[spectre] MULTIPLACE / network culture festival / 13-22 April

[slavo krekovic]

MUTLIPLACE #6 // Network Culture Festival

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Brno, Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Kielce (Poland), Cluj 
(Romania), Bratislava, Kosice, Trnava, Zilina (Slovak Republic), 
Providence (Rhode Island, USA) and Internet

April 13 – April 22, 2007
http://www.multiplace.sk
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MULTIPLACE is a distributed network of people and independent 
organizations dealing with the interactions between media, technology, 
arts, culture and society. Activities of this network culminate this 
year in the 6th annual festival that takes place between April 13 and 
22, 2007, in 10 cities and 6 countries simultaneously.
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Around 70 different projects are being organized around the framework of 
the festival – workshops, installations, discussions, concerts, 
performances, exhibitions, presentations, screenings, streaming or 
parties, and also live streaming from different locations through the 
internet.

This year's new definition, Network Culture Festival replaces the focus 
on "new media culture" in order to more accurately define the festival's 
emphasis on networking collaborations and related inspiring 
possibilities. Since the festival is an open structure, there in no 
exact number of events and thanks to the "floating" part of the program 
called "Jump Into the Network", it is open to your participation.

Jump into the Network is an interactive part of the program. You can 
join, via the Internet, a series of psycho-geographical games created by 
the Romanian association AltArt, take part of one of the workshops, 
bring your old computer to be recycled, or offer your talkative parrot 
for Internet discussion. In both Bratislava (SK) and Brno (CZ), there 
are also platforms for the realization of your own projects.

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Program selection
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In Bratislava, there is a festival Infocentre at A4 – Zero Space with 
information and daily public events (www.a4.sk). Young designers in 
their Open Design Studio present work on topics like collaborative 
design, DIY magazines and give you personal advice about your visual 
communication. You can also take part in discussions about the state of 
the internet in Slovakia, or about phenomena like Web 2.0 or Second 
Life. A4 also features screenings, hardware workshops, as well as 
evenings of the electronic music festival, "Unsound on Tour Across 
Borders", that will also stop in Brno and Prague.

Additionally, in Bratislava, there is the opportunity to see the video 
installations of Nora Ruzickova in the 13m3 Gallery and to visit 
artists' studios and design studios such as OST-960 (of artist Erik 
Binder), STUPIDesign and Kamikadze. There are screenings of films 
awarded Prix Ars Electronica and YouTube, Machinima films, concert by 
the Polish experimental sound group Karbido in Kosice and Zilina. In 
Trnava, there are lectures connecting science and art, talks on 
non-conventional music and video presentations.

In Brno, there is another Festival Infocentre and concerts at the 
Faculty of Visual Arts at the Technical University, as well as 
workshops, discussions, live presentations, a radio show, video 
installation, parties, 'chill out', and open platforms for your creativity.

Visitors in Budapest will have the opportunity to see a screening of 
films related to architecture, as well as presentations of VJs, Polish 
Kiecle presents light sensitive installation and video screening and in 
Providence, (Rhode Island, USA) the RISD Museum offers screenings of New 
Central European video art.

There is also a couple of "matches" going on – in the radio space 
between Czech and Slovak radios, and between different young artists 
from various "competing" art schools taking part on billboards.

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We are looking forward to meeting you at Multiplace, in real or virtual 
word.
MULTIPLACE 2007: people, machines, design, music, video, software, 
workshops, exhibitions, visits and more.

Jump into the network of art and creativity!

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Zuzana Cernakova, Executive Director, +421 907 467 598, zuzana at 34.sk
Maria Riskova, Program Coordinator, m at 13m3.sk
Viera Levitt, Multiplace USA, International PR, 001 401 714 9698, 
vieralevitt at gmail.com
Peter Pankuch, PR Manager / Slovakia, +421 907 151 565, pagastan at post.sk
http://www.multiplace.sk, admin at multiplace.sk