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MANTRAcks and Sonic Fields: A VirtuAural Duology Part 1 – untitled #352

Francisco López (ES)

Industry and nature are the opposing starting points for this long-term sound meta-piece, which originally consisted of two parts. The ten-channel audio installation untitled #352 was specially adapted for the attic of the Ursulinenkirche: Complex layers of sound, recorded in Fontenay-sous-Bois near Paris, develop further and are distilled into expansive electronic mantras (“MANTRAcks”).

VOIGHT-KAMPFF

Yonlay Cabrera (CU)

The project is based on a procedure for measuring the involuntary ocular changes that happen in a group of people, determined according to categories that correspond with the “Ideological Apparatus of State” (Louis Althusser) used by the Cuban Government. The people are submitted to questions that “stress-test” the normal values in order to determine to what extent they reproduce the ideal behaviors internalized by the ideological apparatus.

Insect a new media

Fernando Asensio (ES), José Luis Cuenca (EC), Alejandra Florez (CO), Silvia García (ES), Noelia Medina (ES), Jordi Sos (ES)

This interactive installation proposes a symbiosis between obsolete technology and natural environment, as an approach to a dystopian future world. A group of sculptural objects composed of plants and technological waste, a multi-screen projection device, a technological codex and a descriptive catalogue make up this undead multimedia project.

Wiki-Piano.Net

Alexander Schubert (DE)

Wiki-Piano.Net is a composition for piano that can be co-designed by internet users. Everything that the community has made available on the website will be performed on stage. This can be not only music, but also texts, images, or other content. For the musical realization of this score, the performing pianist has piano, keyboard, and his own voice at his disposal. It is not possible to study and practice this composition in the classical sense, but it is not the masterpiece either that is in the foreground of this project. Rather, it is a matter of continuous observation and playful exploration of community behavior and internet use.

Bird Language

Helena Nikonole (RU)

This project explores the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in a bio-semiotics context: the artist uses machine learning to explore the sign systems of birds.

Gallery Spaces Panel IV: Interdisciplinary Art – how becoming established?

The art market refers to the process of art distribution and sales. Museums, galleries, collectors, curators, critics are part of the active market participants influencing the dynamics. Artists to choose interdisciplinary approaches are in need of resources, display and active discourse with all industry participants to increase awareness, understanding and appreciation for interdisciplinary work. What is needed of all industry participants to propel interdisciplinary work to a representation established level? Art and science continuously discover common questions and modes of operation, resulting however in fundamental different outcomes. These differences create friction and great space for collaborations between disciplines.

Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th

Samson Young (HK)

This is how Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony can sound too: keys click, sheets of music rustle, and bows sweep tonelessly over strings. By “muting” the foregrounded sound event, a surprising amount of previously unnoticed sounds can be heard in this performance. In Muted Situation #22 – presented as a 12-channel audio installation – Samson Young’s idea is to suppress the dominant voices, uncover the unheard, and point out basic principles about hearing and sounding.

Arte Eletrônica Indígena (Electronic Indigenous Art)

Thydêwá

The Arte Electrônica Indígena (AEI) project was designed and executed by the NGO Thydêwá. It consisted of a series of ten short artistic residencies in indigenous communities in the Brazilian Northeast in order to co-create works of electronic art. These were exhibited to the public at the Museum of Modern Art, Salvador da Bahia, in August 2018 and have since toured the indigenous communities themselves.

GROWING OUT OF UNNATURAL

Universitat Politècnica de València, San Carles- Fine Arts Faculty, MA Visual Arts & Multimedia (ES)

Using art (techné), as a creative vehicle between nature, world and society, the projects brought together by this exhibition act as funambulistic machines that walk on the threshold of these states, breaking through spaces full of perpetual instability in the order of thinking and also in the order of doing.

Strings

Ruini Shi (CN)

Strings is a poetic animation in the style of early computer games. In this setting the main character is in search of his lost love in an obsolete online game. The film tells a story about mediated intimacy by depicting a range of virtualized spaces or realms in a game, aiming to open up new ways of thinking about digitally mediated relationships.