IAMAS - Barbara Jazbec Solo Exhibition

6. bis 8. Dezember 2022 Softopia Japan Center, Gallery 1

Barbara Jazbec, Studierende bei Interface Cultures, lädt zu Ausstellung und Talk.

Project description:
EERIE ME is a series of interactive sculptures that are exploring the relationship between the creation and its creator. They are creatures that embody human and nonhuman appearances.

The artist explores ways to hack and modify toys to become more or less human, giving them personal traits. They dig deep down into the world of uncanniness. The objects themselves do not have yet an intelligence on their own. They live based on the spectators' interactions.

It is a project that comments on the future of technology. Humans are not immortal, but the tales of our desire and obsession with youth and immortality reach far back into history. Tales of immortal beings, and of means through which humans too can cheat death, are part of mythologies worldwide. Great minds have spent lifetimes seeking a cure for death, and today our hopes have turned to digital technologies. The idea is that these technologies may promise us a form of immortality. Once we have the power to contain our consciousness, the future might present us with the ability to create new ‘shells’ for it, trapping our ‘ghost’ in it forever. The artist is trying to add a part of herself, her material past and memories to the toys. The toy as a totem contrived through the artist’s memories, overcomes the limited social perceptions of the toy’s utility and leaves the ghost of these memories for the future, by capturing it in forms from her personal past.

This project was developed during my 3 months stay at IAMAS Japan.
With many special thanks to: Professor Juan Manuel Castro, Ikuya Tokumo, Yui Isawa, Masaya Kawai, Niko Ammon, Yuki Minoh, Ponga, and the rest of the IAMAS staff

Programme

Opening: Tuesday 6th of December 2022 19:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 7th of December 2022 11:00 - 14:00, 17:00-19:00
Thursday 8th of December 2022 11:00 - 14:00,  17:00-19:00
 
Talk from Barbara Jabec about her research stay at IAMAS:
Friday 9th of December from 13:30 to 15:00 Location: Workshop 24 IAMAS, room W301