Civil Society:Maja Kuzmanović

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Maja Kuzmanović je generalistica - medijska umjetnica, dizajnerica iskustava, spisateljica, predavačica i voditeljica procesa – sklona kontemplaciji, kultivaciji i oblikovanju alternativnih budućnosti. Osnivačica je i predsjednica FoAM-a, paneuropske mreže transdisciplinarnih laboratorija na raskrižju umjetnosti, znanosti, prirode i svakodnevnog života. U FoAM-u Maja provodi futurološke eksperimente i razvija spekulativnu kulturu. Karijeru je započela kao istraživač i dizajner na Nizozemskom institutu za matematiku i informatiku (CWI) i GMD (danas Frauenhoffer) u Njemačkoj. Bila je voditeljica odjela Future Arts Corporation, belgijskog istraživačkog instituta Starlab. Maja je predavala i razvijala nastavni program za odjel Design Technology na umjetničkoj akademiji u Utrechtu (NL). Studirala je teoriju umjetnosti i dizajna na umjetničkoj akademiji u Veneciji (Italija), futurologiju dizajna na umjetničkoj akademiji u Utrechtu (Nizozemska), interaktivne medije na Fakultetu umjetnosti, medija i tehnologije (Nizozemska) i na Sveučilištu u Portsmouthu (Velika Britanija), te društveno vodstvo na Sveučilištu Harvard, Kennedy School of Government (SAD). Majini radovi predstavljani su širom svijeta, uključujući Venecijanski biennale arhitekture, konferenciju Anticipation, Transmediale, V&A, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Europalia, Design March i SIGGraph. Njeni su tekstovi objavljeni u akademskim časopisima i kulturnim publikacijama kao Journal of Futures Studies, Futures, IEEE Multimedia, Mediated Environments, Fourth Door Review, Digital Art and Culture, Ars Vitae i Art in the Biotech Era. Maja provodi većinu vremena između raznih kultura i stručnih područja, istraživajući društvene, znanstvene, ekološke i ekonomske promjene. Život s neizvjesnošću srž je njezine kreativne prakse. Bez obzira da li radi na ekološkoj problematici, osmišlja moguće slike budućnosti ili organizira imerzivne događaje, Majin rad se temelji na brizi. Na brizi za živu, neživu i djelomično živu materiju.

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Maja Kuzmanovic is a generalist — media artist, experience designer, writer, speaker and process facilitator with a fondness for contemplation, cultivation and futurecrafting. She is the founder and president of FoAM, a pan-European network of transdisciplinary labs at the intersection of art, science, nature and everyday life. At FoAM Maja prototypes possible futures and conducts experiments in speculative culture. She began her career as a researcher and designer in residence at the Dutch Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) and GMD (now Frauenhoffer) in Germany. She was the department head of the Future Arts Corporation of the Belgian blue-sky research institute Starlab. Maja lectured and developed the curriculum for the Design Technology department at the University of the Arts Utrecht (NL). Her academic background includes art theory and design from the Accademia di belle Arti Venezia (IT), BA in design futures at the Utrecht School of the Arts (NL), MA in interactive media from the Faculty of Art, Media & Technology (NL) and the University of Portsmouth (UK), and a certificate of executive education in public leadership from the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (USA). Maja's work has been presented worldwide including the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Anticipation Conference, Transmediale, V&A, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Europalia, Design March and SIGGraph. Her writing has been published in academic journals and cultural publications such as the Futures Journal, Journal of Futures Studies, IEEE Multimedia, Mediated Environments, Fourth Door Review, Digital Arts and Culture, Ars Vitae, Art in the Biotech Era, and others. Maja spends most of her time in between fields and cultures, on the lookout for emergent patters of change. Living with uncertainty is at the core of her creative practice.Whether working with environmental turbulence, re-imagining possible futures or hosting participatory events, Maja's work is grounded in care. Care for animate, inanimate and partially animate matter.

References

English

• Communing with the desert article by ASU Now. Published 20191003. https://asunow.asu.edu/20191003-solutions-communing-desert
• Review of the Dust & Shadow vinyl by Neural Magazine. Published 2020/05 http://neural.it/2020/05/foam-dust-shadow/
• Attunement to the Desert event featuring FoAM (Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney) and Timothy Morton. Introductions by Ron Broglio, Jeffrey Cohen and Adam Nocek. By ASU Now. Published 20190923. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uayQXx13n3U&feature=youtu.be
• Podcast by Kunstenpunt. With excerpts from the Art of Futuring lecture and an interview with Maja Kuzmanovic. By Delphine Hesters and Joris Janssens. Published 20190801. https://www.kunsten.be/nu-in-de-kunsten/beluister-onze-eerste-podcastaflevering-over-futurologie/
• In anticipation of things already present. Video of the Keynote by Maja Kuzmanovic at the Anticipation 2017 conference in London. Published October 2019. https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/culture-language-and-literature/anticipation-conference-2017-maja-kuzmanovic
• Interview:FoAM by Speculative Edu. Published 20191009. https://speculativeedu.eu/interview-foam/
• TerraFiction Mini documentary by Fiber (featuring an interview with Maja Kuzmanovic and an excerpt from FoAM-Earth's lecture-performance). Published July 2019. https://www.fiber-space.nl/news/watch-coded-matters-terra-fiction/
• FoAM as a case study of future design education in Blueprint issue 360: Learning Labs by Veronica Simpson. Published 201809 https://libarynth.org/_media/veronica_simpson_blueprint_360_201809.pdf in http://www.designcurial.com/aboutus/blueprint-home-page.html
• Cloud Pergola: The Croatian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale by Kaley Overstreet for ArchDaily. Published 20180604. https://www.archdaily.com/895711/cloud-pergola-the-croatian-pavilion-at-the-2018-venice-biennale
• Improving Reality 2013 by ND Kane. Published on Medium 20130913. https://medium.com/@nd_kane/improving-reality-2013-35ee00e352de
• Improving Reality 2013 - Maja Kuzmanovic by Lighthouse Arts. Video published 20131030. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEX8q4HUkI
• Electrifying Trends by Sarah McFadden. Published in The Bulletin, October 2010. https://libarynth.org/_media/electrifying_trends_the_bulletin_october_2010.pdf
• The possibility of a single culture by Michael Cobley. Published 20150828. https://michaelcobley1.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/the-possibility-of-a-single-culture/
• Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times in the Futures Journal. Published in Futures Volume 86, February 2017, Pages 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.007 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328716301379
• GroWorld Vegetal Culture by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney in Fourth Door Review. Full article on the libarynth. Published 2016. http://www.fourthdoor.co.uk/fourthdoor_2013/docs/digitalis/FDR9_foam.pdf
• Why we use the lab approach by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney for the Gulbenkian Foundation. Published March 2017. https://content.gulbenkian.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/10/01175135/Gulbenkian-FOAM-Summary-2pp.pdf
• Podcast with Jennifer Leonard on Worldchanging. Archived on archive.org. Published 2007. http://salvaeco.org/podcast-maja-kuzmanovic-at-luminous-green.html
• Luminous Green by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20070501 https://we-make-money-not-art.com/yesterday_i_att/
• Dr Sha Xin Wei. Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter. MIT Press, 2013. https://www.academia.edu/963395/Poeisis_and_Enchantment_in_Topological_Matter_chapter_1_
• Dr Christopher Salter. Entangled. MIT Press 2010 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/entangled
• DesignMarch 2013 - 03 Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney HD by Design March Reykjavik. Published 20150810. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCUJOmrCug&feature=youtu.be
• Press release from the World Economic Forum. Published 20060109 https://libarynth.org/_media/wef-ygl_press_release.pdf

Bosnian/Croatian

• Održano performativno predavanje FoAM-a „The overlooked and the unheard“ u Savičenti by Paola Albertini in Kultur.Istra. Published 20190701 http://kulturistra.hr/?p=102631
• Teza Published January 2020 https://libarynth.org/_media/teza_02_w.pdf
• Dozivljaji za sva osjetila by Diana Setka in Gloria. Published 20180621 https://libarynth.org/_media/gloria-20180621.pdf
• Open Sauces, hrana kao spoj umjetnosti i znanosti by Lara Bagar for Zoom. Published 20110528. https://libarynth.org/_media/open_sauces_zoom_20110528.pdf
• Istarski gradici idealna scena za kompjutorske igre by Drazen Majic in Glas Istre. Published 20020918 https://libarynth.org/_media/plot_glas_istre_20020918.pdf
• Zena za buducnost by Lara Bagar in Zoom. Published October 2006. https://libarynth.org/_media/zoom-2006.pdf
• Interview with Maja Kuzmanovic by Drasko Ivezic in Feral Tribune "Bog i Hrvati" The front page archived on archive.org. Published 20061101. https://libarynth.org/_media/feral_tribune-nov-2006_prepress.pdf
• Stvaralastvo bi trebalo biti dostupno svima i svatko bi na neki nacin mogao biti umjetnik by Asim Cabaravdic in Financijski Vijesnik. Published 20010212. https://libarynth.org/_media/financijski_vijesnik_20010212.pd

Dutch

• Doe beter doe niets by Maja Kuzmanovic en Nik Gaffney in Rekto:verso. Published 2051124. https://www.rektoverso.be/artikel/doe-beter-doe-niets-floreren-onzekerheid
• Keep it Simple by Kira Van den Ende in Durf Falen. Published Lannoo 2016. https://libarynth.org/_media/durf_falen_kira_van_den_ende.pdf

Slovak

• FoAM v Kibli by Petra Simoncic in Spekter. Published April 2005. https://libarynth.org/_media/foam_v_kibli_spekter_april_2005.pdf
• Simulacija fizicnega in fizicnost simulacije by Klavdija Sipus in Zurnal. Published 20050418. https://libarynth.org/_media/trg_zurnal_20050318.pdf

Serbian

• Prakticne Utopije transl. by Goran Stankovic for Gradina. Published 62-63/2014. https://libarynth.org/_media/prakticne_utopije_gradina_2014.pdf