MediaScape Biennale Zagreb
30. September – 23. October 2012
mediainmotion.de received confirmations by the co-curators:
On 1st of November we will start the preparation phase of TACTICAL TOPICS – TOPICAL TACTICS
While the city or the urban area is regarded as the area of development, fast progress, and in addition the absent-minded, superficial and disconcentrated perception, the area of the “landscape” is in contrast the place of peace, collection and leisure. In the countryside outside the city the perception of space and time win other values.The landscape encourages for curving: the view, the hearing, the smell and the thoughts win perspective, which the area of the landscape opens. This leads also to a slowing down and a sensory perception, to a concentration, which is another as those of the city.The area outside of the city or outside of the life sphere of humans generally is not characterized by civilization, but by natural conditions: Apparently ordinary: the brook, the tree, the meadow appear in new light, the murmuring water, the noise of the wind kidnap urban humans into another reality. In the countryside there is still a horizon. Here prevails a liberty of view over the restricted city view. The city has structure, pictogram forests, a silhouette perhaps, but no horizon. In the landscape however the horizon is always there and lures into the distance. The horizon is everywhere, has 360° and more. Novigrad is a town, but circled by an immense countryside and great perspectives of the Adriatic Sea.The connection of this reality with the possibilities of current art work, the bridging between nature and civilization and between technology and art is the starting point of Media-Scape 2008.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Region of Istria-office for education, culture and sport City of Novigrad
Media Scape Novigrad is part of the collaborative project X-OP: eXchange of art Operators and Producers. Project is partly funded by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture, Culture Programme
Discussions on Cultural Policy on the local art scene, funding of arts and possibilities for artists.
X-OP European Studies is an educational programme for students or recently graduated artists started in summer 2009. The teaching for the study group in MAA-tila gallery, on open lecture series and courses at Art School MAA. The overall theme of and motivation for the programme is preparing art students and recently graduated artists to working internationally as practicing artists. Teachers and lecturers among others: Sezgin Boynik, Matthijs De Bruijne, Manuela Unverdorben, Andreja Kuluncic, Andrew Paterson, Manuel Cirauqui, Anu Pennanen, Stephane Querrec, Ritva Harle, Mikko Lipiäinen, Minna L. Henriksson, Mare Tralla, Veronica Spierenburg, Kalle Hamm, John Grzinich, Patrick McGinley, Maksims Shentelevs, Slobodan Karamic, Fatmir Mustafa, Jon Irgoyen. Canan Senol, Inci Furni, Tero Nauha, Kanki Shinji
Future Fluxus – Symposium
Invited academics and artists include Fluxus expert Petra Stegmann (de), Raivo Kelomees (ee) as well as several protagonists from the Viennese Fluxus and Actionists´scenes.
The subject will celebrate the “50th anniversary” of Fluxus looking at artistic practises today, how they are transformed, made obsolete or democratized by the rise of collaboration over the internet. Is the Fluxus movement still alive? What criteria should we use to answer that question? What are the distinctive differences to art movements like the Viennese Actionism or French Situationism?What are artistic or political implications of the “12 Ideas of Fluxus” (s.b.)? Should they be adapted in the 21st century? And how? What similarities in methods and goals can be found in online Communities of the Free and Open Source Movements, or digital rights activists like the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
International art|tech festival featured exhibitions, performances, lectures, debates, workshops and screenings focused on the theme of DATAPOLIS. Artists and researchers addressed emerging interactions of media technologies, novel visualization practices and urban realities. Join us to discover the moods and the rhythms of our cities, bodies and planet and innovatively mash both visible and invisible data that re-present individual and collective lives and actions.
More Information29th of March -10th of April 2011
Myymälä2 gallery, Uudenmaankatu 23, MAA-tila, Albertinkatu 19
Organisers: Art School MAA together with Myymälä2
March 25-26 14:00- 21:00, 2011
March 27th 14:00-19:00
@ Apartman Project
Bandrolsüz – meaning without a tax certificate – is a collective of 5 independent publication houses Bakkal Press, folio, Onagöre, REC Collective and Too Many Books who got together in February 2011.
Bandrolsüz aims to create possibilities for sale and distribution of artists’ books and reproductions.
More Information01.05.2011. – 30.08.2011
Marina Abramoviæ, project – prerparation
(MMSU Rijeka, Croatia;)
Marina Abramovic, pioneer and one of the most famous performance and multimedia artist having created a radical body of work in the1970s and continued to perform until today. In Abramovic’s complex exploitation of female beauty, she has decoded, deconstructed and reconfigured its traditional status. Abramovic’s art is constitutive act liberated from doctrinal ideological tones. As a part of project Marina will gave a lecture for artists and art operators
For more info (only in Czech), please visit the official festival website on: http://www.platforma-reset.cz/
December 2 – 4, 2010, Prague
Symposium MEDIA – PERFORMANCE – MEMORY
Thursday 4pm, December 2, 2010, Theatre Komedie (Jungmannova 1, Prague 1)
More InformationA new urban event in dates 9.-13.11.2010 in Helsinki, the emphasis of which is in socially engaged and communal art. The event introduces and gathers together local artists and guests from abroad, in whose work characteristic is societal action and engagement. The event included a seminar dealing with art education and knowledge production in art.
More InformationDate: 18/11/2010 until 28/11/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Kibla has gradually transformed one of its oldest festivals from a purely technological festival into a festival of arts and education domain. Transforming Kiblix festival will continue and we intend to establish it into one of the most relevant arts festivals in following years, based on open source solutions, and place it on the European and global map. Open Source for the visitors, campaigns, performances and installations, interactive events, robots, software art, art hardware, wireless systems, security and control are just some of the backgrounds of art, which raises the issues of human freedom, freedom of speech and expression, free flow of information and knowledge, free exchange of data and is searching for answers instead of all those who are closing their systems and are locking themselves in digital fortress, under the disguise of copyright protection – and in such different environments and ways – limiting all mentioned above, in most of most cases, banal reasons to earn more profit, but often from sheer desire to control and manipulate society by the masses.
More InformationExcerpt from the 3 channel-video for the LED -facade (100 by 10 meter) of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
In the frame of “The Year We Make Contact”, Media-Scape 2010 www.mediascape.info/2010
La Neige du Temps from Media in Motion on Vimeo.
by Heiko Daxl, October 2010
www.msu.hr
Date: 14/05/2010 until 28/05/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Matjaž Krivic was born on 12 January 1972. Aged 16, he experienced the appeal of travel and photographic discovery alone for the first time. He has made a name for himself with a series of exceptional photographs that were published in all major Slovenian magazines. Ever since he was accepted by the renowned French photo agency Sipa Press and the Norwegian agency Millimeter Design, he has also been publishing abroad, particularly in France and Scandinavia.
More Information16.12.2010. – 06.02.2011.
Vlado Kristl, exhibition
(MMSU Rijeka, Croatia)
The exhibition of the works by Vlado Kristl tells the story of this versatile artist and his high artistic achievements and displays a series of paintings that have never been presented before.
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