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Activatar is a new platform hosting curated media art through monthly exhibitions. All projects are playable and fully contained within the Activatar app. At the beginning of every month, Activatar will host a new exhibition featuring three new media artists projects working with augmented reality, virtual reality, videos, audio based projects, or video games. Our inaugural exhibition will be available on iTunes December 1st.

Activatar's New Exhibition Yeni Esthetik: The Eternal Networks of West Asia curated by Partick Litchty is being shown as...
02/01/2020

Activatar's New Exhibition Yeni Esthetik: The Eternal Networks of West Asia curated by Partick Litchty is being shown as part of The Wrong Biennale. The exhibition includes a single-channel video by Shalala Salamzadeh, a 360 immersive video by Mohsen Hazrati and an augmented reality installation by Leo Anvar Musrepov.

The app is FREE to DOWNLOAD and all projects are playable and fully contained within the app.

For hundreds of years, Western Asia represented the pinnacle of networked society. The mail network was created by the Mongol Khanate, the Silk Road was the primary highway between East and West, linking Iran with China, sharing technology in antiquity and during the contemporary. Filiou’s notion of the Eternal Network resonated with me as I traveled these lands and saw the old connections through analog culture as well as the new through digital culture. In some ways, the metaphor of networks throughout time, from the Silk Road to the Information Superhighway ring true, even as countries like Iran and Kazakhstan increasingly control the traffic along the infobahn. As exhibitions like the Sharjah Biennial 12 work to break “Out of the (Western) Echo Chamber” (sic), I found that the media arts scenes of Central and West Asia encounter their own silos, and this version of Activatar intends to bring media artists from the region into this app-based gallery.

Yeni Esthetik, roughly “New Aesthetic” in Turkish, Azeri, and Qazaq) takes works from the media arts communities of the West Asian networks and wires them into broader contexts. Originally created in cooperation with the NEoN Art Festival (Dundee, Scotland) and The Wrong Biennial (Worldwide) Activatar presents Anvar Musrepov (KZ, AR), Mohsen HZ (IR, 360 degree video), and Shalala Salamzadeh (AZ, glitch video), as we reach across media borders to build new bridges where old ones were not, further extending the global Eternal Network.

Yeni Esthetik: The Eternal Networks of West Asia curated by the amazing is now live on Activatar App. Including works b...
01/30/2020

Yeni Esthetik: The Eternal Networks of West Asia curated by the amazing is now live on Activatar App. Including works by . Big thanks to and for supporting this project.

10/07/2018

Sneak peak of .knoetze 360 video work now showing on Activatar, free to download on iTunes.

Virtual Frontiers was created over two months on location in Grahamstown, South Africa. The work combines representations of the town’s history, experiences of the present, and imaginings of the future. The VR films are a loosely-woven phamtasmagoria of interviews, candid footage, re-enactments, archival media, and improvised performance.
The films look at the town as a collision point: here, seven of South Africa’s nine biomes are found. Here, too, ocean and land became a site of convergence for sea creatures and plants 300 million years ago. And here, the first brutal clashing of the British invaders with the AmaXhosa in 1820; the forced assimilation and appropriation which ensued, and the continued violent legacy of colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ era. Virtual Frontiers is an attempt to make sense of the effects and systems which organize the way people experience this space.

Activatar's September Exhibition is live. This month includes a single channel video by , a 360 immersive video by .kno...
09/13/2018

Activatar's September Exhibition is live. This month includes a single channel video by , a 360 immersive video by .knoetze and an augmented reality installation by .
The app is FREE to DOWNLOAD and all projects are playable and fully contained within the app.

Additional project info available at www.activatar.org

Activatar's September Exhibition is live. This month includes a single channel video by Barnett Cohen, a 360 immersive v...
09/12/2018

Activatar's September Exhibition is live. This month includes a single channel video by Barnett Cohen, a 360 immersive video by Francois Knoetze and an augmented reality installation by Leo Castaneda.

The app is FREE to DOWNLOAD and all projects are playable and fully contained within the app.

Additional project info:
Barnett Cohen
The Urgency of Quiet, 2018

The Urgency of Quiet is an excerpt from a longer performance/video that mines the space between self and thought. The prevailing assumption that we are what we think dates back to Descartes and remains a source of inevitable suffering for many. Clinging tight to the ego results in existential pain. Breaking the link between self and thought—even if only through a shift in perspective—yields relief, liberating language from its role as a simple conveyor of ideas. Words then become raw material, the fodder for poetry. The Urgency of Quiet merges theatrical gestures with speedy editing to reveal the ebb and flow of meaning: one phrase might resonate loudly within one ear; another may trigger implicit or explicit memories; additional words perhaps go unheard. Consciousness or rather the stories we tell ourselves is fundamentally contextual.

Francois Knoetze
Virtual Frontiers, 2016

Virtual Frontiers was created over two months on location in Grahamstown, South Africa. The work combines representations of the town's history, experiences of the present, and imaginings of the future. The VR films are a loosely-woven phamtasmagoria of interviews, candid footage, re-enactments, archival media, and improvised performance.
The films look at the town as a collision point: here, seven of South Africa’s nine biomes are found. Here, too, ocean and land became a site of convergence for sea creatures and plants 300 million years ago. And here, the first brutal clashing of the British invaders with the AmaXhosa in 1820; the forced assimilation and appropriation which ensued, and the continued violent legacy of colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ era. Virtual Frontiers is an attempt to make sense of the effects and systems which organize the way people experience this space.

Leo Castaneda
Item Display Booth, 2018

Item Display Booth is an augmented reality showroom for sculptural machines used for viewing virtual reality environments. In this virtual space, figures merge into machines, furniture, and body extensions in order to enter their own virtual worlds. The distinction between human and object is blurred by both the figures' lack of interaction with their external environment, as well as the ubiquitous unifying monochromatic textures pulled from my paintings, photos and drawings. Personal photos from Colombia and the Brazilian Amazon sit next to appropriated images from diverse sources on the internet, screen grabs of process-pieces, and symbols from my upcoming videogame. These various origins and histories blend together into abstract textures and patterns, the resulting aesthetic a sci-fi, modernist, gray-scale psychedelia. It is a space somewhere between the past, present and speculative future that deploys and deconstructs the socio-economic, racial, mythological and post human anatomies embedded in the structure of emerging technologies.

08/20/2018

Sneak peak of single channel video as part of this months Activatar. Curated by from +

Wire Bath is a fe**sh video in which the artist enacts her fantasy of being in a bathtub full of ethernet cords. The cords entwine her body and peek out of the water like tentacles from the ocean.

As more and more of our technologies become wireless, the artist re-connects with the physical cables. The tub becomes a miniature model of cyberspace and the artist relaxes in this cybertub and tenderly takes care of the cables.

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08/17/2018

Sneak peek of .kennedy 360 video work VR All in the Together as part this months Activatar curated by from +

Bianca Kennedy combines analog drawings with animated movements to offer an immersive bathing experience. A bathtub is a secure and safe place where you can relax and vent your thoughts in a private surrounding.

In this 360° animation you can become immersed and a part of the crowd already being in the warm and cosy water. You leave your place as a vo**ur when you step into the tub to bath with six different people at the same time.

08/14/2018

Sneak peak of Tamiko Thiel AR work has part of this months Activatar exhibition August and Everything After curated by Tina Sauerländer part of Radiance + peer to space

Tamiko Thiel confronts the beauty of life with its endangered conditions. As global water levels and temperatures rise, she discovers that plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive flora or active fauna.

Her augmented reality work allows you to wade in a field of water lilies and be engulfed in their blossoms.

Activatar's August exhibition: August and Everything after is curated by Tina Sauerländer. It’s summertime. We are on ho...
08/01/2018

Activatar's August exhibition: August and Everything after is curated by Tina Sauerländer.

It’s summertime. We are on holidays, hanging out on the beach, by the lake or in a cozy bathtub. Finally, we have some time and space for ourselves to ponder about what passed and what will happen after the summer.

The works of the exhibition create private immersive moments and reflect on personal lives and social states of being. Bianca Kennedyennedy, Faith Holland and Tamiko Thiel Thiel speculate on what it could mean to share private spaces, on intimately caring about digital devices and on adapting to new conditions of our surroundings.

Now, I grab my kitschy watermelon air mattress to float on the calm sea. I bask in the warmth and the sun sets in a beautiful pink glow. I listen to the Counting Crows and think about love and loneliness, friendship and meaningfulness, about believing. About yesterday and tomorrow. See you in September.

The app is FREE to DOWNLOAD and all projects are playable and fully contained within the app.

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