Computer literacy course for third agers
How can you use a search engine to answer questions? How do you know which source of information you can trust and which you can't? How can you navigate between numerous texts, images, and videos? Today, a great deal of effort is required in order not to get lost within the multitude of information flows: news sites, social networks, instant messengers.
Sasha Puchkova and Anya Leonova will teach course participants how and why to use a VPN, how to formulate a query in a search engine to find what they need, and how to make the most of their device outside of class.
The artists use various approaches to the study of the Internet, such as dialogue, exchange of experience, and mutual assistance practices, allowing course participants to share their knowledge, discuss the difficulties of using devices and the Internet, and try to solve them together. All classes are based around dialogue and participants’ personal requests.
The tutors will also carefully study the participants’ questionnaires to help solve individual issues.
The course comprises four meetings that will take place on Sunday mornings.
SCHEDULE
November 13, 11:30–13:00
November 26, 11:00–13:00
December 3, 11:00–13:00
December 7, 11:00–13:00
HOW TO TAKE PART
To participate, please send an application by November 11. Applications will be accepted until 12:00. They will be considered until November 15.
Авторы
Digital Object Alliance (DOA)
is a collective founded in 2017 by artists Sasha Puchkova and Anya Leonova, whose practice focuses on digital performance, artistic research, and participatory practices. It is a metamorphous experimental alliance formed around an expanded understanding of digital objects.
Sasha Puchkova
(b. 1989, Baikonur) is an artist. She works with the genre of fiction, and her key themes include future femininity, emptiness, and observation. She graduated from Altai State Technical University’s Institute of Architecture and Design and from Moscow’s Rodchenko Art School. She participated in the international curatorial course What Could Should Curating Do? (Belgrade). She is a resident at Garage Studios. She lives and works in Moscow.
Anya Leonova
(b. 1992, Moscow) is an artist and studies in the Interactive, Communication and Mixed Media and Video Art workshops at Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). She studied at the Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technologies course at SA)) studio, was a member and mediator of the laboratory on prototyping future trends at the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), and completed a historical storytelling workshop at the International Memorial. She is a member of the self-organized collectives of female artists SHSHSH and Practice Affectology Unit and a resident at Garage Studios. She lives and works in Moscow.