Shift Talks

 

24.10.2008-26.10.2008

Festival Centre, free entry

Shift Talk 1

Poetics and Story in the Digital Age

Fri, 24.10.2008, 13.00 h
Could it be that the basic prerequisites of a dramatic narrative – as defined by Aristotle in ‘POETICS’ – are reflected also in the media of the Web 2.0 era? A talk with students and lecturers of CAST/Design Department of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and guest, Stefan M. Seydel of rebell.tv, chaired by Dr. Martin Zimper, Director of CAST. A partner event co-organised with CAST/Design Department of the ZHdK, which trains designers and storytellers for the mobile and digital media world. Its motto: ‘Short stories for the small screen’.

Shift Talk 2

Maia Gusberti / Nik Thönen

Fri, 24.10.2008, 15.00 h
A conversation with artists Maia Gusberti and Nik Thönen, whose work ‘Sunday-files’ can be seen in the exhibition.

Shift Talk 3

Laurent Schmid

Fri, 24.10.2008, 17.00 h
A conversation with artist Laurent Schmid, whose work ‘Memory Piece’ can be seen in the exhibition.

Shift Talk 4

Valentina Vuksic

Fri, 24.10.2008, 18.00 h
A conversation with artist Valentine Vuksic, whose work ‘Harddisko’ can be seen in the exhibition.

Shift Talk 5

Agnes Meyer-Brandis.
Performance-Lecture: Tools To  Search,  #2 - Vom Fehlen der Schwere

Fri, 24.10.2008, 19.00 h
The lecture dives into the depths of work with and on ‘ffUR’, a research raft represented by Agnes Meyer-Brandis and dedicated to exploring mysteries of the underworld. Explanations of the scientific premise of this artistic work often lead to elements and stories that seem incredible, yet are thoroughly real. Such in part apparently absurd yet undeniably existent aspects of our universe are confronted with the fully operative apparatuses and research endeavours of the poetically oriented ‘ffUR’.

Shift Talk 6

Michael S. Riedel

Fri, 24.10.2008, 20.30 h
A conversation with artist Michael S. Riedel, whose work ‘Filmed Film’ can be seen as an outdoor installtion.

Shift Talk 7

Alejo Duque

Fri, 24.10.2008, 21.30 h
A conversation – in English - with artist Alejo Duque, whose work ‘--re-routed
(as default)’ can be seen in the exhibition.

Shift Talk 8

Lucien Samaha

Sat, 25.10.2008, 15.00 h
A conversation – in English - with artist Lucien Samaha, whose work ‘a_synchronous
self-reflection in exif:precision:time’ can be seen in the exhibition.

Shift Talk 9

Aleksandra Domanović and Oliver Laric on the Art Blog www.vvork.com

Sat, 25.10.2008, 16.00 h
Aleksandra Domanović and Oliver Laric discuss – in English and German - their artistic activities and much admired blog, vvork.com

Shift Talk 10

Kristin Lucas. Performance-Lecture. ‘Versionship’: the Second First Birthday Is More Memorable Than the First First Birthday

Sat, 25.10.2008, 17.00 h
On 5th October 2007, when a Californian court permitted Kristin Sue Lucas to change her name to Kristin Sue Lucas, Kristin Sue Lucas became the most up-dated version of herself to date. Her reason for applying to do so was, as she wrote on the application form, to ‘refresh’ herself. In her lecture, Lucas will report on the strategies she employs in order to understand the implications, limitations and advantages of being the most up-todate possible version of oneself. To this end she also conversed with legal experts, philosophers, media theorists, cognition theorists, geneticists, twins, double agents, the re-born, the self-confessed reincarnates, and many more people besides.
In English
Supported by: Edith Russ Haus, Oldenbrug.

Shift Talk 11

Media Art between book-covers. Pro & contra.

Sat, 25.10.2008, 19.00 h
How important are books, DVDs and other publications to the dissemination of digital art and media? – Are they a positive enhancement, a necessary evil or a meaningless ritual? As Migros-Kulturprozent’s publication ‘Werkbeiträge
Digitale Kultur’ rolls hot off Merian Verlag’s press in Basle this week, SHIFT Talk will attempt to answer these questions.
Participants: Dominik Landwehr (Migros-Kulturprozent), Claus Donau (Merian Verlag), Lisette Wyss & Renato Grob (Künstlerduo Rozzobianca), Raffael Dörig (Shift und [plug.in]). Chaired by: Milos Mihailovic.

Shift Talk 12

Videokultur

Fri, 24.10.2008, 16.00 h
Sun, 26.10.2008, 13.00 h
The 5 Swiss VJ-crews who comprise VJ-label Videokultur will demonstrate their VJ techniques, styles and working methods in a direct battle and invite the audience to step up, look over their shoulder, and take the opportunity to interact and experience so-called VJ-games at first hand.
www.videokultur.ch

Shift Talk 13

Electronic Arts in China

 

Sun, 26.10.2008, 14.30 h
Artists and curators from China are taking part in the Shift festival at the invitation of the Swiss arts council, Pro Helvetia. At Shift Talk they will speak about the media arts scene in China, which is still relatively unknown in Europe.
Participants:
Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) new media artist, invited in co-operation with arthub.org.cn, Shanghai/Hong Kong; Zhang Ga, Consulting Curator of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China; Chaired by: Marianne Burki, Pro Helvetia
This panel is part of a comprehensive cultural programme, ‘China 2008–2010’ organised by the Swiss arts foundation, Pro Helvetia.