Thursday 10 December 2015, 8pm
Three-day residency curated by Sheffield-based multidisciplinary artist, Mark Fell, spanning distinctive approaches to sound, philosophy, plus a special installation from Fell in the OTO Project Space.
Tonight sees live performances from The Anti-Group – the project of sound and visual artist Adi Newton – and Budapest-based sound artist Gábor Lázár, as well as a talk on ‘the self’ from the acclaimed German philosopher Thomas Metzinger and a DJ set from The WIRE's Frances Morgan.
Mark Fell's work – ranging from minimal electronic music, to sound installations and audio-visual works – has placed him at the forefront of a rapidly expanding area of extreme and independent computer music and his explorations are never less than fascinating.
TAGC are not affiliated to any one system of philosophy or epistemological paradigm or occult fraternity but are open more to individual systems and innovative thinkers Science, Sonology, Psychophysics, Visual Arts, Literature, Research & Publication are its main areas of focus. Over the years ideas and esoteric and occult philosophy of various individual practitioners have been a focus of exploration and research within TAGC projects, but there is always connections to other areas of research within those projects, in some our aim is to highlight and discover new connections and correspondences between systems of thought and the systems of technics similar to Bernard Stiegler's concept of technics which has emerged recently as an important contribution to studies of the relation between technology, time and the human spirit by exploring the possibilities of the technology of spirit, to bring forth a new "life of the mind".
The Anti Group is Directed by Adi Newton.“Adi Newton has long since described the process of making music as his research. It represents a more thoughtful and reflective body of work than that which dominates his peer group. In particular, Newton’s grasp of the philosophical connotations of technology placed him apart from the majority of its practitioners.”NME.COM First For Music News.For over 3 decades Adi Newton has been involved in research and Development of Audio and Psychophysics and experimental Audio performance and production and visualisation and with over 23 Albums and numerous other recorded projects such as the Psychophysicists work with A. Mckenzie of the Halfler Trio.
As well as being a Sound artist Adi Newton is primarily a visual artist actively involved in the media of Painting. The forthcoming TAGC performance at the Cafe OTO event will feature exclusive works from the Meontological Research Recordings series 1/2 and new works either of which have not been performed in the UK / Europe.
TAGC presentations and performances have been staged at numerous events including / 2 Atonal festivals Berlin /Museum of Contemporary Art" Prato, Italy /Electro-Acoustic Music Academy Stockholm, Sweden /ARS Electronica symposium on Virtual Reality Linz, Austria / Art Futura Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia Madrid Spain / Equinox Festival Conway Hall London / BWA Contemporary art gallery ,Wroclaw , Poland : And recently at De NWE Vorst Theatre as part of the INCUBATE 2013 Festival Holland.
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Gábor Lázár is a sound artist living and working in Budapest. He studied electronic music and media arts at University of Pécs. His works are dealing with two dimensions of music; time and timbre which could be more meaningful with the only use of a single source of audio material through his whole creative practice. Instead of working with orchestras of synthesizers he uses only one instrument to go deeply into time and texture. In his compositions he undergoes the process of balancing between construction and deconstruction, consonance and dissonance, repetition and change, predictability and randomness to create series of works based on these different approaches. Even though he uses only computer, generative techniques and precise automations, there is a clear emotional intensity and sensitivity towards the details behind his abstract works.
Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher. He has been active since the early 1990s in the promotion of consciousness studies as an academic endeavour. As a co-founder, he has been particularly active in the organization of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and sat on the board of directors of that organisation from 1995 to 2008. He served as president of the ASSC in 2009/10. Metzinger is director of the MIND group and has been president of the German cognitive science society from 2005 to 2007. In English he has published two edited works, Conscious Experience (1995), and Neural correlates of consciousness: empirical and conceptual issues (2000). The latter book arose out of the second ASSC meeting, for which he acted as local organizer. In 2015, together with Jennifer M. Windt, he published the Open MIND-collection, containing more than 100 original, peer-reviewed open access-papers from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
