MEDIA AND ETHICS

Sept. 9, 1996

Type: discussion

***MEDIA AND ETHICS of the contemporary critique:
***A SYMPOSIUM AND GATHERING FOR CRITICS AND ARTISTS
***Helsinki, September 12th-14th, 1996
***http://muu.lib.hel.fi/me

CONCEPT
The symposium in Helsinki will be a gathering of critics and artists
from the Baltic Sea countries and the surrounding region. The main topic
under discussion is new media as a twofold challenge. The first
challenge focuses on the potentialities of emerging art spaces, such as
www, cd-rom and telematics. The second challenge is to discuss these
media as critical forums and dialogical spaces. Discussion of ethics in
the new media culture is 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.

SUBTOPICS
(1) Media: Space
(2) Media: Theory and Tradition;
(3) Ethics
(4) Artists and Critics I/O - Cultural Difference and National Politics

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Thursday, September 12 [highlights]

10.30 Welcoming address from Doris Laine-Almi, Chair of The Finnish Arts
Council, and Sakari Salko of the Radio and Television
Institute (YLE)
Overview of the Programme by Producer Adele Eisenstein
Opening Words by Symposium Chair Tapio M