[spectre] - Hell no, we wont go!

[Dan Arenzon]

The definition of Culture varies throughout history and geography.
Symposium´s is on the other hand clear; it has to do with getting together and celebrate, drinking (the old greeks enjoyed dialogue and wine)

I received via Spectre an invitation to participate in a symposium of media culture in moscow
there is not a line, a word, or comment in it, about the unbeareable situation of millions in Russia.
nothing
Neither did I find any underlying affective understanding of the suffering the country is going through.

LGBTQ people in Russia are being systematically hunt down, beaten, tortured, jailed and murdered.
Organizations and people who work for human rights are being silenced, fined, jailed and forced to leave.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights starts with:

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family 
is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, 
and the advent of a world 
in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief
and freedom from fear ..."


unless the organizers, speakers and guests know better than I do 
and freedom of expression and respect of civil liberties will empower everyone in this meeting to speak about creation and communication, 

i must decline this invitation.


Oh, as my dad always said, I have not learnt to keep my mouth shut !
OPEN YOUR MOUTH is an action that started in berlin

i am posting a very hard to watch link to Barbie Breakout´s statement about Russia
http://vimeo.com/71635410

d
a
n
danarenzon.eu




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andreas Broeckmann <broeckmann at leuphana.de>
> Subject: [spectre] Fwd: PRO&CONTRA Intl. Symp. of Media Culture, Moscow, 16-19 Oct.
> Date: 9 Sep 2013 16:56:04 GMT+02:00
> To: spec <spectre at mikrolisten.de>
> Reply-To: broeckmann at leuphana.de
> 
>> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:58:25 +0400
>> Subject: PRO&CONTRA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF MEDIA CULTURE_OCTOBER
>> 16-19_MOSCOW
>> From: MediaArtLab <mediaartlab at mediaartlab.ru>
>> 
>> <http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/?lang=en>PRO&CONTRA INTERNATIONAL
>> SYMPOSIUM OF MEDIA CULTURE
>> 
>> 16-19 OCTOBER 2013, MOSCOW
>> 
>> 
>> Venue - CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL "MANEGE", MOSCOW
>> 
>> ORGANIZERS - "MANEGE" AND MEDIAARTLAB
>> 
>> WITH SUPPORT OF MIKHAIL PROKHOROV FOUNDATION, PROHELVECIA, THE
>> CERVANTES INSTITUTE
>> 
>> CURATORS: OLGA SHISHKO, ANDREY SHCHERBENOK
>> 
>> VISUAL SPLITS: NEW MEDIA MATTERS
>> 
>> This year Pro&Contra will be focused on the theoretical discussion
>> of new media art and new visuality as a whole. We are primarily
>> interested in the meaning of their newness: what is the relationship
>> between the new visuality of media art and classical visual space?
>> What is the principle difference between new media art and
>> avant-garde experiments? What is the effect of new media on our
>> notion of visible evidence and how they affect our everyday
>> perceptions?
>> 
>> 
>> Four multidisciplinary panels will constitute the core of the symposium:
>> 
>> -- Panel 1 Visual Space in Contemporary Media Art: Is Traditional
>> Art Still Relevant?
>> 
>> -- Panel 2 Avant-Garde and New Media: What Didn't Dziga Vertov Know?
>> 
>> -- Panel 3 Imitations of Life: What Is Visual Evidence Beyond Indexicality?
>> 
>> -- Panel 4 The Gallery and the Metro: How Does New Media Art Change
>> Everyday Perceptions?
>> 
>> For more info, please,
>> visit <http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/?lang=en>http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/?lang=en
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Confirmed symposium participants include: Oliver Grau (Germany,
>> Austria), Lev Manovich (USA), Sabine Himmelsbach (Germany,
>> Switzerland), Andrey Shcherbenok (Russia), Alexandra
>> Dementieva (Russia, Belgium), Dmitry Bulatov (Russia) and others.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you are interested in taking a part in the symposium, please,
>> send topics and abstracts (5-10 sentences) through our website
>> at <http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/anketa/?lang=en>http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/anketa/?lang=en by
>> September 15. Plan about 20 minutes for the presentation and 10
>> minutes for Q&A.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <http://procontra.mediaartlab.ru/?lang=en>PRO&CONTRA International
>> Symposium of Media Culture
>> 
>> <http://mediaartlab.ru/>MEDIAARTLAB Center for Art and Culture
>> <http://www.moscowmanege.ru/>MANEGE. Museum and Exhibition Complex
>> 
>> 
> _______________________________________________
> Yasmin_announcements mailing list
> Yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr
> http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_announcements
> 
> Yasmin URL:
> http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin
> 
> ______________________________________________
> SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe
> Info, archive and help:
> https://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/spectre/attachments/20130910/64782b28/attachment-0001.htm