Seminars

Symposium CATCHER IN THE EYE. On inconvenient creative practices, devices and strategies of sousveillance

October 8th, Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest, 8 Gina Patrichi (Orlando)

Schedule:

9:30 – 10:00 – Arrival of participants

Moderator: Ion Bogdan Lefter, literary critic, essay writer, cultural and political analyst, professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, editor-in-chief “aLtitudini” magazine

10:00 – 10:30 – Mica Gherghescu, art critic and art historian, young researcher, CRAL, EHESS, Paris, “Plug – in Theory

10:30 – 10:45 – discussion

10:45 – 11:15 – Jason Waite, art critic and freelance curator, founder of nomadic exhibition International Guerrilla Video Festival, “Reflecting on the Mobile Gaze

11:15 – 11:30 – discussion

11:30 – 11:45 – Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15 – Adrian Guţă, art historian and art critic, Ph.D. lecturer, Faculty of Art History and Theory, National University of Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu”, Bucharest, “«The Interior Landscape » as an intimate sousveillance in contemporary art”

12:15 – 12:30 – discussion

12:30 – 13:00 – Iara Boubnova, curator and art critic, President of AICA Bulgaria, director of Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, undisclosed title

13:00 – 13:15 – discussion

13:15 – 14:30 – Lunch break

14:30 – 15:00 – Marta Smolińska – Byczuk, art historian and art critic, Assistant Professor Faculty of History of Art and Culture, “Nicholaus Copernic” University, Toruń, editor-in-chief “Artluk” Magazine, “The Subversive Panopticon of the Control Diminishing Forms. Selection of examples from the Polish contemporary cultural scene, within the context of sousveillance”

15:00 – 15:15 – discussion

15:15 – 15:45 – le peuple qui manque (Kantuta Quiros & Aliocha Imhoff), art critics and curators, founders and artistic directors of “le peuple qui manque” platform, associated curators, Film Department, Centre Pompidou, Paris, “Pour une archéologie des regards”

15:45 – 16:30 – discussion and final round table