eLANDSCAPES

“eLANDSCAPES” New Media Art Exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Time: 2008.10.18 - 11.10
Curator: Richard Castelli (France)

Words from the Curator:

Few other cities in the world have lived a so quick and still unfinished metamorphosis of its landscapes as Shanghai.

eLANDSCAPES, one of the main exhibitions of the second edition of SHANGHAI eARTS Festival, should be a taste of this metamorphosis within the eWorld.

eLANDSCAPES is not only perpetuating the tradition of panoramas with the added value of stereoscopy and interactivity but it proposes many others ways to consider the concept of landscape.

eLANDSCAPES involves a total re-working of the screen-spectator relation for which new technologies and new narrations are necessary. Whether immersive, labyrinthine, and/or interactive, these new possibilities are bringing numerous centres of research and productions together with new artists who are liberating themselves from the constraints of the classical screen and are proposing to draw out and to sculpt the projected image and to shatter the relation between the spectator and the works.

The first exhibition, I curated in Shanghai « From Flash to Pixel » at Zendai MoMA (2006) focused on the relation between energy and art.
The second one « Body Media » (with Gong Yan — O Art Centre) at Sculpture Art Space (2007) focused on relation between spectators’ body and the artworks.
Both were a strong recall on the masterpieces of the last ten years

eLANDSCAPES will go steps beyond by focusing on the last development of new technologies of interactivity and immersion with a majority of pieces premiered within the last two years or premiered in the context of this exhibition.

To avoid an audience’s feeling of a too narrow-minded vision about landscapes in mutation, concentrated only on projected images, eLANDSCAPES will be punctuated with some more « concrete » installations to prove that new ways of thinking the concept of landscape can be express also through more physical elements such as moving beds controlled by computer, lights travelling upon used plastic bottles or fog and light installation giving a more organic aspect to this exhibition.

eLANDSCAPES is not only perpetuate the tradition of panoramas with the added value of stereoscopy and interactivity but it proposes many others ways to considers the concept of landscape.

eLANDSCAPES involves a total re-working of the screen-spectator relation for which new technologies and new narrations are necessary. Whether immersive, labyrinthine, and/or interactive, these new possibilities are bringing numerous centres of research and production together with new artists who are liberating themselves from the constraints of the classical screen and are proposing to draw out and to sculpt the projected image and to shatter the relation between the spectator and the works.

To avoid an audience’s feeling of a too narrow-minded vision about landscapes in mutation, concentrated only on projected images, eLANDSCAPES will be punctuated with some more “concrete “installations to prove that new ways of thinking the concept of landscape can be express also through more physical elements as moving beds controlled by computer, light traveling upon used plastic bottles or fog and light installation to give a more organic aspect to this exhibition.

The Exhibition will divide into two places. In Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, artworks with more interaction and participation will be presented while in Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, artworks more academic and exploratory will be displayed.

Participant Artists and Artworks:
T_Visionarium －Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw & Peter Weibel
The path of Damastes－ Jean Michel Bruyère
AVIE-La Dispersion du Fils-－Jean Michel Bruyère
Y-aller– Du Zhenjun
Place Hampi －Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw
Le declin bleu－Diane Landry
Waveform B－Ulf Langheinrich
Golden Calf－Jeffrey Shaw
ReACTOR UNMAKEABLELOVE－Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw
ReACTOR-Double District－Saburo Teshigawara
Hemisphere－Ulf Langheinrich
The path of Damastes－Jean Michel Bruyère
Exploded Camera－Julien Maire
Low Resolution－Julien Maire
Apocalypse－Julien Maire
Aquagraf －Christian Partos
Mom－Christian Partos
Step-motor animation－Christian Partos
POL －Granular Synthesis
Micro Image －Casey Reas
Parallaxe － Matthias Fritsch

E-Arts Shanghai | eLANDSCAPES New Media Art Exhibition

Suki Chan

"Suki Chan, stills from Interval II, high definition video, 2008

Chinese Arts Centre is proud to present the premiere of Interval II, a video installation by Suki Chan investigating traces of human presence within two contrasting landscapes. The film examines a cast iron pier on the northwest coast of England and a rammed earth roundhouse in rural southwest China. Using time-lapse to capture the movement of light and shadows over the structures, Chan engages the viewer in the cycles and fluctuations of time – metaphors for the recent shifts within the two very different types of architecture."

Main Gallery Exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre

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This years BergArt festival has decided to focus on the New York art scene. This will be demonstrated in Bergen Kunsthall by a visually explosive exhibition with a number of central artists from the American East Coast - primarily connected to New York´s Downtown.

Curator: Kathy Grayson

Kathy Grayson has chosen to concentrate on, what she currently feels are, the most interesting tendencies in video based art in New York. This will not, however, be a traditional video exhibition with TV-monitors and wall projections. All the works in the exhibition include videos connected to other media and materials, or “video in the third dimension”: Videos which for their part are transformed into sculpture, videos as part of performance works, videos in combination with painting and neon or kaleidoscopic installations.


Bergen Kunsthall

Dislocate 08

Dislocate is pleased to present the work of 4 young artists from Japan who are currently making waves in the media art scene addressing the interplay between perceptible, elusive and intangible forces present in our environment.

AKIHIKO TANIGUCHI
http://okikata.org
Akihiko Taniguchi uses programming systems and electronics to create experimental music and visual arts performance. For Radiator, Taniguchi will translate events occurring in one space into movement within another creating new networks and monitoring systems.

Recent exhibitions include; “Extended Senses”, InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery, Seoul, Japan and participation in the “Ogaki Biennale 2008”, Japan.


YUKO MOHRI
http://www.mohrizm.net/
Yuko Mohri concentrates on the application of physical phenomena in the research of media theory. For Radiator, Mohri will be creating a unique performance that will position itself between the polarities of both old and new media to present a critique on the pervasiveness of technology and concentration of surveillance.

Recent exhibitions include; “Vexations – Composition in Progress” with Soichiro Mihara at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan.


MICHIKO TSUDA
http://www.2da.jp
Michiko Tsuda investigates the internal reflections of media technology. Questioning what technology conceals and discloses, Tsuda creates new spaces that invert media forms.

Tsuda has exhibited widely in Japan and also internationally in events such as “Berkeley Big Bang 08”, San Francisco, USA and the “Pocket Film Festival” at Centre de Pompidou, Paris, France. She is currently studying a PHD at Tokyo National University of Arts and Music.


MIZUKI WATANBE
http://www.mizukiwatanabe.jp
Mizuki Watanabe explores the nature of the mediated image and its components, examining the capturing of time and space in the moving image to question the control and power of the technology itself.

Recent exhibitions include; “Version Beta”, Centre for Contemporary, Genève, Switzerland and “Extended Senses”, InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery, Seoul, Japan

Dislocate 08

Future Places. Porto, Portugal, October 7-19, 2008 — Digital Media and Local Cultures

Curated by Heitor Alvelos and Karen Gustafson, FUTURE PLACES is a meeting of people with one question in mind: if digital media can do so much for global communication, knowledge and creativity, how can it contribute to local cultural development? October 2008 marks the start of this challenge. The first edition of FUTURE PLACES will survey current successful projects from very diverse backgrounds and fields of knowledge, and it takes place in Porto, Portugal, where these challenges and this potential are very evident. Join us for thirteen days of exhibitions, films, performances, concerts, lectures, parties and workshops - and bring your ideas and your stories!

Future Places. Porto, Portugal, October 7-19, 2008 — Digital Media and Local Cultures

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"In this year’s festival programme, entitled Raw Symbiosis we wish that while observing and participating, you, our faithful and new audience, think of “animals and nature” as our co-beings and not as “something” that must be changed, tamed, domesticated, and subdued. If we – superior as we are – continue to rush around heedlessly as flies into a spider’s web, we might indeed enjoy our pleasant meals in a wonderful ambience, but we will be too late to realize that we are caught in a place we never wanted to end up in. And since we neither want to nor can end up in the here and now, it is best we look back toward the beginning."

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