Kaleidoscope Manifesto Festival
Performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, Amnesia Scanner is created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala in 2014. This electronic music duo Berlin-based is currently signed to PAN. Its debut EP, "Physical AS", was released as a vinyl exclusive in 2016. The musicians have also collaborated with Holly Herndon and Mykki Blanco.
Building on their mixtape "AS Live [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]" (2014), the critically acclaimed audio play "Angels Rig Hook" (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young Turks, "AS" and "AS Truth" (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools.
Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. They collaborate with PWR Studio for their design and visual direction. The AS live experience is co-created with Stockholm-based Canadian designer Vincent De Belleval.
In parallel Haimala works as a composer and producer with a wide range of musical and visual artists and Kalliala co-directs the think tank Nemesis.
Born in Rockford (Illinois) in 1980, Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, engineer, creative director and fashion designer.
After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here that he learned not only about design principles but also crafted the principles of his art practice. He studied a curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe, on a campus he designed. Currently, he is the Chief Creative Director, founder of Off-White™and the Artistic Director of Menswear at Louis Vuitton.
Red Lebanese is a publishing house and a music label created in 2012 under the artistic direction of Pablo Jomaron and Quentin Leroy.
The members of this independent organisation based in Paris act as authors, publishers and independent distributors to promote the work of photographers by producing and distributing limited editions. The music label, also known as "Studio X8", develops and produces artists like Mad Rey, Pira Pora, Adriano bico, Joey Le Soldat...
For nearly a decade, DIS collective has continuously embraced, engaged and reinvented important new platforms for the production, dissemination and discussion of contemporary art. Through it’s own unique platforms and curatorial projects like the 9th Berlin Biennale, DIS enhances and amplifies the possibilities and capabilities of art and its role in the artistic, commercial, educational, and public spheres - folding all into one.
In 2018 the collective transitioned platforms from an online magazine, dismagazine.com, to a video streaming edutainment platform, dis.art, narrowing in on the future of education and entertainment. DIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, philosophy and technology, with the aim to inspire, inform and mobilize a generation around the urgent issues facing us today and tomorrow.
DIS has also exhibited and organized shows at the Young Museum (San Francisco), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), Baltimore Museum of Art and Project Native Informant (London). DIS has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum (New York), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ICA Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others.
Cali Dewitt is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively with recent exhibitions including Safe Words at Karma International in Los Angeles, Global Warning at Muddguts in New York, Going To California at Stems in Brussells and War Song at V1 in Copenhagen.
In addition to his fine art practice he collaborates on clothing and publishing with the likes of Varg, Kanye West, Neighborhood, Readymade and the brand Someware with Brendan Fowler. Recent books and publications include War Song (2019), Let Me Crash Here For A Moment (2018), Violent Music (2018), Manhattan (2017) and Over The Volcano (2016).