Upcoming Exhibitions
January 5, 2010 - February 9, 2010
David Apfel, from the series: I am a Spaceship, digital print on paper, 2009
David Apfel: Artist as a Spaceship
Prints
Chicago
David Apfel is a space artist. His art is interdisciplinary, from visual to new media, from scenic to scientific. He is founder of El Club de los Astronautas, a space advocacy group of artists and musicians. Its mission is to promote a manned, interstellar voyage. Its approach is to find and debate strategies that might make stand out this idea beyond fiction, hopefully during our life-time! Therefore a hypothetical spaceship is suggested: The Mare Nostrum Spaceship. To realize a million-years interstellar voyage, assuming the auspicious premise to find some sexy aliens, the essential, first step is to overcome our biological limits and to transform into a new kind of (human) existence. www.elclubdelosastronautas.com
Bio:David Apfel studied computer science at the Paris Lodron University, Salzburg/Austria. He worked as a programmer, designer, actor y creator in various art and multimedia productions like the one of Marcellí Antunez Roca (international new media artist). In 2005 he founded El Club de los Astronautas and presented his work at the University of Barcelona, the University of Almería, the Museum of Science Barcelona (CosmoCaixa), Center of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Caixa Forum Madrid, Sonar Festival, Horitzo TV, La Sexta (TV), Transmediale Berlin, Goethe Institute, LAntic Teatre, etc. He organized various art events, shows and exhibitions. He collaborated with Giulio Prisco (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) is the scientific adviser of Institut Fatima (interactive art and music group). He is invited to the IV Jornadas Internacionales Universos y Metaversos: aplicaciones artísticas de los nuevos medios. by the Department of Art History, University of Barcelona.