Joseph Klibansky
Presentations by Terike Haapoja (Finland) and Andy Gracie (UK/Spain) followed by a debate lead by Pau Alsina (Cataluña).
In her talk Terike Haapoja will discuss the connections between scientific thought and the way new technology is applied to art projects. By referring to her exhibition project Closed Circuit – Open Duration and her PhD research she will examine the similarities and differences between scientific and artistic ideas of representation, and the connections of subjective and objective systems of knowledge.
Andy Gracie will present his recent work in the context of the continuous research process which underpins it. This work brings together poetic and critical approaches to intelligence, ecosystems, cybernetic systems, astrobiology and space research. The presentation will cover the philosophies of von Uexküll’s and Seboek’s ideas of Umwelt and biosemiotics, ideas about where the science of astrobiology is heading, the importance of walking and discourse about how and why to connect machines, software and living systems.
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Terike Haapoja (b.1974) is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki, Finland. Her work consists of videos, installations and performance projects, dealing with human-nature relations and characterized by innovative use of new media and new technlogy. Haapoja has a master´s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (dep. of Performance art and -theory) and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. She is currently working on her artistic reasearch PhD in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. The research focuses on the way nature scientific models are implicit in contemporary technoscientific art, and on the challenge of environmental ethics on art and its making.
www.terikehaapoja.net
Andy Gracie is an artist working with aspects of the natural and the artificial in ways which allow them to create information networks and share and influence behaviours. His work involves aspects of robotics, biology, ecosystems and software. The presentation will be an overview of past, present and near future projects.
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Pau Alsina teaches Arts and Humanities at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Director of Artnodes (art, science and technology space) at UOC. www.uoc.edu/artnodes.
17 performances se succèderont durant le week-end . Le terme « performance » est à prendre au sens large. Ex-Machina a en effet sollicité de nombreux artistes issus de disciplines diverses : arts plastiques, danse, théâtre, musique, vidéo, son électronique, etc. Les intervenants investiront donc l’espace de la galerie chacun à leur manière et solliciteront le public de façons multiples et variées.
Le principe est simple : les performances durent environ 30 minutes et se succèdent toutes les heures (durant les demi-heures de battement, consacrées aux changements techniques, un bar sera à disposition du public).
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The exhibition will showcase a selection of pieces from the previous editions as well as a series of new productions by designers and artists from both Paris and Berlin. : Maison Martin Margiela, Bless, Pierre Hardy + Damien Blottiere, Item Idem, Justin Morin + Billie Mertens, Bernhard Willhelm + Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, Mathieu
Mercier, Kostas Murkudis, Michael Sontag.
DYSFASHIONAL considers fashion in the widest sense of the word. Rather than exhibiting clothes and styles, it showcases the broad range of materials that turn fashion into a way of aesthetical and identitarian exploration.
Staged as a construction site, DYSFASHIONAL does not define fashion but tackles the seemingly frivolous yet vital realm of fashion by examining the approach of designers and artists from various backgrounds and invites us on a striking journey, bringing us closer to a world in which the protagonists are not the objects but the creative process itself.
DYS- indicates a disturbance, a discord within the system. The idea at the outset is to verify the dysfunctional dimension of fashion, that is to say, the elements that resist and clash with a "literal" definition of this world, as a simple collection of garments and accessories, as a production system for commercial objects, images and products to do with identity.
Fashion designers have been invited to present projects, which reflect their imagination and creative universe, rather than their collections. Through these environments, objects and films, a mutli-layered horizon constructs itself, where fashion appears beyond the objects which materialise it, as a field for experimentation or a state of sensibility in the making.
The project will be completed by PARASITE, a hybrid space somewhere between shop and gallery, devoted to emerging artists and designers who explore the boundaries of contemporary fashion, and P.S, a show which invites choreographers to transfigure the posture imposed by clothes: the performance becomes a means to reveal how clothing shapes the body, determines our gestures and defines our identity.
DYSFASHIONAL is not only a barometer for experimentation between art and fashion, but is also a bridge between Paris and Berlin, two capitals of creativity.
DYSFASHIONAL is not only a barometer for high-brow experimentation between art and fashion, but is also a bridge between Paris and Berlin, two fashion and art capitals.
Curators LUCA MARCHETTI, EMANUELE QUINZ
Artists HUSSEIN CHALAYAN, ANTONIO MARRAS, MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, BLESS, SISSEL TOLAAS, RAF SIMONS, GASPARD YURKIEVICH + NADIO LAURO + COCOROSIE, MARC TURLAN, PIERRE HARDY + DAMIEN BLOTTIERE, ITEM IDEM, JUSTIN MORIN + BILLIE MERTENS, BERNHARD WILLHELM + CHRISTOPHE HAMAIDEPIERSON,MATHIEU MERCIER, KOSTAS MURKUDIS, MICHAEL SONTAG.
Mosign Presentation
Barcelona 29th October - 1st November 2009
Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a global framework and common agenda for issues surrounding free culture and access to knowledge. The Free Culture Forum of Barcelona aims to create such a space.
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Live streaming:
Festival dels oXcars (Oct 29 des de les 21h) http://oxcars09.exgae.net/live/
The Fcforum (del Oct 30 al Nov 1) http://fcforum.net/live
"Pixel & Pen"
An exhibit of digital art and process. Works by Aesthetic Apparatus, Nicholas Blechman, Q Cassetti, Linda Gammell, John Hersey, James O'Brien, Ryan Peltier, Andy Powell, Anthony Russo, Nancy Stahl, Gordon Studer, Roman Verostko, and Mick Wiggins. Curated by James O'Brien.
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The Rongovian Academy of Fine Arts
Augsburg College: Galleries and Exhibits
Más de 200 artistas y alrededor de 20 galerías de todo el mundo participan cada año en Optica. Además de fiestas y otras actividades lúdicas, el Festival se estructura, fundamentalmente, a partir de las siguientes secciones:
Artistas independientes: uno de los puntos esenciales a la hora de definir la filosofía de Optica es la defensa del denominado "interclasismo curricular del arte". Esta es una práctica que permite no sólo disfrutar del valor de las obras en sí, sino también hacer lecturas cruzadas de los lenguajes que se dan en los distintos circuitos artísticos y grupos generacionales, además de facilitar la difusión de nuevos talentos.
Optica Festival [The Visual Way of Life]El Festival Internacional de Animación en Ecuador, la Empresa Eléctrica Quito y el Centro Cultural El Aguión invitan a la Ceremonia de Premiación de animec 2009 en presencia de los Invitados Internacionales y Jurados del Festival.
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EDWARD HOPPER
Il più popolare e noto artista americano del XX secolo e il maggior esponente del Realismo statunitense, pittore che più di ogni altro ha saputo rappresentare la vita quotidiana e la solitudine dell’uomo moderno. Una grande mostra antologica, senza precedenti in Italia, racconta Edward Hopper con oltre 160 opere.
Edward Hopper
COMUNE DI MILANO - Palazzo Reale
John Cage and Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence
23/10/2009 - 04/01/2010 MACBA
His name is highly familiar, but his work not widely or well known. John Cage (1912-1992) defined such a radical practice of musical composition that he changed the course of modern music in the last century and shaped a new conceptual horizon for post-war art. With the aim of capturing the relevance of Cage's contribution to contemporary art, the MACBA presents the most extensive exhibition to be devoted to the artist on the international stage since his death.
The display will trace a path along the artist's entire career, from his initial works around 1930 through pieces that broadened the parameters of percussion music by incorporating the most unconventional of instruments, to his famous theory on 'silence' (which culminated with the score to 4'33") and his innovative multimedia work in the nineteen-eighties. One of the main sections of the exhibition will show the influence Cage had on both his contemporaries and subsequent artists, as well as his work with Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, among many others.
The exhibition reveals the radical strategies employed by Cage to refine the score and extend it to other uses, forging a highly attractive path for the post-Pollock generation of artists. At a time when modern painting and subjectivity were ceasing to be viable formulas of artistic practice, Cage was giving classes of Experimental Composition to an entire new generation of artists, and influencing many others through his master classes at the New School for Social Research (New York), from 1956 to 1960. Many of these artists would soon find their place in the avant-garde of new practices, from Fluxus to Conceptual Art. Thus Cage became one of the driving forces behind the complete turnabout of post-war art in the early sixties, placing himself between modernity and post-modernity.
Sound recordings, films, scores and documentary materials provide an insight into Cage's innovations in theory. In this sense, the exhibition will present some of the work he carried out in collaboration with other artists, such as the musical chessboard he created with Marcel Duchamp, and random pieces of light and sound made during the period of the Rauschenberg experiments in Art and Technology. All of which will be exhibited along with key elements from Cage's oeuvre and significant works by those of his contemporaries who shared his musical philosophy, like the White Paintings by Rauschenberg; Box with the Sound of its Own Making, by Robert Morris, and Exploding Plastic Inevitable, by Andy Warhol.
Curator: Julia Robinson
Production: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
