The aim of the conference is connected with the importance of media art development today. The idea of the conference is to widen the festival with the interesting discussion. As all projects, going as a part of the festival, are demonstrated inside exhibition halls (museums and galleries), it is reasonable to discuss those projects, which are showing out of interiors. So, the theme of the video conference is connected with the media art in the open space.
Olga Shustrova,
PhD, assistant professor of Information Systems in the Art and Humanitarians chair, Art faculty, Saint-Petersburg State University
Internet-conference unites several points, located in the bid distance from each other with the help of the special equipment.
Saint-Petersburg State University
Saint-Petersburg State University – the organizer of the conference. Art faculty, the chair of the Information Systems in the Art and Humanitarians (the head of the chair, Doctor of Physics-Mathematics Science, Nikolai Borisov) & chair of Design (head of the chair, PhD, Xenia Pozdnyakova), lecturers and students of the both chairs.
The project for presentation: «The Century of St. Petersburg» – interactive multimedia project, author Olga Kunichenko, magister diploma, supervisor Tatyana Minayeva.
Idea for discussion: The types of conservation of the historical building; experience of restoration and saving of the cultural heritage.
CYLAND MediaArtLab, Saint-Petersburg
CYLAND MediaArtLab presents media project «We Are Here», the special project of the 54th Venetian Biennale, 2011. Speakers: Marina Koldobskaya (Curator of CYLAND media art lab), Anna Frants (Director of St. Petersburg Arts Project Inc.).
Ideas for discussion: the experience of audio systems installation in different spaces.
Sweden, Göteborg-Mölndal
Jim Berggren, printmaker and media artist, is working with the program Modul 8 in the city space and for the theater performances. Also he uses laser rays for online drawing. He will present a project: «Budget Beamart». This work with projections focus on finding economically reachable systems for artists with small possibilities to finance big expensive systems. It’s a way to find cheap ways, systems and equipment to perform projections.
Denmark
Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen (drawing, classical oil painting, not least in the large site-specific work that revolves around space, technology and people). She presents a project «Light — landscape and voices» (2011), created together with composer Marie Højlund (lysogstemmer.dk & marybell.dk).
The problem for discussion: combination of the special topography with new technologies, and cooperation with and involving a number of different people. See: ejdruphansen.dk/linien-lyset
USA, Chicago
Mat Rappaport, Associate Professor, Columbia College, works with narrativity and audience experience of space and place (meme01.com & v1b3.com) in the built environment. Mat will talk about his project current, a site specific responsive video and light work situated across the Delaware river where it forms the border between the states of New York and Pennsylvania. current structures an analogy between aspects of the US housing crisis and local patterns of resource extraction; specifically the repackaging and abstracting of home mortgages as a commodity and the historic transfer of coal and timber to factories and urban centers down river.
Finland, Helsinki
Andy Best, Researcher, Media & Visual Artist. 6. Media Lab, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Personal work at andyandmerja.com & student’s projects at m1ce.blogspot.com).
The project for presentation RE/F/r.ACE. The theme for discussion: strategies for using media in the city space.