Session ‘Image / Thinking through Images’

With the emergence of the moving image in the 20th century, non-linear narrative and thinking in pictures started to prevail (according to Gilles Deleuze, cinema is the philosophy of images). Jean-Luc Godard creates ‘L'histoire du cinema’, turning to an internal associative mechanism of personal experience. In this film, the narrative is formed of fragments of hundreds of movies and is organized around a research in a media archive. There is no place for linear narrative anymore. Spatial and temporal joints existing in the mind of the artist now affect the image itself, becoming a part of the perception of this image. A sequential way of perceiving the world changes to synchronous, and we begin to perceive the image as a multi-sensory one, affecting all the senses. 

Participants:
Elena Petrovskaya (keynote speaker)
Thinking trough Images

Marnix de Nijs (The Netherlands)
From the Retina to the Tactual Sense, the Process of Immersion into the Image

Irina Nakhova (Russia / USA)
Sentimental Education

Laurent Mignonno (Austria)
Creating an Image. Living Systems and New Interfaces

Moderated by Olga Shishko

Special event in the framework of the educational program for the exhibition ‘House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art’

Time: 7 p. m. May 26, 2016
Venue: the Prince Golitsyn Family Estate (14 bld. 5, Volkhonka Str.)

Free entrance. Preliminary registration is required.