Artist Talk & Workshop with Cezar Mocan | Connecting to peers
(Young Actions and Abstractions)

Free participation, registration required (15–20 spots available). Duration: 2 hours.

Artist Cezar Mocan is coming to Contemporar for a two-part session: a talk about his artistic practice (recent and ongoing research), followed by an interactive workshop where participants will work in small groups, starting from key questions about technology, nature, and landscape.

How do we perceive and imagine landscapes?
Where do the boundaries between artificial intelligence and natural environments begin to blur?
What does technological progress mean today?

📝 You can register here: https://fv0tdevi.forms.app/workshopcezarmocan

Cezar Mocan is a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer interested in the interplay between technology and the natural landscape. Using narrative generative systems—animated videos of infinite duration, real-time simulations built in game engines or other software—he creates worlds that recontextualize aspects of digital culture we take for granted, often in absurd ways, while investigating the power structures which mediate our relationship with technology. Drawing on media archaeology and art history, his research process traces the origins of our current thought patterns around (technological) progress.

His work has been exhibited with Inter/Access (Toronto), Office Impart (Berlin), Panke Gallery (Berlin), SPRING BREAK Art Show (New York), Currents New Media (Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe), The Wrong Biennale, BASE (Istanbul), Romanian Design Week (Bucharest), Infinite Objects and New York University. The real-time simulation work, Arcadia Inc. was recognized as a 2021 winner of the Lumen Prize in Art and Technology. Cezar Mocan holds a B.S. in Computer Science (2016) from Yale University and an M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunications (2021) from New York University, where he also served as a research resident and adjunct professor.

​​The project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.