New Interfaces 03/ Damas Gruska: Art and Networks

MEDIUM Gallery, Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18, Bratislava

In his lecture Art and Networks, Damas Gruska will address several aspects of informatics and information technologies that influence contemporary visual art or can find application in it. Loosely inspired by ongoing exhibition projects at the Medium Gallery, he will focus on two types of networks studied and used in contemporary computer science: social and neural.

Damas Gruska lectures at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he mainly focuses on non-standard logic and formal methods. In addition, there he and his students are engaged in social network analysis, the use of computer methods for the detection of works of art. In his spare time, he devotes himself to the critical reflection of artistic events, cultural issues in general and the relationship between technology and art.

New Interfaces 03 is a series of five lectures led by the experts from various fields of contemporary art discourse or specialists on themes that resonate with artists working in the post-media environment. The series, under the dramaturgy of Miroslava Urbanova, gallery manager of the Medium Gallery, focuses primarily on themes touching on our conditions of cognition in the interfaces of constantly updating technologies and in contrast to the desire for an authentic, visceral experience of the elusive here and now. These themes appear in art with increasing urgency, both in the overflow of performative works or works thematizing these new interfaces.

Supported by public funds from the Slovak Arts Council.