ISEA2009 Art Event Overview

Placed beside the Waterfront Hall, a container is used by C-13 as an information centre, performance venue, meeting place, cinema, hang about and starting point for other activities; a multifunctional hub and an alternative to the official ISEA venues and their programme.  As well as presenting some of their own work within the container, the C13 collective have invited fellow artists working within Belfast and wider afield to exhibit.

C13 is an ensemble of sound artists, musicians, programmers, animators, architects, visual artists, photographers and filmmakers. The group was founded in 2009 and operate from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Their collaborative practice challenges traditional media archetypes and explores the tensions between site, medium, artist and audience.

Tem·plate n. 2 Computer Science. A document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used.

MCAC presents an ambitious interdisciplinary multi-format exhibition curated by Joe Gilmore and Christopher Murphy. Template 2.0 presents current tendencies in visual media by interdisciplinary artists working in the fields of digital music, generative art and graphic design and is part of the ISEA2009 conference to be held in Belfast in August. ISEA, the Inter-Society of Electronic arts, is an international nonprofit organisation situated at the interface between arts, science and digital technologies.

Intended as an ongoing exhibition, doubling at each reiteration, Template 1.0 first exhibited at Sightsonic Digital Arts Festival, York. Template 2.0 features works by a cross-section of internationally respected digital artists including: Alorenz, Dextro, Lia and Tina Frank.

To accompany this exhibition MCAC has commissioned Murphy to create an iPod interactive tour. While commonplace in many galleries worldwide, interactive mediation devices are not widely utilised in Ireland. With the arrival of these new technologies organisations now have an opportunity to present their work (collections or temporary exhibitions) in new and increasingly innovative ways. MCAC is part of a group of leading venues that are now interfacing with publics that feel comfortable with new media and, most importantly, are providing new avenues of access into museums and galleries via relevant creative experiences. This new overture is part of MCAC’s ongoing interest in engaging audiences, including our new online social network site on Facebook.

ReFunct 09 Symposium, organised by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Data Group (Dublin Art and Technology Association), for ISEA2009. This event will combine workshops, discussions, performances and an exhibition.

An exhibition of the documentation of artistic practices, which intervene in public space. The exhibition will focus on ephemeral practices, which have not been officially sanctioned and which are mediated in some fashion through digital networks. The exhibition will consist of two components: a pre-installed component of artists work documented through video, prints and text and a live component where invited artists will digitally send work to the gallery and printed out and displayed on walls and screens. A submission / suggestion system utilising social networking, mailing lists and other digital networks will be provided.

Visitors are encouraged to sit and browse the documentation and offer and engage with the exhibition personnel. At the end of the exhibition we hope to build up a library documenting these diverse practices.

The Audio Cultures Seminar in GradCam will programme a short exhibition of curated media artwork and  installations, focused on the relationship between sound, audio art, and technology. We will also host a panel debate of practitioners, critics and academics around the same during the exhibition.

Panelists:

Tapio Makela: Art of Locative Memory
Frauke Behrendt: Audience Perspectives in mobile Sound Art
Nigel Helyer: The Sonic Nomadic: Exploring Mobile Surround Installations
Pedro Rebelo: Addressing The Network: Performative Strategies for Playing Apart

Club night with performances.