[spectre] web journal of "debates&Credits" art project

[Tania Goryucheva]

Dear friends and colleagues,

We've just launched bilingual web journal of the Dutch-Russian art project
"debates & Credits. Media Art in the Public Domain" .
Please find the announcement below.

Greetings,
Tania Goryucheva

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debates & Credits
Media Art in the Public Domain

A Dutch Russian Media/Art/Project


OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF WEB JOURNAL / ARCHIVE


In the period September - October 2002 a series of artist
interventions into urban space and the space of the media were
executed in Amsterdam, Moscow and Ekaterinburg, as part of the art
project "debates & Credits - Media Art in the Public Domain". Four
Russian artists or art collectives and four artists / collectives
from The Netherlands were invited to design various kinds of
interventionist media art projects for the public urban space as well
as the public media spaces within these cities. The aim was to
question the conditions of public communication and the politics of
urban and media space.

The results of these often unannounced actions were carefully
documented. The first part of this documentation, the web journal or
archive, is now finished and can be found on-line at:

http://www.debates.nl

The journal contains curatorial statements, reports, extensive
photographic documentation and a series of video impressions linked
to the individual reports. The journal also contains a number of
essays and related documents that provide further background
information to the ideas behind the project, as well as the work of
the artists involved.

We are currently preparing a book and a DVD about the project, which
will be presented publicly at De Balie, Centre for Culture and
Politics in Amsterdam on Friday June 7, 2003. The book and DVD will
then be available from De Balie.

Please feel free send us your questions or comments about the project.

Curators:

Tania Goryucheva
(Moscow)
tangor at redline.ru

Eric Kluitenberg
(Amsterdam)
epk at xs4all.nl



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Debits :

"debates & Credits" was organised by De Balie - Centre for Culture
and Politics in Amsterdam, in collaboration with Tania Goryucheva,
the Ekaterinburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts
(NCCA), the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, the Agency for Social
Information,
the Macros Center, Moscow.

The project was financially supported by the Mondriaan Foundation
(NL), the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the HGIS program for
international Cultural Co-operation of The Netherlands Ministries of
Foreign Affairs and Education, Culture and Science, and the Royal
Netherlands Embassy in Moscow.


De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.balie.nl