Branka Curcic's blog

Web 2.0 – “New Economy” of Enclosure

Web 2.0 is often referred as type of social networking providing “power to a user and democracy for everyone (...), as incubator of innovative forms of media and free cooperation” among its users. But, what if another point of view is added to this innocent image? We simply have to be able to comment, discuss and criticize something that is loudly (and successfully) represented as a new form of “information superhighway” bringing everyone “equal rights” to create and distribute content.

"Cultural diversity"?

I have need to react on two points published here around term “cultural diversity”, one in contribution of Ingrid Commandeur in “Globalization of the Art System” (although I realize it is meant as a provocation) on the "the whole idea of a spontaneous cultural diversity" and the other, there is a poll set at the n.e.w.s. web site asking visitors and contributors to vote for: How should we try to define “cultural diversity”?: 1) each contributor should write a definition, 2) visitors to the site can be given access to the “book on cultural diversity” to add their definition.

Television as a Symbol of Lost Public Space, The exhibition “TV Gallery”

The exhibition “TV Gallery” has been conceived in order to contextualize and represent specific television production (“TV Gallery”) that was created at Belgrade Television and broadcasted on the Yugoslav TV network from 1984 – 1991. The exhibition is dealing with cultural policy, conditions of art and cultural production, public television and production and broadcasting of video art in territory of former Yugoslavia.

Autonomous Spaces of Deregulation and Critique, Is a Cooperation with Neoliberal Art Institutions Possible?

Cooperation with Neoliberal Cultural Institutions in Serbia

PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE, New practices in Art and Media

PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE, New practices in Art and Media - New book about Public Netbase t0, edited by New Media Center_kuda.org and published by Revolver.

http://t0.or.at/nonstopfuture/

Art and Its Own Power

The latest book by Boris Groys - “Art Power”. The book reveals some of the contradictions of modern art, where the lines to today's power assigned to art - exclusively based on the existing free market, the art market – could be drawn from.

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