The primary subject of this talk will be Darja Bajagić's exploration of issues around the representation of sexuality, violence and eroticism within social media, understood here as a platform for art and sexual expression, and as a potent vehicle of image appropriation and exploitation. Russian mail order brides, amateur porn stars from Eastern Europe, lesbian vampires, missing girls and “les femmes castratrices” occupy Bajagić's wicked visual universe where the online content morphs and mutates into a beautiful nightmare. This talk will consider how, in search of new models for representing and transgressing the body in the era of digital dematerialization, Bajagic questions her own place in culture, history and the visual codification.

Natalia Sielewicz is an art historian and curator currently working at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Most recently she curated “Private Settings. Art after the Internet,” one of the first global surveys tackling the impact of communication technologies and datasphere on contemporary art and identity politics and “Bread and Roses. Artists and the Class Divide” (with Łukasz Ronduda), exploring the ways through which artists define their status and position in the realm of an ever-widening economic gap. She also curates experimental film, discursive events and performance for the museum, such as the performances by Adam Linder, Manuel Pelmus and Alexandra Pirici, Korakrit Arunanondchai, DIS, Jesse Darling, Grace Ndiritu, C. Spencer Yeh, Haroon Mirza and Richards Sides, Ramona Nagabczyńska and Marta Ziółek.