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communication
Nikola Brabcová, Michal Klodner, Hana Janečková
We know and repeatedly analyze a host of issues with commercial social media and digital labour, but little attention is paid to efforts at building alternatives, such as community-run social media and other forms of de-platformization.
Against the totality of networks and corporately owned social media, what are workable strategies and ethical approaches that allow for alternative ways for our social life to emerge?
Jonas Staal
To grasp the rise of new forms of authoritarianism, propaganda studies are a crucial tool, but we also must look at the particular role of propaganda art. How has the imaginary of art, theater, film, design, architecture and even games, contributed to the authoritarian imagination? And can we imagine forms of popular and emancipatory propaganda art to defend another world view?
Christmas trees and decorations, robots and antiquities mediate our everyday lives since everything that cannot be invested in human relationship is invested into objects. Toys, ornaments, tools with their functional status is explored in formal experiments; in humorous displays interpreting the world with a subtle allure and providing an outlet for all kinds of tensions.
Markéta Mansfieldová
Confrontations in public space are becoming more virulent. Protests gain traction, social tension is on the rise. Tension as a reaction to threat, an emotional roller coaster of strong convictions. The truth of convictions is shored up by shared emotional experience. Anger, loss of hope, feelings of remorse, anxiety; the emotional ties of mutuality.
Transform brings together six videos, which coming from different artistic and thematic approaches they use as technical resource the transformation of the image (widely understood) in the process towards a final outcome, different from a certain initial situation. The visual (or sonic) transformation is carried out by resources such as addition, division and negation/fusion.
Elen Řádová
In this video we watch a face of a young man and a woman turning away from each other and then meeting for a split of a second. The expression in their faces does not change. However, if the viewer lets the picture effect him for some time, it can be changed to express a whole range of feelings from tenderness over disinterest to cruelty.