Garage Digital

About the program

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

Garage Archive Commissions

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

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

Requirements

Artists and projects

OPEN CALL RESULTS

2021/2022

The Martian Word for World is Mother

Alice Bucknell

Fire Almanac, issue 2: Pangaea Ultima

Dmitry Gerchikov, Ekaterina Zakharkiv, Maksim Ilyukhin, Ivan Kurbakov

World on a wire

This joint project by the online platform Rhizome (New York) and Garage Digital comprises a series of discussions and a performance that explore simulation practices in digital art production.

Performance Hydrogen City is the new site-specific performance by Digital Object Alliance invites visitors to experience the materiality of a speculative world of the future through the possible embodiment of videogame logics. The performance took place at Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow as part of the joint program by Garage Digital and the online platform Rhizome for the international exhibition World on a Wire.

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)

About the project Trickle Down: A New Vertical Sovereignty by Helen Knowles

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

21:00, Garage Screen Summer Cinema

Gigant DOKU - LuYang the Destroyer

The multimedia performance Gigant DOKU - LuYang the Destroyer by Lu Yang (he/him), which will be presented online and offline as part of the Garage Digital program, is an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of the “digital body,” produced in collaboration with Russian dancers and electronic musicians.

Chinese multimedia artist Lu Yang creates fantastical, often painful, and shocking images enveloped in pop-culture aesthetics. His works represent death, (a)sexuality, and mental illness, as well as neural structures of natural and religious origin. Inspired by anime, videogame, and sci-fi subcultures, he makes 3D animations and installations that feature arcade machines, holograms, and neon objects, and collaborates with acclaimed performers, designers, experimental composers, robot producers, and pop stars.

Lu Yang’s works complement and synthesize each other, with new projects re-assembling his earlier studies in various multimedia formats. The performance at Garage is an example of his method and builds on his recent research into the digitization of the human body and mind, the technological representation of human individuality, and the regimes of presence at a distance. Exploring these themes, Lu Yang turns to motion and facial motion capture technology, builds his own virtual worlds, and creates his digital avatar, DOKU.

For his Moscow performance Lu Yang, in collaboration with MetaObjects, has created a special world in which Russian dancers will improvise as DOKU to DJ sets by Moa Pillar.

During the two 30-minute performances, various dancing styles processed used mockup technology will create different versions of the artist’s world. The performances will take place at Garage Screen summer cinema and will be broadcast on the Garage YouTube channel.

Garage Digital Patron: Aksenov Family Foundation

SCHEDULE

Sunday, May 23
21:00
Garage Screen Summer Cinema / Garage Youtube channel

Sunday, May 30
21:00
Garage Screen Summer Cinema / Garage Youtube channel

Lu Yang

(b. 1984 Shanghai) — (he/him) is a multimedia artist who makes animation, video games, hybrid installations, and performances. Lu Yang studied New Media Art at China Academy of Art in Shanghai and has taken part in exhibitions at UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou (Paris), M Woods Museum (Beijing), Spiral Cultural Centre (Tokyo), National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Fridericianum (Kassel), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Cleveland Museum of Art, and Tampa Museum of Art, as well as in the 9th and 12th Shanghai Biennale (2012, 2018), the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2014), the 56th Venice Biennale (China Pavilion, 2015), the Liverpool Biennial (2016), the International Digital Art Biennial in Montreal (2016), and the 6th Athens Biennale. He lives and works in Shanghai.

Nikita Belykh

(b. 1993, Angarsk) — is a dancer and choreographer. He studied acting at the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS, Moscow) and is currently an MA student at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has been choreographing dance performances and performing since 2013. From 2017 to 2020 he choreographed performances in the Theater of the Young Viewer in Kazan and Krasnoyarsk, the Center for Drama and Directing in Moscow, Vologda Drama Theater, and Du Verre Space in Paris. He is a teacher at the Moscow Art Theater School, GITIS, and Gogol’ School in Moscow. He lives and works in Moscow and Venice.

Moa Pollar

is a project by music producer, sound designer, and teacher Fedor Pereverzev, co-founder of the company Monoleak, which has recorded music for NASA, Samsung, and others.

HMOT (Stas Sharifullin)

is a composer and artist who works with sound and its cultural contexts. He is a candidate of philology and head of the master’s program Sound Art & Sound Studies at the HSE Art and Design School. He lives and works in Moscow.

Banzay BNZ (Andrey Kovalenko)

Russian dancer, performer, educator, contemporary dance choreographer. Studied at the Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture. His own dance style takes the source from professional mastery of oriental martial arts (taekwondo) and various dance directions: from classical and folk dance to street dance. Founder and movement director of Russian FarForYo dance company. Winner of numerous Russian and international dance competitions. Lives and works in Moscow.

Machinic Infrastructures of Truth, 2020

Anna Engelhardt

All Dungeons Will Fall. 2020

Aleksei Taruts

Outsourcing Paradise, 2020

eeefff

Never Agency, 2020

Sara Culmann

The Ultimate Science, 2020

Valentin Golev

March 19–21, 18:00–20:00

Digital Workers’ Conference

The Tool

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.

Speedrun. Video Games in Contemporary Art

Video games and contemporary art

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

Reborn. 2020

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