Asmati Chibalashvili
Fellow 2023/2024
Art, Cultural Studies
Modern Art Research Institute of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
Open Society University Network/CEU Institute of Advanced Study, Budapest-Ukraine
asmati@ukr.net
Bio
Deputy Director of Scientific Affairs, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine; Associate Professor at the Kyiv National P.I. Tchaikovsky Music Academy; Member of the Ukrainian Composers’ Union.
She was born in 1986 in Telavi, Georgia. Since 1994, she has lived in Ukraine. She graduated from the Odesa State Music Academy A. V. Nezhdanova with Professor K. Tsepkolenko in 2006 and has completed her postgraduate studies at the Kyiv National P.I. Tchaikovsky Music Academy with Professor Ye. Stankovych in 2010.
She was granted support by the Odesa Department of the All-Ukrainian Cultural Foundation as a young composer from 1995 to 1998. Sh e was awarded a diploma by the Ambassador of Georgia to Ukraine for promoting Georgian art in Ukraine and for developing Ukrainian-Georgian relations (Kyiv, 2002). She is the winner of the International Competition of Young Composers "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1st prize, Kyiv, 2016) and was awarded a Silver Medal from the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine for creative achievements (2021); An Acknowledgment from the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for prolific creative work, significant contributions to the development of national contemporary art history, cinematography, and architecture, and active support in the development of spiritual culture (2022).
Her music works have been performed at international festivals such as Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odesa, Ukraine), Kyiv Music Fest (Kyiv, Ukraine), Music Marine Fest (Odesa, Ukraine), Season Premiere (Kyiv, Ukraine), International Youth Music Forum (Kyiv, Ukraine), Music Tribune of Kyiv's Youth (Kyiv, Ukraine), Young Composers of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine), GOGOLFEST (Kyiv, Ukraine), Days of New Music (Kharkiv, Ukraine); Contrasts (Lviv, Ukraine), Nordic Saxophone Festival (Aarhus, Denmark), World New Music Days ISCM (Vancouver, Canada), etc.
Posthumanist Tendencies in the Art of the XX-XXI Centuries
The purpose of my research is to identify the impact of technology on the artistic process and reflect posthumanist trends in contemporary art. I plan to research new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and others, and the mechanisms of their involvement in the creative process. My work will be aimed at studying the methods that artists use to find new forms of expression, to engage the audience and to experiment with renewed mechanisms of communication with the audience. Post-humanist trends in the art of the 20th-21st centuries involve a reassessment of human existence, identity and connection with technology. Artists are experimenting with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other technologies to find new forms of expression. Engaging interactivity and virtual reality allow artists to engage audiences by inviting them to actively participate. Social networks and media platforms have become a one of the key platform for interacting with audiences, while the evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 is redefining the relationship between people, technology and art. The role of art as a tool to humanize technology, raise awareness, and establish emotional connections is important. The study of specific examples of works of art, in which the mentioned aspects of post-humanist art are realized, with their subsequent systematization and classification is planned during the implementation of the proposed study.