NEW ELEMENTS

The NEW ELEMENTS exhibition
November 17, 2021 — March 27, 2022
Moscow, New Tretyakov Gallery

Organizers: Laboratoria Art&Science Foundation and State Tretyakov Gallery
Curators: Daria Parkhomenko (Russia); Dietmar Offenhuber (Austria / USA)

Artists: Memo Akten (Turkey – UK); Ralf Baecker (Germany); Erich Berger (Finland); Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov (Russia); Thomas Feuerstein (Austria); Forensic Architecture (UK); Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan); Tuula Narhinen (Finland); Anna Ridler (UK); Tomas Saraceno (Argentina); Theresa Schubert / Ivan Taranin (Germany); AKI INOMATA (Japan)
Technological expert: Alexander Gostev (Russia)

The exhibition NEW ELEMENTS explores an unusual perspective on data and computation, centering on the physicality of information and its implications for how we make sense of the world. 12 works by artists from different countries show how to close the gap between data and the world.

The idea that digital information is abstract and exists outside the physical world is a harmful myth. Since technology has entered all aspects of our lives, its material nature deeply affects us. Artworks at NEW ELEMENTS bring digital data back to reality and show how everything is interconnected.

NEW ELEMENTS consists of three parts — “The Autographic World”, “Material Computation” and “Digital Materiality” — and collects artistic approaches that deal with the physical aspects of information: in the natural environment, in technological systems, or in the inaccessible structures of neural networks.

As a part of a public educational program of the exhibition the international symposium ‘New Elements’ was held. It aimed to bring to the forefront the current issues of new artistic practices that redefines the relationship between digital and analogue computational processes and systems. More details: https://laboratoria.art/en/symposium-new-elements/
You can watch all the sessions and performance by Ralf Baecker ‘A Natural History of Networks (Soft Machine)’ here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7r0K6jSdAEh35ih8VH_xrfMTRviL69-g

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Strategic partner: Kaspersky
Supported by: Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe Institut, Embassy of Finland, Japan Foundation in Moscow, the UK – Russia Creative Bridge programme 2021-2022 supported by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow
Technical partners: Samsung, Epson
Partner for lightning: ALEDO
Scientific partner: Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS

Video production: Vladimir Rodionov (U-studia)

Видео NEW ELEMENTS канала LABORATORIA Art&Science Foundation