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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.

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/

André Gonçalves

neja — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:25:25 +0000

André Gonçalves (PT) is a PhD Candidate in Science and Technology of the Arts at UCP, Oporto. He works across the fields of visual arts, music, video, installation and performance. Since 2002, he has been refining his ‘do it yourself’ approach to electronics, experimenting with digital and analog technologies, old and new hardware and various techniques to create intermedia pieces.

Recent projects have included installations such as ‘(Un)Foreseen Events’, Thessaloniki Biennale (2011), ‘Driven By or The Careless Self-Indulgence of Dystopia’, Laboral, Gijón (2010), ‘The Bird Watcher’ (2010) or ‘Trigger Happy’ (2009).

Although the discman was an easy choice and I wanted to respect the medium through which it was made possible, and to put the highlight on the change in how sound is read, from friction/drawing: needle, vinyl, pen and paper to light: laser and cd. The obvious parallelism was photography, light and film.

These and other works have been presented in several galleries and festivals, such as Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul; Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York; FILE, Sao Paulo; Offload Festival, Bristol; Steim, Amsterdam; ICA, London; Pixelache Festival, Helsinki; Todays Art Festival, Den Haag; Ura! Gallery, Istanbul; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; L’Antic Teatre, Barcelona; La Laboral, Gijón; Museu Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres; Serralves Foundation, Oporto; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Awarded with an Honorary Mention at Digital Languages Category in FILE Prix Lux 2010, São Paulo and Finalist in the Performance category Celeste Prize 2010. His discography, among others, includes releases on the labels Winds Measure (US), Transacoustic Research (AT), Cherry Music (JP), Effervescence (FR), Grain of Sound, Crónica Electrónica and Sirr (PT).

His music works, solo or in collective projects, include more than 15 editions in several recording labels under the names: Ok.suitcase, In Her Space, Stapletape, Iodo, ltthwhasp, Sound Asleep, Safe and Sound, Variable Geometry Orchestra… Recently he has been working on his solo project Feltro and in the collectives O Carro de Fogo de Sei Miguel and Gigantiq.