non-human-matters at Aldea Gallery
Aldea is pleased to present ‘non-human-matters’ an exhibition of new artworks by Natalia Domínguez Rangel, Nicolás Lamas and George Henry Longly made during our latest artist residency.
Domínguez Rangel’s sculptures and installations are concerned with how
sound affects and resonates with the body physiologically and psychologically, and how critical listening extends connections to diverse acoustic ecologies other than the anthropophony. In non-human-matters, Domínguez Rangel has made a series of sculptures using bronze, stainless steel, glass and 3D print.
She invites us to contemplate the intricate and dynamic nature of our bodily ecosystems and how we are interconnected to the environment. By highlighting these connections, her work encourages us to engage in critical listening and better understand the complexity of our existence.
Nicolás Lamas’ artwork explores the intricate relationship between humans, technology, and the natural world, inspired by posthumanism and new materialism theories. He is particularly fascinated by swarm intelligence and creates installations and hybrid assemblages that combine biological and technological elements, envisioning new possibilities for exchange and interaction. Lamas’ latest works for the ‘non human-matters’ exhibition use 3D printing to create hybrid forms that allude to processes of growth, change, and decay. Each object becomes an indefinite entity, inviting viewers to contemplate the interconnection of natural and artificial processes and flows. Through this, Lamas challenges traditional notions of humanity and encourages us to think beyond the limits of our understanding.
George Henry Longly’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses curation, image, video, sculpture and design. His works create a tension between traditional art forms and the digital world, exploring questions of existence and survival within the contemporary conditions we inhabit in a rapidly changing digital world. In non-human-matters Longly presents a series of low-relief wall works that combine images of the deep sea and the cosmos embedded with ball bearings to create a constellation of potential new forms and patterns.
Through the exhibition the artists invite us to contemplate the complexity of our existence and our interconnectedness with the environment, both natural and artificial.
non-human-matters, 2023, exhibition view, Aldea Gallery, Bergen
non-human-matters, 2023, exhibition view, Aldea Gallery, Bergen
non-human-matters, 2023, exhibition view, Aldea Gallery, Bergen
Nicolás Lamas “Spin-e”, 2023, 125 x 45 x 55 cm, metal lathe, painted PLA
Nicolás Lamas, “Flow of becoming”, 2023, 66 x 26 x 28 cm, bronze, stainless steel
Nicolás Lamas, “Pathological mineralization Acrylic One”, 2023, 63 x 28 x 11 cm (calcuim sulfate and an arcylate- based liquid
Nicolás Lamas, “Pathological mineralization Acrylic One”, 2023, 63 x 28 x 11 cm (calcuim sulfate and an arcylate- based liquid
Nicolás Lamas, “Pathological mineralization Acrylic One”, 2023, 63 x 28 x 11 cm (calcuim sulfate and an arcylate- based liquid
Nicolás Lamas, “Pathological mineralization Acrylic One”, 2023, 63 x 28 x 11 cm (calcuim sulfate and an arcylate- based liquid
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “O-ído”, 2023, 10 x 8 x 4cm, steel, Australian and *Norwegiansea shells
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “O-ído”, 2023, 10 x 8 x 4cm, steel, Australian and *Norwegiansea shells
Nicolás Lamas, “ Cycle “ , 2023, 23 x 23 x 6 cm, painted PLA
Nicolás Lamas, “Flow of becoming”, 2023, 66 x 26 x 28 cm, bronze, stainless steel
Nicolás Lamas, “Traces of the swarm”, 2023, 23 x 20 x 16 cm, painted PLA, steel
Nicolás Lamas, “Traces of the swarm”, 2023, 23 x 20 x 16 cm, painted PLA, steel
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “ Fluid Pair “, 2023, 55 x 80 x 30cm, steel, digital photoprint, PLA
Nicolás Lamas, “Emerging colony”, 2023, 42 x 30 x 30 cm, painted PLA
Nicolás Lamas, “Emerging colony”, 2023, 42 x 30 x 30 cm, painted PLA
Nicolás Lamas, “Emerging colony”, 2023, 42 x 30 x 30 cm, painted PLA
George Longly, “Point Nemo (schooching my way to the middle)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Point Nemo (schooching my way to the middle)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Minkowski’s Butterfly (mommy and daddy’s little bitch)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Minkowski’s Butterfly (mommy and daddy’s little bitch)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Aristarchus (in town for a week who can put me up?)”, 2022, 56 x 56 x 142 cm, mahogany wood, stainless steel, brass
George Longly, “Aristarchus (in town for a week who can put me up?)”, 2022, 56 x 56 x 142 cm, mahogany wood, stainless steel, brass
George Longly, “Aristarchus (in town for a week who can put me up?)”, 2022, 56 x 56 x 142 cm, mahogany wood, stainless steel, brass
George Longly, “Point Nemo (schooching my way to the middle)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Point Nemo (schooching my way to the middle)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Point Nemo (schooching my way to the middle)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Lagoon Nebula (sucking up to success)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
George Longly, “Lagoon Nebula (sucking up to success)”, 2023, 55 x 80 x 7 cm MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
Nicolás Lamas, “Anomalous growing sample”, 2023, 35 x 17 x 17 cm, painted PLA
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, ““Suspened Echo”” 2023, 66 x 26 x 28 cm, bronze, stainless steel
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “Creaks within Us” 2023, 45 x 15 x 29cm, casted glass, stainless steel, photopolymer resin, latex
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “Creaks within Us” 2023, 45 x 15 x 29cm, casted glass, stainless steel, photopolymer resin, latex
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “ Fluid Pair “, 2023, 55 x 80 x 30cm, steel, digital photoprint, PLA
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “ Fluid Pair “, 2023, 55 x 80 x 30cm, steel, digital photoprint, PLA
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “Finger”, 2023, 29 x 3cm, aluminum & George Longly, “Challenger Deep (knowing you know)”, 2023, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
Natalia Domínguez Rangel, “Finger”, 2023, 29 x 3cm, aluminum & George Longly, “Challenger Deep (knowing you know)”, 2023, MDF, paint, ball bearings, stainless steel
non-human-matters, 2023, exhibition view, Aldea Gallery, Bergen
non-human-matters, 2023, exhibition view, Aldea Gallery, Bergen
Non-Human Art
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation, presented with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.
Can a machine create its own art? This question, raised around the year 2000 by Leonel Moura, is at the core of his work with robotics and artificial intelligence. With the development of artificial intelligence of recent years, the possibility for machines to be intelligent but also creative is at the center of a debate on the future of humanity. Will machines take over? Or, is there an exaggeration over their capacities?
Based on a new kind of algorithm inspired in ant behavior, Moura has over the years built several artbots able to generate unique drawings and paintings. One of these machines, named RAP (Robotic Action Painter), is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History. RAP creates drawings, decides when they are finished, and signs with its name. The
process demonstrates that based on simple rules and concepts such as feedback, emergence and stigmergy machines can create something that is not predetermined and can be considered art works in the contemporary cultural context.
Moura resorts to science but doesn’t claim to be a scientist. His work is inscribed in the history of art and its constant surpass of boundaries.
About Leonel Moura
Leonel Moura is a European artist born in Lisbon, Portugal, who works with AI and robotics. In 2001 he created the first robot arm able to generate unique paintings operate by an ‘ant algorithm’. In 2003 a swarm of ‘Painting Robots’ were able to produce artworks based on simple rules and emergent behaviour. Since then, he has produced several artbots, each more autonomous and sophisticated. RAP (Robotic Action Painter) was created for a permanent exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Bebot for the Expo Astana, Kazakhstan, Grand Palais, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. ISU (The Poet Robot), generates poems and paintings with letters and words. In 2004 he launched the Symbiotic Art Manifest stating that “machines can make art” (http://www.leonelmoura.com/symbiotic-art-manifesto/). In 2007 the Robotarium, the first zoo dedicated to robots and artificial life, opened in Alverca. Other works include 3D sculptures, interactive installations, generative art, augmented reality, space art and the play R.U.R. from Karel Capek, with 3 robots performing aside 3 human actors, which premiered in São Paulo in 2010. He has published or participated in several books, such as Robots and Art (Springer); Nonhuman Art (LXXL); Hiperdesign (IADE); Robot Art (Obidos Patrimonium); Man+robots: symbiotic art (Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne). In 2009 he was appointed European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation.
Founded by Prof. Ken Goldberg in 1997, the ATC lecture series is an internationally respected forum for creative ideas. Always free of charge and open to the public, the series is coordinated by the Berkeley Center for New Media and has presented over 200 leading artists, writers, and critical thinkers who question assumptions and push boundaries at the forefront of art, technology, and culture including: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Sophie Calle, Bruno Latour, Maya Lin, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Miranda July, Billy Kluver, David Byrne, Gary Hill, and Charles Ray.
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020 Series Theme: Robo-Exoticism
Monday Evenings, 6:30-8:00pm
Osher Theater, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
http://atc.berkeley.edu/
Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.
2019
09/09 Robots Are Creatures, Not Things
Madeline Gannon, Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
09/23 The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
Marisa Morán Jahn, Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
10/21 Non-Human Art
Leonel Moura, Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
11/4 Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
Guy Hoffman, Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
2020
01/27 Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
Amy LaViers, Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
02/24 In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
Margaret Rhee, Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature
03/30 The Right to Be Creative
Margarita Kuleva, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Invisible Russia: Participatory Cultures, Their Practices and Values
Natalia Samutina, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Department of the History of Art and the Arts Research Center
04/06 Artist Talk
William Pope.L, Artist
Presented by the Department of Art Practice
04/13 Teaching Machines to Draw
Tom White, New Zealand
Co-sponsored by Autolab and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
For updated information, maps, please see:
ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
BCNM Director: Abigail De Kosnik
Arts + Design Director: Shannon Jackson
BCNM Liaisons: Lara Wolfe, Laurie Macfee
