[rohrpost] Today: 9-11pm_Artist Talk and Screening_Art Claims Impulse

[Melanie Zagrean]

INVITATION

 

Today, 29.01.2011, from 9pm to 11pm, Art Claims Impulse will host a special
event at the gallery: media artists represented in the exhibition Reflective
Interventions 2011 will show a selection of their best work and will give
the audience the opportunity to have a lively conversation about their work.
Visitors will learn more about Julius von Bismarck’s intervention-based
performances, will hear Javier Chozas speak about his interactive
installations and video work, will find out more about Matthias Fitz’s
complex media installations and video art, will see some of Francis
Gomilla’s rich video and interactive media work, as well as some of the
wonderful internet based works of Marc Lee, will see some of
Mader|Stublic|Wiermann’s complex artwork based on light and video
projections, and will hear Kirsten Reese speak about her and Pepe Jürgens’
sound art installations.

 

The event is part of the DAS Weekend in Berlin – 28-30 January.
http://dasweekend.de/

 

Visitors that arrive at the gallery one or two hours earlier will receive a
guided tour of the exhibition.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

 

Pierre Wolter & Melanie Zagrean

Gallerists and Curators

 

Art Claims Impulse

Lübbener Str. 5

10997 Berlin

www.art-claims-impulse.com

 

U1-Schlesisches Tor / U1-Görlitzer Bahnhof

 

 

 

CURRENTLY AT THE GALLERY:

 

Reflective Interventions 2011

Media Installations

 

Julius von Bismarck

Javier Chozas

Matthias Fitz

Francis Gomila

Marc Lee

Mader|Stublic|Wiermann

Kirsten Reese & Pepe Jürgens

                              

Exhibition Dates: 26.01– 05.03.2011

Opening Hours: Wed-Sat, 4-9pm

 

Art Claims Impulse

Lübbener Str. 5, 10997 Berlin 

(U-Schlesisches Tor / U-Görlitzer Bahnhof)

 

 <http://www.art-claims-impulse.com> www.art-claims-impulse.com

 

Satellite Event of transmediale.2011  

 

 

For images, please view 

 <http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/09_01.html>
http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/09_01.html

And photo gallery:

 <http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/RFI-2011/index.html>
http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/RFI-2011/index.html

 

 

Reflective Interventions 2011

 

The series Reflective Interventions is an annual exhibition curated by Art
Claims Impulse, which presents art pieces that reflect contemporary
discourse, which use interventions and interaction to open new perspectives
for the audience. Art Claims Impulse is a satellite partner of transmediale
for the second time with this exhibition series.

 

Reflective Interventions 2011 addresses the issues related to navigating and
finding orientation within shifting and overlapping virtual and material
environments. The expansion of virtual space, the ever more diverse
possibilities of shaping it used by an ever larger number of people, and the
cross-connections to the material space are sources of inspiration and
impulse for many exciting changes that affect every area of society and
human interaction. The new orientation that journalism currently
experiences, the new definition of interaction between different existing
and newly emerging actors, the increasingly interesting debates related to
value and user rights that can lead to a potential new world order, are only
a few examples. The exhibition shows a selection of artwork that reflects
these developments in a particularly inspiring manner.

 

Marc Lee’s work ‘TV-BOT 2.0’ shows in an impressive and exaggerated manner
the flood of multimedia and multi-channel information hitting the viewer at
any given time. With this work, the artist takes part in the complex
discussion about the role and definition of journalism, the excessive desire
for real time or constantly updated information, and comments implicitly on
the desire for filtering content and information in a shifting media
landscape.

 

Francis Gomila’s interactive work ‘The Last of England’ also deals with an
excessive visual stimulation but sets a trap for the audience that has
originally been developed with the help of eye tracking software. The
reaction to the visual triggers lead the viewer to a point of no return as
he is drawn ever deeper into a world of images while the trap is closing in
slowly as the images gradually begin to disintegrate from within.

 

The interactive installation ‚Topshot Helmet‘ by Julius von Bismarck also
deals with the increasing trend  for self-observation and self-reflection in
a game-like futuristic manner, at the same time pointing subtly to the traps
that come with the limiting bird’s eye perspective that allows only a
glimpse of the subject and his/her immediate surroundings.

 

Similarly, the art work of Mader|Stublic|Wiermann ‚Expanded Space‘ deals
with the issue of perspectives and adds a new dimension to it by linking the
contemporary debate around energy production with interactive wind-steered
technology and mobile units in a way that opens and alters the space and the
architecture contained within it in a complex and visually stimulating
manner.

 

The idea of finding orientation in a changing space as well as the effects
that can take place at the smallest movement of elements and actors in the
space is also a theme that Javier Chozas work ‘Metropolis’ picks up. He
offers both an intriguing image for it as well as a memorable tactile
experience for the audience prepared to enter and interact with the
installation.

 

Orientation and the unpredictability of the consequences of individual
actions in a particular space also informs the sound art piece of Kirsten
Reese and Pepe Jürgens which on the one hand animates the viewer to use his
creativity and play with sound bites while on the other hand allows the
objects representing the sounds to develop a life of their own. This leads
to the creation of idiosyncratic sound arrangements while engaging in the
debate around the complexity of this type of interaction.

 

The work of Matthias Fitz ‘Streichlicht’ also leaves a surprising
audio-visual impression on the viewer who is invited to send out an impulse
and witness its development, culminating in moments in which unfathomable
and fascinating things happen – a work that offers a poetic interpretation
for complex contemporary discussions around transparency and change.