This video documents the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (SMB13) pre-Biennale Notes for a Séance: Towards a Technology of the Spirit held at ICI Berlin on June 16, 2025. Introducing ideas informing the curatorial imagination for the 13th edition of the Biennale, Artistic Dirctors Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis will discuss their ongoing research for The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Elena Vogman will introduce the media experiments practiced by the reform and resistance movement of institutional psychotherapy. Angela Melitopoulos will present a cine-somatic excursus with excerpts from her Cine(so)matrix exhibition related to animism.
Presenters: Angela Melitopoulos, Anton Vidokle, Elena Vogman, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis
Screening Artists: Angela Melitopoulos, Jane Jin Kaisen, Shana Moulton, Yin-Ju Chen