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| Dream Amsterdam 2008 - After Spencer Tunick in 2007, the renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) will create art projects for DREAM AMSTERDAM. Ikeda’s hypnotic work plays with human perception through installations, performances, live concerts, recordings and album releases. His work has been exhibited and presented worldwide, including Tate Modern / Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) and Centre Pompidou / Museum of Modern Art (Paris). He has won important prizes, including the Ars Electronica Golden Nica (2001). Ikeda’s commission for Dream Amsterdam Foundation presents his first large-scale artworks for public spaces and marks a new direction in his artistic career.
DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008 is realized in collaboration with UK arts production company Forma and takes place within the frame of the Holland Festival. The OPENING EVENT on June 6, is realized in collaboration with Paradiso. Forma represents Ryoji Ikeda worldwide to produce and tour his work. | The exhibition project ISLANDS+GHETTOS by the Heidelberger Kunstverein will be on show from June 7th to August 31st 2008. 30 works will be shown at the four different venues, all touching on phenomena connected to the theme suggested by the polemic title of the show: The social effects of urban expansion in the 21st century. Globally it can be observed that the the spatial fragmentation of cities is increasing, and that thus the social structure of these urban scenarios are drifting apart.
Two prototypcial case studies are central to the project ISLANDS+GHETTOS. Dubai and Caracas with their interchanging areas of poverty and wealth as typically seen in modern megacities are examplary for the tendencies of urban segregation. ISLANDS+GHETTOS aim to point out, that polarization, urban demarcations and partitions increasingly also is becoming relevant for European cities.
44 artists – see the complete list of artists below – have been invited to participate. Many have produced new works about the South-American metropolises or the cities around the Persian Gulf. Silke Wagner for example has dealt with the living and working conditions of the Pakistanian, Indian or Philipine guest works, building the artificial islands off the coast of Dubai, while living in segregated neighboorhoods of Sharjah. In the large format photographs of the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol shows how the almost utopian promises made by architects during the boom of the oil town Caracas have turned into closed off, windowless architecture, that seem to be imagine every foreigner to be an enemy.
On July 16th 2008 a panel discussion with lectures about the future of German cities will be held in Heidelberg with participation by Prof. Walter Siebel, Oldenburg, Prof. Jörn Düwel, Hamburg, Prof. Hans Stimmann, Berlin, and Prof. Gerhard Steinebach, Kaiserslautern. The panel is organized in cooperation with BetonMarketing Süd.
List of artists: Alexander Apostol (*1969), Atelier Van Lieshout (Artists-Coop at Rotterdam, founded by: Joep van Lieshout *1963), Anette Baldauf (*1965)/Dorit Margreiter (*1967), Sabine Bitter (*1960)/Helmut Weber (*1957), Sandow Birk (*1962), Büro für kognitiven Urbanismus (founded 1999 at Vienna by Andreas Spiegl *1965 and Christian Teckert *1967), Peter Coffin (*1972), Alice Creischer (*1960)/Andreas Siekmann (*1961), Mauricio Dias (*1964)/Walter Riedweg (*1955), Christo Doherty (*1959), Stuart Elster (*1965), Harun Farocki (*1944), Peter Fend (*1950), Andreas Fogarasi (*1977), Graham Frew (*1970), Kristjan Gudmundsson (*1941), Emily Jacir (*1970), Armin Linke (*1966)/Francesco Mattuzzi (*1975)/Alessandro Petti (*1973)/Eyal Weizman (*1970) in cooperation with Renato Rinaldi (*1966), Raul J. Méndez (*1973), Luis Molina-Pantin (*1969), Multiplicity (founded: 2000, Headquater at Milan, Stefano Boeri *1956, Matteo Ghidoni *1972, Stefano Graziani *1971 and Francesca Recchi a *1975), Rivane Neuenschwander (*1967), Ed Osborn (*1964), Marjetica Potrc (*1953), Sean Snyder (*1972), Javier Téllez (*1969), Urban Think Tank (founded 1993 by Alfredo Brillenbourg *1961 and Hubert Klumpner *1965), Vangelis Vlahos (*1971), Silke Wagner (*1968) in cooperation with Beate Anspach (*1978), Carey Young (*1970), Michael Zinganel (*1960)/Michael Hieslmair (*1974).
The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
Additional funding by Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Municipality of Heidelberg, zetVisions and BASF AG.
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Images from the public art proposal in Las Vegas. | Tomorrow Unlimited is a multiplatform curatorial enterprise that acts as a catalyst for the advancement of diverse creative disciplines worldwide, and as a beacon for emerging culture and creative talent. The company's complementary curatorial and editorial offerings are designed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas among creators from around the world, while nurturing the global creative class. | The Muzeum is an online experience where a nation of creatives from around the globe comes together. You can meet new friends, socialize, find inspiration, express yourself, collaborate, get entertained and do business. | JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art. JavaMuseum was founded in 2000 by Agricola de Cologne as a virtual museum focussing on net based art, a specific form of digital art based on technologies used in Internet.
In 2001, JavaMuseum started an annual program consisting of a competition and showcase, giving the JavaArtist-of-the-Year-Award to outstanding artists in the fields of net based art and some featured exhibitions with changing subjects.
Until 2005, JavaMuseum organized in total 18 showcases of “netart” in a global context, three competitions and many features including more than 1000 art works by 350 artists from 40 countries which form a unique and most comprehensive collection of net based art worldwide and in Internet. | “the land foundation” is organizing the “One Year Project…Experimental Community” # 2 (2007-2008) to continue to develop new knowledge and further enhance the knowledge gained during the “One Year Project…Experimental Community” (2004-2005) which came before.
The land foundation would like to create new phenomena to relate and bridge the gap formal cultural organizations cannot fill because of existing rules and regulations. However, rather than blaming the latter, the land foundation hopes to introduce some alternatives and provide opportunities for the project participants to continuously raise questions and together search as widely as possible for answers without any expectations of correct answers, activities or use of simplistic readily-available facilities.
The land foundation emphasizes the development of critical thinking through the process of education and discussion. It also values the complexity and subtly occurring of the culture milieu. The land foundation, therefore, decided to curate projects under the philosophy to support and promote art and culture, natural farming and self-learning by Vipassana Meditation technique. | Transhumanist Arts was founded in 1982 by Natasha Vita-More (f/k/a/ Nancie Clark) and introduced as an "art theory" (originally, "TransArt"). The "Transhumanist Arts Statement" written to established a poetic doctrine of transhumanist expression: "Transhumanist Arts represent the aesthetic and creative culture of transhumanity…Our aesthetics and expressions are merging with science and technology in designing increased sensory experience…Transhumanist Artists want to extend life and overcome death…If our art represents who we are, then let us chose to be transhumanist not only in our bodies, but also in our values…As Transhumanist Arts comes into focus, as the tools and ideas of our art continue to evolve, so too shall we." | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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