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Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent colour and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience's mind and body. Botborg work with a level of experimentation and improvisation that places them in a territory outside traditional musical or cinematic formats, where the boundaries between art, science, and philosophy mutate until they are rendered meaningless.

Botborg demonstrations often include very loud sound played in combination with very fast flashing/strobe light using the largest sound systems and projection screens available.

Botborg is a practical demonstration of the theories of Dr Arkady Botborger (1923-81), founder of the 'occult' science of Photosonicneurokineasthography - translated as "writing the movement of nerves through use of sound and light". Botborg’s ‘instrument’ is the Photosonicneurokineasthograph - a complex feedback machine incorporating an entangled mix of new and old technologies, that are altered and customised to the unique features of every venue. Although the human operators of Botborg are skilled manipulators of the system, it is equally unpredictable and uncontrollable, allowing Botborg to look and sound vastly different on every occasion. All demonstrations are completely improvised and no source material is used outside the Photosonicneurokineasthograph.

Botborg’s first DVD "Principles of Photosonicneurokinaesthography" released through Australian label Half/theory has long since been sold out. Final remaining copies are available through specialist experimental film distributors Metamkine (Europe) and OtherFilm (Australia).

Botborg has hosted live demonstrations at many prestigious music, film, and media festivals throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Selected Demonstrations...

2009 - Bandits-Mages Festival - Bourges, France
2008 - Spectropia Art+Communication Festival - Riga, Latvia
2008 - Worm - Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008 - Melbourne International Film Festival - Melbourne, Australia
2008 - ZXZW Festival - Tilburg, Netherlands
2008 - GOGBOT Festival - Enschede, Netherlands
2007 - Instants Chavirés - Paris, France
2007 - L'Embobineuse - Marseille, France
2007 - Sala Castelló - Barcelona, Spain
2007 - Kunstraum Walcheturm - Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - Rex Cultural Center - Belgrade, Serbia
2007 - Split Film Festival - Split, Croatia
2007 - DRMK - Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 - Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Austria
2007 - Ausland - Berlin, Germany
2007 - The Foundry - London, UK
2007 - 7inch Cinema - Birmingham, UK
2007 - Shambala Festival - Northamptonshire, UK
2006 - Point Ephemere - Paris, France
2006 - Other Films Festival - Brisbane, Australia
2006 - The NowNow - Sydney, Australia
2005 - What Is Music? - Brisbane, Australia
2005 - Liquid Architecture - Melbourne, Australia
2005 - Australasian Computer Music Conference - Brisbane, Australia
2005 - Electrofringe - Newcastle, Australia
2005 - TransAcoustic - Auckland, New Zealand