Exhibition in Bergen (Norway)

Exhibition opening 19. Aug 6pm , concert 6:30pm

Exhibition period 20. Aug – 25. Sept 2011

The exhibition Soft Technology was shown at SOFT Gallery in Oslo in March with four e-textile works by Norwegian and international artists and designers. We thank you for the participation in both the opening and the workshop and concert with Syntjuntan.

On Aug. 19th the exhibition Soft Technology will open again at Gallery 3.14 in Bergen, this time expanded with nine works and a collection of prototypes and samples from participants in the Soft Technology research project. The audience here will be able to touch and pull, make sound and even see and experience how electronic textile works.

The exhibition at Gallery 3,14 in Bergen shows works that takes smart materials, e-textiles and traditional electronics as a starting point in the development of the work. These are works by international and Norwegian artists that take different approaches to materiality, technology and context, and tell different stories. Still they have in common a quest to give the unstable, unknown and unpredictable a form and a visuality, both in content and materiality.

Kristina Aas (NO), Berit Greinke (DE / U.S.), Hilde Hauan (NO), Elin Igland (NO), Kobakant (AT / US / JP), Astrid Krogh (DK), Celine Marq (FR / U.S.), Hillevi Munthe (NO) and Ricardo O"Nascimento (BR).

Soft Technology is a research project on textile electronics in an artistic context, carried out at Atelier Nord in Oslo and the Art Academy in Bergen. Soft Technology is produced by Atelier Nord in collaboration with the Art Academy in Bergen and Gallery 3.14.

Concerts performed on the piece "Mønsterundersøkelser av lyd nr 1" will be played on weekends during the exhibition period.

Wednesday 31 August 5pm book launch of "The Temporary Embassy" by Anders Rubing. In cooperation with KHiB.

Lydgalleriet is also taking the opportunity to curate a sound piece for our Parabol-series in the passage.

Soft Technology is produced by Atelier Nord, more information www.ateliernord.no

Green Summer @ Verbeke Foundation

I had the pleasure to be in verbeke foundation for a quick residence of 4 days. Actually, I was mounting the installation "Plantas Parlantes" that I made together with the mexican artist Gilberto Sparza and Recycle-x team.

The foundation is a quite impressive place. It reminded me a lot a place in Brazil called Inhotim. However, despite of the amazing work of its founder the place encounter some difficulties in maintaining its pieces and also providing infra structure for the residents artists.

I was there together with Javier Busturia, Jelle Decker, Jnigni Wang and Roel. We slept in a truck (!). The experience that could be interested was a bit challenging due to the arctic cold that was at night, not to mention the dust everywhere. Speaking with other artists I figured out that their living conditions at Verbeke foundation was not actually better.

Walking in the almost 6.000 m2 of the foundation you can find many sculptures, some of them in big size. Some really good, others not so much. I had the impression that the curatorial line is quite weak, not to say nonexistent. Also it is possible to perceive a fascination about dead animals on the place. Almost 60% o the installations has something to do with death or dead animals. Freak!

I would say that this time was good but not really totally enjoyable. I have to confess that I was in a really bad mood also. Despite of all of this I could see some nice artworks and had a good time with my friends. if you are in Antwerp a visit is high recommended, if you are an artist and look for a residence you might want to think twice. Unless you really like contact with nature at all cost ;-)

more info: www.verbekefoundation.com

Smart textile @ crosslab (Rotterdam)

Yesterday I have been in Crosslab in Rotterdam for a talk about fashion and technology.

There were presentations of some projects in a DIY craft style (very hype nowadays). I liked very much the presentation of Meg Grant, who did a very nice and simple top with leds called " See-thru-me.

Another presentation, not so exciting was the Dutch/American artist Annet Couwenberg. For almost 3 months she worked together with Marisol Trowbridge and students on an interactive (textile) art piece. Point of departure were conversations (sewing sessions) with Turkish migrant women. Via this special form of dialogue they talked about themes like fashion, politics, hope, beauty and cultural diversity. Though the theme is relevant, specially in Netherlands, She felt in lots of cliches concerning the duch and islam culture. The project was not clear and the output not so interesting. Well.... I admire her enthusiasm but maybe in the next time. This work did not touch me ;-(

Another presentation was a livingroom made by students that created several non convencional switches that turned on several strange electronic devices. Funny, but I again missed the point ;-(

see-thru-me from Sneaker Peet on Vimeo.

new workshop: flexibe circuits

I am glad to announce that I will give a workshop in Mexico City on 11th March at Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las artes.

Bellow some information in spanish and link:

Circuitos flexibles

Imparte: Ricardo Nascimento

La intención del curso es que los participantes podrán crear un circuito sencillo, utilizando materiales flexibles. A manera de contextualización, serán presentados algunos proyectos en wearable art, posteriormente se presentarán trabajos que se valen de circuitos flexibles (fashion technology) y se hará una introducción en cuanto a materiales conductivos, así como a algunos conceptos básicos de electrónica, también se creará un prototipo de circuito con LED y sensores, por último se analizarán sus posibles aplicaciones.

El taller está dirigido a artistas, diseñadores y personas interesadas en la creación artística con medios tecnológicos (no es necesario conocimiento previo en electrónica).

http://cmm.cenart.gob.mx/cartelera/cursos.html#nascimento

#ACE2009

Check my twiiter about the ACE2009 conference!

The Royal Interface Culture Masquerade Ball

IMAFY

Hey people,

a guy from twitter sent me this link about an exhibition that I participated in Cairo last year. It seems to be from EFE TV Madrid. They say my name but do not show my work hehehe

Interactivos Lima at Nature.com

The technology of illusion

Jascha Hoffman1

ARTS REVIEWED:
-Interactivos? Lima '09: Magic and Technology
Escuelab, Lima, Peru. Sponsored by Medialab Prado.
Workshop held 13 April until 13 May 2009.

ESCUELAB LIMA

Viewing your arm through this box of tricks (top) transformed it into the furry equivalent shown above.

Magic is not limited to the tricks performed at children's parties. It can refer to anything that resists explanation, from cognitive illusions to high-tech wizardry. This broader sense of magic was in the air in Lima, Peru, earlier this spring, when engineers and artists converged to explore the intersection of magic and technology, with awe-inspiring results.

"It's nuts, it's very ambitious," said Julian Oliver, an artist from New Zealand who helped to organize the workshop for Medialab Prado, based in Madrid, Spain. "People bring the skeletons of ideas and build them in just two weeks."

The workshop began with a digital nod to the time-honoured manipulation of playing cards and coins. Using a suitcase that folds out to become a digital overhead projector, a Spanish magician doctored a live video feed of his tabletop tricks using a pair of wireless shoes.

Other artists endowed spectators with unearthly powers. One Brazilian artist gave visitors a 'magic wand' to change the outline of their shadows. A Mexican inventor used a hidden theremin, the musical instrument that responds to the body's electrical fields, to activate a magnet that causes a pair of ghostly silver spoons to flip over when someone approached. "We had to reject a project that involved a flame you could control with your hands by way of gas injections," said Oliver.

The conception of magic in Peru was not always the art of deception seen in the West. Instead of Houdini-style illusions, "there is superstition and metaphysics" in Peru involving "rites, summoning and prognostication", said Oliver. Abracadabra Pata, a box in which visitors saw their own arms transformed into the legs of insects or lions, gave a taste of the spirit of witchcraft. A sense of the miraculous also pulsed through an installation that asked passers-by to synchronize their heartbeats to revive an image of a dead man projected onto the floor, in a sort of shamanistic healing- ritual-turned-video-game that took its inspiration from the Peruvian poet César Vallejo.

Magic could be defined as that which science has not yet made intelligible. But "even if science could explain everything, there would still be a place for magic," noted Kiko Mayorga, a Peruvian engineer and artist who co-founded the Escuelab centre that hosted the installations. This is because "magic is linked to surprise, and one's attention can never take in everything," he wrote.

Magic can comprise inventions that baffle us until we understand them. But this ignores a crucial fact: the best illusions rely not on advances in technology, but on permanent facts of psychology. "Magic, in the traditional sense, doesn't occur in the world, it occurs inside people," explains Oliver. "The magician merely helps people to trick themselves."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7248/full/459780a.html

AEF 2009

They just released the theme of this year Ars Electronica Festival and it is.... Human nature...

Actually a quite wide term that could mean anything you want. But still a goo choice. Follow bellow the statment of Gerfried Stocker.

HUMAN NATURE
We are entering a new age here on Earth: the Anthropocene. An age definitively characterized by humankind’s massive and irreversible influences on our home planet. Population explosion, climate change, the poisoning of the environment and our venturing into outer space have been the most striking symbols of this development so far.
But to a much more enormous extent, the achievements of genetic engineering and biotechnology are the truly indicative markers of this transition to a new epoch. Now, we’re not only changing our environment; we’re revising the fundamentals of life itself—even our own human life.
Humankind has appropriated the mantle of Creator. Though we just barely understand how this functions, we’re already modifying entire genomes, constructing new organisms, cloning, creating and inventing new life.

We’re using innovative high-tech methods to observe the human brain while it thinks, so that we can now look behind the veil of our consciousness and see how our mechanisms of perception and decision-making capacities are reflected in our neurons. The long-established boundaries segregating nature and culture are breaking down, and we are once again confronted by the question of the essence of humanness and the nature of the human being.

Thirty years after its founding, this globally established festival’s mission remains the same—we are steadfastly dedicated to the pursuit of the curiosity that is so deeply rooted in humankind’s nature, and we continue to intrepidly peer far into the future. Our immediate objective: to once again foment a fruitful, fascinating dialog at the interface of art, technology and society.
The new Ars Electronica Center that debuted at the outset of this year plays a key role in this endeavor, in that its extraordinary exhibition concept is totally focused on the question of how scientific findings and methods are changing the way we see the world and our views of humankind.

Linz is Europe’s 2009 Capital of Culture. As a major contribution to our city’s big year, the festival’s first project is already being launched on June 17, the day the 80+1 Base Camp is being set up on Linz’s Main Square as the point of departure of a virtual ‘round-the-world journey that, following completion of its 81-day itinerary, returns to Linz just in time for the festival. There, 80+1 will culminate in a globally-networked symposium on cloud intelligence.

2009 also brings us to a joyous milestone: Ars Electronica’s 30th anniversary! As befitting this occasion, an intense retrospective look at the dynamic development of media art will be a key component of the festival program.

Led, curated and produced by artists and scientists—and inspired by their work—the festival’s jam-packed lineup of fascinating events constitutes, as ever, an expedition into hybrid reality and the future of our world.

So, just what is this going to be like, this new nature that human beings are going about engendering?

www.aec.at/humannature
www.80plus1.org

AUTRMX @ transferatv

In spite of the crisis, of the lack of sponsors and other well known obstacles, we want to communicate you that Transfera TV have not left to emit weekly the better current video art creations.

Transfer TV is audio-visual art, not spectacle or industry.

By this reason, Transfera TV propose you for next Friday 8 and Wednesday 13 of May at 21:00 the following program:

FOCFEST RETROSPECTIVE with works of

1. NEIL HOWE (AUSTRALIA) – “GENESIS” (2006: 10' 34)
2. JOSSIE MALIS (PERU) – "BENDITO MACHINE I" (2006: 4' 45)
3. RICARDO NASCIMENTO (BRAZIL) “AUTRMX” (2008: 5' 24)
4. EMRE ÖZKAPI & ASLI BÜYÜKKÖKSAL (TURKEY) “UZUM INCE BIR YOL / A LONG AND THIN ROAD” (2006: 6’)
5. JEAN-JULIAN POUS (FRANCE) “SEEKING YOU: A LOVE LETTER TO HONG KONG” (2008: 3' 14)

You can access to all the information at : http://www.transfera.es/programa33.html

Interactivos? Lima 09: magic and technology

I am glad to announce that I had a project selected for the Interactivos? in Lima (Peru). Now the open call for collaborator in open. If you wanna go click here!

Design Shop

Here it is a nice place to buy trendy design and clothes in São Paulo!

If you are around the opening is this Saturday.

A Cachalote será um espaço para venda de roupas, publicações, pôsteres, originais e muito mais.
Além da Base-V, fazem parte deste empreendimento Rita Vidal, Manueladeombreiras, Nanquim, Oitomilhertz, Rafael Coutinho e editora Hedra.
Gostaríamos de contar com a sua presença na inauguração que será neste sábado dia 14 a partir das 14h.

Cachalote
R. Ministro Ferreira Alves, 48 - Pompéia (continuação da rua Bartira).
Tel. (11) 3676 0796
info@lojacachalote.com

SpectraSonic Jim im AEC Linz

SpectraSonic Jim im AEC Linz
audiovisuelle Interaktivität

Improvisierte instrumentale Musik und Echtzeit-Computerprozesse - Premiere des neuen Machine Musicianship Computersystems
mit Studierenden des Instituts JIM - Jazz und Improvisierte Musik

Musik/Kunst - Konzert
Freitag, 13. Februar 2009, 19:30 - 22:00
Ars Electronica Centre
Linz, Austria
veranstaltet von ABPU Institut Jim in Zusammenarbeit mit Jazzzeit und AEC

http://avant.mur.at/weixler/bpu/JIM/SpectraSonic_Jim.html

mit dabei: Think Bigger Orchestra und New Vocal Music Ensemble

im Rahmen der Jazz-Nite
12. Februar 2009, ABPU Göllerichsaal, Linz,
13. Februar 2009, AEC Sky Media Loft