Seminars: Digitizing Ideas and Common Knowledge
21 and 22 April 2012
Moderna galerija auditorium, Cankarjeva 15
The Present and Presence – Repetition 1
Opening: 17 April 2012, 8pm
MG+MSUM Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova – MSUM
Tomšičeva 14
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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info [at] mg-lj.si
Digitizing Ideas
Saturday, 21 April, 10–17
Looking at the way the digital media are changing our society, we can observe two main developments: we are faced with increasing control and possibilities for surveillance on the one hand, and on the other, a previously unimaginable amount of freely accessible knowledge, ideas and information on the internet.
In museums, digitalisation processes open new possibilities and obstacles. The results of digitalisation of collections and archives are computed/digital images. They are often considered reproductions, copies of material works, but we should also think of them as completely new digital entities. With such images new aesthetic forms are emerging, entailing new possible interpretations, compositing and perception.
The seminar Digitizing Ideas is organized in the frame of the project Digitizing Ideas: ARCHIVES OF CONCEPTUAL ART PRACTICES. The project is a collaboration between Moderna galerija (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, Croatia), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, Poland).
Speakers: Florian Cramer, Branka Ćurčić, Andreja Hribernik, Gerald Raunig, Laurence Rassel, Aleksandra Sekulić, Richard Stallman
This project has been supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Common Knowledge
Seminar produced by L’Internationale
Sunday, 22 April, 10–17
The purpose of the seminar Common Knowledge is to encourage reflection on a possible new and different approach to creating common knowledge, more in sync with our time than the prevalent epistemological and institutional models. The seminar will be divided in two main parts, the first one entitled Horizontal Connections, and the second one, Verticality in the Service of Common Knowledge. The first part will focus on the new global conditions and on the fact that we require more equality in creating knowledge under these conditions, and the second one, on the need to redefine institutions so that they can attune themselves to this new situation.
Speakers: Zdenka Badovinac, Bart de Baere, Jesús Carrillo, Charles Esche, Pascal Gielen, Brian Holmes, Vasif Kortun, Rastko Močnik, Georg Schöllhammer, Madina Tlostanova
This project has been supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Programme: internacionala.mg-lj.si and www.mg-lj.si
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova - MSUM
The Present and Presence – Repetition 1
A selection of works from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection
Curated by: Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol
Opening: 17 April 2012, 8pm
The Present and Presence – Repetition 1, is being a partly changed and expanded first instalation of the exhibition that opened the new Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova last November. Repetition 1 follows a special concept of repetition. The Present and Presence exhibition is being repeated for the following reasons: 1 – Due to drastically cut exhibitions program budget, repeating an exhibition is some kind of recycling in a crisis. 2 –The repetition, on the other hand, aims to draw critical attention to the excessively fast and superficial consumption of intellectual content and underscore the significance of rereading. 3 – Repetition is one of the fundamental features of contemporary art and of the time and place we live in. 4 – Repetition is one of the crucial principles by which history is created. Today, for spaces outside the dominant system, it is important to analyze the traumas of local histories in this light as well. 5 – Repetition is driven by trauma, the same kind of trauma that had led Moderna galerija to found, in 2000, its collection Arteast 2000+, now one of the conceptual cornerstones of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.
Complementing the repeated exhibition are five special projects: The Bosnia Archive, The Body and the East Archive, NETRAF: Portable Intelligence Increase Museum, An Archive of Performance Art, An Archive-in-becoming and 1395 Days Without Red by Šejla Kamerić.
From 6 March til 15 April 2012 there are continuous screenings from EVR (e-flux video rental) on the ground floor of MSUM. EVR (e-flux video rental) is a project by artists Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, who donated the entire video archive to the Moderna galerija.
More information: www.mg-lj.si
Contact: Adela Železnik, adela.zeleznik [at] mg-lj.si, Tel. +38612416808
