Participants
Rasa Alksnyte (BE). Migrating Birds. Presentation.
In the summer of 2007 the “Migrating Birds” seminar started in Vente, Lithuania. The main goals were to exchange creative and existential experiences and information between artists who are still living in Lithuania and those who have migrated; to stimulate discussion on subjects such as Lithuanian identity and emigration; and to create co-operative projects.
Hubertus von Amelunxen (FR/DE). Moderation.
V. Amelunxen born 1958, studied literature and art history in Marburg and Paris. He has curated many international exhibitions und published numerous books and articles. Between 2001-7 he was the Senior Visiting Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, and is currently a Member of the Faculty of the European Graduate School (New York/Saas Fee). In May 2005 he was appointed by the French Minister of Culture to be the General Director of the European School of Visual Arts in Angoulême and Poitiers.
Bernardas Bagdanavičius (UK). Prototype [432] Project. Presentation and prints.
Prototype [432] is a sound project that is understood as a structure of elements, something which also transforms a certain multiplicity into a unity, a whole. It does not depend on the life feelings contained in life nor does it consists in a re-creation of objects, but rather it consists in the unity of pure formal structural elements.
Balsas.cc (LT). E-zine of the project.
Balsas.cc is an e-zine (officially called e-journal on media culture) and is based in Vilnius. It is only one publication in Lithuania covering these topics: media culture, (new) media (art), intersections of art, technology and science, media philosophy, net culture and politics. Vytautas Michelkevicius is a co-founder of the e-zine and editor-in-chief since 2005. Balsas.cc has joined “Migrating Reality Project” as a discussion and publication platform for the whole project. Texts (interviews, essays, etc) and audio-visual works are going to be published on the e-zine.
Coolturistes (LT). Monika, or Thank You Very Much for Your Attention. Video.
Monika is an art critic who works as a flight attendant for the Emirates Airlines. She shows the flight safety instructions in slow motion. The generation of the “Singing Revolution” is now changing both uniforms and identities to become “New Europeans”.
Johannes Deutsch (AT). Vision Mahler. Presentation.
A complex computer cluster, designed by Ars Electronica Futurelab of Linz, was used to generate the real-time visualization of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Deutsch. The cluster simultaneously processed and implemented any modulations picked up from the orchestra as nuances of the live interpretation of the music, before translating these directly into visual variations.
Kristoffer Gansing (SE). Humans Thinking Like Machines. Presentation.
Gansing focuses on a colonisation-computerisation nexus as the driving point of the analysis, given the migration of contexts, the technologies, and the people involved. His argument follows Ngugu’s concept of the “decolonisation of the mind” but places this in an everyday context where both thinking machines and humans thinking like machines produce situations of communication beyond idealistic particularizations of art and activism.
Mindaugas Gapševičius (DE/LT). Bookshelf. Installation.
Bookshelf represents a network’s traffic translated into descriptive form so the unseen side of “networking” would be understandable or at least readable. The flow of letters and numbers on the monitors technically is called ‘tcpdump’, and is a common computer network debugging tool.
Patricija Gilytė (DE). The Forest of Anyksciai. Videoinstallation.
The video, based on a classical work of Lithuanian poetry, the poem “The forest of Anykščiai” by A. Baranauskas written in 1858. Dealing with a poetry sphere on a video level, Gilytė creates an image of a shifting, migrating forest. She integrates emigrants voices and bodies as resources, having them appear in slightly modified combinations.
John Hopkins (USA/Europe). Window Weather: A Nomadic Look at Reality. Presentation.
Glass — also known as silicon dioxide, a mixture of two of the most abundant elements at the surface of the earth — attenuates our reality in a variety of ways. This presentation will sketch a history of that attenuation on individual realities and on the techno-social system that we are migrating through.
Gediminas Kepalas (DE). Migrating Reality. 2 Channel Video.
”(…)the history repeats itself(…)” The parallels between two situations - the demolition of “Republic’s Palace” in Berlin and the (re)building of a new one, “Lithuania’s Sovereigns Palace” in Vilnius. Migrating Reality questions the necessity of self-dependent representational forms in a contemporary democratic society. Vox Populi.
Wolfgang Knapp (DE). Conference moderation.
Knapp studied art and visual communications, educational science, sociology and psychology. Since 1988 teaching at the University of Arts Berlin at the Institute of Art in Context / Faculty Fine Arts (Postgraduate Program for Artists, Designers, Architects) and curating interdisciplinary research and exhibition projects within international collaborations.
Zorka Lednarova (DE). Signs & Locations - Building Global Cubes. Interactive installation.
This installation consists of several objects in a form of dice, which remind one of the “fairy-tale-puzzle” from childhood. The viewer is free to move and mix the objects creating new constellations such as a statistics of education, an economic map, or a world corruption map.
Žilvinas Lilas (DE). 3D - Impossibility of Nothing. Presentation
Nothing, which cannot be processed, exists. As the newest chapter in a digital contract with reality, 3D not only revises the morphology of the “objective representation” but also foments the very method and politics of the real. 3D reinforces the existing power structure because as a method it is fundamentally structural and is bound to a reductionistic binarity of true, false and nothing else.
Alvydas Lukys (LT). The Shore. Videoloop.
“We met in Nida, at the Baltic Seaside. We have got to move to the south and are stopped by Russian border signs. Not so far away from the border we started to build something between the camp and the border barricade… It lasted for the week. But it seems, that it lasts till now, all the time..”
Gintautas Mažeikis (LT). Theses. Presentation
Reflecting on theses such as the development of a subcultural economy, the heterogeneous world, the transgressivity and possibilities for development, and the changing of ones identity, Mazeikis suggests the need for models for individuation and socialization and the modern creative industries for supplying them. Citing Debord and Baudrillard who criticize the society of spectacle and the economy of signs and simulacrums, he questions thinking, behaving and living in the existing artificial world and in the subsequent migration of reality.
Audrius Mickevičius (LT). Migrating Birds. Video documentary.
In the video of the symposium “Migrating Birds” participant’s thoughts about migration are compared with official statistical data from the Lithuanian National Statistic Department.
Matas Petrikas (DE). Udo Waxas. Sound Performance.
Petrikas presents his current project called “Udo Waxas”, a radical live remix of last 40 years of Lithuanian pop music history as seen from the distance of exile.
“Pixel Memories”, Daniel Barthélémy, Gilles Bollaert (FR). Project presentation.
Research Workshop uses the pixel values of an image as a temporal index to generate images with non-synchronous pixels. The indexing can be based on the intensity of the pixels, their chromatic value, or a combination of those two values. By using the pixel as matter at work, the very nature of the image is jeopardized, and is released from a simple mimetic representation of reality.
Gytis Skudžinskas (LT). Traces. Photo installation.
The Traces cycle, which began evolving in 1999, places its focus on territories inhabited by people. The exploration and transformation of urban spaces is connected to the organization, migration, communication, and self-awareness of communities and individuals. “Traces” seeks to mark the outer limits of personal experiences in the present situation.
“Sliders”, Frédéric Curien, Jean-Marie Dallet, Thierry Guibert, Christian Laroche (FR). Project presentation.
“Sliders” is an ambitious artistic and technical endeavour that proposes a new way of imagining and creating cinema. An open computer generates a film in real-time, in which a new track, a programming track, has been added to the video and sound tracks. One of the primary features of this new type of film is that it has an infinite number of possible configurations or models.
Brian Reffin Smith (UK/FR). Trans-psychological Migration: A ‘Pataphysical Zombie Approach. Presentation
While not wishing to reduce the importance and the stresses of geographical migration, there is another, internal migration which exists in the human consciousness - until is destroyed by accident or design and one becomes one of the living dead, simultaneously alive and dead, not in-between: both 1 AND 0, true AND false.
Peter Friedrich Stephan (DE). Don’t Put Too Much Trust in Experts. Presentation
A central issue is the role of innovation which is desired for economic reasons but cannot be derived only from either technology or business. This is why business schools embrace design thinking as a method and holistic approach. What are the recruiting strategies for companies like Google, for example? A thesis might be: There has never been a better time for those who have something to say, dare to be individual, and who do not put too much trust in experts.
Aurimas Svedas (LT). Still Life. 3D Animation.
The work “Still Life” is minimal and meditative, but which includes a complexity of multi-meanings linked not only to social problematics, but also to a questioning of the definition of “reality/virtuality” and the changeability of both those ideas in the space of time and memory.
“Transmediation”, Andrius Rugevičius, Eimantas Pivoriūnas, Andrius Seliuta, Vaclovas Nevčesauskas (LT). Video and Sound performance.
Collaborative VJ experiment made by group of sound and video artists who are using documentary 16 mm films as a departure point for the real-time transformation. Images are transformed into sound and vice-versa by using various sensors and midi technologies in order to generate as many as possible audio visual variations from one source.
Julijonas Urbonas (UK). Wind Orchestra. Interactive graphic-sonic art installation.
The project “Wind Orchestra” is a multisensory interpretation of a wind orchestra as a collective sonic interaction. Here everyone may join the electronic orchestra and manipulate his/her own vocal traces by blowing onto a pinwheel. The collective coordination of the musical loops is visualized within the dynamic and responsive graphics. The aim of the installation is to explore new interfaces between music, graphics, social coordination, and breath.
Frans Vogelaar (NL/DE). Hybrid Space. Presentation.
By fusing analog/physical local spaces with global communication networks, hybrid spaces are created that participate to both the local and the global condition. This lecture introduces the potential of hybrid (analog/digital) spaces as creative environments enabling the communication, the migration of ideas, and the development of a hybrid (local and global) culture of experimentation.
Audrone Žukauskaitė (LT). Becoming Minor: Art and the Political. Presentation.
Interpreting Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minor literature which refers to the deterritorialization of language, the connection of the individual to a political immediacy, and the collective assemblage of enunciation, Žukauskaitė focuses on the practices of contemporary art in relation to the political. She points to contemporary art practices along the lines of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation and considers the relationships between art and non-art, as well as art beyond art institutions, site-specific art.
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