Artist Talks and Conversations

NODE15 hosted a series of conversations and presentations that addressed the festival’s leitmotif from an artistic and critical point of view. Our artists were generously sharing their ideas, insights into their working processes, challenges in their practice and what they think about ‘The Informed Body’.

 

‘Nodes in the Digital Art World’

Panel discussion with: Carolien Teunisse (Creative Coding Amsterdam), Filip Visnjic (Creative Applications Network, resonate), Manuel Rossner and Sabrina Verhage (Creative Coding Amsterdam), moderated by Rosi Grillmair.

Tehran’s emerging digital arts scene

Presentation and Panel discussion with: Ali Panahi (TADAEX Tehran), Amir Bastan (Artist, IRN), Florian Egermann (NODE) and Georg Scherlin (Artist, A), moderated by David Brüll (NODE).

‘Digital Art’ has been attracting a lot of attention from the art market, collectors and museums alike in the recent years. Will this sudden shift create new opportunities for artists working with code and those actively exploring and critiquing digital technologies to address a new and broader audience?

Ali Panahi, Tehran-based media artist and co-organizer of the Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition (TADAEX) introduced the vibrant Iranian media arts scene. He gave insights into the artist network materializing around three editions of TADAEX, the TADAGRANT prize and the NODE/TADAEX exchange program. Amir Bastan and Georg Scherlin shared their projects and experiences of eight weeks of collaboration in Tehran and Frankfurt.

As one of the main results of the Motion Bank project of The Forsythe Company, the Choreographic Coding Labs (CCLs) are offering unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration for digital media ‘code savvy’ artists who have an interest in translating aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and applying choreographic thinking to their own practice. During this panel results from the previous CCLs (Frankfurt, Berlin, Melbourne) were presented alongside a discussion of the distinctive long-term vision of the CCLs as a framework bringing together choreography, dance, computation and digital arts.

 

‘Strange Bodies’

Artist talk with Antoni Rayzhekov, Katharina Köller, Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler.

‘Remote Control’

Artist talk with IOCOSE and Stefan Tiefengraber.