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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 an experimentation site for video art in the 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, 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/