Bratislava is the place to be in November: 1-30th!
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Openings:
While here on a Fulbright I am working closely with the department of photography and new media at the Academy of Fine Art and Design, Bratislava (AFAD aka VSVU). This weekend, they are celebrating their 20th anniversary with the presentation of a conference covering topics relevant to Slovakia and the photography world at large. This is in conjunction with the exhibition, A Youthful Medium, featuring VSVU/AFAD student work from the last 20 years.
Exhibition:
A Youthful Medium, opens November 1 at 7pm, Dom umenia, Sq. SNP 12, 2nd pt. of the exhibition (video, courses, workshops) at Gallery Medium, Hviezdoslavovo 18
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Symposium:
Mlade Medium/A Youthful Medium
20 Rokov Fotografie na VSVU/ 20 Years of Photography at AFAD
Hviezdoslavovo Square, 18
Friday, November 4
On Education
10-10:45am Walter BERGMOSER (DE) Chung And University, South Korea
10:45-11:30 Allan D. COLEMAN (USA) Webster Univeristy, St. Louis, USA
12:30-1:15 Agnes EPERJESI (HU) Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1:15-2pm Anna STRICKLAND (USA), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2:45-3pm Discussion
Saturday, November 5
History of Photography
(photographs as representative of cultural and social codes)
10-10:30 Aurel HRABUSICKY (SK): The exhibition New Slovakia, or, Where are the limits of manipulation within the history of photography.
10:30-11 Vladimir BURGUS (CZ): Unknown and Forgotten names of Czech photography from the period between 1900-1989
11-11:30 Bohunka KOKLESOVA(SK): Forms of political propaganda in the official photographs in two totalitarian regimes 1939-1956
11:30-12 Discussion
Contemporary Photography (actual problems and positions)
1-1:30 Robert SILVERIO (CZ): Midcult, codes, exhibitions and contemporary photography
1:30-2 Nela EGGENBERGER (A): Contemporary European Photography and EIKON
2-2:30 Magda Durda DMITRUK (PL): Contemporary Polish Photography – issues, problems and personalities
2:30-3 Tomas POSPECH (CZ): Diversion into landscape. Strategies of "over-essentialism" and declination in contemporary Czech and Polish photography.
