________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (apologizes for cross postings) April 6-29, 200- Portland, Oregon, USA "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm War/ Art/ New Technologies: KOSOV@" An international program on the war in Kosov@ exhibition. conference. film series Curated by Trebor Scholz Presented by Pacific NW College of Art 1241 NW Johnson, Portland, OR 97209, USA contact: Colleen Turnbull (USA) 503-223-4490 or treborscholz@earthlink.net For detailed information visit: http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo Carnival in the Eye of the Storm War/ Art/ New Technologies: KOSOV@ Kosovo/Kosova has been referred to here as Kosov@ to retain the "o" and "a" characters used in both the Serbian and Albanian spellings. Pacific NW College of Art presents an international program that explores the role of "new communication technologies" and the absence of the political in the media coverage of the Kosov@ war. The artwork in the exhibition consists of voices from Kosov@, the US, Serbia, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the UK. The exhibition, conference and film series examine aesthetic responses to this war, the significant absence of art activism in the US/ Europe and the role of "new communication technologies". The exhibition will be held in PNCA¹s Philip Feldman Gallery, Swigert Commons and New Media Arts Gallery April 6-29, 2000. Galleries will be open from 9am-9pm daily. Artists in the exhibition include: Martha Rosler APSOLUTNO Claus Bach Abdelali Dahrouch Leon Golub Albert Heta Immaterial Inc. Emily Jacir Alexander Hubbard Dario Kavara Mary Kelly Laura Kurgan Tom Lechner Janine & Leif Rostron-Liebenschütz Zoran Naskovski Hallie O'Brien Kelly & Jaime Schultz Jenny Perlin Dimosioypalliliko Retire Paul Sargent Sandra Schäfer Gregory Sholette Henrik Schrat Thomas Schunke Nancy Spero Gordana Stanisic Miro Stefanovic Ocean Earth Production Inc. (represented in Portland by Peter Fend) Andrew Herscher Olav Westphalen Sislej Xhafa. The most visible war on European territory since WWII to involve the US and EU countries, the war in Kosov@, was the first to employ the use of the worldwide web for warfare, for alternative war reporting, for the building and sustaining of community and as a location to present related net.art. The conference, April 14, 15, 16 at the NW Neighborhood Cultural Center in NW Portland, features scholars, artists and film makers who are international experts on politics in the Balkans, "new technologies", media studies, and cultural criticism. The participants include: Renata Salecl (University of Law- Lubljana, Centennial Professor London School of Economics) Geert Lovink (Activist, Media Theorist, Member of Adilkno Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, Co-organizer of Next Five Minutes Conference, Co-Founder of the international "nettime" Circle) Brian Holmes (Art Critic, Translator, Member of "ne pas plier", France) Katja Diefenbach (Author, Journalist for "Jungle World", co-editor of "Sechste Hilfe"- magazine for the service proletariat, member of bookshop and publishing house collectif "b_books", journalist at "Spex", music magazine, Germany) Aferdita Kelmendi (Director, RTV 21, Pristina, Kosov@) Florian Zeyfang (German artist/ video maker. He has shown in Europe and the US and published in various magazines. (Shows include: "3D a la main", Bremen 1999, "I Said I Love. That Is The Promise", NY1999, "We Are Somewhere Else (Already)", NY 1998) Henrik Schrat (artist/ curator, his work has been exhibited across Europe. Projects include "Europe in the Box II", Berlin) Sislej Xhafa (artist, representative of Kosov@ at XLVIII Venice Bienal (1999), based in Pristina, Kosov@ and Pisa, Italy) Glenn Bowman (Anthropologist at Kent University/ Canterbury, UK) Thomas Keenan (Director, Human Rights Project, Bard College (NY), where he also teaches literary criticism, and media theory, USA) Boris Buden (Writer, and Theorist from Zagreb, Editor in Chief "Arkzin", Croatia/ Austria) The NW Film Center hosts and co-sponsors the film series. The series includes: "The Valley" by Dan Reed "Predictions of Fire" by Michael Benson "Victim of Geography" by Pictorial Heroes "The Walls of Kosovo" by Aleksandar Manic "A Cry from the Grave" by Leslie Woodhead "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" by Srdjan Dragojevic "Intervista" by Anri Sala "Macedonia: the next Bosnia?" by Julian Chomet "Underground" by Emir Kustorica "Planet Sarajevo" by Sahin Sicic "Yellow WAPS: Anatomy of War Crime" by Ilan Ziv "Yugoslavia: Origins of War" by Christophe Talczewski Trebor Scholz is an East German-born interdisciplinary artist and curator who has widely exhibited and lectured in the US and Europe. He studied Fine Art in Dresden, and Media Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London for an MFA. Recently he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, NYC. His book "Surfacing At A Different Place" was published by Green Press, London in 1997. He is currently teaching at Pacific NW College of Art, Portland, Oregon (USA). ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org