Speculum Artium Festival

Contact

Speculum Artium, festival novomedijske umetnosti

Trg svobode 11a, SI-1420 Trbovlje

http://www.dd-trbovlje.si/

info@dd-trbovlje.si

Phone386 (0) 3 563 3481

Organised byDelavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre

Frequencyannual

Festival dates15.10.2015 - 17.10.2015

Posters announcing the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, 2011.

The Speculum Artium Festival was established in 2008 as an annual new media art festival with different art academies participating. It supports inter-cultural dialogue and is an intermediary between art, technology, and society. Since 2010 it has been organised by Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre in the industrial town of Trbovlje.

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, the Academy Of Fine Arts Prague, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Art and Design in Linz have participated so far.

Background

The name Speculum Artium is related to the statement of Peter Weibel: "... there is a highly sophisticated relationship between art and politics which can be expressed as the speculum artium, or the mirror of art".

First held in the City Art Gallery Ljubljana the festival was permanently moved in 2009 to Delavski dom Trbovlje. It was organised by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Trbovlje, The New Media Setting and Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, the former being in charge of the organisation since 2010.

Programme

The festival is held in spring and includes the exhibition of students' artworks reflecting questions of contemporary society focused on audio and video installations and interactive projects. There are also invited guest artists. In 2009 Peter Weibel selected guest artists: Dorcas Müller, Herwig Steiner, and Brigitta Zics.

The festival has also a rich accompanying programme with performances, happenings, workshops and concerts. In 2009 there was a musical spectacle by Laibach. The extended parallel program in 2010 included video festivals Digital Big Screen and Genius Seaculi.

Speculum Artium 2010 by Ziga Zibert on Vimeo

Speculum Artium 2011

The Speculum Artium 2011 was curated by professors of participating academies: Herwig Steiner (Vienna), Srečo Dragan (Ljubljana), and Michaela Ortner (Linz). The participating artists were: Dan Scott, Michael Fisher, Juan Suanca, Lisa Hall, Aram Zarikian, Paolo Zappala, Jessica Pinney, Philip Cornett, Marc Bonet Folgosa, Christoph Schwarz, Julian Palacz, Thomas Frierss, Nik Skušek, Jure Fingušt, Dorian Španzel, Reinhard Gupfinger, Travis Kirton, Maša Jazbec, Group V.A.T., and Tiago Martins. The opening was accompanied by a performance of the group The Awkwardstra from London.

See also

• Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre

External links

• Speculum Artium web page
• Trbovlje Newmedia setting
• ArtNetLab website

Gallery

Besides screening regular films, the cinema hall of the Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre also hosts the Digitalbigscreen, a video art festival that is a part of the Speculum Artium Festival, 2011

Laibach at open air Speculum Artium Festival in front of Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009

Laibach at open air Speculum Artium Festival in front of Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009

The Algorithmic Search For Love audiovisual installation by artist Julian Palatz at the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, 2011

The Araneus Machinamentum exhibition by artist Thomas Frierrs at the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, 2011

DigitalBigScreen international video festival, an accompanying event to the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, 2011

Posters announcing the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, 2011.

The Apparatus Monolith project by Maša Jazbec, first presented at Speculum Artium Festival and later also featured at Ars Electronica in Linz, 2012

The younger visitors of the Speculum Artium Festival watching a project set up by the Jožef Stefan Institute, 2013

The Telenoid™, designed to appear and to behave as a 'minimalistic' human, was featured at the Speculum Artium Festival, as was its main inventor, dr. Hioshi Ishigura, 2013

Asimo by Honda, supposedly the world's most advanced humanoid robot, hosted by the Speculum Artium Festival, 2014

The DigitalBigScreen festival, organised as a part of the Speculum Artium Festival, allows for screenings of video art works on the big cinema screen, 2015

Invited by the Speculum Artium Festival, a group of Japanese artists studying Empowerment informatics at the University of Tsukuba meet with Borut Pahor, the president of Slovenia, 2015