Artefact expo: The Prehistory of the Image
Artefact expo: The Prehistory of the Image
Artefact is an arts festival focusing on (visual) culture, current affairs and scientific challenges. This year's exhibition's central theme is The Prehistory of the Image, taking the Paleo Camera Obscura Theory (PCOT) by the American artist Matt Gatton as a guide to study the ori- gins of art. Within paleontology, the study of life in past geological records, there are several theories that attempt to explain how ‘early’ art was made. According to these scientists, cave drawings such as Lascaux in France served as gateways to other worlds, were used as part of rituals or gave narrative clues to people.
Global Rainbow (2014)
Yvette Mattern (US)The ongoing monumental laser light installation Global Rainbow beams seven rays of high specification laser light, representing the spectrum of the seven colors of the rainbow....
Common Space (2012), Terrestrial Ball (2010), Hydrogen atom on the left, far star on the right (2012)
Kianoosh Motallebi (GB/NL)In Common Space, microscopes and telescopes have been combined or ‘interfaced’ to...
The Photophon Principle (2013)
Aernoudt Jacobs (BE)The Photophon Principle is based on the photoacoustic principle that was discovered...
CONSTRUCTED VIEW (2004), UNPACKED 2 (2013)
Gábor Ősz (HU)Gábor Ősz’ photo series Constructed View is the result of camera...
IsLANds#1 (2014)
Salva Sanchis (CAT) & Pablo CastillaIslands consists of a video projection shown permanently in the exhibition, and a...
LIquId cONsONANT (2012), AMpLER TONGuE TRANsIT (2012)
Anna Barham (UK)Liquid Consonant presents a digitally animated head mouthing Greek words related to motion which all contain the letter rho. The physicality of its speech is accentuated through the sound...
pHANTOMs Of NABuA (2009)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH)Phantoms of Nabua is an enigmatic short movie portraying the Thai town of Nabua,...
RETROAcTION X (2014)
Marie Kølbæk Iversen (DK)RETROACTION is a video installation about chaos, technology and the ever-changing...
MY fRONTIER Is AN ENdLEss WALL Of pOINTs (2007)
Joachim Koester (DK)In the 19th century exploration was geographic, but in the 20th century the notion of the ‘...
GRAffITI sERIEs (1960)
Brassaï (HU)The Graffiti series are a collection of photographs taken by the photographer...
IMAGEs du MONdE VIsIONNAIRE (1963)
Henri Michaux (BE), Eric Duvivier (FR)Images Du Monde Visionnaire is the result of a collaboration between the film maker...
Collections Préhistoriques (2014)
Camille Henrot (FR)Collections Préhistoriques is a book that combines erotic pictures with images...
First there were machines (2013)
Leïla Arenou (FR) & Naïmé Perrette (FR)First there were machines is a collection of glass objects that refer to industrial...
Huesos/Piedras/Flores (2011)
María García-Ibañez (ES)The work Huesos/Piedras/Flores contemplates about the concepts of ‘origins’, ‘...
The opera of prehistoric creatures
Marguerite Humeau (FR)The opera of prehistoric creatures is an opera which stages the rebirth of...
Excavation (2013)
Guy Königstein (IL)The Institute for Research and Documentation of the Erased History (IRDEH) is an artistic...
Nieuw Werk (2014)
Jelle Feringa (NL)Jelle Feringa’s current research is focused on the development of original robotic fabrication...
Everything Ends in Chaos (2012)
Ilona Gaynor (UK)Ilona Gaynor makes an adaptation of her graduation project Everything Ends in Chaos...
Origin Of Species (2008)
Ben Rivers (UK)Origin of the Species is an experimental short movie about S., a Darwinian theorist...
Elsewheres: On Gliese 667 Cc (2014)
Sascha Pohflepp (DE) & Chris Woebken (DE/US)
Grosse Fatigue (2013)
Camille Henrot (FR)Grosse Fatigue is an ‘encyclopedic’ video about history, evolution and mythology. It is a mix of beats and anthropology which perfectly captures today's restless thirst for knowledge....
Pleisto-scene Artefact (2014)
Geert Mul (NL)Geert Mul made an adaptation of his special installation Pleisto-Scene Artefact. In 2013 Mul plastered the Tschumi pavilion (Groningen) from top to bottom with printed,...