Event 2: Tonya Toft Ag & Mogens Jacobson

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 I was fortunate in attending the L*A*S*E*R event "Transition Regimes: Culture of Media Art 1" which had the guest speakers, Tanya Toft Ag and Mogens Jacobsen. 

Medialab AAU Aalborg. L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8.

Medialab AAU Aalborg. L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8.

Tonya Toft Ag:

    Tanya is a curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer who looks into the trajectories of media arts and urban change. In the event, she questioned many ideas and perspectives which truly influence and challenged my mindset as they were questions I would have not ever considered. She brings new definitions of what art and technology could look like with the human development aspect of urbanization. Not only that as our world is growing into the spectrum of smart, innovative, technological, rationalized futures, she believes we should also be considering art's sensibilities, inquiries, and political aesthetics. Especially how these combinations can change our world to a more sustainable and more critically and ethically conscious reality.

Medialab AAU Aalborg. L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8.
Mogens Jacobsen

    Mogens is a DAnish media artist that works with digital art, objects, and installations that focus primarily on temporal and material aesthetics of systems, processes, instructions, and code. His artwork also takes the form of machines and devices that look into the technology and everyday life coping with technology. One of the interesting inventions/projects was the IBM machine. This machine was a form of communication that had a display with parts similar to a TV to show something. It had many interactive settings that the person looking at the artwork could manipulate. One were knobs that were able to turn in any direction along with being able to print out receipts for the viewers of what they wanted. 

Medialab AAU Aalborg. L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8.

References: 

“Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art | SH Events.” Scandinavia House, https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/digital-dynamics/. Accessed 13 May 2022.
Mogens Jacobsen: About. https://mogensjacobsen.dk/show_about.php. Accessed 13 May 2022.
“Mogens Jacobsen.” BLACK BOX GALLERY, http://www.blackboxgallery.dk/mogens-jacobsen.html. Accessed 13 May 2022.
“Tanya Toft Ag | Lecturer.” Urban Media Art Academy, http://urbanmediaart.academy/lecturer/tanya-toft-ag/. Accessed 13 May 2022.

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