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it started a little earlier okay my name
is Sosi and I'm the creator of punka
gallery I'm really happy and also
honored um to be invited and to have
this lecture
I created the group show animal City
Unleashed here at the foyer um an
exhibition we presented two months ago
at the project space in pank gallery in
Berlin um the group show presents seven
Works uh from seven artists here you can
see how it looked like um the video is
from Aram Bol um yeah I think he's also
a family M member of the Cs family and
has his uh 10 years anniversary um kill
your phone Workshop in the third
o um I will talk a bit um about the
context and the history of this
exhibition and our platform open
R um I would like to start with uh what
is net art because um that is what I'm
coming from and um yeah I don't want to
become too um academic and will to try
to make it really brief um so net art is
an artistic genre which emerged in the
broader appearance of the internet it
uses the internet as its medium and
subject net art is an art form which is
also defined by its reflection on net
phenomena and their effects on our
society our Network society and culture
on our perception and
communication it's
performative and it's
also context
sensitive I
mean it depends on its heart and
software context in which the code is
interpreted performed therefore you
could say it's also site
specific and because of the fast
deployment Circles of the hard and
software it becomes quite fragile and
while it's often interactive and
participative uh its character is ifir
to
um but why then a gallery for net art
isn't it exhibited at the
internet sure yes it is but I founded
the gallery the Punker Gallery uh to
2016 at a time where I was quite yeah
fed up with internet it seemed to so
commercialized controlled and
surveilled um and filled with spots
interacting only with themselves and
therefore I had a feeling I would like
to go back to the physical to the local
to the
community the pker gallery is a project
space in a club the pker club the name
derives from the river which is located
in front of our doors um it's a small
stream um connecting East and West
Berlin districts mid panko
wedding um a gallery in a club is a
perfect
location um for net Art Gallery because
net art is very much connected to the
club culture and special in
Berlin so I exper experienced my first
work of net artart in a Berlin Club um
at the E and net art worked a net art
work uh was named uh Club
Nets um the beautiful logo here uh on
the left side um was designed by Danel
flum the artwork uh Club Nets was
created by a group of artists and
installed in seven clubs in Berlin uh it
connected the clubs with the internet
and the artist mixed then uh in the
chats also some Bots they mix them into
the
conversation which was in my opinion
very
prophetic and so I tried with arim Blanc
and caran zon two artists from the
original group to reconstruct um the
work um after we built an ISC
app um and got it into the app shops app
stores I mean uh we created an augmented
reality
version um which was more for the
gallery space
um we used here the old chat protocols
um from some backups uh which we pulled
from some backups um as the material for
the sculpture for this a
sculpture um and that was a moment uh
where I was really fascinated by this
new medium uh for me new medium
augmented
reality and so we continued our
collaboration and we could realize as a
parkour with browser based augmented
reality sculptures in Berlin mid we
placed these sculptures in
contexts um where we reflected then with
them uh on the history of the
area and tamash pal an Hungarian artist
um implemented then uh the site specific
function so that you had to go to the
skyp chat to the place to see it uh you
had a map which Loc ated the sculpture
and a QR code on the ground um but you
couldn't see the sculpture uh only on
the on uh yeah you had to move there to
see it
and we plac these sculptures in context
um yeah as I said and here you can see a
fre sculpture which was taken away from
the public after the building was
privatized so and here we experimented
also with the possibilities of web based
AR um in this for an example um we
created an augmented reality board where
you can leave messages and someone later
can read or answer
them um from this um yeah in 2020 I
created then an exhibition with NAD bof
and Jeremy Bailey in which we reflected
the moment in time uh where everything
on the net has become a
shop um also and special as an artist
you have to sell yourself as a brand and
Jeremy Bailey developed for this
exhibition the ur.
shop uh a shop where every artist can
sell their web-based augmented reality
sculptures and get 100% Revenue
back uh but they have to present
themselves with the
artwork so the artists literally have to
sell
themselves by building the shops we
realized that there was uh a platform
for for artists missing um where they
could present their digital browser
based augmented reality objects and we
thought wouldn't it be great uh if we
could build
one one which is open to join without
selling
oneself uh one which could build a
community and would focus again on
exhibiting and presenting that art in
this case I mean browser based augmented
reality
sculptures um but then 2021 happened and
this whole nft boom led to an explosion
of platforms for digital artists but
that has not stopped our Endeavor and so
we developed the platform with Vincent
vanan who programmed it and Larissa Vish
who did the interface design and on a
technical note the um platform uses the
model viewer um which works then best in
zafari on iOS and Chrome Under Android
the batches design we uh uh created to
gamey the platform to uh um was
done by anal lawence and so I would say
this kind of platform was in the end
then built from our friends yeah this
laugh you could say and um and since the
exhibition um this exhibition here we we
invited where we was where we were
invited um we could Implement into the
platform the functionality of
simultaneity what I described before
like the location location based uh
function uh by the help from Cesar moan
um also an young
artist here you can see one of the
objects all these artworks are
um yeah distributed um in the area but
as the starting point uh to before you
explore the digital layer which overlays
our cities and um in special here um
this
um uh um you can start it in a foyer in
our exhibition and on the platform every
Artist as you can see here has also the
possibility to uh um create their own
profile and uh support with uh further
links and
infos um as I said yeah you can um yeah
I would invite you to visit the exbition
at the foer and uh start your Safari
there by yourself and I would say thank
you for your attention and um we'll let
now AA davidov um present her
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work hello uh my name is aova and I'm
very happy and thankful to be here uh
today my work in the exhibition animal
City Unleashed with pan gallery and open
AR is global mode horsewoman appearing
normal too horsewoman appearing normal
takes the object of desire and
speculation crypto aesthetic to turn it
into an image about the ecological and
social disasters we are all in that we
have set ourselves for extinction and
keep programming ourselves in that
direction horsewoman appearing normal 2
was specifically made for the chaos
communication Congress in Hamburg with
imprints of normals from diverse City
related objects under the skin of the
animal don't know if you can see some of
the
patterns the skin itself is made with
the colors of 3D normals usually used to
make the lighting of the
object a little
backstory one day around 2015 I was with
a friend who happen to be a
shaman and I was complaining about the
state of the world in action on
ecological crisis the widespread cruelty
and Wars the greed the exploitation
industrial
farming he looked at me and said brace
yourself the worst is still to come and
of course he was right 2016 came with
the shock of Trump's presidency in the
United States the immediate attack on
immigrants the dismantling of social
programs and the full acceptance of
virulence and lies in public affairs
somehow after that conversation my
drawings of piles of dead animals and
bodies ceased and I started seeing
different animals atavistic blunt
ridiculous absurd but full of strange
energy that seemed to pierce into the
world through the
digital since the start of global mode
in 2015 I have increasingly worked with
a mixture of human bodies with those of
animals Bird's birth the image here in
which I give birth to De Birds full of
plastic caps is a visceral image of my
own inescapable role in eological
disaster collapsing the remoteness
between our actions and their or my
actions and their
outcome being undeniably man ulated I
want to manipulate
back this was perhaps the reason to
explore virtual reality away from
realism but has a place to take over the
subconscious the subconscious and to
rehearse or maybe even invent new
actions to involve others in these
playing grounds that VR can
create global mode Narcissus and drown
animals was a VR and immersive print
installation in which um animals fall
from the sky and people hold them in
their arms but when they were held by uh
the people the animals drag the people
underwater and or
flying I'm is interested in confounding
virtual and physical in this case a
print on the floor of a gall
making a sight specific but imaginary
making it sight specific but
imaginary and I'm also interested in the
mixed reality of augmented reality which
in this case here at the Congress
downstairs has a fixed s specific
location but not a fixed size and it
does not obstruct the
passage
another work which plays with mixt with
the mixture of our bodies with those of
animals is global mode play it was made
in the strictest lockdown of the
pandemic and it is an online interactive
and performative piece based on three
reimagined meats access uh accessible
from any computer and with any webcam
getting together but still Anonymous the
audience enters the vir space through
digital avatars pigs that become geese
sinking
horsewoman and a black lives matter
protester who pushes a police helicopter
and makes it
bloom
for
because in New York there are more
statues of horses than women the artist
Collective Exar Ensemble made a project
called make us visible and invited me to
participate replacing monuments around
the city of New York with ar monuments
of women and
goddesses I overlight the George
Washington's Monument on Union Square
with the Mad Cassandra of climate change
and the black lives matter protester
overpowering the police
helicopter I confess at that time I was
very naive and um really believed in the
success of the black lives matter
protests finally Garden for drowning the
s
uh one of my newest work is a mixed
reality installation based on four
dreams about our
descendants addressing extraction both
from land and from people massive selfs
surveillance and
crocodiles guilt Extinction and even
adaptation
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this is also an interactive piece in
which people can keep themselves above
the water for a while and their body
produce uh the surveillance cameras and
satellites that we see in this
image oops thank you and I
it's thank
you it's a pleasure to to give the place
to exm thank you hi
everybody yeah
so this is first time to uh join this
Congress and yeah it's impressive it's
so so nice it's so cool yeah I love it I
love this Vibe here you guys the coolest
person uh people in the world I think
yeah this is the coolest event I've ever
experienced in my
life yeah so uh my name is symol from
eximo artist team
eximo um eximo is a New Media artist Duo
um consist of two people me and Y uh
today I I just only I I'm here but uh
she's over there with our daughter
together with
hey wave your hands
yeah
and yeah we started our activity from
the internet uh in
mid90s uh we only Pro produced net art
at the moment uh net art means uh its
artwork uh only exist on internet and
experiened through
browser and later we expanded our
activity to actual
space uh it can be said that we are the
first generation uh to approach real
space from the internet uh I think
nowadays it's very normal things uh but
at the moment it's very rare
um then um by by combining the internet
and actual space uh our theme have been
n down to uh explore the boundary
between two worlds um two World means uh
for example uh internet and actual space
or digital and analog or human orot or a
new or old
media so um I will introduce some of our
works uh here today um this work titled
natural process uh which is a huge
painting of Google top page in
2003 uh we installed this piece uh in
the museum and then put the web come in
front of the the paintings and stream
that uh image back to the Internet so
our aim of this work is uh uh to show
the process of the uh bringing digital
object uh to actess space and then bring
it back to the uh internet digital
space uh later uh Google purchased this
piece uh and we installed uh this piece
to their office this is the picture of
that moment yeah this is funny
right and next one this piece is titled
body pain uh we first painted uh human
body and displayed that image on the
Monitor and then we paint it outside of
the monitor uh a directory on the
monitor with the same color so by by
painting directly in the monitor uh this
is uh how body paint should be uh done
today uh since our physical sense extend
to the information devices so we so this
is a body paint
now uh next p uh kiss or dual monitors
uh two monitors were placed as they are
kissing uh to present our current
relationship uh this work was created
before the pandemic but uh has gained uh
more meaning after uh the pandemic I
think and and this work a metabus pet
shop uh is an installation that sell
butger Pad in cages uh this ironic and
playful installation was realized in
cooperation with the gallery now here in
New York and this work raised ethical
question that if it is cruel to have
virtual uh beings trapped in the
cage I like this picture I think this
picture presents something important
about our activities yeah it's real dog
and but
dog for this Con Congress we realized
the installation uh in cooperation with
pank Gallery uh from barin and we have a
installation in the first uh floor uh so
please find at that installation uh it's
it's near the entrance so then this time
this work is expanded to the AR uh you
can see Unleashed uh dock in the
exhibition Hall uh with your phone so
please enjoy
it
and and also we are also organizing the
event uh it is called internet yamii um
it is a free market event dealing with
internet is item in real space after we
started uh this event in 2012 uh from
Tokyo uh and made it an open
platform it have been spreading to More
Than 3 uh 30 uh cities over the past 10
years uh this picture is from first year
meeting new uh no Tokyo um I can feel
like a similar Vibe between this one and
this Congress and Yi yeah so I hope
something happen in this
future yeah
crossover um okay so I'm going to show
some of the item sold in that event uh
and to catch a Vibe okay um I think I
don't have enough time to I will quickly
introduce something so oh yeah snow then
snow
grow spam mail service you can send us
actual spam by poster service G public
by G house and talking service she's
putting you know act real tag in the
people
yeah Spotify as collection in casset
they they call only the SP ad and then
put that in the casset tape and sell it
you know dark web
tours uh all the P booing this was
amazing you know they started all the
piece at same time and then you know the
you know to the race uh how which one is
the fastest you know the bo yeah this is
the something you know that event is
look like and we have compiled the uh
book documenting the decade of this
event uh so uh you can get actual copy
or free pdf version from the our website
and if you have some uh idea to have
this book in the public library let me
know uh we are happy to donate book it's
limited but you know that we are happy
to do
it okay that's all for today thank you
so much thank you for
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