Calabi-Yau Presents - a brief intro.

Hello,

Within the framework of the project (Anti)Realism and in my latest solo-show in Sweden (all work shown are entitled Calabi-Yau Presents), we have carried out some public events in Liverpool, Melbourne, Rome and on the Swedish west cost. They all deal in various ways with alternative views on temporality and play with how we perceive time and space.

Many of the themes in the two exhibitions, tie in neatly with your projects and can function as a starting ground for further discussions. You find more detailed documentation on:

http://calabi-yau-presents.blogspot.com/

Kay Abude, Amy Johannes, Makiko Yamamoto and Ellen Taylor realized the project in Melbourne; Antonio Venti and Adrianne Drake worked with me in Rome; Karin Ekman Johansson, Angelika Fernlund, Elisabeth Kihlström , Cecilia Jönsson , Mikael Sörhuus, Chris Magnusson, Anders Olofson, Britta Persson, Ida-Britta Petrelius and Marcus Jonsson carried out the interventions in Gerlesborg and Angelica Vanasse, Rob Flynn, and Niamh Flanagan worked together in Liverpool and Daniele Balit improvised in Paris.

two hundred light years

We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. It means, for a start, that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. So they’re not seeing you and me. They’re watching the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson and people in silk stockings and powdered wigs – people who don’t know what an atom is, or a gene, and who make their electricity by rubbing a rod of amber with a piece of fur and think that’s quite a trick. Any message we receive from these observers is likely to begin ‘Dear Sire’, and congratulate us on the handsomeness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. Two hundred light years is a distance so far beyond us as to be, well, just beyond us.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

new participants

Gerrie van Noord, Yulia Usova, Loulou Cherinet and Juan-Pedro Fabra are the new participants and their new page is ready to be edited. welcome!

Your Details

Hey Everyone,

It is great to read about all your exciting projects!

I look forward to more.

Can you fill out you details (address, phone etc.) on:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p4-8kseiuE9rd80ygovDWAg&hl=en

all the best/P

Hello and Welcome

Welcome to the new vision forum blog. This will be a central tool for Vision Forum 2009.

All of you who have agreed to join VF 2009 find your own blog to the left. to edit the blog and fill in the necessary information just go to your dashboard, having logged in with your gmail account.

If your name isn't there and you are ready to join us in 2009, just let us know and we will set up a blog for you.

If you have any questions regarding the blog just contact Daniele on:

dbalit (at) fastwebnet.it

All the Best/PH

A beautiful little film about time.

Hello Everyone,

Here is an amazing introduction to the higher dimensions in mathematics and physics which is also very interesting in terms of temporality:

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

Get ready, this little clip will change your life forever.

xoxo/P

Timeline of Vision Forum 2009

February 09 - First draft of projects are posted on the weblog.

* March-May 09–development of projects and formulation of events.

* April 1-10 you will enrol at Linköpings universitet. This will be done online (information will be sent to you via e-mail). If you have not studied in Sweden before you need to provide your postal address, e-mail, date of birth and a scanned version of your BA or MA diploma (see how to do this below).

* June 09 – description of events sent in.

* July 09, you will be given a list of events that you can participate in during autumn 2009.

* September 09 – you pay your fee to the university (270 SEK in 2008). You also send in a short project description to the university.

* August 09-January 10  - realisation of projects and events. (Note that is also the time that you can access your budget. No reimbursements will be made before August 15.)

* January-February 10 – evaluation.

procedure for reimbursement

Routine for reimbursements of your costs and handling of receipts

The routine for reimbursements of your costs and handling of receipts has been slightly changed. Your expenditures will be reimbursed as soon you have used up your entire budget (one payment per term) and you have sent the original receipts plus one photocopy to Per:

Per Hüttner

143 Boulevard de Magenta

75010 Paris

France

1. Tape up all the receipts on A4-sheets – see example here: receipts.jpg

2. Make two photocopies of the sheet(s). (Keep one for your own reference and send one to Per)

3. Make an excel-file where you sum up all your costs and convert to Swedish kronor. You can make conversions on www.xe.com/ucc . Make sure that the numbers of the receipts correspond to your list.

You find a template that you can use here: example.xls

4. Include a paper which has the following information:

Your Name and Address,

Your Bank's BIC address

Your Bank account's IBAN number

5.Name of the course that you are taking:

Tvärmedial gestaltning och samtidskonst 739G01,

Utställningen som medium 739G08,
Tvärmedial gestaltning och samtidskonst, avancerad 739A22,
Utställningen som medium, avancerad 7739A23,
KG MASTER-projekt (Swedish master) 739A25,
INT. MASTER 2009 – 739A35

6. e-mail your BIC and IBAN to: pah@swipnet.se

Please note:

- that you will be reimbursed for costs related to travel (tickets, accommodation etc) and material costs. If you buy inventory (e.g. computer hardware, camera equipment etc.) this will belong to LiU and will have to be returned when you finish the course.
- that costs for food, web-hotels and domain names will only in special cases be reimbursed.

- that if you do not follow the above, your documents will be returned to you.

Vision Forum 2009

Vision Forum is an experimental think tank which provides an informal, open platform for developing new ways to expand and enrich contemporary culture. The forum offers a group of cultural practioners the opportunity to get together to share experiences and to deepen their own curatorial or artistic practices through inter-disciplinary projects and collaborative networking. The emphasis is on a visionary, rather than critical, and practical, rather than analytical, approach.

In its first year, Vision Forum participants examined visionary strategies in architecture, artistic production and curatorial practice. Meetings and events took place in Guangzhou, Amsterdam, Rome, Zürich, Norrköping and Stockholm.

In 2009, its second year, Vision Forum will investigate time and temporality. Using contemporary theories outside the field of art (including mathematics, physics and pyschoanalysis), Vision Forum will develop alternative strategies and visionary ways to think about time and to push the boundaries of art. Through research, discussion and production, Vision Forum will explore the theory of the ‘multiverse’ and imaginary time.

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