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Exhibition and conference, Wealth of Nations, 6-14 June, Novi Sad

Written by Gordana Nikolic
Friday, 05 June 2009
Exhibition and conference Wealth of Nations 6-14 June, 2009 Novi Sad, Serbia Wealth of Nations is a part of the Cinema City festival and consists of an exhibition and a conference. The term ‘Wealth of Nations’ is the title of the seminal book by the Scottish economist Adam Smith, in which he establishes and defends the basics of Liberal Economic Policy. Liberal Economics experienced its peak in the 1990s after the concept of Real Socialism had failed and the global free market had been established. This economy, however, has entered a period of deep crisis in the past few months and it might, for a shorter or longer period, affect the stability of societies all over the planet. The topic of ‘Wealth of Nations’ this year will delve into the influences that the Economic and Financial sectors have on society and consequently, on cultural production. Exhibition Wealth of Nations 6-14 June, 2009 17:00 - 23:00 Trg Slobode, Novi Sad Daniel Andujar Derivart Heath Bunting Hempman IRWIN (in collaboration with Marina Abramovic and Bojan Brecelj) Islamic Banking Kate Rich K Foundation The end of the Crown Luchezar Boyadjiev Max Keiser Metahaven Michael Aschauer Mladen Stilinovic Natalie Jeremijenko and The Bureau of Inverse Technologies Ola Pehrson Shu Lea Cheng Slavko Bogdanovic Vladimir Todorovic Loan for Economic Revival of Serbia Conference Wealth of Nations 7-8 June, 2009 11 am - 5 pm Serbian National Theatre, Chamber Stage Pozorisni trg 1, Novi Sad Finances and monetary policy are mostly a matter of interest exclusively of a small circle of devotees. Even the social sciences, broadly speaking, avoided exploring the mutual relation between finances and other aspects of social activities. However, with the serious development of financial crisis some questions, which go behind the narrow sector of economy and finances, have been emerging. Having experienced the Great Depression in the 30s of the 20th century, and its implications for the beginning of the Second World War, there are many of those who are worried about the further development of the present state of capitalism's global crisis. The development of so called criticism of finances, is trying to explore other models of economies and relations which bypass the so called monetary ideology and praxis, as dominant form of economic conversion, within the context of symbolic trade. Syntax "Wealth of Nations" (Adam Smith) is on one hand, an ironic theme for today's state of liberal economy in crisis, and on the other hand, raises a serious question: what really constitutes value? Is it social interaction, beliefs and fears along with market indexes? To what extent is money nature or culture? Is money equivalent of goods, labour, or is it self-referential? At the conference participants and speakers, including economists, sociologists, artists, activists, philosophers and culture theoreticians, will try to answer these questions and provoke a wider debate on finances, as the social praxis, and its wider implications in domain of rational and irrational. June 7th, Sunday 11:00 - 13:00 MAN-DEATH-CREDIT Slavko Bogdanovic Stefan Heidenreich Ralph Heidenreich 15:00 - 17:00 RESOURCES-WEALTH-PROPERTY Konrad Becker Matteo Pasquineli Marko Rakic June 8th, Monday 11:00 - 13:00 VALUE-ALGORITHM-MAGIC Darko Pantelic Felix Stalder 15:00 - 17:00 ART-INVESTMENT-INDEX Luchezar Boyadziev Mar Canet Shu Lea Cheang Exhibition and conference “Wealth of Nations” are the part of Cinema City festival, Novi Sad www.cinemacity.org http://eng.cinemacity.org/media-art.56.html Curators: Vladan Joler, Kristian Lukić, Gordana Nikolic Conference editors: Kristian Lukic, Gordana Nikolic Executive director: Natali Beljanski Production team: Jana Katic, Igor Zarol Coordinator: Ibis Cerimagic IT support: Predrag Tegeltija Technical support: Pajica Dejanovic, Djordje Popic Stage managers: Anton Beres, Ivan Dervisevic, Kristina Kacanski, Dusanka Stepanov Production: STATE OF EXIT, Novi Sad Co-production: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad www.msuv.org Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies-NAPON, Novi Sad www.napon.org Art association - INBOX, Novi Sad www.inbox.rs
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Alessandro Ludovico / Italy
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from
1993, (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2004). He is the author of: ‘Virtual Reality Handbook’ (1992), ‘Internet Underground.Guide’ (1995), ‘Future Digital Sounds’, (2000) and co-edited the ‘Mag.Net Reader’ series (2006-2008). He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of ‘Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He was also an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He teaches ‘Computer Art’ and ‘Interface Aesthetics’ at the Academy of Art in Carrara. > http://magnet-ecp.org

Kristian Lukić / Serbia
Cultural worker and game researcher, writer and artist. Digital arts and culture curator at Museum of Contemporary Arts Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Member of Eastwood - Real Time Strategy Group with whom he is exhibiting from 2002 onwards. Co-founder of Napon - Institute for flexible culture and technologies, an organization dealing with emerging media and game culture.

Ilias Marmaras / Greece
Ilias Marmaras is a new media artist and the initiator and co-founder of Personal Cinema group. His work mostly focuses on alternative video games and online 3D virtual environments. He was the initiator of the new media cultural/political project: “The making of Balkan Wars: The game” and its core video game project: ‘’The Balkan Mall’’. He has written and published various papers regarding critics on aesthetics, politics and New Media, in European magazines, newspapers and web sites.

Predrag Nikolić / Serbia
Graphical designer lives and works in Novi Sad, manager of Electrana stage, video game fan and player. Editor of site xboxrepublika.com and electro portal elektrana.net.

Martin Pichlmair / Austria
Martin Pichlmair is a media artist living and working in Vienna, Austria. Since he received his doctoral degree in informatics he works as assistant professor at the Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology at the Vienna University of Technology. His art pieces were shown at various media art festivals and exhibitions. > http://neural.it

Gordan Savicic / Austria
Gordan Savicic born in Vienna, is artist, electronic practitioner and socialite of the Ludic Society with whom he co-developed new bachelor machines and game fashion. Together with ZugZwangZukunft he developed various arcade machine modifications which have been exhibited internationally. His interests are in interfaces for every kind of expression, game arts and dada funk.