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The Lipke's Bunker
Virtual Reality experience
VR experience for Žanis Lipke memorial in Riga - created by 4 media artists Ieva Vīksne, Lauris Taube, Kaspars Lēvalds and Līga Vēliņa.
Empathy as a tool to learn history and do not forget the importance of important historical events.
The Lipke's Bunker
Virtual Reality experience
VR experience for Žanis Lipke memorial in Riga - created by 4 media artists Ieva Vīksne, Lauris Taube, Kaspars Lēvalds and Līga Vēliņa.
Empathy as a tool to learn history and do not forget the importance of important historical events.
The Lipke's Bunker
The Lipke's Bunker
Virtual Reality experience
VR experience for Žanis Lipke memorial in Riga - created by 4 media artists Ieva Vīksne, Lauris Taube, Kaspars Lēvalds and Līga Vēliņa.
Empathy as a tool to learn history and do not forget the importance of important historical events.
Virtual Reality experience
VR experience for Žanis Lipke memorial in Riga - created by 4 media artists Ieva Vīksne, Lauris Taube, Kaspars Lēvalds and Līga Vēliņa.
Empathy as a tool to learn history and do not forget the importance of important historical events.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 October - "On the road (Ceļā)" Liepaja Museum, Liepaja, Latvia
2019 September - October "Academia", Latvian Academy of Art's centenary exhibition, ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art , Riga
2019 August - September (currently) "Lost in code" media art exhibition by Milda Ziemane, Ieva Vīksne and Līga Vēliņa, RIXC Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 July: Media art exhibition "Deviation. Novirzoties no kursa", Kursa, Liepaja, Latvia
2018 September: Exposition "Art as a Research" curated by Maija Demitere, European Researchers’ Night, Mplab, Liepaja University, Latvia
2018 September: Exhibition "Virtual Identities",Open lab, Mplab, LU, Latvia, Liepaja
2018 August: VR Exhibition "Objects in the reflection are closer than it seems" curated by Ieva Viksne, RIXC Gallery, Riga
2018 June: Exhibition "Local anesthesia", K. Ukstina street 17/21 , Liepaja, Latvia
2017 April: Exhibition of Artists of Vidzeme, Latvia, Aluksne
2016 September/November: Aluksne Art's School, Et Tres Unum Es , Latvia, Aluksne
2016 April: Exhibition of Artists of Vidzeme region Sigulda Tower- Culture and Art Gallery , Latvia, Sigulda
2015 August : POETICALLY MAN DWELLS III – Photo Festival Latvia 2015, Viesite Culture Palace, Latvia, Viesite
2015 July/August: THE SENSE OF BLOOMING – Aluksne museum , Latvia, Aluksne
2015 April/May: I LOVE YOU SO – Exhibition of Artists of Vidzeme Region – Valmiera Museum of Regional History and Art , Latvia, Valmiera
2015 March: POETICALLY MAN DWELS II – Month of Photography 2015, Latvia, Talsi
2015 January: POETICALLY MAN DWELS – Restaurant “Austra”, Latvia, Riga
2013 January: DIENA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2012 – Riga Art Space, Latvia, Riga
AWARDS
2019 DELFI CAMPUS AWARD - RIGA IFF GOES VR / 24h MAGNETIC LATVIA Hackathon - Team "The Livingroom"
(Winning team members: Līga Vēliņa, Ieva Vīksne, Kaspars Lēvalds, Lauris Taube)
Maija Demitere, Eva-Maria Lopez, Liga Velina
PAPER TREES, 2021
Data visualizations / Augmented Reality
Concept: Maija Demitere, Eva Maria Lopez
3D: Liga Velina
B-52
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B-52
2021
3D Data visualizations / Virtual Reality
Looking at such concepts as: freedom, justice, democracy, "B-52" raises rhetorical questions: can countries really be independent? If freedom belongs to everyone, why does it seem to others to be more and to others less? What does a fair trial mean? What is the boundary where war and destruction are justified? Where are we as individuals in such military, often politically subjectivized processes? The viewer is introduced to a virtual, surreal journey, an environment that changes and transforms depending on data. The user is located in New York's Central Park - called an “oasis of the city”. The surrounding landscape of selected New York City landmarks and architecture surrounds the oasis. The B-52 Stratofortress periodically flies over the peaceful environment on his mission casting a shadow on the user. As a result of data related to the 2nd Gulf War (Iraq War, 2003 – 2011, considered as illegal invasion), buildings begin to deform, from utopia to dystopia.
Mental Purity
Mental Purity
2020
3D Data visualizations / Virtual Reality
"Mental purity" is a project created by two media artists - Ieva Vīksne (LV) and Līga Vēliņa (LV). Each artist has created her own mental data representation in a 3D environment. By exploring different methods of mental hygiene and wellbeing technologies, artists have created a visual representation that lets explore the progress of these practices and daily data measurements. Artists invite the audience to wander into a sculptural garden of data in VR environment.
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Group show "Art Extends Lives ", Virtual media art, 2021 March exhibition, https://gara.aste.gallery.
Group show "Art Extends Lives", media art exhibition, Piltenes street - 5, Liepāja, 2020 December
Group Show - Planting a resort for Mental Ecology, Digital exhibition, ARSELECTRONICA / MPLAB (Linz, Austria) mplab.resort.com, 2020 September
Borderlines
Borderlines I,II 2019
3D Data visualizations / diptych / processing
Collaboration with programmer Ingus Štāls.
Project "Borderlines is research about data visualizations in the context of the art and visual culture, using population data as a base to create an artwork (diptych) contrasting global (world population) and local (Latvia population) data. One of the aims of the research is to represent the data impact on geographical borders and reflect large and dynamic people movement in time and space.
Group show, Lost in Code, RIXC Gallery, Riga 02.08. - 21.09.19
Group show, Ceļā, Liepaja museum, Liepaja 04.10. - 04.11.19
Groupshow, Academia, the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art 20.09. - 17.11.19
The artwork is included in RIXC Center for New Media Culture Artbase / Digital Archive
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Data Selfportrait
Data selfportrait 2019
Video / Screen-recording / processing
24 sec = 24 hours. Author used analogue data collected on herself: what time does she wakes up, when she goes to sleep, how often she calls her mum , dad and brother, how many meals she eat per day, etc.
Projection for LMA
Jurgis Peters, Liga Velina
Projection at Annual Carneval at Art Academy of Latvia
2020
Live installation / motion sensor
Theme: Distopa/ Utopia
Still life VR
Still life 2018
Virtual Reality
Surreal and virtual environment in which the user is exposed to a new experience by moving and discovering symbols and objects that reflect artefacts and pieces of the author's unconsciousness. The work is based on the abstract surrealism aesthetics, in which the characteristics are achieved through the means of cubism and abstraction.
The artwork is included in RIXC Center for New Media Culture Artbase / Digital Archive
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Objects in the reflection are closer
than they appear, Groupshow
RIXC Gallery, Riga
23.08. -.09.18 More
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Videoart
Tiresome verses
2020
Video portrait of the imaginary, anonymous author of the depressive poem.
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entrée, 2018
Video - portrait. Self representation.
“entrée” [Balet term, french [introduction]] is an interpretation of the beautiful film “Pas de Deux” (1968) by Norman McLaren. In ballet, a pas de deux ( French:"step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. “entrée” (French: "introduction") is a woman’s metaphoric video portrait - self - representation, as a two-channel video installation.
Artwork is included in The NOASS Latvian Video Art Archive
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Metamorphosis 2018
Video. 00:02:00
6 video portraits of current companions. metamorphosis as transformation and interaction between portraits of characters.
Artwork is included in The NOASS Latvian Video Art Archive
Metamorphosis 2018
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Early works
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Dialogue in a Soviet space
2015 - 2016
Mixed technique / linocut/ digital prints
Poetic view at my grandparen'ts relationship in Soviet times in Latvia.
The modern man usually associates Soviet times with a circus show, where living people are actors in political and social setting tangle. But for people who lived those times, it was a reality. We see the difference in a rhythm of life and life sense if we compare our self with generation who lived during this mentioned historical period. So what was thinking „Soviet man”? What he was talking about? What was his attitude and opinion towards existing political power? My grandparents self-created representations and historical materials gave me a chance to understand how they both like a Latvian people were affected in their ideology and sense of freedom.
Main part of this project is based on my grandparents letter' archive which was written from 1956 to 1963. These years in a Soviet Union is historically called Khrushchev period.
Letters' archive was 7 year long conversation day after day, and it became like a self-created private world of two young lovers (15 and 17) which helped them to survive in an airless soviet space.
The main objective of this project is to supplement our national identity as a post soviet society threw away it’s own historical materials and to discover Soviet times historical period with its own specific atmosphere and sense.
Visual interpretations are based on citations from grandparents letters archive which are chosen by author depending of my subjective vision. Works are created combining digital prints with different kind of graphic techniques (lino-cut, mixed graphics techniques )
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Nude 2011
Photograpy
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