Nature as Affect and Touch
A collaboration between Romanian and Austrian artists.
Raluca Oancea
Raluca Oancea (Nestor), member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), is a lecturer at The National University of Arts in Bucharest where she teaches Aesthetics and New Media Art. She holds a degree in computer science and one in philosophy of culture, together with a master of fine arts and a PhD in new media theory. Her doctoral thesis examines the connection between new media and contemporary art, the presence of classical and new aesthetic categories in the filed of photography, cinema and new media art. She is also an independent curator and a writer for cultural and academic magazines such as: Praesens, Camera Austria, Ekphrasis, Eikon, Vremea, Scena9, Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Revista de Filosofie, Annals of the University of Bucharest.
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The Timișoara Scene and its Connections with the International Directions of Artistic Research
A case study on "Hyperstezia" and "Extended Nature".
POROUS MATTER – A Poetics of the Intermedial Void
The exhibition POROUS MATTER, opened this autumn at META Spațiu in Timișoara, is the result of an interdisciplinary research involving both artists and scientists.
KIMAERA – A Biotechnological Organism Immersed in the Internet of Things (IoT)
This collaborative project combined the phenomenological interpretation of the world as a network of connections.
A Rhizomatic Biennial Connected to the Imperatives of Care and Dwelling
An interview with the curatorial team behind this year's edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, “My Rhino Is Not a Myth. art science fictions”.
My Rhino Is Not a Myth – A Phenomenology of Art and Body
A phenomenological approach to each of the four projects in the exhibition.
Colours. A Deconstructed Painting
From communist gray to the intense green of the leaves on an IKEA bedsheet.
Virtual Dwelling and the Body’s Relationship with the World
The discourse around dwelling insists on the fact that we are what we are according to our buildings and landscapes, and also that there is a natural extension between our body and the world.
SEEN – A New Gaze Marked by Technology
Nowadays, more than ever, seeing and being seen demand technological mediation.
Photography Thinking and Memory Images
Aurora Kiraly's works seen within a non-linear narrative.