Bright Collisions Symposium 2013
The focus of the symposium parallel to TodaysArt festival 2013, ‘Bright Collisions II’, is art, technology and society in the framework of urban, artistic and cultural developments and strategies. Touching upon various themes together with a great variety of partners, participants and formats, TodaysArt embraces the context of using the building recently vacated by a Dutch ministry as the primary venue for the festival. These themes create not only a theoretical framework, but also a practice-based approach to deal with contemporary topics. By inviting a selection of international thinkers we aim to provide the audience and participants with greater insight into cultural, artistic and political shifts, and to celebrate, criticize and discuss these developments.
Symposium Page
Download the Festival + Bright Collisions paper here
Date(s)
Venue(s)
Binnenlandse Zaken, 1st Floor
The Program
September 24 - 26t, 2013: Mediating Cityscapes
September 28th, 2013: The Building as Interface
September 28th, 2013: Creative Code
September 28th, 2013: Failed Architecture
September 28th, 2013: FIBER + SETUP - Open Tools Lab + Workshop
September 28th, 2013: Joseph Backstein – 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
September 28th, 2013: UNESCO – International Fund for Cultural Diversity
September 28th, 2013: Mediating Cityscapes
The ‘Mediating Cityscapes’ conference, which focuses on creative and artistic responses to the mediated cityscape, runs from the 24th to the 26th of September. Academics, artists and practitioners will present papers which consider the multiple ways in which various media, creative practices, and technologies put in to play a diverse array of encounters and interfaces that engage with, interrupt, reconstitute, or resist the hybrid spatialities which define the contemporary cityscape. The conference is organized by Dr Geoff Stahl, Senior Lecturer School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
September 28th, 2013: The Building as Interface
In ‘The Building as Interface’ (a collaboration with The Mobile City and Martijn de Waal) a panel of practitioners explores how digital interfaces organize and empower the public to appropriate a city’s buildings in new ways, where the building itself can become an interface: a media surface that can adapt a building to various uses and connect sites with the wider social fabric of the
city.
September 28th, 2013: Creative Code
We are hosting a ‘Creative Code’ session in collaboration with DOTS consisting of Q&As and interviews with, and presentations by, a number of artists presenting work at the festival.
September 28th, 2013: Failed Architecture
‘Failed Architecture’ will unveil some of the former ministry’s hidden secrets and unique qualities through a program of lectures, guided tours, screenings and contributions from people with direct connections to the building including architects, employees, nearby residents and artists.
September 28th, 2013: FIBER + SETUP – Open Tools Lab + Workshop
Are you interested in sharing code, digital tools and your knowledge with other creators? Would you like to brainstorm about new ideas, or to present a project or prototype? Bring your computer and join us at the Open Tools Lab by FIBER and SETUP
September 28th, 2013: Joseph Backstein – 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Joseph Backstein is the Art Director of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. From 1991 he was Director of the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art
September 28th, 2013: UNESCO – International Fund for Cultural Diversity
The International Fund for Cultural Diversity is an international cultural cooperation platform established by the UNESCO’s 2005 Convention
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