Prague Media Symposium
The Prague Media Symposium was a series of international interdisciplinary symposia on media technology, philosophy of communication and media art organized by the Goethe-Institut Prague (Andreas Stroehl), Academy of Fine Arts (Michael Bielický), Soros Center for Contemporary Arts (Ludvík Hlaváček), Miloš Vojtěchovský and Jaroslav Anděl in Prague between 1991-2007.
Date | Theme | Program, participants |
25-26 Nov 1991 | Mass communication and elitist communication; Change of paradigms, Lecture of Vilém Flusser | |
1992 | Symposium: „Vilém Flusser - Vordenker der Nachgeschichte“ (Vilém Flusser - Pioneer of post-history |
Opening speech: Edith Flusser and Jochen Bloss. |
1993 | Symposium: „Nachbilder – Interaktion mit digitalen Medien“ (After-images - Post-images. Interaction with Digital Media) |
Participants: Manfred Eisenbeis, Petr Vrána, Jeffrey Shaw, Woody Vasulka, Heiko Idensen, Stanislav Miler, Vito Oražem, Alfred Rotert, Petr Rezek, David Galloway, Antonín Kosík, Jan Bernard, Norbert Nowotsch, Michael Bielicky, Karel Dudešek, Petr Skála. Part of the symposium was the workshop by Norbert Nowotsch „Das elektronische Buch“, and presentation of video art from the Media Archiv Prag and EMF (Europäische Medienkunst Festival Osnabrück). In collaboration between GI, AVU and NTM. |
1994 | Symposium „Neue Medien und Ethik“ (New Media and Ethics) |
participants: Jaroslav Vančát, Michael Bielicky, Keiko Sei, Peter Glotz, Miroslav Petříček, Norbert Bolz, Thomas Kaulmann, Rudi Stoert, Antonín Kosík, Jan Fikáček, Jürgen Linke, Petr Rezek, Petr Vrána. |
1995 | Symposium „Umělé životní prostředí jako umělecké dílo“ „Künstliche Umgebungen als Artefakte“ (Artificial Environment as Artifact)? |
Participants: Ludvík Hlaváček, Michal Bregant, Jiří Zemánek, Jiří Valoch, Radúz Činčera, Gerald O’Grady, Keiko Sei, Marta Smolíková, Olga Shishko, Ekaterina Andreeva, Elena Kolovskaya, Marko Peljhan, Siegfried Zielinski, Ventsislav Zankov, Tjebbe van Tijen, Axel Wirths, Dieter Daniels, Hilmar Hoffmann, Brian Springer, Antya Umstätter, Margaret Morse, Richard Schütz, Jaroslav Vančát, Paul DeMarinis, Sergej Golowin, Antonín Kosík, Nebojsa Vilic, Petr Rezek, Chris Hill, Miroslav Petříček, Michael Bielicky. Organized by GI, in collaboration with AVU and FCCA, in the framework of Orbis Fictus exhibition of new media at National Gallery Prague. |
3-5 Dec 1996 | Symposium: „Kultur, Kommunikation und Neue Technologien: Medienkunst – Interkulturelle Hoffnung oder Kunst ohne message?“ Media Arts: Intercultural Hope or Art without a Message? |
Participants: Michael Bielicky, Lubor Benda, Ludvík Hlaváček, Bernhard Rathmayr, Misko Pandilovski, Marta Smolíková, Claudio Gallio, George Legrady, Christian Huebler, Karel Dudesek, Paul Sermon, Nan Hoover. |
1997 | Flusser Media Film |
Participants: Jaroslav Vančát, Michael Bielicky, Keiko Sei, Peter Glotz, Miroslav Petříček, Norbert Bolz, Thomas Kaulmann, Rudi Stoert, Antonín Kosík, Jan Fikáček, Jürgen Linke, Petr Rezek, Petr Vrána. |
2001 | Excavating the Future - media archeology symposium |
Participants: Gert Aertsen, Jaroslav Anděl, Roy Ascott, Dieter Daniels, Erik Davis, Richard Grusin, Tom Gunning, Jiří Hoskovec, Ivan M. Havel, Christian Huebler, Erkki Huhtamo, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Richard Kriesche, Werner Nekes, Miklós Peternák, Rolf Pixley, Claudia Schmacke, Barbara Maria Stafford, Guy van Belle, Siegfried Zielinski. Comments: Ivan M. Havel didn't talk, Werner Nekes didn't come. |
2007 | Symposium „Für eine Philosophie der neuen Zeit. Vilém Flusser und die europäische Moderne“ |
See also
Literature
- Miloš Vojtěchovský, "Excavating the Future: An Archaeology and Future of Moving Pictures. A Case Study in (Un)Archiving Unstable Media", Agosto Foundation: mediateka, Mar 2017.