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The organisation would like to remind you that the deadline for the early bird discount is 15-03-2010. Don't miss the opportunity to visit Technarte for € 138,- less! Check the discounts at our website and don't miss this exciting conference!

Speakers profile: Andrew Shoben from Greyworld

Andrew Shoben is the founder of Greyworld, a world renowned artists' collective who creates art in public spaces and who will be speaker at Technarte 2010.  His work finds expression through the mediums of installation, sculpture and multiples. His primary objective is to create public art that involves the human in an urban context.

Greyworld has created works in some hugely coveted locations across the world, and they now have permanent installations in twelve countries. In 2004 he launched The Source, a permanent installation for the London Stock Exchange that opens the markets every morning. It was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and is watched by millions everyday on television around the world.



Last year Andrew launched Invisible, a large scale and multi-sited work in Burnley UK with the support of Channel Four's Big Art Project. Working with a large group of children to create the work, Andrew spent two years mentoring and inspiring the children to get excited by art. The documentary to accompany the artwork was aired on Channel 4in May 2009.

Andrew is a regular contributor to television, radio and print, and lectures extensively around the world. After lecturing at the Royal College of Art for four years, he became Professor of Public Art at Goldsmiths University.

Enjoy this two Greyworld installation videos of Greyworld, one of the mentioned The Source and the one called Musica.

Two computers at leisure playing chess in a park will perform live at Technarte

This project will be part of Tim Devine´s presentation at Technarte this year. Tim has completed two undergraduate degrees, one in Music and one in Digital Arts. He has also spent one year as Artist in Residence at Experimedia in Melbourne. His works include the one presented here, A Game of Marbles and The Society of The Spectacle among others.

Two computers face each other and play a game of chess together using spoken moves and speech recognition at a table in a public park. The project embraces several themes from Artificial Intelligence and gaming, to a technological spectacle and autonomous verbal communication between otherwise computational devices.

By staging two computers in a park playing chess the artist´s establishes the computers in a role of leisure. The computers are then perceived as not performing a task for the user but more as performing a task for themselves and each other. The computers can sense what is going on around them via their built in iSight and ambient light sensors and will react vocally if people try to intervene.

Tim Devine´s "Two computers at leisure playing chess in a park" will be performing at Palacio Euskalduna during Technarte conference. Don´t miss the oportunity. If you register before the 15th of March you will get a 20% discount.



Two computers at leisure playing chess in a park from Alvaro Andoin on Vimeo.

MobiLenin creates ephimeral art using light and his mobile phone

This video shows Jürgen Scheible, artistically known as MobiLenin, using his MobiSpray art tool to paint buildings, airplanes, ships and other objects around the world. MobiLenin's digital ephemeral art is about transforming a building or object so it acquires a new power to communicate with artist or viewer and become alive and of value on its own account.





The MobiSpray art is about engaging in space, bringing extra tension or play to challenge peoples assumptions about an object or place. MobiLenin uses buildings and objects to create highly ephemeral art by painting on them with light and his Mobile phone.

Jürgen Scheible will be in Technarte 2010 to participate in Bilbao Interaktive, a seminar dedicated to the design of interactive installations in public spaces, integrated into the Programme of the Conference. Stay tuned because he will also paint a building in Bilbao using his technique.

Rememeber that if you register before the 15th of March, you will get a 20% discount.

Electroland explores new relationships between people and public space

Electroland is a team that creates objects, interactive experiences and large-scale public art projects. Each project is site-specific and may employ a broad range of media, including light, sound, images, motion, architecture and interactivity.

Participants can interact with buildings, spaces and each other in new and exciting ways, creating new relationships between people and public space and shifting the boundaries of private experience in the public sphere.



Author Wall from Electroland on Vimeo.

Cameron McNall Principal from Electroland will be part of Bilbao Interaktive, a seminar conceived for professionals in architecture and urbanism as well as artists and visual arts professionals.

Bilbao Interaktive will be an exploration of the design of interactive installations in public spaces by seven international artists and architects with extensive experience in interactive installations.