Collaborative research on media art and culture in Central and Eastern Europe

MONOSKOP research project examines the social context of historical developments in media art in Central and Eastern Europe. Analysis of sociopoetic conditions of art and technology crossings from 1960s to 2000s draws upon the undertakings in experimental and avantgarde film, performance art, computer art, video art, experimental music, sound art, and media theory. The objective is to create professional and solid basis for theoreticians and critics to assist them in development of the theoretical discourse on new media art in the Central and Eastern Europe.

Methodology under construction

• Media art, since Oct 2006
• East-Central Europe, since 2 Jun 2008
• Arthistorical methodologies, since 5 Jun 2008
• Boundary objects between arthistory, history of technology, and sociology, since 7 Jun 2008
• Art as Research, since 22 Jun 2008
• http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kultúrna_kritika

Local historical overviews under construction

• Media art in Slovakia, since Apr 2006
• Media art in Czech Republic, since 23 May 2008
• Computing and cybernetics in CEE, since 6 Jun 2008
• Media art in Hungary, since 9 Jun 2008

Potential themes

• how was media art category constructed (what it institutes), how it is structured, and what it suppresses, in other words: critique of media art(s)
• Arts and engineering collaborations in CEE
• Electronic music instruments in CEE
• Media art education
• critical art

Next / todo

• Computer museums in CEE
• Media art in Poland
• Media art in CEE
• analyse Tomáš Štrauss' essay on Central European art
• East-West artistic mobility
• september 2008 - fundraise at Eurocult.org and IVF
• Chain Reaction, 11-14 September 2008, Skopje, http://theupgrade.net/develop/index.php?title=Exhibition
• Re:live. Media Art History 09. Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 26-29 November 2009, Melbourne, http://mediaarthistory.org/

Places to visit

• Dresden computer museum, (parts of) first GDR computers
• The MARCHI Museum @ Moscow Architectural Institute, unique collection of educational and design works by teachers and students of the VkHUTEMAS [1]

Contact

Wiki: http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/
Blog: http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/log/
Delicious: http://del.icio.us/tag/monoskop
Organised by Col-me, http://www.col-me.info, http://www.col-me.info/monoskop.html
Supported by ERSTE Foundation, http://www.erstestiftung.org
Contact: db at societyofalgorithm dot org