The Garden of Synthetic Delights – on immersive multimedia exhibitions

Guest: Cristina Bodnărescu, artist new media, co-founder The Ethics of Joy, a master’s student in the CESI program “Society, Multimedia, and Performing Arts”
Organized and moderated by: Assistant Professor Ana Negoiță, Ph.D., and Professor Laura Mesina, Ph.D.

The Project The Garden of Synthetic Delights proposes a posthumanist interpretation of the relationship between humans and technology, approached through transdisciplinary practices and emerging technologies. In practice, a multidisciplinary team combines visual arts, design, music, programming, 3D modeling and printing, electronics, AI, VR, and scenography to create an immersive artistic experience in virtual reality, open access to a new audience, and integrate digital art into education. During the event, Cristina Bodnărescu will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the project and present the curatorial concept, explaining how the works explore the relationships between the human, the non-human, and the technological, the new forms of sensibility generated by the interactivity between humans, art, and technology, and how the artists involved in the exhibition integrate the body, perception, and affective ecology into a post-natural framework. The exhibition, which features nine art installations, including five newly created immersive installations, was curated by Ioana Iuna Șerban (Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest), who holds a CESI PhD in Humanities and Arts/Philology.

Project co-funded by AFCN. Institutional partnership with the Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI).