Prague Media Symposium
The Prague Media Symposium was a series of international interdisciplinary symposia on media technology, philosophy of communication and media art organized by the Goethe-Institut Prague (Andreas Stroehl), Academy of Fine Arts (Michael Bielický), Soros Center for Contemporary Arts (Ludvík Hlaváček), Miloš Vojtěchovský and Jaroslav Anděl in Prague between 1991-2007.
Contents
Editions[edit]
1991[edit]
- Mass Communication and Elitist Communication. Change of Paradigms
Lecture by Vilém Flusser, 25-26 Nov 1991
Flusser's lecture (in English translation), other versions.
1992[edit]
- Vilém Flusser - Vordenker der Nachgeschichte / Vilém Flusser - Pioneer of Post-history / Vilém Flusser - prehistorik posthistorie
Symposium 1, 1-3 Dec 1992
Opening talks: Edith Flusser and Jochen Bloss (director of Goethe-Institut Prague).
Participants: David Flusser (scholar, Jerusalem), Florian Rötzer (Munich), Friedrich Kittler (Bochum), Irmgard Zepf, Stefan Bollmann (Flusser's publisher, Düsseldorf), Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe), Petr Rezek, Raimund Stecker, Josef Moucha, Fred Forest (presented the documentary Professor's Gestures), Louis Bec (presented the video Small Zoological Walk with Vilem Flusser), Michael Bielický (presented an excerpt from the video project Piazza virtuale - Tok Viléma Flussera shown earlier at documenta 9), Ivo Janoušek, Egon Bunne.
Part of the symposium was a video workshop organised by Michael Bielický, Egon Bunne and Woody Vasulka, resulting in an exhibition at Technical Museum, Prague. (Later followed by international projects in Spain and Germany.)
Initiated and curated by Andreas Ströhl (Goethe-Institut) and Michael Bielický (head of media department at AVU Prague, and former Flusser's student).
Organised by Goethe Institute Prague in cooperation with National Technical Museum, Prague; Academy of Fine Arts, Prague; Philosophical Institute Prague; Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; and Network Amis de Vilém Flusser, Angenommen/Supposé, The Hague.
The symposium was followed by annual symposia held internationally until 1997.
Review by Věra Jirousová (in Czech).
1993[edit]
- Nachbilder – Interaktion mit digitalen Medien / After-images - Post-images. Interaction with Digital Media / Post obrazy - Interakce s digitálními médii
Symposium 2, 1993
Participants: Manfred Eisenbeis, David Galloway, Jeffrey Shaw, Petr Vrána, Woody Vasulka, Heiko Idensen, Stanislav Miler, Vito Oražem, Alfred Rotert, Petr Rezek, Antonín Kosík, Jan Bernard, Norbert Nowotsch, Michael Bielicky, Karel Dudešek, Petr Skala.
Part of the symposium was the workshop by Das elektronische Buch Norbert Nowotsch, and an extensive screening of video art from the Media Archive Prague and the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) Osnabrück.
Organised in collaboration between the Goethe Institute Prague; Academy of Fine Arts, Prague; and National Technical Museum, Prague.
1994[edit]
- Neue Medien und Ethik / New Media and Ethics / Nová média a etika
Symposium 3, December 1994
Participants: Jaroslav Vančát, Michael Bielicky, Keiko Sei, Peter Glotz, Miroslav Petříček, Norbert Bolz, Thomas Kaulmann, Rudi Stoert, Antonín Kosík, Jan Fikáček, Jürgen Linke, Petr Rezek, Petr Vrána.
Organised by the Goethe Institute Prague in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Prague.
1995[edit]
- Künstliche Umgebungen als Artefakte / Artificial Environment as Artifact / Umělé prostředí jako artefakt
Symposium 4, December 1995
Participants: Ludvík Hlaváček, Michal Bregant, Jiří Zemánek, Jiří Valoch, Radúz Činčera, Gerald O’Grady, Keiko Sei, Marta Smolíková, Olga Shishko, Ekaterina Andreeva, Elena Kolovskaya, Marko Peljhan, Siegfried Zielinski, Ventsislav Zankov, Tjebbe van Tijen, Axel Wirths, Dieter Daniels, Hilmar Hoffmann, Brian Springer, Antya Umstätter, Margaret Morse, Richard Schütz, Jaroslav Vančát, Paul DeMarinis, Sergej Golowin, Antonín Kosík, Nebojsa Vilic, Petr Rezek, Chris Hill, Miroslav Petříček, Michael Bielicky.
Organised by the Goethe Institute Prague, in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, in the framework of Orbis Fictus exhibition of new media at National Gallery Prague.
1996[edit]
- Kultur, Kommunikation und Neue Technologien. Medienkunst – Interkulturelle Hoffnung oder Kunst ohne message? / Media Arts - Intercultural Hope or Art without a Message?
Symposium 5, 3-5 December 1996
Participants: Michael Bielicky, Lubor Benda, Ludvík Hlaváček, Bernhard Rathmayr, Melentie Pandilovski, Marta Smolíková, Claudio Gallio, George Legrady, Christian Huebler, Karel Dudesek, Paul Sermon, Nan Hoover, Alexei Shulgin, Edith Flusser, Milena Slavická, Miroslav Petříček, Wolfgang Welsch, Bazon Brock, Ehrhardt Cremers, Volker Grassmuck, Jaroslav Anděl, a.o.
1997[edit]
- Flusser - Media - Film
Symposium 6, 24-25 November 1997
Participants: Michael Bielicky, Thomas Knöfel, Jiří Fiala, Milena Slavická, Lubor Benda, David Larcher, Francis Wittenberger, Lev Manovich, Jaroslav Anděl, Ulrich Weinberg, Peter Krieg, Joachim Sauter, Ludvík Hlaváček, Dietmar Kamper, Petr Vrána, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Jan Švankmajer, Matthew Barney, a.o.
Organised by the Goethe Institute Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts Prague (Michael Bielicky) in collaboration with the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Prague and French Institute Prague.
- Event website (archived)
- Announcement (archived)
2001[edit]
Symposium 7, 2-5 December 2001
Participants: Gert Aertsen, Jaroslav Anděl, Roy Ascott, Guy van Belle,Bohuslav Blažek, Dieter Daniels, Erik Davis, Richard Grusin, Tom Gunning, Jiří Hoskovec, Ivan M. Havel, Christian Huebler, Erkki Huhtamo, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Richard Kriesche, Miklós Peternák, Rolf Pixley, Claudia Schmacke, Barbara Maria Stafford, Mirek Vodrážka, Siegfried Zielinski (Ivan M. Havel, Bohuslav Blažek and Jiří Fiala didn't present, Werner Nekes cancelled his participation).
Organised by the Goethe Institute Prague, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, National Film Archive, and National Technical Museum. Production: Eva Křepelka (Goethe Institute).
2007[edit]
- Für eine Philosophie der neuen Zeit. Vilém Flusser und die europäische Moderne / Za filosofii nové doby
Symposium 8, 2007
Organised by the Goethe Institute Prague and Kateřina Krtilová (research fellow at the Institute for Electronic Culture and Semiotics, working on her PhD thesis in philosophy at the Charles University in Prague; founded the Vilém Flusser Centre for Culture and Technology)
Proceedings: Kateřina Krtilová (ed.) Za filosofii nové doby: příspěvky k filosofii médií, Prague: 999, 2007, 135 pp. [1] (Czech)
Literature[edit]
- Věra Jirousová, "Sympozium věnované přítomnosti myšlení Viléma Flussera", Ateliér 4, Prague, 1993, p 2. Review of 1992 symposium. (Czech)
- Andreas Ströhl, "Flusser a následky: filozofie komunikace, umění a teorie médií v pražském Goethe Institutu" / "Flusser and Beyond: Communicatiion Philosophy, Media Art and Media Theory at the Prague Goethe Institute", in Orbis Fictus: nová média v současném umění / New Media in Contemporary Arts, eds. Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková, Prague: Sorosovo centrum současného umění, 1995, pp 133-140. (Czech)/(English)
- Andreas Ströhl, "Tschechien", in Ströhl, Die Geste Mensch. Vilém Flussers Kulturtheorie als kommunikationsphilosophischer Zukunftsentwurf, Marburg: Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2009, pp 133-138. PhD dissertation. (German)
- Andreas Ströhl, Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Phänomenologie der Kommunikation, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau, 2013, pp 80-87. (German)
- Miloš Vojtěchovský, "Předpoklady budoucnosti: Mediální archeologie. Archeologie a budoucnost pohyblivého obrazu (de-archivace paměťových složek)", Agosto Foundation: mediateka, Mar 2017. (Czech)
- "Excavating the Future: An Archaeology and Future of Moving Pictures. A Case Study in (Un)Archiving Unstable Media", Agosto Foundation: mediateka, Mar 2017. (English)