“Centuryfuge”

Ivar Smedstad er instituttleder og førsteamanuensis ved Kunstakademiet i Trondheim. Hans kunstnerskap er orientert om film og videokunst. Han er delvis bosatt i Berlin, og har deltat på en rekke film- og videofestivaler.
Centuryfuge er en rytmisk videocollage med sterkt blikk på menneskelig teknologisk aktivitet i landskap.

Trondheim Matchmaking proudly present
MICHAEL FAKESCH feat. TAPRIKK SWEEZEE!

Fakesch, former Funkstoring, among others known for there remixes for Björk, Wu-Tang Clan, Jean-Michel Jarre, Lamb, Nils Petter Molvær, Speedy J, etc., has just released a new album; “DOS” on K7 records.

Prince meets Curtis Mayfield; be prepared for a funky set with Sweezees smooth falsetto and a whole slew of blips, crunches and digital gurgles from Fakesch!

TELEPRESENCE AND BIO ART

After an introduction contextualizing his pioneering telepresence work, in progress since the mid-1980s, Kac will give examples and further discuss his current transgenic work. Eduardo Kac’s art deals with issues that range from the mythopoetics of online experience (Uirapuru) to the cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis); from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State); from the problematic notion of the “exotic” (Rara Avis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny). Kac will conclude with a brief explanation of some his most recent transgenic works — “GFP Bunny”, “The Eighth Day”, and “Move 36″. “GFP Bunny” is comprised of three elements: the birth of a rabbit that has a gene from a jellyfish (a gene that produces green fluorescent protein), the public dialogue that the project has generated, and the social integration of the rabbit in the context of the artist’s family. “The Eighth Day” is a transgenic ecology that includes a biological robot, all linked interactively to the Internet. “Move 36″ sheds light on the limits of the human mind and the increasing capabilities developed by computers and robots, and includes a new plant created by the artist. Kac will also introduce his current series of living works “Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries”.

Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web ’80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced “Katz”) emerged in the early ’90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. His work deals with issues that range from the mythopoetics of online experience (Uirapuru) to the cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis); from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State); from the problematic notion of the “exotic” (Rara Avis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny).
At the dawn of the twenty-first century Kac opened a new direction for contemporary art with his “transgenic art”–first with a groundbreaking net installation entitled Genesis (1999), which included an “artist’s gene” he invented, and then with his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000).

From his first experiments online in 1985 to his current convergence of the digital and the biological, Kac has always investigated the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and non-verbal interaction, in his work Kac examines linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges, and interspecies communication. Kac’s pieces, which often link virtual and physical spaces, propose alternative ways of understanding the role of communication phenomena in creating shared realities.

Kac merges multiple media and biological processes to create hybrids from the conventional operations of existing communications systems. Kac first employed telerobotics in 1986 motivated by a desire to convert electronic space from a medium of representation to a medium for remote agency. He creates pieces in which actions carried out by Internet participants have direct physical manifestation in a remote gallery space. Often relying on the indefinite suspension of closure and the intervention of the participant, his work encourages dialogical interaction and confronts complex issues concerning identity, agency, responsibility, and the very possibility of communication.