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29/5/2009

Fluid Architectures

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam

Annja Krautgasser, Walter Langelaar, Jan Robert Leegte, Dirk Lüsebrink/Joachim Sauter, Mader Stublic Wiermann, Michael Najjar, Mark Napier, Marnix de Nijs, Stanza, Pablo Valbuena

The exhibition is curated by Susanne Jaschko

In the movie Metropolis from 1926, director Fritz Lang created the vision of a futuristic 21st century mega-city. Now that we have crossed the threshold of this century our reality makes that vision seem strangely old-fashioned as new sets of factors unconsidered by Lang move to shape the future of our urban spaces. It is now ubiquitous computer networks, information delivery in real time and new display technologies which are the key elements transforming the face of our urban living spaces. Through them a space is taking shape whose manifestations merge the virtual and the physical. Essayist Florian Rötzer talks in this context of a “digital urbanism” whose salient features are „dispersal, decentralisation, valorisation of interiority, globalisation, individuality and mobility“.
These factors shape a networked society and a 'space of flows” which generate new dimensions for imagination and action no longer concurrent with the old geographies and topographies.

The exhibition Fluid Architectures gathers spaces of flow and immateriality created by artists in response to these contemporary notions the city. These fictional spaces made of light, moving image, and other media extend the idea of physical architecture to the construction of dynamic and seemingly infinite spaces enabling a sensory experience. The works rethink the classic standards of spatial construction and topography. Rather they introduce the new concept of 'performative architecture' and thus propose an imaginary urban landscape for the 21st century. The Fluid Architectures programme comprises a gallery exhibition, lectures and workshops.

Artists and works
For Fluid Architectures new site-specific works have created by Walter Langelaar, Jan Robert Leegte and Pablo Valbuena.

Annja Krautgasser (A), Dashed II, installation, 2005 http://www.annjakrautgasser.net
Walter Langelaar (NL), paralevel | OA_NIMK2 , modified videogame software, projection, 2009 (commission) http://lowstandart.net
Jan Robert Leegte (NL), Ornament (Amsterdam), computer projection, 2009 (commission) http://www.leegte.org
Dirk Lüsebrink/Joachim Sauter (D), Invisible Shapes of Things Past - Shanghai,, film-based sculptures and 2D and 3D print, video, 1996/2006 http://www.artcom.de
Mader Stublic Wiermann (D), folded space and twists and turns, documentation of video installation, 2008 http://www.webblick.de
Michael Najjar (D), the invisible city, video, loop, 2004 http://www.michaelnajjar.com
Mark Napier (USA), Smoke, custom software, computer, projection and Cyclops Birth I + IV, inkjet on paper, 2007 http://www.potatoland.org
Marnix de Nijs (NL), Exploded Views – Remapping Firenze, multi media installation, 2008 (produced within NIMk’s artist in residence programme, co-produced by Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence) http://www.marnixdenijs.nl
Stanza (UK), Urban Generation, net art, software, real time city experience, 2005 http://www.stanza.co.uk
Pablo Valbuena (E), Extension series architecture and projection, 2009 (commission) http://www.pablovalbuena.com

Programme

Lecture by Jan Robert Leegte
June 10
19:00 hrs
(in Dutch)

Workshop by Walter Langelaar
June 13
11:00 – 19:00 hrs
(in Dutch)

Thanks to:
BeamSystems, AECID, Spanish Embassy

Marnix de Nijs , Exploded Views – Remapping Firenze
Stanza, Urban Generation

Contact press: Marieke Istha, communication, Netherlands Media Art Institute istha@nimk.nl

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