We’ve been with the curator for the Argentinian Pavilion, Rodrigo Alonso, commenting on this monumental site-specific work from artist Adrián Villar Rojas for “La Biennale” 2011.
Camera: Ulli Armbrüster
Interview: Karina Fernández
Edition: Karina Fernandez
As a summary, just to get a short overview, I elected together with an eight-year-old boy his ten favourites, also to focus on what´s most interesting for the younger generation and how they interact with media art.
“Otamatone”- Novmichi Tosa, Maylsa Denki: musical-note-shaped electric instrument
“Gear Box”- Ulrich Brandstätter & Oliver Buchtala: kind of musical loop-sequencer
“Paro”- Aist : Therapeutic Robot with 5 kinds of sensors: tactile, light, audition, temperature and posture sensors. It can learn to behave in a way that the user prefers and simulates interaction between patients and caregivers.
“TalkTorque-2″- Hideaki Kuzuoka, Hiroshi Kasai, Ikkaku Kawaguchi, Toshimasa Yamanaka: guide robot that utilizes human skills
“Is there a horizon in the deep water?” -HEHE: Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen: Installation, Performance which works through the ecological tragedy, the explosion of the oil platform Deep Horizon in 2010, by reconstructing the event minutely.
“Six-Fourty by Fourty-Eghty”- Jamie Ziegelbaum, Marcelo Coelo: Installation, handy magnetic pixels as an interpretation of the touchscreen principle, by touching they change the color or copy it onto another
“Shadows”- Jyun-ya Kataoka: Installation, device, consisting of a turntable, found at a garage dump, and strobes from instant cameras attached to a circle, by rotating the turntable you manipulate the shadows
“Paricles”- Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi: On a construction that resembles a rollercoaster, lightballs can be orchestrated via control-screen to whiz about in all directions and grouped into moving patterns.
“Running through the fog” at the roof of the O.K.-house: just a part of the “Hoehenrausch”
“CCD-me-not-Umbrella”- Mark Shepard: of sentient city survival kit: An umbrella studded with infrared Leds visible only to CCD surveillance cameras, designed to frustrate object-detection-algorithms used in computer vision surveillance systems
FILE Festival, Sao Paulo. Huge city, huge exhibition. Like every year, the File Festival manages to show a wide variety of international contemporary new media art. Installations, Performances, Machinima, Animations, Webart,… But they also host Workshops dealing with newest technics and tools and a Symposium which addresses current topics and therefor is a good discursive platform for new media art.
A big difference to most of the new media art festivals is the wide-ranging audience visiting the exhibition. With about 1000 visitors per day and a period of one month it does not only adress the typical new media art nerds.
Because i participated with my installation “skia” in the exhibition and the symposium i had a very limited time frame to document the artworks.
But i even managed to get Christobal Mendoza for an interview, whos collaborative work “nervous structure” was one of my favourites.
The next work i have to explain a bit…. If you stand in front of this screen, your face is tracked and alternately displayed with some movie scenes, where the head of the actors are on the same position in the framing as yours… It is called “movie mirrors” and was made by Ali Miharbi from turkey.
media art, digital art, installations, sculputures, photographie, video and sound….
last spring, you could get a picture about the vararity of works, produced by students of the university of applied arts, department: digital media art. they showed 35 new works in a very special place, an former store for exclusive fur-goods, right in the inner-city of Vienna. tagr.tv was invited to tag this exhibition and had the chance to talk to 10 artists and the two curators, Ruth Schnell and Romana Schuller, about their work.
Interview: Franziska Mayr-Keber
camera: Andreas muk Haider
Edit: Andreas muk Haider, Franziska Mayr-Keber
Interviews with participating artists
we couldn’t catch up with all the 34 represented artists in this exhibition… but at least with a few of them…
Interviews: Franziska Mayr-Keber
Camera: Andreas muk Haider
Edit: Andreas muk Haider
Christian Boltanski has built a huge scaffold supporting a long conveyor-belt, printed with babies, displayed birth- and starving-rate, made a game out of it and called it “Chance”.”The unfolding of life and the incessant rhythm of birth raise the question of the universal and the unique in a way, to ponder what distinguishes one from the other…” (Jean-Hubert Martin)
Having a seat after this interview, relaxing from running around for hours, on one of three very old chairs placed beside this pavillon, a strange whispering voice stated to ask “is it the last time?” repeatedly, so that I needed some time until I recognized that it was comming from my chair.-spooky!
For those who don´t have the ability to visit venice until end of november and also for those who just like killing time, they´ve installed a homepage where you can play this game “Chance” too.
Christian Boltanski promises to send you a surprise in the case you win.
www.boltanski-chance.com
Enjoy!
Spontan habe ich mich entschlossen nach Graz zu düsen, im Dezember des Vorjahres. Eigentlich, um einen Vortrag der holländischen Kunsthistorikerin und Filmemacherin Mieke Bal zu lauschen (“what can museums do, beyond the local-global dilemma”). Sie war zu Gast im Kunsthaus Graz und ebendort lief zu dieser Zeit auch die Ausstellung Robotertäume. Eine wunderbare Gelegenheit also, diese Medienkunst-Schau für tagr.tv zu inspizieren.
Auf meine Spontanität hat sich, seitens des Museums, Jochen D. Paul eingelassen, nahm sich Zeit und Mut für eine kleine Führung bei laufender Kamera. Besten Dank an dieser Stelle, Jochen!
In der Ausstellung, eine Koproduktion des Kunsthauses Graz und des Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, werden junge Positionen – unter ihnen auch Niki Passath – mit KünstlerInnen einer älteren Generation – wie Richard Kriesche und Nam June Paik – gegenüber gestellt. Alles unter dem Titel Roboterträume. Aber um die Träume der Roboter geht es nicht, wie Peter Pakesch und Roland Wetzel im Vorwort des Ausstellungskatalogs klar stellen. Auch wenn die Geschichte von SF Autor Isaac Asimov Titel-gebend ist: Roboter Elvex beginnt zu träumen von der Revolution gegen seine Schöpfer, den Menschen. Elvex wird abgedreht.
Pakesch, Wetzel schreiben weiter: “Junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler sind eingeladen, mit neu entwickelten Projekten auf die Frage zu antworten, was die Kunst zum Verständnis der rasend schnell voranschreitenden Entwicklung in Forschung und Technik beizutragen hat.” Da ich den Ausstellungskatalog erst im nachhinein gelesen habe, fällt es mir schwer zu beurteilen, ob ich als Besucherin auf diese Frage eine Antwort bekommen habe.
Ehrlich gesagt, es ist mir egal. Denn die Ausstellung war interessant, eben weil es eine gute Mischung war. Junge Kunst auf Augenhöhe mit den Urgesteinen.
Von den modernen Ausstellungshallen des Grazer Aliens war ich dafür weniger beeindruckt. Eine flache Rolltreppe befördert dich nicht nur auf die erste Ebene, sondern lässt dich gleich ans erste Kunstwerk taumeln. Und beim Betrachten desselben wurde ich das unangenehme Gefühl nicht los, Neuankömmlinge könnten mir in den Rücken fallen. Gut, der Andrang war nicht so groß, sodass ich nur einmal angestupst wurde. Ausserdem, ist es wirklich notwendig sich lange vor einem Kunstwerk aufzuhalten?
A walk through the exhibition of this years exhibition of the enter festival in Prague.
interview & editing: emanuel andel
camera: andreas muk haider
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