Gallery Spaces
The Work of Art in The Age of Instastory
Reza Zefanya Mulia (ID)
The Work of Art in The Age of Instastory seeks the possibility of how an artwork could be appreciated properly when it has been developed into a short-term digital content that only lasts for 24 hours on social media. Using two contrasting objects—hand-drawn works on paper and three smartphones with looping videos—the installation also raises questions about whether social media posts can do justice to both exhibited artworks and the artists themselves.
Indonesia Kaya in Augmented Reality, My Identity in Augmented Reality
Budi Ubrux (ID)
Through this app, art lovers can witness the painting come alive, offering an interactive digital experience about what it may have been like to be in the scene during the 21st century as depicted in the painting. It featured newspaper-wrapped heads as a metaphor for image-making desires. Ubrux adapts symbolic language for a new generation: Digital Avatar.
Expert Tour: Interface Cultures
Students of the Department of Interface Cultures
Students from Interface Cultures at University of Art and Design Linz will take you through their exhibition. They present their projects, explain how they came into being and talk about the background of the works. They will focus on the role of technology and art in their works. Everybody is invited to join and raise questions about their art!
Expert Tour: Art Market Initiative Tour 2019
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt (DE/US)
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 second tour looks at the Gallery Spaces exhibition from the art market point of view.
Media Art Globale, Jakarta – Zurich
Media Art Globale is a new media art festival in Jakarta, Indonesia organized by Connected Art Platform (CAP). The festival focuses on showcasing cutting-edge media artworks and consists of multidisciplinary conversations through a month-long exhibition, artist talks, symposia and workshops. It aims to create a place where artists, scientists, curators, and researchers can meet, discuss, develop and create together in the form of artworks, journals and products.
Luci, sin nombre y sin memoria
José Manuel Berenguer (ES)
Luci reproduces the functioning of a self-organizing system inspired by the behavior of fireflies in south-east Asian mangrove swamps. It has been observed that when the male launches an intermittent signal the female responds with a similar signal. Luci is, in the final instance, an allusion to the irreversibility of nature and the absolute security of death.
Aurelia 1 +Hz / proto viva generator
Robertina Šebjanič (SI)
Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator addresses the possibilities of coexistence of animals and machines. The project uses living organisms to process “aliveness” of a simple robotic machine. The two entities – jellyfish and robot – are separated. If they merge into one, causing new biocybernetic organism to occur, would they be able to live forever?
Transcrobial
Tal Danino (US)
Transcrobial incorporates machine learning and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to explore the emerging relationship of humans, microbes, and machines. These algorithms mimic and expand upon bacteria evolution and pattern formation beyond what is realizable in the physical world. Specifically, Transcrobial focuses on 'bacteria swarming' patterns, which are emergent behaviors that these microscopic organisms coordinate to form macroscale, fractal-like structures in an amazing feat of community intelligence.
Art & Artificial Intelligence
Ronan Barrot (FR), Robbie Barrat (US)
An exceptional encounter between a contemporary painter Ronan Barrot and an artist, researcher in artificial intelligence, Robbie Barrat. 450 paintings of “Skulls” painted by Ronan Barrot over the last few years have been digitally scanned and imported by Robbie Barrat in a neural network to train it and create new images of “Skulls”.
Trans*Plant: connecting with mycorrhiza intranet [edible version]
Q.R*3 – Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR) + Roger Rabbitch (ES) + Rebeca Paz (ES)
“2024. March 8. The annual resources of the Earth have been exhausted. The equivalent of 4 planets is needed to satisfy human consumption. From a VPN of a second Internet, a group of biohackers, Q.R*3, tries to connect with the mycorrhiza, a network composed of a symbiosis between roots and fungi through which the terrestrial plant world communicates. The first members of this group died immediately under the effect of an unknown molecule. Nothing is known about the rest of the group.”
