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Future Mirrors - Publication announcement
Deadline:
Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:00
Miguel Alcubierre, Vivette García Deister, Raph Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Geert Lovink, Michael J. Montoya, Ryuta Nakajima, Luis Ortiz-Catedral, Ned Rossiter, Nina Valkanova
Since antiquity humankind has tried to domesticate uncertainty by embodying it in a topos or extrapolating it into known systems of belief.
Every object, system or belief, even dreams and visions, speaks volumes of the context in which was created, the people and the ideology that crafted it, and more important, its function and symbolism through time. Modelab seeks to draw a cartography of future knowledge: a sort of prospective archaeology.
Departing from their own disciplines and fields of study, we asked diverse specialists to imagine what could be useful and desirable (or abhorrent and thus avoidable) for their field of knowledge.
Modelab asks why that imagined particular idea would be useful, and how? How its performance will be measured? Who will use it and for what purpose? To what degree current laws or cultural norms and beliefs should be breached to permit its existence? How will we acknowledge its effectiveness?
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Since antiquity humankind has tried to domesticate uncertainty by embodying it in a topos or extrapolating it into known systems of belief.
Every object, system or belief, even dreams and visions, speaks volumes of the context in which was created, the people and the ideology that crafted it, and more important, its function and symbolism through time. Modelab seeks to draw a cartography of future knowledge: a sort of prospective archaeology.
Departing from their own disciplines and fields of study, we asked diverse specialists to imagine what could be useful and desirable (or abhorrent and thus avoidable) for their field of knowledge.
Modelab asks why that imagined particular idea would be useful, and how? How its performance will be measured? Who will use it and for what purpose? To what degree current laws or cultural norms and beliefs should be breached to permit its existence? How will we acknowledge its effectiveness?
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Surveillance Awareness Bureau
Dates:
Wed May 27, 2015 00:00 - Sat Jun 13, 2015
Location:
Wellington,
New Zealand
The Surveillance Awareness Bureau (SAB) intends to create a space of critical engagement that grants visibility to systems that by nature should remain invisible to individuals and at the same time provoke a highly charged debate on privacy, liberty, control and abuse.
This pop-up office –located in a vacant retail space in Wellington's CBD– features some of the alternatives that artists, designers, scholars and journalists can propose to highlight the tension and risks between seeing and not seeing the effects of technologies in our quotidian. It exalts the vulnerability of humans in that constant non-illuminated space that is control framed by unawareness.
Curated by Modelab, the project brings together international artists: Zach Blas (USA), James Bridle (UK), Paolo Cirio (IT/USA), Simon Denny (NZ), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MEX), Hemi Macgregor (NZ), Ruben Pater (NL) and Terri Te Tau (NZ).
Not a single day passes without news of trust breaches and information misuse of data in all levels, from the common individual to states and international organizations. But while certain technologies can be considered even as predators for privacy, there is already counterarguments that choose the same technologies and deploy them as tool of resistance or as a crucial democratic element that can link individuals with the wider social and political environment they live in.
The Surveillance Awareness Bureau draws attention to the multiple ambiguous forms of vigilance that could be positioned along a spectrum from “care” to “control”—from watching to enhance the care and safety, to suspiciously scrutinize one’s attitudes and behaviors in order to govern, or influence someone else will upon individuals, societies and states.
You may or you may not be
Dates:
Sun Mar 08, 2015 17:00 - Sun Mar 08, 2015
You may or you may not be
Ricardo Arias, Samuel Holloway, Marinos Koutsomichalis,
Matthew Shlomowitz, Rogelio Sosa, Jonathan Zorn
8 March 2015, 5.00pm
Ex-Galerie Barbazanges, 26 Avenue du Président Roosevelt, Paris.
Listening online: www.modelab.info
Musique d’Ameublement (Furniture Music) is perhaps one of Erik Satie’s most bold compositions, a seminal work for a wide range of modern and contemporary music styles and theories, sound art and design.
To mark the 95th anniversary of Musique d’Ameublement, Modelab invited six international sound artists and composers for a reflection on the evolution of functions of music within a specific space. This dialogue, translated into sound compositions, will be available through portable devices on March 8, 2015, at the ex-Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, where the work was premiered in 1920.
While time is the canvas for the composer, a specific device containing music also becomes a living sculpture revealed only by the audience. In this manner, the space for which the music is thought for becomes also an instrument, as Satie playfully envisioned in Musique d’Ameublement.
By celebrating Satie's life and work, "You may or you may not be" will also look into the evolving essence of music and its relations with public space, understood in the same manner as a recording: “a limited set of sounds that can nonetheless have a variable relationship in the environment in which they are played” (Pisaro: 2009).
Ricardo Arias, Samuel Holloway, Marinos Koutsomichalis,
Matthew Shlomowitz, Rogelio Sosa, Jonathan Zorn
8 March 2015, 5.00pm
Ex-Galerie Barbazanges, 26 Avenue du Président Roosevelt, Paris.
Listening online: www.modelab.info
Musique d’Ameublement (Furniture Music) is perhaps one of Erik Satie’s most bold compositions, a seminal work for a wide range of modern and contemporary music styles and theories, sound art and design.
To mark the 95th anniversary of Musique d’Ameublement, Modelab invited six international sound artists and composers for a reflection on the evolution of functions of music within a specific space. This dialogue, translated into sound compositions, will be available through portable devices on March 8, 2015, at the ex-Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, where the work was premiered in 1920.
While time is the canvas for the composer, a specific device containing music also becomes a living sculpture revealed only by the audience. In this manner, the space for which the music is thought for becomes also an instrument, as Satie playfully envisioned in Musique d’Ameublement.
By celebrating Satie's life and work, "You may or you may not be" will also look into the evolving essence of music and its relations with public space, understood in the same manner as a recording: “a limited set of sounds that can nonetheless have a variable relationship in the environment in which they are played” (Pisaro: 2009).
