Tranzindex Critical Media Symposium & Workshop
26/09/2002
Tranzindex - Cluj, Romania
Critical Media Symposium, Sept 26-29 & Hybrid Radio Workshop, Sept 30 -
Oct 3
Venues: Tranzit House, Str. Baritiu 16; Music Pub, Str. Horea 5
Organized by Tranzit Foundation and Joanne Richardson in collaboration with Next 5 Minutes (Amsterdam), Idea Foundation and ANO Foundation. Made possible with the financial support of CONCEPT Foundation - Soros Open Network Romania, Culture 2000 Program of European Commission, European Cultural Foundation, ProHelvetia, Kultiplex and EDRC.
SEPT 26, THURSDAY
- Tranzit
19:30 Opening Reception & Poster Exhibition: Mind Bomb (Romania), Pode Bal (Czech Republic)
- Music Pub
22:00 Infra Gandhi DJ program
SEPT 27, FRIDAY
- Tranzit
10:00-10:45 INTRODUCTION: Csilla Kanczei - Tranzit; Gyula Kozak - TranzArt disLocated (a network of contemporary art centers from Central and Eastern Europe, in the frame of Culture 2000 program of European Commission), Joanne Richardson - ASU2, MetaMedia, 'a.network'(media centers network in South East Europe); Derek Holzer - Next 5 Minutes 4
10:45-12:30 PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CENTERS, production and literacy
projects
Moderator: Tincua Parv
Participants: Galina Dimitrova - Interspace (Bulgaria), Kristian Lukic & Branka Curcic - Kuda.org (Yugoslavia), Nikola Pisarev - CAC Skopje, - Culture for Everybody project (Macedonia), Jozita Shkreli - Lindart (Albania), Ivana Moncolova - Buryzone (Slovakia), István Sebesi - Kultiplex (Hungary), Nina Czegledy - -On targetî project (Canada/Hungary), Les Corsaires (Belgium).
13:00-14:00 ROUNDTABLE: BACKDOOR MEDIA EDUCATION
(follow-up discussion of media education innovations & models; working with or working outside schools & official institutions; role of media centers founded by artists as primary vehicles for education & production)
Moderator: Nina Czegledy
15:30-17:15 Video Screening: Best of OFF presented by Dániel Sárdi
17:30-18:00 Derek Holzer
18:00-18:40 Tilos Rádio - Pirate radio presentation & discussion
18:40-20:40 Tilos DJ/VJ program: Techno, experimental, jazz
- Music Pub
22:00-23:00 Tanutuva Concert
23:30 marka DJ-program
SEPT 28, SATURDAY
- Tranzit
10:00-11:30 ROUNDTABLE: COUNTER-DOCUMENTARY & REPRESENTATION
(discussion by film & video makers and festival organizers of documentary and counter-documentary styles & forms of production; connection between documentary & propaganda; reality/fiction boundaries; strategies of indirect and non-representation)
Moderator & intro: Csilla Kanczei
Participants: Sigismond de Vajay - Lausanne Underground Film Festival (Switzerland); Virgiliu Margineanu - OWH Studio (Moldova), János Domokos - Dialektus (Hungary); Angela Kallo - Festival Association (Romania); Carmen Cristian - TVR Cluj (Romania)
12:00-14:00 MAPPING MEDIA ACTIVISM
(project presentations & debates by video, radio, poster, zine & other media practioners about the meaning of alternative, underground, mainstream; differences between tactical media and strategic, migrant, or nomadic forms; the geopolitics of media activism & its meaning in post- socialist context)
Moderator & intro: Joanne Richardson
Participants: David Garcia & Derek Holzer - Next 5 Minutes (Netherlands), Igor Markovic (Croatia), Aleksandra Kostic - Kibla (Slovenia); Alexandru Vakulovski - Cenaklu Klu (Romania), Peter Motycka - Podebal (Czech Republic), Firma 9 - Mind Bomb (Romania)
15:30-19:30 Video Screening: to be announced
21:30 Audio Performance: Derek Holzer, Allergische Platze
SEPT 29, SUNDAY
- Tranzit
10:00-11:45 PUBLIC DOMAIN & DEMOCRATIZATION
(the significance of public domain - as socio-cultural space and as juridical category; media freedom & its connection to human rights campaigns; importance of open source & copyleft for public domain)
Moderator & intro: David Garcia
Participants: Kristian Lukic - Kuda.org (Yugoslavia), Ovidiu Pecican - Provincia (Romania), Alexandru Patatics - Nettime-ro (Romania), Jozita Shkreli - Lindart (Albania), Attila Gáspárik - CNA (Romania), Dan Perjovschi - Totul la vedere / 22 (Romania).
12:00-14:00 MINOR MEDIA PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
(modes of production and distribution of ëalternative' content; grassroots and do it yourself production in different media from video to fanzines; disappearance of distinctions between producer and consumer)
Moderator & intro: Dan Perjovschi
Participants: Aleksandra Kostic - Kibla (Slovenia), Virgiliu M„rgineanu - OWH TV Studio (Moldova), Andrei Biro - NCN TV (Romania), Igor Markovic - Arkzin (Croatia), Mihai Vakulovski - TIUK (Romania), Nikola Pisarev - Zayac (Macedonia)
18:00-22:00 Video Screening: to be announced
WORKSHOP BY DEREK HOLZER, SEPT 30 - OCT 3
HYBRID BROADCASTING: web streaming and micro FM broadcasting
This workshop will be a hands-on excercise in hybrid broadcasting, using a variety of tactics to distribute an audio signal over wires and airwaves. Participants will learn how to use simple audio applications to produce a short recorded broadcast, use a preconfigured Linux webstreaming platform get the audio on the web, and how to build an antenna and set up a 1 Watt micro-FM transmitter to redistribute the signal locally.
