DIGITAL MEDIA – Digital Technologies in art
Exhibition DIGITAL MEDIA presents the Works of students of the Intermedia Studio led by doc. Miroslav Nicz, akad mal., and the Digital Media Studio led by MgA Michal Murin, ArtD. Pedagogues are also curators of the exhibition along with PhDr. Katarina Rusnáková, PhD., the head of the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts /FVU/, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica.
Exhibition provides a space also for the students of the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia at the Technical University in Koąice, who were invited as quests, under MgA. Michal Murin´s ArtD.
curation they present a projection of short videos and interactive videoinstallations, which were created in the New Media Studio led by the quest professor Anna Tretter.
Each of the three studios located away from the capital are presented to the audience of Bratislava by means of generously conceived exhibition, which due to its scale stands for the title of the biggest art show dealing with new technologies in Slovakia since 1991. The artworks are shown in fourteen sections with major part consisting of media installations using the spectator´s interactivity. The prepared selection consists of four projections of the short videos varying from videoart and videoperformance to experimental film, containing almost 80 students´works. There can be viewed works based on the computer games, as well as the works based on the knowledge of the programming languages pure data and processing. Art project for the web www also presents art computer virus aimed to promote the works of students from Banská Bystrica, which intervened into 69 states and 60 thousand computers. The attractive spectator´s experience offer also a format derived from computer games - machinima, which is a special kind of animation based on the game engine of the pc game. As very interesting comes also the conception of so called exhibition in exhibition, which intents to present students´works in the 3D virtual museum.
Students´works – characteristic by the variety of the art techniques, forms and themes – deal with the diverse actual problems of the contemporary life. On one hand there are expressed the opinions towards the themes connected with the subjectivity, intimity, corporality, reflections of the gender ´s questions and interpersonal relationships within their microworlds, on the other hand they probe in their discourses into various sociocultural situations, not avoiding the cultural, societal and political critique.
These adepts of art reffer also to the historical and cultural memory and point their attention at the careful exploration of the social sides of the everyday life in the context of globalised world. Another sphere of their interested covers the field of visual culture, mainly the critique and the ironizing of masmedial manipulation, as well as the creative use of film in the means of found footage videos. The base of many contributions is the artistic intervention into the public real or virtual space. The common factor of the majority of the students´works is not only the focused effort of these authors to communicate interesting messages in the inventive visual language, but also their natural struggle to find their place and spaces for self – realization in both art and life.
DIGITAL MEDIA – Digital Technologies in art
Place: Art House, Nám. SNP 12, Bratislava
Duration of exhibition: 10. 12. – 20. 12. 2009, daily from 10.00 to 18.00
The author of the project: Michal Murin
Curators: Michal Murin, Miroslav Nicz, Katarína Rusnáková
The curator of the Videoexperiment Projection FVU: Ján Adamove
Curators of the Videoart projection FVU: Michal Murin, Miroslav Nicz, Katarína Rusnáková
Curators of the Videoart projection FU: Michal Murin, Boris Vaitovič
Assistant: Lukáą Matejka
The exhibiton was supported by:
Ministry of Education SR, Ministry of Culture SR, National edifying centre, Faculty of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Fine Arts Koąice, Ultra FRAME s.r.o., The Gallery of Nitra, Povaľská gallery in ®ilina, SITA – Slovak press agency, TV Bratislava, IDM.NET.DATA (http://idm.aku.sk), The Platform DigiVAF(ex) (http://fvu.aku.sk/vafex)
The exhibition was supported by the grant M© SR KEGA 3/6489/08
The exhibition is a part of the project DigiVAF(ex).
DigiVAF(ex) – Digital technologies in the fine art
DigiVAF(ex) is a continual cycle of the four years of new media festival VAF(ex) (2004 –2007), organised by Michal Murin at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica.
DigiVAF(ex) is a platform providing an entry for international activites on the field of digital media to the academic enviroment, integrating an internal digital technologies art into the international projects, organising theoretical conferences and presentation forums, executing publishing activities, organising worhshops for students, preparing student works´ presentations at the international and home festivals and exhibitions etc.
DigiVAF(ex) presents the results of the students´ creative activities originated at the academic field, creates a presenting platform as well as contrastive opportunity with the students form the other universities, allows students to gain practic experience with the art presentations, offers possibilities of postproduction and active participation at the workshops.
DigiVAF(ex) is an educative product assigned for the needs of the students of the Digital Media Studio (DM) at Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, that allows the aplication of new Technologies and media into the actual artistic expression and neoconceptual thinking. The studio is open for intermedial and interdisciplinar projects, integrating technologies from film and digital animations, videoart, video objects, video installations, videoperformances to sound – oriented projects, multimedial realizations and technologicaly advanced actual artistic communications.
Students deal with a work with the authoring sound, interactivity in the digital enviroment, interventions into the public digital space, database visuality, on-line communication, social network, integrating the computer games´ language into the fine art, so called „machinima“ and develope another forms such as cell phone art, net art, visualization of datas and so on.
Subprojects of DigiVAF(ex):
Digi VAF (ex) Research – explorational scientific and art activities
Digi VAF(ex) Lab – a laboratory for the origin of works of artists and students
Digi VAF (ex) Live – live presentations of works in the real time
Digi VAF (ex) Diplay – organizing of exhibitions
Digi VAF (ex) Stream – a presentation of the festival works via streaming on the FVU server
Digi VAF(ex) Talk – a lecture forum of authors and theoreticians
Digi VAF(ex) Doc – documentary activities of the projects (internet, database files, archive)
Digi VAF(ex) Press – publishing activites (DVD, internet, publications)
Since 2004 there were executed more than 60 actions and published more than 10 DVDs within the projects of VAF(ex) a DigiVAF(ex).
(from the press release)
There can be viewed works based on the computer games, as well as the works based on the knowledge of the programming languages pure data and processing. Art project for the web www also presents art computer virus aimed to promote the works of students from Banská Bystrica, which intervened into 69 states and 60 thousand computers...