For this exhibition at CCBB Belo Horizonte, FILE Festival has chosen the theme “Electronic art in the disruptive age”. These exhibitions purpose a rupture at the traditional form of art appreciation, here the visitors can experience: new sensations and perceptions; senses the relationship between real and digital movement; interact with the works and immerse themselves into virtual reality.

Lawrence Malstaf
Shrink 01995 
FILE Festival Belo Horizonte 2018

Mental Overdrive is nominated for the Norwegian Grammy aka Spellemann for EPILOGUE  as best electronic music album of 2017, together with great artists such as Lindstrom, +Plattform and SASSY 009. 

Mental Overdrive’s live shows are based on hardware equipment only, and varies from harder, beat-based techno shows to more abstract/ambient gigs, all depending on the nature of the event. At the bigger Mental Overdrive shows, live visuals by Tromsø artist Nicolas Horne are part of the setup.

UPCOMING GIGS
26 January - Cementen, Stavanger - Live set
27 January - Vaktbua, Kristiansand - Live set

Mental Overdrive
Video live in-store at Filter Musikk, Oslo

BOOKINGS
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Mental Overdrive

26 & 27 January 2018 
Ostade A'dam (NL)

6 & 7 February 2018 
NTGent (BE)

On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. On the English side, on the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head, a (transsexual) woman bids life goodbye; in a few instants she will jump to her death. 
The new text by author Gaea Schoeters is mirrored by recently recovered Shakespeare-text. 

Composer Annelies Van Parys uses the Shakespeare-text as a libretto for a cycle of songs, which set the refugee theme in a historical perspective. The soprano is also the intermediary between past and present, audience and play; via other spoken Shakespeare fragments she sets the story in a different perspective, turning the personal stories into a sharp reflection of society, both in the 16th century and today – because the similarities are, alas, striking. 

Text Gaea Schoeters Composition Annelies Van Parys Direction Gable Roelofsen & Romy Roelofsen / Het Geluid Maastricht 
Actors Katelijne Verbeke & Adams Mensah 
Vocalist Naomi Beeldens Lute/guitar Maarten Vandenbemden Scenography Anneleen De Causmaecker Co-produced by Perignem vzw

Muziektheater Transparant
Het Geluid Maastricht
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival

21 January 2018 - 12:00
Galerie Dijkstra, Antwerpen (BE)

28 January 2018 - 15:00
Klaviercentrum Quatre Mains, Gent (BE)

Annelies Van Parys
IZAR DUO

Program
Chavez: Trio \\\'naar Debussy en De Falla\\\'
Jongen: Danse lente
Van Parys: Harp Trio
Bax: Fantasy Sonata
Debussy: Sonate

Annelies Van Parys
Oxalys Ensemble

until 15 April 2018

tele-present water  draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected and updated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 51003. The wave intensity and frequency collected from the buoy is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure, resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant unknown location.

David Bowen
MAK

until 3 February 2018

infrared drawing device by David Bowen uses four infrared sensors to detect people as they move in front of it. The sensors are programmed to move a drawing arm in real time creating a charcoal drawing based on a participants' movements.

David Bowen
Beall Center for Art + Technology

until 4 March 2018

5twigs consists of 5 found twigs that were three dimensionally scanned and then printed in translucent plastic. Each original twig was then mounted in opposition to its artificial counterpart.
24 leaves uses muscle wire to make each leaf subtly bend in unison when the viewer pushes a toggle switch.

David Bowen
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery

The publication 'what the work knows' was produced by the McKnight Foundation in conjunction with a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship which David Bowen received in 2015.

Free download publication