Call For DystoRpia Media Art Exhibition

 

 

Deadline: June 21st 2012

Call for Submission for media that relates to the concept of DystoRpia, and/or addresses alternatives for political, social, and economic upheaval that deals with technology.

Dystorpia = { Dystopia & Utopia } + torpid

DystoRpia is a neologism developed by the e-fagia collective.  The word dystopia is mixed with the Latin root torpere combined with the the word torpid in Spanish. DystoRpia is a critical view of society as anti-utopian community with torpid visions of a vaguely utopian root

DystoRpia deals with people abusing technology, and individually or collectively coping, or not with being able to properly deal with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity's spiritual evolution

DystoRpia will be presented on September of 2012 in New York at Queens Museum of Art, Outpost Artists Resource, Local Project... Apply

11th Havana Biennial, 2012
11 May - 11 June 2012
Havana, Cuba

Theme:
Prácticas Artísticas e Imaginarios Sociales
Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries

Curatorial team:
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam

Director: Jorge Fernández

The 2012 edition of the Havana Biennial will be developed in international circumstances where debates regarding the scenarios of contemporary art have been substantially modified and have acquired new meanings for artists as well as for the institutions and the different audiences.

The curatorial team proposes to dedicate this eleventh edition to an assessment of the behavior of the relationship between visual productions and the social imaginary. When speaking of social imaginary, they point out thatt they are not referring to a theoretical body, but to the way people imagine their social space and express themselves through cultural and historical references, and to the symbolic dimension they acquire through art.

The social imaginary expresses the bonds and relationships of wide groups of people that include, at the very best, society in its entirety, sharing common interests and establishing levels of legitimacy. It is the place where form is given to the notions of what is public, of citizen space and of the different aspects that make communicative interaction possible. Although this concept includes the social norms, it also involves those components of personal character and individual subjectivity that unquestionably become part of a larger system. Its nature implicitly contains the main conflicts we detect today in the urban environment, one of the networks where it becomes evident in an exceptional way... + go

Group Projects at the Biennial:
Open Score

Curators:
Dannys Montes de Oca and
Luis Gómez

As Open exhibition project brings us back to score a "marker" to get the technology exchange and learning through it. An invitation to explore this development has been accelerated in recent years computer systems, and possibilities of art as subversion from standard models of communication and creation of visual environments and knowledge. Likely to be the new digital arts and technology like no other, calls to violate the vertical media of our time, if we consider that not only operate with the same resources of the average mass and other computer models but appear retaking and parodying multiple social variants of questioning and subversion.

For those who live in contexts devoid of great possibilities of accessibility and connectivity technology, this is not a reality too pressing or obvious, but the potential that the reaction to any techno-dominant trend goes beyond its own operational arrangements and commissioning scene, to go into how certain patterns of communication, knowledge and control have spread or are spreading from technologies to other areas of life in our time. That is why an exhibition like Open Score tends to the affirmation and the challenge and offers variants dissimilar referents in the flow of social interaction and technology as an order in which they are built all of our collective imaginations.

A group of workshops designed to encourage exposure to easily claim the knowledge and methods for interactive art, developing units and solutions that can solve specific problems or questions visitors and local artists and the general public. Incorporating topics such as Culture Digital (Lino Garcia), Art and Activism (Arlan Londoño) and programs, technologies and software like Processing (Ignacio Rejano) Arduino (David Cuartielles). In this sense, artists, researchers, technology developers and architects participating in this exhibition, conceived as a laboratory or workshop, made ??offerings of their knowledge and artifacts, made ??on the basis of learning from the audience.

video screening

LOOP Fair MAY 31 - JUNE 2 |
FORUM PRO MAY 30 - JUNE
LiminalB + VFFF12 + e_fagia

SCREEN FROM BARCELONA is a platform dedicated to moving image in contemporary art. Through partnerships with leading international agents, generates projects that materialize in different formats and locations, such as SCREEN Festival and LOOP. As part of the group exhibition we are proud to present:

Soil
By Julieta Maria (Canada/Colombia)
Digital video, 4' 06", 2010. Single Channel. From the Series Exercises in Faith

Black
By Guillermina Buzio (Canada/Argentina) and Jorge Lozano (Canada/Colombia)
Digital video, Time: 4' 47". Spanish with English subtitles, 2007

English for Beginners
By Alexandra Gelis (Canada/Colombia)
Digital video, Time: 2' 32

Subversive Technologies
Curated by Arlan Londoño, with Gabriel Roldos and Federica Matelli

This year’s Digital Event Subversive Technologies investigates how artists respond to communication technology as one of the major sources of power in contemporary societies. During the last few years we have seen an increase in web and electronic artists and activists that use digital tools to create an impact on their societies or to register social unrest. The artists participating in Subversive Technologies use communication, information and networking technologies as a tool to reject control society, in an attempt to liberate bodies across spaces/territories, and across social and political categories.

This exhibition features new installations, performances and video art works by about 20 artists from Canada and abroad. The art exhibition will be presented in conjunction with conferences, workshops and live media events, with curators and scholars from different countries. Some of the main works and artists included in this exhibition are Transborder Immigrant Tool a Mexico/U.S border disturbance art project by Electronic Disturbance Theater / b.a.n.g lab presenterd in Toronto by Ricardo Dominguez; Virus.circus.laboratory by transgender performance and new media artists Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand; Dystorpia Project by local artists of No Media Collective; Activism Beyond The Interface an itinerant production lab by Alessandra Renzi and Roberta Buiani.  Also, Ulysses Castellanos, Sofia Escobar, Juan David Casas, Miguel García, Angie Bonino, Ian Paul, Nacho Duran and Balam Soto.

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workshops

From Html Conceptualism to Transborder Disturbances
by Ricardo Dominguez
The course will cover the emergence of HTMLconceptualism, tactical media, and browser based aesthetics with Mosaic in 1993/4 to 1998, it will then explore art and activist based ISPs (Internet Service Providers), such as thing.net. The second section will consider the performative matrix of distributed forms of simulation and code from 1998 to 2000. The final section will consider the rise of social media and locative media – or how code moves into world.

At 80 Gould Street, Room 202, Rogers Communications Centre Ryerson University
With the support of The Infoscape Centre For The Study Of Social Media, Ryerson University
Monday 12, Wednesday 14, and Friday 16 of September
from 6 - 8 pm

Performing The Body: Wearable Electronics, Sound And Erotics
by Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand
In this workshop participants will create wearable electronics using the lilypad arduino, sensors, and sound.  The workshop will consist of three days including performance, Puredata (Pd-extended) and open source electronics. Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas will share their experiences developing performance art using these tools. Participants will work towards developing a performance piece of their own/collaboration, and will have an opportunity for performing at the end of the workshop, if they choose to do so. To develop the performances the workshop will entail performance exercises inspired by Theater of the Oppressed, La Pocha Nostra and physical improvisation.

Registration: In person at LIFT, Liason Of Independent Filmmakers Of Toronto,
1137 Dupont Street, M6H 2A3
by telephone with a credit card: 416 - 588 - 6444
From Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 of September, 6 - 10 pm

Activism Beyond The Interface an itinerant production lab
by Alessandra Renzi and Roberta Buiani
During this lab activists and artists are invited to produce a radio programme about an ecology of different forms of activist practices. The second part of the event will involve  guests and the audience in a radio show, to discuss in more detail the contexts and situations that can engender new modes of relation among groups, the sharing of values, the co-creation of specific tools (e.g. media, forms of collaboration, tactics, etc.) to understand and learn from the work of others.

We understand the production of the radio show as work-in-progress striving to create a positive, respectful and safe space where activists and artists support each other in this inquiry. This is the first of a series of labs that will take place in different cities and that will adapt and grow with different situations, to create a useful resource that continuously rethinks and (re)imagines activism. Join us as we experiment with collaboration, tool boxes, and sand boxes...
At toronto Free Gallery
workshop and performance on October 1, from 12 - 4 pm

 

Digital Event’11 is possible thanks to the support from: Canada Council For The Arts, The Toronto Free Gallery, Tinto Coffee House, Ryerson University, and OCAD University. We would also like to acknowledge the support from the artists Ricardo Rozental, Edgardo Moreno and Rodrigo Hernandez, Sue Johnson, Blanca López and all the volunteers that have made this possible