New Materialisms (Station 3.4)
The project "The Fine Line H-K-H-F" by Eloi Puig connects four locations, namely HICA (Inverness, Scotland, UK), Grey Area (Korčula, Croatia), Hangar (Barcelona, Spain) and Funchal (Madeira island, Portugal), monitoring weather at each location in real time.
The internet document shows a map of Europe with four locations, from each the line is start to be drawn at the map and develops over a period of two months. The four lines change their properties every day according to the weather. This process ultimately creating a dynamic drawing generated by the particular climate of each location. Four variations of weather are taken in consideration: sun, clouds, rain and extreme weather, from 9th August to 1st September 2016.
Internet address of the "The Fine Line H-K-H-F" project: http://eloipuig.com/hicahangarfunchalkorcula
Part of the project New Materialisms (Station 3), that reflects historically divergent art practices and discursive fields of concrete and conceptual art, as defined in the 1960s. Project tackles understanding of those art practices through the discourse of post-media contemporary approaches to art as well as via post-digital condition of our every day life, whereby digitality is interwoven with each aspect of our social being. New Materialisms strives to formulate a dialogue among important authors of concrete and conceptual art and contemporary practitioners who work within the post-media context, while assuming the design of aesthetical experience as vital mechanism which has its agency in the process of creating the physical world.
New Materialisms series is a long-term program of exhibitions and lectures that has been developed in a collaborative process between grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art from Korčula and HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) from Scotland since 2015.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Endowment Kultura Nova, Korčula town and Dubrovačko – Neretvanska County.
About author
Eloi Puig lectures at the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona), Department of Visual Arts and Design. Member of the research team Imarte (www.ub.edu/imarte). His current interests are the nexus of art and science, and interpretation of the concepts of code and translation.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (UB) and PhD (2005) with the thesis "Alear: procesual-random Arts. The randomness - Art Computer". With artist and lecturer A. Vela he foudnded a team at the Research Project R & D metamethods, where they has worked in collaboration with the research group Computational Genomics (BSC-UPC). Under the name of "Expanded Printing" he created new teaching materials which reviewed the multiple disciplines that redefine the field of printing absorbing the new technological means. Along with the artist and lecturer M. Carreño he designed educational content which incorporate shared methodologies. Along with the artist A. Molet he initiates a collection of notebooks made by the method of alignment of sequences. The live reading of the results obtained in the alignments is a line of work in which experiments with sound and action.
Since 1992 he has exhibited in Ferran cano (Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona), AB (Barcelona), Inglostraetti8 (Iceland), I. Bongard Galerie (Paris), Cavecanem (Sevilla) and HICA (Scotland). He has participated in several international exhibitions as ARCO, FIAC, ArtChicago and ArtCologne and Concretely Immaterial (HICA, Grey Area). On the other hand, highlights the audiovisual projects to CGAC (Santiago de Compostela), Sonar-cinema CCCB in Barcelona, Mostra 2000 Electronic Arts (Santa Monica Art Center). Eloi lives and works in Barcelona.
