Constructing Time: applied data mining
This workshop, led by resident artist Ellen Røed and guest artist Isabelle Jenniches, aims to explore the act of collecting data (actual objects, images, sound or other forms of information) as creative points of departure. It will have a special focus on arrangements of material and artworks that comment on the experience or effect of time.
The workshop will provide theoretical lectures and screenings aiming to give the students a thorough understanding of how artists construct or manifest time using time-based media such as film, video and live performance as well as photography and painting. We will explore the different ways artists are –sometimes obsessively – collecting information and how those practices might differ from a scientific approach.
Core subjects
* too much data: the need for filters to make sense of information, e.g. wikileaks, wiretapping. Creating thresholds.
* strategies of data-mining: the internet, the city, the garden and the forest as treasure trove. Measuring, harvesting and collecting.
* strategies for constructing time: creating movement and order; exploring change and continuity, progress and presence;
* strategies of dancing with data: using the timeline, the timeframe,musical time, (non) linear and cyclical time.
* time standing still, multiplied: the composite photograph.
* around the world in 10 minutes: webcam art.
* artists works: a sampling of artists whose work is fed by their compulsive collections.
Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to look at different issues surrounding this subject matter through a combination of lectures, screenings, discussions, group tours and the production of a final work. The main thrust of the workshop will be to offer conceptual, practical and theoretical insight that must in turn be explored and employed by the students using any technique or media they find appropriate. The resulting work will be based on their individual approach. It will therefore provide contemporary and challenging knowledge to students within different fields and at different levels.
Context
We will look at different ways to structure and experience time – following Marshal McLuhans categorization of linear/ mechanical or clock time vs. the cyclical timing of seasons and daylight and a third category that he calls electrical time, a fragmented and chaotic state. We will also touch upon concepts from a diversity of artists and thinkers such as David Hockney, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Chris Marker, Michel Serres, Ivar Ekeland, Rene Thom, Vilhelm Bjerknes and others.
Materials
Marshall McLuhan: The Scent of Time
Yi-Fu Tuan: Space and Place
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: 1926, Living at the edge of time.
Blog
For the workshop we will use a blog for communicating and accumulating relevant material and ideas.
http://ooo.halvekongeriket.org/
Symposium
This workshop is imagined as a research lab that will culminate in a public symposium in ROM 8, titled Right about Now. The two week workshop consists of a series of lectures, discussions, screenings and group tours. In between, participants are free to return to their studios, enter the city, the university, the woods or other institutions in order to conduct their own artistic research. Through doing their own investigation or exploration, collecting data, defining parameters, asking questions or proposing solutions, the students as well as the workshop facilitators become guest researchers in the joint project Constructing Time / Right about Now.
During the workshop participants are encouraged to and supported in developing a project to be presented at the symposium in ROM 8 on the 3rd/4th of March. The project or artwork to be presented can be for example a lecture, an invitation of a guest speaker or a performance. Participants may choose to present their work on the walls, create an artistic dinner, or in any other way contribute to the symposium. On the second day we might have an evening event or an opening.
Selected guests will also be presenting at the symposium, upon invitation from participants in the project. For example, Ellen is working on inviting Berlin based curator Suzanne Jascho to present her thoughts on Process as Paradigm, an exhibition at LABoral, Centro de Arte in Gijón, Spain. Also invited are research fellows Patrik Entian and Michelle Teran. Patrik Entian will talk about time and distance on the net in his webcam paintings and Michelle Teran will reflect upon strategies of texturizing time in her artistic practice. Jeremy Welsh will also present his ongoing research through image gathering.
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Bios
Ellen Røed is a visual artist currently employed as a research fellow at KHIB, where she was also working as a lecturer in electronic art/digital media from 2004 to 2009. Before that, she was working at BEK, Bergen Center of Electronic arts. She has been working with digital and electronic media/art since 1995, and studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim from 1997 - 2001.
Born in Germany, Isabelle Jenniches is a digital artist currently living in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California where she devides her time between studio practice and farming. She received a Master's degree in Theater and Film Design from the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, Austria, and a postgraduate degree in Digital Media and Fine Arts from Media-GN in Groningen, the Netherlands. After her studies she lived and worked in Amsterdam and Brooklyn, NY. Jenniches has been involved in numerous exhibitions and performance projects. Her latest photographic works appropriate user-controlled online cameras to create monumental composite images. Her work has been shown internationally in Europe, Australia and North America.
http://www.9nerds.com/isabelle/
Prequalifications:
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Please use and follow the blog at http://ooo.halvekongeriket.org/.
Everybody who has signed up will be added as contributors and are wanted to contribute to the blog.
The course starts 21/02/2011 / Week 08, and ends 04/03/2011 / Week 09
Location: Kunstakademiet 3.rd floor, C. sundtsgate 53, Rom 8, vasker elven. (Den andre uken)
Provider: Akademiet
Target group: Akademiet
Target year of study: Alle årstrinn
Capacity: 8
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