an Ars Baltica project
A SYMPOSIUM AND GATHERING FOR CRITICS AND ARTISTS
in the fields of photography, multimedia, video, installation and performance
Helsinki, September 12th-14th, 1996
PROGRAM
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| Thursday, September 12 | |
| @ the Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila (Bus 23 direct from the rail station, or Tram 7A) | |
| 10.00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10.30 | Welcoming address from Doris Laine-Almi (FI), Chair of The Finnish Arts Council, and Sakari Salko (FI) of the Radio and Television Institute (YLE) Overview of the Program by Producer Adele Eisenstein Opening Words by Symposium Chair Tapio Mäkelä (FI) |
| 11.00 | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Hubertus von Amelunxen (D) Anticipating the Ruins of the Future |
| 12.30 | Artist presentation: Fred Forest (F) The Aesthetic of Communication (in French, with translation to English) |
| 13.45 | Lunch | 14.45 | Lecture: Ryszard Kluszczynski (PL) Ethical Discourse in Media Art (some examples) |
| 16.00 | Artist presentation: Marita Liulia (FI) Ambitious Bitch |
| 16.30 | Artist presentation: Palle Torsson &
Tobias Bernstrup (S) Join Hands |
| 17.00 | Coffee |
| 17.15 | Lecture/presentation: Marina Grzinic (SI) What Space? |
| 18.15 | Artist presentation: Akke Wagenaar (NL) The Hiroshima Project |
| 19.00 | Closing of the day |
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| Friday, September 13 - morning | |
| @ the Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila | |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (1) and (2) |
Medialization, art becoming communication and vice-versa, is a challenge for traditional ways of making and evaluating art. How are museums and galleries suited for media art - or for performance? What are the new characteristics of space that CD-ROM, interactive installations, world wide web, or art in the city space create? How should critics view, feel, smell, and listen to these spaces and rewrite them? (2) Media: Theory and Tradition
Artists using new media are combining techniques of visual arts, cinema, video and performing arts, yet their theoretical background may be from one genre. These complex situations require awareness on the part of the critic to use multiple interpretive strategies. Are such new genres as CD production, interactive theater, and computer animation suited for film and visual art critics - or do we need media art critics?
| CHAIR: | Asko Mäkelä (FI) |
| Speakers: | Pauls Bankovskis (LV) - Culture of Memory and Meta-Art Eric Kluitenberg (NL) - On the Reciprocity of Art and Media Theory Sven-Olov Wallenstein (S) - Media and the Deconstruction of Subjectivity Inga Steimane (LV) - Secret Experiment |
| 12.00 | Lunch and travel to Ateneum |
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Friday, September 13 - afternoon |
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| @ Ateneum Auditorium, Kaivokatu 2 | |
| 14.00 | Public Lecture: Mark Dery (US) The Persistence of Industrial Memory |
| 15.30 | Artist presentation: Mare Tralla (EE) T.Est Art |
| 16.00 | Lecture:Geert Lovink (NL) Mass Psyche of the Net: Fear and Desire on the Data Highway |
| 17.30 | Discussion open to the public |
| 18.00 | Ateneum closing |
| 18.30 | Glass Palace Artist group performance: Victor Mazin & Olessia Tourkina, Valery Dudkin, Vladimir Tamrazov (RUS) Golem of Consciousness-IV |
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| Saturday, September 14 - morning |
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| @ the Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila | |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (3) and (4) |
In the days of personal satellite tracking devices, it is possible to tell one's precise geographical location. What do you do with that kind of information in media culture? What kind of borderlines are drawn in cyberspace? On whose terms can one do art work using communication technologies? Media culture allows cultural remapping and both painful and pleasurable dislocations. As national borders dissolve (if they do) and modernist states make room for post-industrial societies (if they do), there is a desire for fresh ideas and points of view (if there is). What kind of ethics will influence the future critique? How are artists and critics dealing with Censorship and conservative ethics?
| CHAIR: | Jeremy Welsh (N) |
| Speakers: | Mats Hjelm (S) - Art and the Ideology of the Information Machine Jan Åman (S) - Every Action is War, Every Conversation is Politics Aneta Szylak (PL) - Pressure: Media Against Art Pit Schultz (D) - |
The question of access to the media for artists, potential audiences and critics is crucial. Are you I/O (In or Out)? How does high technology in the arts affect artists in the post-communist countries. After access, can there be interactive critique where critics' texts are criticized by the artists? Will criticism be transformed into cultural dialogue in the next millennium?
| CHAIR: | Geert Lovink (NL) |
| Speakers: | Heie Treier (EE) - The Case of Sven Kivisildnik Ewa Mikina (PL) - Media as Experience |
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| @ the Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila | |
| 12.00 | Coffee |
| 12.30 | Artist presentations: Alexei Shulgin (RUS) Moscow WWW Art center |
| 13.00 | Rasa Smite (LV) E-L@b (Riga) / The Hedgehog Coat (video/computer installation) |
| 13.30 | Kostja Mitenev (RUS) Virtual Anatomy / UNDINA |
| 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.45 | Lecture: Toshiya Ueno (JP) Techno-Orientalism and Japanese Subculture |
| 16.45 | Refreshments
Presentation of the www-pages made during the symposium: John Hopkins (IC) - Webmaster |
| 18.00 | Closing of the Symposium |
| 19.00 | Sinebrychoff Tower Project Vernissage: Saku Paasilahti (FI) Introduction by: Aneta Szylak (PL), WYSPA |
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