[spectre] CENTRE OF ATTRACTION: International seminar

[Contemporary Art Centre]

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The 8th Baltic Triennial of  International Art
CENTRE OF ATTRACTION=20
International  seminar=20
Date:  October 25-26, 2002
Location: Contemporary Art Centre, Vokieciu str. 2,  Vilnius=20
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This seminar accompanies the 8th  Baltic Triennial of International Art
Centre of Attraction. It completes the  cycle of lectures about centres and
theoretically crystallises the topic of the  exhibition. Professionals from
various disciplines discuss the notion of centre,  its importance and
analyse the specificity of the centres of different  origin.
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Lectures and discussions will be held in  English.
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=46riday, October 25
10.00 - 10.15  Tobias Berger. Introduction Text by Ricardas Baubinas
"Centre of Europe among the Centres  of Europe"
10.15 - 11.00 David Weber "Black Holes - the Attraction of  Singularity"
11.00 - 11.45 Audrone Zukauskaite "Five Reasons to Talk about  the Drive
for Decentralisation"
11.45 - 12.15 Discussion
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12.15 -  13.30 Lunch break
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13.30 - 14.15 Martina Pachmanova "Peripheral  Vision: Centres and Margins
of Contemporary Art as Seen through Czech  Eyes"
14.15 - 15.00 Dmitrij Bulatov "Contemporary Art & Genomic Culture:  Axis of
Attraction"
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
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15.30 - 16.00  Coffee break
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16.00 - 16.45 Marius Povilas Saulauskas "On the  central link of the freely
joined chain"
16.45 - 17.30 Audrius Lelkaitis  "News Agency in the Contemporary Society.
Problems of Processing"
17.30  - 18.00 Discussion
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Saturday, October 26
10.00  - 10.45 Sarunas Nakas "Travel Without a Way, for the Mirror Has No
Reflection"
10.45 - 11.30 Lars Saari "Oops, They Did It Again - How To Construct
Simplified Histories. Shifting Centres, Rhetorics of the Winners, and Cold
War  Seen from the Post-September 11th Viewpoint"
11.30 - 12.00  Discussion
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12.00 - 13.30 Lunch break
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13.30 - 14.15  Jeffrey Inaba "Sprawl is Almost OK: The San Fernando Valley"
14.15 - 15.00  Peter Zellner "Centers of Dis-traction: Irvine and Novosibirs=
k"
15.00 - 15.30  Discussion
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15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
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16.00 - 16.45  Jochen Becker "Bignes? Entrepreneurial City Development"
16.45 - 17.30 Anders  H=94rm "Be Drunk, Be Very Very Drunk"
17.30 - 18.00  Discussion
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Ricardas Baubinas, Vilnius
President of  the Society of Lithuanian Geography, head of the Institute of
Geology and  Geography, Vilnius
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Jochen Becker, Berlin
Critic and curator,  co-founder of B=B8roBert, co-editor of "Copyshop -
Kunstpraxis & politische  =F7ffentlichkeit, "geld.beat.synthetik",
"Baustop.randstadt",  "Metropolen"
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Dmitrij Bulatov, Kaliningrad
Lingua-artist,  curator of the National Center for Contemporary Art,
Kaliningrad
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Anders H=94rm, Tallinn
Art critic and curator, lecturer in  Tallinn Art Academy
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Jeffrey Inaba, New York
Principal of AMO  Inc., a research consulting office based in New York.
Lecturer and the Program  Coordinator of the urban research program at the
Harvard University Graduate  School of Design, lecturer in the Metropolitan
Research and Design Program at  the Southern California Institute of
Architecture (SCI-Arc)
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Audrius  Lelkaitis, Vilnius
Head of the News Department in the Lithuanian National  Radio and
Television, Vilnius
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Sarunas Nakas, Vilnius=20
Composer, member of the editorial board of the cultural magazine "Kulturos
barai"
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Martina Pachmanova, Prague
Lecturer in History and  Theory of Art and assistant professor at the
Academy of Arts, Architecture, and  Design in Prague, an independent
curator and art critic
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Lars  Saari, Turku
Art historian, lecturer at the University of Turku, curator,  president of
the Finnish AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques  d'Art)
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Marius Povilas Saulauskas, Vilnius
Professor of  Philosophy and Sociology, Vilnius University
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David Weber,  Berlin
Studies in Physics, Philosophy, Literature, Film and Cultural Studies,
working on a Ph.D. in Philosophy on Deconstruction and Memory at University
of  Potsdam and the post-graduate programme
"Representation-Rhetoric-Knowledge" at  Viadrina-University Frankfurt/Oder
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Peter Zellner, New  York
Architect, founder of z+, a collaborative design and research based
architectural practice. Author and editor of books about contemporary
architecture, curator of architectural exhibitions, critic on academic
juries  and lecturer at numerous universities in USA and other  countries
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Audrone Zukauskaite, Vilnius
Lecturer of philosophy at  Vilnius University, member of Lithuanian
Institute for Culture, Philosophy and  Arts, the author of the book "Beyond
the Signifier Principle: Deconstruction,  Psychoanalysis, Critique of
Ideology"
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Contemporary Art Centre Vokieciu2, 2001 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel: +370 2 609531,  Fax: +370 2 623954
e-mails: info@coa.lt // info@cac.lt
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