Peter Weibel Any protest, any insurrection, any indignation, any revolution faces today a new situation: the global web of social media. Anything, what in former times, has been restricted to be only a local event, nowadays, by the nearly simultaneous dissemination, can become a global event. The social media function as a magnifying glass…
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Injections of art Video works in semi-public places
Catrien Schreuder The aim to bridge the gap between art and everyday life has been present on the foreground of much of the art production in the twentieth century. Artistic developments ranging from cubist collage, Dadaist ready-mades, surrealist bricolage, interdisciplinary happenings and Fluxus events up to postmodernist appropriation of the visual languages of…
Read MoreEncountering Images: Insight Into the Evaluation Process – Film and Moving Images in Urban Space
Annika Wik Moving images dance across a façade in central Stockholm. Sharp light is cast through a window of the hotel building opposite the street. A place that is ordinarily more sombre is illuminated by beams of light that gather into projections onto the façade. Film images are shown directly on the wall, with…
Read MoreResearch Article: Expanded Art in Public Space I
Research text developed on the basis of a curatorial roundtable in March 2017 on the concept, place and value of Expanded Art in public space today. The text compiles a mix of discussion quotes, comments, theoretical reflections, and prepared statements by roundtable participants and the audiences. The discussion was recorded. Cited participants: Trude Schjelderup…
Read MoreArt in the Intelligent City
How may art, as autonomous manifestation and a domain intimately related to human experience, take part in the technological development of cities today? The Screen City Biennial developed out of curiosity and attention to the meeting between expanded moving image art and the urban domain. While the urban context is undergoing profound transformations with…
Read MoreArtist Conversation: John Cleater
A conversation about augmented reality, magic and the consequences of global warming in Stavanger Stavanger, March 2017 Tanya Toft Ag: For some, Augmented Reality is an unfamiliar concept; for others, it is Pokémon Go. But I would like us to expand on this, and dig into some of the more sophisticated aesthetic potentials…
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Curator Perspective: Inês Grosso
How would you describe your curatorial practice? I worked as a member of the curatorial team of the Inhotim Institute (Minas Gerais, Brazil) for over four years. It was there that I learnt almost everything I know about curating. Possibly, this is what is behind my special interest in commissioning new works, either small projects…
Read MoreCurator Perspective: Tina Sauerländer
How would you describe your curatorial practice? As a curator, I see my role as that of a mediator between artistic expression and public perception. Artists reflect on the political, social or visual conditions of our surroundings. I carefully choose from these artistic expressions and embed them into a new societal and spatial framework to…
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Curator Perspective: Vanina Saracino
How would you describe your curatorial practice? My current projects are mainly focused on moving-image art, and I seek to highlight the relevance of movie theatres in framing the viewing experience for narrative video works, as well as exploring the potential of TV and the internet as (mass) media to expand curated exhibition formats. A…
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Curator Perspective: Fernanda Parente
How would you describe your curatorial practice? I am curious about how technology and the digital age will affect the way we engage with stories. That is what drives me in my work. I started my curatorial practice in cinema and, in the last few years, I have focused on immersive mediums such as Virtual…
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