{"id":11411,"date":"2024-06-19T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:12:15","slug":"2024-06-27-08-08-saknys-ir-laidai-merle-bergers-maria-castellanos-mindaugas-gapsevicius-lerin-hystad-spela-petric-kuratore-katazyna-jankovska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/2024-06-27-08-08-saknys-ir-laidai-merle-bergers-maria-castellanos-mindaugas-gapsevicius-lerin-hystad-spela-petric-kuratore-katazyna-jankovska\/","title":{"rendered":"27\/06\u201308\/08\/2024
Roots & Wires: Merle Bergers, Maria Castellanos, Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, Lerin\/Hystad, \u0160pela Petri\u010d. Curator Kata\u017eyna Jankovska"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 27th June 2024 a group exhibition ‘Roots & Wires’ will be opened ar Atletika gallery, featuring works by artists Merle Bergers, Maria Castellanos, Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, Lerin\/Hystad, \u0160pela Petri\u010d, curated by Kata\u017eyna Jankovska.<\/p>\n


\n<\/b>A cybernetic forest
\n<\/span>filled with pines and electronics
\n<\/span>where deer stroll peacefully
\n<\/span>past computers
\n<\/span>as if they were flowers
\n<\/span><\/em>with spinning blossoms<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(Richard Brautigan, \u201cAll Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace\u201d, 1967)<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to our limited sensory perception, we were never able to connect with plants. We can\u2019t perceive their movements and behaviors, which happen on a different timescale, nor can we detect their chemical and electrical signaling. But technology can. That is why we rely on technological devices, operating as our sensory prostheses, to mediate between the human and plant, and reveal their true nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the 1970s, artists have been connecting plants with technological systems, creating new hybrid forms of intelligence. Plants were recognized as \u201canalog electrical computers\u201d capable of transferring information over long distances and acting as natural sensors that detect changes in the environment. This has inspired new computer, robot, and network designs, moving beyond electronic systems and silicon chips to hybrid plant-machines. Now that we design artificial intelligence largely aimed at replicating human-level intelligence, could we use plants\u2019 methods of collective decision-making, information processing, and resource distribution (such as the symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants), to feed data-hungry machine-learning algorithms? As James Bridle asks, what would an AI modeled after a forest look like?<\/span><\/p>\n

From AI systems analyzing plant behavior to bio-hybrid installations revealing their sensory abilities, the Roots x Wires exhibition presents experimental artistic works that playfully explore alternative relationships with plants. Rather than seeking to exploit technology for productivity, these works bridge the gap between the human and plant worlds, revealing a hidden dimension. What if we could decode the hidden messages in plant-fungi conversations? What happens when plants communicate at a distance connected by the Internet? What if we build machines sole purpose of which is to play with plants?<\/span><\/p>\n

Artists \u2013<\/span> Merle Bergers, Maria Castellanos, Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, Lerin\/Hystad, \u0160pela Petri\u010d
\n<\/span>Curator \u2013 Kata\u017eyna Jankovska<\/span>
\n<\/span>Design \u2013 Ringail\u0117 Dem\u0161yt\u0117
\n<\/span>Technical manager \u2013 Merkys \u017debrauskas<\/span>
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\nOpening and tour with the curator \u2013 27\/06\/2024, 7 pm.\u00a0 <\/span>
\n<\/span>Exhibition dates & times: 28\/06\/2024 \u2013 08\/08\/2024, Wednesdays to Fridays 4 \u2013 8 pm. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Closing event with artists \u2013 08\/08\/2024
\nAddress: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko 21, Vilnius. Free entry to all events and exhibition, no registration needed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA). LIAA activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality. <\/span>
\n<\/span>The exhibition is partly sponsored by the Acci\u00f3n Cultural Espa\u00f1ola (AC\/E), Swedish Arts Grants Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biographies<\/p>\n

Lerin\/Hystad is a Swedish\/Norwegian art and music duo that consists of Simon Torssell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad. Since 2010, they have been working at the intersection of visual art and experimental music. Lerin\/Hystad are both educated at Konstfack and the Royal Konsth\u00f6gskolan in Stockholm, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway. The duo has participated in a number of individual and group exhibitions internationally. Lerin\/Hystad are also active as musicians and have toured in Europe, China, and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0160pela Petric\u030c is a Slovenian new media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic practice combines bio-media practices and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that reveal the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies and propose alternatives. Petric\u030c has received several awards, such as the White Aphroid for outstanding artistic achievement (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands), and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).<\/p>\n

Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius explores the intricate relationship between non-human entities and human creativity alongside humanity’s environmental impact. He holds an MA from the Vilnius Academy of Arts (1999), an MPhil from Goldsmiths University of London (2016), and a PhD from Bauhaus University Weimar (2022). Since 2015, he has been an artistic associate at Bauhaus University Weimar, later becoming a research fellow in 2022. He co-founded Institutio Media, Lithuania\u2019s leading media art platform, in 1998, and Migrating Art Academies, supporting emerging artists across Europe from 2008 to 2017. In 2016, he helped establish Berlin\u2019s first TOP community biolaboratory. In 2019, Gap\u0161evi\u010dius founded Alt lab, a Vilnius-based hub for interdisciplinary research, and in 2024, he launched the Centre for Non-machines Research in Athens, demonstrating his dedication to pioneering exploration.<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Castellanos is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science, technology, and society. She is currently a postdoc researcher at Oslo Metropolitan University in the framework of the FeLT Project\u2013Futures of Living Technologies. Her artistic practice focuses primarily on research about human sensory boundaries and the creation of complex systems that promote communication and understanding between humans and nonhuman beings.<\/p>\n

Merle Bergers is a Dutch designer and founder of Lingua Planta<\/i>. During her studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven, she developed a particular interest in plants and fragrances. Inspired by the work of forester and ecologist Peter Wohlleben and writer and biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, she began to study the communication of plants through odors. Lingua Planta<\/i> is the result of this research and combines Bergers\u2019 interest in nature with her aesthetic vision.<\/p>\n

Kata\u017eyna Jankovska is a curator, writer, and researcher currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in art history and theory from Vilnius Art Academy and a master\u2019s in Arts, Culture, and Society from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her scholarly and curatorial interests focus on ever-evolving relationships between humans, machines, and natural systems. She is interested in experimental art forms exploring sensory perception, digital culture, and the influence of technology on contemporary society. She uses a range of methods, including writing, programs, exhibitions, and publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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