Alex Augier - "_nybble_" Live A/V
Disnovation.org - "Predictive Art Bot v2". Photo by Dasha Ilina/Luca Girardini
Disnovation.org "Shanzai Archeology" - Photo : Website
From May 11 to May 28, 2017, the Mapping Festival returns to the ACT space in Geneva for a new edition around digital cultures and audiovisual art. For its 13th edition, under the heading Mapping _ Digital Shifts, the Mapping Festival splits its activities into 3 distinct strands: Mapping EXPO, Mapping LAB, and Mapping LIVE.
The festival, curated by Ana Ascencio, is now a must-attend event in the fields of generative image, creation and technological exploration, aimed at both professionals and the general public. Considered as a unique platform for production and diffusion in Switzerland, it also enjoys an international reputation thanks to the quality of its programming and diversity, which aims to encourage emerging artists of the field.
Working with several venues and open spaces in the city, it alternates audio-visual performances, installations, clubbing, architectural mapping, as well as workshops and conferences.
On the program of this 13th edition, the audiovisual performance of Mark IJzerman in which the visuals react to the sound elements but also the work of Maotik, Tarik Barri & Paul Jebanasam, Rainer Kohlberger, Aleksi Perälä, Peder Mannerfelt and YON & POL.
Throughout the duration of the festival, for its first exhibition in Switzerland, the collective DISNOVATION.ORG created by Nicolas Maigret offers an autopsy of the ideology of technological innovation through different projects.
The exhibition includes, among others, Predictive Art Bot, a connected intellectual prosthesis that produces concepts of radical art works in order to influence contemporary artistic imagination, Blacklists, a random journey within the prohibited Internet, revealing the moral contours of the network, The Pirate Book, a compilation of alternative practices for the distribution of cultural content around the world, and Shanzhai Archeology, a collection of hybrid and nonstandardized technological objects that invites us to reconsider the normalization of Western technological imaginaries.
More information about the Mapping Festival here
