Cape Town to host Live Performers Meeting

Cape Town has been selected as the host city for the 14th edition of LPM (Live Performers Meeting), which will run from 13-16 November 2013. The City Hall will be the location for The LPM project, which unites live video performers, visual artists and VJs from around the globe for four days of audio-visual performances, workshops, panel discussions and product showcases presented by new media professionals and thinkers at the forefront of live video art and digital media.
Cape Town to host Live Performers Meeting

Participants and attendees will have the chance to encounter the world's largest selection of artists and professionals active in the field of live video performance, and hundreds of the world's leading live video artists will gather in Cape Town.

Plethora of planned activities

Attendees will be involved in the plethora of planned activities: from experimental audio-visual performances, architectural mapping shows, and DJVJ sets to workshops, round tables, and presentations of products and hardware - with a special focus on free and open-source projects.

Founded in 2004, LPM has grown every year both in terms of public participation of artists and professionals. The 2013 Rome edition hosted more than 400 artists, 220 performances, workshops and showcases - recording an overall number of 39 participating countries.

Through their nine years of experience, the LPM organisers have mapped the trends that have most influenced the creation of live video performances and the current programme reflects and investigates these trends:

  • Live Cinema: works performed exclusively live and demonstrate the continual tension between perceptive experience and performative act.
  • Video Mapping: A technique of video projection that can spectacularly animate architectural volumes and surfaces.
  • Digital Freedoms: Activism and beauty, aesthetic database and data visualisation of public or private data.
  • Visual Gender: The tension between gender studies and contemporary art, the vision of the body.
  • Generative Visual: New digital biospheres offer the public the experience of complex networks composed of simple sensory-bit binary codes.
  • Stereoscopic 3D: This allows the three-dimensional display of standard video content for a complete perceptive immersion.

    Want to get involved? Registration to the meeting is free. Send your best project or performance and come and join in.

    We are looking for:

  • AV Performance
  • Workshop
  • VJ Set
  • Live Mapping
  • Project Showcase
  • Video Installation

    The registration form is only available online and the subscriptions will be accepted until Tuesday, 10 September 2013.

    For more, go to 2013za.liveperformersmeeting.net/participate


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