________________________________________________________________________________ The Studio Electronic Media Interpretation - Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - invite you to attend: ****** THE OSTRANENIE FINISSAGE ! ******* http://www.ostranenie.org - THE MEDIA REVOLUTION SYMPOSIUM - PUBLICATION & CD ROM LAUNCH - TWILIGHT CHAMPAGNE CELEBRATIONS SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 1999 10:00 - 21:00 Aula, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany A launch of the publications: ** 'Ost West Internet' / 'Media Revolution' (ed. Stephen Kovats) ** ** OSTRANENIE 93 95 97 - CD ROM (prod. Studio EMI & C3) and the celebratory wrap up event in the series of 'OSTRANENIE'International Electronic Media Forums .. background . This event is the final episode in the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's series of international media fora, "ostranenie". It will examine the background and effects of Europe's Media Revolution, by exploring the role played by the electronic media in eastern and central Europe's uncertain and long-from-complete transformation process. .. media revolution & ostranenie Culminating the ostranenie media art events, a publication, 'Ost West Internet' / 'Media Revolution', investigating the links between the electronic broadcast image and the process of democratisation as experienced during the 1990s in Europe, has been produced. The book is in both German and English. 'Ostranenie', the term coined by the Russian Formalist Victor Shklovski in 1916, implies a manner in which the process of art alters or skews our perception of society and being. 23 internationally recognised authors have contribued texts: Stephen Kovats, Dr. Barabara Barsch, Ryszard Kluszczinski, Lev Manovich, Gerrit Gohlke, Derrick de Kerkhove, Miklos Peternak, Calin Dan, Siegfried Zielinski, David Hudson, Gary Schaal, Kostadina Iordanova, Nina Czegledy, Eric Kluitenberg, Hans Ulrich Reck, Inke Arns, Apsolutno Art Association, Dejan Sretenovic, Ivo Skoric, Geert Lovink, Keiko Sei, Marina Grzinic, and Andreas Broeckmann. Accompanying the publication, the works of over 500 hundred artists and writers from over 40 countries, who actively participated in the three ostranenie media art events between 1993 and 1997, have been compiled into a new multimedia CDROM (produced by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with the C3 Center for Culture and Communication in Budapest). Both the book and CD ROM, illustrate the impact of Shklovski's term in the context of a new media age, wherein global telecommunications have altered the manner in which individuals and societies interact with and understand one another. Together they provide one of the most complete overviews into electronic media arts and society at the close of the twentieth century. Supported by the MDM - Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung GmbH, Leipzig Published by the Campus Verlag (Frankfurt / New York) as number 6 of the Edition Bauhaus. Publication ISBN 3-593-36365-8 CD ROM ISBN 3-910022-30-8 Price: Book + CD = DM78, 40euro, US$45, 5000 JPY CD ROM only = DM 20, 10 euro, US$12, 1500 JPY Order through: biblio@bauhaus.dessau.de, or kovats@kolleg.bauhaus-dessu.de Studio Electronic Media Interpretation Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Gropiusallee 38 D - 06846 Dessau Germany .. the media revolution symposium and finissage In the chaotic race to "Westernise" Europe, broadcast media have been key in deciding the battles of nationalist rhetoric, ethnic flash wars and economic struggles. Is there a role for the artist in shaping the outcome of these conflicts, while at the same time supporting the process of democratisation? The channels of electronic telecommunications - radio, TV, and the internet - have cut a swath across traditional culture and geopolitical zones, connecting today's society, and transforming art, politics, press and propaganda. The establishment of a new and open civil society, along with the greater task of cementing European integration is dependent on the choice of media strategy and an effective use of electronic networks. Ultimately the use of media to reshape the structure and face of society in this region has been a process of the estrangement of long established norms, and can be seen as a post Cold War spin on the Shklovski term "priƫm ostranenija". Saturday October 30, 1999 part i) symposium 10.00 Prof. Dr. Omar Akbar, Bauhaus Foundation Director - Welcoming address 10.15 Stephen Kovats, Berlin, Germany - Introduction 10.30 Dr. Lev Manovich, San Diego, USA - Avant-garde as Software 11.15 Stephen Kovats - ostranenie: mythologies of media estrangement 12.00 lunch break 13.30 Prof. Miklos Peternak, Budapest, Hungary - What happens when TV time is over? 14.15 Dr. Kostadina Iordanova, Leicester, UK - Mediated Concerns: the New Europe in Hypertext 15.00 coffee break 15.30 Andreas Broeckmann, Berlin, Germany - Small Channels for Deep Europe 16.15 Apsolutno Art Association, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia - The Semiotics of Confusion 17.00 VHS, Tirana, Albania - The Video Heroes Shqipetare The symposium will be in English with simultanous translation into German. part ii) CDROM presentation & finissage 19.00 Nina Czegledy, Toronto, Canada - introduction / einleitung 19.30 Stephen Kovats, Inke Arns, Oliver Blomeier - CD ROM presentation &video selection: ostranenie 93, 95, 97 21.00 the ostranenie champagne finissage with special guests - The Love Hunters & Balint Szombathy, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia - disko diskurs VIII part iii) Sunday October 31 1999 11.00 the ostranenie Hallowe'en pancake brunch ** a limited number of rooms for free overnight accommodation may be arranged. Please let us know if and when you are coming - we're looking forward to having you as our guest in the Twilight Zone once again!!** ** Apologies to anyone who receives this message more than once. ** For further information and for registration, please contact: Stephen Kovats and/or Honor Harger EMI Studio Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Gropiusallee 38 D - 06846 Dessau Germany PH: + 49 340 6508 313 FX: + 49 340 6508 326 email: kovats@kolleg.bauhaus-dessau.de, honor@va.com.au http://www.ostranenie.org/ ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org