OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: ROBOTS AND AVATARS

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: ROBOTS AND AVATARS
05.10.2012 20:00

Opening of the exhibition Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future
Date: 5th of October 2012, 9 pm
The exhibition presents a variety of immersive experiences – from unconventional approaches to social networks, re-defining and exploring their influences and dead ends, through virtual worlds rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to electro-acoustic biological extensions, wearable technologies and interactive robotic elements that affect and try to define us, to seemingly ordinary, human behavior imitating robots.

Exhibiting artists and works:
Louis Philippe Demers/Processing Plant (CA, DE): The Blind Robot; Ruairi Glynn / Motive Colloquies (UK): Sociable Assymetry; Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, Erik Fleming, David Steele (UK): Visions of Our Communal Dreams; Niki Passath (AT): ZOE; Mey Lean Kronemann (DE): lumiBots; Sašo Sedlaček (SI): Beggar 1.0; Andre Almeida, Gonçalo Lopes, Francisco Dias, Guilherme Martins (PT): NAVI; Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II; Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin / MoTA (SI): Public avatar, Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI): RoboVox; Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk (FR, UK, NL): Naked on Pluto; Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico / Art is Open Source (IT): The Electronic Man; Matthieu Cherubini (CH): rep.licants.org; Martin Hans Schmitt (DE): Robot world

Date: 5th of October 2012, 8 pm
Venue: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia and KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia

Opening performance
Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II
Venue: KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia
After: social gathering/open communication between artists and audience

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ROBOTS AND AVATARS – OUR COLLEAGUES AND PLAYMATES OF THE FUTURE
Interdisciplinary exibition
Maribor, Slovenia, October 5–30, 2012

Venues:
Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia
KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia

Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future is an interdisciplinary exhibition based on technological objects and extensions such as robots, avatars, virtual worlds, telepresence and real time presence in correlation to social creative places, cultural environments, interactive entertainment and play space. This interconnected framework of events comprises selected mobile exhibition artworks, workshop learning experiences, and artist interviews and discussions.

October 8–30, 2012
Guided tours from Monday to Friday each full hour from 9 am till 4 pm, on Saturday by appointement - by Maja Vuksanovič – Pardeilhan The exhibition is part of the RACIF project, coordinated by body>data>space, London (UK) and partners AltArt, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia. The project is supported by Programme Culture of the European Union. The Slovenian version is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and co-produced by Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture.