Histories of Post Digital: 1960s and 1970s Media Art Snapshots
Akbank Art's Beyog(lu building, Istanbul
17 December 2014 -- 21 February 2015
Curator: Ekmel Ertan
Co-curator: Darko Fritz
This exhibition aims to explore the histories of media art after the real and
seemingly permanent entry of the digital into our lives. It does so beginning
from the beginning and looking at the first attempts, first digital artistic
products of the 1960s and 1970s. It attempts to read from the present
perspective the histories that were written with each event, each research and
artwork and that are part of the paradigm we live in now.
The exhibition has two main axes. The first one "9 Evenings: Theatre and
Engineering" focuses on a legendary series of performances that took place at the
Regiment Armory building in New York in 1966. With performances by 10 artists, 9 Evenings
is a milestone in the field of art and technology, an event where many of this field's
firsts originated. The second is about the 4th and 5th exhibitions of the (New)
Tendencies movement, organized in Zagreb in 1968-69 and 1973. These two vanguard
exhibitions that took place in the relative periphery of Europe at an early date and the
discussion they inspired meant that the computer has come of age as an artistic medium.
In collaboration with the MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and an international
network of collectors and private archives, this exhibition offers the overview of the
original early digital artworks including Waldemar Cordeiro, Gustav Metzger, Vladimir
Bonac(ic', Frieder Nake among others.
There will be first time presented computer installation with anti Vietnam war slogan
Nixon Murderer conceived back in 1969 by Remko Scha. First time after 35 years will be
publicly presented Mobilodrom - "a vehicle producing sounds in reaction to its
environment" from 1979 by Michael Fahres, now in the form of multimedia
documentation.
The Off-Line Media Space, which takes up a large section of the exhibition,
will offer a wide array of resources in field of media. A large collection of
books, Transmediale and Art Electronica catalogs from the last 30 years as well
as entire collections of the magazines Neural and Mediamatic will be on hand
here. In addition, there will be three computer stations in this space
dedicated solely to the voluntary endeavour of translating the rapidly growing
media archive artelectronicmedia.com in Turkish. This is certainly not a
one-way translation, it will also allow the works and events realized in Turkey
to be archived in a universal manner.
The Off-Line Media Space will feature two additional events:
The Saturday Seminars will take place during the exhibition and aim to give the
audience an opportunity to hear about media histories from a group of artists
and researchers who actively contributed to these histories though artistic
creation and writing.
The Wednesday conversations aim to deepen and broaden the conversation around
specific topics and works. They will also provide an open and live resource as
well as a space to work and converse.
"9 Evenings of Theatre and Engineering"
10 films, 10 artists and avant-garde performers in collaboration with 30
engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. By Barbro Schultz
Lundestam, series director and E.A.T. Julie Martin, executive producer.
John Cage Variations VII
Lucinda Childs Vehicle
Öyvind Fahlström Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Alex Hay Grass Field
Deborah Hay Solo
Steve Paxton Physical Things
Yvonne Rainer Carriage Discreteness
Robert Rauschenberg Open Score
David Tudor Bandoneon! (a combine)
Robert Whitman Two Holes of Water-3
Digital artists, exhibited:
Marc Adrian, Jean Baptists Bedaux, Vladimir Bonac(ic', Frank Böttger, Jeroen
Clausman, Compos 68, Waldemar Cordeiro, Charles Csury, D. E. Evans, Michael
Fahres, David R. Garrison, Hans Köhler, Auro Lecci, Robert Mallary, Jean Claude
Marquette, Gustav Metzger, Tomislav Mikulic', Petar Milojevic', Jorge Moscati,
Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, A.Michael Noll, Ivan Picelj, Ludwig Rase, Sylvia
Roubaud, Beverly Rowe, Remko Scha, Manfred Robert Schroeder, Arthur Veen, Aron
Warszawski, Georg Weiss, Rolf Wölk, Edward Zajec, Vilko Z(iljak, Anton Zöttl
Saturday Seminars:
20 December 2014
"Agents of Social Change in 1960s and 1970s Digital Art"
Darko Fritz,
10 January 2015
"9 Evenings of Engineering and Theatre""
Sylvie Lacerte
17 January 2015
"Histories of Post Digital: Media Art in Turkey"
Ekmel Ertan
24 January 2015
"The Complex Expression of Digital Art: Media Art Histories and its Impact on
Archives and Humanities"
Oliver Grau
7 February 2015
"An Archaeological Rewiring of the Contemporary in Arts"
Jussi Parikka
14 February 2015
"The Technological Unconscious and Digital Art"
Armin Medosh
21 February 2015
"Genealogies of the Digital: A 'Post'-Critique"
Christiane Paul
http://www.akbanksanat.com/en/akbank-sanat-beyoglu/sergi/
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