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1. 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07
2. /Józef Robakowski. Energetic Images /- book and DVDs!
3. NET REVIEW
1. 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07
We remind you that the deadline date for entry submission is 15
February 2007 (It has to be postmarked by 15th February). We are
waiting for any work created using electronic media techniques,
exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.
[2]Biennale: the new strategies and territories of digital
artistic communication; Artists in the face of high culture's
permeation with popular culture; global with local culture;
commercial with independent culture; the role of individual artistic
attitudes in the midst of global tendencies; the metamorphosis of an
artistic experiment in the light of a spectacle society culture.
Media arts that de-interpret the cultural context stemming from
civilization as well as interferences into the code that steers
behaviors within the social space. The creation and record of a
changing picture of culture.
The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse
forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation),
installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network
projects from all over the world. The main prize is €5000 and the
total prize money awarded is €8000.
2. /JóZEF ROBAKOWSKI. ENERGETIC IMAGES/ - BOOK AND DVDS!
[3]We are about to finish our new multimedia anthology: /Józef
Robakowski: Energetic Images/ (book and three DVD programs). It will
be the most extensive monograph that has ever appeared about energy
and the bio- mechanical element in films and video arts of Józef
Robakowski - one of the most important figures in contemporary Polish
art scene. In addition to the text, the publication includes a three
part remastered anthology of Robakowski's videos, films and
performance documents from 1970 to 2005 (over 200 minutes!).
Circulation: 1 000 copies.
/Read the foreword:/
The concept of Energetic Images arose in connection with a
presentation of Robakowski's works at the 51st Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival, and was compiled by the artist in
collaboration with Piotr Krajewski, the curator of the project. The
collection assembled for that event has been expanded to include
works made available specifically for this edition, and has been
arranged into three parts, each presented on a separate DVD,
focussing in turn on the energy of light, the energy of
bio-mechanical recordings, and the energy of the artist's
relationship with reality. All of the works have been remastered for
this publication from the best possible source recordings, and retain
their historical character and the aesthetic idiosyncracies of the
particular eras of technological development they arose in-qualities
that are closely linked with the self-referential aspects of
Robakowski's work.
The book opens with a reprint of an article by Patrycia Grzonka (a
Swiss-born art historian and critic working in Vienna) which
accompanied the 2006 publication of Robakowski's /Energy Manifesto!/
published by ARGE INDEX (Vienna) in collaboration with the WRO
Foundation. The article emphasizes Robakowski's tendency to push the
boundaries of the genres and media he works with, which has won him
acclaim in both fine arts and film circles.
The second text is an article by Piotr Krajewski discussing the
phenomenon of Robakowski's creative processes as autonomous activity
that has for decades resisted prevailing tendencies in art, valuing
expression and exploration far more than compliance with current
trends. At the same time, his creative stance, in which conceptual
and analytical elements are inextricably intertwined with individual
expression, has exerted a profound influence on the artistic
environment and on contemporary Polish art in general. Tracing this
artistic stance and its major significance through works from various
periods characterized by different predominating genres-structrual
film, expanded cinema, video art, new expressionism, post-banalism -
the article illustrates how Robakowski has immediately departed from
the boundaries of each given artistic paradigm, regardless of how
prevalent it was at the time. This outline of Robakowski's artistic
development is suppleme nted by notes on selected works, based on the
artist's own remarks.
The third section is /Video Conversations 1989 - 2005: Always
Looking for the World of the Future/, compiled by Katarzyna Roj (a
young art historian): a selection of Robakowski's statements from
conversations and interviews conducted by Violetta Kutlubasis-
Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski and Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka. The
sequentially arranged collection of the artist's views on the
inter-related themes of the forms, fields and contexts of creativity
and the sources of inspiration and vitality in art was gleaned from
materials recorded for television during various WRO events - the WRO
International Media Art Biennale (1989 - 2005), the WRO Polish Monitor
survey of Polish media art (1994 and 1996) and the WRO Media
Expressions 98 multimedia performance festival - and during
conversations with the artist in his studio in Łódź. The selection
provides a look at the artist directly through source materials as
they are being read now.
Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska
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Publisher: WRO Foundation/ WRO Art Center in collaboration with
Polish Audiovisual Publishers, in partnership with the Museum of
Modern Art Warsaw | With funding from the Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage (the program "Znaki Czasu" - National Center of
Culture) | Publikation wurde aus den Mitteln des Kulturministeriums
der Republik Polen im Rahmen des Deutsch-Polnischen Jahres 2005/2006
veröffentlicht. | co - sponsored by the Wroclaw Municipal
Authorities
3. NET REVIEW
http://processing.org[11], http://dbn.media.mit.edu[12],
http://vvvv.meso.net[13]
Interesting developments on the boundaries of design and media art.
The creative tools which bring together programming and creative
process, and transport software explorations into the sphere of
artistic creation, are gaining popularity. These tools, such as
Processing, Design by Numbers or VVVV, take the form of profiled
programming languages or modular systems (visual languages). This
way, they manage to avoid the artificial GUI metaphors, which usually
force artists to carry out their work in the ways distant to the
nature of digital media.
http://puredata.info[14], http://eyesweb.org[15],
http://osw.sourceforge.net[16]
Visual programming languages, despite noticeable limitations of
their modular architecture, have radically reshaped the practice of
creating interactive media artwork, such as installations, artistic
and theatrical performances or concerts. Not only do they give
artists and programmers vast possibilities of creating interactive
structures, but they also feature user interfaces conceptually
related to the modular sound synthesizer, which has been known in
music for nearly a century. Initially developed mainly by IRCAM,
Paris, the idea of modular languages has now become widespread. In
addition to Pure Data, the unrivalled king of such systems, there are
some other noteworthy realisations of the "visual programming"
concept.
http://crca.ucsd.edu/%7Emsp/techniques/latest/book-html[17]
"The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music", Miller Puckette. A
thorough account of means and practices of electronic music is an
ambitious project, for one because of the dynamic changes that the
industry constantly undergoes. But, although the constant technical
changes make it impossible to take a still from the state-of-the-art,
that wouldn't become an involunary historical account, the
physiological foundations of hearing and the theory of digital signal
generation and processing, placed in the context of music theory, are
surely a solid groundwork for music composition systems and
performance practices in experimental (or not) electronic music.
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