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ALEXANDRIA
CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM (ACAF)
Cleotronica: Festival for
Media, Art, and Socio-Culture
Cleotronica
08 Projects # 9 and # 10 (Last Projects, DonÕt Miss Them!)
1st
and 2nd May 2008
The first Cleotronica: Festival for
Art, Media, and Socio-Culture, January Ð May, 2008 is approaching its final
stations; Project # 9 and Project # 10. Project # 9 is the Cleotronica 08
Finale Exhibition at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), opening at 7.30
pm on 1 May 2008 and presenting works by Miltos Manetas and Igor Stromajer for
the first time in Egypt, the exhibition runs till 14 May 2008. Project # 10 is
Hyperlinked: Art, Technology and the Socio-Political Domain an international
symposium on media art practices taking place on May 1 and May 2 at the Goethe
Institute headquarters in Alexandria. The Symposium will be composed of a
series of separate lectures that present and analyze different positions in the
wider body of media and art driven socio-cultural practices. From the curating
of media art to the politics of digital culture and from the educational
possibilities of 3D virtual worlds to the notion of "cultural
difference" and its impact on media-based communicative projects, the
symposium hopes to paint a lucid and multiform picture of media and art and
their current relational equation to a larger sphere of daily life. The
symposium's speakers are: Inke Arns, Tarek Atoui, Elif Ayiter, Andreas
Broeckmann, Miltos Manetas, Nat Muller, and Igor Stromajer.
<<< The Cleotronica 08
Program is supported by The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cairo and The Goethe Institute
Egypt >>>
Project
# 10
Hyperlinked:
Art, Technology and the Socio-Political Domain
1-2
May 2008
An
Internatioal Symposium on Media Art Practices organized by Alexandria
Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) at the Goethe Institute Alexandria as part of
Cleotronica: Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture
Location: The
Goethe Institute Alexandria, 10 Rue des Ptolemees (Batalsa Street), Azarita,
Alexandria, Egypt
Speakers:
Inke Arns
(Dortmund/Berlin)
Tarek Atoui
(Paris/Beirut)
Elif
Ayiter (Istanbul)
Andreas
Broeckmann (Berlin)
Miltos Manetas
(London/Milan)
Nat Muller
(Rotterdam)
Igor Stromajer
(Ljubljana)
Project
# 9
Cleotronica
08 Finale Exhibition: Works by Miltos Manetas and Igor Stromajer
Opening:
1 May 7.30 pm at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
Exhibition Dates/Hours: 2 Ð
14 May 2008, 3 Ð 9 pm except Mondays (closed)
*
Program
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Thursday
1 May
++++++++++++++
11.00
am Ð 11.10 am: Opening
Word by Stefan Winkler Ð Program Director, Goethe Institute Alexandria
11.10
am Ð 11.20 am:
Introduction to day 1 Speakers by Bassam El Baroni Ð Curator, Alexandria
Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) and Cleotronica 08
11.20
am Ð 12.20 pm:
Andreas Broeckmann (ِArt Theoretician/ Curator, Berlin)
-10 minute coffee break Ð
12.30
pm Ð 1.30 pm:
Miltos Manetas (Artist, London/Milan Based)
3.40
pm Ð 4.40 pm:
Tarek Atoui (Musician/Curator, Paris/Beirut)
-10
minute coffee break Ð
4.50
pm Ð 5.50 pm:
Nat Muller (Curator/Critic, Rotterdam)
All
Lectures followed by short Q and A Sessions
7.30:
Opening at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), Cleotronica 08 Finale
Exhibition: Works by Miltos Manetas and Igor Stromajer, runs 2 Ð 14 May 2008.
Address: 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat # 6, Azarita, Alexandria. Tel: +20 3
480 41 45, E: office@acafspace.org
Friday
2 May
++++++++++++++
1.30
pm Ð 1.40 pm: Introduction
to the 2nd day's Speakers by Bassam El Baroni
1.40
pm Ð 2.40 pm:
Elif Ayiter (Media/Art Education Specialist, Istanbul)
-10
minute coffee break Ð
2.50
pm Ð 3.50 pm:
Inke Arns (Artistic Director Ð Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund)
-10
minute coffee break Ð
4.00
pm Ð 5.00 pm: Igor
Stromajer (Artist,
Ljubljana)
All
Lectures followed by short Q and A Sessions
* All lectures will be delivered in
English with simultaneous Arabic translation
What is Cleotronica 08?
Cleotronica 08 is the
inaugural version of Cleotronica a festival for media, art, and socio-culture
organized by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) an alternative
initiative for art and culture based in Egypt's second largest city.
Cleotronica 08 is planned as a monthly series of public art projects,
workshops, lectures, performances, and exhibitions that commence in January
2008 gradually building up to an international symposium in May. The festival
presents a diverse set of projects, mediums, and issues, ranging from net art
to tactical media and from public intervention to design. Apart from being an
international festival, Cleotronica is critically involved with and conditioned
to its locality, striving to make a distinct contribution to it by extensively
interacting with university students and recent art graduates in its projects.
While showcasing a broad range of media related art, the festival is
particularly reflective of practices that stimulate media, technology, art, and
public socio-cultural activity to come together. Cleotronica 08 participants include: Jeremy Beaudry, Olia
Lialina, Dragan Espenschied, Jonathan Puckey, Jan Robert Leegte, Shady El
Noshokaty, Joanne Richardson, Francesca Bria, Jan van Nuenen, Ashok Sukumaran,
Shaina Anand, Miltos Manetas, Igor Stromajer, Inke Arns, Elif Ayiter, Andreas
Broeckmann, Nat Muller, Tarek Atoui
RELATED
CLEOTRONICA AND ACAF LINKS:
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/islamic_world/articles/2007/acaf
http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/
http://www.leegte.org/works/spatial/acaf/silent
http://intima.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/acaf-alexandria/
http://www.citrinitas.com/
http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/
http://www.jonathanpuckey.com/
http://drx.a-blast.org/~drx/index.en.html
:::: and many more ::::
Alexandria
Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
10 Hussein
Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt
T: +20 (0)3 480
41 45 E: office@acafspace.org
Opening times:
Tuesday Ð Sunday, 3 Ð 9 pm, Closed on Mondays and most official holidays