Curators: Irena Borić and Vesna Bukovec
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, KIBLA, 2021
Duration: 4 online screenings with talks
Premiere: online screenings (April–May 2021)

The International Festival of Arts, Technology and Science Kiblix 2020-2021 hosts the DIVA Station archive with a series of events in April and May. The theme of the festival Virtual Worlds Now is focused on the critical evaluation of the intersections and disconnections between the virtual and the physical, and the research and critique of modern technological media and their use in contemporary art, culture and education, which is especially interesting at a time of epidemic constraints, when for many people digital and virtual have become the dominant environment for work, communication, education and entertainment.

In a series of four events under the common title From the Archives of the DIVA Station, we are preparing a series of online video projections on the computer and online art, perception of physicality in a virtual environment, and transmitted feelings. The purpose of online projections is to get acquainted with works from the digital archive, get to know individual authors, and create a space for joint reflection, discussion, and knowledge exchange. Each event will be based on a selection of (including older) works from the archives of the DIVA Station and a conversation with the authors. Deriving from the events’ online context, the focus will be on works that can start a discussion on the new reality of art perception through the digital experience. The conversations will be moderated by Irena Borić and Vesna Bukovec.

From the Archives of the DIVA Station: Digital Surfaces

Curator: Irena Borić
1 April 2021

We will be presented with a computer video animation by Marko Peljhan, conceived as a theatrical play without actors in cyberspace. The video animation was prepared, modeled and rendered using a program written explicitly with the real-time SGI Crimson animation tool. We will also see several short works by Alenka Pirman, which are not videos, but the endless repetition of the PowerPoint presentation, which has been established in the academic and commercial world to present knowledge. The projection will be followed by a conversation between the selector Irena Borić, the artists, and DIVA Station associate Vesna Bukovec.

Marko Peljhan, LADOMIR-ФАКТУРА: FIRST SURFACE–MIKROLAB V1.0, 23′ 10”
Projekt Atol, A Team of Three Production, Aster, 1994
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Alenka Pirman, Aleš Kermavner: KAJ JE (V-SEBI-NA = V), ok. 1966–2006, 2′ 22”
Društvo za domače raziskave & SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Alenka Pirman, Ivan Volarič-Feo: Peščena ura, 1969–2006, 2′ 2”
Društvo za domače raziskave & SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Alenka Pirman, Matjaž Hanžek: Nebotičnik, 1967–2006, 2′ 46”
Društvo za domače raziskave & SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Guests: Alenka Pirman and Marko Peljhan

From the Archives of the DIVA Station: Digital Performances

Curator: Irena Borić
15 April 2021

We will watch the video of the tandem son:DA and Erinç Seymen, which is documentation of a performance, held simultaneously in Maribor and Istanbul. Andrea Knezović explores the relationship between the notion of anxiety, helplessness and the ability to perform, act and autonomously express, while Sašo Sedlaček, in his video, problematizes the mass destruction of used technological equipment and its disposal. The screening will be followed by a talk between the selector Irena Borić, the artists and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.

son:DA, Erinç Seymen, Performance for a Poem 2. Maribor, 8′ 48”
21st Century, 2006
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Andrea Knezović, Ode To Helplessness. The Inability To Breathe In 1.0, 1′ 2”
A.K., 2016
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Andrea Knezović, Ode To Helplessness. The Inability To Breathe In 2.0, 1′ 26”
A.K., 2016
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Sašo Sedlaček, Veliki izklop/The Big Switch Off, 1′ 48”
Aksioma, 2011
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Guests: Miha Horvat, Toni Soprano Meneglejte, Andrea Knezović, Sašo Sedlaček

From the Archives of the DIVA Station: Online and Common

Curator: Irena Borić
29 April 2021

We will watch a film by Anja Medved and Patricija Maličev, in which they discuss the puzzles of humanity with creators, scientists and philosophers. The debate is on environmental issues from philosophical perspectives. Are we at odds with nature due to rapid technological developments? The screening will be followed by a conversation between the selector Irena Borić, the artist Anja Medved and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.

Anja Medved, Patricija Maličev, The Gathering – The Secret Side of Things We Share, 65′
Kinoatelje, Zavod Kinoatelje, Zavod Kinokašča, 2013
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Guest: Anja Medved

From the Archives of the DIVA Station: Body and Identity

Curator: Vesna Bukovec
20 May 2021

The selection of works from the archive was prepared by Vesna Bukovec and takes us on a walk from a micro view of body particles that are visible only by using the digital technology (Bodyfraction), through the possibility of experiencing dispersed identity in VR space (Liminoid), online identity and violence (Cyberstalking), face-covering (Self-portrait) – today we can also think of it as protecting personal identity – to the loss of identity in a macro view of a group of people (Tense Present: Šum fotonov/ Photon Noise), who are no longer perceived as individuals with their own story, but as pixels, decomposing in a media-shared image. The intertwining of the development possibilities for humans and society that technology offers us as opposed to various types of abuse. The screening will be followed by a talk between the selector Irena Borić, the artists and curator and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.

Uršula Berlot, Sunčana Kuljiš, Bodyfraction, 7′ 4”
U.B. & S.K., 2020
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Saša Spačal, Liminoid, 8′ 8”
S.S. & +MSUM, 2016
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Sara Bezovšek, Cyberstalking, 5′ 27”
Aksioma, 2019
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Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Self-portrait, 1′ 54”
A.S.G., 2001
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Jasna Hribernik, Tense Present: Photon Noise, 1′ 18”
White Balance, 2015
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Guests: Uršula Berlot, Sara Bezovšek, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Jasna Hribernik, Saša Spačal