Media Art in the Age of Pandemics
The “Uncanny Dream” is an exhibition focused on how young Russian artists, as digital natives, explore the impact of new technologies such as AI, AR and video games on art, culture and society. The project unites artworks reflecting on issues of the Coronacene epoch. One of the key motifs of the exhibition is a metaphor of a dream as a form of anxiety related to uncertainty and the constant rapid change in the world. The exhibition also addresses topics such as AI biases, different forms of biopolitics as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, and social isolation and loneliness in times of pandemic. The “Uncanny Dream” project is taking place in a hybrid format. The physical exhibition is complemented by an online show. The website presents video games, art bots, interactive projects, video art, digital images and video documentations of the projects. The public program of the project includes curatorial tours, artist-talks, performances, panels and lectures. The public program takes place both onsite and online.
Video
Neurofrodite, Nika Peshekhonova
Ars Electronica Garden Moscow, Uncanny Dream, Credit: Charon AR, Vladimir Sheshak
You can touch. You can play, Anna Shustikova
In Between, Katya Galitskaya
Credits
Curators: Helena Nikonole, Oxana Chvyakina
Artists: Fedor Balashov aka wasdswag, Katya Galitskaya, Mitry Grankov, Gray cake, Anastasia Koroleva, Yuliya Kozhemyako aka supr, Ivan Netkachev, Xenia Obukhovskaya, Rona Peshekhonova, Alexey Ryabov, Eugene Kruglov, Pavel Seldemirov, Vladimir Sheshak, Anna Shustikova, Roman Solodkov.
ELECTROMUSEUM. The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin
