2024
November 8 - 9
I’m thrilled to be showing work at MIRA Festival in Barcelona this November 8-9, with an awesome lineup of shows including A. G. Cook of PC Music, BICEP, Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth , Robin Fox, μ-Ziq (Planet Mu), Rafael Toral, The Body & Dis Fig, and more.
I’m presenting the fulldome version of Mirrored Madness made with award-winning Danish sound artist SØS Gunver Ryberg who recently played at the Venice Biennale, and opened for Autechre
See u in Barcelona!
https://www.instagram.com/mirafestival
Tickets: https://mirafestival.com/en/
2023
November 29
I'm showing some of my works in the group exhibition Beyond Basel by Trippy Labs, running in parallel during Art Basel Miami.
Some confirmed artists I’m familiar with include 404.zero, Ada Sokół, BakaArts, Baronlanteigne, Beeple, desilence, Function Store, Fvckrender, gmunk, NastPlas, Paul Chadeisson, RubenFro, Ryoichi Kurokawa, scuy(v0id), Sevi Iko Dømochevsky, and loads more.
defasten works included:
Planet Helvetech - Violent Magic Orchestra
Predatory Algorithms - Blush Response
Mirrored Madness - SØS Gunver Ryberg
Fausto Mercier - Hall of Frames (feat. Francesco Corvi)
Yaporigami - Earth Flipper
BEYOND BASEL 2023 by Trippy Labs
Dec 7 - 10
The Definitive Digital Art & Web3 Festival
Exhibiting a diverse range of works from over 250 emerging, pioneering and world renowned artists.
Produced by Trippy Labs, this year's festival returns to Factory Town in partnership with Link Miami Rebels. Beyond Basel is the ideal venue to experience cutting edge new media art and network with notable figures immersed in the web3 and digital art domains.
Encompassing 7 acres, 2 outdoor stages, a 14,000 sq ft. gallery and a VIP lounge, the event will be animated by performances from today's most sought after electronic music collectives from sunset to sunrise.
October 3
This week in Tokyo, I'm showing the work Mirrored Madness at the large public screens around Shibuya Crossing. Thank you so much Neo Shibuya for this amazing opportunity. Video footage to come out later.
Mirrored Madness was made with Danish sound artist SØS Gunver Ryberg, who premiered her Live AV ''Weaving Fields'' this past weekend at Lunchmeat Festival in Prague
The public screening runs from October 2 to Sunday October 8, so friends in Tokyo, enjoy.
June 30
Footage of some of my works that were playing in Tokyo from June 12-18 2023. Thanks to Neo Shibuya TV for curating this 85 screen public installation at Miyashita Park right around the corner from the well known Shibuya Crossing.
Neo Shibuya TV : www.instagram.com/neoshibuyatv
Video previews, in order of appearance:
Blush Response (upcoming)
Enter The Void 2.0 with AKIAURA (VILL4IN)
Fausto Mercier (Genot Centre)
SØS Gunver Ryberg (upcoming)
with music by Yaporigami
#Repost @neoshibuyatv ・・・
【放送期間】6/12-6/18 渋谷の新しいハイプスポット MIYASHITA PARKの渋谷横丁にNEO SHIBUYA TV 30seconds museumが登場。
84台のスクリーンに映し出される30秒間の美術館。喧騒の中のアートを是非御鑑賞ください。 ☆☆☆ Patrick Defasten @defasten 2002 年から「defasten」としてグラフィック作品を発表しているパトリック・ドアンは、ドイツのベルリンを拠点とするカナダ人の 3D アーティスト。デザイン、映画、建築の背景を持つ彼は、現在、ダイナミックなリアルタイム 3D グラフィックス、ライブ パフォーマンス、ミュージック ビデオ、インスタレーション、ストリーミングなどに重点を置いている。
Publishing his graphic works under ‘‘defasten’’ since 2002, Patrick Doan is a Canadian 3d artist based in Berlin, Germany. With a background in design, film, and architecture, he now focuses on dynamic real-time 3d graphics, live performance, music video, installations, streaming, etc.
2022
Dec 3
Here's a new article written by contemporary art and design publication STIRworld with some of my thoughts on what cyberpunk means in 2022:
https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-patrick-doan-and-cyberpunk-finding-humanism-within-transhumanism
“We have essentially caught up with the early cyberpunk writings of the 1960s. We have large tech companies looming over us, and they are now part of our lives. We have polarising politics, and rising geopolitical tension, the natural earth is weakening and we look to space for a new life. The otherness of globalisation is also very real, and the cybernetic advancements of technology continue to creep up, slowly changing our biological bodies, and ultimately further dividing society.”
Dec 1
On Thursday Dec 1, 2022 I'll be giving a talk about my work in Berlin at the The NODE Institute
The event is free with a max capacity of 25 people, pre-register here
https://thenodeinstitute.org/event/td-roundtable-xviii/
19:30 / Doors
20:00 / Moritz Hilscher (Krumme Visuals)
21:00 / Patrick Doan (Defasten)
22:00 / Mickey van Olst
The NODE Institute
Wipperstr. 13
12055 Berlin
Nov 2
The full 24 mins audio visual set that I prepared for the ENTER THE VOID 2.0 event with music by AKIAURA is now online in 4K. Thanks to VILL4IN for curating this great line-up.
March 1
I'm so glad to announce that I will give a talk at Mouvo conference this April in Prague. They've revealed their first batch of speakers all specialising in diverse fields related to visual design. It's going to be an inspiring weekend.
Mouvo is a platform where graphic design, film, animation, and technology intersect.
https://mouvo.cz/
2021
Nov 11 - 13 / Barcelona, ES
MIRA 2021
Live AV set with Azu Tiwaline
Facebook event / Instagram / Twitter
Mar 21
Some of my works for DETROIT UNDERGROUND will be featured in the upcoming book The Age of Data curated by Christoph Grünberger, published by Swiss design label Niggli Verlag later this year.
Featuring works by
Refik Anadol
Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks)
Joshua Davis (Praystation)
Quayola
Studio DRIFT
Zach Lieberman
NONOTAK
David Sheldon Hicks (Territory)
Christopher Bauder (WHITEvoid)
FIELD.IO
onformative
and many more
Kickstarter
THE AGE OF DATA – Embracing Algorithms in Art & Design
https://instagram.com/theageofdata
Jan 19 - Feb 14
My contribution in the XquisiteForce.AV (curated by SFX) collaborative thread project is featured in the CTM Cyberia virtual space as part of CTM 2021 Transformation
link: XquisiteForce.AV in CTM Cyberia 2021
Facebook: CTM 2021: Transformation
link: XquisiteForce.AV by SFX
2020
Nov 20 - 23
LSiten_XZICD is part of the virtual exhibition at Flare 2020 based in Shanghai, China
https://flare.digitalfun.club/
category: Technological Art
more information: Flare 2020
Sep 23 - 25
Visiones Sonoras 16 (Mexico)
online screening: Toroid
Sep 3
Composite #24 - MAPP MTL (Montreal)
presentation: ALTERGATE_Zone6
Facebook event
Aug 29
WISE Tech Conference (Berlin, Beijing)
kinect performance: ALTERGATE_Zone5
Aug 28
WISE x Reeperbahn Festival
Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
visual content for the band Nova Heart
Aug 5
BRDG Channel 22 / Streaming Event (Tokyo)
IDEOPHONE: Live AV with Yaporigami
Review by CDM:
BRDG stream from Tokyo is a hyperactive extravaganza of audiovisual madness
July 24
DEMO Moving Image Festival
AUDINT & Anna Engelhardt: Protocols of Immanent Conflicts
work: Ghostcode
Jul 10
16th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) Online Edition
video work: Toroid
Jun 26
Xquisite Force collaborative A/V thread project by SFX
Jun 25
YES WE CANNES!
Sizzer x Sehsucht Virtual Party (Berlin, Amsterdam)
kinect performance: ALTERGATE_Zone3
Mar 13
Decoded Sphere Live AV with Yaporigami at TEOREMA / Urban Spree, Berlin
***cancelled due to covid19 pandemic***
2019
November 28
I did an interview with real-time graphics software Notch which details some of the process of making the video for the track XINRI D by Yaporigami. Read it to get an idea of how I have been working with Notch. The video is also included in the interview.
www.notch.one/portfolio/xinri-d-yaporigami/
“Watching a scene come to life in real-time, with a high degree of finish, is why I love to work in Notch.”
Patrick Doan creates an out of this world music video for Yaporigami’s (Detroit Underground, BRDG Tokyo) new track XINRI D. Using Notch, Patrick created a living breathing organism that may take over the world with its explosive audio-reactivity.
June 8 2019
NEW SYNDICATE
I’ve organised a new club night in Berlin with focus on LIVE AV featuring deconstructed rave by ISOLAT PATTERN (Kvitnu, The Collection Artaud), raw and industrial modular techno by JESSICA KERT (Detroit Underground) and MIQUEL DANGLA, industrial electronic body music with SQUARIC (Diffuse Reality Records), a new breakcore inflected project by sculptural glitchnoise techno producer YAPORIGAMI (Mille Plateaux, BRDG Tokyo, Detroit Underground). Visuals by R0D1AN L1NK and DEFASTEN.
Event links
https://acudmachtneu.de/events/1409/new-syndicate/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1269536183198041/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-syndicate-tickets-62503604965
May 24 2019
UNSOUND:UNDEAD
new AUDINT exhibition at Arebyte gallery in London
featuring some shortfilm works (Ghostcode, DRNE, Delusions of The Living Dead, A Century of Zombie Sound) I’ve created with the sonic collective AUDINT
link: https://www.arebyte.com/
March 9
YAPORIGAMI X DEFASTEN with TEOREMA at Urban Spree, Berlin
2018
April 20
SCOPE PRESENTS: THE POND / DEFASTEN / BLANCA REGINA #440
at The Spektrum
Audiovisual performance night with:
The Pond
Elisabetta Lanfredini - voice, composition / Nicolas Wiese - voice manipulation, feedback, composition. A vocal-electroacoustic panorama between melodic fragments, noise, surreal atmospheres, improvised parts, and flashbacks into early music.DEFASTEN - Bodyjack
Video animation collaboration between Patrick Defasten and composer and multi-media artist Suguru Goto. A dive into a data-complex, alive and reactive in its virtual presence. Geometric layers morph and reshape this volatile data-structure.Blanca Regina - Triple Loop
Using advinatory systems and audience participation, Blanca Regina transports and transforms us with her voice, electronics, objects and visuals by creating audiovisual performances of each consultation made to the oracles, either moon tarot, fortune cookies, I Ching or tea leaves.
February 22 - 25
Ghostcode at the Philip K Dick Science Fiction Festival in New York
February 15 - 25
I’m incredibly proud to announce that the short film I worked on titled THREE THOUSAND is in Official Selection at the 68th edition of the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival starting next week. I had the good fortune to work closely with the director, the Inuit artist and filmmaker Asinnajaq on location at the Montreal offices of The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and remotely here in Berlin. The short film will feature in the programme NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema.
Three Thousand at the Berlinale:
https://www.berlinale.de/…/berlinale_progra…/datenblatt.php…
THREE THOUSAND examines the past, present and future of Inuit identity. Asinnajaq explores her heritage, at the same time plunging into a sublime imaginary universe. I created digital imagery which begins the narrative through a distant, primordial past, propelling itself towards a potential future where Inuit society has expanded its architectural and cultural landscape, carrying forward its societal traditions that continue to flow through the ages.
The Berlinale itself needs no introduction. Along with the Festival de Cannes, it stands to be one of the leading festivals for film premieres, the European Film Market and related media events.
See you on the Red Carpet!
#berlinale2018
Feb 7 - 11
Ghostcode at PAUSE Fest: Creative Tech Innovation in Melbourne
January 26 - February 3
Ghostcode at VOID International Animation Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
December 16
New performance of Body in Zero G at Tokyo Arts University
November 18
Ghostcode at the Berlin Sci-Fi Fest at Babylon cinema
Facebook event page
October 20
Nantes, FR: Électrons Libres at Stereolux
CsO Tour by Suguru Goto, including works by Lucio Arese, Antoine Schmitt, and my work Bodyjack
June 9
Paris: CsO Tour by Suguru Goto at le Cube
including works by Lucio Arese, Antoine Schmitt, and my work Bodyjack
June 3
Innovation World Festa
Tsukuba City, Japan
Suguru Goto CsO Tour with the work BodyJack
https://www.j-wave.co.jp/iwf2017/
March 24 - 25
Sonar Istanbul
Music, Creativity & Technology
Digi.logue
Installation: Delphic Panaceas + Presentation
AUDINT: A Century of Zombie Sound
including video preview Ghostcode
with Eleni Ikoniadou, Patrick Defasten, Toby Heys, and Steve Goodman (Kode9)
Saturday 25 16:00 - 16:45
Lounge+D Stage 2
Feb 15
This Wednesday at Hyperdub's new club night Ø in London at Corsica Studios, see my videowork Ghostcode with sonic research cell AUDINT who are presenting Delphic Panaceas.
tickets and info: Resident Advisor
2016
Oct 17
I'm working with media artist Suguru Goto on a new interactive augmented dance performance called "Body in Zero G" which will have its premiere in Tokyo on December 7 at WWW.
Oct 4
Together with the sonic research cell AUDINT, we will be unveiling a new digital video animation titled Ghostcode at Loop in Berlin.
Loop
November 4 - 6
AUDINT: A century of zombie sound
Sunday November 6, 2016
13:45 — 14:30 @ Funkhaus
AUDINT members consists of Souzanna Zampfe, Steve Goodman (known as Kode9, founder of Hyperdub Records), Toby Heys, and myself. This year's Loop festival participants combines today's talents with long-standing, pioneering musical heavyweights including Lee Scratch Perry, Jazzy Jeff, Morton Subotnick, Moritz von Oswald, Gudrun Gut, just to name a few.
Jun 16
I was interviewed for Neu in Berlin, a photography project by Ilsa Hellman
about new berliners, read about it on the Facebook page.
Jun 1
Feature with Japanese magazine OTOTOY on the show with Suguru Goto, Antoine Schmitt, and Lucio Arese held at WWW in Tokyo on March 22:
http://ototoy.jp/feature/2016041405
Mar 14
I'm pleased to announce I will be in Tokyo, Japan on March 22 to premiere my latest video animation work titled BodyJack, made in collaboration with pioneering Japanese digital multi-media artist Suguru Goto, who is releasing his newest album "CsO". Alongside will be new works by Italian artist Lucio Arese (known for Mimic: https://vimeo.com/40162986), and French artist Antoine Schmitt (http://www.antoineschmitt.com). A series of workshops will follow in Tokyo, with another soirée scheduled in Kyoto at Club Metro on March 28. More information about the events at www.sugurugoto.com
Suguru Goto: CsO album release
Tokyo, Japan
March 22, 2016
Bodyjack premiere with Suguru Goto
including works by Lucio Arese and Antoine Schmitt
event: Suguru Goto "CsO" album launch
venue: WWW
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2015
Dec 10
Artist talk at Scope Sessions in Berlin
doors: 7pm
start: 8pm
www.scopesessions.org
The talk will cover past, recent, and upcoming projects including a new AUDINT video animation featuring sound design by Kode9.
April 20
As part of the research cell AUDINT, I'm presenting a new animated work titled Delusions of the Living Dead with the installation "Martial Hauntology" exhibiting at the Tate Britain on May 1:
Late at Tate: May 2015
Tate Britain, London, UK
6:30pm, free admission
link: http://www.audint.net/
Permanent members of AUDINT include:
sonic researcher Toby Heys (mmu.ac.uk)
Steve Goodman (Kode9, founder of Hyperdub Records)
2014
Aug 25
I'm pleased to announce that I have finished graphic animation work on
the documentary The Price We Pay, directed by Harold Crooks. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off on September 4.
"Director Harold Crooks' well-crafted documentary offers a concise, engrossing and occasionally infuriating overview of the ways multinationals avoid taxes by stashing profits in offshore havens."
- Variety
"Film Says Corporate Tax Avoidance Clouding Modern States"
- Bloomberg
"Toronto 2014 Review: THE PRICE WE PAY, One Of The Most Compelling Docs Of The Year"
- Twitch
More about the film on TIFF's website:
The Price We Pay at TIFF 2014
Apr 13
New music video Aviator 2000 for the band Beat Market.
As seen on:
High Snobiety
i09
Onepointfour (interview)
Much Music
Cult MTL
Musique Plus
La Presse
SNAP!
Pop Matters
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Twitter
2013
Jul 22
"Constellation" will be screening at ARS ELECTRONICA 2013 in Linz, Austria.
ARS ELECTRONICA has been the leading media arts festival for over 30 years.
EK Interview: Defasten
A new artist interview with the online publication Empty Kingdom.
2012
Sept 21
I'm proud to announce that my latest short film Constellation is kicking off
the ON SITE digital arts festival tomorrow in Taipei, Taiwan with a program
featuring Carsten Nicolai's "Future Past Perfect pt.3 ( u_08-1 )" and Taiwanese
artist Yao Chung Han's "Oceanic Signal". Performances by artists
Ryoichi Kurokawa, EVALA (ATAK), Atsushi Tadokoro and Phillip Stearns
and many others make up the highlights of the excellent line-up.
ON SITE 2012
September 22 - October 14
Artist Village, Treasure Hill
Taipei, Taiwan
Sept 17
Here's what some people have been saying about Constellation:
"Constellation Matches Abstract VFX With Classical Music To Great Effect"
- The Creators Project
"Classical music may not be topping today’s Billboard charts, but its
abstract magnificence is something that human beings both young and old
canbe transformed by.Not convinced? “Constellation” is about to change your mind — and blow it to smithereens."
- Poptech
"Subatomic Sublimity: Watch Classical Music And VFX Converge In Stunning Video CONSTELLATION"
- Feelguide
"I wonder what Walt Disney would've thought of this video if he could have
seen intothe future some 70 years after Fantasia. If he saw animation
as the highest artform I think he certainly would have been happy to know
that it is still being used to express great performances in music."
- Animation Nation
"Director / animator Patrick Doan displays a star-studded cast of
dancing dots, as they whip and rip through the empty space around them."
- Empty Kingdom
"This film was made to encourage us all to take in the beauty
and the natural art and music that surrounds us on a daily basis. "
- Trashlab
August 15
Constellation, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is now available to view online.
an interview with digital publication Onepointfour details the process of making the short:
http://www.onepointfour.co/2012/08/15/constellation/
February 16
Currently working on a short film inspired by the pianist Janina Fialkowska. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, who this year have 2 films nominated at the 84th Academy Awards. The film will feature a sound design by Mutant Jukebox. More news to follow soon.
January 1
New project added: "Scream"
video projection created for the Michael Jackson Immortal 2011-2013 World Tour. Visit the show website for more details.
2010
November 4
AEXEX playing at Electric Fields 2010 in Ottawa, Canada, as part of the Vague Terrain showcase.
September 25
My video "Strands of 1951" is playing at Le Cube Festival in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris
www.cubefestival.com
September 17
Robert Knoke book + dvd release at the New Museum in New York. Defasten film "Dandelion" featured on the dvd.
www.zerozeroproject.com
www.newmuseum.org