Presentation of the Folded-in project

@ ISEA 2009 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art,
on the island of Ireland: The exhibition. Golden Thread Gallery.
Ireland, August 23 - September 1, 2009

@ FILE 2009, Electronic Language International Festival,
Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Sao Paulo, Brasil, July 28 - August 30, 2009

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Presentation of the Folded-in project

@ tag ties & affective spies,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Athens, Greece, 18 March - 31 August 2009

Tag ties & affective spies is a critical approach on the social media of our times. What happens when we are “tagging” , “posting” and “sharing” our experiences and opinions in platforms such as those of Facebook, YouTube, flickr or del.icio.us? Are we really connecting and interacting or are we also forming the content and the structure of the social web itself? The online works included, highlight the controversies of the web 2.0, commenting on the constant balancing between order and chaos, democracy and adhocracy, exposure and exploitation that it presents.

Curated by: Daphne Dragona
Participating artists: Christophe Bruno, Grégory Chatonsky, Paolo Cirio, Wayne Clements, Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar, Jodi, Les Liens Invisibles, Personal Cinema & the Erasers, Ramsay Stirling, George Holsheimer - Mirjam ter Linden - Daan Odijk -Putri Sadiqah & Raoul Siepers

Presentation of the Folded-in project

@ MONSTERS, Dresden, Germany
MONSTERS
Men, Murderers, Mighty Machines
"monstra sunt in genere humano"
("Monsters are part of the human race", St. Augustine)
Dresden, Germany, 5/11/2008-17/1/2009

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This project is concerned firstly with those implied forces of peculiarity or otherness that mark out individuals, groups, institutions, or even hierarchies as monstrous. Secondly it focuses on how such forces are exploited in order for the relevant social structure to achieve stability or define itself.

Presentation of the Folded-in project

Web 2.0 Wants U @ MIR FESTIVAL, Athens
"Web 2.0 wants you" presents a group of projects that raise questions regarding the context and the conditions of the every day tactics of this new generation of social media while at the same time they discuss the new perspectives opening for the artists who wish to work within the participation culture.



Personal Cinema & the Erasers (GR)
Folded-In (2008)
www.foldedin.net

Nils Andres - Brand Science Institute, CEO (DE)
Hatebook (2007)
www.hatebook.org

Wayne Clements (UK)
Logo_wiki (2007)
http://www.in-vacua.com/logo_wiki.html

Second Front (Second Life)
Grand Theft Avatar (2008)
http://www.secondfront.org/blog/

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/ CH/ US)
The EKMRZ-trilogy (2005-09)

1. GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself (2005-08)
Paolo Cirio (IT),
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
www.gwei.org

2. Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime (2006-07)
Paolo Cirio (IT),
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
www.amazon-noir.com

3. The Sound of eBay (2008-09)
UBERMORGEN.COM
www.Sound-of-eBay.com

from September 12 to September 20 2008

http://www.mirfestival.gr

Presentation of the Folded-in project

L' Art en Europe, Reims
a European exhibition on the opportunity of the upcoming French residency
curated by Fabrice Bousteau
project proposed by the Highlights magazine

from June 13 2008 to end of June 2009

http://www.pommery.fr

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Presentation of the Folded-in project

Open Space - Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte, Vienna

from 9 to 27 June 2008

http://www.openspace-zkp.org

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First presentation of the Folded-in in the show

HOMO LUDENS LUDENS
Locating play in contemporary culture and society

from 18 April to 22 September 2008
@ LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón/Spain
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

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HOMO LUDENS LUDENS is an exhibition that looks into the expressions of play in the life and culture of our digital times and examines the formations of the contemporary magic circles. Focusing on play, rather than games, the exhibition sets a setting that embraces different forms of works who address, describe or criticize today's play. Play is being reversed and reformed; being able to embody social and political acts and issues, it becomes a tool for critique and social change; connecting the virtual and the real, it brings new dimensions for social encounters; approaching other disciplines, it gives birth to new art and play forms; But at the same time, play is being exploited becoming a terrain for labour where the player is asked to be a creator or else a worker. What are the opportunities and what are the risks that need to be balanced in such a context?

The exhibition is an examination and speculation about Homo Ludens Ludens -the contemporary playful man- and the new playgrounds (s)he is invited to join and to respond to.

Exhibiting Artists:
John Paul Bichard, France Cadet, Derivart, Devart, Hannah Perner-Wilson & Mika Satomi, Ge Jin, Vladan Joler, Radwan Kasmiya, John Klima, La Fiambrera Obrera & Mar de Niebla, Danny Ledonne, Valeriano López, Ludic Society, Marcin Ramocki & Justin Strawhand, Martin Pichlmair & Fares Kayali, Brian Mackern, Larry Miller, MIT Lab - Drew Harry & Dietmar Offenhuber & Orkan Telhan, Molleindustria, Julian Oliver, Orna Portugaly & Daphna Talithman & Sharon Younger, Personal Cinema & the Erasers, Rolando Sánchez, Alex Sanjurjo, Gordan Savicic, Axel Stockburger, Silver & True, Román Torre, David Valentine/MediaShed (ft. Methods of Movement), Volker Morawe & Tilman Reiff, William Wegman

Curatorial team:
Erich Berger, Chief Curator, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Laura Baigorri, Independent Curator, Barcelona
Daphne Dragona, New Media Arts Curator, Athens

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