Artist Talk
May 16, 2020
Livestream
The «Brainstorm» schedule will consist of 10vsessions, 15-20 minutes each, starting at the top of every hour from 12 CET to 20 CET.
Each session will invite two specialists to reflect upon the in-betweenness of two proposed topics (things, objects, concepts, or phenomenon).
Two “keywords” will be announced at the start of each session for the discussion to begin. Our hope is for each session to inspire exchange, and further investigation, and bring a breath of fresh air to each others’ research practices.
12-12:15 Palle Dahlstedt & Natacha Lamounier
3-13:15 Sebastian Frese Bülow & Najam Ul Assar
14-14:15 Wendy Coones & Ralph Hage
15-15:15 Graziele Lautenschlaeger & Riad Salameh
16-16:15 Ana Peraica & Juan Pablo Pacheco
17-17:15 Francesca Franco & Sarag Blue Pailian
18-18:15 Andres Burbano & Amanda Parra
19-19:15 Maryam Mumladze & Ryszard Kluszczyński
20-20:15 Helena Nikonole & Juan Covelli
Live Stream
Centro de Cultura Digital
Ciudad de Mexico
Navegaciones guiadas es una serie de visitas en línea por diversas exposiciones en internet, comentadas en vivo a través de Youtube. Esta selección busca resaltar algunas de las tipologías de exposiciones pensadas por y para internet con la finalidad de expandir el diálogo en torno a las posibilidades del medio así como sus estructuras internas. En cada una de estas sesiones semanales se visitarán una exposición de la mano de unx invitadx especial para comentar las piezas y profundizar acerca del contexto en el que fueron creadas.
En esta sesión nuestrxs invitadxs especialxs son Juan Covelli y Lina Useche , artistas e investigadores en arte y cultura digital, con quienes navegaremos las profundidades de La Tercera Parte de Nmenos1. “Somos los prisioneros voluntarios de la nube; estamos siendo vigilados por gobiernos que no elegimos.” (Metahaven, 2013), La Tercera Parte es la primera exposición de la plataforma Nmenos1 misma que surge de la necesidad de crear un espacio para la arqueología de medios desde el llamado sur global y en la que en esta ocasión se presenta el trabajo de Angie Rengifo, Juan Obando, David Medina, Sebastián Mira, Gabriel Zea, Tatyana Zambrano, Valentina Cadena y Nora Renaud.
Podcast
Gabriel Zea
Un podcast de entrevistas con artistas y demás personas que trabajan en el campo del arte en Colombia.
Juan Covelli es un artista bogotano que trabaja con medios digitales para realizar preguntas sobre el patrimonio y las prácticas coloniales. Juan está pasando la cuarentena en su casa en Bogotá junto acompañado de su pareja y sus gatos. En esta charla nos cuenta sobre la percepción del tiempo en la actualidad y como ha cambiado desde que inició el confinamiento. También nos habla del uso que le da a Internet, que en su caso es una herramienta que usa como medio de comunicación y al mismo tiempo es materia para algunas de sus obras. Finalmente nos invita a reflexionar sobre los dispositivos de comunicación y la biopolítica que impone sobre nosotros los usuarios.
Curaduría de Grey Cube Projects
Museo de Pereira
marzo/Julio
Las obras exhibidas en “Simbiosis Entrópica” invitan al espectador a establecer conexiones e interpretaciones, que preceden la narrativa tradicional y el discurso hermenéutico de la historia del arte, para de esta manera posibilitar una nueva forma de disertación y renovar la experiencia contemplativa. La tecnología nos permite superar algunos de los obstáculos, que la visión humana no puede categorizar y entender.
Los dispositivos tecnológicos nos ayudan a trascender las limitaciones perceptuales; esta forma de maniobrar ha cambiado los procesos cognitivos y se convierte en un modelo alternativo para comprender la dimensión en la que estamos inmersos y por consiguiente reconocer la existencia de otras formas de vida. Aceptar la complejidad de la materia, nos permitirá descubrir una extensa serie de Simbiosis; tanto orgánicas como sintéticas.
Well Now WTF?
Curated by Faith Holland, Lorna Mills, and Wade Wallerstein
Hosted by Silicon Valet
Museums are closed. School is cancelled. The world is shut off and we’re stuck indoors. All the bread has been sold and Twitter has lost its mind. Fox News is killing off its own demographic. While everything is cancelled, why not have a show?
With everything going on, we ask ourselves: Well Now WTF? We have no answer, but we do know how to make GIFs. We can come together and use the creative tools at our disposal to build a space for release outside of anxiety-inducing news cycles and banal social media feeds.
Well Now WTF? is as much an art show as a community gathering. Beginning with the opening on April 4 and throughout the exhibition, we will hold online events on the site itself and via Twitch where people can gather and talk as they would normally for a physical exhibition.
Pixels Fest
«Digital Utopias»
The Yeltsin Center
Yekaterinburg
Russia
07—15.03
Pixel fest is a new initiative aimed at broadening the frameworks of digital media art in urban environment of Yekaterinburg and creating a communication field for which the Yeltsin Center media façade will be a gigantic screen for up to date video-art works of artists from around the world.
Global technolgization radically changes our everyday life. Technological future scenarios often do not bode well. The future is uncertain and futurologists frequently come up with pessimistic models of evolution of our planet and society. We encourage you to reflect both on “positive” ideas and speculative theories related to future: alternative worlds and utopian concepts.
Curaduría Daniela Gutiérrez- Sebastián Mira
Online/offline
Estacion Terrana
Bogotá
Marzo 3 de 2020
Esta exhibición indaga sobre formas de ocupación y emplazamiento on/off-line, sus manifestaciones y temporalidades. Los procesos que hacen parte de esta muestra son búsquedas sobre la cualidad de estar presente o próximo dentro de la digitalidad, y en algunos casos, vivencias desde la pantalla. Partiendo de aproximaciones al paisaje (y sus manifestaciones virtuales), a través del tiempo en simultáneo (con lags), hasta formas de habitar la web, buscamos acercarnos a posibles definiciones y aplicaciones del presentness, de la vivencia de un momento a la distancia, o en delay.
The Harddiskmuseum
Solimán Lopez
Online
V Space is the online version of the museum. It is only available in two cases:
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1- A physic presentation of the museum.
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2- A special online happening.
The space has been designed as a metaphor of the surface of the disk where the artworks are floating to be shown by the spectator. In the disk, as in the real one, you could find around, 100 files with .jpg, .mp4, .html, mp3, .gif, .fbx, and so on different kinds of digital files formats.
The visit is organized by a typology of files, just click on the format and you will see the artist related to that one. Click on the artist for visiting his gallery.
Curated by Carlos Sanchez Bautista
EP7
Paris
France
21 nov - 5 Dec 2019
Le musée des arts super modernes est une plateforme d’artistes internationaux, un espace ouvert sur la création digitale, une alternative décentralisée à l’élitisme de l’art contemporain.
"DUOMO in Progress" est une exposition regroupant une sélection de grands noms de la scène artistique française et internationale contemporaine, dont des pionniers de l'art numérique, qui créent des images à partir de code informatique.
Une importance particulière a été accordée à la recherche (quasi archéologique) en ligne d'oeuvres des origines, la plupart interactives, afin de les préserver.
Cartographies
Exhibition of moving image
Ugly Duck
London
MARCH 22ND-24TH 2019
‘Cartographies’ is an exhibition of moving image artworks. It explores the technologies of mapping and the mapping of technologies in the contemporary world. How do we cognitively and physically situate ourselves in modern cartographic networks? What are our terms of engagement with this global and unthinkably complex infrastructure? Where do we stand?
Google Earth, Street View, GPS systems, 3D modelling, algorithms and machine learning all serve the contemporary cartographic imperative – to remap the world as a dense, overlapping weave of digital traces turned into exploitable data. The artworks featured in this exhibition critically engage with these technologies to find alternative ways of being in and through cartographic networks.
Cartographies
Exhibition of moving image
Ugly Duck
London
MARCH 22ND-24TH 2019
‘Cartographies’ is an exhibition of moving image artworks. It explores the technologies of mapping and the mapping of technologies in the contemporary world. How do we cognitively and physically situate ourselves in modern cartographic networks? What are our terms of engagement with this global and unthinkably complex infrastructure? Where do we stand?
Google Earth, Street View, GPS systems, 3D modelling, algorithms and machine learning all serve the contemporary cartographic imperative – to remap the world as a dense, overlapping weave of digital traces turned into exploitable data. The artworks featured in this exhibition critically engage with these technologies to find alternative ways of being in and through cartographic networks.
Residencia el Bosque
Conferencista invitado
y taller de tecnologías de captura y
3D aplicadas al Arte Contemporáneo
Departamento de Artes Plásticas
Universidad del Bosque
Diciembre 3-5
Arte y activismo en la era digital, es un taller de 3 días enfocado en técnicas DIY de captura digital en 3D y sus
aplicaciones para el arte contemporáneo. Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de aprender cómo realizar un escaneo en 3D, para luego explorar colectivamente diferentes estrategias de creación artística digital y la socialización de los resultados, teniendo como fin último la creación de un archivo digital con los resultados del taller.
New materiality & the digital artifact
Artist Talk
Friday November 23rd 2018
UCL Archaeology department
UCL MAL is pleased to invite artist Juan Covelli to give a talk as part of our evening seminar series.
Covelli’s concerns are connected to the archive’s potential of being a tool for activism and art-making against digital colonialism. He is fascinated by the digital archive as a way of democratizing the object and liberating it from physical and geographical constraints. Today we experience a paradigm shift from perspective to the realm of volume. The rise of scanning and 3D technologies has made this change ever more relevant. For Covelli, the significance lies in the reproduction and production of objects where repetition becomes difference. If we are able to reproduce endless exact copies, what happens with the original?
New Materialities in the Digital Age - Exhibition
Harlesden High Street Gallery
Nov 13 - Dec 13
The digital era offers multiple possibilities surrounding the production, simplification, automation and creation: this has opened the door for new materialities that not only respond to the physicality of an object but also to its processes and exchanges developed from digitisation.
Taking as a starting point the theories created by James Bridle and the New Aesthetic Tumblr project, Christiane Paul and the concept of Neomateriality, Bernard Stiegler and his ideas behind Hypermateriality and Timur Si-Quin’s perception of Metamaterality, this talk will look into these concepts and their incidence in the creative world, design and mass production....
Exhibiting artists include:
Bob Bicknell-Knight- Juan Covelli- Jayson Kym Haebich - Steve Gee - Tom Johnson - Cassie McQuater - Bex Massey - Jon Rafman - Anna Sebastian - Lewk Wilmshurst - Laura Yuile
Out of Space Exhibition
Curated Jack Smurthwaite
AVD Gallery
Nov 13 - Dec 13
We have moved from a philosophical exploration of space to, in the mid-twentieth century, anexploration of 'outer' space. Even in its titling, the space race apparently pushed our understanding
of this particular ontology of space to its limits. Furthermore, we have managed to reconfigure what this word means in the digital, especially to digital natives who have grown only knowing the plasticity of ‘space’ and its various uses. Assimilating and expanding the remit of the existing
lexicon to new sociopolitical concerns is an age old but dangerous game, one that allows systemic changes to go somewhat unquestioned, to be approached and treated as natural...
Featuring:
Ololade Adeniyi
Juan Covelli
Ed Florance
Every day- World Art
Hospital Prison University Archive
Nov 8 - Dec 20
All are welcome to the opening of the ninth display at the Hospital Prison University Archive departing from the communist educator Rudolf Broby-Johansen and his popular book Everyday Art - World Art (Hverdagskunst verdenskunst) published in 1942. The project has been developed in collaboration with the art historian Ellef Prestæter and the graphic artist Åse Eg Jørgensen.
Everyday Art - World Art was ground breaking both for Broby-Johansen and for the illustrated art book. The publication is an introduction to European style history in which Broby pedagogically and polemically lays out the development of art from the Ice Age to ‘today’ (1942).
The exhibition also presents another handful of artefacts from Guttorm Guttormsgaard's Archives, selected by a group of young artists whom we (Ellef and I) collaborated with this summer at a workshop organised by PRAKSIS in the Archive just North of Oslo. These items are also integrated in the display and were selected by Juan Covelli (CO), Anna Sofie Mathiasen (DK), Lara Ögel (TR), Amina Sahan (NO), Kim Svensson (SE) and Stephanie von Spreter (DE).
Inside Intel
Curated by Elliott Burns, India Murphy and Jake Charles Rees
16 – 20 October 2018
The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) presented Inside Intel: an exhibition of contemporary artworks, design objects and digital assets brought together to investigate the confusion sewn by an increasingly partisan media, sinister new technologies and the culture of official secrecy and widespread surveillance.
Designed as an experimental Silicon Valley “Imagineering lab” situated within Goldsmiths, University of London, the exhibition was an aesthetic response to the 2018 CIJ Logan Symposium:
Conspiracy.
Featuring work by: Benjamin Grosser, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Céline Minkyung Park, Cosmic Latte (Andrew Kiddie, Juan Covelli & Neale Willis), Darren Cullen, Davide Bevilacqua & Veronika Krenn, Eva & Franco Mattes, Ewan Jones Morris, Florentin Aisslinger, Forensic Architecture, Iain Ball, Joey Holder, Joseph Steele, Khaled Barakeh, Lucy Sanderson, Marion Balac, Nick Ryan in collaboration with Sean Malikides, Simon Denny, Ted Hunt, Thomas Yeomans and Yuri Pattison.
THE IMAGE OF THINGS
Praksis
Friday, September 21
The Image of Things is an exhibition resulting from PRAKSIS’s tenth residency The Collective Subject of History that brings together a group of artists and a curator to collectively engage with Guttorm Guttormsgaard’s universe of collected objects as encountered in his Arkiv. Containing thousands of man-made objects from across the continents, the Arkiv rejects a hierarchical presentation of things and thereby slips Western principles of ordering and categorization. Rather, through the seemingly endless possibilities of looking, a myriad of stories emerges that enables the viewer to create new connections and narratives across space and time. The Image of Things explores how we can collectively (re)construct and (re)narrate the image and memory of an object when re-activated and re-imagined by the beholder.
A collective exhibition at Guttormsgaards Arkiv with:
Juan Covelli (CO), Anna Sofie Mathiasen (DK), Lara Ögel (TR), Amina Sahan (NO), Kim Svensson (SE), Stephanie von Spreter (DE), and the Hospital Prison University Radio (DK).
Fake plastic forevers & detournement of digital colonialism
Internet Moon Gallery
Curated by Juan Covelli
September 1
Fake plastic forevers, curated by Juan Covelli, is new reiteration of his previous internet based work Speculating the Fragmented Copy, created for the web residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM | Center for Art and Media, where he released 14 high definition 3D scans from Mesoamerican archaeological artifacts that he scanned from the Stavenhagen Collection -CCU Tlatelolco in Mexico.
Covelli has commissioned 6 artists to revisit his digital archive to create new work using the 3D models, to give the 2,000-year-old archaeological treasures a new digital life. The 3D scans presented are freed from physical matter, an illusion of sorts. Translated to a new dimension and language, which is not made of tangible material, their components are zeroes and ones, without dimension. The new artifacts are algorithmic calculations, released from the museum and its geographical limitations; now they are coming back to the people. Not bound by the original, the digitalized objects can become forever multiple, forever fluid.
Featured artist:
Leá Porré , Miguel Ángel Salazar, Olga Mikh Fedorova, Neale Willis , Yuma burgess and Finnish duo Nabbterri
Object analyses at Guttormsgaards Archive
Hospital Prison University Archive
Invited by jakob jakobsen
Listen to four object analyses made by four young artists that were taking part in the workshop 'The Collective Subject of History' at Guttorm Guttormgaard's Archive in Blaker, Norway (June 2018). I invited four of the workshop participants to choose one or more objects from the Archive that we could use as a point of departure for a radio conversation. All conversations last about 30 min.
Visual Artist Juan Covelli picked a Standard Measure used for spacing within book printing. Link: https://guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/node/253/item/163
Listen here: http://hospitalprisonuniversity.net
Ancient Gods and Digital Power
The interview by Clara Herrmann
Akademie Schloss Solitude
May 08, 2018
What if the magical powers of the 3D scanner and the Mesoamerican ancient god of rain came together to fight digital colonialism? Juan Covelli went to Mexico to 3D scan 14 Mesoamerican artifacts for his project Speculating the Fragmented Copy, created for the web residencies at Solitude and ZKM. He then invited artists to download the objects and modify them however they wanted, to give the 2,000 year-old archeological treasures a new digital life in a Surrealist virtual gallery space. The project is part of a current open source countermovement against museums and tech companies such as Google who are also digitizing cultural heritage for creative re-use, but often just reproduce tactics of traditional colonialism due to closed and controlled production environments. Visit the project and read an interview with the artist.
To the Fore and into the Future
by Tegan Bristow
Web residencies by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Between southern archives and new narratives: Four new artistic projects have been selected for the web residencies by Solitude and ZKM on the topic »Ghosted 2018«. The artists Juan Covelli (Colombia/UK), Dananayi Muwanigwa (Zimbabwe), Sahej Rahal (India), and Léa Porré (UK) will work on their projects from April 9 until May 6, 2018. Their proposals include explorations of traditional African beauty/aesthetics with digital paintings, interactive games on Internet shamanism, mythology, and meme culture, 3D-print-archives where images can be downloaded and remixed by the user, and visual examinations of hyperreal oases in the no mans’-land of digital culture ....
Juan Covelli's work asks difficult questions about archive, ownership, and the bias of interpretation in the digital world – in a new and challenging manner. What happens as we increasingly digitize our physical life; how is culture and ownership present in this malaise?«
Life 2.0
The wrong Biennale
Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight
What do we mean when we talk about our ‘other’ self, our ‘second’ self, our, ‘online’ self? Some evangelists of certain digital worlds, like Second Life or World of Warcraft, declare that in the virtual realm we become our true selves, throwing off the shackles of mere appearance. Members of 4chan would probably agree. Where anyone can be anything, does that not level the playing field of life, allowing our personalities to reign free? Are these purported online ‘safe spaces’ the utopias we wish them to be, or just breeding grounds that encourage anonymous harassment, allowing our inner My Hyde’s to overwhelm the front facing Dr Jekyll’s. Maybe being hateful and misogynistic is part of our true selves, with Donald Trump as president of the United States being an example of this. When one enters the voting booth, alone at last, they only have to look within themselves to discover what, or who, they really want…
Alice Rout, Anne de Boerand Eloïse Bonneviot
Clare Gatto, Elsa Philippe, Emma McCarthy, Emma Stern, Fengyi Zhu, Helen Hamilton, Jade Annaw, Jake Moore, Juan Covelli, Naomi Fitzsimmons, Olivier Max Colson, Kara Gut, Pagy, Petra Szeman, Roxman Gatt, Thea Lazar, Tobias Williams, Tom Kobialka, Wednesday Kim, Will Kendrick, Yorkson
MM/2: Archipiélago, fuera del círculo
[ANTI]MATERIA
Curated by Doreen A Ríos
“The continental thinking denies the fusion while the archipelagic thinking makes it possible to say that
the identity of any person, or group of people, isn’t predetermined once and for all. The archipelagic thinking makes it possible to have close exchanges with others without losing the sensation of individuality”
Édouard Glissant, Le Discours antillais, (1989-92)
It is precisely the idea of the archipelago the one that pushes us away from a concentric thinking while establishing a series of links that lead us to an exchange, same exchange that moves away from trying to find an absolute truth and that resembles a homogeneous fusion of complementary ideologies.
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isthisit? issue 02
The second issue of the isthisit? magazine is 96 pages and composed of artworks, essays, interviews and one podcast, considering memes and appropriation on the internet. In the United States 2016 presidential election, memes are said to have played a fundamental role, with individuals on 4chan claiming that they were responsible for Donald Trump's rise to power due to the amount of memes that were created and shared on a daily basis. This issue of the magazine hopes to consider the power of the meme, it's rise in contemporary culture and the widespread appropriation of images and videos being utilised, both in memes and artworks.
Shift # 4
SHIFT is After's digital residency, in which selected artists are invited to explore our changing experience of time, space, culture, and identity through our relationship with the screen, the internet, and digital culture.
The residency's title, SHIFT, reflects the growing interest in work made for spaces other than the gallery and refers to the regular rotation of selected artists. After encourages resident artists to challenge the primacy of the object within gallery space and to develop ideas, research and processes relating to the production and presentation of work within the digital realm
The Choice of a New Generation
Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight
The Muse Gallery
The Choice of a New Generation seeks to present an exhibition of works exploring the end of a post-internet generation, apocalyptic tendencies, post-truth agendas and the evolving, technology infused future.
Bora Akinciturk, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Juan Covelli, Anne de Boer, Pippa Eason, Roxman Gatt, Gordon Holden, Joey Holder, Will Kendrick, Jake Kent, Eden Mitsenmacher, Aaron Scheer, Willem Weismann, Trystan Williams, Lewk Wilmshurst, Xim Xom, Jiyoung Yoo, Yorkson
SHED STUDIO RESIDENCY
NOW YOU HAVE AUTHORITY
Conceptualised and pseudo-curated by: Vishal Kumaraswamy
The Shed Studio Residencies are a combination of in-person residents and residents-in-exile. It is primarily a metaphorical place to fail, to experiment and to really realise that the physicality of space is largely unimportant. #dirtyspaces
ADM-PIRA
International Art Residency
Mexico City
Centro ADM is a non-profit space based in Mexico City. We are dedicated to promoting the education, research, and production of contemporary art, new media, and design. One of our main goals is to encourage creativity through exchange, whether across different fields or through collaboration with artists from around the globe. PIRA (International Program of Artist Residencies) is part of this effort. As part of the Bureau of Cultural Activities of the Center, PIRA offers two International Art Residencies with a duration of 4-8 weeks.
Neixcuitilamatl Conferencia
CCU Tlatelolco Mexíco D.F
ADM-PIRA Residencia Internacional
Charla con artista Juan Covelli. Las nuevas tecnólogas y el mundo digital dan paso a diferentes maneras de entender la constitución física de las “cosas". En esta charla, el artista Juan Covelli (Colombia) presenta su nuevo proyecto Neixcuitilamatl. Su propuesta pone en tensión la producción de imágenes digitales, su condición algorítmica, el uso de Machine Vision y tecnologías 3D aplicadas al arte contemporáneo a partir de la exploración de artefactos de la Colección Stavenhagen.
VR Exhibition
ICA London
Co-curated by Cristina Vasilescu, Will Webster and Perry-James Sudgen
Join us for the launch of a VR exhibition curated by ICA Student Forum. The evening offers a discussion around VR technology for young artists and the chance experiment with viewing devices such as Google cardboard glasses and Oculus Rift.
Human Glitch
Tate Modern
Tate art exchange
29 November 2016
Join Juan Covelli, Neale Willis and Luca Damiani to explore interpretation, technical engagement, digital error experimentation and 3D development with the Tate collection.
MozEx
Curated by the digital learning teams at the Tate and the V&A
MozEx: a collaboration between Mozilla Festival, Tate Exchange and V&A. MozEx is an art exhibition with a 21st- century twist. it showcases dynamic digital artwork that spans many disciplines and media. The exhibit explores links between art, society, and the digital world. Created by both individual practitioners and cross- disciplinary collaborations, MozEx navigates the value of art to society through web-literacy, digital inclusion and accessibility, social action, privacy, policy, and hacking. This book is a collection of the artist' work, giving a window into the MozEx exhibit, experience and exchange.
EL UNIVERSO DIGITAL DE JUAN COVELLI
Revista Exclama
Entrevista
Juan Covelli es un artista bogotano que trabaja en torno a las nuevas tecnologías y los medios digitales. Su producción, enfocada en buscar nuevas formas de hacer arte, explora nociones como la identidad, la transformación, la materialidad y la evolución del ser humano desde la imagen digital. Después de estudiar Ciencia Política, Covelli se mudó a Londres para realizar una maestría en fotografía...
VIDEO PROVOCATIONS
Tate Modern
Tate Exchange
12 October - 7 December 2016
Transform yourself into an artwork, exchange a part of yourself, sing a lullaby, or even rehome a family of escaped rabbits on Instagram
Juan Covelli: Colombia en la Bienal de Moscú
Mundo Sputnik
Óscar Segura
Sputnik pudo entrevistar a Juan Covelli, uno de los artistas más misteriosos y prometedores de la Bienal, y habló con él de su trabajo para el encuentro artístico de Moscú, de las nuevas tecnologías y las redes sociales y de la influencia del Brexit para la comunidad artística en el Reino Unido.
embassyHACK
Screen Shoot Magazine
Tamar Clarke-Brown
But these objects are not just part of the scenery. For instance, Juan Covelli’s fragmented, glitched, digital self-portraits, substituted for the traditional dignitary portrait, roam outside of their frames....
DEEP INSIDE
5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
curated by Nadim Samman
1 July - 10 August 2016
Everyday, millions of people have out-of-body experiences, enabled by avatars on social media, or in multiplayer game worlds. Meanwhile, Google Earth and air travel make us accustomed to the god’s eye perspective of satellites, in orbit, beyond gravity. Set against the challenge of dealing with environmental change, the vagaries of a global economy, social instability, and the moral fallout from the information revolution, the poetry of escape grows ever more seductive. Lust for an absolute outside powers fantasies of emigration to unspoiled beaches, and exotic schemes to colonize Mars...
Colin Buttimer
Juan Carlos Covelli Reyes (MA Photography) uses digital modelling as a metaphor for digital identity. “Everything we post on social media is an image,’ he says, ‘our identity is something that we’re curating – it’s the time of me, me, me.”
CONFLUX PRIZE WINNERS
I am delighted to announce the CONFLUX prize winners!
Curators’ Choice – Juan Covelli
Panel’s Choice – Abigail Yue Wang
Audience Choice – Daniel Ayat
Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust Choice – Daphne Karstens
