Class II
Date: 16-19/05/2023
Lecturer: Fernanda Parente
As our physical and digital lives converge, we search for new ways of redefining how we learn, create and engage with one another. Art and technology have the power to extend our realities into new realms and, when combined, they can create a particular relevance for the times we live in and the futures we want to build.
This course aims to give participants an overview of artistic practices using digital technologies and the possibilities and challenges they present to image desirable futures. Participants will gain an understanding of key contemporary technological trends and develop a critical awareness of how they impact society by examining existing artistic projects using these same technologies. We will take them as a starting point to dive-in deeper, share our own experiences and have open discussions within the group.
What futures do we want to imagine? Can art and digital technologies help us not only envision, but also prototype desirable futures? How can we create new narratives of multiplicity in a technocratic data-driven world? How can we re-imagine, conceptualise and potentially prototype futures beyond reality as we know it?
The class will be held in English
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Fernanda Parente
Fernanda Parente has been conceptualising and curating programmes at the intersection of art, technology and society for over 10 years. Be it IRL, in a browser or in the metaverse, she specialises in developing innovative formats for international audiences. Fernanda is interested in the power of immersive content and in innovative ways of artistic production and audience engagement. She has previously curated for re:publica, Future Affairs, Martin Roth Symposium, Goethe Institute, 48hrs Neukölln among others. Since 2018, Fernanda has been lecturing on topics such as Extended Realities, Speculative Futures and Artistic Practice in the Metaverse at universities such as Institut HyperWerk in Basel, University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2019, she co-founded the studio for digitality Rosy DX.