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tvvv.plotas TV project, discussion, videoconference (project in progress)

time: at 8.00 p.m. CET during March 3 and 17, April 7 and 21, May 5 and 19,
June 2 and 16

place: LTV channel, > iVisit > MAIN LOBBY > search for tvvv.plotas free
downlode from www.iVisit.com

tvvv.plotas is a multidisciplinary art project, carried out in co-operation
with Lithuanian artist and artist from other countries, presented on TV and
Internet, for the purpose of infiltrating into the popular mass media and
creating a new-type of space where media experiments and communication can
take place.


The object of this project is polemics between contemporary life and
contemporary art, presentation of artists and contemporary art itself,
phenomena of subculture and their relationship with new technologies and
means of communication, hot issues of social-political reality, contemporary
audience and the mass media. Since contemporary art has branched out and
penetrated into various fields of life, the project would try to explore the
territory of this art.


With the formation of a free society and capitalist relations in Lithuania,
the pernicious role of mass consumption comes to the force. The advance of
mass culture has elevated those forms of culture that adapt themselves more
easily to mass aesthetics. Struggling against these forms, artists have to
analyze and deconstruct them, that is to think critically. Consequently, the
critical principles of media art can explain why today media art is so often
found unacceptable. Media art is probably the only field to offer a new
language helping to communicate in the complicated modern world.

AIMS OF THE PROJECT


tvvv.plotas is researching and discussing strategies of îbeing minorî.
Individual practice, motivation, infiltration to media, artistsí survival
are the starting points. The aims of the project are many-sided and
interrelated:


initiative: at the end of the 20th century, the talk about a crisis of art
does not subside. However, it does not mean that the importance of art for
an individual or society decreases. Art is able to penetrate and infiltrate
itself into various, seemingly even impossible fields of life. Therefore,
one of the most important aims of the project is to create place for a
critical discourse using TV as the most effective force of the mass media to
provoke the discussion within a society. This would provide an opportunity
to transgress the boundaries of art ghettos beyond the traditional gallery
space and create new conditions for the development of art.


education: to compensate for the lack of information on contemporary art
phenomena; to analyze the integration of new technologies and the art world;
to explore phenomena of marginal and minority cultures and sub-cultures.


analysis: to give an interpretation of these phenomena, to explain artistsí
ideas and wishes and the function of works mentioned above in the social and
political life from the viewpoint of artists themselves.


consolidation: to seek to overcome the distance separating society from some
individuals; to show the close link between technology and contemporary art;
to introduce artists who are taking a keen interest in all urgent issues.


incentive: to support the development of critical discourse, stimulate
search of the artistsí identity. An important aspect of the proposed project
is to invite artists for co-operation and analysis of the mass media
phenomenon in the context of contemporary art to present the works of
contemporary Lithuanian and foreign artists, to encourage the tendencies of
globalization of contemporary Lithuanian culture.


non-commercial: the executives, co-authors and contributors to the project
are united by non-profit activity and attitude.


ISSUES


Artist and statement, and institution, and relatives, and collaboration, and
center, and perifery, and museum, and media, and education, and
communication, and modernizm, and contemporary art, and audience, and
sponsor, and critic, and art market, and political stand, and curator, and
avatar, and ethics, and body, and fashion, and advertising, and religion and
etc.


WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION TO

Daniel G. Andujar, Andreas Broeckmann V2, Andy Best & Merja Puustinen MEET
Factory, Mindaugas Gap?eviÃ?ius INSTITUTIO MEDIA, Ralf Graf, Maria Hirvi
KIASMA, Cecilie Hoegsbro Ostergaard OJEBLIKET, Jyrki Ijas IPOJ, Anders
Kreuger NIFCA, Marie-Jo Lafontain, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits E-LAB, Martial
Thomas, Viktoras Snarskis LTV, students of Nordic art school in Kokkola and
many others great peole.


FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY

Media Foundation of Lithuania, Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, STRAUJA,
EFRATA, Nordic Information Centre in Vilnius


TVVV.PLOTAS IS OPEN FOR COLLABORATION :

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FOR A FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT Nomeda&Gediminas Urbonas e-mail:
jutempus@post.5ci.lt

snail-mail: jutempus P.O.BOX 342 LT-2006 Vilnius Lithuania telephon
+370-2-348459 / +370-90-30-779

jutempus is a non-profit artistsí run initiative founded in Vilnius,
Lithuania. jutempus is seeking to create and develop the critical discourse
to explore the aspects of constructing todayís reality and is searching for
a place of contemporary art in society to find a link with other fields of
life using methods of art & communication.