Danny Holman on Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:40:09 +0100


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Syndicate: Media Activism in the Czech Republi


Modern and Contemporary Art Collection of The National Gallery in Prague
And Terminal Foundation invites you to the discussion -
Media Activism in the Czech Republic - part of the series
Artist in New Media and symposium Translocation - New Media/Art (Prague 25.-
27.2)

On Thursday 25. 2. 1999 at 5.30 p.m.
In auditorium of Veletrzni palac /5th floor/

The Prague section of the Translocation - Absence  project will be opened
with a panel discussion " How to change the System? - Media Activism in
Europe and
Czech Republic" as part of the series Artists in New Media. The issues
discussed will focus on the relation between art, culture, new
technologies and politics. The phenomenon of media activism, which
emerged in the eighties in Western Europe, was paralleled in
the development and progression of the  ?unofficial" art scene in Central
Europe.
The discussion will involve various artists and theorists, including ?media
terrorist"
Heath Bunting from London, organizer and activist from The Institut for Old
and New Media Eric Kluitenberg /Holland/, artist and organizer Michael
Bielicky, media theorist and writer Keiko Sei /Japan/, media theorist and
artist Miroslav Vodrazka,  writer and theorist  Bohuslav Blazek,
editor-in-chief of ZiveI magazine Ivan Adamovic, sociologist  Jan Jirák,
artist Tomas
Ruller and others. They will introduce their ideas and projects and
share opinions about the situation in the current cultural media map of
Europe, focusing especially  on the confrontation of Czech culture with
other countries.
Why  does it seem that Prague has disappeared in the late nineties from the
European cultural scene ?
How does an artist's strategy and role change in relation to a shifting
society and economy?
What possibilities does 'new technology'  offer to an
artist, if he/she wants to keep an independent and critical attitude to
mass media and society?
It there time to change the current system now?
Is the museum and gallery  still  an appropriate space for truly
contemporary art?
These and many other questions will form the core of the forum, which
gives a wide audience a chance to see and hear about projects and
activities which otherwise receive little media attention.


Symposium Translocation pokraãuje 26.a 27. února v prostoru Akademie
v?tvarn?ch umûní v Praze.

informace:


Milos Vojtechovsky
Dukelskych hrdinu 47, 170 02 Praha 7, tel.: 24 301 111, fax: 24 301 056
ÿ smsu@ngprague.cz
or
Danny Holman
Terminal Bar Soukenicka 6 Praha 1
tel. - 21871 711
video@terminal.cz

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