Conference in Sofia, 19/20.09. - "All Museums Are Virtual"

[Alain Kessi]

Hi all!

You are cordially invited to the conference "All Museums Are Virtual" we
are organizing in Sofia today and tomorrow in the context of the
travelling medi at terra .01 festival. You can find more information on
<http://www.cfront.org/virtual01>.

All the best,

Dimitrina & Alain

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ALL MUSEUMS ARE VIRTUAL
Public Conference with Discussions

19/20 September 2001
at the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center, bul. Al. Stamboliiski 17, Sofia

part of the microMuseum of medi at terra .01
De-globalizing / Re-globalizing
Athens >> Lavrion >> Sofia >> Belgrad >> Maribor >> Frankfurt
(14 September-15 October)


co-organized by the curatorial team of Communication Front and
medi at terra, in collaboration with the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center,
Sofia, and the ArtToday Foundation, Plovdiv.


PROGRAM


Wednesday, 19 September 2001

10:00 - 11:20	Culture of Resistance
Lecture and discussion with Dr. Rosen Petkov
R.P. is the president of SCAS - Students' Association for Computer Art,
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 at 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 at terra festival.
Manthos Santorineos
M.S. is the artistic director of the Medi at 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 at terra.01 International Art and Technologies Festival, Athens,
Greece
Maria X
Manthos Santorineos


Thursday, 20 September 2001

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)

At the last minute we receive confirmation that Dimos Dimitriou, artist
from Athens, Greece, will be coming to the conference and hold a
lecture. The program will be slightly modified to accommodate his
lecture.

The organizers reserve the right to change the program as published here
for reasons that are outside their influence.

Concept: Dimitrina Sevova & Alain Kessi <sevokessi at cfront.org>

The curatorial team of Communication Front <http://www.cfront.org>
Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi and Emil Miraztchiev
e-mail: <curators at cfront.org>