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The presentation is an overwiew of Nina Kov's work with drones, and technology in general.

Nina Kov is an artistic director, choreographer , drone-choreographer and movement director. She was a member of dance theatre company Artus in Hungary before completing her MA in Choreography at Laban, London in 2010. Nina is a pioneer in human-drone choreographic interaction. She’s the cofounder and former Artistic director of “Dancing with Drones”, a project featuring interactive movement between a flock of drones and dancers. Her work at the intersection of technology and dance has been shown at Sadler’s Wells, the Royal Opera House, the Science Museum, Sziget Festival, Random Dance, and Nesta’s FutureFest. She’s a PlacePrize semi-finalist, a 2016 recipient of the New Europe 100 award, and choreographed in Kristof Deák’s 2017 Oscar ® winning short film “Mindenki” (Sing).

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Kontr-akt, experiment on theatrical tradition and media art

Performative installation Kontr-akt is a result of workshop practice based on experimentation in the field of Henryk Tomaszewski's methods ow work and the memory of him and memories preserved by actors working with him and co-creating the Wrocław Mime Theatre and the audiovisual search of the IP Group collective. This unusual combination of techniques and different perspectives resulted in new contexts and meanings. Artistic solutions, using technology, becomes stage partners of pantomime actors. Connecting environments of the body and technology allowed to find new spaces and possibilities for the actors of the theatre of movement and creators working with the media.
Kontr-akt, performative installation, 2019 (PL) collective creation of Wrocław Mime Theatre and IP Group /Identity Problem Group/ concept of stage movement and acting: Artur Borkowski, Agnieszka Kulińska, Anna Nabiałkowska, Zbigniew Szymczyk space concept, digital signal processing, multimedia: Bogumił Misala, Jakub Lech, Piotr Choromański costumes: Artur Mazur

Dominika Kluszczyk (PL), born in 1980. She studied Roman Philology and Philosophy and Social Communication at the University of Wrocław (Poland). She’s a manager, curator and producer of media art projects and cultural events with a 10 years of experience in working with non-governmental organizations. Since 2011, she collaborates with the WRO Art Center (wrocenter.pl) and since 2009 she has been associated with IP Group collective (identityproblemgroup.com). Project manager and producer of the WRO Media Art Biennale 2019 Human Aspect, 2017 Draft Systems, 2015 Test Exposure and 2013 Pioneering Values. Coordinator of EU - funded projects such as EMAP (European Media Art Platform 2017 – 2021, emare.eu) and Artist Talk (2011-2013, artisttalk.eu). She has managed several international exhibitions and cultural events organized by the WRO Art Center, including exhibitions such as Beyond the Seven (The Dom Słowa Polskiego Printing House, Warsaw, 2017), Eco Expanded City (a multi-faceted project as part of the program of the European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016), Moths, crabs, fluids (international exhibition prepared for the opening of the Koszyki Hall in Warsaw, 2016), On The Silver Globe – Installations for the collection of WRO Media Art Biennale (Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014). She’s a member of the WRO Biennale curatorial team and of the selection committee of the Competition for Best Media Arts Graduation Projects (Poland). As an independent manager of interdisciplinary projects in the field of music, theater and video, together with the IP Group collective, since 2014 she leads the IP Studio - artist's run space and open lab for interdisciplinary art projects and experimental research located in Wrocław, Poland.
Since 2018 she’s a member of Artistic Council of the Lower Silesian Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.

Short info about IP Group:

IP Group (Identity Problem Group) is an interdisciplinary artistic collective that has been operating since 2009, bringing together the visual and performative arts with soundart, video and architecture. IP Group functions in the area of improvisation from the basis of devised theatre, transmedia activities, performance art, multimedia installations and film. Since 2014 IP Group has operated the IP Studio in Wrocław, an open studio that provides a space for activities at the intersection of sound, visual and performative arts. IP Studio is oriented toward organisation of events that move beyond the universally available cultural-artistic programme, which is why in its actions it supports the development and merging of various fields of creative thought and everyday life with artistic practice and theoretical discourse. Currently as part of IP studio an audio-visual studio is operating; there are also plans to start a residency programme oriented toward the creative process. The membership of the collective comprises Bogumił Misala, Jakub Lech and Dominika Kluszczyk.

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When attitudes become forms - body, work and technology in post-anthropocentric future - case study

Drawing inspiration and hard data from concepts of Industry 4.0, ML ad AI, rep-rap project (replicating rapid prototyper) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) I seek to explore post-human potencies and tendencies inherent in the technological bodies. While this may scatter traditional notions of agency, within discourse of Post-anthropocentrism, Object oriented onthology and Accelerationsim it shall be but one of the achievements of more inclusive, democratic and emancipated future.

Michal Mitro is post-media artist utilising space, time and matter to propose and discuss global topics in a language of visual, sonic and performative art. He strives to mediate the "trans-sensory" - an indissoluble whole, that aims to capture and aeffect the physical, the cognitive and the emotional.

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Attila Szasz is a software engineer, specializing in embedded systems and information security. He has worked at resident and US cybersecurity research laboratories in researcher and business unit leader roles. He also participated in research and development projects funded by the European Union as part of the FP7 and Horizon 2020 framework programmes, where he contributed to the topics of static code analysis and IoT simulation. He is interested in contemporary art and tries his best to realize novel artistic ideas by acting as technical downstream of Kristof Szabo’s (KristofLab) in new media projects. The two of them have been involved in creating interactive lights, sounds and magic to support works of theatre and dance collectives since 2016.

The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity in New Media Art

To break rules and make new ones. To invent new forms and concepts all in the name of greater expressivity. A new aesthetic world that takes ideas refusing to conform to overused themes of old visual arts and spits out computer graphics, robotics, biotechnology, digital poetry, glitch, hypertext, experimental instruments, kinetics, robotics. Defiant artists proclaiming new freedoms, playing hide and seek with their sober modernistic elders, exploding into unexplored territories and promulgating new models to astonish confused audiences all over the world. The talk will analyze how violated symmetries and unsatisfied expectations lead to processes and phenomena in new media projects whose beauty depends on these ambiguous procedures. The arguments will be supplemented by providing a case study of Space of Sense – an interactive installation – based on first-hand experience, walking through design phase considerations that went into the project while trying to reconcile aesthetic and intellectual value with technological limitations, making tough decisions along the way around the issue of reactivity and interactivity in search of the right balance between delights and dangers of artistic ambiguity.

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Moving Excercises

presence, movement and participation in media art environments

a presentation and Q&A session by and with Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka and Brigitta Bödenauer

The presentation focuses on two projects in which movements of the participants' bodies performed in the space of media artworks emerge by chance and naturally as a result of sophisticated algorithmic structures, and very basic media such, as movement and light, as well as different strategies of interaction envisioned by the artists.

New Delhi Audiograph is an interactive, audiovisual installation created by Paweł Janicki (PL) during his residency at the Khoj International Artists' Association in New Delhi (https://khojworkshop.org/) in 2013. The work turnes some elements of Hindi language into a structural foundation of a musical composition. By performing moves and gestures the audience can modulate various parameters of music and image thanks to a motion tracking system. Some visitors went beyond the usual simple gestures needed to activate the installation and repeatedly performed complex choreographies in its space.

Brigitta Bödenauer (AT) developed Sounds Eerie during her residency at the WRO Art Center in 2018. It is a workshop-based processual sound piece created in collaboration with the participants. The artist was working with mental images of isolation and disconnectedness in everyday life by discussing their representations in art and film examples from the WRO collection and field recordings collected in the city’s soundscape. The resulting piece was performed as an live act with spontanous stunning choreography freely improvised by the audience equipped with imagination, devotion and portable light sources.

Both examples show how the movement of an active, involved body can organically appear in the space of an artwork that uses media technology in different ways. Movement is necessary to activate Janicki's complex media installation, a very sophisticated form using advanced algorithms and interaction scenarios to create an audiovisual composition. Bödenauer involves her viewers and co-creators in a more profound way by putting more efforts on the level of human-human interaction stretched in time while equipping them with the very basic media of contemporary art: light, sound and time.

Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka is a curator and project manager active in the field of media art and its mediation. She graduated in Austrian feminist literature at the Wrocław University, and in 1994 she joined the organizers of Poland's first media art festivals. Since then she's been working on programming and production of 14 successive editions of the WRO Media Art Biennale, and a number of other independent and WRO-related projects. Since opening the WRO Art Center she's co-shaping its program, coordinates international collaborations and is actively involved in all its activities. Her most recent independent projects include the position of curatorial director of media art of the Sapporo International Art Festival SIAF 2020. Since 2011 she's been teaching art mediation and curatorial projects at the Art Academy in Wrocław. wrocenter.pl siaf.jp/en

Brigitta Bödenauer is an experimental filmmaker, installation artist and electronic musician. She has graduated in Theater, Film and Media Studies from the University of Vienna and has been active as DJ in the city's vibrant noise and experimental scene since the early 1990s. Her visual work has been always inspired by and strongly connected to music. Extensive experiments – driven by her fascination for the sensuality of movement and material – mark the beginning of each of her works. She creates fleeting spaces by employing various acoustic and/or visual means often addressing the intangible, the hidden, or what eludes perception. Occasionaly she also teaches and writes on film and visual media, she lives and works in Vienna. bb.klingt.org

Paweł Janicki is an independent artist, interactive director and producer working with the micro sound aesthetics and algorithmic composition. He creates audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances, continuously developing new software tools and interfaces. Difficult to classify and combining improvised sound, live programming, communication protocols and hacking, his works have been shown at many contemporary art festivals and events. He has won numerous awards, including the Gold Medal at the Prague Quadrennial (2015) for an intermedia team work. He lives andworks in Wrocław. paweljanicki.jp

WRO Center for Media Art Foundation is Poland's leading public benefit NGO dedicated to contemporary art, media and communication. Since 1989 WRO is the organizer of the WRO Media Art Biennale, a major forum for media art in Poland, and one of the key international events in this field. Since 2008 the WRO Art Center is a community-oriented place for research, production and presentation of contemporary art practices. Its program of exhibitions, screenings, workshops and performances, directed to different strata and groups of broad public and professional audience, supports artistic and educational activities and initiates intellectual interchange.

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Andrea KOVÁCS [1983] as an art manager of several national and international productions is developing interdisciplinary forms of co-operation between different areas of art and creative industries. Her own established Let it Be! art agency is engaged in managing and initiating projects which are focusing on new synergy of art and technology. She is the editor of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts’ smART! program series and co-curator of Zsolnay Light Festival. She used to work in Finland in KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum and Dance House Helsinki.

Let it Be! art agency is developing new interdisciplinary forms of co-operation between different areas of art and creative industries by exploring possibilities of innovative collaborations. The agency is engaged in managing and initiating cross media and urban city projects which are focusing on new synergy of art and technology. Let it Be! art agency realizes creative concepts for customers and gives management background for media artists and designers. The agency believes in experience-based learning and the power of social sensitivity. It considers important to facilitate using small- scale opportunities in city development and aims to raise awareness of the creative potentials of technological innovations. http://letitbeartagency.com/

Augmented Fiction - interactive environments and crossings between the virtual and physical world

In the telematic and cyberspace, where our eyesight, hearing, sense of touch, and sounding mechanisms are activated by our receptors, we can go beyond the limits of our own body. There we can encounter visual systems developed beyond the horizon of our physical presence. Augmented Reality provides a technology that makes it possible for us to build and display parallel planes of reality.