Techne, is a series of exhibitions and contributions where artists, scientists and creators meet at the crossroads of technology and art. Techne seeks to align our artists and our community with a broader global discourse on technology and innovation in art and artistic creativity. Various contributors with artistic and scientific background will be invited to share their knowledge and experiences, educating and promoting similar practices among our local community.
Babylonian Vision marks the first exhibition within Techne theme, with multidisciplinary germani-irakian artist Nora Al-Badri. Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary and as much post-colonial as post-digital.
Education + organizes reflective social spaces, which develop alongside the needs of the independent scene and the wider audience, to address, contextualize and actualize issues of social and cultural importance, through lectures and public presentations.
This time Education + comes in within the framework of Techne through two panel discussions inspired by Nora Al-Badri’s Babylonian Vision exhibition, which is still open in Galeria 17.
PANELS OF DISCUSSION
Panel I: Decolonization of artifacts. Democratization of museums.
Date: 24 May
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Location: Lapidarium of National Museum of Kosovo
Do artifacts belong and how can it be defined? How is cultural property recognized and who enjoys the right to it? How democratic are the Museums in Kosovo and what is being done in this regard? What is the social role of museums and how comprehensive are they? What can be done to expand the audience and what would be the impact / change in society?
These and other issues will be addressed throughout this panel, serving the broader discourse of engagement practices on issues related to the current state of museums, their democratization, and the decolonization of artifacts.
Zana Rama, Alisa Gojani; Moderim Shaban Maxharraj
Panel II: Art and undefined digital territories
Date: 24 May
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Location: Project Space 17
What is the impact of digital technology on our various creative practices? What are the contradictions and criticisms in the field of digital humanities against the policies of digital technologies (on our various artistic practices)? Can digital objects and algorithmic work be experienced as objects with distinct and tangible materials? How prevalent is crypto-art and is it dictating the art market today?
The discussion will address the motivations of artists to work in digital territories. They will serve the discourse in the form of reflection on art and technological developments. They will also contribute to interdisciplinary knowledge and approach through technology and its democratization.
Ipko Foundation – Abetare Gojani, Bone Vet – Lekë Zherka, Endrit Jashanica; Moderated by: Artrit Bytyçi