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VIENNA FORRESTER: Fragmented Myths and Memories

                                                    Fragmented Myths and Memories

                                  A Fractal Exploration of Kefalonia

 

Lincolnshire artist Vienna Forrester will be exhibiting her digital fractal art at the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture from the 16th to the 30th September 2014.  The official opening of the exhibition will be on the 20th September , 20.00 pm

Vienna ‘s work has been described as ‘stunning’, ‘vivid and attention grabbing’ and ‘beautiful, mysterious and metamorphic’.  Her unusual approach to image making results in vigorous, explosive colour formations.  Using latitude, longitude and the time/date stamp from her digital photographs as integers, she produces fractals which are further manipulated to represent aspects of place.  The resultant art has an ethereal, luminescent quality which is ideally suited to being displayed using the latest electroluminescent technology.  What evolves is a fusion of two distinctly differing fields – the absolute rules of the fractal algorithm and the imagination of the artist.

The Title IO refers to the Priestess Io of Greek mythology -The Ionian Sea is said to be named after her.  The IO logo represents the universal symbol used on electrical devices for power on/off – being the binary digits 1 and 0.

The theme of the exhibition is based around the seismic nature of Kefalonia and the stone and rocks that were displaced, built, ruined and rebuilt over generations.  From tiny pebbles on a beach to the mighty Mount Ainos; Roman villas decorated with mosaics, to stone quarried and used for houses, many of which still lie abandoned after the devastating earthquake of 1953.

“My interest in and observation of patterns in the natural world led to my work with fractals, and the evolution of technology based art using PC’s, Tablets and digital cameras opened up a wealth of ideas.

 

My exhibition, funded by Arts Council England, the National Lottery and North Lincolnshire Council, seeks to celebrate the enduring nature and beauty of this ‘Stone Kingdom’ that is the beautiful island of Kefalonia.

I am thrilled to be given this opportunity to exhibit my work at the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture”.

 

Vienna Forrester

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GIAN SPINA <>

                                              GIAN SPINA

‘POIESIS’

 

CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘POIESIS’

ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΗΝ ‘ΠΟΙΗΣΗ’

…………………….……………….το χρόνο σε κύκλους της  αβύσσου

ας μην στοχαζόμαστε  για τα νερά, για τα φύκια, για την άμμο, για τη φάλαινα, για το φεγγάρι

δεν είναι να δούμε την έκρηξη της  ζωής και την επιστροφή της στη στέγνη

του εδάφους και στο σκάμμα που άνοιξε

ας μην οσμισθούμε τον αέρα τη βροχή

τα όστρακα  των ψαριών που  ξύνουν  το αλάτι

ας μην επανερχόμαστε  στο δειλινό  που χάθηκε στο διάβα  των χρόνων

στις  άλλες παραλίες  και τους άπειρους  ήλιους τους

ας μη  συλλογιστούμε  για το θάνατο  με  την ματαιοδοξία των θεών

στο ανόητο έργο τους να δημιουργούν  σκόνη από τις πέτρες  από τα οστά…………………

……………………………the time in abyss cycles    not to think

on the waters, on the algae, on the sand, on the whale, on the moon

not to see that life explodes   and returns to drain 

within  into the ground of the hole that it opened 

we should not smell the wind  the rain

the shellfish of the fish scratching the salt 

not to smell the evening which was lost in the years

the other beaches  and their infinite suns 

we should not think about death  on the vanity of the gods

on their stupid job of making dust out of stones

out of bones……GIAN SPINA

ΙΟΝΙΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ–  IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE

Πέμπτη -Thursday 28th,Παρασκευή -Friday 29tηΑυgust . 2014

20.00pm to 22.00pm

seminar/conference,

ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΗΝΠΟΙΗΣΗ’ – CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘POIESIS’

Gian Spina was born in São Paulo (Brazil) and lived, studied and worked besides others in

San Diego (USA), Vancouver (Canada), Bordeaux (France), Berlin and Frankfurt (Germany). His work and research are an interdisciplinary combination of different artistic languages and theory with the aim of creating a poetic-existence. In 2002 he studied photography at the Senac Institut in São Paulo, afterwards film from 2003 to 2005 at the Vancouver Film School with Prof. Roy Hunter,

from 2005 to 2006 filmtheory with Prof. Carlos Augusto Calil at the University of São Paulo and from 2007 to 2008 architecture at the Escola da Cidade. In 2010 he moved to Germany, where he studied with Prof. Sigfried Zielinski in the Vilem Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Prof. Ulrike Gabriel and Prof. Juliane Rebentisch at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main (Germany), where he received a scholarship from the Rotary-Club

Nowadays he is finishing his master in art while studying philosophy with Prof. Fabien Vallos and his praxis with Daniel Dewar at the École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux.

Site:  http://gianspina.com/

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ΥASUNORI KAWAMATSU<>

Yasunori Kawamatsu  at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Friday August  8 , 2014 , 20.30

 

‘’My work aims to express one key concept :

EQUALISATION[ FLAT]=NOTHING =PICTURISATION

TITLE : << DIFFERANCE >>

Title: differance

Video

act in video : Typing My name on Plaster

11:58 seconds

typing sounds

I use language as a symbol and starting point to build my work. I then  remove  the  context of this language , flattening it’s meaning[equalization].Once the meaning and context have been removed [nothing] I develop a new visual language  reappropriating it’s meaning[picturisation].These works reference autopoiesis , a representation of self renewal and regeneration. This is the key process for my work .

Yasunori Kawamatsu keep becoming Yasunori Kawamatsu.

What’s the beautiful things?

If Beautiful-things happened in my perceive, I can say that my mind have Beautiful-things.

If subject have Beautiful origin, What’s the [subject]? and what’s [not subject]?

in this case, Subject is myself. What’s the relation of me to me? This make relation is get perceive to me by myself.

Being myself,,, keep certain and make relation of me to me.

I guess,,, Beautiful be happening by being myself .

www.kawamatsuyasunori.com

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