PRO&CONTRA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MOSCOW, OCTOBER 7-10 2011; KRASNOYARSK, OCTOBER 14-17 2011

[Triuzla Green]

Call for entries: 

http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/en/contest/

 

Olga Shishko, art historian, curator, director and founder of the MediaArtLab, PRO&CONTRA curator:

“Today media constructs reality. Digital technologies change the society, politics and economics, but we are also changing with them. Technologies are extensions of our nervous system. We mutate gradually and become part of it. Under the pressure of the infinite number of cameras, stucked in the web, on one hand, we loose our freedom. But on the other - we expand our rights day by day via technological innovations. Art is not an outsider now, it's a trendsetter with new ideas and introduction into various fields is not directly connected to it. Only art with its intuition and power of imagination not limited by either discourse, or status, or norm becomes able to perceive the vague outlines of the future...”

One of the special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, PRO&CONTRA symposium is organized by "MediaArtLab" Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture. This year it's held for the second time and represents special space open for discussions, talks, free interaction of artists, curators, journalists, students and all interested in the most avant-garde and hi-tech contemporary creativity. PRO&CONTRA includes talks by theoreticians and practitioners of media art, PRO&CONTRA OPEN CALL prize for media art projects, exhibition project, workshops for artists, panels, screenings of worldwide media art festivals and performances of sound artists.

The project is dedicated to media art and questions of art and technology interaction, it pursues educational aims and will help to invite more people into the process, create a new generation of artists, critics and curators. PRO&CONTRA is the next step of media culture development in Russia.