Mark Andreas
Sculptor
VIDEOKAFFE AT TITANIK GALLERY
Residence/ Exhibition
TURKU FINLAND,
Mark Andreas, Andrew Haik Demirjian, Olli Suorlahti & Sebastian Ziegler at TITANIK GALLERY
Turku, Finland
July18 to August 18, 2013
Grand opening: Thursday August 1st at 18 o´clock.
Videokaffe will serve hot drinks and some sweets in Videokaffe- cafe. The Cafe will be open during the whole of the exhibition every day from 3pm to 6pm. Videokaffe starts at 18th of July with an open laboratory, where some of the members will be working in the gallery space. During the first two weeks from 18th to 31st of July there will be also public workshops where visitors can participate on developing the works. More information about the workshops will be announced through Titanik in July 2013.
What is VIDEOKAFFE?
"VIDEOKAFFE" is an international network of new media artists, sculptors, engineers and designers who´s paths have crossed in one way or the other. The main field of the group is the development of functioning sculpture and installations through the integration of new media and old craft´s. Videokaffe mainly recycles old technological devices and if necessary combines them with latest technology. The group works with great effort on using alternative energy such as Solar and Dynamo technologies.
On the web videokaffe works as a virtual media gallery where it presents its members artworks. Collaboration is sparked by members’ desires to create an innovative, challenging and transformative art by learning from each other, building on each other’s talents and sharing information.
Selected Members and Main Contributors:
Andrew Haik Demirjian is a media artist who explores relationships between consciousness and environment through non-fiction audiovisual production. He combines computer programming, conceptual art practices and musical forms to create systems that dynamically grow and change based on user input or self-reflection. The work draws upon his experience as a filmmaker and musician and uses juxtaposition and categorization in place of conventional narrative arcs.
Haik Demirjian’s work has been featured throughout New York City at Rush Arts, the White Box gallery, Harvestworks, LMAK Projects Brooklyn, and The Roger Smith Hotel. He has received a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant, and a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has been awarded artist residencies at Eyebeam, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, the Bemis Center, Diapason, SUMU, the Newark Museum and many others. Andrew received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.
http://www.andrewdemirjian.com/
Olli Suorlahti (Olegtron*) is a contemporary artist who gets his inspiration from technology and science among other things. He works mostly with recycled materials, building machines that produce or manipulate sound, light, image, movement, air and fluids. Suorlahti is an original member of art groups Koelse, Kokomys and Videokaffe, having worked in numerous art projects, workshops, concerts etc. around Finland and Europe during the last ten years.
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Olegtron*
Sebastian Ziegler (pyöräpoika) graduated from the University of the Arts Bremen in 2006. Since then he has worked mainly with video and interactive sculptures. His interest lays in the everyday magic that surrounds us, as in the simple and common wonders of physics. He is currently living and working in Finland and is part of Arte ry, Muu ry, BBK- Bremen, Kokomys and the media artist network ”videokaffe”.
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www.pyorapoika.com/sebastian/ziegler.html
Mark Andreas, a kinetic sculptor working and living in the United States, has gained success by developing his self-titled, "Reactive Sculpture Series". His extensive experience as a metal smith and shipwright is inherent in his work. His work explores the concept of time through transformation. Currently, Andreas has been integrating solar energy as a power source for his work.
Andreas has had residences in Helsinki, Finland; Berlin,Germany; Arctic Circle, Norway; Basel, Switzerland and an upcoming residency in Turku, Finland. He has also lectured and taught seminars at University of Tennessee, Aalto University (Finland) and Yale University.
Andreas has exhibited at the Cress Gallery at the University of Tennessee; Marc dePuechredon, E-Halle Gallery, Basel; Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC and at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn and Berlin, among others.
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