In the frame of Iberofest cultural festival organized by the Spanish Embassy in Estonia Tallinn based artist duo Varvara & Mar are bringing to Tallinn Spanish independent art critic, curator and researcher Pau Waelder, PhD and by him curated group exhibition of Ibero-American artists titled “Remote Signals”.
Digital art exhibition “Remote Signals” opening is on the 14th March at 19.30, ARS building, project room (Pärnu mnt 154, 11317 Tallinn)
Most of the art we see and experiment today arrives to us through a screen. Some artworks have been created precisely for this type of distribution: they inhabit the network and feed from it, offering us a vision of a world immersed in a constant flux of information. These works thus become remote signals which allow us to discover the reality of a distant geographic zone, as well as to re-examine our own. This exhibition aims to present in Tallinn a selection of new media artworks created by artists from Spain and Ibero-America that offer visitors a view of our globalized society by means of current digital technologies.
The curator of the exhibition is art critic and investigator Pau Waelder who has also worked as a curator for exhibitions like «Real Time. Arte en tiempo real» (Arts Santa Mònica), «Data Cinema» (Festival Media Art Futures), and «Extimidad. Arte, intimidad y tecnología» (Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani), amongst others. He is editor for the Media Art section of the art.es magazine and writes for ETC media (Canada). From 2011, Waelder is part of the curator team of the Art Futura festival.
The exhibition features the work of leading international contemporary new media artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, who has received numerous awards, such as the BAFTA British
Academy Awards and the Ars Electronica Golden Nica, and whose largescale installations have been presented worldwide, from Mexico to Japan, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver; and Daniel Canogar, the most celebrated Spanish new media artist, who has created sculptural LED installations for the atrium of the European Union Council in Brussels and site specific installations for emblematic sites such as Times Square in New York or San Pietro in Montorio in Rome.
Participating artists:
Clara Boj & Diego Díaz [ES], Daniel Canogar [ES] , César Escudero Andaluz [ES], Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet [EE/ES], INTACT Project [CL/ES], Néstor Lizalde[ES], Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [MX/CA], Félix Luque & Íñigo Bilbao [ES], Moisés Mañas [ES], Tiago Martins & Justyna Zubrycka [PT/PL], Joana Moll [ES], Brisa MP [CL], Mónica Rikic & Lucía Segurajáuregui [ES], Mario Santamaria [ES], Román Torre[ES], Pablo Valbuena [ES], Ricardo Vega [CL]
Lecture “The art market in the digital era” on 14 March at 17.30 in ARS building, studio 312 (Pärnu mnt 154, 11317 Tallinn)
Pau Waelder, PhD ( Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) The contemporary art market develops its activities on the Internet through online platforms and services that seek new ways of taking the art of the galleries to the collectors. However, new formats are being developed that question the traditional dynamics of selling art. Several artistic projects and virtual galleries configure the current landscape of the market and raise issues such as the nature of the artwork as a digital file, the role of the user as collector and access as a form of ownership.
The lecture is read in English and includes the presentation of the publication “How to Sell Online Art and Make Millions (of visits)” made for The Wrong Biennale (2015) and freely available in PDF format.
Press contact and inquiries: Varvara Guljajeva, varvarag@gmail.com
Supporters: Spanish Embassy in Estonia, Tallinn City Culture Department