miguel soares

Take me to portugal take me to Spain
curated by David Barro & Catarina Campino

May 10, 2005
Montevideo – Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Amsterdam, Netherlands

exhibited works: Time for Space

related links: Take me to portugal take me to Spain at Montevideo.nl

Uma Extensão do Olhar – obras fotográficas da colecção da Fundação PLMJ
curated by Miguel Amado

April 30 > July 31, 2005
Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

exhibited works: SpaceJunk prints

Terminal – Em Fractura, Colisão de Territórios
curated by Paulo Mendes

April 22 > June 12, 2005
Hangar K7
Fundição de Oeiras
Oeiras, Portugal

exhibited works: Time Zones

related links: Em Fractura homepage

What’s Now?
Smiley World Association
curated by Vérane Pina

January 28 > 31, 2005
Paris Expo Halls 5, 6 & 8
Porte de Versailles
Paris, France

exhibited works:

• SpaceJunk beta 1.0
• Time Zones
• H2O

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Vídeo Portugués Contemporáneo
curated by David Barro

January 25, 2005
Sala Rekalde
Bilbao, Spain

exhibited works: Time for Space 3D animation

related links: Vídeo Portugués Contemporáneo at w3art.es

Uma Extensão do Olhar – entre a fotografia e a imagem fotográfica, obras da colecção da Fundação PLMJ
curated by Miguel Amado

January 22 > April 03, 2005
Centro de Artes Visuais
Coimbra, Portugal

exhibited works: SpaceJunk prints

Penthouse – uma ocupação temporária
curated by Miguel Leal, Cristina Mateus

January 15 > February 12, 2005
Rua de Ceuta 16
Oporto, Portugal

exhibited work: H2O 3D animation

related links: Penthouse at Virose.pt

Art Basel Miami
Galeria Graça Brandão

December 2 > 5, 2004
Miami, Florida, USA

Criar um lugar – intervenção pública de arte contemporânea
curated by Maria Fátima Lambert

November, 2004
Estação de S. Bento
Oporto, Portugal

PIUFF – Paris International Underground Film Festival
curated by Marion Naccache

October 2004
Studio L’Ermitage
Paris, France

Horizont(e) (1984-2004) – 20 Anos da Galeria Luís Serpa

October 2004
Cordoaria Nacional
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: SpaceJunk beta 1.0

September 2004
LUXE Gallery project Room, New York

list of works
H2O (3D animation) (projected)
H2O 6 prints, 50×70cm each.

For Immediate Release:

Opening reception for both Rick Levinson and Miguel Soares
Monday, 20th September 6 – 8, 2004 – hope to see you there!

Project Room – MIGUEL SOARES – H2O

LUXE Gallery,
24 W. 57th Street # 503
New York, NY 10019
September 20th – October 30th
Opening reception: Monday, September 20th, 6- 8.

In the Project Room, Luxe Gallery is happy to present new photographs and video work by Miguel Soares.
Based in Lisbon, Soares is one of the leading digital artists of the new generation in Portugal.
In the 90’s, he developed work that ranged from photography, installation to video and sound, and in 2000, he turned to the exploration of 3D animation software which became his main tool of expression. He also joined the largest Portuguese Quake clan, as part of the international Internet gaming community.

Under his alter ego “Migso”, Soares composes electronic music which he integrates in his 3D animations and releases as audio CD’s. Many of his videos are made for -and in collaboration with- music groups like Negativland (2003), Sack & Blumm (2000) and Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta (2001). With the San Francisco Bay Area group, “Negativland,” known for its struggle against restrictive copyright laws in the 90’s, Soares created “Time Zones” – where he investigates the use of media as a vehicle for psychological warfare, and of
computers to control the “imperfections” of mankind.

Soares’ photographs featured in Luxe’s Project Space comment on mankind’s relationship to the surrounding environment and the use / misuse of technology.
“H2O” is his most recent 3D animation: a humorous reportage both distant and ironic view of man-made debris that end up underwater. Are fish adapting themselves to these alien objects?

In 2001, Soares was invited to participate in “Situation Zero: Recent Art from Portugal” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include: Galeria Graca Brandao, Oporto (Portugal); Location One, New York; Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris (France); The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (Norway).

Concurrent to this exhibition is Rick Levinson’s Acts of Faith in the main gallery.

Offshore, Festival Internacional de Multimédia e Arte Digital
curated by Pedro Santos

September, 2004
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal
Madeira, Portugal

Proximidades e Acessos: Obras da colecção Ivo Martins
curated by Miguel Wandschneider

July 10 >  October 10, 2004
Culturgest
Oporto, Portugal

exhibited works:

• untitled (VR Trooper)
• GT
• SpaceJunk beta 1.0
• Expecting to Fly

Re-Location – Shake the Limits
curated by Maria Rus Bojan

June 05 > July 25, 2004
Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana
Bucharest, Romania

exhibited works: SpaceJunk 3D animation and prints

related links: Re-Location at MNAC.ro

work shown:
H2O (3D animation)

Location One – Artists in Residence – New Work 2004

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2004, 6-8 PM

Alexandra do Carmo
Koken Ergun
Vincent Lamouroux
Federico Muelas
Hsiao Sheng Chien
Miguel Soares
Koki Tanaka
Mark Themann

May 27 – June 30, 2004
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 pm

LOCATION ONE
26 Greene Street
NYC 10013
http://location1.org
212 334 33 47

MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporâneo
Galeria Graça Brandão

May 12 > 16, 2004
Centro de Negocios y Comercio de la Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

30 Artists Under 40
Presidência da Républica Portuguesa
curated by Pedro Portugal

February 05 > March 03, 2004
The Stenersen Museum
Oslo, Norway

exhibited works: SpaceJunk beta 1.0

Red Alert
curated by Nathalie Angles
November 15 > December 31, 2003
Location One
26 Greene street
New York, NY 10013

Sathurday (November 15th) from 4 to 6 pm, Location One inaugurates a
new gallery space, adjacent to our main gallery, which will be known as the
“Test Site.” This is our experimental studio where we will present
work-in-progress by our artists-in-residence, experiments with new technology
and discussions of all types. We are happy to initiate the Test Site with
work-in-progress by Miguel Soares (Portugal), which consists of a whimsical
sculpture, large digital-C Prints and a video piece.

exhibited works:

• Gustavo v2.0, 2003 (below on this page)
• Time Zones (video/3D animaton), 2003
• 2 prints from the Mosaic series: Hulk and Fighter, 2003

Gustavo v2.0
2003
junk bags, motorized arm, laser pointer.
“Do androids dream of electric sheep?” -Philip K. Dick
Gustavo is a robot that has been discarded in a black garbage bag. Out of this bag extends Gustavo’s motorized arm, with a laser that is carving a drawing on the wall.
Do robots dream of being artists?

Time Zones
2003, 05′28”
video and 3D animation
sound: “Time Zones” Negativland, Escape From Noise album/cd, Seeland Records, 1987
Time Zones is about time and size, United States versus the Soviet Union, the cold war, the use of media as a vehicle for psychological warfare and the use of computers to control the “imperfections” of men.
Time Zones was created in collaboration with Negativland during the last year, based on
their audio work from 1987.

Mosaic
2003
Durst lambda prints
These images are composed from the juxtaposition of 5000 to 8000 smaller images taken from the internet.
The cover of The Hulk magazine is made out of flower and landscape images.
The Jet Fighter droping a bomb is made out of internet logos and buttons.

Outras Alternativas – novas experiencias visuais en Portugal
curated by David Barro

October 31, 2003 > January 25, 2004
MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Vigo, Spain

exhibited works: SpaceJunk beta 1.0

related links: Outras Alternativas at MarcoVigo.com