The festival will start on 5pm June 17th and run until midnight 19th of June. Programme is coming soon.<\/p>\n
\u016am\u0117d\u0117*<\/b><\/p>\n
x\u2b33disciplinary symposium for emerging art & related matters What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media art?<\/p>\n
Performances, installations, conceptual coffee breaks, open artists studios, smell of grass and trees, book presentations, hybrid discussions, chilling in the garden, VR trips, concerts, imaginary presence and unexpected meetings.<\/p>\n
*\u016bm\u0117d\u0117 [u\u02d0me\u0259de\u0259]
\nis a Lithuanian word for mushroom species (Russula). It phonetically resonates with the word \u201cmedia\u201d. This mushroom is ectomycorrhizal which means a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobiont, and the roots of various plant species. Therefore metaphorically speaking we suppose that participants of the symposium will form a symbiotic relationship with media, art, research, the actual venue and themselves.<\/p>\n
ARTISTS’ LIST:<\/p>\n
Aist\u0117 Ambrazevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (LT), Heta Bilaletdin (FIN), Marija \u010cerniavskait\u0117-Sili\u016bnien\u0117 (LT), Vitalij \u010cerviakov (LT), Sandrine Deumier (FR), Vita D\u017eek\u010diori\u016bt\u0117-Medei\u0161ien\u0117 (LT), Jan Georg Gl\u00f6ckner (DE & LT), Gail\u0117 Grici\u016bt\u0117 (LT), Adriana Knouf (USA), Asami Kiuchi & Denisas Kolomyckis (JP & NL & LT), Kamil\u0117 Krasauskait\u0117 (LT), Michelle Lai (Singapore), Rose Leahy & Greg Orrom Swan (UK), Saulius Leonavi\u010dius (Vegan on Acid, LT), Becky Lion (UK), Lymmphe (R\u016bta V\u0117brait\u0117 & Sofia Bordin, LT & UK), Migl\u0117 Markulyt\u0117 (LT), Lina Michelkevi\u010d\u0117 (LT), Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius (LT), NULIS:S:S:S (LT), Adomas Palekas (LT), Ignas Pavliukevi\u010dius (LT), \u0160pela Petri\u010d (SLO\/NL), Vera van de Seyp (NL), Eva Sjuve & Tomas Valentinaitis (SE & LT), Kamil Szuszkiewicz (PL), Audrius \u0160imk\u016bnas, aka SALA (LT), Ieva Tarejeva & J\u016bra Elena \u0160edyt\u0117 (LT), VDA FAMM studentai (LT) ir kiti.<\/p>\n
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BACKGROUND<\/p>\n
The new \u016am\u0117d\u0117 biennial festival is investigating the discourse of \u201cemerging art forms\u201d and invites artists, thinkers and practitioners to overcome their disciplinary borders and perform, share, exhibit, expose, present, talk, dine and walk together for 3 nights and days in the heart of Vilnius city. We believe that it does not matter which medium you use, or which discipline you refer to, as long as you are concerned with urgent issues of emerging art (formerly known as (new) media art, art & science, digital art, interactive art, etc.) \u016am\u0117d\u0117 starts as a platform for emerging art forms, to accommodate and question them. Moreover, it intends to explore the limits of art and its relations to other forms of human and non-human (post-human) activities. The biennial has ambitions to grasp what is upcoming or upcycle what was lost in the history of art & science & research.<\/p>\n
HISTORY<\/p>\n
The first attempt of the festival was\u00a0Ars Electronica Garden<\/a>\u00a0Vilnius event which happened in September 2020 in a hybrid form: in Vilnius and online. It was curated and organised by the same team. Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius has also initiated and co-curated a series of 9\u00a0Inter-formats symposiums<\/a>\u00a0which happened at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts from 2011 until 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n STAGES<\/p>\n Symposium will manifest itself through 5 stages, each of them oriented towards specific mood and types of action: listening, screening & watching, discussing & participating, eating & drinking.<\/p>\n Symposium is offering activities in five stages for festival audience pleasure:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TEAM<\/p>\n Artistic director and co-curator: Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius BIOGRAMS<\/p>\n Gail\u0117<\/b>\u00a0is interested in sound, its behaviour in space and time, interrelations, manipulations, multiplicity of layers and existences. In a sonic dialogue between the \u2018natural\u2019 and \u2018human made\u2019, creating sensory space for thought processes and new perceptions, questioning how can artistic actions take a conscious part in the environmental processes.<\/p>\n Vytautas<\/b>\u00a0is restless (keen) in finding what happened after media art has evaporated into the atmosphere and what is going to replace it by 2030. He is curating, writing and researching post-media art and its leftovers. To sum up art has never been an autonomous field and recently it got another chance to hook up with technologies, research and society. Moreover, he hopes that (artistic) practice generates new theories and will help us better understand the future.<\/p>\n Ignas<\/b>\u00a0fancies for digital forms of representation that can create new versions of reality. A reality for dissolving boundaries between self and the other, occupying other bodies and species. Asking how digital entities are forming relationships with our physical bodies, and in turn what our bodies offer them? The momentous question is how digitalisation shapes the meaning of what it takes for someone to be a human?<\/p>\n PARTNERS:<\/b>\u00a0Pixelache Festival (Piknik Frequency ry, Helsinki), MPLab at Liepaja University, Photography and Media Art Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts<\/p>\n Organised by ngo\u00a0MENE<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with\u00a0LTMKS<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0SODAS 2123<\/a><\/p>\n Partly supported by Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture and Lithuanian Culture Council, all the participants<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The festival will start on 5pm June 17th and run until midnight 19th of June. Programme is coming soon. \u016am\u0117d\u0117* x\u2b33disciplinary symposium for emerging art & related matters What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atletikaprojects.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nProgramme Curators: Gail\u0117 Grici\u016bt\u0117, Ignas Pavliukevi\u010dius
\nDesign: Taktika Studio
\nProducer: Indr\u0117 Li\u0161kauskait\u0117
\nFacilitator: Gail\u0117 Cij\u016bnaityt\u0117
\nCommunication: Kotryna Briedyt\u0117, Stefanija Jok\u0161tyt\u0117, Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius<\/p>\n