2016-09-16
Laboratory–camp “Trans–sensor Networks” is returning to Nida Art Colony this September as Vilnius Academy of the Arts student practice event and as Migrating Art Academies’ laboratory. “Trans–sensor Networks” will suggest an insight into the functioning of the biological ecosystem and co-functioning of its elements.
International group of laboratory participants – emerging artists and art students from Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Lithuania, will develop their artistic projects in collaboration with professional artists, curators, theoreticians, sharing intense creative process.
“It has recently become very popular to rethink media. However the most common are discourses such as the position of the media in communication, expansion and compulsion of media, its growth and variety. This creative laboratory–camp is suggesting one more possibility to consider media as environment, to aim to find paralels and analogies in the nature. The access point to this discourse could be the concept of rhizome, developed by Giles Deleuze. It could be used not only as a metaphor but also as an environment in the nature – the the root system, supporting natural processes among plants and possibly even their symbiotic intercommunication. Biocoenosis has been known for many years now among biologists, but is it possible to discuss plant intercommunication or to identify psychological cases in their behavior? This is becoming an important topic in the context of works of speculative realism theorists” – says the initiator of the event, head of Photography and Media Arts Department, Vilnius Academy of the Arts, professor Alvydas Lukys.
The open programme of the event will start on the 17th of September with a presentation by artist, curator and lecturer at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Mindaugas Gapševičius on his recent project “Posthuman Aesthetics and the Narratives of Contemporary Aesthetic Forms” in the context of “Trans-sensor Networks”. He will also present a workshop “Mycorrhizal Networks or How do I Hack Plant Conversations” in the afternoon of the same day. On Sunday 18th of September a seminar on speculative realism and phenomenology will be presented by Dalius Jonkus, the Docent at Vytautas Magnus University, head of the Department of Philosophy and Social Critique, the Faculty of Humanities. The last presentation by Professor Alvydas Lukys titled “Defining Possible Frontiers for Media” is scheduled for Monday the 19th of September. In addition, throughout this event discussions, expeditions and intense collaborative sessions will take place. The laboratory-camp will end on Sunday 25th of September with an exhibition and public presentation of the projects.
The Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) platform is aimed at innovation and experience exchange in art teaching and research. It is a network of European universities and independent organisations. This laboratory is organised by Vilnius Academy of the Arts (Photography and Media Arts Department) in collaboration with Institutio Media.
Open programme:
Saturday 17 September
10 am Mindaugas Gapševičius. Presentation of the project “Posthuman Aesthetics and the Narratives of Contemporary Aesthetic Forms” in the context of “Trans-sensor Networks”.
2 pm Mindaugas Gapševičius. Workshop “Mycorrhizal Networks or How do I Hack Plant Conversations”.
Sunday 18 September
1 pm Dalius Jonkus seminar “Speculative realism and phenomenology”
Monday, 19 September
11 am Alvydas Lukys lecture/seminar “Defining Possible Frontiers for Media”
Sunday 25 September
2 pm Opening of the exhibition and presentation of results
Address: Nida Art Colony, Taikos Str. 43, Nida
Language: English