Academic aspect of the Art-o-thlon will unfold within the framework of Edu-thlon and will take place as a sequence of weekly lectures conducted by the prominent researchers in the field of contemporary arts and culture. Student participants will be entitled to accrue a certain number of academic credits (ECTS) from the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Public weekly lectures will take place once a week and will be open for all interested. The themes and time of the lectures will be announced on this website.

Public lectures will be delivered by world-renowned lecturers in Vilnius Academy of Arts, Malunu street 3.

Skiagraphia - or, how Art and Education may turn Revolutionary
Hubertus von Amelunxen
22.07.2009

The talk will focus on the question of art and education. Skiagraphy was the first name given to photography. Can we take photography as an allegory for education? Art would be considered most powerful once it has left the narrow realm of the art world and entered the world of possibilities within the social, political and philosophical spheres.

Hubertus von Amelunxen
One of the most well-known contemporary philosophers of photography.
At present he is rector of the European School of Visual Arts and professor at the Canadian Center for Architecture and the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Hubertus von Amelunxen worked at the Muthesius Hochschule for Art, where he founded a Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. He is also founder of the International School of New Media in Lubeck.
Hubertus von Amelunxen has published a few books about the history of photography and trends in contemporary photography, he is also actively involved in the supervision of international exhibitions.

Similarities, Differences and Potentials Historical and emerging interdisciplinary Collaborations/Pratices in Arts/Media, Sciences and Research
Wolfgang Knapp
29.07.2009

The lecture will focus on historical developments and approaches to interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and scientists/scholars. Practices, rituals, myths, challenges and potentials in concepts of scientific and artistic research will be presented and discussed. The lecture will present international collaborations that realize research/exhibition projects, between art/media and, for example, biomedicine/ cultural studies, tourism, landscape design, art history, european ethnology, cultural anthropology, we did and do at the moment. What might be the potential of future collaborations? Is thinking and acting beyond sytems and methods a perspective for artists? How artist and scientist can profit within these advanced interdisciplinary studies? Is it fashionable to work in such contexts?

Wolfgang Knapp
Since 1988, he has been professor of the Berlin University of the Arts. He is author of many books about the teaching of art. Wolfgang Knapp is extensively involved in art projects with the handicapped. He has participated in many interdisciplinary academic projects in Finland, Japan, Norway, Oman, Syria, USA, China and other countries.

Affective Troubles in Media and Art
Marie-Luise Angerer
05.08.2009

From the very outset, digital media have been burdened with paradoxical promises. On the one hand, a tactile dimension was attributed to them that supposedly enabled an experience of images that differed from the optical-acoustic experience of analogue pictures. On the other hand, they were denied classical image status. As the logic went, the way they were made (their algorithmic calculation with no “natural” referent/signified) meant they were not pictures in the conventional sense, but only on the surface, while their substrate had long since departed from the pictorial domain.

Marie-Luise Angerer
Author of many books on identity, representational strategies of genders and feminism in art. Professor, currently rector of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). She worked at Salzburg Institute for Communication, was professor at Bochum University and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Marie-Luise Angerer is guest lecturer in Zurich, Ljubljana, Vienna, Budapest, Inssbruck, also in Australia, England, the USA and Canada.

Strategies for artistic collaboration
Ernest Truely
12.08.2009

Eero will show examples of collaboration from his experience in artist’s groups and collectives. We will discuss our specific experiences in working together in Art-o-thlon. We will explore skills and strategies for effective collaboration between artists.
Eero has worked in artist’s groups and collectives for over twenty years including X-Ray Café, Portland Organic Wrestling and Circle of Life. Eero currently lives and works in a Tallinn based art collective called “art container.”
Eero taught art in public high school in the U.S. .In 2000 his master’s thesis in art education was focused on Performance Art in High School Pedagogy. In 2007 he completed a master’s degree in fine art focusing on digital imaging and performance art.

Ernest Truely
Eero is a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts where he resides in Tallinn. He has given lectures in universities in the U.S. and Europe including: the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn New York and VASA Academy in Imatra, Finland.

Hybrid Space
Frans Vogelaar
19.08.2009

By fusing analog physical local spaces and global communication networks, hybrid spaces are created that participate to both the local and the global condition. The lecture introduces the potential of hybrid (combined analog/digital) spaces as creative environments enabling the communication, the migration of ideas and the development of a “hybrid” (both local and global) culture of experimentation.

Frans Vogelaar
Together with architect Elizabeth Sikiaridi he founded and runs the Hybrid Space Lab in Amsterdam. Currently Frans Vogelaar is head of the Hybrid Space Department at the Media Art Academy Cologne. He is consultant to the Dutch Government on efficient use of urban space in the information age.
Frans Vogelaar worked as architect at the Studio Alchymia (Allessandro Mendini) in Milan and co-operated with the star of architecture Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture Koolhaas, Roterdam).

Anti-lecture. Reticence: Sorry strategies for the End of the World
David Ellis
26.08.2009

…..tailing ‘enola gay’ the b.29 bomber that dropped ‘fatboy’ the death cargo on hiroshima in 1945 was another plane, part of the lesser-known history of the begining of the ‘age of anxiety’. coded simply as ‘plane 91′ but named and known by the crew as ‘nessacary evil’. a plane not carrying nuclear devices, but military photographers, camera-operators and researchers from eastman-kodak who were developing new thermo-nuclear proof lenses. ellis’s anti-lecture digresses on the land poloriod camera, super 8 film, the ‘death of shy’, the ubiquitous presence of the lense and being ‘deep background’ in ridley scott’s new film on the english myth of robin hood………….

David Ellis
London-based writer and supervisor, who together with BBC writer Hattie Naylor founded the “Puzzle Club”. During his creative career David Ellis has actively co-operated with artists such as Jonas Mekas, Ben Northover, Louis Bennasi, Andrea Dworkin, Ken Hollings, Richard Kilgour, Stephen Barber, Angelo Madonna, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Alaknanda Samartha, Simon Tyszko.
www.davidpaulellis.blogspot.com