tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86938674962153826242024-03-13T11:24:13.786-07:00Ectopia - Experimental Art Laboratorymartahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05046001724987238135noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693867496215382624.post-14546105347697069482011-09-15T04:23:00.000-07:002011-09-15T04:23:28.697-07:00ECTOPIA's Timeline<div class="dipity_embed" style="width: 500px;"><iframe height="400" src="http://www.dipity.com/ectopia/personal/?mode=embed&#tl" style="border-bottom: #ccc 1px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid;" width="500"></iframe><div style="font-family: Arial,sans; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dipity.com/ectopia/personal/">marta m.</a> on <a href="http://www.dipity.com/">Dipity</a>.</div></div>martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05046001724987238135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693867496215382624.post-58163131903360264822011-09-15T04:19:00.000-07:002011-09-23T08:39:29.901-07:00EPAC's "Dreaming of a Butterfly" opening in Lisbon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_SmbYLGRoGCKD33cH47_UUxdQKNT3pSS-8cmla20YfdMnkYz_rAMrYqInUI1pS-k_HN1THasMsD87UwliC4kXQv_Q-m-pd9Vhc-ir9Y2fcaiI798w0z7uDpd0eAm-xBblOHfMuvsCqms/s1600/epac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="98px" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_SmbYLGRoGCKD33cH47_UUxdQKNT3pSS-8cmla20YfdMnkYz_rAMrYqInUI1pS-k_HN1THasMsD87UwliC4kXQv_Q-m-pd9Vhc-ir9Y2fcaiI798w0z7uDpd0eAm-xBblOHfMuvsCqms/s320/epac.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23th September, Lisbon, Portugal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dreaming of a Butterfly"</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">45 acrylic tubes are arranged within the display box. Each tube has a "mechanical" butterfly placed within and their movements are synchronised with the sound system - where microphones obtain real time sound of the surrounding area, and amplify the sounds to the internal subwoofers speakers to produce the necessary input to cause the aleatory movements of the butterflies. As the sound captured reach higher volume, the movement of the butterflies increase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each butterfly is attached inside to the acrylic tube by a filament that runs to the battery housing. There is a certain amount of realness to it, while it is understated up close (people can see the filament when the butterfly is at a standstill - or the sound volume is low), but from farther away the fleeting butterfly appears to be real and trying to find its escape!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "Dreaming of a Butterfly" inside the acrylic tube flutters and flies around the inside of the tube with true-to-life motion, giving the impression of a real butterfly, so this creates a movement within the tube that appears to be truly random. The users may also interact with the butterfly to flap or flutter its wings on command by producing incoming sound from surrounding area.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17th September, Riga, Latvia</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Nerves</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impulses in different colours – red, blue, violet, yellow, etc., are transmitted through the optical fibre with such speed that is so high, that we are not capable to detect these impulses as separated tones - they become invisible and changes into a calmly floating white light. There are about 11'200'000 different colour, intensity and length impulses transmitted per second. This number is equal to the amount of bits that whole human nerve system can abstract. By comparison our consciousness can process only 10 – 60 bits per second.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo by Tekla Pohjolainen</span>martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05046001724987238135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693867496215382624.post-75287896921130060222011-01-27T04:28:00.000-08:002011-01-27T06:55:37.203-08:00Marta de Menezes at Visceral Symposium in Dublin.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Aek9i_xf7WvfQerFF9wehuLUGC9J9oKftzh20sk739GlHD4oCoH_wV6d8qPzN2A6Y8eMnZayRrlxKgEJ61vdxMMIOyRT7DL6SzbNl86qeDadZxfXGnAH4mPPShrhoLcN11XYKNqTWITl/s1600/visceral.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 157px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Aek9i_xf7WvfQerFF9wehuLUGC9J9oKftzh20sk739GlHD4oCoH_wV6d8qPzN2A6Y8eMnZayRrlxKgEJ61vdxMMIOyRT7DL6SzbNl86qeDadZxfXGnAH4mPPShrhoLcN11XYKNqTWITl/s320/visceral.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566879418137895874" /></a><br />Marta de Menezes, Artistic Director of Ectopia, will speak at the Visceral Symposium at the Science Galery in Dublin on Saturday, 29th January.<br /><br /><strong>About the exhibition</strong><br />Why VISCERAL? There is something that makes us a little uneasy, perhaps even queasy, about the idea of creating artworks from living tissue. VISCERAL incorporates ten years of SymbioticA’s challenging work at the frontier between fine art and biotechnology and forms a series of provocations and puzzles around the nature of the living and non-living. Curated by Oron Catts and Dr Ionat Zurr, the works are occasionally playful, frequently uncanny and may even appear to be sentient.<br />More info <a href="http://www.sciencegallery.com/visceral">here.</a>Catarina Cerdeirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07749339852600421244noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693867496215382624.post-4713019000459181332009-10-12T07:22:00.001-07:002009-10-12T07:23:28.956-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyptAyWPx3oCmVVPTfIOqaPy8Fv6P-K8WU1l27JfkBbuwGGq2KCAH9LBff_1e5cjuPAIaz8SvK5eysY8iBJC63Wu0i09i0GT_72SUmEVfBHm80HX9Ul7YuhLsmjHgo4-CoqQo12PQ153DN/s1600-h/webMarta.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyptAyWPx3oCmVVPTfIOqaPy8Fv6P-K8WU1l27JfkBbuwGGq2KCAH9LBff_1e5cjuPAIaz8SvK5eysY8iBJC63Wu0i09i0GT_72SUmEVfBHm80HX9Ul7YuhLsmjHgo4-CoqQo12PQ153DN/s320/webMarta.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391718911008851810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdt0x_WsEPGPEUwdAnHAF9jb34Gwu7xNt6_ikubPGoPdKHXzSWKSFVJqLbD5Jp7RESyhBHKoXauymQRUScN-WznDoTGRhP86gSqJV0GjL74ly6mM4Pq3bqSQ0iy8zyU2WCL9Iz-TxsQ6M/s1600-h/webLucy.jpeg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 179px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdt0x_WsEPGPEUwdAnHAF9jb34Gwu7xNt6_ikubPGoPdKHXzSWKSFVJqLbD5Jp7RESyhBHKoXauymQRUScN-WznDoTGRhP86gSqJV0GjL74ly6mM4Pq3bqSQ0iy8zyU2WCL9Iz-TxsQ6M/s320/webLucy.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391718798491623586" border="0" /></a>martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05046001724987238135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693867496215382624.post-76353432116291992672009-10-12T07:18:00.001-07:002009-10-12T07:18:20.938-07:00<h1>Drawing: Between Art and Science</h1> <p>During 3 weeks in May, when Marta de Menezes and Lucy Lions will spent 15 morning at IGC with their drawing material deepening their understanding of the scientific research and drawing different experiences in the laboratories. Working in collaboration with the scientists the ongoing work produced during the residency will be encouraged to develop freely allowing dialogue between scientist and artist to flourish. Artworks created aim to reflect the input from the scientific research being undertaken and reveal the connections made between all those working on the project. <br /><br /> The subject areas being investigated will be:<br />-Neurosciences<br />-Cell Division and Development<br />-Bacteria and microbiology<br />-Plants<br /> </p><p>In the afternoons the exhibition space in the Fábrica Braço de Prata will be used as an open studio where they will develop work made in the laboratories. Here, the public and visitors can come and contribute their ideas to the artists. </p>Marta and Lucy will be using the gallery space as the laboratory and the laboratory as studio, creating a span of works that will allow a new understanding of this artistic research field as an art piece. This intends to reveal the importance of drawing as an investigative tool, and also the depth of involvement and the experimentation of the artists in making and producing a work of art.martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05046001724987238135noreply@blogger.com2