SOFT CONTROL » Screenings

PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA (AT)

samo — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:41:07 +0000

In this special screening the SOFT CONTROL project presents a selection of some of the most innovative animated short films from the annual Ars Electronica festival held in Linz every year. Ars Electronica is one of the most influential media art festivals in Europe. It establishes new trends in computer animation, digital, hybrid and sound art. It transforms the Austrian Linz into a Mecca for all those using computer technology in their art projects. And these, incidentally, are artists from seventy countries all over the world. The visitors will see the screening of PRIX Ars Electronica best works selection. For some the work shown will provide an incentive to go to Linz next autumn, for others to broaden their knowledge on the progressive tendencies in experimental art. The Ars Electronica Animation Festival screens a selection of outstanding films submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica. These 120 visual highlights have been divided into 12 lineups. For the SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious project The Ars Electronica presents a program based around various themes such as Narration, Parallel Worlds, Chaos, Short Cuts, Dark Stories, Digital Bestiary, Position & Message and Transformations. The program is curated by Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler (Ars Electronica).

For more information: http://www.aec.at

MMC KIBLA
Day 1. Monday, November 19, 7 pm
Duration: 180 min
Day 2. Tuesday, November 20, 7 pm
Duration: 180 min
Day 3. Wednesday, November 21, 7 pm
Duration: 180 min

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Day 1. Tuesday, November 20, 6 pm
Duration: 180 min
Day 2. Wednesday, November 21, 6 pm
Duration: 180 min
Day 3. Thursday, November 22, 6 pm
Duration: 180 min

IMPAKT (NL)

samo — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:43:49 +0000

Impakt presents critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and innovative audiovisual arts in an interdisciplinary context. To this end Impakt organizes the annual Impakt Festival. With this year’s No More Westerns theme Impakt (24th edition) focuses on the influence of the emerging economies on our global visual culture. Next to the annual festival Impakt also organizes monthly Impakt Events: short projects or screenings centering a certain theme, movement or artist. Impakt commissions and launches annual net art projects on their web site under the header Impakt Online. Their website also features the Impakt Channel where curated selections of film and video art and reports of events are available for home viewing. Finally they run Impakt Works: a residency program for media artists, artists working with digital media, video, sound, interactive technologies, etc.

For the SOFT CONTROL project Impakt presents a program with two of the best works that have been produced recently during residencies in the Impakt Works program. The visitors will see The Third Man by Erik Bunger and You as an Anarchistic Dynamo in the Coordinate System by Linda Franke. The program is curated by Arjon Dunnewind (General Director Impakt).

For more information: http://www.impakt.nl

MMC KIBLA
Monday, November 26, at 7 pm
Duration: 120 min

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Tuesday, November 27, at 6 pm
Duration: 120 min

CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE MEDIAARTLAB (RU)

samo — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:48:20 +0000

MediaArtLab was founded as an independent organization in 1999 with the intention to build a bridge between activities in the fields of culture and new information and communication technologies. At the present date MediaArtLab is one of the leading organizations in Russia in the field of media art. Our main priorities are to develop interdisciplinary educational projects in the art of new technologies and media culture and to organize events popularizing new methods and ideas in exploiting new technologies’ potential or presenting separate periods and trends in media culture appropriation.

The list of main projects includes: Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival, International symposium for media culture “Pro&Contra” and many others. For the past 13 years MediaArtLab conducted educational programs all-over Russia, as well as numerous large-scale exhibitions at various partner venues (Moscow MOMA, Center for contemporary culture Garage, Ekaterina cultural Foundation and others). In the frames of the SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious project MediaArtLab will present works which demonstrate different aspects of new visual language. The program is curated by Olga Shishko (Director MediaArtLab) and Elena Rumyantseva (MediaArtLab Head of Programs).

EXPANDED CINEMA
Screening program

Arev Manoukian (Canada), Nuit Blanche, 2010, digital video, colour/sound, 4′ 41”. Courtesy of Stellar Scene and SpyFilms.

Paul Clipson (USA), Light from the Mesa, 2010, 6′ 00”, super 8 mm film (screened on DVD). Music by Barn Owl. Courtesy of the artist.

Alexandra Kuznetsova (Russia), Three colours. White? Three colours. Grey? Three colours. Red?, 2012, 5′ 00”. Courtesy of the artist.

Yang Fudong (China), The Nightman Cometh, 2011, 19′ 21”, soundtrack by Jin Wang. Courtesy: Yang Fudong, ShanghART Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery.

Taus Makhacheva (Russia), Bullet, 2010, 4′ 39”, Courtesy of the artist.

Bill Morrison (USA), Release, 2010, 13′ 00”, Sound design by Vijay Iyer, Produced by Julie Courtney. Courtesy of the artist.

Anri Sala (Albania/France), Answer Me, 2008, 4′ 51”, Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, London, Galerie Johnen Schöttle, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

Jesper Just (Danmark/USA), Sirens of Chrome, 2010, 12′ 38″, RED transferred to Blu-ray. Courtesy: James Cohan Gallery, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, and Galleri Nicolai Wallner. Copyright © Jesper Just 2010.

For more information: http://www.mediaartlab.ru

MMC KIBLA
Tuesday, November 27, at 7 pm

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Thursday, November 29, at 6 pm

EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age

samo — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:51:52 +0000

For the SOFT CONTROL project the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad Branch, Russia) presents a collection of documentary films about artworks recently created using the latest twenty-first century technologies: artificial life, robotics, bio and genetic engineering. The medium in these artworks is living or lifelike matter, and the properties of living organisms and technologically reproduced artefacts are combined to produce the method. Art created under these new conditions of postbiology – that is, under conditions of artificially generated life – cannot avoid making this artificiality its explicit theme. We are thus again confronted with the question of the relationship between art and life in a completely new context defined by biological and abiological creations, works, and beings. This collection is the first comprehensive overview of the current stage of contemporary techno-biological art. It provides a panorama of artistic strategies for granting and withdrawing the gift of authenticity. The analysis of these strategies opens up new possibilities for creative production and cultural commentary.

The program is curated by Dmitry Bulatov (KB NCCA, Russia).
For more information: www.videodoc.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/

MMC KIBLA
Monday, December 3, at 7 pm

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Tuesday, December 4, at 6 pm

THE PROMETHEUS CENTER (RU)

samo — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:56:17 +0000

In 1962, for the first time in the Soviet Union, a symphony Prometheus by the composer A. Skryabin was performed in Kazan, the section of light included, as was originally intended by the author at the beginning of the XX century. Since then the idea of the synthesis of music and light came to be essential for artists and engineers who first formed an engineering bureau, and then a research institute of experimental aesthetics Prometheus. Bulat Galeev (1940–2009) was the head and initiator of all the projects of the group and co-editor of Leonardo journal (MIT Press). He regarded the creation of art works on the intersection of art and science as a full-fledged trend where the fantasy of authors can be unlimitedly extended with the use of the latest engineering developments.

Multi-media concerts and performances, light and sound films and video installations, projects on light architecture – artists from Kazan were searching and finding unusual solutions for their experiments in all of these fields. Today the pioneering experience of Dr. Prof. Galeev and the Prometheus Institute in the development of the foundations of multi-media art is well-recognized by experts from all over the world (screenings at Аrs Electronica, ISEA, EMAF, etc.), and films of the group from the 1960’–80’s are duly regarded as classics of avant-garde cinema. Currently the Prometheus Centre carries on its activities – once in two years interdisciplinary conferences and festivals on art and experimental aesthetics are held in Kazan.

The SOFT CONTROL educational program will premiere a film on the work of Bulat Galeev and the most prominent projects of the Prometheus Centre that were carried out over the last 50 years. Written by: L. Zagidullina, A. Maksimova, directed by: A. Bikbulatov.

For more information: http://prometheus.kai.ru

MMC KIBLA
Tuesday, December 4, at 7 pm

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Thursday, December 6, at 6 pm

EXPERIMENTS IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY (E.A.T.) (US)

samo — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:01:13 +0000

The history of the 9 Evenings began when Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver organized a group of artists to work together with engineers on a series of performances involving new technology. The group included John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman. During the summer of 1966 more than 30 engineers, most of whom were from Bell Laboratories, worked in one-to-one collaboration with individual artists, depending on the artist’s project and engineer’s area of expertise.

9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering opened on October 13, 1966, at the 69^th Regiment Armory, a huge space on Lexington Avenue at 25th Street in NYC. The art community in New York became involved in the project: artists, dancers, musicians, and performers worked as volunteers and later took part in the performances. Afterwards, the E.A.T. Foundation was established to promote the collaboration between artists and engineers. The performances were recorded and filmed both in colour and in black &white. In the mid 90’s Billy Klüver and Julie Martin (E.A.T. Foundation) accompanied these films by interviews of the participants.

Both screenings will be presented by Maria Punina, art and theatre historian, interdisciplinary programs department of NCCA, Moscow. Films produced by E.A.T. in collaboration with Artpix. Distributed by Microcinema International.

For more information: http://www.9evenings.org