Mediaterra

[fournos-culture]

Mediaterra in Belgrade
 22-23 September 2001

The three-day events of Medi at terra festival in Belgrade, which have been
co-organized by Dom Omladine and the artist Aleksandar Gubas, have
concluded with a great essential succes .
Dom Omladine is a cultural multi-center for Belgrade’s youth. It is
located in the center of the city and it includes to its facilities a
bookstore, a record shop, an internet cafe, a club, a billiards room,
projection theatres and a large space for expositions.
Inside these floors filled with young people eager to start the life
they deserve, the Medi at terra festival and the MicroMuseum were set-up.
Three days full of events, the microMuseum stayed open all day until
late in the evening,, but also many other activities were organised on
the occasion of Medi at terra such as concerts, dj parties, exposition of
computer animation, debatets, panel discussions and round tables,
everything creating a dynamic pole that will certainly be the reason for
many forthcoming developments in the area of digital culture in
Belgrade, as well as the begining of a close collaboration between
Fournos and many cultural centers and artists from the
During the Medi at terra events there were also presentations of the
centers co-organizing the festival, as well as the presentation of the
award winner project : Passing Drama by the Greek-German artist  Angela
Melitopoulos, along with the project Timescapes for which the artist
collaborates with Fournos.

A lively and quite interesting one was the activity  Scene Strike IV
with new artists from the city, which has been organized for
Medi at terraby the team Corrosion. Scene Strike was one of the most famous
festivals / workshops for new media in Belgrade before the war. This
tradition has been interrupted because of the political situation and
revived, three years later in the occasion of Medi at terra festival’s
journey to Belgrade. The artists  with their computers and their
peripherals made a marathon of 48 hours of creating electronic music and
animation. For 48 hours the data projectors, the large speakers of DOB
club and the computers did not turn off at all and the participants took
turns in sleeping on the seats only for a couple of hours each.
Throughout this event the legendary Amiga, which is not at all out of
date in these places, was praised.

Another surprise was the arrival in Belgrade of the German artist Georg
Brandt who paricipates in the microMuseum with his project Portable Self
Detector. His project is also the first acquirement of the permanent
collection of the microMuseum as a gift from an artist to the
Medi at terra festival.

The Greek embassy was also present not only by helping the Greek team in
customs formalities, but also with the presence of the cultural attache
in the opening of the events.


Medi at terra in Maribor
 28-30 September 2001

On the 28th, 29th and 30th of September took place with a great success
the events of  Medi at terra in Maribor, Slovenia, in co-organization
between Fournos Center and  Multimedia Lab KIBLA.

Among the  Medi at terra activities :

 The microMuseum of course, which has enchanted all visitors and experts
from Maribor but also from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The
microMuseum stayed open all three days from the morning until late in
the evening, while the exposition site of KIBLA was constantly crowded
:students, professors, children and artists that kept coming back to the
exposition discovering each time new works or happenings (chat rooms,
live connections with other countries e.t.c). The public’s enthousiasm
and large interaction was a pleasant surprise even for the organizers.

- Audiovisual performance from young Slovenian artists Klon Art
Collective
- DJ jamming & parties from DJ LOCO and Ilegal Kru (DJ Markoman & VJ
Mibre)
- Concerts from Siti hlapci και Afir Bafir
- Presentations of the centers Dom Omladine (Yugoslavia), European Media
Art Festival (Germany), CICV (France)
- Net Performance ‘H8fulworld’ in real time connection via next-movies
portal with artists from Greece, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Romania,
Switzerland and France.
 - Debate on : “Technology and Globalization”. With Marina Grzinic and
Corina Patelis, and coordinator  Manthos Santorineos
 - Panel discussion on : Art Landscapes in Slovenia. With the
participation of professors  Vojko Pogacar, Sreco Dragan, Miha Zadnikar.
Coordinator: Peter Tomaz Dobrila
 - Medi at terra Kitchen: a real symposium with gulash and audiovisual
happenings. Igor Stepancic’s project from Belgrade was activated in
Maribor by the theoritician Bojana Kunst with really amazing taste
results.

The Greek embassy was also present in Maribor for the Medi at terra
activities  as well as the Mayor of the city of Maribor and the national
television of Slovenia.
Three full days and three white nights with jamming until the morning
was the main character of the Slovenian aspect of Medi at terra. KIBLA
center’s enthusiasm, which was the co-organizer of Medi at terra 01 in
Maribor  quickly transformed in work for organizing the next events
which will be based in the bilateral relation between the Greek and
Slovenian Ministries of culture.

Medi at terra in Frankfurt
9-15 October 2001

The Medi at terra team is now in Frankfurt, last city- way point of this
travelling adventure. The microMuseum, enriched with travelling
experiences from the region of south-eastern Europe, is now presented in
the Forum of Frankfurt’s International Book Fair. Also a debate on the
theme "Language and Globalization" will take place on Sunday the 14th
with the participation of Lydia Hartl, Derrick de Kerckhove, Alfred
Rotert and Manthos Santorineos.



For more information please visit:  http://www.mediaterra.org