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Symposia
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SERIOUS POP SYMPOSIA Monday 22nd November - SeriousPop in EastWestern-Europe Tuesday 23rd November - SeriousPop in WestEastern-Europe Wednesday 24th
November - Glocalizing Pop-Cultures – Where are we
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Contributers to the first two days include:
Inke Arns, Sezgin Boynik, Boris Buden,
Marina Grzinic, Marko Kosnik, Stevan Vukovic,
Heiner Mühlmann and Johannes Ullmaier.
Inke Arns: Born 1968 in Duisdorf, Bonn; since 1993 freelance curator. In 2004 she completed her PhD degree at the Humboldt University, Berlin. From January 2005 she will be the artistic director of hartware media art association in Dortmund, Germany. Her curatorial work includes "OSTranenie 93," Dessau 1993; "Minima Media: Medienbiennale," Leipzig 1994; "discord. sabotage of realities," Hamburg 1996-1997; "body of the message," Berlin 1998; "Body and the East," Ljubljana 1998; "Social Technologies," Essen 2003; "Irwin: Retroprincip 1983-2003," Berlin, Hagen and Belgrade 2003-2004; "Public Library," Berlin 2004. Her PhD dissertation researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex- )Yugoslavia and Russia. Besides her publications Netzkulturen and Neue Slowenische Kunst (both 2002) she has published widely on issues of net culture and media art; lives in Berlin. further information |
Sezgin Boynik: As author and editor of art and culture publications, such as Arta or art-ist, he deals with the subversive resisitance movements in Jugoslavia in the 70ies and 80ies, radical politicial ideas and NSK, among other things. As well as his work with sociological and political subjects Boynik also writes for music magazines and fanzines. An additional field of interest is the situationistic Internationale, and its influence on politics, contemporary art and visual communication. |
Boris Buden: is a writer and cultural critic. He received his Ph.D. in cultural theory from Humboldt University in Berlin. In the 90s he was editor in the magazine Arkzin Zagreb. He has contributed regularly to a variety of newspapers, magazines and cultural journals in former Yugoslavia, Europe and USA. His essays and articles cover topics of philosophy, politics, cultural and art criticism. Among his translations into Croatian are two books of Sigmund Freud. He has participated in various conferences and art exhibitions in Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and USA, among other Documenta XI, Berlin Biennale, Wiener Festwochen, etc. Recently, he took part in the project: The Post-Communist Condition, organised by ZKM-Karlsruhe. Buden is the author of Barikade Zagreb, 1996/1997, Kaptolski Kolodvor, Belgrade 2001 and Der Schacht von Babel, Berlin 2004. |
Marina Grzinic: culture theoretician and artist, Ljubljana; expert on art of the 80ies and 90ies in the south eastern European region. She has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts since May 2003, following Reneé Green. |
Marko Kosnik: Born on 1 July 1961 in Kranj. During the eighties he collaborated with several extreme alternative groups (Junajtit Adis, Laibach, Cavis Negra, Most), primarily as a creator of concepts, scripts, music, video and ambient projects. In 1986 he founded the Egon March Institute, a creative unit for theory, research and production in the field of new media; it was in this framework that he realised the bulk of his projects during the nineties. Since 1991 he has been engaged in corporate interdisciplinary productions, performances and installations, which combine directing, programming of interactive systems, synchronisation and transmission via the Internet. The circle of collaborators in his projects since 1991 has been largely international; e.g., collaborations with Van Gogh TV, Universcity TV, and STEIM. He held numerous performances, lectures and workshop tutorships (MUU, Architonomy, Media Feedback) around Europe, and has initiated educative media environments (Ministry of Experiment). He is one of the pioneers of European interactive communication projects. |
Heiner Mühlmann: College international de Philosophie, Paris / ETH Zürich / Bergische Universität Wuppertal and others. In his most important work The Nature of Cultures, (New York/Vienna: Springer, 1996) he traces the different characteristics of a culture to a previous maximum-stress-situation (such as war, revolution, etc.). Out of this process emerges not only a critique of reason, but also a fresh contribution to the debate about the relation of high and low culture. A cooperation with the Viennese Lectures has already been arranged. |
Johannes Ullmaier: specialist in German studies, co-founder of testcard, a magazine for cultural and pop theory, which comes out four times a year. His recent book Von Acid nach Adlon, published by ventil, is the standard work in German pop literature. Among other things he is specialist in Yugo Pop, having edited a collection, including translations of lyrics, and historical discussions, etc. Since February 2004 he works as editor / corrector / reader at the Suhrkamp edition in Frankfurt at Main. |