Wiyu Wahono Collection, Jakarta

Wiyu Wahono collects contemporary artworks based on his understanding that a good collection should be a visual reflection of the Zeitgeist. The biggest challenge of any art collector is to find out how people in the future will describe the era in which we currently live. He employs this retrospective view when collecting artworks within the context of digitalization, globalization, environment and urbanization.

As contemporary art knows no boundaries in its use of medium nor of any separation between art and non-art, Dr. Wahono collects a wide range of art including: Bio, Sound, Performance, Video, Intermedia, and Light Art, Computer Generated Images, Scanography, Installations, Video Mapping, and Contemporary Photography.

data.tron

Ryoji Ikeda (JP)

How many points are there in a line? What is the number of numbers? How can we verify that the random is random? data.tron is part of the datamatics project, a series of experiments that explore such questions both physically and mathematically. Visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1. data.tron is an audiovisual installation in which each single pixel of visual image is strictly calculated by mathematical principle, composed of a combination of pure mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. These images are projected onto a large screen, heightening and intensifying the visitor’s perception and total immersion in the work.

Living Mirror

C-Lab – Howard Boland (UK), Laura Cinti (UK)

A mirror consisting of a liquid filled with bacteria. A camera scanning your face creates a magnetic field with the information, to which the bacteria respond. The result is that you look at a portrait of yourself, designed by bacteria.

Modell 5

Granular Synthesis – Kurt Hentschlaeger (AT), Ulf Langheinrich (DE)

MODELL 5 is a performance or installation in which the face of Japanese performer Akemi Takeya is subject to drastic time-based interventions that create in essence a cyborg-like hybrid, between human and machine. A roller coaster dramaturgy following the “life” of the four clones on screens.

Natural History of the Enigma, Plantimal #4

Eduardo Kac (BR/US)

The central work in the Natural History of the Enigma series is a plantimal, a new lifeform the artist created and that he calls “Edunia,” a genetically engineered flower that is a hybrid of himself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses his DNA exclusively in its red veins.

Ting*

Tromarama – Febie Babyrose (ID), Herbert Hans (ID), Ruddy Hatumena (ID)

This video is about reunion; there are three mugs, which always appear in the video that represents the three of us. We can see all the tableware run away through the fence and play around in the park, but at the end of the day they must go back into the cupboard and be ordinary tableware again. This video expresses how we felt at that time, when our daily routine at the office occupied our playing time.