With the incredible rapid growth in new visual technologies, artists have
been challenged to re-think how they can incorporate these new mediums as
artistic expression in their work. In her lecture and screening, Olga Shishko
will explore how the use of new technology asks the question - whether reality
becomes fiction or fiction turns into reality? New media and communication
technologies not only pose a challenge to the artists but also carry new points
of discussion, which is summed up in a quote by Bruce Sterling - “The more
media penetrates our lives the easier it is to lose the trail of
information”.
Screening will include video artworks by Nam June Paik; Stelarc; Sergei
Kurekhin, Alexei Isaev; Group Jodi; Joachim Blank; Carl Heinz Heron; Jeffrey
Shaw; Sergei Shutov and others.
Lecturer
Olga Shishko, art historian, festival and exhibition curator. Director of Media
Art Lab, Center for Art and Culture and International “Media Forum”.
