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{Editors Note: This is the opening post for our reviews of the New Forms Festival taking place right now and over the next week. Look forward to some amazing reviews and critical writing on this festival over the same. Article credit: NEW FORMS WEBSITE.}

Midforms - March 7th & 8th, 2008

co-presentation by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Midforms is a multi-disciplinary event held annually in Vancouver featuring globally recognized electronic musicians and visual media artists.

Midforms facilitates media arts celebration within the public sphere by providing opportunities to experience ground-breaking audio/visual explorations The nature of the work itself emerges only from a community that is diverse in both culture and artistic expression as it is through this diversity that the work is inspired. Our events feature innovative local talent alongside globally recognized artists. The work created presented through New Forms Media Society strives to be at the forefront in a rapidly shifting environment.

Midforms programming occurs in three different events and installations over two nights; read on below for more details:

NeoGraf – Digital Graffiti
March 7th & 8th, 2008 -

Friday Map

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laser tagging, projection throw-ups, photoshopped murals; the next generation of open-source light-based writing, recoding the city bulb by bulb.

The NeoGraf project will transform the city with nondestructive laser graffiti technologies. Through the use of image and light projection, graffiti artists will ‘paint’and tag buildings in realtime without violating the property. In order to present the diversity and evolution of graffiti, the project will work with different writers and artists from around Vancouver, and invite the collaboration of NomIg and Graffiti Research Lab to propagate this open-source technology.

NeoGraf Artists:
Fri, Mar 7th - Laser Tagging - Rhek & Virus
Sat, Mar 8th - Muralling - Neal Nolan & Adam Dodd

IMAGE CREDIT: HERE.