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Adele Eisenstein writes:
an Ars Baltica Project
MEDIA AND ETHICS
of the contemporary critique
A SYMPOSIUM AND GATHERING FOR CRITICS AND ARTISTS
in the field of photography, multimedia, video, installation and performance
http://muu.lib.hel.fi/me
(under construction)
Helsinki, September 12th-14th, 1996
Organisers: The Arts Council of Finland
MAP (media.art.project)
Radio and Television Institute (YLE-RTI)
Programme Coordinator: Tapio Makela <director@kaapeli.fi>
Producer: Adele Eisenstein <map@kaapeli.fi>
Supported by: The Nordic Cultural Fund, Finnish Ministry of Education,
C3: Center for Culture & Communication/Soros Foundation Hungary,
USIS (United States Information Service), French Embassy, Goethe Institute,
Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish Institute, Polish Ministry of
Culture,
Soros Centers for Contemporary Art - Skopje (Macedonia), St. Petersburg
(Russia),
Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia),
Finnish Museum of Photography, Ateneum - Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art,
Nordic Art Center, Helsinki City Art Museum, Tuglas Society
MEDIA AND ETHICS
of the contemporary critique
CONCEPT
The symposium in Helsinki will be a gathering of critics and artists from
the Baltic Sea countries and the surrounding region. The main
topic under discussion is new media as a twofold challenge. The first
challenge focuses on the potentialities of emerging art spaces, such
as www, cd-rom and telematics. The second challenge is to discuss these
media as critical forums and dialogical spaces. How do
traditional museums, galleries, newspapers and other mainstream media react
to these changes? What types of alternatives have been
developed?
Discussion of ethics in the new media culture is a central theme of the
symposium. If defined as one?s personal politics, ethics of the
contemporary critique deals with choices, which for the artist are questions
of inclusion and exclusion. As ethical discourse is dangerously
close to moralistic discourse, the symposium foregrounds questions of free
speech and free artistic expression.
SUBTOPICS
(1) Media: Space; (2) Media: Theory and Tradition; (3) Ethics; and
(4) Artists and Critics I/O - Cultural Difference and National Politics
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Thursday, September 12 programme
Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcoming address from Doris Laine-Almi, Chair of The Finnish Arts
Council, and Sakari Salko of the Radio and Television
Institute (YLE)
Overview of the Programme by Producer Adele Eisenstein
Opening Words by Symposium Chair Tapio Mäkelä
11.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Peter Weibel (A)
Media and Metis
13.00 Artist presentation: Fred Forest (F)
The Esthetic of Communication
14.00 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: Hubertus von Amelunxen (D)
Anticipating the Ruins of the Future
18.30 Artist presentation: Akke Wagenaar (NL)
The Hiroshima Project
19.15 Closing of the day
Friday, September 13 morning programme
Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila
10.00 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (1) and (2)
12.00
(1) Media:Space
Medialization, art becoming communication and vice-versa, is a challenge for
tradtional 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?
Workshops: (a) Theories of space; (b) Museums and galleries: ruins or new
methods?; (c) From infocult to critical strategies
CHAIR: Minna Tarkka (FI) - The Space of Interaction: Metaphors By
Which We Shop
Speakers: Tapio Makela (FI) - From Gallery Space to Interface
Marina Grzinic (SI) - What Space?
Lily Diaz (US/FI) - Augmentation and the Architecture of
Boundaries in New Media
Jeremy Welsh (N) - crashzone, MediArt, fuzzy definitions and
soft collisions
(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-rom production, interactive theatre and computer animation
suited for film critics, visual art critics - or do we need media
art critics?
Workshops: (a) Research as media critique (with particular attention to
different traditions of art history, cinema studies, cultural studies
and aesthetics); (b) Art work as research and theory; (c) A dialogue
between critics and performance artists
CHAIR: Asko Makela (FI)
Speakers: Pauls Bankovskis (LV) - Culture of Memory and Meta-Art
Nebojsa Vilic (MK) - Authorship?
Eric Kluitenberg (NL) - On the Reciprocity of Art and Media
Theory
Sven-Olov Wallenstein (S) - Media and the Deconstruction
of Subjectivity
12.00 Lunch and travel to Ateneum
Friday, September 13 afternoon programme
Ateneum Auditorium, Kaivokatu 2
14.00 Public Lecture: Mark Dery (US)
15.30 Artist presentation: Mare Tralla (EE)
T.Est Art
16.00 Lecture: Sadie Plant (UK)
The Good, the Bad, and the Intelligent
17.30 Discussion open to the public
18.00 Ateneum closing
18.30 Glass Palace
Artist group performance: Victor Mazin & Olessia Turkina (RUS)
Valery Dudkin & Vladimir Tamrazov
Golem of Con-sciousness
Saturday, September 14 morning programme
Radio and Television Institute Auditorium-YLE-Pasila
10.00 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (3) and (4)
12.00
(3) Ethics
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?
Workshops: (a) Social and environmental changes, crises and critique;
(b) Ethics and politics of critique
CHAIR: Jeremy Welsh (N)
Speakers: Mats Hjelm (S) - Art and the Ideology of the Information
Machine
Jan Aman (S) - Every Action is War, Every Conversation is
Politics
Aneta Szylak (PL) - Pressure: Media Against Art
Richard Kriesche (A) - Immateriality/Purity/Light
(4) Access and Interactive Critique: Cultural difference and national
politics in the age of optic fibre
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 transform into cultural dialogue
in the next millenium?
Workshops: (a) How to use www and other Internet tools for critical
discussion: a hands-on introduction; (b) Interactive and independent
critique: a dialogical space; (c) Cultural difference and national politics
in the age of optic fibre
CHAIR: Geert Lovink (NL)
Speakers: Heie Treier (EE) - The Case of Sven Kivisildnik
Ewa Mikina (PL) - Media as Experience
Inga Steimane (LV) - Secret Experiment
Lars Bang Larsen (DK) - Welcome
Saturday, September 14 afternoon programme
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 Rivermen, and Kostja Mitenev (RUS) - UNDINA and Rivermen
14.00 Lecture: Toshiya Ueno (JP)
Techno-Orientalism and Japanese Subculture
15.00 Lunch
15.45 Lecture: Geert Lovink (NL)
Mass Psyche of the Net: Fear and Desire on the Data Highway
16.45 Refreshments
John Hopkins (IC) - webmaster
Presentation of the www-pages made during the symposium
IRC-line open - on-line discussion (Tapio Mäkelä)
Nettime Meeting: Pit Schultz (D) and Geert Lovink (NL)
18.00 Closing of the Symposium
19.00 Sinebrychoff Tower Project
Vernissage: Saku Paasilahti
Opened by Aneta Szylak, WYSPA (PL)
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MEDIA AND ETHICS of the contemporary critique
september 12-14, 1996 - helsinki
http://muu.lib.hel.fi/me
is under construction
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...ars baltica...arts council of finland...
...map-project...c3/soros foundation...
..radio and television institute (yle)..
.....adele eisenstein - producer.....
....<map@kaapeli.fi>....
.tel.: 358.0.685.1033.
.fax: 358.0.693.1576.
. Finnish Museum of Photography
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. Adele Eisenstein
. Box 596
. FI-00101 Helsinki
. FINLAND
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--Adele