symposium

Symposiun CAMP-Festival 2013 Cluj
19 september 2013 at 10 am – 5 pm Casa Matei

We're in this Together Now
A Symposium on Crossmedial Experiments in the Collaborative Arts
 
The symposium is dedicated to the recently much discussed theme of collaboration in the arts and related fields, with a focus on the performative arts. Particularly in avant-garde or neo-avantgarde experimental projects, collaborative approaches are often deployed as a means to transcend the myth of the solitairy genius artist, but also to bring together various media and technologies in open, laboratory-style environments – for instance in the visual music scene in which the CAMP festival has been situated since 1999. In the context of this symposium, "collaborative arts" does not simply refer to projects in which several participants are involved, but to those which encourage genuine exchange, interaction, amalgamation and hybridization. The speakers will present and discuss case studies from their respective fields of research and/or practical experience, and contextualize them against the background of contemporary and historic discourses on experimentation, collaboration and performativity. Moreover, a question to be addressed is to which extent the latest rise of collaborative art projects mirrors the postindustrial, digital-based era which increasingly looks for new modes of production and consumption such as "prosumerism" or "wikinomics".

With: Cornelia Lund, Miron Ghiu, Horea Avram, Jörg Scheller, Mircea Florian

Cornelia Lund

is an art historian, media theorist and curator living in Berlin. She holds a PhD on "French Poetry Illustrations" from the University of Stuttgart, where she has also worked as a research associate at the International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004, together with Holger Lund, she has been running fluctuating images (Stuttgart/since 2008 Berlin), a platform for contemporary media art (www.fluctuating-images.de). In fall/winter 2011/2012 she was visiting professor for "Art.Aesthetic.Media" at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. Since April 2012 she is a research fellow in a DFG research project on German documentary film at the University of Hamburg. She has widely published on the relationship of image and text, moving images and sound as well as dance and film, and she is co-editor, together with Holger Lund, of "Audio.Visual – On Visual Music and Related Media" (2009). Cornelia's work as a curator includes screening programs that have been shown at various international venues and festivals such as the Mapping Festival (Geneva), Cimatics (Brussels), Vision'R (Paris), no.w.here (London), ATA (San Francisco) and a curatorial research project on "Visual Music" (2007/2008), including the show "Exploring Party – Party as Art. From Warhol's EPI to Now" at the Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart and screenings on "Animated Architecture". In 2011, Cornelia was guest curator at the Index Festival, New York.

Miron Ghiu

Born on March 21st 1980 in Bucharest, Miron Ghiu won the second prize at the International Philosophy Competition, in 1998, with an essay about virtual spaces. He studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest and started to work as a new media and music journalist. In 2004 he published books on The Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne & Marilyn Manson and worked for about 3 years as a PR Manager for EMI Romania and BMG. For some years now Miron Ghiu is a freelance journalist for various media outlets and a sound designer and DJ. He's mad about music, passionate about technology and tends to use all kinds of media in his works. He's a transhumanist and he loves robots as much as humans, waiting for the technological singularity to come. Politically speaking, Miron Ghiu is an anarchist.

Horea Avram

is currently PhD candidate (ABD) in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Background in history and theory of art and cultural management.
His areas of research include (new) media artistic practices, installation art, visual cultures, theory of representation, and all the relationships between them. His doctoral dissertation is focused on the aesthetics of space and the problem of (re)presentation in Augmented Reality art. > He has taught as a lecturer and teaching assistant at McGill University Montreal, Marianopolis College Montreal and University of Art Bucharest. Presently he is visiting lecturer at The Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeş-Bolyai University. He contributes with essays and reviews to various edited books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and online portals. Among his recent publications are: "The Visual Regime of Augmented Space", in Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline, edited by James Elkins, New York: Routledge, 2013; "The Poetics and Politics of Critical Art: An Atypical Case", Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theatre, Media, No. 1, Vol. 8, July 2013; "Cover & Remix: Paradigms of Adaptation in Installation Art", Kinephanos Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2011; "Intermediary Zones. Augmented Space between Real and Digital", International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Special issue: "Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art" 2009 - Vol. 2, No.4. From 1996 he is an independent curator. The exhibitions curated include: Googleheim, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Toronto (2013); Photography: From Melancholy to Trauma, From Document to Monument (Iosif Királi), Spațiu IntAct Gallery Cluj (2013); Fake It! (Limited Edition), Spațiu IntAct Gallery Cluj (2012); In Between Frames, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2011); [ctrl]: Technology, Art and Society: Politics Under Fire, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montreal (2007); Alberti's Open Window—Windows '98 – Open, Venice Biennale (1999).

Jörg Scheller

(* 1979) is an art historian, journalist and musician based in Berne (CH). He studied art history, philosophy, media art and anglistics. From 2007 to 2009 he held a grant from the German Research Foundation for the graduate school Image Body Medium in Karlsruhe. Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich and as assistant professor at the University of Siegen. He was awarded his PhD for a thesis on the myth of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011 and was appointed as permanent lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2012. Currently, he is co-head of the bachelor's degree program in photography at the ZHdK. In his research he focuses on physical culture with an emphasis on bodybuilding, exhibition history, popular culture and pop music. In 2013, he is the curator of the Salon Suisse, the official collateral events program of the Swiss participation in the 55th Venice Art Biennale. His essays and reviews appear regularly in, among others, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, frieze d/e. Since 2003, he has been the singer and bass player of the heavy metal duo Malmzeit who run a heavy metal delivery service.

Mircea Florian

Author & Performer, Composer & Visual Artist, Professor & Guru
Born in Sathmar (Satu-Mare), Transylvania. Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Studied Computer Sciences, Music and Arts.
Courses & Seminars (selection): Salzburg Seminar in American Studies SSAS,
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt IMD, Control Data Institut Düsseldorf CDI
Grants (selection): United States Information Agency USIA, Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst DAAD
Since 1965 compositions: electronic, experimental, computer, stage, film and
ballet music; recording and publishing activity;
Since 1971 visual art exhibitions, sound installations, art actions, performing
activities; teaching & tutoring
Since 1978 worked with multimedia, visual art, automatic, kinetic, fx and
fireworks added installations, music, cybernetic and robotic art,
performance and video;
In the last 10 years worked as a freelance multimedia / visual artist and composer, as a freelance computer professional (IT & MM) and as a visiting professor (Dr. h.c., PhD) for "Multimedia Production" at the inMedia GmbH, Cologne, for "Multimedia & Lighting for the Stage" at the Babeș-Bolyai University UBB, Cluj, for "Light & Sound Design" at the Nat. Univ. of Theatre and Film UNATC, Bucharest, for "Multimedia – concepts and
programming" at the Politehnica Univ. of Bucharest UPB, for "Kinetic Art" at the Nat.
Univ. of Arts UNArte, Bucharest, for "Music for Multimedia, Film & Theatre" at the Nat.
Univ. of Music UNMB, Bucharest and for "Electronic Music Production" and "Applied
Music Theory" at the School of Audio Engineering SAE, Bucharest

Development of new forms of audiovisual art. Research. Cooperation and communication. Intercultural and intermedial exchange between artists.