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. Media Art Globale also creates opportunities for artists and art communities in Indonesia, Southeast Asia and internationally, both established and emerging, to enter into dialog and develop their potential.

CAP is an ecosystem of art platform enriching the relationship between artists through collaborative projects and exhibitions in Asia and Europe. CAP is built on a vision among art enthusiasts and culture producers that embraces the notion of collecting with sensibility.

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.

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.

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.

Websites:

• http://www.mediaartglobale.com/
• www.connectedartplatform.com.
• Instagram: @mediaartglobale