| FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) | Liverpool, UK |
“In-between Gaze” by Mizuki Watanabe
FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool is preparing its summer 2010 exhibition Persistence of Vision which explores the interplay of vision, memory and media. Informed by scientific research and inspired by historical developments in media technology, the exhibition presents contemporary artists’ works that repurpose current image technologies, as well as those of our recent past, to playfully review and re-imagine the devices through which our memories are stored and revived.
Featuring nine international artists including Japanese media artist Watanabe Mizuki, Persistence of Vision is informed by scientific research and inspired by historical developments in media technology. The exhibition examines the role of image technologies in shaping memory, perception and public consciousness at a point in time when the ‘outsourcing of memory’ appears to accelerate and undergo significant changes, touching upon the ubiquity of digital images and the way governments and media exercise control over which images make up individual and collective memories.
Mizuki Watanabe
Born Japan, 1980, Watanabe graduated from Chelsea College of Arts and Design in 2005, then entered the Department of New Media in the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts, graduating in 2008. In the same year she took part in the Extended Senses exhibition at ICC Intercommunication Center. She continues to work in Tokyo where she furthers her artistic exploration of the nature of the mediated image and its components, examining time and space in the moving image to question the control and power of technology.
Julien Maire (France), Julius von Bismark (Germany), Gebhard Sengmüller (Austria), Jamie Allen (Canada), Sascha Poh?epp (Germany), Lindsay Seers (UK), Melik Ohanian (France) and AVPD (Denmark)
FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology is the UK’s leading organisation for the commissioning and presentation of film, video and new media art forms and is based in Liverpool, England.
Founded in 1988 (then named Moviola) FACT has commissioned and presented over 100 digital media artworks with artists including Mark Wallinger, Barbara Kruger,Tony Oursler and Isaac Julien . FACT exists to inspire and promote the artistic significance of film, video and new and emerging media.
FACT is an organisation working to champion new and emerging forms of creativity, engaging a wider range of artists and others in the development of new and emerging media forms.
