Gina Valenti (Fine Arts graduate) is a multimedia artist, musician, creator and director of the 404 Festival, along with Mariano Guzmán - co-director, who's also a writer and Psychoanalyst.
Andrés C4 is in charge of the live visual performances and technical support of the Festival and Gustavo Bourguignon (librarian) develops theory, handles the database area and production assistance.

During the 404 presentations they'll show their own music and visuals along with productions of previously 404 selected artists from all over the world. These presentations intend to open up debates about the current state (state of the art in) of "Electronic Art".

EINSTEIN'S BRAIN PROJECT: ALAN DUNNING AND PAUL WOODROW (CANADA)

The Einstein's Brain Project is a collaborative group of artists and scientists who have been working together for the past six years. A central aim of the group is the visualization of the biological state of the body through the fabrication of environments, simulations and installations. The Project has developed numerous installations using analogue to digital interfaces to direct the output of the human body to virtual environments that are constantly being altered through feedback from a participant's biological body.
The project's work has been shown around the world and is featured in Mark Hansen's "New Philosophy for New Media" (MIT, 2004), Katherine Hayles' "Flesh and Metal" in "Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body" (University of Washington, 2002), and in the upcoming State of the Real, (I.B. Tauris, 2006) and Anna Munster's 'Materializing New Media', (University Press of New England, 2006). Members are represented in many collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery London.

WORK'S TITLE: "Sounds of Silence"

WORK'S DESCRIPTION:
Electronic Voice Phenomenon is the recording of errant noises or voices that have no explainable or physical source of origin. These recordings are made when the recorder is alone, or under controlled circumstances.
It has been argued that the voices are simply subjective interpretations that we tend to hear voices in random patterns of sound, in the way we recognize forms in random visual patterns. For others, the voices are genuinely mysterious, believing they open up the possibility of communication with the dead. This installation uses the ideas inherent in EVP to examine ways in which we construct the world through apophenia (the seeing of connections where there are none) and the gestalt effect (the recognition of pattern and form).
Using techniques of EVP the installation sets up an environment in which participants can listen to noises generated from apparently silent spaces.
In this installation internal noise from a CCD in a light tight box is mapped to audio.
Software looks for similarity between spectrograms of the noise and a large set of spectrograms of spoken words. When two are congruent enough the results are spoken by the computer and projected into the space.
Software pans across and zooms and changes the blur, brightness and contrast of the camera noise, as it looks for hidden images.

The context of the installation, its location, architecture and history, ultimately establishes the narrative

MONIKA DUTTA (UK)

Monika Dutta was born in South London in 1967 to a German mother and Indian father. Following a degree in sculpture at Winchester School of Art, she graduated from a postgraduate diploma in lens based media at the Slade School in 1993 and has since worked as an independent artist and filmmaker. More recently she has adopted digital media and produced animated material for screen and projection as well as interactive projects for CD-rom and web delivery.

In 1998 Monika moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to work as Digital Artist in residence for North Tyneside Arts. There she became involved with VANE, the northeast's annual artist led initiative and began to devise and implement community projects involving disadvantaged and detached youth, including the Creating Spaces project for the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, using the Baltic Flour Mills building, now the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

In 2000 she moved further north to Aberdeen to work with Peacock Visual Arts, as Digital Co-ordinator, building and overseeing a video production unit and a small suite of computers and related tools for open access use by artists and community members.

Monika now lives in UK with her daughter. She continues to contribute her skills and beliefs to the devising and implementation of community projects, having recently

WORK'S TITLE: swallow

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: an organic live video animation performance dedicated to the artist's late partner and creative collaborator Mark Lawton (a.k.a Fog) 1963 - 2006. Visual elements will develop and transform in response to one of fog's enduring sonic scapes.

ONIRICAM: MANUEL POSADAS CECCHINATO, LUCA RIVELLI, PAOLO TOTH, LEO KOPACHIN (ITALY)

WORK'S TITLE: "L.E.E.D.D." and/or "ONIRICAM (FOR GUY DEBORD)"

WORK'S DESCRIPTION:"Oniricam (for Guy Debord)" is an audio/video live electronics performance in which sonic emissions by custom-made analog audio synthesizers modulate a video stream in real-time. On three screen we see a strem of images depicting the ghosts of the only form of reality we happen to know these days, the reality of spectacle.
The Paul Klee's Archangel drawing, engraved on copper, is the touch-plate controller of an analog sound synthesizer which generates sound, maybe the voice of the angel, a voice that modulates the images in our dreams (on the screens), maybe allowing us to look outside of the room. We could try to listen to this voice.

AEROSTATIC (USA)

Terry Golob and Michele Darling formed Aerostatic in 2004. Based in Brooklyn NY, Aerostatic utilize artefacts of sound generated by analogue and digital processing to compose soundscapes and music for video, film, installations and interactive performances. The work of Aerostatic has been performed at venues in NYC, Los Angeles, Indiana, Argentina, London, and Australia.

In June 2007 Aerostatic will have a Digital EP released on Native State Records entitled: "_code"

WORK'S TITLE: _code

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: Utilizing a variety of interactive sensors and custom software, Aerostatic will collaborate with a visual artist (TBA) to create an immersive environment of audio/visual mutations.

SADMB: SADAM FUJIOKA & OSAMU SAMBUICHI (JAPAN)

Sadam Fujioka is a media artist and was born in 1979. Graduate faculty of engineering and work for a Ph.D. of art and technology.
Belongs to Advanced Digital Content Design Unit that is Ministry of Science and Technology promotes.
Build up his own performance system and sound installations with a minimal designed audio/visual.

Osamu Sambuichi was born in 1980. Has a master's degree of art and technology. The title of master thesis is "Design of Performance Software Controlling Sound and Images".
Beside he works as a software engineer, he builds up performance softwares using computer.

WORK'S TITLE: CODE

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: "Code" is a real-time, audio/visual performance system based on keyboard typing. You can "code" music and images like you write a program. Every image that is generated by typing keyword has a musical meaning and you can control it by typing instructions. It built up with very simple audio/visual elements. But with your cool "coding" technique, your performance will be exciting.

SYNCHDUB (BELGIUM)

SynchDub is a graphic designer, digital, visual artist and a electronic musician. Did many Digital Arts exhibitions, design for Theatre Performance and Gallery presentations.
Approximately five years ago she became interested in music and started with Percussion, about 4 years. After this she started developing electronic music with laptop and different computer software. First it was more experimental noise and after this she made a first CD with Art-sounds and Beat-sounds. About a half year ago she was working on a second CD called "Drone".
For the moment she's working on a project with music and visuals, some new performances and a audio-visual installation.

WORK'S TITLE: Drone - mix

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: Live performance with laptop & mixer

GERHARD DAURER (AUSTRIA)

Gerhard Daurer (1983) recently finished his studies of MultimediaArt in Salzburg, Austria and currently lives in Vienna. He has been working on numerous projects in sound-design, animation and video-production. Moreover as an assistant for media-artist Ulf Langheinrich and at Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz. In an exchange semester at the Sonic Arts Programme of Middlesex University, London studies in the field of interactive composition techniques were deepened. His current focus is the development of audiovisual performance instruments.

WORK'S TITLE: add.value

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: add.value is a performance instrument that allows the creation of dynamic imagery and sound in realtime. The sonification and visualisation are triggered by a physical model that is manipulated by the performer. Consequently every single change in the visual domain is also reflected in the aural domain, and vice versa. the visualisation is no simple illustration of the sounds - the visual and the aural are entwined from the outset as they originate from the same source.
t he aim is to present a system that generates audiovisual output that appears somehow 'alive' in its very own abstract world.

CLAN-BALACHE (ARGENTINA)

Germán Gómez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; complements his career in technology information and software design with studies in music, interactive media, visual digital art, literature, poetry and sonorous therapies; working as assistant of other musicians, artist, and music therapists. From 2000, doing personal investigations in audio software, computer compositions, mixing digital and analogue setups in different environments.

WORK'S TITLE: CLAN-BALACHE

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: an electronic music project using the computer as tool to find a balance between experimental and popular music, attempt to arrive at new sounds, integrating different styles like hip hop, contemporary, tango, noise, serialism, folk andino, ethnic; using many techniques, mainly sampling and looping, mixing samples, instruments and self recordings; different atmosphere design of sonorous situations.

GUILLERMO GIAMPIETRO (ITALY)

Guillermo Giampietro was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 27th 1962.
In 1979 he funds the experimental art group Cucaño. With this group he performs in several locations in Rosario, and he developed a wide variety of work, including theatrical performances, installations, videos and literary publications.
In 1989 he moves to Trieste, Italy where he becomes the director of the "laboratorio p of art" that takes place in the process of transforming the psychiatric hospital of Trieste.
In June 2000 he directs the experimental radio program "Escuchame" (listen to me)

WORK'S TITLE: TIP TAP

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: Tip Tap is a video performance project about the idea of discontinuity, of non congruency, of non contact between certain ways of communication regarding language enunciation and the movement phenomenon of what's real.
This enunciations in the common language, the technical language or the computer language intend to create a formal unity that is able to determine on it's synthesis the illusion of travelling through time.
Vacuum, rhythmic, repetitive and punctual concepts reveal the attraction of the outside and the impossibility of hanging on to it.

MIHA CIGLAR (SLOVENIA)

Miha Ciglar is a composer and sound artist currently studying at the University of
Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria. Originally from Maribor, Slovenia, Ciglar
now lives and works in Western Europe. Since 2001 he has performed his own
compositions for saxophone, guitar, vibraphone, double bass, electro-acoustical
performances, interactive dance performances, computer music and audiovisual
installations at many art festivals all around the world.
His work has strong conceptual fundaments and points away from
expressive values of common aesthetic ideals. A subject of high concern and
priority is the problem of absolute awareness of sonic perception which is directly
connected with the question of existential legitimacy of sound art. Ciglar's
compositional approach and attitude towards technological solutions are very
similar and rooted in a revaluation of existent "material", resulting in its preliminary
decomposition, in order to absorb its originally suggestive character for an
employment in the further process of creation.

WORK'S TITLE: I.B.R. Variation IV

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: I.B.R. Variation IV is a composition for computer, monitor, mixing board and human body.
It is an improvised, thus a nondeterministic composition, where only the
hardware setup and the signal paths are predetermined. The basic idea is to break
the virtual linearity and predictability of the musical tension-resolution interplay,
and to introduce additional factors (visual and tangible) upon which the temporal
organization of compositional elements could be based on.
Since the performer is electrically connected to the instrument, he becomes
a crucial part of the electronic circuit and therefore all of his actions reflect
themselves in unique sound events. The induced sound respectively its electronic
abstraction is in direct contact with the performers body and is providing a tangible
feedback. This enables a different corporal perception and interpretation of the
caused sound, since now the performer does not only have the audible but also a
haptic reference for the choice of his following actions. The dynamic gradations are
directly connected with a physical sensation, i.e., pain caused by the electric
current, creating a natural balance of tension and resolution throughout the piece.

VLADIMIR MANOVSKI & ALEKSANDAR SECEROV (SERBIA)

Manovski and Secerov are experimental music duo from Serbia.
One paranoid and another very secret person together they work for several years
now, without trying to kill each other.
Secerov's glitched out beats and Manovski's fresh out of the grandma's oven loops
combined form a best Balkan Glitch Hop experience.

WORK'S TITLE: Balkan Glitch

WORK'S DESCRIPTION: Two Men with two lap tops and heads full of cunning plans, and master designs, ready to press the button at any given moment. Sick of all this new dividing among Musicians and forcing Etno music as part of "interesting" scene, we bring you Balkan glitch. People want Etno… here is the bloody, ground shaking, booty moving, hard core Etno glitch from Balkan.

GINA VALENTI (ARGENTINA)

Gina Valenti was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. She lives in Rosario.
University graduate in Fine Arts, creator and director of the "International Festival of Electronic Art 404" in Rosario. Since 2001 she caries on, along with Mariano Guzmán, the project "Astas Romas". "Astas Romas" is a collection that proposes and spreads current artistic languages. As director of "Astas Romas" she accomplished the creation of a new web space. Under her command, artists from al over the world merge, resulting in a unique web-based collection.
In December 204, after a long research work and web-based call, the "404 Festival" was born. This festival has summoned artists from over 46 countries and it's positioned as one of the most important Electronic Art Festivals in the world.

Gina has been working for over a decade moving from one branch of actual art to another, such as: Multimedia Artist, Pianist, Contemporary and Electronic Music Composer, Producer and Director of projects, Leading both "404 Festival" and "Astas Romas"

As a composer she has edited the following CD's: "Después de todos los cristos" (1999) - contemporary piano compositions, "20 de Diciembre" (2002) -piano and electronic music "Alta Costura" (new edition 2004) - electronic experimental music. Besides this works, she also participated in some compilations next to important artists

Her works (graphic exhibitions, lectures and live music recitals) have been presented in the II II Muestra de Arte Electrónico Villa de Móstoles (M. A. E. M.) in the framework of the III Semana de la Ciencia de la Comunidad de Madrid, Centro de Arte Moderno de Madrid (España), Museo de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino (Rosario, ARG.), Centro Cultural Parque de España (Rosario, ARG.), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas (Rosario, ARG.) and Instituto Goethe (Triste, Italia), among others.
Some of her work is currently a part of the permanent contemporary collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes Carrafa, in Córdoba, Argentina