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New Media Genres

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26/09/2010

(Presentation at Harvard University: MA. Srnic – New Media Genres )
The first-year students of  The Faculty of Culturology in Osijek  (Croatia, Europe)   had to make experiments with glasses, light and  liquid as a topic named “Creative Glasses” while attending “New Media Genres” board, lectured by M.A. Vesna Srnic,  Art Historian and professor of Comparative Literature. Students have inventively made photographs of glasses as the abstractions, using only their cell phones! The aim of this project, realized at the seminary, was to encourage students to explore and reinvent the Reality with a new approach to seeing.

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Cultures, Art and Politics of Online Video

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17/05/2012

Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, in collaboration with Association Kazimir in Split and the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, is organizing an international conference of theorists, artists and experts for new media, especially for online video, under the title Video Vortex, which is set to take place on May 17-19 in Zagreb.

This platform deals with a recent phenomenon that has a considerable presence on the Internet (Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook).

Moving pictures (film/video) and internet are in the process of defining their dynamic and creative mutual relations, and therefore the conference will focus on the content of changes in contemporary art and film, but also in wider cultural, social and technological fields.

The initiator of the Network is a prominent new media theorist Geert Lovink from the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam; previous conferences were held in Brussels, Amsterdam, Ankara, Split, and other cities. The Zagreb Conference is an important turning point, because for the first time the conference is supported by a big museum institution such as MSU. After the Zagreb Conference, the following ones will take place in Berlin, New York, and Paris. About thirty speakers will participate in the proceedings of the conference, divided in six panels: Contemporary Art and online video, Theoretical discourses on the contemporary shift in the digital moving image, Social network and online video in the region, The perspective of online cinema, Artists talk about their own work and research in online video, and Technological aspects and new developments of online video.

Participants of the Conference:
Seumas Coutts, Annelies Termeer, Sabina Salamon, Laurence Rickelts, Bojana Romić, Riczhard Kluszchinsky, Andreas Treske, Dagan Coen, Janos Sugar, Peter Perg, Damir Nikšić, Sandra Sterle, Gabriel Menotti, Jan Simons, Nina Koll, Miklos Peternak, Dalibor Martinis, Natalie Bookchin, Annie Abrahams, Maartin Brinkerink, Miha Colner, Richard Vickers.

The exhibition:
Concurrently with the Conference an exhibition will be held, with works that were created through the participative processes in internet networks, i.e. as authorial videos prepared for online distribution: Liu Wei, Perry Bard, Flag metamorphosis, Janos Sugar, Sandra Sterle, Natalie Bookschin, Dalibor Martinis, Damir Nikšić, Annie Abrahams. Curator: Tihomir Milovac. Curators for online video selection: Vera Tollman, Sarah Kesenne, Christiane Paul, Perry Bard, Brian Willems, Hebert Patrick & Alexandra Juhasz.

 

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The Greeting to the Sun in Zadar

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01/05/2012

After the world-known Sea Organs, Croatian city Zadar has become wealthier with one more urban installation, next to the famous Sea Organs, which shines the Greeting to the Sun made by the same architect Nikola Bašić. The installation won the 3rd prize at the European Council contest.

The Greeting to the Sun consists of three hundred multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level with the stone-paved waterfront in the shape of a 22-meter diameter circle. Under the glass conduction plates there are photo-voltage solar modules through which symbolic communication with nature is made, with the aim to communicate with light, just like the Sea Organs do with sound.

The Greeting to the Sun installation, as a model of the solar system with its appertaining planets, is connected to the Sea Organs whose sound is transposed into a show of light that starts performing on the Zadar waterfront after sunset. In creating the lighting effects, the installation will be able to receive other outer, spontaneous impulses through modem connection, while the lighting pictures will adapt to different occasions.

Simultaneously with the „most beautiful sunset in the world” the lighting elements installed in a circle turn on, and, following a particularly programmed scenario, they produce a marvelous, exceptionally impressive show of light in the rhythm of the waves and the sounds of the Sea organs.

The photo-voltage solar modules absorb the sun energy and then transform it into electrical energy by releasing it into the distributive voltage power network. It is expected for the entire system to produce around 46.500 kWh yearly, being, actually, a small power plant from which energy will be used not only for the Greeting to the Sun installation, but also for the lighting of the entire waterfront. This energy will be three times cheaper than the actual one, and the project itself is a unique example of connecting the use of renewed energy sources, energy efficiency and city space arrangement.

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“The Power of Support” by Vlado Martek

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28/04/2012
From 27th April — 16th June, 2012  Aanant & Zoo present the first solo exhibition of Croatian artist Vlado Martek (*1951) in Germany. The base or Untergrund * of Martek’s artistic praxis consists of writing, poetry and language. Since the 1970s Martek has used the different mediums of sketch, collage, happening and books to negate and deconstruct the traditional forms of speech and thus finally returning it to its essence and finding new and different manners of dealing with language. Martek is not a quiet observer. In his works he reacts analytical, critical, ironic and humorous on social structures and constructs, as is evident in the here displayed manifesto Snaga podloge.

Martek, who in the early 1970s studied philosophy and literature in Zagreb, began his artistic career as a poet. Soon he found himself disenchanted with writing as a method of expression. Between 1975 and 1978, Martek presented his poems and other writings to the public on the street as a member of political art collective Group of Six Artists (with Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović , Fedor Vučemilović). The artist manipulates the nature of his material. For example when glass, paper, mirror and a blank surface reveal a “Sonett” (1978/2009) while conserving the poems its inherent rhythm and sound despite the material change. He works as a librarian since 1979.

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Paintings from photographs, film-stills and newspaper cuttings

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28/04/2012

A Croatian curator of Institute for the Research of the Avant-garde  Zagreb, Branko Franceschi and HDLU in collaboration with David Zwirner, London, present an exhibition of new work by Belgian artist Luc Tuymans. The exhibition, titled Allo!, brings together six new paintings and a series of wall paintings especially conceived for the rotunda of the Mestrovic Pavilion. Painting from pre-existing imagery-photographs, film-stills, newspaper cuttings-Tuymans’s works address the elusive gap between memory and reality, personal space and public space. (10 May – 21 June, 2012)

Tuymans’s new series of paintings is inspired by the final scenes of the 1942 black-and-white film The Moon and Sixpence, which was adapted from the 1919 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Loosely based upon the life of Paul Gauguin, the movie ends weeks after the death of Strickland, when his doctor travels from London to the village in Tahiti where the main character lived. When the doctor enters the painter’s cabin, the movie changes from black-and-white to Technicolor. Tuymans made a series of screenshots of this color metamorphosis. The photographer’s reflection-that of Tuymans himself-can be seen in the screenshots and therefore also in the paintings.

Born in Mortsel, near Antwerp, Belgium in 1958, Tuymans studied fine art in Brussels and Antwerp between 1976-1982, before completing a degree in Art History at the Vrije Universiteit in 1986. In 1992, he participated in the prestigious Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, and he has since exhibited widely in Europe and Northern America.

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Kraftwerk – Back to the Future

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15/04/2012

Over eight nights (April 10, 2012–April 17, 2012), MoMA presents the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk – the avant-garde electronic music pioneers, with a live presentation of their complete repertoire in the Museum’s Marron Atrium. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk’s studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release.

Each evening will consist of a live performance, in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, of works from one of the group’s eight albums, created over four decades, followed by a selection of original compositions from their catalogue adapted specifically for this exhibition’s format, to showcase both Kraftwerk’s historical contributions and contemporary influences on sound and image culture. Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large at MoMA and Director of MoMA PS1, with the assistance of Eliza Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

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I Am Happy To Be Happy

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28/03/2012

At the Slovenian museum MGLC  the Croatian contemporary/conceptual artist  Ivan Kozaric exhibits his prints till April 1st. The artist Ivan Kozaric creates at the International Centre of Graphic Arts eighteen prints in the colour screen-printing technique: portfolio entitled Sretan sam da sam sretan! / I am happy to be happy!, 2007, print Brez naslova / Untitled, 2002, and prints  A Bouquet of Genes, 2002-04. His works are characterized by a sense of mischief, spontaneity and by his nonchalant approach to life.

Ivan Kozaric in his 86th year of life creates at MGLC a series of prints entitled Sretan sam da sam sretan! (I am happy to be happy!) that offer crayon-like depicted flowers, a rainbow of primary colours, tops of heads, Brancusian figures and spheres. What is noticeable at first glance is the joy, excitement and playfulness of these prints, which should be looked at without the shackles of a trained and discerning eye rooted in an art education, and rather be embodied by a physical and emotional experience. The simplicity of the I am happy to be happy! print portfolio is the simplicity of the great, of those, that dare make prints of delicate flowers and colourful rainbows, when that is what they really feel in this world.

Ivan Kožarić (born 10 June 1921 in Petrinja) is a Croatian artist who works primarily with sculpture but also works in a wide variety of media, including: permanent and temporary sculptures, assemblages, proclamations, photographs, paintings and installations. He is the author of many public sculptures, including Landed Sun in Zagreb (1971), A. G. Matoš in Zagreb (1978), and Tree in Bochum (1979–1980). He has received numerous awards, including the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement (1997). He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

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ZKM: ‘Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts’

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05/03/2012

In German Medienmuseum ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe you can visit on March 8th, 2012 an exhibition “Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts” as an international live exhibition on the history of art performance in dance and fine art. As an exhibition ‘in progress’, the project shows and develops new formats of museal presentation of live acts. The exhibition begins in an empty exhibition space. During the eight week duration of the exhibition project a scenic act of around ten central stages of dance and performance history unfolded − as witnessed by a group of students invited to accompany and observe for the entire period − before a public. One of the key focal points is the performances and works by women who have consciously been thematizing, transgressing and critiquing the genre boundaries between dance, performance, and visual media since the 1960s. Here, they likewise reflect on the implicit male constructions of the gaze and the gestural logic of their colleagues.

Among others, the artists represented in the exhibition will be Marina Abramović, Graciela Carnevale, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Reinhild Hoffmann, Channa Horwitz, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sanja Iveković, Adrian Piper and Yvonne Rainer. The exhibition is composed of four phases, in each of which other actors occupy the exhibition space:

1. Act − Stage and Display (March 8−March 17, 2012)

2. Re-Act − Interpretative Acquisition in the Art Laboratory (March 18−March 30, 2012)

3. Post-Production − Film Editing (March 31−April 14, 2012)

4. Remembering the Act − Performative Mediation of the Exhibition Process by Artistic Witnesses (April 15−April 29, 2012)

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“Trust me I trust you” by Mihael Giba

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01/03/2012

Mihael Giba is a Croatian intermedia artist, who is presenting the first solo exhibition of his work in Slovenia between 9 – 28 March 2012 at P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.

“The exhibition TRUST ME I TRUST YOU presents an installation of this same name, which is composed of a series of five artist books with the same formal character and elegance as the artist’s conceptual poetry(…) The artist’s chosen mode of mapping derives from his desire to create a dialogue between the state and its citizens that is as direct as possible. Through the visualization of data, he moves from the concrete to the abstract only to return again to the concrete. Such movement Lev Manovich has described as the real challenge of data art, which, he says, “is not about how to map some abstract and impersonal data into something meaningful and beautiful” but rather “how to represent the personal subjective experience of a person living in a data society.”[Lev Manovich, “Data Visualisation as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime” (2002)]

Mihael Giba (b. 1985, Varaždin) received his degree in painting from the Academy of Art at the University of Split, where he is currently employed as a senior assistant in electronic painting and digital photography. He is a member of the international art network Zebra, which founded the exhibition space Greta in Zagreb. He regularly exhibits his work in Croatia in both solo and group shows. In 2010, in collaboration with Dalibor Martinis, he presented his touring project Global Picture in Slovenia.

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Permanent Avantgarde Exhibition at Kuad Gallery, Istanbul

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19/02/2012

Branko Franceschi as a curator goes permanently with introducing Croatian Avantgarde art from Marinko Sudac collection of South East Europe avant-garde art production, this time at Kuad Gallery in Istanbul from 24 February to 28 April.

Franceschi states that “so-called state modernism focused on the formal aspects of creativity and creation of art objects and was intensively supported by public institutions, while art practices that aimed to enhance social change towards participatory democracy, or at least to improve the cultural context, were pushed to the margins of public interest and institutional representation. In this manner the creativity of the true heirs of completely neglected pre-WWII radical art practices came to be referred to as the “art of the second line”. (…) Finally, the general understanding prevailed that the avant-garde legacy of modern era, alive and vibrant as it is, most pragmatically and directly connects us with the West we have been aiming to unite with all along. Second-line art became first-line art and a series of major exhibitions has made this heritage visible to local and international communities, creating a possibility of the substantial modification in the mapping of global culture towards a more accurate and impartial model.”

The curatorial concept has been to divide the exhibition into four comprehensive sections. In Print focuses on the legacy and continuation of avant-garde magazine publishing, while Legacy of Constructivism points out how the aesthetic of constructivism permeated and has been transformed throughout the XX century. Subject = Object presents an impressive history of performative art practices in the region dating back to the 1920s and Utopia and Radicalism epitomizes activism that bravely stood against the power and rule of the political elite.”

The exhibition presents 59 works (photography, prints, collages and videos) of Aleksandar Srnec, Attila Csernik, Balint Szombathy, Bogdanka Poznanovic, Boris Demur, Era Milivojevic, EXAT 51, Family from Sempas, Gorgona, Ivan Kozaric, Ivana Tomljenovic Meller, Josip Seissel (Jo Klek), Marijan Molnar, Marko Pogacnik, Mladen Stilinovic, Nasko Kriznar, OHO, Red Peristyle, Tomislav Gotovac, Traveleri, Vladimir Bonacic, Vlado Martek, Zeljko Jerman and Zeljko Kipke.

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Fascinating “Timelapse Croatia – showreel / teaser”

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08/02/2012

Romulic Multimedia Studio (Mario Romulic and Drazen Stojcic) presents the fascinating movie with hundreds of thousands photographs, created by timelapse technique. “The movie you’re about to see is a preview of what we would like to do, in regards of representing Croatia as a destination in a different way.

No one commissioned us to do this, we put our own work, time, gear, money and ideas into it. Because of this we chose the locations, the editing and music as we saw fit.  Of course, what we ended up putting in this video is merely a fragment of what Croatia has to offer. As photographers who have traveled across our country from one end to another, we are well aware that there is so much more to be filmed. And we are more than happy to do it – after all, we’re two guys who really love their job. It’s simply that the pace at which we can finish this project will depend mostly on if we can get financial support, or we’ll have to figure out some other way to pull this off.

Explaining timelapse technique to an average person, or a potential client can be very hard. Even most of our colleagues have no real sense of how demanding timelapses can be. So we decided to skip on the whining and tried to show what timelapse is really about and how visually attractive it can be.

Almost a full year of work went into this. Months and months of work and hundreds of thousands photographs for a few minutes of video. Sounds silly, but that’s basically how it is. For example, we spent last 3 months literally sitting at our workstations editing and rendering frame after frame, shot after shot, location after location. Crazy people :)

So, if by the end of this year we end up with another 4 minutes of worthwhile material, we’ll be more than happy to share!

Until then, lay back, relax and enjoy!”

MV

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Timelaps at vimeo.com

http://www.romulic.com/

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