Rules of ZINmakers

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Exactly 12 years ago, in the year of flourishing movement «Charavatyh Karuzlikov», we actually «charavatyya karuzliki», fired a newspaper «Pravda-matka». Then we learned in grade 11th, and hormonal disballans uncontrollably bow us to see in the word «matka» an erotic subtext. The publication was pure banter, with some fun same ...

DIY media (do it yourself) and practice of media activism

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Session of VMS#4 is going to be 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". We will try to understand media activism as self-representation. And as a case studies we will ...

Media activism as a new dimension of public space

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. ...

Media activism: creating new reality or re-designing public space

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 ...

The noise is the message

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

We are publishing Alexei Krivolap’s presentation which was done on the 2nd session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) "Strategies of Tactical Media: Noise Makes Sense" on 19th of February, 2007. Let’s start from one small example. Awake after a good party we often have a headache, or let’s be more exact: a hangover. There are two ...

The french-english war
(under a red, white and blue flag)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

We are publishing Benjamin Cope’s presentation which was done on the 2nd session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) “Strategies of Tactical Media: Noise Makes Sense” on 19th of February, 2007. His experiences in making radio shows and traveling all around Poland for interviewing local people without having good polish skills ...

Strategies of tactical media: noise makes sense

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

The second session of VMS (Vilnius Media Seminar) has taken place in Vilnius Art Academy on 19th of February (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 ...