10 AM | 18 Nov

THE DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART

The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument – appropriate to the needs of process art – allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art.

http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentWork.do

09 AM | 18 Nov

YOU_SER: THE CENTURY OF THE CONSUMER EXHIBTION

On the occasion of its anniversary celebration “10 Years of ZKM in Hallenbau A,” ZKM | Center for Art and Media turns its attention to the effects of net-based, global creation on art and society with the exhibition “You_ser: The Consumer Century”. Instructions for use and changeable objects activate beholders. In this way the visitor takes part in the construction of the artwork. On the Internet, portals such as www.flickr.com, www.youtube.com, www.myspace.com; and virtual worlds, such as www.secondlife.com or blogs now offer a newly structured space for the creative statements of millions of people. The artist no longer has a monopoly on creativity. Users deliver or generate the content or put it together. They become producers and program designers and thereby, competitors to television, radio and newspapers, the historical media monopoly. Audience participation reshapes itself as consumers’ emancipation. These transformations concern not only the global expanses of the Internet, but also the museum. It reacts to the changed cultural and social behaviour and supports those tendencies, which, in an Enlightenment spirit, are applied for democracy and the idea of access to education for all. The new installations presented in the exhibition transfer the potential for co-designing by the user that has been developed on the Internet into the context of art and allow the visitors to emancipate themselves.

The exhibition is on at ZKM museum, Karlsruhe, Germany from 21 October – 31 December.

http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5591

09 AM | 18 Nov

VideoChannel – WDC

Women Directors Cut [WDC] is a new presentation series of short films/videos which running bi-monthly featuring young female artists/directors participating in Videochannel.

Women Directors Cut III 3rd edition of a program series featuring female film directors/videoartists participating in VideoChannel Edition III includes videos by–> Larissa Sansour (Palestine) Isabelle Schneider/ Sherri Lee Richardson(France) Cynthuia Whelan (UK) Cecilia Lundquist (Sweden) Antonia Valero (Spain) Caterina Davinio (Italy)

Curated by Agricola de Cologne, [WDC] is intending to demonstrate the rich artistic potential of a young generation of artists/directors who reflect the diversity of life from an individual, female point of view on – memory and identity.

Enter Women Directors Cut III here

09 AM | 18 Nov

Kamon Art eXhibit

Exhibitions: November 16 – December 14 (Keiichi Tanaami x Masaru Ishiura) December 15 – January 11 (Namaiki x Marok x Naohiro Ukawa)

A heraldic symbol…an indication of bloodline, lineage… an ancient standing.

Kamon are Japanese symbols of time past, derived from patterns of natural phenomenon: the stars, moon, rivers and mountains. Over time, they have been altered and modified, like dividing cells, into new iconic forms.

As a collective, Kamon Design engineer ancient Kamon into modern works of art. Designers Keiichi Tanaami, Masaru Ishiura, Namaiki, Marok and Naohiro Ukawa take pieces of the codified past and translate it into a new present, their books, prints and animations creating a Kamon kaleidoscope that evolves before the eye.

Kamon have exhibited widely around the world in creative boltholes such as Berlin’s Circle Culture Gallery, Pret a Porter Paris, Tokyo’s Mori Arts Centre and Paul Smith’s London boutique.

For the first time in Australia, Via Alley presents the works of Kamon Design in two rounds. On November 15, Keiichi Tanaami x Masaru Ishiura go head to head. Followed on December 14 with Namaiki x Marok x Naohiro Ukawa.

Along with 16 unique artworks there will be Kamon Design(ed) books, tees, scarves and caps for sale, so you can take a piece on Kamon home with you.

www.kamondesign.com www.viaalley.com

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