Artefact Festival

The Artefact Festival 2008, entitled, Capturing Time - Mapping the Moment, takes place from 12 till 17 February 2008 at STUK in Leuven and presents work of artists that try to capture, record or reconstruct a certain moment, a space or an emotion. They look into the relations and differences between human, machine or digital memories; between a personal and a collective memory.

Artefact 2008 captures a fascinating moment in the interrelation of contemporary new medias: personal and communal, biological and technical, natural and artifactual, digital and analogic.

Installations, performances and concerts of artists with very different backgrounds are presented side by side. There are several threads running through the program and the exhibition. A part of the selected works originates from objective and subjective data collected by artists during their travels. They give places and experiences a new spatiality, open for visitors to scan and explore themselves.

Other works and performances analyze the power of media when it comes to the representation of history and how we remember it. The main focus lies on the impact on our perception of the world, of small and big events. Artists deconstruct the very nature of television, internet, film, and the cinematographic image. They investigate the moment or the space that demarcates the boundary between an event and its representation.

On the occasion of the next Artefact a symposium will be organized on 14 February 2008, entitled ‘Capture(moments/places/things), for which Thomas Zummer invited Joe Milutis, Leslie Thornton and Wendy Chun. The symposium is organized by STUK and BAM, with the support of Culturele Studies KULeuven en Media & Design Academie KHLIM.

Text from Arts Flanders Newsletter January 2008 (http://www.artsflanders.be)

INFO:

Artefact Festival 2008
Capturing Time - Mapping the Moment
12 > 17 February 2008

Find out more: www.artefact-festival.be/

Images:

SPENCER FINCH (US), WEST (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument Valley, January 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM)

Christoph Fink,  Movement #79 / The City of Istanbul / The City of Leuven / The Planet Earth / The Celestial Bodies, a Time and Space Perspective