Art without Artists - Anonymous Creativity
panel discussion with Mathias MU, Mathijs Tratsaert, Mona Hedayati, Shayli Harrison, Thomas Crombez, and Kristí Fekete
Thursday 24 October 2024, 19:00-21:00
Lange Zaal, Academy
The relationship between creatives and digital technology is becoming increasingly complex. Digital structures and their workings are hard to trace, creating both an exciting challenge and a pressing issue for artists working with(in) them.
For this debate, we invite four young artists — Mathias MU, Mathijs Tratsaert, Mona Hedayati, and Shayli Harrison. All four of their practices are interwoven with digital technologies. Coming from seemingly disparate disciplines and backgrounds, they offer different perspectives on the topic. Mathias MU is exploring a gamified interaction between technology and humans in an exhibition setting; Mathijs Tratsaert is a poet co-writing with ChatGPT; Mona Hedayati draws on computational arts, post-humanism, memory, trauma, and affect studies; Shayli Harrison does speculative fashion design, investigating the influence of digital identities on real-world behaviour.
The panel members will explore a creator's role in the context of emerging digital technology. A basis for their conversation will be both Breton's Surrealist Manifesto and the concept of ‘art without artists,’ along with demonstrations of the artists’ own work. They will examine digital’s impact on authorship and the possibilities and challenges of anonymous creativity. The discussion will be a space to show, teach, and learn.
The demonstrations brought by the artists will also be points of discussion. Each of the works will provide context for questions regarding authorship in the digital age. How can a critical responsibility be practised as an artist? How does digital intimacy and emotional connections function within the work, the artist, and the public?
→ This event is part of the research festival ARTICULATE 2024 I ANONYMOUS CREATIVITY - ART WITHOUT ARTISTS
