SATELLITE

DECEMBER 1-6, 2015

TRANSMITTING NEW CONCEPTS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

SATELLITE is a new alternative exhibition that will be presented during Miami Art Week at several beachfront venues, each stewarded by renowned art curators and groundbreaking art organizations. 

Satellite is transforming an entire neighborhood into a destination for the arts with new and exciting projects that span the gamut of art, music, performance, installation, new media, and technology activations, featuring groundbreaking work by artists and arts organizations, including Pussy Riot and Jacolby Satterwhite. 

SATELLITE was conceived by artist Brian Whiteley and produced in partnership with Miami Project and Art on Paper Miami. 

THE VIEW A UNIVERSAL CANVAS

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Celebrating the inaugural Satellite Show, the internet, and all that is digital, interactive and connected, Tropicult and artist, Michael Powell, proudly present “The Visit”  a web-based artwork in which users can come together to create and share. Tropicult and Satellite invite web users around the world to log in and participate in the Miami Art Week festivities by collaborating on the digital canvas takeover by visiting: Tropicult.com/canvas (coming soon).

 

Once on tropicult.com/canvas, users may collaborate on an appropriated and altered looping video of Picasso painting on a large sheet of glass which is overlaid on the online canvas. Picasso appears to paint onto the screen from the virtual world and we paint back.

 

Visitors are able to draw alone, or with the click of a button, switch on the universal collaborative canvas mode to join anyone on the public domain. The interactive canvas was created with Javascript and HTML5 and is essentially running on a paired down, super simplified paint program-like code, that allows users to co-draw and co-view in real time.

 

Michael Powell’s digital canvas takeover is set to go live on Satellite’s opening date (December 1st ) and will be available on Tropicult.com/canvas through January 2016. To document and archive the project, Tropicult will collect user’s drawings throughout the month long run, which will later be showcased in a photo gallery on the website

 

Launch Date:  December 1st  Time: TBA

 

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PROGRAM

HIGH TIDE
ARTIST RUN
PostHuman Art Temple
EXTRA TREATS
Miami Beach Gift Shop
DiMoDA

High Tide: This Is Not a Blame - Game, But A Game - Change

This is not a blame-game, but a game-change. High Tide, presented as part of Satellite Art Show, is a locally sourced exhibition featuring work by Ana Mendez, Laurencia Strauss, Matthew Evan Taylor, Deanna Young, Neil Bender, TVGOV, and explores various ways artists confront the intersection of unattainable, paradisal ideals and urban development, safe-space making, and sustainability in South Florida.

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DiMoDA MOBILE OCULUS RIFT PROJECT

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PREVIEW

ARTISTS-RUN TIGER STRIKES ANDROID

#AUGMENTED #ARTINLANDSCAPE

Titled “AUGMENTED,” the exhibit showcases inspiring artistic visions taking shape at the intersection of art and technology, reality and imagination, physical and digital, and narrative and poetry.

Spark invited seasoned American and international artists whose critically-acclaimed careers are anchored in the physical realm as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multi-disciplinary installations, and asked each to conceive original digital art to “augment” the urban and natural landscapes of North Miami Beach. The participating artists’ responses to this proposition are as thought-provoking and ambitious as they are poetic and lyrical.

The artworks are placed at various GPS points around the fair’s 6-block area––between the beach and Collins Avenue, and between 72nd and 75th streets. These artworks exist in the realm of Augmented Reality (AR) and are not visible to the nake eye: they emerge only through an AR app on viewers’ smart phones.

Visitors are encouraged to snap photos of their AR artwork views and share them via social media.

The exhibit aims to offer a refreshing counterpoint to the many location agnostic, from-one-wall-to-another artworks that dominate the content offered at today’s nomadic art fair scene.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: RIchard Humann, John Kelly, Chris Mazione, Shuli Sadé, Carl Skelton

MUSIC

SATELLITE’s Music Program highlights outsider musical practice and the peer to peer internet-based conversation that dominates our current musical dialogue.

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Curated By Sam Hillmer (Trans Pecos)

FADE TO MIND | DRE SKULL (Mixpak) | THE LARGE (Mixpak) | JUBILEE (Mixpak) | BRYAN KASSENIC (The Bunker NY) | CLAY WILSON (The Bunker, Styles Upon Styles) | ZEMI17 (The Bunker) | TRYNA FUNCTION | JAMES CHANCE | COLLAPSING SCENERY | ZS | VHVL | ULTRA DEMON | MICHAEL BEHARIE | DIAMOND TERRIFIER (Terrible Records) | PATRICK HIGGINS (NNA Tapes)  |  DON DEVORE  |  MARIA CHAVEZ   |  JEANANN DARA 

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

COLLAPSING SCENERY METAPHYSICAL COPS

Surf Med Pharmacy | VIP Preview | December 1, 5 – 10PM

Collapsing Scenery is the new electro project from Don De Vore of Sick Feeling. De Vore seems to constantly shift and evolve his sounds as Collapsing Scenery is at least the 10th band of his career. With that many sonic identities under his belt, he has managed to develop yet another distinctive sound with Reggie Debris.

The duo has ditched their usual stringed instruments for a Swiss army knife of synths, sequencers, drum machines, and samplers. Debut single “Metaphysical Cops (Can Break Physical Bones)” is a dizzying display of all the tools at their disposal. The track opens with an 8-bit feel that could serve as a dark backdrop for an early ’90s fighting/adventure game with Debris’ smooth, breathy vocals sitting on top. Then things get trippy, becoming much more ambient and chaotic with huge atmospheric sweeps and whomping sequences.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

NON GRATA  ART OF THE INVISIBLES

Surf Med Pharmacy | Thursday, December 3, 8 – 10 PMnongrata2

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out.

For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical
– it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity.

The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t. 

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

REEFER MADNESS LIVE

The Garage | December 4,  8 – 10 PMreefer_madness_poster_by_meganvandee

ANVIL (Art Collective) sound installation/performance of REEFER MADNESS contains a video projection and monitors including a new ‘live’ soundtrack depicting cut-out frames from the 1936 propaganda film originally financed by the Church and the U.S. Government.

Marketed as “Tell Your Children” this unconstitutional Church and State collaboration was intended to be shown to American parents between the two World Wars as a morality tale, desperately attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use.

ANVIL includes film projections of cut-up original images while injecting visuals and puffs of sound for a mesmerizing “drag of concentrated sin”.