Ivanka Mogilska

writer, director, voice
Ivanka Mogilska is a writer who has published three books; the poetry collections In Other Words (Ed. “Janet 45″, 2010) and DNA (Ed. “Janet 45″, 2004), and the novel Hideaways (published “Janet 45″, 2007). She has collaborated with Albena Baeva on the site-specific intervention piece Universal Meeting. Mogilska contributed stories to the project, which have also been published in the book Universal Meeting.
In 2011, she took part in the creation of the performance “DNA of words” with Runabout project.
In 2008, she took part in the Meeting of European Novelists during International Book Fair in Budapest. Her texts have been presented at the Bulgarian Cultural Centre in Budapest and in Pécs, Hungary.
Her poetry collection DNA was published in 2004 after Mogilska won a writing contest organized by publishing house Janet 45 and the Union of Writers in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. The book was awarded with the Pegasus Award for poetic debut of the Southern Spring contest (2005).
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the DNA of words @ theater Sfumato

“The DNA of Words” was presented on July 3 2011, at the Sfumato theatre during the “Small Season” festival. This second performance of “DNA of Words” was accompanied by visuals that were created using a Gridflow patch based on work by Mathieu Bouchard. The visuals presented the transformation of the spoken words.

For this performance Albena Baeva collaborated with writer Ivanka Mogilska and created an instrument that would allow them to play poetry books. This is the latest instrument in the Runabout series and is still a prototype, made from existing controllers, musical instruments and a Puredata patch. The texts are from DNA and In other words by Ivanka Mogilska.

 

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the DNA of words @ The Fridge

The latest performance by Runabout project is called “The DNA of Words”. The performance had its premiere at The Fridge on June 17 2011. For this performance Albena Baeva collaborated with writer Ivanka Mogilska and created an instrument that would allow them to play poetry books. This is the latest instrument in the Runabout series and is still a prototype, made from existing controllers, musical instruments and a Puredata patch. The texts are from the poetry books “DNA” and “In other words” by Ivanka Mogilska

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the instruments of Runabout @ BAZA Art Award 2011


Two of the Runabout project instruments are now on show at the Baza Art Award 2011 exhibition in the Sofia City Gallery. You can see the Trash Banjo and the Bergeron accordion on the second floor of the gallery until July 10 2011. Even though they did not win the Baza Award, they look so great in the gallery that it is worth visiting.

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pictures of the instruments

Electric glass contrabass


Electro-acoustic trash banjo

Bergeron accordion

pictures by Zdravko Dimov

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Ignite Sofia Call for presentations

Ignite Sofia invites presentation proposals for Global Ignite Week 2011.

On the 8th of February Ignite Sofia will join Global Ignite week(7-11 February 2011). In over 50 cities around the world, more than 10.000 entrepreneurs, technologists, DIYers, creative professionals, and enthusiastic knowledge-seekers will gather for an evening that is a unique blend of networking, information, and fun, encapsulated in the Ignite motto: “Enlighten us, but make it quick.”

In talks that are exactly five minutes long, Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds.

Ignite Sofia is looking for presentation proposals. To participate send us email at ignitesofia@gmail.com and tell us the topic of your presentation and a little bit about yourself.

Deadline for submissions is January 28 2011.

If you would like to make a presentation, but are still looking for topics, maybe some of these previous presentations from Ignite events around the world can help you:
- Fighting Dirty in Scrabble
- Secret Underground World of Lego
- I Learned From Being @the_swine_flu http
- The Future of News

About Ignite
Ignite is a fast-paced geek event started in the US by Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for publishing house O’Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Makerbot.com, formerly of MAKE Magazine. Speakers are given 20 slides, each shown for 15 seconds, giving each speaker 5 minutes of fame. Ignite was partially inspired by Pecha Kucha Nights. The first Ignite took place in Seattle in 2006, and since then the event has become an international phenomenon, with regular gatherings in over 100 cities worldwide, including Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France), New York (US) and now also Sofia.

Ignite Sofia is organised by Simeon Ianchev (robotev.com), Albena Baeva (runabout.eu) and Rene Beekman.
For more information, igniteshow.com, for contact ignitesofia@gmail.com

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runabout project @ After Art

19th of december 2010 at 20:00h is the last show for this year. Albena Baeva and Segey Glinkov will improvise “Playing the Bergeron” at the bar After Art, str. Iskar 11, Sofia. Music, video and movement are united together in a single interaction through the custom bergeron-accordion made by Runabout. The improvisation between these medias happens simultaneously in real time. Samples are recorded during the performance, then mixed with the sound of a modulated melodica and visualized through a real time video. Every performance of the group is different and happens only once.

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the begeron experiment @ DA fest

Playing the Bergeron from Albena Baeva on Vimeo.

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sensor based accordion

The sensor-based accordion, created by Albena Baeva, Petya Boyukova and Simeon Ianchev, is ready.
The technology is based on two open source platforms: Arduino and Puredata.

On September 30 2010 Nasekomix will perform live with our sensor-based accordion during their consert at Sofia Live Club. The concert starts at 10pm.

On Oktober 3 2010 the technology of the accordion will be presented during the Festival for Robotica and Interactive Objects, which will take place in the Sportax Hall in Mladost 1, Sofia.
The hall can be found at bul. Andrei Sacharov 20A, near the metro station Mladost 1.

…….or The  Experiment Bergeron
Bergeron is a special controller-instrument for accordionist, that will be demonstrated by Andronia Popova (Nasekomix) in the next performance of the Runabout project. The instrument generates and modifies both sound and video simultaneously, in real time.

The first performance with the Bergeron controller-instrument will be on September 15 2010 during the DA Fest.


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the bergeron experiment

The latest performance of Runabout project will be shown at Da-fest in 15th of september from 20:30h in gallery “Academy”, Sofia. The Bergeron Experiment is  inspired by the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Albena Baeva and Petya Boyukova team up with Andronia Popova, front-woman of Nasekomix. Bergeron Experiment features a custom-built electronic accordion and an interactive costume that provide a twofold channel for audio-visual interaction. By playing on the accordion the musician is able to manipulate the visual parts and vice versa – through the sensors installed into the costume the actor influences the music. “Burdened” by the possibilities of the unfamiliar expression form, music and visuals strive to find a common language and to communicate with the public in one voice.

Here you can find video and pictures from the project.

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