Institute of Artificial Art Amsterdam

Coming Events

Graz

May 8 - July 5, 2008. Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (Austria). Exhibition "Unfinished Business." Curated by Jan Robert Leegte and Jan Maarten Voskuil.

Featuring evolutionary art by Driessens & Verstappen, "Drawing Machine # 6" by Jochem van der Spek, a new audio-installation by Remko Scha, "Visual target 53D" by Peter Luining, "Selections" by Jan Robert Leegte, and paintings, sculptures and installations by Geeske Bijker, Ab van Hanegem, Krijn de Koning, Thomas Wildner, Jan van der Ploeg, and Jan Maarten Voskuil.

Amsterdam

May 29 - September 30, 2008. Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam. Exhibition "Deep Screen. Art in Digital Culture." (Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen Amsterdam 2008.) Guest curator: Andreas Broeckmann.

Featuring Mark Bain's pitch-shift sonification of the World Trade Center collapse, algorithmic sculpture by Driessens & Verstappen, the video installation "Face Shift" by Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha, an algorithmic installation by JODI, audio-installations by Gert-Jan Prins and by Marnix de Nijs & Edwin van der Heijden, drawing machines by Jochem van der Spek,  and music machines by Pierre Bastien. Also: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, David Jablonowski, JODI, Gabriel Lester, Meiya Lin, Erica van Loon, Luna Maurer, Nathaniel Mellors, Geert Mul, Roland Schimmel, Jasmijn Visser.

Opening reception: Thursday May 29, 5 p.m.- 7 p.m.; with a live performance of "Morphology/FaceShift" by Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha at 5.30 p.m.

Moscow

“Contemporary Art in the Post-Biological Age”. Screening of video-documentaries at the 9th MediaForum of the 30th Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, June 23 - 26, 2008). Featuring Morphology/FaceShift by Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha, and pieces by Stelarc, Symbiotica, and the Critical Art Ensemble.

Kaliningrad

"Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age", at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad (Russia), August 7 - 30, 2008. International exhibition of documentary video installations. Featuring Morphology/FaceShift by Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha, and pieces by Stelarc, Symbiotica, and the Critical Art Ensemble.

International Coordination Council: Roy Ascott, Dmitry Bulatov, Oron Catts, Ken Rinaldo, Olga Shishko, Stephen Wilson.

Concept: "Robotics, genetic engineering and nanotechnology challenge the traditional boundaries of human existence, and the distinction between the organic and the technological. Contemporary techno-biological art reflects on these issues; it does not confirm today's technology, but investigates its boundaries. Art that is created under the new conditions of postbiology – under the conditions of an artificially fashioned lifespan – cannot help but take this artificiality as its explicit theme. However, time, duration, and life cannot be shown directly but only as documentation. The dominant genre of postbiological art is thus technological documentation: plans, drafts, and videos."

Milwaukee, WI

Summer 2008. Remko Scha & the Machines: "Machine Guitars Anthology". CD Box by Table of the Elements. Liner notes by Byron Coley.