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Maker Art Selected Artwork

, 2020
A sonic interpretation of the reported daily active cases of COVID-19, from nineteen countries, and beginning the 22nd Jan, 2020.
, 2020
Animation Video 6´ (1920 x 1080)
, 2020
Short animation film, video (2´37″)
, 2020
Online Sound Installation
From the World Wide Web, 64 web radio streams are captured by Jack software through bash programming, transformed by SuperCollider code and sent to OBS through Soundflower, returning to the Internet world.
, 2020
Exploration of games
, 2020
The Opera for Dying Insects 2020 by Ken Rinaldo uses artificial intelligence to track the positions of eating ancient isopods (pill bugs) to activate and sing opera. The video documenting this work describes the use of MAX MSP and Jitter software, a video camera, and Macintosh Hardware to enable a variety of operas
, 2019
An audio-visual work for the album FUMO, video, HD 45’19’’
, 2020
Computer game
, 2019
Social media platforms stealTH analytics & algorithmic lifestyleTM

Oni

, 2020-Ongoing
site specific installation
, 2020
4K monoscopic VR Video
, 2019
Vídeo Sound (9:45) /application
, 2019
Video performance, 17´ / Password: HOMO
, 2020
Digital AR portrait
, 2020
A speculative future scenario of Data-Driven AI-Supported Direct Democracy
, 2020
Experimental HD video and sound, 4´54″ | is visible and audible on vimeo | For monitor viewing, speakers and/or headphones
, 2020
Curta-metragem: 3′ 45” HD Côr
Director, Writer, Performer: Daniela Lucato Cinematography:Jacopo Pantaleoni
, 2020
Photos
Extending the physical through virtual interaction
, 2019-2020
Video of the 3D model of the Installation
, 2019-2020
Extensible model of data > Environment > Viruses > Synthesis (sound, light and bio-synthesis)> Limits of Computability> Space> General research >
, 2019
Installation that celebrates our symbiotic connections to microbial life, living in and on us, the material nature of that life, and new forms of algorithmic life forming.
, 2020
Virtual exhibition, video (5´21″)
, 2020
Deepfake video of Ariwasabi, the world’s most famous unknown model from the stock image website Shutterstock, (3´01″)
, 2017
4K video, 1 Channel, color, 2´01″

Artists

1968 (the group is 1 year old),,
USA
This is a group project Art & Science at the Ohio State University. Amy Youngs is submitting this on behalf of: Art & Science at the Ohio State University
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Russian, British, Portuguese and Swiss
Evgenia Emets, Oliver Gingrich, David Negrão and Alain Renaud

MAKER ART – PANDEMIA

167 applications from around the world

50 selected artists

54 art works in competitio

CURATOR´S STATEMENT

The New Art Fest is in its fourth edition. This time, and against the psychosis caused by a virus, we decided to raise the stakes: everything online, and an international ‘open call’ in full worldwide closure. One hundred sixty-seven candidates responded. We chose 50.

There are artists mainly from Europe, America and Asia. The United States, Germany, Portugal and Brazil are the countries with the most presence. I also highlight the Chinese participation in this edition of Maker Art.

Pandemic was the inevitable leitmotiv at the moment when we decided to maintain the project despite the uncertainty. The relationship between art and catastrophes, or isolation, is not new. But the crossing of these two realities with the planet of biological and digital viruses, yes, is a unique, remarkable and lasting experience.

Some artists responded directly to the leitmotiv challenge (pandemic), others preferred an indirect response, others not even that, proposing recent works but previous to the epidemic. The result is asymmetrical. The sudden immersion in the digital networks of billions of people, things and processes, is still one of the strongest inspirations of the responses given to the call launched by the festival.

More and more artists find technological immersion in their laptops and mobile phones a way not only for creation (their virtual studios) but also for the diffusion and sharing of their artworks. In some way, we can say that the place for art is moving fast. It is a global, socially assertive and tectonic move that the old bureaucratic and speculative structures of official art, the so-called ‘contemporary art’, are unlikely to resist.

António Cerveira Pinto

BACKGROUND

Maker Art is born out of an internacional Open Call, materializes in an online exhibition of ‘new media art’ and becomes a laboratory and meeting point between creators, educators, cultural institutions and industry.

Maker Art is an exhibition and a workshop, where ‘new media art’ projects are presented as if in a beta stage, probably in search of a business angel to make them true.

Maker Art 2020 will be 100% online, addressing Pandemia as an inspirational leitmotiv. From all the accepted applications a limited number of artists will be selected for the exhibition.

Artworks in the online exhibition will automatically apply to the Black Raven Award. The winner will receive a monetary prize, as well as the festival’s trophy: the Black Raven.

MILESTONES:

  • Submission: May 22 thru July 6, 2020;
  • Exhibition dates: July 29 thru September 16, 2020;
  • Award Ceremony: 16  September 2020.

BLACK RAVEN AWARD

This year’s Maker Art prize was decided by an international jury composed by Boris Debackere, director of the V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, in Rotterdam, Mónica Mendes, director of the Department of New Media Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and Régine Debatty, curator and art critic, founder of We-Make-Money-Not-Art. 

The jury unanimously decided to give the Black Raven Award to Ariene, 2020, by Rodrigo Gomes.

The jury also decided to give an Honorary Mention to Sound of Isolation, 2020, by Kristina Petuknica.

The Black Raven Award compounds a monetary prize of 1000 euros with its emblematic trophy, a black raven, the official symbol of Lisbon, printed with 3D technology.

Maker Art Pandemia, as part of the 4th edition of The New Art Fest, received 167 applications from more than 38 countries. All 56 works selected by festival’s organisation can be seen online at the festival’s website.

Juri

Black Raven Award 2020

Rodrigo Gomes encapsulates two contemporary phenomena in an astute, yet entertaining video. Initially, he traces the stock image of a pretty model who has surreptitiously taken over our visual landscape. Secondly, the video addresses one of the most alarming dimensions of AI and machine learning: deep fake. The former is charming, the latter treacherous. Both act like viruses that could potentially shape our experience of politics, news, entertainment, advertisement and maybe even our daily life. 

The jury highlighted the depiction of a pandemic that is transforming our cultural space while we still pretend that everything is fine

Black Raven Award 2020

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A pure product of the COVID-19 lockdown, this video shows how life in tight space, surrounded by noisy neighbours and increasing restrictions of movements, can become the catalyst for creativity. Reminiscent of a period when everything seemed to fall into a muffled hysteria, Kristina Petuknica demonstrates how an eloquent audio-visual experience can be orchestrated by one artist on her window view with a mobile phone, a violin, ambient noise and a couple of electronic units.