In partnership with media art pioneer Fujihata Masaki, CCBT will hold “Concerning Art & Technology,” a series of Meetup events that investigate the relationship between humans, technology, and art. The first event will serve as a guidance session for the series, arguing for a close relationship between art and technology.
Can art form a seawall against environmental mechanization? This series of CCBT Meetup events examines the future intersection of humans, technology, and art.
Our lives, the future, and society are always changing with advances in technology. In the face of new trends such as AI and Web3, this series of talks decodes science, art, philosophy, and technology, and how they interrelate socially and historically. Media art pioneer Fujihata Masaki and CCBT have devised a special curriculum across eight sessions. They emphasize new insights and ideas gained through dialogue, and include a practice-based component of jointly created work exploring assigned themes. Aimed at a wide range of participants seeking new creative perspectives, from viewers to artists and students, the series offers a place of learning for building a future society at the intersection of art and technology.
* This series of events is held as part of the Research Partners Program, in which CCBT works with Japanese and international researchers to undertake R&D contributing to civic creativity, and makes those results public.
“Since I was often asked about the meaning of my work and had to talk about it in public, I have always sought out answers and the right words to do that. At these sessions, I will use language rooted in my own experience to make things very easy for participants to follow.” Fujihata Masaki
#1: Living as a Human (Guidance)
May 26 (Sun), 2024, 15:00-17:00
I will explain what I am trying to do with this series and propose the problems that I want participants to think about. Though art and technology are closely related, the development of twentieth-century art has avoided discussing this due to its bid to detach itself from technology. Our actual lives, however, take place in technology-heavy environments. Engaging in a discussion of that disparity is, I believe, the most pertinent approach to art today.
Sessions #2–8 Curriculum
・June｜#2: Tools and Devices (On Humans)
・July｜#3: Whirlwind Tour of Art History (History of Painting)
・August｜#4: Viewing and Participation (On Seeing)
・September｜#5: Conception and Medium (On Conceiving)
・October｜#6: Life and Machines (On Knowing)
・November ｜#7: Concerning Art & Technology Complete Recap
・December ｜#8: Art and Artistic Expression (On Value)
・December-January ｜International symposium
