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Nomeda & Gediminas Urbanis [JUTEMPUS]
Media artists
education Soviet Army, Lithuania, Austria; JUTEMPUS interdisciplinary
art programmes;projects/collaborations/miscellaneous
launchof jutempus at “Smart Show”, Stockholm;1994 Order of
Presence”, young lithuanian art scene, MUU ry gallery, Helsinki; 1994
young art scene from Finland curated by MUU ry; 1994 “Marginal
Gaze”. young lithuanian art scene; 1995 illegal vodka production in
collaboration with J. & J.Vaiteknas; 1995 “Body Dimenssion”
international performance art festival; 1996 illegal vodka production in
collaboration with J. & J.Vaiteksnas; 1996 “Contemporary Russian
Art” in collaboration with Timur Novikov; 1997
“GroundControl”book, website, symposium, exhibition, Vilnius-
London-Geitshed “jutempuslounge” during “Lithuanian
Art’97”, Contemporary Art Center; 1998 “Sutemos/Twilight”,
jutempus project, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; 1998 “Pepinieres”,
jutempus project. Union fraternelle des metallurgistes, Paris, France;
1999“Lithuanian Art: 1989-1999” Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius,
Lithuania; 1999“Butas’99” site specific project, Vilnius,
Lithuania; 1999“NL-LT” contemporary Lithuanian-Dutch art at Begane
Grond Contemporary art center, Utrecht, Holland; 1998/99
“tvvv.plotas” interdisciplinary research project using television,
videoconference, net-cast; 1999“XU-BIN” conference of art and
communication, Architects Union, E- labRiga; 1999 “CHANGING THE
SYSTEM?” symposium of contemporary art, NAI Rotterdam, The
Netherlands; 1999 “TEMP”, tactical media project at Kiasma
Contemporary Art museum, Helsinki, Finland.
"tvvv.plotas" development:
"tvvv.plotas" was planned as a interdisciplinary and
participatory process where thought/speech/discussion are the materials
of the work and media is used as part of language as well as a place to
infiltrate; idea of behaving like an explorer and examining and mapping
this invisible territory of messages to make them visually and aurally
visible and discussed; with all the strategy based on several parts
including TV broadcast, videoconference, chat, meetings it counts not a
work but the invisible, social network aspect which is different from
the simple broadcast on TV; the model of "tvvv.plotas" has
become a balancing act between mediated and "direct" reality.
Stuart Hall: "identity is not in the past to be found, but
in the future to be constructed." jutempus, strategy, ways of organizing,
new place: providing general medium of communication which will allow
users to describe their desires for a specific tools. jutempus from the
start is not simply the place to be but a process to be engaged with.
That's why its been constant troubles with spaces, on the other hand,
space implies ownership, which might become very dominating in specific
context we are in, i.e. shift from socialism to capitalism. That's where
it comes the interest of jutempus in the role of art in social
transformation! It's very easy to cement social organization around
Programs, but harder to preserve looser bonds - loyalties, trust, a
certain faith. If interface is a form of art, then we search for a model
of social interface where the 'burden design of system and
specification' is transferred to the user.
We consider this model as a tool to represent the natural world to
ourselves by creating such instruments for "questioning of
nature" to allow as to develop a "language of inquiry",
to be able to navigate between the social, urban, architectural spaces
and the media-scape, to contextualize the present via key moments of the
past.
the LEARNING
Edward Said : "The threat to independence in the late twentieth
century from the new electronics could be greater than was colonialism.
The new media have the power to penetrate more deeply into a 'receiving'
culture than any previous manifestation of Western technology." so
if we are facing the choice between two perspectives: merging
(progressive) and diffusion (regressive), we choose in between: the
LEARNING. The model we are constructing is to be part of the
infiltration to education system.
such an initiative is based on collaboration and network; it is united
by the discussion, not a space;
it is model of cultural economy, model of barter and share;
collaboration and support are the values, not competition and racing;
the aim is to create for a human intellect, not for an art mafia or
`common corporate interests;
we start to work in two direction now:
1. "white stockings" [fictitious Russian media invention of
non-existing battalion of female snipers from Baltic's] program devoted
to develop a framework for research of women situation analysis in
collaboration with different specialists from various fields [without
exclusion of gender, race, politics, religion];
2. "TA" [virtual table for transaction analysis]- complex
environment for the research of possible concerns in nowadays psychical
health of Lithuanians and the historical self victimization.
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