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Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin
16:00-18:00
Conflict has arrived! An artistic battle of screenings between videoart developed in emerging economies such as India, versus a selection of other created by so-called 'Western Artists' will confront curators Christina Ghetti (RED NOMADE) and Ima Pico (black duck). Pico specially travelled to India to curate her audio-visual works and brought them back to Europe for showcases in England and S.LOW, Berlin. Ghetti will rival those pieces with a selection of mixed background works from Europe and Latinamerica, exploring cross-disciplinary work, social statistics and visualisaiton of data. The battle is served.
In recent years, due to an increase of people working in the boundaries of disciplinary areas of the arts, science and technology; new methodologies and aesthetics in areas of visualisation of data became have emerged and constituted a key aspect of social cultural. The use of social statistics, private and public data constitute the basis of new creative work, as well as a focus on the analysis of new models and behaviours.
THURSDAY 19th of AUGUST 2010
Venue: 91mQ - Landsberger Allee 54 -10249 Berlin
16:00-18:00
Conflict has arrived! An artistic battle of screenings between videoart developed in emerging economies such as India, versus a selection of other created by so-called 'Western Artists' will confront curators Christina Ghetti (RED NOMADE) and Ima Pico (black duck). Pico specially travelled to India to curate her audio-visual works and brought them back to Europe for showcases in England and S.LOW, Berlin. Ghetti will rival those pieces with a selection of mixed background works from Europe and Latinamerica, exploring cross-disciplinary work, social statistics and visualisaiton of data. The battle is served.
In recent years, due to an increase of people working in the boundaries of disciplinary areas of the arts, science and technology; new methodologies and aesthetics in areas of visualisation of data became have emerged and constituted a key aspect of social cultural. The use of social statistics, private and public data constitute the basis of new creative work, as well as a focus on the analysis of new models and behaviours.
RED NOMADE proposes a selection of artists working from different perspectives and dimensions, directly or indirectly with data compilation and its transformation in images, from the intimacy of dreams, in the work of Andrea Racciatti (Argentina), the geographical targets of wars in Enrique Jezik (Mexico), the network information captured in real-time used by Moisés Mañas (Spain), or the completely abstract animated metaphors of Cristina Ghetti (Argentina), Patricia Aragón (Spain) and Emanuelle Mazza (Italy), working with programming code. During the last decade there has been a proliferation of artists using software as medium. Like photography and video previously, the introduction of new technologies, in this case personal computers, and the possibility of programming in a relatively simple way have opened an interesting space for artistic practices.
Cristina Ghetti 2010
En los últimos años -en buena parte gracias al impulso de los artistas que trabajan en la encrucijada entre arte, ciencia y tecnología- las estrategias y estéticas de la visualización de datos se han introducido paulatinamente en ámbitos culturales cada vez más amplios. La toma de datos sociales, personales o infraestructurales se utilizan para crear obras, al mismo tiempo que reflexionan sobre tendencias, comportamientos o modelos emergentes.
Esta selección de artistas propuesta por la RED NOMADE, trabajan desde distintas perspectivas y escalas, directa o tangencialmente con la recopilación de datos y su transformación en imágenes, desde la intimidad del sueño, en la obra de Andrea Racciatti (Argentina), los objetivos geográficos de guerras en Enrique Jezik (México), los datos de la red capturados en tiempo real que utiliza para sus obra Moisés Mañas (España), o las metáforas animadas totalmente abstractas de Cristina Ghetti (argentina), Patricia Aragón (España) y Emanuelle Mazza (Italia), trabajando con código de programación. Durante la ultima década ha habido una proliferación de artistas utilizando software como su medio de trabajo. Tal como la fotografía y el vídeo anteriormente, la introducción de una nueva tecnología, en este caso los ordenadores personales, y la posibilidad de programar de manera relativamente sencilla, han abierto un espacio interesante para las prácticas artísticas.
Cristina Ghetti 2010
RED NOMADE SELECTION
Moisés Mañas
Título: Untitledcity.com
Fecha: 1999 interactivo on line (versión off line)
Untitled city, es un proyecto interactivo online inspirado en el texto de Paul Virilio "Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm". Es una metáfora de ciudad hipertextual, sin nombre. La información (texto, color, dirección ...) en movimiento por la pantalla provocan ese juego de la velocidad anunciado por Virilio
Emanuelle Mazza
Titulo: Las vidas de L
Generated video, programming AE scripting language form audio analysis; audio
Duracion 4:58
Fecha 2008
Interestatros. Calcos de una mirada absoluta que estría la realidad. Transcodificaciones y pasos de medios. Reflejos de reflejos. En los sueños no hay salidas, sólo mezclas de una realidad que es falsa. La ética y su programática, lo bueno y lo malo, lo alto y lo bajo, lo que compone y descompone un cuerpo, no es más que una proliferación de imágenes pre-programadas bajo una lógica de conexiones muertas. Ante ningún nuevo mundo posible, lo que queda es el silencio.
Interestratos: 5 : 48 minutos, DV NTSC/ stereo, 2009
Dirección: Juan Bobbio
Idea original: Andrea Racciatti
Enrique Jezik
Nace en argentina, vive y trabaja en Mexico DF
La obra refiere a la Guerra de Kosovo (1999), en la que la OTAN llevó a cabo operaciones bélicas reales (por primera vez en su historia) contra objetivos en Serbia, y al mismo tiempo remite a los sistemas militares de reconocimiento y vigilancia (inteligencia), al distanciamiento y la objetivación de situaciones de extrema violencia y destrucción que son transformadas en meros datos cuantificables.
Cristina Ghetti
Hipnoptic series 2010
Esta serie de animaciones que utiliza solo los elemento línea, plano y punto en una composición minimal. Las formas visuales del trabajo emergen de la ejecución de procesos simples y autónomos generados por el uso de algoritmos. El resultado tiene siempre algo de sorpresivo, imprevisible, dinámico e inestable. Nos propone un universo de formas ordenadas, cambiantes y efímeras. Se plantea la pregunta entre el “entender” y el “ver”, la repetición y cadencia de las imágenes genera un efecto hipnótico.
ZIBE Gustavo Zibecchi/ Martin Vazquez
Nombre: AURORA
Duracion: 1 min.
Año: 2010
Realizado conpletamente con Quartz Composer.
Animacion: Zibe.mlab Audio: AcopioDG
BLACK DUCK SELECTION
Made in India is a selection of creative videoworks made by artists living in Mumbay, Assam, Kolkata and Delhi and compiled by Ima Picó during a research residency in India in February 2010.
Selection made by Shankar Barua, Director of CeC, The Annual Carnival of Creativity. CeC & CaC (pronounced "Sek & Sak") is an annual global occasion to collectively seek out, manifest, learn from, connect with and enjoy a studied broad canvas of cutting-edge participation & content from India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of human endeavour.
Suman & Sourav (TAXI).
The creative duo behind TAXI, formed in 2005, are Kolkata-based Suman Samajpati and Sourav Roy Chowdhury. The duo artist group Taxi was. They work collaboratively, having evolved a unique style characterised by the merging of painting and photography.
Swimming around. Suman & Sourav (TAXI). Video. 2:34. 2009
Paplu Deka.
Cock-Tail. Paplu Deka. Cast - Sonal, Sameer, Nilima, Maada, Babul; Concept, Direction & Editing - Paplu Deka; Camera: Minturaj Deka; Production Manager - Aparaj; Producer - Mridupawan Bhagawati & Aparaj; Production - Nap-Sun's, India, 2009.
Cock-Tail. Paplu Deka. Video. 05:07. 2009
Selection made by Vidya Shah, CMAC, Centre for Media and Alternative Communication. CMAC works in the field of art, design and culture. Its role has been to create an interface between artists from different genres, to facilitate and to provide a platform for production, cultural exchange of art and ideas, and dialogue in the visual and performing arts.
Parthiv Shah
An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, India, and visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis and SOAS, London University, Parthiv is a photographer, film maker and a graphic designer. He has made several documentary films, curated exhibitions and has several photo-books to his credit. He is founder-Director of Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC). His photographs have been exhibited in India, Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, U.K., U.S.A.
Barbed wires and beautiful skies: Looking at Kashmir in Frames. Parthiv Shah. India 2009, 6 min.
The body and a landscape - moments, people, events, places and processes that define lives of people in Kashmir, in a photographic exploration where everyday violence fuses with Kashmir’s fabled beauty.
Selection made by Ima Picó:
Alana Victoria Hunt
Alana Victoria Hunt is an Australian visual artist living in Delhi. She is interested in the social mediation of cultural forms and how this is influenced by the contemporary experience of globalisation. She explores this predominately through an interdisciplinary art practice, but also writes (often in fragments) and works with media (often on radio, but occasionally with film and video). Through various forms and processes she explores, in both a practical and theoretical sense, the minute narratives and experiences of daily life within a broader framework of socially oriented media practices and relational, connective and experiential aesthetics.
It's a human relations thing. Alana Victoria Hunt. 15:40. 2009
This is a video basically consisting of the signs in the female toilets of a girl’s student hostel at a university campus. I became interested in the different ways people communicate, through written language and visual form, over the issue of cleanliness in a shared communal space.
Dhanya Pilo
Dhanya Pilo aka Decoy is a visual jockey who uses her film making and photographic skills to create images of India that are evocative, personal and compelling. She is happiest while creating visual sequences spontaneously, while seeking a connection with the music and DJ. Dark, happy and calm, Decoy works as a film maker, designer and a visual artist from her studio in Bombay, the teeming hub of India’s artistic and film community.
36Hkz. Sounds by Urban Hippy Project and visuals by Decoy. 36:00. 2007
1st piece. Dhania Pilo/VJ DECOY. Music Jatin Vidhayarthi/Masta Justy. 4:33. 2008
Selection made by Iram Ghufran. Sarai Media Lab. Delhi. Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, (CSDS) one of India’s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia. We are a coalition of researchers and practitioners with a commitment towards developing a model of research-practice that is public and creative, in which multiple voices express and render themselves in a variety of forms.
Ravikant Shama and Prabhat Kumar Jha.
The streets of Delhi are anthologies of mobile poetry. Auto rickshaw cabs - three-wheel motor scooters and Delhi's most ubiquitous form of personal public transport - are surfaces inscribed with pithy couplets that span a spectrum of sentiment ranging from laconic irony to surreal humour, from gentle heresy to rage and romantic ardour. Auto-poems, read fleetingly as rickshaws speed by, register as precise and personal annotations on the epic text of a vast metropolis.
Autopoesis. Ravikant Shama and Prabhat Kumar Jha.
Realised in collaboration with Sarai Media Lab, 2005
Editing: Iram Ghufran
Acknowledgements: Ashish Mahajan, Joy Chatterjee
Satyajit Pande
Satyajit Pande is a cinematographer and a photographer. He lives and works in Mumbai.
Manus is the anatomical name for the terminal segment of a forelimb - in humans, the hand and wrist. In colloquial Hindi and Marathi, two languages spoken extensively in Mumbai, 'manus' also means 'human being'.
Mumbai's suburban railway network ferries millions of commuters every day, and epitomises the tenuous grip that the inhabitants of Mumbai have on their city. Hands in trains create constellations of accidental intimacy, enter found solidarities, speak a vocabulary of silent gestures. A routine of handclasps anchors and cushions the daily uncertainties of a dense metropolis.
Manus. Satyajit Pande. Single channel video. 07:41. 2006
Production credits: Camera: Setu/Satyajit Pande, Editing: Shan Mohammed
Thanks: Amit Choudhury, Surabhi Sharma, Kavita Pai, Sunil Shanbag, Amitabh Kumar
Selection made by Shazeb Shaikh, Curator and Founder – Street Festival of Home-made Videos. Shazeb S. is the Founder of Conjure Arts and Media, an upcoming integrated arts business based out of Mumbai and New York. With Conjure, Shazeb aims to put together an artist community with a wide focus across art forms, media and genre to promote the works of established and upcoming global artists and their collaborations to produce releases and exhibitions in film, music, writings, social projects, visual and installation art. Though still in its first year (2010), Conjure has already produced a feature length film in India (Kshay) and a medium length film (Stealing Suburbia) in New York besides looking forward to unleash its first global integrated arts exhibition with the launch of a large format coffee table book titled Dispersed Diaries which brings together poetry, art, music and videos. With this financially-backed artist collective and arthouse (Conjure), the motive is to create a new channel to market art internationally with a sound business-end created by some of India's top business strategy and management consultants. Shazeb is partnering this new regrouping of artists and hopes to bring on multiple unique artists in different media while maintaining the purity and essence of creativity.
In the past, Shazeb S. has established 3rd Thought Entertainment, an integrated-arthouse with a global artist collective of 32 artists from 14 countries. Shazeb is a multidisciplinary artist with a body of work in art (traditional and digital), music (IDM), and writings (classical poetry, epic poetry, prose) and films. He is also a co-curator at CeC 2011 (Carnival of e-Creativity), an annual global occasion to collectively seek out, manifest, learn from, connect with and enjoy a studied broad canvas of cutting-edge participation & content from India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of human endeavour. Shazeb is also a core member of The Wall Project, a Mumbai- based social arts project that has gained mass popularity and drive with the citizens and governing bodies of Mumbai city.
Street Festival of Home-made Videos
What began as a simple idea to bring people together by requesting video clips from their everyday lives or professions is now rapidly growing across personal networks and is titled “Street Festival of Home-made Videos”. As the title suggests, the videos that you will get to see in our collections are candid, honest and a slice of life which are played back-to-back to create a long video file intersecting through lives and experiences that would have probably been never shared on a physical public platform such as a street. So, yes we get videos from the general public and screen them in streets with invitations to those who submit it, their friends and of course anyone and everyone in the localities or streets we screen in. The final experience is one large get together of different people from a vast cross-section who will eventually all become friends and know more about each other through the videos.
From a curatorial point of view, the only discretion the festival makes is in ensuring that the videos don’t have any religious, political or explicit messaging. What then comes out of the filtering are videos from life, things people do, incidences that were lucky enough to be caught on camera and so on. Street Festival of Home-made Videos is an initiative by Conjure Arts and Media in association with The Wall Project and its first screening was held at the socio-cultural hub of Bazar Road in Bandra (Mumbai) during May 2010 and is slowly but steadily gaining pace with screening requests and submissions from around the world.
From a curatorial point of view, the only discretion the festival makes is in ensuring that the videos don’t have any religious, political or explicit messaging. What then comes out of the filtering are videos from life, things people do, incidences that were lucky enough to be caught on camera and so on. Street Festival of Home-made Videos is an initiative by Conjure Arts and Media in association with The Wall Project and its first screening was held at the socio-cultural hub of Bazar Road in Bandra (Mumbai) during May 2010 and is slowly but steadily gaining pace with screening requests and submissions from around the world.
Shazeb S.
