INVITATION TO PUBLIC LECTURE “WORK IN 21st CENTURY” BY MULTIMEDIA ARTIST M. A. HENTZ

RISEBA invites you to open lecture “WORK in 21st century” given by one of the leading European experts and most celebrated multimedia artist Mike Andrew Hentz (Berlin). The event will take place on Monday, October 10, at 18:00, at the Video Studio, at The Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6, 6 Udens Street.

The theme of work is a major topic of today‘s society. We live in outdated work values left over from the early industry labor (a sweaty, physical, dirty-making act) as the notion of real work. Computer and virtual work are unconsciously perceived as not “real” work in their iconography. Icons of work, like hammer and machine wheel, don‘t have their renewed icons in today‘s life.

Work is connected to suffering, offices are built in an uncomfortable way, with the uneasy neon lights, hard chairs underlining the symbolism of „serious“ work, the latter different from hobby or private work, with which the people identify much more.

Prof. M. A. Hentz will review the issues of the work as an increasingly important social topic:  future of labour, work, occupation, global influences on the local and international contexts of work and values of labour and the sociologic and economic impacts in society, methods and visions for the future.

You can find the biography and works of prof. M. A. Hentz in his web site.