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News
A list of initiatives that Derivart is now undertaking.
10.03.10
Derivart in DORKBOT London at Limehouse Town Hall.
- When:
- 19:00-22:00, 17 March 2010
- Where:
- Limehouse town hall, the boxing club, limehouse town hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA (directions below)
- Vocal Trio - EunJoo Shin
"Vocal Trio," which consists of three musical instruments, transforms the voice of a participant received through a mike into a sound of specific musical instrument while maintaining the same rhythm and musical scale. It also transforms the physical activity of speaking as a form of communication in everyday life into a non-linguistic form of communication by means of the sound of musical instruments. - Suicide 2.0 - Danja Vasiliev
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (http://suicidemachine.org) & Netless (http://k0a1a.net/netless/) - Zero Dollar Laptop - marc garrett
The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology. Jake Harries from Access Space (http://www.access-space.org/), Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (http://www.furtherfield.org) - Game Broker - Daniel Beunza and Jesus Rodriguez
Daniel and Jesus from Derivart present three mini-games about financial crises for the original Nintendo Game Boy.
+info: http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/67/
25.09.09
Video Oxcars 2009
See the promotional Video from gala Oxcars 2009, Derivart was presented on 29th October.
05.08.08
Derivart is moves to a camping meeting
Derivart was at Gijón from from 5th to 9th of August 2008 at, to enjoy the SummerLAB Camp 2008. This event is a meeting point for digital creators, hackers and artists living in Spain. It promotes free and opens source tools for the creative creation hosted in Laboral.
While there, Derivart was developing new items for its project Casas Tristes, and soon you will soon see some new data visualizations and some new content,... all this assisted by the new fresh air of an amazing place in north east of Spain called Asturias.
+info: http://www.hangar.org/wikis/summercamp
30.05.08
DERIVART WIN THE MADRID PROCESOS 08
Derivart received one of the eight assistances for production projects of MADRID PROCESOS 08, with a new version of the project SpreadPlayer, originally started in 2004. SpreadPlayer rethinks the concept of financial data visualization thought using sound.
For this project Derivart collaborated with Eduard Aylon.
For further information just click this link.
19.02.08
Solo exhibition in Abellò museum
"Intersections between: ART, TECHNOLOGY and FINANCE": It is the first solo exhibition of Derivart at Abello Museum in Mollet del Vallès (a town near Barcelona). This city is very special because it is the birth place of Jesus and Mar where they born and grown. The exhibition will be open 28th february to 11th of May. In the exhibition the visitors could see a selection of projects created by this art collective during the last two years.
Further information: www.museuabello.com
2.12.07
Burbujometro exhibited in the gallery PUREPROJECT en NYC
The Burbumeter project was exhibited in Pureproject a gallery in Soho NYC in the November 2007.
Further information: www.thepureproject.com
27.11.07
Burbujometro at BAC Festibal 2007 placed in CCCB
Here you can see the video of the interactive installation El Burbujometro, exhibited now in CCCB of Barcelona since December 20th 2007.
For further information see the oficial website of the festival: www.bacfestival.com
16.10.07
Art for the iphone
"US Mortgager", an innovative and new type of US mortgage calculator. It is a new version of our project call "Hipotecadora". Both projects commenting upon the real estate bubbles in the US and in Spain. The calculators try to show how old you will be with a picture of your comic drawing face, when you finish paying a mortgager based on your current salary, and finally showing a cominc picture of what you may look like when you finally pay it off.
You can see online here.
20.05.07
Video about the exhibition of Derivart in Observatori 2007(Valencia)
If you want more information of all about the exhibitions in the festival of Valencia, you can see our press section on this website.
Observatori official website.
07.02.07
Presentation derivart in DORKBOT New York at Soho gallery .
On 7th March 2007, the team is travelled to New York to present the DERIVART colective to explain the concept of 'finance art'.
Website Dorkbot-New York
29.08.06
The concept Finance art is defined now in Wikipedia
Derivart used the concept of finance art for the first time in its presentation to Dorkbot-Barcelona at Metrónom Gallery in 2005. In June 2006, Derivart opened, as a curators of the first exhibition about finance art at La Casa Encendida in Madrid and the titled exhibition is "Derivatives, new art financial visions".
07.07.06
We-make-money-not-art.com interviews Derivart
The new media blogger Regine Debatty interviews Derivart .
03.06.06
Opening this coming June 27th: "Derivatives, new art financial visions" in La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
Derivart is curating an art exhibition on finance and art,
titled
"Derivatives, new art financial visions." The exhibition will be held
at museum La Casa Encendida, Madrid. On the day of the opening, Fabio
Cifariello will perform Nasdaq Voices, a live financial concert that
involves a sound sound visualization of the Nasdaq stock market.
The exhibition will be open from June 28th to September 23d.
More information about the June activities of La Casa Encendida
24.04.06
Herraiz & Soto interviews Derivart
A comprehensive interview that synthesizes the trajectory of Derivart and the projects it is currently undertaking.
05.04.06
Derivart presents its latest curatorship project at ESDI in Sabadell (Barcelona)
Derivart gave a presentation at Escuela Superior de Diseño (ESDI) in Sabadell, Barcelona. The talk was part of the Esdiada (ESDI-day), a one-day annual event in which the school features the work of its faculty and students.
The event includes a fashion show, plastic art, installations of interactive art, and an academic presentation. In 2006, the presentation was given by Derivart, and it described its upcoming curatorship project, “Derivatives: new art financial visions.”
If you did not have the chance to attend, you can watch the video in our space in Youtube.com (Spanish only)
05.03.06
“One day I played at drawing finance,” exhibition at Espacio Incívics.
Derivart exhibited its latest pieces in plastic art at Incívics, a municipal art gallery in Granollers, Barcelona. The exhibition entails an artistic reflection on the current Spanish financial scenery.
The exhibition opened with “Ticker-Man,” the latest performance by Derivart. In it, artist Jesús Rodríguez undertakes the role of financial superhero. Against a background of music derived from the commodities markets composed by sociologist Yuval Millo, Ticker-Man created an oil painting that embodied the voices of the market. From numbers, to music, to numbers back again, Ticker-Man reflects on the mediated nature of financial representation.
Exhibition from May 3rd to May 24th 2006 at Can Gili Civic Center, Granollers.
Friday, Feb 24, 2005;
Derivart wins Inéditos ‘06
The Obra Social Caja Madrid foundation awarded Derivart the Inéditos ’06 prize in support of its proposal, “Derivatives: new art financial visions.” (Click here for more information).
The exhibition was on display at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) from June 27th to September 3rd, 2006.
Sunday, May 15, 2005;
Daniel Beunza wins the 2005 Outstanding Paper Award in the sociology of communication and information technology.
The award was given for his article "Tools of the Trade" (joint with David Stark), which analyzed the organization of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room. The prize was awarded by the American Sociological Association. According to the jury, the paper "address[es] socially significant and conceptually difficult issues in a way that blends theoretical sophistication and empirical depth."
Tuesday, April 5, 2005;
Derivart presented at Dorkbot Barcelona in Metronom Gallery.
Derivart presented its work on April 5th 2005 at Dorkbot Barcelona, the community of electronic artists based in Barcelona. In the presentation, Derivart introduced the concept of Finance Art, as well as its current lines of work : the "Parliament of Finance" (currently on exhibition at Karlsruhe's ZKM Center for Art and Media), the FinanceSketch and the SpreadPlayer.
Link: http://www.dorkbotbarcelona.org/
Sunday, March 20, 2005;
Daniel Beunza is showing "The Parliament of Finance" at the
ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
Until August 7th 2005, Daniel Beunza showed "The Parliament of Finance" at the
ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The installation, developed jointly with Fabian Munisea, consists of a gallery of engravings with the
content of the Bloomberg screens used by Wall Street traders. With this
graphical exploration, Beunza and Muniesa consider the possibility of using the
digital tools employed in the capital markets to promote participation and
interactivity in the realm of politics. The installation is part of a
collective exhibition that explores different technologies of graphic and
political representation, titled "Making Things Public."
PDF : Listening_to_the_spread_plot.pdf
Link: makingthingspublic.zkm.de/
