IAM. Episode I. Laboratory

Date

Place

Garage LAB

DESCRIPTION

In the first part of IAM, the Lab will be the venue for a series of exhibitionary and educational experiments. The space will be divided into several “laboratory compartments,” each of which will present a local research project.

Fab Lab Moscow is the local representative of an international network involved with 3D printing, scanning, and modeling. In Fab Lab’s fully-equipped workshop, visitors will be able to experiment with the production of objects using 3D printing. In addition, Garage has announced an open call for artists wishing to use this technology for modeling and production of prototypes for sculptural objects. Selected artists will work alongside Fab Lab instructors.

Garage x Helena Nikonole is a partner project between Garage and Russian media artist Helena Nikonole that presents the Museum as a place where art is produced on-site, eliminating the physical and symbolic distance between the artist’s studio and the exhibition space. Over the course of four weeks, Helena Nikonole, for whom neural networks are an important tool, will focus her attention on sound. Using an iMac Pro, Apple’s most powerful computer, she will work with a neural network to produce fundamentally new signals from a variety of sounds (from noise to electronic acoustics, from classical music to animal noises and birdsong). This investigation will form part of the artist’s long-term project which studies different approaches to the analysis and generation of sound using neural networks. She will also work on a visual embodiment of her research and attempt to find correspondences between the two channels of information.

Screening/Let’s Play is a zone bringing together videos and films that have obvious structural defects: plotless films with deformed visuals; footage passed through a special code which acts like a filter created by a neural network; a film with a deliberately complex, convoluted narrative that never becomes linear. A series of evening sessions, Let’s Play, will examine a phenomenon in the world of computer games where people (designers, artists, fans) create games consisting entirely of bugs, system errors, and faults. The computer game has been a bastion of linear logic, with clearly defined tasks and distinct oppositions, but in a fluid and unstable world, objectives increasingly become a collection of strange, muddled movements, pointless tasks, and unintelligible choices. Sessions will be commented on by a range of specialists, including streamers, visual anthropologists, and art historians.

Schedule

Screening: Ouvroir The Movie by Chris Marker and Onward Lossless Follows by Michael Robinson

A joint show of two works by video artists Chris Marker and Michael Robinson, which will be presented in a short lecture by Yevgeny Gusyatinsky, curator of the Garage Screen program and selector of the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Date
Friday, June 15
Time
19:30
Place
Garage LAB

Screening of Dream Journal by Jon Rafman

A special screening of Dream Journal, a film by Canadian artist Jon Rafman, will be held in the Screening / Let’s play zone of the IAM exhibition. Rafman is widely known for his works exploring technologies, new media, and virtual reality and their influence on today’s minds and society.

Date
June 19, 22, 28, July 2
Time
20:00-21:00
Place
Garage LAB

Alexander Burenkov’s Lecture on the Film Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 by Zach Blas

A special screening of the new work by artist and filmmaker Zach Blas which will be presented with a lecture by curator Alexander Burenkov. He will talk about the main literature and philosophical premises of the film and will outline the range of problems the author raises in the oeuvre.

Date
Thursday, July 5
Time
19:00–20:00
Place
Garage Auditorium

Special screening of the Zach Blas film Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033

Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033, the new work by the artist, film maker, and writer Zach Blas is being shown as a special screening as part of the IAM project. In the mould of his other works, Blas's film offers viewers the opportunity take a critical view of the overall development of digital technologies.

Date
Thursday, July 5
Time
20:00
Place
Garage Auditorium

IAM. Screening

Date
June 8 — July 8
Time
11:00–22:00
Place
Garage LAB

Special screening of Cécile B. Evans films Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen and How Happy a Thing Can Be

Two works by the famous artist and filmmaker Cécile B. Evans are going to be shown in the context of IAM exhibition research of the presence and importance of virtuality in today’s life and mind.

Date
July 13 and 15
Time
19:30
Place
Garage Auditorium