The international art and design conference ‘Tasmeem Doha 2019′ is hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in Education City. It will take place on the 13-15 March. There will be workshops, exhibitions and prominent speakers from all over the world and it’s all free and open to the public!
Tasmeem Doha will have three exhibitions as part of the conference and they will take place at VCUarts Qatar.
‘QAL, The Anti-Carpet’ is an exhibition by Media Artist and Interaction Designer Ali Phi. It will take place at the Gallery at VCUarts Qatar. The opening reception in the presence of the artist will take place on the 13 March at 5:30 pm and will run until April the 13. ‘QAL’ is an interactive, generative, audiovisual installation exploring environmental design in futuristic architecture with roots in Persian motifs.
The laptop’s screen projects white light towards the hands of the viewer which starts to generate patterns made by its movements. The result is a new, highly detailed, physical carpet in very high resolution. Over 60 patterns can be generated in one second. Some of them have been captured and are printed on the 1.5 m by 2 m canvases within the exhibition. Because of the countless possibilities of different parameters, such as the amount of light in the gallery, the sizes and the positions of hands and skin colours, the patterns are unique and it is almost impossible to recreate the same one.
‘Elemaun’, a performance-driven audiovisual project by Ali Phi, concentrating on Persian motifs and including the regional music of Iran, will also take place during Tasmeem Doha.
The ‘-162° Trading Power’ exhibition at the Fire Station: Artist in Residence, will explore the significance of liquid natural gas relations between Japan and Qatar by using 40 floating printers that source text and images from the internet. The result is a choreographed performance of prints making information tangible. The opening reception will be on the 14 March as part of Tasmeem Doha. The exhibition will be open until the 22 March.
The project is a collaboration between faculty and students at VCUarts Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar, and the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology at Tokyo Metropolitan University. ‘-162° Trading Power’ originally exhibited at the W+K gallery in Tokyo in December 2018.
The third and final exhibition is the ‘Tasmeem In the Classroom – Behind the Scenes’ exhibition in the Project Space at VCUarts Qatar during the conference, will take viewers on a journey through the different perspectives of VCUarts Qatar’s faculty and the ways in which they guide their students to imagine, create, interact, and locate stories in their creative work.
Registration for the conference and workshops are now open! Anyone wishing to attend is invited to go to their website for more details.
