ARTISTTALK » installation

JULIEN BAYLE (fr)

neja — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:24:41 +0000

We talked to Julian Bayle about his latest work, a Sonica commission, which deals with the physics of concrete and its decay. Bayle is a French multidisciplinary independent artist, who merges visual art, music composition, physical approach of sound art and data visualization by creating advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live performances. He tries to address the question of disrupted continuum, interferences and representation of concepts by using physics of sound and error/artifact magnification.

Julien Bayle was one of 2016 Sonica Festival resident artists. He created the generative installation Fract for the Sonic Pavillion exhibition.

BOJANA PETKOVIĆ (rs)

neja — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:36:01 +0000

Artist Talk with Bojana Petković (rs) at Sonica Festival 2016.

Bojana Petković is a media artist and designer based in Bremen, where she is a student of the MA program Digital Media at the Hochschule für Künste. She has collaborated with Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia in numerous projects as an author of many artistic-educational workshops for children and youth.

With her new interactive sound installation Swamp Orchestra, Bojana Petković creates a specific sound eco-system and explores the realms of the natural and the artificial. Swamp Orchestra was part of the Sonic Pavillion exhibition at Sonica Festival 2016.

Nik Nowak (de)

neja — Thu, 29 May 2014 10:58:50 +0000

Nik Nowak performed with Panzer in Ljubljana in November 2013 during the Sonica Festival and in support of the Radio Student. In the interview he talks about his background and process, the ideas behind Panzer and his ongoing research on mobile sound system cultures across the globe.

Nik Nowak’s Panzer (2011) is a sound system made from metal frame of garbage container which works on the principle of hydraulics. It is made in the manner of Jamaican sound systems but places itself in contemporary sound research that problematize sound as the mean of manipulation and control of the crowds in contemporary society. The project is thus a crossroad of contemporary theoretical research in the field of sound, sound art, popular culture and scientific research in the field of military technologies. Panzer works as mobile sound system which through the form of intervention in public spaces reflects Jamaican musical culture from 70′s that is highly present in modern club culture and in electronic dance music. Panzer is an excellent example of coexistence of different concepts in contemporary sound art and in popular culture. The work was premiered at Todays Art festival 2012 and later on CTM in Berlin.

Nik Nowak is younger German artist, who lives and works in Berlin. Between 2001-2007 he studied Fine Arts at Universität der Künste (UdK) and finsished his master degree by prof. Lotar Baumgartner. Later on he studied also in Shanhgai and New York City. In his work Nowak is entering the traces of electornic music in the contemporary art environment, in the field of sculptures that has in Germany more than thirty years of tradition under the term Klangkünste. In wider context we can place his work in sound art. He is most interested in mobile, moving sound sculptures, which at the same time operate as mobile sound systems with which he is penetrating gallery spaces, clubs and public spaces in the form of sonic intervetions. He has so far present his work in Den Haag, moscow, Berlin, Hamburg, Wien and Shanghai.

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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.

www.motamuseum.com
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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.

David Veneman (nl)

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:35:20 +0000

David Veneman is a designer and media artist from The Hague. He’s also co-founder of the media collective ‘Teletekst is dood!’, a group aimed to discuss around social changes in the new technologic society. In the talk David discusses his works starting from the applications he developed for mobiles and computers. He also talks about The Hague Capital of Culture in 2018 and the projects related to this.

This talk was recorded during Sonica 2011 Festival of Transitory art, Ljubljana.

Daedelus (US) Artist Talk

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:39:44 +0000

"I'm trying something really difficult. It's not easy to do something different in the electronic music world, where people want techno or chill ambient music and they don't care about anything else, but it's worth trying."

Daedelus, Dj and artist from LA, explains the ideas behind Archimedes – an installation built of 14 mirrors that amplifies the lights on the stage during his electronic music shows. Daedalus describse Archimedes as ‘an amplification’:

“I can be my own small size but lights make me feel big.”

This interview was recorded during Sonar 2012.

Marek Wasilewski, Dominik Lejman #2

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:04:19 +0000

In the 2nd part of Artist Talk Marek Wasilewski discusses the inspiration for and presents the documentation of his video project Adam (2010) – part of the 14th WRO Art Media Biennale in Wrocław. His video tracks a young naked man in the streets of Łodz. In the end of the video the man disappears behind the gates of the Cathedral. This work became a subject of controversy because the church claimed that the artwork desecrated the cathedral and wounded religious feelings.

Adam represents Wasilewski´s interest in simple situations that generate complex meaning but also pose questions about the relation between human and street as well as whom the public space in Poland belongs to.

Oli Sorenson (us)

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:49:58 +0000

“Art for me is something that is free of meaning, that’s the initial premise for me to start making art”

Oli Sorenson is an American musician, VJ and artist. In the talk, Oli presents his artistic career and how he considers art a way to explore the meaning of things. He began as a successful Vj and then he became an artist, producing works for galleries and museums such as audiovisual installations, music performances and paintings. During the discussion, he also illustrates his recent ongoing projects as “no more heroes”, a re-editing of Hollywood movies and “Google art” linked to researches on the search engine.

This talk was recorded at ArtistTalk: Third Culture Symposium, Ljubljana in november 2012

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/