Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm invites for an one-day-exhibition and presentations at the Ahlbergshallen in Östersund.
Rasmus Albertsen [SE], Nathalie Fougeras [FR], Bendix Freutel [CH] (artists). Exhibition between 11.00 to 15.00 of works and work in progress from the artists and at 15.00 presentation about machinimas and performances in virtual worlds by Rasmus Albertsen.
For more information contact us: Like Now! (contacts name: Nathalie Fougeras, Björn Eriksson) upgrade@likenow.org +46(0)73-8073972
Where: Ahlbergshallen i Östersund, Rådhusgatan 42
When: Saturday 10th of January, 11am – 5pm,
exhibition 11am-3pm, presentation/discussion 3pm-5pm
Who : Rasmus Albertsen, Nathalie Fougeras, Bendix Freutel
Rasmus Albertsen
studied in the LAB school of experimental music and sound art in Denmark ,
in the Ærøkunsthøjskole in Denmark ; in the Valand Konsthögskola in Göteborg, Sweden ;
in the Umeå Konsthögskola. He took part in several gallerys exhibitions and video art film festivals.
“There are three keywords which have fitted my artwork through my art praxis: humour, cut-up and some sort of nostaligia. I am interested in new-media art and I work mainly with video and sound. I have explored
this new-media art in a very basic way. In many of my latest work I have been using sampling to a large degree – using sound and video I find in second hand shops or on the web. I edit it and mix the sources together, so it becomes something completely different. I have often been taking the copyright issue very lightly. Another issue I sometimes deal with is gender roles”. http://www.rasmusalbertsen.dk/
Nathalie Fougeras
is an artist and a performer. She obtained a post-diploma at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de
Paris (Atelier for Interactive Media) and she studied at the University Paris 1 Sorbonne and Paris 8 in the art department. She took part in several video art and new media art festivals but also in
some big exhibitions like “Jouable Paris-Kyoto-Geneva”, in the “protocols meta” in Palais de Tokyo, in iMAL the Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels with “Stream On You”. In 2003 Nathalie tries out performances with interactive sensors and live art performance. She was teaching in the theatre, cinema and art
department in Montpellier University and in Paris and she curated some events like “Nuits blanches off in Saint Denis”, “Stream On You” in Brussels and now she takes part at the Upgrade Östersund-Stockholm with Björn Eriksson in Sweden where she lives part time there and in Brussels. She collaborates with other artists and in several groups and networks
to write and create some pieces for live and streaming performances (“CMYK” for the group “aether”).
She was artist-in-residence in “bains connectives art laboratory” in Brussels, and she will also be in “La Raffinerie” (center of choregraphy) in february 2009 and in the “Synapse” program (Ecole d Art de Rueil Malmaison, France) in march 2009. Her last project is a live art performance in the context of a mixed reality and a double
installation with an avatar and a virtual architecture and 3D sounds.
“I want to raise questions about the body and the space and create a
trouble in the genders.”
http://www.likenow.org/bioNathalieFougeras.pdf
Bendix Freutel
aka Eifachfilm Vacirca is a videast, he was the movie director in the theatre Schauspielhaus in Zürich between 2003 and 2007. He worked with Christoph Schlingensief, Falk Richter, Christoph Marthaler, Meg Stuart, Stefan Pucher, Rimini Protokoll. He worked and collaborated with some artists and for the theatres and TV programs as Theatre video master. Now he investigates the platform of Second Life with the avatars where he creates and plays some live art performances. “They adopt you because they know the moving image is of great power and I am the master there, not really belonging and hidden in the society so they even have more trust because I am like invisible and must be like not existing. I am http://d-oo-b.cc. Creative commons is my answer”.
partnerships: Östersunds Kommun, Kultur- och fritid, Konstkonsulent Länskulturen Jämtlands, Jämtlands läns landsting,
Konstkonsulent Västernorrland, Landstinget i Västernorrland, Härke konstcentrum
Affiliated with Upgrade! International
