Bettina Schülke: Transaction / from the threads they bind to an blink of an eye

The exhibition is the third and final artistic project of the artistic production included in Bettina Schülke’s doctoral dissertation which she is preparing at the Faculty of Art and Design.

The multidisciplinary and multisensory exhibition aims to explore how the new digital and interactive media have an essential impact on the so-called old media. The exhibits are produced with different artistic techniques situated in the field between fine art, new media and textile art.

“For millennia our perception of space was dominated by a body-focused spatial experience. Today, the physical space coexists with the electronic space, yet the sensual feeling of space vanishes in the virtual world. When the boundaries of our physical space are blurring and extending towards a virtual space, the processes connected with spatial experience might drastically change in the near future. That’s why it is essential to develop new concepts of space”, notes Bettina Schülke.

The exhibition shows drawings, photography, moving images, installations and textile works which aim to explore the interplay between artworks, the space and the viewer. At the same time, it discusses how our cognitive understanding of virtual spatial concepts will transform, and how this process will influence our understanding of space, the production of art, and old and new media.
 
 
Galleries Valo, Katve 1 and Katve 2

Bettina Schülke:
Transaction 3: From Flatland to Spaceland – Picturing Time
October 12 – November 3, 2013
University of Lapland, Arktikum House, Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi
Opening hours: From Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm, closed on Mondays
Free of charge

Exhibition opening on Friday, October 11, at 5:00 pm. The opening speech is held by Professor Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja from the Faculty of Art and Design. Welcome!
 
 
Bettina Schülke

Bettina Schülke is an Austrian artist and PhD candidate at the University of Lapland working on the intersection of art, science and technology.

She has exhibited widely at internationally prominent venues, such as the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale in Greece, the Shunt Lounge in London, the De Winkelhaak Design Museum in Antwerp, Kemi Art Museum, Media Centre in Helsinki, the MAK-nite (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna, and the Austrian Pavilion at the 8th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. Her works are represented in collections and she has conducted works for public spaces, too.

She has lectured at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna and since 2001 at the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland and at the Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences. She has participated in numerous international conferences with talks, presentations and publications.
 
 
More information:
Bettina Schülke, bettina.schuelke (at) gmail.com
www.bettinaschuelke.at

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