World on a Wire Dialogues

World on a Wire Dialogues is a joint project by the online platform Rhizome (New York) and Garage Digital, featuring conversations with artists about the implications of simulation practices in digital art.

Digital culture, which has become a primary means of exchange of knowledge and images, also offers new algorithmic models of socialization, economies, and labor distribution systems. In turn, artists employ various digital tools both to reassemble existing models, to create alternatives to them, and to integrate an enormous amount of new experiences and types of information into the everyday by speculating on the potential of new worlds.

World on a Wire Dialogues is a series of exchanges between artists curated by Garage Digital and artists curated by New York-based online platform Rhizome, developing themes connected with simulations, speculations, and the creation of new worlds. The artists are drawn from the hybrid exhibition World on a Wire initiated by Rhizome in partnership with Hyundai Motor, and coming to Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow this fall; the exhibition Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene at Garage; and the Garage Digital program.

Participants will discuss different ways of working with digital objects and systems, while also touching upon the challenges that modern technologies pose to longstanding philosophical questions about nature, aesthetics, reality, and spirituality.

SCHEDULE

Monday, July 26
19:00–20:30

Discussion 1. Sara Culmann (Russia) and Theo Triantafyllidis (USA)

Artists Sara Culmann (Russia) and Theo Triantafyllidis (USA) will discuss new forms of storytelling in digital media, and their structural connection with the technological narratives shaping contemporary society.

Wednesday, July 28
19:00–20:30

Discussion 2. Mikhail Maksimov (Russia) and Tabor Robak (USA)

Artists Mikhail Maksimov (Russia) and Tabor Robak (USA) will discuss their approaches to working with digital objects and environments, touching on principles of complexity and emergence in simulated realities.

Wednesday, August 4
19:00–20:30

Discussion 3. Timur Si-Qin (USA), AlYOna Shapovalova (Russia), and Alisa Smorodina (Russia)

Artists Timur Si-Qin (Germany), Alyona Shapovalova (Russia), and Alisa Smorodina (Russia) will discuss new connections between humans and “the natural” as a source of possible spiritual reconfiguration in the context of the post-Anthropocene.

The discussions will be moderated by Nikita Nechaev (Garage Digital) and Michael Connor (Rhizome). They will take place online and will be broadcast in Russian and English on the Garage YouTube channel.

A final event in the series will take place this fall alongside the exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow.