17-11-2010

05-12-2010

France, Saint-Etienne

Posted by: artacademia

Category: Festival/Biennial/Triennal

Field: Design

Source http://www.elia-artschools.org

The theme of the 6th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial will be around Teleportation. It will deal with an extreme view of our society, a kind of ideal (or not) that we could yearn for and that could solve many issues related to ecological emergencies, mobility, and time pressure. Working from home, transferring data and documents to work - that’s all very fine, until the system breaks down, and you suddenly find yourself wishing you could just snap and be there.
Teleportation appears a reasonable dream to have. On the other hand, when such a dream comes true, time will accelerate. Movement will become dematerialized. We may lose our marks, if not our identity.

Different themes may be developed around the subject of teleportation. Ubiquity. Mobility. The world getting smaller as we travel faster and faster. Visiting new potential life spaces (under the sea, off the ground, on new planets). Virtuality, making reality double. Time T. Changes in space and time, or on the contrary, the concept of durability, anchorage to the ground and by extension, comfort.

Physical teleportation may not be real yet but communication tools do enable us to teleport in a way and to mentally travel to any places around the world. We can ‘be’ anywhere anytime, living in a boundless parallel world that we built. These are paths the 2010 Biennial intends to explore.

For more info: www.citedudesign.com

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