Synapse Workshop 2013 | Presentation by Rich Pell, Center for PostNatural History | Photo: Dante Busquets /courtesy hkw.de see link below...

Christian de Lutz and Regine Rapp are taking part in the curators' conference and workshop SYNAPSE at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2015/synapse_2015/start_synapse.php) from 30 June-4 July, 2015, and are moderating several panels including including one featuring the artist Rachel Mayeri and biologists and philosopher Cord Reichelmann.

SYNAPSE is not not open to the general public but an associated event on 2 July will be: Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologist a Performance by Coco Fusco  

Plan Bienen - A project by Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan

26-28 June, 2015 - Plan Bienen
A project by Tessa Zettel and Sumugan SivanesanOpening: 26 June from 8PM
Brunch and Talk: 28 June 12-2PM
Viewing open 27-28 June, 2015 from 2-6 PM

Plan Bienen is an ongoing research project developed by Sydney-based artists Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan during their residency at ZK/U - Centre for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin in 2014.
With Plan Bienen the artists attempt to make real and speculative connections between two parallel crises – one within European economic systems and the other in honeybee ecologies. Considering Berlin’s development as a multicultural ‘creative’ capital, the artists take the local histories and current popularity of urban beekeeping as an entry point to explore expanded possibilities for non-monetary economies and new social habits already present within Berlin’s food systems, intercultural gardens, migrant networks and ‘hausprojekts’. In the process they ask what kinds of promising ‘more-than-human’ futures might today’s city bees lead us towards.

‘Plan Bienen: Statements of Profit and Loss,’ will be open Friday evening, as well as Saturday and Sunday from 2-6PM, and will show documents and artefacts generated by the project. On Sunday 28 June there will also be a brunch and conversation, 'Rates of Exchange—A Discursive Sonntagsbrunch', discussing exchange and relations in the multispecies city, from 12-2PM.

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Tessa Zettel is an interdisciplinary artist who works to create possible futures from forgotten pasts. Her participatory, site-based projects often involve forms of exchange and new relationships with obscured cultural practices and knowledge.
As an ‘anti-disciplinary’ artist, Sumugan Sivanesan works with a multiplicity of media. His installations, performances, videos and texts present a space for discussion and intervention.
Cooperation Partners: ZKU - Centre for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin Food Art Week
This project is supported by the Australian Artists' Grant. The Australian Artists’ Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts

Photos by Tim Deussen ©2015

Joseph Nechvatal - artist talk with noise music concert of his piece 3 pOstmOrtem

Opening - bOdy pandemOnium. Immersion into Noise - works by Joseph Nechvatal

Christian de Lutz and Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Venture, 2009

Joseph Nechvatal, rear windOw curiOsite´s (2012)

Joseph Nechvatal, frOnt windOw retinal autOmata>

bOdy pandemOnium
Immersion into Noise
works by Joseph Nechvatal

Opening: 24 April 2015, 8PM
Artist Talk & Noise Music Concert: 25 April, 2PM
Exhibition runs: 25 April – 21 June 2015
Opening hours: Fri-Sun, 2-6PM and by appointment

J. Nechvatal, frOnt windOw retinal autOmata, 2012,
Computer-Roboter gesteuertes Gemälde, 2x2m

Joseph Nechvatal (born in 1951 in Chicago) is a post-conceptual artist working in digital art. He is one of the most important pioneers of 'new media art,' but at the same time makes use of 'old media' (such as painting and drawing). What is phenomenal, and in our opinion relevant to the 21st century, is that his paintings are created through a use of custom artificial life software and computer robotics.

The exhibition, subtitled Immersion into Noise, is Nechvatal’s first solo show in Berlin and presents recent works to a Berlin audience alongside his eponymous book Immersion into Noise (2011). In that text, Nechvatal provides visual analogies to audio noise within the powerful effects of the act of immersion.

In the bOdy pandemOnium exhibition, and in Nechvatal's work in general, the term viractualism, meaning the interface between the biological and the technological, plays an essential role: "The basis of the viractual conception is that virtual producing computer technology has become a noteworthy means for making and understanding contemporary art. This brings art to a place where one finds the merging of the computed (the virtual) with the uncomputed corporeal (the actual)."

Parallel to his theoretical research, Nechvatal has created a series of paintings and projections that show a C++ custom virus program (created with the programmer Stephane Sikora) invading, destroying and transforming his painterly art images based on intimate parts of the human body. In the exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin, two large computer-robotic assisted paintings will be on display: frOnt windOw retinal autOmata (2012) and rear windOw curiOsites (2012).

Also on view will be one of his famous viral computer software de-generative works: Viral Venture (2011). It is accompanied by a musical score for two hundred electric guitars by the com-poser Rhys Chatham.

An artist talk with noise music concert of his piece 3 pOstmOrtems will take place on the opening weekend, on Saturday, 25 April, 2pm.
Curators: Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz

[micro]biologies II: πρωτεο / proteo - an exhibition of works by Joanna Hoffmann

photos (c) Tim Deussen
www.tim-deussen.de

 Curators' talk // [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies series

Opening of the [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies Library  

Parallel to the exhibition [micro]biologies II: πρωτεο / proteo we present the [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies library, where one can study source material and documentation connected to all four exhibitions and the many events of the series.