co-organized by the curatorial team of Communication Front and medi@terra, in collaboration with the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center, Sofia, and the ArtToday Foundation, Plovdiv.
10:00 - 11:20 Culture of Resistance
Lecture and discussion with Dr. Rossen Petkov
R.P. is the president of SCAS – Students’
Computer Art Society, Sofia. Director of the “Computer
Space” festival for computer art, Sofia. Teaches at the Technical
University, Sofia.
/ten minutes break/
11:30 – 12:50 Museum of Places
Lecture and discussion with ass. prof. Dr. Ivaylo Ditchev
I.D. is assistant professor of cultural history and theory at
the University of Sofia “St. Kliment
Ohridski”. Author of scientific articles and reviews. Author of the
books “Eroticism of Authorship” (1992), “The Gift in the Age of Its Technical
Reproducibility” (1999), among others.
12:50 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:50 The Artistic Collection in the Age of Its Digital (Re)Production
Lecture and discussion with ass. prof. Dr. Irina Genova
I.G. is art historian, researcher, critic and curator. Works
at the Institute of Art Studies
of the Bulgarian Academy of Science and
teaches at the New Bulgarian University. Author of scientific articles,
reviews and criticism. Scientific editor, with Angel Angelov, of the compilation
“Afterhistories of Art” (2001), which reviews the difficulties in the face
of the history/histories of art through the debate on the “end of art”
from the 1980ies on. Assistant professor at the New
Bulgarian University at the Department of Cultural History.
/ten minutes break/
16:00 – 17:20 My Museum – My Fortress
Lecture and discussion with ass. prof. Dr. Svilen Stefanov
S.S. is art historian, critic, curator, artist and writer. Teaches
theory of contemporary art at the National
Academy of Arts, Sofia. Has curated, over the past ten years, exhibitions
that have been important for the development of contemporary visual arts
in Bulgaria. Author of the books “The Bulgarian Press of the 20ies (Peculiarities
of Visual Language)” (1994) and “Cultural Dimensions of the Visual (The
Dynamics of New Bulgarian Art)” (1998).
17:20 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 20:00 microMuseum,
De-globalizing / Re-globalizing
Medi@terra.01 International
Art and Technologies Festival, Athens, Greece
Maria X
M.X. is curator, co-director of the Center for Media Art and
New Technologies “Fournos”
and the Medi@terra festival.
Manthos Santorineos
M.S. is the artistic director of the Medi@terra
festival and director of the Center for Media Art and New Technologies
“Fournos”, Athens, Greece.
20:00 – 21:00 Cocktail
21:00 – 22:00 microMuseum, De-globalizing / Re-globalizing
Medi@terra.01 International Art and Technologies Festival, Athens,
Greece
Maria X
Manthos Santorineos
16:00 – 17:10 All Museums Are Virtual
Lecture and discussion with Dimitrina Sevova and Alain Kessi
D.S. is an artist and curator. Founder of the TED Gallery for contemporary
art, Varna. Curator of the annual international project for electronic and media
art and theory Communication Front, based on her idea and concept.
A.K. is a journalist, media activist and theorist, and programmer. Curator, with Dimitrina Sevova and Emil Miraztchiev, of Communication Front.
/ten minutes break /
17:20 – 18:30 Bulgarian Art on the Internet
Lecture and discussion with Vladimir Petkov
V.P. is editor-in-chief of the server for culture and art <cult.bg>.
18:30 – 19:00 Coffee break
19:00 – 20:10 Hackers Between Literature and Visual Arts
Lecture and discussion with Yordan Efftimov
Y.E. is a poet, theorist and critic. Senior assistant of literature
theory at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Teaches history of antique
literature at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Author of about
30 scientific articles and over 100 reviews. Last collection of poems “Opera
Nigra” (2001).
/ten minutes break /
20:20 – 21:30 The Body As A Museum
Lecture and discussion with Virginia Zaharieva
V.Z. is a poet, psychoanalyst, editor-in-chief of the P.S. magazine on
questions of gender, theory and literature, and journalist. Author of poetry
and theoretical articles. Last collection of poems “Quadrille One Late Afternoon”.
(1996)
We have just received confirmation that Dimos Dimitriou, artist from Athens, Greece, will come to the conference and hold a lecture. The program will be slightly adapted to accommodate his lecture.
Concept: Dimitrina Sevova & Alain Kessi <sevokessi@cfront.org>
The curatorial team of Communication Front <http://www.cfront.org>
Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi and Emil Miraztchiev
e-mail: <curators@cfront.org>