The video o/68 will be shown as part of the touring programme A Secret Understanding

Balaklava Odyssey, Mykhailivska Battery, Crimea, Sevastopol, Ukraine
2010/08/12-2010/08/13

MediaDepot, Str. Hnatiuka 11, Lviv, Ukraine
2010/08/27-2010/08/29

Curated and produced by
Forma

2010
sound: @c
length: 5′43” – format: 16:9

w.e.b.
Interview: LIA – Software Art
2010/06
http://www.worldweb.co.kr/wstore/book/view.asp?iProductID=135

iPhone Application

more images on Flickr >>>

Application Website >>>

Create your own personal art work by experimenting in a playful way!

PhiLia 02 is about collaboration between the human and the machine, expressed through generative movement, form and color.

The human and the machine are collaborators in the creation of a unique art experience.

You can interact with the elements on screen, but the machine always suggests its own ideas to which you can respond using your intuition.

You can either set certain parameters yourself by accessing the Menu, or you can hand this responsibility over to the machine, which will randomly select parameters for you when you shake your device.

If you have the Trails switch ON, you will be rewarded for your experimentation with your own personal unique art piece. No created image will ever be the same. Store your favorite moments by accessing the Menu where you can save the image to your Photos.

With the Trails switch OFF you will simply see the elements floating through space.

This application has no other purpose or use then your joy. Please explore and playfully experiment with this art creation tool.

Software Art Applications for the iPhone:
www.iphoneart.org >>>

Sequence – Issue 1
Article: Vienna Report by Simon Payne
published by no.w.here
2010/05
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=9&subCat=docdetail&&id=238

In Vienna Report Simon Payne discusses the advanced digital aesthetics of a number of works by three contemporary Austrian video artists, which reference the heritage of visual music and the Viennese formal film. This essay comes in advance of a screening of their work later in the year.

Live Visualization

Goethe-Lieder

ORF RadioKulturhaus, Grosser Sendesaal
Vienna, Austria
2010/03/21

Credits

organized by departure (www.departure.at)

Singers: Hermine Haselböck, Bernhard Berchtold and Florian Boesch
Piano: Russell Ryan
Visualization: LIA

Composer: Hugo Wolf
Texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Technique

For each of the 33 Songs a separate visual piece was prepared depending on the mood of the music as well as on the content of the texts. The software tool is programmed in a such a way that while the visuals react directly to the sound input, which can be controlled through an audio mixing table, various parameters of the generation of the image can also be controlled via the keyboard.
The software tool was programmed using the open source software OpenFrameworks (www.openframeworks.cc).

OpenFrameworks allows high-resolution Fine Art Prints to be derived from the visuals. These prints can be purchased at
>>> www.liaworks.com/prints

Text (by departure)

Lied and visualists explore new territory together

lied lab 2010: hugo wolf festival- from March 12 through 21 at ORF RadioKulturhaus – is a creative laboratory uniting top-level performances of lieder (art songs) and the art of visualization. The festival is held on the occasion of Hugo Wolf’s 150th birthday. Although being considered one of the most important composers and innovators of the lied, Hugo Wolf is somewhat neglected by today’s music business. The event is held on the initiative of baritone Wolfgang Holzmair – who is famous all over the world for his interpretations of the lied and in particular of the works by Hugo Wolf – and departure. Five evenings will be dedicated to the works of Hugo Wolf, which will be performed by renowned interpreters of the lied with live visualization by leading Austrian visualists.

The starting point was the idea of creating new approaches to great cultural achievements considered difficult to access, such as the lied, by using digital images – especially since ambitious scenes of visualists have emerged in Vienna. Digital visualization offers almost endless possibilities of arousing enthusiasm for challenging music in people from different educational backgrounds, particularly in younger generations. It is all about presenting interesting incentives to look into the lied for the first time or once again. However, lied connoisseurs should get their money’s worth as well, as dealing with the subject persistently and in a “lab” kind of way will give rise to novel art forms that broaden and enrich the cultural spectrum.

The festival presents leading visualists, whose works offer a wide range of artistic approaches, and outstanding performers of the lied. The performers are Austrians or live in Austria and share a special dedication to the artful lieder of Hugo Wolf.

The festival is held by departure in cooperation with ORF RadioKulturhaus; musical curator is Wolfgang Holzmair.

Springerin
Hefte für Gegenwartskunst
Band XVI Heft 2 – Frühjahr 2010 – Intermedia 2.0
ISBN 9 783852 565163
http://www.springerin.at

The images in the magazine are also available as Fine Art Prints
http://www.liaworks.com/prints

Nomination for www.iphoneart.org
at the Webby Awards 2010 in the ART section
http://webbyawards.com

The App Store lacks an Art section, which means that software artworks made for the iPhone often got lost amongst all of the Entertainment or Lifestyle applications.

iPhoneArt.org presents selected software art Apps from the App Store, and serves as a starting point for further exploration of software art for the iPhone.

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 10-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