Networked_Performance

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  Architecture of Association [Paris]

  Posted: 19-December-2008, 8:18pm CET by jo

  Daniel C. Howe & Bill Seaman exhibit the Architecture of Association, as part of Dans la Nuit, des Images at Grand Palais in Paris :: December 18, 2008 - January 1, 2009.

  A large-scale generative installation modelling human associative processes in diverse media, the Architecture of Association (AoA) algorithmically generates and combines fragments of video, text, and sound in real-time via a cluster of networked computers and databases. While a smaller version of the AoA premiered in August at the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the installation at the Grand Palais will be the first full-size installation, spanning over 150 sq feet of high-definition monitors.

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  Doron Golan + Michael Szpakowski [London]

  Posted: 19-December-2008, 8:53pm CET by jo

  Whereof">[http.uk.net] one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent — Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski :: January 16 - March 1, 2009 :: HTTP">[http.uk.net] Gallery, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY (directions">[http.uk.net] )

  Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without ever having met? Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates that they can… The exhibition takes its title from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by the philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. It explores a collaboration between two artists across geographical distance through the ineffable language of image.

  Israeli video artist and filmmaker Doron Golan and British artist, composer and educator Michael Szpakowski both make digital films, which they share through websites and email lists, exploring the mystery of everyday life and of being a human in this place and time. Over the years, the two artists have developed a dialogue and friendship through the exchange of their work. Since 2005 they have collaborated to found and curate DVblog.org, a groundbreaking early platform for art films on the Internet. And yet they’ve never met face to face.

  HTTP Gallery in North London is pleased to host the first meeting between Golan and Szpakowski and their art, in real space. Making their online collaborative process physical, the central installation has three elements: a new silent film by each of the artists with a new musical composition by Szpakowski. Bearing their shared sympathies in mind, the artists have independently determined the length and subjects of their films. As a result, the correspondences and resonances between the works are as yet unknown, and will change constantly. The collaborative installation will be accompanied by elements of their independent practices, including a new installation by Szpakowski utilising video and silver birch branches and a selection of Golan’s recent videos, engaging with elements of life in the Middle East and his native Israel, to which he has returned after many years living in New York City.

  HTTP Gallery based near North London’s thriving Green Lanes area is London’s first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participative and collaborative art practice. Projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, software art and live art also play a role in their curatorial work.

  Past Exhibitions: [www.http.uk.net]">[http.uk.net] .

  HTTP Gallery is run by furtherfield.org.

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  Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT [Chicago]

  Posted: 19-December-2008, 9:46pm CET by jo

  Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT :: until February 1, 2009 :: Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

  Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT unites political bravura with visual sensitivity and beauty, centering on Holzer’s work since the 1990s. The exhibition is not a conventional survey; it offers several distinct but related bodies of work in a range of media in which Holzer has worked in recent years. These include major new works using LED technology, sculpture, light projection pieces, and groupings of new paintings of government documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act. Holzer chooses existing texts from sources ranging from these official documents to poetry and literature to her own earlier series. The works in the exhibition foreground the way in which Holzer continues to innovate artistically while elaborating on themes that have been the touchstones of her practice: pain, love, peace, and survival.

  The LED sign is Holzer’s signature medium?a vehicle she has used in differing configurations and contexts since the early 1980s, from simpler, horizontal wall-mounted versions to more recent sculptural and architectural examples. In this exhibition, Holzer presents several major new LED works that are shown for the first time in the U.S. For Chicago (2007-08), to be configured at the MCA as a major floor installation, is programmed with a “retrospective” of her writings from the late 1970s through the 1990s from such series as Truisms, Living, Survival, Under a Rock, Mother and Child, War, and Lustmord.

  Holzer is considered one of the most significant and pioneering contemporary artists, both for her approach to language and for her use of nontraditional media and public settings for her work. The frequent presence of her work in non-art as well as art world contexts reveals Holzer’s commitment to connecting with the public about issues of social and cultural importance. Her work pairs the use of text and the centrality of installation to examine emotional and societal realities. Seamlessly blending form and content, her work is characterized by formal beauty and conceptual rigor.

  Holzer has consistently and inventively challenged people’s assumptions about the world we live in through a multiplicity of contradictory voices, opinions, and attitudes that form the basis of our society. Alternating between fact and fiction, the public and the private, the universal and the particular, Holzer’s work offers an incisive portrait of our times.

  The exhibition at the MCA is Holzer’s largest and most comprehensive in the United States in over 15 years. Beginning with its fall 2008 presentation at the MCA in Chicago, the exhibition travels to other museums in the United States and Europe during 2009-10 where its components are reconfigured by the artist at each venue as the basis for a site-specific installation. The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Smith, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the MCA.

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  Live Stage: Wall & City [Second Life]

  Posted: 19-December-2008, 10:19pm CET by jo

  Wall & City by Lily & Honglei :: December 21 - March 21, 2009, :: Closing Reception/Artist Talk: March 21; 7:00 -8:00 pm (EST) (4:00 -5:00 pm STL) :: Exhibition Hall, Monash College, Melbourne, Australia and Second Life: Monash University [SLURL].

  Wall & City is a machinima of Second Life performance and installations. The film contains three main scenes, namely Grand View Garden in eastern section where concubine Yang played her famous ?drunk dance?, Great Fire Wall in western section where Queen Baosi was entertained by the ultimate chaos in the history of China, and Underwater City that swallowed beautiful Xishi’s youth and beauty and left her lonely soul wandering around in the submerged city in Three Gorges. ?Fundamentally, the film reflects the concept of the directional symbolism, namely, related architectural structures are built upon ancient Chinese correlative cosmology, which teaches that the movement of the universe follows the ceaseless transformation of yin and yang forces and the five phases (wood, fire, metal, water and earth): life starts from the east (which corresponds to the element of wood, spring, rising yang, etc.) and ends in the west which corresponds to the element of metal, autumn, rising yin, etc.” Lily states, ?and this theory, for us, is not about belief, but seeking for order from chaos, eternity from confusion, … while the reintepretations of themes from Chinese history and folklore are building paths for understanding of the current society.”

  Land of Illusion environment design: Lily & Honglei
  Machinima director: Lily & Honglei
  Performance: Lily Yang, Ry Daniel Shanks
  Collaboration with: Bill Weaver @ mediathatmatters.org, Scott Grant @ Monash University