12-14 June 2020/ online
Machinic H_st_ries
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.
The discussion focuses on machinic h_st_ries spanning from system theories (i.e. cybernetics) through techno-utopic dreams and its disillusions, techno-fixes and their criticisms.
Technological discourses often relate to fictions that describe visions of probable futures, even more techno-intertwined than our present.
We invite the participants to take a reciprocal retrofuturist standpoint, and to critically examine the present and the past, viewed from speculative futures, and to discuss the following questions:
Can we identify the border between technologies of control and care? What is technological sovereignty in the age of post-surveillance? Machinic or human agency should be taken into account while defining self-determination?
Technological discourses often relate to fictions that describe visions of probable futures, even more techno-intertwined than our present.
We invite the participants to take a reciprocal retrofuturist standpoint, and to critically examine the present and the past, viewed from speculative futures, and to discuss the following questions:
Can we identify the border between technologies of control and care? What is technological sovereignty in the age of post-surveillance? Machinic or human agency should be taken into account while defining self-determination?
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
*For the Zoom meeting, please, keep your audio/ video mute. Use the applicable pronoun and a real/ nick name in the Zoom profile (e.g. Newton's Binomial/ they). If you want to ask a question - let us know in the Zoom chat, we will switch your cam and mike.
Meeting ID: 881 1834 4278 Password: 464958
Meeting ID: 881 1834 4278 Password: 464958
Discussion Room
June 14, 18:30 (CEST)
June 14, 18:30 (CEST)
