Syndicate: Prague Media Symposium 'Flusser Media Film', Nov. 1997

[kultur@goethe.cz (goethe) (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

November 24-25, 1997

Invitation to the Prague Media Symposium
Flusser Media Film

Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo nâ?¡brezâ?? 32

As a continuation of our traditional series of media symposia, the
Goethe-Institut Prag is organizing for the sixth time an international and
interdisciplinary symposium. Again, we will take a close and critical look
at new media art and communications philosophy.

This year«s symposium will concentrate on two aspects: VilŽm Flusser's
thinking and the interrelation between film and the new media, with a
special focus on the digitalization of film.

Prague Media Symposium

November 24 and 25, 1997 at the Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo nâ?¡brezâ?? 32

Monday, Nov. 24

9.30 a.m.
Welcome
Michael Bielicky: The artist's identity?
Thomas Knšfel: The Survivor
Jirâ?? Fiala: Flusser's Most Devilish Book
Milena Slavick�: VilŽm Flusser and the Mourning of the Heart

1.00 p.m. Lunch Break

2.30 p.m.
Lubor Benda: Putting Flusser On the Web
David Larcher: "Ich-Tank"
Francis Wittenberger: The Virtual Universe & Secondary Consciousness

5.00 p.m. Break

6.00 p.m.
Lev Manovich: Cinema As a Cultural Interface
Silver: Algorithm as an Art - The Viewer as a Variable

Tuesday, Nov. 25.

9.30 a.m.
Jaroslav Andel: Speed
Ulrich Weinberg: Digital Games
Peter Krieg: Let the Paradigms Shift!
Joachim Sauter: Film in Virtual Space

1.00 p.m. Lunch Break

2.30 p.m.
Ludvâ??k Hlavâ?¡cek: On Czech Media Art
Dietmar Kamper: The Virtual As a Variant of Absence

5.00 p.m. Break

6.00 p.m.
Petr Vrâ?¡na: The Aesthetic of Formats
Zbigniew Rybczynski: Visual Special Effects Using High-definition TV (HDTV)

The symposium with not be of purely academic character but rather be an open
forum for research into and discussion of the subject. Everybody is welcome
to participate. Admission free. Languages spooken: Czech, English, German.
Simultaneous translation provided. The symposium has been organized with
Prof. Michael Bielicky, Academy of Fine Arts Prague (AVU). In cooperation
with the Open Society Fund Prague, the Prague film school FAMU, the Soros
Center for Contemporary Art Prague and the Collection of Contemporary and
Modern Art (Veletrznâ?? palâ?¡c) of the Czech National Gallery in Prague.