Moving from sculpture and participative performance to exploring digital escapism during Covid19; discover the new series of digital works “Dystopia of the Mind” by Or Williams.

Or Williams’ research that challenges the concepts of perfection. Or Williams is a multidisciplinary artist based in the UK. Her work incorporates low tech imagery and aesthetic, constructs of Digital and New Media watercolour painting, photography and performance.

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Biritsh-Sudanese artist and architectural designer, Rayan Elnayal explored the artistic journey and conceptualisation of her latest project, A Magic Realist Afrabia, as well as discussed relevant themes in her work including: Magic realism, Afrofuturism, the portrayal of western media narratives, identity and ethnic hybridism.

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Artists Ellie Niblock (UK) and Alaa Tarazbouni (Saudi Arabia) collectively explore the environment both digital and physical through the lens of sculpture and architecture. With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of the Not-Yet is an exploration into unknowable places of the not yet, translating an impossible physical experience of visiting the fictional non-places through the combination of drawing, sculpture, 3D scanning, mapping and sound; thus, making the imaginary, intangible spaces comprehendible through the virtual domain.

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“The Thing Between Us” is the first VR film of Elif Eda who performed, directed and produced this incredible work.

As a filmmaker, Elif Eda has always thought the movies she makes or produces should create new “eyes” for the audience rather than telling a story written in stone. She has always wanted the audience, eventually, to replace her/his eyes with the characters’ eyes and start telling the story of another person to themselves as if it is theirs.

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In this talk, Snow Yunxue Fu and Wade Wallerstein gave us deep insight about Liminal, Liminality and Liminoid. And, Wade Wallerstein shared with us a few examples of his Digital Curatorial work for Silicon Valet.  

How does the concept of liminality and liminoid play in contemporary digital art? 

The word liminal is often used to discuss the sublime within digital space and the VR experience, conjuring up notions of time, space, and perception, and echoing the experience of the sublime in nature. Working primarily with 3D software, Fu creates scenes of experimental abstraction that translate the concept of liminality into the digital experience.

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What have we learned? 

1. The difference between Liminal, Liminality and Liminoid. 

2. What Snow Yunxue Fu refers to the "Techno Sublime". 

3. A furtive look at the vast domain of Digital Curation. 

4. How the Internet and social media can amplify your reach.   

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In this talk, Gabriella shared the results of her research project “Cognitive Sensations”, a public programme of cross-disciplinary practice in art and science examining the impact of technology on the brain.  

How are perception and attention impacted by repetitive screen exposure, and what is our biological future with these devices?   

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Piece Name: bodyscan This musical segment for Agora explores the concept of body scanning. A body scan meditation brings attention to the different areas of the body, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet. The words in this piece attempt to map the memory of a person within different spaces of the body, evoking the emotive quality of each of the senses. The music borrows from the slow, meditative sound of spiritual practice, but juxtaposes it with an irregular and disruptive kick and snare patterns to coincide with the unrest of the vocals. The video distorts and fragments short vignettes that fracture before the eyes can source their meaning.

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Through Dr Helen Benigson latest PhD research, we learned more about how maternality is performed online, offline and in Lockdown but mostly interrupted through our devices and the Internet. Also, Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente unveiled (M)otherhood in the Digital Age. They discussed the impact of the Internet and COVID-19 on parents and carers.

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In this conversation, the PLOT Gallery and Rebecca Van Beeck talked about spatialisation and immersive architecture.

We learned a lot about their project and performance.

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/immersive-atmospheres-a-digital-approach-to-spatial-practice-rebecca-van-beeck-and-the-plot/

What did we learn?

1. How architectural design brings people together in an on/offline material relationship.

2. How to integrate the domestic interior with playfulness into the serious architecture domain.

3. How to question: “What is the Internet? What is an online community?”

4. How a simple participatory project supported the communities and kept people connected “intimately” during the lockdown.

5. What is the role of a costume? How does it represent and conceal a character above the artist’s own identity?

6. How can you immerse the viewer into a digital performance?

7. What might be the influence of the art market on Rebecca Van Beeck's practice?

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About the Music piece

The music piece created by Samm Anga especially for this event is named Kéré. This musical segment of the Agora Talk deals with art and architecture.

The title of the piece comes from Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect from the African village of Gando, in Burkina Faso. His work explores ‘radically simple’ concepts that intersect community and architecture.

Paying homage to Kéré’s influence, the piece intertwines simple musical ideas into tightly woven syncopated patterns that dance around each other, constructed from the ground up.

The percussive Afro-beat inspired melodies also explore patterns that are evocative of and prevalent in much of African dance music. If you would like view this video again, visit Samm Anga’s website.

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In this conversation, Gretchen Andrew and Penny Slinger shared how their practice crosses in and out of the digital as a mean to subvert material and cultural expectations.

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-art-as-a-form-of-subversion-gretchen-andrew-and-penny-slinger/

What did we learn?

1. How those two women artists use subversion in their art practice.

2. How beneficial a relationship between mentor and mentee is for both artists.

3. How political activism is manifested in the artists’ works.

4. How we relate to nature and what we could do differently.

5. How to approach, with a critical eye, the art world, the tech industry and activism.

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Information about the music:

At the end, Intermittence by Matt Gibb aka Kinbote and Samm Anga

This is an example of some of the music Samm was involved in curating and collaborating in Aberdeen with fellow creative Matt Gibb, which explores connecting past and present by combining a sample of acapella singing from Music from the Mountain Provinces in the Philippines with an ethereal ambience over an infectious modern beat.

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@wolfgang_tillmans is @Wiels_Brussels for his first large-scale solo exhibition in Belgium.

“Today Is The First Day” presents work by the artist from the past three decades, while opening up onto the latest developments in his practice that include new photography, sound and video works in a spatial constellation, conceived especially by Tillmans for WIELS.

“Today Is The First Day” until 24.05

I want to make a film (2018) is a 9-min spoken word piece, which Tillmans recorded unscripted and in one go on the dictaphone. In it, Tillmans describes, in tone simultaneously serious and amusing, the fictitious project for a film about the ways in which technology has infiltrated our lives, going from the first PCs to the now omnipotent, and omnipresent, smartphone.

This non visual piece is, paradoxically, an invitation to visitors to meditate on how they perceive and inhabit the world.

Curators: @devrim_bayar and @dirksnauwaert

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