Gilberto Gil visits Gil Futurível at the Bienal, talking about ancestry and futurism.
"Imprisoned as I was, I had to unleash my imagination. I had to use my imaginative abilities to free myself from that prison. The lyrics of Futurível take into account both of these aspects. I wanted to come out of there with a body that was looser and more complex, in line with the expectations of the new world that technology brings"
Gil went to meet himself. He went to transmute himself, through the work Gil Futurível, by the Azimov Labs collective of artists Clélio de Paula, Floriano Varejão, Lauro Gripa and Agência Rastro, on show at the Digital Art Biennial, which in 2022 will have the theme of conditions of existence, curated by Tadeus Mucelli.
Nothing is more significant than the virtual reality work of "Gil Futurível" when we talk about ways of existing and coexisting in complex times. The artist was thinking about his extreme condition and the ability to transcend beyond the body in order to resist and go beyond.
Gil took part in the process of capturing the images during the production phase of the work. However, he hadn't experienced the finished work, which goes through important parts of his career and work. In an appointment with Gil himself, he narrated the encounter between the author and his own work in a unique way through digital art.
"It's an extraordinary pleasure to be a guinea pig in new artistic experiments. Experiments that were already foreseen in my own work. I'm an author who completely fits into this futuristic perspective, of possible futures, of desirable futures" (Gilberto Gil, in January 2023).
The idea of memory in the digital field has always been a pre
occupation of the Digital Art Biennial, ever since the FAD, the digital art festival that brought the biennial to life in 2018. The work Gil Futurível, even digitally materializes the importance of collections, which can produce experiences.
"Collections and cultural artistic memory have in technologies a capacity for immortality... for infinite access to knowledge for many generations. It's up to us, curators, researchers, festivals, biennials and technology enthusiasts and creators, to focus on the value of our culture, to make it last over time." (Tadeus Mucelli, curator and researcher).
The Bienal is especially grateful not only to Gilberto Gil and his team for their generosity, but also to those involved in this work, which was only possible thanks to the commitment of the professionals involved and the encouragement of the Kusama Society, Oi and Oi Futuro for its full exhibition at the Bienal.
Photo: Pedro Murad (Bienal 2023 press release)
The Digital Art Biennial is open until February 29, 2024.
The Digital Art Biennial is open for entries until February 29, 2024. The theme: DEEP SLEEP “Do Machines dream in deep sleep. Does Humanity dreams in deep sleep” Read more at https://2024.bienalartedigital.com/tema/
The 3rd edition will be held at the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025
More information on our website: Submission here! http://www.bienalartedigital.com
Partnership between Plataforma ARTKA (Colombia) and FAD opens opportunity
In an unprecedented partnership between Colombia and Brazil, the ARTKA Platform for the dissemination and circulation of electronic music and digital creativity offers opportunities to Brazilian artists in 2020 and 2021 through FAD - Festival de Arte Digital.
ARKTA is a platform for the dissemination and circulation of electronic music and digital creativity based in Bogotá, Colombia, being one of the most important initiatives in the country. The platform has as its central axis an annual program of musical and audiovisual performances and presentations called Live Act in which a wide range of avant-garde musical subgenres is presented, with a possible visual arts component (vj's). ARTKA also includes artistic practices in formats of workshops, lectures, podcasts, and live broadcasts.
A call will be open for the selection of Brazilian works between August 24th and September 12th. There are two types of participation, one focused more on presentations of authorial audiovisual performances (Live Act), and another focused on podcasts, streamcast and live-streams, lectures.
More information here on our website HERE
Or through www.artka.com.co
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CoMciência - Early Call for ArtSci Works 2020
ComCiência Notice 2020. Early Call for ArtSciWorks 08/06 !!!
These are difficult times .... however, art and science have never been more important in our current context. These three axis have been central to our lives. The 19' CoMciência Exhibition, from December 2019 to March this year, brought together 6 brilliant works by 6 incredible artists and scientists.
In 2020, the call for papers focuses on the theme “Crystals of Time: emergencies in the fissures of the present”, which seeks to discuss our definition of the future, however, from a PRESENT PROPOSITIVE
Prepare your project, notify friends, help us and get ready to apply from June 8th.
Image created with the aid of graphic editing. In it, we have the visual identity of the second edition of the Edital CoMciência. It is possible to observe in the upper left corner a square with the text “save the date”. The whole image is on a white background and its texture resembles plastic, something vacuum-packed. We have in the middle information about the Notice, such as the registration date from June 8th to July 26th. And a fragment of a Qr code on the right side.
#ArtSci #ArtDigital # CoMciência #ChamadaTrabalos # EditalComciência2020 #MMGerdau # ProgramaCoMciência #Art #Science #Technology # Call2020 #Art #Technology #Science
More Information: http://www.programacomciencia.org.br
Idealization: MMGerdau
Consulting: Content Art & Technology
Partner: FAD Digital Art Festival
Curator: Tadeus Mucelli & Alexandre Milagres
LIVE: A propositive present for visible futures: art, information, and technologies
In partnership with MM Gerdau we will have the FAD Live / Webinar - Digital Art Festival with national and international guests here on FAD's Facebook page and MM Gerdau's Youtube. On 18th June from 5 pm (-3 UTC), watch here on FAD's Facebook or MM Gerdau's YouTube channel.
Theme:
A purposeful present for visible futures: art, information, and technologies
Guests:
Barbara Castro, Nélio Santosm Solimán López Cortez, Alexandre Milagres, Tadeus Mucelli
#Art #Science #Information #Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTGu1WJQ20
More information:
MM Gerdau - Museum of Mines and Metal
www.mmgerdau.org.br
FAD - Digital Art Festival
www.festivaldeartedigital.com.br
COVID19 - Postponement
We understand that more important than our art and culture activities, which are fundamental to the lives of many people, many artists and an entire production chain, the moment is of attention in the search for the welfare and social security of our entire community. Soon we will come back stronger!
The context of the pandemic of COVID19, has strongly affected the whole society and different sectors of economic activities.
The 8th edition of FAD - Digital Art Festival, scheduled for June 2020, was necessarily postponed, without a predicted date.
However, our efforts are directed towards holding our event between the 2nd semester of 2020 and the 1st semester of 2021.
We will keep our network informed about the opening of the call for papers, among other actions. During this period we intend to develop some actions also on a digital platform.
#StaySafe
Projection in Domes, Workshop
The activity, which is part of a kind of extra programming created between the Digital Art Biennial and the FUMEC University, will receive Axel Cuevas, a Mexican digital artist based in the United States who participated in the Biennial exhibiting a work, to work on techniques of bio-art production and digital art
The Digital Art Biennial, an event conceived and carried out by the Digital Art Festival (FAD), had more than 40 thousand people passing through the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, between the months of February and April of this year, presenting a robust program that included symposia, performances, workshops, and exhibitions of works by 20 artists from different countries around the world. Now, the Bienal joins the FUMEC University to promote a 12-hour free workshop (upon registration), on May 18th and 19th, at the student center. The activity carried out in partnership with FUMEC's Computer Graphics and Digital Games Courses, will receive the artist Axel Cuevas (USA), creator of the work “Protoplasmic Routes” that had been exhibited at the Biennial of Digital Art exhibition, to teach the workshop that will work with projection techniques mapped in geodesic domes and bio-art, processes that make up Cuevas artistic creations.
The workshop addresses techniques that are inherent to the artistic work of the digital and virtual medium, dealing with a contemporary theme in which the hybridization of technology and the omnipresence of the digital/virtual medium in human daily life end up transforming the ways in which we relate. Thus, the activity will demonstrate how the strange, different and uncomfortable visual representations existing in the digital art scene reflect the constant sensation of oscillation between familiarity and strangeness, of misrepresentation of the traditional definitions of human, machine, and thing, in addition to demonstrating tenuousness. that divides the real and the virtual, the artificial and the natural.
The activity is open to all audiences interested in deepening technical and theoretical knowledge about digital art and hybridization in contemporary society, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, artists and researchers
Book Biennial 2018 to download
The biennial of digital art was conceived in 2015 with the aim of celebrating in 2018 the 10 years of performance of FAD - Festival de Arte Digital, one of the pioneering festivals on art and technology in Brazil.
In addition to the celebration, the digital art biennial emerges as a project with an international agenda in Brazil, seeking to verticalize the reflections for art in technological means and their derivations.
The biennial that included digital art exhibitions, artistic presentations in audiovisual performances, workshops and international symposia took place from February to April 2018 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
BioArt of the pioneer Joe Davis
CHANGED SILKWORM GENETICALLY CAN HELP CLEAN DEGRADED ENVIRONMENTS WITH HEAVY METALS
The Biennial of Digital Art, on display until March 18 at the Oi Futuro Cultural Center, in Rio de Janeiro, had among its main attractions in the first week a symposium by renowned American scientist Joe Davis, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ) and the Harvard Genetics Department. Davis, 67, after his talk, decided to contribute to the event's permanent exhibitions before returning to the United States.
Davis's work consists of a silkworm genetically altered by the American scientist and other associated researchers. With the alteration of DNA, the insect produces a synthetic silk that is capable of absorbing heavy metals. The idea of the experiment has a social importance, in the sense of cleaning degraded environments with heavy metals thanks to the absorption potential of the silk produced. For the Biennial, Davis left a cocoon of one of the silkworms that he genetically altered in his laboratory.
Winner in 2012 of the Golden Nica Award, one of the most important awards for interactive art and digital culture in the world, Davis is a pioneer of works of art and molecular biology, such as inserting Wikipedia information in the form of genetic code in the DNA of apples. In Rio de Janeiro, he held a symposium last Tuesday, in which he explained to the public the concept of artist-scientists (hybrid artists), making a connection with the magicians of antiquity.
Digital Art Biennial 2020 “Conditions of Existence”
Biennial 2020 “Conditions of Existence”, the objective is to approach beyond the questions of languages and the propositions between art and society. At this moment, we intend to take a philosophical look at contemporaneity and its possibilities in an overly complex world.
The perception beyond the technical and anthropotechnical, the human, the ontic, the ontological, the inhuman of the biotechnological and computational. How to exist in the world of repetition and technical overproduction?