Joe Davis is going to have one of his lectures at the Musashino Art University
6th October, 2011, starting at 16.30h.
The lecture will be in English, Japanese translation will be available.
We are pround and happy to announce the japanese premiere of Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis, a feature documentary by Peter Sasowsky about the life and works of the polymath bio-artist Joe Davis.
Place: University of Fine Arts (Geidai), Ueno (access)
Date: Sunday, October 2nd 2011
Time: 14.00h (Doors open at 13.30h)
Admission: Free (registration form)
The film will be shown in English with Japanese subitles.
After the screening Joe Davis will be present for a Q & A session.
If you haven’t done so, please go to the film’s Facebook page and ‘like’ it.
Here’s also the announcement in japanese from Geidai’s Art & Media Center.
About Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis
Thirty years ago, a peg-legged motorcycle mechanic walked into the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. They had not returned his calls. The police were summoned. Forty-five minutes later he walked out with an academic appointment. Since then Joe Davis has sent vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, encoded poetry into DNA, and designed a sculpture to save the world. It’s a great life for a man driven by imagination – except when it’s not. No one pays him. He is evicted from apartments and labs. His uncompromising approach to art and life collides with the world’s banal requirements. This is a story of self- discovery, sacrifice and the complexity of human endeavor, of the price of art and the ecstatic joy of discovery.
About Peter Sasowsky (Producer/Director)
Peter has been producing and directing film and video projects in New York City and around the world for over a decade. He is the founder and director of Serious Motion Pictures, a script to screen production company that produces documentary and narrative films, corporate communications and educational media.
Universal artist, grand seigneur of bio-art and ‘Lebenskünstler’ par excellence Joe Davis will hold a public lecture on Friday, 30th September at 19h at the Iwasaki Lab of the Waseda University in Tokyo. Here are more details in Japanese:
The lecture will be in English with translation into Japanese. That means that it will probably longer than expected. This is a free, public event, but maybe it’s a good idea to come early to get a seat. Here’s more information from the Iwasaki Lab site in Japanese.
Or, as Google Translate has it: Bio-art special lectures father, descended to Tamami!
Date: September 29 (Thu), 16:30 to 18:00
Location: Tama Art University, Hachioji, Department of Information Design Building 25-205
Here the original japanese and the automatic translation.
After our Residency at the National Unversity of Singapore for ISEA 2008, this is our second appearance at the International Symposium for Electonic Arts. As with all conferences, the core events of ISEA are the paper presentation, as with all conferences, they are massive-parallel. It’s advisable to make a Fahrplan for the road ahead.
This is a selection of presentation I am trying to visit, in the case of parallel presentations I’ll make my choice based on my mood, the Dortmund weather and the state of the daily Curry Wurst mit Pom Fritz.
Saturday, 21st
10:00–12:00h
P1 Enunciations of Nonhuman Performativity
Amongst others, with Jens Hauser
Monday, 23rd
10:00–15:00h
Hackteria Workshop, VHS G 132a
DIY Open Bio with Andy Gracie, Yasha Shatty & Marc Dusseiller Also on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00-16:30h
10:00-12:00h
P4 Heavy Matter, OZ (not really related to the same-titled ‘Heavy Matter’ Exhibition)
Panel with Monika Wagner, Martha de Menezes and Christian Slater
11:15h
P3 Appropriating Social Media, domicil
Sabine Himmelsbach: Art and Politics. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art. A Space for Presentation and Production of Media Art
13:00-14:30h
P9 Future of the Lab, VHS L 102b
“Please note: this session is aimed at people who work in, for or with labs.” With Kitchen Budapest, fo.am, BALTAN.
Tuesday, 24th
10:00-12:00h
P14 The Digital Aesthetics of Climate Crisis, VHS L 103
With The People Speak at 10.50h
13:00–14:30h
P16 Artistsinlabs: Networking in the Margins of Eco-Activism, OZ
15:00–16:30h
P23 Coded Cultures and Japan Media Arts Festival Panel Session, VHS L 102
With Georg Russeger, Asami Hosokawa, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Michal Wlodkowski and yours truly.
17:00h-19:00h
Keynote Peter Weibel Introduction by Jens Hauser, OZ
The Tongue That Sees. Neuroaesthetics, Molecular Aesthetics and Media Aesthetics
Wednesday, 25th
Returning to Japan for Friday Morning’s Panel Session at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) with Watanabe Maiko, Akihiro Kubota, Emiko Inoue and Oron Catts.