The Invisible Generation / Call for contribution / Melbourne

Hello everyone,

You are all invited to contribute to the Archive of instructions part of The Invisible Generation, an evolving project that Vision Forum presents in different cities, starting from Melbourne in early September at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
We look forward in receiving your intructions for: actions, performances, temporary artworks, objects and social situations, scores and sonic interventions. To find out more just redirect your browser to:

The Invisible Generation

All the best,

Daniele and Per.

amsterdam: birdcage episode 2

Thanks Yane for posting the program of the symposium which sounds really inspiring. IJburg was also the location of a nice tour conducted by Thijs de Zeeuw and Frank Rietveld, as part of last year Amsterdam VF workshop on utopias / distopias.

Speaking about Amsterdam, I'll be there this week, bringing the 'birdcage' sound gallery to an empty store located in Zeedijk street. The performative intervention by dj sniff is scheduled for next saturday 04/07 and will feature as well Audrey Chen (US), Wun Thong (AU) and Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL). More info here.
I also look forward in meeting you, Yane, Natasha and Yang Zhifei to hear more about your VF projects.

all the best,

Daniele

Out of the Blue - international symposium in Amsterdam

Dear all,
I send you info on "Out of The Blue" - an international symposium on Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History that i am curating and that takes place in Amsterdam in August. The section organized by Paul O’Neill "Accelerated History: Is Time Enough? Duration, Location and Accelerated Histories" I am sure will provoke interest.
If interested do sign up soon!


all the best, 
Yane

Full info bellow:

Out of The Blue
An international symposium on Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History.
August 3rd - 9th 2009
The Blue House
IJburg - Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.blauwehuis.org

To register please contact: info@blauwehuis.org
Deadline for registration: Monday, July 20th, 2009.
Additional information contact:
Ria Hartley, production assistant at: moteloutoftheblue@gmail.com


Out of The Blue is an international symposium organized by The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis) focusing on three main navigational strands in understanding experimental communities: Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History. The curator of the symposium is Yane Calovski. It is part of Blue House project 'Parade of Urbanism' from Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori in collaboration with Floris van Heynsbergen.

Out of The Blue is as a discursive forum where a number of investigative questions will be articulated via workshops, intense dialogues, in-conversations, study sessions, public deliberation plenaries, performances, and discussions with a number of guests on stage.

The initiator and main organizer is The Blue House, a four-year durational project initiated in IJburg, a new city extension of Amsterdam. IJburg is a major new urban district being developed on a cluster of man-made islands to the east of Amsterdam city centre. The whole development is governed by a highly detailed plan, the implementation of which is strictly regulated.
(...)
Read the full program on the Blue House web site 

Arousing Your Curiosity

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all fine and that your life, love and work provide you with satisfaction.

I am preparing for a video piece and got carried away on the wings of poetry. So even though I cannot use it in the work I want to share the text with you along with some pix from a connected performance from last year.

Love/Per



It is sitting watching its favourite plant that looks a bit like a maize stalk. The beautiful and majestic marvel grows out of soil that is mixed with digital hardware and books on logic. The traces of mouldy pages, small pieces of broken circuit board are scattered on the ground.

It can sit there for hours and watch how the equations change on its long, narrow leaves and how the muscular stalk is generating new number-series as it is vibrating in the wind.

The most rewarding moment of the day is when the sun sets and it can burn a few dried larvae in the incense module and hook the plant up to its digital interface and watch it generate more beautiful algorithms than it thought were possible.



















It is watching the plant and sipping on its favourite oolong tea. The last dying rays of the sun spin through the treetops. It looks at some print-outs of the equations that the plant generates today.
“You must be very proud,” I say.
“Oh, I am.” its voice is deep and confident. There is not a twitch of surprise at hearing my voice.
“You really have achieved marvels in your garden, don’t you want to share your discoveries with the world?”
“No, not really. This is my sanctuary. I only do it for my own pleasure. I have been chasing too many rainbows in my life. Now I want to find pleasure, that's all.”
“Hmm, I like that.”
“What about you? Why do you do what you do?”
“That is a good question,” I can hear my own silence.
“And what is the answer?”
“Calm my friend, that is a very good question and I will reply when you are ready for it, OK?”

open call: to be here and there: general relativity and quantum physics

Hello,

there's an open call for a publication at Plastik - art & science (La Sorbonne University, Paris), which sounds very interesting. Here some excerpts :
(...) Some innovative theories, such as the quantum theory of gravitation, string theory and their extensions, mark a new way of thinking of a complete description of the Universe. The utopian goal consists of unifying these two pillars of modern science which are the most evolved and the most apt to explain the Universe. In this view it would indeed be possible to bring about every physicist's dream of unifying in a single theory the ultimate equation that could explain the Universe.

(...)The relationship between art and science, which we aim to analyse through this publication, can take the form of: a collaboration between artists and scientists – appropriation and exploration of scientific procedures by artists – visual propositions echoing the scientific problems – scientific research based on a hypothesis formulated through a work of art.

Read more

Deadline 15th of June, 2009 >> extended to September

MA show in Stockholm this week

Inside Out Aasa Ersmark

I will screen this video piece together with other videoworks and sculptures at my class' MA show at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm 28th of may-15th of june. For more info, see my blog and visit www.kkh.se .

non conservation laws

My contribution to visionforum deals with my recent ongoing project "Non Conservation Laws". The project is both an artistic and curatorial attempt to question temporality and emergence within production-distribution-consumption processes, in the context of globalization and network.

Theoretical surroundings
- Linear logic (Jean-Yves Girard, LIGC)
- Storytelling (Christian Salmon)
- Scale Free Networks and Web 2.0 (Albert-Laszlo Barabasi)
- Aesthetics by numbers (Komar & Melamid, Franco Moretti, Christophe Bruno...)
- La topologie et le temps (Jacques Lacan, séminaire XXIV)

Christophe Bruno

Some Inspiration - Returning to the Roots

In his seminal 1968 publication, Rabelais and his World Mikhail Bakhtin returns to the Medieval world where he finds a kind of paradise of human freedom that has been lost. He published this in the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war and he talks about the carnival and other medieval events where social structures were temporarily turned on their heads.

In the quote below he writes about the birth of the word “grotesque” which comes from a time when Roman ornaments were found in Titus’s baths, that were uncovered in the 15th century. Bakhtin writes:

“What is the character of these ornaments? They impressed the connoisseurs by the extremely fanciful, free and playful treatment of plant, animal and human forms. These forms seemed interwoven as if given birth to each other. The borderlines that divide the kingdoms of nature in the normal world were boldly infringed. Neither was there the usual static presentation of reality. There was no longer the movement of finished forms, vegetable or animal, in a finished and stable world; instead the inner movement of being itself was expressed in the passing of one form into the other, in the ever incompleted character of being. This ornamental interplay revealed an extreme lightness and freedom of artistic fantasy, a gay, almost laughing, libertinage.”

What I find so inspiring in this quote (especially the phrase in italics) is that Bakhtin in the medieval finds a reformulation of time and temporality along with a total acceptance of change. Through this reformulation of time, he finds a new form of human freedom. It goes hand in hand with the ideas of Vision Forum this year. We have to reformulate time in order to become free, be it through dreams, science or a physical journey across cultural borders.

MA show in Stockholm

Volcano, Aasa Ersmark

I will screen this video piece together with other videoworks and sculptures at my class' MA show at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm 28th of may-15th of june. For more info, see my blog and visit www.kkh.se .

Practicalities: what program are you on?

check on the following document in which program you are enrolled:
click here

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.

receipt