{"id":788,"date":"2025-10-02T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:01:46","slug":"exhibition-folk-media-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/2025\/10\/02\/exhibition-folk-media-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: \u201cFolk Media in the Digital Age\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art exhibition of the<\/span> iDMAa Festival and Conference 2025 : \u201cFolk Media\u201d<\/b>
\n<\/b> International Digital Media and Art Association Conference 2025<\/span>
\n<\/span> Exhibiting art of internationally known artists that challenge folk and traditional narratives through digital contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

9-12 October 2025<\/b>
\n<\/b> Opening hours: 5-8 PM<\/span>
\n<\/span> Laird Norton Center for Art & Design<\/span>
\n<\/span> Winona State University, Winona, MN, USA<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span> Sponsored by <\/span>WSU Foundation.<\/b>
\n<\/b> Curated by Negin Ehtesabian & Patrick Lichty<\/span>
\n<\/span> With thanks to the Winona State Foundation, the Creative Digital Media program, the Communication & Media Department, the Department of Art & Design, Dr. Talan Memmott, Dr. Davin Heckman, & Winona State University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Featured Artists:<\/b> (Alphabetical Order)<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Afra Al Dhaheri (UAE) @afra_aldhaheri<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Almagul Menlibayeva (Germany\/ Kazakhstan) <\/span>@almagul.menlibayeva<\/a>
\nBibbe Hansen (USA) @bibbe.hansen\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Claudia Hart (USA) @claudhart\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>FUBAR\/Dina & Vedran Gligo (Croatia) @fubar_expo<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Genco Gulan (Turkey) @gencogulan<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Judith Carlin (USA) @judith_carlin<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Lee Wells (Greece\/USA) @lee_wells_art<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Michael Ang (Canada\/ UAE) @mangtronix\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Mina Cheon (USA\/South Korea) @minacheonstudio<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Mindaugas Gapsevicius- Miga (Germany\/Lithuania) @gapsevicious<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Nathan Shafer (USA- Alaska) @nathan_shaferak<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Nina Sumarac (Cyprus\/ Serbia) @ninaschumaratz<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sara Niroobakhsh (Canada\/ UAE\/ Iran) @saraniroobakhsh\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Talan Memmott (USA) @talmott\u00a0<\/a>
\nWalter Willems (Netherland\/UAE) @walterwillems<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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FM>iDA<\/b> invites audiences to explore how traditional folk narratives resonate with contemporary artists in the digital age. Each piece challenges conventions while offering fresh perspectives on identity, community, and culture. This showcase underscores iDMAa\u2019s commitment to pioneering cross-cultural dialogue in a rapidly evolving media landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this exhibition, we claim that folk media, the oral tales, the hand-made image, the communal song,\u00a0 ritual object, have not vanished in the age of digital spectacle. Instead, it transforms, disperses, and multiplies within digital networks. If folk media once traveled by footpaths and village squares, today it travels by internet and screens, but its core impulse remains: to tell, to bind, to remember, and to provoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Folk media survives because it answers timeless human needs\u2014sharing wisdom, hope, pain, fear, unity, worshipping or celebrating, sharing rituals, defining priorities of the time, and codifying collective memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The digital era amplifies these needs. Stories become shareable units, rituals migrate to online platforms, and communities flourish around micro-narratives, memes, and participatory media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s call it Transformation, Not Substitution. The tool shifts; from voice and gesture to code, algorithm, and interface.<\/span><\/p>\n

Folk Media as Digital-Matter:<\/b>
\n<\/span> Digital tools democratize authorship; a grandmother\u2019s tale can become a generative prompt, a grandmother\u2019s embroidered motif becomes a pixelated motif, a local tune becomes a looping sample. The archive expands from physical to virtual; Memory is no longer contained by borders; it circulates, mutates, and accumulates across communities and platforms throughout the entire world; leading to more similar online collective memories, and re-narrates every culture\/language, like old folkloric stories and songs. But this time, the access and borders of influence is unlimited by geography.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this vast inclusive meaning, political art, disability art and digital storytelling are included.<\/span><\/p>\n

If folk media once traveled by foot and memory, it now travels by code and cloud, and asks enduring questions: What do we remember together? Who gets to tell the story? How do we preserve authenticity while embracing transformation?<\/span><\/p>\n

More about iDMAa: https:\/\/idmaa.org\/<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact: pa************<\/span>@****<\/span>na.edu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Art exhibition of the iDMAa Festival and Conference 2025 : \u201cFolk Media\u201d International Digital Media and Art Association Conference 2025 Exhibiting art of internationally known artists that challenge folk and traditional narratives through digital contexts. 9-12 October 2025 Opening hours: 5-8 PM Laird Norton Center for Art & Design Winona State University, Winona, MN, USA … Continue reading Exhibition: \u201cFolk Media in the Digital Age\u201d<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/idmaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}