Projects
Watou23 – /kom.po’zi.ci.o:/ – Press release
LASER TALK – Immersive listening with Roel Heremans and Esther Venrooij
Currer Bell Residency #5 – Agathe Schneider
News
Rentrée – Return
For this year’s ‘Rentrée’ – or return to usual business, Bureau Doove starts in new premises and with an updated look. The desk is still ‘chaotic’ – full of projects, but now also has a view and is definitely based in Saint-Nazaire, France. While Bureau Doove is ready to develop new projects, the artists of the Bureau are active as ever: Anne-Marie Maes shows her installation ‘BEE AGENCY’ in the group exhibition ECO-VISIONARIES at HeK Basel (Haus der electronischen Künste/House of Electronic Art) HeK is dedicated to digital culture and the new art… Read More
Sara Bomans – Mom’s Book
As part of her art work Sara Bomans makes cartoons which she calls ‘Secret Thoughts’, now already adding up to more than 1500. Since becoming a mom part of those cartoons are inspired by her daughter. Typical for Bomans’ work these are observations of daily life situations that hinge on the absurd. While she publishes all of her drawings on facebook, Bomans also likes to turn them into books. After a first publication of her ‘Secret Thoughts’ drawings a couple of years ago, she therefore is now preparing the publication of… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva in Permittivity of free space and Interalia Magazine
Alexandra Dementieva currently takes part in the group exhibition ‘Permittivity of free space’, opening tonight in the London APT Gallery and running until August 5th. From APT’s press release: The title of this exhibition refers to the resistance that material has to the flow of electricity and also applies to the vacuum of space. Alternative meanings relating to taking transitory ownership of the space are also relevant. The participating artists intend to develop progressive processes in the gallery space that include migrations of art works as well as the potential for changes… Read More
Perma-culture, Intermission, Summerlab & Translations
It’s been a while, mainly due to some very busy activities, amongst others end of June a visiting trip to perma-culture gardeners in Orleans, Blois and Tours in view of a potential project about which more is to follow. Simultaneously Dominique Leroy and Marina Pirot started the Intermission project in Nantes and Bougenais – see some pictures of the opening weekend below. This is currently followed by their residency at KRA in the Czech Republic and next month in California. For more info (in French) on their whereabouts see this link. This was… Read More
Blow – Bomans – Dementieva
The BD-artists are busy! Please find an overview of some of their recent activities below. Mike BLOW recently took part in the ‘Image & Sound’ Workshop at the Institut Français in Athens, run by Michael Ackerman, Stéphane Charpentier and Alyssa Moxley. Void edited, printed and bound together with the participants “Almost True”, a limited edition publication with the works produced during the week. “Almost True” comes inside a box, with an installed sound module, 2 prints by Michael Ackerman and Stéphane Charpentier and will be available online soon. On Friday 29 June Mike… Read More
Florence Jou and Dom Leroy
On Saturday 16 June the poet and researcher Florence Jou will perform “À la recherche de l’atelier de Dom” (Looking for Dom’s studio) in answer to an invitation by the Friends of the Museum of Nantes and the assocoation (n) of Dom Leroy. Departure tram 3 halt Trocardière (Rezé), 20h30. Duration one hour. Message +33(0)624634103 to register pour le 16 juin, pour une recherche de l’atelier de dom, (une photographie en amont, avec des bidouilles de fils, du bricolage), penser à « un monde dans lequel la vie de chaque créature équivaut… Read More
AnneMarie Maes in Rio and Helsinki
AnneMarie Maes is currently in Brasil where she will present her workshop The Sound Beehive Experience, Bio Art & Technology during the 8th Hiperorganicos Symposium. The workshop will take place in the Open Lab at the Museum of Tomorrow. Saturday 26 May, 10h30-12h30 All info (in Brasilian) on the website of the conference. – Next week Maes will take part in Hybrid Labs at Aalto University with The Intelligent Beehive Project. Hybrid Labs is the third edition of the Renewable Futures conference that aims to challenge the future of knowledge creation through art… Read More
Breathless
Alexandra Dementieva at ADAF 2018 The 14th edition of the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) explores the unknown future of the Technological Apocalypse through art, science and technology. This year’s theme is ‘Singularity Now’ with singularity being “associated with infinity, the unknown, and the beginning of universes, both physical and conceptual.” The question is how this notion can be linked to art and technology. Within this context Alexandra DEMENTIEVA‘s installation ‘Breathless’ (2012) was selected as an answer to the call “to submit works and achievements which outline, comment, foresee, or determine the upcoming… Read More
The View from Nowhere
Semiconductor at Le Lieu Unique, Nantes semiconductor /ˌsɛmɪkənˈdʌktə/ noun a solid substance that has a conductivity between that of an insulator and that of most metals, either due to the addition of an impurity or because of temperature effects. Devices made of semiconductors, notably silicon, are essential components of most electronic circuits. The British duo Semiconductor – Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt – have chosen their name clearly well. In their work, which consists of installations and films, they make the connection between art, science and technology. Or rather they attempt to… Read More
Brouhaha
Happy to announce my review of the English translation of Brouhaha by Lionel Ruffel in this month’s Leonardo Reviews. Ruffel’s book was published earlier this year by the University of Minnesota Press. Please find the review here. Please note: So far I announced these reviews and other writing via my blog edithdoove.wordpress.com, but for sake of clairity I will from now on only use the Bureau Doove site.
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