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http://blog.recycled.se

(b.1968)
Anders is an artist working in video, sound, new media and installations and he is primarily concerned with identity. The human body lies at the root of projects that formally and conceptually chart identity and its construction as a preamble to broaching matters of violence, genders, memory, loss or ideology in which personal experiences co-exists with references to popular culture, the media and consumerism. Specializing in digital technologies, he aims to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of audio visual media.

He coined the term Peer-to-peer art or (p2p art) in 2006. Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks. The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist. ”There’s no original”. Six films with a duration between 45 minutes and 9 hours have been uploaded on the file sharing networks in one copy and their original have been deleted. P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.

Also the founder and curator of the Stian [con]temporary art gallery and AIVA, Angelholm International Video Art Festival 2012.

Currently based in the small village Kölleröd in the south of Sweden and has exhibited at numerous art/film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally, including:
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil, 2012, Museum of Modern Art 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina. File Brazil 2007-2008-2011- 2012, São Paulo, Brazil; FutureEverything 2010, Manchester, UK; National Museum of Contemporary Art 2010, Athens, Greece; Beijing Contemporary Art Centre 2010, Beijing, China; Cape 09 Art Biennale, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa; Biennale of Sydney 2008, Sydney, Australia; National Museum, Szczecin, Poland; [10th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan; 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, SONAR, Barcelona, Spain; Scope New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santa Fe, Argentina; Pocket Films , Centre Pompidou, Paris; Videoformes, Clermont – Ferrand, France and EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.
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EVENT

Conveyors --Towards Uncertain Address


Dates:
Tue Apr 20, 2010 00:00 - Tue Apr 20, 2010

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CONVEYORS (HBG)
-Towards Uncertain Address

http://www.conveyors.se

by Anders Weberg and Robert Willim
http://www.willim-weberg.com

A traffic hub is intended to provide predictable movement and transport. But you never quite know which motions and emotions will occur. So, how to depict or make sense of these kind of sites?

In this case the traffic hub is Knutpunkten in Helsingborg, southern Sweden. How could experiences of everyday flow that merge with the unpredictable be illustrated here? How can the kinaesthetic, distributed, fleeting and affective dimensions of city life be evoked? Our approach is to use conveyors as our metaphor.

A conveyor is a physical transporting tool. But we use it to describe mainly affective or psychogeographical movements. Six short films made out of sound and video from different spots in Knutpunkten are the conveyors. The chosen spots work as emotional and associative starting points for the conveyors, which don’t transport you mechanically towards predicted goals, but instead more unpredictable addresses are called forth. We have embraced the diffracting and the irregular, in order to reach beyond visions of strategic and panoptic clarity of traffic flow or CCTV safety in public spaces.

Hundred years ago a pioneering way to represent life and movement in the city would be the creation of a city symphony. When this art form had its heyday during the 1920’s it was an intriguing way to use emerging film technology. City symphonies were part documentary, part affective travelogue and part evocation of the temporal shifts characterizing everyday life in a city. Walter Ruttman’s film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) is a prominent example. Using novel editing techniques Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929) is another groundbreaking example. There are other examples from that time, and since then a number of variations on the city symphony theme has been produced.

City symphonies have been a source of inspiration, but when approaching the traffic hub Knutpunkten we wanted to extend or twist the concept. We took the idea of movements of a symphony and distributed them into a spatial or psychogeographical layout. Instead of creating a number of symphonic movements in a sequence, we created the six conveyors.

People visit a traffic hub for different reasons; their lives have different trajectories. Some pass through while others return. Others idle. In this space of flows the conveyors are brought to work. They will work in several contexts, but to fully enjoy them they should be used at Knutpunkten. Download them to a mobile media player when you are there and find the spots where the material was recorded. The perceptions of your specific time spent at Knutpunkten will blend with the mediated sound and images from screen and headphones. This blend may provide a reflexive feedback loop between the physical kinaesthetic experience and what is conveyed through the player.

Watch all the episodes in sequence on http://www.vimeo.com/11072095


EVENT

The .torrent is the art work


Dates:
Tue Jan 05, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jan 05, 2010

The .torrent is the artwork
by Anders Weberg
December 2009

http://www.p2p-art.com

P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.

Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks.
The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.
The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist. ”There’s no original”. A project from Swedish artist Anders Weberg started in 2006.

http://www.andersweberg.com


EVENT

Meaninglessness


Dates:
Tue Dec 08, 2009 00:00 - Tue Dec 08, 2009

Location:
Sweden

Meaninglessness.
Having no meaning or significance.
by
Anders Weberg

http://www.meaninglessness.org

releases:
Meaninglessness Act:one

Dec 8, 2009
16:9
3min47sec

More acts to come.


EVENT

theurlistheartwork


Dates:
Mon Oct 12, 2009 00:00 - Mon Oct 12, 2009

Location:
Sweden

http://theurlistheartwork.com/

October 2009
by Anders Weberg


EVENT

Elsewhereness:Yokohama


Dates:
Wed Aug 20, 2008 00:00 - Wed Aug 20, 2008

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ELSEWHERENESS:YOKOHAMA

Year 2008
00:07:00
Video: Anders Weberg
Sound: Robert Willim

http://www.elsewhereness.com

This audio-visual work is intended to evoke imaginary geographies.
The film is made solely from Yokohama-related audio and video found on the web. This material has been manipulated and composed into a suggestive imaginary journey through an estranged landscape.
The film can be downloaded into a media player or mobile phone and enjoyed when walking around the surroundings of Yokohama.

The work deals with questions of media representations and site specificity.
It calls forth the sometimes whirling experiences of elsewhereness that may characterize societies of today.

The work is created for Dislocate08.
http://www.dis-locate.net/

Anders Weberg // artist // filmmaker // 1968 - 2048
Specialized in the expressions that digital technologies provide and aim to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of visual media.
http://www.andersweberg.com

Robert Willim
Cultural analyst and sound artist working as a researcher and teacher at Lund university, Sweden, holding a PhD in European Ethnology.
http://www.robertwillim.com

Earlier projects by Willim//Weberg

http://www.surrealscania.se
http://www.beingthere.se
http://www.domesticsafari.com