Speculum Artium 2011

Zavod za kulturo Delavski dom Trbovlje

SPECULUM ARTIUM 2011
(20.4. – 23.4. 2011)
Tradicionalni festival novomedijske umetnosti, z gosti in projekti iz celega sveta.
Kustosi:
mag. Herwig Steiner (Dunaj), prof. Srečo Dragan (Ljubljana), mag. Michaela Ortner (Linz)
Sodelujoči umetniki:
Dan Scott, Michael Fisher, Juan Suanca, Lisa Hall, Aram Zarikian, Paolo Zappala, Jessica Pinney, Philip
Cornett, Marc Bonet Folgosa, Christoph Schwarz, Julian Palacz, Emanuel Andel, Thomas Frierss, Nik
Skušek, Jure Fingušt, Dorian Španzel, Reinhard Gupfinger, Travis Kirton, Maša Jazbec, Tiago Martins,
skupina V.A.T..

V letu 2009 je v javnem zavodu Delavski dom Trbovlje (DDT), meseca maja gostoval novomedijski festival Speculum Artium 09 (S.A.09) (integrirana umetnost različnih realnosti). Sama izvedba in odmevnost dogodka v ožji in širši skupnosti, je pokazala potrebo, da festival S.A. permanentno živi in biva v Trbovljah, v Kulturnem domu DDT in na lokacijah v samem mestu.
V letu 2010 se je na temeljih festivala S.A. 09 poglobilo tudi sodelovanje med ALUO, FRI-jem ter nosilci projekta Speculum Artium v smeri prirejanja umetniških delavnic (več zaporednih obiskov študentov ALUO), ki so skozi interakcijo med lokalnimi akterji in gosti iz Ljubljane vzpostavile sistem mreženja, ki bo dal svoje prve rezultate že na festivalu Speculum Artium 2011. teme s katerimi se bodo umetniki ukvarjali na S.A.2011 so življensko povezane z odnosom znanosti in umetnost, ki sta prek skupnih akcij pokazali in dokazali, da sta znotraj tehnološke paradigme 21.stoletja kompatibilne in združljive. Ko smo pripravljali koncept za S.A. 2011, smo si za izhodišče izbrali vprašanje, kdaj lahko tehnično mišljenje prevaga nad umetniškim. V resnici je to lažna dilema, kajti umetnost, kakršnakoli že je, je del splošne zavesti in stanja v neki družbi, zatorej ne potrebuje razlage, zakaj sploh je.
Trbovlje je prek opotekajoče poti, skozi zgodovinski razvoj vedno dokazovalo svojo avantgardnost na področju kulture. Propad organizacijskih sistemov sociale in produkcije 20.stoletja nujno vodi v razmislek – kako naprej. Novomedijska kultura je vsekakor zgodovinska priložnost da v našem prostoru vzpostavimo ponovno občutek samozavesti in vere v bodočnost.
Sodobna umetnost je pristala v rokah parcialnih znanj in interesov, brezkompromisnega diktata postkapitalistične miselnosti in trgovcev z novci. Nekako se je izmuznila objemu poetov – raziskovalcev. S.A. 2011, se v svojih temeljih vsekakor naslanja na pretekle festivale in njihove organizacijske strukture. Festival S.A.11 bo predstavil produkcije, ki se porajajo znotraj same strukture novomedijskih praks v svetu:
– sinteza principa umetnosti in tehnologije,
– socializacija novomedijske produkcije,
– vzpostaviti rdečo nit med tradicionalnimi vizualnimi in novomedijskimi praksami,
– kako revitalizirati upostošeno socialno okolje skozi novomedijske prakse,
– kako sistem produkcije in prezentacije vrniti v upravljanjeavtorju,
– kritična refleksija kot surbvezivni vmesnik med umetnostjo – tehnologijo – družbo.
Načrtna strategija uspešnih povezav s tujimi praksami na področju novomedijskih vsebin se tako s festivalom S.A. 2011 nadaljuje. Kontinuirano angažiranje in mednarodno sodelovanje bo lokalno skupnost umestilo na kulturni zemljevid sveta ji dalo nov zagon, ter jo afirmiralo navzven.
V izvedbo samega festivala so vključeni tudi številni mladi Trboveljčani. Poleg Alternativnega kulturnega društva (AKDT), skupine V.A.T., ki deluje pod okriljem društva revirskih likovnikov – RELIK in Gimnazije Trbovlje (GIMTEAM) tudi številni posamezniki, s svojim znanjem na področju računalništva in tehnike ter vizualnih praks. Ta pripravljenost mladih ljudi je ključnega pomena, in eden izmed razlogov prirejanja takšnega festivala. S.A. 09 si je ogledalo več tisoč ljudi iz Slovenije in tujine. Mesto Trbovlje s tem festivalom postaja prostor nove socializacije, zbirališče mladih, izvir novih idej, utemeljitelj novih praks.
Mag. Zoran Poznič,
direktor DDT

Annual new media festival
SPECULUM ARTIUM 2011
20. – 23. April 2011

Curators:
Herwig Steiner, MA (Vienna), prof. Srečo Dragan (Ljubljana), Michaela Ortner, MA (Linz)
Artists:
Dan Scott, Michael Fisher, Juan Suanca, Lisa Hall, Aram Zarikian, Paolo Zappala, Jessica Pinney, Philip Cornett, Marc Bonet Folgosa, Christoph Schwarz, Julian Palacz, Emanuel Andel, Thomas Frierss, Nik Skušek, Jure Fingušt, Dorian Španzel, Reinhard Gupfinger, Travis Kirton, Maša Jazbec, Tiago Martins, V.A.T.

In May of 2009 public institution Labour Home Trbovlje (Delavski dom Trbovlje – DDT) hosted a new media festival Speculum Artium 09 (S.A.09) (integrated art of different realities). The realization and the wide response to the event in our local community and the public at large, showed the need of S.A. being permanently present and alive in Trbovlje; in Delavski dom Trbovlje and various locations in the town itself.
Based on S.A.09, cooperation between ALUO (Academy of Fine Arts and Design), FRI (Faculty for Information and Computer Science) and the organizers of Speculum Artium project improved even further in 2010, with art workshops (visits of ALUO students), which formed a system of networking between local artists and guests from Ljubljana. First results of such activities will already be shown at Speculum Artium 2011. Topics which the artists in S.A.2011 will engage are vitally connected to the relationship between art and science have many times shown and proved in their joined actions that they are compatible within the technological paradigm of 21st century. When preparing the concept for S.A. 2011 we started with the question when the technical thinking can weight over the artistic thinking. In reality that is a false dilemma, since the art of whatever kind is an integral part of general consciousness and state if society. Therefore it does not need to justify its existence.
Trbovlje has many times shown its avant-garde in the area of culture trough the staggering ways in its historic development. The downfall of social and production systems in the 20th century leads to an inevitable questioning about the future. New media culture is a historic opportunity to reestablish self-confidence and faith in the future in our area.
Modern art ended up in grip of partial knowledge and interests, uncompromising dictate of post capitalistic thinking and the capital. It slipped away from the hold of the poets, explorers. S.A. 2011 in its foundations builds upon previous festivals and their organization structure. S.A. 2011 festival will present production emerging from the very structure of new media art in the world:
- synthesis of artistic and scientific principles,
- socialization of new media production,
- establishing a dialog between traditional visual and new media practice,
- revitalization of the degraded social space trough new media practice,
- returning the management of system of production and presentation to the author’s – establishing critical reflection – subversive link between art, technology and society.
Strategy of networking with foreign new media practice therefore continues also with S.A.2011 festival. Constant activity and international cooperation will place the local community to the cultural map of the world, which will provide it with new momentum and reaffirm its position.
Science and art have many times shown and proved in their joined actions that they are compatible within the technological paradigm of 21st century. When preparing the concept for S.A. 2010 we started with the question when the technical thinking can weight over the artistic thinking. In reality that is a false dilemma, since the art of whatever kind is an integral part of general consciousness and state if society. Therefore it does not need to justify its existence.

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