PRESS MATERIAL
MAGNET
22/02/2008
Magnet – Thorbjørn Lausten’s Visual Systems.
Venues
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde: March 15 – May 25
Modern Art Museum, Ålborg: March 16 – May 25
ZKM: May 9 – July 15
The exhibition investigates the convergence of the algorithmic and art with Thorbjørns Lausten’s practice as the crucial turning point.
It offers (through the jointly published book and selected works) a view on TL’s earlier projects and Field Works within Kinetic systems and light structures; and a contextualized understanding of TL as a part of a paradigmatic change of art.
MAGNET makes something visual. The geophysical world is visualized by a force, or energy, which is very basic. This world is still completely constructed as a ”reality”. The book and exhibition, MAGNET, focuses on the process that leads to the construction of reality. How do we construct a reality?
In the investigation of this question art, and art practice, is as relevant and usable as any other method of research.
MAGNET is an art exhibition – or, rather, a visual system – that reflects upon the status of art and practice after the paradigmatic change of our culture and society by media. It focuses on artistic expression and, most importantly, artistic practice in a new situation. Art is a field of visual systems contributing to a digital dialectic negotiating very different disciplines and fields in a production of art, within the culture of media.
”Today, as artists, we have to put the investigation and consciousness of media behind us” TL claims. ”Instead, we should move on, and use the experience from the investigations in our practice – as a part of, and frame for, our practice”.
MAGNET experiments with such a practice – and gives some ideas as to how the problematic of representation is still relevant for the artist, albeit on another level than it is traditionally understood. The artist examines the problematic, rather than ”exist in them”. Instead of reproducing, he is producing.
The exhibition shows different levels of geophysical visualizations. Those levels (that in principle are invisible to us) contain series of reworking of specific data-information that is unfolded in different systems and situations that materializes and translates into visual actions.
The exhibition is shown in three different locations at the same time: at ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe (from May 9), Modern Art Museum in Aalborg and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde.
A book will follow the exhibition with texts in English by… The book is edited by Peter Weibel and Morten Søndergaard.
More Information about the exhibition, book and venues: www.samtidskunst.dk, www.nkm.dk and www.zkm.de.
Further contact: Morten Søndergaard: morten@samtidskunst.dk / +45 46 31 65 76
Magnet – Thorbjørn Lausten’s Visual Systems.
Venues
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde: March 15 – May 25
Modern Art Museum, Ålborg: March 16 – May 25
ZKM: May 9 – July 15
The exhibition investigates the convergence of the algorithmic and art with Thorbjørns Lausten’s practice as the crucial turning point.
It offers (through the jointly published book and selected works) a view on TL’s earlier projects and Field Works within Kinetic systems and light structures; and a contextualized understanding of TL as a part of a paradigmatic change of art.
MAGNET makes something visual. The geophysical world is visualized by a force, or energy, which is very basic. This world is still completely constructed as a ”reality”. The book and exhibition, MAGNET, focuses on the process that leads to the construction of reality. How do we construct a reality?
In the investigation of this question art, and art practice, is as relevant and usable as any other method of research.
MAGNET is an art exhibition – or, rather, a visual system – that reflects upon the status of art and practice after the paradigmatic change of our culture and society by media. It focuses on artistic expression and, most importantly, artistic practice in a new situation. Art is a field of visual systems contributing to a digital dialectic negotiating very different disciplines and fields in a production of art, within the culture of media.
”Today, as artists, we have to put the investigation and consciousness of media behind us” TL claims. ”Instead, we should move on, and use the experience from the investigations in our practice – as a part of, and frame for, our practice”.
MAGNET experiments with such a practice – and gives some ideas as to how the problematic of representation is still relevant for the artist, albeit on another level than it is traditionally understood. The artist examines the problematic, rather than ”exist in them”. Instead of reproducing, he is producing.
The exhibition shows different levels of geophysical visualizations. Those levels (that in principle are invisible to us) contain series of reworking of specific data-information that is unfolded in different systems and situations that materializes and translates into visual actions.
The exhibition is shown in three different locations at the same time: at ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe (from May 9), Modern Art Museum in Aalborg and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde.
A book will follow the exhibition with texts in English by… The book is edited by Peter Weibel and Morten Søndergaard.
More Information about the exhibition, book and venues: www.samtidskunst.dk, www.nkm.dk and www.zkm.de.
Further contact: Morten Søndergaard: morten@samtidskunst.dk / +45 46 31 65 76
