From the ironic horror found footage, which also expands into the expansive environment, thus drastically mess up the line between film and reality, through the intervention facing an entry chamber and the presence of a person in an unfamiliar environment, to the deceptively guided by assumptions and stereotypes of perception, parasitizing the viewer doubt extends line between the individual works. This nexus is a form of navigation, topographic map of sensory perception, which is the essence of an opinion to learn understanding the relationships, an attempt to define a new orientation and sensory examination of the limits of reality. Seven Touches reviews the viewers’ expectations and pushes them to be a line beyond which to see is not to believe.
 
Authors: Alena Bušíková, Peter Isteník, Lukas Matejka, Stephen Olis, Monika Reháková, Helena Veličová, Catherine Vidová
Curators: Catherine Vidová and Roman Gajdoš

Venue: NG Bunker
Opening: 5.5. 2011 at 17:00
Duration of the exhibition: 12.6. 2011

The exhibition is held under the project gallery young curators.

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In Western classical thought, there has been a strong conviction of the existence of four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. A fifth element is at times added. The Greeks called it Aether. Following Aristotle’s reasoning that fire, earth, air, and water were earthly and did not provide an exact explanation for all phenomenon happening in the heavenly regions. The stars cannot be made out of any of the four elements and must therefore be made of a different, unchangeable, heavenly substance. So it is this Aether idea that links us to the Cosmos. This is a vision and a quest that is universal and shared by distant civilizations, from India to China, Japan, Latin America. For contemporary scientific community Aether serves as a touchstone for discussions and it can also be an inspiring metaphor for cultural production. The relationship with more scientifically founded categories can be probed deeper. Even today, earth, water, air, and fire are everyday symbols for the states of matter such as solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. While empirical Science has arrived at new conceptions, in the field of Belief or in certain Physics tendencies these elements are still important today as a poignant metaphor for the oneness of everything. SKYWAY’s 2011 artistic programme once again celebrates Human imagination in a world which is becoming more and more infinite but also more and more proximate to our reasoning, by means of contemporary science, namely astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology. Since the stars are closer and in reaching for them again we want to understand also our own fundamental ‘elements’ – forces and interactions ruling inside us. And of course that even if the ‘five elements world’ is far from current knowledge about the Universe, still it can be a great contribution to an open discussion about our role in this ‘cold place’ we used to call Cosmos. Bringing together the ideas of Light Art and the languages of Science and Fiction, Poetics and Physics, SKYWAY ‘11 opens up a stage filled with vivid emotions and joy in which the city of Torun becomes the central performer. In the year, in which our city celebrates the 600. Anniversary of the Thorn Peace Treaty –, the wondrous dynamics of the whole Universe is envisaged during six days of contact with ancient cultural anachronisms – inspired by reflections by Parmenides, Heraclitus and Aristotle –, and their actual historically contemporary counterparts, clearly informed by technoscientific principles.

For the visitor, it is a chance to contact with traditional culture – from Myth to proto-science – and have a glimpse at some of the most provocative and innovatory possibilities of the more and more extensively shared cultures of science and art. The event explores the ways to contact the basic ‘alphabet’ of the Universe. It allows a complex interactions with each artwork in Festival which inscribes itself in the urban and social context. The artworks won’t be related only with fundamental aspects of the life and identity of the City of Torun, but will allow every visitor a very personal experience. Since its inception, SKYWAY has drawn on and highlighted the wealth of the history and synergies in the relationship between art and the science of astronomy, also myth, history and heritage. Its aim has been to bring through art a deeper understanding of the passion and the dreams that drive the human quest for knowledge and self-expression. The Elements metaphor recaptures the sense of this Festival for Torun – and brings it to a higher level of value. Thus, SKYWAY once again, and now with even more will to follow the possibilities of imagination, from strictly astronomical or physics thematic to what is broadly understood as urban culture. By these means, we use the richness of potential of SKYWAY’without losing its science&art core.

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Culture plays an important role in the economic, social and environmental development of the country. It plays a very important and diverse role, which bears great potential to increase further the advent of new media. Increasingly, projects are being implemented in the field of new media for the exchange of experiences and open debate at the international level. One possibility is to support these projects and Culture. Program in recent years supported a number of projects related to new media in which they were involved and also Slovak partners (Multiplace festival, Remake, Atrakt Art, Gallery SPACE, Col – me / Collaborative media expedition). Therefore the conference – New media art & digital art meeting point for presentation of the activities carried out in the field of new media over the past decade. Its aim is to link the diverse academic and non-academic activities of departments to make way for meeting celebrities and representatives of educational institutions, but also cultural sociological environment operating in the realm of digital media. The conference intends to allow authors present projects, activities, vision, critical comments, and overall concerns within this segment of culture and art. The goal of the meeting is to open a discussion about the possibilities and the prospective use of the potential of this active region, inspired by the experience of foreign countries and also seek the answer to the question: “What’s next? – There is a common point on which to speak? “

Monoscope database personalities and events in new media art and culture
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Slovakia
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Bratislava
IDM.NET.DATA http://idm.aku.sk
ProgressBar http://www.progressbar.sk/
REMAKE, http://remakeme.eu/
MULTIPLACE Festival http://multiplace.org/blog/?p=135
ROVART GALLERY http://www.rovart.com/sknew
VIDEOMATCH http://videoartmatch.com/
HOTDOCK GALLERY http://www.hotdock.sk
… and many other
 
Organizing team:
Natalia Urblíková / KKB Slovakia
Daria Coots, rails / KKB Slovakia
Michal Murin / Platform DigiVAF (ex)
 
Organized by: Cultural Contact Point, Bratislava, in cooperation with the Platform DigiVAF (ex)

 
Moderated by: Omar Mirza and Michal Murin
 
Venue: A4 – Associations for contemporary culture to us. SNP 12, 811 06 Bratislava
Date: 05/18/2011
Time: 10.00 am – 17.00 pm.

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Curators: Lukáš Matejka and Štefan Oliš.

Official website HERE.

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