Space Matters

PROJECT: 
Space Matters - Public spaces and digital media
PLACE: 
Concert Hall in Karlskrona, Sweden
DATE: 
13.10.2011
The release of Performing Pictures' art app ”Offspring taking off” for iPhone celebrates the opening of the exhibition "Space Matters – Public spaces and digital media", for which curator Oscar Guermouche has invited a number of artists to produce works that explore artistic aspects of digital, public spaces.

On October 13th 2011, between 18.00 and 19.00, Performing Pictures' Geska Helena Brecevic will be present at the Concert Hall in Karlskrona to install the app directly on your iPhone, giving you an exclusive preview before the app is publicly available. The young ones on-screen are ballooning and they wait for the cue to take off. Hold the device in front of you. Look straight into the screen. Jump!

Historically, the public square was a focal meeting place. It used to be the very symbol of a free and open space for deliberation and communication of ideas and experiences. Today this former symbol of free-flowing communication has increasingly come to be stunned by the burden of having to bear up ad-campaigns and homogenic as well as megalitic sites of consumption. Instead, the Internet, and especially social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia, have jacketed the role of the public space. As a consequence many contemporary artists have started working in relation to this new digital, public space. 

During the evening of 13th of October in the city-square of Karlskrona, this shift from real to digital, or rather what the interstice of this meeting may look like, will be visually, orally and textually communicated at and around the city-square. 

Come, zap in and tune out.  It´s free! (as it should be)

http://artline-southbaltic.eu/event/screening-art/

 

Tags: 
art in public spaces,
iphone,
app,
mobile