Index

International Festival
of Computer Arts
The exhibition will present the works of the three IFCA Student Award winners who have all been developing their own artistic expression, working method and strategy of using the digital medium. From 14th till 30th of October in Gallery Media Nox.
YAMAMAYU is a bio-acoustic sound-research project centring on the sonority of the Japanese oak silkmoth, a nocturnal moth that, between the middle and the end of the 19th century, successfully assimilated in Slovenian deciduous forests.
Private Dots and Public Clouds is based on a recording of a silent online meeting using a video conference software. During this meeting, the artists refrained from talking and tried to listen to the space that emerged out of the overlapping sounds of all our individual environments within their laptop speakers.
IFCA and Sonda Foundation are, together with TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, taking care of, arranging and managing the TONSPUR_passage Maribor (passage / tunnel between Glavni trg and Rotovški trg) or an 8-channel sound instrument in a public space that plays music and sound compositions every day during 10:00 and 20:00 throughout the hole year.
The recently declared COVID-19 epidemic and related measures, including restrictions of public events in Slovenia, have called for changes in this year's format of the festival programme in order to adapt to the new conditions. More information on the festival programme and dates to follow shortly.
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Due to restrictive measures, this year’s edition of the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA) will extend over October, November and early December. The student exhibition has just been concluded in real space with the award presentation in the Media Nox gallery, and visitors are welcome to attend the first sound installation in the Tonspur Passage. Online discussions have also been launched and will take place throughout the following month as a replacement for live conferences with artists and theoreticians.
In his Cosmic Rain project, the artist Tilen Sepič analyses and visualises the phenomenon of “cosmic rays”, high-energy particles invisible to the naked eye that originate in space, mostly outside our solar system.
The 8-channel sound installation links science and art. From the viewpoint of art, the scientific investigation of vibrational signals emitted by animals (biotremology) is especially interesting because of the sonic manifestation of animal activity; through a specific organisation of a sound mass, such investigation can also extend to the field of interspecies communication.
Throughout art history, some artworks have been lucky enough to be understood not simply as art, but as useful tools, public spaces, cultural phenomena, or memes. Line Rider is one such artwork.
The project is dedicated to soft tissue engineering and developing a robot with functioning biological muscle which moves the body. On the frontiers of art that uses live materials to create new forms, these new creatures raise ontological and ethical questions about their status, new protocols of handling and question our attitude towards them.
In the framework of konS, Projekt Atol will produce and manage a mobile ecological laboratory with the working name ISOLAB 3000, which will be equipped with systems for receiving, processing and visualising data gathered by remote sensing and mobile environmental sensor networks. It will also serve as an emergency mobile environmental station.
The website tracks Moss and Brownell’s distanced, virtual-based collaboration as they develop the upcoming project Gallus Gallus Roboticus, as part of the project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.
The Plantportation research project has been conceived as a multi-layer venture into the dimension of quantum entanglement and thereby its possible theoretical consequences and interactions, which also include quantum teleportation.
Extractor is a dystopian board game designed by Simon Denny that maps the possible dynamic of global data companies or ‘platforms’ that fight for global domination. Three game sets are available at the IFCA and can be borrowed until the end of 2020.
Using their own work Real Game Play as a departure point, Omsk Social Club will examine the use of Fiction-Theory in its unabridged living form. Exploring the modes in which terraforming life becomes not only a task of survival but also a task of crafting reality positions for better or worse in our current world and how we could collectively hack these systems to manifest imaginative living, transformative social presence and alternative landscapes before others do it for us.
Zen Flesh <> Zen Blood
Just as there are many diverse genealogies of computers, AI, algorithms or the digital, so there are many problems tearing apart our current societies, from resurgence of populism and nationalism to the lack of dialogue or commitment to reasoning or science. Janoščík attempts to connect and transcend these complexities by presenting his speculative history, developing a media theory of trauma and hijacking of the current popular culture. A few remarks about his own work and affective investment in the art school environment make a coda, an exemplification of this trauma-oriented, pharmacological and pop-philosophical approach.
Programme curator Tjaša Pogačar curated the festival’s main programme entitled Infrastructural Complex: Alter(ed) Earth that focuses on the infrastructural aspects of the relation between computer technologies and planetary ecologies.
The sound creators, vocal manipulators and music composers of HekLab, which has its home in GT22, have played and performed at many festivals in Slovenia in the last two years. The selection from the 2019/2020 archive offers us a pleasant conclusion to the 26th MFRU and heralds a peaceful leap into 2021.
The festival’s conclusion features a varied daily programme that will take place online and in the public space.
The 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA) will take place in Maribor between 8 and 15 October this year.
The space of art appears expanded, however it builds itself (still) over the realities appearing as heterogeneous and being artificially tied one onto the other; which would be abolished only by a new notion of the image. While Markus Huemer through conscious following of "someone classic" again fails to achieve that, he at the same time demonstrates the modernity of new media, shows their domination, instead of blurring their effects.
Claudia Seidel
http://www.eastartmap.org/
Academy of Fine Art and Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, graduate study of Video and New Media, 05
The performer is trying to seduce the computer in order to find in it what it lacks to become an ideal partner.
A improvised musical session - 7 ladies came together for the first tirne, with different instruments into one space, for one live session, an lhour and a half long sound recording.
Because we want to ensure the best possible performance, we are looking for volunteers who will help us prepare the best edition of the festival so far! Do you accept the challenge?
This autumn, MFRU+NAGIB is organising an eight-day live festival, modulated through citywide exhibitions and digital online meetings, with the concept of transhumanism as its 'central motto'.
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
CONTEXT, SPACE, FLUIDITY, CONSTELLATION, MAN, EXISTENCE, RESPONSIBILITY, NAUSEA
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
PHANTASM
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
NOISE
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
TRANSFUZIJA
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
DRAMA
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
EMPATHYROBOT
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
E-COLOR
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
HYBRID
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
INSTADRAWING
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
AUGUMENTED BREATHING
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
GREED, EVANESCENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, WORDLESSNESS
Interaction of a house and people.
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
Information on the 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA)
from 11 to 14 October 2021 between 18:00 and 20:00
On Friday, 15.10.2021, we invite you to the conclusion of the 27th International Festival of Computer Art - MFRU, in cooperation with Modul konS and Nagib.
As part of this year's post-festival programme for the 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA), MKC Črka and the Media Nox Gallery invites you to attend a mixture of performance, video projections and literary reading by Dejan Koban, which he will prepare in collaboration with a number of literary authors from all over Slovenia.
Formed after the dissolution of previous collective GT22inštrument, the band originated from the Maribor noise and vj scene, known for its spontaneous sessions and highly collaborative nature. The Re-cap live-stream performance is a collage of the past and present a/v material. The audio and video footage was systematized and re-made with the creative use of open source software and hardware hacks.Heklab Re-cap
May trust, cooperation and co-creation bring us together in 2022.
May the coming year bring you health, peace, and happiness.
experiential journey / outdoor workshop for children (8+)
Screening of MFRU's HIPERFILM and a conversation with the program director and KonS director.
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
exhibition of the author's books
interview with Janez Strehovec (video projection in the hall)
Partizanska 3–5, Maribor
Gosposka ulica 34, Maribor
Gosposka ulica 19, Maribor, author: Mitja Lorenčič
Židovska 4, Maribor
Koroška 18, Maribor
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022
As part of Children's Week (October 3 – October 9, 2022), we invited Maribor's kindergartens to participate and create on the topic of the future and modern technology.
GT22, intimate stage: Apofenija/1 / konS, theatre performanc
Kulturni inkubator, exhibition space, Koroška 18, Maribor: Exhibition by Miranda Moss and Daniel Brownnell, Gallus Gallus Roboticus / konS
GT22, lobby: ToniSopranoLookatMe (author) + Irena Borič (curator), exhibition, Fundacija Sonda + GT22
UG MB, Jewish Street Gallery, Borut Popenko, exhibition, Foundation Sonda
07. 10. 2022 – 14. 10. 2022 / 11:00 – 18:00
RE:DESIGN
19. 08. 1995 – 02. 09. 1995
24. 08. 1996 – 02. 09. 1996
15. 05. 1997
02. 10. 1997 – 10. 10. 1997
06. 10. 1997 – 07. 10. 1997
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13. 10. 1997 – 03. 11. 1997
07. 05. 1998
11. 05. 1998 – 15. 05. 1998
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09. 05. 1999 – 15. 05. 1999
23. 05. 2000 – 27. 05. 2000
22. 05. 2001 – 26. 05. 2001
18. 05. 2002 – 01. 06. 2002
28. 05. 2003 – 06. 06. 2003
05. 05. 2004 – 26. 05. 2004
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11. 05. 2004 – 15. 05. 2004
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13. 05. 2004 – 13. 05. 2004 / 21:00
14. 05. 2004 – 14. 05. 2004
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18. 05. 2004 – 24. 05. 2004
10. 05. 2005 – 13. 05. 2005
17. 05. 2005 – 20. 05. 2005
Miloš Bašin's Selection
08. 05. 2006 – 12. 05. 2006
10. 05. 2007 – 13. 05. 2007
01. 10. 2008 – 03. 10. 2008
12. 11. 2009 – 14. 11. 2009
18. 11. 2010 – 28. 11. 2010
18. 11. 2011 – 26. 11. 2011
02. 10. 2012 – 13. 10. 2012
06. 09. 2013 – 09. 11. 2013
06. 11. 2013 – 25. 11. 2013
06. 11. 2013 – 09. 11. 2013
25. 09. 2014 – 27. 09. 2014
07. 10. 2015 – 09. 10. 2015
07. 11. 2016 – 16. 11. 2016
06. 10. 2017 – 18. 10. 2017
12. 10. 2018 – 19. 10. 2018
10. 10. 2019 – 20. 10. 2019
11. 10. 2019 – 18. 10. 2019
11. 10. 2019 – 20. 10. 2019
Main exhibition venue
11. 10. 2019 – 20. 10. 2019
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12. 10. 2019 – 13. 10. 2019
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13. 10. 2019 – 13. 10. 2019
13. 10. 2019 – 13. 10. 2019
13. 10. 2019 – 13. 10. 2019 / 15:00 – 20:00
14. 10. 2019 – 14. 10. 2019
14. 10. 2019 – 14. 10. 2019
17. 10. 2019 – 17. 10. 2019
14. 10. 2020 – 29. 10. 2020
23. 10. 2020 – 29. 09. 2020
23. 10. 2020 – 02. 12. 2020
One of the IFCA modules is dedicated to the presentation of new projects developed within the framework of konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.
23. 10. 2020 – 29. 04. 2021 / 17:00 – 20:00
TONSPUR_passage Maribor (the passage between the Main Square and Rotovž Square) represents a real architectural space in an urban centre and is equipped with mounted speakers for a multi-channel playback of compositions made specifically for the passage constellation.
26. 10. 2020 – 26. 10. 2020 / 17:00 – 17:30
Artificial intelligence has become a buzzword used each day by more and more people even outside the technology sector. Many of us can no longer imagine life and work without AI. But few people understand what AI is all about – many people don’t even know they use it on a daily basis.
30. 10. 2020 – 15. 12. 2020
IFCA archive, window projections
03. 11. 2020 – 03. 11. 2020 / 18:00 – 21:00
Screening of the short film konS DP2. Round table Investment in the Future: Lifelong Improvement of Competencies in STEAM Fields in Practice and Public Policies.
06. 11. 2020 – 06. 11. 2020 / 18:00 – 20:00
Boštjan Perovšek je nedavno predstavil umetniški projekt Zvočna prepletanja, ki je nastal pod okriljem Zavoda Cona v okviru konSovega vabila za prijavo. Kot uvod v pogovor bo predstavljal video, ki osvetljuje idejo in razvoj projekta - ta je bil na ogled v Stekleniku, Boštjan Perovšek pa bo spregovoril tudi sam in odgovoril na vaša vprašanja.
12. 11. 2020 – 31. 12. 2020 / 00:00 – 23:30
Extractor is a dystopian board game designed by Simon Denny that maps the possible dynamic of global data companies or ‘platforms’ that fight for global domination. Three game sets are available at the IFCA and can be borrowed until the end of 2020.
17. 11. 2020 – 17. 11. 2020 / 18:00 – 20:00
At the panel discussion entitled “On the Inclusion of Art into Innovation Processes”, we will discuss the challenges facing both artists as individuals as well as art organisations as they step beyond the field of art into the real sector. At the panel discussion, the invited artists, producers and representatives of the real economy and local communities will speak about their experiences.
18. 11. 2020 – 20. 12. 2020
The main curated program of this year’s IFCA.
18. 11. 2020 / 17:00
The workshop explores the still taboo experience of the intimate health of modern women. The purpose of the workshop is to identify the issues that touch our emotions, upbringing in the moments when our intimate everyday life is marked by inflammation.
20. 11. 2020 / 18:00
Throughout art history, some artworks have been lucky enough to be understood not simply as art, but as useful tools, public spaces, cultural phenomena, or memes. Line Rider is one such artwork.
20. 11. 2020 – 20. 11. 2020 / 21:00 – 23:00
dj final form and Liara T'Soni have prepared a DJ / VJ set, which juxtaposes a selection of several sound curiousities from internet music underground with an experimental collage of various online videos.
23. 11. 2020 – 23. 11. 2020 / 19:00
Our planetary mechanism of sensing and data processing has become an indispensable part of understanding the environment. Architect and geographer George Papamattheakis lectures on the descriptive models used and generated by this mechanism and the normative dispositions that influence how we respond to the results of these analyzes.
24. 11. 2020 / 18:00
In project Cosmic Rain, light-sound installation, the artist Tilen Sepič analyses and visualises the phenomenon of “cosmic rays”, high-energy particles invisible to the naked eye that originate in space, mostly outside our solar system.
26. 11. 2020 – 26. 11. 2020 / 19:00
Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič talk about topics and context of their project becoming.eco(logical) that traces the substance flow of one of the most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust – and in the universe – that is, carbon.
27. 11. 2020 / 18:00
The panel discussion will confront views on the field of interdisciplinary innovation and offer a few examples of good practices.
30. 11. 2020 – 30. 11. 2020 / 19:00
In four modular videos Lukáš Likavčan, Anežka Horová, František Fekete in Daniel Burda talk about the politics of infrastructures and the context and topics of their research art project Planet, Zone, Grid: A contemporary view on infrastructures.
04. 12. 2020 – 04. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Virtual fork of Andrej Škufca's project on technology as ecology and new infrastructural landscapes where human is no longer a central actor. Narrated by George Papamattheakis.
07. 12. 2020
The project is dedicated to soft tissue engineering and developing a robot with functioning biological muscle which moves the body.
07. 12. 2020 – 07. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Video presentation of the project by Tin Troha, a chimera of traditional architectural media: scale model, technical drawing, render graphic, all flowing together into a feverish, prophetic deep dream about a monstrous infrastructural hybrid in the now-abandoned zinc and lead mine under Predil on the Slovenian-Italian border.
08. 12. 2020 – 08. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Nascent (Max Hampshire and Paul Seidler) present its Timezone #1, one of the three pieces of alternative infrastructure that make up Temporal Secessionism. Time is a socio-technological construct. How do different time systems reliant on metrics outside of the dominant one arise? The video includes also textual inserts by Amy Ireland.
09. 12. 2020 – 09. 12. 2020 / 19:00
In their lecture, the Omsk Social Club collective explores how terraforming life becomes not only a task for survival, but also a task to create new positions of reality in our current world, to enable the manifestation of imaginative life, transformative social presence and alternative landscapes before others do it for us.
10. 12. 2020 – 10. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Jelena Viskovic presents her project Nirgendheim and talks about how computational modelling and games/simulations fit into the idea of planetary computation and create new possibilities to navigate the space of algorithmic megastructures.
14. 12. 2020 – 14. 12. 2020 / 19:00 – 19:00
Václav Janoščík, an educator, theorist and curator and this year’s IFCA resident, presents his trauma-focused, pharmacological and pop-philosophical approach.
15. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020
15. 12. 2020 – 15. 12. 2020 / 19:00
The interview with the political economist and social technologist Glen Weyl.
16. 12. 2020 – 16. 12. 2020 / 19:00
In her lecture The Cost of Existence Zoë Hitzig highlights the ever more important techno-political dimension of the political decisions taken nowadays.
17. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020 / 19:00
In his lecture entitled Harnessing the Market Ash Milton highlights several things that – especially after COVID-19 and the fact that planning is back in fashion – have once again become a part of the common social imaginary.
17. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020 / 19:30
18. 12. 2020 – 18. 12. 2020 / 19:00 – 19:30
Researching soundscapes. Joining digital and analogue technologies. Manipulation. Modification. Meditation.
19. 12. 2020 – 19. 12. 2020 / 10:00 – 18:00
White Mountain is a 16mm docu-fiction film focusing on the Pionen data centre.
20. 12. 2020 – 20. 12. 2020 / 10:00 – 18:00
Making of Earths navigates the architectures of planetary cinema.
27. 09. 2021 – 22. 10. 2021 / 11:00 – 18:00
08. 10. 2021 – 15. 10. 2021
08. 10. 2021 – 22. 10. 2021 / 11:00 – 18:00
08. 10. 2021 – 15. 10. 2021 / 11:00 – 18:00
08. 10. 2021 – 22. 10. 2021 / 11:00 – 18:00
ECHO LOCATION, MOTHS, BATS, LISTENING, NIGHT WALK, WALK, RESONANCE
08. 10. 2021 – 15. 10. 2021 / 15:00 – 18:00
08. 10. 2021 / 18:30
09. 10. 2021 / 19:00
10. 10. 2021 / 11:00
11. 10. 2021 – 11. 10. 2021
11. 10. 2021 / 20:15
11. 10. 2021 – 15. 10. 2021 / 22:00 – 22:30
12. 10. 2021 / 11:00
HOMO COVIDENSIS
12. 10. 2021 / 17:00
9-14 years
13. 10. 2021
14+ years
13. 10. 2021 / 19:00
TRANSHUMANISM
13. 10. 2021 – 13. 10. 2021 / 20:00 – 22:00
14. 10. 2021 / 19:00
echolocation, nocturnal moths, bats, listening, night walk, resonance
14. 10. 2021 / 23:00 – 00:00
15. 10. 2021