Conference Program

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Day zero: Thursday, May, 21, 2009

17:00 Screenings 1

Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Trip – Natalie Bookchin (63 min.)
Q&A – Natalie Bookchin (Los Angeles), (20 min.)

19:00 Opening evening
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
19:00 Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Veljačić and Dan Oki
19:10 Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (San Diego)
20:00 Exhibition opening with food/buffet
21:00 Emile Zile – Post-It Kino Performance
21: 45 Nenad Vukušić Sebastijan – VJ Performance

Day One: Friday, May, 22

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

9:45 – 11:30 Tele-Image Research Strategies (Moderator Sabine Niederer)
– Andreas Treske (Ankara)
– Nathalie Bookchin (Los Angeles)
– Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb)
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 – 13:45 The Database
(Moderator Tomislav Medak)
– Maarten Brinkerink (Amsterdam)
– Kuros Yalpani (Munich)
– Albert Figurt (Rome)
– Alejandro Duque (Zurich)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 Video Art meets Web Aesthetics (Moderator Leila Topić)
– Vera Tollmann (Berlin)
– Vito Campanelli (Napoli)
– Sarah Késsene (Gent)
– Linda Wallace (Sydney/Amsterdam)
Discussion

BREAK

17:30 – 18:45 Screenings 2

Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Shelly Silver – In complete world (53 min.)
Q&A – Shelly Silver (New York), (20 min.)

19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 – 22:30 SCREENING 3 (presented by Dagan Cohen)
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Upload Cinema, March 2009 Edition ‘Engineering the Body’ (90 min.).

Day Two: Saturday, May, 23
(First bus to the Conference: 8:45, Second bus to the Conference: 9:00)

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

09:45 – 11:45 Online Video Theories (Moderator Geert Lovink)
– Jan Simons (Amsterdam)
– Gabriel Menotti (London)
– Amir Soltani (Manchester)
– Stefan Heidenreich (Berlin)
Discussion

COFFEE

12:00 – 14:00 Online Video Narratives
(Moderator Brian Willems)
– Jasmina Kallay (Dublin)
– David Clark (Halifax)
– Valentina Rao (Pisa)
– Paul Wiersbinski (Frankfurt)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:45 – 16:45 Politics of the Moving Image
(Moderator Petar Milat)
– Saša Vojković (Zagreb)
– David Teh (Bangkok)
– Ana Peraica (Split)
– Antanas Stancius (Vilnius)
Discussion

COFFEE

17:00 – 18:30 Social Cinema
(Moderator Dan Oki)
– Perry Bard (New York)
– Evelin Stermitz (Villach/Ljubljana)
– Dagan Cohen (Amsterdam)
Discussion

19:00 PERFORMANCE

Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
– ‘Cym and the Aethernauts’ (Walkersdorf / All over the world) (performance 30 min.)

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

22:00 CONFERENCE PARTY

Location: KOCKA CLUB