February 15, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT: Spring 2011 Lecture Series
MIT program in art, culture and technologySchool of Architecture & Planning
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Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet draws together artists and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology. Collision 2 is the spring 2011 lecture series of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT).
This series is part of AR – Artistic Research, a yearlong collaboration between the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and Siemens Stiftung, Munich, co‑curated by ACT Director Ute Meta Bauer and Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts Thomas D. Trummer.
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February 14, 2011Luginsland (On Art as Research)Florian DomboisRespondent: Ute Meta BauerLuginsland (Belvedere) is an installation and sound piece by Florian Dombois, winner of the 2010 German Sound Art Award. Dombois’ work focuses on landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, scientific and technical fictions, as well as their various representational and media formats. Florian Dombois founded the Y-Institute of Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland, where he teaches and acts as the Head of Y-Research. Respondent Ute Meta Bauer is an Associate Professor and head of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
February 28, 2011A Guide to Campo del CieloGuillermo Faivovich & Nicolás GoldbergRespondent: Richard P. BinzelGuillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg are artists based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2006 they began working on A Guide to Campo del Cielo researching the cultural impact of the Campo del Cielo meteorites by studying, reconstructing, and reinterpreting their visual, oral, and written history to identify their historical and contemporary impact. Their 2010 exhibition Meteorit El Taco, Portikus, is documented in The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol 1: El Taco published by dOCUMENTA (13) and will also be featured at the 2012 dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition. Respondent Richard P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Science at MIT.
March 7, 2011Science & FictionsLaurent GrassoRespondent: Stefan HelmreichLaurent Grasso will discuss his HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral research) eponymous of a research base in Gakona, Alaska. HAARP involves a scale reconstitution of the antenna arrays in the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009). He will also present the Studies into the Past series, and the exhibition The Horn Perspective, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009), dealing with Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson’s discoveries on cosmic microwaves (remains of the big bang). In 2008, Laurent Grasso was awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize and in 2010 his work was featured at The European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain. Respondent Stefan Helmreich is a Professor of Anthropology at MIT.
March 14, 2011Parallel / Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and OtherJae Rhim LeeRespondent TBAJae Rhim Lee is an artist and ACT research fellow at MIT. Her current work, the Infinity Burial Project, proposes alternatives for the post-mortem body and features a unique strain of edible mushroom to decompose toxins in human tissue. Lee’s work proposes unorthodox relationships for the mind/body/self, and the built and natural environment. Lee has exhibited nationally and internationally and is a recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grant, 2009; a grant from the Institut für Raumexperimente / Universität der Künste Berlin, 2010; and a MAK Schindler Center Scholarship, Los Angeles, 2011.
March 28, 2011Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and TechnologyRicardo DominguezRespondent: Christopher CsikszentmihalyiRicardo Dominguez is an artist, activist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD, where he runs the b.a.n.g. lab. He co-founded The Electronic Disturbance Theater that developed virtual-sit-in technologies. His collaborative project, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS cell phone safety tool for crossing the Mexico-U.S border, is being exhibited at the 2010–11 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (La Jolla), and Un marco modular at Centro Cultural De España, El Salvador, 2010. Respondent Christopher Csikszentmihalyi is Director of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT.
April 4, 2011Turning Out the SpaceAttila CsörgöRespondent: Thomas D. TrummerHungarian artist Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Distorted Spaces focuses on the photographic representation of our surroundings. The Platonic Geometry is a series of kinetic sculptures dealing with the metamorphosis of a regular polyhedron. Csörgö applies the language of geometry and physics to traditional, pre-digital-age materials like sticks, strings and small electric motors to describe and reconfigure spatial relationships between objects. Csörgö’s work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States. He received the Nam June Paik Award in 2008. Respondent Thomas D. Trummer is Curator of Visual Arts at Siemens Stiftung, Munich.