Sabine Himmelsbach (CH) – #1

neja — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:02:08 +0000

Sabine Himmelsbach, the new artistic director of the House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK), speaks about its main activities and her curatorial plans for the future. HeK was opened in May 2011 as a merger and successor of two festivals: [plug.in] Art & New Media and Shift – Electronic Arts Festival. Its primary focus is to presenting experimental media artists but also to start collecting new media art works, not present in the traditional museum’s collections.

I was also suprised to see how marginalized media arts still are in the context of contemporary art. I think the most important task is to really break this up and create an institution that is really one of the place that are recognized in the contemporary art field in Basel.

Roc Parés Burguès (ES)

neja — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:03:36 +0000

Roc Parés Burguès, an artist and expert in interactive communication based in Barcelona talks about his background in fine arts and the very first guerilla new media art project in 1990. Whereas he is interviewed at the Mob conference focused on the mobile technology, he presents his work which was developed in the context of mobile art laboratory.

The idea is not that much about finding the silence in terms of absence of noise, but maybe places and moments of calm.

Namely he speaks about an Android application called Mute map, which was created in collaboration with Hangar, centre for art research and production. It is a reflection on silence, calm and serenity, within its frame people can record and attach places they consider silent to the map. Beside that he mentions recent project with the smartphones flying on a bunch of helium balloons. It uses camera and the internal GPS so people can follow their smartphones inside the web browser, with the small map which is dynamically updating the position.

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Sabine Himmelsbach (CH) – #1

Roc Parés Burguès (ES)