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The Politics of Redistribution >>>
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The exhibition „The Politics of Redistribution“ is a collaboration of the Open Space with Magazin4-Bregenzer Kunstverein. At the Magazin4 the artists Anna de Manincor, Sabrina Malek/Arnaud Soulier, Ferhat Özgür, Hanna Starkey will be presented in addition to the artists Raymond Taudin Chabot, Harun Farocki, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Isaac Isitan, Elke Marhöfer, Barbara Musil, Tadej Pogacar that are shown in Vienna.
http://www.politik-der-umverteilung.net

Opening: 27. February 2009, 19:00
Salutation: Wolfgang Fetz, Director of Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein
Introduction: Sabine Winkler, curator of the exhibition
Opening: Judith Reichart, councillor for culture
Duration of the exgibition: 28 February – 21 June 2009
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 14.00–18.00

Magazin4-Bregenzer Kunstverein
Bergmannstraße 6,
6900 Bregenz / Austria

mail@magazin4.at
www.magazin4.at
T +43 (0) 5574 410-1511


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Fotonicni trenutki / Photonic Moments
Opening Wednesday, October 22nd at 8pm
Cankarjev dom Culture Center, Ljubljana


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This year's Photonic Moments exhibition – a review of contemporary photography of Southeastern and Central Europe – again represents the official selection of the third expanded Month of Photography Festival, which will commence with the opening exhibition at the Gallery of the Cankarjev Dom Cultural Center in Ljubljana.
This year's edition presents photographers from Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey who were selected by the following curators: Gulsen Bal (Turkey), Miha Colner & Dejan Sluga (Slovenia), Sasa Janjic (Serbia), Balint Szombately (Hungary), Hercules Papaioannou (Greece) and Sandra Vitaljic (Croatia).

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Project curator: Gulsen Bal
Participant artist:
Nilbar Güres
Erinc Seymen

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This festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture
General sponsor:
FUJIFILM SLOVENIJA / IMAGE&MARKETING

Co-organizer:
Cankarjev dom

At the beginning of the festival a press/info center will be running in Cankarjev dom at conference room M1 – catalogues, promotion material, foreign magazines and other material will be available there.
For further information see:
http://www.photon.si

TU WIEN
Place : Institut für Kunst und Gestaltung, Karlsgasse 11, 1040 Wien (IKG) / Open Space (OS) - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Lassingleithnerplatz 2, 1020 Wien

More Information under: visuelle kultur
WS 2008: Critical and Curatorial Initiatives

Alongside the curatorial programme of Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, the course offers a balanced programme of study that provides opportunities for an engagement with models and methods of curatorial practice, while giving an appropriate theoretical and contextual grounding with an introduction of the latest developments in curatorial practice and visual culture. Students are expected to attend a number of gallery visits to rationalise their practical and theoretical concerns of exhibition making and contribute to seminar discussions in order to foster interesting dialogues on issues around curatorial practice and visual culture. This is followed, in the last stage of the course, by either a self-initiated/group practice based project or written essay.

Diese LV wird in Kombination mit den beiden Lehrveranstaltungen 'Exkursion Visuelle Kultur' und 'Medien in der Architektur- und Kunstvermittlung' angeboten.

Lectures by
Dr. Gulsen BAL


Video Vortex Ankara

On October 10-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, will organise the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international conference, evening program, live performances and new media art exhibition...

For more info: http://std.comd.bilkent.edu.tr/videovortex/?page_id=4


book

New-Media Technology, Science, and Politics: The Video Art of Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid
Edited by Marina Grzinic and Tanja Velagic

The book is a reader on the topic of video art as seen through the perspective of science, new media technology, and especially, the discourse, condition and perspective of politics.
This politics is the political of theory, the emancipation of the social, and the deconstruction of aesthetics.Video is rearticulated through the video work of the Slovene artists Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, who have been active in video since the beginning of the 1980s. The book is also about a medium that was initially encompassed by the political reality of socialist Europe (until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989), then passed through a transitional (post-socialist) period, and today is fully immersed in neo-liberal global capitalism. The book aims to be a challenging theoretical, essayistic, and critical construction of the not so well-known history of a particular video art practice in the specific era of late Yugoslav socialism and ex-Yugoslav post-socialism, characterized by a powerful underground movement in the 1980s, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and the capitalist reality of the new millennium.

Writers in the book: Diane Amiel, Gulsen Bal, Giorgio Bertellini, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Birgit Langenberger, Mojca Puncer, Walter Seidl, Misko Suvakovic, Federica Timeto, Yvonne Volkart, and Ana Vujanovic.

Publisher: Löcker, Vienna (September 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-3854094845
Pages: 297
Format:  20,6 x 12,6 x 2,1 cm, black and white photographs

BOOK CONTENTS
Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki
The Reconstructed Fictions of Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid

Mojca Puncer
Moments of Decision: Rethinking Past Stories for the Future

Marina Grzinic
The Video, Film, and Interactive Multimedia Art of Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, 1982–2008

Ana Vujanovic and Marina Grzinic
"It's Not Red, It's Blood!"

Misko Suvakovic
The Retro-Garde, Techno-Aesthetics, and Open Questions Regarding the Political Apparatus:
Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid

Giorgio Bertellini
Making Spaces: At War (Notes on Video-Art and Space in Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid's Luna 10 and Bilocation)

Yvonne Volkart
Technologies of Identity

Diane Amiel
Theory, De-documenting, and Fiction

Birgit Langenberger and Marina Grzinic
All That Really Counts Is the Political Concept!

Gulsen Bal

Mapping the Shifting Borders: Beyond "Point Zero"

Walter Seidl

Video as a Matrix of Mental Consciousness: The Works of Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid

Federica Timeto
An Elsewhere within Here

Grzinic and Smid: List of Works and Awards, Contributors' Biographies

To order:
http://www.amazon.de/New-Media-Technology-Science-Politics-Grzinic/dp/3854094841/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222716520&sr=1-4

Price: EUR 22,00

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