What happens at the intersection of art, tech, science and sound? What does the art of the future look like? In what way do artists reflect on new media and how do they push the boundaries of technology?
Join us on an exploratory journey into New Media Art by asking the question But is I.T. Art?.
Sharing voices from our artists, curator, museum team, and museum visitors, this first series journeys through new media art installations from exhibitions Shifting Proximities (2020-2022) and UFO-Unidentified Fluid Other (2022-2023) at Nxt Museum, Home of New Media Art in Amsterdam.
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UFO – Unidentified Fluid Other cuts loose from physical life’s gravity and explores who we are becoming in virtual worlds. How will the future evolve? Will we be more active in the digital world or will there always be some sort of hybrid between digital and physical world? Is this hybrid art?
Featuring Bogomir Doringer and Audrey Large
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30 Mar 2023
The Androgynous Artist
Though the digital world consists of a binary system of zeroes and ones, the outcome is not as binary when it comes to gender. Fluidity is key when it comes to the digital self and this is apparent in many forms of contemporary new media art. How can artists reflect on the gender binary by working in WEB 3 or using digital technologies? Featuring Amber Jae Slooten, Harriet Davey and Jacolby Satterwhite
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10 Mar 2023
Avatartists
Online, we create an alter ego, not bound by any of the physical constraints that exist in our everyday physical life. The question is who will you choose to be in this new iteration of yourself? Will your personality remain true to your IRL self or will elements of it enhance in this digital realm? This digital self can interact with others - or with artificial intelligence - and can become a social being with its own complete identity and character. Artists are exploring the possibilities for reaching audiences in these public digital spaces as well, but how do they do this and how does this differ from digital art in the physical realm?
Episode 4 features Ksawery Kirklewski, Harriet Davey and The Fabricant .
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20 Feb 2023
Art is a Myth
The fascination with mythological, the larger-than-life, often surreal characters is apparent in classic works of art. How do artists use new media art to tell mythological stories? How can these technologies bring the myths closer to us?
Featuring Julius Horsthuis, Lu Yang, Jacolby Satterwhite and Marie Alexandre
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1 Feb 2023
The Artistic Playground
Is a video-game art? How do artists invite the audience to play? And what do they want the audience to experience or learn when doing so?
Featuring Oseanworld, Ksawery Kirklewski and Lu Yang
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28 Dec 2022
The Web 3 Canvas
This episode explores one of the main motors of change in creating the bridge between digital and physical in the art world: WEB 3, NFTs and the blockchain.
Featuring Merel van Helsdingen, Founder & Managing Director of Nxt Museum
Oseanworld, Visual artist, musician and the creator of OseanWorld
Amber Jae Slooten Digital Artist, Designer and Founder of The Fabricant
Jesse Damiani Web 3 expert & Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum
Links for further reading:
https://www.jumpstartmag.com/decentralization-and-the-lack-of-regulation-in-nft-marketplaces/
https://ostachowski.com/about/what-is-crypto-art-or-nft-art/history-of-crypto-art/
https://artconnector.nl/the-art-connector-podcast-merel-van-helsdingen-nxt-museum/
youtube.com/watch?v=JPw6W4q3c9o
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24 Jun 2022
Can a VJ set with music also be art?
What happens when humans and machines start to feel each other’s language? Is the computer the modern day performance artist? What is VJing and can it be seen as art?
In this episode Viktor Vandervelde enters the world of QR codes. Spoken by machines and integrated by humans, the QR code is an artefact of a new language. In conversation with by artist and coder Yuxi Cao (James) and sound artist Lau Hiu Kong (Lawrence), the creators of < 多維采樣 | Dimensional Sampling >, explore how they visualised a language that can only be read by machines/scanners - QR codes, they further talk about communication with and through the machine and the philosophical questions surrounding the human machine symbiosis evolving during live video performances.
With special guests: Merel van Helsdingen, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Heleen Blanken
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17 Jun 2022
The motherboard of scanners
Who is looking at who in a world of facial recognition? What happens when public decision making is outsourced to Artificial Intelligence?
In this episode podcast host Viktor Vandervelde is diving into a conversation surrounding the executive control going hand in hand with the rise of surveillance technology in public spaces. He is looking closely at the work Zoom Pavillion by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko, at the fact that surveillance systems are indeed watching you, at social sorting and machines measuring the relationship between individuals.
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive - pATCHES
The Three Elements - I Think I Can Help You
Dream Escape - The Tides
Amber - VYEN
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3 Jun 2022
Can Art ignite Change?
Can nature teach us to communicate with the machine living in our pocket? When technology tunes in on nature's communication - what does it hear? Can listening to nature improve our technological and social intelligence?
In this episode podcast host Viktor Vandervelde visits artist Thijs Biersteker to discuss the wonders hidden right beneath our feet - and their implications for a better future.
Together, they interrogate the role of the artist and the scientist and how bridges can be built in between the two to create more conscious connections with entities with the means of art.
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive - pATCHES
The Three Elements - I Think I Can Help You
Dream Escape - The Tides
Amber - VYEN
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27 May 2022
Intergalactic Artwork
Can a higher level of immersion enable a better understanding of complex matter? What does it feel like to witness space? How does Art meeting science expand our realities?
In episode three we leave earth behind for a moment and move to space where we dive into the mathematical magic of a black hole. In conversation with Barney Steel, creative director of London based studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, Viktor explores the science behind their work ‘Distortions in Spacetime’ and dives into the facts on how modern technology enables the creation of immersive works of art that can be experienced collaboratively.
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive - pATCHES
The Six Realms - I Think I Can Help You
Dream Escape - The Tides
The Three Elements - I Think I Can Help You
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20 May 2022
Landscapes: reimagined
In the [not so far] future: Will we experience nature digitally? How deep is the 21st century-modern-digital-human relationship with physical nature and can technology bring us closer together with it?
In this episode we dive into the worlds of Habitat, created by Heleen Blanken with sound by Stijn van Beek. Podcast-host Viktor Vandervelde discusses with Heleen Blanken how digital art can be used to conserve and represent nature ~ but also to reflect on humanity’s role in the natural world.
Is [digital] nature a distant, almost Alien, concept or something that we are a part of?
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive - pATCHES
Dream Escape - The Tides
Procession - Puddle of Infinity
Subharmonic Bliss - Loopop
Amber - VYEN
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13 May 2022
Artists' Palette 2.0: Photons, Space and Code
How can light be used to reconstruct our perception of space? What happens when we fuse art, mathematical equations and human experience?
This second episode of ‘But is I.T. Art?’ explores the role of light in new media art and how it can be used as in creating the illusion of a physical material to reconstruct our surroundings.
Podcast Host Viktor Vandervelde dives into conversation with Matt Clark, the Founder of London-based practice ‘United Visual Artists’ (creators of Topologies #1’ shown in exhibition ‘Shifting Proximities’) and Alma van de Burgwal – former ‘Exhibition Host’ at Nxt Museum, currently studying a masters in architecture – to discuss light as a medium, its role in architecture and the impact on the human senses.
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive -pATCHES
Amber - VYEN
Ether Oar - The Whole Other
Procession - Puddle of Infinity
Subharmonic Bliss - Loopop
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6 May 2022
What even is new media art?
What does the art of the future look like? What began with moving-image and has since exploded in popularity with the rise of NFTs, only reflects a fraction of digital art can be…
In this first episode, we’ll explore new media art; how we can try to define it and how it can be exhibited in a physical space, with help of Merel Van Helsdingen, Founder of Nxt Museum and Bogomir Doringer, Curator of Shifting Proximites the museum’s inaugural exhibition.
We dive into the work Connected by Roelof Knol and talk to Marc Mahfoud, the artworks’ sound builder. Marc addresses the role of sound in new media art and elaborates how sound can deepen the experience of the work Connected by reflecting dynamics in a space aurally.
Host: Viktor Vandervelde
Guests: Merel Van Helsdingen Founder of Nxt Museum , Bogomir Doringer Curator of Shifting Proximites , Marc Mahfoud Sound Builder
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Credits:
The Joy Definitive - pATCHES
Dream Escape - The Tides
Ether Oar - The Whole Other
AMBER - VYEN
The Six Realms - I Think I Can Help You
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3 May 2022
But is I.T. Art? - Trailer
Hello world! Enter the realm of new media art. In 7 episodes, But is I.T. art? takes you on a journey to discover art and tech through the works of Shifting Proximities, on show 08/2020 'til 05/2022 at Nxt Museum in Amsterdam.
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