HARD-CORE

Artist collective HARD-CORE is launching ASAHI 4.0 with a keynote presentation by CEO Skyler Linderberg at London’s Art Guard on September 30.

After another launch on International Worker’s Day in May this year, the project is described as a “cloaked initiative” and “curatorial robot” that uses, or rather is used by some of the most influential social media platforms, like Instagram and Twitter where Asahi 4.0 is already dispersed and networked. Giving an indication of what the keynote speech and the project focussed on providing a virtual environment for art might lead to, the press release describes its function as “interoperability, virtualisation, decentralisation, real-time capability, service orientation and modularity.”

See the ASAHI 4.0 website for details.**

The HARD-CORE art collective is releasing its latest project in the form of the Close Your Eyes exhibition, running at Middelburg’s Ruimte Caesar art space from November 22 to November 28.

Members of HARD-CORE include a handful of artists that have graced the digital pages of aqnb before but prefer, for the sake of the collective, to remain unnamed. “We try to treat HARD-CORE as an individual character that rather controls us,” writes one artist in an email.

The exhibition in Middelburg comes as part of a two-year series of exhibitions called LET GOOOOO, curated by Just Quist and hosted by the Ruimte Caesuur a project space, taking the form of a constructive critique on what was perceived as the failure of the series in its mission. Described as an “imaginative exhibition constructed out of hypothetical scenarios” and “through your own, and external, imaginary restrains”, Close Your Eyes comes with a sound piece designed as a journey through various exhibiting scenarios and accompanied with the (royalty-free) songs of Kevin MacLeod.

See the Close Your Eyes exhibition page for details. **