EVA London 2023 Thursday
generative art
TULA G and Jonathan B.: Integrating Poetry And Art
André Breton 1896-1966 poet. manifesto (1924) psychic automatism beyond reality
MIRO silence a sequence of three paintings originally named poem I, II, III. dancing characters over the layers of paint
Rafik Anadol: drawing in mind with a computer
immersive exhibition / in the studio /in the artist’s mind
poetry and illustration
Francoise Gillot 1944
maladies of the heart «
Daniela de Paulis
Mare Incognito
SETI institute artist in residence
the ocean of the mind and the ocean of the cosmos loosing the cognition of the ourself fading away in the emptiness
in sleep the perceptions of the body changes/fades into ? deep sleep body awareness close to the state of dying only a sense of being alive - identity slips away
Andy Lomas
digital chemotaxis
a.lomas@gold.ac.uk
social amoeba (cellular slime mould) model organism
Kees Weijer - Dundee periodic waves
dynamic structures, changing dynamic moving non equilibrium dynamics
attracted to the source of the waves amplify the wave signal
unruly behaviour
wave and particals
agents - millions - detail richness
Joe Crossley - Carl Hayden Smith
Egypt Sound Design
Work in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid
map the resonant HZ frequencies on archeologic sites
there might be a lot of layers of meaning - resonate the geographical position in the earth in relation to the earth not all of them can be pure random
choir of twenty people the granite in the chamber starts to develop the resonate over time rose quartz granite 1h 20m -> ultra high frequency has effects on the human body
patterns takes time to appear
what’s a sound box
the sound box is a projection device human condition HRV heart rate variability
meditation - vocal toning resonance (mediation?)
Carmen
voltaje
textura Bogota
art and technology events
art as an experience
international art exhibition
an overview of their work for art
open call is open
charles de palea santana#
spectrum music
The French spectral School
introduce perception into composition
liminal music playing with boundaries of our perception continuous transformation
techno-morphism asynchronous orchestra low sounds dissonance in the harmonical spectrum
modulation at the first level is played by the winds additive synthesis instrumental synthesis
hybrid between harmony and timbre
the orchestra often acts as a synthesiser
Keynote by Steve
Leichester fine art slate experimental department later PolyTech Leichester as a lecturer … design research (theory) artist, researcher, theorist
Rheinberger observes: derives from poesis: a kind of production with beyond-ness: the art of stepping away from
problem solving research: observe it critique it find build a solution make it observe it again test critique it rebuild solution or another better or abended it make it …
we do not fully understand things to use them. Devey, Perce
Rheinberger: experimental system
we are not stepping onto we step away from the ob/subject of research
do the art and sciences nourish themselves in the same way?
as we do not know the new phenomena
surprise, the new present itself as …
generate questions
concepts and phenomena comes together
epistemic things turn into tech. differential means - generating surprises out of surprises space of observation - phenomena technical objects idling - if no surprises - reproduction has to generate unprecedented events reproduction keeps on repeating, but with iterating over variations
differential reproduction
transcendence - in the end we talk of knowledge (what you we don’t know before) we get away from the established known
utility of the thing - you may not understand now belief - you establish a practice
research as a practice: talk it backwards as if you’ve known the question before the answer/result
Raheem Lawal
representing amphibian perspectives in a 3d game engine
objective litural product identy evaluation development prototype
chosen texas blind salamander lives in caves sound feedback, rumble controls this world is in darkness cursor gives a sense of underground (roughness / where / about) echo location
jairo zaldua and …
… several others.
imaginary friends in isolation
a social project based on self statements about your imaginary friend which was recreated in different media by producers image, video, music
- what they imagined base on the given description examples
social identity
meetings of the imaginary friends (and imaginary chats)
Margarita Galandina
preserve captured memories from the Mongols Folklore in Siberia
a heritage that is under threat she was able to learn about her heritage when she immigrated to UK with 5 Siberia is heavy colonized since the USSR
indigenous Siberian knowledge with ethnological institutes in the UK and Europe
audio interview, photography, narrative based less documentary
digitising, cataloguing the works and objects, book
finally future exhibition how the presentation effects the telling of the work even in an documentary approach
managing the tight budget
museum licencing alternative ways of executing
addressing the ethical, ethnical issues
bringing the community together
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start with a short story 5 years she moved to London from the mountain country birds sing at night - why? Light pollution - artificial Christmas light are we affected by data as birds by light? Data Pollution self tracing devices and apps. It’s all over the place. Health, social, whereabouts, … We lost the tracing, the awareness
we understand ourself through the lens of capitalism efficacy who profits? battle of the mind - we struggle to claim our territory ever since the Copernic revolution, mechanical philosophy, and now transhumanism
Heidegger, .., Derrida started doubt
manifest true proportions
Duchamp 3 meters - their many ways to see One Meter - the world, destruction
counting hours minutes etc is not the way we perceive time, it is a(our) construction (social contract)
Archive of the Lost Embodied Knowledge when an African elder dies, (it is as if) a whole library is burn down Are we letting technology developments pollute human life?
Pierre Chaumont
we asked so many questions (during the conference) but we missed one:
How to be a sausage?
Syriza party and the horizontal movement aka the street dog in front of the Greek parliament
that’s why the dog participated in any protest events that was the first attempt
second attempt flowers for Theodore (the name of the dog before he become sausage) the dog died 2014 a virtual mausoleum game AR - limitations - ask a telephone where it is so use a game engine
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