Screenings

For the SOFT CONTROL project the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad Branch, Russia) presents a collection of documentary films about artworks recently created using the latest twenty-first century technologies: artificial life, robotics, bio and genetic engineering. The medium in these artworks is living or lifelike matter, and the properties of living organisms and technologically reproduced artefacts are combined to produce the method. Art created under these new conditions of postbiology – that is, under conditions of artificially generated life – cannot avoid making this artificiality its explicit theme. We are thus again confronted with the question of the relationship between art and life in a completely new context defined by biological and abiological creations, works, and beings. This collection is the first comprehensive overview of the current stage of contemporary techno-biological art. It provides a panorama of artistic strategies for granting and withdrawing the gift of authenticity. The analysis of these strategies opens up new possibilities for creative production and cultural commentary.

The program is curated by Dmitry Bulatov (KB NCCA, Russia).
For more information: www.videodoc.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/

MMC KIBLA
Monday, December 3, at 7 pm

KGLU, Slovenj Gradec
Tuesday, December 4, at 6 pm