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ARCO Madrid 2010 – Some press and photos
This is my Flickr set for the Expanded Box selection at ARCO Madrid 2010. As a photographer, I was lamer than usual, but I hope you’ll enjoy it as well.
This is Marius Watz’s Flickr set.
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Arco Beep Award
The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, by the German artists Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, is the winning entry for the Arco BEEP Award 2010. The work has been presented in the Expanded Box by the Berlin based gallery Art Claims Impulse. The artwork will become part of the BEEP – Datalogic corporate collection.
«The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext. New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.»
A video demonstration of the work is available on Youtube.
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanding the field
EXPANDING THE FIELD. Or, 8 good reasons to talk about new media (in an art fair)
Director: Domenico Quaranta
Lecturers: UBERMORGEN.COM, Marius Watz, Trevor Paglen, Oron Catts, Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
ARCO Art Fair, Forum Auditorium 2, Hall 6.
February 18, 2010, from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. and from 4 to 8 p.m.
Download the complete program.
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanded Box (catalogue text)
Back in 1997, Arthur C. Danto wrote After the End of Art, asserting that, after the Seventies, art entered a “post historical” condition, leaving behind the usual art historical narrative – based on a linear idea of progress – of which Modernism was the swansong; and opening a new era in which “everything can be art”.
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanded Box
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[Press Images (zip folder, 72 MB)]
Once again, ARCOmadrid is opening up its own particular “black box” to provide room for renowned international artists using new media in their works. The use of new technologies and digital tools in art creation is no longer viewed as anything strange or exceptional, and in fact a large number of artists have already added it to their everyday practise without further ado. This new addition of electronics to art is reflected in the eight spaces at EXPANDED BOX, in a programme coordinated by the Italian critic and curator Domenico Quaranta, a specialist in digital and net art.
