ORGANIZED BY

PRO&CONTRA International Symposium
Moscow, October 8-11 2011; Krasnoyarsk, October 14-16 2011

The project is realized with Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation support
Under the patronage of Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
Organized by "MediaArtLab" Centre for Art and Culture
Co-organized by Artplay on Yauza Design Centre
Partners: Royal Netherlands Embassy, Goethe Institut, Moskau, Austrian Cultural Forum

2011 Theme: Total Observer

“Today media constructs reality. Digital technologies change the society, politics and economics, but we are also changing with them. Technologies are extensions of our nervous system. We mutate gradually and become part of it. Under the pressure of the infinite number of cameras, stucked in the web, on one hand, we loose our freedom. But on the other - we expand our rights day by day via technological innovations. Art is not an outsider now, it's a trendsetter with new ideas and introduction into various fields is not directly connected to it. Only art with its intuition and power of imagination not limited by either discourse, or status, or norm becomes able to perceive the vague outlines of the future...”

Olga Shishko, PRO&CONTRA curator

Partners

General partner

Under the patronage of

Supported by

Open Society Institute

Красноярск

Площадка проведения

Media Festivals

The PRO&CONTRA Symposium consists of six sections which include talks by theoreticians, artists, curators and public figures, as well as discussions, classes on various subjects and a presentation programme.

Media Festivals SECTION

OCTOBER 8

23.00 VIDEO FESTIVALS NIGHT

Best art-works of Japan Media Arts Festival, Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), LOOP Festival (Spain). 

OCTOBER 11

16.00 MEDIA FESTIVALS SECTION

Martin Honzik (Head of Festival/Prix department, Austria) — Prix Ars Electronica;
Remco Schuurbiers (Co-director of CTM — Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts, Netherlands/Germany);
Boris Debackere (Art director of V2_lab at V2_Unstable Media Institute, Netherlands) — Critical issue on media festivals;
Emilio Alvarez (LOOP festival director) — LOOP.