1990s/Media events

Symposia and exhibitions from the 1990s dedicated to electronic media.

Event	Dates	Location	About
The Media Are With Us	1990-04-06 - 1990-04-07	HU, Budapest	The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution. International symposium held in Mücsarnok. Curated by Keiko Sei and organised by Media Research Foundation.
Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art	1992-06-22 - 1992-06-27	AT, Linz	Exhibition; part of Ars Electronica festival. The Making of video by Steina. Book edited by David Dunn, PDFs.
Next 5 Minutes	1993-01-08 - 1993-01-10	NL, Amsterdam	Zapbook, TMF.
OSTranenie '93: Shattered Myths - New Realities	1993-11-04 - 1993-11-07	DE, Dessau	1st International Video Festival at the Bauhaus Dessau. Website. Concept. Review: Galeyev (Leonardo).
MetaForum 94	1994-10-07 - 1994-10-09	HU, Budapest	"Budapest Multimedia Conference" organised by Media Research Foundation. Concept and programme. Announcement.
MetaForum II	1995-10-06 - 1995-10-08	HU, Budapest	"MetaForum II/NO BORDERS/HATÁROK NÉLKÜL/Budapest Networking Conference critically examines the role that the internet plays now and what is possible in the future. How and where do geographic borders render cyberspace mythical? How is democracy defined and enforced in the fourth dimension? What role do economics play in the colonization of the last frontier? How is identity altered by new communication technology?". Programme (DOC), HTML. Event website (HU). Report (IT). Intervention by Strato Network. Tomaso Tozzi's Netstrike.
Ostranenie '95: International Video Forum	1995-11-08 - 1995-11-12	DE, Dessau	Website.
Next 5 Minutes 2: Tactical Media	1996-01-18 - 1996-01-21	NL, Amsterdam, Rotterdam	Archived website, Archived website [1], TMF.
Butterfly Effect	1996-01-20 - 1996-02-25	HU, Budapest	Website. Photo. Performance videos. Symposium video. Documentation.
Digital Chaos	1996-05-30 - 1996-06-02	UK, Bath	Website (archived). Mute.
deaf96 / ISEA96	1996-09-17 - 1996-09-22	NL, Rotterdam	Website (archived). Archive. Part of program: V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
MetaForum III	1996-10-11 - 1996-10-13	HU, Budapest	"MetaForum III/UNDER CONSTRUCTION/Budapest Content Conference". Programme (DOC). Concept and programme.
Jitro kouzelníků? / Dawn of the Magicians?	1996-10-18 - 1997-09-30	CZ, Prague	Two-part exhibition project organised by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. Curators: Jaroslav Anděl with Miloš Vojtěchovský and Ivona Raimanová.
Beauty and the East	1997-05-22 - 1997-05-23	SL, Ljubljana	Conference organised by Nettime; topics included "What is net-art?", "on/offline publishing", "media activism" and "The Beast - the East". Held in Ljudmila. Publication edited by Pit Schultz, Diana McCarty, Geert Lovink, and Vuk Cosic.
Hybrid Workspace	1997-06-21 - 1997-09-28	DE, Kassel	Temporary media lab which operated during the 100 days of Documenta X in Kassel. More than 200 participants, consisting of artists, activists, critics and their guests presented their work, produced new concepts and started campaigns that developed and continued after the gathering. Concept: Geert Lovink, Pit Schultz.
Ostranenie '97: The International Electronic Media Forum	1997-12-05 - 1997-12-09	DE, Dessau	Website. Reviews: Huffman (Telepolis), Bard (Afterimage).
Art Servers Unlimited	1998-07-01 - 1998-07-04	UK, London	"Conference and net.radio event by and about initiatives and organisations in Europe, which focus on supporting the artistic use of the internet. ... The conference was structured into four parts: the preperatory mailing list [u]-unlimited, working meetings at backspace, the conference at the Institute for Contemporary Arts London and the net.radio party 'UNLIMITED' at its New Media Centre." Held in Backspace.
	Website. Participants Art Servers Unlimited, eds. Manu Luksch and Armin Medosch, 1998, HTML.
Next 5 Minutes 3	1999-03-12 - 1999-03-14	NL, Amsterdam, Rotterdam	Archived website, Archived website, Workbook, Program brochure, TMF.

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