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publication (pdf,de) ECAS WP 3 - Stage

Cimatics 2013
»The Digital Now«
10.04. - 21.04.2013 / Brussels, Belgium

The Digital Now is an exhibition series which aims to look thematically at relevant artifacts within the current artistic context and media art related discourse.

The first edition entitled ‘Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity’ is inspired by the way birds are reflecting our contemporary relation with technology. For this, inspiration is drawn from the New Aesthetic with a focus on the ways we experience our digital condition: always on, always there. Drones or UAV’s (Unmanned Arial Vehicles) have been related to this New Aesthetic debate ever since it started. The New Aesthetic has been a remarkable and often intense debate for about two years now, spread across platforms, groups, scenes, blogs, catalogues, sprint-books and festivals in off- and online worlds.

‘Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity’ taps into this debate of autonomous technology, waving at machines, the post-human and machinic vision but started from an opposite angle, not by discovering a new next nature in digital artifacts but by spotting instances of the computational or digital in nature… spotting starlings producing Nokia ringtones as a birdcall. As the New Aesthetic is an ongoing debate the exhibition will not try to give an overview. Instead its statements and questions are taken as a thread to explore our digital and computational surroundings. Core to the exhibition are digital artifacts; intentional and unintentional critical objects reflecting our contemporary relation with technology.

The Digital Now is produced by Cimatics and featured in the off-program of Art Brussels, the international contemporary art fair (April 18 -21, 2013). This year’s edition “Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity” relates to the theme “Ubiquitous Art and Music: Art and the everyday” organized within the European project ECAS, and connected to the International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS) network.

ECAS supported events during the festival:
Exhibition "The Digital Now - Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity"11.04. - 21.04.2013
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
ActionExhibition of "Subtwitter"
ParticipantsDries Depoorter (BE)
LocationTower's Art Gallery / Brabantstraat 23 Rue Brabant / 1210 Brussels (metro Rogier)
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 62ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=dries-depoorter


DescriptionSubtwitter is a small application that scans subtitle-files (.srt) and replaces them with similar tweets.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
ActionExhibition of "Flytweet" (2012)
ParticipantsDavid Bowen (US)
LocationTower's Art Gallery / Brabantstraat 23 Rue Brabant / 1210 Brussels (metro Rogier)
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg 30ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=david-bowen-us


DescriptionThe fly tweet device sends Twitter messages based on the activities of a collection of houseflies.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
ActionExhibition of "Urban Fruit - Street Wrapper"
ParticipantsEsther Polak & Ivar van Bekun (NL)
LocationTower's Art Gallery / Brabantstraat 23 Rue Brabant / 1210 Brussels (metro Rogier)
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 38ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=esther-polak-ivar-van-bekkum-nl


DescriptionA -print on demand project-, that makes tangible Google StreetView.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
Actionartwork "Wind-up birds"
ParticipantsHC Giljie (Hans Christian Gilje) (NO)
LocationBotanique / Greenhouse / Koningsstraat 236 Rue Royale - 1210 Brussels
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 54ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=hc-gilje-no


DescriptionInstallation of networked mechanical woodpeckers.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
Actionartwork "Street Ghosts" (2012)
ParticipantsPaolo Cirio (IT)
LocationTower's Art Gallery / Brabantstraat 23 Rue Brabant / 1210 Brussels (metro Rogier)
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 46ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=paolo-cirio-it


DescriptionLife-sized pictures of people found on Google's Street View were printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were taken.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
Action"Woodworms, Microphones, Sound System, 2009-2012"
ParticipantsZimoun (CH)
LocationTower's Art Gallery / Brabantstraat 23 Rue Brabant / 1210 Brussels (metro Rogier)
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 66ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=zimoun-ch


DescriptionThe sound of the eating woodworms inside the piece of wood is amplified in the room and creates an immersive sound.
 
Date11.04. - 21.04.2013
Actionartwork "Hortus" (2012)
ParticipantsOvertoon (Christoph De Boeck & Patricia Portela (BE/PT))
LocationBotanique / Greenhouse / Jardin Botanique - Kruidtuin / Koningsstraat 236 Rue Royale - 1210 Brussels
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Printexhibition publication, pg. 50ff
Online References http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=christoph-de-boeck-patricia-portela-bept


Description
 
Opening Event - hosted by Nachtlawaai10.04. - 11.04.2013
Date10.04. - 11.04.2013
ActionLive Performance during Opening Event
ParticipantsTheo Burt
LocationLes Ateliers Claus / Passage Charles Rogier Doorgang - Rue de Brabantstraat 23A - 1210 Brussels
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Print
Online References www.facebook.com/nachtlawaai/posts/243289079144266
http://thedigitalnow.be/?projects=theo-burt-the-automatics-group-uk

DescriptionNachtlawaai hosted the afterparty for the vernissage of the exhibition; 'The Digital Now' by Cimatics. Opening performance by Theo Burt (The Automatics Group, Entr'acte, UK) & DJ sets by Nosedrip & Walrus afterwards. All happening @ Les Ateliers Claus, 9pm sharp!
 
Date10.04. - 11.04.2013
ActionDJ Set during Opening Event
ParticipantsNosedrip (Ziggy Devriendt)
LocationLes Ateliers Claus / Passage Charles Rogier Doorgang - Rue de Brabantstraat 23A - 1210 Brussels
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Print
Online References www.facebook.com/nachtlawaai/posts/243289079144266


DescriptionNachtlawaai hosted the afterparty for the vernissage of the exhibition; 'The Digital Now' by Cimatics. Opening performance by Theo Burt (The Automatics Group, Entr'acte, UK) & DJ sets by Nosedrip & Walrus afterwards. All happening @ Les Ateliers Claus, 9pm sharp!
 
ICAS Radio from Brussels19.04.2013
ICAS RADIO from Cimatics '13
Date19.04.2013
ActionICAS Radio Live Broadcast
ParticipantsSusanna Niedermayr together with Oliver Baurhenn and Sarah Lauzemis and guests
LocationVRT, the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie
Sponsoring PartnersCimatics
Print
Online References http://oe1.orf.at/programm/334743
http://musikprotokoll.orf.at/de/news/icas-radio-von-cimatics-br%C3%BCssel
Facebook Note
DescriptionYou will hear an acoustic tour through the exhibition guided by curator Bram Crevits, a review of the accompanying discourse event in which, among other things, James Bridle, who coined the term New Aesthetic, pointed out on the omnipresent daily invisible technological infrastructures, such as police reconnaissance UAVs (drones).
Please visit the ICAS RADIO from Cimatics sub page.
 


2013

Cimatics

Working Period III