photography
Caput (head)
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
Since Darwin, it is clear that flowers and bees engage in an evolutionary race. The honeybee is a complex insect with numerous sensorial features which are matching perfectly with the demands of sensual plants. The black-and-white photographs reveal the elaborate design of some dissected parts of flowers and honeybees.
Chicago New Media 1973–1992
VGA Gallery (US)
Chicago New Media 1973–1992 chronicles the under-recognized story of Chicago's contributions to new media art by artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Midway Games and Bally from 1973 to 1992.
The Ornaments of the Post-Anthropocene
The Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
Smooth surfaces and glazed facades represented the challenges of modernist architecture. Architecture without ornaments or, as defined by Beatriz Colomina, “X-ray” architecture now faces the challenges of the post-Anthropocene. These are buildings not inhabited by people but by machines; built to produce, share, reorganize or store. It’s architecture without daylight, facades without windows, and floors without stairs. How do architects respond to the emerging challenges of the new era and their environment? The exhibition will present previously rejected ornaments as integrated parts of several projects designed for or by the machines.
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.
YAIR – Your Art is Reality
YAIR seeks to preserve digital cultural heritage, standardize ownership and provide free public access to digital artworks. From video & photography to VR & AR, YAIR is working across all digital media, building a secure, convenient, standardized and tokenized ecosystem for the digital arts on a blockchain infrastructure.
Deep Angel – Shadows Left Behind
Manuel Cebrian (ES), Zivvy Epstein (US), Joyce Feng (US), Matt Groh (US), Nick Obradovich (US), Iyad Rahwan (SY)
The Shadows Left Behind is a collection of photographs transformed by artificial intelligence to digitally invert permanence and ephemerality. Appealing to the aesthetics of absence, this collection reveals what is disappearing around us, spurs reflection on what we will soon miss, and declutters our thoughts to reawaken imagination and agency.
KATHRIN STUMREICH hosted by ARS ELECTRONICA
Kathrin Stumreich (AT)
In the scope of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival 2019, Bildraum 07 in Vienna presents current works by Kathrin Stumreich. The artist gives insights into her sound research, in which she examines order and code, movement choreography and complex robotics, as well as coincidence and chaos as material properties.
