speakers

Vuk Čosić

One of the pioneers of internet art, frequently exhibits in (Venice Bienial; ICA, London; Beaubourg, Paris; ICC, Tokio; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Digital Artlab, Tel Aviv; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Ars Electronica, Linz; Walker, Minneapolis; Postmasters, NYC; Friedricanum, Kassel; Neue Galerie, Graz; IAS, Seoul; Baltic, Newcastle; Moca, Oslo?) and lectures (Musemus: Beaubourg, Paris; Guggenheim, Veneice; CCA, Glasgow;Thing, NYC; LAMoCA, LA; Festivals - Hong Kong, London, Liverpool, Dessau, Montreal, Banff, Madrid, Gorizia, Copenhagen; Art schools and Universities - Stockholm, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Troy, Dundee, Liverpool, Venice, Linz, Barcelona,...). Subject of numerous BA, MA and PHD works (universities of Rome, Sao Paolo, Leads, Manchester, Bruxelles, Trieste?), media coverage (NY Times, Liberation, La Repubblica, Guardian, Financial Times, Cahiers du Cinema, Artforum, Newsweek, Wired, Haaretz, ORF, CNN, BBC...) as well as key publications on new media (MIT press, Thames & Hudson, Tate, Taschen, Baltic...).

Historic self-regulated online networks in culture 

Since the advent of civilian web, the world has seen several temporary online networks of cultural activists. The presentation covers the heroic period of Nettime and Syndicate explaining the motivation to connect and disconnect among the progressive part of a creative generation. Main lesson for participating individuals is a functioning confirmation of the concept of Temporary Autonomous Zone that turns out to be the antidote to the overall lag between established institutions and reality that they are supposed to be covering with their agendas.

Link:

www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Cosic