[spectre] TRANZINDEX Critical Media Symposium & Workshop, Cluj, Romania

[richardson joanne]

|||||   TRANZINDEX   -   CLUJ, ROMANIA
Critical Media Symposium, Sept 26-29 & Hybrid Radio
Workshop, Sept 30 ? Oct 3 
Venues: Tranzit House, Str. Baritiu 16; Music Pub,
Str. Horea 5 

Organized by Tranzit Foundation and Joanne Richardson
in collaboration with Next 5 Minutes (Amsterdam), Idea
Foundation and ANO Foundation. Made possible with the
financial support of CONCEPT Foundation - Soros Open
Network Romania, Culture 2000 Program of European
Commission, European Cultural Foundation, ProHelvetia,
Kultiplex and EDRC.

SEPT 26, THURSDAY

>Tranzit 

19:30 	Opening Reception & Poster Exhibition: Mind
Bomb (Romania), Pode Bal (Czech Republic)

>Music Pub

22:00   Infra Gandhi DJ program
 
SEPT 27, FRIDAY

>Tranzit

10:00?10:45 	INTRODUCTION: Csilla Könczei ? Tranzit;
Gyula Kozák ? TranzArt disLocated (a network of
contemporary art centers from Central and Eastern
Europe, in the frame of ?Culture 2000? program of
European Commission), Joanne Richardson ?  MetaMedia,
?a.network?(media centers network in South East
Europe); Derek Holzer ? Next 5 Minutes 4

10:45?12:30 	PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CENTERS, production
and literacy projects  
Moderator: Tincu?a Pârv 
Participants: Galina Dimitrova - Interspace
(Bulgaria), Kristian Lukic & Branka Curcic ? Kuda.org
(Yugoslavia), Nikola Pisarev ? CAC Skopje, ?Culture
for Everybody? project (Macedonia), Jozita Shkreli -
Lindart (Albania), Ivana Moncolova - Buryzone
(Slovakia), István Sebesi - Kultiplex (Hungary), Nina
Czegledy ? ?On target? project (Canada/Hungary), Les
Corsaires (Belgium).

13:00?14:00 	ROUNDTABLE: BACKDOOR MEDIA EDUCATION 
(follow-up discussion of media education innovations &
models; working with or working outside schools &
official institutions; role of media centers founded
by artists as primary vehicles for education &
production)
Moderator: Nina Czegledy

15:30?17:15 	Video Screening: Best of OFF presented by
Dániel Sárdi 
17:30?18:00	Derek Holzer 
18:00?18:40 	Tilos Rádió ? Pirate radio presentation &
discussion 
18:40?20:40  	Tilos DJ/VJ program: Techno,
experimental, jazz

>Music Pub

22:00?23:00	Tanutuva Concert
23:30 		marka DJ-program 
	
SEPT 28, SATURDAY

>Tranzit

10:00?11:30 	ROUNDTABLE: COUNTER-DOCUMENTARY &
REPRESENTATION 
(discussion by film & video makers and festival
organizers of  documentary and counter-documentary
styles & forms of production; connection between
documentary & propaganda; reality/fiction boundaries;
strategies of indirect and non-representation) 
Moderator & intro: Csilla Könczei
Participants: Sigismond de Vajay ? Lausanne
Underground Film Festival (Switzerland); Virgiliu
M?rgineanu - OWH Studio (Moldova), János Domokos ?
Dialektus (Hungary); Angela Kalló - Festival
Association (Romania); Carmen Cristian ? TVR Cluj
(Romania)

12:00?14:00 	MAPPING MEDIA ACTIVISM 
(project presentations & debates by video, radio,
poster, zine & other media practioners about the
meaning of alternative, underground, mainstream;
differences between tactical media and strategic,
migrant, or nomadic forms; the geopolitics of media
activism & its meaning in post-socialist context) 
Moderator & intro: Joanne Richardson
Participants: David Garcia & Derek Holzer ? Next 5
Minutes (Netherlands), Igor Markovic (Croatia),
Aleksandra Kostic ? Kibla (Slovenia); Alexandru
Vakulovski ? Cenaklu Klu (Romania), Peter Motycka ?
Podebal (Czech Republic), Firma 9 ? Mind Bomb
(Romania) 

15:30?19:30 	Video Screening: to be announced
21:30 		Audio Performance:  Derek Holzer, Allergische
Platze

SEPT 29, SUNDAY

>Tranzit

10:00?11:45 	PUBLIC DOMAIN & DEMOCRATIZATION 
(the significance of public domain ? as socio-cultural
space and as juridical category; media freedom & its
connection to human rights campaigns; importance of
open source & copyleft for public domain)
Moderator & intro: David Garcia
Participants: Kristian Lukic ? Kuda.org (Yugoslavia),
Ovidiu Pecican ? Provincia (Romania), Alexandru
Patatics - Nettime-ro (Romania), Jozita Shkreli ?
Lindart (Albania), Attila Gáspárik ? CNA (Romania),
Dan Perjovschi - Totul la vedere / 22 (Romania).

12:00-14:00	MINOR MEDIA PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION 
(modes of production and distribution of ?alternative?
content; grassroots and do it yourself production in
different media from video to fanzines; disappearance
of distinctions between producer and consumer)
Moderator & intro: Dan Perjovschi
Participants: Aleksandra Kostic ? Kibla (Slovenia),
Virgiliu M?rgineanu ? OWH TV Studio (Moldova), Andrei
Biro ? NCN TV (Romania), Igor Markovic ? Arkzin
(Croatia), Mihai Vakulovski ? TIUK (Romania), Nikola
Pisarev ? Zayac (Macedonia) 
 
18:00?22:00	Video Screening: to be announced


<< WORKSHOP BY DEREK HOLZER, SEPT 30 ? OCT 3 >>
HYBRID BROADCASTING: web streaming and micro FM
broadcasting

This workshop will be a hands-on excercise in hybrid
broadcasting, using a  variety of tactics to
distribute an audio signal over wires and airwaves.
Participants will learn how to use simple audio
applications to produce a short recorded broadcast,
use a preconfigured Linux webstreaming platform get
the audio on the web, and how to build an antenna and
set up a 1 Watt micro-FM transmitter to redistribute
the signal locally. 



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