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CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Peter Hopkins Miller

Peter Hopkins Miller

October 26, 2007

Lecture: Pistoletto Performance Theater, 21.00

Peter Hopkins Miller makes films, film installations and film performances that focus on the irreducible elements of the cinema: lenses, light, flicker, intermittence, spectacle, spectators, projectors and projection. He is enthralled with exploring the parameters of these essential ingredients, in much the same manner as the magicians and showmen who first set the early cinema into motion with a series of Kinetoscope performances and Nickelodeon installations at the beginning of the last century.
Walter Benjamin predicts that, when a technology is replaced, it first ignites into the highest super-nova state that it can be and, in so doing, revisits and resembles its promised potential, its first state. This interest in exposing an increasingly digitized world to the inner workings of the analog cinema is driven by Miller‘s fascination with the mechanical devices that ushered in the age of film. He is drawn to the light of discovery that illuminated the industrial era, to the Rube Goldberg-like apparatuses that constructed it and to how accurately we thought they would measure our world. Ultimately, Miller creates novel, poetic conjugations of the language of media, to make new marvels out of old magic.

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.

Wolkengestalt (The Form of Clouds)

Saturday 20 October 2007, h.18:00
SCREENING at UNITOPIA:
“Wolkengestalt” (a cinétract by Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson)
The screening will be followed by a debate at the UNITOPIA space

Goethe’s meteorological observations from September 11, 1819 descend on the clouds of the present day from an ambivalent outside, an off-screen dissociated and plagued with doubt. Under the constant menace of global war, the word has withdrawn into itself and the images-temps become an opaque, ineluctable overcast, clouded by abrasive, endlessly echoing sounds.

CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Eiko Grimberg

Eiko Grimberg

Fri, October 12, 2007

Studio Visits: TBA

Eiko Grimberg is a Berlin-based artist working in video and photography. His work shifts and detaches images and stories from their role as signifiers of cohesive histories. In Grimberg’s video of a deserted Wall Street in Post 9/11 New York (The Years to Come, 2005), the space of the image is folded into a mismatched historical narrative about a similar but changed series of events, and produces a sensation of dislocated anxiety.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Eiko Grimberg received his MFA from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 2003 and is assistant professor at HGB.

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.

TRAILER 31 – fri 29 sept -> 2 oct 2007

Very welcome,

to camp with Trailer 31, in between Cittadellarte and Casa del Mago,
in Italia, Biella, near the mountains, nature, ….

In this extended weekend, we occupy institutionalized in between space, and turn private proprety into an open source environment !?!

Anyway, join the campsite during their stay!
Bring your tent, your thoughts and skills to Trailer 31!

A bit of planning:

In that weekend – I heard – there will be a party on friday?
Hope so, Where? maybe in Casa Del Mago… !
Hopefully the streaming works: Watch UNI-TUBE!

Saturday, we will do a test run of ubliActie: (dutch only)
Wablief? What? Everybody who is interested in chaos, politics, networks, tools, technology, open source design tools and how to publish in university of ideas… (Recipy)
Art, archive, produse! with pancakes?
Join us at 14:30

Monday, Uni-topia or CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007,
the visitors of Cittadellarte will give an informal presentation.

Tuesday, some more…

On the program “on going”: experiments in renewable-energy, self-sustaining, inflatable shelters, mesh environments, …

in collaboration with www.ooooo.be code31.lahaag.org www.bilug.it

(we provide shower, electricity supply, wireless network, wood and recycle workshop)

How to participate in UNI-TOPIA

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Uni-topia is an open program of exchange between Unidee Residents; Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto staff; Visiting Artists, Curators, and Guests; and the Public.
A lecture, workshop, screening, field-trip, or demonstration in 20, 40, or 60 minute blocks can be proposed by anyone usually who would is interested in sharing their knowledge, skill, or experience with the larger community.

To reduce email clutter please send your proposed program to one or all of the following address the day before the program is scheduled. It will be compiled with the other proposals for the day, translated into italian, and placed on the website. One email per day is sent out to the community with the list of events to help facilitate people’s scheduling for the day.

Send email the day Before with proposal to:
jasonhwaite@gmail.com, prowi_zorka@poczta.onet.pl , lieven.paelinck@gmail.com
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Time: 20, 40, or 60 min.
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Thank you for your participation.
Staff of Information Ministry of Unidee 2007

Uni-Topia 2007

Uni-topia is an organic series of lectures and workshops organized, facilitated, and produced by… you. The goal of Uni-topia is to ‘widen the field of discussion’ and interaction among the UNIDEE residents, staff, and the public at large through open sessions that can be attended throughout the day.

The program of workshops and meetings of Uni-Topia 2007 is regularly updated and available on-line .