In this work, practice-based research is conducted to rethink the understanding of aesthetics, especially in relation to current media art. Granted, we live in times when technologies merge with living organisms, but we also live in times that provide unlimited resources of knowledge and maker tools. I raise the question: In what way does the hybridization of living organisms and non-living technologies affect art audiences in the culture that may be defined as Maker culture? My hypothesis is that active participation of an audience in an artwork is inevitable for experiencing the artwork itself, while also suggesting that the impact of the umwelt changes the perception of an artwork. I emphasize artistic projects that unfold through mutual interaction among diverse peers, including humans, non-human organisms, and machines.
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„Humans, non-humans, with and without humans“ is an exhibition about the interconnectedness throughout the structures of nature, the relationships humans build with each other, with non-human life forms and with the environment that surrounds.
Exhibition opening reception FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022 AT 6 PM UTC+01
Exhibition will take place at the new Ideas Block space – Kompresorinė.
Address: Goštauto 11 / Lukiškių 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania (entrance from the backyard.)
Fluid Bodies 5/5. Interfaces (Takūs kūnai 5/5. Sąsajos)
The exhibition is open from 23 September 6 pm.
𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞!
Regular times: 23 September – 23 October.
Saturday – Sunday 12 pm-8 pm
Tickets: https://www.bilietai.lt/…/kulturos-ir-meno-laivas…/
I am more than happy to present my new work, the Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas, in the new exhibition space Nemunas7 located on the bank of the Nemunas in Zapyškis.
Three works by Lithuanian artists complete the Fluid Bodies series with authentic interpretations of the theme of ecology. This time, the exhibition will talk about the possibilities of symbiosis between the human and the non-human in the viscous context of microbes, man and dog or geological time. Mindaugas Gapševičius, Kamilė Krasauskaitė and Miglė Vyčinaitė each came up with a keyword for the exhibition’s title.
You and I, You and Me at Ars Electronica 2022
This year You and I, You and Me is featured next to the works of students and teaching staff of Bauhaus University Weimar.
7 – 11 September 2022
Hauptplatz 8, University of Art and Design Linz, Groundfloor
https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/de/patterns-that-connect/
You and I, You and Me @ Futureless Festival / Candyland
Opening @ Candyland Wednesday 10 August 2022, 17.00 – 20.00
Gotlandsgatan 76, Stockholm
Continuing with popular imaginaries of the Future (being these utopian or dystopian) Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström pictures the advent of a transhuman society where the living beings of our planet all are part a greater network of interconnected entities, a mycelium of sorts, communicating, controlling, but also controlled by electricity. This Imaginarium does not stay in the realm of speculative design or science fiction though: in this exhibition, it goes a step further by offering the visitor the possibility of experiencing such interconnectivity through the use of the wearables that are exhibited in the ‘You and I, You and Me’ art show, which has been presented in various venues such as the Baltic Biennale, Piksel Festival in Norway, or Transmediale, in Berlin.
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I am pleased to be part of The AGAPÈ exhibition, part of the CTM Festival this year. In Berlin on Saturday, May 28th from 12 to 9 pm. Come by — I am showing my Rectal Candle there! Thanks to Edge Neuroscience & Art e.V for the invitation!
Continue reading “Rectal Candle @ The AGAPÈ — Contact (CTM Festival 2022)”Participatory event You and I, You and Me @ BRAINtouch: embodiment
02.03.2022 – 06.03.2022
Installations — Talks
Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
BRAINtouch: embodiment presents a scientific-artistic perspective on how we can connect with our brains. Neuroscience-art overcomes the skull through electricity, biology, and sensory experience. Participants take on the role of researchers, experimenting and observing, to become immersed in the science of the brain. With avenues to make the brain ‘touchable’, what do we learn about ourselves?
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Installation and the participatory event
21st January 2022 @ 17.00-21.00
Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
Through live performances, screenings, installations, and many other artistic interventions, this opening event gives a small taste of what to expect for the Vorspiel 2022 program. Taking place at silent green in Wedding for the first time, the opening night will play out over Kuppelhalle, Betonhalle, transmediale studio, one of the Ateliers, and silent green’s beautiful garden.
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As part of the Piksel festival ´Reboot me softly´. The festival features art pieces that deal with the post-pandemic state of mind we are in, in conflux with the altered state of planet earth.
Workshop:
Place: Bergen Dance Center, Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 Bergen
Time: Thursday 18th of November from 12-14h
Installation and participatory event:
Place: Kulturhuset I Bergen 2 / C. Sundts gaten 40, 5011 Bergen
Time: Thursday 18th of November from 18:30 – 22:00
Molten Airs / Ars Electronica Vilnius Garden
Exhibition and speculative workshop series
Alt lab, Vitebsko 23, Vilnius and Online
September 8–12, 2021
Opening: Wednesday, September 8, 7 p.m.
Participants: Kamilė Krasauskaitė, Brigita Kasperaitė, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Giulia Mattera, Becky Lyon
After our birth, bit by bit we get to know our mother, our father, and our surrounding environment. We learn what we can put in our mouths and what is understood to be inedible. We also get to know about other species that live in our surroundings. As we begin to go to school, we are trained to know that experiences are fictions, that organisms are composed of many cells, and that the molecules of said cells interact with molecules outside of them.
The Molten Airs exhibition and workshop series builds its narratives on casual life processes, repetitive habits, and social practices. By speculating on the human relationship to plants, food, or energy—but also by using methods borrowed from the sciences—the series delves into unknown interactions between small and large, real and fictional, alive and not alive, us and them.
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