grey) (area . Korcula
> AnneMarie Maes: Sensorial Skin / Guerilla Beehive > > 03 - 30 . 8 . 2017 > > curator: Darko Fritz > > http://sivazona.hr/events/koza-gerilska-kosnica > > opening and artist talk . Thursday August 3rd . 21 - 23 h > The exhibition reveals a part of author's long-term research towards the > Intelligent Guerilla Beehive. The project is on the edge between art and > science, focusing on issues of sustainability, more specifically the survival > of the honeybee species, and using new materials and new digital fabrication > technologies, more specifically, sustainable bio-plastics. AnneMarie Maes is > awarded Honorary mention in the Hybrid Art category of the Ars Electronica > Festival 2017, for the project ‘Sensorial Skin for a Guerilla Beehive’ > > The visual language in this installation is multilayered. Every artifact is > the outcome of a particular experiment. All objects are part of a larger > development for building and fine-tuning an Intelligent Guerilla Beehive, a > mobile shelter for homeless honeybees. This radically new device tackles a > domain where human and non-human actors collaborate to maintain the > resilience of an ecosystem in decline. > > In the Laboratory for Form and Matter AnneMarie Maes works with a range of > biotic and abiotic elements. She views this lab as open environment for > experimentation, a space for contradiction, criticism and evaluation. She > combines organic components such as vegetal matter, propolis and chitine, > with living systems such as fungi and bacteria to create artifacts for the > future. Author's micro-organisms grow biofabrics and she researches how these > membranes can be enhanced and made useful through embedded electronics and > how more sensorial qualities can be implemented in these membranes via living > technology. > Navigating between blueprints and ‘Proof of Concept’, her objects can be > classified as ‘Future Archaeology’: fragments of a Forgotten World as well as > fragments of a World To Come. > > The hive is a system of homeostasis, a property that regulates its internal > environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition of properties > like temperature or pH. It can be either an open or closed system. As nature > is polluted by industries in most countries of so-called "first world" (that > includes Belgium, where Maes operates from) it shows that bees start to > prefer less polluted urban environment than very polluted nature full of > pesticides, fertilizers and so on. Monitoring bees shows the state of > biocoenosis (biological community, ecological community, coined by Karl > Möbius in 1877). That includes the broader environment with all its > inhabitants, whereby humans are acting as the most influential change-makers. > > Bruno Latour urged that we - humans - must rework our thinking to conceive > the existence of the “Parliament of Things” [We have never been modern, 1993] > whereby natural phenomena, social phenomena and the discourse about them are > not seen as separate objects to be studied by specialists, but as hybrids > made and scrutinized by the public interaction of people, things and > concepts. Following Latour, we could think of the possibility of > conceptualizing larger networks where non-human actors resist programmed > subdue frame of proportion and appear rendered by being observed in the light > of processes they take part in. > > AnneMarie Maes is an artist and researcher. Her work incorporates sculpture, > photography, video, installation and public participation. She creates > projects that stimulate the development of a more sustainable world. Her > research practice combines art and science with a strong interest for DIY > technologies. > Her installations and long term projects – such as the Transparent Beehive, > Urban Corridors or the Politics of Change – use a range of biological, > digital and traditional media, including live organisms. She makes use of > technological mediation to search for new forms of communication with the > natural world, to make the invisible visible. > AnneMarie Maes is the founding director of the Urban Bee Lab and has for > decades been a recognized leader pioneering art-science projects in Belgium, > using highly original ways to bring out hidden structures in nature by > constructing original technological methods to probe the living world and by > translating that in artistic creations through sonification, visualization, > sculptures, large-scale long-term installations, workshops, lectures and > books. > She has a strong international profile, having exhibited (amongst others) at > Bozar in Brussels, Koç University Gallery in Istanbul, Borges Center in > Buenos Aires, Arsenals Museum in Riga, Skolska Gallery in Prague, the > Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, the Designmuseum in Mons and > the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. > She is affiliated to the artist collective Okno Brussels. She has managed > several international art projects granted by EU Culture and she collaborates > on regular basis with science groups in Brussels, Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo. > > > AnneMarie Maes at the exhibition of Sensorial Skin at the grey) (area > gallery, Korčula > > AnneMarie Maes: lightboxes left: Scanning Electron Micrograph (honeybee > tongue); right: Microbial Skin with organic leftovers (insects) > Facebook > > Website > > email > > unsubscribe update my contact > > Grey Area: Kovački prolaz 2 . Korčula . daily 21 - 22 h > > supported by > Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia > Endowment Kultura Nova > HTP Korčula / Korčula Hotels > Korčula Town ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
