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SPHERES

INTRODUCTION The boundary between the known and uncharted is a sphere.

In mapping uncharted spaces, uncommon artistic methods often have difficulty fitting neatly into pre-existing artistic discourses. The work coming out of the ArtScience Interfaculty remains fascinated with such uncharted spaces. Terms like cross-disciplinary and new media are sometimes offered up as categories, but have become banal and ignore the cohesiveness and evolution of this approach - it is not art. science. technology. crossing over, but rather all three at the same time and none of the above.

This leaves artists working with self-made media and natural phenomena in a precarious position outside the map of understanding for most people. Can we consider these artworks as a kind of design or architecture, as sculpture, or as music? How can such ephemeral works exist in a museum or gallery? Paradoxically, by researching new forms outside of established discourses, the work of the ArtScience Interfaculty is also placed in a perfect position for discovery by an interested public; removed from the spheres of specialist knowledge needed to understand contemporary art forms such as modern music or fine art. It is work that is still open to interpretation.

The perennial human desire to discover and integrate the unknown underlies the theme of spheres. In the philosophy of Peter Sloterdijk, people and ideas within spheres seek to reach outside of themselves and to incorporate the foreign as part of their own growing identity. Confrontation is the necessary ingredient here. As spheres of subjective knowledge collide we see new aggregates arise. We redraw the map.

What is distinct about the spatial metaphor is its connotation of territory, of exploration and conquest. While traditional arts and art markets struggle to integrate these most modern of artistic inventions, bubbles will burst, new formations are bound to arise, we find ourselves in the midst of a shifting foam.

The graduates of 2013 invite you to become a part of this process of discovery. This year’s preview exhibition features the work of the largest graduating class to ever come out of the ArtScience Interfaculty: twenty-three artists of international scope, presenting for two days around the largest public agora of the Hague: the Grote Markt.

The expo begins with an opening concert the evening of May 16 at the Korzo Theater. The concert, curated by alumni and entitled “Beeld en Geluid”, will celebrate the creative culture of the ArtScience Interfaculty through an eclectic program of live cinema and performances. There will be drinks and DJs, and the audience will have the opportunity to get a sneak peek at some of the artworks.

The following day begins the exhibition proper, with a central information point at the Grote Markt and artwork in the satellite spaces at GEMAK, HOOP, and Korzo Theater. Also be sure to visit Korzo Theater at noon on saturday, May 18th, for a symposium with some very special invited speakers, including MIT artist-in-research Joe Davis and mind-brain-body artist Warren Neidich.

In the days of the exhibition and its surrounding events we hope that you take a moment to adventure outside your own personal bubble, and redefine it.

Sincerely,

The Graduating Class of 2013

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For the opening event “Beeld & Geluid”, a small curatorial team of ArtScience alumni presents selected works from the past and present which zoom in on some of the activities done at the interfaculty. The result is a night of Live Cinema, which can be seen as the live creation of image and sound in a cinematic setting in the Korzo Zaal.

feedbacksociety (nl/est)For this occasion the collective consists of Arno Scheper and Renzo van Steenbergen who are well known for their powerful performative installations. feedbacksociety will present a 2013 version of the DrillCamDrones performance. feedbacksociety.com

ATK! (be/il) Isjtar and Ofer Smilansky collide to launch ATK! [uh-tak]. Born out of a desire to expressively perform electronic music, ATK! is a fusion of experimental techniques, improvisation and bold musical content. By combining lights into the composition and performance process, ATK! wants to set alight architectural structures, burn shadows on the walls. http://atk.io

Joris Strijbos & Dieter Vandoren (nl/be)The occasional duo collaborates on a new Live Cinema project. They combine the tools and instruments they have developed over the years into a one-off act prepared exclusively for the event. jorisstrijbos.nl dietervandoren.net

Jonathan Reus (us/nl)Adding to a recent string of instrumental concept performances, Jonathan Reus presents a new work reanimating obsolete Apple computers using a mixture of electronic modifications, feedback, and live hacking techniques. jonathanreus.com

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Join us at noon on May 18th in Korzo Club for a discussion with Joe Davis and Warren Neidich, two prominent artists who seamlessly combine artistic and scientific approaches. The symposium will feature solo talks by the artists as well as additional guests and reflections on how the artworks emerging from hybrid thinking find place within more traditional spheres of art, culture, and society.The discussion will be moderated by science-culture researcher and documentary filmmaker Frank Theys.

Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich is a Berlin and Los Angeles based post-conceptual artist who explores the interfaces between culture, brain research and post-Fordist economic structures. Art before Philosophy not After. In his multi-disciplinary works Neidich disrupts through beautifully crafted thought experiments and artistic interventions the intimate and seamless relationship between brain, mind and world.

Recent awards include The Fulbright Specialist Program, Fine Arts Category, University of Cairo, 2013, The Murray and Vickie Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist and Scholar Award, Pitzer College, 2012, Fine Arts Category, Faculty of Fine Arts – University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, 2011 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale, Berlin, 2010. Selected exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, P.S.1, MOMA, Long Island City, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,California, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the MAK, Vienna. Recent publications include Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noopolitics, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010 and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Archive Press, 2013. His Belrin Works: The Noologist’s Handbook and Other Art Experiments is forthcoming late 2013. He is currently Artist in Residence at The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.

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Joe Davis

Joe Davis is an artist and Research Affiliate at Alexander Rich laboratory in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Artist-Scientist in the laboratory of George Church at the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He received his B.A. in Creative Arts from the Mount Angel College, Oregon, USA. From 1981 to 1990 he was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and from 1995 to 2008 a Research Associate at the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto.

His research covers areas that include optoacoustics, microscopy, molecular biology, microbiology, and bioinformatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms. He helped to pioneer fields in art and molecular biology and carried out several widely recognized contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and also created works such as Earth Sphere, a landmark at Kendall Square, Cambridge installed in 1989.

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Frank Theys

Frank Theys is a filmmaker, writer and visual artist. He lives and works in Brussels and Amsterdam. His audiovisual work varies from interactive installations to documentary, experimental film and theater performance and has been acquired for the collections of a.o. the MOMA (New York), SMAK (Ghent), the Museum for the Moving Image (New York) and the Centre National de la Cinématographie Paris. His recent documentary series Technocalyps has generated many debates in the cultural world as well as the scientific and academic world and the broad Internet community; it was the central thematic piece in several art exhibitions and scientific congresses from Paris till Shanghai.

Frank Theys is considered one of the founders of Belgian media art. In 1989, Theys set up the arts centre Argos together with a few colleagues. It became an international renowned place for video art and new media. He was also cofounder of Dziga, Belgian union for media artists, of which he has been alternatively the chairman and secretary until 2007. He has taught at St-Lukas Film School (Brussels) and at DasArts, multidisciplinary Master’s course in the Performing Arts at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (AHK). He has been a visiting teacher and lecturer at universities, film and art schools worldwide. He currently is a researcher at the KUL (Louvain, Belgium) and teaches at the ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Hague (The Netherlands) and at the LUCA Art Academy in Ghent (Belgium).

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Pim A. van der Heiden

Lost Canals

The story of the city can be heard in its many layers. Lost Canals is about the veins that once connected the old city’s water network body. Functioning as mirroring open networks in the dry, man-made environment.

By retracing the lost canals of Leiden, whilst approaching the old city as a burial site, a hidden layer in the city’s landscape is revealed.

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Charlotte ‘t Hart

Tableau Vivant

A table has more to it than you might think. The everyday object the table is, has a big influence on our perception of space and with that our perception of each other, without us noticing it. After a research on the history, philosophy and anthropology of the table, especially using the science of proxemics (how people’s use of space, the space among each other and the space they build around them selves, can affect relations and interactions), Charlotte build her own table.

Experience Charlotte’s fascination for the table and experience each other in the performative installation Tableau Vivant.

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Amelia Kaczynska

Video installation about an aura of motherhood - to represent a metaphor for how our intellect and emotions deal with memories.

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Mik Maes

Come one, come all to the Cabinet of Creepypasta Curiosa! Read my book composed of the finest of internet legends and anonymous horror stories and see the macabre proof right in front of your eyes! Risking life and limb, I’ve visited the most sordid backwoods, the darkest cellars, the most horrid websites on the internet and other unspeakable places that would make any lesser man go insane. All to gather this shocking collection for your viewing pleasure.

The Familiar Made Strange, where internet legends come to life.

Performance times at the door.

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Jonathan Reus

Works and instruments with obsolete Apple computers. Planned obsolescence is a de-facto design consideration for many consumer computing giants, the slightly old make room for young superstars, and every time it must be revolutionary. These performances are explorations into alternative artistic engagements with these past iconic machines.

Jonathan Reus (US/NL) constructs sonic artworks and musical situations featuring high and low technologies.

Performance times at the door.

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Marloes van Son

COLC - undrown takes you on a journey through an un-derwater vortex. This natural phenomenon, which is normally created when rapidly rushing water passes an underwater obstacle, has been a long time subject of interest to both mythology and science.

This installation searches for a fragile equilibrium between a natural phenomenon and technology. While trying to control a piece of nature it emphasizes on its unpredictability. Through the manipulation of a water vortex a natural phenomenon con-trols sound and light imaging. COLC - undrown floods a space with whirling water, refracting light and stirring sounds.

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Silvia Jánošková

The Gender Gap in the Arts

This work focuses on the economic perspective of the gender gap in the arts. The artist’s body proves itself to be the greatest asset for most of the female artists; its presence, or absence, is a key factor in determining the potential of an artwork created by a woman. Would the world’s wealthiest female artist Cindy Sherman ever have joined the male-dominated richest artists list without using her body? Should women mind their gender in order to become successful artists? Is it possible for a woman to become the wealthiest artist of this exhibition?

To purchase any of the exhibited items please register your interest on +31(0)627298746.

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Luis Rodil-Fernández

Braid is a performance environment for networked proprioception where two actors are both wired to a device that lets them feel the state of balance of their partner. When one of the actors leans very heavily towards the left, for example, the other will feel a proportional stimulation towards the opposite side. Remaining in balance under these conditions is the challenge that performers will face.

The sensation of balance which is normally very intimate and so essential to our upright position, is cross- wired between the two performers creating a dependency in which their personal balance is not only bound to their individual actions, but to the actions of the other. Forming a braid of mutually shared sensation.

Performance time:Thursday | 19:30h | Korzo Club

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Ludmila Rodrigues

Ludmila works creating situations, spaces and devices in order to make the audience move. With Flexor she devised a structure which engages the audience in a physical dialogue, oscillating between controlling and being controlled. By moving on, participants must collaborate with each other.

Trained as architect, Ludmila is interested in blurring the borders between public and performers. While generating a pleasant interactivity she is exploring proprioceptive qualities, challenging the embodied knowledge inherent to all of us.

Installation at Korzo Club on Thursday and Friday only.

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Nenad Popov

“Time passes.Listen.Time passes.”-Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

What happens inside the Physarum Polycephalum? What would it be like to be one with a Physarum Polycephalum?

Contemplative audiovisual installation offering a view on different reality.

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Klara Ravat

Clara Lozano (Klara Ravat, ES/NL) works with video, film, photography and performance. She uses analogue and digital film, not wanting to choose for one or the other. She is currently looking for ways to combine video and film with the sense of smell.

Synthesis is an audio-odor-visual piece which portrays a transformation towards synthetic communication.

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Gala Tellechea Velez

Film: Immanuel Immanuel

When a man looks at a beautiful pearly cloud in the sky, he might not be doing what he thinks he is doing. He might be looking, but perhaps not seeing anything at all, or anything else than the word Cloud in his mind. The wonders of light; the gray, blue, yellow pink and white colors; the metaphors and ideas that are hidden in that picture, they all pass unnoticed through his perception. They appear to be invisible. In this film I am wondering about a religious worldview and a scientific worldview; the impact that analytic thinking and a civilized society has on modern man, as well as questioning Nietzsche’s Spirit of the Child as something we should head to, but perhaps taking love and beauty as the only true satisfying answers to life. As the only hope we are left with.

Screening times and locations:Thursday | 19:30h | Korzo ZaalFriday | 14h 15h 16h 17h 18h 19h | Korzo ZaalSaturday | 16h 17h 18h | Korzo Club

Spectators shall be invited to spend time with the artist.

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Daniel Berio

Graffitizer 03.1

Graffitizer is an installation where a machine creates drawings based on a computational exploration of the forms and drawing process specific to graffiti writing. The drawing is accompanied by video projections that correspond to the strokes generated by the machine. Light becomes a dynamic painterly medium that is mixed with the permanent marks of black ink, coloring and augmenting the drawing during it’s mechanical execution.

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Andre Cavalheiro

Linescape, multiple channel audiovisual composition. Black line on white paper is the simplest form of representation, capable of creating forms, images. words, measurements, music, landscapes…the line between our imagination and the world we perceive. Simple modifications in those lines from its primitive form, create different expressions and by this, different ways to experience them.

An ongoing research into the sonic translation of moving line patterns, audiovisual scores and instruments. With base reflection on speed, multitasking, processing and the need to render the world. Derived by technology improvements, every time more, the experience of live is accomplished through screens.

Line pattern composition created by the drawing of constant parallel lines. The paper drawing is then recorded, the captured video composition is analyzed to transform every black line into a midi note. With this midi notes the sound composition for the changing patterns is created. The video with the connected sound is displayed in a multiple screen setup with delay between screens.

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Mischa Daams Mousse ambiguë is an environment for both eyes, brain, ears and skin.

Partly cinematic and partly embodied, Mousse ambiguë explores perceptual notions of continuity and motion in space and time.

This continuity is displayed in a controlled choreography of interfering air flows. The tension between a systematic approach towards chaotic behavior reveals a paradox, and such interacting spatiotemporal processes form ever changing relationships in our mind’s/eye. Artifacts of space-time are captured like snapshot pictures that cross dissolve and merge with the now, rendering a composite space or foam of both direct percepts, expected image / imagined.

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Virginie Dubois

Les Jours d’Angles is a multi-channel sound installation exploring the formal and sensuous in speech.

Based on the unique technique of embroidery called Les Jours d’Angles, the work invites the audience to a spatial form of story telling.Featuring the voice, the words and memories of one embroiderer woman, the installation is telling us about the technique, the history and her personal anecdotes related to the embroidery. Les Jours d’Angles creates a fragmented portrait of the embroiderer and contributes in a special way to our cultural heritage. Les Jours d’Angles (Days of Angles) is the unique and celebrated openwork embroidery technique invented in the village of Angles sur-l’Anglin in France. The technique consists of pulling weft and warp threads to obtain openings, which are then decorated with a needle and thread using stitches particular to Les Jours d’Angles. Originating from the middle of the 19th century, the technique is now disappearing.

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Bonne Knibbe

Phosphenomena is a dynamic space shaped by its visitors. Entering means changing it. When no one has entered it for some time it gets so dark the eyes can’t tell if there is a space at all.

When entering the visitor leaves traces of light that reveal the depth of the space. The space comes into existence as it is entered. The traces of footsteps get multiplied and float around the visitor to create an ever changing landscape. We experience space via our multiple senses. They each transmit information that the brain combines and overlaps to create a mental understanding of the surrounding environment.

When the information from the different senses starts contradicting one another peculiar experiences emerge.Is a space small because it limits one’s view or because it limits one’s movement? Is a space there because one can see it, because one remembers it or because one can feel it?Phosphenomena plays with those elements to give a unique spatial experience.

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Momoko Noguchi

Music of the Spheres (also referred to as Harmony of the Spheres, or Musica Universalis) is an ancient philosophical concept that regards the constellation or the movement of celestial bodies as a system of music. Since its first description by Plato in “Timaeus” and “The Myth of Er”, this Pythagorean cosmology continued to evolve through centuries, being influenced by new discoveries in astronomy and musicology. This sound installation can be described as a contemporary interpretation of the Music of the Spheres that essentially inherits the traditional theory.

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Sarvenaz Mostofey

Social-cultural studies relating to the public space (atmospheric) installation

the Audible overlayed experience of interconnected spaces leads to a suspended object in a dark empty space. It tries to simulate such experience in the empty space which is limited to and create the fragmentary sense of spatiality by the sounds spreading out into the space. this installation is about both sculptural character of speakers and sound in the space.

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Panagiotis Tomaras

Trans installation deals with our visual perception of space. Is focusing more on spatial recognition and the ways we understand our surroundings. By the usage of light, sound, and form, a spatial disorientation is being achieved; a spatial uncertainty of the spectator. Taking advantage of our visional limitations and simple physical color perceptual properties, Trans brings the visitor to experience a paradoxical spatial displacement.

Panos is also presenting a film in the screenings at Korzo Theater on friday (sessions every hour) and saturday from 16:00, 17:00, 18:00.

You were smoking, so we lost the fish (2012)

You were Smoking, so we lost the Fish is a visual music film. Musical tones and sounds converted directly into visual colors via a color organ interface. This film is a study on the pure elements of moving image like visual composition and rhythm. Compositionally is based on a real fact: the experience of an unlucky fishing.

film excerpt: 8’ 49”

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Walid Wardak

Sequence of seven works involving a kit, glasses, a device, villagers, wandelroute, a service, and a guide.

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The Spheres exhibition takes place from 16 to 18 May 2013 in The Hague. For more information please visit the ArtScience Stichting website: http://stichting.interfaculty.nl. This event is realized in collaboration with and support of: ArtScience Interfaculty HOOP | Driehoekjes 7 Korzo Theater | Prinsestraat 42

Location Management and ProductionCharlotte ‘t HartLudmila RodriguesBonne KnibbeSilvia Jánošková

Special ThanksJoost RekveldFrank TheysMarga JongbloedStacz WilhelmDounia El Baraka Michael van HoogenhuyzeVincent W.J. van Gerven Oei Joris StrijbosDieter VandorenSebastian Frisch Volunteers

Promotion and WebSilvia Jánošková Luis Rodil-Fernández

DesignManuel Beltrán Daniel Berio

Curation and TextsJonathan ReusWalid WardakLudmila Rodrigues

FundraisingMarloes van SonBonne KnibbeMischa DaamsClara Lozano

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