Isea 2022 - Possibles

Artworks presented by Niio.art

Niio joins the exhibitions of the ISEA2022 Barcelona 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art with a selection of artworks addressing the main themes of the symposium. The screen-based works address the notion of possibles in different ways, from the dynamics of microscopic particulate matter to the global effects of climate change, from new worlds we could inhabit to those that are fading away, and from our individual perception of the world to the realization that even machines can forget. Through generative algorithms, artificial neural networks, virtual reality environments and video editing, Frederik de Wilde, Diane Drubay, Jeppe Lange, Sabrina Ratté, Antoine Schmitt, and Snow Yunxue Fu have created fascinating narratives that speak of the possible humans and non-humans, natures and worlds, and futures and heritages, integrating the culture and the processes of artistic, scientific, and technological disciplines.

Selection of artworks curated by Pau Waelder

Artwork – The particle

This project has been awarded with the ISEA2022 Barcelona Grant by .Beep Collection and NewArtFoundation

Mapping Cité Mémoire in Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau

H2Emotion invites the public to see on June 14, 15 and 16 to a new version of the mapping from the renowned Cité Mémoire Montreal projection circuit, open to all the public. The whole project and production are a gift commissioned, produced and funded by the Bureau du Québec.

The Grand Tableau from Cité Mémoire will be projected onto the façade of the Sant Pau Hospital during three nights. It is a journey through the key periods in Montreal’s history and a look at more than 375 years of history.

Created by multidisciplinary artists Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon in collaboration with playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, the majestic digital work takes a poetic and playful look on the city of Montreal through images, words and music.

For this event, projections are at the following schedule:

June 14
·       10:30 pm

·       11:15 pm

June 15: 9:45 pm

June 16: 10 pm

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H2Emotion convida el públic a veure el 14, 15 i 16 de juny una nova versió del mapping de Cité Mémoire Montreal obert a tot el públic. El projecte i la producció són un obsequi encarregat, produït i finançat pel Bureau du Québec.

El Grand Tableau de Cité Mémoire es projectarà a la façana de l’Hospital de Sant Pau durant tres nits. Es tracta d’un viatge pels períodes clau de la història de Montreal amb un repàs per més de 375 anys d’història.

Creat pels artistes multidisciplinaris Michel Lemieux i Victor Pilon en col·laboració amb el dramaturg Michel Marc Bouchard, la majestuosa obra digital dóna una mirada poètica i lúdica a la ciutat de Montreal a través d’imatges, paraules i música.

Les projeccions es faran a les següents hores:

14 de juny
·       22:30h
·       23:15h

15 de juny: 21:45h

16 de juny: 22:h

Comissioned and funded by Bureau du Québec à Barcelone, Guest of Honour at ISEA2022 Barcelona

Performance / Fractal Listening

ISEA2022 Main Ceremony

Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau will host the Main Ceremony of ISEA2022 Barcelona, on June 14, where the testimony will be passed to the next city that will host the Symposium, Paris.

Fractal Listening

There is in nature, a mysterious and complex mathematical system that repeats itself over and over again, an underlying geometric pattern in forms as disparate as clouds, mountains, trees or our own circulatory system. Its distinctive feature is self-similarity, the same configuration that is repeated at different scales, branching out infinitely. There are those who believe that it is “God’s fingerprint”, “the absolute truth of the universe”. 

In Fractal Listening, any attempt at stylistic corseting is diluted in the hybridization of artistic languages. Thus, the fractal images dialogue with acoustic and electronic sounds in an interweaving of infinite kinesthetic notes. In this way, abstract figures in strident colors outline mandalas and enigmatic portals, piercing the virtual canvas with three-dimensional shapes that evoke sacred geometry. This incessant algorithmic repetition generated by pre-established codes, sometimes follows a visual choreography and other times -altered by the frequencies of live sound- it improvises an organic dance, introducing variations to the original pattern. Simultaneously, the sound dimension is embodied in layers and loops, intertwining the electronic bases of IDM, ambient and experimental with the live chords of a guitar. Intervening the work, a trumpet interprets vibrant and moving jazz melodies with harmonics that generate sensations of body and spirit, closing the virtuous circle with a sensory, immersive and enveloping atmosphere.

In 2019, Microfeel & Santiago Bartolomé began their collaborative work with the aim of furthering their respective creative pursuits. This path of experimentation materialized in different artistic proposals. In 2021 they created the live show AV Fractal Listening, the work combines digital art, electronic music and the guitar of the multimedia artist Microfeel (Sebastián Seifert) with the trumpet and processes of the musician and composer Santiago Bartolomé.

Sebastián Seifert – Fractal Listening

Ventriloquist Ontology

Ventriloquist Ontology is a media performance that explores the limits of control and points of hybridization between the human and the machine Ventriloquist Ontology is a media performance that conceptually stems out of philosophical ideas that are rooted in the realms of Posthumanism, Actor Network Theory and Object-Oriented Ontology. Inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dystopian theatrical play The School of Ventriloquists, it encompasses the creation of a modular wearable, trained using Natural Language Processing to create its own language that manifests in the form of speech and movement actuation. It explores the idea of soft control and points of hybridization between human and machine through the relationship of a performer and a wearable entity. This soft modular entity speaks through text generated using the GPT-2 language model, trained on a dataset of texts around biopolitics, algo-governance, the surveillanced body, and queer theory. The softness aspect of its control refers to the plasticity of the interface, the malleability of its hardware connections, the suggestive nature that the GPT-2 generated text pertains to, and the indicative nature of the movement of the actuators.

Sequentially, it brings forth the soft data of the body inextricably linked to ideas of care and intimacy, as well as to the pliability of the different levels of interpretation between the human and the machine. The aspect of control is tied to the cybernetic idea of steering the body to its optimal movement through a feedback loop between machinic language, and human assimilation. It also deals with the hardness of the linear actuators and the microcontroller that manipulates them, to the domination of these mechanical components over the softness and vulnerability of the human flesh. Ultimately, the idea of ventriloquism is used to give agency to an ontological entity comprised of subtle suggestive wearable modules, human flesh and cognitive motor abilities, born-digital, able to produce novel language, but also conditioned to reproduce the biases of its algorithmic parts.

Stillfrom the Ventriloquist Ontology performance presented at the iii Workspace, The Hague.

Cité Mémoire  

H2Emotion invites you on June 14 to the tableau from the renowned Cité Mémoire Montréal projection circuit.
 
The Grand Tableau from Cité Mémoire will be projected onto the façade of the Sant Pau Hospital. It is a journey through the key periods in Montreal’s history: the Indigenous presence, French Regime, British conquest and contemporary Montreal —a look at more than 375 years of history.
 
Created by multidisciplinary artists Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon in collaboration with playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, the majestic digital work takes a poetic and playful look on the city of Montreal through images, words and music.

June 14
·       10:30 pm – 11:15pm  
·       11:15 pm – midnight

 h2emotion.ca
https://www.montrealenhistoires.com/cite_memoire/

Guest of Honour at ISEA2022 Barcelona

Artwork / Quantum Chaos set

Artwork / Last Breaths

Artwork / Liquid Views

Photo by Stefanie Seidl

With support of the Center for Art and Media | ZKM

Artwork / Sightseeing

Artwork / Common Thread

Dataset contributed by Dr. Dmitry Bratanov, Senior Research Engineer (RPAS and Automation), Research Engineering Facility, QUT

Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau – Possibles

Modernism is a transversal movement with an international resonance kwnown for integrating all kinds of creators and trades in order to make the possibilites of working together a reality. Taking this interdisciplinary legacy and transporting it to the codes of the 21st century, digital art reflects this same spirit of transversality by uniting artists, scientists and technologists.

Combining these two concepts, from June 9 to 30, the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau will host an exhibition of digital art with five works from the ISEA2022 Barcelona call and twenty pieces from the .Beep Collection.

This exhibition is included in the visit tour of the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. Tickets are required to access it. Alternatively, there will be free tours for people registered at ISEA2022 Barcelona exclusively for this exhibition.


El Modernisme és un moviment transversal de ressò internacional que s’ha distingit per integrar tot tipus de creadors i oficis per tal de fer realitat les seves propostes. Agafant aquest llegat interdisciplinar i transportant-lo als codis del segle XXI, l’art digital reflecteix aquest mateix esperit de transversalitat tot unint artistes, científics i tecnòlegs.

Aquesta exposició està inclosa en el circuit de visita del Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. Cal disposar d’entrada per poder accedir-hi. Alternativament, es faran visites a les persones registrades a ISEA2022 Barcelona exclussivament a aquesta exposició sense cost.

Unint aquests dos conceptes, del 9 al 30 de juny, el Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau acollirà una exposició d’art digital amb cinc obres provinents de la convocatòria d’ISEA2022 Barcelona i una vinetena de peces de la .Beep Collection.

Artworks from ISEA2022 Barcelona’s open call / Obres provinents de la convocatòria oberta d’ISEA2022 Barcelona:

Artworks from .Beep Collection / Obres de la .Beep Collection:

Artworks presented by Niio.art / Obres presentades per Niio.art

Mapping Cité Mémoire (Open to all the public)

The Grand Tableau from Cité Mémoire will be projected onto the façade of the Sant Pau Hospital. It is a journey through the key periods in Montreal’s history: the Indigenous presence, French Regime, British conquest and contemporary Montreal —a look at more than 375 years of history.

June 14
·       10:30 pm – 11:15pm  
·       11:15 pm – midnight
June 15 and 16
·       10 pm – 10:45 pm
·       10:45 pm – 11:30 pm
·       11:30 pm – 12:15 am

Mapping Cité Mémoire (Obert a tot el públic)

El Grand Tableau de Cité Mémoire es projectarà a la façana de l’Hospital de Sant Pau. És un viatge pels períodes clau de la història de Montreal: la presència indígena, el règim francès, la conquesta britànica i la Montreal contemporània, una mirada a més de 375 anys d’història.

14 de juny
·       22:30h – 23:15h
·       23:15h – 00h
15 i 16 de juny
·       22h – 22:45h
·       22:45h – 23:30h
·       23:30h – 00:15h

Main Ceremony

Along with the exhibition, the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau will also host the Main Ceremony of ISEA022 Barcelona, on June 14, where the testimony will be passed to the next city that will host the Symposium, Paris.

Cerimònia principal

Juntament amb l’exposició, el Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau acollirà també la cerimònica central d’ISEA022 Barcelona, el 14 de juny, on es passarà el testimoni a la pròxima ciutat que acollirà el Simposi, París.

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