Welcome to the
fifth dialogue in the
FutureFantastic Dialog Series titled
Bodies, Body Politics & Machines.
FutureFantastic is an ambitious festival conceptualized by our cultural partner
Jaaga's
BeFantastic (India). FutureFantastic is the outcome of a series of international fellowships fostering creative exchange and collaboration between emerging and seasoned artists and technologists from around the world, each focusing on the thematic focus of climate action, through different forms of artistic practice like interactive installations and performances.
FutureFantastic will also feature artists and collectives whose practices have been pushing the boundaries of TechArt in recent years. Complementing these, the exhibition of such artworks, would be various kinds of programmes including dialog sessions and workshops with experts in the domain, that might holistically communicate different aspects of the climate emergency to diverse audiences while proliferating a certain degree of technological literacy.
For this session we bring together
Fronte Vacuo (Collective) from
Germany and
Sabine Himmelsbach, the director of HEK Basel (Switzerland).
The body has always been politicized, but it was not until more recently that we began to pay attention to how bodies could be used as political tools. Bodies, Body Politics, Machines explores this shift in thinking about the body and its relationship with technology. It looks at how these new relationships between humans and machines are changing our ideas about ourselves as human beings—and what this means for society at large.
Fronte Vacuo is an artists group dedicated to the creation of hybrid live arts and de-conditioning methods of audience interaction. The group was born from the encounter of
Marco Donnarumma,
Margherita Pevere and
Andrea Familari in Berlin. In order to reflect and respond to the convergence of ecological disruption, socio-political polarization and technological advance, they chose to combine their individual practices into a single artistic entity. Fronte Vacuo, thus, speaks a language that, by enmeshing their expertise in media art, performance, interactive music, video art and bioart, sidesteps delimitations of genre.
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. 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), Real Feelings. Emotion and Technology (2020) and Earthbound. In Dialogue with Nature (2022). 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.
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