{"id":914,"date":"2005-03-17T02:50:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=914"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:48:47","slug":"living-megastructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/03\/17\/living-megastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Megastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, March 17, 2005, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/bitter-webber-living-megastructures-31705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2194 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/bitter-webber-living-megastructures-31705.jpg\" alt=\"bitter-webber-living-megastructures-31705\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Sabine Bitter &amp; Helmut Weber in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Austrian artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have been working in tandem since 1993 on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their projects have included <em>\u201cCaracas, Hecho En Venezuela\u201d, \u201cLive like this!\u201d <\/em>and <em>\u201cCITYtransformer\u201d<\/em>, most recently, they mounted a billboard entitled \u201c<em>SuperCitizen<\/em>\u201d in Los Angeles. Bitter &amp; Weber engage with moments and sites of globalization, as they are materialized in architecture and mediated through photography, video and new media technologies. They have participated in Johannesburg and S\u00e3o Paulo Biennale, and have mounted projects all over Europe, as well as the Americas. In their 2003-4 project <em>Living Megastructures <\/em>they interviewed people in Caracas, Venezuela, investigating the limits of appropriation and the effect of architecture on social and spatial relations. Tonight they will share that tape and discuss their prolific body of contemporary media work. In Spanish with English subtitles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lot.at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.lot.at<\/a> (KJ Mohr). 2003-2004, Sabine Bitter &amp; Helmut Weber, Austria\/Germany\/Venezuela, 25 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 17, 2005, 8pm Sabine Bitter &amp; Helmut Weber in person! Austrian artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have been working in tandem since 1993 on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their projects have included \u201cCaracas, Hecho En Venezuela\u201d, \u201cLive like this!\u201d and \u201cCITYtransformer\u201d, most recently, they mounted a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/03\/17\/living-megastructures\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Living Megastructures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[206,423,441,450,552],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows","tag-new-media","tag-non-fiction","tag-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}