A research hub in a post-digital landscape
Post—Screen is an annual festival of contemporary art and digital culture that aims to promote creative practices and artistic research inherent to digital media.
This fourth edition intends to go beyond the screen opening to the realm of tangible media, installations and performances.
Post—Screen is a Non-Linear project, curated by Manuel Ehrenfeld, professor of Computer Graphics class at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Post—Screen 2020 is organised in collaboration with Stefano Delle Monache, professor of Multimedia at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.
With the patronage of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Ard&NT Institute Milano and Associazione Gli Amici di Musica/Realtà.
Post—Screen 2020
11—14 February
C/o Ex Chiesa San Carpoforo
Via Marco Formentini 14
Milan
An intensive program of workshops and exhibitions
Post—Screen 2020 is an intensive lab and common workspace. The activities are divided in an initial moment of workshops followed by two days of collective research and experimentation, with a final exhibition of the lab outcomes. Therefore the partecipation at the event is intended in its entirety. All the activities will take place at Ex Chiesa San Carpoforo, Via Marco Formentini 12, Milan.
The focus of this year is Feeds and Stacks, as forms and paradigm of digital representation and continous permutations of reality. This theme aim to investigate the complex and contraddictory overlapping of virtual and physical in a multitude of layers that have no sharp border and seamless flow and pour one in each other.
Workshops
11—12 Feb
The festival offers two days of intensive workshops that aim to explore the multitude of layers that compose the post digital environment. On the first day the focus is on vvvv envionment and its use in creative coding and code it yourself practices. The second day is focused on a physical approach to interaction sound design and the networked publishing practices that revolves around Are.na, a digital bookmarking platform.
The application is open and totally free of charge up to 20 partecipants. Note that students from Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and Conservatorio G. Verdi will be listed in priority.
All partecipants should bring their laptops and a mouse in order to follow the courses. The venue is provided with WI-FI connection and power supply.
Morning workshops begin at 9:00 and end at 13:00, afterternoon courses begin at 14:00 and end at 18:00. The ex church of San Carpoforo is situated in the Brera District city center, and therefore offers a lot of options for lunch and breaks.
Hands on work
13—14 Feb
Hands-on work with the tools developed during the workshops
After the two days of courses the partecipants will work together in order to apply the notions and the concepts learned. We believe in a plural approach to research and experimentation and we expect partecipants to group spontaneously to seek different applications and branch from the workshops cues in a personal way.
The theme of the 2020 edition reflects on feeds and stacks as modalities of access to the world, either physical or virtual. The festival will provide to the partecipants a set of critical, theoric and artistic cues on the argument, available also in the Feed section.
Post—Screen will offer full technical support both in hardware and software, providing technological equipment such as video projectors, VR headset, audio systems and more. 221e will provide a set of sensors for physical interaction design with relative SDK.
Exhibition
13—14 Feb
The evening program of performances and exhibition will show the results of activities in dialogue with the work of emerging artists. The works will be A/V liveset, performances and multimedial installation.
The A/V program hosts the performance of Domiziano Maselli, Samuele Pagani, Giovanni Pierbon and Matteo Duccoli as emergin artists and partecipants of the previous editions of the Festival and in addition Diego Pagnini and Fiorella Minnucci, students from Brera.
The installation are pieces from the research on continous feed as digital poetry of Thomas Bentivoglio and representation of self through the visualization of data flows from medical care apps by Evelin Vicedomino.
A focus on the performative practices bring the members of Un * Salta collective in three different contribuitions: Federico Poni presents a critical and performative approach to automatization, Erica Gargaglione offers a performative installation that explore the idea of documentary in relations to virtual reality and photogrammetry technologies and Francesco Luzzana continues his explorations on networked and partecipative set delivered in real time through audience’s smartphones.
The partecipation at the evenings is free of charge, from 18:00 to 22:00.
