The third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville will gather more than 150 artists from all over the world in Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada. BIACS 3, to be held from 2 October 2008 to 11 January 2009, will adopt the title “Youniverse” — referring to the interactivity of each individual with the universe.

According to the overview presented by the team appointed to plan the contents ¾ Peter Weibel, general director of the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Wonil Rhee, Korean curator, and Marie-Ange Brayer, director of FRAC Centre Regional Contemporary Art of Orleáns ¾ the forthcoming biennial will revolve around the connections between art, science, technology, architecture and the environment, within the global context of the information and communication society.

“The tendency at present is to democratize the use of technology; from personal computers and mobile phones to faucets and light switches, new technologies allow the user to adapt the environment to his needs, anytime, anywhere,” said Weibel.

The Biacs3 will feature four main sections:

The first one will offer a retrospective of the pivotal works of media art and will be curated by Peter Weibel.

The second part will show the latest tendencies in media art, net art and multimedia and will be based on the interaction with the viewer through the works of twenty artists selected by Wonil Rhee.

Architecture’s transformation through computer technology will be the topic of the third section, curated by Marie-Ange Brayer, which will display 45 works created by architects following three conceptual areas: Flux City, Bio Body and Design Yourself.

Finally, the fourth branch, which will be located between the main venue, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) and other peculiar sites around Seville, will deal with the archeology and the origins of science and technology in Andalusia.

The artists:

"YOUNIVERSE" curated by Peter Weibel

Artists: Abdulnasser Gharem, Andreas Zybach, Anne Niemetz / Andrew Pelling, Antonio Barrese,

Artavazd Achotovitch Peleshian, Andrei Ujica, Bernd Lintermann / Belschner Thorsten /Joachim, Böttger, Bill Viola, Cai Guo-Qiang, Christa Sommerer / Laurent Mignonneau, Christoph Höschele,

Daniela Kutschat / Rejane Cantoni, Dave Griffiths, Giselle Beiguelman, Jeff Han, Jeffrey Shaw

Jeppe Hein, Jordan Wolfson, Julius Popp, Kurt Hofstetter, Lillian Ball, Manfred Wolff-Plotegg, Masaki Fujihata, Marc Lee, Markus Huemer, Martin Walde, Max Dean, MEDRAR, Michael Bielicky, Michael Sailstorfer, Michael Schuster, Monika Fleischmann / Wolfgang Strauss, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Nancy Rubins, Nira Pereg, Paul De Marini, Philip Pocock, PIPS: Lab, Rabih Mroué, Ramón Guardans (with Adolf Mathias, Martín Schüttler, Matthias Gommel, Götz Dipper and Renata Sas), SCENOSCOME (Grégory Lasserre / Anaismet den Ancxt), Shilpa Gupta, Stephan von Huene, Tamás Waliczky, Tim Macmillan, Ursula Lavrencic / Auke Towslager, Zbigniew Rybczynski

"TRANSIT TECHNOLOGY" curated by Wonil Rhee

Sections: Trans-Thinkers / Trans-Civilizations / Illusion and Fantasy / Man and Cyborg / Liquid Time Travelers/ Environmental Media Application (Site Specific) / youniverse – New Writers

TRANS-THINKERS

Artists: Bose Krishnamachari, Catherine Ikam, Kim Shin-il, Paul Chan, Roland Fuhrmann

TRANS-CIVILIZATIONS

Artists: Jeon Joon-Ho, Lee Kyung, Lee Nam Lee, Oliver van der Berg, Shao Kang, Shi Jinsong, Son Bong-Chae

ILLUSION AND FANTASY

Artists: Hung Tung Lu, Leandro Erlich, Shilpa Gupta, Xu Zhongmin

MAN AND CYBORG

Artists: Catherine Ikam, Chico Macmurtrie, Choe U-Ram, Eli Gur Arie

LIQUID TIME TRAVELERS

Artists: Eugenio Ampudia, Oh Yong-Seok, Sergio Prego

ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA APPLICATION (Site Specific)

Artists: Chen Wen Ling, Eduardo Kac, Jim Campbell, Jennifer Steinkamp

youniverse – NEW WRITERS

Artists: Eduardo Kac, Hiraki Sawa, John Gerrard, Kibong Rhee, Kijong Zing, Lee Kyung-Ho, SunMyoung Choi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

"MEDIA ARQUITECTURA" curated by Marie-Ange Brayer

Sections: Flux City / Bio Body / Design Yourself

FLUX CITY

Artists: Amid (cero 9), Archigram, Archizoom, Atelier Hitoshi Abe & Masahige Motoe, Bas Princen, CHS Arquitectos, James Law Cybertecture, Ian +, MGM - Morales, Giles, Mariscal & EstherPizarro & hackitectura.net, NOX, SERVO

BIO BODY

Artists: Axel Killian, CLOUD 9 (Enric Ruiz-Geli), Coop Himmelb(l)au, Emergent (Tom Wiscombe), EZCT (Philippe Morel, Jelle Jeringa and Félix Agid), François Dallegret, Jakob + MacFarlane (Dominique Jacob and Brendan MacFarlane), Jones Partners Architecture (Wes Jones), Jurgen Mayer, Kisho Kurokawa, Kol/ Mac LLC (Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald), Material Ecology (Neri Oxman), OCEAN (Michael Henses and Achim Menges), OSA – Open Source Architecture, OSS - Open Source Space (Ángel Borrego), Vicente Guallart, Xefirotarch (Hernán Díaz Alonso)

DESIGN YOURSELF

Artists: Claude Parent & Paul Virilio, dECOi (Mark Goulthorpen), EcoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero and MarcoPoletto), Electronic Shadow (Naziha Mestaoui and Yacine Ait Kazi), Gianni Pettena, Interaction Design Lab (Stefano Mirti and ElioCaccavale), José Pérez de Lama /Hackitectura.net, Oosterhuis.nl (Kas Oosterhuis), Philippe Rahm, R&Sie (n), Tom Kovac, Tom Verebes, Toyo Ito

SEVILLA (External projects)

Artists: Blast Theory, Jenny Marketou, Loove Broms, Martín Bonadeo, Martin Walde, Mats Wahlberg, Matthew Ritchie, Mischa Kuball, Paul de Marinis, Shannon Mcmullen & Fabian Winkler, Steve Bradley

CORDOBA

Artists: David Link, Eugenio Ampudia, Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Tim Redfern, Kibong Rhee, Mahmoud Khaled, Michael Saup, Mohammed Kazem, Osvaldo Romberg, Paul Notzold, Peter Dittmer, Shao Kang, SunMyoung Choi, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

GRANADA

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Choe U-Ram, Eli Gur Arie, Haegue Yang, Holger Foerterer, Hung Tung Lu, Jim Campbell, Kibong Rhee, Leandro Erlich, Lee Kyung, Lee Nam Lee, Lee Seo-Joon, Moon Beom, Nam June Paik, Olafur Eliasson, Sangkyun Noh, Shao Kang, Son Bong-Chae, Steina Vasulka, SunMyoung Choi, Tue Greenfort,Yang Qian

Peter Weibel