IRENE CAESAR (ИРИНА ЦЕЗАРЬ): VASA GALLERY TALK (2009)
IRENE CAESAR: A NEW HISTORY OF IDEAS
DECEMBER 19, 2009
http://www.vasa-project.com/archive/video/caesar.php
Irene Caesar is a Russian born and NYC based philosopher, mystic, poet and conceptual artist who works in the traditional and digital media. Her early art work and writings in Russia in the late 80’s and early 90’s were predominantly esoteric and linked to the various mystical schools and especially theosophy of the turn of the 20th century. At the present moment she creates art works and writings both on the esoteric and exoteric levels.
Her most recent exoteric project is “A New History of Ideas in Pictures” (2008-2009) representing absurd performances documented by photography. She defines the objective of this project as the re-valuation of the major concepts of the human civilization, and, more precisely, as the ideological subversion and diversion of the outdated values that bring suffering to the millions of people.
Irene Caesar: Push, the First Social Motion
THE VA
SA PROJECT VISION
The VASA Project in an online media studies workshop connecting individuals and communities on a global scale who have interest in media studies, photography, digital media arts, and sound.
The Internet and developments in digital technologies have created a world where traditional boundaries of space, time, and forms of social interactions and production are in transition.
To meet its vision, the VASA Project supports online media-related workshops; gallery talks by artist, critics, historians, and theoreticians; curated exhibitions; an e-bookstore; "Transmedia" the VASA Project blog, and other media-related blog projects and discussion groups.
The VASA Project is based upon the union of two familiar environments: the traditional workshop model and networked digital media technology.
Time, space, and geography have been compressed to create a rich multi-cultural learning environment.
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The VASA Project was started in July of 2009 and is directed by its founder Roberto Muffoletto.
Roberto holds a MFA in Visual Studies from the Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY at Buffalo, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was the founder of CEPA Gallery and Workshop in Buffalo, New York, publisher and editor of Camera Lucida: A journal on the criticism of photography, editor of Frame|Work: A journal on images and culture, published by the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, creator and director of an online graduate program in New Media and Global Education at Appalachian State University, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland. Roberto has exhibited and published his creative work in various formats.