kultura sjećanja / remembrance culture
Artist in Residency - Anna Manankina
As part of the project "Responding to Trauma and Cultural Heritage Destruction", Ukrainian artist Anna Manankina was invited to participate in a three-month artistic residency in Vienna. Manankina is an interdisciplinary media artist whose practice spans video, VR/AR, AI, 3D animation, and installation.
During her residency, Anna Manankina developed a research-based digital artwork titled “Do Algorithms Dream of Electric Sheep?”, which will be presented on the dwhX platform.
In addition, she organized two workshops with the support of Vienna-based artist Sanja Lasić:
- Tracing an Empty Space Workshop on Tools for the Digitalization of Lost Cultural Heritage Held on Monday, 23 June 2025, 2–6 pm
- Armored Concrete Workshop on Cyber Tools of Cultural Resilience Held on Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 2–6 pm
The final project presentation and artist-talk took place on August, 30, 2025, in Apoteka, Space for Contemporary Art, in Vodnjan, Croatia
You can learn more about the research and creative process of Anna during her residency in the report attached below.
The residency was organized by BLOCKFREI in cooperation with STUDIO DAS WEISSE HAUS and supported by the European Commission.
