5TWIG & 24 LEAVES
16.01.2018 - 04.03.2018 Stream Capture - Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery,
Minneapolis (US)
5twigs consists of 5 found twigs that were three dimensionally scanned and then printed in translucent plastic. Each original twig was then mounted in opposition to its artificial counterpart.
24 leaves uses muscle wire to make each leaf subtly bend in unison when the viewer pushes a toggle switch.
David Bowen - what the work knows
15.01.2018 Publication
McKnight Foundation
The publication 'what the work knows' was produced by the McKnight Foundation in conjunction with a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship which David Bowen received in 2015.
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Mental Overdrive NOMINATED FOR SPELLEMANNPRISEN - BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM 2017
15.01.2018 Spellemannprisen
Norway
Mental Overdrive is nominated for the Norwegian Grammy aka Spellemann for EPILOGUE as best electronic music album of 2017, together with great artists such as Lindstrom, +Plattform and SASSY 009.
Mental Overdrive’s live shows are based on hardware equipment only, and varies from harder, beat-based techno shows to more abstract/ambient gigs, all depending on the nature of the event. At the bigger Mental Overdrive shows, live visuals by Tromsø artist Nicolas Horne are part of the setup.
UPCOMING GIGS
26 January - Cementen, Stavanger - Live set
27 January - Vaktbua, Kristiansand - Live set
Mental Overdrive
Video live in-store at Filter Musikk, Oslo
Annelies Van Parys: News & Agenda 2018
04.01.2018 - 27.04.2018 Newsletter
On Tour
News & Agenda 2018 - Annelies Van Parys
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.