Synaesthesia/2: Space and Perception

Madi Boyd
Carrie C Firman

Opening: 25.1.2013, 8 PM
Exhibition runs: 26.01. - 10.03.2013
Open: Fri-Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment. Open on 30 and 31 January during the Transmediale 13.


Inquiries into the nature of Space and Perception are the basis of Art Laboratory Berlin's second exhibition in the Synaesthesia series. Synaesthesia, the experience of two or more sensory impressionsat the same time, is both an artistic paradigm and neurological phenomenon. Two installations by Madi Boyd and Carrie C Firman explore the connection between perception and experience of mind and body from a synaesthetic point of view.

 Madi Boyd, The Point of Perception, installation, 2009/13

 Madi Boyd is a synaesthete from Great Britain, whose artistic work focuses on perception and the brain. In collaboration with neuro-scientists, Dr. Mark Lythgoe and Dr. Beau Lotto, from University College London her work incorporates and combines installation, film and sculpture. Her recent project The Point of Perception explores how much information the human brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. It is an art experience and scientific arena about vision. The installation uses moving image and built environments to confuse depth perception and is designed to act specifically on the human eye and brain to create a space of uncertainty. A newly developed version of the project will be presented at Art Laboratory Berlin with the addition of sound and colour. The idea is to assign musical notes and colours to specific points in the gridded space, in order to explore perception of geometric space and sound.

  

















Carrie Firman, Synexperience, installation 2010-11
 
Carrie C Firman is an emerging electronic artist from the US. She is a synaesthete and her work is inspired by studying and experiencing the crossing of senses. She sees synaesthesia not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also a fantastic world interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual experiences. Her current work encourages its participants to reconsider their perception as an entirely unique phenomenon, helping them to come to the realization that even most basic level of perception differs widely between otherwise similar individuals. Firman's installation Synexperience as well as her interactive digital work My Synesthetic Library invite viewers to share in her own unique perceptual experience of the world.
-Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz (curators)

Synaesthesia/ 2: Space and Perception is part of the reSource 003: P2P Vorspiel of the transmediale 2013  and CTM.13.

With the generous support of:



The Synaesthesia series is supported in part by a generous gift from Michael Schröder.


Media partner:

Art Laboratory Berlin Awarded Prize for Project Spaces

We are pleased to announce that Art Laboratory Berlin is one of the winners of the first Prize for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives in the Field of Visual Arts awarded by the Berlin Senate Office of Cultural Affairs.

The award honours the commitment and work of those operating project spaces and initiatives. "The award serves" according to the Senate Office of Cultural Affairs, "to support them, to secure the existing diversity and to make the activities of art project spaces and initiatives in Berlin more visible."

The prize ceremony takes place on 27 February, 2013 under the auspices of State Secretary for Culture André Schmitz

A complete statement from Art Laboratory Berlin on the award can be found at: http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/assets/pdf/ALB_statement_for_prize_DE_ENG.pdf

Time and Technology at Mutamorphosis

Photos from the Time and Technology panel at Mutamorphosis. A Tribute to Uncertainty. 7 December 2012

Photos courtesy of CIANT

Art Laboratory Berlin concludes the Time and Technology series with a panel at the conference:
Mutamorphosis. A Tribute to Uncertainty in Prague (6-8 December)
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/

The Time and Technology series concludes with a panel at the

7 December 11.00-13.00
Time and Technology
Attractors: Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz

Gretta Louw  Controlling_Connectivity
Daniel Belasco Rogers & Sophia New Narrating Our Lines
Ellen Sebring Atmosphere: Disorientation in Visual Narrative as a Time Traveler’s Tool
Yasuhiro Sakamoto Sound Sculptures as Embodiment of Cross-modal Gesamtgestalt

Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz: Technological developments over the past 25 years have altered our lives. The computer, its graphic user interface (GUI), the internet, mobile telephones have revolutionized work, leisure and communication. How has this effected our sense of time? On one hand new technologies make communication cheaper and more efficient. On the other hand working hours have increased, and the line between work and leisure blurred. New genetics is altering the speed of evolution. Computers function in time spans incomprehensible to us. The market place demands more productivity in shorter periods; while medicine promises to expand our life span. How exactly are these technological advances influencing our sense(s) of time? How have technological changes over the last 25 years changed and influenced our perception of time, how we structure our time, plan our days, and live our lives? Do these changes alter our biology? What are the conflicts between different ‘types of time:’ biological, subjective, objective, social, etc.? What is the contemporary connection between time and space – actual space, virtual space vs. actual time and virtual time? Methodology: By combining scientific and scholarly papers (science and humanities) together with presentations by media artists – targeting the intersection & serendipitous overlapping momentum of ‘time & technology’ in our current society – , we are looking for(ward to) a sustainable synergy between theory and practice.

Mutamorphosis. A Tribute to Uncertainty is presented by CIANT

Synaesthesia/1: The Orange Smell of November

Barbara Ryan
Annette Stahmer

On view through 16 December

 'That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985!' (installation view)

Opening. (Barbara Ryan, left)

Barbara Ryan,  'That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985!'
(detail)

Barbara Ryan,  'That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985!'
(detail)

Barbara Ryan,  'That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985!'
(detail), Annette Stahmer 'A ist Blau' in background

Photos courtesy Barbara Ryan

Interdisciplinary, Discoursive, not Market -oriented: The special importance of free project spaces and initiatives for the visual arts in Berlin

 

Interdisziplinär . diskursiv . nicht marktorientiert

Zur besonderen Bedeutung von freien Projekträumen
und -initiativen für die bildende Kunst in Berlin

Samstag 17. November 2012, 19 Uhr

Präsentation der Studie Projekträume:
Vitales, aber fragiles Herz der Kunstszene
von Séverine Marguin (Kunstsoziologin, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg + EHESS Paris)

Podiumsdiskussion:
Leonie Baumann (Rektorin Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, Mitinitiatorin der Initiative Stadt Neudenken)
Jan Ketz (Kurator, Betreiber Raum für Zweckfreiheit)
Andreas Koch (Künstler, Herausgeber der Zeitschrift von hundert)
Heike Catherina Mertens (Vorstand Kultur, Schering Stiftung)
Daniela Wolf (Co-Projektleiterin SYNAPSE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)

Moderation: Detlev Schneider (Theater- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Kurator)

Anschließend besteht die Möglichkeit, bei einem Get-together ins Gespräch zu kommen.

Livestream ab 19 Uhr [hier... ]

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

http://www.hkw.de/

Eine Veranstaltung des Netzwerks freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen
mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt im Rahmen von SYNAPSE - das Internationale Kuratorennetzwerk, unterstützt vom bbk berlin e. V.

http://www.projektraeume-berlin.net/001/

(the presentation and posium discussion will be in German)

Synaesthesia/ I: The Orange Smell of November

Vernissage on 26  October, 2012

Barbara Ryan (right)

'That can't be the September - it smells like the August of 1985!' by Barbara Ryan

Opening presentation 'The Orange Smell of November'

Works by Annette Stahmer

'A ist Blau' by Annette Stahmer

Art Laboratory Berlin/ Newsletter November 2012

Art Laboratory Berlin is happy to announce the following projects:

The Orange Smell of November @ ALB
As part of the new series Synaesthesia, Art Laboratory Berlin presents the exhibition Synaesthesia/ I: The Orange Smell of November with new works by Barbara Ryan and Annette Stahmer.
27 October – 16 December, 2012, Fri-Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment (30 November: open until 10 PM)
Last exhibition day 16 December, 2012, 3PM: Artist talk with Annette Stahmer (from 4.30 PM Finissage)http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/home_eng.htm

Art Laboratory Berlin at MutaMorphosis
Art Laboratory Berlin will present the series Time & Technology at the international conference MutaMorphosis in Prague (6.-8.12.2012).
Panel led by Regine Rapp (DE) & Christian de Lutz (US)
Gretta Louw (DE/ AUS) | Controlling_Connectivity
Daniel Belasco Rogers (DE/ GB) & Sophia New (DE/ GB) | Narrating Our Lines
Ellen Sebring (US) MIT| Atmosphere: Disorientation in Visual Narrative as a Time Traveler’s Tool
Dr. Yasuhiro Sakamoto (DE/ JP) | Sound Sculptures as Embodiment of Cross-modal Gesamtgestalthttp://mutamorphosis.org/2012/

Recommendation for a special event:Interdisciplinary - Discursive - Not Market-Oriented
Highlighting the Special Importance of Independent Project Spaces and Art Initiatives in BerlinPanel discussion & presentation of the study on Project Spaces in Berlin: Vital but Fragile Heart of the Art Scene by Séverine Marguin
17th November 2012, 7 PM
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Theatersaal)
John Foster Dulles Allee 10, Berlin Tiergarten
http://www.hkw.de/en/div/veranstaltungen/Veranstaltungsdetail_81204.php

Next Synaesthesia Exhibition: 26.01. - 10.03.2013  Synaesthesia/ II with new works by Carrie Firman and Madi Boyd
Vernissage: 25.01, 8 PM
More information coming soon

28 October, 2012, 4PM - Artist talk and workshop with Barbara Ryan

Part of the exhibition

Synaesthesia / I: The Orange Smell of November

Art Laboratory Berlin invites you to an artist talk and workshop with Barbara Ryan as part of the opening weekend of the first exhibition of the Synaesthesia series, The Orange Smell of November.

The artist Barbara Ryan’s perceptions of the world are underpinned by her polymodal synaesthesia which in turn forms the foundation of her artistic work. She experiences her synaesthesia »as something that is in her parallel conscious – as opposed to something that is in the subconscious – creating a duality of vision«. Her installation That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985! combines in a unique way the artist’s intimate personal interconnecting relationship between scent, colour, time and space, played out within the city of Berlin, where she lived in the 1990s.

The installation is a coded re-creation of her sense of space and time as imbued with colour and odour. Using text, photography and self-manufactured fragrances she re-maps the city according to the systematic guidelines of her own synaesthesia. The viewer is then invited to explore and decode the artist's unique phenomenological structures.
(More informaton on the exhibition)

Synaesthesia / I: The Orange Smell of November

Barbara Ryan
Annette Stahmer
 


Opening: 26 October, 2012, 8PM
Exhibition runs: 27 October – 16 December, 2012
Open: Fri-Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment

As part of the new series Synaesthesia, Art Laboratory Berlin presents the first exhibition The Orange Smell of November with new works by Barbara Ryan and Annette Stahmer.
The term "synaesthesia", from the Greek "aisthesis" ("Sensation", "sensory impression") and "syn" ("together") meaning the experience of two or more sensory impressions at the same time, is both an artistic paradigm and neurological phenomena.

The artist Barbara Ryan’s perceptions of the world are underpinned by her polymodal synaesthesia which in turn forms the foundation of her artistic work. She experiences her synaesthesia »as something that is in her parallel conscious – as opposed to something that is in the subconscious, creating a duality of vision«. Her installation That can’t be September – it smells like the August of 1985! combines in a unique way the artist’s intimate personal relationship between scent, color, time and space, played out within the city of Berlin, where she lived in the 1990s.

The work of the Berlin typographer and artist Annette Stahmer revolves around language, the relationship between voice and writing, the act of writing, palimpsests and synaesthesia. The two videos in the exhibition - A ist blau and Synästhetische Bilder I - IV - show the artist's mother, a synaesthete who connects vowels with certain colours. The focus is on language that, following this internal logic, serves not only as a description of this phenomena, but becomes in itself material, assuming colour and consistency. Therefore it evokes within the listener poetic, almost surreal images.


With the generous support of:


Synaesthesia is supported in part by a generous gift from Michael Schröder.



Media partner:

Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto mit Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Vernissage - 31 August, 2012

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model.

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period.

Time & Technology

Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Opening: 31 August, 2012 8PM
Exhibition runs: 1 September - 14 October, 2012
Opening hours: Fri - Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment

Yasuhiro Sakamoto & Iñigo Giner Miranda, String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine, 2012 (sketch)

Dave Hebb, Monitor, 2010-12

 

 

 

 

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Embodiment of Time, which is part of the series Time & Technology, and opens at the end of August.

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model. This sound sculpture interprets the term music in the broadest sense as an organization of time, which not only creates purely tonal material, but also patterns of movement (rolling marbles, turning wheels, pendulums, etc.) and optical patterns (e.g. video), presenting a significant contribution to our understanding of the ever more complex relation we have to time in the 21st century.

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period. Hebb placed a computer monitor outdoors and over the entire year documenting the changes to the environment several times a week. Viewers are challenged to reflect on their individual relationships with nature and technology as well as how technology is effecting our experience of time.

Curated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz

With the generous support of:

  


Senate Office of Cultural Affairs - Berlin

Media partner:

 More at:http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm

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For a short time only, here is your chance to win an all week pass worth €128 to Campus Party Europe in Berlin for FREE! In this drawing ArtLaboratory Berlin is giving away 20 tickets. The ticket will give you full access to all of the great events taking place at Campus Party: 400 hours of talks, debates and workshops on nine stages as well as competitions and hackathons with a prize pool of €80,000. (more information here )

Embodiment of Time - opening 31 August, 2012

Next exhibition :

Time & Technology

Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Opening: 31 August, 2012 8PM
Exhibition runs: 1 September - 14 October, 2012
Opening hours: Fri - Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment

Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda, 
 String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine, 2012 (sketch)



Dave Hebb, Monitor, 2010-12

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Embodiment of Time, which is part of the series Time & Technology, and opens at the end of August. 

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model. 

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period.
(more information)

Curated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz

With the generous support of:

 
Senate Office of Cultural Affairs - Berlin

The Time & Technology series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Michael Schröder.

Media partner: