Cities Re-Imagined 1
Artist Presentations:
Photographic explorations: photography as a means to reveal hidden spaces and forgotten aspects of the city, to bring into focus the overlooked in the everyday, to reinterpret the familiar.
- Mark Curran, artist, Berlin/Dublin
- Doris Frohnapfel, artist, Cologne
- Ron Sluik, artist, Bergen/Amsterdam www.senisbesmegenis.blogspot.com
Urban soundscapes: composing and recombining the sounds of the urban environment, drawing upon the heritage of music concrete and fusing this tradition with the possibilities afforded by contemporary digital communications.
- Justin Bennett, composer/artist, Den Haag
- Brandon Labelle, artist/writer, Berlin
- Robert Worby, composer/broadcaster, London
Urban interventions: artists who occupy, intervene in and reveal hidden processes in urban space, through performative actions and technological explorations.
- Michelle Teran, artist, Berlin
- Amanda Steggell, artist, Bergen
- Vibeke Jensen, artist, New York
Video cities: Video (in/of) cities: how cities are represented, explored and re-imagined in the works of contemporary video artists. A field of practice with roots in the early avantgarde of the 20th. century with antennae for the changing topography and energy fields of the contemporary urban scene.
- Bull.Miletic, artists, Oslo
- HC Gilje, artist, Bergen
- Jeremy Welsh, artist, Bergen
Urban language; theories and fictions: how to write about (art in) the contemporary city; how text is used by artists to explore or interpret urban themes, how to theorize an art of urban intervention, exploration or reinterpretation.
- Per Kvist, curator/writer, Berlin/Bergen
- Geddy Aniksdal, actor/theatre director, Porsgrunn
- Scott Rettberg, writer/researcher, Bergen
Reflections on Atopia’s Vitrine Project 2008-09: Vitrine is a public art project of Atopia that was initiated by Farhad Kalantary in 2007. This is a site of experimentation for video art in public space. Using four screens, Vitrine aims at exploring the interactions and possibilities of the multi-screen format on the street level. Transience – moving images and moving public is the primary concept of Vitrine Project.
Key-note Speakers:
Steven Bode, director, The Film and Video Umbrella (FVU), London.
FVU is a curatorial and production agency that has been active in the UK since 1988, developing film, video and electronic media projects with British and international artists, in collaboration with a broad range of exhibition venues throughout Great Britain. In recent years the FVU has facilitated projects by artists including Jane & Louise Wilson, AK Dolven, Isaac Julien, Cory Archangel, Tacita Dean, and others.
Nigel Coates, architect, designer, urbanist and professor of architecture, Royal College of Art, London; former teacher at the Architectural Association, London; initiator of the transdiciplinary group “NATO” (Narrative Architecture Today)
http://www.nigelcoates.com/
