Category: Multimedia Event


PERFORMATIVE EDUCATION – THE LIGHTHOUSE

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06/04/2023

Culture, media and education – ARTHEA and I personally, as the president and author of the project, strive to introduce a new artistic practice into intergenerational education and influence the progressiveness of the agency system and culture in a local and global sense.

It is difficult to express in words about such a complex and demanding visual and sound performance! That is exactly why it is titled as “Modular Performance: The Lighthouse of Slavonska Brod”.
It is about the simultaneous orchestration of a performative action, multimedia tasks for students and an online scientific symposium with professors and doctors from Croatia and abroad! The performance consisted of a visual part (creating the lighthouse) and a sound part (generated plant sounds).The project was supported by two ministries: the Ministry of Science and Education and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Slavonski Brod.

PhD Vesna Srnic, ARTHEA president, author

More in Croatian: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009361466293

FINAL VIDEO WORK – MODULAR PERFORMANCE: LIGHTHOUSE TO SLAVONSKI BROD

HRT – Croatian National Television – Croatia Today (by mobile phone, I do not own the content, it is just for the educational purpose.)

Local television SBTV on performance Modular performance: Lighthouse to Slavonski Brod.

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ARTHEA – Fundraising in Croatia

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22/01/2022

Portal: Media-via.Net

NGO: Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA

IBAN: HR7823400091110481403

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Two exhibitions on the limits of existential art at the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

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04/01/2022

Glory: Croatian artists greet Kiki Smith, presents New York’s authentic artist Kiki Smith (1954) with 19 conceptualized multidisciplinary works (sculpture, jacquard tapestry, installation, drawings and graphics) in comparison with the works of 13 Croatian artists who have created over 100 years – Slava Raškaj, Nasta Rojc, Milena Lah, Nives Kavurić Kurtović, Edita Schubert, Vlasta Delimar, etc. – questioning nature, femininity, physicality and mortality, through “a position of solidarity and sisterhood that transcends all current relations of power and planetary glory” as the NMMU director Branko Franceschi said.

Kiki Smith’s reduced, figurative forms are all the more impressive when they use bodily excretions (saliva, blood, urine) and the weaving principle of female intuition, thus creates in jacquard tapestries what Judith Butler calls “bodies that matter.”

Croatian artists also questioned the feminist preoccupation by tearing down the petty-bourgeois dress code, from Naste Rojc’s riding suit (Self-Portrait with a Horse, 1922) to exposing body of Vlasta Delimar (Untitled, 1991).

In a floor installation Soil, 1998-2018 with an impressive fifteen dead crows, Smith accentuated

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impressively the existential boundary – mortality and make an introduction to another exhibition: Exploatation of Death. Dying of everything in nature, mortality, often through the process, is the theme of this exhibition. Diana Vlaisavljević’s foreword exhaustively analyzes the presented works through the paradox of death (Judith and Holofernes, 1892 – Bela Čikoš Sesija, The Battle of Grobnik, 1906 – Celestin Medović, Adventure is Adventure, 2004 – Lovro Artuković), “meat is murder” (Dead Sheep, 1935 – Vladimir Becić), eschatology and the end of the world (Flood, 1932 – Krsto Hegedušić, Atomic mushroom – Kamilo Tompa), death as a biological fact (From my garden, 1956 – Ljubo Babić, After all – Stjepan Gračan), final farewells (At the door of death, 1904 – Mirko Rački. Dead child, 1954 – Miljenko Stančić) and death is not the end (Christian hope based on the critique of human weaknesses at the Crucifix, 1989 – Branko Ružić, through depictions of skulls and the motif of dance macabre – Đuro Tiljak, Hrvoje Šercar, Vanja Radauš).

Unlike Kiki Smith’s sincerity and primacy in her approach to existential art, the title Exploatation of Death cannot escape the impression that this is, linguistically speaking, a parasitic position of civilization, and to a sincere artist this depravity through human fear or greed should not be the goal. To conclude in the end of narrative philosophy:  “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent“ (Wittgenstein).

Ph.D Vesna Srnić, MV president

Images by MV: Courtesy of the NMMU

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ORGANIC AUTHENTICITY VS. MECHANICAL REPETITION – MURTIĆ 100 EXHIBITION

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04/07/2021

Croatian multimedia exhibition MURTIĆ 100 celebrates the centenary of the birth of the internationally famous Croatian painter of high modernism gestural abstraction Edo Murtić.

To feel liveness in our depths we have to live in constant new, although life more or less delivers boring moments to people. We have to be aware of the contrast: organic spontaneity versus a routine as the brakes by non ritual repetition. The (ritual) routine can calm you down, but if you want to live your meditative center you choose (poetical) presence and the intensity of expression.

To paraphrase the agile curator Branko Franceschi‘s preface to the exhibition – multimedia exhibition MURTIĆ 100 celebrates the centenary of the birth of the internationally famous Croatian painter of high modernism gestural abstraction Edo Murtić, set in the vertical space Home HDLU in Zagreb on three levels: Bačva Gallery (iconic paintings), PM Gallery (the enduring challenges of reality as ati-war themes) and Prsten Gallery (division into abstract and figurative art, graphics and drawings, ceramics and enamel, multimedia installation by Ivan Marušić Klif on mosaics and murals in public spaces).

This exhibition perfectly combines technical multimedia with multimedial art as it stresses the synergy of gesamtkunstwerk.

But the most important is the great work of exhibition booth setup idea in the means of integration of art and intrinsic education: Art workshops A game of Murtić’s colors (for kids between 5 and 10 yrears), Go Big (for kids between 10 and 15 years), Abstraction of Nature (for the elderly), then lecture I Can Paint that too (for high school students and adults) and Reinterpretation of Edo Murtić through street art and finally International Symposium Gesture and Freedom.

To feel liveness in our depths we have to live in constant new. Life more or less delivers boring moments to people. We have to be aware of the contrast: organic spontaneity versus a routine as the brakes by non ritual repetition. The (ritual) routine can calm you down, but if you want to live your meditative center you choose (poetical) presence and the intensity of expression.

The  routine as mechanical or machine thinking and using of Artificial intelligence if prevail can stop our freedom. Murtić’s impressive abstract gestural works also oscillate between more or less freedom. Although some works are stuck in authors freestyle routine, enormous vital energy of Edo Murtic stayed to beautify and free our lives.

PhD. Vesna Srnić, docent

MV (photos and video with permission of curator Branko Franceschi)

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The international performance Glocal Art: Counterpoint Harmony (May 8, 2021)

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11/05/2021

Professional video of the Zagreb artist Matija Kralj: the international performance Glocal Art: Counterpoint Harmony, held in Slavonski Brod on May 8, 2021. Project author was PhD. Vesna Srnic, composition created by prominent University professor Predrag Repanic in collaboration with Dr. Kruno Martinac, MA Mus. Aljaz Razdevsek, MA Arch. Siniša Tomic and Musician Tomislav Brezicevic. Performance contemporary dancer was Nastasja Stefanic and video art creator Matija Kralj from Zagreb.

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Video: On performance at 17:38.

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PERFORMANCE: GLOCAL RHYTHMS OF EMANCIPATION, 23 May, 2020

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26/05/2020

Performance Glocal Rhythms of Emancipation organized by the civil association Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA and in cooperation with the Elementary School Ivan Goran Kovačić, Crafts School and the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod was performed on Saturday, May 23 on the main city square at 12 o’clock, in front of several hundred citizens.

A group of students attending classes on regular, individualized, adapted and gifted program Marija Cernecki, Luka Mrvelj and Kasijan Kristic presented an urban walk with “marching drums” and electronic music. Moderators were two students of the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod – Marko Mrsic and Andrea Josipovic, and the other 80 students were creating multimedia tasks for the course Media Culture, which is taught by the author of the performance PhD. Vesna Srnic who is also the president of the civil association ARTHEA.

In the scientific part, the project is commented in the publication with scientific articles by 6 eminent scientists: PhD. Lino Veljak, Head of the Department of Ontology at the Faculty of humanities and social sciences, University of Zagreb, Dr Kruno Martinac Associate for Visual Communications from Australia, PhD. Suzana Marjanic, Performance studies theorist from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, Dr Divna Vuksanovic, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and president of the Young peas association from Belgrade, psychiatry specialist MA Jugoslav Gojkovic from the Josip Bencevic Hospital in Slavonski Brod and PhD. Vesna Srnic, research associate at FOOZOS.

All results of the vertical educational and artistic / scientific project are published in printed and digital publication at the social network http://glocal-art.ning.com/ and will be published at the portal of the association Media-Via.Net as well.

The sponsors of the urban performance are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Slavonski Brod.

Culturenet.hr – portal of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, published the announcement of the performance.

Elementary school Ivan Goran Kovacic  announced the event.

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Multimedia platform of the project:

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PowerPoint Presentations created by gifted students of the Elementary School Ivan Goran Kovačić:

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Students’ final video:

Publication with scientific and artistic/multimedial works in Croatian:

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Oxford Conference Presentation on Education by PhD. Vesna Srnic

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27/03/2020

On 27th March 2020 at the 2nd international icnaeducation online conference “New Approaches in Education” in Oxford, Ph.D. Vesna Srnić presented the scientific paper “Glocal, Holistic and Performative Education” co-authored with Assoc.Prof. PhD. Emina Berbić Kolar, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education in Osijek. In the paper we have presented performative arts in education as a long-standing practice of the Faculty, which promotes and encourages curricular reform in the Republic of Croatia.

“We look at innovative education through a global and local approach to the philosophy of existence, known as glocalization, and through the psychological Gestalt of experiencing a whole that is inevitably viewed within social science by a sociological holistic principle. Our glocal, holistic, aesthetic practice has been experienced and realized through intensive performative education that enhances the existential capacity in multi / media projects through the humanistic approach, affectively using digital framing.”

 

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Zagreb, the City of Female Artists

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09/02/2020

Works of Croatian female artists from the late 19th to the 21st Century (February 6th – April, 14, 2020)

The Art Pavilion in Zagreb is starting its exhibition season with the show Zagreb, City of female Artists. The exhibition is being specially put on to mark the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and also in honor of Zagreb, capital of the Republic of Croatia, from which the Government of the Republic of Croatia will preside over the Council of the European Union. 

The basic idea of the exhibition is to provide a historical and critical cross-section from the oeuvres of those women visual artists who worked and left a record of themselves in the cultural life of the city of Zagreb in a period stretching from the end of the 19th century to the present age.

Within this relatively wide span of time, the generations of women artists are presented in three large, historically logical units The first covers the generations that were at work up to World War II; the second, those generations who started their exhibition activity after World War II and produced the major part of their work in the following decades; the third unit comprises the generations who appeared on the scene in the early seventies and later, and are, most of them, still at work.

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The exhibition covers a hundred works: the paintings, sculptures, video performances, audio and video installations of the most significant women artists from the end of the 19th century, starting with Anka Bestall, Slava Raškaj, Lina Crnčić Virant, Nasta Rojc, Mila Wod, Sonja Kovačić-Tajčević, Anka Krizmanić, Vera Nikolić Podrinska and Zdenka Ostović Pexidr Srića; it goes on with Nevenka Đorđević, Ksenija Kantoci, Marta Ehrlich, Mila Kumbatović, Melita Bošnjak, Miranda Morić, Milena Lah, Vera Josipović, Vesna Sokolić, Borka Avramova, Vera Fischer, Vera Dajht Kralj, Tonka Petrić, Biserka Baretić, Marija Ujević, Ljerka Šibenik, Goranka Vrus Murtić, Nives Kavurić Kurtović, Zdenka Pozaić, Edita Schubert, Marijana Muljević, Sanja Iveković, Jadranka Fatur, Nevenka Arbanas, Vesna Popržan, Breda Beban, Nina Ivančić, Zvjezdana Fio and Dubravka Rakoci, continuing with Vlasta Delimar, Vesna Pokas, Kata Mijatović, Amela Frankl, Ksenija Turčić, Mirjana Vodopija, Vlasta Žanić, Kristina Leko, Božena Končić Badurina, Magdalena Pederin, Nika Radić, Ivana Franke, Martina Mezak, Ana Hušman and Andreja Kulunčić with the women’s collective ISTE (EQUALS ).

Source: https://www.umjetnicki-paviljon.hr/en/portfolios/works-of-croatian-women-artists-from-the-end-of-the-19th-to-the-21st-century/

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Žižek, Richter and the audience as a triás – Antigone premiere

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20/10/2019

On Saturday, 19th October 2019, The Croatian National Theatre (HNK) in Zagreb, Croatia inovativelly presented premiere of famous philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s Antigona, directed by the German/Croatian theatre director and activist Angela Richter, thus positioning itself at the top of European theatres.

In the first 20 minutes the play is frontal multimedia and then it becomes a total work of art, introducing the surprising performance art of the choir characters from the audience: randomly judging from the left, right and back balcony, as well as from the audience parterre. Choir characters were accompanied by a spotlight and a video camera with simultaneous projection.

The auditive, musical part of the play was impressively fitting into visual multimedia.

Firstly Žižek adhered to the classic content of the tragedy, but then technically and  humorously by „flashback“ restrospection he examines three possible, elaborated solutions: in addition to the classic ending, Žižek recognizes a rigid or fundamentalist actuality, and finally he directly questions political thinking and leader’s responsibility. Appearing personally as a huge projection, Zizek harnessed the holistic and existentialist potential, like the great creator of proposed trinity (thesis-antithesis-synthesis).

Which of the three versions is the correct one?! The prophet Tiresias concludes that only in solitude by stopping the buzz of the world, we stop the chaos.

Still, the impression of over-controlling the play remains, it lacks the kind of „camp“ freedom, performative anarchy, although there were rhythmically impressive experimental audio-visual breaks in the play directed by Angela Richter! In my oppinion this could be achieved with a deeper and greater momentum towards the real audience, not filmed before the play, including all audio-visual risks.

Ph.D Vesna Srnic

 

 

 

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Hologram and the Real: Forest Television as a Social Intelligence Interrelationship

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27/05/2019

Civil organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA performing event “Hologram and the Real: Forest Television” was realized on 25 May, 2019 at the main town square of the Croatian city Slavonski Brod with the alluring enthusiasm of all of us: the Zagreb dancers of contemporary dance Nastasja Štefanić and Tamara Curić, musician from Opatija Vedran Ružić on double bass, Tomislav Brezicevic from Zagreb on hang drum, and 98 students of “Faculty of Education” in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod who have created multimedia works for the “Media Culture” course. The author of the project Ph.D.Vesna Srnić, Arthea president is a lecturer as well, while the vice dean  Ph.D. Emine Berbić-Kolar gave us a great overall support. Technical supervision for the hologram was done by Connect IT, thanks to Avishai Cohen his song“Remembering” was a background music, and sponsors were the “Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia”, the “City of Slavonski Brod” and the “Connect IT Association”.

The project “Hologram and the Real: Forest Television” is questioning the Social Intelligence through the interrelationship of virtual and real.

The project also includes several scientists: Professor Ph.D. Lino Veljak, Head of the Department of Ontology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Professor Dr Divna Vuksanović, Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, President of the Association of Citizens’ Young Pea, Docent Ph.D. Suzana Marjanić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, PhD. Vesna Srnić, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slav. Brod, Dr Kruno Martinac, Intercultural Communication, Melbourne, Australia and MA. Jugoslav Gojković, specialist of the psychiatric hospital ‘Josip Benčević’ in Slavonski Brod.

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Title : ‘ Remembering ‘
Music composed and performed by Avishai Cohen. Gad Music / Sony ATV
From the album: ‘ At Home’ 2005 – Avishai Cohen Trio and Ensemble – Razdaz Recordz LLC

by kind permission : Avishai Cohen, Razdaz Recordz LLC

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Baroque in Glocal Postmodern Approach – at European Schoolnet Academy

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25/02/2019

Baroque in Glocal Postmodern Approach is a project and a Learning Scenario made for “The European Schoolnet Academy” in Brussels, Belgium, specifically for the Europeana in your classroom: building 21st-century competences with digital cultural heritage course, through 5 Modules of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PhD. Vesna Srnic, Research fellow/Media-Via editor/NGO ARTHEA’s president

 

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DESPITE THE ENVIRONMENT

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14/11/2018

Exhibition on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) and 80 years since the construction of the Home of HDLU (October 26, 2018 – December 2, 2018)

“(…)The presented works of art sublimate the time and context of their origin, so they anchored themselves in the collective or at least the subjective curator’s memory as the ideal image of the period of their emergence. These works have proved as an intriguing and inspiring reflection or a comment about the reference social reality, i.e., through their form or content they represented a deviation in relation to the promoted aesthetic and social values, and through superior examples constituted a foretoken of times yet to come.

Their existence testifies about the pioneering role of artists in creating an image of their own time and articulating guidelines for the future. Starting with putting up “The History of Croats“ by Ivan Meštrović (1932) at the pavilion centre, i.e. the present Bačva Gallery, in remembrance of the first exhibition of the members of the Association at the Home of the Croatian Association of Artists, along with an inherent symbolism of exhibiting the sculpture, the other selected works follow the circular architecture of the space and ultimately fill it out in a kind of a visual paraphrase of a musical score.” 

Branko Franceschi, curator of the exhibition

 

 

 

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Pictures by Jasenko Rasol (Courtesy of the curator Branko Franceschi)

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Hito Steyerl at “Philosophical Theater” in Croatian HNK

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18/06/2018

In the latest program of the “Philosophical Theater” in the Croatian National Theater HNK on 17 June, 2018, Srecko Horvat presented the famous German artist and scientist PhD. Hito Steyerl. The New York Times  claimed “Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power. She Uses It for Change.”(Postmodernism as fragmentation is full of banality and conversation about it, taken out of context, can be perceived as such, so it was not allowed to record video during the talk!)

Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hito_Steyerl  )

Steyerl’s famous for her essays and one of it is: “In Defense of the Poor Image” (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image  )

She prefers low resolution images, almost abstract… These days: Images are looking people! (We can see the connection to W.J.T. Mitchell’s notion from the book „What do pictures want?“ and the theory of J. Baudrillard.)

„The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation.

In short: it is about reality.“ 

In her new essay she discusses „Art of arts“ – a dystopian idea. It seems as an extension of her book „Duty Free Art“ (Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War) where she points to new storages of art as new substitutes for museums. (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/63/60894/duty-free-art  )

She writes: „Huge art storage spaces are being created worldwide in what could essentially be called a luxury no man’s land, tax havens where artworks are shuffled around from one storage room to another once they get traded. This is also one of the prime spaces for contemporary art: an offshore or extraterritorial museum. (…) Freeport art storage facilities are secret museums. (…)The idea of duty-free art has one major advantage over the nation-state cultural model: duty-free art ought to have no duty—no duty to perform, to represent, to teach, to embody value.”

While discussing the technology and some predicting programs in sports, Steyerl as a media and technology artist claimed Artificial Intelligence has a shadow! She named it – Artificial Stupidity! But she uses technology – in terms of innovative and eduactional tools.

The question from the audience: as well as Karl Marx, Steyerl gives an overview and why not solutions?! She answered: we are not „omnipotent“ individuals but collectively creative through education and collective play (University has to be close to the Universe!).

The pleasant atmosphere of this philosophical talk has been completed as humorously as Srećko’s “Pink Freud” on his t-shirt!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Stephan Lupino’s exhibition in “Klovicevi dvori” gallery in Zagreb

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03/06/2018

Stephan Lupino is a Croatian photographer, master of erotic photography and a versatile artist of a peculiar style with a successful foreign career and one of the most famous photographers in the world. The magazine”Paper” included Lupino on a list of ten people who marked the New York night scene in the eighties and nineties.

Lupino’s photos have been released by leading fashion and art world magazines such as Vogue, Zoom, King, Max, Photo, Playboy, Europeo and many others, and in front of his camera, he has attracted thousands of thriving beauties and many famous musicians. His sculptures are exhibited all over the world and are among the top works of world modern art. In addition to photography and sculpture, he is also engaged in painting, directing commercial and music videos, and art films. He has released several books of his photographs.
The magazine”Paper” included Lupino on a list of ten people who marked the New York night scene in the eighties and nineties.

 

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https://www.biografija.com/stephan-lupino/

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Situationally Performative Smartphone Orchestra

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07/05/2018

This year’s performance project is an elaborated continuation of last years multicultural themes called Glocal Multimedia Culture: “The World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness”, with an emphasis on educational and scientific / artistic urban affect, mitigation of xenophobia as foreign / different from traditional, via interdisciplinary and integrated education of students and citizens through innovative art practice.
More at: http://glocal-art.ning.com and SBTV News (in Croatian). 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/glocalart

http://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=82321

The project, titled Situationally Performative Smartphone Orchestra, examines the relationship “Humans vs. Tehne “, and continues on lectures and seminars of the course Media Culture lectured by the author Dr. sc. Vesne Srnic (an example of a small sample of 50 students in the lecture hall is available on https://media-via.net/…/post-modern-dystopic-deconstruction …).

On Saturday, 5 May 2018, exactly at 12 o’clock on the main city square “Ivana Brlić Mažuranić” in Slavonski Brod we orchestrated a set of 200+ smartphones in phenomenologically designed, situationally astonished (humming) sounds and  (white) noises. Eighty students of the “Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek”, a department in Slavonski Brod, 2 teachers and the video group of the elementary school “Ivan Goran Kovačić”, as well as the present 200 people on the square – turned on the sounds and alarms of their  smartphones! The students/performers presented the meditative, asymmetrical and atonal shift of the usual harmonic sounds in the postmodern spirit, and the students/moderators gave the viewers the performative tasks of activating the alarm or their favourite ringtone of the smartphone at the exact time (12.15 minute). Multimedial photographs and video footages were recorded by 60 students as an intense event for their final work in the above-mentioned Media Culture course, and elementary school students added lower and upper shots recorded with mBot robots and drones. We invited  national televisions, the local SBTV, as well as numerous Internet portals and radio stations. The length of the performance was 20 minutes, after which the affectivelly refined usual perception returned to the main square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project sponsors are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Slavonski Brod, the Tourist Board of the City of Slavonski Brod, and this year’s collaborator in celebrating the European Week was the Europe House Slavonski Brod.

 

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CONDUCTED PERFORMANCE

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17/12/2017

CONDUCTED PERFORMANCE (Vođeni performance) at “Contemporary Media in Literature Lectures”

Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek, Department in Slavonski Brod

2nd year students

Associate Professor PhD. Emina Berbić-Kolar

Mentor and concept leader: PhD. Vesna Srnic, Research Fellow

 

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THE WORLD IMAGE AND PERFORMATIVITY OF GLOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS

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20/05/2017

Artistic individuation as a performative ‘gender indeterminacy’

Creating this year’s state of mind on the Croatian City Square, promoting human rights to diversity, our civic organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA presented a new dance performance: two students of contemporary dance from the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb – Simun Stankov and Mate Jonjic, as well as a student from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek,  department in Slavonski Brod Igor Ilic, in long skirts and choreography of Zagreb dancer and musician Nastasja Stefanic performed an improvisation on jazz music by the American artist John Zorn, gaining an inspiration from the world famous Israeli Dance group Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, with whom the author of the project PhD. Vesna Srnic has arranged co-operation. (culturenet.hr ; http://glocal-art.ning.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/glocalart ; )  Brochure in Croatian language –PUBLIKACIJA_2017 

Part of the art performance is also a multimedia platform realized by the students of the Academy of Arts in Osijek, under the mentorship of prof.art. Vladimir Frelih, as well as a student of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod Valentina Jackiv and Rian Skrinjaric, the student of Primary School “Ivan Goran Kovacic”, educated by the teacher Tomislav Lacic.

As the author of the project stated in her thesis of doctoral dissertation that the artistic individuation is the way of solving the gender problematic and that only with the aesthetic changes of reality we re-create and acquire a new personality without gender discrimination or categorization, neither androgynous nor transgender. Of course, we do not eliminate the potentials of individuals and communities that explore all the transitional boundaries of their gender.

Short video of the performance:

The particular importance of the project is seen in the global decentralization of culture and the penetration of a progressive performative approach to urban space in which the overwhelming conservatism of culture and rigid xenophobia prevail, ie the frustration by the contemporary art practices as a different worldview of abstract imagination and, above all, the presence of strangers. We incorporate this civic educational project in primary, secondary and tertiary curricula.

Scientific reviews on artistic performances will be written by: Professor PhD. Lino Veljak (Head of the Department of Ontology, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb), Mediologist Professor dr Divna Vuksanovic (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, President of the Association of Citizens for Art, Culture, Media and Social Issues “Young Peas”), dr Jugoslav Gojkovic (Department of Psychiatry, Slavonski Brod), and the media aesthetician PhD. Vesna Srnic, associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, a department in Slavonski Brod.

Video of the whole performance:

This year civic organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Slavonski Brod, the Tourist Board of Slavonski Brod and Brodsko-Posavska County.

Croatian culture web centre – Culturenet.hr, informed on the performance (in Croatian language):

http://www.culturenet.hr

Local television SBTV information at 18:48 – 22:40 (in Croatian):

Brochure in Croatian language PUBLIKACIJA_2017 

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POST-MODERN DYSTOPIC DECONSTRUCTION FOR MOBILE PHONE ORCHESTRA

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13/04/2017

Post-modernism in PhD Vesna Srnic teaching Media Culture at the J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Education in Osijek, Department in Slavonski Brod.

Environmental random sounds (news, harmonious and disharmonious, laughter, whispering, noise, croon) from the exterior and interior of the Faculty of Education in Osijek, Department in Slavonski Brod.

PhD. Vesna Srnic, Research Fellow
President of civil association “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA
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Croatian National Theater and Philosophical Theater’s guest: Tariq Ali

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31/10/2016

hnk_listopadThis season’s Philosophical Theater started with the famous British Pakistani activist, writer, theorist,  journalist and filmmaker Tariq Ali. The leader Srecko Horvat, known in Europe for his  leftist activism, moderated the interview on 30th October, 2016 in The Croatian National Theater (HNK) in Zagreb. Horvat’s schedule for upcoming months is as follows:
27th November – sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Alexandra Kania
4th December – Yanis Varoufakis
27th January 2017 – Bobby Gillespie and Franco B. Bifo (blending philosophy and rock and roll)

After the short performance of the drama with his text “The New Adventures of Don Quixote”, during this very pleasant evening Tariq Ali introduced himself as a rigorous and sensitive theorist and playwright at the same time. While criticizing pessimistiali_horvatcally the American and European capitalist society, he stressed the importance of the real democracy (not the fake ones where it’s necessary “to pinch the nose”) and objective reasoning of those who appreciate the positive approach to society and culture.

Tariq Ali is a Britdetalj_don_quijoteish Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso (es), and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read PPE in University of Oxford.

 

 

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Orchestrated glocal performative trine

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12/06/2016

performative contemporary danceOn Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 12 am at the town square “Ivana Brlić Mažuranić” in Slavonski Brod, civil organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA orchestrated multimedia performative trine “World image and performativity of glocal consciousness”, culturally aimed against xenophobia as destructor of conservative ego. Our project is a  multiplatform awareness raising programme with a heavy emphasis on performance art in urban surroundings.

The glocal (global and local) artists in simultaneous performances were: Slovenian Aljaz Razdevsek on saxophone (a graduate of the Music Academy in Zagreb and Conservatoire a rayonnment regional de Lyon), Aljaz Razdevsek on saxophoneFrenchman Regis Kattie on keyboards (a graduate of the Music Academy in Zagreb), and three graduates, contemporary dancers from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb – Nastja Stefanic, Eleonora Magdalena Vrdoljak and Cynthia Kucic. Online reviews of multimedia visions on performances can be seen at the social network http://glocal-art.ning.com by the following scientists: Prof. Ph.D. Lino Veljak from the Department of ontology of the Faculty of Regis Kattie on keyboardsPhilosophy in Zagreb, then Dr. Kruno Martinac from the Murdoch University, Australia, as well as Prof. PhD. Divna Vuksanovic from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade and MA Jugoslav Gojkovic, dr. Med. at the Department of Psychiatry, Slavonski Brod.

The author of performative artistic-scientific project is Ph.D. Vesna Srnic, research associate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, study in Slavonski Brod.

More about the project at the online platform http://glocal-art.ning.com/

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Video by Valentina Jackiv, student of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, study in Slavonski Brod

Our project is a  multiplatform awareness raising programme with a heavy emphasis on performance art in urban surroundings.

Through this project we hope to:

  1. Combat xenophobia (fear of strangers)
  2. Contribute to the decentralisation of culture and spread cultural events outside of major institutions via civil organisation.
  3. Increase the presence of performance arts in urban environments.

With the imminent entrance of Croatia in to the EU the need for a project that raises awareness of European values is greater than ever.The project puts a heavy emphasis on bringing european values to its’ future citizens on a more intimate and local level. More often than not it’s the localities that are neglected since most programmes deem it only necessary to target major cities.

The project will immidiately pull in by-standers and will peak their curiosity which will lead them to ask questions about the performances and in turn will be informed about the project and it’s theme. By catching just a glimpse of another culture they can draw their own conclusions as to the differences and similiarities they may share with other nations. It will promote open mindedness and a will to accept foreigners in to their society. Web logs, social networking and traditional forms of media will ensure that the program will not go unnoticed. With the all the performers, intelectuals, experts and the general public involved the project has huge potential to reach a massive audience.

A performance as dance is universal. Every culture has one. This project takes advantage of this and uses the fact to „hook“ by standers. From then they ask themselves the questions needed to come to the realisation that multiculturality and understanding is indeed the road that needs to be taken. This unique combination of performances in urban surroundings combined with online conferences, discussions and multimedia campaign (brochures, social networking) will ensure that the project will reach it’s full potential.

The members of ARTHEA are scientists, professors, artists, students and agile creative citizens. The association is registered as a competente civil organisation for the Cultural areas of Art, Media and Internet, thus it promotes Media culture and raises awareness on the Multicultural integration.

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Situationally performative multiplier

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10/06/2016

“World Image and performativeness of glocal consciousness”, Slavonski Brod, Croatia, 11 June, 2016 Innovative cultural shock against xenophobia as a destructor of conservative ego.

Situationally performative multiplier or Affective performativeness of authentic process

In this year’s expresfountain_square_slavonski-brodsive, energizing and multiplying affect of the moment, situationally performative events represent the urban trine: Slovenian musician Aljaz Razdevsek on saxophone (student of the Conservatoire a rayonnement regional de Lyon and of the Music Academy in Zagreb), playing classical (J.S.Bach, Partita), then contemporary Japanese (J.D. Michat, Kokoro) as well as dance music of Slovenian/Albanian composer Zeqirja Ballata (Kaba) on the southern part of the square in Slavonski Brod, then French pianist Regis Kattie (a student of the Music Academy in Zagreb ) with free jazz performance on the northern part of the square, and finaly three contemporary dancers from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb / department of contemporary dance – Nastja Stefanic, Eleonora Magdalena Vrdoljak and Cynthia Kucic, will perform freestyle choreography on the music of Steve Reich’s “City life”, at the central part of the Aljažsquare.

Through this kind of affective performativity of authentic process, we encourage “prelinguistic domain” of so-called “infralanguage ‘(Hansen, Bodies in code, 2006, p.4), which transforms transpersonal and collective individuation and socialization in maturation. This primal and original event supersedes the enRegis_Kattievironment as a mere information system and creates global and local synergy or “glocal-skin”, as the authentic event that occurs spontaneously, intertwined with quiet interspace and resonance of architecture, like “letting-be of appearing” of generic affect (Badiou, Being and Event, 1988, p. 125). This original multicultural existence by direct stream and primal meme, was created as the poetic and expressive spirit of continental philosophy, outside the usual linguistic constructivism and opposplesaciceed to the “(…) Anglo-American philosophy, which is supposedly rationalist, based on formal analysis of language and mathematized logic” (Badiou, the author’s preface).

With the immersion in the poetic event on an expected sunny midday at the Square on June 11, we will strive to round off the height of the sphere.

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Online reviews on multimedial visions of performances will be written at the social network glocal-art by the scientists: PhD Lino Veljak (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Zagreb), PhD Biserka Cvjeticanin (Institute for Development and International Relations IRMO, Zagreb), PhD Divna Vuksanovic (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade), PhD Kruno Martinac (Murdoch University, Australia) and MA Jugoslav Gojkovic (Psychiatric Hospital, Slavonski Brod).

Author of the glocal performative project: PhD Vesna Srnic, research associate

(“Culture, media and education”-ARTHEA’s project is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture, the Town Slavonski Brod and Slavonski Brod Tourist Board).

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Photo of the Slavonski Brod Square by Zeljko Klindzic, courtesy of the author

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Glocal Multimedia Culture: World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness

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10/05/2015

Interacting “global” and “local” in the “glocal” is our way of softening the boundaries by encountering “foreign” and “domestic” as a form of struggle against xenophobia or fear of strangers. On 9th May we presented two simultaneous dancing and meditative performances: passionate Irish dancer Paul O’Grady performed traditional Irish dances, while Chinese meditative dance Tai–Chi was performed by Chinese professor Wang Qian, a lecturer at the Confucius Institute and the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. PUBLICATION_on Glocal Art

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Glocal Performance: “World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness”

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12/04/2015

Fountain_Square_Slavonski Brod (Photo by Media-Via)Thanks to the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture, the European House, Tourist Board and the Department for EU integration, we continue for the third year with our performative project “World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness”. The link between “global” and “local” in the “Glocal” is our way of softening the borders of meeting “foreign” and “domestic” as a form of fighting xenophobia or fear of foreigners. We will present two simultaneous dancing and meditative performances: Irish dancer Paul O’Grady will perform traditional Irish dances, and Chinese Professor Wang Qian, lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb will introduce Chinese meditative dance Tai-Chi. Their performances are expected to turn into workshops of animating the students of “Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek”, study in Slavonski Brod, as well as other interested observers at the town square “Ivana Brlić Mažuranić”, on Saturday, May 9, at 12 am.

Scientists – participants: Dr. Kruno Martinac (Murdoch university, Melbourne), Ph.D Lino Veljak (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb), Assistant Professor MA. Vladimir Frelih and Art Assistant Domagoj Susac (Art Academy in Osijek, Osijek), Dr. Divna Vuksanovic (Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade), Dr. Dragan Calovic (Faculty for culture and media, Beograd), Ph.D Zdravko Palavra (ICT teacher, Daruvar), Dr. Jugoslav Gojkovic (J. Bencevic hospital, psychiatrist, Slavonski Brod) , and Ph.D Vesna Srnic (NO “Culture, media and education” – ARTHEA president, the author of the project). http://glocal-art.ning.com

Elaborating in an abstract and impersonal way, we start from the position that the performativity of the “World Image and Performativiness of Glocal Consciousness” is reflexive and critical, meditative art event, which is not preferring “Image” in itself, nor is rejecting it, at least not the way W.J.T. Mitchell talks in his book “What Do Pictures Want?” (93-96 pages).

In fact, Mitchell believes that the Images “live” because, apparently, we bring life to them or we iconoclasticly destroy that life in pictures … But we stand on the point of view that due to the reflection of a performative artwork there are no primitive fantasies (the types of “idol, fetish, totem”) that would include or exclude the Image, but contrary there is the anthropological establishing of ontological phenomenon of “to be here and now” (Dasain, Heidegger), which results in an artistic transpersonal existential actualization.

Mitchell states that the especially “totem” is collective representation, and totemic rituals are “the crazy guilt of social differentations” (page 99), which is an anthropological position between “natural” and “cultural” (page 101). Supported by the inscription of Durkheim’s allegations Mitchell believes that the “Image of the totem is happier than totem itself” (page 101), and so that totemism is an example of birth of Images (procreation), where the Image is “God” …

We believe that by the performativity of artistic event we can avoid birth or death of the “Image” as a fantasy monster, as a political coloration, and as far as Mitchell is fascinated by the monumentality of Images, by the gigantism of technology or as he says by the “dinosaur” – the totem, the animal of modernity, we see the “Image” or its Absence as contemplation in the space and time.

According to his obviously “necessary” fantasy thinking, Mitchell asks: “Do we create images or do they create us?” (page 105) In that sense this inevitability is supported by the explanation of totemism: “Totemism allows the image to assume a social, conversational, and dialectical relationship with the beholder, the way a doll or a stuffed animal does with children.” (page 106) Consequently, it is an example where Mitchell himself immaturely shows this dangerous infantilism in his theses!

The project “World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness” set the “World Image” in the spatial – temporal depletion zone with “No Images”, without infantile fantasies and desires, while keeping only the normal “middle existential path” (Media-Via).

Ph.D. Vesna Srnic

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E-book “Glocal Multimedia Art” by Ph.D Vesna Srnic

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26/11/2014

Glocal_ebookIt is a great pleasure to inform you that the Zagreb’s prestigious publishing house “Jesenski and Turk” has just released the copyright collection of scientific papers “Glocal Multimedia Art“, written by Ph.D Vesna Srnic, Media-Via president. It is in the format of e–book, in English, since the majority of works were published in the American/Australian magazines.

The book was presented in Rovinj on 27th November, 2014 at the conference “Glocal” (Archives, libraries, museums akm), in collaboration with Ph. D. Mirna Willer (picture on the right, dr. Willer presenting e-book).predstavljanje_eknjiga_dr_Willer_Rovinj

A link to a free download e–book is:

 

http://www.jesenski-turk.hr/?active=knjiga&book=107634&lang=en

The reviewers of the book are Ph. D. Lino Veljak, a Professor at the Department of ontology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, and Ph. D. Biserka Cvjeticanin, a senior scientist at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, as well as a head of global networks for research and cooperation in cultural development Culturelink and member of the Scientific Council of UNESCO for Europe (2012th-2016th).

From the review:

Establishing a nGlocal_Multimedia_Art_contentsew virtual reality mediated by the multimedia technology undoubtedly deserves the highest level of attention to critical scholarship, and as part of the disclosure of this new reality of eternal question about the meaning and significance of artistic creation, takes on a new dimension, which imperatively requires a systematic critical approach. The author’s intention is aimed at contributing such an approach. (Ph. D. Lino Veljak)

 

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One on One Cycle – Art Gallery in Split

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01/11/2014

A very agile director of the Art Gallery in Split, Branko Franceschi continues in progressive style: Gallery presents two contemplative artists – Damir Babic and Mirjana Vodopija. To paraphrase  curators Stipsic-Vukovic and Krpasic, Nature and Cosmos serve the artists only as an inspiration to record the other, thought and spiritual states, thinking about the core values and the meaning of human existence, which are often triggered by intense experiences of nature, as an “ecology of the spirit” and “cosmic symbolism”. (29.09. – 25.10.2015.)

damir_babic_It_is_all_one_breath_2013Croatian artist Damir Babic was born in 1962 in Zagreb. He graduated in his hometown on the Academy of Fine Arts in 1991, in the class of professor Đuro Seder. He lives and works in Rijeka.
Damir Babic exhibits his opus/cycle “Where silence begins?” (2010-2015). After the forest landscapes from the cycle “Who expelled the silence? Hearts vein” he painted three separated forest landscapes (“Are decisions really taken within the mind”, “Everything is the way it has to be”and “What happens in the space of possible reversal?”), while the third cycle relates to the whole landscape of the sea. Nature serves to Babic only as an inspiration to record the other, thought and spiritual states, thinking about the core values and the meaning of human existence, which are often triggered by intense experiences of nature.
Damir Babic falls into the small but special class of artists who deal with “ecology of the spirit”, in that group of artists who are not offered consolation placebo to decrease the feeling of having no perspective of existence, but their creation embodies the hope of a happier existence. In his “search for the miraculous” (Uspenski), he offers us a meditative polygons, leaving a strong impression of pulsating energy and the knowledge that at the present time, when a person is preoccupied with material values, there is a spiritual sphere.

(Marija Stipisic Vukovic, from the text in the exhibition catalog)
Curator: Marija Vukovic Stipisic
(Translated by Media-Via)Mirjana_Vodopija_Žardinjera_2015

Mirjana Vodopija was born in Zagreb in 1963. She graduated in 1987 at the graphic department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Miroslav Sutej. Since 2007 she has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, currently as associate professor, where since 2012 she has served as vice dean for education and students. He lives and works in Zagreb.

In determining the aesthetic starting points of creativity Mirjana Vodopija often emphasizes the focus of the works on research design and the possibility of autonomous artistic medium. This concept of art includes the exploration and questioning of art, movement within its immanent possibilities, without reference to the socio-political context or even the sphere of everyday life. But the author is deeply involved in existential themes, as she refers precisely to what makes us human – it is the sphere of questioning the possibility of seeing, feeling, imagination, thinking. Is that not the true area of human existence, the art of comfort and hope, the expanded vision? In her works Mirjana Vodopija finds cosmic symbolism, universal themes that connect us and unite, encourages contemplation.
Awakening the elementary level of reality and our consciousness, looking at the perception and experience to their sources, the feeling of being, presence of lighting – these are the quiet basics of Mirjana Vodopija, she always returns to in her art. Great photo prints, video projections and environments provide a rich and complex visual experience, encouraging the active involvement of the viewer rather than passive viewing, invoking powerful emotional and spiritual experience. Thus the permanent artistic task is realised – make things visible, touch the aura of the contemporary.

(Kornelia Krpacic, the text in the exhibition catalog)
Curator: Kornelia Krpacic
(Translation by Media-Via)

 

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“The Dream Archive” at 55th Venice Biennale

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01/06/2014

katamijatovic_canalgrandeThe Croatian multimedia artist Kata Mijatovic is going to exhibit her work at the 55th Venice Biennale, which will be held from 1st June to 24th November on the topic ‘Il Palazzo Enciclopedico’ given by the Biennale art director Massimiliano Gioni. Mijatovic’s crew has filmed the video in Canal Grande where she has been sleeping in a gondola…

“The Dream Archive is a domain where visitors can place/archive their dreams.  The Archive will in due course include and connect interactive forms that will open communication towards the research of the phenomenon of dreams in art, psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The inclusion of a large number of participants will create a global ‘pool’ of dreams; open a space to explore what it is that people dream about today, and ask questions to which we still don’t have the answers – why do people dream, and what is the function of the unconscious in the construction of reality. In our times, the world is functioning increasingly as a multiplied, pre-agreed construction of the conscious ‘self’. This dominant model of constructing the reality is a ready-made blueprint that we are born into. ‘Images’ of the world, which the conscious self emits today with increasing speed, most often serve purely to maintain or add to the existing constructions. These constructions however do not include the knowledge of the unknown, nor its help in the personal discovery of the mystery of existence on a universal level, and at the same time this ‘internal’ space defines us more than we are ready to acknowledge.”

The curator, famous expert for Avant garde Art, prof. Branko Franceschi, chose her work „Archiving the dreams“ as a sort of „mapping the hidden, unattended unconscious dimensions of Reality“. The Author’s long term project is based on collecting, writing and using the other people’s Dreams. You can ask yourself about the meaning of subconsciousness in constructing the Reality, as well as add your dreams in writing at “Arhiv snova” (Dream Archive).
(Photography of Kata Mijatovic’s performance at the filming of “Unconscious: Canal Grande” video at the dawn of May, 22nd under the Rialto bridge. (Courtesy of Curator)

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Between Heaven and Earth

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15/05/2014

Performance: Sleeping between Heaven and Earth (Mijatovic, 2010). Image courtesy of CuratorThe Croatian multimedia artist Kata Mijatovic is going to exhibit her work at the 55th Venice Biennale, which will be held from 1st June to 24th November on the topic ‘Il Palazzo Enciclopedico’ given by the Biennale art director Massimiliano Gioni. The work can be seen/created at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka at 20th February.

The curator, famous expert for Avant garde Art, prof. Branko Franceschi, chose her work „Archiving the dreams“ as a sort of „mapping the hidden, unattended unconscious dimensions of Reality“. The Author’s long term project is based on collecting, writing and using the other people’s Dreams.

You can ask yourself about the meaning of subconsciousness in constructing the Reality, as well as add your dreams in writing at Facebook profile “Arhiv snova” (Dream Archive).

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WORLD IMAGE AND PERFORMATIVENESS OF GLOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS

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12/05/2014

A roundatable The NGO “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA successfully implemented multicultural project, created by president dr. Vesna Srnic, named “WORLD IMAGE AND PERFORMATIVENESS OF GLOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS”. The project was finalised on 10th May, at 12 am at the town square in the form of performance (dance of the Indian girl Gayatri) and as an international roundtable / symposium in the conference hall of Hotel Art in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. Croatian “Ministry of culture”  informs on our project on their web page Culturenet.hr.
Our project exRoundtableamines orchestration of the World Image through global and local considerations, therefore, the glocal-art strives to eliminate the negative effects of globalization on the vitality on the one hand and localizations of nationalisms on the other . The purpose of the global and local ( glocal ) reflection on the multicultural project is easing the fear from/of foreigners or xenophobia, and was prepared in the framework of the EU week in Brod-Posavina County. More about the project can be found on the NGOs online platform, social network http://glocal-art.ning.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8VuahDEUYIndian dancer Gayatri at the Town square

The project implementation participants :
Prof. doc. Vladimir Frelich from the Academy of Arts, Osijek and graduate Lucija Jakovina, Ph.D. Vesna Srnic, external collaborator of The Faculty of Teachers’ education in Osijek, dislocated study in Slavonski Brod with students Tanja Djuric and Iva Bagaric, Doctors of science of Association NGO “New peas”, Belgrade, Serbia: Dr. Vlatko Ilić and Dr. Aleksandra Brakus, MA. Jugoslav Gojkovic, Dr. med. psychiatrist,
Ph.D. Zdravko Palavra, Information and communication sciences, Embassy of the Republic of India, Zagreb and professional dancer Gayatri Maric, as well as Europe House Slavonski Brod and head of the EU direct Prof. Bozica Sedlic.

Colleagues who did not attend, have been included in the discussion and exchange of information across our virtual online platform, social network http://glocal–art.ning.com: distinguished anthropologists Ph.D. Vanja Bors from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Dr. Semir Osmanagic with dual addresses in Houston and Sarajevo, visual communications theorist Dr. Kruno Martinac from Melbourne, MA. doc. Vladimir Frelih from the Art Academy in Osijek , as well as Professors Dr. DivnaVuksanovic and Dr. Dragan Calovic media aestheticians, mediologists and co-organisators of an international symposium Philosophy of media.
The project is being implemented in collaboration with the European House in Slavonski Brod , under the auspices of the Town Slavonski Brod, Brod- Posavina County and the Administrative Department of Development and European Integration.

(Croatian “Ministry of culture”  informs on our project on their web page Culturenet.hr.)

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“Mind and body as partners in health” at MIT

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10/04/2014

ikonica_Event_MV“Quantified Self to Essential Self: mind and body as partners in health” is a talk with Linda Stone at MIT on April 10th, but seems as a weak idea of computer and human multitasking in multimedia art.

Stone claims that “Quantified Self to Essential Self  is a key movement to bring us into a more harmonious relationship with our bodymind and with technology. The Quantified Self movement celebrates “self-knowledge through numbers.” In our current love affair with QS, we tend to focus on data and the mind. Technology helps manage and mediate that relationship. The body is in there somewhere, too, as a sort of “slave” to the mind and the technology.”

She elaborates “However, in our relationship with technology, we easily fall out of touch with our bodies. We know how many screen hours we’ve logged, but we are less likely to be able to answer the question: “How do you feel?””

Stone had asked questions, and tried to answer: “So, what is Essential Self and what technologies might we develop? The Essential Self is that pure sense of presence — the “I am.” The Essential Self is about our connection with our essential nature. The physical body, our senses and feelings are often responsive to our behaviors, to others, and to activities in ways to which we fail to attend. What if we cultivated our capacity to tune in in the same way animals tune in? What if we had a set of supportive technologies that could help us tune in to our Essential Self? Passive, ambient, non-invasive technologies are emerging as tools to help support our Essential Self. Some of these technologies work with light, music, or vibration to support “flow-like” states.”

Stone tried to conclude: “While quantified self technologies offer value by contributing to awareness (of steps, pulse ox, HRV, etc.), Essential Self Technologies support us in tapping into the wisdom of the body. Quantified Self is to Essential Self as syntax is to semantics”

But this weak idea of computer and human multitasking in multimedia art is just Stone’s question without answers…Media Via’s editor Dr Srnic gives the answer in her scientific paper: PHD SRNIC: MULTITASKING ACTUALISATION IN MULTIMEDIA ART

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Technology vs. anti-technology at MIT

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01/03/2014

“How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time” is a Media Lab conversation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jaron Lanier will talk with Ken Perlin, Hiroshi Ishii, and Pattie Maes on Wednesday, March 05, 2014. 

Media_LabLanier elaborates: “There’s a new upwelling of anti-technology feeling that needs to be countered by sympathetic technologists. We’ve brought it on ourselves. If we go around bragging that we’ll live forever, and that people shouldn’t worry about little issues like jobs because the singularity is about to happen, we should expect ridicule.”

As MIT informs “Jaron Lanier worked for Marvin Minsky at Atari research on Kendall Square at the start of the 1980s. He either coined or popularized the term “Virtual Reality” and in the early 1980s founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. He led the team that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head mounted displays, for both local and wide area networks, as well as the first “avatars,” or representations of users within such systems.”

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