12-14 June 2020/ online
From Situation Awareness to Artistic Counterstrategies
Moderators
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás has curated exhibitions at international institutions of contemporary and media art since 2006. This work has fostered dialogues between different geographical locations and focuses on the constantly changing media of contemporary art and its intersections with various disciplines. She has initiated and developed thematic exhibitions raising various questions such as the genealogy and social impact of planetary computation and computer code, electronic surveillance and democracy, functions and processes of science in relation to automated economy, mediated visions of built environments, and synesthetic perception related to the integration of minority groups in contemporary art mediation. Although her activities have been mainly affiliated to two institutions, the Kunsthalle Budapest and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, she has also curated exhibitions at other institutions including the Chronus Art Center Shanghai, Arsenal Gallery Białystok, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Energy Museum Vilnius, Kunsthalle Zilina, National Library of Latvia, Tallinn Art Hall, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest, etc.
Ksenia Yurkova is a multidisciplinary artist and occasional curator living between Russia, Finland and Austria. She is interested in problems of language and communication functioning through processes of stereotyping; their enclosure into aspects of politics and economy; their operation in memory registers; and how these interconnect with problems of veracity and reliance. Yurkova researches the phenomena's existence and habitude, relating to both verbal and visual languages, specifically seeking non-verbal manifestations through a body and its affects. Ksenia participated in numerous festivals, among them: Grand Prix Photofestival (Poland, 2015), Athens Photofestival (Greece, 2015, 2017, 2019), Presence Festival (Russia, 2017),Riga Photomonth (Latvia, 2019), Krakow Photomonth (Poland, 2019); nominated for Kuryokhin Prize (Russia, 2013, 2018, 2019) and Kassel Dummy Awards (Germany, 2016); won Gomma Grant (UK, 2014); published artist books and research monographs. She holds MA in political journalism and MFA in visual art.
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás has curated exhibitions at international institutions of contemporary and media art since 2006. This work has fostered dialogues between different geographical locations and focuses on the constantly changing media of contemporary art and its intersections with various disciplines. She has initiated and developed thematic exhibitions raising various questions such as the genealogy and social impact of planetary computation and computer code, electronic surveillance and democracy, functions and processes of science in relation to automated economy, mediated visions of built environments, and synesthetic perception related to the integration of minority groups in contemporary art mediation. Although her activities have been mainly affiliated to two institutions, the Kunsthalle Budapest and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, she has also curated exhibitions at other institutions including the Chronus Art Center Shanghai, Arsenal Gallery Białystok, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Energy Museum Vilnius, Kunsthalle Zilina, National Library of Latvia, Tallinn Art Hall, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest, etc.
Ksenia Yurkova is a multidisciplinary artist and occasional curator living between Russia, Finland and Austria. She is interested in problems of language and communication functioning through processes of stereotyping; their enclosure into aspects of politics and economy; their operation in memory registers; and how these interconnect with problems of veracity and reliance. Yurkova researches the phenomena's existence and habitude, relating to both verbal and visual languages, specifically seeking non-verbal manifestations through a body and its affects. Ksenia participated in numerous festivals, among them: Grand Prix Photofestival (Poland, 2015), Athens Photofestival (Greece, 2015, 2017, 2019), Presence Festival (Russia, 2017),Riga Photomonth (Latvia, 2019), Krakow Photomonth (Poland, 2019); nominated for Kuryokhin Prize (Russia, 2013, 2018, 2019) and Kassel Dummy Awards (Germany, 2016); won Gomma Grant (UK, 2014); published artist books and research monographs. She holds MA in political journalism and MFA in visual art.
Detecting deficits triggers an urge to act. Awareness of discrepancies and imperfections in the structure and distribution of power, in the general access to resources and technologies, propels many of us to at least ponder on counterstrategies.
We invite artists to reveal their own strategies of action, and to reflect on their own practices and to identify strategies of care in the era of planetary-scale computation through answering questions such as:
How to deal with the digital panopticon we are inevitably being part of while using networked computational devices? How digital commons, open-source, and open data can foster (or hinder) digital literacy?
We invite artists to reveal their own strategies of action, and to reflect on their own practices and to identify strategies of care in the era of planetary-scale computation through answering questions such as:
How to deal with the digital panopticon we are inevitably being part of while using networked computational devices? How digital commons, open-source, and open data can foster (or hinder) digital literacy?
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
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Meeting ID: 812 2463 8196 Password: 451492
Meeting ID: 812 2463 8196 Password: 451492
Discussion Room
June 13, 20:30 (CEST)
June 13, 20:30 (CEST)
