For it’s edition 2015, the Transnumeriques Awards (initiated by Transcultures, interdisciplinary Center of mediaart and sound cultures – curator : Jacques Urbanska/arts-numeriques.info) are focused on Gif format. Through a serie of online (on spamm.be plateform) and offline exhibitions. For the ARTour Biennal, the physical exhition will take place in Centre de la gravure et de l’image animée (Centre of Engraving and the animated image).
Curated by Michaël Systaime Borras, founder of www.spamm.fr;
Helena Acosta, founder of Produccion Aleatoria
and Jean Guillaume Le Roux founder Virtualism
3 SPACES
Babycastles Gallery, New York
Opening 6pm
http://babycastles.com/
137 West 14th St, Manhattan, New York
EKLUZ, Paris
https://www.facebook.com/
13 rue des Ecluses Saint Martin, 75010, Paris
Electromuseum, Moscow
http://electromuseum.ru/
Rostokinskaya ul, 1, Moscow
» SPAMM of Virtualism « , Net Art exhibition offers to connect with a webcam interactive scenography these great capitals, Moscow, Paris and New York, around a digital creation on the Internet and the artistic movement of virtualism.
As Art is a source of communication, Art is a communication in itself, this exhibition is a symbol of unity around the sharing tool which is the Internet 2.0
[ D I S P O S I T I F ]
« The virtualism is an artistic movement that defines art forms designed with the help of digital tools. It interprets the notions of gestures and materials in the field of digital: the virtualist work is based on a creative act in power, reflected by the interfaces that reduce the action to simple actions, automated by peripheral tools. »
Encyclopedia, « 100 notions of digital art »
Editions de l’immateriel
The raw material of digital creations being virtual, the acted gesture of creation redefines the creative act in power. Indeed, what is virtual is inherently powerful and the creative gesture in this case has no tangible impact on the material being worked. The gesture in power is what is observable in the digital, the acted gesture on the interface. The virtualism is a reconsideration of the creative act and its plastic relationship to the material.
The virtualism in the post-industrial context
In the 1960s, in the heart of the industrial society, the consumption of goods is the major societal concern. Thus Yves Klein and Pierre Restany develop the new realism theory. By implementing the object of consumption as a subject in itself, this artistic movement is directly related to the context of industrial society. This approach will be extended by the creation of the current sociological art by Fred Forest and the relational art by Nicolas Bourriaud. Thus the history of art is in dialogue with the social context and it should be taken into account this context while writing new theories. The 1980s saw the birth of the concept of post-industrialism, an assumption that the raw material of industrial society would be replaced by a knowledge economy through an exponential growth of tertiary sectors. This theory, rediscovered in the 2000s, is particularly visible in the digitalwhere the information is dominant in a social system. It is in this movement that fits the virtualism, in a society where the digital is spreading in a daily life of virtual reality.
With:
facebook event : https://www.facebook.com/events/728747110577541
Transcultures and its partners are proud to present the first winners of this edition devoted exclusively to the GIF format. This first call for participation was made in the context of a Transcultures carte blanche proposed by Videoformes Festival Clermont Ferrand who was celebrating this year its 30th anniversary.
The members of the jury chose to reward/mentioned 6 artists among 50 participants and over 150 submitted works.
Honorable mentions
Winners
The next 2 calls to participate at the Transnumeriques Awards 2015 – Art(s) & Network(s) special GIF (ARTour Biennale et Transnumeriques-Mons2015) are still open. You can apply online.
In the framework of the Festival of digital cultures, Transnumeriques (an event of Mons2015, European Capital of Culture), Transcultures, Media and Sound Arts Centre, launches 3 calls for proposals to participate to the 2015 edition of its Transnumeriques Awards – Art(s) and Network(s).
For this edition, Transcultures will focus its awards on the GIF and its animated images, (usually in a loop). Back to the earlier Web, the GIFs were very simple. In a late 2000s, a new generation of artists has emerged and promoted GIFs as a work of art in itself. Lately, GIF works have bee part of multiple online exhibitions, but also, exhibitions in contemporary art galleries. Transcultures is especially interested by the relation the art of GIF generates as meeting points of a certain culture which it became, if not the emblem, in any case the exercise of style…
The Transcultures Awards are supported by the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, Mons2015, European Capital of Culture and the arts-numeriques.info plateform.
spamm.be homepage will take over all the works received in order of their receptions
Agenda
Four partners, three deadlines for minimum 3 exhibitions in 2015.
@ Festival Videoformes
Gifs Awards Event
deadline : 07/03/2015 – [fergcorp_cdt_single date= »7 march 2015″]
exhibition 19 > 21/03/2015
@ ARTour Biennale, Contemporary art and patrimony
Homo Faber Gifs exhibition
deadline : 20/04/2015 – [fergcorp_cdt_single date= »20 april 2015″]
exhibition 26/6 > 30/08/2015
@ Les Transnumériques in the framework of Mons2015
Emergences numériques/Digital Emergences + Café Europa
deadline : 01/08/2015 extended: 01/09/2015 – [fergcorp_cdt_single date= »1 september 2015″]
exhibition 27/11 >12/12/2015
FILE is an e-book promoted by M0us310n.net which analyses the intersections between Philosophy, Art, and Computing Communication Processes on the Internet. FILE is an Open Call for dialogue that attempts to bring together different theoretical and practical fields of criticism and reflection on digital art. Developed from an academic context, but emerging from a need to reach beyond it and to establish links with the artistic production, FILE is created with the intention of compile essays in order to link theoretical perspectives, practices, and reflection on the Digital Arts.
FILE Digital Aesthetics E-BOOK should be seen as a meeting point for artists, academics, or implementers of art/development projects. We welcome proposals for both chapters and case studies from academics, photographers, artists and other visual practitioners. We are seeking for contributions that deal with a wide range of issues in connection with the impact of Computing Communication Processes on the Internet within the production and reception of Art.
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Claudia Supelano-Gross (Bogotá, 1983) Editor.
Researcher in Aesthetics and Art Theory and PhD candidate in Philosophy at University of Salamanca. Active member of GESTA —Research Group in Aesthetics and Art Theory—, has participated in several research projects. Awarded with various grants and fellowships, has been a research guest at National University of Colombia and also a DAAD Forschung-Gast at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. Co-editor of Tipos Móviles. Materiales de arte y estética (Spain, 2011), has also collaborated in several specialized journals and publications, as well as in numerous international conferences.
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Charleroi > La Géode > 10:40
Underground 2.0… les nouvelles cultures numériques alternatives, conférence, donnée par l’artiste/curateur Web Jacques Urbanska, propose une première introduction à un Net Art hacktiviste illustrée par de nombreux exemples d’œuvres connectées ou issues de la culture Web, qui utilisent les réseaux comme matière première de création et de militantisme. Si le terme Net Art regroupe encore aujourd’hui toutes une série d’œuvres conçues par, pour et avec le réseau Internet, des différences notables sont apparues entre ceux qui utilisent le Web pour produire des œuvres plastiques destinées à être diffusées via le réseau et quasi exclusivement sur écran et d’autres formes qui rompent avec cette configuration habituelle.
Avec l’arrivée du Web 2.0 et des réseaux sociaux à la moitié des années 2000, une nouvelle génération d’artistes s’est emparée de ces nouveaux territoires de création et de détournement. Leur hyperactivité, leur hyperproductivité et la viralité décuplée ont et amplifient toujours considérablement leurs présences.
Plus rares et discrets sont ceux qui se sont attelés à explorer les réseaux comme moyen de réinventer les limites et les règles qui régissent l’Internet actuel, d’en montrer la fragilité ou d’accélérer sa dissolution dans la « vie réelle » (IRL). Ces derniers ont plutôt tendance à « sortir » de la dualité Web-Ecran, à utiliser les objets connectés ou à en inventer, à travailler sur des nouvelles interfaces hommes-machines, à créer des outils et des plateformes communautaires, ou tout simplement à mettre en place de nouveau réseaux indépendants d’Internet…