Grok Institute
Curators Jean-Robert Saintil and Andrew McPhee are launching a new-format event featuring forward thinking digital art, light installations, video and music.
Grok will be launching this Thursday (February 19th, 7PM, 12 Kingly Street, London W1) across 5 spaces in and around Carnaby Street, the Newburgh Quarter and Kingly Court in Central London.
The event itself is not a gallery, agathering, an opening nor a clubnight; but rather a mix of all of the above that sits somewhere in between.
The first event runs for 2 weeks and will feature brand new collaborations between Nanika’s Andreas Muller and Hellicar&Lewis’s Joel Gethin Lewis, installations by Creative review favs The Digital Club,More Soon’s Carl Burgess, Thomas Traum, Marc Kremers, Switzerland’s Sgis.ch, Amsterdam’s Harm van den Dorpal, Artist/Director Mitch Stratten, and Karborn.
The music will be provided by Drek Records head Secondo, Ditched Disco’s Guy Noir, Discombabulate’s Laurence and the Grok Residents JSaintil and Andrew Lo-Train (Minimallondon).
Grok Institute’s aim is give the enchantment of digtital art, music and technology a much needed platfrom where the digitally inclined can connect, inspire and collaborate on even newer and more demanding
projects.
The installations will be changing and evolving throughout the 2 week period. There will also be a special ProteinOS Forum where the artists will talk about their work, their inspirations and their methods.
Artists involved in the project include:
Thomas Traum: www.thomastraum.com
Marc Kremers: www.marckremers.com
The Digital Club: www.thedigitalclub.net
Moresoon: moresoon.org
Nanika/Andreas Muller: www.nanikawa.com
Mitch Stratten: www.mitchstratten.net
Joel Gethin Lewis: www.joelgethinlewis.com
Karborn: www.karborn.com
Harm van den Dorpel: www.harmvandendorpel.com
Sgis.ch: sgis.ch
Musicians include:
Secondo:www.myspace.com/scndo
Guy Noir: www.guynoir.co.uk
