The doors of the Liaworks Online Shop are finally open!

>>> SHOP

The Shop will start with a small range of limited edition prints derived from LIA's software artworks Arcs 21 (2009) and Re-move 08 (1999-2003), printed with archival quality inks on Hahnemühle 265g/m2 Fine Art Cotton Rag paper.

During 2012 the range of works will be increased, including prints derived from more of LIA's pioneering net- and digital- software art works, stills from live performances, physical and electronic objects, and more. Expect to see representations of all aspects of LIA's artistic output spanning the last 15 years.

We will also be offering selected works by LIA's friends and contemporaries.

2011
sound: @c
length: 5'47'' - format: 16:9

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Transition 89 is a new audiovisual work by Lia and @c. Based on the composition "89" by @c, Lia has created a visual transcription of the sound in HD 16:9 format.

The complete soundtrack "89" was created during an artist in residency programme in the villages of Nodar and Fujaco (part of the Magaio cluster of villages in central Portugal). The audio piece incorporates the aural experience of the ecological, architectural and cultural contexts of the region, the residents of Fujaco participated directly through the usage of their recorded voices.

In Transition 89 LIA has taken an excerpt of "89" and, using her algorithmic engine and her knowledge of realtime performances, has created a subtle, graceful and delicate audiovisual composition. The constant structural mutations during the film – which triggered the title – are not only a reflexion on the compositional processes but also a comment on the nature of ecology, social and cultural dynamics.

The video Machination 84
was awarded with a Diploma
at the 9th Int. Animated Film Festival Tindirindis
in Vilnius, Lithuania.

>>> http://www.tindirindis.lt/2011awards.html

Images were created by the software reacting to the mouse position on the screen

Connections No.5 for

Written Images
Book Project by Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel
2011/09
http://writtenimages.net

A generative book that presents programmed images by various artists. Each print in process will be calculated individually – which makes every single book unique.

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Connections No.5

eix = ix + myRads[k] * sin(getAngle(k) *PI/180);
eiy = iy + myRads[k] * cos(getAngle(k) *PI/180);
eox = ox + others[j].getRads(k) * sin(others[j].getAngle(k) *PI/180);
eoy = oy + others[j].getRads(k) * cos(others[j].getAngle(k) *PI/180);
bezier(ix, iy, eix, eiy, eox, eoy, ox, oy);

With Connections No.5, I worked with the principles of "body and physicalness, movement, play, lightness, empty space and curiousity."
In the resulting visual images, the connections are made to be more important than the invisible elements that they connect. These connections and the emitted rays of color (representing the "energy" of each element) define both the relationships and the spaces between the elements.

Five points seek connections to each other with curved lines, at the same time emitting colored rays. The points themselves are only perceived as the centers of activity of these connections and rays. A random number generator controlling various parameters ensures that no created image will ever be the same.

List of Artists

386dx25, Antoni Kaniowski, Ariel Malka, Carl-Johan Rosén, Casey Reas, clone, David Bollinger, David Bouchard, e m o c, flight404, Golan Levin, Jonathan McCabe, Jörg Piringer, Julien Deswaef, Kim Asendorf, kraftner, Leonardo Solaas, Lia, Luke Sturgeon, Marcin Ignac, Marius Watz, Michael Zick Doherty, Mitchell Whitelaw, Moka, Nervous System, Oliver Smith, paolon, Perceptor, rhymeandreason, Ricard Marxer, Roberto Christen, Rui Madeira, Ryan Alexander, Ryland Wharton, Sansumbrella, sojamo, Stefano Maccarelli, Szymon Kaliski, Victor Martins, W:Blut, William Lindmeier, zenbullets

Exhibition of
Arcs 21

Decode - Digital Design Sensations
organised by the Victoria&Albert London, in collaboration with onedotzero
Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel
2011/11/18 - 2012/03/10

http://www.dmh.org.il/exhibition/exhibition.aspx?pid=17&catId=-1

Slanted Magazine #15 Experimental
Illustrations, page 24f.
2011/09
http://www.slanted.de/shop/slanted-15-experimental

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Each Sunday issue of the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse" contains four pages about creative industries, including a page that is filled with work by an invited 'Creative Person', responding to a different theme every week. As my installations 'Arcs 21' and 'ProximityOfNeeds' were in an exhibition called 'Mind & Matter' at Künstlerhaus Vienna at the time, I was asked to include the words 'Mind & Matter' in the work. In addition, I was asked to make a statement about the differentiation between 'artists' and 'creative workers'. I wrote "Der Unterschied zwischen Kunst und Kreativarbeit liegt in der Verwendung und beim Betrachter", which can be translated as "The differences between art and creative work lie in their use and in their beholder."

Working on digital art since the early 1990s and very active as a live visuals artist since 2000, Lia is at the same time an "old school" artist and part of the fresher avant-garde of live visuals. Following a very personal line of work, Lia has managed to consistently improve her performances, keeping them always surprising and innovative, while refusing trendier and easier approaches to performance.

Besides the 11-year-long running collaboration with the @c duo (www.at-c.org), Lia has performed live visuals with several other musicians, like Vitor Joaquim (since 2005) and Emi Maeda (since 2006), she has performed with the orchestra of Linz, at the Brucknerhaus, and the orchestra of Barcelona, at L'Auditori during the Sónar festival. She has performed in some of the most important festivals and venues for contemporary experimental arts, as Ars Electronica, Dissonanze, EMAF, La Casa Encendida, Lovebytes, ICA, Mutek, NAME, Offf, Pixelache, Sonar, Sonic Acts, Transmediale, Zemos98 and others.

In 2003, Lia was one of the founders of the Crónica media label (www.cronicaelectronica.org), that has since been very active in the production and promotion of audiovisual digital artistic creation. Besides her ongoing artistic practice, with both online and offline works, Lia's live visual collaborations have bred a series of video works that have been played in several art and film festivals all over the world.

Full List of Performances in the CV section >>>

Screenshots of Visuals Sets - Details on Flickr

Ars Electronica @ Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria
programme: Musicians & Machines
music: Principio Passionis, played by the Bruckner Orchester Linz
Composer and Conductor: Dante Anzolini