MUTEK San Francisco is coming back presenting NEXUS
MUTEK San Francisco - The Digital and Creativity Festival becomes an Interactive Online Event
May 21, 2020
The local chapter of the Montreal festival MUTEK returns to San Francisco with a debut online "NEXUS Experience”.
The upcoming Bay Area edition (May 23+24) will celebrate international and local experimental electronic music, digital art, and film. Curated by MUTEK San Francisco and local arts, film, and music organizations, “NEXUS Experience” presents a mix of local, national, and international talent, elevating MUTEK.SF’s iconic festival offerings for a global online audience. Tickets are donation-based with 100% of proceeds going directly to the artists.
Hydroplane on Experience at The Midway. Picture by Bruno Destombes
Since launching in Montréal in 2000, the MUTEK festival has become globally renowned as a glorious celebration of digital creativity, mixing together electronic music with a variety of art mediums at different locations. With editions in San Francisco, Mexico City, Barcelona, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and Dubai, each festival integrates local artists and cultural touch-points into its overall vision, encompassing marquee names in electronic and experimental music.
For the past two years, San Francisco's chapter presented a three days festival which took place in different venues across town, from The California Academy of Science, The Herbst Theater, and 906 World Cultural Center to nightclubs such as The Midway, 1015 Folsom, and Gray Area's art space, showcasing local and international artists such as Derrick May, Shed, Lefto, Legowelt, Aurora Halal, Kaytlyn Aurelia Smith and more.
This year due to the current pandemic, the festival is going entirely online as a new digital space, designed and developed by the team behind Currents.FM, a project aimed at building broad grassroots support structures for the music community.
Miroslav Wiesner, Executive Director of MUTEK.SF, states, “When it became clear that our 2020 programming year was going to be delayed or potentially cancelled due to COVID-19, we decided to look into new creative ways to present cutting edge electronic music, art, and culture to the world.” He adds, “we want to present a rich online experience that is interactive and engages our audience through both curated and community-generated content.”
The new safe space allows participants across the globe to experience live performances in meaningful new ways, and support the artists they love via donations. It also fortifies the sense of gathering and group friendship by creating and sharing experiences in private rooms.
Steve Hauschildt on A/Visions 3 at 906 World Cultural Center Picture by Bruno Destombes
Lineup:
AAAA (MX) / Auscultation + Jason Worden (US) / Drew McDowall + Florence To (UK/US + UK/DE) / Eichef (MX/US) / Force Placement (US) / Francesco Tristano presents: Pianorig Sessions (LU/ES) / Infinite Jess (US) / Jasmine Infiniti + Cozy (US) / Jensen Interceptor b2b Kris Baha + Multiple Man (Visuals) (AU/DE + AU/US) / K-HAND (US) / Marpi (US) / Minimal Violence (CA) / Nate Boyce (US) / Patricia + Josephine Ravitz (US) / Pelada (CA) / RP Boo (US) / Selim X (US) / Solar b2b Mozhgan (US) / Synthestruct (US) / The Creatrix (US) / Very Much Romance (US + BG/US) / YobKiss + Pankow Visual Artists (NL/US + RU/US) / AIDA (IR/CA) / Daito Manabe + Satoshi Horii (Rhizomatiks) (JP) / Gabber Modus Operandi + Rimbawan Gerilya (ID/DE) / JS Aurelius (CA) / Matrixxman (US/DE) / Nancy Dru (CA) / Nkisi + Ariel Efraim Ashbel & Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (BE/UK + DE + DK) / Piano Rain (US) / Qoa + Joaquina S. (AR) / QUALIATIK (US) / Suzi Analogue (US)
For more details visit https://nexus.mutek.us/
