2 lectures by russian curator Ksenia Fedorova in ZKM (Germany)Program: [Collaboration] Wed 13 January 2010 The Technological Sublime Immaterial nature of most of new media art (video-, cyber-, net-, tele-art) indicates a substantial shift in aesthetic and cultural paradigm. The concept of the sublime can powerfully address the issues that concern the impacts of technological mediation in the spheres of art, communication, and culture at large, informing the debate on new "objecthood" with a specific historically grounded aesthetic and epistemological discourse. Sudden shifts of perspective, ecstasy, dismay and perplexity that are characteristic to the feeling of the sublime can be found in works of new media art which in its turn is capable of generating forms of co-existence in the real and virtual space and providing an all-sensory engagement with the reality of the unpresentable. The object here is the very gap between the subjectivity and the world through which the terrifying and stunning, but also the unpredictable and revealing may enter. Digital technology that interferes in the art's sanctum sanctorum – the aura – destroys the authenticity of the production, but transfers it to the authenticity of the beholder's perception, giving a unitary and intersubjective experience of a "stretched" identity. Wed 20 January 2010 Media Art in Russia The lecture will address some of the key tendencies in the development of media art in Russia taken in the context of the country's cultural history. A quest for new utopia, special quality of mind and body interconnection, "sotz-art" and conceptualist project to break through ideological constructions (and constrictions) enacted itself in net and software art of the 1990s and early 2000s, leading to contemporary "populist"/ critical position of Electroboutique, re- und depolitization of art media technologies, as well as their purely aesthetic explorations. Among the featured artists: Alexey Shulgin, Aristarch Chernyshev, Andrey Smirnov, Dmitry Bulatov, Olga Kisseleva, Provmyza, Dmitry Kavarga, Blue Soup, Ilya Trushevsky, Masha Sha, and others. A brief account of the institutional infrastructure and an overview of the main festivals and exhibitions, including video showcases, will also be presented. Lecture by Ksenia Fedorova in English, ZKM_Lecture Hall, 6 p.m., admission free |
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