• Date
      May 24, 2017

      Where have you been?

      Lasse Scherffig / USA
      Where have you been? is an installation investigating the personal data leaked by networked mobile phones. It consists of a projection displaying seemingly random scenes from Google StreetView. These scenes, however, depict places members of the audience have visited in the past: a frequently used airport, a favorite café, or the own front yard. This information is harvested from the mobile devices entering the exhibition space, which search for available WiFis and by that reveal the networks they were connected to before. Where have you been? tries to link these networks to geographic origins, using WiFi location data collected by a wardriving community.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Weeping Bamboo: Resonances from Within

      Andreas Kratky and Juri Hwang / USA
      University of Southern California
      www.andreaskratky.com www.jurihwang.com
      Weeping Bamboo: Resonances from Within is an exploration of digital media for communicating and preserving indigenous forms of oral culture. It is a locational sound art piece offering a site-specific, reactive soundscape that can be experienced in public at the Plaza de Bolívar.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      SCARS&BORDERS (ARThropocene collection)

      Mitra Azar / USA
      Scars&Borders is an ongoing archive of images shot by the artist investigating crises locations at geographical borders from the imaginary yet real perspective metaphorically located at the buffering areas between two confining countries - where technically and political danger of this zone is underlined by their prison-state status and by the strategies of distraction enabled on site via presence of duty frees and/or touristic attractions, both responsible for anesthetizing the subversive strength of those spaces. Those borders are selected on the basis of their sociopolitical and aesthetics potential in regards to disclosing narratives in the frame of challenging political situations, and studied from the point of view of an aesthetic of crises.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Your Hearing Them

      Blake Johnston/New Zealand
      victorian university
      www.blakejohnston.net 
      What does your voice sound like? This question may seem simple, but surprisingly, it can be problematic. The reaction to hearing one's voice played back through a recording is often of disgust or disownership; "That's not how I sound." However, this version of your voice is much closer to the way others hear it. This reveals the duplicitous nature of the voice - there is a conflict in your own perception of it and what others hear. The answer to the question: “what does your voice sound like?” depends on who is asked.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Institutions in crisis

       
      Andrew Newman, Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Matthias Tarasiewicz and Teresa Dillon / Australia, Austria, Brazil, Poland                                                                                
      University of New South Wales, Research Institute for Arts and Technology, Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences
      Panel
      http://karlabru.net/site/, http://www.formerwest.org/Contributors/KubaSzreder, https://riat.ac.at  
        Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is an encompassing term, which refers to the licenses associated with making the source code that is the instructions and language per se, which defines how software works and is made available for others to read, modify and share . Providing a brief history of FLOSS, this paper presents a hypothetical situation, whereby elements of FLOSS are applied to reimaging institutional change within the context of a contemporary arts venue and organization. Framed as an artistic intervention, the art institutions structure and its existing forms are considered as the living, materiality of the practice.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Turbidity Paintings

      Sara Gevurtz and Thomas Asmuth / USA
      Virginia Commonwealth University
      saragevurtz.com
      "Turbidity Paintings" explores and challenges the divide between the arts and sciences, and directly questions the role of the artist when it comes to science and scientific data. Iterative process and procedure are almost indistinguishable in art and science. The role of the artist and art in this project is to create an experimental model that leads to new dialogues about water quality.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Synchronization

      Teoma Naccarato and John Maccallum / Canada
      Center for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University
      naccarato.org/dance
      In this intimate installation, participants are invited to join a partner inside a private booth. With electronic stethoscopes and transducers, the duo share the rhythms of their hearts in real-time, stimulating sites of pulsation on one's own and one another's bodies. Issues of mutual trust, consent, and play are negotiated nonverbally, as the pair transgresses boundaries of internal versus external, and self, other, and environment. Individual bodies are spread further as the heartbeat of each person is used to enliven an interactive, haptic sculpture and sonic installation throughout the public space, for everyone present.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      finding prana

      Helen Collard / United Kingdom
      Northumbrian University
      www.helencollardo.com
      Finding Prana is a bio-art work that employs the yogic concept of prana (breath or life-force) and the practice of pranayama (regulation of breath) to bring awareness to our co-existence in air and breathing as our technology of being. Yoga practitioners make extraordinary claims concerning the value of the conscious observation and control of breath. Breathing here, is not just a gross bodily function segregated away from the mind and soul; breathing is our material of time and the producer of consciousness.
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