Workshop PhD/students @ Biennale sessions

In collaboration with The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) of Ca' Foscari University, and on the occasion of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Sessions, RE:SOURCE proposes the workshop 'ARS HYBRIDA & The practice of new media art' to all the PhD, MA and BA students attending the conference.

The workshop takes place at the Venice Biennale’s Arsenal on September 16th, h. 14.00 - 17.00 CEST. It is divided in two sessions, as follow:

WORKSHOP_Session 1_h.14.00 - 15.30

This workshop, organized as a dynamic and open discussion among the participants, starts from Duchamp's provocative concept of measurement and norms when applied to the theory, history, practice and curating of new media art. The discussion will focus on issues relating to the aesthetics of new media art, its "intangibility", and archiving methodologies. Organized and conducted by Prof. Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne, AUS), Prof. Paul Thomas (University of South Wales, Sydney, AUS) and Dr Francesca Franco (RE:SOURCE Chair) with the participation of Edmonds Ernest (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK), Christiane Paul (chief curator/director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York City. USA), Morten Søndergaard (Aalborg University, DK), and international artists such as Laura Beloff (Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, FI), the workshop starts from the provocative concept launched by Marcel Duchamp in 1914 "3 Stoppages Étalon" (“3 Standard Stoppages”) The provocation of the “3 Standard Stoppages” work challenged the whole concept of practice, experimentation, and measurement which relates strongly to what was mathematically contested in physics at that time in history. The roundtable would use the provocations of its invited presenters to create the furtive discussion on the contestable status of new media art today.

The outcome for the roundtable would be to collate issues raised concerning the non/ definitional boundaries of New Media art practice now. Have the mediums of new media art become absorbed as part of an artist palette? Is AI/ChatGPT relegating all art to being unmeasurable?

WORKSHOP_Session 2_h. 15.30 - 17.00

Organized in collaboration with Stefania De Vincentis and Paolo Berti, this workshop addresses digital stochastic processes and their core random function in the art of new technological media confronted with the indeterminate times of the future.

Iury Lech is a transdisciplinary digital artist descended from the Ukrainian diaspora and settled in Spain from a very young age, that has developed his creativity working within the realm of video-art, music and literature, being part of the few pioneers in the Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual scene that in the 80’s/90’s began to develop visual-aural performances and video art works. His open and unclassifiable style permeates the tired avant-garde concept by means of textures that brings alive hypnotic visual and sonic atmospheres and an alternative way to conceive New Media Art experimentalism.

Beside the artistic activities he is responsible for the founding, direction, and programming of MADATAC, the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY AUDIO-VISUAL & NEW MEDIA ART, an independent project initiated in 2009 and ongoing through the 12th edition.

MADATAC [Biennial of New Media Art & Digital Technologies], is an internationally renowned Festival, an iconic, universalist, pedagogical event specialized in the dissemination, production and exhibition of the art of new digital media, with a long history in the city Madrid, which for its 12th edition will also host the IX International Symposium on Cyberculture and New Media Art and will have Ukraine as a special guest country. MADATAC aims to serve as an exchange, dissemination, exhibition, production and knowledge of disruptive and immersive proposals in which artists, technicians, scientists and educators are working, in order to articulate innovative proposals of the language of the new digital and audiovisual media and interrelate art, science, technology and creative processes connected to a transdisciplinary perspective.

The workshop will be an open discussion on new media art creation and the presentation of the project Transmadatac Virtual Museum, an audiovisual art and advanced technologies on-line interactive cross-platform, dedicated to exhibit, promote, watch, acquire and collect new media artwork.