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Axel Straschnoy’s new short film will be screened at KUMU Art Film Festival, Tallinn, to be held from September 29 through October 2.

The Kumu Art Film Festival (KuFF) is the first and only cultural event in Estonia to focus on the relationship between film and the visual arts. During the four days of KuFF, documentary, staged and experimental art and artist films will be screened in the Kumu auditorium. The film-makers are all connected to the visual arts in one way or another, and they reveal this relationship in their films. This means focusing on the pictorial language of film and its dislocation, documenting the internal life of the art world, combining film and video art strategies, and much more.

This year, the festival will have familiar formats and thematic blocks (e.g. a focus on one author or archive) but also introduce, more consciously and directly, the relationship between art and film by exchanging the exhibition environment for the screen surface.

KuFF will also continue cooperation with the Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Fundacja ARTon and is glad to present this year two programmes from “Moving Pictures: Artists’ Films from the Film London Jarman Award” curated by the British Council and Film London.

The festival begins on Thursday, 29 September, with the opening and the first screening, and continues from Friday to Sunday.

In addition to films, the festival includes artist talks.

Straschnoy’s work will be screened on Saturday, October 1, at 18:45 in the Museum auditorium.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

For more information on KUMU Art Film Festival please click here.

Nel contesto della mostra Naturalia et artificialia, ECCENTRIC Art & Research è lieta di ospitare:

Martedì 18 ottobre, ore 18.30
Tavola rotonda:
La scienza: istruzioni per l’uso

in occasione dell’uscita del volume Mondi altri: Processi di soggettivazione nell’era postumana a partire del pensiero di Antonio Caronia, a cura di Amos Bianchi e Giovanni Leghissa (Milano: Mimesis).

“Avevano seguito i loro istinti più nobili e fondato le loro vite sul principio che il denaro non poteva comprare la felicità, scoprendo solo pian piano le molte tipologie di infelicità che avrebbe potuto tenere alla larga. Russell era solito dividere l’umanità, soprattutto dopo qualche bicchiere, in due squadre contrapposte: Arte e Amore contro Potere e Denaro. Un po’ trito, ma lei era orgogliosa del fatto che ci credesse davvero, e della sua fedeltà alla propria squadra. Nel bene o nel male, era anche la sua.”

(J. McInerney, La luce dei giorni, trad. it. di A. Silvestri, Milano 2016)

Ai partecipanti alla tavola rotonda viene chiesto di rispondere alle domande: esistono queste due squadre? e se esistono, in quale squadra si colloca la scienza?

Introduzione: Gabriela Galati, direttrice di ECCENTRIC e docente di Teoria e metodo dei mass media presso NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano,
Intervengono:
Amos Bianchi, docente di Estetica e Storia del Cinema presso NABA,
Giovanni Leghissa, Professore associato presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’educazione dell’Università di Torino,
Maresa Lippolis, course leader del Triennio accademico di Media Design e Arti Multimediali presso NABA.

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Immagine: Sarah Ciracì, Click (2016). Digital print, 33 x 60 cm.

ECCENTRIC Art & Research presents Minority Report, a new section dedicated to showcasing young, talented and promising artists. Artists who despite of being at the very beginning of their careers already evidence great potential: A glimpse of, and a bet on the future.

The first selected artist for Minority Report is Carlo Gambirasio (Verona 1994), and his work will be featured at Naturalia et artificialia.

For more information on Minority Report and Carlo Gambirasio please click here.

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ECCENTRIC Art & Research annuncia il primo artista selezionato per la sezione Minority Report: Carlo Gambirasio.

ECCENTRIC Art & Research presenta Minority Report, una nuova sezione dedicata a promuovere artisti giovani, talentuosi e promettenti. Artisti che nonostante siano all’inizio della loro carriera dimostrano già di avere un grande potenziale: uno sguardo e una scommessa sul futuro.

Il primo artista selezionato per Minority Report è Carlo Gambirasio (Verona 1994), e il suo lavoro sarà parte della mostra Naturalia et artificialia.

Per maggiori informazioni su Minority Report e Carlo Gambirasio si prega di cliccare qui.

Image captions: Carlo Gambirasio, L’ancestrale (2016). Steel, clock mechanism, sensors, software; 10 cm x 32 cm Ø.

Axel Straschnoy’s Neomylodon Listai Anneghino will be exhibited at Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Malmö, opening on October 14th, 2016.

Starting in 1895 with the finding in a cave in southern Chilean Patagonia of a peculiar skin, the world was soon to face a sensationalist chase for an animal that was thought long since extinct. It was a very large mammal, weighing around 1.000 kg, which had both external fur and a protective armor embedded into the skin, which was surprisingly well preserved.

Two Argentinian palaentologists played out a drama of scientific rivalry. Dr. Florentino Ameghino was first to write about the beast and named it Neomylodon Listai Ameghino, declaring it still alive and roaming the plains of Patagonia. Dr. F. P. Moreno responded by pronouncing it extinct since thousands of years. A number of European scientists arrived at the spot or had material sent to their museums for closer scrutiny, creating an intense scientific debate about the animal. This way, some of the material found in the cave ended up in Sweden, other parts in London and Berlin. Some findings made their way much later also to Helsinki.

While scientists were soon doubtful about the existence of the living Neomylodon, the popular press was all the more enthusiastic. A price was promised to the one who could hunt down a specimen, and the Daily Express in London sent off a hunting team. Over the years the interest faded, as of course no-one could find and shoot an animal that had been extinct since more than 10.000 years. The Neomylodon proved to be a result more of wishful thinking than of science.

Axel Straschnoy’s exhibition Neomylodon Listai Ameghino approaches this footnote in the history of science critically and from a multitude of angles. The four vitrines are designed to host the complete findings now spread to different museums in Argentina, Chile, England, Germany, Sweden and Finland, plus the originals of the essential texts published on the animal during the years around 1900. But while the texts remain the same each time the work is displayed on its tour across the world, two of the vitrines will be mostly empty and only show what is available in the local collections.

Thus mirrored, the story of the Neomylodon becomes less a story about science than about the construction of myths as well as of truths. It is also a study of colonialism at work. It quite clearly displays the ironic truth that barely any findings ended up in the country where they were excavated.

Not the least, Neomylodon Listai Ameghino addresses the cultures of display, as well as the roles of the spectator in science and art. By moving between different ways of seeing and of showing artifacts, the vitrines themselves become witnesses of how authority and “truth” is transferred through the methodologies of display.

Pontus Kyander

For more information and updates on the project, please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy, please click here.

Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, NYUAD Art Gallery

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Jamie Allen, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Liu Bolin, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Monira Al Qadiri, Evan Roth, Phillip Stearns, Siebren Versteeg, Addie Wagenknecht, Kenny Wong.

On view September 22 – December 31, 2016

This exhibition explores the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.

The information age has given us modes and means of communication unrivaled in history, ranging from smartphones and social media to electronic financial and other transactions. Yet these same tools also generate anxiety about a user’s exposure via these modes, whether to risk of hackers or from technology’s effect on our environment.

Invisible Threads will present a nuanced discussion of a global topic, framed by the region’s complex relationship to the benefits and pitfalls that accompany technological advances. The artworks expose these institutional and aesthetic frameworks of control, pulling back the curtain on a part of our lives that we have come to take for granted. The curators hope to generate dialog and reflection around our use of these everyday tools.

Jamie Allen‘s The Lie Machine project is a critical, media archaeological recreation of a 1970’s vintage lie detection technical object, a Voice Stress Analysis machine.

Notably, Invisible Threads inaugurates one of NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery’s unique program strategies: inviting scholars and specialists from across the academic spectrum to guest-curate a major exhibition. Invisible Threads is co-curated by Professor Scott Fitzgerald, Program Head of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi, with Bana Kattan, a Curator at the NYUAD Art Gallery.

For more information on the exhibition please click here.

For more information on Jamie Allen’s work please click here.

Giovedi 1 settembre alle 20,30, presso la libreria Mondadori di Taranto (Via De Cesare 35) verrà presentato il libro “Multiverso”.

La pubblicazione costituisce la sintesi finale di un progetto realizzato in comune da Sarah Ciracì e Renato Galante e promosso dalla galleria Cosessantuno Artecontemporanea di Taranto, a cura di Antonella Marino. Con un apparato di testi ed immagini, il volume documenta l’esperienza espositiva ambientata nell’estate 2015 in una vecchia fabbrica di ceramiche nel centro storico di Grottaglie. Il titolo – ispirato al “multiverso”, un’ipotesi della fisica moderna che postula l‘esistenza di mondi paralleli – indica un’attenzione dei due artisti per le teorie scientifiche, caricate di implicazioni psicologiche e fantastiche. Ma al tempo stesso allude al confronto di rispettivi mondi creativi giunti qui a singolare ed inattesa osmosi, suggerendo letture multiple e l’idea che le cose possono essere diverse da come appaiono.
Nel corso della serata verrà proposta una serie inedita di disegni su alluminio creati a quattro mani per l’occasione da Sarah Ciracì e Renato Galante.

Per maggiori informazioni su Sarah Ciracì si prega di cliccare qui.

A selection of Federico Luger’s Chimney series will be presented at Art Copenhagen from August 26 through the 28 at Opere Scelte gallery (Booth B2-012).

For more information on Federico Luger, please click here.

We are delighted to announce that ECCENTRIC Art & Research now represents the work of Jamie Allen.

Jamie Allen is a Canada-born artist, researcher, designer and teacher, interested in what technologies teach us about who we are as individuals, cultures and societies. He has been an electronics engineer, a polymer chemist and an exhibit maker with the American Museum of Natural History. He lectures, publishes and exhibits projects worldwide. His work has been exhibited at Kunsthal Aarhus and Nicholaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin for the 2014 transmediale afterglow; at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin for Olafur Eliasson’s Festival of Future Nows; and at Eastern Bloc Montreal, among many others. He is currently Senior Researcher at Critical Media Lab Basel.

For more information on the artist please click here.

Torna Fuori Uso dopo quattro anni di assenza, inaugura venerdì alle ore 19 nei locali dell’ex Tribunale di Pescara.

L’obiettivo di questa edizione è ridare un ruolo chiave alle Accademie nel sistema dell’arte contemporanea, tanto che a garantire i giovani talenti sono proprio i docenti, in questa edizione di Fuori Uso; da qui il titolo: “AVVISO di GARANZIA”. A cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio e Simone Ciglia.

Tutti gli artisti di Fuori Uso 2016: Riccardo Benassi, Sara Carraro, Lorenzo Lunghi, Alessandra Pioselli (Accademia di belle arti di Bergamo) Francesca Grilli, Asia Giannelli, Piero Deggiovanni; Luigi Presicce, Mimì Enna, Lelio Aiello (Accademia di belle arti di Bologna) Pantani-Surace, Matteo Coluccia, Stefano Giuri, Cecilia Guida; Paolo Parisi, Lori Lako, Irene Lupi, Pier Luigi Tazzi (Accademia di belle arti di Firenze) Perino & Vele, Rachele Sabatino, Sevi e Tonti, Alberto Dambruoso (Accademia di belle arti di Foggia) Alfredo Pirri, Mattia Abballe, Annamaria Tanzi, Marco Tonelli (Accademia di belle arti di Frosinone) Enzo De Leonibus, Gioele Pomante, Eliano Serafini, Domenico Spinosa; Italo Zuffi, Simone Camerlengo, Manuele Ianni, Cecilia Canziani (Accademia di belle arti L’Aquila) Gianni Caravaggio, Alessandro Mazzatorta, Giacomo Monza, Rachele Ferrario; Marco Cingolani, Alessandro Boscarini, Giulia Trivelli, Giulio Ciavoliello; Gabriele Di Matteo, Gao Lan, Wang Haotian, Elisabetta Longari (Accademia di belle arti di Brera) Adrian Paci, Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen, Isabella Benshimol – Mati Jhurry, Caterina Iaquinta (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – Milano NABA) Moio & Sivelli, Alessandro Minervini, Girolamo Viola, Chiara Pirozzi (Accademia di belle arti di Napoli) Stefania Galegati Shines, Genuardi/Ruta, Marcello Carriero (Accademia di belle arti di Palermo) Donatella Landi, Lucia Bricco, Adelaide Cioni, Cecilia Casorati (Accademia di belle arti di Roma) Pierluigi Calignano, Martina Cara, Valeria Secchi, Sonia Borsato (Accademia di belle arti Mario Sironi – Sassari) Mario Airò, Emanuele Marullo, Gabriele Nicola; Simeone Crispino (Vedovamazzei), Mohsen Baghernejad Moghanjooghi, Vincenzo Napolitano Matilde Galletti (Accademia Albertina di belle arti – Torino) Luigi Carboni, Lavinia Cestrone, Alessia Neri, Umberto Palestini; Matteo Fato, Marco Bacoli, Danilo Giuseppe Sciorilli, Alberto Zanchetta; Giuseppe Stampone, Kane Caddoo, Claudio Zorzi, (Accademia di belle arti di Urbino) Nemanja Cvijanovic, Martin Verdross Collettivo del corso di Tecniche e Tecnologie delle Arti Visive / Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Riccardo Caldura (Accademia di belle arti di Venezia) Luca Trevisani, Marco Rizzardi, Valentino Russo, Angela Vettese (Università IUAV di Venezia).