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Initially trained in classical arts, J\u0101nis Garan\u010ds works in technological and algorithmic art genres – interactive multi-media installations and performances, Virtual Reality, video, digital print and mixed material painting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His artworks examine the role of operational media, formations of coded governance and surveillance and its misinterpretations in socioeconomic systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2000 J\u0101nis Garan\u010ds focuses on stereoscopic imagery, immersive 3D sound and combination of complex programmed, algorithmic structures with spontaneous gestures and live improvisation on-stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has exhibited and presented his work internationally at venues and events including Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), DEAF (Rotterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki 2004, Montreal 2020, Barcelona 2022, Paris 2023), Centre Pompidou – Paris, SAT – Society for Art and Technology (Montreal), RIXC Art and Science festival (Riga), Banff New Media Institute, EXPO 2000 World Exhibition Hanover, and others.<\/p>\n

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Garancs creates crazy stereoscopic projections – like what you’d hallucinate the Net to look like in William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Call it the new phychedelia for the SMS kiddies, or the reprogramming of our cyberpunk fantasies with surround-sound bleeps\u2026”<\/em><\/p>\n

“\u2026while many new media artists are so conceptionally convoluted that few get the hyper-irony, Garancs’ work is visceral and tangible: a 3D datascape of moving lines, colours and information that can be set up to interact with moving bodies. Viva networked acid for the wired generation!<\/em>by Tobias C. van Veen for ARTSWEEK, Montreal Mirror (2003)<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Features & Interviews & Presentations:<\/strong>

confluxus [+][\u00d7] corner portals<\/strong> by J\u0101nis Garan\u010ds, on the role of code and algorithms in contemporary governance and communications, and the influence of immersive power on perception<\/strong>
https:\/\/www.streamingmuseum.org\/post\/janis-garancs-confluxus-corner-portals<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Audiovisual scenographies of transactions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/forum.ircam.fr\/article\/detail\/audiovisual-scenographies-of-transactions-by-janis-garancs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starp t\u012bklu un muzeju (Diskusija par postinterneta m\u0101kslu)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/arterritory.com\/lv\/vizuala_maksla\/raksti\/21108-starp_tiklu_un_muzeju<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Catalogues, Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n