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23. Translator’s note: The presentation of the projects Art Room
The original sentences in (2005) by Susana Mendes Silva, 30×1 (2005) by
Portuguese were, respectively,
“Pergunte-me tudo o que @c & Lia, and The eBay Illustrated
sempre quis saber sobre arte
contemporânea” and “Não tenhas Dictionary of Ending Items (2017) by
medo de perguntar tudo o que Alice dos Reis relied on various types of documents.
sempre quiseste saber sobre
arte contemporânea”. Susana Mendes Silva’s project was represented in the
24. See @c (2005). exhibition by the phrase “Ask me everything you’ve ever
25. Sonic Acts is an wanted to know about contemporary art,” an iteration
interdisciplinary organisation of her original invitation “Don’t be afraid to ask every-
founded in 1994 in Amsterdam,
dedicated to the creation, thing you’ve always wanted to know about contempo-
research, and dissemination
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of digital and electronic art. rary art,” excerpts from curatorial texts accompanying
her performances, and several screenshots taken during
these events. In the absence of physical copies of the catalogues in
which the project is featured, images of their covers were displayed.
The project brings to the online space the concept of her previous
work Artphone (2002), in which the artist made herself available
to discuss contemporary art with anyone who called her. Art Room
allowed this conversation to take place in a virtual “face-to-face”
setting at a time when video chat websites were still a novelty.
The installation 30×1 by @c [Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela]
& Lia resulted from a collaboration between the collective and the
Austrian artist. The installation was created from a hundred one-mi-
nute audiovisual clips, organised into five groups and either projected
or displayed on televisions throughout the rooms of Galeria Solar in
Vila do Conde, where the project originated. The installation trans-
formed this physical space into “an immersive, semi-random, spatial-
-audiovisual composition.” For this exhibition, the artists, in line
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with their guiding concept of improvisation, proposed revisiting and
reworking their modular audiovisual concept to adapt it to the present
context. Thus, the project’s presentation included the premiere of
30×N (2024), an audiovisual performance by @c with artist Rodrigo
Carvalho in a stage version, as well as the exhibition of documents
related to the installation 30×1, namely a brochure produced by
Galeria Solar and the video Int.16/54//son01/30×1 (2006),
composed from the original audiovisual sources and installed on
a DVD (Digital Video Disc) player. This video is part of the compilation
Sonic Acts XI – The Anthology of Computer Art,
which could be explored through a physical copy of the magazine
and its accompanying poster. This anthology was released as part of
Sonic Acts Festival XI and offers a perspective on the history
of computational art at a time when digital technology was already
transforming creative possibilities .
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The performance The eBay Illustrated Dictionary

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