)

  • Screen 2 — Global View: Concrete or Abstract?
    • Asher Arnon (Israel) — Roundabout Midday (2020)
    • Francesc Marti (Spain) — Speech 2 (2015)
    • João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal/USA) — Tesseract (2017)
    • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — Output 2 (2020) & AV16 (2021)
    • Max Hattler, Director (Germany/UK/Hong Kong) + Eduardo Noya Schreus (Canada) — X (2012)

Phoenix archive page

2023

Sat, Apr 29

  • Joseph Sims & Katie Finn (Canada) — e (mi)(2022)
  • Pauline Patie (France/Canada) — Lkioe(2019)
  • João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal/USA) — Coalescence (2021)
  • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — AV9, AV10, and AV11 (2020-2023)
  • Jérémie Martineau (Canada) — Distractions, Horizons(2022)
  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — Recommencements(2021)
  • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — AV14, AV15, AV17, and AV18 (2020-2023)
  • Marinos Giannoukakis (Greece) — Tibetan Chants by Two Monks (2022)
  • John Gibson (USA) — edgewater (2017)
  • Joseph Hyde (UK) — Signal to Noise [live performance]

2021

Fri, Nov 12

  • Asher Arnon (Israel) — Roundabout Midday (2020)
  • Bret Battey (UK/USA) — Estuaries 4 (2021)
  • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — output 1 (2019)
  • Félix Bonjour (France) — Survol (2019)
  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — Phases (2018)
  • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — cvd (2021)
  • João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal/USA) — Things I Have Seen In My Dreams (2019)
  • Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy) — output 2 (2020)
  • Andrew Knight-Hill (UK) — VOID (2019)
  • Jean-Philippe Pierre-Louis (Ecuador / Canada) — Puntito_visual (2016)
  • Marinos Giannoukakis (Greece) — DEN (2019)

2019

Fri, May 31
In association with the EU-Culture Interfaces Network initiative, Myriam Boucher was commissioned to present an installation and new work for this event.

 

Associated activities at Phoenix

  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — public workshop on working with VJ tools
  • Rebecca Fiebrink(UK) — outdoor 'light graffiti' workshop
  • Nöel Palazzo (Spain) — presentation of a Punto y Raya festival restrospective screening

Installation in Phoenix Screen Room

  • Myriam Boucher — Empty Spaces companion work

Screening

  • Max Cooper (UK) + Maxime Causeret (France) — Order from Chaos (2017)
  • Oli Carman + Mark Pilkington (UK) — Dialogues (2018)
  • Fernando Alexis (Canada) — Untitled#1 (2013-14)
  • Sawako + kynd (Japan) — locus of everyday life (2014)
  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — Empty Spaces (2019)
  • Max Cooper (UK) + Raven Kwok (China) — Rule 110 (2018)
  • João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal) — Tesseract (2017)
  • Yaporigami + kynd (JAPAN) — Lilium (2017)
  • Jing Wang (China/USA) and Harvey Goldman (USA) — Sky Pacers (2017)
  • Richard Devine (USA) + Numbercult (UK) — Revsic (2017)
  • David Arango-Valencia (Columbia/Canada) — Debridement Gold (2018)
  • Morgan Beringer (UK) — Moment 08

Phoenix archive page

2018

Fri, Mar 2

  • Numbercult + Max Cooper (UK) — Cyclic (2016)
  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — Nuées (2016)
  • Tobias Gremmler (Germany) + GuoGuang Opera Company (China) — Virtual Actors in Chinese Opera (2016)
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) — Estuaries 3 (2017)
  • Giorgio Bertinelli (Italy) — Scan_0.1 (2017)
  • Francesc Martí (Spain) — Vacuum (2018)
  • Jean Piché (Canada) — Threshing in the Palace of Light (2017)

Phoenix archive page

2017

Fri, Feb 27

  • Line Katcho (Canada) — Simulacre (2016)
  • Bob Coburn (USA) — Kaze no Yume (2011-12)
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) — Estuaries 1 & 2 (2016-17)
  • Matthew Schoen (Canada/Netherlands) — Vehicles (2015)
  • Diego Capoccitti (Italy) — Epithymetikòn (2014)
  • Bob Coburn (USA) + Celia Eid (France/Brazil) — Intersticial Traces (2013)
  • Myriam Boucher (Canada) — Cités (2015)
  • Raven Kwok (China) + Karmafields (USA) — Sweat (2016)

Phoenix archive page

2016

Wed, Feb 17

  • Asher Arnon (Israel) – Chromatic Automatic Pilot (2015)
  • Mark Pilkington (UK) – Moiré (2014)
  • Eli Stine (USA) – Ring | Axle | Gear (2014)
  • Emptyset + Clayton Welham & Sam Williams (UK) – Collapse (2012)
  • Raven Kwok (China) + Karmafields (USA) – Skyline (2015)
  • Johan Rijpma (Netherlands) – Primary Expansion (2012)
  • Oerd (Netherlands / France) – Sài Gòn (2015)
  • Inés Wickmann + Francis Dhomont (Canada) – Disparitions (2014)
  • Jean Piché (Canada) – Horizons (Fractured, Folded, Revealed) (2016)
  • Louise Harris (UK) – Pletten (2014)

Phoenix archive page

2015

Wed, Apr 22

  • Max Hattler (Hong Kong)/Eduardo Noya Schreus (Canada) — X(2012)
  • Mark Cheung (Singapore) / John Cage (USA) — i! (2012)
  • Linda Antas (USA) — All That Glitters and Goes Bump in the Night (2014)
  • Aristedes García (Germany) — Hexagrama (2011)
  • Henry Chomette (France)/Todor Todoroff (Belgium) — Reflets/Vitesse(1925/95)
  • Clive Walley (UK) — Divertimenti: ‘Love Song’ (1994)
  • Clive Walley (UK) — Divertimenti: ‘Life Study’ and ‘Slapstick’ (1994)
  • Jarosław Kapuściński (USA) — United(2013)
  • Raven Kwok & + (China) — 1194D(2013)
  • Elainie Lillios/Bonnie Mitchell (USA) — Sweeping Memories(2012)
  • Francesc Marti (Spain) — Speech 2 (2015)

Phoenix archive page

2014 [Curated by Andrew Knight-Hill]

Wed, Mar 12

Installation

  • Nicholas Bernier (Canada)—Frequencies, in Phoenix's Cube Gallery

Symposium

  • Alo Allik (Estonia)
  • Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK)
  • Paul Prudence (UK)
  • Nicholas Bernier (Canada)

Screening

  • Len Lye (New Zealand) — Colour Box (1935)
  • Thierry Gauthier (Canada) — Portrait D’une Femme (2008)
  • Justin Bennett (UK/Netherlands) — Raw Materials
  • Norman McLaren (Canada) + Evelyn Lambart (Canada) — Begone Dull Care (1949)
  • François Bayle (France) and Piotr Kamler (Poland) — Lignes et points (1966)
  • Nicolas Bernier (Canada)— Frequencies (Synthetic Variations) (2013)

Live VJ Performance in Phoenix Bar/Cafe

  • Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK) – Construction in Kneading
  • Alo Allik (Estonia) – VJ set
  • Paul Prudence (UK) — Transphormetic

Phoenix archive page


2013 [Curated by Andrew Knight-Hill]

Wed, Feb 13

Symposium

  • Joseph Hyde (UK)
  • Mick Grierson (UK)
  • Louise Harris (UK)

Screening

  • Andrew Knight-Hill (UK) — Perpetual Motion (2011)
  • Len Lye (New Zealand) — Trade Tattoo (1937)
  • Louise Harris (UK) — Cs2 (2013)
  • Mick Grierson (UK) — Delusions of Alien Control [Live Performance]
  • Joseph Hyde (UK) — End Transmission (2012)
  • Quay Brothers (USA) & Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany) — In Absentia (2000)

Phoenix archive page

2012

Wed, Apr 25

  • Flat-E + Ultre (UK) — Ionisation (2005)
  • Jean Piché (Canada) — OCÉANES(2010-11)
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) — Clonal Colonies(2011)
  • Glenn Marshall (Ireland) + Peter Gabriel (UK) — The Nest That Sailed the Sky (2009)
  • Candaş Şişman (Türkiye) — FLUX (2010)
  • Jean Piché (Canada) — Ange (1979/2012)
  • Numbercult (UK) — EVE (2009)
  • Robert Seidel + Heiko Tippelt & Philipp Hirsch (Germany) — _grau (2004)
  • Candaş Şişman (Türkiye) + Egidija Medeksaite (Lithuania) — EFF-FLUX (2011)

2010

Wed, Oct 27

Symposium

  • Joseph Hyde (UK) — Noise and Crosstalk (using noise, distortion and artefacts to forge audiovisual interaction)
  • Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Poland/USA) — What is Intermedia? Where is Chopin?
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) — Matching Complex Audio and Visual Gestalts
  • Andrew Knight-Hill (UK) — Understanding Reception, Informing Composition
  • Sean Clark (UK) — The Artwork as System: The System as Artwork

Screening

  • Ron Herrema (USA/UK) — Dancing Wu Wei [Pre-Show] (2010)
  • Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Poland/USA) + Camille Norton (USA) – Oli’s Dream (2008)
  • Joseph Hyde (UK) — Vanishing Point (2010)
  • Onur Senturk + ECHOLAB (Türkiye) – Nokta (2010)
  • Andrew Knight-Hill (UK) — Perpetual Motion (2010)
  • Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Poland/USA) + John Edmark (USA) — Juicy (2009)
  • Robert Darroll (South Africa) + Kiyoshi Furukawa (Japan) — Stele (1996-1999)
  • Onur Senturk + Combustion (Türkiye) — TRIANGLE (2010)
  • Diego Garro (Italy) — Patah (2009-2010)
  • Semiconductor + Double Adaptor (UK) — 200 Nanowebbers (2005)
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) — Sinus Aestum (2009)

2009

MTI 10th-Birthday Series New Media Events: Audiovisual Concert
Wed, Oct 28
De Montfort University, PACE Studio 1

Though not labeled as Visual Bits, Audible Bytes, this concert set the template for the series.

  • Joseph Hyde (UK) — End Transmission (2009)
  • Jean Detheux (Belgium/Canada) + Michaela Eremiasova (Poland/USA) — Shade Recovered (2009?)
  • Wilfried Jentzsch (Germany) — Kyoto Bells (2007)
  • Andrew Knight-Hill (UK) — Phase (2008)
  • Betsy Kopmar (USA) + Andreas Ecker — Night Fishing with Cormorants (2009)
  • Bret Battey (USA/UK) —Sinus Aestum (2009)
  • Dennis Miller (USA) — White Noise (2009)
  • Steve Gibson (Canada/UK) — Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable Redux - excerpt (live audio-visual performance)