New Realities is an eight week exhibition at Mobile World Centre Barcelona curated by Alpha-ville. The exhibition forms part of Music + Arts an international showcase of new trends in music, art and digital culture organised by Mobile World Capital in partnership with Movistar, and in collaboration with Alpha-ville. The show features the work of 30 international artists, designers and musicians. Running until 13 December, both the exhibition and its parallel programme of events, explore the current digital art and cultural landscape, and reflect on concepts brought by the integration of digital into our society.

Herman Kolgen – Seismik_Index, 2014

Sougwen Chung – Mytheme Etude Op.4, 2013

The exhibition features work from Herman Kolgen, Sougwen Chung, Mark Dorf, Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet and many other talented creatives. There’s much to see with installations ranging from print to interactive and from music videos to web experiments. There are also several showcases around the digital arts, tangible objects, music and art apps and generative art. If you’re in Barcelona, don’t miss Beyond Music + Arts (13 December), a symposium around digital technology and innovation in music and art which runs as part of the New Realities parallel programme.

Beyond Music + Arts – Image: Felix Faire

New Realities Preview:

New Realities runs at Mobile World Centre until 13 December.

For more from New Realities, see this Recommends feature from Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet. Stay tuned for more features from New Realities in the coming weeks.

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Herman Kolgen is an internationally renowned, multifaceted artist, who has been modelling sumptuous ‘audiocinetic’ performances for over twenty years. The Montréal-based sight and sound virtuoso, continually hatches new conceptual approaches to celebrate the powerful synergy (and intimacy) at the heart of his audiovisual works. Constantly exploring, Kolgen works at the junctures of different media, as well as elaborating a new technical language and distinctive aesthetic. Kolgen’s works take the forms of installations, video, performances and sound sculptures. He has performed at prestigious international events such as Berlin’s Transmediale, the Venice Biennale, Austria’s Ars Electronica, Elektra and Mutek.

He tells us about where he makes:

During the last 7 years, I’ve been living in an old factory near an incinerator (converted into a recycling center) and a railway. It’s a refurbished space, in an up and coming area that serves me both a place to live and work and is not far from downtown Montréal. Situated near the metro, bike lanes, shops and markets, the area is both quiet and lively.

The physical and practical organisation of my creative space revolves around my different work mediums and interests. In this way, I can go from the sound studio to the digital image studio, from the painting workshop to the little film studio, and from the carpentry and metal workshop to the little electronic lab.

Throughout my working days, I fluctuate from one pole to another, constantly using these additional resources. I test and renew my point of view, my perceptions and I find new options, new approaches and creative responses. It’s a dynamic way to reach my goals while combining development phases, tight deadlines and international tours.

The workshop:

The Storyboards:

The Studio:

All images courtesy of Herman Kolgen.

To see more of Herman Kolgen’s work, don’t miss Herman Kolgen: Inject & Dust as part of Alpha-ville LIVE at Kings Place, London on 18 May. You can book tickets online here or read more about the event in our feature here.

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

On 18 May, Montreal based visual artist Herman Kolgen will present two audiovisual pieces for Alpha-ville LIVE at Kings Place in a London premiere. In the prize-winning Inject, a body is injected in a cistern over the course of forty-five minutes. Kolgen writes “The pressure of the liquid exerts upon him multiple neurosensorial transformations. From his epidermal fiber to his nervous system, he reacts to influxes of viscosity in this liquid chamber.”

Inject by Herman Kolgen

Dust by Herman Kolgen

In Dust, Kolgen is inspired by Elevage de Poussiere, the 1920s photograph from Man Ray which documents dust over work by friend and contemporary, Marcel Duchamp. Kolgen explores changes in the state of the matter: “At the edge of the imperceptible, pigments are suspended around a magnetic field, random fibrous networks take shape and then form composite objects, hypnotic in their complexity. Sound particles paired with luminous aggregates exist on a scale that cancels out all points of reference.”

Alpha-ville LIVE – Herman Kolgen: Inject & Dust teaser trailer

Herman Kolgen: Inject & Dust is a part of Alpha-ville LIVE at Kings Place on 18 May. To learn more see the Alpha-ville website and book tickets here.

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