Gallery Spaces
PsyCHO TRance // K-Hole
Kenneth Dow (DE)
The last few years have witnessed art spaces and clubs reaching out to each other, each seeking the others’ prestige, credibility and audience. It seems as if clubs as cultural spaces were able respond better to the current discourse in and around art than white cubes. In their very struggle for survival, art spaces are the spitting image of capitalist conformity. The white cube is capable of digesting even the most fierce critique, by separating it in time and space. In small portions it is made indigestible to the observer without poisoning the productive, working brain. It is sane. It allows for sober consideration, reflection. It allows the observer to remain in their position as body-less bystander, possibly a freecam. Like when you’ve been shot dead in Counter Strike and are waiting for a new game to start.
LIMINAL
Louis-Philippe Rondeau (CA)
LIMINAL is an interactive installation that seeks to reify the boundary between present and past through a play of projected light. It employs a photographic process called slit-scan to spread out time in space. Its visual aspect stretches out time while spatiality is expressed via its audio component. Appearing as a glowing portal of light, the installation mirrors the interactor, albeit with a temporal distortion.
The Graffiti Project
The Graffiti Project is a live, collaborative, interactive, token-driven art installation. Participants are able to upload their creative content through the æternity digital graffiti æpp, leveraging blockchain’s core features of a public, decentralized, distributed record to archive indefinitely an artwork that would normally be local and temporary and make it accessible by a global audience.
Not Invented Here / Proudly Found Elsewhere
Fette Sans (DE)
When consuming Fette Sans pills, we expect solution, salvation, reaction, enlightenment, modification, relief, or at least a truly good high. Her pills, all individual and artisanally crafted from various kinds of digestible matter, disappoint and refuse any shift to reality.
Expert Tour: Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces Tour 2019
Christl Baur (DE)
This year, the Art Market Initiative Tours once again offer the opportunity to become immersed in the world of the New Media Art Market. The first tour, with an artistic orientation, tries to capture the abstract and poetic side of the Gallery Spaces.
Quadrature
Juliane Götz (DE), Sebastian Alexander Neitsch (DE)
The cosmos serves the new media arts collective Quadrature as an incomprehensible yet genuinely real place. A place full of concepts and superlatives which very often transcend a common mind.
LeveL II
mischer'traxler studio (AT)
LeveL II – a further development of the LeveL – is the fragile balance of perfect system installation.
The Wall of Gazes
Mariano Sardón (AR), Mariano Sigman (AR/ES)
The Wall of Gazes aims to engage people with those parts of the face that are really seen and those parts that remain “unseen” while attention is focused elsewhere on the portrait.
Digital Investigations #1 & #2
Valerio Vincenzo (IT)
The book, weighing about 30 kg, and composed of over 4,000 pages of binary code, is the negative of my photograph, namely its origin information: This sequence of 0 and 1 allows me to visualize the enormous amount of information produced each time I take a photograph. I cannot understand the information in this book, but for a computer the information in the book is the photo.
Eclipse II
Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves (GR/FR)
"Eclipse II helps us to experience the inherent game between the relative position of the observer, a light source and an eclipsing disk. By means of a projection on a suspended circular screen, it questions the instinctive and mystic understanding that natural manifestations of light induce. "
