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TRANSIT @ SIMULTAN Festival

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SIMULTAN 2015 "TALKING TO STRANGERS" 11th edition / 7-10 october / Timisoara RO http://11.simultan.org/

What would Voyager 3 contain if it would be re-launched today, after 38 years? In 1977, an information package was launched into space, a symbolical selection for the human civilization, launched with the intention to be intercepted or discovered by an alien civilization. A sort of “hello” from the humans, a way of saying “we are here”. Today, maybe, such a package would contain microchips, texts with smiley faces at a correct decoding. We would probably brag about the invention of a virtual communication system, about our intelligent control systems? Our self-control or the controlling of others. We might also include some e-books about the human nature, on micro-sd cards, because we also advanced our knowledge in the field of psychoanalysis. Why wouldn’t we send a picture of Osama or of other terrorists that we cannot find, maybe they would help us with that. Maybe we could simply send a cry for help, in the hope that in the thousand years that would take them to discover it, there would still be a chance for a few of us to be saved. Or Voyager 3 could be a new Noah’s ark, a capsule of DNA for a possible reconstruction.

In the end, the important thing to know is that we are not alone. And also, it is important to understand how did we end up here. But does it worth the effort? Or wouldn’t it be wiser to enjoy our mere existence and to co-exist peacefully without exploiting each other for the sake of profit, without exercising our power and dominance over each other. Is this exploitation of others human nature? Is it the engine of progress? Is this evolution? Or is it evolution the creation of virtual realities where we can feed our brains with “01”? Till then, we have other serious problems. Soon the Earth will become overcrowded and under the human influence, the fight for territory drives the species to the verge of extinction. For now, we are preparing a colony to Mars…

But meanwhile art must go on, contemplating and acting, re-acting with our creative means, being aware of the power of now. Hope exists as long as we believe in hope, as long as we believe in our creative power in order to save ourselves and hope for a broader echo.

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some frames form the 10th ed.  http://10.simultan.org/ (gifs by velisar manea)

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:// SIMULTAN FESTIVAL #10 - call for video submissions DEADLINE: 20 July, 2014 SIMULTAN is an annual festival held in Timisoara, Romania - dedicated to media art, experimental music & sound. The 10th edition of the Simultan Festival will take place from October 6 until 11, under the motto 'TERMS & CONDITIONS'. Submission Guidelines Simultan is open for submissions of innovative video works, which are related to the festival theme. - categories: video, experimental video, fiction, documentary, experimental documentary, motion graphics, experimental animation, digital/generative. - number of works: 2 max. / author - duration: 10 minutes / max. (each) More info & online application form: http://www.simultan.org/en/2014/call.html Selected artists will be asked to send the screening version of the work/s. The list of the participating artists will be published on the website at the beginning of September. - no entry fee! For additional information please visit: http://www.simultan.org/

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Promo video and sound for SIMULTAN Festival 2010 Past Continuous. Future Perfect. http://www.simultan.org/

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Timisoara / exit

The last stop in Romania was Timisoara in the Banat region of the country located in the vicinity of Serbo-Hungarian border. Arriving by a train from Arad we were accompanied by Dyslex, with whom we planed to record an interview on the train. This proved to be too noisy (even in spite of the fact that Dyslex's musical output would go well with such a background ;).

Dyslex's favourite location at Timisoara train station.

In Cafe Papillon, the local artist's cafe, we eagerly awaited Felix Petrescu and Valentin Toma from Timisoara's celebrated electronics project Makunouchi Bento. We spoke about their activities, about the sound of their new record Swimé (coming out just in a couple of days as a webrelease), about Timisoara music scene and their outsider status within the Romanian electronica scene. The evening gradually plunged into night and glasses of wine and bottles of beer were incessantly clinking on the tables around and then everything went blurry.

makunouchi bento - piacento (sailing alone) by wakax

Levente Kozma from Simultan Festival.

Another one of Romania's two electronics festivals that dare to enter new and cutting-edge territories is Simultan an "annual festival for video, media art, experimental electronic music and a/v projects". In the case of Simultan (as compared to Rokolectiv), a strong emphasis is put on innovative video-artworks, whilst it also showcases composers, musicians and dj's. In Papillon the next morning, we interview the festival's director and curator Levente Kozma.

This year's edition of the festival takes place from 30th September up to 2nd October bearing the motto "Future perfect. Past Continuos". The call for this year's submissions is still open. Check out the promo video made for the 2008 Simultan DVD.

temporary tactics - S:4 festival DVD release from simultanfestival on Vimeo.

It seemed as if we grew together with this amazing country and she didn't want to see us go. We missed our train to Arad, delaying our departure from Romania by several hours. After seeing and visiting the more "composed" Cluj and Arad, Timisoara left us with an impression as if we would again be in the south with its chaotic, Balkanic influences that we have become so fond of..

makunouchi bento - flika by wakax