Flower Power Festival, 3. – 24.02.2023, GEDOK Gallery, Schleißheimer Staße 61, 80797 München
Vernissage: 3.02.2023, 7 pm
“Munich is in a floral frenzy with Flower Power Festival. We’re setting off too!
From buds become blossoms – with women’s lyrical contributions of our members, we present a variety of beguiling works of music and visual arts”. (GEDOK)
Participating artists:
Writers: Ursula Haas, Sabine Jörg, Augusta Laar, Katharina Ponnier, Franziska Ruprecht, Barbara YurtdaŞ Music: Masako Ohta. Visual artists: Stella Bach, Simone Braitinger, Ruth Effer, Brigitte Heintze, Reinhild Gerum, Gabriele Irle, Claude Jones, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Margret Kube, Katharina Lehmann, Ina Loitzl, Iris Nölle-Wehn, Anne Pincus, Ulrike Prusseit, Katharina Schellenberger, Katarina Sopčić, Christiane Spatt, Eva Raiser-Johanson, Kathrina Rudolph.
10 February to 26 March 2023, solo exhibition, Neue Galerie in the Höhmannhaus, Augsburg Municipal Art Collections.
Vernissage: 9 February 2023, 7 pm
Artist talk: 23 February 2023, 6 pm
“Artificial intelligence as a key digital technology of the 21st century is already massively influencing the media information landscape. In the age of deep learning, we are increasingly confronted with AI-controlled applications that intervene in production and economic processes, that are used in medicine and opinion research, in techniques of industrial as well as personal surveillance, but also in digital entertainment fields. AI-controlled apps that generate beings that appear human are freely available. The trade-off between usefulness and risk is a central issue. What will a future balance between nature and technology look like, in which humans retain the upper hand as moderators of a humane society?
In a separate exhibition trilogy, three projects of the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus explore these questions. The first is by the Augsburg video artist Erika Kassnel-Henneberg. In her artistic research, she is primarily on the trail of the so-called “Uncanny Valley”. The term was coined by the Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori (*1927) as early as the 1970s and refers to a hypothesis about our acceptance of artificial, humanoid figures: the more human a figure looks and appears, the higher its acceptance – but only up to a certain point, from which a sudden rejection attitude sets in with the viewer. This phenomenon, known as “Uncanny Valley”, and the feelings associated with it are not the same for everyone. Is there such a thing as an inner social rejection mechanism that intuitively wants to protect us from the “fake” of invented, human-like beings?” https://kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de/uncanny-valley
New gallery in the Höhmannhaus, municipal art collections and museums Augsburg, 2023
“Even as a child, I never liked looking at wax figures. They looked kind of creepy to me. At that time, electronic prosthetic hands were developed, which triggered the same feeling in me. These experiences got me thinking about robots in general, which led me to write this essay. The Uncanny Valley was my intuition.” Masahiro Mori about „The Uncanny Valley“
Vernissage
Exhibition opening 9 February 2023
Artisttalk, 23 February 2023
Moderation: Dr. Thomas Elsen, curator and director of the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus
WORK: TRANSPARENT BODY, performative video projection in real time.
PRESENT VENUE: Leonardo Favio Audiovisual Production Centre, Chacabuco 600, Bernal Buenos Aires.
Date/ Time: 17 December, 20 Hs .
Idea and direction: Marisol Bellusci
Curated by: Samara Pascual Migale and Marisol Bellusci
Critic: Marina Julieta Amestoy
Performance and videomapping design: Marisol Bellusci
Sound design: Nacho Lecs
Camera: Martin Julio
Streaming: Marco Barbieri
RRSS and graphic design: Zina Stepanczuk
Production: Logicanalogica
The intervention will be developed as follows:
When the sun goes down, the projection will be activated on the façade of the CPA Leonardo Favio. The performer will improvise with a software that supports audiovisual editing in real time. The participating works, partially or totally, will dialogue with each other and with the unpredictability of the environment itself.
All the artists selected in TRANSPARENT BODY will be invited to participate in the cycle “CT Archive” in El ParaVirtual, Virtual Cultural Centre. In this cycle each of the selected works will be broadcasted in full. @instagram
Inqrvention is a primitive and technological boldness: on the walls as rupestral paintings, on links as the nature of cyber century demands – do not scan, do not touch the walls, do not open the links, do not destroy the posters, do not shoot pictures.
152-year-old soy sauce brewery has been renovated as a screening venue for this film festival. Tatsuno is located 100 km west of Osaka, Japan. This year is the third edition of this film festival. Last year, the people of Tatsuno organized a new experiment: the Tatsuno International Film Festival – Experimental & Animation Without Dialogue. This film festival is developed from the “Tatsuno Art Project” that started in 2011, and will be managed by the “Tatsuno Art l Executive Committee” in 2022. (In 2021, the festival was managed through a local non-profit organization.) We are working to utilize the cultural heritage that remains in the region, to disseminate excellent art internationally, and to promote communication with local residents.
“dança em foco – International Video & Dance Festival was founded in 2003 in Rio de Janeiro as the first Brazilian event to develop the interface between video and dance. Through its actions, it has established itself as a reference point and the main context for the dissemination and development of video dance production in the country. In the 20 years since its creation, dança em foco has gone from Rio to the world, with 38 editions in 13 state capitals, reaching an audience of over 20,000 people in its on-site activities, in addition to the hundreds of thousands who follow the festival annually via the Internet. Celebrating its 20th edition, the festival will dedicate special attention to productions dealing with gender and sexual diversity, afro-diasporic, indigenous and plural cultures.” http://dancaemfoco.com.br/projeto/