Posted on by Louise Hisayasu
'O Oysters, come and walk with us!' To talk of many things: Of intelligent shoes — and Spaceship Earth — and encrypted sealing-wax — Of hybrid cabbages — and cyborg kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether soft robotic pigs have wings.'
 
The project is a practice-based research on on art, science, technology and archival practice from intersectional perspective. As a part of Politics of the Machine: Art and After conference, we would like to invite the conference participants to become a part of an intellectual adventure with us. Forget the big elephant in the room and let's talk about oysters and their shells over a nice cup of coffee during the breaks. Our talks will be recorded, archived, analyzed and published in line with an academic paper. Participants will also receive their copies as co-producers of our ‘research poem.’

Biography

Taguhi Torosyan is an art worker from Yerevan, Armenia. She previously curated Nest Artists Residency and Community Center program at ICA Yerevan and taught at the Department of Art History, Theory and Management at Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Taguhi has shown in Armenia and internationally at Schwankhalle Bremen, Golden Apricot IFF, One Shot International Film Festival and ACCEA, Yerevan. Residencies and fellowships attended include apexart, NYC and Bunker, Ljubljana.  Mahzabin Haque is a curator and photographer from Bangladesh. She has been involved with several art organizations and independent curatorial projects mostly based in Bangladesh and the region for last 6 years. She has been a Rave Fellow (2016), funded by IFA (Institute for Foreign cultural relations) and worked with the Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany. She was also participant of the Curators Agenda Vienna (2016) with a scholarship from Austrian Federal Chancellery (cultural section). Mahzabin exhibited her photography projects in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.  Lanchi Nguyen was born in Vietnam, and has pursued her graduation in Professional Communication from RMIT University, Australia. She is greatly concerned with audience research and harbors great interest in creating mutual conversation with the audience. This passion enhanced when she was working for gallery / art studios in Vietnam. Having observed the potential of interactive artwork in engaging participants in voicing their own opinions, she hopes to contribute to make such artwork more approachable to the local audience, with a belief that it would help to improve the shortage of public sphere in the country. That devotion led her to participate in Media Arts Cultures, where she hopes to learn more about socially engaged art / interactive art and do research on audience of these art genres. Auto-ethnographic methodology – especially through interviews – is her focus at the moment, hoping to systematically analyse the personal experiences of the participants and further understand their cultural experience.