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While some
speak of power strategies, it appears to us to be much more
justified to join those who not only talk about but also create
strategies of resistance. And
it is for this purpose that we have started up the on-line magazine
ART-e-FACT, intending, in the
digital age - in which power lies neither in institutions nor
on the streets but on the Web, that is, in the communications
system - to seek and to encourage
possible answers, exchanging ideas about the burning
questions of both culture and art, and of society at large.
ART-e-FACT, then, not at all
accidentally, is not just a magazine for contemporary art and
culture. It is above all an open and public forum for the critical
consideration of society, of new practices in art,
their interaction with the theory
and politics of presentation in an artistic and indeed
a non-artistic context. For this reason the first edition of
ART-e-FACT was devoted to one
of the most acute social problems at the turn of the millennium
- in East and West, North and South - illegal migration.
For the moment, ART-e-FACT
is a bilingual magazine, in Croatian and English,
but in future we shall try to include the original languages
of individual contributions. We plan an update of ART-e-FACT
every six months and this will
still be focused around a central theme. For the next editions
we propose two themes: big stories and micro-utopias,
or the politics of presenting art, and this will deal
with the institutional and non-institutional forms of presentation,
the big biennials and the highly selective exhibitions as well
as projects that come into being on the edge, with small teams
and low budgets… backing up the live power of the idea,
and becoming important catalysts for artistic and critical work
in our surroundings.
ART-e-FACT
is an online cultural initiative of a group of curators, critics
and artists, based in Zagreb, Croatia. It is funded by the Ministry
of Culture Zagreb City Office for Cultural Affairs and private
sponsors.
The editorial board of ART-e-FACT
is not closed in terms of either generations
or disciplines, nor does it stem from sectarian or commercial
interests. It has been conceived as a dynamic body, which
is continuously re-formed and changed, involving various authorial
personalities and experiences, while the central theme is
given shape by an invited guest editor.
issue 03//
Edited by Marina Grzinic (guest editor) and designed by Trudy
Lane.
participating artists
in issue 03//: Fundación Rodriguez, Tanja
Vujinović and Zvonka Simčič, Oliver Ressler,
David Kellner, Helen Varley Jamieson, Ivan Jurica, Martin
Bricelj, Ralo Mayer and Philipp Haupt, Zampa di Leone, Želimir
Žilnik.
curators, critics, theorists in issue 03//: Svetlana
Boym, Mojca Puncer, Rose Reitsamer, Matteo Pasquinelli, Šefik
Šeki Tatlić, Hajrudin Hromadžić, Katarina
Peović Vuković, Hito Steyerl, Radmila Iva Janković,
pETER Purg, Lina Kovačević, Nadine Boljkovac, Kathy
Rae Huffman
editorial board (alphabetical order): Nada Beroš,
Marina Gržnić, Susan Jakopec (English language editor),
Silva Kalčić, Trudy Lane, Antonia Majača (editor-in-chief),
Dalibor Martinis (AIM, for the publisher), Tihomir Milovac,
Žarko Paić, Ružica Šimunović, Leila
Topić (executive editor)
contact persons: Antonia Majača
(
), Dalibor Martinis, (
), Leila Topić (
).
Technical Specifications:
For technical information on the magazine, including how to
view the Croatian characters correctly please see the >>
TECH.SPEC page.
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