Apr 17 | '09 | ENTER Festival Prague
ENTER Festival in Prague (www.festival-enter.cz)
CIANT – The International Center for Art and New Technologies holds the 4th Prague international art biennale “ENTER”, connecting science and modern technologies, between 18 and 25 April 2009. The international conference “Science beyond Fiction: The European Future Technologies Conference” (FET 09), organized by the European Commission as an expert forum to discuss the latest technologies, their possibilities and the limits of their use, will accompany the festival between 21 and 23 April.
The bearing subject of this year’s festival is the adaption in the broadest sense of adaptability to new and often extreme conditions of existence and collaboration in the contemporary world of technologies. The organizers along with the participating artists and scientist will ask two basic questions: Is technology part of the mechanism of adaptation? And if so, how the adaptation in the post-humanist era will look like? The festival will provide answers to these questions in the form of futurist art installations, performances, lectures and music performances. The event will be held simultaneously at five places in Prague: in the exhibition spaces of the Meet Factory, in the new center for contemporary art DOX, in the CIANT Gallery and in the projection hall of the French Institute. The FET09 conference will be in hotel Clarion.
One of the main artistic attractions of the festival will be the Portuguese experimenter Rudolfo Quintas who will introduce his installation “Things to Burn” (2009) and his performance “Burning the Sound” (2008) in the Meet Factory. The latter was awarded the special prize at this year’s Berlin festival Transmediale. The DOX center will mainly introduce the new performance “GOLEM” by the pioneer of Czech new-media, Pavel Smetana. The half-an-hour performance combining the magical tradition, the latest motion-capture system technologies and digital projection opens on 22 April at 8 p.m. The festival will climax will the enclosing audiovisual night in Meet Factory on Saturday 25 April from 9 p.m. It will introduce many Czech and Slovak artists experimenting with live image and sound as well as the exceptional project The Trons from New Zealand. Watch out – The Trons are an autonomous rock group exclusively composed of robots!
