On XCurrencies. A Performance Project

Klaus Spiess and Lucie Strecker / Austria-Germany

Medical University Vienna

The aim of our research is to develop artworks that are informationally 'grown' for the art-market to become part of an ecological economics. In our performance/installation 'Hare's Blood +' we designed a gene to allow the audience to speculate on artworks that incorporate animal relics in the light of a counter-economy as envisioned by Joseph Beuys. We opened one of the multiples in which Beuys had shrink-wrapped hare's blood. We then isolated the catalase gene from the blood which protects against aging and spliced it into living yeast cells. We then programmed an interface able to activate the synthetic gene. The transgenic Beuysian creature was then put up for auction to act as an 'eco-political agent,' whose life would now be governed by the commercial interests of the auction attendees. We currently assign economic systems to cellular processes with expanded xDNA alphabet. We use systems biology to program logic operations interfacing between the living artwork and the art consumers. Artworks thus become inalienable objects between artists and consumers who both are in a state of reciprocal dependence that establishes a qualitative relationship between the three transactors.

Noise, live cinema with live soundtrack

Luis Angel Castro, Esteban Betancur CICLUX COLLECTIVE / Colombia

ITM - U of A

Using old and recycled technologies side by side with new ones, RUIDO will be born as the story of a city, in this case Medellin… some old photos, handcrafted projectors and the a lot of NOISE around us, around you, around everybody. CICLUX will make a live cinema performance with eighteen people moving around, improvising, building a film brick by brick; the piece will be unique and the act can be an audiovisual experience full of movement mixed with the environment. We design our own software and hardware to bring this realtime film always new to you. In our cities we are all surrounded by RUIDO (noise), and we will show using old and new technologies how this RUIDO has become a stellar character in our daily show. We will video map using a lot of different technologies creating a live cinema act that will show to the public the story of every city… We have made our own projectors, our own software and the piece will be made brick by brick by the hand of eighteen people just in front of your eyes.

Zen Borg

Martin Velez / USA

Koan Medialab

www.martancho.com

In most governance systems, public policies seek to promote sectorization to measure the country's growth. The success of the strategic plans of the governments is determined by the stratification in biased productive sectors that move away from a holistic conception of the human experience. The tendency to generate actions of exclusion and privileged selection based on an imposed sectoral definition, creates spaces of opacity that prevent the emergence of experiences that propose new organizational logics from the unsuspected combination of the transdisciplinary. The strategic design emerges in the institutions, from the use of new technologies and the new value of advertising, to bring about an experimentation that contributes to overcoming gaps such as distrust of institutions. The research addresses two exercises of co-design, transdisciplinary and digital culture, faced by a transdisciplinary group of creatives from the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso, Chile. Creating an analogy to Alice's journey through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, the contact with the dysfunctionality of the systems imposed by hierarchies, incapable of making the structure more flexible in the face of movement and the needs of transversality, is addressed.

Sound Dialogues

Gonzalo Biffarella, Gustavo Alcaraz and Julio Catalano / Argentina

National University of Cordoba

abctrio.blogspot.com.ar

In this exhibition, we have made a clear division between the production of academic instrumental music and the sound art experiences with the new technologies that are present in our universities. We believe that a dialogue is an opportunity to overcome this situation that has been going on for so many years. To reduce the divide, we propose an interdisciplinary space that brings together sound artists from diverse academic backgrounds, instrumentalists, improvisers, and composers. As well as those entering the fields of software programming, interactive systems, detection, and database management. We propose a project that articulates a workshop and an artistic presentation. In this way, we will build bridges between different types of knowledge and ways of making sound art to be interdisciplinary, interactive and inclusive.

Whose Weather is it Anyway?

Sharath Chandra ramakrishnan / India

Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology

https://radiospock.tumblr.com/

'Whose Weather is it Anyway' is part of a series of interventions that seeks to decipher, expose and contrast informational patterns that exist in natural ecosystems and that of man-made informational representations of command, control and dissemination mediated by its infrastructural aspects. Amidst narratives and decisions surrounding recreational tourism, festivities, food, livelihood, calamities and stock prices to which weather conditions are central, lies the colonization of local and global weather information into an intellectual property regime that often makes weather reporting and predictions through opaque informational conglomerates that fuel climate change debates and environmental policy. This project explores the interplay between 'the climate of economies' & 'the economies of climate' in the age of networked Big Data, critically examining these interfaces while engaging the audience using emerging methods in data sonification and networked media art practices.