NEW(HU)MAN EXHIBITION BOOKLET

NEW(HU)MAN EXHIBITION AVATAR / HUMAN / IMAGE

PUSSYKREW MITCH POSADA CLAUDIA MATE LATURBO AVEDON EVA PAPAMARGARITI AWK SOCIAL WEB / NORMALIZATION / COMPETITION / SWARM

CONSTANT DULLAART SEBASTIAN SCHMIEG CONOR MCGARRIGLE POLITICS / IDENTITY / CONTROL

FVDBOOM BADEN PAILTHORPE FEATURING

LONG-DISTANCE.GALLERY CURATED BY

ROBERT SAKROWSKI NEWMAN FESTIVAL

NEW (HU)MAN EXHIBITION

In the face of fierce acceleration, of population explosion, and of peaking fossil fuels, without which our modern networked society cannot run, humankind seems to be transforming itself. Society is made up of individuals interconnected by precautionary concern.

We who live in the digital networked society generate permanent data together. As individuals input all their data to the network (Internet), they are externalising their entire essence (culture). The individual seems to play the role of a pure sensor in the swarm intelligence arising from the network. Humans create not just the rules of co-existence, but form their own selves — their physical bodies as well as their psycho-social bodies — the way a feedback loops does. The digital network society goes beyond traditional interests in coaction, which are preventative, curative and helpful, employing cooperation over and above cyclical meaning- and identity-conferring rituals. Through total and permanent connection the network society provides fulfilment of a mystical promise of happiness — a trancelike dissolution into the whole. The always-under-threat individual is safely havened in network society. Integration of the network with real life has increased to the extent that making a distinction between the two is moot.

So-called new media are consistently used as a means of pure self-affirmation and self-understanding. What is recorded on the (mobile) device is unimportant; connection to the network alone is paramount.

Examination of the festival theme with questions on new humans has opened up three conceptual spaces: the human image, the swarm and the control.

The exhibition is an attempt to make clear the threatened state of caring.

Humans as beings, their bodies and their lives, exist in the interest of caring cooperation. In a digital network society, an individual who records their data and who has their data recorded is a measured point of reference for all other network participants. However, equal participation in communal existence is no longer achieved by individual physical presence. In today’s mass society, equal participation in communal existence is achievable only through media and media agents. Through permanent usage, borders, effects, and specific individuals’ characteristics are inscribed schematically in subjective perception.

The technology, specialised to the extent that its scope of responsibility in the Panopticon has shrunk to that of a single, individual cell, mimicking the reduced accountability that gave rise to modern fascism, is today being implemented in such a way that, in the digital network society, search and destroy becomes the much less culpable search, point and click . The social networks that take on the role of the Panopticon split individual, central and controlling views with all network users; everyone watches their neighbour, thereby exposing themselves to permanent observation. The Internet of Things effects not only objects, animals, plants and our bodies. The network nurtures enforced conformity by simply connecting everything with everything while the individual, simultaneously, dissolves.

The immense data streams in the network cannot be comprehended by individuals, and nor are their complex relationships revealed to individuals. Lost.

Computed human bodies, heaps of pure, useless doohickey that no longer have names, and that envelope us in a sea of light and colour. The glass screen slides between us and nature; the opaque surface of brightly coloured displays mirror a collective, continually self-generating phantasma ‌

1ST FLOOR

MAIN ENTRANCE

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CONOR MCGARRIGLE 24h Social generative video installation, appropriated from Vine 2014

3.A PUSSYKREW re:union digital print triptych, 3D render printed on aluminum dibond 120cm x 80cm each print Berlin, 2014

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EVA PAPAMARGARITI No boredom, no pain, no routine.

Video, 3:00 video loop with audio April 2014

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FREYJA VAN DEN BOOM WEAREAUTONOMOUS The Netherlands/Belgium 2014-2015

3.B PUSSYKREW Mimicry series of 3D printed sculptures size : 40 x 40 x 30cm Brussels, 2015

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MITCH POSADA 3d graphic, Gif animations 2012 - ongoing

2ND FLOOR 6.

BADEN PAILTHORPE MQ-9 Reaper High Definition 3D animation.

4 mins 39 sec, 2014

7.A CONSTANT DULLAART Crystal Pillars 20” HD video 2013, courtesy Carroll/Fletcher London.

7.B CONSTANT DULLAART High Retention, Slow Delivery!!

10” HD video 2014, courtesy Future Gallery Berlin.

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AWK Capturedsurface 3D scan on site and internet distribution capturedsurface.tumblr.com 2014 - ongoing

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SEBASTIAN SCHMIEG LSTM Long Short Term Memory Algorithm, Website, Telepropter 2015

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LATURBO AVEDON Personal Identification 8:00 video loop with surround audio 2015

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CLAUDIA MATE Theglobalmood www.the.global.mood.website Created and developed by Miggu & Claudia Maté Internet 2014

PUSSYKREW Polish audio-visual artists Andrzej Wojtas (Jendrek) and Ewelina Aleksandrowicz (Tikul) a.k.a. Pussykrew have been collaborating on a diversity of projects in areas such as video-installations, projection mapping, DIY electronics, live coding and live audio-visual performances since 2008.

In their unconventional work, Pussykrew rely on a mix of striking visuals and minimalistic sounds, in order to challenge their audience to re-think their understanding of the connection between space, sound and visual perception.

Amongst others, their projects have been featured at this years’ Transmediale in Berlin, as well as London’s Saatchi Gallery, as part of the Red Never Follows Exhibition.

POLITICS IDENTITY CONTROL

LATURBO AVEDON LaTurbo Avedon is an artist-avatar whose existence and creative output resides entirely online.

Without a real world referent, LaTurbo is a digital manifestation of a person that has never existed outside of a computer.

Avedon’s digital sculptures and environments disregard this lack of physicality, and instead emphasize the practice of virtual authorship.

Her works are regularly distributed online, and have been exhibited internationally – including shows at Transfer Gallery (New York City), Jean Albano Gallery (Chicago), Nomade Space (Hangzhou), and Galeries Lafayette (Paris).

BADEN PAILTHORPE Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian contemporary artist. Working predominantly within the field of new media, his work increasingly exposes the growing reach and the subtle operations of contemporary militarism, institutions and power.

In Newman festival he will present MO-9 Reaper (2014) – a surreal exploration of the MO-9 Reaper drone and its networked human and non-human agents.

LONG DISTANCE GALLERY is happy to hoist three flags for the NEWMAN festival in Druskininkai. Mitch Posada, Pussykrew and Claudia Maté. Concept and curation: Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach

He has participated in over sixty solo and group exhibitions, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, NIMk, Amsterdam, la Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, ARTSPACE, Sydney, the UQ Art Museum, Brisbane and the Australian War Memorial, Canberra

MITCH POSADA Mitchell Posada is concerned with the experimental nature of 3d virtual environments held together by exotic physics and desires we only wish we had.

Shapes generative pictures through data manipulation.

Depicts virtually augmented textures as sentient, impossible objects as functional, and avatars as extensions of our subconscious.

FREYJA VAN DEN BOOM FVDBOOM is a multimedia artist, intellectual property and European law teacher and researcher.

Interested in art and philosophy, new media and technology.

WEAREAUTONOMOUS it is time NOW to vote TO VOTE: ROBOT PARTY We believe that intelligence in any form should NOT be discriminated against, whether you are natural or artificial intelligence.

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A H I

AWK

EVA PAPAMARGARITI

CLAUDIA MATE

Awk is a street artist with the interest in new media, who uses Xbox Kinect camera and various software to transform people from real life to digital sculptures.

He adapts this technique creating prints, stencils and music videos.

Eva Papamargariti is a Greek artist who combines architecture and digital media in her practice.

Claudia Mate works in a large area of new media and online based works. Her works come from a variety of formats including programming, 3D, video, animated GIFs and sound. She is Co- founder and curator at cloaque.org.

AVATAR HUMAN IMAGE

Her projects focus on time-based media (digital installations, video, gif animations etc), architecture and graphic design. She is interested in the creation of 2d/3d digital spaces, forms and geometries which can provoke different concepts, narrations and atmospheres each time, using a variety of methods, tools and programs. The themes of motion, destruction and distortion appear often to her work.

SOCIAL WEB NORMALIZATION COMPETITION SWARM CONSTANT DULLAART

SEBASTIAN SCHMIEG

Constant Dullaart works primarily with the Internet as an alternative space of presentation and (mis) representation.

Sebastian Schmieg is a Berlin-based artist and educator who works with found materials and custom software to create pieces that examine the way contemporary technologies shape online and offline realities.

His often political approach is critical of the control that corporate systems have upon our perception of the world, and the way in which we passively adopt their languages.

Dullaart’s practice includes websites, performances, installations and manipulated found images, presented both offline and in the public space of the Internet.

His work LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) is a neural network which is memorizing every book by futurologist Ray Kurzweil by permanent training.

As the process of deep learning continues, the network generates new words, new sentences and new statements.

Mate’s works has been exhibited internationally in NYC, Madrid, Paris, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Berlin, Chile, Buenos Aires, Switzerland, Venezuela, Lima, Miami, Iran, Peru, London and online.

CONOR MCGARRIGLE Conor McGarrigle is an Irish artist and researcher working at the intersection of digital networks and real space. His work is concerned with the integration of location-aware technologies into the everyday and the spatial implications of ubiquitous data collection regimes.

His work 24h Social shows 86,400 Vines in a 24 hour period, one for every second of the day, or a fifth of the total daily output.

Each video is algorithmically synced to play at the time of its original creation and once played remains on-screen to be over-layered by subsequent videos building up a rich, multi-layered and kinetic screen reflecting the complexity and always-on nature of Vine’s torrent of video data.

ROBERT SAKROWSKI

NEWMAN FESTIVAL

Robert Sakrowski was born in east Berlin. Since 1986 he works in various constellations in the field of music and new media art. He studied art history at the TU-Berlin. From 1999 to 2003 he headed the project netart-datenbank.org at TU Berlin.

From 2003 to 2006 he lead as chairman the web.museum e.V. In the 2007–2009 period he worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research in Linz at the „netpioneers 1.0“ research project. Since 2007 he has created various exhibitions dealing with questions circling art and art practices related to the web 2.0. These themes are also the main focus of his current project CuratingYouTube.net. 2014 he worked as curator for the Transmediale Festival „capture all“ in 2015. Currently he curates the exhibition for the „New Man“ Festival in Lithuania.

The festival is about the clash of human nature and modern technology, analyzing how contemporary media extends and redefines a human being. It is also a redefinition of a festival as such — a large portion of the event will be dedicated to arts and day-time activities, promoting post-club culture and attitude.

OPENING HOURS July 3rd 1800 July 4 – 6 1200 – 2000 Kudirkos g. 7, DRUSKININKAI LITHUANIA

P.S. Stay hydrated.