[spectre] Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession

[nat muller]

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Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession
April 30 - May 01 2004
Novi Sad, Serbia
Hosted by kuda.org, Novi Sad in collaboration with V2_,Institute for  
the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
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On May 1, 2004 the European Union will expand beyond its current 'core  
Europe' constellation to include, for the first time, nations of the  
former Eastern and Non-Aligned Blocks. For these ten nations the 'day  
of accession' is the opportunity to rejoin a European sphere which, for  
many, was felt to have been robbed through the militarily enforced  
alliances of the Cold War.

By recalling the pan-European Picnic of 1989 along the  
Austrian-Hungarian border, which induced the events leading to the  
collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Trans_European Picnic will mark the  
resultant shift in Europe’s geopolitical structure. For many however,  
the 'opening' brought about by the events of 1989 are now to be met by  
'managed closure', restricted mobility, the revival of 'visa regimes'  
delineating new barriers and borders as well as the imposition of new  
top-down regulations, bureaucracies and standards.

Through a two-day electronic media arts and culture gathering in and  
around the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, not far beyond the European  
Union's new transnational edge, the Picnic will bring together artists,  
theoreticians and media practitioners from across Europe to explore the  
changing cultural and artistic landscape within and beyond this new  
conglomerate of competing cultures, economies and identities. The  
Trans_European Picnic will provide a lively platform of debate and  
exchange into the evolving sense of identity and new forms of  
collaboration active in countering the growing gap separating the  
Europe of the "Out-side" from the Europe of the "In-side".

With presentations by a.o.: Luchezar Boyadziev (BG), Bojana Petric  
(HU/SCG), Stephen Kovats (CA/HU/NL), Marion von Osten (DE), Florian  
Schneider (DE), Vuk Cosic (SI), Vladan Joler (SCG), Media Art Farm  
(GE), Nat Muller (NL), Edit András (HU), Basak Senova (TR), Milos  
Vojtechovský (CZ)

Performances by a.o.: State of Sabotage (AT), inf.act (GE), Anabala  
(TR), Connected Art Workers' Stream in collaboration with \An`a*tom"ic\  
(Waag Society / Guy Van Belle, NL)

Screenings by a.o.: Zelimir Zilnik (SCG), Janko Baljak (SCG), Pavel  
Braila (MD), Hubert Czerepok (PL), Joost Conijn (NL), film & video  
selection by NOMAD (TR)

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More info:
http://www.transeuropicnic.org

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office at kuda.org
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