{"id":6104,"date":"2020-07-02T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apo33.org\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:59:32","slug":"une-dent-sur-le-pouce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apo33.org\/?p=6104","title":{"rendered":"UNE DENT SUR LE POUCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Une dent sur le pouce : a time unlike any other<\/h2>\n

from 2th of July to 29th of August 2020<\/strong><\/span>
\n Thursday to Saturday – from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At Plateforme Intermedia \/ La Fabrique<\/strong> – 4 boulevard L\u00e9on Bureau – 44200 – \u00eele de Nantes<\/p>\n

Impromptu Vernissage on July 2nd at 6:30 pm (bring your glass!)<\/em>
\nclosed on August 15<\/p>\n

Relaxed muscle<\/strong> – Sound installation, infinite drone.
\nLe D\u00e9sert Rue<\/strong> – Collaborative film produced during confinement.
\nSandOnSand<\/strong> – Continuous filming during the exhibition: Outdoor view and sound ecology.
\nTransposed Memory<\/strong> – A participatory sound piece that will be performed with visitors throughout the exhibition.
\nArtistic zapping of confinement<\/strong>– Small architectures to accommodate post-confinement streams.
\nDisappearance of the media<\/strong> – Process of fossilization of the media of our time.
\nCopy\/Paste<\/strong> – Piksel Cyber Salon, a virtual space hosting part of the hybrid exhibition COPY PASTE, live performance activities and workshops of the Piksel Fest Spill 2020 program.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Following on from the previous exhibition \u201cWe are all media \u201c the summer expo will bring together some of the passionate and inventive communities that have established new ways of connecting and creating during the covid 19 confinement.<\/p>\n

Artists are rarely defeated by the circumstances imposed by the societies or times in which they live, and the coronavirus is no exception. Online communities sprang up and established a place that allowed artists and audiences to exchange and discover local artists and connect with international audiences and local audiences to discover international artists in addition to fully benefiting from all aspects of social media and virtual spaces of the internet.<\/p>\n

The summer exhibition seeks to present some of the most active of these projects through the creation of physical architectures (maquets) and designs developed from social media performances and virtual art aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Web culture has existed since the mid-1990\u2019s when artists first colonised the internet. They saw this virtual space as a new utopia; free from boundaries and borders, a \u201cspace for freedom\u201d, freedom of expression, including the expression of identity, a space where the marginalised could find their voice, their community and their free expression. During this utopian era of the world wide web, there was great hope for a virtual world where race \/ gender does not matter.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Internet art is participatory, it creates virtual spaces of interaction and networks of communication, using software, servers, websites, surveillance tools, social media, networks, apps and the internet of things.<\/p>\n

20 years on and we are confronted with the transformation of the Internet into an instrument of state oppression and the acceleration of capitalism. From Social medias\u2019 facial recognition databases and mass data collection of our digital activities sold off for the analysis by various commercial interests, to the more sinister and secretive politically sponsored data harvesting, such as those deployed by Cambridge Analytica to manipulate and target voters during the Brexit referendum and finally the state infrastructures such as the NSA (National Security Agency in the US) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters in the Uk) were revealed by Edward Snowdon to keep all communication from the private individual regardless of suspect behaviour.<\/p>\n

Today, we are no longer just a physical body but also a data body.
\nThrough gps navigation, connected travel cards and smart phone localisation our movements are tracked. Through loyalty cards, online purchases to connected appliances our consumption and choices are recorded. Through emails, social media chats and searches our communication and interests are archived. All in all this big data drawn from our virtual footprints lead to a fairly accurate portrait of an individual, our choices, lifestyle, ideas and concerns, all of which can be analysed and manipulated by big business or state tools.<\/p>\n

Convinced by our fears and security the old adage of the surveillance state \u201cif you\u2019ve nothing to hide, you\u2019ve nothing to fear\u201d, we now have nowhere to hide, the right to privacy is a past dream and Orwell’s \u201cthought police\u201d are on the march.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n