WINDOW ZOOS & VIEWS – virtual interventions in public space, Singapore

Curated by DAW International

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 8th May, 17:00

Exhibition Dates: 8th May to 19th May, 10:00 – 22:00

About

The project “Window Zoos & Views” was inspired by an image of a car driving down Singapore’s legendary Orchard Road. The windshield of the car was plastered with stickers of popular cartoon characters. By driving down the street, the car mixes the cartoon characters with the actual world and the cartoon characters augment the real world environment. The interior of the car was transformed by the stickers into a kind of a virtual space in which the passengers inside were able to exceed the bounds of physical reality.In keeping with the idea of the car and the experience it provides those inside it, a concept was developed to transform Orchard Road into a virtual exhibition space for pedestrians by creating an responsive smart phone application and overlaying the entire road with geo-tagged media common to game technologies and augmented reality systems. Like the car’s windshield, pedestrian’s mobile device screens become windows onto the virtual world that is emerging around us, expanding our notion of what constitutes public space and how art can be exhibited. Whether traveling by vehicle or by foot, artworks will augment the “stop and go” journey down the road adding to the hustle and bustle of the people and the glare and flash of window displays and neon signs. Utilizing this type of technology in an art context is a new proposition that explores all that we know and experience as the mix of the real and the hyper-real, calling into question the border between art and life itself.

Artists & Researcher
John Craig Freeman (USA)
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU)
Lily & Honglei (CHN)
Lalie S. Pascual(CHE)
Will Pappenheimer

List of Artworks → more

Participating Institutes
School of Digital Media and Infocomm Techology (SP) → more

Venue
Orchard Road, Clark Quay and other locations → more info

More info at http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW13/WindowZoosArtworks

 

Manifest.AR @ BIC: Seeking San Joaquin Valley Building Imagination Center, Modesto CA

Manifest.AR is an international artists’ collective working with emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. During the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial, the group responded to the theme of the biennial, “Seeking Silicon Valley,” by created a citywide augmented reality public art exhibition with parallel components at the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University in Lewisburg Pennsylvania. Titled “Manifest.AR @ BIC,” the group drew on collective, participatory art practices centered on mobile augmented reality technology to aggregate and map a series of artworks, which re-imagined and reinterpreted the high-tech corporate campuses and products of Silicon Valley. Performative and site-specific works were located throughout the cities of San Jose, San Francisco and Lewisburg.

Whereas the public square was once the quintessential place to air grievances, display solidarity, express difference, celebrate similarity, remember, mourn, and reinforce shared values of right and wrong, it is no longer the only anchor for interactions in the public realm. That geography has been relocated to a novel terrain, one that encourages exploration of mobile location based art. Moreover, public space is now truly open, as artworks can be placed anywhere in the world, without prior permission from government or private authorities – with profound implications for art in the public sphere and the discourse that surrounds it.

Distributed Curatorial Practice and Exhibition Strategy:
Led by a collective curatorial team including Jessica Gomula of the Building Imagination Center, Jaime Austin of ZERO1, Richard Rinehart of Samek Gallery, and Lanfranco Aceti of Kasa Gallery and Leonardo Electronic Almenac, Manifest.AR members will create iterations of the work produced for ManifestAR @ ZERO1, and modify it where necessary to address the change of context to Modesto. With its genesis in Silicon Valley the work will spread to the Central Valley as if on the prevailing winds. “Manifest.AR @ BIC: Seeking San Joaquin Valley,” will act as a prototype to explore how distributed inter-institutional curatorial approaches might support emerging distributed collective art practices.

Specific projects include:

• “Monument to Cesar Chavez,” by John Criag Freeman
• “Parking Lot  / Farm Decorator,” by Will Pappenheimer
• “CreatAR,” by Mark Skwarek
• “ARt Critic Face Matrix” by Tamiko Thiel
• “Fortune 500 Cookies” by Tamiko Thiel
• “From Silicon Valley to San Joaquin,” by John Craig Freeman, Mark Skwarek and Lily & Honglei
• “Chinese Take Out,” by 4Gentlemen

The Documentary Film:
With support from the BIC’s 2013 Residence Filmmaker Challenge, a 10-15 minute  documentary film will be produced about the project in Modesto, and about the possibilities of new approaches to curation and exhibition, and to consider other ways institutions might respond to the challenges posed by these new art practices. It will include documentation of the projects below, along with artist interviews.

For more information, please visit http://buildingimagination.com/?p=2936

 

Dragon featured by CologneOFF 2013 India II

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards is announcing:

CologneOFF 2013 India II
@ CeC – Carnival of eCreativity
Sattal/India – 22-24 February 2013

http://carnival-of-ecreativity.com/cec-2013/screenings

featuring the curated festival programs of

CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift I & II
1#minuteCologne – Cologne One Minute Film Festival
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
exDox – Experimental Documentary Film Festival
VideoChannel – curatorial platform for art & moving images

http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=3279

including your video listed below

Kok & Deiman (Netherlands) – The Highlights, 2012, 2:20
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – The Art Awards, 2012, 15:34
Nina Kurtela (Croatia) – TRANSFORMANCE, 2010, 8’15
Michael Lasater (USA) – And Then, 2011, 9:13
Lily & Honglei (China) – Dragon, 2012, 4:20
Gina Marie Napolitan (USA) – A Catechism of Familiar Things”, 2012, 8:00
Barbara Marcel (Brazil) – A Tooth is a Tooth is a Tooth, 2011, 5:48
Ygor Marotta (Brazil) – Homeless, 2011, 2:53
QNQ/AUJIK (Sweden) – 9 States of Ambivalence, 2012, 1:30 min
Shuai Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Ferry Paradise, 2012, 3:48
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Mistakes: Restaurant, 2011, 05:12
Marlena Rask (Denmark) – The Signal, 2011, 07:13
Pablo Renee Rosero Marino (Ecuador) – Nebula Hmlovina, 2011, 6:05
Simon Ruschmeyer (Germany) – Alter Ego, 2012, 04:10
Brett Underhill (USA) – Threadbare, 2012, 4:40
Loes van Dorp (Netherlands) – Framed Memory, 2012, 5:36
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Mela, 2006, 1:54
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – At the Museum, 2012, 3:00
SuZi Zimmermann (Germany) – Once Upon a Time,2011, 2:30

 

Lily and Honglei : L’espace virtuel comme point de rencontre entre passé, présent et imagination

Lily and Honglei : L’espace virtuel comme point de rencontre entre passé, présent et imagination.

 

Video screening at Inaugural Gala for TODAY IS THE DAY

Opalnest produces Inaugural Gala for TODAY IS THE DAY

TITD Inaugural Fundraising Gala and Auction Benefit

November 27, 2012
Tuesday 7-10 PM

The Jane Hotel Ballroom
113 Jane Street, New York City

10 PM Video Art Afterparty
(Free Event, RSVP Essential)
hosted by Hotel Americano
518 W. 27th Street

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, TODAY IS THE DAY, a new, visionary non-profit foundation (New York, Hiroshima), announces its Inaugural Benefit Gala and Auction at the Jane Hotel Ballroom, generously produced by Opalnest. The evening’s events will be co-hosted by Arto Lindsay beginning with an introduction by gallerist, collector and TITD friend Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, followed by a tea ceremony by Junko Hasegawa of CHARAKU, a live auction conducted by Gabriela Palmieri, Senior Vice President & Specialist of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s, and special guest speaker David A. Ross former Director at SF MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art.

The night at the Jane Hotel will close with the screening of an exclusive video of Marina Abramović. The festivities will continue at the Hotel Americano with a video art after-party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m

Window, video by Lily & Honglei

The evening’s proceeds will go to support the launch of  the fledgling non-profit and a portion will go to benefit children affected by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Proceeds from TODAY IS THE DAY benefit auction, ticket sales and all other financial support will be eligible for tax exemption through the Fiscal Sponsorship of Fractured Atlas a 501(c) non-profit arts organization in New York.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

For more information on tickets or to RSVP for the after-party, contact benefit@opalnest.com

Events Produced by Helen Homan Wu (Opalnest)

More info:

http://opalnest.com/blog/2012/11/opalnest-produces-inaugural-gala-for-today-is-the-day/

 

‘Dragon’ Featured in Video Art Festivals in Iran, Russia and Hundary

Our new animation ‘Dragon’ has been invited to video art festivals around the world, including in Iran, Hungary and Russia.

Work Description

Production: L&H Art Studio
Animation Design: Bill He Li
Medium: Digital animation, Soundtrack
Duration: 4-minute
Year of Completion: 2012

Statement

The work is created during 2012, the Chinese Lunar Dragon Year. Associating imagery of human brain with Dragon, one of the most significant cultural creations of China, the work reflects on intriguing meaning of this symbol of Power. Dragon, the imaginary, almighty creature, is the subject of many Chinese classics specially focusing on its ability of adjusting itself for controlling. This cultural icon is vividly alive throughout Chinese history, inspiring personal and national ambitions in both ancient and contemporary societies of China. Within this context, the short film visualizes how this thousand-year-old unreal creature has influenced Chinese people’s mindset and thinking.

Screenings in Hungary and Russia:

Lily & Honglei once again collaborate with CologneOFF Video Chanel to present new animated short film Dragonat Art & Animation Festival, partnering with 3 art institutions in Europe:

-         the 8^th. Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary

-         XI Kansk International Video Art Festival, Russia

-        Anima Banja Luka (Bosnia – Herzegovina)

To learn more about Art & Animation Festival, go to http://caaf01.newmediafest.org/

Screening in Iran:

Private Negation

@ SAZMANAB
IN TEHRAN / IRAN

Experimental video animations
by 14 aritsts
Co-curated by
Morehshin Allahyari (Dallas & Denver, USA)
Alysse Stepanian (Los Angeles)
Sazmanab Location: Apt. 2, No. 99, Pardis St. Ariafar St. Sazman-e ab St. Sheikh Fazlollah HWY, Tehran, Iran
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Screening: 7PM – 8PM Tehran’s time
Q&A with the curators via the internet: 8PM – 8:30PM

More information: http://manipulatedimage.com/MI18_sazmanab.html

Curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Alysse Stepania

Our perception of reality conforms to human-made logic while the construct of logic is defined by the limitations of our perceptions. The language of power is built upon the illusion of logic, designed to create cultural hegemony and maintain social hierarchies. The subversive video animations in this show challenge the language of logic and control in unexpected worlds of simulated realities. On one level, the nature of the GUI (graphic user interface) of video and animation software directly influences the creative process, as the program itself exerts a self-contained logic and control rooted in the code and interface design. On another level, the medium of video animation in these experimental works allows visualizations of unfamiliar realities that call for reinterpretations and active participation from the viewer.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Christopher Coleman | Sachiko Hayashi | Shane Mecklenburger | Jonathan Monaghan | Morehshin Allahyari | Jon Satrom | Alysse Stepanian & Philip Mantione | Michael Lasater | Jenny Vogel | Claudia Hart | Lily & Honglei | Gerald Guthrie | Albert Merino | Julia Zastav

 

‘Chinese Take Out’: new AR project at Zero1 Biennial 2012

Concept & Visual Design: Lily & Honglei

3D modeling & Augmented Reality: John Craig Freeman

Collaborating with John Craig Freeman, Lily & Honglei’s new project Chinese Take Out will be premiered during ZERO1 Biennial Seeking Silicon Valley, in San Francisco CA, along with another AR work From Lewisburg, PA to Silicon Valley. 

With locations at the Presidio overlook of the Golden Gate; the Powell Street cable car turntable at Market Street; the Gates of San Francisco’s Chinatown at Bush Street and Grand Avenue; and the Caltrain Diridon Station in San Jose, “Chinese Take Out,” visualizes the gruesome reality that the Chinese government has been systematically harvesting organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners for profit.

“Chinese Take Out”, augmented reality public art, Presidio overlook, Golden Gate, San Francisco, 2012.

This inhuman practice was exposed in 2007 by David Matas and David Kilgour’s investigative report Bloody Harvest. However, this topic remains taboo among Chinese intellectuals, who fear persecution by the Party. While the country recently set new regulations prioritizing organ transplantation operation for domestic patients, foreign demand has driven the market initially and continuously. We therefore intent to arouse greater awareness within international community by visualizing the issue with art.

Chinese Take Out”, augmented reality public art, Powell Street Cable Car Turntable at Market Street, San Francisco, 2012.

Chinese Take Out”, augmented reality public art, Gates of San Francisco’s Chinatown at Bush Street and Grand Avenue, San Francisco, 2012

Chinese Take Out from lilyhonglei on Vimeo.