Dec. 10, 1996

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The 1st International CAiiA Research Conference
- Towards a New Global Awareness
Yukiko SHIKATA
<<Abstract/Real>>, Vienna
Yukiko SHIKATA

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The first International CAiiA Research Conference
Period:
July 5 - 6, 1997
Information:
CAiiA Director:
Roy Ascott
100143.100
@compuserve.com
Coordinator:
Joseph Nechvatal
jnech@imaginet.fr





CAiiA Research Group
http://caiiamind.nsad.
newport.ac.uk

ROY ASCOTT
http://www.pg.net/
TotalMuseum/artists/
ascott.htm

Joseph Nechvatal
NECHVATAL 1(front page)
http://www.dom.de/
arts/artists/jnech/

Bill Seaman
- Ex.MECH: The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers -
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/
gallery/bill/ex_mech_e/
ex_mech_e.html

Bill Seaman
http://www.zkm.de/
people/b_seaman.en.html

Miroslaw Rogala
http://www.mcs.net/
~rogala/home.html

Miroslaw Rogala
http://www.zkm.de/
people/m_rogala.en.html

The 1st International CAiiA Research Conference
- Towards a New Global Awareness

Yukiko SHIKATA



In media art and media research, as part of an interdisciplinary realm that could cross the boundaries of various special fields, such as art, science, music, architecture, and philosophy, there are active exchanges excercised today. Especially in the past few years, in Europe, many conferences and festivals are held about the new world and awareness brought about by computer technology. While each holding a critical stance, they are trying to decipher the present and also the future. There are more festivals which ask for participation by artists and researchers from around the world, not limiting themselves to special guest participants.

The first International CAiiA Research Conference (Sponsor : CAiiA = the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport UK), which is to be held on July 5 and 6 next year, is one of such events.

This conference is held to study a new development in art, science, technology and the consciousness, and applications of theses, multimedia presentations, and performances, by artists, researchers and philosophers from the fields of art, architecture, communication, education, biology, perceptual science, compounds, artificial life, and other related areas, will be collected.

The director of this event is Roy Ascott, the conference coordinator, Joseph Nechvatal, who is also known as a media artist and critic, and in the program committee, nine media artists and researchers from various fields, including Bill Seaman, and Miroslaw Rogala, will be included.

"Post-biological", the key term for the first conference

The theme for this conference is "CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED -- art and consciousness in the post-biological era". While mentioning the key term, "post-biological", which includes all aspects of life, that is forced to catalyze, expand or change because of technology, here, the heart/mind and the consciousness will also be studied. Digital and bio-technology in art, the influence of artificial life, the awareness process and conceptual modeling, and the pursuit of the value of art in the theory of the mind, will be also included in the agenda. In a world where opposing subjects such as artificiality/nature, or material/consciousness, are no longer valid, the search for a new global awareness has already begun.

The themes included in CAiiA, as of now, are the following:

  • Mapping & Responsive Visualisation
  • Transformation Future Body
  • Public-Personal Spaces Dream Consciousness & Reality
  • Left Brain Navigation
  • Immersive Spaces Psychological Architectures & Incorporation Bodies
  • The Cybernetics of Architecture
  • Cyberception & Paranature
We hope that active participation will be seen from Japan too. The registrations have already started, so those interested should immediately look into this.

[Yukiko Shikata/Art Critic]

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<<Abstract/Real>>
Period:
November 23, 1996 - January 12, 1997
Location:
20er Haus (Vienna)
Information:
20er Haus
Tel:(1)7996900





MMKSLW - Press Information: Abstract / Real
http://www.mmkslw.
or.at/mmkslw/TEST/
e/presse/abstrakt.htm

MMKSLW - 20er Haus
http://www.mmkslw.
or.at/mmkslw/TEST/
e/allgem/20er.htm

Helen Chadwick: An Appreciation 1
http://realworld.on.net/
art/helen/hcedit.html

Rachel Whiteread
http://www.artix.com/
biz/artix/
luhring.whiteread.html

Rachel Whiteread - Reference Page
http://www.artincontext.
com/listings/pages/
artist/e/4zzurgqe/
menu.htm

Les artistes de la galerie : Bertrand Lavier
http://bedrock.cyberhq.com/
cyberfr/sollertis/lavierp.htm

Preface, Christian Eckart
http://www.baritone.net/
slowburn/v1n5/preface.html

Pedro Cabrita Reis
http://www.artdaily.com/
Expos/oct96/CABRITA/
XE103110.htm


UAM Yukinori Yanagi Exhibition
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
depts/museum/uam_past_exh/
past_japan/yanagi_exh.html

Yukinori Yanagi
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/
mcluhan/powerplant/
age/yukinori.html

Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien 20er Haus
(in German) http://linux.kem.ac.at/
MODERN/2/MAIN.HTM

<<Abstract/Real>>, Vienna

Yukiko SHIKATA



A contemporary art exhibition titled, <<Abstract/Real>>, is being held at the 20er Haus in Vienna. The curator of this exhibition is Lóránd Hegyi, the 20er Haus. This is an attempt to present the two terms, which have been positioned as opposite in art history until today, in a new relationship within the artistic trend after the '90's.

Participating are 38 artists mainly from Europe including, Helen Chadwick, Rachel Whiteread, Julilan Opie (England), Bertrand Lavier, Pascal Pinaud (France), Brigitte Kowanz(Austria), Christian Eckart (Canada), Lilian Ball (U.S.A.), Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal), and Jiri Kovanda (Chechnya). From Japan, Masato NAKAMURA and Yukinori YANAGI were invited.

For example, by Masato NAKAMURA's work - rotating barber shop signs (there is a delicate difference in meaning from that of Japan) neatly lined up on the wall - being presented as an installation in the location of Europe, there is a possibility that it will be perceived as an abstract object, departing from its original functional sequence.

It seems that the planner of this exhibition is questioning how the reality of the work's political context can be transferred into an abstract one, and also the possibility of symbiosis.

[Yukiko Shikata/Art Critic]

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