World on a Wire Dialogues. Discussion 2. Mikhail Maksimov and Tabor Robak

World on a Wire Dialogues is a joint project by the online platform Rhizome (New York) and Garage Digital, featuring conversations with artists about the implications of simulation practices in digital art.

Digital culture, which has become a primary means of exchange of knowledge and images, also offers new algorithmic models of socialization, economies, and labor distribution systems. In turn, artists employ various digital tools both to reassemble existing models, to create alternatives to them, and to integrate an enormous amount of new experiences and types of information into the everyday by speculating on the potential of new worlds.

World on a Wire Dialogues is a series of exchanges between artists curated by Garage Digital and artists curated by New York-based online platform Rhizome, developing themes connected with simulations, speculations, and the creation of new worlds. The artists are drawn from the hybrid exhibition World on a Wire initiated by Rhizome in partnership with Hyundai Motor, and coming to Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow this fall; the exhibition Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene at Garage; and the Garage Digital program.

Participants will discuss different ways of working with digital objects and systems, while also touching upon the challenges that modern technologies pose to longstanding philosophical questions about nature, aesthetics, reality, and spirituality.

Rhizome is an online platform founded by artist and curator Mark Tribe in 1996 that plays a key role in supporting and creating digital and internet art today. Since 2003, Rhizome has been affiliate in residence of the New Museum (New York).

SCHEDULE

Discussion 1. Sara Culmann (Russia) and Theo Triantafyllidis (USA)
Monday, July 26
19:00–20:30

Artists Sara Culmann (Russia) and Theo Triantafyllidis (USA) will discuss new forms of storytelling in digital media, and their structural connection with the technological narratives shaping contemporary society.

Discussion 2. Mikhail Maksimov (Russia) and Tabor Robak (USA)
Wednesday, July 28
19:00–20:30

Artists Mikhail Maksimov (Russia) and Tabor Robak (USA) will discuss their approaches to working with digital objects and environments, touching on principles of complexity and emergence in simulated realities.
Discussion 3. Timur Si-Qin (USA), Alena Shapovalova (Russia), and Alisa Smorodina (Russia)
Wednesday, August 4
19:00–20:30

Artists Timur Si-Qin (Germany), Alena Shapovalova (Russia), and Alisa Smorodina (Russia) will discuss new connections between humans and “the natural” as a source of possible spiritual reconfiguration in the context of the post-Anthropocene.

The discussions will be moderated by Nikita Nechaev (Garage Digital) and Michael Connor (Rhizome). They will take place online and will be broadcast in Russian and English on the Garage YouTube channel.

A final event in the series will take place this fall alongside the exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow.

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