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Center for new media '''Kuda''' is a [[Novi Sad]] based non-profit organization, which gathers artists, theorists, media activists, researchers and general audience in the field of information and communication technologies. Kuda was officially founded in [[2000]]. In the mid-1990s association [[Apsolutno]] had the idea to form Kulturno Umetničko Društvo Apsolutno (KUD Apsolutno) and bring together people to shape what is presently Kuda. Kuda is dedicated to the exploration of new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practices and social issues. Current members include [[Zoran Pantelić]], [[Branka Ćurčić]], and [[Borka Stojić]]. Past members: [[Kristian Lukić]], [[Orfeas Skutelis]], and many others.
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'''New Media Center_kuda.org''' is an independent cultural organization based in [[Novi Sad]], Serbia, which since 2001 brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the research of contemporary art theory and practice, cultural policies, activism and politics. kuda.org tends to make an intervention in the sphere of research and artistic and social experimentation within the field of art and cultural production, from the position of institutional critique and critique of cultural policies. Facing processes of cultural industries and culturalization of politics and art, the collective attempts to map and encourage acts of critique and resistance to comodification of results of art production including attempts of transformation and critique of relations of production which are in the field of art production and outer-art social processes being reproduced through shifts of ideological and „political“ matrixes, which are in the last instance consequence of recuperation of people.
  
== Departments ==
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kuda.org creates platform for an open dialogue, experimental education, collaboration and research, and open access to different knowledge resources. Within kuda.org, there have been organised several hundreds public events: lectures and presentations of visiting artists and theorists, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and international publishing project. Over the years, kuda.org has established a wide network of collaborating cultural institutions and individuals, locally, in Serbia, in the region and internationally. In 2007, kuda.org co-established the [http://www.ck13.org Youth Center CK13], one of the rare autonomous spaces dedicated to activism, self-organisation and independent cultural production. Since 2012, kuda.org is closely collaborating with the [http://www.konceptualnapolitika.blogspot.rs Group for Conceptual Politics – GKP] from Novi Sad on projects, theoretical researches, publishing and the politics of housing (within the project [http://www.detelinara.org Local politics and Urban self-management]). [https://kuda.org/en/ (2021)]
  
kuda.org consists of three departments:
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* [http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/kudatext.html "Kuda.org. Kristian Lukic interviewed by Joanne Richardson"], Dec 2001.
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* Nina Czegledy, [http://web.archive.org/web/20100213151035/http://www.year01.com/issue11/europe2.html "Interview with Zoran Pantelić"], Summer 2002.
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* Trebor Scholz, [http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2004-November/000006.html "An interview with Kuda"], ''Idc'', Nov 2004. 
  
'''kuda.info / infocentre department''' is a specialised service dedicated to informing on new media culture, art practice, new technologies and social phenomena. It includes library, mediateque, multimedia archive; the Infocentre provides Internet free access to its users; provides information and resources for research in the field of ICT and culture.
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* http://www.kuda.org
'''kuda.lounge / presentation and talk''' comprises lectures by artists, media activists, art theorists, scientists, researchers. kuda.lounge are discussions, public presentations on cultural and societal topics; the programmes are founded on lecture/workshop developing concepts, which are realised through the Centre's activities and through the existing infrastructure of the education system.
 
 
 
'''kuda.production / production department''' selects, supports and promotes artists, cultural and media activists working in the new media and technologies production. The aim of kuda.org is to develop publishing, production and co-production of non-profit multimedia projects in the field of new media within the region.
 
 
 
 
 
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* "Kuda.org. Kristian Lukic interviewed by Joanne Richardson", December 2001. [http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/kudatext.html]
 
* Nina Czegledy, "Interview with Zoran Pantelić", September 2002. [http://www.year01.com/issue11/europe2.html]
 
* Trebor Scholz, "An interview with Kuda", November 2004. [http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2004-November/000006.html]
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.kuda.org
 
  
 
[[Category:Art and technology centres]]
 
[[Category:Art and technology centres]]

Revision as of 14:23, 12 August 2021

New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent cultural organization based in Novi Sad, Serbia, which since 2001 brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the research of contemporary art theory and practice, cultural policies, activism and politics. kuda.org tends to make an intervention in the sphere of research and artistic and social experimentation within the field of art and cultural production, from the position of institutional critique and critique of cultural policies. Facing processes of cultural industries and culturalization of politics and art, the collective attempts to map and encourage acts of critique and resistance to comodification of results of art production including attempts of transformation and critique of relations of production which are in the field of art production and outer-art social processes being reproduced through shifts of ideological and „political“ matrixes, which are in the last instance consequence of recuperation of people.

kuda.org creates platform for an open dialogue, experimental education, collaboration and research, and open access to different knowledge resources. Within kuda.org, there have been organised several hundreds public events: lectures and presentations of visiting artists and theorists, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and international publishing project. Over the years, kuda.org has established a wide network of collaborating cultural institutions and individuals, locally, in Serbia, in the region and internationally. In 2007, kuda.org co-established the Youth Center CK13, one of the rare autonomous spaces dedicated to activism, self-organisation and independent cultural production. Since 2012, kuda.org is closely collaborating with the Group for Conceptual Politics – GKP from Novi Sad on projects, theoretical researches, publishing and the politics of housing (within the project Local politics and Urban self-management). (2021)

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