new media center_kuda.org

Exhibition ID: Ideology of Design
Curators and production of the exhibition: New Media Center_kuda.org
23 October – 23 November, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Dunavska St. 37, Novi Sad

Photo documentation of the exhibition and public events within ID:IDEOLOGY OF DESIGN

ID: Ideology of Design, Branka Ćurčić, Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-1-57027-209-7, Autonomedia, New York

Authors of the essays are: Jean Baudrillard, Igor Chubarov, an interview with Jerko Denegri, Branislav Dimitrijević, Hal Foster, Dejan Kršić, Nenad Malešević, Metahaven, Borislav Mikulić, Barbara Predan, Jacques Rancière, Feđa Vukić and WHW collective.

Projects: ID: DEADLINE, ID: IDENTITY
Authors: Marko Brkić, Katarina Lukić Balažikova

ID: IDENTITY
Collaborative work on the logo of exhibition ID:Ideology
Opening process: October 23rd, 2009. (during exhibition opening) – November 22nd, 2009. (closing process – day before the closing of the exhibition)
http://www.id-identity.org

Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina invites you to the exhibition:
Pshychogeographical Research
Rena Raedle and Vladan Jeremic

6 - 16 October, 2009

Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 6th October 2009, 7pm
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad

Curator: Gordana Nikolic

Partisan Songspiel. A Belgrade Story is a film by Chto Delat - by
Vladan Jeremić, Rena Rädle, Tsaplya, Dmitry Vilensky and Gluklya

You can watch it at:
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2392270.html?v=a1632ee281e703db52dd3d5ce5248460

Partisan Songspiel. A Belgrade Story had its premiere at the
opening of the ongoing Istanbul Biennial.

Director of Partisan Sonspiel is Olga Egorova Tsaplya,

Parallel Chronologies – Invisible History of Exhibitions
exhibition

Opening: May 20, 2009
6 p.m. Labor (V. Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
7 p.m. Krétakör Bázis, (IX. Budapest, Gönczy Pál u. 2.)

On view
Tuesday and Thursday 4 p.m.-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Labor: 26 May – 13 June
Krétakör Bázis: 30 May – 13 June

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Invisible History of Exhibitions
international symposium
Location: Krétakör Bázis (IX. Budapest, Gönczy Pál u. 2.)
Date: May 21 - 22, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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tranzit.hu (www.tranzit.org) organizes an exhibition and symposium with the title Invisible History of Exhibitions, which aims at the formation of a shared knowledge and discourse on Eastern European art exhibitions from the 1960s till now.

www.artalways.org

The project Art Always Has Its Consequences is conceived as a long-term international collaborative platform. It aims to create and disseminate knowledge about paradigmatic socially engaged art and visual culture practices in Central and Eastern Europe, including their relationships towards the wider European context both in the past and in the present. Through exhibitions, research laboratories, seminars, publications and educational events, the project will build upon the strong heritage of modernist and conceptual art and theory in Croatia, Poland, Serbia and Hungary, creating vital links between national practices and contemporary developments in both the regional and wider European context.

Though more and more accessible, knowledge about art, its development and important historical practices in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe is still overwhelmingly mediated through Western discourse. Artists and cultural workers do not recognize themselves and their specific conditions in the monolithic construction that was termed “(the former) socialist Eastern Europe”, that so often serves as a common denominator in Western projects. The project Art Always Has Its Consequences, named after a quote from Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović, is related to specific historic, economic and political circumstances, but at the same time aims to surpass them.

New Media Center_kuda.org, LUGoNS-Linux User Group of Novi Sad and Youth Center CK13 are inviting kids and their parents to join the event in the Youth Center CK13, Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad, www.ck13.org

28.03. Saturday, 17h, Presentation of the project JUX lala - Linux for children

„JUX lala“ is Linux software distribution for children 3 to 7 years old.

„JUX lala“ contains diverse software packages dedicated to kids, which besides programs for drawing and painting contains programs for strengthening of phisical skills, of using computer keyboard and mouse, improvement of speech skills, etc.

„JUX lala“ is simple for using because it doesn't need to be installed on the computer, but it is bootable directly from the CD, which makes process of starting with the program much easier to parents.

In the framework of the month dedicated to woman issues in the Youth Center CK13, New Media Center_kuda.org, LUGoNS-Linux User Group of Novi Sad and CK13 present:

27.03. Friday, 19h, Presentation of the projects
Female:Pressure and Open:Sounds

Guest: Andrea Mayr, Vienna (Open Source programer)

Place: Youth Center CK13, Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad, www.ck13.org
Entrance: Free

Female:Pressure is an international database of female djs, producers and visual artists - mostly related to the electronic music scene. this database is a worldwide resource of female talent and can be searched by geographic locations, professions, styles and artist names.

"Why are there so few female activists in the electronic music scene?" - each one of us has heard this question a thousand times... here is the answer: it's not our number, it's about how and if we are recognized!

Youth Center CK13, Novi Sad
Vojvode Bojovića 13, www.ck13.org

Thursday, 26.02.2009.
Presentation and performance of audio artist Novi_sad, Athens

19:00, Lecture
22:00, Audio performance

Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) has graduated from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, he began generating sounds in 2005. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a hyper structure of iconoclastic form. Novi_sad’s artistic output displays a high level of technical ability, as well as a sensitivity to the nuances of location. The strength of his soundscapes works in the same elaborateness for the whole creation process, starting from a basis of very strong conceptualism, the intense examination of field recordings over the actual composition work, to the point of performing back the result onto location.

Institute for flexible culture and technologies - NAPON, Novi Sad, the Youth Center CK13 and Center_kuda.org welcome you at presentation and video projections:

InterSpace, Sofia - Shu Lea Cheang, Margarita Dorovska and Petko Dourmana

Where: Youth Center CK13, Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad, www.ck13.org
When: Sunday, 22.02. in 16:00

Interspace is a New Media Art Centre, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. InterSpace was founded in 1998 as a non-profit association of professional artists, informatics engineers, do-it-yourself media makers.

Guests:
Shu Lea Cheang (New York/Paris), artist, conceptualist, filmmaker
Margarita Dorovska (Sofia, Bulgaria), curator, InterSpace, Sofia
Petko Dourmana (Sofia, Bulgaria), artist, director, InterSpace, Sofia

INVISIBLE HISTORY OF EXHIBITIONS - symposium
21-22 May 2009, Budapest
tranzit.hu - artalways.org project

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Invisible History of Exhibitions", a symposium organized by tranzit.hu (HU) aims at the formation of shared knowledge and discourse on Eastern European art exhibitions from the 1960s until now. The framework of this project is a long-term international collaboration, "art always has its consequences", that focuses on invisible, alternative histories through exhibition history, artists' texts, archives, and conceptual design, which have had restricted international visibility and accessibility so far and thus are often missing from the canonized narratives of contemporary art.

New Media Center_kuda.org invites you to the promotion of the book:
PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE
New practices in Art and Media at the transmediale 09, festival for art and digital culture, Berlin (www.transmediale.de/en)

February the 1st 2009, in 16:00h, in Open Space talks in K1-Salon, HKW

Speakers at the book promotion:
- Konrad Becker, director of the "World-Information Institute", Vienna
- Felix Stalder, researcher, Zurich - Vienna
- Zoran Pantelić, New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad
- Branka Ćurčić, New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad

New Media Center_kuda.org invites you to the promotion of the book:

PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE
New practices in Art and Media

Youth Center CK13, Novi Sad
Wednesday, 17th of December, in 19:00

Dom Omladine Belgrade
Thursday, 18th of December, in 21:00

Speakers at the book promotion:
- Konrad Becker, director of the "World-Information Institute", Vienna
- Vladimir Vlidi Jerić, slobodnakultura.org, Belgrade
- Kristian Lukić, curator of digital art and culture in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, NAPON, Novi Sad
- Monika Mokre, political scientist, FOKUS, Austrian Association for Cultural Economics and Policy Studies, Vienna

Border Inquiries is a live-connected public discussion between Belgrade and Amsterdam about the new and ever-changing borders on the Balkans.

The discussion will take place simultaneously in the spaces of De Balie and Dom Omladine, connected live via internet. The event brings together researchers, activists and engaged citizens in both cities around issues of border control, border management and migration, to discuss how these issues reflect the precarious relationship of the Balkan region to the European Union.

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF IRATIONAL.ORG: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006

Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia

Curators: Inke Arns (Dortmund) and Jacob Lillemose (Kopenhagen)

Dates: 28. October - 27. November 2008. from 9-17h, during weekends from 9-14h; Museum is closed on Mondays.

Production:
New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad, http://www.kuda.org
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, http://www.hmkv.de

Co-producers of the show:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, http://www.msuv.org
Institute for Flexible Culture and Technologies - Napon, Novi Sad, http://www.napon.org

The Youth Center CK13
Vojvode Bojovica 13, Novi Sad
www.ck13.org

Thursday 23.10. in 19:00
COMMONPLACES OF TRANSITION
Screening and Talk by Joanne Richardson

Joanne Richardson will present the collaborative video project Commonplaces of Transition and discuss some questions raised the project, focusing in particular on the meaning of video activism, strategies of counter-documentary, and the distinction between making a film about politics and making a film politically. The presentation will include a screening in full of In Transit and excerpts from Two or Three Things about Activism.

YOUTH CENTER CK13
Vojvode Bojovica 13, Novi Sad
www.ck13.org

Monday, 22. September 2008. 19:00h
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Presentation, screening and discussion with the members of platform

CHTO DELAT? / What is to be done?

Theme of the public discussion:
Perspectives of Leftist Critical Action in Post-Socialism and New Definitions of Class and Proletariat

Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context. These newspapers are usually produced in the context of collective initiatives such as art projects or conferences.

PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE, New practices in Art and Media - New book about Public Netbase t0, edited by New Media Center_kuda.org and published by Revolver.

The Book Presentation at ISEA2008
Monday, 28th July at 9.30am
Salon, National Museum Singapore

Published 2008
ISBN: 978-3-86588-455-8
http://t0.or.at/nonstopfuture/

New information technologies have become ubiquitous and thoroughly established in our everyday lives. This marks the end of a period of intense experimentation and speculations related to the introduction of global communication systems more than a decade ago. Artists and cultural workers were the first to explore their liberatory dimensions and to apply their emancipatory potentials. These early pioneers developed a range of interdisciplinary models and practices in order to expand the scope of social participation in information society cultures. Initiatives like the radical Viennese mediaculture institution Public Netbase became important nodes in a global network dedicated to critical art, culture and science based on new media practices.

Launch of n.e.w.s. at ISEA 2008
Monday, July 28th, 19:00-22:00
The Substation
45 Armenian Street, Singapore

www.northeastwestsouth.net

n.e.w.s. is a horizontally-organized, cumulative knowledge-based website for contemporary art and new media framed by curatorial contributions from around the globe, bringing together voices and images from North, East, West and South. n.e.w.s. reflects geographic diversity and facilitates a framework for collaboration, content and visions of change outside the normal parameters of the established art world networks.

A process that has taken nearly four years may be coming to an end. On Monday, April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara ruled to dismiss the indictment against University at Buffalo Professor of Visual Studies Dr.Steven Kurtz.

http://www.caedefensefund.org

In June 2004, Professor Kurtz was charged with two counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud stemming from an exchange of $256 worth of harmless bacteria with Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Old News is a non-profit free newspaper presenting a selection of articles and images cut from newspapers by artists. In Old News concept, the artists were to select and cut out articles they found interesting with their comments.

In 2004 (issue 1), 24 artists or artist groups were asked to cut out four articles each during a one month period - their comments were printed on the front and back cover of the newspaper, separately from the actual article. Premiering at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis on April 5th, Old News 4 will be presented along with Old News 1, 2, and 3. Additional projects, editions, and material presented include Dieter Roth, Erick Beltran, Thomas Bayrle, Katya Sander, Michalis Pichler, Hans Peter Feldmann and Blondes, a draft by Jens Haaning for Old News 5, 2008. The newspapers are free for distribution.

New Media Center_kuda.org announces opening of the exhibition

Opening Reception: April 19th, 7-9PM
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA

Production of the exhibition:
http://kuda.org
http://www.midwayart.org/

Since April 19th to May 24th, 2008, New Media Center_kuda.org will represent the exhibition “MEDIA ONTOLOGY, Mapping of Social and Art History of Novi Sad” in Midway Contemporary Art, in Minneapolis, USA.

According to the statement by the Slovenian art group Irwin: History is not given, it needs to be constructed; we see that the history of post WW2 neo avant-garde in Eastern Europe is still not written. That especially applies to the local context of Novi Sad, capital of northern Serbian province Vojvodina, where local art infrastructure and critics at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies did not have mechanisms and tools to process rich artistic and cultural activities that were happening right in front of their eyes. Through this exhibition, Center_kuda.org would like to show art practices of artists, writers, movie directors from 1960's and 1970's, such are: group “Kôd”, group “E”, Slobodan Tisma, Miroslav Mandic, Mirko Radojicic, Bogdanka Poznanovic, Vladimir Kopicl, Slavko Bogdanovic, Cedomir Drca, Tibor Varadi, Katalin Ladik, Zelimir Zilnik. On the other hand, this exhibition also includes works of group “Apsolutno”, group “Eastwood”, artist Vladan Joler and other contemporary artist from Novi Sad. With their “gathering” and “facing”, there will be attempt to establish mutual dialogue, reinterpretation and continuity of art practice in those territories.

In framework of the project POLITICAL PRACTICES OF (POST-) YUGOSLAV ART there are two exhibitions currently opened in Novi Sad, Serbia:

- TV GALLERY
- APPLIED PUBLIC

Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad


Photo documentation of the TV GALLERY exhibition in Novi Sad: http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/tvgallery_ns

Photo documentation of the APPLIED PUBLIC exhibition in Novi Sad:
http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/applied_public

Project initiators and exhibition curators:
New Media Center_kuda.org (Novi Sad), www.kuda.org
Prelom kolektiv (Belgrade), www.prelomkolektiv.org
SCCA/Pro.ba (Sarajevo), www.scca.ba, www.pro.ba
WHW (Zagreb), www.whw.hr

Co-organizers of the exhibition in Novi Sad:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, www.msuv.org
Napon – Institute for flexible culture and technologies, www.napon.org

www.dictionaryofwar.org

Video documentation of all concepts of Novi Sad DICTIONARY OF WAR is online! and ready for download from the project's website at: http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict/v2v