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Exhibition Preview: 25 September, 6.30pm
Preview Performance: 25 September, 7pm
Peninsula Arts Gallery at the University of Plymouth, UK.

http://www.kurator.org/afterthenet/
The exhibition presents works by artists: Roy Ascott | Wayne Clements | Geoff Cox | Lutz Dammbeck | Jeff Gompertz & Caen Botto (Universomente) | Rui Guerra | Linda Hilfling | Aymeric Mansoux & Marloes de Valk (GOTO10) | Graham Harwood, Richard Wright & Matsuko Yokokoji

‘After the Net (2.0)’ explores the paradoxical development of the Internet. As the current Web 2.0 hype begins to wane, the exhibition reflects upon the promises of technological progress, global networking and instantaneous communication. Presented artworks draw attention to key developments: from cybernetics to free and open source software, and social networking platforms.

Reflected in the title, the exhibition makes explicit reference to the documentary film ‘The Net’ by Lutz Dammbeck (2003), and has three iterations: for Valencia (2008), Plymouth (2009) and Toluca (2010). The selection of artists is updated for each venue as a new version.

Curated by Joasia Krysa (KURATOR) | Produced by  LaAgencia (Madrid)
Supported by KURATOR, LaAgencia, Observatori, Peninsula Arts / University of Plymouth, Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca and Arts Council England.

VoxBox: One audio input, infinite cultural output

Dates: 18 May – 21 May 2009

Preview: 6pm, Monday 18 May 2009

Location: Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, UK.

http://www.voxboxart.com

InNoPO (In No Particular Order) is pleased to present:

**VoxBox: One audio input, infinite cultural output** a cross-disciplinary group exhibition featuring new work from 6 international artists selected from an open call, and work from Plymouth’s Cafe Concrete Collective. Each new artwork has been made in response to the same audio clip, recorded from a secret location in Plymouth.

The aim of the exhibition is to spark discussions about the way we make art, where autonomy fits in, and the role of technology in the process, be it paintbrush, computer or rear end. By remediating the same audio source, each artist brings to the project their own histories, experiences and realities – journeying in their own particular way towards the final artwork. The combination of artists gives to an eclectic blend of media, culture, and practice, creating a show that celebrates difference and all its intricacies, conflicts and influences.

The discussions on remediation - broadly referring to the refashioning of one set of data into another set of data – oscillate around three key themes: The media (for example from audio to visual), the individual (from acoustic associations to artistic decisions), and the location (from Plymouth to the rest of the world, and back again).

The study of the media relations, from source code to target language, seeks to highlight processes embedded in their operation and the ways in which they interact with other technologies. Exploring the human element in remediation brings in ideas of how individuals understand the world, and how we interact with others. Notions of identity and free will intersect with social conditioning, religion, and physics. All these are wrapped up and mediated in the perceptual frameworks of the individual as subjectivity. When considering the role of the location in art practice, Voxbox takes on the mantra of Rene Dubos by “thinking globally and acting locally”. The Internet transcends national borders and reaches out across the world to feed back a wealth of shared knowledge, understanding and action. Making use of this invaluable networking tool, Voxbox consumes and reproduces this data on a local stage, presenting the people of Plymouth with an array of new artworks, all based on interpretations of their city’s sound.

Artists Nicu Ilfoveanu & Vlad Gherghiceanu (Romania) fuse mythic narrative with structures of knowledge; judsoN (USA) lays out a platform for interactions between acoustics, aesthetics the audience and space; Katie Davies, Jeremy Lee & Peter Walters (UK) explore the potential for material outcomes through immaterial sources with 3D printing technology; Theo Firmo (Brazil) breaches the linguistic turn with a dash of chaos; Cathy McCabe, Jojo & Gina Sherman (UK) dissolve formality with subversions of domesticity; Brice Jeannin (France) recreates the conditions of a listening situation.

Plymouth’s Cafe Concrete Collective provide the anchor to the international artists, placing their work in a local context. The 10 works from artists including Koombe, Tony Hill, Neil Rose and DJ Contort, form something of an ode to Plymouth, remediating not only on the acoustic properties but the living, breathing experience of the city itself. Alongside the exhibition is an online platform for members of the public to create their own responses to the audio. Upload your text, video, photo or audio to take part in the global gallery. VoxBox is made possible with the support from Groundwork Devon and Cornwall, and the University of Plymouth

InNoPO is a cross-disciplinary collective dedicated to the research, development, production and experimentation of contemporary art. Founded in 2008 by Winnie Soon (Hong Kong), David Johns (UK) and Danai Katsanta (Greece), at the University of Plymouth. VoxBox is their first collaboration.

For further information please email: voxboxart@siusoon.com

Workshop Details:

Title: Sound performance and improvisation (Free)

Venue: Room 011, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

Date:  7th May, 2009 (Thur), 09:45 - 16:30
Capacity: 12

Target group: University and College students

Description: This workshop explores the concept of remediation and interpretation of audio input through a series of art media including creative writing, audio mixing, and body movement.The output will be released in the VoxBox Online Gallery.

Website for details: http://www.voxboxart.com 

To register: voxboxart@siusoon.com

Presented by InNoPO

Selected online submissions will be shown alongside international resident artists in our May exhibition.

Exhibition: May 18th - 21^st, Roland Levinsky Building.
www.voxboxart.com
- Download the audio

-Generate art in response

- Upload to the website (video/text/photo/audio)

- Comment, discuss, take part together!

The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (University of Plymouth).

Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium and coined the term telematic art. Since the 1960s he has been a pioneer of art, which brought together the science of cybernetics with elements of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art. Parallel to his artwork, Roy Ascott is a highly acclaimed teacher and theorist of art pedagogy.

This exhibition explores the influences and rhetoric of Roy Ascott’s work, mapping the impact, history and development of technology and looking to the future of Web2 and Second life. Roy Ascott sees telematic art as the transformation of the viewer into an active participant in creating the artwork, which remains in process throughout its duration. Significantly, the content of his projects were often spiritual: staging the first planetary casting of the I Ching with an early form of network in 1982; whilst his major installation at the Ars Electronica centre in 1989 explored Gaia theory.

The exhibition also looks back at the impact of Roy Ascott’s experimental years of art education. In the 1960s Roy Ascott was the head of Groundcourse at Ealing College of Art and developed one of the most influential and unorthodox approaches to teaching foundation studies in art. The basis of the course was developed around cybernetic theories of systems of communication: the flow of information, interactive exchange, feedback, participation and systemic relationship.

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/future.html

The heart of InNoPO is diversity. We seek artists to form residencies,
exhibitions and discussions, which challenge ideas, make statements, and take
part in the perpetual cycle of cultural production. The only thing we specify
is that artists are led by their own perceptual framework. Art, regardless of
discipline, facilitates the growth of diversity in culture – through
perceiving it, interpreting it, producing it. Our relationship with art takes
influence from, shapes and evolves culture. InNoPO brings this relationship to
the fore, slaps it about the chops a bit, and gives us all a little more to
think about.