MaMa

MaMa - Multimedia Institute is a net culture club located in Zagreb, founded in 1999 by Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Teodor Celakoski, Petar Milat, Željko Blaće, Vedran Gulin, Vanja Nikolić and others. Ever since it opened in 2000, MaMa has been a meeting point for different local and international communities ranging from political activists, media artists, electronic music makers, theorists, hackers and free software developers, gay and lesbian support groups, to the anime community. Guided by the ideals of sharing, it offers free access to its ressources & infrastructure.

MaMa set-up a variety of different lecture/discussion/presentation series dealing with its primary fields of interest. Some of those series like Becoming Digital, Caternetics, MaMa čita have in the meanwhile ceased to exist, and among the ones still active as of 2011 are Pastforward, Transverzala, and Vizualni kolegij.

Publications

Books

past.forward series

• Hardt, Michael; Antonio Negri. (2003). Imperij. Trans. Živan Filippi. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Arkzin. 410 pp. (Croatian)
• Nancy, Jean-Luc. (2004). Dva ogleda. Razdjelovljena zajednica. O singularnom pluralnom bitku. Trans. Tomislav Medak. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Arkzin. 148 pp. (Croatian)
• Agamben, Giorgio. (2006). Homo sacer. Suverena moć i goli život. Trans. Mario Kopić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Arkzin. 174 pp. (Croatian)
• Hardt, Michael; Antonio Negri. (2009). Mnoštvo. Rat i demokracija u doba Imperija. Trans. Tomislav Medak and Petar Milat. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 404 pp. (Croatian)
• Rancière, Jacques. (2010). Učitelj neznalica. Pet lekcija iz intelektualne emancipacije. Trans. Leonardo Kovačević, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 167 pp. (Croatian)
• Weizman, Eyal. (2014). Najmanje od svih mogućih zala. Humanitarno nasilje od Arendtove do Gaze. Trans. Domagoj Orlić, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 240 pp. (Croatian)
• Moretti, Franco. (2015). Građanin - između povijesti i književnosti. Trans. Iva Gjurkin, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Kulturtreger. 189 pp. (Croatian)
• Meillassoux, Quentin. (2016). Poslije konačnosti – esej o nužnosti kontingencije. Trans. Vladimir Šeput, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 198 pp. (Croatian)

mala mamina series

• Garcia-Düttmann, Alexander. (2003). Prijatelji i neprijatelji. Apsolutno. Trans. Petar Milat. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 64 pp. (Croatian)
• Sassen, Saskia. (2003). Protugeografije globalizacije. Trans. Danijela Sestrić, Jakov Vilović, Tomislav Medak. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 119 pp. (Croatian)
• Critical Art Ensemble. (2005). Molekularna invazija. Trans. Tomislav Medak. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 144 pp. (Croatian)

basic series

• Lessig, Lawrence. (2004). Kod i drugi zakoni kiberprostora. Trans. Živan Filippi. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 399 pp. (Croatian)
• Gržinić, Marina. (2005). Estetika kibersvijeta i učinci derealizacije. Trans. Nebojša Jovanović. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 228 pp. (Croatian)
• Wark, McKenzie. (2006). Hakerski manifest. Trans. Tomislav Medak. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 154 pp. (Croatian)
• Bogost, Ian. (2014). Kako činiti stvari videoigrama. Trans. Tihana Bertek. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Autonomna tvornica kulture (Libra Libera #35). 163 pp. (Croatian). 2-up version.
• McChesney, Robert W. (2014). Digitalna isključenost: kako kapitalizam okreće internet protiv demokracije. Trans. Domagoj Orlić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 354 pp. (Croatian)
• Majorinc, Kazimir. (2015). Moćan koliko je god moguće - glavne ideje Lispa u McCarthyjevom periodu. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 206 pp. (Croatian)

nova kritička teorija series

In collaboration with Belgrade Circle.

• Brunkhorst, Hauke. (2004). Solidarnost. Od građanskog prijateljstva do globalne pravne zajednice. Trans. Tomislav Medak. Belgrade: Belgrade Circle; Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 280 pp. (Croatian)
• Dubiel, Helmut; Motzkin, Gabriel, eds. (2005). Manje zlo. Moralni pristupi praksama genocida. Trans. Aleksandra Kostić, Dušan Đorđević Mileusnić, et al. Belgrade: Belgrade Circle; Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 332 pp. (Serbian)
• Menke, Christoph. (2008). Prisutnost tragedije. Ogled o sudu i igri. Trans. Dalibor Davidović. Belgrade: Belgrade Circle; Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 280 pp. (Croatian)

vizualni kolegij series

• Garcia-Düttmann, Alexander. (2005). Visconti. Uvidi u krvi i mesu. Trans. Dalibor Davidović. Co-published with BLOK, Zagreb. 197 pp. (Croatian)
• Vrvilo, Tanja; Milat, Petar, eds. (2007). Vizualni Kolegij Reader. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 216 pp. (English)/(Croatian)
• Krivokapić, Jelena; Milat, Petar, eds. Suplement Vizualnog Kolegija 1. 9 pp. (Croatian)
• Didi-Huberman, Georges. (2012). Kore. Trans. Ksenija Stevanović. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 54 pp. (Serbian)
• Keenan, Thomas; Eyal Weizman. (2012). Mengeleova lubanja - začeci forenzičke estetike. Trans. Tihana Bertek. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 81 pp. (Croatian)
• Krasznahorkai, László. (2012). Posljednji vuk. Trans. Viktorija Šantić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 39 pp. (Croatian)
• Krasznahorkai, László, and Max Neumann (2014). UnutraJeŽivotinja. Trans. Viktorija Šantić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 47 pp. (Croatian)
• Rancière, Jacques. (2015). Béla Tarr, vrijeme od poslije. Trans. Sana Perić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 103 pp.

explicit music series

• Davidović, Dalibor; Stevanović, Ksenija, eds. (2005). Archipelagos of Sound. Music and Its History Within the Imperial World Order. Zagreb: Croatian Composers' Society - Cantus. 80 pp.

Sve se svodi na estetiku i političku ekonomiju series [1]

In collaboration with Kuda.org.

• Buck-Morss, Susan. (2014). Predočavanje kapitala. Trans. Olja Petronić. Novi Sad & Zagreb: kuda.org & Multimedia Institute. 69 pp. 2-up version. (Serbo-Croatian)
• Deleuze, Gilles; Herman Melville. (2014). Bartleby ili formula; Perovođa Bartleby. Trans. Tomislav Medak and Maja Šoljan. Novi Sad & Zagreb: kuda.org & Multimedia Institute. 101 pp. 2-up version. (Serbo-Croatian)
• Macherey, Pierre. (2014). Produktivni subjekt. Trans. Slavica Miletić. Novi Sad & Zagreb: kuda.org & Multimedia Institute. 80 pp. 2-up version. (Serbo-Croatian)

Prijatelji series

In collaboration with Kulturteger.

• Ugrešić, Dubravka. (2015). Karaoke kultura. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Kulturteger. 164 pp. (Croatian)
• Badiou, Alain. (2016). Metafizika stvarne sreće. Trans. Antonia Banović and Dorotea-Dora Held. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Kulturteger. 117 pp. Trans. of Métaphysique du bonheur réel (2015). [2] (Croatian)

Other books

• Balibar, Étienne. (2011). Nasilje i civilnost. Wellekova predavanja. Trans. Tomislav Medak. Belgrade: Cetre for Media and Communication; Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 196 pp. (Croatian)
• Medak, Tomislav; Milat, Petar, eds. (2013). Idea of Radical Media / Ideja radikalnih medija. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 256 pp. (English)/(Croatian)
• Coleman, Gabriella. (2014). Kodiranje slobode: Etika i estetika hakovanja. Trans. Ljubica Gotić and Predrag Todić. Belgrade: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum, and Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 395 pp. [3] [4]

Conference proceedings

• Weizman, Ines and Eyal. (2008). Arhitektura i antagonizam. Trans. Tanja Vrvilo and Tonči Valentić. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, 28 pp. (Croatian)
• Brown, Nathan, ed. (2009). 21st Century Materialism. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute.
• Brown, Nathan; Milat, Petar, eds. (2012). The Art of the Concept (Frakcija 64-65). Zagreb: Centre for Drama Art & Academy of Dramatic Art.

Conference and festival newsletters

• Labinary 1, newsletter. (2000). 8 pp. (Croatian)
• Labinary 3, newsletter. (2001). Labin: Kuc lamparna. 9 pp. (English)/(Croatian)
• Labinary 4, newsletter. (2002). 12 pp. (English)/(Croatian)
• Labinary 5, newsletter. (2003). 8 pp. (Croatian)
• Operacija.Grad. Prirucnik za zivot u neoliberalnoj stvarnosti. (2008). Zagreb. 272 pp. (Croatian)
• Operation.City 2008. The Neoliberal Frontline. Urban Struggles in Post-Socialist Societies. (2008). Zagreb. 32 pp.
• O fanatizmu. (2009). Trans. Leonardo Kovačević. Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. (Croatian)
• Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb, Vol. 8. (2010). 24 pp.
• Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb, Vol. 9. (2011). 32 pp.

Catalogues

• System.hack(). (2006). Zagreb: Multimedia Institute. 96 pp. (English)/(Croatian)
• Medak, Tomislav; Milat, Petar, eds. (2013). Prospects of Arkzin / Izgledi Arkzina. Zagreb: Arkzin and Multimedia Institute. 48 pp. With DVD Arkzin Digital Archive / Digitalna arhiva Arkzina. (English)/(Croatian)

Other publications

• Past.Forward 1. 4 pp. (Croatian)
• Past.Forward 2. 8 pp. (Croatian)
• Past.Forward 3. Biopolitička teorija. (2001). 16 pp. (Croatian)
• Stevanović, Ksenija; Milat, Petar; Ivković, Ivana, eds. (2009). Frakcija, No. 53-54: Process Music. Zagreb: Centre for Drama Art & Academy of Dramatic Art. 144 pp. (English)/(Croatian)

Literature (about MaMa)

• "Multimedia Institute (mi2): Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak interviewed by Joanne Richardson", subsol 2, Apr 2002.
• Tomislav Medak, "Multimedia Institute - mi2", ISEA Newsletter #93, June-August 2003.
• Klaudio Stefancic, "New Media Art in Croatia", Nettime, 10 July 2008.
• Brian Droitcour, "On Tour: Southeastern Europe Travelogue, Part 2", Rhizome, 26 June 2009.

Links

• Home page
• MaMa at Facebook
• MaMa at Flickr