This month, Pivô will take part in a workshop to be held in Venice, Italy, where groups of artists, curators and more will collaborate on project ideas to help shape the future of art in a decentralised world.

Pivô’s Artistic Director Fernanda Brenner will be moderating a session with Storm Janse van Rensburg, Zeitz MOCAA’s Senior Curator, in which participating artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Lina Mazzanett will speak on Transdisciplinary Technologies: Thinking, Solutions, Inequality and Access.

The session is part of the inaugural in-person convening of this groundbreaking program that will bring together 30+ international artists, social innovators, and curators to imagine and build a more ethical, equitable digital future.

The event – and the larger Camp experience – will take place at the Venice Meeting Point, a platform established by Lightbox in 2015 to encourage international dialogue in contemporary art.

Unfinished Camp was conceived by curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist and author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó, Unfinished Camp’s network includes organizations at the forefront of visual art, digital innovation, and technology across the globe–including House of Electronic Arts; The Shed; LUMA Arles; Pivô; Serpentine; UCCA; Zeitz MoCAA; The Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI); and The High Line in New York.

More detailed information:

Date: Apr 20, 2022

from 3:30 to 5:30pm at The Venice Meeting Point

Transdisciplinary Technologies: Thinking, Solutions, Inequality and Access

Hosted by Pivô & Zeitz MoCAA

Featuring artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Lina Mazenett

Moderated by Fernanda Brenner and Storm Janse van Rensburg

At the same time, we have seen rapid advances in connectivity and ‘artificial’ intelligence; we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences and forms of communication which have been with us all along, unrecognized in the Western or Western-oriented worlds. Natural systems and other cosmological landscapes are slowly being perceived in their complexity and as a knowledge source by an increasing number of artists, scientists, and researchers working in transdisciplinary ways. Artists Lina Manzanett and Nolan Oswald Dennis are both concerned with the hidden (and often violent) structures that pre-determine the limits of our social and political imagination. Their work expands the most common definitions of ecology, technology, and intelligence to read technological systems alongside spiritual systems, combining political fiction with science fiction to build a meaningful and free relationship with the non-human, one based on solidarity, decentralization, and cognitive diversity.

More info: https://unfinished.com/camp/