108 East San Antonio Street
Marfa, Texas 79843

Press release:

The ongoing dialogue between the digital and physical worlds provides the backdrop for Data Deluge, an exhibition that presents a selection of sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video, sound and works on paper by artists who shape Web-based and software-generated data into art. The exhibition, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, takes its name from the title of a 2010 special report published by The Economist that observed the emergence of “a new kind of professional…the data scientist, who combines the skills of software programmer, statistician and storyteller/artist to extract the nuggets of gold hidden under mountains of data.”

Data Deluge features work by Rebeca Bollinger, Jon Brunberg, Anthony Discenza, Hans Haacke, Scott Hug, Loren Madsen, Michael Najjar and Adrien Segal that communicates a wide range of concerns, from the development of the world’s stock market indices to terrorist-related deaths, from national water use statistics to male responses to photographs of women in online chat groups. Newly created commissions by Jennifer Dalton, Roberto Pugliese and Anna Von Mertens tap into the unique characteristics of Texas, and Marfa in particular, with a sensitivity to minimalist forms, local weather conditions, the tourism industry and oil.

In Choruses from ‘The Rock’, the poet T.S. Eliot asks, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Through various approaches and with different sensibilities, the artists in Data Deluge address this issue by presenting innovative modes of data visualization and uncovering the often unexpected beauty of information.

Exhibition photos by Ballroom Marfa/Fredrik Nilsen

More about the exhibition:

http://ballroommarfa.org/archive/event/data-deluge-2/

Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki about the show at Marfa Public Radio

Exhibited work: 19 Years

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From levandehistoria.se:

In 2010, the Living History Forum conducted a survey of young people's attitudes towards vulnerable groups in Sweden; Roma, Muslims, Jews, extra-European refugees, and homosexuals. In the autumn of 2010, the survey was compiled in the report The many faces of intolerance.

The artists Jon Brunberg, Andrea Hvistendahl and Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin have read The many faces of intolerance, and used the report as their inspiration and starting point for the installations and artworks of the exhibition.

The results raise questions about intolerance throughout history, in our own time and from a psychological perspective.

Now, the Living History Forum wants to give young people the opportunity to leave their own imprints, through discussion and reflection on issues that concern tolerance and intolerance.

About the work Tolerate

Tolerate is a project that comprises several works wherein I'm examining tolerance and intolerance from a psychological point of view. My premise in this work is that, if we seek a more profound democracy, a greater respect for human rights and a lessening of human suffering and oppression, we will need a more tolerant society.

I've invited the psychoanalyst Tomas Böhm and the psychologists Liria Ortiz and Fred Saboonchi to participate in two works, wherein they explain their views on tolerance and intolerance, and present psychological tools or methods that can be used by those who wish to become more tolerant, or who are in need of arguments or inspiration in their work against intolerance. They appear in a video and have written a chapter each for an anthology that was released April 25, 2012.

Interview in Swedish:

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P.C.-an exhibition about intolerance

Participants
Tomas Böhm
Liria Ortiz
Fred Saboonchi

Links
More information about the exhibition
Tolerate - the web tool

Additional photos
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Press
Rädsla föder intolerans, Hanna Welin, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Nov 26
Jag skäms över mina fördomar, Liria Ortiz, Dagens Nyheter, Aug 3
Antologi visar styrkan med att vara olika, Louise Djurberg, Expo #2/2012, June 12
Övningsbok för tolerans och vidsynthet, Ricki Neuman, SvD, Maj 5, 2012.
Danjel Nam Sveriges Radio P3-verkligheten, April 4, 2012
Peter Letmark, Dagens Nyheter, Nov. 3 (not online)
Lars Linder, Dagens Nyheter, Oct 10
El Hombre de Cuba Nuestra, Sept. 27
Maria Knutsen-Öy, Stockholms Fria, Sept. 15
Marianne Nordenlöw, Lärarnas Nyheter, Sept 16
Godmorron Sverige, SVT, Sept 12
Dan Bizzozero, Politico, Sept 12

Press text: The Utopian World Championship at the Knot

The Utopian World Championship (UWC) is an attempt to shed light on the status of contemporary utopian thinking by awarding the best essay in an open, global competition in utopian thinking and writing, and by publishing the essays submitted by the participants.

The Utopian World Championship was first launched in March 2001, and has since been arranged twice and awarded a first prize of 1000 Euro to two champions, who have been invited to Stockholm to receive their prize at a gala night. The first awarded essay was written by the psuedonym T.R.O.Y., an American student and activist living in Sweden, and the second by the Professor Emeritus in anthropology, Mr Cyril Belshaw from Canada. Their essays have been printed and distributed to Heads of State, governments, NGO:s and other institutions all over the world. All participating essays are available at the website http://utopianwc.com. The website is also the place where contestants sign up for participation and post their entries. The Utopian World Championship was initiated by SOC.Stockholm and is managed by the artists Jon Brunberg and Annika Drougge since 2006.

Jon Brunberg will present the project in several ways at the Knot in Warsaw, Ursynów. There will be daily, public, readings from the participating essays and seminars with the Knot's inhabitants. In a concluding, public event, on the 3d of July, the third Utopian World Championship will be officially announced, and the website open for registration of participants. The two hitherto awarded essays in the revised edition of 2009 will be available at the Knot. The championship aims to promote the idea about the good society (eu-topos) at all levels of society, and the edition is an important part of that work. A part of it is earmarked for Heads of State all over the world, including the Acting President of Poland, to whom copies will be delivered during the week.

More information:
The Knot, website

Photos from the installation at Kopa Cwila and the announcement and opening ceremony on July 3, 2010 (the latter were taken by Joanna Erbel).

25.2 Thursday at 6-8 pm Opening and conversation
At 6.15 pm Jon Brunberg presents 19 years + one tool for measuring power in a conversation with Catrin Lundqvist, curator, Moderna Museet and the public.

Jon Brunberg's art revolves around individual, collective and political power. He uses digital media to produce video sequences and internet-based systems and images. 19 years shows collective manifestations from 1989 to 2007, as dots on a world map, in 30 seconds.

The starting point of the art work coincides with the year when the Berlin Wall fell. Early that year, the Moslem world was shaken by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which caused widespread protests in many countries, including India and Pakistan, and in the early summer the Tiananmen Square in Beijing was the centre of the world's attention. At a fast pace, 19 years presents one-day events in which thousands of people have participated in protest actions that were intended to be peaceful, although some of them escalated into riots or even led to coups d'état.

The Gothenburg Riots of 2001 are, of course, featured, along with the enormous demonstrations that took place on February 15, 2003, when the West was preparing to invade Iraq. The whole world protested on an unprecedented scale against the war plans, but to no avail. It may seem as though some of the events have gone unnoticed, although they were significant on a local level, for example when China put the lid on after the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Although peaceful manifestations resumed after some time, few details reached the world and were rarely reported in the press, which has been Jon Brunberg's main source. If you wish to learn more about his research methods and definitions, visit www.jonbrunberg.com/19y/

The Power Tool is an internet-based art work that offers you the possibility to measure your individual power. The piece is process-based and in continuous progress. Jon Brunberg has sharpened the tool for this exhibition, for its visitors, and their decisions regarding their own power. What is power? How powerful are you? With the power tool you can measure and analyse your power and compare your ranking with other users. Issues of individual power are a relatively new phenomenon, connected to ideas about individuality versus collectivity that are representative of our time. Who decides who has power? Can power be quantified? Metaphysical issues emerge as you start to answer the tool's questionnaire.

Visit powerinstruments.net 

Text by Catrin Lundqvist

Wanås Foundation, Wanås, Knislinge
May 18 - October 19, 2008
Curators: Elna Svenle and Marika Wachtmeister.

The exhibition Loss presents The Polynational War Memorial for the first time to the public in full scale. The master plan that outlines the various institutions and the memorial in the architectonic proposal that will complete the first phase of the project has been adapted to the park at Wanås.

A map over the park, which includes the master plan, suggests a walk trough the landscape/complex. On five spots along the walk you'll find panels with 3D-renderings and photo montages that show the architecture as it would appear if the complex would be built at the site. Guided tours by the artist will be held in the landscape/complex on several occasions during the exhibition period.

The adaption of the master plan does not imply that Wanås is suggested as one of the six sites where the complex should be built. It is rather an attempt to merge an existing landscape with the proposed architecture, and thus an opportunity to experience the complex in full scale.

The video The Polynational War Memorial, part 3: the Interfaith Centre is shown in the gallery during the exhibition period.

Participating artists: Lida Abdul, Christian Boltanski, Jon Brunberg, Matthew Buckingham, Ann Böttcher, Sophie Calle, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Regina José Galindo, Alejandra Lundén, Deimantas Narkevicius, Zoran Naskovski, Emily Prince, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Sissel Tolaas and Kara Walker.

A catalogue is available.

More information about Loss at wanas.se>
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Art and nature at your service at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
On the 11^th of April the exhibition Changing Matters – The Resilience Art Exhibition opens at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.

Changing Matters – the Resilience Art Exhibition is an art exhibition about the interplay between man and nature, about life in change. It is shown in addition to the international conference Resilience, Adaption and Transformation in Turbulent Times which for four days gathers some of the most prominent scientists, business leaders and politicians in the world in Aula Magna at Stockholm University, the 14^th to 17^th of April 2008. This summit will discuss ecology, economy and society using a resilience perspective, where man and nature will be studied as an integrated whole.

A jury with respected representatives from the art scene and scientists has chosen 12 artists artists/artists groups among the in total 220 proposals that were sent in on the resilience theme.

Among the chosen artists are Gunilla Bandolin and Sverker Sörlin (Sweden), who together have created a sculpture in the shape of a full size car using animal intestine as material; influenced by working methods of the Inuits and their way of using the resources of the nature; Tuula Närhinen (Finland) who will create an installation using floating pieces of plastic she has found near the sea; the Centre of Attention (France/United Kingdom) who put the attention on all ideas about the conventional art object and Christine Ödlund (Sweden) who, in collaboration with KTH, “translates” the chemical substances different plants sends out, when being attacked or stressed, to sound.

Changing Matters – the Resilience Art Exhibition is an initiative from Carl Folke, head of science at Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and Olle Granath, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal University College of Fine Arts through Mejan Labs and the Royal Academy of Science through the Beijer Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

Resilience

Resilience is an interdisciplinary perspective on environment and development that distinguishes from other environmental research since man and nature is studied as an integrated whole. The concept has its origin in the research made in ecology science made in USA and Canada in the 1980’s and defines a system’s ability to withstand both sudden gradual change and still advance further. Concurrently with the progresses of the environmental research the resilience concept today includes economical as well as social and cultural dimensions, systems that in different ways branch off and is attached to the ecological reality that surrounds us.

Exhibition facts

Changing Matters – The Resilience Art Exhibition
Place: the Swedish Museum of Nature History
Date: 12April – 7 September 2008

Participating artists

Gunilla Bandolin and Sverker Sörlin (Sweden); Jon Brunberg (Sweden); Center of Attention (France/UK); Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke (Sweden); Todd Gilens (USA); Paul Matosic (UK); Teemu Mäki (Finland); Tuula Närhinen (Finland); Michael Rodemer (USA); Etta Säfve (Sweden); Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium); Christine Ödlund (Sweden).

Jury

Olle Granath, Carl Folke, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, artist, Peter Hagdahl, professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts and director of Mejan Labs, Johan Scott, artist, Buzz Hollings, professor emeritus at University of Florida and one of the founders of the resilience concept and Frances Westley, professor of Strategy and Executive Director of the McGill-McConnell Program for National Voluntary Sector Leaders, McGill University, Montreal.

For further information contact: Frida Cornell,e-post: frida.cornell@mejanlabs.se +46 (0)70 369 15 29

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The current video describes the Interfaith Centre, which was designed by Anders Johansson and Erik Winquist at Testbedstudio. The video includes a soundtrack by composer Fred Saboonchi and voice by Lisette Merenciana. The Polynational War Memorial project is funded with a project grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

A memorial and a city is shown in the lobby at Clarion Hotel during the periods Jan 15-20, Jan 23 - Feb 5 and Feb 10-15 (schedule may be subject to change). The exhibition also includes the work "WARTOPIA I, Berlin 518, Moscow 1122" by polish artist Aleksandra Polisiewicz. Curator: CRAC/Tobias Sjödin.

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Press: Milou Allerholm in Dagens Nyheter>

Press release

A unique exhibition project on Swedish art and design will open at Space 798 in Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, on the 22nd of October 2004. The project embraces some of the latest expressions within the field of art, music, fashion and design from Stockholm, giving you a feel of what Swedish culture is all about. The exhibition features a number of Sweden's most renowned contemporary artists and designers - and at the same time invites you as an audience to participate.

During October 2004 you will meet the works of:
The artists Martin Wickström, Maya Eizin Öijer, Pelle Hansson, Carina Gardefjord, Annsofie Nilsson, Håkan Elofsson and Beatrice Hansson.
The designers Jonas Bohlin and Gunilla Lagerhem-Ullberg
The artists' driven space SOC. Stockholm and project room Sauna.
After shopping, an independent performance event from Stockholm will be co-curated by Shu Yang - featuring a full night of performances by Swedish and Chinese artists.

During an enhancing ten days you will have a chance to experience Swedish art, design and fashion, be part of the interactive publication created by Sauna and meet Swedish and Chinese artists working together.

Curators: Susanne Rolf and Joanna Sandell

"Visions for the future of mankind" is a presentation of The Utopian World Championship, which was made for Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin. It was exhibited at a two-man show together with Irish artist Brendan Earley in 2006. On the blue painted wall is a map of the world "drawn" with white tape, on which the home town of each of the many competitiors and jurors in the Utopian World Championship appears as colored dots. Prints of photograpic documentation from many of the events that were held as a part of the championship also appear on the map as does the destinations for the world tour 2003. The map is accompanied by the Utopian World Championship web site and furniture.

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Review in Recirca online>

PRESS RELEASE

Preview Thursday January 29th
Exhibition runs January 30th - March 6th

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
5-9 Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland

This exhibition brings together the work of two artists who have responded in radically different ways to contemporary anxieties about planning or imagining 'a better future'. Though there is considerable aesthetic distance between their work, these artists share an interest in developing innovative processes, both bringing a high level of formal self-awareness to their chosen modes of representing the rapidly transforming global environment.

The primary focus of Swedish artist Jon Brunberg's work is 'The Utopian World Championship', a collaborative, multi-disciplinary project designed to encourage original 'Utopian' thinking. Brunberg and his colleague Annika Drougge from the artist-run organisation SOC.Stockholm (whose members arrange the competition) are the project leaders for 'The Utopian World Championship' and for this exhibition Brunberg has chosen to prepare a presentation based on the international progress of the contest. The presentation, which is entitled "Visions for the Future of Mankind" features a large-scale map of the world onto which Brunberg has attached information about the participants in the championship, the ongoing world tour, the members of jury and details of events that have taken place to date. In addition, two seating areas create space for further reading as well as allowing gallery visitors to enter the competition online via a dedicated computer station (www.soc.nu/utopian). For these seating areas Brunberg has chosen to use IKEA furniture from his native Sweden, allowing even the design qualities of the setting to implicitly refer to another utopian ideal - IKEA's ambition to deliver the perfect home at affordable prices.

In Brendan Earley's work the objective is less about finding new ways of constructing the future than it is about finding the means to 'make do' with the conditions of the present. Earley's response to what he terms the 'anxieties of modernity' is a form of resistance to newness, many of his works being assembled or presented with the aid of discarded materials or cheaply available technology. In his work 'City At Night', for instance, Earley makes use of his own home-made video projector to display an image of what at first appears to be a modern city filmed in sinister night vision. On closer inspection, this imposingly gloomy city-scape turns out to be a collection of styrofoam packaging from the artist's studio. Images of the city recur in Earley's work and in particular he provides distinctive views of modernist tower blocks which in this exhibition are represented both in the form of a large-scale photographic print (developed by the artist from a Camera Obscura image) and in a series of detailed felt-tip drawings. Crucially, this artist's range of self-consciously limited or low-tech approaches offers a marked contrast to the utopian aspirations of such influential styles of architectural design.

For more information about these artists please telephone Declan Long on 01 6710073 or email info@templebargallery.com. The exhibition will be open to the public Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm (late opening Thursday until 7pm).

Declan Long