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media and ehtics on the contemporary critique A SYMPOSIUM AND GATHERING FOR CRITICS AND ARTISTS in the field of photography, multimedia, video, installation and performance Helsinki, September 12th-14th, 1996 Organisers: The Arts Council of Finland MAP (Media-Art-Project) Radio and Television Institute (YLE) Programme Coordinator: Tapio Makela <director@kaapeli.fi> Producer: Adele Eisenstein <map@kaapeli.fi> Supported by: The Nordic Cultural Fund, C3: Center for Culture Communication/Soros Foundation Hungary, USIS (United States Information Service), French Embassy, Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish Institute, Soros Centers for Contemporary Art - Skopje (Mecedonia), St. Petersburg (Russia), Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), Polish Ministry of Culture, Finnish Museum of Photography, Ateneum - Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art, Nordic Art Center, Helsinki City Art Museum 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 the Head of the Radio and Television Institute (YLE) Overview of the Programme by Producer Adele Eisenstein Opening Words by Symposium Chair Tapio M=E4kel=E4 11.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Peter Weibel (A) Media and Metis 13.00 Artist presentation: Fred Forest (F) TV/Video 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 20.00 Welcoming Reception given by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (UM) 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) Speakers: Tapio M=E4kel=E4 (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) - "rashzone, MediArt, fuzzy definitions and soft "ollisions (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 M=E4kel=E4 (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 Ewa Mikina (PL) - Media as Experience Sven-Olov Wallenstein (S) 12.00 Lunch and travel to Ateneum =46riday, September 13 afternoon programm= e 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) 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 =C5man (S) - Every Action is War, Every Conversation is Politics Aneta Szylak (PL) - Ethical Questions in Polish Contemporary 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: Algis Lankelis (LT) - Three Site-Specific Projects Heie Treier (EE) - The Case of Sven Kivisildnik Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska (PL) - Two Attitudes: Between Melancholy and "Trauerarbeit" Torben Christensen (DK) 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) - The Hedgehog Coat (video/computer installation) / E-L@b (Riga) 13.30 Alla Mitrophanova & Kostja Mitenev (RUS) - Subject of Communication / Virtual Anatomy/UNDINA 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 M=E4kel=E4) Nettime Meeting: Pit Schultz (D) and Geert Lovink (NL) Memesis/Ars Electronica Review: Gerfried Stocker (A) and Geert Lovink (NL) 18.00 Closing of the Symposium 19.00 Sinebrychoff Tower Project Opening: Saku Paasilahti (to be opened by Aneta Szylak, WYSPA (PL)) 20.30 Closing dinner and party -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de