SonarMática presents Randonnée (A Walk Through 21st Century Landscaping)

Thanks to digital art, abstraction has returned to the contemporary creative scene. SonarMática, Sónar’s multimedia area, analyzes the margins of actual possibility of landscape through new media.

Starting with new expressions of figurative landscape representation; capitalizing on the possibilities of digital media and the latest developments of increased reality; taking into account the investigations undertaken in the field of virtual architecture; and the tridimensional treatment of data flow on the datascape scene; we find a wide range of variables that articulate the possible space of 21st century landscaping.
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Landscape is, again, a reference that cries out for rediscovery inside the magma of the digital revolution. A look that makes its presence known in advertising, graphic design, contemporary videocreation or in interactive art and that invites us to recreate as many worlds as possible.

Randonnée (A Walk Through 21st Century Landscaping) shows by means of different sections the expression of this new landscaping at the beginning of the 21st century, from its more figurative declensions to the more abstract. From architecture to data, from reality to virtuality.

Section I :: Figurative landscapes
Urban or panoramic natural landscapes continue to be the object which many contemporary artistic expressions set out from, in a clear line of continuity with the landscape painting tradition.

Section II :: Built landscapes
Representations and visions of the urban mental state. Fragments of established urban iconography paradigms used to analyse the built imagination of the cityscape and to criticise and express the observation, vision and emotion of the state of the city.

Section III :: Increased landscapes
New maps which superimpose the physical and invisible using technology as interface to classify, dissect and label the world that surrounds us.

Section IV :: Data landscapes
Disciplines of diverse origins converge in datascapes, e.g. scientific visualization, information design and software art. What's more, its greatest masters inhabit an interdisciplinary space.

Conferences and various presentations will round off the programme of this event.

Selection of artists Section I:
Scanner/Katarina Matiasek (UK)
Echo Days
www.scannerdot.com

Carl Michael von Hausswolff/Thomas Nordanstad (SE)
Hashima, Japan
www.drawnbyreality.info/hashima.html

Yi-Zhou (CHI)
OneOfTheseDays
www.yi-yo.net

Rachel Reupke (UK)
Infrastructure
www.pocproject.com/members/reupke

Leo Obstbaum/Miguel Marín (ARG-ESP)
Beyond Identity
www.beyondidentity.com

Panoramas
www.panoramas.dk
geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp904/index.html
www.panoleku.com

Control
www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php

Dietmar Offenhuber (AT)
Bessenbahn
residence.aec.at/wegzeit
futurelab.aec.at/pixelspaces
residence.aec.at/didi/

Lotte Schreiber (AT)
Quadro
www.sixpackfilm.com

Emily Richardson (UK)
Aspect

Semiconductor (UK)
Retropolis
www.semiconductorfilms.org

Thomas Köner (DE)
Suburbs Of The Void
www.koener.de

Mira Calix/Sam Tootal (UK)
Little Numba
www.miracalix.com

Röyksopp (NO)
Epple
www.royksopp.com

Fotel Folyamat/Yvette Klein & Jan Höhe (AUS-DE)
Occupy

Bliss/Pleix (SWE-FR)
Netlag
www.pleix.net/

Kid 606/Pleix (US-FR)
Sometimes
www.pleix.net/
www.brainwashed.com/kid606/

Jon Wozencroft (UK)
www.touchmusic.org.uk

Selection of artists Section II:
Joan Fontcuberta (ES)
Orogénesis
www.fontcuberta.com

Sophie Gateau (FR)
I Love Paris
www.ensad.fr/etudiants/2000-2001/5_3d/sophie_gateau

Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer (DE-CH)
Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility

SIM CITY (US)
simcity.ea.com

Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman (US-ES)
El Prat (Belén 5)
www.luckykitchen.com

Duncan Brown (US)
Zenlux
www.zenlux.com

Hannah Leonie Prinzler (DE)
Wege (paths)
www.leonida.de

Alex Haw (UK)
CCTVL

Selection of artists Section III:
Michelle Teran (CA)
Life: A User’s Manual
www.ubermatic.org/life/index.html

Jeremy Wood y Hugh Pryor (UK)
GPS Drawing
www.gpsdrawing.com/

Peter Gomes (UK)
Here, Here and… Here
www.mutantfilm.com/

Matt Frondorf y Second Story Interactive Studios (US)
American Mile Markers
www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/onTheRoad/home/index.shtml

Brian McGrath y Mark Wattkins (US)
Manhattan Timeformations
www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/intro.html

The Degree Confluence Project (US)
www.confluence.org

Richard Fenwick (UK)
RND#04: Economic Growth
www.richardfenwick.com/

Selection of artists Section IV:
Ramon Guardans/Dolfi Mathias/Enrique Tomas (ESP-DE)
AE2005
www.soundplots.com

Marcos Weskamp (ARG)
Newsmap
www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

Jonathan Harris (US)
10x10: 100 words and pictures that define the time
tenbyten.org/10x10.html

Marcos Weskamp (ARG)
FlickrGraph
www.marumushi.com/apps/flickrgraph/

Martin Wattenberg / Laura Wattenberg (US)
Baby Name Wizard Voyager
www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Airtight Interactive (US)
Flickr Related Tag Browser
www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/

Risc (DE)
Tree
www.texone.org/tree

Ben Fry (US)
Zipdecode
acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

Josh On, Amy Balkin, James Cronin (NZ)
Greenpeace CLEAR
www.exxonsecrets.org

Ben Cerveny y Max Carlson (US)
State Machine
www.state-machine.org/