Throughout the years, finnish artist and futurologist Erkki Kurenniemi, a pioneer of Media Art in the 1960s, documented his daily activities obsessively and collected, compiled and archived vast amounts of audio-visual and textual material to create a digital backup of his life and existence. He believed that on July 10, 2048 - his one hundred and seventh birthday - a machine would bring him back to life, when a computer is able to replicate his consciousness artificially.
In this seminar we will create our own archive inspired by Erkki Kurenniemi. Through the intersection of performative practices and archival strategies, we will explore ways of representing embodied experiences. In an era where we are constantly surrounded by tracking systems —and algorithms that continually interpret such vast stores of information to generate images, objects and artificial bodies— the performative movements of the human body are in constant tension.
This seminar will encourage poetic, satirical and demystifying methods of thinking critically about technology and data collection.
Goal: You will have an ”archive of your existence” at the end of the semester. For your note you will show in a pdf presentation what you collected and why.
How to apply:
Send your portfolio to isabellaleearturo@gmail.com |
