KIBLIX 2025 | Panel discussion: Do It With Others

Panel discussion: Do It With Others
Tursday, 27 November 2025, at 6 p.m.
KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva ulica 40

You are cordially invited to a thematic discussion titled Do It with Others, to be held at KIBLA PORTAL on Thursday, 27 November 2025, at 6 p.m.
The event will be conducted in English.

Participants: Rob Canning (musician, intermedia artist), Stella Ivšek (intermedia artist, performer, VJ), Petra Kapš (artist, composer, researcher)
Moderator: Irena Borić (curator, critic)

This panel explores contemporary challenges in digital art practices and invites discussion on collaborative strategies, shared approaches, and the potential of emerging technologies for presenting artistic work. The event brings together three practitioners to discuss the importance of collaboration and the opportunities that emerging technologies offer in an artistic context.

Rob Canning is an Irish composer, improviser, and creative technologist working at the intersection of sound, code, and collaborative networked media. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Goldsmiths, University of London, where his research explored networked creativity and distributed authorship in computer-assisted music. He has held academic posts across the UK and Ireland, including Senior Lecturer and Course Director in Networked Digital Media at Coventry University. A long-standing advocate for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), his work promotes open, accessible tools for experimental composition and digital art. He is the developer of Oscilla, an open-source platform for animated graphic notation and networked performance. His works and research have been presented internationally at festivals, conferences, and exhibitions across Europe and beyond. Most recently, his composition 1:10,560 for ensemble and networked score – commissioned by the ensemble Pony Says – was premiered at the 2025 Music Current Festival in Dublin. He also hosts the podcast Uho, a curated selection of independent and alternative music from Slovenia. His music is released under copyleft and Creative Commons licenses via archive.org kamizdat.si, cmc.ie and bandcamp.com. He is currently developing a rural residency space with Zavod Rizoma in Slovenia.

Stella Ivšek is an intermedia artist and designer specializing in video art, live visualization, and video mapping. She also creates video for theater productions and collaborates on various intermedia and audiovisual projects. Under the artistic name VJ 5237 and as a member of the audiovisual collective Beam Team, she has participated in numerous national and international music festivals. Through her innovative video production and projection work, she has established lasting collaborations with musicians and artists. As a VJ, she has performed with the ensemble Container Doxa, led by Dré A. Hočevar, at distinguished venues, including the festival Sonic Experiments: Telematics at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) in Karlsruhe. Her practice frequently combines music and visual art. One of her notable works is a sound-reactive video projection for the performance locating.liminalities (Tobija Hudnik), in which she used video mapping on the organ of the Slovenian Philharmonic to create a unique visual experience. Since 2021, she has been actively involved in theater projects. She began her work at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and later continued with the Via Negativa platform, creating visualizations and video installations for several acclaimed productions. Her recent projects include visualizations and video mapping for the dance performance Why So Angry? Why Not!? (2023, Dance Theatre Ljubljana) and visualizations for the ballet production The Little Prince (2024, SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana).

Petra Kapš (a.k.a. OR poiesis) is an artist, composer, and researcher specializing in bioacoustics, geoacoustics, and hydroacoustics. Her practice connects the living dynamics of elemental matter and the mysteries of the Earth with Arte Sonora, experimental music, and visual-performative approaches, emphasizing intimacy within planetary mysteries and cosmic resonances. Her work develops modalities of deep attention, embodied listening and recording, creating artworks that highlight the sacredness of all forms of life. Influenced by place, a passionate longing for silence, and the exploration of ecstatic, chthonic, and spherical sonic phenomena, she works in both Slovenian and international contexts. She is co-founder of BIOM editions, a founding member of CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies), and a member of the bioacoustic collective JATA C.

Irena Borić (1982) (1982) is an art historian who works as a independent curator and critic. She holds MA in Art History and History (2009) from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb and MA in Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education (2011) from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has collaborated on projects Economies of Love/Politics of Feelings (2011-14), Shame on You! (2013-2017), net.cube (2015-2017) and Symptoms of the Future (2021). She was a member of the Biennial collective of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts: Birth as Criterion (MGLC, Ljubljana, 2017). Selected exhibitions include Politics Within (Center of Contemporary Arts, Celje, 2014), Pipe Dream (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2015), Truth that Lies (with Renata Šparada, IMPAKT, Utrecht, 2019), Earth Song’s Low Frequency Tones (Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica, 2019), At some point we all have to dance (with Maja Hodošček, Art Salon, Celje, 2021), Good enough (Galerija Streigl, Sisak, 2023), Digital oxymoron (GT22, Maribor/MKC Split, 2023/24), 26. festival Media Mediterranea: Networked Sea (Galerija NOVO, Pula, 2024), 12 IZIS festival: Just control (Libertas, Koper, 2024). Between 2020 and 2022, she worked at the cultural and educational association KIBLA where she curated the educational program. Starting in 2024, she was selected as the curator of three editions of the IZIS festival in Koper. She co-curated the exhibition of Milica Tomić at the Kunsthaus Graz with Andreja Hribernik. She is a member of the Croatian section of AICA. She regularly writes and publishes reviews, and has edited several publications, including Forms of Education: Couldn’t Get a Sense of It (with Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas, INCA press, 2016). She lives and works in Maribor.

< OR poiesis: Spell of Silence (performance at Nekubi Residency 2025), photo: Alex Cokka