PRESS RELEASE

TIMO TOOTS's (1982) personal exhibition MEMOПOЛ-I will be opened in Hobusepea gallery at 7pm on June 10, 2010.

The artist's social machine art project that enables to study visitors' information fields was also open in Y Gallery in Tartu from May 21 through June 5, 2010.

Timo Toots is a multimedia artist and a photographer whose installations deal with the mechanisms, dangers and developments in information society. Through his experimental treatment of technology the artist creates new interpretations of existing systems. Showing the conventional in unconventional light brings forth field lines that normally remain invisible. According to the artist, the present exhibition is a tribute to a new technological miracle. Memoпoл-I is a social machine mapping the visitor's information field. While a visitor is inserting his or her identity card and PIN1 code, the machine systematises all kinds of information and creating the full overview of who he or she is.

„The rapid e-development in Estonia has created the situation where technology takes the precedence over society. Leap of faith in e-utopy is holy. We often forget to doubt in things and to ask where we are really going in our everyday hurrying. Information society is heading towards ever growing amounts of information where the parts are strongly interrelated. While creating whole memory systems we have to take into consideration that big power is accompanied by big responsibility. The technological means of Orwell's dystopia of the year 1984 we already have today. Fortunately we don't have such political means yet.“

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS:

Please register in www.memopol.dart.ee

Bring your identity card and PIN1 code (in case you have lost your PIN1, you will be given a new one on the third floor of Foorum Centre in Tallinn).

Thanks to: Mammut, Tanel Külaots, Tartu Tarkvaralabor, Johannes Säre, Neuron Systems,  Tartu Artists' Union, Y Gallery, Trisak, Pent Talvet, Hanna Tiidus, Marika Agu, Karl Saks, Egert Ivask, Ando Orav, Estonian Academy of Arts.

Supporters: Ponimaa, Proplastik, Valge Kass, Tartu City Government, UBS Repro, Surfdata.ee, Prike, Estonian Academy of Arts, Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Exhibition will be open until June 28, 2010.

Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture.