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Autopilot by Carsten Nicolai Published by Die-Gestalten Verlag http://www.die-gestalten.de Pages: 104 Size: 17 x 23 cm Price: $38.00 USA Release; September Isbn: 3-931126-80-3 Features: full color softcover with special plastic sleeve, includes CD with 50 minutes of experimental audio Renowned worldwide for his multi-medial performances and exhibitions (e.g. Dokumenta X, Guggenheim NYC, MOMA SF, PS1, MOMA Oxford and NTT Tokyo) Berlin-based artist Carsten Nicolai concocts minimalist, microscopic and complex views of the creative processes at the interface of science, art and music. A member of experimental electronics label Raster Noton (awarded the Prix Ars Electronica 2000), Nicolai is a master of the focused tightrope walk: after raster-noton.oacis, Autopilot twists the polarity of self-organization and order into a mixture of innovative documentation and audio components. - interview - Carsten Nicolai Which words come to mind in conjunction with your book? Autopoesis Autopilot Code Time Creativity The polarity between self-organisation and order Which of your previous projects would you like to emphasise? snow noise www.snownoise.com polar www.canon.co.jp/cast/ What can we expect to find on the enclosed CD? 50 minutes of audio present sound installations and conceptual pieces. Who or what do you admire? Who inspires you? Carlfriedrich Claus Hermann Gloeckner Tesla Ernst Heckel Ukichiro Nakaya Buckminster Fuller Science. Any current plans? I would like to have a team of friends, artists and scientists, as well as a dedicated space, a laboratory for sound and light, including equipment and a scientific grant. I want to intensify the work between sound and light, creating complex spaces with these media. Carsten Nicolai [noto, alva noto] 1965 born in Karl-Marx-Stadt lives in Berlin and Chemnitz Exhibitions (selection) 1993 Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin 1994 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1998 Galerie fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig 1999 Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo 2000 Galerie Eigen+Art , Berlin 2000 Polar Canon Artlab 10, Tokyo (collaboration with Marko Peljan) 2001 Gallery of New South Wales, projectroom, Sydney Group exhibitions (selection) 1996 Mikro Makro, collaboration with Mika Vainio, 1997 Documenta X , Kassel 1998 Archipelago, Stockholm 1999 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1999 Liverpool Biennial 2000 Audible Light, MOMA Oxford 2000 Sound art, ICC Tokyo 2000 Volume, PS 1 , New York 2001 wilde zones, witte de with, Rotterdam 2001 Entertainment, Museum Wolfsburg 2001 Art and Music, Museum of Modern Art Sydney 2001 Biennale di Venecia, Plateaus of Mankind 2001 Istanbul Biennale Discography 1996 noto.spin, noton-rastermusic 1996 O+noto.mikro makro, noton-rastermusic 1997 noto.f, noton-rastermusic 1998 noto.kerne, plate lunch 1998 noto.polyfoto, noton-raster 1999 noto. time..dot raster -noton, 20T to 2000 1999 noto.empty garden watari-um, Museum, on Sundays 2000 alva noto.prototypes Mille Plateaux 2000 noto.telefunken raster -noton 2000 O+noto.wohltemperiert raster -noton 2000 opto .files (opiate + noto) raster -noton 2001 cyclo.(r.ikeda + noto) raster -noton 2001 alva noto. transform Mille Plateaux, raster-noton Major performances: 1997 Dokumenta IX, Kassel 1997 Sonar festival, Barcelona 1997 Bauhaus, Dessau 1998 Ars Electronica, Linz 1998 Steim festival, Amsterdam 1998 v2_archiv, Rotterdam 1998 spiral - experimental express, Tokyo 1999 ZKM, Karlsruhe 1999 gfzk - new forms, Leipzig 1999 Impakt, Utrecht 1999 Volksbuehne - 20' to 2000, Berlin 2000 Guggenheimmuseum New York City 2000 Ars Electronica, 20' to 2000, Linz 2000 raster-noton-oacis, taktlos, Bern 2000 spiral - experimental express, Tokyo 2000 Paradiso, Amsterdam 2001 sfmoma, San Francisco 2001 Opera Sydney, mca prizes: 2000 prize Ars Electronica for digital music for the 20 to 2000 project 2001 prize Ars Electronica for interactive art for Polar, a collaboration with Marko Peljan Carsten Nicolai [noto, alva noto] Visit: http://www.noton.org To download information and photos, visit http://www.die-gestalten.de/verlag/press.php3 Enter password: gear Volume: Bed of Sound, PS!, New York http://www.ps1.org/cut/volume/nicolai.html Carsten Nicolai (born 1965 in Karl Marx Stadt, now Chemnitz) works in the fields of visual art and experimental sound construction.Working with sound installations in the intersection between sound and visuality, he investigates wave-shaped data through structures produced by natural eco-systems, objects, paintings and other visual and scientific related research material. The works often have a sculptural construction relying on visual structures created by sound frequencies as well as sound created from visual forms and patterns. Nicolai is researching in the field of electronics and electric frequencies, converting the principles as well as the effects of the material. The visual patterns created often refer to sign structures, thus the sound and images become types of logo-related statements in continuous process. His works deals with "phenomenon" -- sound as frequency and its' relation to light and movement as well as time / duration, space and the communication of information. Both as a musician and as a visual artist, Nicolai often collaborates with other artists on specific projects, such as Marko Peljan and Ryoji Ikeda. Nicolai releases under the names of noto, alva noto, and together with Ikeda as Cyclo. Carsten Nicolai runs the record label Raster-Noton. The German artist/musician Carsten Nicolai uses electronic sound and visual art as a kind of hybrid tool to create his own microscopic view of the creative processes. His world looks more like a laboratory, constantly morphing in space and time, influenced by the impulses of this media world, sound -the message as code- becomes, his primary theme. Nicolai uses various media (sound, image, sculpture and computer) as hybrid tools to research the "codification of the world." Nicolai's work questions creativity, coincidence and artistic creative power. Many of his works are directly linked with the natural sciences. The physics of oscillation in particular are a frequent means of his work and are not limited by audibility and visibility, but attempt to make natural phenomena visible. Scientists like the Physicist Ukichiro Nakaya, who researched snow crystals, were an inspiration to Nicolai for his "snow noise" installation. The joint collaboration with scientists and researchers combines scientific experiment with artistic sculpture. In "snow noise," the laboratory becomes the exhibition space; the activity of the audience makes it a part of the sculpture itself. The complexity of his work becomes visible in projects such as "polar," which, together with Marko Peljhan, was realized for the Canon Artlab no.10 in 2000, and which received the Golden Nica for interactive art at the Ars Electronica Festival, in 2001. The preoccupation with physical phenomena finds its' way into Nicolai's sound work, which is released under the pseudonyms "noto" and "alva noto." In 1995, Nicolai founded the "noton" record label that merged with "raster music" to become "Raster-Noton" in 2000. The collective with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider meanwhile put out more than 40 releases, among others the series "20 to 2000" that received the Golden Nica for Digital Music at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2000. In recent years, Carsten Nicolai has performed in major exhibition spaces, including the New York Guggenheim Museum (2000), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001), and the Opera of Sydney, mca (2000). His installations were shown at the Dokumenta X, 1997, and at the 2001 Venice Biennial. Nicolai has collaborated with Ryoji Ikeda (Composer for Dumb Type), Mika Vainio (member of the Finnish minimal electronic music project "Pan Sonic"), and Thomas Knaak (co-composer of Bjoerk's "Vespertine"-album), and is now preparing a project with Ryuchi Sakamoto |
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