ArtCamp international summer school of art which will take place 13 - 31 July will offer a rich accompanying programme again including a cycle of videoconferencing seminars ArtComTec led by Natan Karczmar from Université Européenne de la Recherche, Paris.
ArtComTec = Art, Communication, New Technologies
Communication of art and the art of communication, relation between art and science, art and new technologies - these are some of the topics to be presented by professionals in the field - artists, theorists and scientists from France, Belgium, USA, Brazil and other countries whom we will reach through a videoconference.
Venue:
Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia
Univerzitní 28, Pilsen
Time: Monday - Thursday / 4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Friday / 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
You can also follow the lectures online at https://www.youtube.com/user/UUDZCU
In partnership with ArtCamp Plzen 2015 and Transnumeriques Mons 2015, all seminars will be presented again in Mons by delayed Youtube transfer from November 27th to December 12th 2015.
ArtComTec / programme
13 July
Video as sound + image material. Presentation of videocollectives.
Gabriel Soucheyre, Marie S. Buzin / France
Gabriel Soucheyre teaches at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France). He is an art director and founder of the VIDÉOFORMES international video art festival. Marie S. Buzin is a musician, singer, dancer, visual artist and since 2008 she also makes videos. The seminar will present videocollectives in relation with the videomaking course given at ArtCamp in presence of Natan Karczmar, founder of the videocollectives. Videocollectives are 3 minutes video works produced around the world and presented every year at the International Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
14 July
From the Aesthetics of Communication to Relationnisme
Natan Karczmar / France
Natan Karczmar is a cultural organizer in the fields of theater and the diffusion of art. He is also an artist in « art of communication » as well as a painter and photographer. Natan Karczmar will present his multidisciplinary work encompassing the organization of museums of films on art in Canada, USA, and Mexico, theater, painting, photography, video, installations and seminars on art, communication and technologies.
15 July
From Sociological Art to Aesthetics of Communication
Fred Forest / France
Fred Forest is a multimedia artist and Emeritus Professor at Nice University and Docteur d'Etat at the Sorbonne. He will present his theories of his two works: Art Sociological (1974) and Aesthetical of Communication (1984), movements of which he is a co-founder. He will illustrate his talk with several actions realized with video and Internet of which he was a pionneer in the years 1970 and 1994. His work is deliberately critical by questioning contemporary art institutions and their relation with proponents of speculation. His social criticism denounces also all forms of power which he judges as abusive.
16 July
Getting Ready for 2020 (the Real Present is Most People´s Future)
Tom Klinkowstein / USA
Tom Kilinkowstein, President of Media A, is a professor at Hofstra University and an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited at the AIGA gallery in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Venice Biennale in Italy and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, among others.
Getting Ready for 2020 surveys emergent professional/personal 'must-have' traits as they migrate from the fringe to the center of our personal, business and social lives:
- Creating Transnational Ethea
- Slime Mold Careers
-Becoming Caring Cyborgs.
17 July
The Networks Digital Perspective (Poietic Generator)
Olivier Auber / France
Olivier Auber teaches at the Free University of Brussels. In 1987 he created his best known work -
the "Poietic Generator", a free social artwork for all that can be played in in real time over a network.
The Poietic Generator may be seen as a generic model of multiple complex systems (informational, urban, economic, ecological, etc.) to which everyone is confronted daily. But unlike these systems, often opaque about their prerequisites, their rules and infrastructure, the Poietic Generator is perfectly transparent: "everything is known or knowable",[5] in particular the fact that it operates either centrally or without any center. According to Olivier Auber, these two architectures, centered or not, are achieving some forms of "perspective" (within the meaning of the Renaissance) in which the vanishing point lies, in the first case, in a physical center (the server), in the second in a "code" under cover of which the network is sharing information (its sign of recognition in some way). He speaks in the first case of a "temporal perspective" because it is in the center where emerges moment by moment the "proper time" of the network (its rhythmic pulsations). In the second case, he speaks of a "digital perspective"[52] because it is a "code" (an arbitrary number) which is the guarantor of the emergence of the proper time of the network in each of its nodes. These two perspectives are of course not visual as is the case of the spatial perspective, but they share with it some topological and symbolic attributes. In particular, one can speak of "legitimate perspective", as Alberti did in the Renaissance.
20 July
1985 - 2015: Looking back to see how yesterday´s artists prepared today´s world
Derrick de Kerckhove / Belgium
Derrick de Kerckhove is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and currently a full professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the University Federico II in Naples. He is also Research Director at the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute (IN3) at l'universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona. His fields of research include Technopsychology, Psychotechnology, Neuro-cultural research, Art and communication technologies, Urban media Theory, Collaborative Educative Software, Connected Intelligence.
Long before business or government or even education had understood the impact and the use of digital media, artists from all over the world were already working on showing where the future was going. With examples from art installations that symbolized the effects of digital media on psychology, society and culture, Derrick de Kerckhove will outline some of the principal conditions of the present digital era.
21 July
The artwork temptation in art therapy. A psychoanalytical approach.
Fernando Bayro - Corrochano / France
Fernando Bayro - Corrochano is a French psychoanalyst, sculptor and lecturer at Université Denis Diderot Paris VII. This presentation intends to present art therapy through psychoanalytic reference with emphasis on the link between "sensory image" and "unconsciousus image" to produce more "symptomatic objects" than works of art. This is having a direct effect on the subject's suffering. Fernando Bayro will present the Space of Art Therapy and the " symptomatic productions ", some of them very aesthetical, while explaining the psychic issues involved. Work of art, as modern artists have shown in their visual creations, is directly associated with the subjectivity of the artist.
22 July
Composing engaged artwork with the technology palette: ANAHATA's transdisciplinary installations - Flusser's Black Box, The memory of Shadows.
Delphine Fabbri Lawson / France, Mauricio Dwek / Brazil
Delphine Fabbri Lawson is a Franco-Italian artist and curator, founder and manager of Fluid Image, a Technological Art production and exhibition organization, and of the contemporary art gallery (Fluid) in Grenoble. Currently, she is the president of the Arts, Sciences and Societies research and creation organization ANAHATA. Mauricio Dwek is a Brazilian materials engineer who is currently a doctoral researcher at the G-SCOP laboratory of the Grenoble Institute of Technology in the field of recycling and eco-design, as well as scientific advisor of the ANAHATA organization. ANAHATA's research-creations are polymorphic in nature: the media are chosen in order to fit the purpose of the artists and other agents participating in the artwork. The production process consists in several exchanges between disciplines and their craftsmen so that traditional knowledge can meet cutting edge technology in a level playground. The result is often an artistic depiction of a social issue in which technology is a coherent means to address the underlying philosophical concepts and to touch the intended cognitive receptors. In The Memory of Shadows, EEG technology is used to connect to an Enhanced Reality world, in which you access Cambodian history and take part in the construction of a collective memory. Flusser's Black Box is an immersive installation that allows you to navivgate the intellectual structures of Vilém Flusser, a visionary media philosopher of the 20th century.
Do not miss:
Live connection between Pilsen 2015 and Mons 2015 will follow after the lecture at 5.30 p.m. This symbolic video-bridge between the cities through the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia, Transcultures and its biennial of digital cultures Transnumériques, Mons2015 and its Café Europa - will connect two European Capitals of Culture 2015!
23 July
Art and the Minitel in France in the 80s. A media archeology of a pre-web medium.
Annick Bureaud / France
Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, researcher and curator in art, science and technology. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats . It all started 30 years ago by her encounter with the group of the "Aesthetics of Communication" and with the Journal Leonardo. In her presentation, Annick Bureaud will briefly come back on some landmarks and introduce Leonardo to further develop what is considered a Fench oddity, "Telematic Art", that actually resonates with many of the current issues. In 2012, France deactivated the Minitel communication system that the country invented and set up in the 80s. From the very beginning, and during a few years, the Minitel has been the territory of art projects and art experiments, among which some were presented at the Electra exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1983-84 and at Les Immatériaux at the Pompidou Centre in 1985. The Minitel is often considered as a "pre-Internet" platform and the art that was created with it as belonging to "network art". Ms. Bureaud will point out that more than a precursor to Internet Art, Minitel Art was a fully innovative and experimental digital art of its time.
24 July
Digital morphogenesis and stellar metamorphosis. About the work of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki.
Katerina Thomadaki / Greece
Greek artist and theorist based in Paris, Katerina Thomadaki will present the intermedia trajectory she has shared with Maria Klonaris since the mid-70's including experimental film, expanded cinema, photography, sound, environmental installations, video art, digital art. In their work Klonaris and Thomadaki abolish frontiers of arts and technologies as well as gender frontiers. Katerina Thomadaki will discuss their radical femninist and anticapitalist positions and their concept of media ecology launched in 1990. She will equally present the International Conference Film Art / Video Art / Computer Art, a quadriennial conceived and directed by the two artists in Paris in the 90's. Digital image technologies become central in Klonaris and Thomadaki's work in the most recent period of their Angel Cycle (1985-2013) in which the artists develop a poetic imagery mixing body images and astronomic photography. In their works Pulsar, Quasar and Angel Scan, digital morphogenesis produces astral metamorphosis. This conference will be dedicated to Maria Klonaris who sadly passed away in January 2014.
27 July
What Remains of Art When Technology Vanishes? 25 years of practice in spite of technology.
Maurice Benayoun / France
Maurice Benayoun is a French new-media artist and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.
Technologies have facilitated the emergence of new art practices involving real time graphics, virtual and augmented reality, network and participative art, urban media...
What happens when we consider the novelty of the medium as the ultimate justification for artworks? How is it possible to stay connected to the history of art and, including all the issues raised during previous decades and centuries that gave the complexity and richness of to what we use to call "contemporary art" without denying the importance and the potential of all new medias artists have access to today. During his presentation, Maurice Benayoun will discuss how his contemporary art background impacted his practice during the last 30 years, juggling with computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, interactive and large scale urban media installation, but also producing sculptures, photography and perfume...
28 July
Recent Researches of the Poeticas Digitais Group
Gilbertto Prado / Brazil
The Grupo Poéticas Digitais, coordinated by Gilbertto Prado, was created in 2002 in the Visual Arts Department of ECA-USP as a multidisciplinary group promoting the development of experimental projects and reflection on the impact of new technologies in the field of arts. The Group is an unfolding of the wAwRwT project started in 1995 and has as participants professors, artists, researchers and students. The aim of the lecture is to present some recent experiments such as Amoreiras [Mulberry Tree] project, "ZN:PRDM", Neutral Zone: Pass a river inside me" and "Meetings".
29 July
Custom Made / art in public space
Olga Kisseleva / Russia
Olga Kisseleva is a Russian artist based in the USA, she also teaches contemporary art at the University Pantheon-Sorbonne of Paris 1. Her work questions changes in society and human behaviour as a result of scientific advancement and technological progress. In her work she adapts the public space with scientific devices that follow the humour, values and physical characteristics of its visitors. In so doing she constructs a customized world that questions our capacity to live together. By inviting the definition of a value system "a la carte", and constructing a space of individualized perception, by influencing the course of time depending on the mood of the day, to put it simply by constructing for each individual a custom made world, she questions the ability of men to live together, taking into account issues that may exceed the sum of their individual aspirations. The concept of 'custom made' is symptomatic of the contemporary world. Today the question of limits is clearly posed. To what extent do we have the right to adapt the environment according to our desire for comfort? Where is the line between the legitimate and the superfluous, between improvement and destruction?
30 July
Sound Poetry as means of expression and communication beyond languages
Anat Pick / Israel
Anat Pick is an Israeli creator in the field of Sound Poetry, Sound Installation and Performance Art. She creates tightly structured works at the border area between Sound, Language, Visual art and Performance.
Sound Poetry has been defined as such since Early Avant-garde artists have realized they can use language as raw material to work with. Regardless content, they've used visual lingual signs as forms which can be arranged freely within the frame of the paper. More than that: they have realized speech and recitation - as means of communicating ideas - can be delivered solely through basic acoustic qualities and maintain rich poetic qualities. Sound poetry is comparatively an unexplored field, conceived by many as esoteric. Is it?
31 July
Change in programme:
The Best of ArtCamp - videos and animations from ArtCamp 2015 summer school
