Art Fields Kunstfelder 1

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Sunday, November 23, 2014 -

23:00 to 23:30

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Armin Medosch

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ORF OE1 Kunstradio

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Vienna

„Kunst Felder. Wilde Ontologien im Dienst der Aktivierung der Geschichte“, Teil 1 Ein von mir kuratiertes, zweiteiliges Programm mit Künstler_innen aus der Ausstellung Fields, ergänzt durch meinen radiophonen Essay Kunstfelder. Kunstfelder ist, by the way, meine erste Radiokunstarbeit seit 1997. Ich widme diese Arbeit Daniel Gilfillan der ein wirklich großartiges BUch über Radiokunst geschrieben hat, mit einem ausgezeichnetem Kapitel über Radio Subcom. In Kunstfeder - Wild Ontologies werden Arbeiten von Karl Heinz Jeron, Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer & Aljosa Abrahamsberg im ersten Teil zu hören sein, sowie Manu Luksch, RIXC, Annemie Maes und Martin Howse im zweiten Teil. Much more ausführlich http://www.kunstradio.at/2014B/23_11_14.html

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Kunstradio Kunstfelder Artfields

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Keynote Speech: The Broken Mirror

drupaladmin — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:29:29 +0000

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Friday, May 16, 2014 -

17:00 to 19:00

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Armin Medosch

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speaker

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RIXC

Arsenals

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Arsenals, Riga

This is the text of my keynote lecture for the Fields exhibition, as delivered on Friday 16th of May 2014 - The Broken Mirror, Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia. Starting from the premise that the financial crisis of 2008 made only visible a deeper, structural crisis of information society, the exhibition Fields was conceived as a survey into possibilities of renewal through art. Art used to be understood as a mirror of society. Then, in the twentieth century, media became the preferred mirror of mass society. At the end of the 20th century, information superseded the media and was supposed to become the perfect mirror - the dreamworld of digital utopia. But this mirror is broken, as virtuality and the real have collapsed into an 'integral reality' (Baudrillard). Reality has lost its shadow, its capacity to dream, its underbelly of radical alternatives. As the world is urgently in need of a new social imaginary, the exhibition Fields is an articulation of that search. Fields is about an epistemic shift from subject-object relations within traditional, hierarchical ontologies towards new, networked, horizontal connections. While this slow, glacial transformation happens anyway with a degree of inevitability, we cannot awaken from the dreamworld of digital utopia soon enough. What can an art after information be like? How can we articulate artistic imaginations of a new society? How can we talk about it, categorise and develop such a vision as a more long term, infrastructural goal?

Full version The Broken Mirror, http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1491

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Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations

Armin Medosch — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:22:44 +0000

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 18:00 to Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 16:30

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RIXC

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Arsenals, Riga

The exhibition "Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations" will open on May 15th at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. FIELDS, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch will show work by app. 40 artists and is part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture. You find the full announcement and press release below.

http://fields.rixc.lv

Welcome to Riga - the European Capital of Culture 2014!

FIELDS exhibition
Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art

May 15 - August 3, 2014

Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations.

The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. Fields, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch, presents an inquiry into patterns of renewal and transition. The curators asked which expanded fields of artistic practice offer new ideas for overcoming the crisis of the present and developing new models of a more sustainable and imaginative way of life.

In preparation for the Fields exhibition, a widespread survey was undertaken, that did not just look at art in the narrow sense but all kinds of creative practices that bring together new thinking, scientific knowledge, aesthetics, technologies and social practices. A year in advance, a public call was launched that was met by over 200 proposals. The curators of Fields could draw on international networks such as RIXC's Renewable Network and the European collaborations Techno-Ecologies and Soft-Control. The artist-in-residency series Fieldwork on measurement ship Eleonore, Linz 2013, aimed at creating ideas and projects for Fields. Workshops and panels at Transmediale 2013 - Berlin, Pixelache 2013 - Helsinki, and the Media Art Histories conference Renew - Riga, October 2013 were used to discuss work and taxonomies for Fields.

From the 200 proposals received through the public call, the curators have chosen 40 works from all over the world, but with a special focus on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. Fields will be exhibited between May 15th and August 3rd 2014, at the Arsenals exhibition space of Latvian National Arts Museum, the largest and most important exhibition space for contemporary art in Riga, as a part of Riga - European Culture Capital 2014. The exhibition will be accompanied by public lectures, Renewable Futures conference as well as artist performances and concerts. A catalogue will be produced, which will consist of a special issue of the Acoustic Space peer reviewed academic journal, jointly issued by Liepaja's University Art Research Lab and RIXC.

Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and founding directors of RIXC, an art institution in Riga, Latvia, whose Art + Communication festival has become one of the most important festivals of this kind in Europe and worldwide. Armin Medosch is a curator, writer and artist based in Vienna, Austria. The Fields exhibition is a follow-up project to Waves 2006, which was also shown at Arsenals in Riga, co-curated by Smite, Smits and Medosch.

The curators selected works that are considered to be contextual seedbeds for social change. The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations.

Fields presents a lively landscape of art that challenges existing viewpoints and deconstructs social issues, but also proposes positive visions for the future. A premise behind this project was from the very start that no single field and associated label can do justice any more to the diversity of contemporary art practices. Typically, today, the most interesting practices are transdisciplinary and transformative - they rely on new combinations of existing fields-as-in-disciplines, combining the artistic with the social and the natural, the scientific and the emotional, the sensible with the actual.

Fields opens up the contemporary field for a free and associative play of radical taxonomies, remixing and recombining existing categories, thereby carrying out important boundary work that gives a new shape to the contact zones between art, science, technology and social engagement in the 21st century.
While the final list of artists may still change, we would like to present some examples for the radical diversity of approaches:
       The relationship with nature plays a major role in this exhibition, often in combination with ideas from the open culture that emerged on the net, about sharing resources and tackling social issues through participatory and social mechanisms.
      In some cases, such as Leave it in the Ground by Oliver Ressler (2013), or Seedsunderground (2013-14) by Shu Lea Cheang, the work carries a clear and direct political message, concerning issues such as renewable energy, sustainability or the fight for the diversity of agricultural seeds and plants.
    Other work, less overtly political, opens our senses and minds to new ways of seeing the world, referring to what French philosopher Jaques Ranci?re calls the 'distribution of the sensible'. Lisa Jevbratt shows how different reality is if we imagine to look at the world with animal eyes. The Belgian collective Okno combines rooftop gardening and beehives to create new maps of the distribution of plant life in cities. Erich Berger measures changes in the magnetic field of the Earth. Manu Luksch offers a free ride on a water taxi in exchange for a conversation with Kayak Libre.
  The human body itself becomes seen as a node in a complex network of force-fields, where nature, genetic science and political and economical topics intersect. The Latvian artist Gints Gabrans proposes to modify our bodies so that, with the help of new enzymes, we can eat grass and tree branches. Hu.M.C.C.- Human Molecular Colonization Capacity project by Maja Smrekar, Slovenia, uses an enzyme from the artist's body to create a yoghurt. Hans Scheirl's paintings and installation Transgenic (TM) breaks through barriers between 2D and 3D, simultaneously opening up new ways of artistic and bodily trans-gression.
        The intersection of social and visual fields is the topic of works by Austrian video artist Annja Krautgasser's Prelude (2010) and media artist Hannah Haslaati, Finland, who uses principles known from Gestalt psychology to make group dynamics visible.
The intersection of the globalised economy with digital technologies, financial markets exploitative labour practices and culture and concerns of local communities and indigenous people are addressed in works such as Histoire Économique (2013) by British artist Hayley Newman, Working Life (2013) by Danish artist collective Superflex and Eccentric Archive (2012-14) by Ines Doujak and John Barker.
       The relevations by Edward Snowden about global surveillance activities of the USA through its PRISM program has made evident how important the invisible world of data flows and data bases is. Data fields, battlefields and the war on terror mark the background for works such as Endless War (2012-14) by British-Japanese artist couple YoHa (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji), and We should take nothing for granted! - on the building of an alert and knowledgeable citizenry by Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan and Project Atol.
       The relationship between matter and information, as suggested by cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener, is the topic of the Earth Computer (2014) Martin Howse and Ghostradio (2014) by Pamela Neuwirth, Markus Decker and Franx Xaver.
   Artists such as Martins Ratniks' installlation with 27 CRT TV screens, and French artist Cecile Babiole's sound installation are engaging with the raw energy of electrical and electro-magnetic fields, continuing work started with the Waves project in 2006. Relationships between electrical and biological fields inform the work of Latvian sound artist Voldemars Johansons, who, in collaboration with RIXC's own project Biotricity (bacteria battery) has made music from electrical signal fluctuations that are generated by living micro-organisms.

These are some key topics and examples of up to 40 works that will be shown at Fields.

http://fields.rixc.lv

Support: The Fields exhibition is supported by Riga 2014 and Riga City Council, Latvian State Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Austrian Ministry of Culture, French Cultural Institute, Nordic Culture Point.

Contact: For further questions please write to: fields@rixc.lv

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Fields exhibition website by RIXC

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