edited by Marina Grzinich

Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology

Wednesday, 23.01.2008, 17.00 h, at the Library  of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Schillerplatz 3, first floor)

INVITATION

Presentation of the book by Marina Grzinic with the title

Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology

Published by SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Introduction - Dr. Stephan Schmidt-Wullfen, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Presentations
Mag. Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur, Theorist and Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the University of Vienna

Dr. Walter Seidl, Artist, Writer and Curator, currently in charge of "Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group"

Dr. Marina Grzinic, Artist, Theorist and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Free entrance. A small buffet will follow the presentation.

Marina Grzinic, Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology. Isbn 978-3-85160-119-0; price 18,50 euro.
The book is available in Vienna major bookstores and it is possible to be ordered online: www.schlebruegge.com

Crash Course

Tendances actuelles dans l’art contemporain de l’ Europe de l’Est
Currents in Contemporary Eastern European Art
MARINA GRZINIC

March 8th, 2007 7:30pm at The Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre
"Re-politicization of Art From (the East of) Europe: Creativity and Resistance" IN ENGLISH

For the second event of the Crash Course series, in which we present a major issue, theme or movement in contemporary art, Slovenian artist, philosopher and theoretician Marina Grzinic will outline key ideas and themes being taken up by some of the leading contemporary artists coming out of Eastern Europe. Specifically, Grzinic will investigate the role of practitioners who maintain a form of critically engaged activist art.

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