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I-Node- Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition/ Julia Heurling

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Julia Heurling
Artist/Designer

A horizon is not flat

In the summer of 2014 I spent one month on Kefalonia participating in the “Mapping Kefalonia” workshop. The result was the project “A horizon is not flat”. It can be seen as an investigation in how to invite a viewer to read or visit a place through photography, and the limits and extensions of visual perception and representation of specific photographic works. After the stay I have continued working on the concept and the visual outcome. The poster is a result of this work.

By taking photos of the landscape in series I want to accentuate the human experience of place, focusing on ground perspective and three dimensional experience. The series aim to describe continuity, context and viewer perspective of visual appearance. When combined into patterns, the images address questions as: What do repeat do to the visual content in a photography? Will it be redundant or are other qualities than motive given attention?

Photography is often regarded as a tool of proof, or a medium of truth. A photograph proves, and reproduces the photographers visual experience. It is a sample of experienced reality. I see and use photographs as a tool for visual thinking. Photographs give opportunity to explore reality in separate constituent parts. When working with pattern, interrelations, continuity and rhythm within a composition are equally important as content of an image. The project can be seen as a subjective and slightly fictional take on a documentary medium as photography.

Similar to the idea of abstraction, pattern can be a tool to clarify, simplify and exaggerate certain visual characteristics. “A horizon is not flat” aims to communicate and highlight characteristics as shape, colour and spatial changeability of Kefalonian views and appearances. In the naturalist school sense, pattern also illustrates the idea of “reproducing nature by carrying it to its maximum power and intensity”.
“Next Nature” suggests the idea of reality as a flow of variables and I think “Ahorizon is not flat” is closely linked to this idea.
Visual experience is different to every individual, and to every moment of life. I think the differences, however small, are more interesting than what unites our visual experiences. I aim to use photography to emphasize reality as continuous, pluralistic and diverse rather than actual. Suggesting ambiguity and doubt rather than certainty is key to describing reality.

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I-Node Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition -Diane Derr

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Diane Derr
PhD candidate at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA Hub, School of Art & Media, University of Plymouth
Assistant Professor and Curator of the Innovative Media Studio at Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar

Syncretic Narrative: A Method for Potential in Practice (2015)

Syncretic narrative, wherein information produced within the networked model of communication regarding a single event or set of relational events is integrated forming alternate, corresponding, connecting, and subsequent narratives in which the context of the original source is not diminished. As a process rather than a result it gives autonomy for understanding the complexity of information generated within the networked model of communication around relational events. The syncretic narrative has the potential to navigate and negotiate the construction of narrative as a fluid entity in its intersection and integration of generated information, constructing dynamic threads in the inter-textual narrative within generative and iterative constructs.

Considering an event, or a set of relational events, the content of narrative (A) and content of narrative (B) are produced within the network model of communication by broadcast media and social media respectively.
Narrative (A) and narrative (B) share a set of indices, which lead to the viewer’s construction of narrative (C). Narrative (C) would be syncretic, independent and variable. In this system the independent and variable production of the narrative by the viewer does not negate the original intention of narratives (A) and (B). Narrative (C) is not mutually shared among individual viewers. Additionally, a contrapuntal reading becomes inherently embedded within the process, which to say both the power and the counter power within the text are accessible and not place in hierarchical order of one another.
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I-Node Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition -Claudia Jacques

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The Homo Conscious (2015)

Carson Grubaugh’s “Hermeneutics” sets the ground for
Earth’s new human specie: “The Homo Conscious”.
Through the interpolation of bit depth spaces with a representation of a live human mind, “The Homo Conscious” is an interpretation of space and time, bits and atoms, actual and virtual, in the search for consciousness: Cybersemiotic Experience.
“The Homo Conscious” is the visual interpretation of the
“Homo Conscious Manifesto”:
1. The Homo Conscious exists beyond space and time,
2. Exchanges past and future,
3· Ceases the linearity of the now.
4· Is the micro essence of the most elementary particle,
5· As well as the macro whole of all there is.
6. Exists in a state of mutant entanglement.
1· Emerges from chaos.
8. Reflects complex adaptive open systems,
9· Information, Perception and Process syncretism.
10. Dynamic unembodied body of meaning: Cybersemiotic Experience!

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I-Node Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition – Jane Grant

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Jane Grant
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Arts at Plymouth University, UK.

The Queen’s Bed (2015)

The Indian King, Vyasa was in the forest hunting. Exhausted, he fell asleep and dreaming of his wife,produced a ‘joyful explosion of sperm’1. This nocturnal emission was taken by a giant eagle who dropped
the fluid, dispersing it into a river or the sky (depending on who you listen to) creating the beginning of life in the universe.
Panspermia, a Greek word meaning ‘seeds everywhere’, is a hypothesis that believes that the spores of life are ubiquitous, not the sole properties of planets or stars, and that in the vast spaces between these intensities of mass, the Universe has the potential for life. These latent nanoscopic fragments have existed from the very beginning of time and can transmute depending upon where they propagate. One panspermist hypothesis states that microorganisms can travel through space within comets and meteors
when bacteria are ejected when the meteor burns in the Earth’s outer atmosphere. Microorgansims filter down toward the Earth’s crust spawning life. And we may like to think of the Earth waiting, like a gigantic egg in space, the humid atmosphere, a series of layers for the seeds to negotiate in order to
pierce the physical shell.

The Queen’s Bed
The bed is a soft, receptive and moist natural system, taken from an area in the North West of England where scientists have recently found alien bacteria 16 miles above the surface of the Earth in the atmosphere. Her bed is currently being monitored for the existence of alien life. The Queen spends her
time waiting for the giant eagle, who may once have flown over but so many years ago that she cannot remember exactly when. Whilst waiting, she dreams of codes and sequences, molecules and proteins, a synthesis, and all the boundless possibilities for the creation of life.
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I-Node Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition – Mike Phillips

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Mike Phillips: Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University, the Director of Research at i-DAT.,Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium.

Adam – [Omphalos 2.0]
Adam is a teddy bear constructed from lint harvested from the artists’ navel. Over a period of weeks small quantities of Adam’s body were collected and composited to constitute his cuddly form. Born from a combination of H&M black T-Shirt fibres and the artists DNA (epithelial tissue and bodily flotsam and jetsam), Adam waits patiently for the breath of life. For all his fluffy attributes Adam represents a philosophical and ecclesiastical conundrum – does Adam have a navel? Born of belly button Adam, like his biblical namesake, had no umbilical cord. Adams’ genetic makeup is, probably, around 20% human and his morphology certainly (bearly) humanesque, if miniscule in proportion. Neither natural (a genetic abomination) nor artificial (organic cotton), this hybrid offspring chronologically inverts the Omphalos hypothesis. The past is not the divine fraudulence, it is our umbilicus-less future nature (neither innie nor outie, but withoutie) that is the fabrication.
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I-Node Planetary Collegium / INTERNATIONAL JURIED POSTER EXHIBITION: “NEXT NATURE: BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET” I-NODE AWARDS

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INTERNATIONAL JURIED POSTER EXHIBITION:

“NEXT NATURE:

BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET”

I-NODE AWARDS

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Organiser: The I-Node of the Planetary Collegium

Venues:

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (April 2015)
Art Athina, Athens International Art Fair (June 2015)

Submission deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015

Eligibility : high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology.

Exhibition Dates:

23 April – 8 May 2015
4-7 June 2015

Poster Chair:

Katerina Karoussos, Director of the I-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://plymouth.academia.edu/KaterinaKaroussos

Selection Committee:

Roy Ascott, President of the Planetary Collegium, Planetary Collegium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott

Elif Ayiter, Director of Studies of the I-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://citrinitas.com/

Francesco Monico, Director of Studies of T-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Monico

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM AUTHORS

Jane Grant, Pier Luigi Capucci, Khaled Hafez, Law Alsobrook, Alejandro Quinteros, Juliette Yuan, Diane Derr, Benjamin Pothier, Paola Lopreiato, Mike Phillips

Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Seth Riskin, Mujin Bao, Andrea Traldi

Alex Barchiesi, Adam Zaretski, Lila Moore, Regina Durig

The final list of accepted posters for Next Nature includes two categories of posters:

Accepted posters, which their authors are members of the Planetary Collegium (PC1 – PC2) and

Open Call posters which will be selected from the submissions received in response to the open Call for Posters.

A selection of 30 entries from the open call posters together with the accepted posters will be exhibited at the Ionion Center of Arts and Culture on the island of Kefalonia, Greece (ICAC) in April 2015.

During the exhibition, 25 posters from all the categories will be selected to be exhibited at the Athens International Art Fair (Art-Athina) on July 2015.

We are soliciting high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology. Posters must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2014. Posters are intended to convey a syncretic approach to “Next Nature” theme.

THEME

In 1863 Jules-Antoine Castagnary announced that: The naturalist school declares that art is the expression of life under all phases and on all levels, and that its sole aim is to reproduce nature by carrying it to its maximum power and intensity: it is truth balanced with science 1. One of the most illustrated examples of naturalism is “The meeting”, an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet, which has been interpreted as depicting Courbet greeted by his patron Bryas, his servant Calas and his dog, while travelling to Montpellier. The Meeting was exhibited in Paris at the 1855 Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as “Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet”. The composition is based on Doré’s “The Wandering Jew2. Courbet, one of the major representatives of naturalism, has represented himself in the image of a wanderer, without a definite context, as one would expect of expect of a naturalistic painter. Did Courbet interpret Castagnary’s words ‘carrying it [nature] to its maximum power and intensity’ as a process of metaphor, fluidity, multiplicity and metamorphosis?

Nowadays, and after 160 years of Courbet’s naturalistic metamorphoses, we assume that we have embedded the ‘truth balanced with science’, as art work is based on transidisciplinary research through a variety of syncretic approach. In an era when, according to Roy Ascott, the ‘three VRs –virtual, validated and vegetal ‘merge into a continuous flow of ‘variable reality’, it is the right moment for a future anterior step which will lead to the awareness of the Next Nature.

And, as Ascott argues: “This means, of course, not an inert, passive or genetically programmed participation but a conscious involvement in the evolution of those forms and emergent behaviours which we identify with life and which, as our powers of intelligent collaboration and participation increase, will come to constitute the new nature”3.

Katerina Karoussos

Needham, Gerald, “Naturalism.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press

Linda Nochlin, Gustave Courbet’s Meeting: A Portrait of the Artist as a Wandering Jew Art Bulletin vol 49 No 3 (September 1967)

Ascott, Roy, “Back to Nature II- Art and Technology in the 21st century” 1st publication, 1993. Fedrowitz, eds. Kultur und Technik im 21.Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, pp. 341-355. Culture and Technology in the 21st. Century Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2nd publication 2013, More & Vita-More, The Transhumanist Reader. NY Wiley. Pp 438-448.

GENERAL IMFORMATION

The I-Node of the Planetary Collegium invites transdisciplinary artists /researchers to apply for the upcoming poster exhibition addressing the theme of “Next Nature”.

The final list of accepted posters for Next Nature includes two categories of posters: accepted posters, which their authors are members of the Planetary Collegium (PC),

and open call posters which will be selected from the submissions received in response to the open Call for Posters.

A selection of 30 entries from the open call posters will be exhibited as part of the Planetary Collegium poster exhibition “Next Nature’’ which will be held at the Ionion Center of Arts and Culture on the island of Kefalonia, Greece (ICAC) in April 2015.
During the exhibition, 25 posters from all the categories will be selected to be exhibited at the Athens International Art Fair (Art-Athina) on July 2015.

We are soliciting high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology. Posters must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2014. Posters are intended to convey a syncretic approach to “Next Nature” theme and should not include advertisements for commercial reasons.

A poster that is judged by the selection committee to be an advertisement will be subject to removal without notice.

AWARDS

The Selection Committee will select two individuals to be awarded with the Juror’s Choice Awards.

1st prize: One grant (€ 800) exclusively for a PhD research at the I-Node of the Planetary Collegium

2nd prize: Free art-in residence (max 30 days, including personal exhibition/performance or presentation) at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (travel expenses are not included)

Planetary Collegium members (faculty and researchers) are excluded from the award competition. Works previously displayed in Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture are also ineligible.

ENTRY FEES

Open Call Posters will be required to pay a poster fee of €50 for early poster submissions.
Accepted Posters from PC authors who are currently in their research updates will be eligible to submit a poster without a fee, providing their Plymouth University ID number, as part of their research session.
Accepted Posters from PC authors who are currently in their writing-up stage or have already awarded with the PhD title can submit their posters with a poster fee of €30.
Posters submitted after the deadline, and in any case prior to the Selection Committee meeting, will be considered as Late Poster Submissions and will require a non-refundable

All entry fees are non refundable

DUE DATES

Submission deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015
Notification by email of accepted works: Friday, March 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 23, 2015 (8:00 pm)
Exhibition dates: April 24 – May 8, 2015

4-7 June, 2015

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Application form and a poster daft should be sent to ionionode@gmail.com until the deadline.

Download the application form from the web site www.i-node.org

Files should be in PDF format, A3 (29,7 × 42 cm) maximum 5 Mb / 200 dpi in CMYK colour mode. Before sending, save the file as <name-surname.pdf>

The subject of the e-mail should be read as <surname-nextculture>.

Selected participants will be asked to submit a new file in size A0.

COMPLETE ENTRY CHECKLIST

Incomplete entries will not be considered. A complete entry form consists of the following:

Application form
Draft poster in PDF
Proof of deposit from Pay Pal Online payment service

ADDITIONAL INFO

Selected participants are welcome to be present to follow the program /or/ the reception day at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) . The I-Node of the Planetary Colegium does not cover accommodation or travel expenses. If selected participants wish to participate to the events, ICAC can provide discounts for bookings at a partner hotel and additional support for a vist/ or /residency at the Center during late April/ May / June. (info upon request).
Posters will remain in the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture.Participants who will request the delivery of their physical posters –after June 10, 2015- are responsible for the transport costs insurance/safety issues.
A selection of posters will be published on the I-Node’s web site, or otherwise the author has to state his/her disagreement in the Application Form.

INFORMATION:www.i-node.org

For questions or additional information, please contact the Poster Chair, Katerina Karoussos at inode.karoussos@gmail.com