Tele-present water
15.12.2017 - 15.04.2018 Aesthetics of Change - MAK
Vienna (AT)
tele-present water draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected and updated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 51003. The wave intensity and frequency collected from the buoy is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure, resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant unknown location.
David Bowen - Biennale Némo
09.12.2017 - 04.03.2018 Le 104 - Les Faits du Hasard
Paris (F)
tele-present wind - 2011
This installation consists of a series of 42 x/y tilting mechanical devices connected to thin dried plant stalks installed in a gallery and a dried plant stalk connected to an accelerometer installed outdoors. When the wind blows it causes the stalk outside to sway. The accelerometer detects this movement transmitting the motion to the grouping of devices in the gallery. Therefore the stalks in the gallery space move in real-time and in unison based on the movement of the wind outside.
Lawrence Malstaf - Biennale Némo
09.12.2017 - 04.03.2018 Le 104 - Les Faits du Hasard
Paris (F)
Conversations 02012
A couple of vibrating chairs are slowly moving and turning randomly through the space. They seem to search and reject each other with soft humming sounds. When a visitor passes by or sits down, the chairs hesitate and then carefully try out different patterns. The patterns are not designed; it is a self-organizing system where new compositions and new behavior arises spontaneously through the duration of the installation.
Event Horizon at KIKK Festival
02.11.2017 - 11.11.2017 KIKK Festival - Invisible Naratives
Galerie du Beffroi, Namur (B)
Between poetry and technology, artists are revealing the invisible, they tell us stories awaking our senses and showing possible worlds. The artworks disturb our reason and play with the imaginary, a visual, acoustic, luminous, geometric, tangible, abstract or hypnotic travel in the world of invisible narratives.
Shrink at KIKK Festival
02.11.2017 - 05.11.2017 KIKK Festival - Invisible Naratives
Eglise d'Harscamp, Namur (B)
Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.
At KIKK Festival there will be 6 Shrinks and the bodies of 6 performers.
New Release: Epilogue by Mental Overdrive
28.10.2017 Insomnia Festival
Tromsø (NO)
The new album Epilogue by Mental Overdrive will be released through Prins Thomas’ label Rett i Fletta on 27 October 2017, followed by a string of live shows throughout 2018.
Club meant electronica with gloomy and mystical sounds between kraut disco and raw techno.
Jacques Charlier - Une Rétrospective
14.10.2017 - 14.01.2018 La Panacée
Montpellier (F)
Solo-exhibition Jacques Charlier - Une Rétrospective
curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
at La Panacée, Montpellier (F).
The Belgian artist Jacques Charlier is one of the pioneers of European conceptual art in which he has integrated humor and comics, but also a professional life and rock - he has released several post-punk albums at the end of the 1970s.
Starting from a critical sociology of the art world, Jacques Charlier evolved into a complex and unclassifiable art that evokes the spirit of Francis Picabia while anticipating the American art of the 1990s and especially Mike Kelley.
His work sheds a decisive light on the relations between Europe and the United States in the 1960s, before continuing with total eccentricity in relation to the art of his time.
This is the first retrospective of the artist in France.
Shrink at FILE Brasilia 2017
12.10.2017 - 09.12.2017 CCBB
Brasilia (BR)
The theme ‘Electronic Art in the Disruptive Age’ was chosen specifically for the Festival’s first edition in Brasilia. It presents innovative works which are arranged in four different groups – or aspects – which represent new behaviors in the contemporary world: Experiential Body, Kinetic Body, Virtual Body, and Playful Body.
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Nemo Observatorium - Nuit Blanche Brussels
07.10.2017 Nuit Blanche Brussels - Power Games
Galerie du Parlement, Brussels (B)
A transparent cylinder, polystyrene particles and five fans… The instantly spectacular installation is in fact a hypnotic machine encouraging meditation. Nemo Observatorium 02002 can be watched from a seat placed inside the whirlpool or outside of the tube. Everything is calm and peaceful in the eye of the storm. Spectators can follow the circular movement of the balls, concentrating on the threedimensional forms they draw or listen to the cascade-like sound they make. Lawrence Malstaf challenges them to remain calm and focused in a constantly changing environment.
David Bowen - infrared drawing device
07.10.2017 - 03.02.2018 Beall Center for Art + Technology
Los Angeles (USA)
infrared drawing device, 2003 by David Bowen uses four infrared sensors to detect people as they move in front of it. The sensors are programmed to move a drawing arm in real time creating a charcoal drawing based on a participants' movements.