How can arts, society and culture be better understood and reshaped through technology?
Where ART Thou? is designed as an annual event around the arts and humanities where technology is both a method, a tool of production and communication and a source of inspiration. Engaging with international practitioners and artists across art, film, videomapping, technology and wider cultural industries, WhAT articulates the challenges and opportunities that artists and cultural managers face in this landscape in advancing new methods on designing cultural projects.
The first edition of 2021 hosts a pilot project – Transitions in between virtual and non-virtual worlds, that aims to discuss research and a theoretical approach (the conceptual ties between culture and technology), case studies and best practices on how technology and digital practice can be integrated into the life and programming of cultural organisations (from ideas to design, obstacles and challenges, results and impact) and how arts, society and culture can be better understood and reshaped through technology.
The program will take place in three cities, between July and September 2021: Bucharest, at Rezidența BRD Scena9 and Goethe Institut, Brașov – during Amural Festival and Timișoara, during Simultan Festival.
All presentations will be in English.
Curators: Suzana Dan (manager Rezidența BRD Scena9), Levente Kozma (artistic director Simultan Festival), Răzvan Pascu (artistic director Amural Festival)
Schedule:
Monday, July 26, 2021/18:00
Venue: Rezidența BRD Scena9 (Bucharest)
Presentation title: From VHS to A.I
Guest speaker: Daniel Gontz (Romania)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021/ 19:00
Venue: Rezidența BRD Scena9 (Bucharest)
Presentation title: Creating digital art experiences
Guest speaker: Alain Bieber (Germany)
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Venue: Brașov
Guest speaker: László Zsolt Bordos (Hungary)
– part of the 7th edition of Amural, preview
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Venue: Brașov
Guest speaker: Nonotak Studio (France)
– part of the 7th edition of Amural, preview
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Venue: Rezidența BRD Scena9
Presentation: INTERACTIVE SPACE
Guest speaker: Klaus Obermaier (Austria)- part of New Regional Cultural Cooperation: Together, We Matter!
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Venue: Goethe Institute (Bucharest)
Presentation: The Shape of Light
Guest speaker: Răzvan Pascu (Romania)
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Venue: Simultan Festival @ MultipleXity, Timișoara
Guest speakers: Łukasz Warna-Wiesławski (Poland)
Sunday, September 19, 2021 (postponed) TBA
Venue: Simultan Festival @ MultipleXity, Timișoara
Guest speaker: Erik Bünger (Sweden)
Where ART Thou? is a program of Rezidenta BRD Scena9 developed in partnership with Amural Festival and Simultan Festival funded through Fundatia9 and EUNIC network in Bucharest.
Special thanks: Oana Bițan (Cultural Promotion Officer, Embassy of Sweden in Romania), H.E. Mrs. Therese Hyden (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Sweden in Romania), Thomas Kloiber (Director Austrian Cultural Forum), Pawel Rutkowski (Cultural Expert, Polish Institute of Bucharest), Joachim Umlauf (Director Goethe Institute in Bucharest).
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