[spectre] REMAKE exhibition opens today in Brno, Czech Republic

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REMAKE / REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments

Exhibition
7 March - 15 April 2012
The House of Arts, Brno
4AM / Gallery of Architecture, Brno

REMAKE: REthinking Media Arts in C(K)ollaborative Environments is an
international art project taking place between June 2010 and May 2012. Its
aim is to foster creation and presentation of contemporary works inspired
by the history of media arts. The project’s final part is an
international
touring exhibition which is currently shown at The Brno House of Arts.
More than a static exhibition and a traditional approach, it will be
rather a dynamic social happening featuring a series of artistic events
presenting new, as well as selected pioneering media art pieces.

The REMAKE project builds upon a long-running collaborative research of
media art histories, MONOSKOP, initiated by an artist and cultural
activist Dušan Barok. REMAKE was started by several cultural organisations
coordinated by Atrakt Art with an intention to create and present the
contemporary art works inspired by the rich history of media arts in the
East-Central Europe.


OPENING I
6 March, 6 PM - Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Dominikánská 9, Brno
reCYSP1 performance: independent theatre collective Filigran
No need to press the button yet – Ivan Palacký, photovoltaic panels and
elektronics solo
Exhibited works:
Richard Loskot (CZ): Logging the present (G99 Gallery)
Zuzana Husárová – Ľubomír Panák (SK): I : * ttter
Andrej Boleslavský & The Vasulkas (CZ/US): Hi Woody
Aleksandra Hirszfeld (PL): Infotainment
Julien Bellanger – Guillaume Brunet – Cédric Doutriaux –
Catherine Lenoble
(FR): reCYSP1

OPENING II.
13 March, 6 PM - Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Dominikánská 9, Brno
Distributed presence – audiovisual performance
Lucid Light Comp.#2 – audiovisual performance
Exhibited works:
Andrew Prior, David Strang (UK): Distributed presence
Ján Šicko (SK): Hit Bonačić
Elvar Mar Kjartansson, Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir, Joseph Marzolla, Leo
Stefansson, Alexander Zaklynsky (IS), Tony Maslić (NL/RS): Lucid Light
Comp.#2

OPENING III.
24 March, 6 PM - 4AM, Starobrněnská 18
Pocta Standovi Filipovi, lokálním hrdinům bastlení, 4AM_media lab opening.
Václav Peloušek, Ondřej Merta (CZ): Standuino


Project curators: Dušan Barok (SK/NL), Katarína Gatialová (CZ), Mária
Rišková (SK), František Kowolowski (CZ), Slávo Krekovič (SK), Catherine
Lenoble (FR), István Szakáts (RO), Barbora Šedivá (CZ), Alexander
Zaklynsky (IS), Rarita Zbranca (RO).

Cooperating organisations: The Brno House of Arts (CZ), Atrakt Art (SK),
Alt Art (RO), Ping (FR), Multiplace (SK), The Lost Horse Gallery (IS),
Institute of Music Science – Theory of Interactive Media MUNI (CZ),
Olomouc Museum of Art (CZ), CIANT (CZ), 4AM Forum for Architecture and
Media (CZ), Academy of Fine Arts and Design (SK) and others.

Coordination and contact:
Barbora Šedivá, sediva at dum-umeni dot cz, +420 731 656 856

http://www.dum-umeni.cz/en/vystava/remake
http://remakeme.eu/exhibition/
http://monoskop.org/Remake
http://www.facebook.com/events/358770340829193/


WORKS

Richard Loskot (CZ): Logging the present (G99 Gallery)

The installation Logging the Present draws on the work of the eminent
Polish author of concrete poetry Stanisław Dróżdż (1939–2009), in
particular his piece Untitled (Clocks) [Bez tytułu (zegary), 1978]. In
this work, Dróżdż developed his own system which allowed him to control
clocks. His concept, based on combining clock hands that engender their
own time, inspired the young Czech author Richard Loskot to produce 12
systems in which each measures its own time upon different actions.
Hyperbolically speaking, the author offers various time measuring models
based on water dripping, plant growth or rotation of the gramophone
record. In the second part of this installation, the viewer is
incorporated into the temporary image.
„We have always derived certain temporal divisions from a natural
course
of events. The alternation between day and night is the most natural and
in a way absolute for us, but as we know, even this is not thoroughly
regular. Empirically, we have found the most accurate part of time, the
rhythm which lets us measure all happenings. The atomic clock time, for
instance, is based on the caesium half-life. When we fast-forward a film
with a plant in it , its motion might appear entirely alive and we should
not interfere with its own time. Every tone of a melody also appears after
a certain time. In everyday life, we usually do not ask but rather look at
our watch: for us, the time is something to count and measure. The most
common conception of time originates from Aristotle: Time is a measured
movement with regard to ,before‘ and ,after‘.“ (Richard
Loskot)


Zuzana Husárová – Ľubomír Panák (SK): I : * ttter

I : * ttter is a multimedia artistic project based on the Kinect 3D
sensor. This interactive installation utilises the ‚remake
principle‘ in
two ways: a textual level – interacting with leading works of
international Net.Art and a sonic level – in relation to the
fundamentals
of the theremin.
Thanks to the sensors, we can easily browse, erase or mix dialogues that
resemble (online) communication of persons/machines on a projection
screen. The text is remixed from selected textual fragments of European
Net.Art (My Boyfriend Came Back From the War by Olia Lialina, This Morning
and IBM by Alexei Shulgin, zkp3.21 by Vuk Cosic, 100cc and g33con by the
art collective JODI, Irational by Heath Bunting, City by Markéta Baňková,
four. Values by Perfokarta, Falling Times by Michal Bielický, Koniec
swiata wg by Emeryk Radoslaw Nowakowský and AE by Robert Szczerbowsky).
Through a virtual aerial, we will also control the oscillator pitch and
thanks to the possibility to activate a drawing mode, we can
‚enter‘ the
individual pieces with our own drawings.


Andrej Boleslavský & The Vasulkas (CZ/US): Hi Woody

Hi Woody is an interactive installation that pays homage to the artworks
of Woody and Steina Vašulka. The art piece was created in cooperation with
Woody Vašulka during his visit of Prague in 2011 and was produced by the
International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT). It is inspired
by the aesthetics of the early video art works created on the Rutt-Etra
synthesizer in the Electronic Media Atelier at The Kitchen in New York.
The author, Andrej Boleslavský, attempts to invoke similar visual
impressions with state-of-the-art technologies – high-powered digital
graphic cards, the Kinect sensor and stereoscopic screens conjuring an
abstract and immersive image generated in real time. In this moment the
visitor has an opportunity to interact with his own digital replica. The
atmosphere of today‘s media art scene closely resembles The Kitchen
studio
– elated by new possibilities, techno-optimism and the will to
share. This
is the reason why the authors decided to offer the software used for this
piece available for a free download at http://id144.org/hi_woody/.


Aleksandra Hirszfeld (PL) – Infotainment

The sound installation Infotainment delivers a disturbing experience in
which we are confronted with enormous amounts of data and information that
describe the world we live in affected by showbusiness and the omnipresent
mass media. Infotainment is an attempt to repeat and revise the methods of
the French writer, filmmaker and founder of Lettrism and Situationism Guy
Debord (1931–1994). Aleksandra Hirzfeld draws on his film The
Society of
the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle, 1973) and the eponymous book
(1967). In her rework, the young Polish author contemplates the
possibilities of recontextualising Debord’s ideas at a time when
patterns
of social and cultural policies have been radically altered.
„What in the past was considered an escape from the system, today loses
its critical impact and is absorbed by the system itself. Critical
thinking has been transformed into accepted and consumerist lifestyle and
becomes just another commodity. Coming to terms with these new conditions
of contemporary criticism is only possible through a new, closed and
autonomous space that will serve as a platform for independent
observations of reality. This principle worked in times of Guy Debord and
can be also reinstated today.“ (Aleksandra Hirzfeld)


reCYSP1 (2011)
Julien Bellanger – Guillaume Brunet – Cédric Doutriaux –
Catherine Lenoble
(FR)

ReCYSP1 is a remake of the first autonomous cybernetic sculpture called
CYSP1 created by the French artist Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992).
ReCYSP1
was developed in October 2011 during a three-week workshop at the PiNG
Media Lab. Through a collaborative approach and latest technologies, its
authors J. Bellanger, G. Brunet, C. Doutriaux, C. Lenoble try to
reinterpret the work of this pioneering author of European media art.
Thus, they examine the artistic potential of digital production and the
possibilities of reusing materials intended for recycling.


Andrew Prior – David Strang (UK): Distributed presence
In cooperation with: Miroslav Tóth (SK)

Distributed presence is an installation that turns back to composer Jozef
Malovec and highlights the ‘golden age‘ of the Slovak
electroacoustic
music in 1960s and 70s. Malovec together with a sound engineer Peter Janik
created in Experimental Studio in Slovak Radio the timeless
electroacoustic composition Orthogenesis (1966) in which he used
stochastic principle for organising musical material.
This interactive sound and image installation brings together presence and
tele-presence, to explore and re-work composition of a seminal Slovakian
artist Jozef Malovec. It combines motion-tracking control of this material
through granular synthesis within the gallery, with DJing processes of
mixing, looping, slicing and manipulation online (thus
‘WebJaying’).
Within the gallery space, the use of motion tracking replaces the time
domain of these archival materials with a spatial dimension, encouraging a
sense of exploration and physical interaction. The sounds produced in the
gallery are streamed online through use of a downloadable MaxMSP
application, and in turn this application allows people to mix and
manipulate material, in response to these sounds, the results of which are
then streamed back into the gallery space to produce a distributed
collaborative response to the sounds of the archival material.


Ján Šicko (SK): Hit Bonačić
In cooperation with Mária Rišková

Our installation refers to the early objects of Croatian mathematician and
cybernetician Vladimir Bonačić, who was a prominent member of the New
tendencies movement (international network dedicated to the
interconnection between art and science, based in Zagreb between 1961 and
1973). According to the artist and theoretician Darko Fritz “Bonačić
criticised the use of randomness in computer-based art, as he considers
humans to be simply better in “making the ‘aesthetic
program’ relevant for
human beings”. (http://darkofritz.net/text/bonacic.html)
The critique of randomness, making of ‘aesthetic program’ but
also other
thoughts of this author inspired us to make a 2D paraphrase of the so
called dynamic objects Vladimir Bonačić created in the late 1960s and
1970s. They were kinetic light installations pioneering interactivity in
the computer-based art, programmed in a way that the viewer/user could
control several parameters (rhythm, sound). In the installation Hit
Bonačić, the viewer can also intervene into the prepared sequence and
“program” his/her own code. In contrast to the usually delicate
manipulation of technical devices, our installation is controlled by
energetic hitting on the table, which enables the visitor to enter his/her
own sequence of instructions that create patterns.


Lucid Light Comp.#2
Elvar Mar Kjartansson – Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir – Joseph
Marzolla – Leo
Stefansson – Alexander Zaklynsky (IS) – Tony Maslić (NL/RS)

A dynamic instalation created through the collaboration of artists as an
explorative remake of aesthetics and ideas exhibited by Bulat Galeyev and
the Prometei Institute in Kazan, Russia. – Galeyev researched
“synaesthesia and its manifestations in art, arguing and defending the
opinion that it is not the mind anomaly but a norm of human psychics
(perception, imagination, creativity). He considers it as a specific
manifestation of non-verbal thinking, realized by either involuntary or
purposeful comparison of the impressions of different modalities, on the
basis of structural or semantic and, most of all, emotional similarity. On
his opinion, synaesthesia is social, cultural, but not biological
phenomenon. It is exactly language and art that serve as the “testing
areas” where synaesthesia is formed and most actively
cultivated.”


Václav Peloušek – Ondřej Merta (CZ): Standuino (4AM / Gallery of
Architecture)

4AM / Gallery of Architecture will serve as an exhibition venue and media
laboratory where the local DIY scene will be presented through the
original student platform Standuino, which has been inspired by the works
of the musician and FaVU lecturer Stanislav Filip and the phenomenon of
kludging. In the exhibition, Václav Peloušek and Ondřej Merta present a
remake of Stanislav Filip’s installation User Interface (Uživatelský
interface), lead a DIY workshop where participants can create their own
sound / video synthesizers and together with Stanislav Filip, conduct a
workshop focused on blasting off transistors and other electronic
components and the physicality of these occurrences. Their presentation
will also encompass interventions in public space, launch of a pirate
television broadcast or a device emitting Standuino datasheets into
universe through photon pulses with a wave length of 650 nanometres.
„We will construct and introduce prototypes of devices that will
allow an
analytical observation of their digital and electronic principles in the
modernistic sense of the word, such as the relation between the carrier
(electronics) and the essence (digitality) or the analysis of gestures of
an artist-kludger . Standa Filip has been helping us actualize this
vision. He is a remarkable personality in our country because he studied
physics and has experience with constructing music instruments. Therefore
he is able to understand the nature of electronics and at the same time,
think about it within an artistic context.“ (Václav Peloušek, Ondřej
Merta)


http://www.dum-umeni.cz/en/vystava/remake
http://remakeme.eu/exhibition/
http://monoskop.org/Remake
http://www.facebook.com/events/358770340829193/