Vietnamese Art after 1990

Vuong Van Thoo   Living Fossils (2006)

Singapore Art Museum

Alain Fleischer

 

isea juried exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some singapore musings

tiger beers in Little India

Lev Manovich mines data

durian season

a talk about festivals and location

technology identity and mediate in a sentence

 

 

 

i am soooooooooo stoopid

There is a pool at my hotel…on level 4. There is also a health centre so i went in and asked for a massage. Did they have a massage menu   NO   what sort    JUST NECK AND BACK     did they have a space available    PAUSE        YOU WILL HAVE TO BOOK AHEAD….It took a few days and eventually i had a time and i knew it must be popular nbecasue when i went do check on times there were always very well dressed business men coming out or waiting.

I HAVE JUST HAD A MASSAGE AT A HEALTH CLUB!!!!!!!!!! A MENS HEALTH CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mattress on the floor, shower and lots of towels, …………………..i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not relaxed just fingered.

sound blast

the last gasp …. almost

a colourful group of ISEAns gathered for the closing performances.

Unfortunately stumpy got caught on an invisible step and I managed to execute a score 10 faceplant. Poor Gavin and Priscilla and the local kiddy nearby were left traumatised by the sight of my flying horizontal through the air and landing face down some feet away.

No real damage (not counting pride) ,but had an early night in anticipation for a marathon session in the morning.

i love the cave man but i don’t have a picture

 

 

 

I am not a fan of Dr Lanfranco Aceti JUST because he is a fan of ME!  I am a fan because he is good looking and has impeccabe taste.

Lanfranco  is an artist and academic whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection between fine art, film and new media technology from online platforms to Virtual Reality Environments (VRE).

He is specialized in inter-semiotic translations between classic media and new media, contemporary digital hybridization processes, Avant-garde film, Italian film and new media studies and their practice-based applications in the field of fine arts.

At the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL) he researched the inter-semiotic influence of visual emotive stimuli in avatars and the impact of technocultures (VRE and Social Networking) on the visual arts.

His theoretical and philosophical interests explore the issues of globalization, secularism, religious censorship and multiculturalism in relation to contemporary media and technological applications as possible platforms for reconciliation between East and West.

Currently lecturing contemporary art, new media contexts and technocultures on the MA in History of Art at Birkbeck College, he also is an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science – Virtual Reality Environments at UCL and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

His talk was about emotional feedback….in THE CAVE……….and how he is experimenting with realtime emotional feedback potential. One quote i wrote down was “i trick the mind in virtual space”.  He is reseacrhing the emotion hidden behind the semiotic sign, and all i can say is I WANNA PLAY IN HIS CAVE!!

http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/.

experimenta immersion fun

i heart singapore slings

dinner at Chimes

Mare Tralla

 

http://www.tralla.net/

Mare Tralla is an Estonian artist interested in the cultural differences of eastern europe from her perspective as an Estonian living in London but working between. She spoke of the history of feminist digital art in Estonia emphasising the contradictory ideas of local nationalism with the breakup of USSR at a time when there was general globalisation. She also expressed difficulty in defining cybefeminism.

woman needs tractor

Irina presented the work of Boryana Rossa in her absence and this video was a highlight of the panel.

LOCATING CYBERFEMINISM

I was very excited to see that there was a group presentation with cyberfeminism in the title. Irina Aristarkhova, Boryana Rossa, Margaret Tan, Mare Tralla, and Min Cheon presented their work under the ubertitle locating cyberfeminism.

As i was listening to the presentations, I was forced to face my own confusion as to a definition of what cyberfeminism actually is. I sippose i had always had a fairly limited definition of artists working with the web as a tool/medium for expressing “feminist” views and ideas in a creative context. Some of the works pesented were web based, but some less so. I think my own dilemma was echoed in question time afterward where there seemed to be some general discussion as to whether cyberfemisim was out in favour of evironmentalism, even that it was DEAD! Is it really soooooo 1990’s?? I feel that the dynamic presentations and discussion served to prove that it was certainly not dead but perhaps lives on in an expanded form.

MOBIUM: a bus story

Artist Yasuke Kawamura bought a big bus and MOBIUM was born. He uses the bus to facilitate exhibitions, events and community presentations and it is a wonderful story.

MOBIUM is mobile museum of customize bus.
This is automobile, so it’s able to go various location, and it’s being to research and field work program.

http://www.mobium.org/

charmed

Gavin Sade and Priscilla Bracks presented their work “Charmed”. Matt dwyer couldn’t make it…..bummer. This is an interactive work of gorgeousness commissioned for Experimanta and being exhibited at Sculpture Square in Singapore.

Charmed is an interactive computational media adaptation of images by Priscilla Bracks, from a series titled Refugee from the Human State. These images form a series of virtual worlds that can be accessed via three glowing resin pods. A video tracking device monitors movement enabling the viewer to become a giant influencing the lives of the tiny animated people. By tapping on the screen you cause them to behave
in surprising, funny, perplexing, uncanny, and disarming ways.

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/d-h/p58.html

Gavin and Priscilla rock the house

 

Vince Dziekan

Locating Media: On spatial associations between digital media and exhibition space

Hiding in the shadows is Vince Dziekan. Vince is an artist from Melbourne but his paper concerned a show that he had curated at Hobart and in particlular the work in the show by Pete Gomes

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/s-z/p118.html

Douglas Easterly, Matthew Kenyon

Exploring the Metahuman through Inverse Biotelemetry

The boys from SWAMP gave a great talk about their work which involves data mining and then taking that data to “power”something.eg The rise and fall of stock/share prices of a large homeware store would determine how much water a plant would get. I love their humour in broaching extremely serious social issues.

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/d-h/p290.html

Jill Scott

Legendary Australian artist (now living in Switzerland) Jill Scott spoke about Neuro Media. It was way out of my field of reference but enjoyable and thought provoking as to the many possibilities for interacton and data manipulation.

for an abstract go to http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/i-l/p510.html

THE ROOM WAS PACKED and off i went. I was so nervous my lips werre almost sticking together and i had cotton wool teeth without the usual suspects.

Everyone was attentive and although i was worried if my linguistic nuances would translate to non english or non aussie viewers, it was no probs. I gained some more fans one of whom awarded me the Palme d’Or for ISEA.

http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/arsmanifesta/?m=200807

day 3

Off to yet another amazing campus for a talkfest. This is the atrs design and media building at Nanyang Technical University. This photo does not do justice. There is an incredible sweeping roof covered in lawn. MY CAMERA (MY LIFE) broke last night so i an a bit traumatised but today is my talk and I am making do.