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10:30 AM-7:00 PM, IST
Imaginations: Rural, Urban, Global
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
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Online Online | Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
Through the ages, philosophers have sought to lend their own meaning to the word imagination. Implicit to all was the fundamental function that imagination plays: the invisible alchemy of the mind that can envision — and represent — possibilities beyond what is actually present. Today, two years after the pandemic, when a virus put mankind in peril, it is perhaps time for a fresh look at the redemptive role of imagination in a world in crisis. Over the two days, the speakers at the symposium will discuss and debate a host of topics, including art and crisis, creative challenges in the face of ideological warfare, the impact of artificial intelligence, and extension of the frontiers of imagination through the virtual world. Discussed too will be topics such as merging boundaries in cinema, fine art, music and performance, contemporary role of museums and universities in the 21st century and container and the content: the form and content debate translated into architecture.
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata presents two renowned experts in this symposium in two sessions.
Session 1
Sunday, 6 February 2022, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm IST
Contemporary Role of Museums and Universities in the 21st century
Museums today are no longer just collections of arts and artefacts. They are no longer just about the past. The scope of museums has expanded from collecting, preserving and sharing collections to embracing their part in shaping and developing identities, reshaping cultural narratives and as engines for societal change. A museum is not just where you can see art but also a place that encourages people, artists and audience, to reflect on it and raise questions. They, like modern universities, have become spaces where ideas are explored and subverted. Yet, a new definition of a museum proposed by the International Council of Museums calling them “democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical dialogue about the pasts and the futures” sparked international debate. What then is the role of museums today and tomorrow?
Moderated by Alka Pande, Consultant, Art Advisor and Curator, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, the session includes speakers like Gail Lord, President & Co-founder, Lord Cultural Resources, Romita Ray, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University, Amareswar Galla, UNESCO Chair on Inclusive Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development, Anant National University, India and Emeritus Faculty, Australian National University, Canberra, Navina Najat Haidar, Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Susanne Pfeffer, Director, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
Session 2
Monday, 7 February 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm IST
Building Worlds – Imagining (better) Futures
Art has always been concerned with its own present and has used new technological tools for aesthetic production as well as reflecting their impact on us and society at large. Our world is flooded with digital technology and these devices have literally become extensions of ourselves. Our daily interaction with intelligent algorithmic systems and the power we already cede to machines in many areas of our lives have given rise to new interwoven realities that are co-created by humans and algorithms or intelligent systems. Sabine Himmelsbach will discuss these topics from her curatorial perspective, based on examples from exhibitions at HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel, Switzerland. Works discussed range from interactive installations to AI, game environments or video installations which challenge, provoke, and explore how technology is representing, influencing and changing our world and how artists creatively intervene in these debates, critically reflecting on existing systems or sketching out for us new visionary solutions for a future, in which we maintain a better coexistence in relation to our environment.
A session including Sabine Himmelsbach, Director, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel speaking followed by a question and answer session moderated by Astrid Wege, Director, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
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Susanne Pfeffer is a curator and an art historian and has been the director of the MUSEUM FÜR MODERNE KUNST, Frankfurt am Main since January 2018. From 2013 to 2017, she was the director of the Fridericianum in Kassel. Before that, she served for six years as chief curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2007–2012), and as curator and advisor to the MoMA PS1 in New York, where she was honored by the AICA USA in 2009 for her exhibition Kenneth Anger. From 2004 to 2006 she was the artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Bremen. Susanne Pfeffer has been active internationally as a guest curator at the São Paulo Biennale, the Lyon Biennale, the Tel Aviv Art Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Museion in Bolzano. At the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2017), her presentation of Anne Imhof at the German pavilion was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2015 she curated the Swiss pavilion in Venice. Susanne Pfeffer is the editor of numerous artist monographs and exhibition catalogues.
Since 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993-1996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005-2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. 2011 she curated gateways. Art and Networked Culture for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 program. Her exhibitions at HEK in Basel include Ryoji Ikeda (2014), Poetics and Politics of Data (2015), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence (2016), unREAL (2017), Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, Eco-Visionaries (2018), Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence (2019), Making FASHION Sense (2020) and Real Feelings. Emotion and Technology (2020). In 2021 she curated the online exhibition and conference Hybrid by Nature. Human.Machine.Interaction for the Goethe- Institutes in Southeast Asia. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.
This symposium is a collateral event of CIMA Awards 2022 and is jointly presented by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, and Ashoka University.
Link for the complete schedule of the Symposium https://www.cimaartindia.com/news-and-events/
The link to register for the symposium will be available soon.
Link to know about CIMA Awards 2022 https://www.cimaartindia.com/news-and-events/
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata presents two renowned experts in this symposium in two sessions.
Session 1
Sunday, 6 February 2022, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm IST
Contemporary Role of Museums and Universities in the 21st century
Museums today are no longer just collections of arts and artefacts. They are no longer just about the past. The scope of museums has expanded from collecting, preserving and sharing collections to embracing their part in shaping and developing identities, reshaping cultural narratives and as engines for societal change. A museum is not just where you can see art but also a place that encourages people, artists and audience, to reflect on it and raise questions. They, like modern universities, have become spaces where ideas are explored and subverted. Yet, a new definition of a museum proposed by the International Council of Museums calling them “democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical dialogue about the pasts and the futures” sparked international debate. What then is the role of museums today and tomorrow?
Moderated by Alka Pande, Consultant, Art Advisor and Curator, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, the session includes speakers like Gail Lord, President & Co-founder, Lord Cultural Resources, Romita Ray, Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University, Amareswar Galla, UNESCO Chair on Inclusive Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development, Anant National University, India and Emeritus Faculty, Australian National University, Canberra, Navina Najat Haidar, Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Susanne Pfeffer, Director, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
Session 2
Monday, 7 February 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm IST
Building Worlds – Imagining (better) Futures
Art has always been concerned with its own present and has used new technological tools for aesthetic production as well as reflecting their impact on us and society at large. Our world is flooded with digital technology and these devices have literally become extensions of ourselves. Our daily interaction with intelligent algorithmic systems and the power we already cede to machines in many areas of our lives have given rise to new interwoven realities that are co-created by humans and algorithms or intelligent systems. Sabine Himmelsbach will discuss these topics from her curatorial perspective, based on examples from exhibitions at HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel, Switzerland. Works discussed range from interactive installations to AI, game environments or video installations which challenge, provoke, and explore how technology is representing, influencing and changing our world and how artists creatively intervene in these debates, critically reflecting on existing systems or sketching out for us new visionary solutions for a future, in which we maintain a better coexistence in relation to our environment.
A session including Sabine Himmelsbach, Director, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel speaking followed by a question and answer session moderated by Astrid Wege, Director, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
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Susanne Pfeffer is a curator and an art historian and has been the director of the MUSEUM FÜR MODERNE KUNST, Frankfurt am Main since January 2018. From 2013 to 2017, she was the director of the Fridericianum in Kassel. Before that, she served for six years as chief curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2007–2012), and as curator and advisor to the MoMA PS1 in New York, where she was honored by the AICA USA in 2009 for her exhibition Kenneth Anger. From 2004 to 2006 she was the artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Bremen. Susanne Pfeffer has been active internationally as a guest curator at the São Paulo Biennale, the Lyon Biennale, the Tel Aviv Art Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Museion in Bolzano. At the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2017), her presentation of Anne Imhof at the German pavilion was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2015 she curated the Swiss pavilion in Venice. Susanne Pfeffer is the editor of numerous artist monographs and exhibition catalogues.
Since 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993-1996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005-2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. 2011 she curated gateways. Art and Networked Culture for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 program. Her exhibitions at HEK in Basel include Ryoji Ikeda (2014), Poetics and Politics of Data (2015), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence (2016), unREAL (2017), Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, Eco-Visionaries (2018), Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence (2019), Making FASHION Sense (2020) and Real Feelings. Emotion and Technology (2020). In 2021 she curated the online exhibition and conference Hybrid by Nature. Human.Machine.Interaction for the Goethe- Institutes in Southeast Asia. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.
This symposium is a collateral event of CIMA Awards 2022 and is jointly presented by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, and Ashoka University.
Link for the complete schedule of the Symposium https://www.cimaartindia.com/news-and-events/
The link to register for the symposium will be available soon.
Link to know about CIMA Awards 2022 https://www.cimaartindia.com/news-and-events/
Location
Online
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Park Mansions, Gate 4
57A, Park Street
Kolkata 700 016
India
Park Mansions, Gate 4
57A, Park Street
Kolkata 700 016
India
Location
Online
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Park Mansions, Gate 4
57A, Park Street
Kolkata 700 016
India
Park Mansions, Gate 4
57A, Park Street
Kolkata 700 016
India