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2011 Theme: Total Observer “Today media constructs reality. Digital technologies change the society, politics and economics, but we are also changing with them. Technologies are extensions of our nervous system. We mutate gradually and become part of it. Under the pressure of the infinite number of cameras, stucked in the web, on one hand, we loose our freedom. But on the other - we expand our rights day by day via technological innovations. Art is not an outsider now, it's a trendsetter with new ideas and introduction into various fields is not directly connected to it. Only art with its intuition and power of imagination not limited by either discourse, or status, or norm becomes able to perceive the vague outlines of the future...” Olga Shishko, PRO&CONTRA curator 
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OCTOBER 812.30 PRO&CONTRA OF MEDIA CULTURE PRESS-CONFERENCE 15.00 SYMPOSIUM OPENING Opening word by Joseph Backstein (Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Commissar), Irina Prokhorova (Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, Director) and Olga Shishko (“Pro&Contra”, Art director). 15.30 GLOBAL MEDIA SECTION Peter Weibel (Art historian, Artist, Curator of the main project of the 4th Moscow Biennale, ZKM Director, Germany) — From visual media to social media; Joseph Backstein (Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Commissar) — Dialectics of the new media; Olof van Winden (Director of Montevideo - Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Founder/Director TodaysArt Festival) — Media Arts and Digital Culture: General Remarks; Olga Shishko (“Pro&Contra”, Art director, art critic, MediaArtLab director) — Media Invasion: practices, methods and spaces. 17.00 SYMPOSIUM’S SPECIAL PROJECTS German Cultural Centre (Goethe-Institut) in Moscow presents: The Royal Netherlands Embassy presents: Austrian Cultural forum presents: Pro&Contra Open Call. Projects of 2011 nominees. 18.00 SCREEN AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA SECTION Discussion panel, moderated by Karina Karaeva Boris Debackere (Art director of V2_lab at Unstable Media Institute, Netherlands) — Augmented Dreams; 20.00 PRO&CONTRA OPENCALL — SCREEN AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA Presentation and discussion. Projects of the 2011 nominees. Where the dogs run — "Precipitate", Olga Kiseleva — "Conquistadors at the North Pole", Dmitry Bulnygin — "Flowers", Gor Chahal "Free Love", Taus Makhacheva — "Bullet", Fedorova Tatyana — "I want to London", Natalia Arefieva, Anna Kolosova — "H2Opera", Anna Khodorkovskaya — "Bears". 23.00 VIDEO FESTIVALS NIGHT Best art-works of Japan Media Arts Festival, Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), LOOP Festival (Spain). OCTOBER 912.00 15.00 HYBRID MEDIA SECTION Moderated by Daria Parkhomenko Dmitry Bulatov (curator of Kaliningrad department of National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia) — Techno-Biological Art: The new state of living; 17.00 FROM AN IDEA TO THE EVOCATION Panel discussion, moderators: Dmitry Bulatov, Daria Parkhomenko Partisipants: Boris Debackere (V2 Unstable Media Institute, Netherlands), Kate Gandrabura (Special Projects Department, ROSNANO, Russia), Attila Nemes (The Kitchen medialab Centre, Hungary), Irina Aktuganova (Zimin Fund, Russia), Alexei Shulgin (Electroboutique, Russia), Alina Ignatova (MediaArtLab, Russia), Anna Belyaeva, Olga Barkovskaya (independent curators, Russia), Mikhail Burtsev (Neurosciences department at the NBIC-centre — National Research Centre at Kurchatov Institute, Russia), Martin Honzik (Next Idea, Ars Electronica, Austria). 20.30 PRO&CONTRA OPENCALL — HYBRID MEDIA Presentation and discussion. Projects of the 2011 nominees. Julia Borovaya, Sergei Kasic, Vadim Smakhtin — "LIQUID ~ DO performance", Kawarga Dmitry — "Residual consciousnessstream-4", Bezshtanko Julia — "disappearance", Constantine Ager — "Memory of Rain". 22.00 MEDIAFACADES Teddy Lo (LEDARTIS) (Hong Kong); OCTOBER 1014.00 GLOBAL MEDIA SECTION Alexey Shulgin (Artist, Russia), Elena Аrtemenko (The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Russia) — Artlet, Art of the Globalized World; 15.30 16.00 TACTICAL MEDIA SECTION Reports, the co-curator: Tatiana Volkova. Ivan Zasursky (Head of New Media and Communication Theory Department, Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, Russia) — The borders of Tactical Media and independent journalism; 18.00 TACTICAL MEDIA SECTION Panel discussion. Participants: Dmitry Model (Media activist, Russia), Andrey Velikanov (Artist, philosopher, art theoretician, lecturer, Russia), Alexandre Bidin (Media activist, Russia), Artem Loskutov (Media activist, Russia), Roman Minaev (Media artist, Russia), Anton Nikolaev (Artist, Russia), Victoria Lomasko (artist, Russia), Dmitry Zhvania (mediaaktivist, Russia). 20.00 PRO&CONTRA OPENCALL/TACTICAL MEDIA Presentation and discussion. Projects of the 2011 nominees. Victoria Lomasko, Anton Nikolaev — "Forbidden Art", Anne Brochet — "Wikiantipedia", art-m2 — "GLOBAL ART PROJECT", Gregory Charushin — "Pink Fountain". 22.00 VIDEO PROGRAMME "MEDIA KICK" OCTOBER 1113.00 MEDIA EDUCATION Media Art and Interdisciplinary Practice: The Problem of Teaching Moderated by Asya Silaeva (MediaArtLab Center, Russia). Participants: Alexander Evangely (The Rodchenko Moscow School of photography and Multimedia, Russia), Daria Paramonova (Strelka: Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Russia), Svetlana Maiborodskaya (Communications Academy, Russia), Alexander Mishin (British Higher School of Art&Design, Russia), Vlad Sevetsev (Audiovisual Academy, Russia), Olga Shishko (MediaArtLab CAC, Russia), Daria Kamyshnikova (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Free Workshops program, Russia), Dmitry Galkin (University of Tomsk, Russia), Arseny Zhilyaev (Winzavod Centre of Contemporary Art, Start, Russia), Boris Debackere, Olof van Winden - Netherlands Media Art Institutes. 16.00 MEDIA FESTIVALS SECTION Martin Honzik (Head of Festival/Prix department, Austria) — Prix Ars Electronica; Remco Schuurbiers (Co-director of CTM) — Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts, Netherlands/Germany; Boris Debackere (Art director of V2_lab at V2_Unstable Media Institute, Netherlands) — Critical issue on media festivals; Emilio Alvarez (LOOP festival director) — LOOP, Olof van Winden (Director of Montevideo - Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Founder/Director TodaysArt Festival) -TodaysArt Festival. 17.30 SOUND ART SECTION The co-curator Sergey Kasich (Sound-artist, curator, Russia). Presentations, lectures. Michaela Melian (Artist, Germany) — Speicher; 20.00 PRO&CONTRA OPENCALL — SOUND ART Presentation and discussion. Projects of the 2011 nominees. Yury Kalendarev — "The Standing Wave", Ludmila Belova, programming by Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachyov, Cyland — "A Time Capsule", Denis Perevalov, Nina Rizhskaya, Igor Sodazot — "Spherephonograph", Valery Aizenberg — "Simone speaks Russian". 21.00 PRO&CONTRA SYPOSIUM CLOSING Performances by: "SHVEITSARIA" ("Switzerland") Group (Alexey Zagniy, Lev Rubinshteyn, Maria Chuykova, Russia);
“Today media constructs reality. Digital technologies change the society, politics and economics, but we are also changing with them. Technologies are extensions of our nervous system. We mutate gradually and become part of it. Under the pressure of the infinite number of cameras, stucked in the web, on one hand, we loose our freedom. But on the other - we expand our rights day by day via technological innovations. Art is not an outsider now, it's a trendsetter with new ideas and introduction into various fields is not directly connected to it. Only art with its intuition and power of imagination not limited by either discourse, or status, or norm becomes able to perceive the vague outlines of the future...” One of the special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, PRO&CONTRA symposium is organized by "MediaArtLab" Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture. This year it's held for the second time and represents special space open for discussions, talks, free interaction of artists, curators, journalists, students and all interested in the most avant-garde and hi-tech contemporary creativity. PRO&CONTRA includes talks by theoreticians and practitioners of media art, PRO&CONTRA OPEN CALL prize for media art projects, exhibition project, workshops for artists, panels, screenings of worldwide media art festivals and performances of sound artists. The project is dedicated to media art and questions of art and technology interaction, it pursues educational aims and will help to invite more people into the process, create a new generation of artists, critics and curators. PRO&CONTRA is the next step of media culture development in Russia. |
Olga Shishko, art historian, curator, director and founder of the MediaArtLab, PRO&CONTRA curator: