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.

incite/, the Hamburg based electronic duo, consisting of Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier presents in this Artist Talk within the framework of the 15th WRO Media Art Biennale in Wrocław their brandnew show “Holistic Loop”. The audiovisual pieces, that  were prepared especially for WRO concert refer to special subjects, this time the focus is on Hamburg. Furthermore they reflect on the quality of a record as a specific carrier medium and its influence on perception of music in general.

Piotr Jaros reflects on his latest project exhibited at WRO Atelier in October 2012  Analysis and Prognosis. Tester 2012. A project composed of 3 video works and an installation dealing with the topic of unemployment and unused human resources. The work is a reflection on survival in a polarized world and a reference to the existence of an artist who wishes to be independent and earn money at the same time.

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.

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” ).

In celebration of the first two years of ArtistTalk project, MoTA has started a publication series MoTA Editions. We are proud to announce the first edition: Outerviews.

Outerviews. Conversations with artists is comprised of 17 interviews with artists, selected from the archive of the ArtistTalk project. Outerviews presents authors active in a variety of artistic fields, ranging from film, video, painting, sound, performance and many trans-medium approaches. The conversations included illuminate the processes behind the making of art works, which in have in our view proposed the most interesting challenges to the common conceptions of art.

From the foreword: »OUTERVIEWS presents a mosaic of different personas, hailing from different backgrounds and active in a large variety of artistic fields, some very hard to pin down. But we claim that what unifies these artists in their very different approaches, is a drive to contribute to social reality in a highly critical, yet constructive way. Our approach in these conversations was therefore in looking for world views – the underlying observations and individual positioning in the world, which is a prerequisite for any socially engaged artistic practice.«

Included artists: Zbig Rybczyński / Eyal Sivan / Harun Farocki / Piotr Krajewski / Jorge Rodriguez Gerada / Arjan Pregl / Societe Realiste / Zimoun / Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen / Emptyset / Plaid / Burnt Friedman / Julian Oliver / Roy Ascott / Joe Davis / Ion Sorvin – N55 / Biennale de Paris

Artists included: The pioneering works of experimental filmmakers to documentary/film essayists (Zbig Rybczynski, Eval Sivan, Harun Farocki); Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, visual artist known for numerous guerrilla public art and large scale public portraits using sand, charcoal, gravel, etc; Société Réaliste, whose works deal with political design, experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering consulting; Arjan Pregl, whose paintings combines three key elements: constructive criticism of art theory, humour, and political engagement; Zimoun, whose use of plain industrial materials, such as cardboard boxes, mechanical motors, create monumental sound architectures; Lilibeth Cuenca, who navigates the interspaces between different kinds of realities and extremes, between the perfect staging of music videos and raw reality of documentaries, between personal confessionals and political commitment; Emptyset, whose electronic music explores the legacy of analogue media, integrating aspects of rhythm, signal processing and spatial recording within the framework of minimalist composition; Plaid, who reinvented electronic dance music (Warp) and film scores (Tekkonkinkreet, etc); Julian Oliver, a critical engineer, programmer whose works expose and challenge mechanisms behind the products of technology we use in daily life; n55, the art collective whose projects blend art with every day life often creating situations and modular architecture systems that try to “rebuild the city from within;” Alexandre Gurita, who hacked one of the first art biennals in the world, Biennale De Paris, to reinvent its function and role in the now biennal flooded world; the artist, philosopher, and pioneering theorist Roy Ascott, who works with cybernetics and telematics; Joe Davis, the man who implemented a fragment of Heraclitus into the gene of the white eyes of fruit flies, who made bacteria listen to jazz, who grew the information about intrasitivity of human being back to the biological world…

The book is out and in circulation now.

The book was launched at the opening of 15th WRO Media Biennale.

Order your copy at: mota.museum@gmail.com

Price: 12.99 EUR!

Liliana Orbach is an argentinian interdisciplinary, video artist and curator based in Tel Aviv. In this talk she elaborates the general motivation and approach of her art work. The work is intend to be global while dealing with conditions of human being and issues that in general move us. A meaningful subject beside working with moving images is matching the visual with the verbal language.

She is presenting two of her recent works , that are representative for her themes of interest and the interdisciplinary method. The first major theme is about the search of silence. The project lasts about four years and consists of video installation and interviews asking people about their own silences.

The second project has its starting point in a music composition “Goldberg Variations” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In collaboration with a poet an a dance performer she created 8 videoworks that incorporate collected lines of a series of poems.

Lastly, she described the project she realized in Prague. As she said, she made the list of web links connected to the protests, mainly protests from 2011, then she transformed each link into quark code, printed it as a4 format paper, put them occupied the square with them. So it was almost like the manifests.