Friday, 10. September 2010 at 20:00

SPEKTR!

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After Singapore, Ars Electronia, Newcastle and TESLA Club, Berlin, for the first time in Slovenia!

Location: Katedrala

Price: 10 EUR / 13 EUR walk-up

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The SPEKTR! performance is based on the concept that was first presented in 2007 within Ars Electronica festival. The work has been created using a system of electromagnetic receivers operating in frequencies between 100 Hz and 14 GHz, active and passive radar systems as well as receiving units for satellite remote sensing. The performance lasting between two and six hours is based on completely open dramaturgy depending on the electromagnetic spectrum activity of the time and space of project staging. Expect a night of extreme electronics.

SPEKTR! are Delray, Nullo, Mx and Springer. Produced by: Zavod Projekt Atol, Coproduced by: C-TASC in Kino Šiška.

SPEKTR!

SPEKTR! intermedia performance is based on the concept that was first tested and presented by its creators at Ars Electronica festival in 2007. The work has been created using a system of electromagnetic receivers operating in frequencies between 100 Hz and 14 GHz, active and passive radar systems as well as receiving units for satellite images that are being developed for the project exclusively by SCANEX, Moscow. The performance lasting between two and six hours is based on completely open dramaturgy depending on the electromagnetic spectrum activity of the time and space of project staging. The project was first presented in 2008 at AV Festival, Newcastle, where it was focusing on one of the main events related to the topic of AV Festival, “broadcast”. This programme focus was brought about by the fact that the British BBC was terminating the broadcast via analogue transmitters, which in Great Britain resulted in a different and more restricted digital media sphere. According to plan, the same will happen in Slovenia in years 2010-2011. Our project will be following the trend. It will take the intangible, yet very influential and operational spectrum and materialise it within a top-quality aesthetic structure. The project title is very much related to the notion of the “spectral”, both in its spiritual as well as physical sense. In August 2008, the project was also invited to attend the ISEA 2008 festival in Singapore, which resulted in its culmination. This is because the Strait of Malacca is among densest traffic routes in the world, being used to transport more than a third of energy products in the world as well as the majority of goods being transported between Europe, Africa and Asia, particularly China. The project that has been presented in various set-ups in many parts of the world (ARS ELECTRONICA, TESLA BERLIN, ISEA SINGAPORE, AV FESTIVAL NEWCASTLE) is now coming home for the first time in cooperation with Kino Šiška. The project has been produced in cooperation with RX-TX Institute (Ljubljana/Ajdovščina/Nova Gorica) and C-TASC Montreal (Matthew Biederman). A special antenna system will be made for the project and installed on the roof of Kino Šiška.

About the creative team:
Marko Peljhan is among the most distinct Slovenian intermedia and conceptual artists. His works have been presented at the majority of the most renowned new media and contemporary art institutions, biennials and festivals around the world, such as documenta X, Beneöki Bienale, Transmediale, Istanbul Bienale, Tate Modern, MACBA, New Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1 MOMA, KIASMA, Ntt ICC Tokyo, Artlab Tokyo, Jeu de Paume and Ars Electronica Linz. The latter awarded him the Golden Nica interactive art prize together with Carsten Nicolai in 2001, and in 2007 he was chosen as the “Featured artist” of this festival, often considered the major intermedia festival in the world. His works have won him many awards, including the UNESCO award for digital media and the first Slovenian Prešeren Found award for the field of intermedia art. His works have been reviewed in various publications, such as Art Forum, New York Times, Art in America, Frieze and many others. Since 2002, he has held the position of the Professor of New Media and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2008, he has acted as co-director of University of California Institute for the Research of the Arts. 
  
For many years now, Springer, Biederman and Abrahamsberg have been collaborating on Projekt Atol projects of series Wardenclyffe, Signal-Sever! and Spektr!-Scatter! Springer is also the author of two cult feature films SPIN and THE DISSAPOINTMENT OR THE FORCE OF CREDULITY. Abrahamsberg has been Peljhan's constant creative collaborator for the past 20 years. Biederman worked and (has) programmed, inter alia, for the pioneers of technological art, Jim Campbell, Michael Nymark and our contemporary Rafael Lozano Hemmer.

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