Media and Ethics Conference website and index

an Ars Baltica project

A SYMPOSIUM AND GATHERING FOR CRITICS AND ARTISTS

in the fields of photography, multimedia, video, installation and performance

Helsinki, September 12th-14th, 1996

The symposium in Helsinki was a gathering of critics and artists from the Baltic Sea countries and the surrounding region. The main topic under discussion was new media as a twofold challenge. The first challenge focused on the potentialities of emerging art spaces, such as www, cd-rom and telematics. The second challenge was to discuss these media as critical forums and dialogical spaces. How do traditional museums, galleries, periodicals and other mainstream media react to these changes? What types of alternatives have been developed?

Discussion of ethics in the new media culture was a central theme of the symposium. If defined as one's personal politics, ethics of the contemporary critique deals with choices, which for the artist are questions of inclusion and exclusion. As ethical discourse is dangerously close to moralistic discourse, the symposium put in the foreground questions of free speech and free artistic expression.

Organisers:
Arts Council of Finland
MAP (media.art.project)
Radio and Television Institute (YLE-RTI)

Program Coordinator: Tapio Mäkela of MUU ry, Helsinki, Finland
Producer: Adele Eisenstein of C³ (center for Culture & Communication) / Soros Foundation Hungary

Supported by: Nordic Cultural Fund; Finnish Ministry of Education; C³: center for Culture & Communication/Soros Foundation Hungary; USIS (United States Information Service); Embassy of the Republic of France; Goethe Institute

Special thanks to: Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Swedish Institute; Polish Ministry of Culture; Soros centers for Contemporary Art in Skopje (Macedonia), St. Petersburg (Russia), Tallinn (Estonia), and Riga (Latvia); Finnish Museum of Photography; Ateneum - Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art; Nordic Art center; Helsinki City Art Museum; Tuglas Society

INDEX

The following index includes links to participants, some attendees, related organizations, and sponsors. Selecting a name will take you to a biography of that individual as well as an abstract and full text of their presentation with related links. Organizational links will take you to the home pages for the respective institution. Related links are provided to general Ethics/Media topics.

Individuals

Jan Aman /S
Hubertus von Amelunxen /D
Pauls Bankovskis /LV
Tobias Bernstrup /S
Mark Dery /USA
Lily Diaz /USA-FIN
Valery Dudkin /RUS
Adele Eisenstein /USA-H
Fred Forest /F
Marina Grzinic /SI
Mats Hjelm /S
John Hopkins /USA-IS
Raivo Kelomees /EE
Eric Kluitenberg /NL
Ryszard Kluszczynski /PL
Stephen Kovats /D
Doris Laine-Almi /FIN
Marita Liulia /FIN
Geert Lovink /NL
Asko Mäkelä /FIN
Tapio Mäkelä /FIN
Viktor Mazin /RUS
Ewa Mikina /PL

Kostja Mitenev /RUS
Saku Paasilahti /FIN
Sadie Plant /UK
Richard Kriesche /A
Sakari Salko /FIN
Pit Schultz /D
Alexei Shulgin /RUS
Rasa Smite /LV
Inga Steimane /LV
Aneta Szylak /PL
Vladimir Tamrazov /RUS
Minna Tarkka /FIN
Palle Torsson/S
Olessia Tourkina /RUS
Mare Tralla /EE
Heie Treier /EE
Toshiya Ueno /JP
Nebojsa Vilic /MK
Akke Wagenaar /NL
Sven-Olov Wallenstein /S
Peter Weibel /A
Jeremy Welsh /N
Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska /PL

Organizations

Ars Baltica
Artists Association of Finland
Arts Council of Finland
AV-ARKKI
C³: center for Culture & Communication
The Cable Book (Glass Palace)
Finnish Broadcasting Company -- Radio and Television Institute (YLE-RTI)
Finnish Ministry of Education
Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs / Department of Press and Culture
Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art - Ateneum
Finnish Museum of Photography
Embassy of the Republic of France
Helsinki City Art Museum
MUU Media Base ry
Nettime
Nordic Art center
Nordic Cultural Fund
Polish Ministry of Culture
Radio and Television Institute (YLE-RTI)
SIKSI
Soros center for Contemporary Art, (Poland)
Soros center for Contemporary Art, Skopje (Macedonia)
Soros center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Soros center for Contemporary Art (Lithuania)
Soros center for Contemporary Art, Tallinn (Estonia)
Soros center for Contemporary Art, Riga (Latvia)
Soros Foundation Hungary
Soros Foundations
Swedish Institute
Tuglas Society
USIS (United States Information Service)
VALOKUVA