Life_n (Life to the Power of n)

Lifeⁿ ( Life to the power of n ) — or, life to the power of infinity — is a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson, which will take place throughout the Bay Area in 2008. Internationally recognized as one of the most influential among San Francisco-based media artists, Hershman Leeson has shaped the history of contemporary art in the Bay Area since the early 1970s. This collaborative survey of the artist’s past and current projects is a joint effort among local institutions and art collections; it will feature six presentations over the course of the year ( see calendar below ), individually organized by each participating venue but jointly promoted under the title of Lifeⁿ ( Life to the power of n ).

Sun Run Sun_Yolande Harris

Sun Run Sun investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position. A series of portable personal ‘instruments’, currently under development, transform satellite data directly into a sonic composition. This composition constantly varies in response to the changing location of the player as they move through their physical environment. The player/navigator’s experience of their own locational shifts are augmented by corresponding shifts in the electronic soundscape, as it is calculated/performed in real-time and played via headphones. Sun Run Sun explores the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of personal connectedness to one’s environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.

semiconductor

magnetic movie

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

Google will eat itself

UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio, Ludovico, Alessandro , lizvlx, Cirio, Paolo , Bernhard, Hans

The artists raise money by serving Google text advertisements on their websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares which means that they buy Google via its own advertisement. Google eats itself – but in the end the artists own it. They construct the new global advertisement mechanisms by establishing a model and thus reder them into a surreal click-based economic model. Finally they hand the common ownership of “their” Google shares over to the GTTP Ltd. (Google To The People Public Company) which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

Falling Life

 M. Bielicky+K.B.Richter

Falling Life is a permanently ongoing project that was introduced for the first time in Berlin in August 2005. It represents permanently appearing and disappearing information of our time and at the same time the fall of our western decadent civilization.
The particular use of the public space as an expanded cultural space is an important aspect of the project. This urban screening generally doesn’t need a curator or a gallery; it doesn’t need a fixed place, time or even an access to the electric power. Without any preparation and without any permits we are operating in a kind of projection guerilla style. We are equipped with a laptop, a compact light powerful projector and a small power generator. We simply decide when, where, how and what we will display. With this very mobile equipment we are able to have an instant presence in the info landscape of cities.
Another important aspect of Falling Life – News deals with the heavy infoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information are the news today. The news have been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time. Also visual artists, scientists, intellectuals and advertisers produce mostly noisy information of any form and contribute in this way to infoEcological disaster.
With this awareness we decided to create a reduced visual language for public space as an alternative to the heavily polluted public information space (urban space, Internet, TV, printed matter, galleries, museums etc.) We believe one should consciously and ecologically approach contents and amount of data in the physical and digital space.
In our real time news visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words which appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are displayed as a dynamic pictogram language which is considered to be universal and instantly understandable. Because we use only white pictograms on a black background the typical screen format disappears and we transform the space into another form. The quick and universal language can be read by the spectator in passing by attitude without needing to stop. We hope to contribute with our minimalist data visualization to the to the infoEcology paradigm.

Stop infoPollution!

White Plane_Alex Bradley+Charlie Poulet

First seen at Baltic gallery, Whiteplane2 is a unsettling, beautiful sound installation incorporating a new live performance created for the ICA. Alex Bradley and Charles Poulet use ambisonic techniques – immersive sound – to inhabit the very fabric of the building, inviting the audience to rethink their ideas of perspective, light and depth. Bradley and Poulet will write a score which will fully integrate with the ICA theatre, and which will be augmented by live improvisation at a different tempo to the main score, creating what the artists call a “rhythm of position”. The audience will be free to wander around Whiteplane2, a space that moves from the familiar to the unfamiliar through sonic illusion, provoking a feeling of subtle dislocation. Co-produced by Alex Bradley and Helen Cole. Commissioned by Arnolfini in association with amino and Baltic. Ambisonic Development and software by Raj Patel and Alban Bassuet, Arup Acoustics. Supported by Contemporary Music Network. Funded by Arts Council England.

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Space Junk Spotting_Saso Sedlacek

In the more than fifty years that have passed since the conquest of space began, we have succeeded in filling orbits around the earth with surplus satellites, rocket waste, and other debris. We can view this space junk as archeology in the making or, indeed, as a garbage dump in a class of its own.