Matrix City Exhibition - Opportunities of EntanglementHoog Catharijne (behind Peek & Cloppenburg) Opening: Wed. 13 Oct. 17:00-18:45, th 14 untill sun 17 oct. 11:00-18.00. (Thursday 14 oct. open untill 21.00 h). Hoog Catharijne (behind Peek & Cloppenburg)Free By bringing together artworks and practices that point to overlapping trajectories within the contemporary urban landscape, the exhibition ‘Opportunities of Entanglement’ speaks about ambivalences between entanglement (or even enslavement) and the next playful ‘liberation of mankind’. The exhibition touches upon the shelf life or expiration date of contemporary concepts of the city; something hard to comprehend in the current boom of urban and metropolitan territories, but with a long and recurrent base in history. For this occasion Matrix City appropriates part of Hoog Catharijne, Utrecht's 1970s avant-garde shopping center, which is today regarded outdated and finds itself on the verge of a major reconstruction. This site in an eerie way reminds of parts of Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon, a superstructure meant to liberate humans of physical work - just in Hoog Catharijne one was to find satisfaction in shopping, not in play.  Sabine Müller Andreas Quednau (Germany) (works) Book and digital drawing print, 2009 Palm Jumeraih is the grand icon of Dubai’s look-at-me-urbanism. Behind the show, the man-made island performs as a luxury refuge, ...  Film, 48:00, HD, 2009Citytellers_Dubai takes as its subject the most famous contemporary case of neo-urbanism. A city built and designed like a white elephant, that ...  Photos and leaflets, 2007 – ongoingLaunched in 2007, Daily News is a paper about the lives and loves of the non-human inhabitants of global cities. ...  Videogame, 2006Disaffected! is a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! gives the player the chance to ...  Stickers, 2006 Art collective Bureau d’Etudes has created an enigmatic map of the influence of electromagnetic waves on the biological body. In the course of the ...  Games for Nintendo Game Boy, 2009Game Broker reflects upon the nature of financial crises with three retro games for the original Nintendo Game Boy. The ...  Dr. Eric Sanderson, Kim Fisher, Markley Boyer, Danielle LaBruna and Human Nature Projects Phillip Pond (USA) (works) Online map application using Google Maps, 2007-ongoing Ever wondered what New York looked like before it was a city? After nearly a decade of research, the ...  Photo documentation, 2009Since 1984, in Lebedyan (320 km south from Moscow), Leonid Mulyarchik has been persistently building a metro line – alone. At first Leonid ...  Computer game and brochures, 2009NILDEGREE is a computer game and financial simulation that teaches players how to invest in various ecosystems and biomes. Throughout 30 ...  Online game, 2008Oiligarchy is a playable commentary on the oil industry. The player takes the role of an "oiligarch" managing the extraction business in the ...  Multimedia, 2006–presentRed Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center is a mobile exhibition kit designed to immerse visitors in the financial landscape of architecture. Who supplies the ...  Daniel Castro and Robert Atkinson (USA) (works) Map - digital print, 2010Technology, including low-cost sensors, energy-efficient processors, and advanced wireless networking is leading to the creation of a world alive with information. ...  Multimedia samples, 2010 This selection of proposals for boldly different forms of urbanisation shows a range of possible futures ahead, made on previously unimaginable locations. From Almaznaya Utopia (project ...  Website and instructions video, 2009Need to disappear from Facebook or Twitter? Now you can scrub yourself from the Internet. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is ... |
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