You are invited to the FLUX Expo opening on Thursday, 13 Nov, at MoTA, featuring more than 30 artists and musicians from Slovenia, the Balkans and Europe who participated in four FLUX workshops: Sound Workshop with Chilean musician and producer Nicolas Jaar at SONICA 2024 festival, Art workshop with Slovenian artist and musician Pixel Bambi (Beti Frim), Music workshop with American electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, and and the FLUX Blockchain Academy workshop.
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Sound installations will be presented in the sound gallery behind the MoTA building, while AV works will be displayed in the MoTA showcase opposite Celovška cesta.
SOUND WORKSHOP WITH NICOLAS JAAR
The workshop with Nicolas Jaar was dedicated to fifteen ambitious creators from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans who already had prior knowledge of sound editing tools. Ableton Live software was used, and the teaching was tailored to the interests and needs of the participants. During the workshop, participants created short original compositions, which are now included in the exhibition.
Dates: April 15–18, 2024
ART WORKSHOP WITH PIXEL BAMBI
During this site-specific VJ foraging workshop, participants explored the surroundings of Rakov Škocjan and collected plants, stones, mushrooms, and other visually intriguing beings. Each participant created their own 3D scan of an object or being they had found by using the software Abound which is a user-friendly program for photogrammetry. These scans were then combined in Resolume software, where they were animated and transformed into visuals for the musical performances that took place in the evening. The workshop bridged the practice of foraging with digital data collection, with participants functioning as a collective network or algorithm that “gathered” elements from the local environment and transformed them into a new visual ecosystem.
Date: June 6, 2025
MUSIC WORKSHOP WITH SUZANNE CIANI
The three-hour music workshop with Suzanne Ciani, one of the most respected electronic music creators of the past 50 years, who visited our region for the first time as part of her European tour, was dedicated to aspiring electronic music creators. Ciani introduced her iconic Buchla synthesizer manual from 1976, which addresses key questions of analog sound synthesis. Participants explored the free open-source modular synthesizer software VCV Rack and some created original compositions using it, which are now included in the exhibition.
Date: October 19, 2025
FLUX BLOCKCHAIN ACADEMY WORKSHOP
The FLUX exhibition will also feature works by selected graduates of the FLUX Blockchain Academy. Their works will be displayed on a large screen – a suitable medium for these new digital works.
Date October 14–18, 2024.
Participating Artists and Musicians:
Muzikačaka (Sara Korošec) tonota (Ivona Eterović) puka (Urška Paradiž) Nedim Osmanagić Pimpon (Szymon Gąsiorek) Shy Twombly (Reini Kuhne) Nikur (Marin Babić) Duga Bavoljak Momo Segada (Marcin Dominiak) Paloma Pertot mala roza muca (Vid Topolovec) Takav (Filip Talijić) Joondroid (Abiral Khadka) BORȘ (Madalina Ciocanu) Jovana Bulatović Nastja Ambrožič Jure Grahek Tadej Kern Gaja Pegan Nahtigal Daniel Leber Kristina Antolić Petra Brnardić Anna Bulkina Crystal Clean Nataša Gregorič Nabhas Maja Kos Monika Kukučević Sara Lerota JelenaMartinović Nat Stella Skopal
The workshops and exhibition are part of the international program FLUX – Women in Digital Creativity, co-financed by the European Union.
