SYMPOSIUM
Symposium will take place on the second day of Light Move Festival –
saturday and is not only an attempt to embed the festival into the cultural
image of the city, but also it is an attempt to expand its local scope as
well as confront visions, artistic creations and curatorial projects. The
symposium – to which we invited distinguished representatives of culture –
is hoped to bring into focus and answer questions about the condition of the
contemporary human in the era of unbound and common image, which is
difficult to characterize. On one hand, we notice the ease with which that
image may be operated, but the question arises of if that attractive form
actually harbors something more. The development of digital technology made
image widespread and omnipresent. What is presently the sense and function
of a ʻphotoʼ? Is an artist capable of stimulating or influencing a citizen
so that his social attitude was active while being full of attention to the
competencies of an artist. Can light be used as an activating factor? The
interactive aspect is here also very interesting. The expectations of a
viewer in the age of image accumulation result in schematizing imaginations,
and as a consequence its limiting and closing to the idea of the creator.
Light is seen presently as a tool. Is it then limited only to its technical
conditions, or perhaps it may be a starting point and indeed it may
constitute a suggestion not only for an artist?
The speeches and presentations of the invited guests are hoped to open up
interesting and non-trivial discussion about us and the surrounding us
reality.
In discussion will take part:
Branko Franceschi - (Zadar, Croatia, 1959) from 1987 to 2004 was a program
director at the Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery in Zagreb, from 2004 to 2008 an
executive director of the Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art in Rijeka, from 2008 to 2010 he is a director of HDLU in
Zagreb. From 2010 he is director of the Virtual Museum of the Avant-guard
Art www.avantgarde-museum.com and President of the Institute for the
Research of the Avant-garde. He was curator for the Croatian pavilion at 16.
Sao Paulo Biennial (2004), 2 International Biennial in Prague (2005), 52
Venice Biennial (2007), 11th
International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennial (2008) and member of
the curatorial team of 2 Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest (2006). He
initiated, managed and co-ordinated a residency for Croatian artists at PS1,
New York from 2001-2007.
Plenary: Red Empty Croatia
Natalia Mount - is the co-founder/Executive Director of FLUX Art Space, a
NYC non-profit arts organisation that fosters, creates and supports
experimental work through interdisciplinary projects that aim to educate
youth by creating collaboration and dialogue. Previously
Natalia was the Executive Director of Red House Arts Centre, an
interdisciplinary art centre in Syracuse, NY. At the Red House, Natalia
curated, developed and produced over 60 experimental projects, including
exhibitions, site-specific works, theatre plays, film series and
public programs.
Plenary: The Politics of Representation, Displacement and Hybridity in
Cultural Production
Ewa Wójtowicz - PhD in Art & Humanities (Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznan, 2006). A graduate of Poznan Fine Arts Academy (art education and
print making, 2000) and University of Hertfordshire,
in Great Britain. A lecturer at Fine Arts University in Poznan. Member of
Polskie Towarzystwo Estetyczne, Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturoznawcze and AICA.
Her research interests encompass: net
art, art and communication, mixed realities, remix/repeat/update in new
media art.
Plenary: Light as a medium of interaction. From paintings to critical art
Karolina Głusiec - born in 1986 in Lublin. She studied animation at the
Royal College of Art in London and at the Audio-Visual Communication
Department in AHE in Łódź. She is a finalist and
winner of the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize in London (2012).
Plenary: Light: images and non-images