「SPECULUM ARTIUM 2015」出展報告

2015/11/27

2015年10月15日〜17日、スロベニア・トリボブリエで開催されたメディアアートフェスティバル「SPECULUM ARTIUM 2015」では、3年次 Chacin Aisen Carolinaさん、1年次大図岳さんの作品「IrukaTact」および2年次西田惇さん、佐藤綱祐さん、髙鳥光さんの作品「CHILDHOOD」が招待展示されました。また、運営には、3年次 Jazbec Masaさんが携わりました。

Speculum Artium was held in the Delavski dom Trbovlje from October 15-17, 2015. It was curated and organized by Maša Jazbec, Alenka Prezelj, and Andrej Uduc. (link: Http://Speculumartium.Si/?Page_id=1202andolang=en #Aisen )

This festival was extremely well organized and had a fantastic space to be held. People from all over the country of Slovenia came in buses to see the exhibition with spectators of all ages. The staff at Delavski dom was well prepared, I felt very happy to show my Work in this event. The artist Selection was very high quality, including works from Boris Pertrovsky and Notably “The Machine to be Anoter”. (link: Http://Www.Themachinetobeanother.Org/) They are a Collective of about 8 People, and Two of the Founding members came to the Exhibition. One of Them Daniel González Franco (link: Http://Www.Sciopod.Com/) is interested in joining EMP. He is very talented and interested in VR Research from an empathetic and disembodiment point of view. I would like to introduce him to Iwata Sensei, in the hopes that he can become part of our program.

I was also very impressed with the outreach of the Speculum Artium team, as we had very important officials come to the opening ceremony including the Mayor of Trbovlje. The cultural affairs director of the US Embassy in Slovenia also came to see the exhibition, and met with me personally to experience my work. They also provided some support to the festival, which seems like a promising funding ally for future events.

This time I installed a simplified version of IrukaTact, with only one tank testing unit, given that Yamada Sensei was kind to take the rest of the exhibit from the Ars Electronica Festival.