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<b>Shaping the æther</b><br>
-> 27.11.2021<br>
Curated By Pali Meursault.<br>
Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France.<br>
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<b>Infos:</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.espacemultimediagantner.cg90.net/exposition/shaping-the-aether/?lang=en">https://www.espacemultimediagantner.cg90.net/exposition/shaping-the-aether/?lang=en</a><br>
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Over a century of existence, radio went from being a technological
and cultural revolution to a mere household convenience, or even an
outdated communication apparatus. Behind the banality of the radio
set, however, the infinite mysteries of radiations expand: an
electromagnetic æther which was once given the credit of holding the
world together, and about which we now have a slightly better
understanding of its interactions with the universe, from the scale
of the atom to that of the cosmos.<br>
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It is true that our bodies are quite poorly equipped for
electromagnetic waves perception. Our eyes are only translating into
colours a tiny part of the spectrum, while their vibrating nature
and speed remain elusive to us. And yet, technological exploitation
has made radio waves omnipresent. They are transmitted by our
phones, computers, micro-wave ovens or satellites, they are guiding
the drones monitoring us. Radio waves are bathing our physical
existences, organising our social lives, and producing the media and
communicative reality of our world.<br>
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Shaping the æther invites artists for whom radio is not only a
vehicle for sound production. They are examining transmission,
approaching radiations as a material in its own right, and engaging
in the exploration of waves in order to reveal or sculpt them.
Benefiting from the vibratory kinship of electromagnetic phenomena
with electric circulations or acoustic excitation, the sensory
access to æther is offered to us through sounds and images, and
confronting us with the paradox of phenomena that are as much a
matter of nature than of media.<br>
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The shapes that these artists are creating thus contribute to
establish an ecology of signals, and show that the electromagnetic
spectrum is a political territory: a media ecosystem of which
resources fall prey to capitalist extraction and privatisation, but
where one might find spaces of freedom, wilderness, and places of
resistance.<br>
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<b>With artworks of:</b><br>
Dinah Bird & Jean-Philippe Renoult, Julien Clauss, Joyce
Hinterding, Kaori Kinoshita & Alain della Negra, Nicolas
Montgermont and ΠNode collective.<br>
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</b><b>For On: Transmission:</b><br>
Anna Friz, Tetsuo Kogawa, Christina Kubisch, Victor Mazón Gardoqui,
Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann), Sisters
Akousmatica (Julia Drouhin & Philippa Stafford), Juliette
Volcler, Franz Xaver, Carl.Y and Elisabeth Zimmermann.<br>
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<b>Online resources:<br>
</b>Tour of the exhibition (french) :<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiqd_0_-6O0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiqd_0_-6O0</a><br>
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"Wrangling chaos, a journey with David Haines and Joyce Hinterding"
by Alain della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDlMqYJyuls">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDlMqYJyuls</a><br>
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