Seven international architects and artists with great experience in interactive installations, as Cameron McNall (Electroland), Jennifer Steimkamp, Andrew Shoben (Greyworld), Ash Nehru (United Visual Artists) or ELS I.R.L Vermang from the Architecture and Urbanism Laboratory of Belgium, among others, will debate about all the aspects related to design and execution of this type of urban performances.
After the round table, the Finnish artist Jürgen Scheible will conduct a demonstration of his project MobiSpray, on one of Bilbao's most emblematic buildings: the Arriaga Theatre. MobiSpray is an artistic tool that, with the use of light, turns a mobile phone into a kind of spray can to "paint" any type of surfaces.
On April 16th, the Conference has programmed surprising and diverse contents such as Artificial Inteligence, Augmented Reality or Nanoart. Alessandro Scali will present his work "This is not an artwork", an ironic view of his work as nanoartist that has brought him to create nanosculptures that are only perceptible with the use of nanometric technology. In the Hall of the Conference Venue it will be possible to admire this nanometric sculptures with the help of a powerfull microscope that will project the image over a screen.
This won´t be the only live installation at Technarte. "Two computers at leisure playing chess in a park" will also be shown live at the conference venue as an extension of Tim Devine´s conference presentation. In this artwork, two computers play chess through using speech recognition. Because the computers can sense what is happening around them, if someone interrupts their game, they will stop playing and will ask for silence.
You will also have access to the Joe Hocking Occupation Forces project: with the help of an Iphone, you will be able to read the augmented reality codes spread all along the conference hall, and in this way, interact with some aliens on your phone´s screen. As well as this, you will be able to experiment with the Sensitive Rose, a compass rose that changes its look depending on the mood of the people that interact with it. This is a Martha Gabriel project.
More information: technarte.org