News: Exhibition and Symposium on Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Malta, and Cyprus in Vienna (AT)
October 7, 2003, received from Markus Feigl,
Vienna City Library, Rathaus, 1082 Vienna (AT)
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Exhibition:
Focal Points - Contemporary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Malta, and Cyprus
An exhibition of the Vienna City Library on the occasion of the enlargement of the European Union prepared in cooperation with the accession countries and supported by the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art 14-29 October 2003, daily 10.00 am-6.00 pm Vienna City Hall, Volkshalle, free admission, www.stadtbibliothek.wien.at Participating institutions and curators:
Supported by Gewista, Europlakat, JCDecaux, Design Austria, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Symposium: Poster Art and Public Communication in the New Europe
Cultural decision-makers, sociologists, advertising professionals, directors of prominent European collections, and artists will meet in a series of round-table talks including the public to discuss the manifold aspects of the poster as a medium. The talks will focus on issues of the power of definition over the collective memory, collection strategies of various institutions, different national methods of promoting the entry into the EU, the problematic nature of opinion polls, and criteria for judging posters. The languages spoken are English and German; there will be simultaneous translations from English into German and vice versa.
Welcome: Walter Obermaier (Director of the Vienna City Library) 9.30-10.45 am The Responsibility of Collecting - Power over Remembering and Forgetting Presentation: Gerhard Renner (Deputy Director of the Vienna City Library) Panel: James Aulich (Manchester Metropolitan University - Faculty of Art and Design; head of an international research project dedicated to the analysis of the transformation countries' Communist posters between 1945 and 1989), Felix Studinka (Head of the Poster Collection at the Zurich Design Museum), Breda Skrjanec (International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana [MGLC]; curator of the International Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana), Petr Stembera (Graphic Works Collection at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; performance artist), Dmitrij Zinovjev (Head of the Graphic Works Collection at the National Library of Latvia, Riga) 10.45-11.15 am Coffee break 11.15 am-12.30 pm Strategies of Collecting Presentation: Gerhard Renner (Deputy Director of the Vienna City Library) Panel: Bernhard Denscher (Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna; poster art historian), Marianne Jobst (Director of the Department of Broadsheets, Posters and Ex Libris of the Austrian National Library), Peter Klinger (Library and Works on Paper Collection at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna), Dagmar Polackova (Head of the Decorative Graphic Arts Department of the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava), Cvetka Pozar (Head of the Poster Collection at the Ljubljana Museum of Architecture) 12.30-2.00 pm Lunchbreak 2.00-3.30 pm Making Public Opinion - European Images and Campaigns Presentation: Karin Liebhart (Society for Political Enlightenment) Panel: Emil Brix (Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Mariusz Jan Demner (Advertising Agency Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann), Olga Gyarfasova (Institute for Public Affairs Bratislava; FOCUS Bratislava), Sandor Kurtan (Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest University of Economics) 3.30-4.00 pm Coffee break 4.00-5.30 pm Making Public Opinion - Competing Parties and Election Campaigns Presentation: Karin Liebhart (Society for Political Enlightenment) Panel: Dietmar Ecker (PR Agency Ecker and Partners), Sieglinde Rosenberger (Institute of Political Studies, University of Vienna), Conrad Seidl (Der Standard), Martin Strauss (artist) 6.00 pm Presentation of the book "Kopf an Kopf" Wednesday, 15 October 2003 What Makes a Good Poster? Presentation: Barry Hewson (President of Design Austria) Panel: Katalin Bakos (Head of the Applied Graphic Works Department of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest), Magdalena Ciesielska (Poster Museum Wilanow, Warsaw; Secretary General of the International Poster Art Biennial Warsaw), KR Karl Javurek (Director General of Gewista), Otto Mittmannsgruber (artist), Christian Satek (c satek Werbeagentur GmbH.), Marta Sylvestrova (Head of the Graphic Design Collection at the Moravian Gallery Brno; curator of the International Graphic Design Biennial Brno), Rene Wanner (editor of Rene Wanner's Poster Page) Idea and organization Markus Feigl, Vienna City Library, Rathaus, 1082 Vienna, phone: +43/1/4000-8 49 62, fax: +43/1/4000-99-8 49 62 email: fei@m09.magwien.gv.at |