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Exhibitions 2017

MONSTERS OF THE MACHINE exhibiton at LABoral

Title: Avataurror (2012-2013) by Alan Sondheim (US) | 3840 * 3840px | 4.7 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: La Cura: Everything (2016) by [AOS] Art is Open Source (IT) | 5687 * 3792px | 9.0 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: The Garden of Emoji Delights (2014) by Carla Gannis (US) | 5760 * 3840px | 9.3 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Sauti ya wakulima (2011) by Eugenio Tiselli (Equipo Sauti ya wakulima) (MX) | 3840 * 5760px | 9.6 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: The Brain of the Planet (2016) by Fernando Gutiérrez (ES) | 8984 * 6732px | 21.7 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Animacules (2009) by Genetic Moo (UK) | 3840 * 3840px | 10.7 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Colonise the Cloud (2016) by Gretta Louw (AU/DE) | 2500 * 1396px | 2.2 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Future Present Desert (2016) by Gretta Louw (AU/DE) & Warnayaka Art Centre | 5760 * 3840px | 8.6 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: A quiet desert failure (2015) by Guido Segni (IT) | 178 * 178px | 5.6 KB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: A quiet desert failure (2015) by Guido Segni (IT) | 178 * 178px | 7.2 KB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: The Virtual Watchers (2016) by Joana Moll (ES) & Cédric Parizot (FR) | 1418 * 802px | 397.8 KB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Medusa FPS (2016) by Karolina Sobecka (PL) | 3360 * 1819px | 321.6 KB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Infinity Engine (2013-2014) by Lynn Hershman Leeson (US) | 5624 * 3750px | 12.8 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Help me Know the Truth (2016) by Mary Flanagan (US) | 5550 * 3849px | 7.2 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Una historia nunca contada desde abajo (2016) by Regina de Miguel (ES) | 1920 * 1080px | 708.5 KB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: UKI viral love (2013) by Shu Lea Cheang (CN) | 5760 * 3840px | 9.1 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
Title: Stutterer (2014) by Thomson & Craighead (UK) | 3840 * 5120px | 7.9 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Morilla, Marcos | LABoral
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    LOS MONSTRUOS DE LA MÁQUINA /
    MONSTERS OF THE MACHINE
    Exhibition
    Gijón
    18.11.2016 – 31.08.2017
    La Cura
    Links
    http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/monsters-of-the-machine?set_language=en

    Start:
    Nov 18, 2016
    End:
    Aug 31, 2017

    Info:
    An exhibition in the context of the European Digital Art & Science Network.
    Cross reference
    LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
    short description
    Monsters of the Machine
    Exhibition
    21.09.2017 – 13.01.2018

    Monsters of the Machine is a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and asks us to reconsider her warning, that scientific imagining and all technologies have unintended and dramatic consequences for the world.

    (Source: The Practice of Art and Science, p. 250)
    Exhibition Credits
    Curated by Marc Garrett, co-director of Furtherfield.org
    Monsters of the Machine - Frankenstein in the 21st Century
    Monsters of the Machine is a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that asks us to reconsider her warning that scientific imaginings and all technologies have unintended and dramatic consequences for the world. It also invites us to ask the same questions about the arts and human imagination. Shelley’s classic gothic novel was written 200 years ago in 1816 and published anonymously in London in 1818. Dr. Frankenstein plays the role of the Promethean scientist, a creative genius and a narcissist, who is tangled up in his own individual desires and exploits others in an irresponsible and abusive drive to control nature. But who is the real monster? Dr. Frankenstein or the poor wretched mutant he brought to life? And are we Dr. Frankenstein, or the suffering mutant, or both? The questions raised in the exhibition consider the roles of our arts and science traditions and examine other issues of everyday life as they are played out in the Anthropocene, such as climate change, gender politics, ethics, governance, surveillance, posthumanism, transhumanism, hacking, biohacking, colonialism, neoliberalism, biopolitics, and accelerationism.
    In this exhibition, visitors experience artworks in which the human genome is used as the basis for a poetry machine that plays back a self-assembling video montage spanning the thirteen years it took to complete the first documented human DNA sequence in the Human Genome Project. It is both a memorial to and an algorithmic visualization of a historic scientific landmark. 3D printed avatars, representing bodies distorted in pain in relation to virtual worlds, where there‘s no geography and the result is the crack / wound, everywhere and nowhere. Visitors participate in a software-driven installation, a performative social neuroscience experiment to discover our shared psychological biases. A surreal video installation shows us a dystopian blend of “reality” out in the remote Australian desert with traditional ghost stories and dreamtime stories, mixed with science fiction. The Sahara Desert is remapped by a custom bot in an algorithmically scripted performance, traversing the data-scape of Google Maps and filling a Tumblr blog and its data centers. Artists take our bio-matter and the inconceivable quantities of data that we generate in our daily lives as materials with an inherent recombinant intelligence and the power to generate (without the intervention of human will) the narratives of human destiny and more. Do we inhabit our own bodies anymore, or do we share our body materials out for others to measure, reshape, and construct, data-scrape and manage remotely? Arthur Kroker in Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway says that, “we no longer inhabit a body in any meaningful sense of the term but rather occupy a multiplicity of bodies—imaginary, sexualized, disciplined, gendered, laboring technologically augmented bodies.” 1,2
    Artists and scientists work with the same tools, frameworks, and archetypes. There are crossovers, it’s no surprise that we find the boundaries of imaginative fantasy and objective reality breaking down. Take for instance, the jellyfish invasions around nuclear reactors in Japan, Israel, Sweden, and the Scottish plant in Torness. The natural world is writing its own science fiction into a new reality, with vivid images and outlandish outcomes. Right now, the classic techno-utopian dream of computers liberating us all and providing the tools that will underpin global democratization, seem a long way off and even somewhat sterile. Since the news stories broke of mass surveillance of Internet users by NSA and Prism, we’ve experienced new formulations of mutual surveillance and manipulation everyday. So now we stand on the edge of a precipice: What choice do we have but to jump into this sea of dysfunctional dystopias, and to directly observe for ourselves what we have become and what we will be—the Monsters of the Machine.

    Source: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/ exposiciones/monsters-of-the-machine The exhibition draws upon ideas from Marc Garrett’s essay “Prometheus 2.0: Frankenstein Conquers the World!”. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/ prometheus-20-and-our-god-complex

    1 Kroker, Arthur (2012). Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway (Posthumanities). University of Minnesota Press: Minnesota.
    2 See Garrett, Marc (15.08.2015). “Body Drift: Butler, Hayles and Haraway.” Review. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/ body-drift-butler-hayles-and-haraway

    (Source: The Practice of Art and Science, p. 250-251)
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