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ZBIGNIEW OKSIUTA - STUDIOLO. COSMIC GARDENS
Latest news | 18-07-20199th August–4th October 2019 Openning: 9th August 2019, 6 pm ŁAŹNIA 2 Centre for Contemporary Art, Strajku Dokerów 5, Gdańsk - Nowy Port Studiolo (from Italian) means a small studio, a study that serves for learning, experiments and research. It gained popularity in the era of the Renaissance, however, it derives from the Middle Ages, when it was termed to define the space for alchemical experiment. In this sense, the studiolo is the origin of a modern laboratory. During "Studiolo. Cosmic gardens" exhibition we will present contemporary studiolo, an experimental space for research and plant growth in an unusual conditions. The research will be grouped into three blocks: first one devoted to biological materials, the second to technologies that allows to form them and use as a growth medium, and the third shows the range of behaviors of plants cultivated in extreme conditions. Plants and plant tissues wRead moreImbalance. Collective Exhibition
Latest news | 24-07-2017Artists: Xavier Ribas | Manuel Vázquez | Sergio Belinchón | Oligatega Numeric | Lua Coderch | Julius Von Bismark | Perejaume | Philip Fröhlich | Jun Ngunyen-Hatsushiba | Allan Sekula | Joan Fontcuberta | Máximo González | John Gerrard | Jennifer Steinckamp | Antoni Muntadas | Superflex | Federico Guzmán | Zwelethu Mthethwa | Marjetica Potrc | Andreas Gursky | Anri Sala | Lara Almarcegui | Chus García Fraile Opening: 22th September 2017, 6 p.m. Exhibition: 22th September–19th November 2017 LAZNIA 1 Centre for Contemporary Art, Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk Dolne Miasto Curator: Blanca de la Torre The approach of this exhibition implies understanding that our conceptions of natural fact and reality have to be re-examined and on the basis that everything we need for our well-being in all its dimensions depends — either directly or indirectly — on the way in which we have instrumentaRead moreLECTURE: Art and Science: Brain James Gimzewski, Laury Micha, Witold Libionka – When will robots be replaced by humanoids?
Latest news | 17-08-20172nd September 2017 (Saturday), 17:00 Łaźnia 1, ul. Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk Both artists and scientists are exploring the brain, trying to create its images, sculptures and installations of it or – on the other hand – AI’s and neural networks. Specialization in the various fields of knowledge narrowed and scattered the scope of these researches, provoking discussion about the need to develop a platform that connects both artistic and scientific communities. More and more often we feel the need for consilience – united knowledge, whose various domains interpenetrate. According to this assumption we invite you to meet with representatives of different, though – as we shall see – complementary branches of knowledge about the brain: with prof. James Gimzewski, biochemist dealing with nanotechnologies, Micha Laura, artist fascinated by the brain and neural networks, and with dr. Witold Libionka, neurosurgeon.Read moreMasaki Fujihata, Augmenting the World
Latest news | 26-04-201719.05.2017 - 02.07.2017 Opening 19.05.2017, at 6 pm. Laznia 1, str. Jaskolcza 1, Gdansk Counted among the pioneers of interactive art, Masaki Fujihata is one of the most celebrated, innovative and prominent artists who work with media technologies. Early in his career in the 1970s, he made animations, initially using an 8mm film and the stop motion technique. Later, he shifted to video to further investigate visual perception. The morphological explorations of perception that he undertook then revealed his meta-artistic concerns, which have ever since continued to resurface in a variety of forms. At that early stage, Fujihata’s projects addressed visualisation systems and techniques, the status of the image, the relations between technology and expression and new concepts of art emerging at the intersection of artistic practice, technology and science. In the following decade, Fujihata turned to computer art. Engaged in computer graphics aRead moreBook DIE AND BECOME! ART AND SCIENCE AS THE CONJECTURED POSSIBLE
Latest news | 11-05-2017DIE AND BECOME! ART AND SCIENCE AS THE CONJECTURED POSSIBLE Edited by Dmitry Bulatov, in Polish / English, 204 pp. with 157 col. ill., Gdansk: Laznia CCA, 2017 ISBN978-83-61646-81-5 This publication is issued in conjunction with an exhibition and educational programme of the same title, which took place at the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in late 2016 and early 2017. Its fundamental objective is the presentation of artists’ and philosophers’ quest for the limits of means of expression, transgressing the “visible” and the “present”. Art here is seen as a holistic creative praxis, within which, alongside the utilization of the newest 21st century means – biomedicine, informational technologies and robotics – a significant number of “non-scientific” elements are represented: intuitions, metaphors and assumptions When pondering over the scientific and technological possibilities ofRead morePublic lecture by Chris Salter (Concordia University, Montreal) + promotion of the book accompanying the exhibition DIE, AND BECOME!, chaired by prof. Ryszard W. Kluszczyński
Latest news | 24-01-2017Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 6 p.m. LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, ul. Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk ART, EXPERIMENT AND TECHNO-SCIENCE Public lecture by Chris Salter (Concordia University, Montreal) + promotion of the book accompanying the exhibition DIE, AND BECOME!, chaired by prof. Ryszard W. Kluszczyński What do artists working with science and technology do? My recently published book Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (MIT Press, 2015) explores how “researcher-creators” produce new performative assemblages that challenge how we experience the world and create, and simultaneously, destabilize new phenomena and our perception of such phenomena. How do the materials of art – the “stuff of the world” – behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown and alien. How is it that researcher creators organize the conditions for new kinds ofRead moreEXHIBITION: Die, and become! Art and Science as Conjectured Possible
Latest news | 22-11-2016LAZNIA 1 Jaskółcza 1 Str. Gdansk - DOLNE MIASTO 25.11.2016 – 29.01.2017 Opening: 25.11.2016 (Friday), 6 p.m. Opening performance: 25.11.2016 (Friday), 7 p.m. Panel discussion with artists and curator of the exhibition: 26.11.2016 (Saturday), 1.00 - 8.00 pm Artists in exhibition: James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov, Louise-Philippe Demers, Where Dogs Run: Olga Inozemtseva, Natalia Grekhova and Alexey Korzukhin, Thomas Feuerstein, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Pedro Lopes, Verena Friedrich Curator: Dmitry Bulatov Coordination: Jolanta Woszczenko Verena Friedrich (DE). Vanitas MachineRead morePresentation: Three Robots named Paul. Patrick Tresset
Latest news | 22-11-2016Presentation of the installation and Art & Science “Human Traits” book launch in the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. Presentation of installation: 1.09-4.09.2016 Discussion: 02.09.2016, 6 p.m. Curator: Ryszard W. Kluszczyński Coordination: Michalina Domoń Panelist are professor Ryszard Kluszczyński, Patrick Tresset and Jadwiga Charzyńska. The discussion will take place in Festival Café on the 1st floor. ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art is organiser of the presentation. Presentation of the installation devoted to Patrick Tresset, a French artist and scientist, which accompanies Art & Science book launch, evolves around the topic of human and computer creativity and our relations with the new generation machines. The artist’s works are robotic compositions which can draw portraits thanks to the implementation of specifically developed computer programmesRead moreEN Nowa publikacja z cyklu "Art and Science meeting"
Latest news | 21-11-2016At the begining this year, is published next one, bilingual publication from the "Art+Science Meeting" series - "Bio-Robotic Art and its Cultural Contexts". This album is devoted to the art of Guy Ben-Ary, whose exhibition "Nervoplastica" was presented at the Laznia CCA last June. The editor of the publication is the curator of the project, Prof. Ryszard Kluszczyński, whose introduction you will find below. You may download a fragment of the publication here: Semi-living Art in Search of an Autor The biography of Guy Ben-Ary, an Israeli artist born in the United States and living for many years in Australia, corresponds well in its nomadic complexity with the character of the works he creates. Indeed, his art combines in its multi-layered references and associations numerous trends in contemporary art. It is in their dynamic, transdisciplinary coexiRead more
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