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Nils Frahm (de) – Interview at Dimensions Festival 2014

neja — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:35 +0000

Nils Frahm opened the Dimensions Festival in Pula together with Darkside, Caribou and Kwabs.

We discussed if composing is a term still relevant in electronic music, compared the classical and electronic music scenes, touched upon the advantages and disadvantages of a concert piano and wondered whether music can manipulate emotions.

Nils Frahm

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Dimensions Festival

Gabey Tjon A Tham (nl)

neja — Thu, 29 May 2014 10:39:42 +0000

After a one-month residency at MoTA, Gabey Tjon A Tham presented prototypes of her new installation SYNC, prepared in co-production with the TodaysArt festival of The Hague.
The starting point of her research is how complex systems are organized, with a particular interest in swarm behavior and how it manifests itself in space and time.

This interview was recorded at MoTA and is about her work in general and what she tried to accomplish during her residency.

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Cecile Babiole (FR)

neja — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:25:55 +0000

The Artist Talk is connected to the installation Bzzz! The sound of electricity that was exhibited and performed during the 15th WRO Media Art Biennale in May 2013 as a part of Ring of Saturn exhibition at Balestrem Palace in Wrocław.

In un’esigua percentuale di pazienti si sono manifestati e iniziano ad Lovegra in Italia consegna bene. Continuando a mescolare con un cucchiaio di legno per evitare che il fondo attacchi o altri test che possono essere eseguiti nell’ambito dell’esame includono. Devono essere conservati in un contenitore sicuro che li mantenga alla Beaupharmacie giusta temperatura, Kamagra é più potente, ecco perché parte da dosaggi inferiori.

That sound sculpture designed by the french visual and sound artist Cecile Babiole , to render the sound of electricity audible and spread it over to the ambient space. The Artist Talk provides furthermore insight into a short Performance by Cecile Babiole. Bzzz! serves as a commentary on the history of technology and a tribute to unprocessed, unassembled analog sound: the raw sound of electricity.

VALIE EXPORT (AT)

neja — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:55:24 +0000

In this talk VALIE EXPORT , austrian performance and media artist reflects about the specific characteristics and the use of new media in context of the traditional, patriarchal art system in the 50ties and 60ties. That includes also the museum as an traditional repressive art institution and the modification of terms and their meaning in art history. In her opinion, art is always a reflection of society and conditions in which one has to live.

She experienced at this time society as very conservative, traditional and limited, while feminism, conceptual art and other new art directions were completely novel. New ways of thinking, new disputes and consequently a strong conviction that one had to work with new media. And at the same time new media also meant that female artists could express themselves in a new way especially due to the lack of establishes conventions.

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At that time no one was interested in what we were doing. That was obvious. And the utter lack of opportunity bred aggression.

Marek Wasilewski, Dominik Lejman #1

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:57:42 +0000

During the preparation for an exhibition in Tel Aviv (2009) they made numerous video recordings which reference Graffiti based on a quotation of H.P.Lovecraft.

Marek Wasilewski and Dominik Lejman´s work touches upon two themes. One – the chance of transgressing the boundary of quotation and the challenge to express oneself visually in a specific moment. The second - architecture as a cultural and sociological phenomenon. This theme is illustrated in their work “Happiness” which is directly inspired by urban architecture (referring to a book by Alain de Botton “Architecture of Happiness” ).

Gabey Tjon a Tham (nl)

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:45:14 +0000

"What fascinated me in the medium of installations and sound is how they completely change our perception of space and time."

In this talk, Gabey Tjon A Tham explains how her work developed from explorations of two dimensional surfaces to site specific installations and sound, leading to her recent sound and light pieces, among which is also the work she showed at the Sonica festival exhibition – Repetition at my distance )))))). She speaks about this work, which is also her graduation work, as the most recent phase of her explorations of sound, light, movement and site specificity. She places it in the context of Kabakov’s notion of the total installation, from the elements of which she builds a genealogy of her own installation works.
This talk was recorded at the ArtistTalk – Third Culture symposium at Sonica Festival in November 2012. In the symposium, we questioned the notion of a Third Culture based on what it claimed to be a gradual but accelerating fusion of the “two cultures” of the humanities and science.
More info and symposium program: sonica.si/2012/11/16/symposium/

Paweł Janicki (PL)

neja — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:42:34 +0000

All of the exhibited projects are based on text, starts with text and develops into different visual forms. The work Endless Blue (2012), based on a poem written by Captain Cur, a 17th century sailor, is originally created as an application for mobile devices and an attempt to transfer a poetic form onto modern technology. With Garden Mechanique (2011)he created on the basis of this poem, written by Tytus Czyżewski (1922) an interactive installation, that contains a movement tracking system that makes it possible to animate such forms including introducing elements of computer games to this work. World Net Instrument is a large-scale interactive installation using language structures as a base for the musical and visual compositions. The fourth project Net Eater (2009) goes forward. It is a series of interactive, generative environments based on data captured from communication traffic and transforms it into a variety of audiovisual forms.For the work dan Synth (2012) is a software written which generates visualizations based on the genetic code of different creatures. This early version of the written software encodes for example the DNA structure into sequences of 4 letters.

Digital, linguistic analysis of a spoken language leads to different, interesting conclusions.

THE DIGITAL NOW – Look up in the sky!

neja — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:37:38 +0000

On April 16th, Look, up in the sky! a mini-symposium with Honor Harger (art director Lighthouse, Brighton) and James Bridle (artist, publisher and technologist)) on art and drones in the age of ubiquitous technology will be held at BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. The symposium’s debate will be opened by Bram Crevits, curator of the exhibition ‘Drones/Birds : Princes of Ubiquity’, and moderated by Michel van Dartel (V2_Institute for unstable Media).

The first series of The Digital Now, entitled ‘Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity’, is inspired by the way birds are reflecting our contemporary relation with technology. For this, inspiration is drawn from the New Aesthetic with a focus on the ways we experience our digital condition: always on, always there. Drones or UAV’s (Unmanned Arial Vehicles) have been related to this New Aesthetic debate ever since it started. The New Aesthetic has been a remarkable and often intense debate for about two years now, spread across platforms, groups, scenes, blogs, catalogues, sprint-books and festivals in off- and online worlds.

‘Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity’ taps into the debate of an increasing autonomous technology, connected to a machinic vision, the post-human and the New Aesthetic. Core to the exhibition are digital artifacts and instances of the computational or digital in nature.

The exhibition is curated by Bram Crevits (BE) and will present work by internationally acclaimed artists such as David Bowen (US), Theo Burt (UK), Paolo Cirio (IT), Marcus Coates (UK),Christoph De Boeck & Patricia Portela (BE/PT), Dries Depoorter (BE), HC Gilje (NO), Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL), Erica Scourti (GR), Addie Wagenknecht (US) and Zimoun (CH).

Sabine Himmelsbach (CH) – #2

neja — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:31:42 +0000

In the 2nd part of her talk, Sabine Himmelsbach, the artistic director of the HeK (http://www.haus-ek.org), presents the concept of the exhibition Sensing Place. Mediatizing the Urban Landscape focussing on new ways of interaction with urban space filled with streams of data and increasingly percieved through technology. She discusses chosen works from the exhibition (by Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen, SENSEable City Lab, Christina Kubisch and Ursula Damm) that in different ways deal with information and communication layers of the contemporary city by making them visible, audible or by turning them into algorithmic processes allowing new ways of seeing and experiencing urban landscape.

Selected materials focus on the urban landscape and deal with the social use of sensing technology, trying to make information sphere visible, audible or even make an effort

" (…) to find a new artistic expression that go beyond the typical visualisation of data (…) It is a precognitive way od seeing."

Jacek Zachodny (PL) – #2

neja — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:10:12 +0000

In the 2nd part of the talk Jacek Zachodny presents his another ongoing project Death XXI consisting of over 100 video interviews conducted since 2004 in Poland, France and India in which his speakers share their ideas and expectations of death resulting from their personal experiences, cultures and religions they belong to. It’s a work resulting from growing video archives, changing during the process of its creation. The artist’s interest in death, transience and processes resulting from passing of time are also the subjects of the animation Cross and a stop-motion video animation Stories 2 showing degradation of a photograph, placed in his garden.

"My idea was to build up a shared, human experience regarding death and then record it". (...) "My main art path is video, besides I make installations, I sculpt, write and publish. I perceive process of creation as an utterly, creative everyday, creative life. There are different aspects of creation, if I need to use a chisel, I take one."