18 Frontlines
FORM & FUNCTION
The Urban Art Forms Festival runs from May 28 – 30 at expanded and offers enough space for a fourth Deichkind, Booka Shade, Moonbootica, Sven
Wiesen, Austria with a spectacular line-up, we tracked down stage, in order to get people rocking for three Väth, Deadmau5 and Digitalism. At the Drum &
Christian Lakatos, CEO of UAF Productions, to find out days at the Main, Drum & Bass, Psytrance and Bass stage it has to be Andy C, DJ Hype, Brookes
more… Afterparty stages. Brothers, Simon Bassline Smith and Ed Rush.
That’s enough, it would take me too long to
WHAT’S THE URBAN ART FORMS FESTIVAL WHAT CAN PEOPLE EXPECT THIS YEAR? name all the highlights since, especially for our
ALL ABOUT? This year is our fifth anniversary and Kraftwerk, anniversary, lots of artists have been scheduled
It’s an audiovisual festival and ever since the be- the pioneers of electronic music, are the head- who have played in the previous years or who have
ginning the visual set up has been just as impor- liners. Also new and for the first time in Austria been of great importance to us.
tant as the music. So along with the best DJs and is the Cocoon festival stage with techno-grand-
live-acts of the electronic scene you’ll also find masters Sven Väth, Dubfire, Extrawelt and many WHAT ARE YOUR BEST MEMORIES FROM
the most popular visual artists from all over the more. On Saturday night the Mainstage will PAST FESTIVALS?
world. Across the whole area there will be 3000 transform into the Cocoon Stage with dancers, A very special moment was in the first year when
square metres of projection surfaces, tens of who will, together with the musicians, carry you I went on the Mainstage the first time during
thousands ANSI lumen lights and slide projec- into another dimension. At the Drum & Bass primetime and watched thousands of people go-
tors will continuously transform the Mainstage. stage big names of the international business ing crazy. But year after year I’m really impressed
We have innovative production highlights each are going to continuously come and go. As a with the outcome of the video artists and musi-
year, e.g. 360 degree LED displays and the special treat a DJ contest has been taking place in cians cooperation creating amazing audiovisual
Machine 360, which was showcased for the first conjunction with
dogsonacid.com where a rookie impressions.
time at our festival. DJ will get the chance of playing on the Drum &
Bass stage. Year after year the atmosphere on the WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?
The festival area in Wiesen is one of the most Drum & Bass floor is absolute pandemonium. First of all we would like to stage the Urban
beautiful sites in Austria as well. The unique Art Forms Festival 2009 and cater for three
tent construction of the reinforced festival area WHAT ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LINE-UP unforgettable days of festival experience. During
is completely weatherproof and offers perfect FOR YOU? summer we have got a few big shows planned and
shelter for sunshine and rain without losing its Looking at 150 artists, it’s quite difficult to pick in autumn we start thinking of the Urban Art
open-air charm. In addition Wiesen probably a favourite one. But way upfront are Kraftwerk Forms Festival 2010, where we’d like to present
offers also the most luxurious camping grounds since the booking has always been a dream again the newest innovations in the visual sector
and sanitary facilities in Austria, or even Europe. and they are still such an important source of as well as in music.
The area has been extended for the Urban Art inspiration for producers and musicians. Of
Forms festival, which means the capacity has been course, we also look forward to acts such as
www.uaf-festival.com /
www.urbanartforms.com
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