 | | Marnix de Nijs | | Exploded views – Remapping Florence | Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m. (première)
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: NIMK 1st floor, gallery 5
Exploded Views is an interactive installation in which three participants run on individual treadmills to move through an interactive audio-visual 3D environment that is projected on the front of the apparatus. The sound and projected images were recorded in public spaces in various cities. In this version the visitor moves through Florence, where, because of increasing mobility and the ever increasing numbers of tourists that enables, the public life and beauty of this Renaissance city have been entirely disrupted. Tourism is changing the city into a sort of city-hoppers' Disney World, while at the same time driving the local population out of the center of town (12 million tourists per year vs a population of only 355,000). The first version of Exploded Views, Remapping Florence was made especially for the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – CCCS in Florence, Italy.
Produced by Marnix de Nijs, Rotterdam and Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Firenze, www.strozzina.org. Co-producer NIMk | |  | | Constant Dullaart | | | Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 1
Constant Dullaart has recently completed his residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and is chiefly occupied with developing contemporary visual language, and particularly with the fluctuating value of representation and documentation in this era of electronic media and the influence of international corporations which design these media. How does a natural disaster become a video effect in a software package, and how is suffering captured in a thumbnail? Recently his work has often concentrated on the internet and blogs, such as rhizome.org and Art in America. www.constantdullaart.com | |  | | Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand | Sonolevitation (2007)
with live spectroscopic video feed by Bas van Koolwijk | Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 07:00 p.m. (performance 9:00 p.m. Location: Project Space)
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 3
Life without the force of gravity is rather awkward: fluids that are not in closed containers fly all over the place. In a space capsule gases, liquids and powders are kept in place by acoustic suspension. On earth this same process creates the impression of a localized absence of gravity. In Sonolevitation flakes of gold are lifted and moved in various directions acoustically. Any movement or change of direction of a flake, no matter how minimal, has extreme consequences for the sound. An artwork in a gravity vacuum like this (as in a spaceship) makes things that were not anticipated audible and visible. www.portablepalace.com/ | |
 | | Adad Hannah & Niklas Roy | | International Dance Party, 2007 | Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 4
International Dance Party (IDP) is a complete 'party in a box' by the Canadian artist Adad Hannah and the German artist Niklas Roy. The machine looks like an ordinary 'flightcase' that is used, for instance, for transporting delicate apparatus. Internally, it is equipped with cutting edge radar sensing technology, an ear-blasting state-of-the-art 600W sound system, tons of psychedelic light and laser effects, and even a professional-grade fog machine. Through its dance activity radar, the International Dance Party detects and evaluates motion input from surrounding people in realtime., Once visitors start to dance within the machine's range of perception several sophisticated transforming mechanisms let the flightcase turn into a powerful and boosting party machine.The audience controls the complexity of the music generated and the intensity of the light effects directly by the energy of its dance action. When there is no audience, or when the audience is not active enough, the machine stops its performance and transforms back into a transport crate. So the more you move, the better things get. www.internationaldanceparty.com
With the cooperation of the General Delegation of Quebec, at Brussels. | |  | | Lilia Perez Romero | | Frontera v.2 | Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Artlab
In this interactive installation digital portraits respond to the visitor's movements. Visitors can make a digital portrait in the video cabin and add it to the database. This permits the visitor to play with his or her own projected mirror image, which responds to his or her movements. | |
 | | feedbacksociety | | A/V Blocks | Saturday 9 May 9:30 p.m. performance
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
A/V Blocks is a kinetic sound and light sculpture comprised of centrally regulated light and audio elements. These elements are made from recycled fluid containers of one cubic meter, with a light source and sound box in each container. The lights follow the sound as it moves through the containers. A/V Blocks was realized by feedbacksociety in cooperation with the refuse materials architect Denis Oudendijk (refunc). www.feedbacksociety.com | | |
