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'we can always be happy' : SOUNDMUSEUM.FM

This is an online AV work by Canadian artists Kyd Campbell and Geronimo Inutiq, presented by the SOUNDMUSEUM.FM online museum for sound art.
The work is presented as well as a physical installation at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien in the frame of the ClubTransmediale exhibition.
Opening: 19h, Friday January 23rd, 2009
Exhibition ongoing online from : January 21st-Feb 19th, 2009 .... in gallery January 23rd-March 1st, 2009

[KKB] KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG BETHANIEN > www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de clubtransmediale.de
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Public transport:
U8 > Kottbusser Tor
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Ostbahnhof
10 minutes walking distance from MAO.


Nathalie and Geronimo



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'WE CAN ALWAYS BE HAPPY'

BY KYD CAMPBELL(images) + GERONIMO INUTIQ (MADESKIMO)(sounds)
We both notice that this work is about feeling good and thankful. We met for the first and only time in Montreal, very briefly, over a year ago and it seems now that we both feel better than we did back then. Physically very distanced, we continue to communicate online sporadically, checking in and sending hopeful messages. Communication and collaboration are tools important to us for creating and living.
[ more info on the site]
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Founded by artist Nathalie Bruys and designer Katja van Striphout, Soundmuseum.fm went online in October 2008 as an exhibition platform and archive for experimental sound art. Its curatorial/editorial team invites artists and other curators to add audio recordings of any length to the Soundmuseum depot and a short text by the artist or curator puts each exhibition section or piece of work in context. With its broad artistic range, from sound art, field recordings, compositions from the field of New Music and radio experiments thru to contemporary electronic music from various off-scenes, Soundmuseum.fm is already a rapidly expanding network structure. Besides the online-platform Soundmuseum.fm also materialises in space in the form of tangible installations.
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Kyd Campbell: www.frontierlab.org
Geronimo Inutiq : www.madeskimo.net

Thanks to Cristina Valero Garcia and Remco Shuurbiers.

soundmuseum.fm
clubtransmediale.de
frontierlab.org

This is what I saw yesterday in Lisbon:

I visited LISBOA20, a very beautiful commercial gallery and met with Luis Silva, the production director there. He explained to me that although the gallery is an independent commercial space, they like to do their best to foster the development of the Portuguese contemporary art scene and specifically the digital art scene here. In order to do this the gallery hosts 2 major projects : The Upgrade! Lisbon [ a regular gathering of young and old digital and media artists, curators and other interested in art and technology] and the LX 2.0 web art commissioning project [support, display and archive initiative].
I saw the most recent project, just launched in March 2008, SPACE RACE #1 by Portuguese artist André Sier.

SPACE RACE #1 is a generative work a bit similar to the problematics in MadMax. The piece consists of a 3D simulation of a space ship that travels to various mystery locations. In order to continue in its mission, the ship much fight for a green substance that is needs for fuel. In each new environment the ship competes with the "local" inhabitants [ teams of flying objets ] who of course wan to keep their fuel.

Each local team that the nomadic ship encounters has its own unique characteristics and so the traveling ship much adapt its competition tactics. This intelligent generative art work is a kind of abstract computer game.

I found it to be both aesthetically beautiful and narratively engaging. The symbols and shapes that represent the various ships move in lively and personalized ways between patterned and random interactions with one another. The game has no visible end and no way for me to interact with it. These aspects gave me the sense of having a birds-eye view on the daily life of a semi-natural and semi--disturbing society.

info and links to the project and the artist can be found on the LISBOA20 website and on his personal website.
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20
http://www.s373.net