Since 2004 ArtExperience deals the relationship between art, sound, architecture and technology with different approaches.
The objective of ArtExperience is to built up an experience able to bring the public beyond the traditional form of contemporary art. Nowadays this subject sets up a lot of contacts with others fields of creativity or communication and comes into the everyday life, dialogues with architecture, social and antropological science, with design, fashion, advertising, cinema and music.

Edition 2007-Local Modernity/Global Expectations

Istanbul, 12-15 September, 2007

Domus Academy, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, SantralIstanbul, Triennale di Milano in collaboration with the 10th International Istanbul Biennal sponsored by KALE (Çanakkale Seramik&Kalebodur) presented LOCAL MODERNITY/GLOBAL EXPECTATIONS a workshop and a final event with Ömer Ali Kazma and Map Office

Curator: Maurizio Bortolotti

The workshop will be focused on the main question that different ideas of modernity are rooted locally but produce general expectations on human life around the world. The proposal is to focus on concrete relations that happens starting from local processes, which can generate an idea of modernity. Indeed, Modernity is something that happens locally, influencing art and having different faces in relation with the country and the geographical area. The main aim of AE Istanbul will be to create an open field for generating new ideas, suggestions, experimentations like in a process of ongoing experience, reflecting on the condition of art today in connection with other fields.
At the centre of the lab discussion will be the town as the main scene, where these relations can be produced as they’re affecting the way of making art. The town as a Urban display in which all relations become relevant for art events and products as a knot of many contradictions and expectations.

Edizione 2006-City-Sense Perceptual Landscapes/Sensorial Saturation

Event
Friday September 8th, 2006 – Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice

Starting from the consonance “city-sense” (“sense” as both “sensation” and “meaning”) and “citizens”, the question arises out of a dichotomy: on the one hand the possibility to recollect the different sensorial perceptions of the urban space into a meaningful “landscape”, on the other the danger of living passively a condition of chaotic saturation of senses. The initiative aims at focusing attention on the changes affecting our sensory relations with the city space and the way architecture, music and visual arts can be touched and conditioned by these transformations.

The event opened with the presentation of two video contributions offered by the architects Yung-Ho Chang - one of the most interesting representatives of the Chinese contemporary architecture and now director of the Architecture Department of the Boston MIT - and Mirko Zardini, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA).
These videos were the starting points for a round-table chaired by Maurizio Bortolotti and Antonio Somaini, with the participation of Yung-Ho Chang, Mirko Zardini, David Howes.
In the end, Ensemble Ex Novo, under the direction of Andrea Molino and the sound direction by Alvise Vidolin, performed “City Life” (1995), by the American composer Steve Reich – one of the main representatives of minimalist music.

Edition 2004-No Vitrines, No Museums, No Artists. Just a lot of People

18 - 23 May 2004 - Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice

Artist: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Curator: Maurizio Bortolotti

The focus of the workshop was the investigation of different forms of interaction, together with an artist who has adopted as personal language the ephemeral dimension of the event, through which he tries to break the borders between the several institutions of the world of art in order to obtain an open ground for creation.
The work of Rirkrit Tiravanija mainly consisted in the realisation of happenings in which the public participates with an active role. The artist created situations and environments in which the border between the artist and his public is questioned.
Other lecturers and guests:
Daniel Birnbaum, Richard Shusterman, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe

Edition 2005-Sound Spaces-Atmospheres

23-26 June, 2005 - Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice

Curator: Antonio Somaini
Artist: Carsten Nicolai

The artist and musician Carsten Nicolai, one of the main players of art and music worldwide, is considered one of the leaders of a generation of artists involved in exploring the crossing points between art, nature and science.
Active as artist, musician, performer and promoter of concerts, Nicolai investigates the limits of perception and a way of overcoming them. For example, he made possible to experience sound frequencies and electromagnetic fields through sight, tact, and hearing.
His installations follow a minimalistic aesthetics that attracts the spectator for elegance and semplicity and for the specific attention to the technological dimension. After participating to some important exhibitions as Documenta of Kassel and the Biennale of Venice, and to the huge retrospective inaugurated on January 19 at Frankfurt’s Kunsthalle Schirn, Carsten Nicolai presented in Venice a brand new concert of electronic music together with the japanese DJ Ryoji Ikeda, first-rate international star in experimenting and innovating the electronic music.
Other lectures and guests: Gernot Boehme, Andrea Branzi, Ryoji Ikeda.

Edition 2005-Modelmania

6-10 June, 2005 - Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice

Curator: Maurizio Bortolotti
Artist: Olafur Eliasson

Modelmania was dedicated to young professionals who wished to confront with one of the most interesting artists of these years and to enjoy the public events focused on the latest art issues.
Eliasson’s starting point is the idea of a world that exists as people have experienced it. The basic climate elements - water, light, temperature, atmospheric pressure – are the core of his work. Bringing natural phenomena in specific installations, realized on the road or in a gallery with tecnological materials, the artist proposes to the spectator to reflect on his/her perception of the physical world
Other lectures and guests: Kjetil Thorsen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yona Friedman, Hou Hanru.

Edition 2005-Matrioska

21-24 March 2004 - Domus Academy, Milan

Artist: Tobias Rehberger
Curator: Cloe Piccoli

The seminar idea was to observe the complexity of viewpoints, experiences, memories, images, individual and collective aesthetics, different cultural and geographical references. Therefore, goal of the seminar was to study how these influences contribute to depict a creativity based on an articulate and interesting relation system that also reflects the evolution of the nowadays world. The occasion of the research was a real example of 30’s Milan architecture: the Piscina Cozzi, the first Olympic indoor swimming pool built by the Italian architect Luigi Lorenzo Secchi from 1933 to 1935.
Matrioska referred to the stratification of forms and meanings, ways and experiences, and the occasion to go in depth is a seminar composed by study, confrontation, discover and design.

Edition 2004-The Listening Eye

15 – 20 June 2004 - Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice

Artist: Christian Marclay
Curator: Antonio Somaini

This workshop was aimed at exploring the relation between sound and image, listening and viewing, with an artist internationally known both as musician and as visual artist.
The work of Christian Marclay investigates the different manifestations – concrete and metaphorical, public or private – of the sound in contemporary culture, through video installations, photographs, sculptures, performances and music compositions. During the workshop the artist introduced the participants to the practice of mixing and fusing different expressive languages, a creative attitude dominating not just in visual arts but also in other fields of contemporary creativity.