PYLON-Lab

New addition in our online-archive PYLON-Hub.com:

The Monophonic Response
by American Artist

The two-channel film and sculptural installation documents a meticulously crafted yet poetically altered re-creation of a pivotal 1936 static rocket engine test that initiated the United States’ venture into space travel. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower, which unfolds in the imagined dystopic year of 2024, American Artist performed and filmed The Monophobic Response in the Mojave Desert in the summer of 2024. Artist’s interpretation involved an actual rocket engine test fire in a desolate Californian landscape, creating eerie juxtapositions between Butler’s prescient visions and our troubling realities. Drawing on Butler’s fictive religious community Earthseed, this installation weaves together thought-provoking takes on the meaning of “destiny” and who gets to enact it.

The installation here shown at will be part of Artist’s solo exhibition at opening on January 24, 2025.

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New in our online-archive PYLON-Hub.com:

Wi-Fire by Rune Bering
at &gate ._gate

Wi-Fire is an installation made of routers and screens arranged in a way that
resembles a bonfire. The screens are flickering with videos of flames that have been
compressed to the point where they are hardly recognizable: purple-pink digital
shadows of flames. They are the result of having been uploaded to various social
media platforms—which each have their own compression algorithms—over and
over. The original crackling sound has turned into a dull reverberation that resonates
with the intense hum of ca. 200 servers. The servers are collectively sending out
their Wi-Fi signals and can be found in nearby phones. They have been named after
power words identified by marketing experts.

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Wi-Fire | Rune Bering
October 25 - December 6, 2024
&gate
Amager Landevej 233
Tårnby 2770, Denmark

Text: Natalie Koerner
Installation views: Brian Kure

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New up on our online archive PYLON-Hub.com:

MILK PLUS
Jens Settergren
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With the exhibition Milk Plus, Jens Settergren examines in a magnificent and sensory-saturated video installation the collective images linked to the human body and its reproduction, optimization and commercialization in our time:

In his largescale film installation Milk Plus at Viborg Kunsthal, Settergren indulges in the many guises of milk and its role in visual culture. Across his sleek minimalist and refined simulations Settergren traces how the aesthetic approach of globally shared strategies for marketing milk have altered its symbolism and contributed to the transformation of a technologically mediated world.

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Credits: artwork by © Jens Settergren, 2024

Photos: David Stjernholm

Currently on view:

‘IT’S IN THE GAME‘ by Sondra Perry

The screening is part of ERRATIC CURRENTS, presented by PYLON in collaboration with on view during HYBRID Biennale (October 12 - 27, 2024) - festival for Digital Arts and Transformation.

In the video Sondra Perry looks into how gaming can capitalise on the simulation of bodies and objects. ‘IT’S IN THE GAME’ focuses on her brother Sandy, who was a Division 1 basketball player for Georgia State University. His physical likeness and statistics were sold by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) to video game developer EA Sports for use in the 2009 and 2010 NCAA video games without his knowledge or consent. Perry draws a parallel to how large museums have built their collection on looted objects from former colonies. Through this, she urges viewers to reflect consider more recent forms of colonialization – a kind of digital variant – where the exploited are left watching a virtual copy of themselves, produced and profited on by large corporations.

IT’S IN THE GAME
Sondra Perry
Oct 24 - 26, 2024

HYBRID Box EXTENDED
presented by PYLON
Kraftwerk Mitte 7
01067 Dresden

Opening Hours:
Thursday - Saturday | 16 - 19H

Free entry

The screening is kindly supported by and
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes.

Ermöglicht durch
Das Projekt “Kreativ.Raum.Börse“ findet in Kooperation zwischen der Landeshauptstadt Dresden und WIR GESTALTEN DRESDEN statt und wird im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Zukunftsfähige Innenstädte und Zentren des Bundesministeriums für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen gefördert. www.wir-gestalten-dresden.de

Credits: © Sondra Perry ‚IT’S IN THE GAME’ (2017)

Opening this Thursday:

Blessed Avenue
by
October 17 - 19, 2024
at Kraftwerk Mitte Dresden

The screening is part of ERRATIC CURRENTS - a project presented by PYLON in cooperation with as part of HYBRID Biennale - Festival for Digital Arts and Transformation (October 12 - 27, 2024).

“Blessed Avenue” by Jacolby Satterwhite explores the relationship between the body, technology and memory by merging dream worlds with digital spaces. The work uses 3D animations and personal fragments to re-contextualize familial memories in hyper-real landscapes. In doing so, Satterwhite poses fundamental identity questions about belonging, community and the possibility of redefining oneself within digital environments.

More information on our website, linked in bio 🔗

HYBRID Box EXTENDED
presented by PYLON
Kraftwerk Mitte 7
01067 Dresden

Opening Hours:
Thursday - Saturday | 16 - 19H

Free entry

The screening is kindly supported by and
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes.

Ermöglicht durch
Das Projekt „Kreativ.Raum.Börse“ findet in Kooperation zwischen der Landeshauptstadt Dresden und WIR GESTALTEN DRESDEN statt und wird im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Zukunftsfähige Innenstädte und Zentren des Bundesministeriums für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen gefördert. www.wir-gestalten-dresden.de

Credits: Jacolby Satterwhite ‚Blessed Avenue‘ (2021) videostills