RMIT Culture and the Imaging Futures Lab are delighted to present a performative lecture by iconic creative researcher Rosa Menkman IN REAL LIFE!
ROSA MENKMAN ‘Refractions of Light and Time’: 12:30-1:30 Tuesday 8 August 2023 at RMIT Kaleide Theatre.
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Menkman is the literal face of the Glitch art movement with her self-portrait in ‘Vernacular of File Formats‘ that has attained cult status. Her artistic research on the cultural implications of media resolution standards makes a unique and exciting contribution to media theory. She has a special focus on glitches, cyclops, impossible rainbows and unnamed colour.
At RMIT on 8 August, Menkman will present a performative lecture on ‘Refractions of Light and Time’, her mixed media work that survey’s the Cyclop’s Cave in Cypres. In the work, the cave is excavated through a mythological, historical and folkloric lens. As the work unfolds, a leaky stratigraphy of light and time becomes apparent.
Since the summer of 2022, Menkman has been travelling the Mediterranean to learn about three Cyclopes lineages. Cyclopes are famous mythical creatures, known for their gargantuan physique and single round eye. However, beyond their most famous features, and maybe a name born by a single Cyclops, little about them is known. In fact, Cyclopes seem shrouded in mystery, sparking general questions such as: Where do contemporary Cyclopes live, and how do Cyclopes perceive the world?
Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher. Her work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media. As a compendium to this research, she published the Glitch Moment/um (INC, 2011), a little book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts.
Menkman developed and highlighted the politics of resolution setting further in a second book titled Beyond Resolution (i.R.D., 2020). In this book, she describes how the standardization of resolutions is not only a process that promotes efficiency, order and functionality, but also involves compromises and the obfuscation of alternative possibilities.
In 2019 Menkman won the Collide, Arts at CERN Barcelona award, which inspired her recent research into what makes things im/possible. With a special focus on im/possible images. Through this research, Menkman aims to find new ways to understand, use and perceive through the use of, and interaction with, our technologies.
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