Opening of the new exhibitions at kim?

kim? Contemporary Art Centre invites you to the opening of exhibition Series by Maija Kurševa and Save As by RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture on October 9, 7pm.

SERIES
Maija Kurševa

Upon entering the exhibition space, you should first slightly defocus your sight and attempt to see the space and its objects as a whole.
Then further on you can pay closer attention to each piece, by applying the focus-defocus technique, trying first to sense the inner structure of the piece, while gradually moving to the outer shapes of each object.
When these pieces begin to trigger an increasingly intensified interest and senses, techniques of perception can be varied by maintaining the inner integrity.
If there is a large number of veneer and porcelain pieces in one room, particular attention should be paid to the contemplation process, as in spacious rooms applied energies of various materials may behave in extremely unpredictable ways. For the sake of safety and visibility of the process the viewer is advised to engage in contemplation in close conjunction with an experienced supervisor.
And artworks can, of course, be touched only in the presence of a mentor.

– Edgars Jurjāns

During the event we will play a record of essay Study Tool for Perception and Perceptual Impact of Art Products Made of Veneer, Porcelain and Other Materials by Edgars Jurjāns (voice – Aleksandrs Zapoļs).

Maija Kurševa. Publicity image.

Maija Kurševa. Publicity image.

Maija Kurševa has studied at the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Visual Communication and at the Berlin University of the Arts. She currently lectures courses on digital and traditional technique application, illustration and screen printing at the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Visual Communication and Graphics. Since 2004 Maija Kurševa has actively taken part in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. She has participated in the creation of a publication of illustrations and drawings titled Popper Magazine, and in 2010 she was nominated for the Purvītis award with her exhibition Trīskājainais gadījums (Three-legged Case). Among her recent projects there is the exhibition Neļaušanās (Unceasing) at the kim? Contemporary Art Centre (2013) and participation in the exhibition Vasaras lasījumi (Summer Readings) at the Cēsis Art Festival (2013) and at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius.

On Saturday, October 12 at 13:00 kim? Contemporary Art Centre invites you to printmaking workshop for children given by Maija Kurševa, which will be held at the kim? ground floor gallery. Please apply for participating in the workshop by October 11 by sending an email to kim@kim.lv.

 

SAVE AS
organized by RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture
part of festival Art+Communication 2013
Curator – Raitis Šmits

The exhibition will present 16 media artworks, both, of historical meaning and brand new experiments and discoveries, created by internationally renowned media art pioneers who continue to be active and innovative in the field also today.
Some of the artists participating in the exhibition have tried to explore the opportunities of the “obsolete” technologies, some have challenged the former understanding of relationships between people and technologies, some have tested new methodologies in creating real-time audiovisual smash ups, some have explored the effects and opportunities of the half-destroyed TV pruducing visual and audio glitches, some have focused attention to the issues of the author’s rights and intellectual property, but some others offer an opportunity to see the popular web services Facebook, Youtube and Google recreated with technology and spirit of late 1990ies.

The exhibition is part of the 15th Interantional Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION and the 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology: Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW, which will take place at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Lamberto Teotiono. An image from Sistema di Riferimento Monodimensionale, 2011.

Lamberto Teotiono. An image from Sistema di Riferimento Monodimensionale, 2011.

Participants: JODI (Netherlands), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernishev (Russia), Olia Lialina (Russia / Germany), Cécile Babiole (France), Heath Bunting (UK), Evan Roth (UK/USA/France), Rasa Šmite, Raitis Šmits & Xchange / E-Lab / RIXC (Latvia), Aram Bartholl (Germany), Dragan Espenschied (Germany), Lamberto Teotino (Italy), Benjamin Gaulon, Karl Klomp, Gijs Gieskes & Tom Verbruggen / ReFunct Media (France/Netherlands), Parag Kumar Mital (USA), Robert Sakrowski & Constant Dullaart / net.artdatabase.org (Germany/Netherlands), Andris Vētra, Artis Kuprišs (Latvia).

The exhibitions will be open through November 17.