Opening weekend of Janek Simon Synthetic Folklore exhibition

Curatorial tour by Joanna Warsza and lecture by Mohammad Salemy

  • The day after the opening of the Janek Simon Synthetic Folklore exhibition we invite You for curatorial tour by Joanna Warsza and
    A Portrait of the Artist as Living Algorithm – lecture by Mohammad Salemy.
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  • 15:00
  • Curatorial tour by Joanna Warsza (in Polish)
    • Admission in the price of the ticket for exibiton (regular 10 zł; reduced 5 zł)
    • Meeting point is in the main hall
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  • Joanna Warsza – curator of Janek Simon Synthetic Folklore exhibition. She is curator, researcher, writer specialized in interdisciplinary public art. She is an artistic director of Public Art Munich (2016-2018), and curated among others the Public Program of Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and she was associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale on the invitation of Artur Żmijewski. She edited of number of publications such as Stadium X-A Place That Never Was (2009), Forget Fear (2012) and I Can’t Work Like This. A reader on Boycott in contemporary art (2017) and A City Curating Reader (2018). Joanna holds an M.A. of arts from Warsaw Theater Academy and was a PhD candidate at Paris 8 University in Paris in culture studies and performance. Since 2014 Joanna is also a head of the curatorial program CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm. She lives in Berlin.
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  • 16:30
    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Living Algorithm
    • Lecture by Mohammad Salemy (in English)
  • We are surrounded by an ongoing discussion about algorithms and their contributions toward automation and the emergence of artificial intelligence. However, there arent many in the field of art today who are seriously contemplating the real and tangible implications of these latest stages of cybernetic revolution for their field. Even less is being done in the art world to direct the epistemic consequences of these acquired knowledges toward constructing new forms of self-reflection. Can the work of an artist be considered an algorithm or at least be compared to algorithmic processes? What kinds of methodologies are needed to erase the “authentic and human-oriented self-image of contemporary art to expose its algorithmic logic? Can we even go further and re-ontologize the figure of the artist as a living algorithm? Since artistic practice and its performance take their final form in the public sphere, the invisibility of their most basic algorithms produces both an aura and doubt for the artist. These positive and negative false impressions, however, ought not to distract us from breaking down the being and function of the artist and analyzing its algorithmic core.

  • Mohammad Salemy is an independent Vancouver and Berlin-based artist, critic, and curator from Canada. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MA in critical curatorial studies from the University of British Columbia. He has shown his works in Ashkal Alwans Home Works 7 (Beirut, 2015), Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2015), and Robot Love (Eindhoven, 2018). His writings have been published in e-flux journal, Flash Art, Third Rail, Brooklyn Rail, Ocula, and Spike.

  • 23/02/2019 (Saturday)
    • 15:00 Curatorial tour
    • 16:30 A Portrait of the Artist as a Living Algorithm – Lecture by Mohammad Salemy