Apprehension.Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation.

Venue: Bucharest Biennial Location TBA
Starts: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Ends: Friday, July 11, 2014
Location: Romania
Organiser: Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art

A Parallel Event

Apprehension. Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation

The Apprehension.Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation. Symposium, curated by Camilla Boemio, forms part of the parallel program , and provides critical input for the global topic, It’s a curatorial research project conducted over the period of 6th Bucharest Biennale.

Today, large swaths of the population are plugged into the Net, and it encompasses every sphere of human activity in all of its component parts: trite and tiring work; entertainment, business, and money making; informal and formal education; love, romance, and pornography; wily protest and civic endeavors; crime, intrigue, and conflict. Despite these transformations, and barring small moments of breakdown or annoyance, most of its users, at least those with decent access, still experience the Internet as smooth and frictionless. They are blissfully unaware of its knotted and turbulent underworlds, or the worlds from which it grew.

Social network are therefore essential components of what Deleuze called control and modulation societies – and they push them further forward . But let us not forget that Deleuze sometimes speculated about an art of the control, and that his primary concern was not to do away with control, but to do something with it – If not to take control of it. The fact that social networks make disindividuation worse, not so much through police control, but through the behavioral control exercised by marketing, represents a possible disindividuation which could be countered, but only if one is able to reverse the pharmacologic direction of social networks.

It is foremost about inventing the future of social networks, in social networks, and with social networks. This is only possible if we are able to arrive at an understanding of these networks which are at the same time technological and social, and to attain such an understanding as to make these networks capable of becoming agents of reflexivity – and re -discover our seemingly present state of industrial decadence (agents of the reflexive modernity in the risk society – Ulrich Beck ) .

The social media monopolies is a system of apprehension and alteration of reality (?)The new Voyeur is the social media (?)

The Web means the end of forgetting (?)

An unpublished talk, of two days, in which: artists, curator, intellectuals, philosophers and filmmakers will give.

different key to understanding ( also by Skype).

Curated by Camilla Boemio

Esecutive Curator: Fabrizio Orsini

Partecipants and discussions:

David A. Ross (Writer, curator. Formerly, director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art )

Enrico Ghezzi ( cinematic writer and critic )

Ravi Agarwal ( artist, environmental activist, writer, New Delhi )

Camilla Boemio (writer- curator and Deputy Curator of Maldives Pavilion at 55th Venice Biennale, Roma)

Ethan Bach ( Artist, Consultant at Bach Multimedia (www.bachmultimedia.com), Creative Director at Vortex Immersion Media (www.vorteximmersion.com) Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California)

Max Presneill ( artist & curator at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles and Curatorial Director of Artra Curatorial )

Francesco Jodice ( artist, founding member of the Italian Multiplicity group, professor of Urban Visual Anthropology at the Master in Art and Curatorial studies and professor of Photography at the Cinema and New Media Department at NABA, Milan )

Riccardo De Cal ( filmmaker)

Emiliano Montanari ( filmosopher )

Nico Vascellari ( artist, Vittorio Veneto)

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori ( artist, London)

Mike Calvert ( artist, Los Angeles – New York and Japan )

Achilleas Kentonis ( artist and professional education program on Innovation at MIT, Boston)

John Thackara ( founder and Director of The Doors of perception, organises festival in Europe and India in which grassroots innovators work with designers to imagine sustainable futures)

Organisation: AAC platform in collaborations with UNIVP / Politecnica University of Marche

dates

10th and 11th July

First day: 12.00 – 14.00 a.m.

Second day 12.00 – 14.00 / 16.00 – 17.30 p.m.

At Bucharest time

location with the street address and the city

University of Fine Arts Bucharest

web address and links

camillaboemio.com and

aniconics.wordpress.com

bucharestbiennale.org/parallel-events/

bucharestbiennale.org/concept

A Parallel Event at 6th Bucharest Biennale

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori

My practice encompasses sculpture, print, sound, poetry and interactive installations and it attempts to provide an understanding of the process by which notions of belief and the perception of reality are being shaped and shared between the world of corporate systems and the individual. More recently, my artistic research has focused on the world and language of the International Finance, as after all, as Neil MacGregor once defined it, the whole financial system depends on voluntary acts of faith. It is precisely this fictional aspect of money, the co-operational act of agreeing on its value and its consequent moral obligations that derive from such a shared view of reality that drives my interest and artistic production. I incorporate elements of the invisible yet pervasive domain of digital technology and responsive materials in my works, in order to manifest that which is otherwise intangible; coded surfaces and data informed structured so become a tool of investigation of the constant act of negotiation that goes behind the system of information we call tangible reality. My process is often collaborative and research based. From collaborating with RCA graduates in developing an innovative sensor based technology, to working with English and Chinese opera singers to create interactive artworks with a strong choral vocal component, to commissioning data analysts, scientists and a financial astrologer to forecast the value of International Finance markets, to working with an economist and explore ways to re-imagine the market driven society through language and poetry. Selected solo shows comprehend the MoCA Shanghai (2016), Ryder Projects (London, 2016), Museum für angewandte Kunst, (Vienna 2013); selected group shows comprehend the National Museum of Science and Technology (Milan, 2017), the Holon Museum (2017), the Galerie Für Gegenwartskunst (Freiburg 2017), the Odessa Biennale (August 2017), the participation in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art (Hangzhou, September 2016), the Kaunas Biennale, (2015), PiArtworks Gallery (London 2015), the Guest Projects (London, 2015), New York University (2015), the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (on-line, 2015), the Watermans Arts Centre (London, 2015 and 2014), the V&A London (London, 2014), the Contemporary Art Terminal (Shenzen, 2013) the Open Data Institute (London, 2012). Public collections that have acquired my work include the V&A (London), the Villa Lagarina Civic Museum (Rovereto) and the Crespina Civic Museum (Pisa); private collections include the Open Data Institute (London) and various private collections in Trento, Milan, London and Rome.