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Teuta Gatolin [HR] : Magical objects: Nature, scanners, and companions
In this workshop, we will be exploring what “errors” can be found by means of scannography (photography made with digital scanners) in materials, movements, objects, textures, compositions, intentions or gaze – and what these errors have to say.
We’ll be using materials and objects found in nature (like plants, horns, stones, seeds, twigs…and tiny parts of e-waste) alongside objects that can confuse our or the scanner’s vision – such as reflective foils, deforming lenses, mirrors and other tricky shiny things. We won’t be shaping an image, we’d go searching for it together.
This workshop is not so concerned with the technological aspects of glitch, but is centred upon an attempt to imagine and un-imagine what we think of when we think of “nature” – using glitch and error as tools in this world-building and fable-making. By searching for errors in a group setting – or glitching with companions, both human and non-human ones – we’ll attempt to pry open our narratives on nature, how we define it, and where we got those definitions from.
The workshop doesn’t require any previous knowledge. There will be a short talk at the beginning covering basic ideas about species entanglement, speculative fabulation and worlding as presented in works by Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing and other writers/artists involved with ecology, eco-feminism and related branches of thinking/doing.
Teuta Gatolin
Teuta Gatolin is an intermedia artist based in Zagreb, Croatia.
In her work she is concerned with chaos, entanglements of various kind and things that live undefined between other defined things. Her artworks are often process-based and spawn iterations of themselves, realized in collaboration with others. Currently working on topics of eco-feminism, climate crisis and species entanglement.
