April 2–27
A Procedural World. From Random Wanderings to a Collective Intelligence: A workshop in Creative Programming
August 27 – September 17
Game of Life. Cellular Automata in Art, Science, Architecture, and Games: A Creative Programming Course
August 19, 13:00–15:00
A masterclass on creating chatbots from Ilya Kulish
August 3–August 10
Overcoming Reading: A Series of Digital Literature Workshops by Ivan Netkachev
June 18–July 9, 11:00–13:00
Difficult Questions about the Internet / Uncomplicated Internet: A Computer Literacy Course for Older People
June 4, 13:00–15:30
A Workshop by Maxim Anpilogov and Vera Barkalova on Assembling a Dirty Video Mixer
April 30, 13:00–16:00
“Concluding Statements” from Participants of the Second Season of Alek Petuk’s Seminar The Door Opens from the Other Side
April 30, 13:00–16:00, Auditorium

“Concluding Statements” from Participants of the Second Season of Alek Petuk’s Seminar The Door Opens from the Other Side

In April 2023, the second season of the seminar The Door Opens from the Other Side took place in the World Gone By computer class. Participants continued to discuss their collective playing experience of Dark Souls while applying critical and theoretical frameworks to it.

Dark Souls is an action/RPG computer game that was released by the Japanese company From Software in 2011. It was not only an event for the playing community (after the release of Dark Souls, a new trend appeared for soulslike games) but also a cultural phenomenon of the 2010s.

The main aim of the seminars was to turn the “trivial” practice of playing into a trainer for producing knowledge and social sciences research. During the meetings, participants also worked on “concluding statements,” a public event combining elements of an academic conference and a performance.

The author and leader of the seminars is the artist Alek Petuk.

This event is part of the public program of the World Gone By computer class.

Free admission with advance registration.

Program

Results of the Second Season of The Door Opens from the Other Side
Alek Petuk
A Special Paper on the Results of Playing Dark Souls for the past 24 hours
Egor Dvinyanin
Cult Games, the Cinematographer, and Dark Ontologies
Roma Seliverstov
The Dark Souls User Interface
Katya Smolyanskaya
Download a Free Dark Souls Sticker Pack Without Registration
Ksenia Kudasova
Sound Environments. Dark Souls and Contemporary Urban Sound Landscapes
Irina Gulyakina
A Re-enactment of Ray Gapeev’s Paper on Video Games. Dark Souls Variation
Tom Stingray
Inventory
Maria Saakyan
The Estus Flask and Ultraviolence
Ulyana Afanasieva
A Place by the Fire
Asta
Correcting Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Universe
Ksenia Proidisvet
A Re-enactment of the Statement of First Season Participant Vitaly
Alek Petuk
The end of Dark Souls?
Demyan
April 15, 17:00–18:00
On Stumbling: A Lecture by Lera Kononchuk
April 9, 15:00–17:00
An Extended Lecture by Anatoly Osmolovsky and Alek Petuk
April 4, 20:00–21:00
A Paper by Max Naimark
April 2, 15:00–17:00
Coincidental Institute Stream of the Game Dark Souls: Remastered
March 24 — April 7
A Seminar by Ellina Gennadievna
December 22, 19:00–21:00
Passport to the Shredder, or On the Other Side of Bureaucracy: A Workshop on Generative Poetry by Ivan Netkachev
December 17, 14:00–17:00
“Concluding Statements” from participants of Alek Petuk’s Seminar on playing Dark Souls
December 15, 19:00–20:30
A discussion about the importance of digital adaptation of sites for users with disabilities
December 7–21
Harun Farocki Operational Images
A series of seminars and practical sessions
December 7–20
Harun Farocki Operational Images
December 4, 16:00–18:00
The Genesis of Cyberculture. A Cyberfeminist View: Seminar by Irina Aktuganova and Alla Mitrofanova
December 4, 13:00¬–15:00
Women’s Self-Organized Communities of the 1990s. A Cyberfeminist View: Lecture by Irina Aktuganova and Alla Mitrofanova
November 24–December 1, 19:00
A Place for Writing: A creative laboratory by the collective Digital Object Alliance
November 13–December 7, 2022
Computer literacy course for third agers
November 9, 19:00
A performative non-lecture by the art collective Digital Object Alliance
November 8 — December 3
Alek Petuk’s seminar on the game Dark Souls
November 5, 15:00–16:30
Presentation of The Motherboard, a project by Mascha Danzis
October 23, 14:00–16:30
A lecture and a masterclass on neural networks and image generation
September 18, 17:00–18:30
Game session with Mikhail Maksimov creator of the video game The Tool
June 10–November 19, 13:00–16:00
Playing the Game: A Game by Asya Volodina
Saturday, October 23
Performance and public talk Hydrogen City
October 19, 19:00–20:30
Science Fiction Reading Group
September 22
Film screening: World on a Wire
August 12
Discussion of Lu Yang’s performance
DOKU Giant – LuYang the Destroyer
August 4, 19:00–20:30
World on a Wire Dialogues
July 11
Stream of the survival game Still Alive
Sunday, 23, 30, May
Performance by Lu Yang
May 24–26
A series of remote presence events in a digital object by Aleksei Taruts
March 19–21, 18:00–20:00
Digital Workers’ Conference
Until October 15
Open call to select participants for a performance by the multimedia artist Lu Yang
June 30
Science Fiction Reading Group
April 16
A Performative Lecture by Kirill Savchenkov
April 12
A practical session by Sofa Skidan
February 23
Letsplay by Aleksei Taruts and Sergey Babkin
February 20
Letsplay by Sara Culmann
December 1
Sasha Puchkova’s Speculative Concilium
November 30
Performance by Sofa Skidan
November 29
A lecture by Daria Kalugina
November 23–24
Eco Jam Hackathon
November 15
A lecture by Alexander Vetushinsky
November 10
100 Games on Ecology. Postlecture and workshop
November 3
Public Talk by Jose Sanchez
October 17
Artist talk and Let's Play by Lu Yang
October 6
Let's Play by Dasha Nasonova and Dima Vesnin
October 4
Public talk with Hideo Kojima
September 28
A lecture by Sergey Rozhin
July 22
Let’s Play. Lawrence Lek: 2065
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