'living in the age of drones - light' ∆ Hotel Amazonas

we reached a time that anybody can function as a drone. and that is a practice long exercised in some artistic disciplines throughout the centuries. but we now got sophisticated, hardware and software wise. but the practice itself did not change. to observe and be observed is a constant in art. somehow we enjoy to look upon things, places and people, to be able to transform it. but in the other hand we are afraid of being observed or investigated. wich is, today, almost impossible. it is part of the performative game of life.

by invitation of artists saori kuno, margareth kaserer and simon steinhauser i came to hotel amazonas open fields art festival & residency in the summer of 2015

in this occasion i decided to invite some friends from all over the world to come, virtually, with me

these are the ones that accepted the invitation

mikio saito - sapporo / japan 

dolores esteve - córdoba / argentina 

jonas jensen - copenhagen / denmark

bert jacobs - brussels & bergen / belgium / norway

young joo lee - seoul / south korea

jeremy turner - vancouver / canada

alfonso lopez - mexico city / mexico

alina vasilchenko - moscow / russia

This document is part of the collaborative piece  'living in the age of drones - light' facilitated by saul judd for the Hotel Amazonas - Open Fields - Festival and Residency 2015. More about the complete Festival participants and program can be found at www.ooooo.be/hotelamazonas

image #1 - resulted from the search. this image is to be displayed in the 
                   two exhibition spaces first in hotel amazonas and later in 
                   the off space in donwtown, bolzano, bozen

image #2 - made from the place that the traveller are and when they  
looked towards unterwangen, vanga di sotto, ritten, renon,  
bolzano, italy
this image is to be placed in the environments, outdoors,  
around the hotel amazonas

photo courtesy of hotel amazonas 

the actuall physical wall installation of this work consist of 3 elements 

A) image #1, B) image #2 and C) a text element - where the transcription of the exchange between the facilitator and the invited guests is exposed. the text element will be available only to be viewed on the physical wall installation. 

this project consists of 3 segments. 

'living in the age of drones - light'
'living in the age of drones - consistent'
'living in the age of drones - durable'

soon here will be posted the following segment.

© 2015 - all the images material are copyrighted by the owners in this case the participants.

Dolo - Córdoba /

imange #1

imange #2

Dolo with the little Luz, from Córdoba - Argentina, looking towards Hotel Amazonas

Young Joo Lee - Seoul /

imange #1

imange #2

young lee , from seoul - south korea, seating towards Hotel Amazonas

the real web_art

artist are producing loads of projects on the web, some more successful then others. but publishing on the net seems to be one of the most successful ones.

the real web_art is, actually, the transportation of art material in the web, through the web, with the web. most of the so called internet art or web art are not that solid enough in their contents and can become a very boring nonsense and a wast of time with lots of visual rubbish on the top of it. because the web changes so fast web art or net art can become just irrelevant for the art discourse that we are having now, which is the act of "negotiation" in and with the means of production of art.

to proove my point here is a successful web-based project xym that is a magazine_like platform which gives artists the opportunity to showcase some of their works online becoming this way part of this web_magzine. for a period of time anybody can download the material and choose to print or not. using images and texts. it is a old practice in a new package! cheers to the makers of xym.com marlie mul and yngve hole.