A Quasar project arranged by KelleR – Center for Eksperimental Art and
the dvelopers BIZ-ArT, in collaboration with Vejle Museum of Art. Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen have curated the biennale, and are responsible for the concept and the exhibition.
Exhibition 8. November - 2. December
Festival days 9. - 11. November
On the 8th of November, the first Biennale for Video Art and Digital Culture opens in
Vejle. Machine-RAUM consists of an exhibition at the Vejle Museum of Art from the 8th of
November to the 2nd of December and includes a 3day festival from the 9th to the 11th of
November that will take place in part of Machine-RAUMs location at the Spinning Mills,
Vejle.
Machine-RAUM will present a broad spectrum of contemporary Danish and international
cutting edge artists working in this area. It offers interactive and performative works in
the urban space, screenings, artist-talks, and presentations by art- and design schools
from Denmark and Northern Germany and much else. The Biennale has been recognised
as a valuable contribution to the city’s art scene and is to be developed further as a
regional and nat ional platform for video art and digital culture.
The title Machine-RAUM signals both a focus on spatial works – thus RAUM – and that,
in principle, the Biennale embraces all art that involves machines and technology.
Machine-RAUM is at the same time tied to the future location of the Biennale – the
historic industrial Spinning Mills in Vejle Vestby – that house numerous raw and exciting
halls containing machines from the former mills. Finally the bilingual construction
emphasises the Biennales international and multicultural status.
Machine-RAUM examines video and digital arts potential in the light of human interaction
and dialogue, and will present works of contemporary significance that transcend social,
ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. It will concent rate on digital medias
capablilities, and the development potential to be found in these new technologies and
artistic experiments.
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