15.10.10 at 7 30 pm at LABORATORIA will run discussion NEW AS A PROTESTOR NEW AS A LURE?

Is it possible to consider modern science-based technological practice as a resource of liberation or as a maleficentlure distracting us from socio-political issues of modern society?
Participants: Mikhail Burtsev, mathematician, Zlata Ponirovskaya, artist, Olga Shishko, media art expert, Andrey Vaganov, editor of application "Science-NG" Nezavisimaya gazeta

Moderator: Dmitry Bulatov, curator INTERNET-EAR project, art theorist

15.10.10 LABORATORIA simultaneously with international science art institutions present global premiere of INTERNET-EAR project by legendary cyberpunk artist  Stelarc. Russian visitors along with the audience from the different countries have opportunity to test a communication line through which the owner of the THIRD EAR plans to communicate with the world. Project site - http://www.earonarm.net/

The crew members of Art&Science expedition to the Arctic CAPE FAREWELL from Russia are Daria PARKOMENKO, director and curator of LABORATORIA Art&Science Space, Mikhail DURNENKOV, playwright, Marina MOSKVINA, writer, and Leonid TISHKOV, artist. You can read their reports about the journey at the expedition blog - http://www.capefarewell.com/2010expedition/2010/09/18/for-the-first-time/