[spectre] ELECTROHYPE 2004: Third Nordic biennial for computer based and high technological art

[Andreas Broeckmann]

>   ELECTROHYPE 2004
>
>   Third Nordic biennial for computer based and high technological art
>   opening: November 26th, 2004
>
>  Malmo Konsthall
>   S:t Johannesgatan 7, Box 17127,
>   SE-200 10 Malmo, Sweden
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>  http://www.electrohype.org
>  http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
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>  Electrohype 2004 is the third major Electrohype exhibition to be shown=20
>  in Malmo and is also the third Nordic biennial for computer based art.=20
>  Computer based art is art which is created and displayed with the aid=20
>  of computers.
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>   We are all influenced by computers and their presence. Even if we do=20
>  not have one at home or at work, we must relate to these machines.=20
>  They are in your mobile phone, the cash dispenser, and your car. They=20
>  can do everything from helping you to find information or ensuring=20
>  that the lift stops at the right floor, to creating art.
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>   The theme of the Electrohype 2004 biennial is perspective. It is a=20
>  theme which is very well suited to an art form that has developed=20
>  extremely rapidly in recent years. It is now time to pause a bit and=20
>  look back and sideways to see what the current situation is like.=20
>  Computer based art made its big breakthrough around 1994 when the=20
>  Internet was opened up for civilian use. Technological art has=20
>  developed in parallel with technology in general, but in its own=20
>  unique way. It has tried from an artistic perspective to reflect the=20
>  relationship between humans and technology. This relationship=20
>  influences us whether we wish it to or not and is a relationship which=20
>  is more and more in evidence.
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>  Electrohype 2004 presents the works of some twenty artists. The main=20
>  focus is on Nordic artists but a number of artists working outside the=20
>  region have also been invited. This was done in order to give the=20
>  exhibition greater breadth and variation but also to create contacts=20
>  between Nordic and international artists. This year's biennial will=20
>  differ from its predecessors in that fewer works are directly=20
>  interactive with the public, but more of the works will reflect in=20
>  their own way upon our relationship with technology. In this way the=20
>  exhibition approaches a tripartite point of interface between humans,=20
>  art and technology.
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>  Electrohype 2004 also contains a small but important collection of=20
>  historical works by Swedish artists. These artists were among the=20
>  first to use digital tools to make art. In its day Sweden was a=20
>  leading country in the experimentation with art and new technology,=20
>  and the works which were created in the period from 1960 to 1985 form=20
>  an important part of the history of contemporary art. Today these=20
>  digital pioneers are perhaps more important than ever not only from a=20
>  historical perspective but also for the future.
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>  Participating artists
>
>   Richard Bolam -United Kingdom
>   Alan Currall - United Kingdom
>   Trine Eidsmo - Norway
>   Peter Flemming - Canada
>   Mogens Jacobsen - Denmark
>   Yunchul Kim - Korea
>   Trond Lossius/Kurt Ralske - Norway/USA
>   Rikard Lundstedt - Sweden
>   Vera Molnar - France
>   Peter Palven - Sweden
>   Lene Leth Rasmussen - Denmark
>   Tania Ruiz Gutierrez - Colombia
>   Mika Taanila - Finland
>   Maia Urstad - Norway
>   Magnus Wassborg/Tore Nilsson - Sweden
>   Marius Watz - Norway
>   Norman T. White - Canada
>   Uli Winters & Frank Fietzek - Germany
>   ubermorgen - Switzerland/Austria
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>   Digital pioneers:
>   Beck & Jung - Sweden
>   Lars-Gunnar Bodin - Sweden
>   Ann-Charlotte Johannesson - Sweden
>   Sture Johannesson - Sweden
>   Sveninge de Moner - Sweden
>   Torsten Ridell - Sweden
>   Goran Sundqvist - Sweden
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>   Background and history
>
>   The concept of a Nordic biennial for computer based and high=20
>  technological art was initiated and realised by the Electrohype=20
>  organization, which was established in Malmo in 1999.
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>   The first exhibition, Electrohype 2000, whose theme was art in the=20
>  digital sphere, took place at Kajplats 305 and Galleri Rostrum in the=20
>  autumn of 2000. It was the intention then that the exhibition would be=20
>  a one-off manifestation or presentation of computer based art.
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>   The response from the public, the media and not least the practicing=20
>  artists, who had now gained a scene at which to exhibit their works,=20
>  was extremely positive. Electrohype has therefore continued its work=20
>  to make possible exhibits of art in this genre through a series of=20
>  larger- and smaller-scale exhibitions.
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>   In the autumn of 2002 the second major exhibition was arranged in=20
>  Malmo with the theme of Interplay in such different forms as the=20
>  interplay between man and machine or the interplay between machine and=20
>  code. The Electrohype 2002 exhibition was presented partly in=20
>  Carolinahallen in the S:t Gertrud district and partly at Malmo=20
>  Konsthall.
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>   The Electrohype 2004 exhibition has been compiled by Anna Kindvall=20
>  and Lars Midboe of the Electrohype organisation. The exhibition has=20
>  been produced by Electrohype in co-operation with Malmo Konsthall.
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>  http://www.electrohype.org
>  http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
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