A MATTER OF FEELING –CURATORIAL STATEMENT.By ALEX ADRIAANSENS
A Matter of Feeling. By Alex Adriaansens, director V2_, Rotterdam. Advertising has made us chasing cars and clothes, we have working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. Tyler Durden in “The Fight Club” The social welfare state is falling…
A MATTER OF FEELING.by RACHEL ARMSTRONG
A Matter of Feeling. Introductional essay for the Meta.Morf 2012 conference. The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image. Meta.Morf is a reflection on a new kind image, which is evolving in a diverse set of arts practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Intriguingly, its portrait of our universe is far more autonomous and sensitive than the one that has…
ALTERNATE EMBODIMENTS / PROSTHETIC HEAD.By STELARC
ALTERNATE EMBODIMENTS / PROSTHETIC HEAD We are living in an age of excess and indifference. Of prosthetic augmentation and extended operational systems. There is now a proliferation of biocompatible components in both substance and scale that allows technology to be attached and implanted into the body. A turbine heart has been engineered that is more robust and reliable than previous artificial hearts. It circulates the blood continuously without pulsing. In the near future you may rest your head on your loved ones chest. He is…
FEELING MATTER: EMPATHY AND AFFINITY IN THE HYLOZOIC SERIES.By Philip Beesley.
Feeling Matter: Empathy and Affinity in the Hylozoic Series. Our work on the Hylozoic Series of interactive sculptures attempts to offer an anatomy of subtle boundaries that expands the physiology of individual human bodies. Might it be possible to suspend judgement about what is ‘me’ and what is clearly not? Rather than weakness, the ambivalence implied by such a suspension might be an enabling quality. The Hylozoic Series attempts to expand the space that lies between clearly defined personal territories, transforming it into a felt…
FICTIONAL INFLUENCES.By NEIL SPILLER
Fictional Influences. I do not make any distinction between fiction and reality. I do not believe in reality – I see it as a capitalist fabrication as much fiction as any fiction. I am a second order cyberneticist who believes that we “make” our individual, personal worlds by operating and “building” within them. Whatever that “building” is, whether it is a conversation, poetry, prose, the design of objects or buildings. We are changed by conversations and the relationships we make with what we perceive as…
MIND TIME MACHINE AS A LIVING TECHNOLOGY.By Takashi Ikegami
Mind Time Machine as a Living Technology. Any basic science can lead to innovative applications. Artificial life (alife) studies is no exception. The purpose of living technology is to bring to fruition the concepts developed through the study of artificial life, such as self-reproduction, autonomy, enaction, robustness, open-ended evolution, evolvability, and so on, in a real-world context (Ikegami, 2009). By increasing our understanding of how we can connect artificial systems with natural environments, we can further our development of a theoretical framework that situates artificial…
MONOLAKE [DE NL]Sep. 28 @ BYSCENEN
Byscenen Friday September 28 Monolake Ghosts in Surround presents the material of the Ghosts album as a full surround sound experience plus real time generative video. The visual side of the Ghosts in Surround tour is a contribution by the Dutch audiovisual artist Tarik Barri [NL] with whom Robert Henke [DE] is collaborating since early 2009. “…Precisely crafted earthshaking beats, rough dirty noises, deep bass, wide lush soundscapes and little sonic creatures inhabiting a fascinating planet in which a lot of things go badly wrong and nothing is taken for granted –…
OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE [JP]Sep. 28 & 29 @ BYSCENEN
Byscenen Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of September The return of magnetic tape ! OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE hides an unusual group of 5 young musicians led by Ei Wada (who recruited 4 friends from university for his project) and its stand-out feature is its signature instrument: old rolls of magnetic tape that the group’s members connect to computers from the latest generation, creating unprecedented melodies, tones and sounds and providing a live show that defies any possible comparison with anything else you have ever seen on a…
FROST [NO] Sep. 29 @ BYSCENEN
CONCERT @ Byscenen Saturday September 29! FROST Live: Aggie Peterson, Per Martinsen. Visuals: Petra Hermanova. Frost is the musical project of creative couple Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen. They’ve released two albums together (“Melodica” in 2001 and “Love! Revolution!” in 2006) and a dozen singles and remixes. They have toured all from Paris to London, and played several big festivals like Denmark’s Roskilde and Norway’s Øya Festival. Between them they’ve also been involved in a variation of other projects, such as staging art shows for…
HERE TO GO:Art, Counter-Culture and the EsotericSymposium Oct. 20 @ NOVA
Forum Nidrosiae Symposium Saturday October 20 @ NOVA. Featuring CARL ABRAHAMSSON, ANDREW M. McKENZIE, GARY LACHMAN, KENDELL GEERS, JESPER AAGAARD PETERSEN and KAREN NIKGOL. Curated and moderated by MARTIN PALMER. I talk a new language. You will understand. – Brion Gysin All lectures will be in English. Throughout the ages, artists have worked with ways of expressing the “inexpressible”, and with bridging the gap between the material world and our inner space. There is an intimate relationship between art and the spiritual. Through the 20th…
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