PIPS:lab CV shows

Hyves, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn – it’s almost a full-time job keeping up with all these online communities, updating your profile, sending messages and uploading your latest best photos. And now tech-theatre group PiPS:lab wants us to join another one: DieSpace. There is one prerequisite though: you have to be dead to join. Because of the fast ‘greyification’ of our society, the number of people dying will be increasing rapidly. And dead people don’t have a place to socialize yet… PiPS:lab jumped at this great business opportunity and created DieSpace: “the first active internet community for the diseased”. Each visitor of their show will get a free DieSpace light account to start out with. So from now on, there’s only one thing to fear after death: whether or not you’ll make enough friends on DieSpace. / Annelies Termeer

"Oerol festival" (Terschelling) 21 til' 29/06/07
"Festival De Parade" (Utrecht) 15 til' 19/07/'07
"Festival De Parade" (Amsterdam) 02/07 til' 11/08/'07
Frascati (Amsterdam) 23/09 til' 29/09/'07

2 performances for Kempelen exhibition in Mucarnok.
We tested a theatrical and a club version, granjam stle.

Prelude to the Diespace show.

'Kempelen' (Mucsarnok, Budapest) 16/05/'07
Merlin, (Budapest) 17/05/'07

Openings act for Kunstbende (Art-mess) with the theme ‘Extreme’. By using the 'Toverstok' and light, titles and animations are drawn accompanied by foley, Tuva, Gregorian an Afghan singing. Finally the images are rocked on the Beeldbanjo, on some heavy metal music.

Performed at:
'Kunstbende 2006' (Vredenburg, Utrecht) 03/06/'06

PIPS:lab works with young theater actors/dansers from a youth theatre school in Amsterdam/ bijlmer. They have one week to create a theatre performance with the looptool. The young actors are confronted with the unorthodox theatre style of PIPS:lab
During a cheerfull begining the group records live videoloops, the recordingsession is followed by a though interrogation of a personal nature. In the end we see the remixed loops en they show the group is responsible for the killing of an audiance member.

Performed at:
Breaking Walls Festival (Frascati theatre, Amsterdam) 15 t/m 18/11/'05

The world according to a rabbits cage.
A child film for the ‘Big art for little people’ series for Cut&paste.
Two girls play inside a big empty space. One makes ‘lighttrees’ of the silhouets of the other, using the Lumalive technique. In the end the whole space is full of ‘lighttrees’.
PIPS:lab developed a special camera technique to combine the Lumalive stream with regular video.

Played at:
"Cinekid" (premiere) (City cinema, Amsterdam) 23/10/'05
'Grote Kunst voor kleine mensen' (museum De Paviljoens, Almere) 23/10/'05
"SMCS in 11" (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) 03/11/'05
"KRO's Kindertijd" (KRO, television) 05/01/'06
"Mo und Friese kurzfilmfestival" (Hamburg, Germany) 28/05/'06 - 04/06/'06

Geriatrically unacceptable elderly people with walkers and rollators getting paid threehundred euro's per grandma to disturb your party!

Performed at:
"Lowlands" (Lowlands, Biddinghuizen) 19 t/m 21/08/'05

In the aftermath of all extreme sports, PIPS:lab now comes with a brand new way to stay in shape! Extreme Low Climbing! In this new extreme form of mountaineering without mountains two heroïc climbers will try to overcome heights up to no more than two meters. These two daredevils use all the tools known and respected in the world of climbing to get the job done. Their clothes however are of a less professional matter.

Wortal Combat 3 is a new remix of WC2. It became shorter to fit the festival needs. The music became live, and we featured 72 new protagonists: Lara Croft, choosen from the audience.

PIPS:lab won 'de Gouden Mus' with this show at 'de Parade'

Performed at:
"Festival De Parade" (The Hague) 04 til' 08/07/'05
"Festival De Parade" (Utrecht)15 til' 19/07/'05
"Festival De Parade" (Amsterdam) 29/07 til' 05/08/'05
"Texelse Boys" (Lowlands, Biddinghuizen) 21/08/'05
"De Parade in Bellevue" (Bellevue Theater, Amsterdam) 01 til' 03/09/'05
"Jonge Harten Festival" (De Puddingfabriek, Groningen) 01/12/'05
"Studium Generale" (GasLab, Eindhoven) 08/12/'05
"Mooi Weer Spelen" (Lijm&Cultuur, Delft) 07 til' 09/06/'06

PIPS:lab's first big multimediatheatreconcert. This time emphasis is put on live music. Detergent is used as a theme to build songs, absurd scenes and live visuals around.
The concert loosely flirts with subjects as democracy, capitalism, commercials and war.
Images that are recorded on stage, are live poweredited to give it new meaning or it is enabled to be played musically by the musicians.
PIPS:lab challenged itself to make their live video techniques as live and free as for example an instrument is for a musician.
The concert has been tested on crowds since the beginning of it’s creation.


Performed at:
... (icw. Sphere en Tigrics) (Millenaris, Budapest, Hungary) 23/10/'04
Maison Folie Moulins (Maison Folie Moulins, Lille, France) 12/02/'05
"Pickup Club" (Paradiso, Amsterdam) 27/02/'05
Plantage Dok (Plantage Dok, Amsterdam) 10/03/'05
Club11 (Club11, Amsterdam) 24/03/'05
"Festival AudioVisiva" (Milan, Italie) 01/10/'05
"PMP bezet Bitterzoet" (Club Bitterzoet, Amsterdam) 12 t/m 15/10/'05
"Amsterdam Dance Event" (Paradiso, Amsterdam) 29/10/'05
"Rockarty" (Concordia, Enschede) 03/11/'05
"De Kunstlijn" (Patronaat, Haarlem) 04/11/'05
"Jonge Harten Festival" (De Puddingfabriek, Groningen) 02/12/'05
"State-X festival" (Paard van Troje, Den Haag) 16/12/'05
"Confuse.exe" (Electron, Breda) 11/03/'06
"Playgrounds AudioVisual Arts Festival" (De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg) 16/03/'06
"STRP Festival" (Klokgebouw Strijp-S, Eindhoven) 25/03/'06
".." (Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam) 21/04/'06
"Festival aan de Werf" (Neude, Utrecht) 24/05/'06
"Festival De Parade" (Rotterdam) 15 t/m 19/07/'07
"Festival De Parade" (Den Haag) 02/07 t/m 11/08/'07
"Festival De Parade" (Utrecht) 15 t/m 19/07/'07
"Festival De Parade" (Amsterdam) 02/07 t/m 11/08/'07
"the best tof PIPS:lab" (Paradiso, Amsterdam) 11/05/'07
"Rive Creative" (Cividale, Italy) 6/09/'07

Lumalive Deluxe! Multiple camera's are used this time. The result is a realtime multi-angle representation The lightpaintings become 3D sculptures.


Performed at:
Museumnacht 2004 (Club11, Amsterdam) 06/11/'04
'Heapsteaps' (a church, Leeuwarden) 07/05/'05
'PIPS:lab’s Jam Nights' (Plantage Dok, Amsterdam)

Pips:LAB's first attempt to proof the Washing Powder Conspiracy.


In a collaboration with Hungarian artists Szilvi Toth and Gazsi Benedek from Sfeer and the Hungarian composer Tigrics, PIPS:lab did their first experiments with what later would become ‘The Washingpowder Conspiracy’.


Performed at:
Millenaris (Budapest, Hungary) 26/10/'04

Special Lumalive performance at Lowlands, at the sets of Ricardo Villalobos & Melon. David Moir risked his live in a 220V lightsuit. In collaboration with MarkyVan, and a special performance by Kelly from the audience.

LumaLive act on the MassiveMusicCondor 'Enlighten Cannes' party. Dynamic presentation of the lightpaitings/ sculptures, made live on stage with PIPS:lab's lumalive software. Collaboration with the painter/dancer David Moir

Performed at:
'Enlighten Cannes' (Cannes, France) 23/06/'04

Every tool ever invented by PIPS:lab mixed together in one performance. An interactive theatrical piece performed in Het Veem theatre in Amsterdam. In which PIPS:lab uses the scoretrack technology to build computer games to be played by the audience. They were separated into two groups and had to fight each other to win the hand o f Miss Lara Croft for their hero (Pacman and Duke Nukem) Ingredients: One sick game showmaster, a team of Russian game designers and a distorted story line.


Quicktime Trailer



Performed at:

HetVeem theater, Amsterdam 16/06/'04 - 20/06/'04

Release of the CD "Kilio Cha Haki" ("cry for justice"). Producers couple DJ Styles and Kid Kamau from PIPS:lab and organiser Nynke Nauta took beats and music from Amsterdam (from Rednose Distrikt: Aardvarck, Steven de peven, DJ Overlast and more) to Kenya, where they worked with talented rappers from the poorest slums of Nairobi. Many of the tracks from the CD reached the African hitcharts, including number one! One of the tracks ("All over the World") won the prestigious annual "Kisima Music Award".
Also featuring: Rha Goddess


Where:
CD release party (Club Bitterzoet, Amsterdam) 13/06/'04
CD presentation (Club Panama, Amsterdam) 17/06/'05
CD presentation (Fame Music Store, Amsterdam) 19/06/'05
Festival Mundial (icw. New Cool Collective) (Tilburg) 20/06/'04
and more..

Adapted version of the Kunstbende show. The Kunstbende show was tailored for one purpose: Kunstbende. Kunstgebit (Babelfish translation: 'art teethings') can be used for all forms of Art!


Performed at:
"Springfestival" (De Oude Ulo, Leek) 19/03/'04
"Battle of the Arts" (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam) 27/03/'04

First fase of the Wortal Combat project.

Performed at:
Cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht
HetVeem theater, AMsterdam

Openings act for Kunstbende (Art-mess) with the theme ‘Future’ The seven categories of this youth competition for best performer, painter etc are being portrayed in a humoristic and dynamic manner using the scoretrack technology. The live-recorded materiel is immediately processed into an interactive videoclip in which the seven categories battle with eachother.

shockwave representation

Night of interactive cinema.
A five hour open rehearsal with actors, dancers, rappers and interactive tools.

Performed at:
the "250 Kuub" nights (Frascati, Amsterdam) ../../..

The Rockwell show is translated from a clubexperience to a full theatre-show. The characters (Da Witt and Dude Ernie 2) now have Oscar-winning features.
Boxum
It is in short a combination of theatre, music and an interactive live-recorded videogame (that has been edited but not yet recorded).
The show is build up out of two parts separated by a short musical intermission.
The show starts with a theatrical slapstick live-recording session. The two actors create the material for the videogame, and the photographer creates the lumasol lightgraffities. This is live recorded using the scoretracktechnology to synchronise their movement to the edit-points in the computer. The filmmaterial is then edited in real time. After this short musical intermission the videogame with the two boxers as game-characters is ready to be played. It is an interactive fight in which the audience participates. By beating two boxing training-pads the two boxing figures are controlled, similar to a video game. A blow on a pad is a blow from one of the characters. The hits are counted and after three rounds there will be a winner.

Performed at:
"Boksen in Provadja" (Provadja theatre, Alkmaar) 11/09/'02

Three hooligans in a container misbehave resulting in an orgasmic coming-together with lots of nudity, Ajax-sjawls and artificial lighting. All material goes into the computer, gets looped and manipulated, and is then beamed on three screens outside the container.

Performed at:
"Format 3000" (Noorderzon Festival, Groningen) 22/08/'02

The Olympips of 2,5 mtr. dash, springboard diving in a little plastic childrensbath and ofcourse the 3000 meter chainsmoking.
because there was no refferie present, questions remain about who really won the contest.


Performed at:
"Appelsap" (Oosterpark, Amsterdam) 21/07/'02
Lowlands 2005 (Biddinghuizen) 19/08/'05
Streettheater (Dam, Amsterdam) summer '05

Performance in which image and sound samples are recorded live, using our Scoretrack Technology, and then processed and manipulated into a visual piece of music.
When the visual piece is shown it is accompanied by the drummer/bike repair man playing his bike which is equipped with sensors.
The story of the piece: how to repair a flat tyre.
In short: a "live video clip".

Performed at:
"Djazzadelic" (MA220, Amsterdam) 30/06/'02
"Appelsap" (Panama, Amsterdam) 03/09/'02
"Casa Liberia is Dead" (Casa Liberia, Amsterdam) 03/12/'02
"avecom REAL" (De Gele Rijder, Arnhem) 05/12/'02

Is in short a film that has been edited but not yet recorded.
An interactive fight in which the audience participates. By beating two boxing training-pads two boxing figures are controlled, similar to a video game. A blow on a pad is a blow from one of the figures..
After many rounds the audience can decide who will win the match.
Rocky 9 spinoff.

Performed at:
Rockwell release party (MA220, Amsterdam) ../../..
Backjumps release party (Kurvenstar, Berlin) ../../..
Right About Now (Melkweg, Amstersterdam) 16/05/2002

Light animations with well-known graffiti-artists. In the form of an animation or with PIPS (matrix) effects..
With Kraze, Rhyme, Oase and Paquet among others. Connected to our music and made on the spot.
Theme differs per set and collaborating graffiti-artists.

Performed at:
"Djazzadelic" (MA220, Amsterdam) ../../..
end of year party from "De Ruimte" (De Ruimte, Amsterdam) 31/12/'01

Sleeping contest during the late hours of a party.
Two actors join in a sleeping contest: who can sleep the longest despite the loud music. The audience is encouraged to wake them up. At the same time this is filmed, manipulated and projected.

Performed at :
"Djazzadelic" (MA220, Amsterdam) 23/12/'01

Preparatory study of the big BumTV VideoRockOpera-project, an interactive film that has been edited but not yet recorded.
Combination of all PIPS:lab tools in one big music, theatre and film project.

Performed at:
"Robodock" (ADM terrain, Amsterdam) 22/09/'01

Collaboration with Novophonic (Spain). Creating cartoon scenes which dance on the beat of the music played by Novophonic, live.

Performed at:
"..." (Panama, Amsterdam) ../../..

A living, virtually moving painting in which heads from the visiting guests are placed.

Performed at:
"Jambi" party (MA220, Amsterdam) 27/03/'01

Actor dressed up as a yuppy is dancing horribly off the beat. The crowd is obviously right on the beat.
The yup is being filmed. While dancing he clicks a small sensor indicating how his movements are related to time.
The computer then puts these points to a beat. The resulting movie is a yup dancing on the beat while the audience is not.

Performed at:
"Jambi" party (MA220, Amsterdam) 27/03/'01

Interactive homo-erotic soft porno spinoff from the theatre show "Alfa Blue" (theatre group "Alfa Blue"). The oldest loop in the history of man and animal looped in different positions and synced to the music. Also called "lazy mime": a minimal movement is being filmed live and then repeated. The actors are mainly sitting on a couch laughing about their own jokes letting the computer do the work.

Performed at:
"Impulz" (Brabanthallen, Brabant) ../../..
"250 Kuub" (Frascati, Amsterdam) 16&17/03/'01

New concept for internet reality-tv. Suitable bums are equipped with a hidden camera, without them knowing it. The image is being sent through an UMTS network to the site www.bum-tv.com. This site offers raw, honest reality tv about bums, 24/7.
With: Mocky (Mockyrecordings).

Concept presentation in:
Baby's "Mediamatic Salon" (Baby, Amsterdam) 11/02/'01

Three writers with laptops are sitting in comfortable mobile chairs. They are pushed by a team of PIPS:lab members thru a building in which literary debates are being held. Going in and out of different halls they are each writing a story being inspired by what's going on around them. Downstairs a projection shows a map and the slug-like trails of the three chairs. The trails on the screen are made of the words the writers are typing at that moment, making sentences, making their stories.

Performed at:
"Happy Chaos" symposium (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam) 09/12/'00

Theatre and video project. Five members of the board are in a meeting about what to organise for Kriterions twenty-fifth anniversary.
With guest stars prince Bernhard and princess Juliana.

Played at:
25th year anniversary party of "Kriterion" (Kriterion movie theatre, Amsterdam) 28/10/'00

Cooperation project with Zuco 103.
VJ show for a Zuco 103 concert, in which vegetables and fruits are cut into a backing-vocal choir live on stage.
The fruits lipsync to the voice of singer Lilian Viera through the soap-o-matic tool.

Performed at:
"Artrock" (St. Brieux, France) 11/06/'00

Project in cooperation with Hubert-Jan Hubeek And Kasper Kalf ("Monsieur Dubois") and theatre group "Alfa Blue".
Theater/video/musical project.
Complete show about some vegetables who flee the kitchen of two killer cooks, and eventually reach vegetable heaven.

Exclusive performance at:
PIPS:lab's one year anniversary (MA22O, Amsterdam) 07/05/'00

Realtime hidden camera mixed with prerecorded film.
A bum with hidden camera is hanging around a cafe making practical jokes with the guests. In the cafe this is being projected and mixed with prerecorded scenes that couldn't possibly be live.

Performed at:
"..." (Vaaghuyzen", Amsterdam) ../../..

A visualisation of a writer's creative thinking process which takes place when he is writing text, using video and theatre.
On stage we see a writer who is being served by a drunken waiter. The waiter is the main subject in the writer's text, and therefore also in the video. The writer's every word appears on screen, as soon as he types it, and every change in the text immediately causes a change in the image.
Slowly a sentence is being built: Elvis and me sit in the back of an all-night gay porncinema…

Opgevoerd op:
festival "De Nachten" (Antwerpen, Belgie) 29/01/'00
Djazzadelic (MA220, Amsterdam) ../../..

An interactive movie, controlled by djembe-players, about a businessman and an environmentalist.
Because of the collapse of a communicationssystem the two figures meet face to face.

Performed at:
"Ingeblikt" (O.L.V.G. squatbuilding, Amsterdam) 24/07/'99
"Uitmarkt" (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) 28/08/'99
festival "De Nachten" (Antwerp, Belgium)29/01/'00
"Djazzadelic" (MA22O, Amsterdam) 04/06/'00 (?)

The PIPS:lab foundation was founded in 1999.