Digicult @ Subtle Technologies Festival Toronto
May 25, 2011 9:31 am
Subtle Technologies & Digicult present:
PHENOMENA: A JOURNEY AROUND AUDIOVISUAL ART-SCIENCE
Curated by Marco Mancuso and Claudia D’Alonzo for Digicult
international project about digital art, design and culture
Thursday, June 2, 2011
7:00-8:00 pm (Festival Opening Reception)
8:00-10:00 pm (Screenings)
Innis Town Hall
Friday, June 3, 2011
lecture by Marco Mancuso
http://www.marcomancuso.net/?p=972
http://digicult.it/en/SubtleTechnologiesPhenomena.it
Screenings:
‘Hidden Worlds’
curated by Marco Mancuso
‘When the eye flickers (Quando l’occhio trema)’
curated by Claudia D’Alonzo (Univeristy of Udine, Digicult) and Mario Gorni (archivio DOCVA)
Lecture:
‘A Myriad of vibrant phenomena. The hidden worlds of audiovisual art-science’
lead by Marco Mancuso
Subtle Technologies Festival 2011 | May 28 – June 5 2001 TORONTO
Subtle Technologies is a gathering of artists, scientists, technologists, engineers and the general public. We share cross-disciplinary ideas, explore new technologies, showcase creativity and incubate the next generation of practitioners at the intersection of art, science and technology.
2011 marks the 14th year of our festival and organization. Our audience and visibility have steadily grown since 1997. We are well-known in Toronto and internationally as a unique venue for bringing together cutting edge science and art. Our events are attended by intellectually curious people from all parts of society—especially those with an interest in art, technology, science, engineering, architecture or design.
Hidden Worlds
Screening curated by Marco Mancuso for Digicult
The screening Hidden Worlds is a critical reflection upon the existing connection between audiovisual art, energy and science on the borders of cinema, video and digital.
The Hidden Worlds exhibition celebrates one of the most fascinating yet obscure territories of artistic audiovisual contemporary research: the relation between art and science. The video screening produces works that induce into a critical reflection on the existing relation between audiovisual contemporary artistic research (as regards to cinema, video and digital experiences) and applied sciences.
This project, dealing with different artistic examples which investigate new expressive forms for the representation of the sound-image relation, deliberately avoids focusing on the existing common aesthetics among them, as well as on a possible expressive language. It rather suggests an overview on specific systems for sensorial perception, and emotional mechanisms of “saturation”, achieved through the use of hybrid techniques, that today like never before expand the tradition of analog experimental cinema and digital audiovisuals.
A Myriad of Vibrant Phenoema
The hidden worlds of audiovisual art-science
Lecture by Marco Mancuso for Digicult
Between 1899 and 1904 the german philosopher and biologist Ernst Haeckel published a book of lithographic and autotype prints entitled Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), one of his best known works and a symbol of his zoological research and philosophy, centered on the observation of marine micro-organisms as well of various natural species and animals. The complete volume, consisting of over 100 lithographs, each accompanied by a short descriptive text, obtained a great success even among the non-specialist public and among some Art Nouveau artists, committed to find new models to be used in the nascent industrial design and in architecture.
From the first experiences on the field by Haeckel to theories of fractals and morphogenesis, dreams of genetic algorythms, studies on quaternions, perceptions of Moirè’s and optical effects, computational periodics achievements, recordings of electromagnetics phenomena, chemical-physical sponteneous reactions, cymatics observations on dynamics of sound waves and vibrations, it’s clear that Mother Nature is characterized at the root by a matrix of numbers and mathematical expressions involving a series of physical, optical, chemical-physical, electromagnetic and nanometric phenomena influencing its forms, species, colours, sounds.
When the Eye Flickrs (Quando l’occhio trema)
Screening curated by Claudia D’Alonzo for Digicult and Mario Gorni for Docva
Inspired by a 1989 film by Paolo Gioli with the same name, this screening reconstructs the historical and methodological path of the use of the Flickering technique, using a selection of works from the DOCVA and INVIDEO archives, as well as from works of a number of authors connected to the Digicult international network.
The “flicker” is a technique applied to a number of art forms, from the experimental cinema on analog film, light installations and environments, as well as video analog and digital audiovisual. This technique is based on a specific perceptive phenomenon. Our perception of moving images normally happens with a 24 frames per second frequency.
Claudia D’Alonzo
Graduated in Contemporary Art History, Claudia PhD student in Audiovisual Studies at the University of Udine (Italy). For several years, she has been interested in new media art, particularly in the audiovisual interactions allowed by electronic and digital technologies.
Marco Mancuso
Marco Mancuso is a new media art critic, curator, editor and teacher, expert of the impact of digital technologies on art, design, culture and contemporary society.Founder and Director at Digicult project and Digimag magazine, Marco Mancuso focuses his researches on the connection between sound, light, image & space, with an historical/theoretical point of view, among a cross-disciplinary territory crossing art, cinema, music, design, architecture & science.