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 probing of identity relates both to the theme of the body and with the types of media involved in the process of analyzing and laying bare identity through art.
The idea of heliography, of including the sun in the art-making process, becomes in this context a way of initiating an archeology of the photographic process.
ki is among the first projects to reveal the hybrid territory that is nowadays shared by the visual arts, sound art, and the performing arts.
The most recent exhibition showcased at Salonul de Proiecte, designed by Mircea Nicolae, reiterates an institutional and methodological critique through its title, The Absent Museum
Review of two UNArte Fashion graduation projects that are as valuable aesthetically as they are socially anchored.
Grigore Liteanu's BA project and Vlad Albu's MA project link objects pertaining to intimate territory with their transpositions in public space.
Within the Landschaft (Peisaj) project undertaken by Galeria Posibilă and Fotogalerie Wien, exhibiting ten Romanian artists in Vienna and six Austrians in Bucharest is just the tip of the iceberg.
A dialogue with Iosif Kiraly on his exhibition Closed doors. Open envelopes at MNAC Bucharest.
About an original ODD initiative, curated by Cristina Bogdan and Adelina Luft: Who Cares?, an intercultural exchange between Bucharest and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Intermedia and interdisciplinarity, the subtle mix of poetry and activism, an interest for technology and nature: AGF as paradigmatic example of the contemporary posthumanist scene.