Peter Freund
Summary of Recent Scholarly Activity (with brief annotations and links)
(2018-Present)
// Publications
[Forthcoming]
«The Art of Retraction», A*Desk: Journal of Critical Thinking, guest editor/curator, November 2020 issue. (Twenty contributions over five installments in the month of November. In addition to curating the entire project, I am authoring the umbrella theoretical text and five installment introductions.)
«Retracted Cinema», article in Found Footage Magazine. (My article is a theoretical text on algorithmic experimental film based on the program I curated for the main culture house in Barcelona (CCCB). Here is a link to the program, which screens Sept 29, 2020: Retracted Cinema. Also listed below under "Curatorial.")
[2020]
«Endnotes for an Allocution», Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought (vol 4, issue 4).
«Il n’y a pas de rapport sémiotique_tres lecturas discontinuas», essay co-authored with Eloi Puig and Vitor Magalhães, in IN>TRA: Artistic Practice as a Model of Experience. Colección Co-edicions. El Cep i la Nansa, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 2019. ISBN: 978-84-17756-13-0. DL: B 23284-2019. (The bi-lingual book of artist texts on theory and practice was released the week of September 7, 2020; please see my brief blog entry on it: IN>TRA.)
[2019]
«Acorus Calamus», Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics.
Four critical articles, A*Desk: Journal of Critical Thinking:
Entry #1: On Eloi Puig’s «Flying over the detritus of the GIF».
Entry #2: On Anna Dot’s «Background Silence».
Entry #3: On Martí Peran’s «What Criticism?».
Entry #4: On Sonia Fernández Pan’s «Fail Better».
// New Work and Exhibitions
[2020]
«Floating Point», algorithmic film to be screened as part of Retracted Cinema program, CCCB, September
«Lost Footage», algorithmic film (using machine learning, co-conceived with Eloi Puig) to be screened as part of Retracted Cinema program, CCCB, September
The 39th Annual Black Maria Film Festival, Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium (search under "experimental" category).
[2018-19]
«Lost Grids», Werner Thöni Art Gallery, Gràcia, Barcelona. <Solo exhibition>
adversorecto, co-founded Barcelona-based artist collective
[sample work in progress]
The Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing (proposal mock-up)
// Curatorial
[Forthcoming]
Retracted Cinema
International algorithmic film art exhibition
XCèntric, Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), Spain
September 29, 2020
// Presentations
[2019]
«Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Nature», invited talk for panel event, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, November 4.
«Antes del Antes», invited talk for panel event, Barcelona Young Gallery Weekend, Sept 20.
«Introducing Werner Thöni’s 4|4», University of Barcelona, July 11.
«Nonreciprocal Aesthetics», Pompeu Fabra University, April 10.
«Beyond Word and Image: From Interdisciplinary to Transdisciplinary Poetics», Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), April 26.
«Digital Images: Truth or Lie?» Biblioteca Ignasi Iglésias – Can Fabra, May 3.
«Conceptual Method», University of Barcelona, Faculty of Fine Art, February.
Artist Talk, Lost Grids, January.
Werner Thöni Artspace, Gràcia, Barcelona.
[2018]
«Détournement and Its Discontents», University of Vigo, Spain, November.