media art

Spiral Hotspot. Daydreaming subverts the world.

Daydreaming subverts the world. Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, Netherlands.
08 Sep — 05 Nov 2017

The Situationists formed an international artistic and political movement in 1957. The Internazionale Situazionista was founded in 1957 in Cosio di Arroscia (Italy), and remained during the Paris student revival of 1968. Situationists sought to achieve a state of continuous social revolution. Their intention was to do that by creating mass-consuming, disruptive situations, so-called happenings. The Situationists had a strong influence on the later English punk-movement.

What is the influence of the Situationists on the current generation of artists? Are the strategies used by the Situationists still usefull? Are they still understood, in a world that looks totally different from the 50's and 60's? The artists we have requested for this project are interested in public space, social processes and in disorganization. Their practice is related in a variety of ways to those of the Situationists. The artists create new work especially for this exhibition.

Jeroen Jongeleen - Lukas Simonis & Cor Gout - Kristina Borg - Bureau for the Investigation of Contemporary Anxiety - Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu - Michael Holly - Mario Santamaria - Anna Mikhailova.

http://www.mariosantamaria.net/Hotspot-Disrouting/index.html

Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography

Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography
Published by Walther König, Köln
Text by Ann-Christin Bertrand, James Bridle, et al.

Watched! reflects on the complexities of contemporary surveillance, from technologies used by state authorities to everyday monitoring practices. Artists include Meriç Algün Ringborg, Jason E. Bowman, James Bridle, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Tina Enghoff, Alberto Frigo, Mishka Henner, Marco Poloni, Ann-Sofi Sidén and Hito Steyerl.

Hasselblad Foundation, Valand Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Galleri Image, ARoS and C/O Berlin

+ Info: http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/sv/portfolio_page/watched/

REMOTE SIGNALS

Group exhibition of Ibero-American artists REMOTE SIGNALS curated by Pau Waelder
Exhibition OPENING: 19.00 (right after the talk). Exhibition remains open until the 20th March (opening hours 15-19, on Sunday 12-15 )
Place: project room (1st floor), ARSi maja

Content: most of the art we see and experiment today arrives to us through a screen. Some artworks have been created precisely for this type of distribution: they inhabit the network and feed from it, offering us a vision of a world immersed in a constant flux of information. These works thus become remote signals which allow us to discover the reality of a distant geographic zone, as well as to re-examine our own. This exhibition aims to present in Tallinn a selection of new media artworks created by artists from Spain and Ibero-America that offer visitors a view of our globalized society by means of current digital technologies.
Participating artists:

Clara Boj & Diego Díaz [ES], Daniel Canogar [ES], César Escudero Andaluz [ES], Gilberto Esparza (MX), Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet [EE/ES], INTACT Project [CL/ES], Néstor Lizalde[ES], Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [MX/CA], Félix Luque & Íñigo Bilbao [ES], Moisés Mañas [ES], Tiago Martins & Justyna Zubrycka [PT/PL], Joana Moll [ES], Brisa MP [CL], Mónica Rikic & Lucía Segurajáuregui [ES], Mario Santamaria [ES], Román Torre[ES], Pablo Valbuena [ES], Ricardo Vega [CL].

The events take place in the frames of Iberofest cultural festival organized by the Spanish Embassy in Estonia (www.iberofest.ee).
Organizers of the two events are artist duo Varvara & Mar (www.var-mar.info)
Supporters: Spanish Embassy in Estonia, Tallinn City Culture Department, Varvara & Mar OÜ

GLOBALE: Infosphere. ZKM

GLOBALE: Infosphere. ZKM, Karlsruhe
05.09.2015 - 31.01.2016

Peter Weibel (Curator), Daria Mille (Co-Curator) and Giulia Bini (Co-Curator).

The »Infosphere« exhibition presents an overview of art in the era of the digital revolution and its social consequences. In addition, it provides insights into the new data world – whose existence has been finally brought home to the general public, through the NSA affair.

Today, people live in a globally interconnected world in which the biosphere and the infosphere are interfused and interdependent. The Earth is surrounded by a layer of gases which we call the atmosphere. It is the product of photosynthesis, of algae working for millions of years, converting light energy from the sun into air. Evolution’s answer to the atmosphere was the lung. Thus the atmosphere is essential for most living organisms, including people. For around 150 years now, we have been surrounded by an infosphere, as well. With this neologism the technical network is meant, consisting of telegraphy, telephony, television, radio, radar, satellites, and the Internet, which covers the globe and enables global exchange of data as well as the organization of transport for people and goods. Without the global traffic in data, goods, and passengers it would be impossible to meet the biological and social needs and aspirations of over seven billion people.

In the nineteenth century, new transport routes and paths of communication were developed through machines operating on land, sea, and in the air. In the years 1886 to 1888, Heinrich Hertz conducted experiments proving the existence of electromagnetic waves and demonstrating that light consists of these electromagnetic waves. With this discovery, the age of wireless communication began, which enabled message and messenger to be separated: Henceforth data could travel through space without the body of a messenger. In the twentieth century, this resulted in a densely interconnected communication and information network of mobile media: the infosphere – an envelope of radio waves surrounding the Earth. Using artificial, technical organs human beings can, for the first time, use electromagnetic waves for the wireless transmission of words, images, and other data – waves for which humans do not actually possess a sensorium. The social media, which have changed our daily lives, are a part of these technological networks. Thus the formula for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, “Machinery, Material, and Men” (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1930), must be modified for the twenty-first century: “Media, Data, and Men” (Peter Weibel, 2011). Now that the alphabetic code has been supplemented by the numeric code, algorithms constitute a fundamental element of our social order – from stock exchanges to airports.

Against this backdrop, contemporary art operating in the thematic field of big data is especially significant. The artworks on show in this exhibition present answers that artists, designers, architects, and scientists have found today to the acute challenges of the infosphere.

Contributors:

Timo Arnall & Jack Schulze & Einar Sneve Martinussen
Amy Balkin
Aram Bartholl
Wafaa Bilal
Zach Blas
Blast Theory
Bonjour Interactive Lab
Natalie Bookchin
Dineo Seshee Bopape
David Bowen
James Bridle
Bureau d'Etudes
Emma Charles
Tyler Coburn
Sterling Crispin
The Critical Engineering Working Group
Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon
Dennis Del Favero with Elwira Titan, Peter Weibel and Som Guan, Volker Kuchelmeister, Robert Lawther, Alex Ong
Aleksandra Domanović
Thomas Feuerstein
Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung IOSB
Laurent Grasso
Yoon Chung Han & Byeong-Jun Han
Jonathan Harris
Mischka Henner
Femke Herregraven
Brian House
Scottie Chih-Chieh Huang
Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc
Jia
JODI
Matt Kenyon (SWAMP)
Erik Kessels
Jeong Han Kim, Hyun Jean Lee, Jung-Do Kim
Brian Knappenberger
Oliver Laric
Marc Lee
George Legrady
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Sommerer & Mignonneau
Jonathan Minard & James George
Achim Mohné / Uta Kopp
Warren Neidich
The Office for Creative Research
The Otolith Group
Julius Popp
Stephanie Rothenberg
RYBN.ORG
Mario Santamaria
Philipp Schaerer
Semiconductor
Shinseungback Kimyonhung
Adam Slowik
Smart Citizen Team in collaboration with IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona, Media Interactive Design and Hangar
Karolina Sobecka, Christopher Baker
Werner Sobek
Software Studies Initiative
Superflux
Fabrizio Tamburini
Timo Toots
Suzanne Treister
Unknown Fields Division
Clement Valla
Alex Verhaest
Richard Vijgen
José Luis de Vicente
Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud
Addie Wagenknecht
Gwenola Wagon
Where Dogs Run
Krissy Wilson
Manfred Wolff-Plottegg
Matthias Wölfel / Angelo Stitz / Tim Schlippe

+ info: http://zkm.de/en/event/2015/09/globale-infosphere

Meta(data)morphosis, Or Gallery Berlin

Meta(data)morphosis
Or Gallery Berlin
Featuring Heini Aho (FI), Timo Bredenberg (FI), Emma Holten (DK), Ryan Maguire (US) & Mario Santamaría (ES). Curated by Søren Rosenbak. Part of Jaw Versus Eye Attack - 3rd JVEA annual event.

In essence, metadata presents us with a rich frame around a blank canvas, a space with ample room for interpretation, misinterpretation, miscarriage of justice, etc. An inherently irrational human intervention will always enter this equation, respond to the metadata frame, and thus render a distorted portrait into a temporary proxy for truth. How can we make sense of these ever-shifting digital shadows that social media, corporations, intelligence agencies, individuals etc., constantly draw from server farms from around the world? In other words, how do we respond to the power of metadata and its speculative qualities, the elusiveness, the lack of control and apparent meaning? Metadata pervades our lives in both trivial and profound ways. We know that a lack of response is essentially a submission to this very fact. How do we then deal with this dynamic? Do we experiment, resist, play along? This is some of the questions explored in the five works on display. While all the works engage with the process of meta(data)morphosis, they do so in highly different ways, employing a wide range of tactics and sensibilities.

Søren Rosenbak

Dialog 3. Goethe-Institut Barcelona

2 Jul 2015 - 31 Oct 2015 - Group Exhibition
Dialog 3. Goethe-Institut Barcelona

Concealment Algorithms (2015)
Collection of .pdf files covered by a automated process in "Google Images"

Ciudad Pantalla 24:7 en Estruch, Sabadell

Presentación de trabajos de los artistas residentes en La Estruch fabrica de creación, Sabadell.

Partcipantes: Caterina Almirall, Sergi Botella, Camila Cañeque, Azahara Cerezo & Mario Santamaria, fer cosa fora, LSM, Omaris Mariñas, La Fem Fatal y Nucelar.

Presentación de Screen: city: 24: 7 con Azahara Cerezo.

PARATEXT nº3 - Hangar.org, Barcelona

Luis Guerra, Mario Santamaría, Bea Stach y Kaspar Wimberley/Susanne Kudielka

Este nombre, Paratext, esconde una programación mensual de presentaciones de los artistas residentes en Hangar de larga y corta duración, así como de las residencias internacionales, siempre en miércoles, de 19.00 a 21.00h. Varios artistas presentarán en formatos no convencionales proyectos concretos o partes de su trabajo. Las sesiones son siempre abiertas al público con el propósito de posibilitar la interacción con los propios artistas.

La próxima sesión de Paratext tendrá lugar el miércoles 13 de mayo en Hangar a las 19h. Luis Guerra, Mario Santamaría, Bea Stach y Kaspar Wimberley/Susanne Kudielka estarán presentando sus proyectos. Todos/as ellos/as han sido residentes en el marco de la beca de intercambio 2015 para proyectos artísticos entre Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg, Alemania) y Barcelona (Cataluña, España).

Estudios abiertos en Hangar, Barcelona

Los Tallers Oberts del Poblenou nacen el 1996 con el objetivo de acercar el público a los artistas, abriendo las puertas de sus talleres para mostrar las obras y los espacios de trabajo.

Sobretodo los últimos años son muchos los artistas, creadores y galerías que se han instalado en el barrio, hecho que ha conformado una matriz de profesionales de gran peso específico en el conjunto del tejido social, cultural y artístico del barrio de Poblenou.

En la edición de este año la programación se amplia a 2 semanas de actividades del 2 al 14 de junio, actividades que tendrán como punto fuerte la inauguración de la exposición retrospectiva de la historia de Tallers Oberts Poblenou el 6 de junio; y su cierre con las Puertas Abiertas de los talleres participantes el 13 i 14 de junio.

Artistas residentes: Marc Serra, Giuliana Racco/Matteo Guidi, Lucia C. Pino, Ariadna Guiteras, German Portal, Diego Paonessa, Mario Santamaría, Andrea Gómez, Christina Schultz, Marco Noris, Ciprian Homorodean, Antonio Ruiz Montesinos, Megan Michalak.

Residentes internacionales participantes: Santiago Borja, David Ellis (2014), Travers Nash, Ioana Georgescu (2013).

To Whom It May Concern. Bass and Reiner

April 4 - May 8 2015 - Group Exhibition. San Francisco, US

Bass and Reiner gallery is proud to present To Whom It May Concern,curated by Cléa Massiani,and featuring works by A lyssa Block, Jon Gourley, Le Kolaj, and Mario M. Santamaría.The exhibition addresses the absurdities of miscommunication, false connectivity, and delusions surrounding the dissemination of information in modern society. To Whom It May Concerndiscloses the greeting of the self to aninfinite number of unknown recipients. Translated through collage, sculpture, works on paper, and installation, the exhibition conveys the enigmatic and eclectic relationship such a statement may imply. Words and images usually present a unified fiction, but any confrontation of multiple narratives inherently leads to misunderstandings, negations, or simply voids any dialogue. This exhibition aims to address the status of intimacy versus desire and catharsis versus expectations through explorations of the relationship between artistic production and an audience.

Righted Museum in Printed Web #3

http://www.mariosantamaria.net/Righted-Museum.html

5 x 8 in. 
388 pages
 ISBN 9781320767903
 Paperback black-and-white print-on-demand book
 with uncoated cream-colored interior pages.
Unlimited edition.

Featuring  
The Philosophical Origins of Digitalityâ€
 an interview with Alexander Galloway
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In Defense of Poor Media
by Silvio Lorusso 
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 The Printed Web #3 Open Call Index of 329 Files Received
(List of 147 artists included)

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The Act & The Tracer | Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

5 Mar - 24 May 2015
The Act and the tracer. Querungen, WKV, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

"The Act & the Tracer" is an exhibition produced by Mario Santamaria and Luis Guerra, both visual artists based in Barcelona, living and working in Stuttgart as stipendiaries of a new exchange studentship between Catalonia and Baden-Württemberg, based on a cooperation between Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, HANGAR Centro de Arte and Goethe Institute Barcelona.

Mario Santamaria bases his practice in the study of the phenomenon of the contemporary observer. Starting from a specific historical event, Santamaria researches about the contradictions of the transparency, visibility and access system that the technological rhetoric seems to have consolidated at the beginning of the 21st century. In this exhibition, he articulates a series of items in relation to the incident occurred on December 11, 2009, when the owning company of GeoEye1, considered the best provider of satellite imagery at that time, recognized an irregularity in the satellite antenna affecting their data sent to earth.

Luis Guerra presents a sub-set from a larger project called Anarchistory of Action (2014-2017). He conceives his practice as an ongoing process in which the creative event and the ephemeral instant of its manifestation, sometimes, are more important than the possible trace. As such, his works may have not been documented or may just exist under a subtle memory, a tale, or even as a whisper. The Act (2015) works within that condition of the inexistent, a low degree of appearance, an abysmal deed without reason and without justification.

http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2015/stipendium/

NetArtizens | 0p3nr3p0.net | Online Exhibition

March 2 - April 2, 2015

a project of Furtherfield with Nick Briz & Joseph Yølk Chiocchi
as part of the Art of Networked Practice | Online Symposium

Join The NetArtizens Project to explore, express, and debate the role of the network in our individual and collective practice as artists, scholars, educators, and citizens of the Net. You can also contribute to the NetArtizens Open Online Exhibition, an evolving showcase of works submitted between March 2 – April 2, 2015.

During March 2015, Randall Packer, convener of The Art of Networked Practice | Online Symposium, will host a month of discourse and artistic production across 3 network channels. Using any and all available network tools- software, email, browsers, apps, devices etc. - we will discuss, remix, and engage each others’ words and works in the form of utterances, files, behaviours, codes, glitch, protocols, instructions, manifestos, games, and net theories.

http://furtherfield.org/netartizens/

http://0p3nr3p0.net/show/netartizens

ANTIPODES, Group Exhibitio. RMIT Link Arts and Culture. Conduit Arts. Melbourne, Australia -

Antipodes
Curated by Almudena Caso, Jessica Donelan & Elina Gault

Opening Wednesday 11th February, 6pm to 9pm
Gallery open 12-6pm Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th and
Wednesday 18th to Sunday 22nd

an•tip•o•des
n.pl.
1. places diametrically opposite each other on the globe.

Antipodes is a collaborative project that conceptually and physically explores the notion of location. Sixteen contemporary artists at opposite sides of the world, Spain and Australia, have been paired with each other. Through open dialogue, the paired artists discuss ideas such as the effects of location on his or her practice and feeling emotionally at antipodes with society. This resulted in actions such as the exchange of abstract video correspondence, a live simultaneous city walk and public exhibition of artworks in the antipodal country. These action have developed into artworks from each artist’s perspective, each linked through medium, concept, content or depiction of site.

Charged with conflicting communication, time zones, culture, holiday seasons and nostalgia, these outcomes of photography, video, sculpture and installation will be exhibited at Conduit Arts and in Spain in mid 2015. This exhibition highlights how location can affect our experience of ones surroundings, culture and place.

Participating Artists:
Angus Baird - Lisa Birch - Erin Carew - Michael Carolan - Jessica Donelan - ESPAIMGR - Pearl Fearn-Wannan - Luana Fischer - Elina Gault - Samantha J Heriz - Kathy Holowko - Dani Pujalte - Laura Salguero - Estela Sanchis - Ruben Sanz - Mario Santamaria

Conduit Arts. Melbourne, Australia. http://www.conduitarts.org/

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Media Art Festival Arad. Arad, Romania

R.A.M. /// Random Access Memory
Media Art Festival Arad
http://mediaartfestival.ro/

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R.A.M.
Random Access Memory
“any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes”
( http://mediaartfestival.ro/ )

The premise of the exhibition is the ubiquitous presence of photography in the contemporary visual landscape. This enveloping, knowable and unknown, constantly regenerated, yet self-referential image-scape translates here into space and physical form, whether digital or analog, when registered through our immediate sensorial perception. It includes experiences that are lived and simultaneously recorded, or edited at a later time. Alternative logical sequences and altered narrative streams ensue, whereby daily events may run parallel courses, intersecting even at opposite times. We witness multiple versions of the present-past. Open-ended, sleepless, permanently awake, imaging technologies are set to complete exhaustive tasks, searching (as if by instinct) to map out the whole. The photographed / photograph-iable universe thus unfolds, each step pointed towards a new path through memory.

Signs, Markers, Roadblocks, Crossroads and Turning Points:
>> The first step on the moon, the ultimate physical frontier of the human body in 1969, captured and preserved in a series of medium-format (Hasselblad) analog images >> the first photograph of Earth from outer space taken in 1972 by the Apollo 17 mission >> fast forward to the launch of Google Street view in 2007, the silent vehicular insertion of the all-seeing panoramic camera-eye leaving no segment of the Earth’s surface intentionally un-photographed.
Within these technologically defined, and refined, frames of reference, the rapport of scale shifts from the elemental to the whole, from eye level to aerial view. It is imperative to acknowledge the degree to which direct observation has been supplanted and/or substituted by imaging and visualization technologies, some of which have since become obsolete, others nostalgic.

The naturalization of synthetic vision has already occurred on the broadest societal levels, its factual truthfulness drafted into the establishment of legal-political boundaries through which individual life is monitored and regimented. Within these newly developed ecosystems authorship and subjectivity are maintained in constant flux, negotiated and exchanged between the human and the artificial, unbound. Current statistics approximate that 380 billion photographs are produced annually, and predict the acceleration of this cumulative process. In the Anthropocene, our current hypothesised geological age, mankind has become a geological force. Whether through force (mass) or volition, has photography become a geological force as well?

Which are the elements that form and shape this advanced informational system? While fundamentally soft, the photo-sphere nonetheless operates and reacts in accordance with some core principles, extensions of the intrinsic qualities of the medium (see Marshall McLuhan “the medium is the message,” Paul Virilio, Lev Manovich). An important instance to consider here, is the perpetual expansion of the system enabled through digital media - where the fringes of the Internet travel alongside the infinity of the Universe. The Exhibition is thus on a search for aesthetic entry-points and methods for analysis of these current conditions. Surrounded by physical and virtual images and photographic entities, visitors are invited to look and interact, developing individual, subjective states of awareness which as a whole participate in the final, and most salient, lived component of the exhibition.

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Group Exhibition - ME, ME, MIRROR - The Ha'Riviera Gallery. Bat Yan, Israel

2.10.2014 - 1.11.2014
ME, ME, MIRROR
The Ha'Riviera Gallery, Bat Yan, Israel

ARTISTS: Song-Ming Ang, Helena Dietrich, Idan Hayosh, Helmut Heiss, Corina Künzli, Talia Link, Martin Kohout, Luca Pozzi, Sarah Oberrauch, Mario Santamaria, Yiannis Pappas, Ria Patricia Röder, Christian Schwarzwald, Hubert Scheibe, Ztohoven

curated by Kathrin Oberrauch & lecture by Eugenia Lapteva

„Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land?“, asks the Queen in the classic fairy tale Snow White. Gazing into the beguiling mirror, she awaits her answer with excitement. In cultural history the mirror represents vanity, lust and narcissism, but also recognition, awareness and truth.

Today we watch ourselves not only in mirrors, but capture those images with digital cameras and smartphones. Self-observation and self-criticism have become preoccupations reserved largely, if not entirely, for the world of social media. We shape and re-shape our self by altering our virtual image in the eyes of others. We‘ve become our own virtual avatar in a digital universe.

The exhibition ME, ME, MIRROR revolves around the question of the self (re) presentation and the works of 15 selected artists expand and exceed the issue. The Self is becoming something malleable, it can alter from image to image, it looses it‘s static state and is absorbed in an endless process of transformation and becoming. The artists aim to connect cultural, religious, political and ideological contexts in new digitally produced images and thus creating a sort of new utopian human re-presentation.

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More info: http://www.hariviera.org/

CONVERSACIONES TELEFÓNICAS - HANGAR - TOP

21 - 22 Sep 2014, Tallers Obert Poblenou
Installation Telephone Conversations
Hangar.org, Barcelona

+ Información: http://www.mariosantamaria.net/telephone_conversations.html

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