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PRO&CONTRA International Symposium Of Media Culture |
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2012 Theme: Heritage and Modernity We live in the world of new images, an elusive reality and unexplored opportunities. Each day we are introduced to new phenomena in hybrid forms of art: web theatre, cyber-space cinema, tactical and interactive media. Every day we provide new ways of seeing the world and actual interpretation of reality. New technologies make work with a cultural heritage much more modern and experiment as well as contemporary art practices. It enables a completely different way to present classical artwork of painting, architecture and other arts. It designs new structure and logic of the exhibition, makes the museum interactive and interdisciplinary with the help of new media, bring it to the virtual world, etc. Museum becomes not only as a place of preservation and exhibition of some artifact, but also a place of educational and socio-cultural platform, where the main priority is to create a qualitatively different environment for the audience. 
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International symposium “Pro&Contra of Media Culture” aims to discover the connection between art, science, politics, economics and technology, present innovative projects at the intersection of contemporary art and social practices, experimental science, digital art and design, performance and programming, animation and media architecture. Project is designed to organize public debates on the use of media technologies in the social, cultural and scientific fields, to try to identify ways of its practical cooperation, on the basis of the dialogue between the experts of the various fields. The theme of this year is HERITAGE AND MODERNITY. We live in the world of new images, an elusive reality and unexplored opportunities. Each day we are introduced to new phenomena in hybrid forms of art: web theatre, cyber-space cinema, tactical and interactive media. Every day we provide new ways of seeing the world and actual interpretation of reality. New technologies make work with a cultural heritage much more modern and experiment as well as contemporary art practices. It enables a completely different way to present classical artwork of painting, architecture and other arts. It designs new structure and logic of the exhibition, makes the museum interactive and interdisciplinary with the help of new media, bring it to the virtual world, etc. Museum becomes not only as a place of preservation and exhibition of some artifact, but also a place of educational and socio-cultural platform, where the main priority is to create a qualitatively different environment for the audience. Media and technology are omnipresent in contemporary society, as well as technological development that change the essence of communication, production and culture. Media construct reality, changing its social, political and economic space so that a new type of human being appears — one living in a global space without a necessity to move. Technologies are the continuation of our nervous system; they replace and augment our feelings. On one hand, freedom is lost through this universal acessibility of each person, on the other hand, the rights of integrating and invading new environments are expanded through active use of technological innovations. The Media Days program at the SFU will include lectures by experts in theory, philosophy and practice of media culture, panel discussions presenting both world and Russian practice in creating media laboratories at science centers and universities. A premiere of the complete version of Chinese artist Yang Fudong film will take place at the Krasnoyarsk House of Cinema, and programmes from various world media festivals will be screened. In cooperation with the Tvori-Gora Creative Association we will conduct a master class for high school and college students in making a one-minute video. SchedulePART I. MEDIA DAYS AT THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY8—9 of November, Krasnoyarsk, Svobodny prospect, 82, bld. 1, lecture hall 2-25 10.00 — 10.30 RegistrationNOVEMBER 8, 2012 (THURSDAY) 10.30 — 11.00 Welcome speeches on the symposium’s aims and goals LECTURES: “Art and museum technologies” 11.00 — 12.00 Maksim Rumyantsev, doctor of philosophy, head of the Department of Information Technologies in Creative and Cultural Industries, director of the Institute for the Humanities, Siberian Federal University (Russia) "Modern technologies of visualization in the humanities studies" 12.15 — 13.15 Dimitri Pilikin, artist, curator and art critic. Vice Director of the Museum of Modern Art at the SPSU, Supervisor of grant competition «Science museum in the 21st century» by «Dynasty» Foundation. (Russia) "Contemporary artist and Science Museum (integration experience)" LUNCH BREAK 14.30 — 15.30 Dmitry Galkin, professor, media researcher, Tomsk State University (Russia) “An ideal object of artificial life and the future of robotechnics” 15.45 — 16.45 Olof van Winden, Art director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, curator of the 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (the Netherlands). “Hyperconnectivity within Ubiquitous Human Media Space” NOVEMBER 9, 2012 (FRIDAY) LECTURES: “MEDIA COVERAGE: Media Culture and Interdisciplinary Practice” 11.00 — 12.00 Olga Lukyanova, Project coordinator MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture (Russia) “Art. Playing with reality” 12.15 — 13.15 Olga Shishko, director of the MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture (Russia) “Inspiration in the past: a search for unused resources of cultural inheritance and contemporary media culture” LUNCH BREAK 14.30 — 15.30 Arjon Dunnewind, director of the Impakt Festival and producer and curator of media art projects (The Netherlands) "Media art as a study of the urban environment — experience in creating festivals" 15.45 — 16.45 Raivo Kelomees, head of the Media Art Laboratory at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia) «Stories with Choices: Artist´s Multimedia Narratives» 18.00 — 19.30 PANEL DISCUSSION “MEDIA CULTURE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE: PROBLEMS OF TEACHING” Participants: Raivo Kelomees, Arjon Dunnewind, Olga Shishko, Olga Lukyanova, Olof van Winden, Maksim Rumyantsev, Natalia Kochorashvily NOVEMBER 8, 2012 (THURSDAY) VIDEO SCREENING NOVEMBER 9, 2012 (FRIDAY) VIDEO SCREENING Curator: Lena Rumyantseva, MediaArtLab During these two days the students watch selections from one of the best international media art festivals — LOOP Fair (Spain). PART II. PARTNER EVENTS. PREMIERS AND SCREENINGSPartner and location: The House of Cinema VIDEO SCREENINGS WITH COMMENTARY: NOVEMBER 7, 2012 (WEDNESDAY) 20.00 — 21.30 Olga Shishko, “Curator’s choice”. The best works of the Moscow Media Forum and Festival Now&After (Russia). NOVEMBER 8, 2012 (THURSDAY) 20.00 — 21.30 The best works from PRIX Ars Electronica (Austria) NOVEMBER 9, 2012 (FRIDAY) 20.00 — 21.30 Viral Temptations, the Lure of the Virtual A thematically curated program with best works from the Impakt Festival and the Impakt Works residency program (The Netherlands) Curated by Arjon Dunnewind NOVEMBER 10, 2012 (SATURDAY) 20.00 — 22.00 A special premiere screening for Krasnoyarsk by Yang Fudong (China): "Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest" installation. PART III. PARTNER EVENTS: CREATIVE MEETING Location: Radiotekhnik club Partner: Tvori-Gora Creative Association NOVEMBER 10, 2012 17.00 — 19.00 — "From idea to form" Participants: Olga Shishko, Raivo Kelomess, Svetlana Maybrodskaya |
