Para-Real: The Future is Present - Researchlab Sandberg Institute
The Research Labs in EYE on Art on 28 February and 16 May provide scope for a new generation of curators and artists to hone their skills. In these Research Labs, students from ten art academies and universities put together a programme involving their own work and films (including remixes) from EYE’s collection. The Research Labs do not follow a strict format and often result in a cultural crossover between film and other art forms. On 28 February and 16 May EYE will award a prize for the two best projects in collaboration with Heineken H41.
para-real: the future is present
The late 20th Century has seen the advent of machines that have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between the natural and artificial, body and mind, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines.
The boundaries of the real and the artificial have blended into a murky grey pool of indistiction. Where once speculative fiction seemed like a fantastical space beyond the reach of reality, today we see the unvailing of a mere optical illusion.
This year we would like to use speculative fiction as a tool to understand and reconstruct social processes and relationships in contemporary life. If sci-fi is a reflection of the things to come- how can we use this to find alternatives to the circumstances of the present?
(Sandberg Institute)
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