Negativland poster
two color. 50×70cm
made for Negativland’s live performance in Lisbon.
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Negativland poster2008.May
two color. 50×70cm . Planets2008.Mar
Planets made for Prémio BES Photo 2007, Museu Colecção Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa Liine (video)2008.Mar
05′38” Limousines without the “mous”. see also: Liine 2008 prints2008.Mar
7 Durst Lambda prints on aluminium. I removed the middle section on some limousines, putting them back to the “original size”. see also: Liine video Do Robots Dream Of Electric Art?, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon2007.Sep
September 28th > November 25th, 2007 Three moving-head robots are aparently carving a drawing on the wall with red laser beams. scroll down for portuguese version Disco Wall Painting Three “disco” robots (of the “moving heads” variety) trace upon the grey wall the precarious outline of a human On the other hand, the robots are equally beings of a new kind which seem to collaborate here in a remake: in a joint The role played by these robots takes the form of a transferred regression: they are not evoking what they themselves were, but what the men who designed them were once. This piece by Miguel Soares fictionalises the appropriation, by robots, of a founding memory of humankind. That memory does not belong to them: have the beings that created them inserted it, inadvertently or unconsciously, into their programming? We do not know. The title of this piece by Miguel Soares evokes one of the most effective projections of mankind’s fear regarding their own creations, from its Romantic incarnation as Frankenstein’s Monster to the post-modern androids of Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968, where Miguel Soares found his title) and Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, 1982). This artist’s vast body of work, which comprises installation and video along with the construction of mechanical and electronic objects, not forgetting the composition of digital images or synthesised sounds, culminates here in the most extreme of metaphors: the automata’s possibility of autonomous action and awareness has led them to resume the evolutionary cultural line of mankind, their original creators. Returning to a logic of caves as iconographic sanctuaries, Lisbon, 12 September 2007 . Versão Portuguesa / Portuguese Version A peça de Miguel Soares ficciona a apropriação, pelos robots, de uma memória matricial da humanidade. Essa Pintura Mural de Discoteca Três robots “de discoteca” (do tipo moving heads) desenham na parede cinzenta a silhueta precária de um ser Por outro lado, os robots são seres também de um novo tipo que igualmente parecem participar aqui num remake: O título desta obra de Miguel Soares remete para uma das mais eficazes projecções dos receios da humanidade em relação às suas próprias criações. Tal receio vem do Frankenstein romântico e passa pelos andróides pós-modernos de Philip K. Dick (”Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, 1968, de onde Miguel Soares retira o seu título)/Ridley Scott (”Blade Runner”, 1982). A vasta obra do artista, utilizando a instalação e o vídeo, a construção de objectos, mecânicos e electrónicos, a composição de imagens digitais ou sons electrónicos culmina aqui na mais extrema metáfora: a possibilidade de autonomia de acção e consciência dos autómatos leva-os a retomar a linha cultural evolutiva da própria humanidade que os criou. Lisboa, 12 de Setembro de 2007
Data Dust2007.Jul
03′00”, 2007, video when i throw away data cd’s that i’m converting to dvd, i scratch their surface with a x-cutter, so that the data cannot be retreaved. A to B in c2007.Jun
A to B in c variable dimentions measure of a given distance (a wall) in light-years (commonly represented as c). untitled (playing with Gould playing Bach)2007.Jun
Liine 2007 (video)2007.Jun
01′48” Limousines without the “mous”. see also: Liine 2007 (images)2007.Jun
I removed the middle section on some limousines, retarC (2007)2007.Jun
4 images images of craters are inverted horizontal and vertically in order to create the ilusion of a plateau receiving sun light from left to right. boeing, shuttle, boeing, shuttle, boeing, shuttle2007.Jun
70×100 cm . boeing, shuttle, boeing, shuttle |
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