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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sorry for any
crossposting<BR><BR><BR>Traffic Gallery - New International Multimedia Centre
& Digicult presents:<BR><BR>"OP7" by OTOLAB: THE EXHIBITION<BR><BR>November
8 - December 31, 2007<BR>Curated by: Marco Mancuso and Claudia D'Alonzo for
Digicult<BR>Exhibition opening | Wednesday, November 7 | 18.30 / 21.30
hrs<BR>Traffic Gallery: Via San Tomaso 92, Bergamo -
Italy<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>Videoclips, visual art, installations and
artistic visual performances; this is the orientation of the new-born Traffic
Gallery in Bergamo, a gallery specialized in digital, multimedia and videoart,
set up with the intention of promoting the new contemporary art trends expressed
by the very last generations.<BR><BR>Starting November 8, Traffic Gallery will
host the exhibit "op7", by the Milan-based collective otolab, curated by Marco
Mancuso and Claudia D'Alonzo for Digicult, a project of electronic culture and
digital art diffusion. Otolab was born in 2001 as an identity grouping
musicians, djs, vjs, videoartists, videomakers, web designers, graphic designers
and architects who share the will to research the interweavings between sound
and image. Through a laboratorial practice focused on the sharing of experience
and knowledge, otolab has produced collective and individual projects that range
from livemedia performances to installations, from experimental electronic music
to techno, thus featuring different approaches to experiment hybrid perceptions
of synthetic sounds and visions.<BR><BR>The exhibit at Traffic Gallery wants to
document and reinterpret one of otolab's most recent live performance works,
"op7". Conceived in 2006 for the Mixed Media festival which took place in the
Hangar Bicocca in Milano, it will be presented with a video installation of the
work, a tryptich and seven photographic prints taken from the original video
material.<BR><BR> "op7" was a site-specific commission by Marco
Mancuso/Digicult within the curatorial work for the Mixed Media 2006 festival,
with the aim of inviting the Milan-based collective to dialogue with the "I
sette palazzi celesti" (The seven heavenly buildings) of Belgian artist Anselm
Kiefer, seven post-industrial towers that are permanently located in the Hangar
Bicocca in Milano. Thanks to a five-screen projection, Otolab set up an optical
path through seven tunnels of minimal black and white.<BR><BR>The sounds
generate bidimensional shapes organized around a horizon, the only fulcrum in
the emptiness, an axis around which "op7" plays with the spectator's eyes,
deceiving the retina while generating illusory three-dimensional environments
born off an inlay of flat geometry. Each of the seven tunnels is introduced by a
moment of sensorial suspension that invites the spectator to abandon the former
and prepare for the next voyage: six peripherical zones characterized by
pulviscular sounds and pictorial visions created by the Pepposcope, an optical
tool projected by the collective and here exhibited.<BR><BR>Otolab has set up
self-organized cultural initiatives and organized seminars and workshops. The
first retrospective on the collective's work dates back in 2004, curated by
Lucrezia Cippitelli, at MLAC, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea di Roma.
The group has taken part with livesets and installations in national and
international exhibits and events, such as:<BR><BR>- Dissonanze '06, Roma<BR>-
Clubtransmediale '05, Berlin<BR>- Arte Nuevo Interactiva '05, Bienal
Internacional de Merida, Mexico<BR>- Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum,
Turkey<BR>- Gallery Noass, Art and Culture Project Noass, Riga, Latvia<BR>-
Netmage '04, Bologna<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>CREDITS:<BR>Catalogue texts:
Marco Mancuso and Claudia Antimonelli<BR>Press agency: Claudia D'Alonzo for
Digicult<BR>With the participation of: Icona Arti Grafiche
Digitali<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>TEXTS:<BR>Exhibition Critical Text:
<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.digicult.it/public/CriticalText_%20ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/CriticalText_%20ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Exhibited Works: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/ExhibitedWorks_ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/ExhibitedWorks_ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Bio Otolab: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/BioOtolab_ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/BioOtolab_ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Bio Curators: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/BioCurators_ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/BioCurators_ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>-----------<BR><BR>LINKS:<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.otolab.net/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>www.otolab.net</FONT></A><BR><A href="http://www.digicult.it/en/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.digicult.it/en/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/en/2007/otolabop7.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/en/2007/otolabop7.asp</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.trafficgallery.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.trafficgallery.org/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>-----------<BR><BR>INFO:<BR>Opening and cocktail,
Wednesday November 7, from 18.30 to 21.30hrs<BR>Opening to the public | November
8 - December 31, 2007 | Free entrance<BR>Opening time | from Tuesdays to
Saturdays | 10-13hrs 16-19hrs | Closed on <BR>Sundays and
Mondays<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>DIGICULT is a cultural project involved in
digital culture and electronic arts. DigiCult project is directed by Marco
Mancuso and based on the active participation of 40 professional people about,
who represent the first wide Italian network of journalists, curators, artists
and critics in the field of electronic culture. And on a multitude of updated
strategies around new media communication and networking activities. DigiCult is
a web portal but is also the editor of the monthly magazine DigiMag, discussing
with a critic and journalistic approach, about net art, hacktivism, video art,
electronica, audio video, interaction design, artificial intelligence, new
media, software art, performing art. DigiCult produce an electronic music and
audiovisual podcast and the newsletter international service DigiNews. DigiCult
is involved in side-activities like media partnerships and journalistic/critic
reports, consultancy and curatorial activities and artists international
promotion.<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.digicult.it/en"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.digicult.it/en</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/podcast/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/podcast/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/en/Credits.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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