SHIFTING MATTERS WITH URBAN MEDIA ART
14 NOVEMBER
Since ancient civilizations, art has participated spiritually, conceptually and materially in city-making – building up societies and architectural structures as frescos, reliefs, painting, glass, etc. Today, cities around the world are being upgraded, augmented, and made artificially intelligent with technology at a pace not accounting for environmental consequences of our human-made innovations. In this context, the attention to securing the participation of art and art’s inquiry as part of the foundation on which our future societies will be built evokes a need for including ethics and holistic consciousness at the human scale in our fast-paced process of urban change.
The symposium positions urban media art as a matter of global response to current urban urgencies; as an interdisciplinary and inter-knowledge domain of practice and theory – asking:
How can urban media art contribute to ‘shifting’ matters and energies of fast-developing hybrid cities, towards ethical and sustainable ends? What modes of consciousness in the art (skills, concerns, discourses and qualities) do we need to further (and teach) in order to engage with current urgencies of cities and societies – in a global perspective.
AGENDA
| 14.00-14.10 | Welcome by MAB18 team Tanya Toft Ag, Susa Pop, founding directors of the Urban Media Art Academy |
| 14.10-14.20 | How Urban Media Art Matters by Susa Pop Introduction to the Urban Media Art Academy |
| 14.20-14.35 | Why Urban Media Art Matters by Dr. Tanya Toft Ag |
| 14.35-14.50 | Art shifting translocal dialogue Introduction to the cultural transformation of Beijing by Michael Kahn-Ackermann Founding director of the Goethe-Institut Beijing and former regional director of the Goethe-Institut China and Taiwan |
| 14.50-15.10 | Art Shifting Matters – Visionary Perspectives on politics and arts by Maurice Benayoun (keynote) Professor at School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong |
| 15.10-15.30 | Art shifting cities by Martijn de Waal (keynote) Professor for Play & Civic Media, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) |
| 15.30-15.45 | Afternoon Tea Break |
| 15.45-16.30 Introduction speech of the speakers 7 min. |
ROUND TABLE: Art Shifting Matters with Maurice Benayoun, Martijn de Waal, Marcus Foth, Kristy Kang, Kyu Choi. Presenting perspectives in practice: How can art shift matters at the beginning of the Round Table (1) Art shifting environments by Marcus Foth |
| 16.30-16.45 | Q/A Closing Remarks |
| 16.45-17.00 | Chinese Perspective on Media Architecture by Mr. Tong Jun |
| 18.30-19.00 | Urban Media Art Academy reception |
| 18.30-19.00 | Digital Calligraffiti |
DIGITAL CALLIGRAFITI
Participatory Live Performance for the Urban Media Art Academy initiated by Public Art Lab and From Here to Fame, Michael Ang and Hamza Abu Ayyash
