Partner Events
Olaf Val – Monkey Up at [plug.in]
[plug.in] is both a space in Basel for electronic arts and a co-organiser of Shift. The exhibition ‘Monkey Up’ subtly explores the effects of the contrast between bodies and pixel. E. g. visitors climb across a gigantic display for a real-life experience of digital conditions. Everyday oscillation between real and digital environments is here addressed in a tangible, literally ‘hands-on’ dimension. The exhibition comprises five interactive installations created over the last eight years and a new video piece that emerged in cooperation with Catrine Val and was especially conceived for this exhibition.
5.10–9.11.2008, Wed-Sun 14-18.00 h
St.Alban-Rheinweg 64, 4052 Basle (next to the Museum of Contemporary Art)
www.iplugin.org
LifeClipper2 - staging public space (immersive outdoor augmented reality)
lifeClipper2 invites you to a virtually extended walk in Basel.
lifeClipper2 is a research project of the Institute for research in Art and Design of the HGK FHNW. Its aim is to explore the design principles and application scenarios of „Augmented Reality“. The scenario PLAYGROUND is a playful approach to deal with the spatial and temporal potential for interaction with AR in the St. Johanns Park in Basel.
At www.lifeclipper.net you can find more information about the project and make your personal reservation clicking on RESERVATION (only during the SHIFT festival days, please). You can also send a mail to Jan Torpus: jan.torpus@fhnw.ch
Systems of Motion at Galerie Marc De Puechredon
In Ryan Wolfe’s interactive installation ‘ Branching Systems’, masses of robotic leaves flutter like butterflies, viewers impact the motion and their physical interactions with the piece fan out across the network. Mark Andreas utilizes laws of nature to trigger physical reactions. In ‘Avian Reservoir’, wooden wings are set into motion triggered by a loss of water, referencing the movement of a powerful bird. Brose Partington’s black robotic waves set the feeling of venturing to another place and time. The audience must actively engage and manoeuvre their way through.
17.10–29.11.2008, Thu-Sa 14-19.00 h
MARCdePUECHREDON
e-halle, Erlenstrasse 15/at the corner of Mattenstrasse
CH-4058 BASEL
www.puechredon.com
www.e-halle.ch
New Media – Short Memory?
BAR FIXE with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Serexhe Senior Curator at the ZKM, Centre for Art and Media Technologies Karlsruhe
New media have played a crucial role in extending artistic and technological opportunities yet at the same time endowed each artwork with a half-life of increasing brevity. In order to preserve the cultural heritage of our time we are now obliged to up-grade media artworks of recent creation to comply with constantly changing standards. How will we deal with the tradition(s) of our own epoch and identity? BAR FIXE fosters encounters and facilitates conversation in a global world in which Homo oeconomicus is stronger than politics, commitments are loosening and virtual networks are preferred to those of a personal nature.
Mo, 27.10.2008, 19.00 h
Imprimerie, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 19, 4051 Basel
www.imprimerie-basel.ch