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GAC, Clockwork Voltage, NAE Collective – Collaborative Aspects of Digital Technologies w/ Irena Borić
This panel presents various artistic positions that embrace collaborative strategies, shared approaches, and communal potential of emerging technologies. Working in a collective provides some kind of alternative to the dominant artistic and social paradigms. How collaborative ties create symbolic, intellectual and political space in which solidarity and diversity of opinion comes about? How can artists banding together contribute to better working conditions and expanding one’s own intellectual and technological horizons? How can new technologies be incorporated in common experience and action?
Participants: Thomas Collet (FR/BE; Glitch Artists Collective), Matija Dolenc (SI; Clockwork Voltage), Tomislav Oliver and Goran Nježić (HR; NAE Collective)
Moderator: Irena Borić
Chepertom, also known as Thomas Collet, is a French artist born in 1995 and living in Brussels. He graduated in drawing from the École de la Cambre in Brussels in 2020, where he went on to teach digital art. Leaving printmaking behind, he turned to video, programming and glitch art, working from digital archives, satellite imagery and Google Earth captures, with a lasting fascination for industrial and logistical landscapes, ports, factories and cargo ships, where the sublime meets a sense of dread. Since 2023 his practice has extended into generative textile. An algorithm written in Processing translates the logic of the glitch into weaving structures, produced on a TC2 digital Jacquard loom. In the RUG series, the errors of the digital image become woven matter, thread by thread. The lineage runs from the punched card of 1804, ancestor of binary computing, to today’s file. His work has been shown at Kanal Centre Pompidou in Brussels, Structura in Sofia, Larsen Warner in Stockholm and Superchief Gallery in Los Angeles, and is held in public and private collections.
chepertom.net
Glitch Artists Collective is a group created with the intention to connect and promote established and emerging glitch artists from all around the world in addition to becoming a knowledge source for those interested in the art, intrigued by the aesthetic, and ESPECIALLY those who wish to learn how to glitch!
glitchartistscollective.tumblr.com
Primarily a guitarist and guitar teacher, lowlander (Matija Dolenc) is a techno producer and live performer exploring the more curious side of techno. Known for his heavy beats and inventive sound design, he uses his ever-growing modular synthesizer setup to create a perpetual sonic drive that leaves you restless and ready to dance. Many of his tracks have been released on prominent labels, including Italo Moderni (Adrian Marth) and Trauma Label (Robert Hoff). His music has been played by artists such as Dave the Drummer, Dax J, Richie Hawtin and Perc. Lowlander’s musical development is closely connected to Clockwork Voltage, a community of modular synthesizer enthusiasts with whom he regularly performs live at venues around Slovenia. He co-organises their annual festival and the Clockwork Voltage Goes Clubbing events at clubs in Ljubljana. He is also a promoter and technical crew manager at the Nindri Indri Festival in Murska Sobota. He was also a founding member of the notorious electro-punk band Ludovik Material.
clockworkvoltage.si/en/2024/11/23/lowlander-2
Clockwork Voltage brings together Slovenia’s modular synthesizer community and a vibrant network of creators working across different fields of art. The name of the community is an anagram of the title of Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange. “Clock” is also one of the fundamental elements of modular synthesis, driving changes in output voltages and synchronising different components of a system. The community’s primary purpose is to promote live performances. It addresses a gap in the local scene by creating opportunities for live modular performances, which require considerable experience and technical knowledge to execute successfully. Clockwork Voltage also organises an annual festival at a variety of venues, featuring international guests, as well as club events where community members perform live beat- and techno-oriented music. The breadth of the community is reflected in two compilation albums, Happy Little Voltages Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Created to promote local production, the compilations feature several Slovenian musicians and offer an extensive insight into the community’s current modular synthesizer output, showcasing a wide spectrum of musical approaches and forms of expression.
clockworkvoltage.si
Tomislav Oliver graduated with a degree in musicology and composition from the Music Academy in Zagreb. He continued his studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (with S. Winkler), ESMUC in Barcelona (with M. Sotelo), and KUG in Graz (with M. Ciciliani and F. Bedrossian). In 2023, he completed the IRCAM Cursus program (with P. Jodlowski). Hailing from the underground scene of extreme rock, electronics, and noise, he blends various genres in his music. At the center of his artistic interests is an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the aesthetics of kinetic art, literature, and linguistics. He collaborates with numerous artists from various fields, with an emphasis on experimenting with electronic music, sound design, and audiovisual projects. Since 2018, he has been an associate professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. From 2023 to 2027, he is one of the artistic directors of the Zagreb Music Biennial, a contemporary music festival.
www.instagram.com/oliver_fusnota
Goran Nježić graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts at the University of Rijeka. On the Croatian art scene, he works as a visual artist, filmmaker, and musician, and his work often develops through interdisciplinary and collaborative formats, with an emphasis on audiovisual practices. As an author and co-author, he has participated in the creation of numerous audiovisual projects presented in Seoul (South Korea), Dublin (Ireland), Zagreb (Zagreb Music Biennale), and at the Espace de Projection at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou in Paris. In his work, he explores the relationships between image, sound, space, and technology. He is a member of ULUPUH (the Croatian Association of Fine and Applied Artists), co-founder and producer at the B.A.K.A. Association for Art and Culture, which produces audiovisual works and cultural projects within the regional independent art scene, and a member of the interdisciplinary collective NAE, active in the fields of contemporary music and digital and visual arts.
www.instagram.com/goran_grey
NAE Collective is a collective of composers, performers, and new media artists dedicated to creating experimental art. It was founded in 2022, is based in Zagreb, and has been active since 2024. The collective’s founders are composer and live electronics performer Tomislav Oliver, cellist Vid Veljak, and percussionist Filip Merčep, clarinetist Branimir Norac, and visual artist Goran Nježić, who were later joined by Dutch drummer and sound artist Boy van Ooljen and composer and electronic music performer Ana Horvat. Drawing on a DIY ethic, the collective fosters close creative collaboration among its members, as well as with other composers and performers, with an emphasis on commissioning new works and developing new projects in the field of electroacoustic music and multimedia that encourage artistic innovation and expressiveness.
naecollective.org
The discussion is organized and moderated by Irena Borić.
Irena Borić is an art historian. She works as an independent curator and critic, but she is also working in temporary collectives on projects such as Politics of Feelings. Economies of love, 2012, Shame on you!, 2013-2016, and net.cube, 2015-2018, Symptoms of the Future, 2020. Curated exhibitions include Politics Within, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, 2014, My Land Has Palm Trees, Rijeka, 2014, Pipe Dream, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2015, Truth that Lies (with Renat Šparada), Impakt, Utrecht, 2019, Low frequencies of the Earth’s song, Galženica Gallery, 2019, Digital oxymoron, GT22, Maribor/MKC Split 2023/24, 26th Media Mediteranea festival : Umreženo more, 2024. She was a member of the biennial collective of the 32nd Graphic Biennale: Birth Criterion, Ljubljana, 2017. She stayed at curatorial residencies in Helsinki, 2011, Celje, 2012 and Vienna, 2015. She is one of the INCA press editors. She is a member of the Croatian section of AICA.
