Forum Skopje 2009: The Aftershock of the Postmodernism

This year's Forum Skopje will be held from 8th to 14th of June at Mala Stanica in Skopje (Macedonia) hosting numerous European and regional architects and urban theoreticians. The concept of this year’s debate would give accent to the newest rises in the City Center, seen as antonyms to the Postmodern's philosophy. The subject of this year’s debate is set to be: the Aftershock of the Postmodernism.


Participants: Erich Raith, Sergej Nikoljski, Biljana Stefanovska, Ivan Rupnik, Antonio Petrov, Marko Sančanin, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Vera Martinez, Christiano Lepratti, Maren Harnack, Kai Vöckler, Gabriele Reiterer, Ines Tolic, Aleksandar Petrov, Maximilian Hartmuth and Ivan Mirkovski.

Programme:
8 June, 19:00h
Pre-opening night
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery
The Caffe

Lecture by: Antonio Petrov (Harvard University, Wasx.org Architecture - USA)
"Presentness and the Cultures of the Aftershock(s): Critical Formations of the Creative Unemployed"

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9 June, 19:00h
Opening night
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery
The Caffe

Jazz concert: the Georgi Sareski Quartet
Exhibition opening: 90 Years Bauhaus

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10 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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11 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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12 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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13 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions


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14 June
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

last day activities
the student workshop presentation


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Forum 'Culture 2007-2013 Programme – possibilities of co-operation'

Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Cultural Contact Point Croatia and Croatian Movement & Dance Institute in cooperation with Cultural Contact Points Austria and Slovenia on June 1st at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb.

Programme:
 
9.00-9.15   Registration

9.15-9.30  Foreword: Božo Biškupić, Minister of Culture
 
Presentations:

9.30- 9.45  Vesna Jurić Bulatović ( Museum for Arts and Crafts, Zagreb)

9.45-10.15  Stephane Re (Institut Française de Zagreb) and Emma Lecoeur ( L’Oreal Croatia)

10.15-10.45  Alemka Lisinski (T-Hrvatski Telekom) and Snježana Pintarić (Musem of Contemporary Art, Zagreb)

10.45-11.15  Marina Dijaković (Zagrebačka banka) and Vesna Kusin (Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb)

11.15-11.45  Polona Lovšin (Riko Group, Slovenia) and Ranko Novak (Brumen Foundation, Slovenia)
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11.45-12.30  Coffee break
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12.30-13.00  Dubravka Jusić (Vipnet) and Ivica Prlender (Dubrovačke ljetne igre)

13.00-13.30  Leonie Hodkevitch (Austria): ”Sponsoring: Alter Ego in Arts”

13.30-14.00  CCPs Austria, Slovenia and Croatia: Presentation of the Culture 2007-2013 programme

14.00-14.30  Matjaž Farič and Ksenija Kaučič (Flota, Slovenia), Manfred Biskup and Liz King (Verein für Neue Tanzformen, Austria), Alfred Masal (Offenes Haus Oberwart, Austria), Barna Petrany (Pro Progressione, Hungary), Mirna Žagar (Croatian Movement & Dance Institute, Croatia): Dance Explorations Beyond Front@

14.30-15.00  DISCUSSION/ CONCLUSION

(Source: CCP Croatia)


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ONLINE/OFFLINE festival in Skopje, Macedonia

The two Macedonian portals, members of inSEEcp, www.culture.in.mk and www.plagij.at are founders of the ONLINE/OFFLINE festival. inSEEcp members Vesna Milosavljevic (SEEcult) and Dusan Dovc (Evrokultura) are also taking part in the festival.

Supported by Pro Helvetia – Skopje, the ONLINE/OFFLINE festival, true to its name, has an online and an offline component.


The offline component is taking place in Skopje on 22 and 23 January 2009. It starts with a blogging workshop entitled 'Blogging and networking tools for artists', lead by blogger Deborah Hustic aka lomodeedee (Personal Cyber Botanica) from Zagreb, and targeting especially artists and cultural operators. 

A discussion under the title Where Is Culture, Where Is the Audience? will follow, involving not only the representatives of culture portals, but also editors of other popular, fun-oriented portals, and the audience. It will deal with the issues of interest, presentation, content, technology, social networking and web 2.0 modules and will attempt to respond to the issue of attracting audiences to culture, through portals as intermediaries in the process. The evening will end with the Plagij.at listening party.

On the second day, Artservis’ Dusan Dovc will present its Art Suitcase, featuring digital art on the topic of the survival in the art world. It will also pack within works by Macedonian artists. An exhibition of photographs from previous Plagij.at events and the festival will be closed with a concert of the Serbian band Petrol and Macedonian all-girl band Vivid.

The online part of the festival will be continuously updated and will consist of two blogs jointly managed by www.culture.in.mk and www.plagij.at. The addresses onlineoffline.wordpress.com and offline2online.wordpress.com will feature formats previously unused by the two portals – collections of works of relevant Macedonian artists, also their recommendations on other artists worth exploring, longer journalistic forms (interviews, reviews …) as well as audio and video features. Through the process of collaboration with the artists and journalists covering culture, we will aim to find the right format, satisfying the artistic criteria, while still being attractive for a wide audience. Also, one of the main role of the joint blogs, considering that a large part of portals’ visitors come from abroad, is to provide a more immersive cultural and artistic experience to audiences who cannot physically attend the events in question.




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inSEECp's conference covered at Labforculture

The conference Cultu(RE)gion online!_The Future Goes By!,  which took place this week in Belgrade has been covered at Labforculture portal.

'Gathered representatives of the portals for culture collected new knowledge in order to improve their work. Through sharing their professional experiences and through the workshops of social and cultural aspects of the web 2.0, but also through the practical usage of portals, blogs, social media and free software, they learned how to use social media in a better way. With presentations of existing portals for culture in SEE and through the discussions on possibilities and challenges of the art and culture in the digital era, they also promoted importance of digital culture.'

Read the whole coverage here


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New inSEEcp's logo by Andrija Nikacevic

'The shape of new inSEEcp logo is based on square that presents the basic unit of the screen resolution – pixel, in that sense showing the media it represents – the web portal. At the same time, squares are associate to web windows, their interlacing and information exchange; as well as the collaboration between portals in the region.'

'By spreading the squares from the upper left to the bottom right side in different colors, this logo is geometrically placed within a certain geographical and abstract context of the region, but this dynamic form itself shows a tendency for expanding outside of the borders. With the color pallet, logo for inSEEcp presents optimism and awakens positive vibrations.'
Andrija Nikacevic, graphic designer, Belgrade

Andrija Nikacevic is respectable designer with many projects behind, his latest project was visual identity for the Octobar Salon. Nikacevic was participant of many international artist-in-residence programs, as well as jury member of design contests.

In the occasion of the conference Cultu(RE)gion online, Future Goes By!, the organizers will publish a brochure on English, German and all regional languages of the portals included.

The conference will gather about 20 portals – present and future members of the informal network, as well as representatives of many foundations, cultural centers and different targeted groups.

(RE)gion online, Future Goes By! Has been organized by SEEcult.org portal, Goethe Institute Belgrade and Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe.

More info: www.seecult.org, www.goethe.de/belgrade


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