February 2006 – Bogotá, Colombia
Independent Electronic Art and Music Festival
This independent festival is organized by Microchipcha. The objective of the festival is to spread electronic art and music to the different sectors of Bogotá. Bogotrax consists in a series of open air presentations, nighttime events in bars, workshops, conferences, radio programs and presentations in universities. The entire event is free to the public and for the public. There is also an open call whereby new artists are selected to present their work during the event. During the third year of the festival, Intermundos participates for the first time by organizing for the festival a new educational programing based around electronic music and art and by inviting Juha Huskonen to participate by giving conferences and a workshop.
To see all the information about this festival: http://bogotrax.blogspot.com/
For information in English : http://www.pixelache.ac/2006/bogotrax-2006
Bogotrax Workshops
Basic Electronic Bricolage Workshop : Experiments in Communication
Host: Alejandro Tamayo (Bogotá)
Communication experiments with electronic, luminous and sonorous objects
Temas específicos de electrónica: corriente, voltaje, resistencia, circuito integrado
En este corto pero divertido curso, los participantes aprendieron los principios básicos de electrónica, como voltaje, corriente y resistencias; jugaron con sensores como photocelds y micrófonos; aprendieron a integrarlos en circuitos de tiempo utilizando el común 555 IC y aprendieron como controlar voltajes altos para alterar electrodomésticos por medio de un relay . Los resultados del taller fueron expuestos la noche del 23 en los baños del Centro Cultural Pizo
In this short but fun workshops the particpants learned the basic principles of electronics; like voltage; current; resistance, they played with sensors like photocells and microphones; they learned to integrate circuits using common 555 IC and how to control high voltage to alternate electro domestic tools through the use of a relay.
The results where exhibited in the bathroom on the night of the Bogotrax party in Centro Cultural Piso 3.
http://www.thepopshop.org/academy/bogotrax/index.htm
Live editing workshop (video jockey)
Hosts: Juha Huskonen and Vanessa Gocksch
Introduction to the concept of live video editing, the software used, the hardware used, examples of video jockey collectives; video jockey and theater and technical information.
The students learned to use the software resolume; make simple animations with macromedia flash; capture; film ; edit video clips to be used with the live editing software. After three days of work shopping, the students presented their work during one of the Bogotrax nightly events.
Here – More information about previous VJ workshops in Barranquilla and Santa Marta
Musical production workshop
Guests: Juan Carlos Pellegrino y Alfredo Vargas and several of the guests DJ’s from Europe.
The basics of musical production by utilizing several software including some open source software.
DJ Workshop
Guest: DJ Danny Boom (Bogotá)
The principles of dj mixing with vinyl records 2 turntables and a mixer. The emfasis was on electronic dance music.
Round Table Discussions and Conferences
SATURDAY 18 – CASA DE LA CULTURA DE SUBA
What is Bogotrax
Ricardo Cubides – Organizer from Bogotrax
Introduction to live video editing (Video-Jockey).
Maria Calle and Edna Orozco – Founders of the collective Videopouli.
http://www.videopopuli.blogspot.com/
Introduction to Musical Production language
Andrés Cabrera (Bogotá)
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2005/04/0245.html
Introduction to musical production
Bernando Jiménez (Bogota)
WENESDAY 22 – BLOCK: ELECTRONIC MUSIC – CONSERVATORIA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL
Panel discussion: The organizing of independent electronic music events
Host: Laurie Sauloy
I Guests: Pepe Plata – Colon Electrónico ( Bogotá) http://www.exopotamia.com/colon2002/html/contactos.htm
Carole Godet – Iot Records / électronique Circus (Marseille) http://www.iot-records.org/
History of free techno / history of Champeta
Phoenix 13 (London)
Arobass ( Marseilles) http://arobass2000.free.fr/
Walter Hernández – Intermundos (Turbaco)
Conference – The independent music industry.
Tricky D – Tricky Tunes ( Berlin ) http://www.tricky-tunes.com/
THRUSDAY 23 – BLOCK 2: ELECTRONIC CULTURE – CENTRO CULTURAL PIZO 3
This event was streamed live by Radiofantasmas: http://www.rrff.blogspot.com/
Conference about copyright and its alternatives
Carolina Botero – Creative commons Colombia (vía streaming)
http://www.karisma.org.co/carobotero/
Table discussion: Open source, piratery, copyright y Creative Commons .
Host: Alfredo Vargas (Bogotá).
Guest:Carolina Botero – Creative Commons Colombia
Andres Cabrera – (sound engeneer)
Gabriel Zea – Fuente Abierta – (Colombia)
Conference: A brief history of electronic arts in Europe and the USA
Juha Huskonen – PixelACHE (Helsinki) www.pixelache.ac
Conference: Conscious Grafic Vandalism: On an International and local scale
Colectivo Excusado Printsystem (Bogotá) http://www.excusa2.tk/
Platforms and long distance networks
Leonardo Gonzáles – Pato Feo (Bogotá)
http://www.rrff.blogspot.com/
http://www.sur.microbiorecords.net/blog/
Packages of Open source software for visual, interactive and sound projects for Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms
Andrés Burbano (Bogotá) http://atari.uniandes.edu.co/burbano/_html/proyect.html
Exchange: Between local video jockeys and with Juha Huskonen
Host: Juha Huskonen – PixelACHE (Helsinki). Listen to the interview here: http://www.rrff.blogspot.com/
FRIDAY 24 – CONSERVATORIO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL
Instalations with electronic components
Alejandro Tamayo (Bogotá) http://www.thepopshop.org/
Platforms and long distance networks
Leonardo Gonzales (Bogotá) http://www.rrff.blogspot.com