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Schedule Pro@Contra Moscow Symposium


May, 10
17.00  Press conference. Opening of the symposium. (Conference hall, RSHU)
18.00  Fourchet =20
19.00  DJ&VJ party
Program of ProArte Center of Electronic Art from St.Petersburg=20
(DJ O.Guitarkin, VJ M.Poleshuk)
(Internet-cafe of RSHU)
Curator  Vadim Epstein

May, 11 =20
Contemporary Art
10.00-12.00 - Art Beyond Definitions
(Conference hall, RSHU)=20
Moderators  Olga Shishko and Tatiana Gorucheva
Janos Sugar, Hungary - =93 Solidarity with the context =94
Eric Kluitenberg, Netherlands  =93Smash the Surface / Break Open the Box /=
 Disrupt the Code =94=20
Josephine Bosma, Netherlands - " Beyond Web Art "
Alexey Isayev, Moscow - =93Communincativity Conception=94
Joseph Nechvatal, USAFrance - "Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances=94
Katherine Liberovskaya, Canada - "Multimedia of the machine age: A genealogy=
 of multimedia through avant garde movements in Western Art"
Tatiana Gorucheva, Moscow  =93Project of ContentNavigator: New axiological=
 coordinates for new technology art=94
Anatoly Prokhorov, Moscow  =93Sociocultural reality: Extension to net=
 emptiness=94
Olga Gorunova, Moscow  =93The general overview of Russian net art:=
 development, groups, intensions, final products. Runet as a mirror?=94

12.00 - 12.30 - Coffee break; demonstration of presentation of CD-ROM art=
 projects=20
(Internet cafe, RSHU)

12.30  14.00 - Contemporary Artist and New Media. Outlook from Russia =
 Presentation and Discussion=20
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderator  Konstantin Bokhorov
Oleg Kulik, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Vladimir Salnikov, Oleg Mavromati


14.00 - 14.45 - Break

14.45 - 16.45 -  Alternative art servers (presentations)
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderators - Olga Shishko and Tatiana Gorucheva
Micz Flor   =93Cultural Colonialism in the Oceans of Zeros and Ones
Formats and Copyrights and Independent Art Servers=94, Germany;
Inke Arns  micro.lounge, Germany;
Alexei Isaev  DANET.ru, Moscow;
Vadim Gouschin  tema.ru, Moscow;
Gilles Morel, Tatiana Moguilevskaya  The wind from the East, France-Russia;
Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits  Re-Lab, Latvia;
Marat Guelman  GIF.ru, Moscow;
Alexandre Sokolov, Alexandre Panov (Fyedor Romer)  RUSION, Austria-Russia;
Nikolai Selivanov  =91krisis.net=92, Moscow;
Nikolai Kononikhin  Inertnet-Museum of contemporary art in St.Petersburg;
Vyacheslav Mizin, Konstantin Skotnikov, Dmitri Boulnyguin  inart.newmail.ru,=
 Novosibirsk.

17.00  18.30  presentation of net art projects=20
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderator  Alexei Shulgin

JODI, Belgium-Holland;
Frederic Madre, France;
Mindaugas Gapsevicuis, Lithuania;
Andy Best, Finland;
Igor Stromajer, Slovenia;
Alexei Shulguin, Moscow;
Olia Lyalina, Moscow;
Alexei Isaev, Moscow;
Andrei Velikanov, Moscow;
Kostia MiTenev, St.Petersburg;
Serguei Teterin, Perm

19.00  Program of the Museum of Cinema =93MachineMachy  Pro=94
Curators  Naum I. Kleiman, Vadim Pavlikhin
(Musei Kino)

MECHANIC BALLET/ LE BALLET MECANIQUE, Fernand Lege, France, 1924, 10'
A short film by a famous cubist artist based on experiment with rhythm and=
 image mechanising human gestures.
MACHINE MARCH / LE MARCHE DES MACHINES, Egene Deslav (Eugeni Stavchenko),=
 France, 1928, 10'
Constructivist and, naturally, successful procession of mechanic monsters=
 which logically turns into farce.
ENTHUSIASM (THE KUZBAS SYMPHONY), Dziga Vertov, USSR/Ukraine, 1931, 60'
A striking futurist cine-poem, a symphony of mechanic noise (though it's a=
 silent film), hymn to industrialisation and mechanisation of everything.

22.00 - -01.00  Club program, Kraj Club
Riga Party =91Digital Free=92=20
The night when electronic people relax from new media (vinyl, light=
 projections=85)=20
Presentation of the =91Orbita=92 literary series. Poetry. Special musical=
 accompaniment, tracks from a new =91Orbita=92 disk.
Riga video show: alternative films by Kaspar Vanags, etc.
Bubble Show by Zagga and Arthur Punte (DJ Serguei Timofeev, DJ Zagga)
Alexandroids
Curator  Vadim Epstein

May, 12
Information=20
10.30 - 11.30 - The Zone of Conflict. Internet
Technological progress and technical regress?
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderarors  Olga Shishko and Tatiana Gorucheva
Ivan Zassursky, Moscow  "The Internet and mass media: possibilities and=
 circumstances"
Richard Barbrook, Great Britain  "The Cybercommunist Manifesto"
Inke Arns, Germany - "Minor Media Toolkit: An Appraisal of Horizontal=
 Communication"
Dmitry Bulatov, Moscow - "Typological and genealogical aspects of the INC.,=
 International Network Culture"
Vadim Gouschin, Moscow  "The aims of art in creation of a new perception=
 model, and the data roles in religion"
Juan Jos=E9 D=EDaz Infante, Mexico- =93Internet is not a new solution to old=
 problems=94
Normunds Kozlovs, Latvia - "Emerging New Media culture in Latvia: prospects=
 for democratisation of society=94

11.30 -12.30 - Art of Campaign and  New Communication Tools
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderators: Eric Kluitenberg and Ivan Zassoursky

12.30  13.00 - Coffee break: demonstration of net art projects=20
(Internet cafe, RSHU)

13.00-14.30 - Electronic mass media and media-culture
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Curator  Allrussian Internet Academy
Moderator  Maxim Kononenko
Marat Guelman , Moscow How did the Internet transform the cultural machine.
Anton Nosik, Moscow  Opposition of traditional and net mass media.
Alexei Andreev  Virtualization and de-virtualization on the Net.
Eugueni Gorny, Moscow  A person as consciousness and a machine.
Mikhail Verbitsky, Moscow  Free of graphics Internet makes a Revolution
Anatoly Prokhorov, Moscow  =93Network of reciprocal arbitral relationships=
 and deliberate democracy=94=20
Volker Grassmuck, Germany

14.30-15.15 Break

16.00-18.00 - State. Information. Internet (round table)
(RF Govenment with the direct translation to the Internet cafe, RSHU)
Curator  Ivan Zassursky
Moderators  Andrei Korotkov, Ivan Zassursky
Coordinator (on behalf on the Government)  Andrei Koshkin


M.Reiman, Minister of communication and informatisation
A.Pochinok, Minister of taxes=20
M.Seslavincky, First Vice-Minister of press, broadcasting and communication=
 media
Federal Security Service
F.Shubin, Chairman of the Duma committee for the Internet legislation
Legal department of the =91Grandpark=92 company
E.Vartanova, expert of the Council of Europe
H.Makarov, editor of the =91deadline.ru=92
F.Levenchuk, =91Libertarium=92 and =91Communivair=92 projects
F.Kravchenko, expert on the mass media legislation
A.Voronov, owner of the =91Glasnet=92 company

18.45  19.35  Video program =93East-ethics of Anti-documentary cinema (after=
 1989)=94
(Musei Kino, hall 4)
Curator - Joan Richardson, USA
Piter Forgach, Duzy and Dzheno (fragment), 1989, Hungary, 10'
Marina Grzhinich and Anna Schmidt, The Moon, 1994, Slovenia, 10'
Antal Lux, Fallgeschichte, 1992, Germnay-Hungary, 5'
Group + O, An Incident (fragment), 1992, Estonia, 7'
Nisu Ilfovinou, Bucharest, Novermber, 1996, Romania, 4'
Andrei Velikanov, Everything Will Be All Right, 1996, Russian, 6'
Elena Patoprsta, Zapping, 1999, Slovakia, 4'
Jasper Soova, TLL-EZE, 1998, Estonia, 4'


20.00  21.00  Video program =93Riot against Machines=94
(Musei Kino, hall 4)
Curator - Vadim Koshkin, Moscow
V.Kobrin, The Third Reality, 15'
N.Shiroki, A Man Was Living-and-Dying, 15'
M.Saakian, The Studio of a Man, 12'
A.Kousnetsov, Trifon, 3'
Platon Infante Orana, Homourbans, 3'
A.Petrov, Poukhov, Poste Restante, 8'
A.Gagarin, Tampax Only, 4'
O.Tyulev, 20 Million Times Ago, 5'
V.Epstein, They're Crawling, 6'
O.Mavromati, Bastards, 15'
A.Selverstova, The Fate, 15'
V.Doudchenko, Riana, 15'
V.Koshkin, The Fourth Coming, 8'
V.Epstein, Teleportation, 5'


22.00 - -06.00 Club program, Kraj Club
Retrospection of Russian electronic music (Novel 23, Kustota, Ambidextrous,=
 J.Toonz, T.A.Lab, Solar X, etc.)
Alexander Kopeikin (live)
DJ Dima Shevkounov (Izhevsk) presents new groups from the city of Izhevsk
(Stereo dog, Virgo Intacta, Amalthea Interpolation, RXB, Tfoms, Digital=
 Meet, Varga, etc.)
Video support  North and Eps groups, Russian and Western video-art, new=
 silent cinema (=91Date of Expenditure=92)
Curator  Vadim Epstein

May, 13=20
Institutions/Education

10.00 - 12.00  Presentation of media centers=92 activities
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderators  Olga Shishko and Tatiana Gorucheva
Raivo Kelomees, E-Media Center, Academy of fine art of Estonia, Tallinn =
 http://www,artun.ee
Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Ieva Auzina, Media center of electronic arts=
 E-LAB, Riga  http://re-lab,net
Alexei Isaev, Olga Shishko, Tatiana Gorucheva, MediaArtLab, Moscow=
 http://www.danet.ru
Nomeda Urboniene & Gediminas Urbonas [JUTEMPUS], tvvv.plotas, Vilnius
Katya Stukalova. Media Lab of Kiev Center of Modern Art (Kiev), =
 http://www.cca.kiev.ua
Katherine Liberovskaya, Studio XX, Quebec, Canada  http://www.studioxx.org
Inke Arns, mikro.lounge, Berlin, http://www.micro.org
Svetlana Ostrova, Alexei Shoulguin, Pro Arte Media Center Program, St.=
 Petersburg
Alla Mitrofanova, CyberFemineClub, St. Petersburg
Andrei Smirnov, Termen Center, Moscow
Konstantin Mitenev, St.Petersburg, =91Next Media, or digital=
 revolutionization of actual culture in St.Petersburg=92.


12.00-13.00 - Coffee break
Gilles Morel =93Multicaltural and multimedia theater=94  film and=
 presentation
(Internet cafe, RSHU)

13.00  16.30 - Media and New Educational Models: reports, presentations,=
 discussion.
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderators  Raivo Kelomees, E-Media Center of Art Academy, Tallinn, and
Nikolai Selivanov, RSHU, Moscow
Raivo Kelomees, Estonia: =91A media artist and an expert in media art. Modes=
 of expression and technological skills=92
Kathy Rae Huffman, USA: =91Cross-disciplinary program  innovation of=
 American digital education today=92. Presentation of student works=
 (Electronic media-art and communication department, Rensselaer Polytechnic=
 Institute, Troy, USA)
Nikolai Selivanov (RSHU): =93=91The Memory=92 and =91The Project=92 =
 diachronic temporacy of a new educational medium. New specializations of=
 the world history department of RSHU=94
Svetlana Ostrova, St.Petersburg, and Alexei Shoulguin, Moscow: =91ProArte=
 and new program of media education=92
Yuri Voronkov, Serguei Kuvshinov (RSHU): =91New technologies and education:=
 comprehension of dangers and search for possible decisions=92
Serguei Shekhovtsov (RSHU): =91Intellectual and informational medium.=
 Intellectual and educational medium?=92


14.15-15.00  Break

16.30-18.00 - Forms and priority directions of project supporting in media=
 art, culture and education  presentation and round table discussion
(Conference hall, RSHU)
Moderator  Olga Shishko

19.00  =93Pro&Contra=94 - net art exhibition
(Guelman Gallery)
20.30  Media installetions exhibition
(ArtMediaCenter =93TV Gallery=94)
22.00 - Club program


14 May=20
Technology
10.00 - 12.00 =20
VRML-ART2000 project presentation and discussion on using VRML in=
 art-project activity.
Moderators  Kathy Rae Huffman, USA,  and Martin Schmitz, Germany.
ParallelGraphics. Our current seeing of the VRML role.

12.00  13.00  Coffee-break
Australian trash films.=20
Presented by Jaan Ranniko, Side On Screening, Australia
(Internet cafe, RSHU))

13.00 - 14.00 =20
NET.RADIO WORKSHOP =93ACOUSTIC SPACE=94
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, E-LAB, Riga=20
(Mediatheke)
14.00 - 14.30  Break
14.30 - 16.00
Micro Radio Party
Tetsou Kogawa, Japan

16.30  18.40=20
Cinema program of Museum of Cinema
Pro&Contra - MachineMachy  Comedia
Curators  Naum I. Kleiman, Vadim Pavlikhin
(Musei Kino, hall 4)
THE ELECTRIC HOUSE, directed and starred by Buster Keaton, USA, 1922, 20'
MODERN TIMES, directed and starred by Charles Chaplin, USA, 1936 (fragment,=
 10')
TRAFFIC, directed and starred by Jacque Tati, France, 1971, 100'
A comic outlook on the problem.

 =20

18.45
Canadian video art
Curator  Katherine Liberovskaya
(Musei Kino, hall 7)
Program of the GIV, centre for production, distribution and presentation of=
 video works by female artists:
HELL. Ardele Lister, 1984, Canada-USA, colour and b & w
LAWS AND SKIN. Christine Martin, Canada, 1990, 5', colour and b & w
ABERRANT MOTION # 4. Cathy Sisler, 1993, 14'43", colour
TEMPS FROISSE. Jocelyne Desautels, Quebec, 1995, 3'20", colour
STRAVAIG. Nikki Forrest, Quebec, 1999, 9'27", colour and b & w,
Program of the VIDEOGRAPHE, the first Canadian centre for production and=
 distribution of video targeted on using media as an instrument for research=
 and social and political documenting:=20
(duration 62 min 18 sec):
SYNTAX ERROR IN 84 (Machines/Machines - Dr A.Mok's Brain Wave)
Pierre Zovile, Quebec, 1985, 6'10", English & French.
I AM MONTY CANTSIN. Noem Cathod (Jean Decarie), Quebec, 1989, 4', English.
FROZEN INK. Katherine Liberovskaya, Quebec/France, 1989, 13'15", English &=
 French.
DISTANCE. Luc Bourdon, Franyois Girard, Quebec, 1984, 4', no dialogue.
DELIRIUM. Yves Langlois, Quebec, 1990, 11', no dialogue.=20
DESERT INN. Eric Mattson, Quebec, 1993, 4', no dialogue.
EXTENDERIS.Esther Valiquette, Quebec, 1993, 10'10", English.
ID/ENTITE A Work in Progress. Laura Jeanne Lefave, Quebec, 1995, 0'43", no=
 dialogue.
SEULS LES ETERNUEMENTS SONT ETERNELS. Laura Jeanne Lefave, Quebec, 1998, 9',=
 no dialogue.

20.30 - Final meeting.=20
22.00 - Closing party
(MediaArtLab)