Apprehension.Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation.

A Parallel Event
Apprehension. Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation
The Apprehension.Global Society and Contemporary Art on the Twitter Generation. Symposium, curated by Camilla Boemio, forms part of the parallel program , and provides critical input for the global topic, It's a curatorial research project conducted over the period of 6th Bucharest Biennale.

Today, large swaths of the population are plugged into the Net, and it encompasses every sphere of human activity in all of its component parts: trite and tiring work; entertainment, business, and money making; informal and formal education; love, romance, and pornography; wily protest and civic endeavors; crime, intrigue, and conflict. Despite these transformations, and barring small moments of breakdown or annoyance, most of its users, at least those with decent access, still experience the Internet as smooth and frictionless. They are blissfully unaware of its knotted and turbulent underworlds, or the worlds from which it grew.
Social network are therefore essential components of what Deleuze called control and modulation societies - and they push them further forward . But let us not forget that Deleuze sometimes speculated about an art of the control, and that his primary concern was not to do away with control, but to do something with it - If not to take control of it. The fact that social networks make disindividuation worse, not so much through police control, but through the behavioral control exercised by marketing, represents a possible disindividuation which could be countered, but only if one is able to reverse the pharmacologic direction of social networks.
It is foremost about inventing the future of social networks, in social networks, and with social networks. This is only possible if we are able to arrive at an understanding of these networks which are at the same time technological and social, and to attain such an understanding as to make these networks capable of becoming agents of reflexivity - and re -discover our seemingly present state of industrial decadence (agents of the reflexive modernity in the risk society - Ulrich Beck) .
The social media monopolies is a system of apprehension and alteration of reality. The new Voyeur is the social media.
The Web means the end of forgetting.
An unpublished talk, of two days, in which: artists, curator, intellectuals, philosophers and filmmakers will give.
different key to understanding (also by Skype).

Curated by Camilla Boemio
Esecutive Curator: Fabrizio Orsini

Partecipats and discussions:
David A. Ross (Writer, curator. Formerly, director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art )

Enrico Ghezzi (cinematic writer and critic)

Ravi Agarwal (artist, environmental activist, writer, New Delhi)

Camilla Boemio (writer-curator and Deputy Curator of Maldives Pavilion at 55th Venice Biennale, Roma)

Ethan Bach (Artist, Consultant at Bach Multimedia (www.bachmultimedia.com), Creative Director at Vortex Immersion Media (www.vorteximmersion.com) Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California)

Max Presneill (artist & curator at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles and Curatorial Director of Artra Curatorial)

Francesco Jodice (artist, founding member of the Italian Multiplicity group, professor of Urban Visual Anthropology at the Master in Art and Curatorial studies and professor of Photography at the Cinema and New Media Department at NABA, Milan)

Riccardo De Cal (filmmaker)

Emiliano Montanari (filmosopher)

Nico Vascellari (artist, Vittorio Veneto)

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori (artist, London)

Mike Calvert (artist, Los Angeles - New York and Japan)

Achilleas Kentonis (artist and professional education program on Innovation at MIT, Boston)

John Thackara (founder and Director of The Doors of perception, organises festival in Europe and India in which grassroots innovators work with designers to imagine sustainable futures)

Organisation: AAC platform in collaborations with UNIVP / Politecnica University of Marche

• location with the street address and the city
University of Fine Arts Bucharest

• web address and links
http://www.camillaboemio.com
http://aniconics.wordpress.com
http://bucharestbiennale.org/parallel-events/
http://bucharestbiennale.org/concept
A Parallel Event at 6th Bucharest Biennale


Agenda
First day
Camilla Boemio Introduction at the topic
Camilla Boemio is a writer, curator, an university consultant and researcher whose practice deals with investigating the politics of participation in curatorial practices. Boemio founded and directed the thematic platform AAC. She was curator of the art section of the ISWA European Project.
She was Deputy Curator of the Maldives Pavilion at 55th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale. Her writing have appeared in various magazines, publications and catalogues. She has co- edit the book ‘Portable Nation’ produced by Maretti.

Francesco Jodice’ participation (discussion about the topic + videos Citytellers fims)
Francesco Jodice Born in Naples in 1967, he lives and works in Milan. His researches encompass changes in modern social landscape underlining new relevant phenomena in urban anthropology. His work explores the urgency for a common ground between art and geopolitics. He was a founding member of the Italian Multiplicity group, an international network and experimental forum of architects and artists. Jodice is professor of Urban Visual Anthropology at the Master in Art and Curatorial studies and professor of Photography at the Cinema and New Media Department at NABA (Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti Milano). His projects have been exhibited at Documenta in Kassel (2001), the Venice Biennal (2003the ICP Triennial of Photography and Video in New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2007), the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Tate Modern, London (2006), and Museo del Prado, Madrid (2011). Among his main research projects: What We Want a photography worldwide Atlas, Secret Traces an archive of human shadowing and Citytellers a series of films about new forms of social and urban landscapes.
Francesco Jodice, What We Want, Baikonur, T56,2008.

Ethan Bach (live discussion, videos and interview at 13.00am)
Ethan Bach is a fulldome consultant, digital artist and curator based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. He has an MFA in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and a BA in Media Production at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Bach’s artistic and curatorial work has been shown internationally and he has been published in several journals. Bach’s work can be found online at www.bachmultimedia.com, www.ethanbach.com, and his blog www.artandemergingtechnology.com.

Nico Vascellari (13.30 a.m. - live Skype discussion)
Nico Vascellari was born in 1976 in Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy. Currently lives and works in New York, USA and Vittorio Veneto, Italy. Nico Vascellari is an Italian artist coming out of a Punk scene. His work is a mix between performance art and sound exploration. He participated in Biennale Venice and Manifesta 7. He recorded the soundtrack from Cosimo Alema acclaimed film debut War Games: At the End of the Day in 2010.

John Thackara (discussion)
For thirty years John Thackara has traveled the world in his search of stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realize a sustainable future. He writes about these stories online, and in books; he uses them in talks for cities, and business; he also organizes festivals and events that bring the subjects of these stories together.
John is the author of a widely-read blog at designobserver.com and of the best-selling In the Bubble: Designing In A Complex World (MIT Press) – also translated into nine languages. As director of doorsofperception.com, John organizes conferences and festivals in which social innovators share knowledge. He has lectured in more than forty countries.
A Brit who now lives in southern France, John studied philosophy, and trained as a journalist, before working for ten years as a book and magazine editor. He was the first director (1993—1999) of the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam; he was program director of Designs of The Time (Dott07), the social innovation biennial in England; he was commissioner in 2008 of France’s main design biennial, Cite du Design.

Second day / Morning
Enrico Ghezzi (discussion)
Enrico Ghezzi (Lovere, June 26, 1952) is the most important Italian film critic, also writer and author.

Riccardo De Cal (video interview + video documentation)
After Architecture University in Venice his interest is focused on film and documentary. In 2005 shoots a short film that is screened at Cannes Film Festival “Short Film Corner”. In the same year starts collaborating with Benetton Foundation, directing two documentay films produced by them in 2005 and 2007. The films obtain several international prize and have been presented throughout Italy and in Switzerland, United Kingdom,France, Japan, Canada,USA, and China. In 2008 a short film about Italian architect Carlo Scarpa is screened at 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2010 presents the film “Raccolto d’inverno” in a special event at 67th Venice International Film Festiva and recently at Maxxi Museum in Rome and at Palazzo Grassi Pinault Foundation in Venice. The research is focused on the themes of suspension and expansion oo time,and sometimes abstraction of spaces.
Emiliano Montanari (video interview + projection film)
Filmosopher. Projection of a part of the film: ‘ Morel a Marienbad ‘ a movie triptych by Emiliano Montari.
A liberating invention - a perturbing triptych filmed on the set of the new performance of the Artist Miltos Manetas at Switzerland Istituto di Cultura in Roma..A visionary session of ‘Augmented Reality Art’ blowing in a filming recombination with the genius novel of Alfonso Bioy-Casares and Emidio Greco’s film ‘The inventionof Morel’ – and the novel most racy reinvention – cult movie ‘ L’ année derniere a Marienbad ‘ by Alain Robbe-Grillet/Allan Resnais. A filming triptych generating something unpredictable.
The part show for this occasion is: Amalia Ulman reading Gherasim Luca's Embody. ‘ Morel a Marienbad ‘ is a Blackberry movie designed for smart phones and portable devices. A radical movie about reality and the new emerging Augmented Realities as new doors opening up to something deeper. A subversive cinematic reinvention of the universe and eternity as a film we have to re-shoot.

Mike Calvert’s participation (video interview + video)
He is an artist. He works with Painting and Animation. His works are sentimental pop influenced by the both the computer and the internet. His works captures the ephemeral nature of days time in graphic forms that are poetic.


Max Presnail (Skype call discussion)
He is a Los Angeles based artist and curator, originally from London, UK. Currently he is the Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum (www.torranceartmuseum.com) as well as Curatorial Director of ARTRA Curatorial (www.artrala.org), an independent curatorial projects management team who organize the CO/LAB – an art fair for alternative spaces which is free to participants - as well as the MAS ATTACK series of large-scale pop-up exhibitions.

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori (video interview + video documentation)
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s work is concerned with the individual and the group from a social, historical and cultural perspective focusing around the relationship existing between corporate systems and the language of the interior in the postmodern society. His practice traverses the territory of popular culture in the age of mass information with a specific interest in the sacred role of data, seen as a critical tool to provide an interpretation of reality and an attempt to objectify it. His language ranges from kinetic sculptures to screen print, photography, video and installations and it has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.


Second day / Afternoon
Ravi Agarwal (discussion )
Ravi Agarwal is an India artist, environmental activist, writer and curator. He has pursued an art practice integrally with his other pursuits. His earlier work, in the documentary oeuvre, encompasses 'nature', 'work,' 'labour,' and the 'street.' More recently he has been involved in questions of and ideas of nature and ecology working with photography, video and installation. He is also founder of the well known Indian NGO Toxics Link.

Achilleas Kentonis
He studied Engineering, Physics and Fine Arts at University of South Alabama, USA, and at Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain. As a researcher / scientist he participated in research programs at NASA, the Cyprus University and the Aegean University. As a researcher / artist he presents papers in conferences and scientific journals, related to electromagnetics, geopathic stress, new electro-acoustic musical instruments, on perpetual, telekinesis, social and philosophical issues.

David A. Ross
Writer, curator. Formerly, director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art