This lecture is not for whatever beings, it is dedicated specifically to rogue art practitioners from an almost abandoned art world, seeking to forge a new collective identity at the intersection of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific axes. It emerges from the urgent need to foster self-awareness in an era marked by the lack of visibility and potential erasure of certain geographical identities. By examining the political turmoil surrounding humanism, post-humanism, and the current lack of self-awareness in AI, we will explore pathways to move beyond the crisis of identification. Our goal is to identify critical opportunities for growth in new forms of art, relationships, and institutions. We will explore how resubjectification can occur and how order can be reestablished in the aftermath of neoliberal and digital shifts. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how identities can be mobilized to foster innovative and specific artistic and curatorial practices.
Maja Ćirić, PhD, is an independent yet inseparable curator (also known as a non-aligned diplomat) and art critic (a rogue correspondent). Her primary field of interest, the geopolitics of the curatorial, has shifted to the multipolar geopolitics of planetary computation following the digital turn in 2020.
Maja served as the curator of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and as the commissioner in 2013. She also curated the BJCEM Mediterranea Young Artist Biennale in Tirana, Albania, in 2017 and the 20th Pančevo Art Biennale in Pančevo, Serbia, in 2022.
She has written for publications such as FlashArt, Obieg, Artforum, Artmargins Online, Arts of the Working Class, springerin, Third Text, and Passe-Avant, among others.
Maja has received several awards, including the ISCP Curator Award, the Dedalus Foundation Curatorial Research Award, the Lazar Trifunović Award, the ArtsLink Independent Projects Award, and the Visual Artists Ireland Curatorial Research Award.
Her speaking engagements include appearances at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2006); MAC VAL (2017); Centre Pompidou (2018); MNAC Bucharest (2018); the AICA Serbia Conference (2021); the Zlin Digital Exhibition Design Conference (2021); the Interact Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2021); the IKT Conference (2021); the AICA Macedonia and Croatia Conference (2022); the 5G and The Metaverse Conference at Patras Science Park, Greece (2023); the AICA Croatia Conference (2024); and the RAD Romanian Art Dealers Fair (2024), among others.
Maja has been a guest lecturer at the Fine Arts Academy of China in Hangzhou; the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia; the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia; Independent Curators International in New York; European University Cyprus; and many official and unofficial curatorial and art-related workshops and mentorship programs.
This lecture is not for whatever beings, it is dedicated specifically to rogue art practitioners from an almost abandoned art world, seeking to forge a new collective identity at the intersection of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific axes. It emerges from the urgent need to foster self-awareness in an era marked by the lack of visibility and potential erasure of certain geographical identities. By examining the political turmoil surrounding humanism, post-humanism, and the current lack of self-awareness in AI, we will explore pathways to move beyond the crisis of identification. Our goal is to identify critical opportunities for growth in new forms of art, relationships, and institutions. We will explore how resubjectification can occur and how order can be reestablished in the aftermath of neoliberal and digital shifts. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how identities can be mobilized to foster innovative and specific artistic and curatorial practices.
Maja Ćirić, PhD, is an independent yet inseparable curator (also known as a non-aligned diplomat) and art critic (a rogue correspondent). Her primary field of interest, the geopolitics of the curatorial, has shifted to the multipolar geopolitics of planetary computation following the digital turn in 2020.
Maja served as the curator of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and as the commissioner in 2013. She also curated the BJCEM Mediterranea Young Artist Biennale in Tirana, Albania, in 2017 and the 20th Pančevo Art Biennale in Pančevo, Serbia, in 2022.
She has written for publications such as FlashArt, Obieg, Artforum, Artmargins Online, Arts of the Working Class, springerin, Third Text, and Passe-Avant, among others.
Maja has received several awards, including the ISCP Curator Award, the Dedalus Foundation Curatorial Research Award, the Lazar Trifunović Award, the ArtsLink Independent Projects Award, and the Visual Artists Ireland Curatorial Research Award.
Her speaking engagements include appearances at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2006); MAC VAL (2017); Centre Pompidou (2018); MNAC Bucharest (2018); the AICA Serbia Conference (2021); the Zlin Digital Exhibition Design Conference (2021); the Interact Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2021); the IKT Conference (2021); the AICA Macedonia and Croatia Conference (2022); the 5G and The Metaverse Conference at Patras Science Park, Greece (2023); the AICA Croatia Conference (2024); and the RAD Romanian Art Dealers Fair (2024), among others.
Maja has been a guest lecturer at the Fine Arts Academy of China in Hangzhou; the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia; the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia; Independent Curators International in New York; European University Cyprus; and many official and unofficial curatorial and art-related workshops and mentorship programs.
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