artists
Why are we creative?
Hermann Vaske (DE)
Why are we creative? Does it run in our blood? Do we create in order to make ourselves immortal? Is it a reckless compulsion? Or is it simply a way to make a buck?
The Life of Crystals
Mónica Bate (CL)
Starting with the observation of piezoelectric crystals, the TLC project works at the crossroads of the natural and artificial, life and the machine, art and science. The experience aims to produce a poetic technogical re-purposing, where it can be seen as transformed natural matter for which humans play an evolutionary role.
Mezza: Archivo Liberado
Gonzalo Mezza (CL), Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela (CL)
Mezza: Archivo Liberado reviews, in the eyes of a media art pioneer, the initial processes of technological implementation in Chilean art. By a selection of documents and works, the exhibition offers a revisionist view, presented as an exercise in media archeology, exploring one’s own history (of middle age) under different layers through a body of work that progressively models and anticipates important conflicts of today’s society.
Meditative Symbiosis
Jean Danton Laffert (CL), Karin Astudillo (CL), Camilo Gouet (CL)
Meditative Symbiosis is a trans-disciplinary project that explores the interdependence of a living organism and an electronic system. Composed of containers with plants and sensors inside, a cycle of mutual dependence is created between the growing process of the plants and the dynamic adaptation of the system, the sum of which generates an evolutionary, bio-electronic aesthetic.
Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival
The Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival program debuted in 2018 with a successful cooperation between the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile and Ars Electronica.
Vocals
Carla Bolgeri (CL/IT), Francisco Marín (CL)
Vocals is a work that explores the sonic power of language in an acoustic and corporal praxis that seeks in the voice a vehicle to experience a sonorous state in the body and in matter. We seek to transform our communication processes into other possible configurations of meaning, in a moving territory and a changing landscape, the layers of language are superimposed on the meanings, sounds, vowels, noises, in various phonic forms that move in the foundations of our communication.
Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris
Liusa Wang opened her gallery in January 2014 with the primary aim of promoting young contemporary Chinese artists. Today, she wants to create a dialogue between emerging Chinese artists and young artists around the world. Meetings with the specialized presses and the growing support of collectors also largely established the recognition of these artists. In addition, working with public institutions contributes to the same objectives. The gallery is sensitive to the narrative poetry of the concepts and open to diverse mediums. The exhibition space is located on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, offering various spatial possibilities.
KHIPU
Constanza Piña (CL)
This piece is an open-source textile computer based on the manufacture of an astronomical Inca khipu, the cords of which were hand-spun with alpaca wool and copper wire. They function as an antenna for electromagnetic fields that is connected to an amplifier circuit. This project is a sound and arts interpretation of the technology, wisdom and history of our ancestors.
STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED
Stadtwerkstatt (AT)
Founded as an artists’ collective forty years ago, in 1979, Stadtwerkstatt (STWST) – a living and striving cultural space― takes pride in its autonomous structure. In 2019, STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED, the 5th edition of its 48-hour showcase extravaganza, brings together critical producers and artists to negotiate permanently unfinished conditions.
