Saturday, 12. January 2013
RIP for the FIT
From Marsha Lederman in the Globe and Mail, on Dida Zende's FIT at the Waldorf Hotel, which is set to close January 20th, 2013.
"I remember exactly where Mr. Fazio made the Disneyland comment. We were on our way to the parking lot, to visit a shipping container that was being turned into an art gallery by Dida Zende, a visiting artist from Berlin who reclaims old spaces and turns them into creative venues (he usually uses gas stations). Inside, fellow Waldorf operator, entertainment director (and musician) Thomas Anselmi was working on a video installation. For me, Vancouver never felt more world class than it did inside that tiny, dark shipping container."
"I remember exactly where Mr. Fazio made the Disneyland comment. We were on our way to the parking lot, to visit a shipping container that was being turned into an art gallery by Dida Zende, a visiting artist from Berlin who reclaims old spaces and turns them into creative venues (he usually uses gas stations). Inside, fellow Waldorf operator, entertainment director (and musician) Thomas Anselmi was working on a video installation. For me, Vancouver never felt more world class than it did inside that tiny, dark shipping container."
Thursday, 10. January 2013
Waldorf Hotel Set To Close
Tuesday, 4. December 2012
PWN THE WALL - Credit Where Credit Is Due
At long last, here are some pics from PWN THE WALL (Oct 12-14, 2012).
The project was an intense, educational, and rewarding experience, and has afforded us the opportunity to push our work into larger and ever-more connected directions with our local - and worldwide - collaborators.
Further development of the project is ongoing, with public release of the source code happening early in the new year. We are looking into future presentation opportunities, to be announced soon.
Many people came together to produce this event and their names are listed below. Thanks all!
PWN THE WALL
Vancouver | Berlin | Seoul
A Project by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with Graffiti Research Lab Canada, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, W2 Community Media Arts, Platoon Cultural Development and Revised Projects
October 12-14, 2012
at W2 Community Media Arts (V), Platoon Kunsthalle (B), Platoon Kunsthalle (S)
Artistic Direction: Jesse Scott (V), Mirae Rosner (V), Hauke Altmann (B), Semiramis Ceylan (B).
Commissioned Graffiti Artists: The Dark (V), Take 5 (V), ALESH ONE (DISSIZIT!) (B), Cren (KD, TNB, CBR, HSF, TPA) (B), Klub7 (B), Poet73 (B), gogoplata (B), Marianne (B), JnJ Crew (S).
Vancouver Crew: Michael Manning, flyingoctopus, Devin Wells, Prophecy Sun, Patrick Cruz.
Berlin Crew: Daniel Daoudi, Falko, Open Media Accelerator, Jaime Schwartz, Sofia, Tau, Hanna.
Seoul Crew: Udo Lee, Joon Kim, Dooho Kim.
Many thanks to our host venues: W2 Community Media Arts (Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne, Jen Castro), Platoon Cultural Development (Tom Bueschemann + Christoph Frank, Eunsung Jeon, Inseong Kim, Marcello Dato)
Photos by Christian Vagt (Berlin), Dooho Kim (Seoul) and Devin Wells (Vancouver). More photos and info about the project at graffitiresearchlab.ca
The project was an intense, educational, and rewarding experience, and has afforded us the opportunity to push our work into larger and ever-more connected directions with our local - and worldwide - collaborators.
Further development of the project is ongoing, with public release of the source code happening early in the new year. We are looking into future presentation opportunities, to be announced soon.
Many people came together to produce this event and their names are listed below. Thanks all!
PWN THE WALL
Vancouver | Berlin | Seoul
A Project by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with Graffiti Research Lab Canada, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, W2 Community Media Arts, Platoon Cultural Development and Revised Projects
October 12-14, 2012
at W2 Community Media Arts (V), Platoon Kunsthalle (B), Platoon Kunsthalle (S)
Artistic Direction: Jesse Scott (V), Mirae Rosner (V), Hauke Altmann (B), Semiramis Ceylan (B).
Commissioned Graffiti Artists: The Dark (V), Take 5 (V), ALESH ONE (DISSIZIT!) (B), Cren (KD, TNB, CBR, HSF, TPA) (B), Klub7 (B), Poet73 (B), gogoplata (B), Marianne (B), JnJ Crew (S).
Vancouver Crew: Michael Manning, flyingoctopus, Devin Wells, Prophecy Sun, Patrick Cruz.
Berlin Crew: Daniel Daoudi, Falko, Open Media Accelerator, Jaime Schwartz, Sofia, Tau, Hanna.
Seoul Crew: Udo Lee, Joon Kim, Dooho Kim.
Many thanks to our host venues: W2 Community Media Arts (Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne, Jen Castro), Platoon Cultural Development (Tom Bueschemann + Christoph Frank, Eunsung Jeon, Inseong Kim, Marcello Dato)
Photos by Christian Vagt (Berlin), Dooho Kim (Seoul) and Devin Wells (Vancouver). More photos and info about the project at graffitiresearchlab.ca
Thursday, 15. November 2012
Jonathan Syme's Monument to the Dry Exchange
Jonathan Syme, Monument to the Dry Exchange, which opened at the FIT in mid-October.
More information here: http://blog.goethe.de/satellite/archives/81-Jonathan-Syme-at-the-FIT-October-18.html
Wednesday, 7. November 2012
RAW DATA - the origin for a new set of questions
Neutrino oscillation is a term used in physics, describing an extraordinary behaviour of subatomic particles called Neutrinos. On their way from sun to earth they frequently change their state of mass and – simplistically spoken – we don´t know why that happens.
This is a short description of the physics problem that started a chain reaction of artworks, finally resulting in a real encounter of artists and physicists in the RAW DATA translation hub workshop.
The exhibition of results of the RAW DATA transformation process, displayed within the context of the international Symposium "Remaking Research" at Emily Carr University, Nov1-3, 2012, showed a multiplicity of artistic views on the specific problem.
It seems as if the artworks are "brilliant representations" (Tim Meyer) of what was formulated by Dr. Kendall Mahn, experimental physicist at TRIUMF, Canada´s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver. But could they also deliver relevant information for physicists? Is it possible to treat art as raw data and can art be re-translated into the realm of physics? Or in other words: what do we hope to discover?
These questions were discussed in a lively conversation between RAW DATA artists, curators, scientists and audience.
Besides its definite qualities in visualizing and communicating a certain topic, artworks can probably "not solve a problem" but can contribute to "surrounding" the problem (Gloria Steinem).
The artworks offer insights which might change our understanding of things but not necessarily explain them in full. In this sense RAW DATA is an open ended process where the inquiry stays discursive and unpredictable and it enters the field of possibilities from which something new may emerge.
Stay tuned for a follow up of RAW DATA.
Artist Sonnet L´Abbé´s reading her poems as a response to David Khang´s artwork. Background print: Randy Lee Cutler "The Vast Majority"
Translation Hub: Physicist Dr. Ania Kwiatowski speaks to the artists and physicists
Physicist Dr. Anadi Canepa responds to the RAW DATA artworks
Michéle Stanners (audience) in conversation with the artists and physicists
Physicist Dr. Chris Ruiz explains his view on the RAW DATA artworks
RAW DATA curators Koenig, Schild & Hufschmid with Jutta Brendemuehl (Goethe Institute Toronto), middle, and Katharina Wilhelm (German Consulate Vancouver), left.
Thursday, 1. November 2012
RAW DATA EVENTS
Wednesday, 24. October 2012
Opening: RAW DATA: Thursday, November 1st at 8:30pm
Wednesday, 17. October 2012
Photos from the opening of PWN the Wall
Photos from the opening of PWN the Wall!
Visiting artist Dirk Fleishmann, curator Mirae Rosner, Director of Goethe Institut Toronto Sonja Griegoschewski, Consul General Hermann Sitz
Jonathan Syme at the FIT: October 18
Join us Thursday October 18 for an art opening in the FIT.
Monument to The Dry Exchange utilizes the form of a shipping container
and a simple but completely altering intervention.
The shipping container is a vessel that is specifically designed to be
filled with valuable goods that are then shipped from one port to
another around the world. It is therefore a symbol of commerce and
international trade aiding directly in the production of great wealth.
Usually the container is regarded as a humble labourer but in a rich
and luxurious new skin this container is dressed for the party that it
facilitates.
Jonathan Syme graduated with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and
Design in 2003. He lives in Vancouver, BC. where he makes work
primarily focused on a painting practice combining sensitive balances
between controlled repetitive elements and expressive gestural
painterly comments, creating often-disorienting compositions of
intertwining elements and plastic spaces. Recently applying this
optically rich methodology to new sculptural and installation based
works.
For additional viewing please email fitgoetheinstitut@gmail.com to
make an appointment.
Monument to The Dry Exchange utilizes the form of a shipping container
and a simple but completely altering intervention.
The shipping container is a vessel that is specifically designed to be
filled with valuable goods that are then shipped from one port to
another around the world. It is therefore a symbol of commerce and
international trade aiding directly in the production of great wealth.
Usually the container is regarded as a humble labourer but in a rich
and luxurious new skin this container is dressed for the party that it
facilitates.
Jonathan Syme graduated with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and
Design in 2003. He lives in Vancouver, BC. where he makes work
primarily focused on a painting practice combining sensitive balances
between controlled repetitive elements and expressive gestural
painterly comments, creating often-disorienting compositions of
intertwining elements and plastic spaces. Recently applying this
optically rich methodology to new sculptural and installation based
works.
For additional viewing please email fitgoetheinstitut@gmail.com to
make an appointment.
Monday, 8. October 2012
PWN THE WALL - Artists Announced
We are very happy to be able to proudly present most of the featured artists who will paint/draw/write in Vancouver, Berlin, and Seoul during our 25-hour installation PWN THE WALL. At certain hours during the installation, graf artists in all three cities will meet on interactive canvases for a visual digital-graffiti-dialog. The exact schedule is coming up soon.
Featured artists for PWN THE WALL:
ALESH ONE / DISSIZIT! (Berlin)
Cren / KD, TNB, CBR, HSF, TPA (Berlin)
gogoplata (Berlin)
JNJ CREW (Seoul)
KLUB7 (Berlin)
Marianne (Berlin)
Poet73 (Berlin)
Take 5 (Vancouver)
The Dark (Vancouver)
Goethe Satellite @ Graffiti Research Lab
PWN THE WALL
Vancouver/Berlin/Seoul
A Project by the Goethe-Institut
in cooperation with Graffiti Research Lab Canada, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, W2 Community Media Arts, Platoon Cultural Development and Revised Projects
PWN THE WALL is a 25 hour interactive digital graffiti event connecting Vancouver, Berlin, and Seoul. Created by GRL members in Canada, Germany, and South Korea, PWN THE WALL uses open-source technology to collapse geographical space through a real-time telematic exchange. Simultaneous live digital painting events in all three cities will showcase local graffiti writers. The installation is interactive and open to the public for the duration of PWN THE WALL.
12-14 October 2012
Vancouver - W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings Street
Opening October 12, 9 pm - 1 am (PST)
Digital Painting Event October 12, 11 pm - 1 am
Installation Open to the Public October 12, 6 pm - October 13, 7 pm
Berlin - Platoon Kunsthalle, Schönhauser Allee 9
Digital Painting Event October 13, 11 pm (CET)
Installation Open to Public October 13, 3 am - October 14, 4 am
Seoul - Platoon Kunsthalle, Gangnam-gu Nonhyeon-dong 97-22
Digital Painting Event October 13, 11 pm (KST)
Installation Open to Public October 13, 10 am - October 14, 11 am
More Info & Updates:
Event Invite
GRL Canada
GRL Germany
Saturday, 6. October 2012
RAW DATA transfer of art works by chance operation
Bird´s lottery
While artists of the first round were finalizing their artistic responses to the physics problem presented to them in beginning of September, a lottery was held determining the pairing of artists for the transfer of art works. Who would receive whose art work?
The names of the artists were tied to pieces of bread and spread along the busy Granville Island sea wall. The first bird to arrive and pick the bread thus made the selection of who would receive the arts transfer. The birds lottery in that sense functiones as „random number generator“ and as a metaphor mirroring chance collisions of particles.
Chosen by ornithological vote, Ingrid Koenig starts off with Stefan Smulovitz´s sound piece, Suzi Webster is now inspired by Ben Reeve`s visual works, as is Sonnet L` Abbé by David Khang´s performance video. And finally Randy Lee Cutler passed on a text work to Dennis Burke who now - with his own words - „doesn´t care about the original problem, it is not his problem, .... as he has gotten a new problem now.“ Within three weeks the second round of artists will develop their responses to the received artworks. And, like in all creative processes, the excitement lies in the unpredictability of what will unfold.
Save the dates:
Nov 1 - 3, 2012
RAW DATA at the ReMaking Research Conference Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
http://aicad.ecuad.ca/
Nov 2, 2012 7pm
RAW DATA Performance Suzi Webster
Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
Nov 3, 2012 3-5pm
RAW DATA Translation Hub
Public Workshop with artists & physicists
Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
Ben Reeves and Suzi Webster
Stefan Smulovitz and Ingrid Koenig
David Khang and Sonnet L´Abbé
Randy Lee Cutler and Dennis Burke
