[spectre] 1st June Electrified salon Hacking Public Space

[Eva DeGroote]

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Electrified salon: Hacking Public Space
1st June 2010, 20:00, Vooruit - Ghent (BE)
With lectures by Johan Pas and Alessandro Ludovico


Next week we are organizing a salon on Hacking Public Space (in the framework of Electrified 02), on Tuesday 1st June 2010 at 8 p.m. in Vooruit (Foyer Theaterzaal), free entrance (no need to register in advance). The salon's programme:

Occupied City. Artistic actions in urban space: the prehistory
Public urban space can be considered a battlefield of conflicting images and meanings. Artists have been using this aspect of the modern metropolis since the years of the early avant-garde. However, the street only became a real artistic platform in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. Art historian Johan Pas will sketch an outline of the ways visual artists have been dealing with the urban fabric as a context for actions and interventions from the early 1960’s on. The focus will be on American and European artists associated with movements as happening, body art; conceptual art and performance. Their legacy can be read as the prehistory of contemporary urban art guerrilla.


Hacking the public, regaining the commons
Would it be true that virtual space has been created to illude people to still have freedom while being almost completely controlled in physical reality? Artists, and especially inspired digital artists, have historically shown a different virtual reality, unveiling how it can manipulate or being manipulated by the individual at will, especially when clashing in what we still consider the “public space”. Playful, narrative, sarcastic or diabolical strategies have been conceived and applied to show that once you understand technologies and use them, the world around you is never the same again.

Alessandro Ludovico

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Johan Pas (photo right) is Art Historian and lectures at the Royal Academy of Arts Antwerp. He also works as a curator and critic. // Alessandro Ludovico (IT, photo left (c) Regine Debatty) is a media critic and chief editor of the Neural magazine<http://tools.emailgarage.com/Pub/cy77EAAAAAA~/kn-D5c8zUUGTxtI56xL63Q~~/Html/GotoLink.ashx> from 1993. He is the author of several essays on digital culture, and he co-edited the ‘Mag.Net Reader’ book series. He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, one of the founders of the Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers) organization. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara and Bari and has been a research fellow at the Willem de Kooning Academy. He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. With P.Cirio and Ubermorgen he developed ‘Google Will Eat Itself’ (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Prix Transmediale 2006) and ‘Amazon Noir’ (1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007, Honorary Mention Share Prize 2007, 2nd prize Transmediale08) art projects. // With support from BAM<http://tools.emailgarage.com/Pub/cy77EAAAAAA~/yR8BJ05TXEypcvmnu0z7uw~~/Html/GotoLink.ashx>, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art that invited Alessandro Ludovico to a a visitors programme for foreign art professionals.


Electrified 02 - Hacking Public Space

Vooruit Arts Centre and S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art) are joining forces to overrun the town. Electrified 02 – Hacking Public Space focuses on artists whose field of action is the ‘public space’. Unbounded and virtually unregulated, they hack into the town with unannounced interventions. Traces of this seep into the museum<http://tools.emailgarage.com/Pub/cy77EAAAAAA~/sfQsxKJjEEaGZ0gM0czO7g~~/Html/GotoLink.ashx>, where new and existing works are brought face to face with flashbacks from the seventies and nineties. You can follow what's happening on vooruit.be<http://tools.emailgarage.com/Pub/cy77EAAAAAA~/WTv3_0aCRU2EAREOsIMwhQ~~/Html/GotoLink.ashx>.

Artists: Ben Benaouisse, Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez, Amilcar Packer, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Dogma00, Javier Núñez Gasco, Roberta Gigante, Messieurs Delmotte, Ivan Moudov, Wilfredo Prieto, Lucas Murgida, Julius von Bismarck, Miet Warlop, Helmut Smits, Christophe Bruno, Pierre-Laurent Cassière.
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Pic: Hans Dekeyser / Graphic design: Mathias Timmermans


Kind regards,
Eva De Groote



Eva De Groote, Media arts
T +32 9 267 28 89, M +32 497 52 88 05

Vooruit Arts Centre, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Gent (BE)
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This season in Vooruit is possible thanks to our partners:
Flemish government / Province of Eastern Flanders / City of Ghent
De Morgen / P&V / Radio 1

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Electrified 02 is supported by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union
(INTERREG IV programme) in the framework of Transdigital

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