ISEA2015 Art Event Overview
ISEA2015: [Overview] [Venues] [Presentations] [Workshops] [Art Events] [Gallery]
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Exhibitions:
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Simon Fraser University
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#iHeartRobotMusic
[Bjornson]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Interactive Monitor-Based) (Sound Art)
Blue Sky
[Olson]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Sculptural Objects) (Video / Animation Installation)
The Mailman’s Bag: 250 Miles Cros...
[Bekkum] [Polak]
(Art Exhibition) (Video / Animation Installation)
Cave Plexum
[Ogasian] [Charlesworth]
(Art Exhibition) (Design) (Games) (Installation Art) (Internet Art)
Dark Storm Phials
[Boredomresearch]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Video / Animation Installation)
Nearest Costco, Monument or Satelli...
[Jolliffe]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object)
Materialism/Antagonism
[Burr]
(Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Video / Animation Installation)
MNEMODRONE
[Belquer] [Vavarella]
(Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Performances)
‘xoxox.com’, ‘phonics abrogat...
[Zepka]
(Art Exhibition) (Internet Art) (Video / Animation Installation)
Rhizome Prism #2
[FM Grande]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Installation Art) (Sound Art) (Animation)
SLEEPER
[Instant Places]
(Art Exhibition) (Sound Art) (Video / Animation Installation) (Performances)
green.qt_slippage.mov, 505.VIRI, Br...
[jonCates]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Video / Animation Installation)
24 Hour Franco
[Munt] [Harvey]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Video / Animation Installation)
ThalassoGlitch
[Brunet]
(Art Exhibition) (Projection / Video Mapping) (Video / Animation Installation)
The 360° Skyline Song Project
[Arakawa] [Ogasawara] [Matsumura ] [Okamoto] [Matsui]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Sound Art)
URME Surveillance (Gallery Expressi...
[Selvaggio]
(Art Exhibition) (2D Art) (Sculptural Objects) (Design) (Wearable Art)
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[Wellmer]
(Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Sound Art)
Big Bro is fucked up watching you
[Dykukha]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Projection / Video Mapping)
Unknown Meetings
[Roberts] [Witek]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (AR / VR / XR) (Video / Animation Installation)
Noise Square
[Zareei]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Projection / Video Mapping) (Sound Art)
The Ponytron
[Mendoza]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Sound Art)
MIMMiC (Mobile Interactive Modular ...
[Daggitt] [Wong]
(Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based) (Video / Animation Installation)
Reified Meme I: Extreme Greenies
[Williams]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Video / Animation Installation)
Banana Installation
[Lattey] [Evdokimoff]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Sound Art)
Repositories Series (Instructograph...
[Stone]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object)
String Section
[Novak]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (AR / VR / XR) (Installation Art) (Sound Art)
Resonance (Sound)
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RL2000
[Korinsky] [Korinsky] [Korinsky]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Installation Art) (Sound Art)
Museum of Vancouver - Lively Objects: Enchantment And Disruption
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- Curators Statement Lively Objects is dedicated to the memory of Wendy Coburn, whose work was influential in the exhibition’s conceptualisation and who passed away during its development. Lively Objects explores the seduction of things that seem to possess, or to be possessed by life. It brings together a collection of objects that vibrate with vitality through mechanical, magical or mythical forces. The exhibition addresses the idea of enchantment in a contemporary context and asks why and how, in an age of rationality, we are attracted by the animistic and atavistic experience of things “coming to life”. Spread throughout the eclectic permanent collection of the Museum of Vancouver Lively Objects infiltrates dioramas, display cases and didactic panels. The works in this exhibition take many forms – gloves, tables, puppets, figurines, machines, houses and boxes. Seeding quiet disruption amongst the traditional museum display, the objects nestle, lurk, provoke, vibrate, dance, move and speak. Like a game of hide and seek, visitors can hunt through the museum to find the objects, or drift through and take their chances. ... [Read more]
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Crow Panel
[Doyle]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Projection / Video Mapping) (Video / Animation Installation)
Topographic Table
[Koh]
(Art Exhibition) (Sculptural Objects) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Internet Art)
Monarch
[Hartman] [The Social Body Lab]
(Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Wearable Art)
Go-Go Gloves
[Hartman]
(Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Installation Art) (Video / Animation Installation) (Wearable Art)
Splish Splash One and Splish Splash...
[White]
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Curators Statement
Beyond the Trees considers mediated representations of nature and the ways our perspectives shift between physical and virtual experiences. Both Vancouver-based collective WALLPAPERS (Nicolas Sassoon, Sara Ludy and Sylvain Sailly) and West Coast modernist Emily Carr invite us to reflect on their perceptions of British Columbia’s coastal landscape, the former through the use of digitally animated patterns and the latter by means of nuanced brushstrokes of line and colour. In both, nature is viewed through powerful aesthetic filters.
WALLPAPERS is a collective founded in 2011 by artists Sara Ludy (b. 1980), Nicolas Sassoon (b. 1981) and Sylvain Sailly (b. 1983). Their artworks are computer-generated animated patterns that exist online at www.w-a-l-l-p-a-pe-r-s.net. Exhibited online, the work takes form as a catalogue of digital patterns, with each artwork created by an individual artist and displayed full-screen on its own URL. For Beyond the Trees, WALLPAPERS have produced an immersive environment that both mimics and experiments with the scale and primary forms of nature. Responding to the archite... [Read more]
- Curators Statement 5600K refers to the colour temperature of a defined, white light that has become a standard in film production, used to replicate the appearance of natural light at the brightest time of day. It is understood as both real and false: a verisimilitude, a simulacrum. The manipulation of light in visceral, illusionary and poetic ways, the attempt to dismantle boundaries, space, structures, bodies and perception itself, the fascination with finding new languages of visual experience… all are of particular interest to the three artists in this exhibition: Carsten Höller, Gunda Förster and Elizabeth McAlpine. Each work in the exhibition references both the disruptive and formative potential of light; to penetrate and affect the physical body and the surrounding space. In adjoining rooms, large installations by Carsten Höller and Gunda Förster each present rotational movement that is performative and dislocating. Hanging in the space between, creating a physical obstacle and alluding to transformative events, is a work by Elizabeth McAlpine. In a dark gallery Gunda Förster presents Circle, a single 1000W white light t... [Read more]
- Curator Statement Many of the works in this show use specific objects, or readymades, as a material starting point. Readymades make for interesting material for artmaking as they previously were developed with human user interaction as a key consideration in their creation, necessary innovation that have grown familiar in the day to day. These objects are also representative of the quotidian, the most ordinary and habitually unnoticed. They are stand-ins for lives built up habitually in daily experience, by the distillation of ordinary expectations of the world. The quotidian is also a necessary condition for surprise. The works in this exhibition deviate from the ordinary; the result is unfamiliarity, sometimes wonder, sometimes a new understanding. These artists embrace the paradox of seeing the everyday for its commonness, while imbuing their works with latent possibilities for transformation to further human experience. In time for ISEA2015, a number of electronic or digital-based works will be on display, interspersed with works of more traditional media. Daniel Kent, an artist residing in Brooklyn, NY, will exhibit Articulatin... [Read more]
- Curators Statement ARCTICNOISE is a media installation that draws on archival film footage and sound materials sourced from the Isuma Archive at the National Gallery of Canada, as well as sound and film materials from the artist’s personal collection, onsite research obtained from a trip to Igloolik, and other ethnographical material. Conceived as an Indigenous response to Glenn Gould’s celebrated composition “The Idea of the North”, Inutiq will appropriate Gould’s piece as a musical score, paired with new voices and imagery to produce a layered and multi-vocal work. The project folds into Inutiq’s larger practice of his alter-ego, madeskimo that draws on the use of instruments, digital and analogue synthesizers, as well as the remixing and processing of samples from a large variety of sources —including traditional Inuit, Aboriginal, modern electronic and urban music— in order to create an experimental platform. At its crux, ARCTICNOISE intends to initiate conversations between various communities, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and to provoke thoughtful exchange about the roles of Inuit orality and materiality in a post-c... [Read more]
- Curator Statement The project is presented at 221A’s exhibition room located in Chinatown, Vancouver, where it is undergoing intensive neighbourhood gentrification and experiencing crude orientalist marketing campaigns that add to the ongoing crisis of affordability and cultural homogenization. [Read more]
- Curator Statement Texts that move, respond to touch, are created by bots, are evoked and performed through augmented and virtual reality, that digitally remix print works, extend print text to the digital medium or digital text into print environments – all speak to ways artists in the 21st century are questioning assumptions about methods of production and rethinking notions of audience engagement with textual objects like books and creative output like literary art. New Text: Literary and Artistic Explorations into What It Means to Read, Write, and Create, curated by Dene Grigar, builds on ISEA2015’s theme of Disruption by looking at the way digital technologies disrupt text and notions of textuality. Fifteen works created by 22 artists and artist teams have been selected for the exhibit. Some like Jody Zellen’s mobile app Spine Sonnet, which allows the viewer to produce unlimited iterations of a poem by interacting with the tablet interface, force the viewer to rethink the sonnet as closed poetic system. Others like Tiffany Sanchez and Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo’s hybrid book environment, Prey, disrupt cultural assumptions about both ... [Read more]
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Entropic Texts
[Krauth] [Nelson]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Video / Animation Installation)
Read For Us… And Show Us The Pict...
[Howe] [Cayley]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Video / Animation Installation)
Whispering Galleries
[Bouse] [Borsuk]
(Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Internet Art) (Projection / Video Mapping) (Sound Art)
Death Of An Alchemist
[Rodley] [Burrell]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Installation Art) (Internet Art)
Recursive Dictation
[Vandegrift]
(Art Exhibition) (Apps / Software) (Installation Art) (Internet Art) - Curator Statement VIVO Media Arts is pleased to host an evening of screenings, performance and installation in connection with ISEA2015. The event thematic of Disruption provokes us to consider our own historical situation within crisis and flux. In a period of social, political, industrial and environmental turmoil, broad and diverse groups of people have been formally committed to a haphazard exploration of un/de-regulated interstices of the physical and the virtual in hopes of finding workarounds, new grades of paydirt, and perhaps even the odd revolutionary silver bullet. In over 40 years of existence, VIVO has aspired to foster, whenever possible, the space of tenuous creative exploration that is traced out by the thematics of ISEA2015. Often, such space issues prototypes with spiky cyberpunk physicality – clunky, not yet streamlined, grotesque, speckled with the historically residual. Several of the works featured at VIVO are deliberately rudimentary – playful but also underdetermined in order to make space for their interlocutors. Both work and platform, they are typically simple and crude metaphors and metonyms that nonetheles... [Read more]
Vancouver Art Gallery - Beyond the Trees: Wallpapers In Dialogue With Emily Carr
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New Media Gallery - 5600K Temperature Of White
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Furvault Alsco Laundry
Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP) - Quoting The Quotidian
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grunt gallery - ARTICNOISE
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221A
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Goldcorp Centre for the Arts - NEW TEXT
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VIVO Media Arts Centre - Exhibition
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Concerts & Performances:
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Information Erupts into Perception
- Curators Statement Screenings and Performance, Curated by Samirah Alkassim and Laura U. Marks This program comprises two parts, a screening of short works and a live performance. These works identify patterns of information that lie below visible and audible thresholds and bring them into perception. Drawn largely but not entirely from the Arab world, the films, videos, video database (CAMP), and live cinema performance (VJ Um Amel) are all alert to seemingly random patterns that, when organized into information, can be rendered audiovisually. Moiré patterns, shadow puppets, analog video decay, surveillance technology, and other media collect and give shape to disavowed histories and the voices of the earth. In some cases these acts of translation permit a heightened political analysis. In others, they unfold histories, places, and events from dry data into the sensory responses of the viewer. Laila Shereen Sakr, aka VJ Um Amel, is known for her founding and ongoing work with the R-Shief project that uses social media extraction and data analysis of contemporary global struggles, people’s movements and national crises (using Egypt and the US as her target... [Read more]
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(2007-2017) from VJ Um Amel on Vimeo.
From Gaza to Cairo – TRAILER from VJ Um Amel on Vimeo.
- Curators Statement Generative music software installation (2015) Musebots are pieces of software that autonomously create music, collaboratively with other musebots. The goal of this project is to establish a creative platform for experimenting with musical autonomy, open to people developing cuttingedge music AI, or simply exploring the creative potential of generative processes in music. Not simply a robot jam, but individual virtual instrumentalists coming together, like a band, to autonomously create (in this case) downtempo EDM. For this Canadian premiere of the MuseBot ensemble, we have contributions from Europe, Australia, and North America. Curated by Arne Eigenfeldt & Oliver Bown. [Read more]
- Curator Statement VIVO Media Arts is pleased to host an evening of screenings, performance and installation in connection with ISEA2015. The event thematic of Disruption provokes us to consider our own historical situation within crisis and flux. In a period of social, political, industrial and environmental turmoil, broad and diverse groups of people have been formally committed to a haphazard exploration of un/de-regulated interstices of the physical and the virtual in hopes of finding workarounds, new grades of paydirt, and perhaps even the odd revolutionary silver bullet. In over 40 years of existence, VIVO has aspired to foster, whenever possible, the space of tenuous creative exploration that is traced out by the thematics of ISEA2015. Often, such space issues prototypes with spiky cyberpunk physicality – clunky, not yet streamlined, grotesque, speckled with the historically residual. Several of the works featured at VIVO are deliberately rudimentary – playful but also underdetermined in order to make space for their interlocutors. Both work and platform, they are typically simple and crude metaphors and metonyms that nonetheles... [Read more]
- Curator Statement In the context of ISEA’s 21st edition in Vancouver, MUTEK is proud to present a series of audiovisual performances from some of Québec’s most internationally renowned and emerging artists working in this fi eld. With The MUTEK Cabaret, MUTEK deliberately recalls and echoes The Electronic Cabaret, a program presented during the last ISEA symposium in Canada, which took place in Montréal in 1995. In many respects, the event of 1995 marked the beginning of a process that led to Montréal’s emergence as a digital arts hub, creating a lasting impression and inspiring the realization of institutions such as the SAT (Société des Arts Technologiques) and the MUTEK and Elektra festivals. Presented at the now defunct Spectrum, the original Electronic Cabaret offered first glimpses in North America of avant garde digital work such as Modell 5 by Granular Synthesis, a revelatory presentation that seeded many of the experimental digital practices that have since matured in Québec and taken on their own distinct qualities and expressions. Curated by Artistic Director Alain Mongeau in both instances, this new program features... [Read more]
- Curator Statement AV Disruption brings together a program of audio, and audio video performances that exemplify what it means to bridge research and practice. The four performances are solidly grounded in academic research, whether in computer music or generative and interactive systems. Instead of simply using the current software available to produce audio-video pieces, the artists in this program have developed custom software to craft unique audio visual systems and instruments that result in new and disruptive audio visual experiences. [Read more]
- Over the past 15 years the New Forms Festival has been a mainstay of Vancouver’s media arts community. Through the festival and other events year-round, we are proud to have worked with the collection of artists, collectives and institutions that make up the diversity of Vancouver’s artistrun culture. It is an honour to be a programming partner with ISEA2015, and to be co-presenting a number of works and performances during the internationally recognized Symposium. ISEA2015 marks the start of a new era for New Forms, as we move from a festival focus toward an organization committed to year-round programming. By inviting an international cohort of artists and practitioners for the Symposium, while simultaneously showcasing the rich ecology of local artists that have put Vancouver on the international media arts map, we believe this partnership to be the ideal launching off point for the next 15 years. [Read more]
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Curator Statement
ISEA2015 presents a historic opportunity to stage Vancouver’s first Algorave. An Algorave is a live performance of danceable music that is generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques, so that instead of playing synthesizers, drums, and keyboards, the artists generate sound by writing code. Starting from a blank page these artists create music making algorithms with programming languages such as IXI Lang, Overtone, Puredata, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Impromptu, Fluxus and Tidal.
The Algorave movement originated in the computer music research community and over the past decade has become popular in the U.K. and across Europe. For this groundbreaking event at ISEA2015 we are excited to present a group of generative system developers and composers as well as live coding artists from around the globe.
Curator: Philippe Pasquier, Metacreation Lab, Canada Acknowledgments: Vicki Moulder, Curatorial Support; Kıvanç Tatar, Sound/Tech; Mark Nazemi, Video Mapping; and Theo Wong, Graphics.
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