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LatestInfoAt the 1st 2nd and 3rd of July 2005 The making of Balkan wars: the game, was presented into the frame-context of the SYNCH 05 festival in Laurio, Athens. Personal Cinema presents the Making of Balkan wars:The game in Larissa contemporary art centre into the context of the project : Going Public 05 communities and territories. More info: http://www.amaze.it/en/mast/goingc/what.html Dear friends and colleagues, We are very pleased to inform you that the project The Making of Balkan Wars: the Game by our group Personal Cinema won the EMAF Award for the year 2005. The festival took place last week from the 20th till the 24th of April. We have had the opportunity to present the project in the Media Lounge and the Congress of EMAF. The jury described the project as a pioneering work in media art and was impressed by the diversity and quality of artistic positions and strategies that characterize it. For more information please visit: Greek police arrested the web artist Dimitris Fotiou, 34 years old, after receiving numerous complaints from unsatisfied clients who had sent him their credit card details in hope of securing a public sector job, a plum university seat, or even legalizing their illegally built country homes. On his Internet website (www.dirtyworks-greece.info), Fotiou advertised a list of similar services, with a price list of 500 to 2,000 euros. Police said the site received tens of thousands of visits, and argued that Fotiou, who was charged with criminal fraud, was in a position to have abused credit card data. http://info.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_38370_15/02/2005_931508 Three simular artistic web sites that use detournement can be found here: http://www.blessed-bandwidth.net/ http://www.fu-fme.com/faq.html News For Human Rights <news@zaprava.ru> Open letter concerning the trial on the exhibition: Caution,Religion The criminal case instigated by the Office of Public Prosecution against the director of Sakharov Centre Ju. Samodurov, the collaborator of the Museum of the Centre L. Veselovskaia and the artist and the poet A.Alchuk (Mikhalchuk) concerning the exhibition "Caution, religion!", which is now taking place in Moscow court, is a shocking proof that the fundamental statute of Russia as secular democratic state, where the Church is separated from the State, as is voiced in its Constitution, is not respected. The principle of the freedom of expressing one's views has been violated and the artists were made victims of an ideological vision of religious state which some circles within Russian Orthodox Church are attempting to impose on Russian society. The shameful fact, that instead of "pious" pogrom-makers, who destroyed the objects of art, we see on the dock the victims of vandalism,testifies that the Office of Public Prosecutor has yielded to pressure of forces trying to impose their medieval ideas on Russian society and to affirm their exclusive right on religious themes and symbols, which are the common property of human culture, both religious or secular, and which has been included in universal culture Thesaurus throughout centuries-old development of European civilization. Civic freedoms are not created to serve one ideology. At least, this state of affairs has, we hope, changed with the end of totalitarianism. We all now have the constitutional right to live in this country and to express our own views freely. Contemporary art is one such sphere of freedom. Art is not made exclusively to decorate walls; it is above all a testimony to its own time and expresses that which public discourse cannot perhaps express in any other form. Art is living and volatile manifestation and its boundaries cannot be regulated by the clauses of the penal code. This has clearly been testified to by the decisions of the Human Rights Tribunal in Strasbourg . Our society is not homogeneous; it consists of majorities as well as minorities belonging to the same whole. The participants in the exhibition "Caution, religion!", in dealing with one of the problems, had simply made use of their constitutional right to be different. As for suggestion that the artists by their artworks have insulted believers and sown discord, it is nonsense. The exhibition took place not in church, but in museum which is a secular institution. It could be a subject of public discussion and criticism but not an object of court examination. The multimedia project The making of Balkan Wars: the Game will be presented from the 4th till the 12th of December 2004 in Belgrade. In the premises of REX Cultural Center, visitors will have the opportunity through a network of computers to view the game, navigate in the different rooms, choose their own avatar, chat with other players and see the artworks hosted within the virtual space. The video works will also be projected on big screens while audiovisual material (DVD documentation) about the game will be available for the visitors. The installation will be accompanied by video projects and documentaries referring to the war created by artists coming from the ex–Yugoslavian countries. The opening has been programmed for Saturday the 4th of December 2004. The presentation of the project in Serbia is made possible with the support of the Goethe Institut of Belgrade, the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and Pro Helvetia. http://www.balkanwars.org/main/BelgradeRex.swf http://www.balkanwars.org/main/Roumania.swf The multimedia project 'The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game' will be hosted from the 3rd until the 12th of November 2004 in Cluz, Romania in the premises of Casa Tranzit . The opening will be on Wednesday 3 November at 18.00 while members of the Personal Cinema will present the project and discuss with the public on Thursday 4 November at 18.00 . With the kind support of: the Idea Foundation In late August 2004 , the Making of Balkan Wars will be hosted in Montevideo in the context of the Channel Zero exhibition, curated by Katerina Gregos. Following the presentation of the project at the MediaLab, Madrid,last March, Balkan wars was invited and then hosted in May at the CityMuseumOfSkopje City Museum of Skopje?. |