May 12 to September 25, 2011
Showing posts with label Red Eyed Sky Walkers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Eyed Sky Walkers. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011
Images from the Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Images from Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
May 12 to September 25, 2011
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Networked environment
Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Watch the trailer on Vimeo.
The work of Jenny Marketou Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series 2011 is a networked environment created on site and set in the courtyard in front of the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The environment which according to the artist touches upon the vital role of the viewer in directly incorporated in the process of the development of her work consists of the fluid, shifting and ephemeral ecology of 49 Silver Mylar reflective meteorological balloons which are attached on the ground by several yards of transparent plastic tethers. As guests at the museum are sitting under the shelter of the balloons they can hear the mesmerizing patterns of the wind as it blows through the Mylar surface when the balloon touches each other creating a real condition for a sharing experience and rest.
But aside from the silver balloons the environment features nine wireless network video cameras, which are attached under some of the balloons. The nine cameras survey all the aerial activity between visitors and the environment and aided by the Internet they transmit live streaming video to the gallery space, which is located on the 5th floor of the museum. There through a software specially designed for this project enables the artist to seek audiovisual material and other data from global networks of social media like wikileaks, youtube, tweet, flicker arranged in thematic archives which range from images of our self, video reportage, images which convey enforced and repeated rules and codes in the control of crowds, in political and economic upheavals, in administrative apparatuses and military technology, and this heterogeneous and fluid context of images is simultaneously reassembled, manipulated with the streaming video from the cameras and displayed as a single video projection divided into nine channels.
In the spirit of transparency the artist like a contemporary documentarian wants to make us look through the collective gaze of the culture of reality TV, embedded journalism and you tube the uncertain state of images and other universal networks created out of audio, visual and electronic communication which have been normalized and to ask us to critically question the profoundly ambivalent about rhetorics of truth and strategies of authenticity in those images.
Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to
the way we participate in network culture. Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series speak
to this desire and reveals the human in the networked interface.
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (European Capital of Culture, 20011) has been commissioned by Kumu Art Museum and sponsored by Goethe Institute for Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach from May 12 through September 25, 2011.
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is published edited by Sabine Himmelsbach
http://blog.goethe.de/gateways/index.php?user_language=en
http://www.crumbweb.org/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/tal/etindex.htm?wt_sc=tallinn
http://www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
Networked environment
Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Watch the trailer on Vimeo.
The work of Jenny Marketou Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series 2011 is a networked environment created on site and set in the courtyard in front of the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The environment which according to the artist touches upon the vital role of the viewer in directly incorporated in the process of the development of her work consists of the fluid, shifting and ephemeral ecology of 49 Silver Mylar reflective meteorological balloons which are attached on the ground by several yards of transparent plastic tethers. As guests at the museum are sitting under the shelter of the balloons they can hear the mesmerizing patterns of the wind as it blows through the Mylar surface when the balloon touches each other creating a real condition for a sharing experience and rest.
But aside from the silver balloons the environment features nine wireless network video cameras, which are attached under some of the balloons. The nine cameras survey all the aerial activity between visitors and the environment and aided by the Internet they transmit live streaming video to the gallery space, which is located on the 5th floor of the museum. There through a software specially designed for this project enables the artist to seek audiovisual material and other data from global networks of social media like wikileaks, youtube, tweet, flicker arranged in thematic archives which range from images of our self, video reportage, images which convey enforced and repeated rules and codes in the control of crowds, in political and economic upheavals, in administrative apparatuses and military technology, and this heterogeneous and fluid context of images is simultaneously reassembled, manipulated with the streaming video from the cameras and displayed as a single video projection divided into nine channels.
In the spirit of transparency the artist like a contemporary documentarian wants to make us look through the collective gaze of the culture of reality TV, embedded journalism and you tube the uncertain state of images and other universal networks created out of audio, visual and electronic communication which have been normalized and to ask us to critically question the profoundly ambivalent about rhetorics of truth and strategies of authenticity in those images.
Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to
the way we participate in network culture. Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series speak
to this desire and reveals the human in the networked interface.
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (European Capital of Culture, 20011) has been commissioned by Kumu Art Museum and sponsored by Goethe Institute for Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach from May 12 through September 25, 2011.
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is published edited by Sabine Himmelsbach
http://blog.goethe.de/gateways/index.php?user_language=en
http://www.crumbweb.org/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/tal/etindex.htm?wt_sc=tallinn
http://www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Red Eyed Sky Walkers - Installation
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Athen, Greece
Vas. Georgiou Β’ 17-19 and Rigillis street
January 28–March 8
Press Review:
Goculture
Artforum
Fixit (EMST)
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.
.
.
PROJECT ROOM, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
The second component of Red Eyed Sky Walkers is a big video projection of nine simultaneous single channels of video streaming on the big wall in the project room at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. By designing a special software for this project three of the channels features real time streaming from the nine surveillance cameras attached under the balloons at the outdoor peristileion, and which are used for aerial monitoring of the space around the museum .The other six channels are juxtaposed with images from you tube surveillance videos which feature public demonstrations and aggressive events between human crowds and police in urban spaces around the world. All those live surveillance images are highly ambivalent but they seem to generate their imaginary past their own suspense and hidden narratives. On the other hand they are images without “cameramen” which might trigger a dystopia fear of life, which has been disposed of people behind the “camera”.
The site specific version of the projection Red Eyed Sky Walker conceived for EMST has provided me with the opportunity to make a commentary about the relation between real time images side by side and their forces and their possibilities. What these images can do and can be done with them? If there is a metaphor that anchors these images, it is that of circulation and transport itself? A concept that acts like a gravitation center and that applies to the city’s infrastructure as well as to the traffic of surveillance images circulating.
Athen, Greece
Vas. Georgiou Β’ 17-19 and Rigillis street
January 28–March 8
Press Review:
Goculture
Artforum
Fixit (EMST)
.
.
.
.
PROJECT ROOM, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
The second component of Red Eyed Sky Walkers is a big video projection of nine simultaneous single channels of video streaming on the big wall in the project room at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. By designing a special software for this project three of the channels features real time streaming from the nine surveillance cameras attached under the balloons at the outdoor peristileion, and which are used for aerial monitoring of the space around the museum .The other six channels are juxtaposed with images from you tube surveillance videos which feature public demonstrations and aggressive events between human crowds and police in urban spaces around the world. All those live surveillance images are highly ambivalent but they seem to generate their imaginary past their own suspense and hidden narratives. On the other hand they are images without “cameramen” which might trigger a dystopia fear of life, which has been disposed of people behind the “camera”.
The site specific version of the projection Red Eyed Sky Walker conceived for EMST has provided me with the opportunity to make a commentary about the relation between real time images side by side and their forces and their possibilities. What these images can do and can be done with them? If there is a metaphor that anchors these images, it is that of circulation and transport itself? A concept that acts like a gravitation center and that applies to the city’s infrastructure as well as to the traffic of surveillance images circulating.
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