[spectre] SPEKTRUM Open call #1: Perceptual Motion

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OPEN CALL #1: PERCEPTUAL MOTION For the first open call of SPEKTRUM (www.spektrumberlin.de), a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin, we invite to submit all works investigating unstable media set in motion in the time domain and/or through evolutive processes. If on the one hand technologies are readable as an abstract form ruled by functional design and scientific knowledge, on the other hand they effect us with new sensorial languages, requiring understanding on our perceptual level rather than social and historical memories. The 'pure' sensory observation of these works is the main state of relation with the audience experience, by means of our aptitude to directly see-hear-taste-touch-smell, or indirectly using natural or artificial extra senses. Technological situations that are invisible and unusual in our everyday life can finally be approached for expanding, detected for mapping and interacted to tell; according to the conditions of our sensory apparatus. Because of a continuum of sensory exposition, we are challenged to become aware of our perceptual capacities as human machines and imaginative beings. Stroboscopic lights, optical and glittered videos, diatonic scales and intercommunication between fluorescent cells can open a spectrum of perceptual motion from comfortable cliches to absolutely new experiences of sensory (and) mental resets. Matthijs Munnik is interested in the interaction between light and our senses. Using light in an extraordinary way leads to extraordinary perceptions. By playing with frequencies of stroboscopic light and the mechanisms of our visual system, you can see your own visual process. With light as a medium, he can explore the fringes of our perception. His series of work Citadels is based on the research of induced hallucinations conducted during the 60´s. This knowledge has been interpreted in a new artistic practice suitable for an audiovisual and immersive experience. The collapse of rules of these extraordinary states of perception offers the work of Matthijs Munnik as an example of perceptual motion. Submissions and more information Works submitted will be considered for the July exhibition at SPEKTRUM (taking place in the final week of the month) or for events to be organised in July around this topic. All interested artists can participate by sending an email to i...@spektrumberlin.de, including the following information: name email address website description of the work technical details images or video material Deadline: 4 July 2015 SPEKTRUM is a project space in Berlin for the idealisation, realisation and exhibition of technology-based artworks, media-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle "do-it-together-with-others". Above all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical understanding.   Alfredo Ciannameo & Lieke Ploeger www.spektrumberlin.de i...@spektrumberlin.de Bürknerstr 12 12047 Berlin - Neukölln 030-25099397 Facebook Twitter Website

 

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