Meeting+Workshop with Vincent Rioux

The Academy of Fine Arts in Venice will host a 3-days workshop with Vincent Rioux from the Beaux-Arts de Paris entitled SOUND SPACE AND CODE "sculpter l'alétoire". The meeting is organized by Prof. Davide Anni of the Digital Applications for Art course in the School of New Technologies for Art with the collaboration of all colleagues.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia 
sede di Santa Marta 

The Workshop is oriented around the idea of interactions of sequences of random events mostly materialized by spatialized sounds - any sounds, not only sounds produced or recorded by means of electronic devices but also "natural" voices, noises, instruments... The workshop does not require any particular skills, but curiosities targeted toward sonic explorations are very welcome.

Program:

Monday, May 5
1:30 p.m.
Presentation by Vincent Rioux, work and teaching method, Free admission

Tuesday, May 6
from 9:30 a.m.
Workshop with a maximum of 20 participants

Morning: to get around imposed algorithms let's invent our own recipes! experiments with random combinations of events
Afternoon: why not use computers? Live-Coding - Supercollider & co

Wednesday, May 7
from 9:30 a.m. §
Workshop with a maximum of 20 participants

Morning: let's play #1
Afternoon: let's play #2

Vincent Rioux is currently the Head of the DigitalMedia department at Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he mostly teaches sound-based practices. He is also quite involved in low-budget multi-displays video installations and "VJing".

Vincent Rioux studied musical acoustics in France and Sweden. He conducted research on musical timbre and textual annotation of audiovisual recordings at IRCAM. Seeing in computers and informatics an interesting material to produce spatio-temporal improvisations, he practices live-coding whenever possible. He is interested in issues of media theory and in particular materiality and ecological thinking in information societies. He develops a working technique, and a pedagogy focused on so-called “libre” programming environments and languages (Linux, Libcinder, Arduino, Common-Lisp, c/c++, Supercollider, Julia). 
He has spoken at Fresnoy, IRCAM, ENSCI, ENS, Parsons School Paris, Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf, EDEHA Sierre Suisse, ESADSE St-Etienne . He is a member of the MILSON collective (for an anthropology of sound environments) and regularly cooperates with anthropologists from the MSH (Maison des Sciences de L'homme) Worlds at Nanterre University.