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

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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.


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Potential themes

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." (Buckminster Fuller)

  • Media art: 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). Is this category still relevant today, able to generate new practices?
  • Arts and engineering collaborations in CEE: painters with programmers, sculptural artists with architects, musicians with engineers, multidisciplinary collectives. Open organisation. New collaborative practices?
  • Media lab culture. Idea of laboratory. Place studies. What are the new experimental models for labs?
  • Audiovisual tools and instruments: experiments with synaesthesia in 1910s-20s, electric music instruments in 1920s-30s, electronic music instruments in 1950s-60s, hardware hacking in 1990s/2000s, DIY electronics, graphical programming and synthesis in 1990s/2000s, hive networks. What tools are to be built?
  • Media art education: VkHUTEMAS in Moscow 1920s, Muhely in Budapest 1920s-30s, first video and intermedia ateliers in art schools in communist countries 1970s-80s, and boom of media education in 1990s. What are the new models for media/art education?
  • Tactical media. Cultural critique in CEE, with regard to technological culture.
  • Art servers for 21st century.
  • Living media archives. Transclusion / visualisation / formats / licensing / metadata. What systems are to be build to serve the networked culture production?

Methodology under construction

Local historical overviews under construction

Next / todo

Places to visit

  • Chain Reaction, 11-14 September 2008, Skopje, http://theupgrade.net/develop/index.php?title=Exhibition
  • Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen, exhibition, Sep 2008 - Apr 2009, Hainburg. The exhibition MAGICAL SOUND MACHINES relates the (hi)stories of sound generators, sound recorders and sound transmitters. The extensive presentation will kiss awake ariston, mellotron, rhythmicon and many other, partly forgotten sound machines from their hundred-year sleep so that young and old, the general public and experts alike can experience and enjoy them on an interactive discovery tour. http://www.ima.or.at/klangmaschinen/?cat=8&language=en
  • 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/
  • The MARCHI Museum @ Moscow Architectural Institute, unique collection of educational and design works by teachers and students of the VkHUTEMAS [1]
  • Dresden computer museum, (parts of) first GDR computers

Contact

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Supported by ERSTE Foundation, http://www.erstestiftung.org
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