2D Mutant Zombies at Medienkunstlabor Graz

April 21, 2007

Type: event
Starts: Apr 30 2007 at 12:00AM
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2D Mutant Zombies
http://mutantzombies.net

Medienkunstlabor at Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria
http://medienkunstlabor.at
Curator: Ivika Kivi

Opening: Monday, April 30, 2007 at 7 PM
Duration of the exhibition: April 30 - May 19, 2007
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 AM - 6 PM

2D Mutant Zombies

An exhibition of the project works created within the new media workshop at the
International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, supervised by Dejan Grba in Pirot, Serbia, 2006.

The workshop explored the issues of identity and its cultural instrumentalization. Its methodology can be defined as the "algorithmic art of small differences", which is based in the eventuality of individual artistic differences ("specificity", "character" or "identity") that are expressed through collective creative effort within a precisely defined and limited formal system.
As a result, the implied indifference in the works created may cause the sense of "alienation" or "estrangement" in the observer and encourage him/her to evade the conventional (ideologically manipulated) associations for the concepts of sympathy, friendliness and affection, and to intimately reconsider the values behind these basic terms of human relations. (Dejan Grba)

Participating artists:
Cristina Ardelean / Romania
Eva Artinger / Austria/Germany
Ana Krstic / Serbia
Nevena Nikolic / Serbia
Adrian Parvulescu / Romania
Bojana Rajevic / Serbia
Evelin Stermitz / Austria/Slovenia
Sanja Zdrnja / Serbia

With the screening of a video lecture by Dejan Grba:

Bastards of the Cool

The lecture addresses certain aspects of the identity in the contemporary fine arts, combined with the conceptual platform of the 2D Mutant Zombies workshop.

Dejan Grba is an artist. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and a senior lecturer at the Digital Art Department of Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, University of the Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. He is currently a visiting artist within the Computer Art Program, Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.