Live Herring ´08
Live Herring working group organized Live Herring ´08 Media Art Exhibition at the autumn 2008 . Exhibition was on a show in Jyväskylä Art Museum (The Lower Gallery, Holvi) October 29 - November 23, 2008.
Live Herring ´08 media art exhibition presented media art as diverse phenomenon, concentrating to new media art. The exhibition space was filled with reflections and sounds. At the same time interactive art works invited visitor to participate and in Net dot lounge visitor was able to explore net art in privacy. In the exhibition there were pieces from nine artists living in Nordic countries. For Net dot lounge and Flash lounge Live Herring working group published an open call for submission for artists from all over the world.
Artists in the exhibition (selected from submissions):
Heidi Aho (Finland), Päivi Hintsanen (Finland), Tomi Knuutila (Finland), Mari Keski-Korsu (Finland), Antti Laitinen (Finland), Jone Skjensvold (Norway), Video Jack (Portugal/Finland), Bjørn Wangen (Sweden), Noora Westerberg (Finland)
Net dot Lounge presented works of following artists:
Chris Basmajian (USA), Jeroen van Beurden (Netherlands), Filip Bojovic & Vladimir Manovski (Serbia), Martin John Callanan (UK), J. R. Carpenter (Canada), Annabel Castro (Mexico), David Clark (Canada), Juliet Davis (USA), Andy Deck (USA), Jason Freeman (USA), Sami Heikkinen (Finland), Päivi Hintsanen & Noora Nenonen (Finland), Yael Kanarek (USA), Sara Milazzo (Finland), Adam Nash & Mami Yamanaka (Australia), Jason Nelson (Australia), Oskar Ponnert (Sweden), Rafael Rozendaal (Germany/Brazil), Silas FONG Sum-yu (Hong Kong/China), Sérgio Tavares (Brazil), Martin Wattenberg (USA), Ant Ngai Wing-Lam (Hong Kong/China)
Live Herring ‘08 exhibition net artworks (via submission + invited) can be viewed from:
http://www.liveherring.org/08_web/net_exhibition.htm
Flash Lounge, animations from following artists:
Anni Kinnunen (Finland), Jonna Markkula (Finland), Aku Meriläinen (Finland), Santeri Piilonen (Finland), Petri Tiainen (Finland), Väsyneistö (Finland)
Exhibition expanded also outside of the museum building when the artist Antti Laitinen continued art project Walk the Line. In Jyväskylä Laitinen realized his self-portrait for the first time as a live performance. He walked at the streets of the city with the GPS -navigator on October 27th, 2008 and it could be followed on the internet as live-performance. The outcome was his self-portrait drawn with the help of navigator. His portrait realized in Jyväskylä was exhibited in the exhibition along with the other pieces of series. Read more about Antti’s live-performance.
Another guest artist of the exhibition is media artist Mari Keski-Korsu. She arrived for afternoon tee to Jyväskylä on Nov 7th. She told about her work Mega with which she is participating to the exhibition, but also about art project Mikropaliskunta.
Live Herring ´08 was visible also in outside of the museum building. As a part of the exhibition short screenings of media art were organized from the window of Jyväskylä Art Museum to the Kauppakatu. Live Herring visited also at homeappartement exhibition House Games.
For questions about media art or for guiding to exhibition there was ”Live Herring media art adviser” on a call on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at exhibition. Public guiding will be also organized on Saturday Nov 15th and on Sunday Nov 23rd at 2 p.m.
For exhibition Live Herring working group did cooperation with local enterprises. Exhibition was supported by AudioCenter, GPS-seuranta and Kopijyvä. For exhibition cooperation was also done with University of Jyväskylä, Department of Art and Culture Studies. Live Herring ´08 exhibition was financially supported by Arts Council of Finland and The Finnish Cultural Foundation.
