[Nettime-nl] PSWAR LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS: Sat.20 May - Sun. 21 May at 2 PM (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Sica PSWAR <pswar@xs4all.nl>]

Public Space With A Roof would like to invite you
Pixels of Reality: What do you Know, What do You See?

ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS, FILMS, LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS
Saturday, 20 May & 21 May at 2 pm
Thomas Elsaesser, Rainer Ganahl, Sagi Groner, Jon Kessler, Steve  
Rushton, Wael Shawky, Tjebbe van Tijen, REBOND.

In the last few decades, the digitalized image has become our main tool  
to perceive reality. When zoomed in on this image, it reveals its  
deceptive and fragmented nature – tiny squares in different colours –  
pixels of our reality. Hence, our perception of the surrounding world  
is based on this false uniformity of a highly fragmented and complex  
entity. The aim of our project is to zoom in on this image and reveal  
its structure, so as to show the artificiality of such a mediated  
perception of the world.

We invite artists, curators and theoreticians who already question this  
mediated reality in their work to reflect on their own position and  
agency. Or, as film director Peter Watkins has formulated it: we want  
to examine the role of the artist in “a world where ethics, morality,  
human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are  
considered ‘old fashioned’”.

Program:

SATURDAY, May 20, 2 – 8 pm:

Rainer Ganahl (artist talk)
Jon Kessler (artist talk)
(break)
Steve Rushton: Re-enactment and Substituted Bodies (lecture)
(break)
REBOND POUR LA COMMUNE: Discussion over the questions rose by the film  
"La Commune (Paris 1871)” (2000, directed by Peter Watkins)

SUNDAY, May 21, 2 – 8 pm

Tjebbe van Tijen: ART ACTION ACADEMIA 1960-2006: Social and Technical  
Context of Collective Creativity (lecture)
Sagi Groner (artist talk)
(break)
Thomas Elsaesser: The Future of "Art" and "Work" in the Age of Vision  
Machines
Wael Shawky (artist talk)
(break)
Open discussion: present artists and participants, moderator Noa Roei.

SUNDAY, May 28, 3 – 8 pm

William Kentridge: Felix in Exile: Geography of Memory (1994, 6 min,  
animation)
Zelimir Zilnik:  	Kenedi, Goes Back Home (2003, 74 min, film)
Kenedi, Lost and Found (2005, 26 min, video)
(break)
Stefan Majakowski: Cinema and Allegory: Creating the Space of Human  
Time (lecture) (to be confirmed)

EXHIBITION (opening May 18, 7 pm): Christiaan Bastiaans, Banu  
Cennetoglu, Nicole Cousino & Chris Vecchio, Harun Farocki, Rainer  
Ganahl, Sagi Groner, Ivan Grubanov, Jon Kessler, Rinat Kotler, Carlos  
llavata, Fabian Marcaccio, Ahron Shabtai, Wael Shawky, Praneet Soi,  
Krzysztof  Wegiel.

FILM SCREENINGS (May 28): William Kentridge, Zelimir Zilnik.

Public discussion (May 21): moderator Noa Roei.

Pixels of Reality: What do you Know, What do You See? (18 May - 18 June  
2006)
Project initiated by Adi Hollander, Tamuna Chabashvili and Vesna  
Madzoski

Location: Public Space With a Roof, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam.
For more information please check: www.pswar.org

The project is kindly supported by: VSB Fonds, Mondriaan Foundation


During the exhibition the project space is open Thursday to Sunday 3pm  
- 7pm or by appointment.

For further questions mail to pswar@xs4all.nl or consult our website  
http://www.pswar.org
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Public Space With A Roof
Is a non-profit, artist-run project space
located in the old Film Academy, OT301
Overtoom 301,
1054 HW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: pswar@xs4all.nl
http://www.pswar.org

For an appointment you can reach us by email or call:
Tel: +31 (0) 611174239, Tel: +31 (0) 628128003
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