Ich lade Euch zu meine Austellung ein.
Solo exhibiton by Ivar Veermäe
Black Box Recognition
30.11. - 21.12.2012 at o.T Projektraum, Berlin
Vernissage: 30.11.2012 20:00
In the exhibition “Black Box Recognition” I´m creating a dialogue between my two new works “re_cognition” and “Kurfürstendamm 26”.
“Kurfürstendamm 26” deals with emergence of big consumer electronics companies, whose products are well designed and function as easy-to-use surfaces. The functioning-mechanisms of these companies could be seen metaphorically as black boxes, which in science and engineering are defined as devices or systems, which can be viewed in terms of their input and output, without knowing about their internal workings.
Video installation “re_cognition” is based on storage I secretly filmed in public transport and other temporary places in Germany, Sweden and Estonia. Use of “smart” technology in public space is growing and it is creating huge amounts of GPS, search and other data, which is stored in some “black boxes”= data centers. With “re_cognition” I’m drawing attention to facial recognition technologies, used in surveillance systems and also social networks. It is growing tendency, which will be used for security or personalized advertising.
Ivar Veermäe was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1982 and currently lives and works in both Berlin and Tallinn, Estonia. He received a BA in photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2009 and continues his MA studies at Space Strategies department in Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
He has had several solo exhibitions in Estonia and his work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Art Museum of Estonia, Art Hall of Tallinn, the Estonian Contemporary Art Museum, the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistic in Berlin, the Sociale Verzekeringsbank in Holland, the Kulturhuset Bronden in Denmark. He has participated with perfomances in Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin and in Month of Performance Art Berlin in ACUD Theater. His videos are being screened in various screenings at the AND Festival in Manchester, Crosstalk festival in Budapest, and in Virtual Memorial, Cambodia.
Most of his work is dealing with the issues of public space (city space and space in internet), networks, new media and group behaviour.
www.ivarveermae.com