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Real Feelings – A talk on Survival with Lucy McRae and Angelique Spaninks
Lucy McRae (GB), Angelique Spaninks (NL)
Sci Fi Artist and Body Architect Lucy McRae in conversation with the curators behind the exhibition Real Feelings. Her new work Solitary Survival Raft, shown at HeK, is an inflatable, reactive, breathing sculpture, inviting visitors to crawl into it for safety. The outbreak of Covid-19 has made our digitalized societies evade the human touch even more. Going against the idea of a future without being touched, McRae builds machines that gently embrace and hold the body.
Future Life Exhibition
Curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger
Marco Barotti (IT), Clams, interactive installation, 2019 Disnovation.org (FR), Online Culture Wars (in collaboration with Baruch Gottlieb, 2018/19; The Persuadables), video, 2019 Quimera Rosa (ES/FR), Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll Be With/In You, mix-media installation, work in progress since 2016 Anna Ridler (GB), Mosaic Virus, GANs generated video installation, 2019 Robertina Sebjanic (SI) & Gjino Sutic (HR), Aqua Forensic, installation, 2018
Real Feelings – A Talk on Vibes with Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kyle McDonald and Ariane Koek
Lauren Lee McCarthy (US), Kyle McDonald (US), Ariane Koek (GB)
Sabine Himmelsbach, Ariane Koek and Angelique Spaninks, the curators behind the exhibition Real Feelings at HeK Basel in conversation with the American artist Lauren Lee McCarthy. This Artist Talk allows insights into the work of a highly interesting and relevant artist, examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation and algorithmic living. Her interactive installation Vibe Check, especially commissioned for the exhibition at HeK, consists of a series of cameras capturing and analyzing the visitors emotional reactions to each other, ultimately presenting the results to them individually.
Real Feelings – A Virtual Exhibition Tour with curator Sabine Himmelsbach
Sabine Himmelsbach (DE)
Co-curator Sabine Himmelsbach will digitally guide you through the international group show Real Feelings at HeK Basel, to present work by 20 artists in mediums ranging from artificial intelligence, interactive installations, robotics and biometrics, to gaming, video installations, virtual reality and photography. The shown works examine how technology can capture, evaluate or generate our emotions in a variety of ways. Find out more about the artistic and curatorial choices that determined the installation and set design of the exhibition.
Space in your Living Room!
Space in Your Living Room! is an online program that brings astronauts, artists, space scientists and engineers, into living rooms across Europe and beyond. It is a series of fun activities, exciting challenges with amazing prizes, and live events for young people, families and educators. At Ars Electronica Festival we will share conversations between astronauts and artists, and the youth art projects created during the program: including stories, speculative design and young reporters stories.
Step into Space
Online Exhibition
Step into Space is an exciting exhibition developed by Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin and University Leiden that brings together space sciences and art to inspire youths and their families. Space mission will lead you through the story.
CONVERSATION WITH THE MAKERS OF VIRTUAL BLACK OUT: EXPERIMENTS IN THE FUTURE OF FORM Exhibition
Panel with the artists of the Virtual Black Out: Experiments in the Future of Form that took place at the National Arts Festival and includes discussion on the outcomes and collaborative procedures
artUNBOXING
Filip Ignatowicz (PL)
artUNBOXING is a series of video-performances produced for the Internet. It is published in episodes, in the form of a program that mimics the YouTube unboxing show. Instead of typical objects for this genre, I open purchased works of art, things signed by artists, or gadgets from exhibitions. The act of unpacking of those items - is the essence of my creative act. I try to verify the thin border between art and product.
Pan African Telematic Art Project
The Pan-African Telematic Art Project (PATAP) is a new initiative of the Vrystaat Arts Festival through the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), in partnership with the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, Ars Electronica, and the University of the Free State’s Program for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD), funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Pretoria and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Two projects were selected to receive funding to experiment with new, interactive media arts projects, dealing with issues relevant to the continent.
Fak’ugesi Digital Art Curators
Over the years of growing the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival we have experienced a huge hole in our African digital arts ecosystem, essentially the lack of curators, producers and general advocators of digital arts in Africa, and specifically those from the continent. The field itself is not necessarily new, but the hurdles to accessing resources and markets brings a number of challenges for the African digital art ecosystem.
Sensory Orders
Erik Adigard (FR/US), Chris Salter (US/QC-CA)
Sensory Orders is an exhibition, online and print project examining the different orders of sense making taking place under our (current) conditions of extreme precarity and uncertainty. Twenty five international artists, scholars and researchers respond to how different orders - the /symbolic/ realm of language and culture, the /technological /realm of machines and the /organic /realm of viruses, plants, animals and the physical-chemical matter of the earth itself - sense on and affect each other.
EXHIBITION - Buds about to Blossom (含苞待放)
Curator: Chu-Ying Chen
Complementary to the KT exhibition, the Tsing Hua Garden also hosts a Nursery Garden called “Buds about to Blossom (含苞待放).” This exhibition provides a stage for our younger artists in NTHU, with 4 artworks.
EXHIBITION - Bitter Spring and Fruity Fall (春苦秋實)
Curators: Ho-Lin Lo & K.T. Li Foundation for Development of Science and Technology
KT Award of Technology Art, sponsored by MOST, is the most prestigious award for college students in digital arts in Taiwan. There are three competitions: interactive art, digital animation, and digital game. This year’s theme is "Bitter Spring and Fruity Fall (春苦秋實)," which describes all kinds of difficulties we faced, especially the COVID-19 epidemic this spring, but reminds us that we still harvest in autumn. The exhibition of winners’ artworks in the 15th will be held in NTHU.
Hong Kong Garden
Art Practices in Hong Kong at the Time of Global Seclusion
Nine contributors of artists, curator, lab founder and researcher will share their experiences and insights on the recent challenges in their practices.
Public Symposium: How and Why Artworks Feel?
MindSpaces (EU) and MindSpaces (HK)
Key contributors to MindSpaces EU and MindSpaces HK will present their research in the framework of Horizon2020 MindSpaces/S+T+Arts research project.
Art in Labs
School of Creative Media, CityU. SCM faculty
Art in Labs will be introduced by the Dean of the School of Creative Media, CityU. SCM faculty stage their latest projects.
Collective Curated Exhibtions I: On the Road, Young Media Artists in China
A collaborative project between SCm/CityU HK and Guan Shang Yue Museum of Art, Shenzhen, presenting 50 installations by 35 artists; which involved 15 curators, art critics and scholars from China and Hong Kong. It provided an overview of the media art scene across China today, and demonstrated how young Chinese artists are exploring and combining both older and ‘newer’ media to new ends.
Solo Exhibition III: Maurice Benayoun – Introduction to Value of Values
Maurice Benayoun (FR/HK)
Morphogenesis of Values (MOV) video reveals the stakes and objectives of the VoV project and the outcomes for the coming show in 2021. MOV is developed from VoV, transactional neuro-design art project that provokes questions of human values with relation to art, philosophy, poetry, ethics, the environment and surveillance. It resonates with how we will define human goals in a post-pandemic world.
Solo Exhibition IV: Tobias Klein – Metamorphosis or Confrontation
Tobias Klein (GE/HK)
This film is a short documentary of the solo exhibition Metamorphosis or Confrontation of the German artist Tobias Klein at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery. The documentary is structured as the exhibition in four parts with an introduction. Bones, Masks, Mutations and Forces are the chapters and provide a detailed insight into the various curatorial strategies - making the diversity in the artist's work visible.
Thematic Curated Exhibtions I: Leonardo Da Vinci – Art & Science. Then & Now
Isabelle Jennifer Frank (US/HK)
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, this exhibition presents original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Pinacoteca and Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The drawings are accompanied by five machines modeled on Leonardo’s designs, and by the works of contemporary artists – most of them faculty at SCM CityU HK – reflecting on Leonardo’s persistent legacy and influence into the digital age.
