Carole Vienna Forrester
Heraldic artist

Evolution of a Landscape, Peratata, Kefalonia.
38.1367° N, 20.5567° E (2015)

Using the colour information, time/date stamp from my digital photograph taken at Peratata and the location’s coordinates as base integers, this poster seeks to explore my emotional response to the landscape as recalled by memory.
A vista seen again through closed eyes, somewhat like a retinal afterimage.
Personal emotions; vertigo, the structures falling away, the landscape itselffalling into the Ionian sea. St George’s Castle’s stormy past, connected by asuccession of different rulers.
Through the intense colours of an oppressively hot day, the lure of the
refreshing sea trickles through the mind and half-glimpses of sunlit bays androcky coves pervade the landscape, almost as mirages.
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Dr. Adam Zaretsky
ARA (Advanced Research Associate) at the Planetary Collegium, The I-Node, School of Art & Media, University of Plymouth

Oocyte Aesthetic, Human Design and Mission Creep (2015)

What are the cultural aesthetics of our ecological future? The decision to
design babies along a plurality of aesthetic lineages may have an impact on
the future of ecology and diversity of our planet. As competitively designed
meat puppets take up more and more of the terrestrial grazing land, we have
come to understand that we live on a planet dominated by humans and their
quest for acquiescence. Designed and cloned transgenic humans are limited
editions but they can reproduce and stabilize independently. Bred by industry,
transgen[ic].people may be foreign species brought forth from technological
sites but are they capable of initiating enough gene expression pattern
dissonance for us to want to live with them for generations to come.
Sometimes real-time congenital health cures are not enough. There is an
economy of aesthetics, which will drive the ecological affect of our engineered
future.

Oocyte Aesthetic, Human Design and Mission Creep

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Melnykova Ulyana
PhD researcher Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
Associate Professor at the Department of Design of the H. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

Find Yourself (2015)

The poster reveals the theme of the interaction between man and nature. Graphic work trying to recreate the logical structure of nature, its development and transformation. The man is a kind of puzzle, part of the integral structure. For the artist ‘s own creative growth coexists with nature, he is exploring it, trying to unravel as by intuition, and with the assistance of new technologies.
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Mariana Ziku
MA in Art Theory/ Curating. University of Ioannina, Greece.

Meta-Dynamics in Aesthetics: Operating Realities (2015)

The poster reflects on the inception of realities, their modes of existence and relationships from an aesthetics and systems theory point of view.
The layout is divided in three sections which discuss concepts of initiating and perceiving realities:
– in a broader cultural context starting with generative inquiries from 19th c.
– in the aesthetics discourse and
– in a flowchart which visualizes these processes.
What is the threshold of a reality coming into being? And when it comes and relegates to the past, how can we reset it to the present again? The poster is an induction into concepts fostered by our mental faculties in order to achieve
the ‘ultimate attainment’ in an analogy with the three VR’s: operating events, coroporeality and integral proximity.
The research directs to nodes where processes of world making have been critically perceived and contemplated. With the axiom inspired by Wittgenstein and Paul Ricoeur ‘Narrative is a distinct language-game which is part of an operation or a form of life’, cyberspace is added in the discourse as a proto-experimentation ground and access point on agencies, forms and
systems that may constitute the new nature.
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Regina Durig
PhD candidate at the Planetary Collegium,T-Node, School of Art & Media, University of Plymouth
Swiss Literature Institute, Berne University of the Arts

Next Nature Next Love (2015)

The writing piece Next Nature Next Love consists of 16 pages from Roland Barthe’s Lover’s Discourse. They are almost completely blackened, only a handful of words is left: one haïku per page. The use of Barthe’s emblematic text as material for new metaphoras for love reflects the current state of my research about love as a concept in Western writing and thinking. What does love explain? Is love always a reference? Is writing about love always constrained? Is it impossible to talk about love? Can love only be realized in fiction? Can love be seen as a heterotopia – existing neither here nor there – between the lines?
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Juliette Yuan
PhD candidate at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA Hub, School of Art & Media, University of Plymouth
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