[spectre] Cleotronica 08, Alexandria/Egypt, 1 - 2 May

[Andreas Broeckmann]

ALEXANDRIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM (ACAF)


Cleotronica: Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture



/// Cleotronica 08 May Newsletter ///



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Cleotronica 08 Projects # 9 and # 10 (Last Projects, Don't Miss Them!)

1st and 2nd May 2008



The first Cleotronica: Festival for Art, Media, and Socio-Culture, 
January - May, 2008 is approaching its final stations; Project # 9 
and Project # 10. Project # 9 is the Cleotronica 08 Finale Exhibition 
at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), opening at 7.30 pm on 1 
May 2008 and presenting works by Miltos Manetas and Igor Stromajer 
for the first time in Egypt, the exhibition runs till 14 May 2008. 
Project # 10 is Hyperlinked: Art, Technology and the Socio-Political 
Domain an international symposium on media art practices taking place 
on May 1 and May 2 at the Goethe Institute headquarters in 
Alexandria. The Symposium will be composed of a series of separate 
lectures that present and analyze different positions in the wider 
body of media and art driven socio-cultural practices. From the 
curating of media art to the politics of digital culture and from the 
educational possibilities of 3D virtual worlds to the notion of 
"cultural difference" and its impact on media-based communicative 
projects, the symposium hopes to paint a lucid and multiform picture 
of media and art and their current relational equation to a larger 
sphere of daily life. The symposium's speakers are: Inke Arns, Tarek 
Atoui, Elif Ayiter, Andreas Broeckmann, Miltos Manetas, Nat Muller, 
and Igor Stromajer.



<<< The Cleotronica 08 Program is supported by The Embassy of the 
Kingdom of the Netherlands  in Cairo and The Goethe Institute Egypt 
>>>



Project # 10



Hyperlinked: Art, Technology and the Socio-Political Domain

1-2 May 2008



An Internatioal Symposium on Media Art Practices organized by 
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) at the Goethe Institute 
Alexandria as part of Cleotronica: Festival for Media, Art, and 
Socio-Culture



Location: The Goethe Institute Alexandria, 10 Rue des Ptolemees 
(Batalsa Street), Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt



Speakers:



Inke Arns (Dortmund/Berlin)

Tarek Atoui (Paris/Beirut)

Elif Ayiter (Istanbul)

Andreas Broeckmann (Berlin)

Miltos Manetas (London/Milan)

Nat Muller (Rotterdam)

Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana)



Project # 9



Cleotronica 08 Finale Exhibition: Works by Miltos Manetas and Igor Stromajer



Opening: 1 May 7.30 pm at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)

Exhibition Dates/Hours: 2 - 14 May 2008, 3 - 9 pm except Mondays (closed)



* Program >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Thursday 1 May

++++++++++++++



11.00 am - 11.10 am: Opening Word by Stefan Winkler - Program 
Director, Goethe Institute Alexandria



11.10 am - 11.20 am: Introduction to day 1 Speakers by Bassam El 
Baroni - Curator, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) and 
Cleotronica 08



11.20 am - 12.20 pm: Andreas Broeckmann (Art Theoretician/ Curator, Berlin)



  -10 minute coffee break -



12.30 pm - 1.30 pm: Miltos Manetas (Artist, London/Milan Based)



3.40 pm - 4.40 pm: Tarek Atoui (Musician/Curator, Paris/Beirut)



-10 minute coffee break -



4.50 pm - 5.50 pm: Nat Muller (Curator/Critic, Rotterdam)



All Lectures followed by short Q and A Sessions



7.30: Opening at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 
Cleotronica 08 Finale Exhibition: Works by Miltos Manetas and Igor 
Stromajer, runs 2 - 14 May 2008. Address: 10 Hussein Hassab Street, 
Flat # 6, Azarita, Alexandria. Tel: +20 3 480 41 45, E: 
office at acafspace.org



Friday 2 May

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1.30 pm - 1.40 pm: Introduction to the 2nd day's Speakers by Bassam El Baroni



1.40 pm - 2.40 pm: Elif Ayiter (Media/Art Education Specialist, Istanbul)



-10 minute coffee break -



2.50 pm - 3.50 pm: Inke Arns (Artistic Director Hartware 
MedienKunstVerein Dortmund)



-10 minute coffee break -



4.00 pm - 5.00 pm: Igor Stromajer (Artist, Ljubljana)



All Lectures followed by short Q and A Sessions



* All lectures will be delivered in English with simultaneous Arabic 
translation





Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)

10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt

T: +20 (0)3 480 41 45 E: <mailto:office at acafspace.org>office at acafspace.org

Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday, 3 - 9 pm, Closed on Mondays and most 
official holidays