Minor Media Normality in the East 

1. Autogenerative Europe

In our imagination, eastern Europe was always black and white. Traveling to East Germany or Poland meant suddenly leaving colorful western Europe and entering a movie from the forties or fifties. Later we simply couldn't remember having seen any color, not the green of the trees, nor the red of the brick buildings. When we went to the movies to see a film by Wajda, Kieslowski or Tarkowsky, the filmmaker's experiments with color only reinforced our image of the east as gray. Europe clearly had an ideologically motivated neurosis when it came to the perception of color.

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• network cultures,
• deep europe

The Need for Practice 

Exhibition, Bratislava, May 23 - June 22, 2014:

We are living in a prolonged period of economic, social, political and environmental crisis, in which the yearning for global, redeeming visions of the future has become increasingly frustrating, if not obsolete. However, it is not possible to live without expectations, without being able to imagine better conditions, a more positive state of affairs. And what if ? as many thinkers, cultural producers and various practitioners propose ? instead of heading towards fixed images of the future, we understand utopia, as a continuous process of becoming in which we participate? That is, instead of viewing the future as an end, a goal we should attain in an ever-delayed 'some day', we actualize it in the present, perform it in the everyday?

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• diy media

 tranzit.sk

tranzit is a network working independently in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia since 2002.

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• network cultures,
• diy media

 Behindthemask

Behindthemask is a writer and activist who has been involved in Nottingham Indymedia and the UK Indymedia network for the past 8 years.

Jo van derSpek

Jo van der Spek is a journalist, radio maker, and an activist dealing with issues around migration and international conflict zones.

AKA theCastle

MOVING FOREST LONDON 2012 is presented by AKA the Castle:

Muriam HalehDavis

Muriam Haleh Davis is a graduate student in the Department of History at New York University. Her research interests focus on race and decolonization in Algeria. She is also a regular contributer to Jadaliyyah.

 Soda_Jerk

Soda_Jerk is an art collective established in 2002. It is comprised of sisters Dan and Dominique Angeloro, who are currently based in Berlin.

 Red Tape

Red Tape is a discussion series initiated by students of the Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art.

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos is managing editor of Re-public.

Nelli Kambouri

Nelli Kambouri is a researcher at the Center for Gender Studies and Equality, Panteion University, Athens.

Jon Rich

Jon Rich was born in Amman in 1965. He teaches Arabic and Sociology in Lisbon, where he has lived since 1990.

Christian Fuchs

Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media Studies

Karla Brunet

Artist and activist.
http://karlabru.net/

 ACT Up Coalition

ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.

Alex Ortiz

Alex Ortiz, co-curator, received his BA from Brown University in 2009, graduating with a double major in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern studies.

Rayya ElZein

Rayya El Zein is working towards a PhD in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is increas- ingly focusing on theories of spectatorship and historical studies of audience behavior. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and is currently a teaching fellow at City College in Harlem. She tweets from @rayelz.

Ulises Mejias

Ulises A. Mejias is assistant professor at the State University of New York, College at Oswego.

La Ex

Platform for free culture and civil society advocacy organistion for copyleft cultural productionin Barcelona. La-Ex (formerly known as eXgea). La-Ex is also the organiser of the oXcars and the Free Culture Forum.

The Shadow

The SHADOW is New York's only underground newspaper, publishing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1989, as a result of the distorted mainstream media coverage in the aftermath of the infamous police riot in Tompkins Square Park on August 6-7, 1988.