Temporal Landscapes. Exhibition of MFRU30’s awarded student works
18. 10. 2024 – 27. 10. 2024
Location: Cultural Incubator / Koroška cesta 18, Maribor, Slovenia
As part of the 30th International Festival of Computer Art (MFRU), Mladinski kulturni center (MKC) Maribor has again announced an open call for student intermedia art projects for the 2024 MFRU Student Award. The exhibition showcases the winning projects by Senka Milutinović, Lazar Mihajlović, and Ana Evtić, recipients of the 2024 MFRU Best Student Intermedia Project Awards. The projects were selected by a jury of three members: Maja Burja, Simon Streljaj, and Lara Mejač.
Curated by Martina Frangež.
Senka Milutinović: Momentary Lapse in Memory
This work brings to light personal stories and experiences from the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The retaliatory response to the ethnic cleansing of Albanians and the oppressive regime of Slobodan Milosevic left deep scars on the environment and social fabric of Belgrade, the city where Milutinović was born just weeks before the bombing. Although this event forms part of both their personal and collective past, it remains an obscure period for Milutinović, one of which they have no direct memories.The collected narratives and memories have been skilfully materialized into an original interactive digital environment accessible on the web. Each exploration of this space is unique, resisting the hierarchisation, linearisation, and instrumentalisation of narratives. The project, which can also be experienced as a spatial installation and is accompanied by a critical and autobiographical essay, is thoughtfully and coherently executed. It engages with the roles of both researchers and narrators of history. Milutinović addresses political themes with depth and care, proposing not the relativization or polarization of memory, but a multiplication of perspectives and a firm rejection of all forms of violence — including narrative violence.
Lazar Mihajlović: Dreamer
Dreamer explores the unconscious through live coding and artificial intelligence, creating an open performative situation that involves an exchange between the performer and the audience. It innovatively intertwines the visual and auditory, using synthetic and improvisational technological approaches while also highlighting the typically hidden technological processes. Due to the dynamic nature of the work, which evolves and changes with each implementation, the jury views the second prize and the opportunity for exhibition as a chance to further contextualize the piece and encourage both its conceptual and technical development.
Ana Evtić: Time Continuum
Time Continuum delves into various dimensions and understandings of temporality. The work uses personal archival material to construct a hypnotic and sprawling flow of time and space in continuous transformation, turning the palimpsest of everyday life into a meditative and speculative journey. The project, presented as a spatial installation, weaves personal footage into dynamic images that attempt to transcend temporal and spatial limitations. This immersive environment continues to develop in dialogue with new exhibition venues and contexts.
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