Featured Art Scene Exhibition

Ecology of the Techno Mind presents a selection of works representing Featuring Art Scene form Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia), artists who are deploying technology and science as a means of delving into social reality today. Among the projects’ themes are new media, biotechnology, space exploration and the use of computers in the medical field. 
Opening
September 4, 1 PM
Extended Run: September 10 to October 5
Curator: Jurij Krpan; Assistant Curators: Sandra Sajovic, Tomaz Kucer; Speaker: Luka Zagoricnik; Technicians: Jure Sajovic, Miha Bratina; Project Managment Ars Electronica: Jochen Zeirzer
supported by:
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Kapelica Gallery
K6/4
University of Ljubljana (Univerza v Ljubljani)

Featured Art Scene Exhibition

A Tree is Dreaming of Uirapuru »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

The legend: An extraordinary Amazonian bird Uirapuru sings only once a year, while building its nest. Uirapuru's song is so beautiful that all the other birds stop singing to listen to it. Both in legend and reality Uirapuru represents a symbol of rarefied beauty and loneliness.

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Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana / The Video and New Media Chair »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

An under-graduate course and a full post-gradual programme for video and new media studies was launched at the academy in 1988. They include with the conceptualisation of theoretical foundations as well as the planning of production procedures and the invention of interfaces for interactive real time communication. Each project is managed by a production team that involves the author (student at the academy) and students from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. The works are the result of a successful model of networking and the inter-connection of arts and sciences.

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Assimilation »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Assimilation was an event which, in its own way, puts into the question the idea of beauty. In fact, it was a dinner made of skin and fat that appeared as surgical surplus after an aesthetic operation of face-lifting.

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BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures is a component of a larger body of work called InsideOut: Laboratory Ecologies. This work is based on my experiences as a non-specialist working in a variety of scientific laboratories.

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Bowlfuls of Sound »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Bowlfuls of Sound is the name of two moving spherical objects – bowls – made in late  2005.

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Brainscore (in collaboration with Darij Kreuh), Brainloop »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Brainscore and Brainloop explore a complete fusion between a user and a digital universe by synchronizing an electromagnetic and electric field.

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Eat a bit »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Eat a bit project introduces first utensils of Digital Kitchen. Using Human Control Interface, edible objects may be printed out using 2D or 3D printing technologies, and existing raw-foods heat-treated using laser-cutting technologies. 

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Fuck Me Now Or Lose Me Forever »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Fuck Me Now Or Lose Me Forever draws form disparate sources-biology, technology, and pop culture.

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Inside / Out »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

'Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of technology, Klif savours going back, to the history of the medium, manipulating in unexpected ways the screen itself as the main instrument. The reality of physical space and the virtual one exist in parallel; in a space shattered with screens we exist in both at the same time. The result is not schizophrenia, but pleasure. The dimension of uniqueness, in which the main role is played by the principle of coincidence, and the sensation of freedom that it creates with its electronic ambiences, offer the public the royal space that they deserve.'
(Radmila Iva Jankovic from the text of the exhibition catalogue, 2005)

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INSULAR Technologies »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

The "International Networking System for Unified Long-distance Advanced Radio" was conceived in 1999 as a worldwide open and decentralized radio network for the transfer of secure data in the high frequency range (1 MHz - 30 MHz) using digital HF communication. A stable communication flow is ensured through the use of the  PACTOR 3 protocol and the existence of an autonomous infrastructure aimed at making users independent from the existing proprietary telecommunication infrastructure.

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Juniors’ Returns »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Plants which grow in hydroponic gardens are synonymous with the industrial production of vegetable, which grow in artificial and precisely controlled conditions, protected from natural asymmetries. The result is predictable and safe. The vegetables are typically good looking and tasteless.

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K21 »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

K21 has the genetic code of its predecessor, K67, and yet, as its progeny, it responds to the spirit of the times and the need for multipurpose organic growth in structures for commerce, work and living, in the form of modules for urban nomads, city dwellers, commuters and tourists.

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Micro Flesh »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Micro Flesh features five projects in which microbiology of the human body is explored in various ways: 37°C (2001/3), Micro cosm (2002/6), In-Time (2005/7), Unique (2006), Hair Lasje (2005/7).

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Modux 3.4 »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

The project Modux is an indicative example of research being introduced into the medium of visual arts, in which diverse information on various surfaces is brought together to form dense network systems, capable of interacting with the chosen energy, material, or matter, responsible for the transfer and processing of information.

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My Work is a Play with Life »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

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Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his artistic discourse emerged from practice - his dexterity in the handling of materials and tools.

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O :: O :: O (Orbital Orientation Object) »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

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The Orbital Orientation Object allows an individual to enter for a moment into the visual field of zero gravity – the individual’s horizon is in an unstable dynamic relationship with the apparent horizon.

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Origami Space Race »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

The Origami Space Race project is an initiative for alternative space program which uses contemporary art system as a platform for development and promotion of ecologically based space technologies and its applications on earth.

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Robot Partner 02. - Automated Table Modification »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

The meta-project robot partner aims towards understanding the basics and relations of partnership, between living beings as well as between humans and machines.

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Robot Rabbit »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Robot Rabbit is an automatic installation that opposes the inflexible rhythm of the machine to the biological growth of the live grass. Modified toy rabbit stands on a mini-patch of real live grass. The rabbit repeats continuously the words 'robot, rabbit' at a rate of 1 word/second. A mechanical counter is incremented at each word. The growing grass is automatically watered by an electric pump when the humidity level gets low.

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Th strategies (tactic/haptical strategies) »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

What is and how does interaction really look like? The concept of spatial orientation is based on the spatial planes and axes and on the directions that we see as left, right, etc. The perception of a blind person meanwhile brings up the synthesis of distal and proximal perception. The link becomes especially significant when the blind person navigates with something as distant as a satellite – or something navigates him (?).

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Wind Code Image »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00

Lentos

Wind Code Image is a prototype of an interactive facade and interior wall that can interact with the wind or air conditioning systems within a building.