Valentina Peri curates DATA DATING DESIRE at Mo.Ca Brescia

DATA DATING DESIRE
Opening on September 23, 6 pm
September 23 - December 4, 2022
Mo.Ca, Brescia, Italy

Artists: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Adam Basanta, Jonas Blume, Marco Cadioli, Elisa Giardina Papa, Tom Galle, John Yuyi & Moises Sanabria, Dani Ploeger, Molly Soda.

Curator: Valentina Peri

First time in Italy!
After Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Brussels and Geneva, a new iteration of my exhibition goes to Brescia, in the historical setting of Palazzo Martinengo Colleoni, a baroque building in the heart of the city.

DATA DATING DESIRE attempts to explore new directions in contemporary romance and map the unprecedented connections between desire, emotion, technology and economy in the post-pandemic world.

PROGRAM
Opening - September 23 from 6 to 9:30 pm
Sound Performance by Adam Basanta - September 23 at 7 pm
Talk "Love, Desire, Technology" - September 28 at 5 pm
Curator tour - October 1st at 5 pm

Produced and Promoted by Mo.Ca
Co-promoted by Fondazione Brescia Musei and Comune di Brescia
In collaboration with Avisco

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SWIPE RIGHT! Data Dating Desire curated by Valentina Peri

SWIPE RIGHT! Data Dating Desire

Curated by: Valentina Peri

Venue: iMAL Brussels

Running until: Oct 22, 2021 - Jan 9, 2022

With works by !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Adam Basanta, Crosslucid, Dries Depoorter, Elisa Giardina Papa, Tom Galle, John Yuyi & Moises Sanabria, Noemi Iglesias, Lancel/Maat, Joana Moll, Ingo Niermann & The Army Of Love, Eva Ostrowska, Dani Ploeger, Addie Wagenknecht & Pablo Garcia

What does it mean to love in the digital age? How are digital interfaces reshaping our personal relationships? What do new technologies imply for the future of the romantic sphere? How do screens affect our sexual intimacy and our desire for connection?

In terms of romance and intimacy, Internet and smartphones have generated new complexities that we are still trying to figure out. All these phenomena became hot-button in March 2020, when a global pandemic placed millions of people under total lockdown, enforcing to reconfigure most of social activities online and in a technology-mediated form. From online working to online partying, humans all over the planet tried to play with the discontents of social distancing, and to live the no-contact reality as the new normal.

This forced self-isolation and touch-less condition proved to be a significant driver for many people to move their romantic lives into the digital realm, inspiring new ways of courting, dating and catching, for both confirmed and novice users.

By bringing together the work of several international artists, the exhibition SWIPE RIGHT! Data, Dating, Desire attempts to explore new directions in contemporary romance and map the unprecedented connections between desire, emotion, technology, and economy in the post-pandemic world.

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Installationshots, 2021 by Isabelle Arthuis

peer to space launches Virtual Art Space with inaugural show (Im)Material Matter

With its Virtual Art Space, peer to space further develops the concept of their previous online exhibitions. In the virtual exhibition space on the open source platform Mozilla Hubs. With the Virtual Art Space, peer to space establishes a new presentation format beyond the white cube to fully embrace the potential of the virtual realm independent from physical limitations. The open and dynamic structure of the floating islands allows to explore and engage with new forms of digital curating.

Spatial Design by Mohsen Hazrati

(IM)MATERIAL MATTER

Curated by Peggy Schoenegge

With works by Banz & Bowinkel, Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick), Mohsen Hazrati, Armin Keplinger, Nadine Kolodziey, Lauren Moffatt, Chiara Passa, Sabrina Ratté, Dagmar Schürrer

 Opening & Launch: Oct 28, 2021, 7 pm (CET)

Link: hubs.mozilla.com/owtpwaD/im-material-matter

(Im)Material Matter is dedicated to digital sculptures, their material and matter. The works highlight the potential of sculptural artworks in the virtual realm. Beyond the restrictions of physicality, sculptures take on new shapes and forms. The sculptural works float in the exhibition space. They do not need a bottom or plinth to stand on. This positioning makes them perceptible and accessible from every conceivable viewpoint, even from below and above. Their size can be freely determined. The 3D shapes of the sculptures are not static, but dynamic. Some consist of several parts moving freely in space. How the works are installed in the virtual art space would not be possible in the physical and creates a new approach to sculptures. As a result, they shift the parameters of the traditional definition of sculpture by deconstructing its solid matter. The constitution of the space, the textures of the void as well as the shape of the sculptures simulate materiality. Their surfaces are reminiscent of physical material like metal, plastic, or clay. They hyper realistically allude to tangible materials. In the exhibition, the sculptures become permeable. Visitors can pass through and enter the inner sphere of the artwork. The dissolution of physical boundaries once again reveals the distinctive conditions of the virtual. The works oscillate between the material and immaterial, defining a matter of virtual materiality.

With kind support by Stiftung Kunstfonds | NEUSTART KULTUR

LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME

Ornella Fieres, Inverse Fourier 36, 2021 (c) the artist

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On February 10, 2021, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER kick off PRISKA PASQUER's new ONE TO ONE exhibition series in the new virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs with the exhibition LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME, solo exhibition by Ornella Fieres, curated by Tina Sauerlaender.

PRISKA PASQUER's virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs will be inaugurated with a new exhibition series called ONE TO ONE, that signifies that the artist and curator are meeting at eye level and developing an exhibition in a mutual exchange. For the kick-off of the ONE TO ONE series, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER gallery cooperate. In the upcoming months, four curators from peer to space will each present one of four artists whose work addresses the impact of digitization on the individual and society. Curator Tina Sauerlaeender and artist Ornella Fieres will kick things off with the exhibition Light Shines Through The Curtains Of Time.

The title of the exhibition was borrowed from the video work I create paths that lead to the clouds in which we go (2020), in which an artificial intelligence creates a poetic-dystopian vision of the end times based on all the texts that have been written about Ornella Fieres' works to date. In the works of artist Ornella Fieres, new technologies meet analog found objects from times past. The artist instrumentalizes photographs from personal estates and archival material from scientific films for her own purposes. She is concerned with "transferring the past into the present and making the invisible processes of the digital visible." Her works show the world of yesterday, seen through the eyes of today's algorithms.

Exhibition on view from February 10 to March 9, 2021.

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