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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
On 17th of October was held the third session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS). The goal of VMS3 was to rethink and discuss media activism in the context of public space and sphere. Young philosophers, sociologists, architects, artists and activists gathered to compare two case studies from Lithuania and Belarus. ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
“By more intense and more frequent change of city forms, we make greater and greater influence on the lives of future generations without being able to foresee and control the long-term outcome of our actions.”
Leonardo Benevolo, The European City
Introduction
Obviously, the fact that urban forms, structures and spaces reflect societies that ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
This text is based on the presentation made in VMS#3 in 17th of October, Vilnius.
Tactical media’s effectiveness is measured against its documentation and representation in the mass media. The documentation of the event is necessary to make the event visible which raises the question; in what way is it visible?
Moreover, ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Let’s start from with a little joke about what is happening now in a globalizing world.
Pessimists study Chinese
Optimists study English.
Realists only study the Kalashnikoff…
If we try to export these rules for the current situation in the media sphere, especially in Belarus, we (as realists) will immediately begin to study tactical ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
This text is based on the presentation made in VMS#3 in 17th of October, Vilnius.
Perhaps not the best thing one can do is to begin a text with disclaimers. But sometimes it is necessary.
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