metabiosis

This Wednesday, December 19th, we’re presenting the work and research we did this fall during our residency at Waag Society on the meshy project. If you can’t make it there is a stream produced by KillerTV, and if you can make it, there are some drinks ;)

Date: 19 December 2007, 8 pm.
Location: Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR, Amsterdam.

More information:
http://waag.org/nieuws/29550
http://metabiosis.goto10.org
http://killertv.nl
http://goto10.org

Artists in residence Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Tom Schouten
will present their recent work at Waag Society on December 19th.

During their residency at the Waag, they were working on Meshy, an
interactive installation and a next step in the Metabiosis project, a
collection of works questioning digital life and autonomous creation processes.

The Artists-in-residence programme is kindly supported by the Amsterdam
Fund for the Arts and the GATE programme of ICTRegie.

The presentation will be live broadcasted by KillerTV.

Date: 19 December 2007, 8 pm.
Location: Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society,
Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam.
Entrance is free.

More information:
http://waag.org/nieuws/29550
http://metabiosis.goto10.org/
http://killertv.nl
http://goto10.org/meshy-presentation-at-waag-society/

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Meshy is an interactive installation and the next step in the Metabiosis
project, a collection of works about digital life and autonomous
creation processes. The project is a collaboration between Aymeric
Mansoux, Tom Schouten and Marloes de Valk.

A group of small devices, in which the digital and virtual obtain their
own body and become tangible, make sounds and listen to each other.
Euphoric noise and the soft whispers of a failed communication sound
through the space in which they live. You can visit them, and listen in
on, disturb or participate in their conversations.

The eight stand alone communicating machines the three artists have worked
on will show computing in all its simplicity and visualize a computer
network as a chat between machines . The eight machines are all built and
programmed from scratch. On an extremely basic level they communicate with
each other and the audience using only sound. Mansoux, Schouten and de
Valk refuse to confess to forms of digital art made of ready-made tools
for ready-made solutions. Although beauty often teams up with mystification,
it’s the other way round here. All growing technologies around us, everything
– behaviour and objects – supplied with a digital layer – mesh networks – are
at the moment just giving a glimpse of things to come.
The artists offer a valuable view into the bare core of its system and
aesthetics.

“meshy” is an experiment and a game for people who are curious about the
possibilities of standalone processes, generative systems and artificial
life.

Mansoux, Schouten and de Valk are members of GOTO10, a collective of
international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source
Software (FLOSS) and digital arts. GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital
art projects and methods for artistic creation, located on the blurry line
between software programming and art.

“meshy” is made possible with support from Waag Society and Amsterdams
Fonds voor de Kunst.

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