Art and Virtual Reality
dal 14/5/2003 al 15/5/2003
Segnalato da
14/5/2003
Art and Virtual Reality
Espace Royal Monterey, Luxembourg
Benjamin Weil / Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Entropy8Zuper!). The internet feeds off traditional art forms, reproducing and orchestrating them, upsetting their definitions, stretching their boundaries to create new forms. Evolving into a non-centred universe, accessible to everyone, Internet requires non-static, interconnected thought processes. How can the language of numbers express intimacy or beauty? What new relationships are formed between the artists, the visitors and the digital works?
Benjamin Weil / Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Entropy8Zuper!)
Thursday 15th May 2003 - 7pm
Art and Virtual Production. The internet feeds off traditional art forms,
reproducing and orchestrating them, upsetting their definitions,
stretching their boundaries to create new forms. Evolving into a
non-centred universe, accessible to everyone, Internet requires
non-static, interconnected thought processes.
How can the language of numbers express intimacy or beauty? What new
relationships are formed between the artists, the visitors and the digital
works? Is "clicking" synonymous with interactivity? What role do
institutions play in numerical art? Such a lot of questions for the guests
at Conversation 03.
Benjamin Weil (France) is curator of The San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art's new media department (http://www.sfmoma.org). He heads a programme of
exhibitions and sound events, as well as internet projects in the museum's
virtual gallery, E.ESPACE. Weil is also curator of Eyebeam in New York
(http://www.eyebeam.org), an interdisciplinary centre for research, training and
experimentation in new media. Creator of pioneering internet projects like
Web Digital Foundry, Weil has also led various trails on art and virtual
reality.
Auriea Harvey (United States) and Michaël Samyn (Belgium) are the founders
of Entropy8Zuper! (http://www.entropy8zuper.org), a platform that gathers
together their individual projects and their collaborations. Harvey and
Samyn have been awarded many prizes for their artistic projects on the
internet. Their work is a very personal mix of images, sounds and texts,
that borrows from existing forms like video clips, cinema and advertising.
Conversations is a three-monthly cycle of discussions aimed at the public
at large. Mudam has invited people from all walks of contemporary creative
and cultural life to share their passion for art connected with everyday
life.
C01 - October 2002 Art and Médias with Fabrice Hybert, Olivier Kaeppelin,
Caroline Mart and Stéphane Paoli
C02 - February 2003 Art and Free Though with Wim Delvoye, Michel Onfray
and Dolorès Oscari
C03 - May 2003 Art and Virtual Production with Auriea Harvey, Michaël
Samyn and Benjamin Weil
C04 - September 2003 Art and Photography with Pascal Convert, Georges
Didi-Huberman, Hocine,et Georges Mérillon
C05 - December 2003 Art and Radical Design with Bless & Droog Design
By Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Tél. +352 45 37 851
Auditorium de l'Espace Royal Monterey, Banque Générale du
Luxembourg, entrance corner of Bd Royal/rue Notre-Dame, Luxembourg