[spectre] Fwd: Welcome to the opening of VILKE collection of electronic art on Tuesday!

[Kari Yli-Annala]

Welcome to see, hear and feel VILKE Electronic Art Collection. The collection is
founded by FixC Cooperative and it is in display in Kerava Art Museum, Finland
between the time 18.9. – 13.10.2013!

VILKE includes 18 artists or artist groups, 18 works from the expanding history
of Finnish electronic art + 5 new 50-channel monitor works from the artists in
FixC Cooperative (shown one by one during the exhibition)

The artists are Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen, Sami van Ingen & Petri
Kuljuntausta, Philip von Knorring, Laura Könönen, mfx, Pekka Nevalainen, Erkka
Nissinen, Marjatta Oja, Seppo Renvall, Jarkko Räsänen, Pekka Sassi, Alli
Savolainen, Mika Taanila, Jimi Tenor, Marko Vuokola, Kari Yli-Annala, Denise
Ziegler

VILKE COLLECTION (short intro)

The VILKE Collection of Finnish electronic art founded by FixC Cooperative comes
into being on a celebratory year. In 2013 it has been 50 years since the
exhibition Exposition of Music – Electronic Television (11.3 – 20.3.1963) by
the “Pope” of video art Nam June Paik.

The objective of the VILKE Collection is to bring together works were
the idea, structure or action is essentially linked to the applied technology.
Consumer electronics and high technology used by industry together with
obsolete technology buried in the sands of time are wired into our lives and
memories in ways that electronic artworks utilise, vary and bring to life from
a new perspective. The VILKE Collection reinstates many of these works of art
that have fallen outside museum collections and the official canon of Finnish
art history.

One of the first video installations in the history of Finnish electronic art is
Philip van Knorring’s Bevakat (“watched” or “under surveillance” in Swedish)
from 1977, a statement about public camera surveillance, indicating how artists
were interested in considering the social and political effects of new
technology. The beginning of the 1980s saw the bloom of a new mode of making
which was characterised by the use of different kinds of small-scale industrial
communication devices. In the 1990s the new generation was interested in the
phenomenological aspects of time and space and social situations. Many of VILKE
artists worked also in the collective of Helsinki Film Workshop, founded in
1989. The artists share the same ethos as the alternative musicians working at
the same time. Jimi Tenor shot in 1995 an experimental documentary on 16 mm
film about the artists of record company Sähkö (“electricity”), a company
founded by Tommi Grönlund. The tone of the film is similar to an ethnological
film: attentive and respectful of the work being done.

Both the pioneering strategies of the early internet culture and the newer
post-internet mentality are presented in the collection. Juha van Ingen’s Web
Safe Colourscape (1999–2000) is one of the few Finnish works that uses an
internet browser as a central piece of the work. In Vantaa (2007), Erkka
Nissinen creates a particular and unique post-internet aesthetics of his own.
Demoscene group MFX’s work Cannapaceus (2008) is a rich computer animation that
is processed in real-time. If the abstract epic lyricism of Cannapaceus nearly
propels the viewer to another planet, Laura Könönen’s The Only One and All
(2011) transports the onlooker far into the history of our home planet.
Könönen’s work is comprised of an old-fashioned record player and a rotating
record made of granite, the principal stone type of Finnish bedrock, which is
traced with a diamond needle. The voice of the stone is dusty and
discontinuous, speaking from experience far older than the technology that is
used to play the sound for us to hear.

The inclusion of electronic and media art into the praxis of making art has
created new challenges to preserving art. An internationally adapted strategy
is to “update” works to a new technological standard at specific intervals, for
instance every ten years. However, many works are media specific, made with a
specific device of a specific period. Digitalising an analogical video, for
example, can change the nature of the work radically. The works in the VILKE
Collection are not only preserved in accordance to digital standards, the
intention is to exhibit them in their original presentation form whenever
possible.

The collections of private collectors, institutions, museums, organisations and
foundations form an important part of cultural memory, and the public display
of collected works makes it possible for a larger audience to get to experience
them. The works in VILKE Collection remain in the artists’ possession, but they
can deposited with museums for an appointed period of time. With the creation
of the VILKE Collection, FixC Cooperative is turning a new page in preserving
and exhibiting Finnish electronic art's history.

The exhibition includes also five brand new 50-channel monitor works (which will
be shown during the exhibition one by one in 50-monitor structure build for this
purpose) by FixC artists Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen, Seppo Renvall, Jarkko
Räsänen and Kari Yli-Annala

Sinkka, the museum building is located 600m from Kerava train station. It´s
easier to find if you check before from the map how to go there. Address is
Kultasepänkatu 2, Yli-Kerava, just go across the bridge and then right.

https://maps.google.fi/maps?q=kultasep%C3%A4nkatu+2&ie=UTF-8&ei=-XU2UpXcDZHo4QTdr4CYDA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg

http://www.sinkka.fi/nayttely/vilketta-ja-tajunnanvirtaa/

http://vilkecollection.fi/

http://www.fixc.fi

Opening hours:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11-18
Wed 12-19
Sa, Su 11-17
Monday closed

Trains K, N, H, R, T and Z go from Helsinki City to Kerava

WELCOME!