On Stumbling: A Lecture by Lera Kononchuk

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April 2–27

A Procedural World. From Random Wanderings to a Collective Intelligence: A workshop in Creative Programming

Station Radio. Season 4

Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova

August 3–August 10

Overcoming Reading: A Series of Digital Literature Workshops by Ivan Netkachev

Anna Soz Practical Independence

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NOBODY KNOWS FOR CERTAIN

Afrah Shafiq

August 27 – September 17

Game of Life. Cellular Automata in Art, Science, Architecture, and Games: A Creative Programming Course

Computer Class: World Gone By

Sessions in the computer class World Gone By

The computer class will reflect on contemporary digital practices and environments considering a specific historical moment and the various stories that have shaped them.

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

Sessions in the computer class World Gone By

April 4, 20:00–21:00

A Paper by Max Naimark

March 24 — April 7

A Seminar by Ellina Gennadievna

Alek Petuk’s seminars on the game Dark Souls

In the interdisciplinary seminar devoted to the game Dark Souls, participants will discuss the gameplay, read texts related to the game’s themes, and rethink the collective gaming process through autofiction, graphic art, and performance.
The main goal of the seminar is to transform gaming practice, which is casually believed to be a nonimportant recreational activity, into a training ground for the production of knowledge and social and cultural studies.

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

April 15, 17:00–18:00

On Stumbling: A Lecture by Lera Kononchuk

Garage Glass Room

Soulslike games are known for being difficult. Players often die and return to the same places, accumulating gestural experience and having to overcome themselves more than anything. Playing Dark Souls can be imagined as a series of subjective stumbles, which is the main experience of the game.

As part of Alek Petuk’s seminar The Door Opens From the Other Side, the researcher and cultural studies expert Lera Kononchuk will read a paper explaining her experience of stumbling on the political plane.

“I held my tongue, coughed, tripped, overcame the lump in my throat, was paralyzed, blocked, interrupted by a chuckle. We will talk about the political meaning of interrupting the correspondence between sign and meaning through artistic works” (Lera Konochuk).

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Lera Kononchuk

is a curator, teacher, and researcher of contemporary culture and art. She is head of the mediation department at V-A-C Foundation and GES-2 House of Culture. She is a graduate student in the School of Art and Design at the Higher School of Economics, a mentor at Open Studios at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, and teaches at the BAZA Institute. Her work has been published in the journals Sinii divan and Moscow Art Magazine and on the sites aroundart.org, SPECTATE, K.R.A.P.I.V.A., syg.ma, and others.

April 9, 15:00–17:00

An Extended Lecture by Anatoly Osmolovsky and Alek Petuk

April 2, 15:00–17:00

Coincidental Institute Stream of the Game Dark Souls: Remastered

December 17, 14:00–17:00

“Concluding Statements” from participants of Alek Petuk’s Seminar on playing Dark Souls

November 8 — December 3

Alek Petuk’s seminar on the game Dark Souls

Station Radio. Season 2

Harun Farocki Operational Images

Garage Digital presents a program of video essays by the German director and artist Harun Farocki. The program will be accompanied by a series of seminars and practical sessions during which we will explore themes raised in the films.

December 7–20

Harun Farocki Operational Images

December 7–21

Harun Farocki Operational Images

A series of seminars and practical sessions

Fragile Archive

Outside All Dimensions. Contemporary Art Practices and Journalism in Russia

The program aims to support research projects by Russian and international authors writing in Russian and to develop the press as artistic media.

Garage Digital stopped working on this project.

Outside All Dimensions

A program in support of hybrid research projects

The new season of the Garage Digital grant program invites artists and researchers to explore the idea of multiple coexisting worlds and ways of creating them, drawing on Donna Haraway’s theory of “situated knowledges.”

Grant program

Situated Worlds

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Artists and projects

OPEN CALL RESULTS

2021/2022

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Alice Bucknell

Fire Almanac, issue 2: Pangaea Ultima

Dmitry Gerchikov, Ekaterina Zakharkiv, Maksim Ilyukhin, Ivan Kurbakov

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DISCUSSION 1. SARA CULMANN (RUSSIA) AND THEO TRIANTAFYLLIDIS (USA)

DISCUSSION 2. MIKHAIL MAKSIMOV (RUSSIA) AND TABOR ROBAK (USA)

DISCUSSION 3. TIMUR SI-QIN (USA), ALYONA SHAPOVALOVA (RUSSIA), AND ALISA SMORODINA (RUSSIA)

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October 19, 19:00–20:30

Science Fiction Reading Group

August 12

Discussion of Lu Yang’s performance

DOKU Giant – LuYang the Destroyer

July 11

Stream of the survival game Still Alive

Sunday, 23, 30, May

Performance by Lu Yang

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Anna Engelhardt

All Dungeons Will Fall. 2020

Aleksei Taruts

Outsourcing Paradise, 2020

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Never Agency, 2020

Sara Culmann

The Ultimate Science, 2020

Valentin Golev

March 19–21, 18:00–20:00

Digital Workers’ Conference

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Mikhail Maksimov

Catastrophe, an episode from the video game Yuha’s Nightmares

Yulia Kozhemyako (supr)

Speedrun. Video Games in Contemporary Art

A selection of materials on the intersection between video games and game development using contemporary art practices.

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Dasha Nasonova

Handmade Pixels Reader

Dima Vesnin

In-Game Photography

Konstantin Remizov

(a very brief) GAME STUDIES READER

Daria Kalugina

Until October 15

Open call to select participants for a performance by the multimedia artist Lu Yang

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German Lavrovsky

Animating the Archive

Afrah Shafiq

June 30

Science Fiction Reading Group

Eco Jam hackathon

Documentation

Xerces Blau, 2019

James Ferraro and Ezra Miller

Those Who, 2019

Sascha Pohflepp

Russian Ferations, 2019

Posthuman Studies Lab

FOOOD 2050, 2014–2019

Gints Gabrāns

Materialism, a sculpture on reverse engineering

Studio Drift

April 16

A Performative Lecture by Kirill Savchenkov

IAM, 2018

Exhibition project

Those Who

Matthew Lutz and Alessia Nigretti

The Coming World Game Club

An extensive public program includes a series of Let's Play events run by artists, art and culture critics, and game studies experts, which will also be live-streamed.

Lu Yang

Artist talk and Let's Play