Is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. Set up by Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring and (un)usual fascinations at a certain point in time. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between
concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa.
Serious play or playful seriousness.
Schmilblique derived from Schmilblick
The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 1950s. It is absolutely useless, and can therefore be used for anything, being rigorously entire. Pierre Dac himself credits the brothers Jules and Raphaël Fauderche with its invention.
The word quickly became very popular in French language and was sometimes used as a synonym for thing or stuff, or something designating a strange or unknown object. Nowadays, this word is frequently used to refer to some limited help provided by someone to solve a difficult problem. The idiom is actually 'Faire avancer le schmilblick' (To make the schmilblick move/get ahead, literally). Also, advancing a subject.
Ouvroir | Faire avancer le schmilblick
is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring, the (un)usual. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa. Serious play or playful seriousness.
Set up by Karin Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice.
Website in Process
A TRIP TO THE MOON A MOON TO THE TRIP
From the artistic research "Black Box Testing, A Tomato that tastes like a melon/lemon and sounds like an apple" evolved the video "A Trip to the Moon A Moon to the Trip".
A research into the constellation of information that artificial intelligence, algorithms, text, image and artist create together. What happens when the search engine of our daily life is deliberately questioned? How quickly does the definition of image and text derail? And can minority languages act as a form of resistance to stay under the radar of big tech?
Incognito artistic stories for algorithms, artificial intelligence and people.
A Trip to the Moon A Moon to the Trip, artistic research - video,
Research studio [art]ificial intelligence, iArts, research centre of Technology Driven Art, research centre for Arts Autonomy and the Public Sphere, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)