European Centre for Art, Culture and Science

Tuesday May 1 2012 / Arts & Philosophy

The Métamatic Artists’ Lectures Series #6: Pors & Rao

Doors open at 19:30 hrs. 

The Métamatic Research Initiative's mission is to stimulate research into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Specifically, the research initiative focuses on Tinguely's exploration of the relationship between the artist, the art work and the viewer as expressed in his Métamatic sculptures.

Eight artists have been awarded a commission to realize their individual project inspired on the legacy of Tinguely. In this edition the artist duo Pors & Rao.

 
Aparna Rao (1978, India) and Søren Pors (1974, Denmark) crossed paths in 2002, during a two year research scholarship study in Italy. In 2004, the two began to work collaboratively, and have since developed a multi-disciplinary art practice involving mechanical and electronic engineering, programming and manufacturing processes.

Pors and Rao proposed for the Tinguely project the so called 'Nisse TV' which makes real-time intrusions into the programming of a multi-channel television set. Here equipment and software are imagined as a humanoid creature from Scandinavian folklore called "nisse" who creates audio-visual commotion by mixing fragments of broadcast material and live recording of the viewer within the gallery space, interlacing meanings and context to create a cut-n-paste multimedia hodgepodge, an automated Dadaist infliction on data streams. 

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