Brussels-based leftfield collective experimenting with electronic music, performances, installations, new media and off-limits partying. Through a physical approach to phenomena like sound and light Foton creates parallel worlds where people in the audience become submerged participants rather than passive subjects.

For Punto y Raya Foton artists Hans De Man a.k.a Antz (dj) and Antonin De Bemels (vj) will create an intense audiovisual experience where music and images are not conceived for the ears and eyes only, but for the whole body.

Antonin De Bemels is a video and audio artist. Interested in experimental electronic music as well as contemporary dance and video art, his main subjects are movement, the human body, and the dynamic relationship between sounds and images. He has made a dozen of short videofilms - quite a few of them being awarded - and creates soundtracks and visuals for dance and theatre pieces. His vj-performances are like a visual diary, making a connection between his work as a video artist and his everyday life: on one side carefully chosen and processed images from dancers and other "performing bodies", on the other side spontaneously taken images from his surroundings and from his own defective body. From unity to multiplicity, from light corpuscles to body parts, from abstraction to figuration, from the inner self to the outside world, and back.

Hans De Man a.k.a Antz wears many masks: Foton founder, concert & party promotor, multimedia curator, installation artist and dj. The recurring themes in his activities are a taste for pushing borders and the transmission of positive energy. In his sound installations an implicit interactivity is incorporated, forcing the audience to become one with the installation and interact from within, rather than to start an externally triggered dialogue. As dj Antz he focuses on intense and physical sounds and rhythms, turning an ordinary dj-set into a sonic performance. The sounds he chooses go from minimal to maximal, from horizontal to vertical, from abstract ambient to brutal 'core'-madness.

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