Programmed Lives / Coded Real: Artist Film Screening & Talk with Curator Lukas Brasiskis
Artificial Intelligence, Pan-Technology & Art Conference
West Bund Art Musuem, Shanghai, China
July 17th 14:30-16:30
Finding Fanon Part Two, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, 2015
Showing: "Parallel II" and "Parallel III" by Harun Farocki (2014), "Finding Fanon Part Two" by Larry Archiampong & David Blandy (2015), Peggy Ahwesh’s “The Falling Sky” (2017), and Manu Luksch "Algo-Rhythm" (2021).
Lukas Brasiskis: Lukas is a film and media researcher and curator, currently a PhD candidate at New York University in the Department of Cinema Studies and an adjunct professor at NYU and CUNY/Brooklyn College. His interests include eco-media, the politics and aesthetics of world cinema, and intersections between philosophy, moving-image cultures, and the contemporary art world. His texts have been published in both academic and non-academic media and he is currently co-editing a volume on Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe for Berghahn Books and Jonas Mekas: The Camera is Always Running for Yale University Press.
Lukas has curated a number of screening programs, including the ongoing True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films (e-flux, NY), Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory (e-flux, NY), From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures (with Inga Lace, Post MoMa, NY), Environmental Memories in East-Central European Art (Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade), Landscape to be Experienced and to be Read: Time, Ecology, Politics on the work of filmmaker James Benning (CAC, Vilnius), Mermaid with The Movie Camera (Spectacle Theater, NY), Human, Material, Machine (with Leo Goldsmith, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania), Baltic Poetic Documentary as Ethnographic Cinema (NYU, NY), Welcome to the Anthropocene (CCAMP, Lithuania), and a retrospective of the films of Nathaniel Dorsky (CAC, Vilnius) among others.