Tranzit - Regional Workshop in Media Theory, Criticism and Creation

[anna balint]

From: tranzit at mail.dntcj.ro

Tranzit Foundation invites you at:

Regional  Workshop in Media Theory, Criticism and Creation

Organized by Tranzit  Foundation, Concept Foundation, Pro Helvetia, French
Cultural Center, Sindan  Cultural Center

Financed by CONCEPT  Foundation through Arts and Culture Network Program of
Open Society Institute, Budapest

Conference on Censorship in Present and Recent  Europe

27-29. September 2001
Chairman: Bernard Noel  (France)

THURSDAY, September 27
Tranzit House,  Baritiu street 16
11h Press conference
Ethnographic Museum, Memorandumului street  21
17h Poetry evening with Bernard Noel
Tranzit House
19h Opening of exhibition: Arbitrary. Elegant.Censorship.
(Exhibiting artists: Kovács Zoltán, Mocanu Nita, Muresan
Ciprian, Papuc Tania, Pop Cosmin, Szabó  Péter. Curator: Antik Alexandru)
French Cultural Centre, Bratianu street  22
21.30h  Opening of the photo exhibition Oil of Angels by Radu  Afrim
21.45h  Apocalypse after Marta Show based on poems by Marta Petreu
Live music: KUMM
Acting: Ramona Dumitrean
Directed by: m. chris. nedeea

FRIDAY, September 28
Tranzit House
9.30-10.15 Videoscreening:
Magyar Attila: Scandal artists, target  people (Botránymûvészek,
célszemélyek)
10.15-11.30h Presentations: Art and Censorship (1)
Sheryl Oring,  artist, writer (US-Germany): Writer's Blockart project
(With  slide-projections)
Vakulovschi Mihai, writer, art critic  (Romania/Moldavia): The manifest of
nu ma oftikismul
11.30-11.50h Coffee break
11.50-13.30 Presentations: Art and Censorship (2)
Redas Dirzys, artist (Lithuania): Image Production, Art or  Politics  (With
slide-projections)
Pawel Chawinski, visual artist (Poland): Who  and Where are the Censors?
(With slide-projection, print projection and CD  projection)
Discussions. Moderator: Sandu Vlad, writer, art critic  (Romania)
13.30-15h Lunch break
15-15.30h Videoscreening: Zoran Todorovic: Noise
15.30-18h Presentations: Censorship and Social Space
Ovidiu Pecican, historian, writer (Romania):  Forms of Censorship in the
Romanian Middle Ages
Tibori Szabó Zoltán, journalist (Romania): The  Limits of Public Sphere in
the Case of Minorities
Mester  Béla, philosopher (Hungary):  Censorship and/or editorship  Rule
over minds in oral, chirographic,  typographical societies in Digital Age
Irina Cios, art critic, curator (Romania): Censorship in the New  Media
Context.
Discussions. Moderator: Magyari Nándor László,  sociologist (Romania)
18-18.20h Coffee break
18.20-18.40 Tamás Gáspár Miklós,  philosopher (Hungary):
Self-censorship on Moral Base
18.40-20h  Roundtable: After the Fall of the Twins  Moderator:
Ovidiu Pecican

SATURDAY, September 29
Tranzit House
9.30-10.30h Videoscreening: Domokos János:  Kolorlokál
10.30-11.40h Presentations: Censorship and Media
Imre Kaas, journalist (Estonia): Estonian  Journalism and Censorship Today
Vladimir  Cvetkovici, sociologist, journalist (Serbia): Media Responsibility
of  Politicians in Serbia
Vasile Ernu, philosopher (Romania/Moldavia):
Censorship as Form of  Informing
Octavian Hoandra, journalist (Romania): Censoring in Cluj
Discussions. Moderator: Liviu Man
11.40-12h  Coffee break
12-13h Presentations: Censorship and  Communism
Marius Oprea, historian (Romania): From  Censorship to the Law of Silence.
Mafia-type Norms in Communist and  Post-communist Political System
Nicolae Constantinescu, Medical Doctor (Romania): Lie Can Kill
Discussions. Moderator: Magyari Nándor László,  sociologist (Romania)
13-14.30h Lunch break
14.30-15.30h  Presentations: Censorship in PostCommunism
Mircea Toma, journalist (Romania): Contemporary Methods of the Limitation
the Free  Speech
Eleni Laperi Koci, artist, curator (Albania):  An Albanian Truman Show
Boryana Dragoeva,  artist (Bulgaria): Aspects of the censorship in
post-soviet Russia and  parallel observation on Bulgaria. Reasons,
development and reflection over the  social processes
15.30-17.20h  Videoscreening: Oleg Mavromatti (Russia): Bastards
17.20-17.40h  Coffee break
17.40-18.20h   Discussions. Moderator: Magyari-Vincze Enikõ,
antropologist (Romania)
18-18.10h  Videoscreening Könczei Csilla: An Abstract Knowledge
18.10-18.40  Roundtable: Lack of Freedom of Speech in Communism and
Post-communism. Participants: Gyimesi Éva, Koós Enikõ, Szõcs Géza, Marius
Tabacu.
18.40-19h Coffee break
19-19.30h  Bernard Noel, writer, essayist (France) interviewed by
Olivier Apert,  writer (France)
19.30-20.30h  Roundtable: Sensure et non Censure. Moderator:
Bernard Noel

Organizers:  Christiane Botbol, curator (France-Romania), Ovidiu Pecican,
historian, writer  (Romania), Könczei Csilla, antropologist, 
videoartist  (Romania)
Project  coordinator:  Tincuta Parv, antropologist,  visual artist (Romania)
Other participants at roundtables to  be announced.