6 days of art events, workshops, talks and much more!

Save your Friday evening for Art & Tech Night!

After the ultimate AV shows and performances continue with Kabal & Achab in Fabricafe form 10: p.m. Not after, just party.

Performance is a part of Art & Tech Night.

The ticket is valid also for Memoryhouse: Dis-ease & DJs Night.

50% discount for students

Join the conversation with artists, activists, theoreticians, citizens to discuss ways to use digital culture in order to lay the foundations for a new social agreement.

New technologies are bringing big changes to our society. The way in which politics and the common good are perceived is changing as well. The time has come for us to talk about possible platforms for our future.

NEW EUROPE will offer a critical platform with ideas for the use of new technologies (in conjunction with science and art) for the progressive development of our community / our neighbourhood, the city, Europe and the world. 

Come and join us! 

Speakers!

• Valie Djordjevic (DE)
• Dr Matthew Feldman (GB/USA)
• Richard Kitta (SK)
• Oliver Lerone Schultz (DE)
• Maik Fielitz (DE)
• Jasmijn Visser (DE/NL)
• Dušan Barok (NL)
• Kei Kreutler (DE) 
• Martina Ivičič (SK)

Free entrance. The event lasts throughout the whole weekend of the 24th and the 25th November.

Within tourism, data is one of the basic pillars of understanding information bearers along the value chain of destination resources and processes within it.

The research team of the “Intelligent Business Intelligence System Development to Support Comprehensive Decision Making and Planning in Market Conditions of Tourism” invites you to the 3rd DiDM 2018 Conference.

The aim of the conference is to bring new information about the possibilities of using data and related technologies, both in order to understand the needs of tourists and to simplify the work of service providers and destination administrators in collecting, processing and evaluating data.

Slovak language only.

See the website for more information.

To sign up, you need to send an email with participants’ names to didm2k18@gmail.com

“We tend to look at technical systems as neutral black boxes, but if you open them up and look at the component parts, you find that they reflect the assumptions and motivations of their designers.” 

In the exhibition called Stranger Visions, Heather collected hairs, chewed up gum, and cigarette butts from the streets, public bathrooms and waiting rooms of New York City. She extracted DNA from them and analyzed it to computationally generate 3d printed life-size full-colour portraits representing what those individuals might look like, based on genomic research.

Working with the traces strangers unwittingly left behind, the project was meant to call attention to the developing technology of forensic DNA phenotyping, the potential for a culture of biological surveillance, and the impulse towards genetic determinism.

The artist has devoted critical efforts to discuss the limitations and bias in phenotyping technology, which Heather and many scientists do not consider accurate or impartial enough for use in criminal investigations.

Stranger Visions: Photo Credit; Heather Dewey­Hagborg

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. She is an artist fellow at AI Now, an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and an affiliate of Data & Society. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.

The exhibition is free. Find more about Heather Dewey-Hagborg.

Programme:

09:00 / Michal Ferko, Butterfly Effect [SK]: Education in Digital Business – Butterfly Effect

In January 2018 began a five-month talent accelerator Butterfly Effect, founded by Pixel Federation, Sygic, LEAF, and HubHub. In 5 months, students have to go through the whole life-cycle of digital product – games or apps. You will learn how it is going, what can be done in 5 months, and how the Butterfly Effect can move students to a higher level.

10:00 / Patryk Grzsesczuk, 11bit [PL]: Old tricks for the young cardinals – how to fight out there and get out alive

Starting first (or another) grand adventure on the gaming market, one should prepare for everything this industry has to offer: from the fun of creativity, through a struggle of business planning to (hopefully) excitement of shipping a game. Let’s discuss crucial boxes one should tick to make it to the end-game with no unnecessary restarts.

11:00 / Filip Fischer, Charged Monkeys [SK]: How to succeed in the mobile F2P games market?

Success with a new mobile game on sophisticated platforms with high demands on product quality – and therefore on the duration of development, budget and experience – is getting harder and there is no time for romance. What to do next? Is there a shortcut to success? Or is it a lottery? Enjoy specific examples, fails and numbers!

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12:00 / Lunch Break

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13:00 / Michal Ivan, SIXMOREVODKA [SK]: Concept art and Illustration for games

A story of Michal about how he got to do what he loves for living and what he has learned on the way. Why companies need concept art and how to be a valuable asset for them? How is illustration used in pre-production and marketing? And many other things and a lot of pictures.

14:00 / Tomáš Danay, Ľubomír Timko, Blue Faces [SK]: Motion Capture technology in practice

A brief introduction to the history of motion capture technology – Motion Capture. The lecture will be accompanied by a preview of the latest Xsens motion-capture technology used in movies such as Black Panther or Avengers: Infinity War.

15:00 / Mikuláš Podprocký, Warhorse [CZ]: Research and concept development of visuals for historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Art director will try to summarize the research process and development of visuals for historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Which part of visual content can be called as historical accurate reconstruction, how it was done and at what point we can say it is only fiction. He will describe how facts influenced visual design of the game elements and where artists could run their imagination more wildly. He will uncover everyday struggle with technical limitations which are usually set before creators of such projects. And also how the team in Warhorse changed this limitations and barriers into their trademark.

16:00 / Jakub Trančík, Cellense [SK]: Why Good Games Fail

Lessons learned from launching over 50 games with more than 1 billion downloads and 20 million sales.

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17:00 / Panel: How to launch game (successfully) without publisher?

Panelová diskusia:
– Martin Pavelek, Bluebrain Games [SK]
– Ivan Kozmon, Double Quote Games [SK]
– Stefan Pavelka, Cypronia [SK]
Moderátor: Peter Nagy, Games Farm/Grindstone [SK]

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17:45 Záver

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In Slovak language only

Tickets: Student 0,00 Eur / Standard 4,99 Eur / Professional 9,99 Eur

Data visualization, or even the visualization of more complex questions or contexts, is currently one of the hot topics. We live in a society where every second is flooded with hundreds of information and incentives. Every marketer, journalist, scientist but also culture worker ask themselves how to attract one’s attention and how to inform effectively. People have less time and are more resilient to important topics that concern them. It is the visualizing of data, contexts and issues that can help to understand and explain even more challenging and difficult themes.Visualization can also work as a scientific tool that can help to uncover the context of individual data.

The workshop is divided into two parts. The first, an introductory one, where the world of visualization and data interpretation is introduced, and the second, practical one where an attendee tries out a particular web tool for data visualization.

There are no programming skills needed, just come with a positive attitude towards technologies!

The workshop will run from 10am – 4pm, lunch will be provided on site.

Important: please, bring your own computer.

Workshop in Slovak laguage only.

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Meet-up of game developers is part of Game Days Košice 2018.

Programme:

6:30 pm / Marek Ježo, Blue Faces [SK]: Visual Effects in Feature Film – Asura

150 shots, 3 months, 30 graphic artists from Europe participated in the Blue Faces Studio in the most expensive Chinese film. We will look at how VFX is made for feature films from concept, through simulation, rendering to managing 10 000 tasks.

7:45 pm / Jan Kadanec, Grand Beats [SK]: Importance of Sound in Video Games

The interactivity in video games does not pertain only to the in-game mechanics, but also to sound. The aim of this talk is to showcase the main factors influencing the creation of sound in video games.

Strings, samplers, effects, drums, voice, tenor sax, piano, synthesizer. A Czech collective presenting live musical accompaniment to cult films from the 1920s will definitely surprise you and along with a strong visual representation will offer a unique artistic experience.

Seduction (Erotikon, directed by Gustav Machatý, Czechoslovakia 1929), a timeless, silent, black and white film, sensitively and poetically exposed on an erotic basis, belongs to classical works of Czech as well as world cinema. At the time of its creation, the film was not well accepted at the home scene due to its controversy. However, Seduction has achieved great success abroad, especially in Italy. The reason was certainly not only the international cast, headed by Olaf Fjord and Ita Rina, or an attractive name but also the great work of talented cinematographer Václav Vích, who was able to fulfill Machatý’s demanding vision of the visual form of the work.

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The last chance to visit the exhibition of Mariano Sardón in Tabačka Gallery.

Sardón explores the interconnected relationships between technology, science and art. His artistic work combines his creative vocation and his scientific knowledge. By examining the human bodies relationship to technology, Sardon’s works function as prototype cybernetic interfaces, elucidating the boundaries of the physical and the digital.  Sardon produces artworks that invite us to rediscover the technological universe that surrounds us and to find in it much more than what we see at first sight. Combining art with neuroscience, by exploring at the relationship between the mind and the eyes, he also encourages us to think about invisible aspects of human life.

In Tabačka he will present the selections of his works – part of which was exhibited at the prestigious Ars Electronica festival this year. These works aim to make us conscious of those parts of an image (or the world) that we see and hence take into account, and those we neglect.

Due to the discursive character of contemporary artistic and philosophical praxis, there arises a need for constant rethinking of one’s opinions across various topics, interest circles and optics. Therefore a socratic conflict becomes an integral part of each personality in a pursuit of understanding via the reading/learning/talking/scrolling… process. There is an ambition in the „Selfish Me(s)“ piece to understand this phenomenon.

An equally important aspect of this thought adventure lies in a desire to comprehend the „story-based“ human thinking and in the resolution to use the storytelling practice in the artistic process. To thematize this act of getting lost in the world of informations, there have been used the following pillars: biology / focused on neo-darwinistic theories (Richard Dawkins, Anton Markoš,…), the philosophy of critical thinking and the theories of truth (Richard Rorty. Jacques Ranciére, Hito Steyerl,…) and the postmodern relatedness of a story and the truth.

Except of the conceptuality and the visuality of the project, the artist has been interested in rap music – a form of set to music poetry. Language becomes visual, repetitive, meditative yet disruptive. Although the auto-biographic basis of the work, there can be felt a general fear of scepsis, brought by the informatively oversaturated post-postmodern reality. Disruption of the intellect is becoming a whole society problem.

The project consists of a set to music narrative poem, interpreted by a rapper Karlo (GUMBGU) and Koronczi. The music is produced by Isama Zing (Jonatán Pastirčák). The track has become the foundation of a multimedial, site-specific installation according to the exhibition space.  The visitor is offered to get lost somewhere in between the music, lyrics, environment and the video… he/she becomes an integral part of a real-time videoclip.

The production of this video has been supported by the Slovak Arts Council.

The installation of David Koronczi will be available from 19 November to 24 November 2018 in the gallery of the East Slovak Gallery.

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Credits:

Idea, Concept, Texts, Video-storyboard: Dávid Koronczi

Rap: Karlo (karlojetomeno.com) and Dávid Koronczi

Music: Isama Zing (Jonatán Pastirčák)

Video editing: Juraj Mydla

Duration: 19 November – 14 December 2018, from 5pm – 7pm every day.

Exhibition opening: 19 November, 7 pm

Richard is a multimedia artist producing videos that are created using a program designed to make computer games. His absurd images work with language, time, identity, but also with poetry and humor. Richard will open an exhibition Do you remember the sunshine? in the VUNU Gallery.

The cornerstone of Janeček’s artistic language relies on the technique of photogrammetry which is used to question human’s anchoring in reality. Richard currently works on absurd, poetic, humorous and non-narrative videos where he reflects the hopelessness and obsolescence of present times.

In the premises of the Orthodox Synagogue from the late 19th century, The Ills will perform a special concert. Their apart post- rock and noise passages will be covered by emporias and more than a hundred year old paintings. Melancholic melodies, as well as dark blows, will be lightened up by the site-specific light design from seveminutes. This unique AV show is opened by the Kosice-based music producer Dead Janitor.

How AI changed the history of the film

Peak into the world of artificial intelligence through a sharp eye of the famed Slovak film critic Petr Konečný. Exclusively for the Art & Tech Days 2018, Petr prepared a special edition of his famous film lectures that combine art with technology. Find out how the AI changed the history of cinematography on the last festival day in Kino Úsmev.

AI and its portrayal haven’t been present in cinematography just for the last couple of decades. About a hundred years ago, the very first films about robots appeared. With an increasing interest in genre films, more and more filmmakers started to be involved in such a creation.

A remarkable range of author’s approaches and futuristic themes seized the contemporary movie screens. AI performed both, as a helper and a non-human aggressor determined to kill its creator. Not only the richness of the themes, but the difficulty of the production and use of computer effects all relate to the artificial intelligence in cinematography.

Let yourself be drawn into the world of robots that have transformed and enriched the diversity of art film and the visual narrative.

Talk will be in SK language only.

Why come? 

Human Data Collection for Artificial Intelligence by Kitchen Budapest & Healium Decoration. An interactive VR / AI installation that opens a social dialogue on the role of AI in everyday life, in situations where AI takes control. The user is in dialogue with the AI entity which through a series of questions, seeks to know how people behave, on what basis and how they decide.

22 November: entrance only for participants of Art & Tech Conference.

23 November: the installation is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m.

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3 hour long workshop will be divided into three equal blocks, where a participant will be guided to explore and train their bodies based on various dance principles, which Stanislav has developed over the years of his active dance performing career.

Since Stanislav studied photography in University of Hertfordshire (UK), he also examines the merging possibilities of film and dance and tries to implement the film’s vocabulary such as focus, shutter speed, aperture, sendos sensitivity, frames per second into movement in order to bring new awareness to participant’s body and mind.

Duration: 2:00 p.m. till 5:00 p.m.

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Would you like to make a movie? Come in with us! We will show you that you don’t need any professional equipment to create special movie effects. A camera and a piece of imagination is all you need. Children will be introduced to the stop motion technique that will be applied while making a short video employing their own fantasy. It all will happen under the guidance of a professional animator.

Working language is Slovak only.

Workshop will run from 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m., catering will be provided on site.

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Live AV performance conveying a dynamic and expressive atmosphere where music drives the visuals and the synchronisation between the two plays an essential role in the composition. Using a simple setup, Ofer creates an intense emotive experience, a dense journey with low throbbing kicks and screaming melodies, a synesthesia of light and sound. Contrasting aesthetics of granular, rhythmic and complex sound accompanied by sharp monochromatic, minimalist geometric shapes build up a tension embodied by Ofer’s charismatic presence on stage.

Performance is a part of Art & Tech Night.

The ticket is valid also for Memoryhouse: Dis-ease & DJs Night.

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A real-time performance of movement, light and sound. Terrorism, fear, a malignant infection. Fear as an omnipresent stimulus in nowadays society. The anticipation of terror affecting our behaviour and minds cultivating an infectious negative barrier in our ability to reason. An emotional experience altering moods, temperament and personality even resulting in psychological distress. The surge of fear cultivating as a living organism. The body becoming another.

A collaboration among Ofer Smilansky, Jamie Lee and Stanislav Dobak. Experimenting with the Xth Sense a wearable technology created by Marco Donnarumma the performance is interlinked by a triangular structure of body, sound and light. The Xth Sense captures signals from the body such as sound of the muscles contracting, heartbeat, temperature and orientation.

Performance by Jamie Lee, Ofer Smilansky and Stanislav Dobák

Light design, soundscape and technology by Ofer Smilansky

Xth Sense created by Marco Donnarumma

Dis-ease performance is a part of Art & Tech Night

The ticket is valid also for Ofer Smilansky: Beastly Tears & DJs Night.

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Step into the future during a workshop introducing machine learning for artists, designers, and creative professionals. You will learn how to use neural networks to create real-time, cross-modal interactions for use in video, installation, live music performance and interaction design. Whether it’s mapping your speech patterns into video glitch effects, or converting body gestures into chord changes in electronic music, everyone will find an effect that interests them.

Working language of the workshop is English.

Workshop will run from 10:00 a.m. to 04:00 p.m., lunch will be provided on site.

Important: Every participant will need to bring own laptop. We will use in-browser javascript materials, which means there is no software required to setup.

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