History
The idea of Vilnius Media Seminar was born in winer 2006 in Vilnius into legendary bar «Literatu baras» («Bar of writers»). Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) is an open research seminar of media culture in Vilnius. It is a series of seminars, which has a goal to create an independent and free space for research communication between Belarusian and Lithuanian researchers, fellows, students; and to support scientific co-operation between two neighbourhood countries.
The presentation of actual media theories and critical thought is among main goals as well. All texts of presentation and multy media files was published on Journal on Media Culture “Balsas”.
The first session of VMS was on the June 2nd, 2006, 14.00, at Department of Philosophy in Vilnius university, 301 room, Universiteto g. 9/1, Vilnius. Topic for VMS#1 was «Lithuania through the eyes of Belarusian media: a case study of TV film “Litva”». There were around 40 participants in this seminar.
The second session of VMS has taken place in Vilnius Art Academy on the February 19th, 2007. The topic this time was “Strategies of tactical media: noise makes sense“. At first during the seminar the tactical media as a concept was presented and then the significance of tactical media in Eastern Europe was discussed. There were around 30 participants in this seminar.
The third session of VMS was on October 17th, 2007 at 18.00 at Department of Philosophy in Vilnius university. The topic this time was “Media activism as a new dimension of public space“. There were 45 participants in this seminar. Session VMS#3 was organised in co-operation with NGO “Mene” and with kindly support of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. Auslandsbüro Belarus and The Republic of Lithuania Ministry of Education and Science.
The fourth session of VMS has take place on the June 7th 2008, Saturday, as part of non-conference “MediaBarCamp“. The topic of VMS#4 is “DIY media (do it yourself) and practice of media activism“. It was untypical session, without many speakers. It was presentation of VMS as network crossborder activity. Here we publish some thesis wich was prepared after MediaBarCamp.
The fifth session of VMS was been on December 4th, 2008 at 17.00 Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius (g.Latako 3) with topic “Tactical Media in Election Campaign“. VMS#5 was be focused on two recent election campaigns in Belarus and Lithuania.
To be continued…