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art and technology
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journey through the world of videoinstallations
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TECHNE: art and technology - A journey through the
world of videoinstallations, conceived by Massimo
Cecconi, Romano Fattorossi, Ludovica Fonda and
Giuseppe Manzoni, was born with the aim of exploring
the new forms of 'marriage' between art and
technology. "A buried, sometimes conflictual
tie", according to Gianni Verga, Director of
Culture- Province of Milan, "but always richly
significant". A tie which opens up a new perspective,
the one of the art of "'situations' and installations,
which invites the viewer to emerge from pure
contemplation and enter instead the experience
of the work and the process of constructing
meaning"; the art that "has adopted the most
modern techniques available, from those which
can now be considered canonical, such as video,
to those ever more sophisticated, like computers,
the Internet, bio-medical sensors". |
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Robert
Cahen Paysages - passage
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| Eighteen monitor screens placed in a double curve that reminds us
of the rails of an evanescent track, or of a
river marked out by the transparent containers
and lightweight tables which support the monitors,
on which landscapes "pass". Not just because
they go by on the screens before our eyes in
a captivating, mantra-like flow of variation
and reprise, but also because the oscilloscope
transforms and deforms them, removing them from
the familiar form of the journey and turning
them into landscapes of the memory, disturbing
perceptual challenges |
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Mario Canali E.mX
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| The viewer/participant is invited to explore, touch, caress the air.
The sensation of being able to handle the void
is of course illusory: the space will read the
position sensor on the hand and react to it
like an immaterial virtual body, with lights
and voices, expressing pleasure or irritation,
amusement or sadness. If the sensibilities of
man and machine are well-matched, the voices
will mutate into utterances, sighs and shouts,
the erotica of nothingness, the poetry of the
unsayable |
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Piero Gilardi Pulsazioni
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| Synthetic fossils, perhaps from the distant future, tune into our
pulse and dance a discrete halting dance, jumping
and vibrating. Seven rocks spread over a red
carpet, a console, a seat. An earphone monitors
the visitor's heartbeat, and a pulsator transmits
it to the rocks, amplifying the beating of the
heart. The space is animated, comes alive, responding
to the rhythms of our body and transforming
itself with it |
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Studio Azzurro Frammenti di una battaglia
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| Faithful to the idea that electronic technology does not mark a clean
break between mankind and the experience of
nature and to the construction of a "narrative"
dimension dependent on reconstruction and elaboration
by the viewer/participant, Studio Azzurro present
an interactive installation inspired by Paolo
Uccello's painting 'La Battaglia di S. Romano'.
The holes dug in the ground from which immaterial
objects emerge, drawn by the voices and noises
of the visitors, are the locus for a perceptual
transfer which releases emotions and narrations,
as well as an appalling comprehension of the
folly of war |
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Steina
Vasulka Machine Vision
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| Eight video cameras, each with its particular effects, join with mechanical
devices such as a revolving sphere of mirrors
to restructure the space and return it to the
monitors dismantled, analysed, shaken up. The
perceptual disorientation suffered by the viewer
reveals the absurdity of the single point of
view, of any claim on the part of vision to
be able to grasp and dominate the universe |
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Perry Hoberman Faraday's Garden
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| From a techno-artist as always interested in showing us just how far
technology has penetrated into our collective
imagination, an installation made up of slide
projectors, radios, phonographs, tangles of
electric cables, switches, plugs: piled up on
the floor of this installation is an electric
landscape, a veritable "Faraday's Garden". These
objects carry with them the whole history of
the 20th century, as if on a weird and nostalgic
journey through time. As the visitor walks through,
unseen pressure pads trigger slides that animate
the communication tools, which come to life
and seem to inhabit a living machine |
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Giacomo Verde X - 8 X 8 - X
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| An interactive loop generated at the centre of this installation by
projection in the space with mirrors and video
projectors, images that merge with others generated
by computer and with those from a website in
which reflections on art and technology are
accompanied by information on non-government
organizations. Interaction is not just a characteristic
of digital technologies and a pathway to be
explored by art, is a modality of social relations,
the substance of human experience |
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TECHNE
Editors
Romano Fattorossi
Ludovica Fonda
Spazio
Oberdan
V.le Vittorio Veneto, 2
Milano
November
19th 1999
February 27th 2000
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An
exhibition supported by Region of Lombardy -
Direzione Generale Cultura
Province of Milan
President: Ombretta Colli
Director of Culture - Province of Milan: Gianni
Verga
Manager Settore Cultura: Giuseppe Manzoni
Manager U.O. Cultura 1: Massimo Cecconi
Manager U.O. Cultura 2: Angelo Cappellini
Organization (general): Maddalena Pugno
Organization (technical): Cristoforo Massari,
Mario Quadraroli
Secretarial staff: Caterina Aurora, Lucia Cataldo
Technical assistance: Medialogo - Servizi audiovisivi
Press officers: Marco Piccardi, Pinuccia Merisio
A.I.A.C.E. - Invideo
Project for the preparation of the exhibition:
Luciano Gatti
Preparation of the exhibition: Colombo L.&C.
Folder by: Antonio Caronia
Graphic Design: Anne Makinen (AchilliGhizzardiAssociati)
Translations: John Young Technical
Sponsorship: JVC |
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