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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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ProgrammePART I. MEDIA DAYS AT THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY8—9 of November, Krasnoyarsk, Svobodny prospect, 82, bld. 1, lecture hall 2-25 ScheduleNovember 8, 2012 (Thursday) 10.00 — 10.30 Registration 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" The report presents the experience of the local and network programs creation with historical and cultural content (virtual museums, virtual tours, multimedia albums, electronic catalogs, etc.). Under consider is experience in using technologies of professional photograph of artistic works of art (painting, drawing, sculpture, DPI), 3d-panorama technology, giga pixel panoramic photography technology (creating high-resolution images), and the content and technological approaches to create interactive three-dimensional historical reconstructions based on 3dMax technology and 3d-engine Quest 3d. 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)" When we talk about Science Museum we imagine ultra modern scientific and technical museums or centers with an aim of science popularizing. The best of them represent a rich content of a high-tech hybrid equipment built contemporary environment, the creation of which is not possible without the designers and modern artists. The lecture focused on a Science Museum as a platform for the interpenetration of art and science, for cooperation between curators, scientists, artists and engineers. 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” An ideal object of artificial life (AL) can be presented on a line between computer simulation of organisms and ecosystems — real synthetic organisms and ecosystems, including those absolutely new, non-existent in nature. Between these apexes we can place digital replicas, robotized models and hybrid forms of AL (live tissue + technical devices). Artistic strategies differ from graphic generation of abstract paintings to creation of screen semblances of flora and fauna objects. Inevitability and invariance of evolution, the influence of cultural (technological) interventions upon the real ecosystems and the predictability of the outcome of AL manipulations, ethical and sociopolitical questions in creation of AL. 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» This talk outlines new facilities that are arising in the hyperconnected Internet era within human media space. This allows new embodied interaction between humans, species and computation both socially and physically, with the aim of novel interactive communication and entertainment. Humans can develop new types of communication environments using all the sense, including touch, taste and smell, which can increase support for multi-person, multi-model interaction and remote presence. In this talk, we present an alternative ubiquitous computing environment and space based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. We discuss some different research prototype systems for interactive communication, culture, and play. November 9, 2012 (Friday) LECTURES: “MEDIA COVERAGE: Media Culture and Interdisciplinary Practice” Art with its intuition and power of imagination that are not limited by either discourse or status or norm often becomes a catalyst of these processes. It is here at the factory of ideas and new images that the outlines of the future are traced. Exploring media communications as the major creative force inducing the world to change, Russian and foreign experts will present projects realizing interaction and interpenetration of various spheres of human activity, science, art and technology. Media culture research strategies in use, delineation of the source of media culture philosophical discourse. The world experience of research and education the Russian practices — what do they have in common, what are their differences. Interdisciplinary resources of media culture research — unified and diversified, media culture or media cultures. 11.00 — 12.00 Olga Lukyanova, Project coordinator MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture (Russia) “Art. Playing with reality” Contemporary artists work with the surrounding reality as a designer, complementing and discarding some part of it. By working with the various senses, memory, knowledge and imagination, they reflect and reassess the real, but on the other side they rebuild it, form a new vision, new ways of interaction. Art can expand our perception and give it some kind of volume by introducing new details and meanings, sometimes unexpected and not always appropriate at first glance. It works with the past, present and future at the same time. And its artistic position is an important tool for shaping reality, culture and people. 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” It is evident that cinema is no longer what it once had been. Cinema is the mass psychology of the XX century. Nowadays it is getting more and more difficult to name any films that could claim to express the spirit of our time. This is partly due to their medium: how is cinema to be consumed, how to be transmitted? But I think that the habit of collective film viewing at a movie house will survive. This is largely a question of whether the cinema will succeed in creating an active and appreciative audience. There is nothing that would prevent any possible forms of visual images consumption, including the cinema. 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. MATRIX CITY" New media change the notion of public space. Public space is merging with virtual space where one influences and enhances the other: Augmented Reality, The Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing, etc. Urban culture is becoming media culture, more and more: jogging with your mp3 player, videos on mobile phones, digital graffiti, urban screens, video walls and architecture with integrated interactive technology. ‘Matrix City’ maps out the urban landscape as platform and source for inspiration for contemporary artists. The presentation sheds some light on the more political issues as the relationship between public space and private space and on the question who is in charge over public space. Also the city is presented as an immersive audiovisual environment, as a modal structure in which virtual and real systems merge. 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» In this presentation, attention is focused on “artist´s multimedia”. The field can be defined by such terms as interactive narrative and cinema, documentary multimedia, interactive art, combinatorial art and films, database narrative etc. We will try to answer such questions as: “Does the opportunity to choose a narrative path give additional value to the artwork?” and “What are the differences between artistic or fictional interactive multimedia narrative and traditional narrative forms in literature or cinema?” Possibilities of breaking the time-line, interfering with content, and designing custom content give additional playful and open value to the narrative, but blur the authorship of the artwork. Sometimes, conceding the author’s responsibility is used by the artist to hide the author’s position. In other cases, the interactive structure of the narrative is rather a distraction and disturbance for the reader and viewer; the “story” might be much better in a non-interactive form. 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 Current tendencies of media education development: what is the use and how great is the demand for philosophical reflection and methodology. Media education in Russia and worldwide: the ways of perfecting professional media education, including educational technologies. Representatives of educational institutions will discuss the way in which the drastic social and cultural changes during the last 20 years have influenced the system of art education, with the focus on educational programmes in the media culture field. November 8, 2012 (Thursday) VIDEO SCREENING November 9, 2012 (Friday) VIDEO SCREENING Curator: Elena Rumyantseva, MediaArtLab Program of «Media Festivals: Let’s Rock!» During these two days the students watch selections from one of the best international media art festivals — LOOP Festival (Spain). During two weeks LOOP acts like a showcase of curated exhibitions, important video art collections, renown universities and international festivals. At the symposium Pro&Contra will be shown one of it's programs — CITY SCREEN’12, which was displayed on multiple spaces of the city, activating different types of community centers, organizations and shops, and stimulating a wider circulation of present-day video creation. Curator Conrado Uribe. In the non-stop format participants and guests of the symposium will be able to get acquainted with the latest video art festival. CitySCREEN’12 program (Curator — Conrado Uribe):
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 program "Expanded Cinema" and Festival Now&After (Russia) In addition, she will present to the audience program of this year festival “Now&After’ 12” has for its subject “Super-Super City”, curated by Marina Fomenko. Artworks are devoted to the modern city — it is seen as something more than just a cluster of closely populated architectural and engineering projects. This is both megapolis, devouring millions of inhabitants, and settlements, brought under subjection of the industrial development logic, and little towns, where time flows softly, and places of habitation, which no one needs anymore. November 8, 2012 (Thursday) 20.00 — 21.30 The best works from PRIX Ars Electronica (Austria). Curator: Elena Rumyantseva, MediaArtLab Program of «Media Festivals: Let’s Rock!» Ars Electronica is one of the most influential media art festivals in Europe. It establishes new trends in computer animation, digital art and sound art. It transforms the Austrian Linz into a Mecca for all those using computer technology in their art projects. And these, incidentally, are artists from seventy countries all over the world. Audience will see the screening of PRIX Ars Electronica best works selection. For some the work shown will provide an incentive to go to Linz this autumn, for others to broaden their knowledge on the progressive tendencies in digital art. The Ars Electronica Animation Festival screens a selection of outstanding films submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica. These 120 visual highlights have been divided into 13 lineups. Moscow audience will see six of them: Narration, Parallel Worlds, Dark Stories, Position & Message and Transformations. November 9, 2012 (Friday) 20.00 — 21.30 Viral Temptations, the Lure of the Virtual The program shows how ubiquitous melodies can become aggressive virals with powers that extend from the unborn to the extraterrestrial. Also we see social interaction and personal desires roam freely in virtual limbos. Program: 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. In 2009 the Shanghai artist Yang Fudong has finished work on his major film Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. Its initial parts were presented to the audience at the 50th Venice Biennial and then travelled galleries all round the world. The Asian multimedia art’s most redeeming features are probably not its exotic faces or high tech landscapes but its appeal to the thousand-year philosophical tradition and the artists’ amazing realization of these ideas in the ultimately technological contemporary forms –without losing their poetic clarity or depth. So the Shanghai artist Yang Fudong retells the story of seven wise men and revelers of the 3d century AD. They abandoned the stifling life at court, full of scheming and vanity, and came to the seclusion of a bamboo forest, where they played music, feasted and discoursed on scolarly matters. Following a traditional Chinese and Japanese art iconography Fudong makes a film... about the future. In the aesthetics of noir films and with an ambient accompaniment the artist brings to life the story of seven ancient Chines wise men and poets who shun the vain world for his viewers. Filmed in a contemporary setting the narrative does not lose its poetic quality and depth. Now its main theme is frustration and the feeling of being lost experienced by young intellectuals, ambitious and educated people who expect from the world what it cannot give them. Fudong tells the story of a journey that his characters take in their search for new Utopia, knowing nothing of the destination or of their own future. PART III. PARTNER EVENTS: CREATIVE MEETINGLocation: Radiotekhnik club November 10, 2012 17.00 — 19.00 — "From idea to form" Meeting of participants of the symposium with students of creative association "Tvori-Gora". Olga Shishko, Raivo Kelomess, Svetlana Maybrodskaya will discuss with children main problems regarding birth, expansion, implementation of ideas in art, media, advertising, etc. They also present various student works in video, media art, contemporary art and advertising. Review of these works as well as the works of "Tvori-Gora" students — is great opportunity for both sides to share valuable tips and observations on art, creativity, advertising and other media practices. |
