[aha] Time Slip by Antoine Schmitt at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana

[Aksioma]

Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you 
to the exhibition opening:

*Antoine Schmitt*
/*Time Slip*/
/New media installation /
_www.aksioma.org/t <http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip>ime_slip 
<http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip>_

*Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12 -- 28 October 2011

*Artist's presentation and exhibition opening: Wednesday, 12 October 2011*

*New publication: */Aksioma brochure #12 
<http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip/pdf/aks_brochure_12_time_slip.pdf>/ , 
Ljubljana 2011
Ida Hirs(enfelder: "The new, the old and the media of the future"

Image: http://www.aksioma.org/press/timeslip.jpg

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*Antoine Schmit/
/*/*Time Slip*/

/Time Slip/is a text display which continuously presents news from the 
future as computer software transcribes official news agency online 
newscasts from the grammatical past tense to the future tense: "the 
NASDAQ will drop 4.3 points today", "A plane crash in Madrid will kill 
153 people", "The Giants will crush the RedSocks 10 to 3"...

A fascinating impression of knowing the future arises and transfigures 
the installation into an apparent oracle.

/Time Slip/ is always up to date. It is a programmed generative artwork.

For the spectator, it is as if he was projected in the past of a few 
hours and that someone told him the future: feeling of going back in 
time. Or for someone who would not already know the news, it would be 
like if an oracle would predict the future: feeling of anxiety or of 
perverse full power. In all cases it is a work that unsettles and 
generates uneasiness by introducing a crack in the flow of time. All the 
more because it uses graphic codes and display contexts usually attached 
to real news.

/Time Slip/ is a visual artwork referring to philosophical questionings 
on destiny, its potential pre-written nature or its causal determinism, 
and in the end, a work on free will. It confronts the spectator to the 
control of his own destiny in a universe where time and its causality 
can slip. It is also a work on the motive energy of unpredictability and 
risk, more and more central in the contemporary world.

There is still an escape door for the spectator through the realization 
of the essential vanity of this system which pretends to know what will 
happen, but which in fact knows nothing. But this door is not easy to find.


Artist and programming engineer *Antoine Schmitt *creates installations, 
situations and objects, minimal and abstract, anchored in time and 
movement, that address the modalities of the free being in the system of 
reality. With reference to a systemic contemporary world, Schmitt places 
programming, an artistic medium that he considers radically new because 
of its active dimension, at the core of most of his artworks to 
challenge the forces in play, and their form. He has, alone or through 
collaborations, fostered confrontations with this approach in more 
established artistic fields like music, dance, architecture, literature 
and cinema, whose codes he re-examines. He has collaborated with Vincent 
Epplay, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Atau Tanaka, Anne Holts and Jean-Marc Matos, 
Alberto Sorbelli, Joana Preiss, Juha Marsalo and others. As a theorist, 
jury spokesman, and editor of the gratin.org portal, Schmitt explores 
the field of programmed art. Antoine Schmitt lives and works in Paris. 
More: : http://www.gratin.org/as/



*Production: *Aksioma --Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011_
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_

Artistic director: Janez Jans(a
Executive producer: Marcela Okretic(
Public relations: Mojca Zupanic(
Technical support: Valter Udovic(ic'
Assistant: Sonja Grdina
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*//*Supported by Institut français- Ministère des Affaires étrangères et 
européennes,
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality 
of Ljubljana.*/
/Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o./


Contact:
Marcela Okretic(, 041 250 830, aksioma4 at siol.net
*Aksioma | Institute for Conteporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: + 386 -- (0)590 - 54360
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_


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