THE WAR SHAPED IDENTITIES: DESTRUCTION AS CULTURAL INHERITANCE ABSTRACT The essay will discuss the issues related to a cultural conceptualization defined by the author as ‘sedimented memory construction’ made of visible and invisible loci. The memories of buildings, land, sculptures, war destruction and social collapses are layered through processes of personal recall; thereby creating a culture of remembrance that shapes people’s identities beyond space and
ETERNALLY PRESENT & ETERNALLY ABSENT: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF A THANATOPHOBIC INTERNET AND ITS VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL EXISTENCES ABSTRACT Perhaps nothing is more representative of a thanatophobic society than the process of accumulating and storing virtual data in online environments. This process of accumulation and storage of data has become a behavioral and daily activity for many – manifested through a series of different
Hyperstrata, a conceptual curatorial framework by Lanfranco Aceti, looks at the process of layering of contemporary aesthetics. The exhibition showcases the artworks of Mark Amerika, who has been able to make of the pixel a contemporary media tool to overlay images with 21st Century's aesthetics. Roy Ascott's transmediation of La Plissure du Texte in virtual worlds with co-authors Elif Ayter, Max Moswitzer and Selavy Oh
„Not There“ is an exhibition of artworks from the Manifest.AR Venice Biennial 2011 AR Intervention still up and running at the Venice Biennial. The Kasa Gallery show presents the augmented reality Manifest.AR interventions in the Giardini and in Piazza San Marco for the 54th Venice Biennial. The exhibition at Kasa Gallery is a partnership with the art show „Not Here“ taking place at the Samek
DEATH, WAR, CENSORSHIP, FETISHISM AND HEROIC AFTERLIVES THROUGH DIGITAL NARRATIVES: THE MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHICS, DEATH, VICTORY AND SURVIVAL ABSTRACT It is no longer possible to shy away from the trans-mediated presence of death that symbolizes, in the context of contemporary cultural conflicts and upheavals, not only change within the wider local communities but also changes within the Western world and its relationships with ‘other’
TEXT AND DIGITAL MEDIA: THE VISUALIZATION OF CODE, CODEX AND CONTEXT ABSTRACT The changes in the definition of text and image caused by contemporary digital media have altered the traditional concepts of political and social hierarchies as well as blurred the boundaries between text based and image based disciplines. The concepts of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as those of transnationalism and multiculturalism offer insight
