Channel Title: 180 Fact Channel Description: Championing the new wave of electronic art. <video> Fact 2023 Description: </video> <video> Fact Premiere: 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 Presents MUTUALISMX: Kloxii Li & Hypereikon - Anhaga Description: MUTUALISMX arrives as culmination of the multidisciplinary experimentation of Moisés Horta Valenzuela, better known as Hexorcismos. For the last seven years the sound artist, technologist, and electronic musician has worked with generative artificial neural networks as world-building tools to amplify a plurality of views and voices across image and sound synthesis, offering an alternative approach to artificial intelligence that privileges collective understanding over the biases inherent in contemporary A.I. models and datasets. This research led to the creation of SEMILLA.AI, a “small data” neural audio synthesis tool designed to mimic and transform the sonic fingerprint of the user. Aligning the “technopoetics of generative computation”, decolonial aesthetics and efforts to rethink A.I. interfaces, SEMILLA.AI draws parallels between the Deep Learning practice of using ‘seeds,’ integer numbers used to generate other, pseudo-random numbers, and the Mesoamerican Mixe divination practice of ‘Mook pajk wëjwë, which loosely translates as ‘maize seed divination’ and from which the tool takes its name. The tool serves as the kernel of MUTUALISMX, for which Hexorcismos invited a planetary-spanning collective of artists, including KMRU, Ale Hop and El Irreal Veintiuno, to use the tool, either with their own personal data, or sharing in the data of the group in a gesture of computational and compositional polyphony. On ‘Anhaga’, Hunanese-American artist Kloxii Li laces textural swathes of crystalline noise with portentous chimes and machinic dissonance, providing us with an ethereal glimpse of the sounds possible with SEMILLA.AI. Working in response to each of the tracks collected on MUTUALISMX are Chilean artists Hypereikon, who utilise generative artificial neural networks to blur sound and image to collapse advanced technology into the natural world. “Our creative process for this project was centred on exploring a dataset constructed during the visual imaginary process of MUTUALISMX,” they explain. “We began by researching artifacts, tools, weapons, and divine symbols from precolonial cultures, initially focusing on Mayan and Aztec civilizations. However, our exploration soon broadened to include technologies from ancestral cultures worldwide “Instead of relying on archaeological information from specific sites, we decided to delve into the materiality itself and uncover the common language of different cultures concerning mineral materials and their technological uses,” they continue. “Our intention was to generate speculative and abstract technologies, expanding the idea of the use of minerals and gemstones for utilitarian and mystical purposes, reflecting reality as a matter of eternal return, atemporal and cyclical.” Using a variety of A.I. tools, including Midjourney, AnimateDiff and Runway’s Gen2, Hypereikon work the textures of Kloxii Li’s sound into imaginary materials and mythopoetic minerals, themselves forming speculative ancestral tools, superimposing ancient, precolonial technologies over emergent, decolonial technologies. ‘Anhaga’ is out now, taken from MUTUALISMX, which arrives on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People on February 15, 2024. You can download SEMILLA.AI now. You can find Hexorcismos, Hypereikon and Kloxii Li on Instagram. </video> <video> United Visual Artists: Musica Universalis Description: Musica Universalis – translated as “music of the spheres” – is the final work in United Visual Artists’ Synchronicity exhibition at 180 Studios, looking at patterns in the cosmos and the wonders of the universe. Taking inspiration from the theory of ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras that the planets created a higher form of music inaudible to the human ear, UVA used data from dwarf planets at the edge of our solar system to create an installation that makes this idea tangible through light, movement and sound. In this video, UVA founder Matt Clark explains the process behind creating this meditative installation. Synchronicity is open until 28 January, 2024 at London’s 180 Studios and features new works including Polyphony, Chromatic and Edge of Chaos. UVA: Synchronicity 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 12 October, 2023 – 28 January, 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) For ticket sales visit: https://www.180studios.com Filmed by: Kamil Dymek Pawel Ptak Matt Watt (Hotmilk Films) </video> <video> The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present REVERB (Teaser) Description: Theaster Gates, Devon Turnbulll, Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Nicolai, Es Devlin and Virgil Abloh will feature as part of REVERB, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound curated by The Vinyl Factory, opening at 180 Studios on 23 May, 2024. The largest show of its kind, REVERB will bring together over 100 artists and musicians working across visual arts, music, film and live performance. The exhibition will feature new site-specific audio-visual installations and sonic experiences, commissioned by The Vinyl Factory, from artists including Theaster Gates, Es Devlin, Julianknxx and Caterina Barbieri. REVERB also features UK premieres of artworks by Kahlil Joseph, Stan Douglas, Virgil Abloh and Cecilia Bengolea, as well as installations by Jeremy Deller, William Kentridge, Nan Goldin, Hito Steyerl, Carsten Nicolai and Gabriel Moses. Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1, created by and programmed with New York artist Devon Turnbull, will create a meditative space within the exhibition to listen to vinyl with an evolving programme of unheard music, including exclusive test pressings and studio outtakes. A wide-ranging programme of live performances and talks will also take place alongside the exhibition. A new work by Theaster Gates, Amplified, will exist as a sonic installation during the day and transform into a space that hosts live performances by night, with shows by established and emerging musicians recorded and pressed direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe. 100 vinyl records created by artists and released by The Vinyl Factory will also be on display in a new space designed by Ben Kelly. These include releases by Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Pipilotti Rist, William Kentridge, Mica Levi, Marina Abramovic, Grace Jones, Yussef Dayes, Es Devlin, Fred Again, Thom Yorke, Ragnar Kjartansson, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Maurizio Cattelan, Daft Punk, The xx, Rachel Rose, Kojey Radical, Taryn Simon and more. Tickets for REVERB are on sale now: https://www.180studios.com/reverb REVERB 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 22 May – 28 September 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday </video> <video> Fact Live: Bruce - Broken Description: Crashing out in a swirl of cacophony and catharsis, 'Broken' trips over two-step skip and amorous bellows, what McCarthy calls "a corrupting seduction; to be toyed with and teased, to the point of agony and resentment, that only stokes the flame of lust and longing." Written & Performed by Bruce Art Direction & Animation - Mooje Stylist - Holly Gillman Costume Designer - Anna Roggenhofer Director of Photography - Kamil Dymek Technical Director - Pawel Ptak Producer - Henry Bruce-Jones </video> <video> Yagamoto x United Visual Artists Description: For this special performance, movement director and 180 Studios resident Yagamoto immersed himself inside Chromatic, one of the many striking works inside United Visual Artists' Synchronicity exhibition. Chromatic is inspired by chromeosthesis, a type of synesthesia where sound evokes impressions of colour, shape and movement – a concept reflected in Yagamoto's organic response to the installation. Chromatic was created by UVA in collaboration with composer Daniel J Thibault, who was able to play the installation like an instrument thanks to the software that drives it. This idea of man and machine working together is also mirrored in Yagamoto's interpretation of the work, in which he appears to play in time with the generative music. Synchronicity is open until 30 December, 2023 at London’s 180 Studios and features several new works including Polyphony and Ensemble as well as site-specific versions of works from the collective created over the past 20 years. https://www.instagram.com/yagamoto/ https://www.180studios.com/uva </video> <video> United Visual Artists: Ensemble Description: Ensemble, showing now at 180 Studios as part of United Visual Artists’ Synchronicity exhibition, examines humanity’s evolving relationship with bodily movement, gesture and musicality. A collaboration with choreographer Dana Gingras (who previously worked with UVA on her show Frontera) and musician Roger Tellier-Craig, Ensemble draws from early stop motion techniques to tell the story of how human movement has been shaped throughout history. In this video, Clark expands on the themes and inspirations behind Ensemble. Synchronicity is open until 30 December, 2023 at London’s 180 Studios and features new works including Polyphony, Chromatic and Edge of Chaos. UVA: Synchronicity 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 12 October – 30 December 2023 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) For ticket sales visit: https://www.180studios.com </video> <video> The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present REVERB Description: Theaster Gates, Devon Turnbulll, Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Nicolai, Es Devlin and Virgil Abloh will feature as part of REVERB, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound curated by The Vinyl Factory, opening at 180 Studios on 23 May, 2024. The largest show of its kind, REVERB will bring together over 100 artists and musicians working across visual arts, music, film and live performance. The exhibition will feature new site-specific audio-visual installations and sonic experiences, commissioned by The Vinyl Factory, from artists including Theaster Gates, Es Devlin, Julianknxx and Caterina Barbieri. REVERB also features UK premieres of artworks by Kahlil Joseph, Stan Douglas, Virgil Abloh and Cecilia Bengolea, as well as installations by Jeremy Deller, William Kentridge, Nan Goldin, Hito Steyerl, Carsten Nicolai and Gabriel Moses. Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1, created by and programmed with New York artist Devon Turnbull, will create a meditative space within the exhibition to listen to vinyl with an evolving programme of unheard music, including exclusive test pressings and studio outtakes. A wide-ranging programme of live performances and talks will also take place alongside the exhibition. A new work by Theaster Gates, Amplified, will exist as a sonic installation during the day and transform into a space that hosts live performances by night, with shows by established and emerging musicians recorded and pressed direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe. 100 vinyl records created by artists and released by The Vinyl Factory will also be on display in a new space designed by Ben Kelly. These include releases by Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Pipilotti Rist, William Kentridge, Mica Levi, Marina Abramovic, Grace Jones, Yussef Dayes, Es Devlin, Fred Again, Thom Yorke, Ragnar Kjartansson, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Maurizio Cattelan, Daft Punk, The xx, Rachel Rose, Kojey Radical, Taryn Simon and more. Tickets for REVERB will go on sale very soon – sign up for email updates here at the 180 Studios website: https://www.180studios.com/reverb REVERB 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 22 May – 28 September 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday </video> <video> The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present REVERB – open until 28 September 2024 Description: Theaster Gates, Devon Turnbull, Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Nicolai, Es Devlin and Virgil Abloh will feature as part of REVERB, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound curated by The Vinyl Factory, now open at 180 Studios until 28 September, 2024. REVERB brings together over 100 artists and musicians working across visual arts, music, film and live performance. The exhibition will feature site-specific audio-visual installations and sonic experiences, commissioned by The Vinyl Factory, from artists including Theaster Gates, Es Devlin and Julianknxx. REVERB also features UK premieres of artworks by Kahlil Joseph, Stan Douglas, Virgil Abloh and Cecilia Bengolea, as well as installations by Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, William Kentridge, Jenn Nkiru, Hito Steyerl, Carsten Nicolai and Gabriel Moses. Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1, created by and programmed with New York artist Devon Turnbull, will create a meditative space within the exhibition to listen to vinyl with an evolving programme of unheard music, including exclusive test pressings and studio outtakes. A wide-ranging programme of live performances and talks will also take place alongside the exhibition. A new work by Theaster Gates, Amplified, will exist as a sonic installation during the day and transform into a space that hosts live performances by night, with shows by established and emerging musicians recorded and pressed direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe. 100 vinyl records created by artists and released by The Vinyl Factory will also be on display in a new space designed by Ben Kelly. These include releases by Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Pipilotti Rist, William Kentridge, Mica Levi, Marina Abramovic, Grace Jones, Yussef Dayes, Es Devlin, Fred Again, Thom Yorke, Ragnar Kjartansson, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Maurizio Cattelan, Daft Punk, The xx, Rachel Rose, Kojey Radical, Taryn Simon and more. Tickets for REVERB are on sale now: https://www.180studios.com/reverb REVERB 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 22 May – 28 September 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday </video> <video> Fact Live: Bruce - Dappled Light Description: "A thankful but sorry farewell," McCarthy says of 'Dappled Light,' "realising, despite the beauty that such a sprouting romance could bring, the love it needs to fully bloom is not yet ready to be given." Here, he finds mournful brightness in crystalline synthesis, snatches of breaks and pitch shifting vocals. Written & Performed by Bruce Art Direction & Animation - Mooje Stylist - Holly Gillman Costume Designer - Anna Roggenhofer Director of Photography - Kamil Dymek Technical Director - Pawel Ptak Producer - Henry Bruce-Jones </video> <video> Fact Live: Bruce - Lasso Description: On 'Lasso,' gauzy blooms of ambience and tactile embellishments of noise swell beneath McCarthy's breathless, heart-in-throat delivery, swooning through the exquisite pain of watching someone leave when you want them to stay. "A heart wrenching acceptance," he notes, "for the collapse of a deeply passionate love, that has since grown unrequited." Written & Performed by Bruce Art Direction & Animation - Mooje Stylist - Holly Gillman Costume Designer - Anna Roggenhofer Director of Photography - Kamil Dymek Technical Director - Pawel Ptak Producer - Henry Bruce-Jones </video> <video> IBBY NJOYA - MUSTAFA Description: Artist Ibby Njoya feels colour. “I see emotions. [Colour] is the way for me to translate some of the things that I can't write or find the right way to say when I'm talking,” he explains. Njoya’s vivid, whimsical practice has been quickly embraced by the fashion world in a career that began with him assisting Rhea Thierstein and since seen collaborations with Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. “My goal was to always be an artist and to have the freedom to create in any form,” he says. Colour is the starting point of the creative process – as is evident in this original artistic contribution to Fact and his celebrated commissioned art installations for 180 Studios such as Mustafa (2022) </video> <video> Patch Notes: Atomised Listening Description: Paul Cousins is a composer and sound artist from London who uses vintage reel-to-reel tape machines and effects to loop and reshape his electronic productions. "I like using sequential stages to create music, and I’m interested in how technological limitations can change the creative process," he tells Fact. Cousins was one of the first contributors to our Patch Notes series back in 2020, and in this performance he returns with a performance of his new installation, Atomised Listening. "Atomised Listening is the idea of music being seemingly disconnected moments rather than a unified composition, a concept by Theodor Adorno," Cousins explains. "Using tape machines, I wanted to create a multi-channel, asynchronous work along these lines that is participatory. With this installation, the tape loops are the 'atoms'  and the listener becomes the performer, actively engaging in the experience. The composition evolves until the next user interacts with the work, using the mixing desk." In Atomised Listening, Cousins aims to explore our relationship with obsolete technology by repurposing the original function of the tape machine. "1/4" tape has a certain character, and often contains imperfections that I'm interested in highlighting," Cousins says. "It's inspiring to hear a recording format's influence on a composition, and I enjoy leaning into the limitations of tape rather than searching for subjective perfection." Atomised Listening was recorded at The Cause in London, using five Akai reel-to-reel machines from the 1960s and '70s, a Roland Space Echo RE-201 and a TEAC M-30 mixing desk. "I needed five to create this installation, plus another five as backup," Cousins explains. "Finding and servicing the machines was quite a long process." Follow Cousins on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulcousinsmusic/ Buy his debut album, Vanishing Artefacts, at Bandcamp: https://paulcousins-cis.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-artefacts </video> <video> United Visual Artists: Synchronicity Description: "Synchronicity is essentially about patterns, and how we use pattern recognition to make sense of an otherwise chaotic universe," says United Visual Artists founder Matt Clark, talking to Fact about the UK collective's immersive and wide-ranging exhibition, now in its final weeks at 180 Studios. In this film, Clark looks at Synchronicity as a whole, placing some of its key works into these wider contexts, as well as illuminating the ways in which they interact and draw on other ideas such as the origins of music and the human desire to express ourselves through sound. Synchronicity is open until 25 February, 2024 at London’s 180 Studios and features new works including Polyphony, Chromatic and Edge of Chaos. Daniel J. Thibault's score for Chromatic is also available as a limited vinyl edition through The Vinyl Factory, each including an individual fine art print created by UVA. UVA: Synchronicity 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 12 October, 2023 – 25 February, 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) For ticket sales visit: https://www.180studios.com Filmed by: Kamil Dymek Pawel Ptak Matt Watt (Hotmilk Films) </video> <video> Ivan Michael Blackstock x United Visual Artists: Our Time Description: For this special performance, choreographer and dance artist Ivan Michael Blackstock drew inspiration from United Visual Artists’ installation Our Time, currently showing at London’s 180 Studios as part of UVA’s career-spanning Synchronicity exhibition. Blackstock, whose 180 Studios-produced show Traplord won the 2023 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, created a physical interpretation of Our Time that mirrors the way in which the installation manifests the relativity of time — how it can seemingly speed up, slow down, or stop altogether. Synchronicity is open until 28 January, 2024 at London’s 180 Studios and features several new works including Polyphony and Ensemble, as well as site-specific versions of works from the collective created over the past 20 years. For more insight into the exhibition watch our features with UVA’s Matt Clark. Credits Performer: Ivan Michael Blackstock Installation: United Visual Artists Videographer: Kamil Dymek & Pawel Ptak Editor: Kamil Dymek Producer: Feiyang Xue UVA: Synchronicity 180 Studios 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 12 October, 2023 – 28 January, 2024 10am – 7pm, Wednesday – Sunday (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) For ticket sales visit: https://www.180studios.com </video>

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