central east european media art chart (2000-now)

"Visualizing new media art in Central Eastern Europe" paper presentation during ISEA2011, 14 September, Istanbul

2011-08-28T13:40:00.001+02:00

Visualizing new media art in Central Eastern Europe (paper presentation) during panel titled New Media Art Education in Central and Eastern Europe in the Last Two Decades: experiments and transition.
The panel will discuss how the changes in Eastern and Central Europe have influenced the art educational system there during the last twenty years, with particular reference to education in the new media field. The reason for choosing such a seemingly broad timescale is to include the 'finalisation' of the political and economical integration of some post-Soviet countries (like Estonia) into the European Union whilst contrasting this with examples like Belarus, which have become (or remained) more autocratic and closed. One particular point of interest is the change in the understanding and interpretation of 'new media art' during the last two decades, partly due to the different technologies and specialities that this field of practice encompasses.

- Twenty years of change: in the political system, art paradigms, technologies and ways of thinking.
- Travel and transition: exported artists and imported ideas
- The transition from artefact-based artistic practice to process-based and non-material art
- The similarities and differences between 'West' and 'East' mentalities
- Initiatives, centres, departments and institutions of new media and education
- Resources, funding, financial practices, governmental support, business schemes for producing and exhibiting new media
- Changes in the art education system: from traditional and manual fine arts practices to mediated and technological education
- Different networks focused on the organisation, theory, and practice of technological art

Visualizing new media art in Central Eastern Europe abstract:
Numerous amounts of facts connected with New Media Art in the territory of Central Eastern Europe go unused because of the inability to see relationships between different kinds of information. To face this issue CEEMAC2000+: Central East European Media Art Chart (2000-now) has been developed. This paper focuses on understanding stereotypical terms as: Central Eastern Europe and New Media Art in the context of its history (Soviet times) and current situation (network society, data visualization) which are the basis of CEEMAC2000+ project.

Dates: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011 - 09:00 - 10:30
Chair Person: Raivo Kelomees
Presenters: Chris Hales, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Ala Pigalskaya, Piibe Piirma

"New artistic cartography" presentation on .chance), 18 December 2010, Aix-en-Provence

2011-01-06T16:39:00.006+01:00

International Conference on Social Networking in the Cultural Domain was organized in the frame of .chance) project and took place on 18th of December 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

The main topic of this meeting was: how can the cultural community benefit from the recent boom of the social networking tools?

Artistic creation and cultural production has become dependent on the use of on-line social networks where basically anyone can remotely and for free collaborate, co-produce, discuss and learn as well as teach and guide one another. Given these new communication possibilities, a growing number of creative individuals and intercultural operators can innovate to produce excellent creative content and offer high-quality cultural services often with enormous social and environmental relevance and impact.
The event brought together international experts from the social networking domain, who shared their experience, views and ideas on the employing of the rise of the social networking tools in the cultural field for effectively announcing, managing, circulating and bringing visibility to cultural operators, groups of artists as well as creative individuals, across all sectors and regions.

.chance project itself focuses on different aspects of web technologies, social networking and web 2.0, with special impact on their future development. The main objective of the project is to harmonize and utilize the best of current social networking technologies in order to stimulate the intercultural dialogue with concrete artistic and cultural results.
.chance WEB: http://www.chance-project.eu/

Below is an abstract of my presentation "New artistic cartography: visualizing new media art activities in Central Eastern Europe" performed during above described conference.

Central Eastern Europe (CEE) hidden for ages behind Iron Curtain in many aspects is still undiscovered hybrid build out of past and present. Similarly local new media art (NMA) is a tangle of historical and political dependencies mixed with current global influences (e.g. networked society, high technologies). Very dynamic specificity of this region additionally blurs wider view on CEE NMA activities. In result big amounts of data and facts connected with this topic go unused simply because people can’t see relationships between them and visualize its quantities.
Trying to face this issue I established sketch project called CEEMAC2000+: Central East European Media Art Chart (2000-now). CEEMAC2000+ in its concept is meant to be a collaborative interactive map which could be able to present most of networks, dependencies, connections between art centers, projects and people which focus on local NMA development. CEEMAC2000+ aims to collect, share and present big amount of data in non- linear, clear and visually attractive way, simply to create new artistic cartography.
CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION: http://prezi.com/31yigp-2rzop/new-artistic-cartography-visualizing-new-media-art-activities-in-central-eastern-europe

CEEMAC 2000+ on Soft Borders" 4th Upgrade International Conference, 18-21 October 2010, Sao Paulo

2010-10-11T15:14:00.005+02:00

Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival, that will take place in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, from 18th to 21st/October/2010.
The previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA), Ocklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedonia).
The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers from 30 countries to present and discuss the field of new media art, in the international and local contexts, especially in Brazil, the country that is hosting the present edition of the event.
The new media festival that is also part of the Soft Borders event will present artworks selected by two curators - a Brazilian and an Upgrade! International Network curator.
The Soft Borders theme, that drives either the conference and the art festival, aim to discuss the borders dissolutions between the many fields of the knowledge and life, the contamination of the one another, particularly regarding the relationship between art-science-technology.

CEEMAC 2000+ remote presentation will take place on 19th October between 2:00 - 2:30 pm (Brazil time zone).

TIME ZONE CONVERTER: http://tinyurl.com/2etud7a
CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION: http://prezi.com/4oitgt3vxfva/ceemac2000/
SOFT BORDERS PROGRAM: http://softborders.art.br/programa.html
SOFT BORDERS WEB: http://softborders.art.br/eng/
UPGRADE! WEB: http://www.theupgrade.net/

Monoskop/log

2010-08-16T00:36:00.003+02:00

"New Media Art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s (2009)" abstract is a part of Monoskop/log - Living archive of writings on art, culture and media technology
http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log/?p=1207

Thesis abstract in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA)

2010-07-15T22:08:00.006+02:00

The peer review panel (Yiannis Colakides, Andrea Polli, Tom Lessor, Christo Doherty and Sheila Pinkel) has reviewed abstracts submitted for Leonardo Abstracts Service Database. „New Media Art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s” was one of the top ranked by the peer reviewers this year. Thanks to it you can find its publication in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Leonardo's e-journal:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/new_media_art_in_central_and_eastern_europe

Established in 1993, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a peer reviewed journal, is the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology. LEA Editorial Board is composed of internationally recognized academics who are experts in their respective fields.
The focus of LABS and Leonardo is the interaction of art and science and of art and new technologies, by artists, researchers and scholars who in some way investigate philosophical, historical and/or critical applications of science or technology to the arts.

Leonardo LABS 2010

2010-06-29T13:09:00.004+02:00

“New media art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s” abstract is part of LABS (Leonardo Abstracts Service Database at Pomona University) a comprehensive database of abstracts of Ph.d, Masters and MFA theses in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology.
http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/SearchDetails.aspx?UID=291

LabforCulture European Cultural blogging map

2010-03-11T13:15:00.010+01:00

CEEMAC2000+ blog is part of LabforCulture European Cultural blogging map.

http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents/research-in-focus/cultural-blogging-in-europe/european-cultural-blogging-map

"Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known category within the blogosphere. LabforCulture wanted to find out more about the role of blogging in the cultural sector generally and what it means for LabforCulture specifically. [...] Our specific focus was to look at individual European blogs that take contemporary and popular culture as their main starting point. This ‘viral exploration’ includes a series of in-depth interviews with bloggers from the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and the Netherlands, among others. As part of the ongoing series of exploring cultural blogs across Europe we are launching an interactive map of the European cultural blogging scene."

FLEFF 2010 – Map Open Space

2010-03-11T12:36:00.021+01:00

Central Eastern European Media Art Chart (2000–Now) has been selected as part of exhibition curated by Sharon Lin Tay and Dale Hudson*: MAP OPEN SPACE during FLEFF 2010 (The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival organized through Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA).

"Maps orientate and determine the ways in which we perceive and understand the world and our place in it. Maps reveal and illuminate, but they also conceal and obfuscate. This year’s digital exhibition for FLEFF, Map Open Space, focuses on ways that mapping can be mobilized towards the concept of “open space.” Rather than defining and dividing, Map Open Space engages with technologies of mapping that act as radical cartography and radical historiography to invite new participation and facilitate new questions. By enlisting perspectives that often pass ignored or unrecognized, Map Open Space explores the interfaces and intervals of the digital, abstract, and immaterial with the localized, materialized, and grounded. Our selection for this year’s exhibition makes use of mapping in both practical and conceptual ways."

The jurors for Map Open Space were Babak Fakhamzadeh (Iran/Netherlands) Ismail Farouk (South Africa) and Christina McPhee (United States).

http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/gallery/3615/?image_id=28185#photo
Wider description about FLEFF you can find on
http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
website under MAP OPEN SPACE.

*Map Open Space Curators' Bios
Dale Hudson is an assistant professor at Texas State University–San Marcos. His work on global cinemas and new media appears in Afterimage, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Screen, and Studies in Documentary Film.　He has worked as a co-curator of new media art for FLEFF since 2006.
Sharon Lin Tay is an academic, theorist, and curator. She teaches film and digital theory at Middlesex University in London, England, and has co-curated the new media art exhibition for FLEFF for the last three years. Her new book about women filmmakers and digital artists, entitled Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (2009), is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Abstract of New media art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s

2009-10-15T00:35:00.006+02:00

“New media art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s” master thesis by Agnieszka Pokrywka is a presentation and analysis of new contemporary media art in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of history (soviet times) and the current situation (network society).
The first chapter of this work is focused on the issues mentioned above, simultaneously being a kind of theoretical introduction to the concepts of Central and Eastern Europe, network society or new media art which are closely related to the technological revolution.
In the second chapter we find a kind of fusion between the above mentioned subjects which apparently seem to be very different and discordant but in fact they're deeply connected and dependent; analysis of them allow us to understand correctly and truly realities of new media art origins in Central Eastern Europe.
Comprehension of these terms became to be a necessary base for analysis technologically based art in the context of European (Chapter Three) and global (Chapter Four) networks of media creativity. Speaking generally, what has been discussed theoretically in the first part of this work is supplemented by
specific examples in the second half which is showing different networks focused on organization, theory, practice of technological art. Complex and variable networks of new media art centers were visualized as a CEEMAC2000+ map (Appendix 3).
The main aim of this thesis is to underline historical, political and economical influence on new media art development in Central Eastern Europe.

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