Liz Vlx about the ubermorgen.com project “torture classics”
This week the Coded Cultures Festival 2011 starts in Vienna.
Coded Cultures 2011 presents itself on many different locations in Vienna, with the main focus on the Donaukanal (Danube Channel) and the surrounding Viennese city districts.
From 21st to 25th of September focus days will be held, which mainly will take place at the Viennese Danube Channel, the 2nd district of Vienna, Museums Quarter Vienna, the Badeschiff and the Odeon Theatre. From the 26th of September to the 2nd of Octo- ber workshops, presentations and artist-talks are taking place. Partners are Transmediale Berlin, Media Lab Prado Madrid, Enter Festival Prag and Amber Festival Istanbul (among many others). On the 1st of October the Festival is ending with a big event at the Badeschiff in cooperation with the viennese Waves Festival.
The opening event is this Wed 21st – expect first postings 2b online during the weekend!
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.
Another very poetic and beautiful piece was ADA, an analog interactive installation by Karina Smigla-Bobinski.
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!
The new project devised by the Italian art group CONIGLIOVIOLA – is the first itinerant artists’ camping program created to give free hospitality to a selection of young international artists during the most important contemporary art events worldwide.
In true corsair style, the PIRATE CAMP will – for the very first time – break the well-entrenched rule that outlaws camping in the lagoon!
The Stateless Pavilion, as the first PIRATE CAMP has been dubbed, aims to focus attention on the topic “extra-territoriality” as a condition typical of artists that comes to expression in the project’s two key figures: the pirate and the camper.The status of not-belonging-to-places, inhabiting places while remaining outside the concept of territorial ownership, becomes a status of statelessness, of not-belonging-to-any-state, in the context of the Venice Biennale, whose mainstay is the fact that its every edition is built on an offering – and a reiteration – of the representation of national identities, by “national” pavilions.
Video by Philipp Köster and Wasserbloom, Interview and edit by Wasserbloom
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