Violence Expanded (a/V Live Set)
Violence Expanded is an audiovisual live performance blending concert, game aesthetics, and digital ritual. The tracks from artist Babak Ahteshamipour’s project Violent Violins Exposed (exhibited at Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund as part of NEXT LEVEL) merge with new compositions of ambient, glitch, noise, and metal to create an energetic sound body, whose visual counterpart explodes in hyper-processed, shimmering images.
Duration: ~30 min
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, musician, graphic designer, author/researcher, creative director, and curator working in Vienna (AT) and Athens (GR). His work moves between disciplines such as 3D, graphic design, and music, which meet in a common language and explore themes from cyberspace to ecology and from politics to identity through gaming and internet culture. His works have been presented at festivals, venues, and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and Onassis ONX, and featured in magazines and platforms such as Bandcamp Daily and the CTM Festival magazine. He has released music on independent labels such as Industrial Coast and Jollies and shared the stage with musician s like Zoviet France and HELM. In addition, he has collaborated with musician s like Fire-Toolz and Digifae.