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. grey) (area space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia presents series of temporarily interventions in public spaces of Korcula Goran Trbuljak: OLD IS NICE Eastern facade of Korcula City Museum . Trg Sv. Marka anonymous (BTF): Miso 2.0 (working title) 01 . 06 - 20 . 09 . 2008 entrance doors of the grey) (area gallery . Put sv. Nikole 7 KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb) presents: Saso Sedlacek (Ljubljana): Beggar 2.0 - a robot for the materially deprived 14. - 16 . 08. Drazen Vitolovic (Sovinjak / Rijeka): Satelite 16 . 08 - 20 . 09 Northern facade of Korcula City Museum . Trg Sv. Marka Last years' (2007) exhibition summer season ended with then anonymous action in the pubic space of printed communication of city of Korcula. For this event a poster of Goran Trbuljak was displayed that reads: ‘Old and depressive anonymous is looking for a permanent display place in some nice new art museum space’. Cutting off words from the text an additional series of seven posters are made that reads: 'OLD IS NICE', 'DEPRESSIVE MUSEUM', 'ANONYMOUS PERMANENT', AND FOR A', 'LOOKING IN ART', 'DISPLAY SOME' and 'PLACE NEW SPACE'. All eight posters were displayed around the city of Korcula, at both at the legal public billboards and illegal advertising places where different kind of posters are usually shown in the public spaces (because of lack of advertising spaces in Korcula). End of the action is when posters will be covered with new ones, and today only one reminds: 'OLD IS NICE' at the facade of Korcula City Museum. Documentation of entire action is available at http://darkofritz.net/ korcula/Old_and_depressive.pdf In between exhibition summer seasons 2006 and 2007 anonymous graffiti was made at the entrance doors of the grey) (area gallery, showing the portrait of the popular singer form Croatia Miso Kovac, and lyric form his song. The doors were repainted in silver as the graffiti colors of the side doors were too dominant and disturbing the view to the gallery, often views from the outside. Year after, In between exhibition summer seasons 2007 and 2008 a new graffiti with the same subject appeared, but this time not disturbing the gallery view form outside, when gallery doors are opened. The decision is made to keep the graffiti because of its interesting graphic qualities and consistence in the treatment of the subject and location, and even to include it to this year's program of public installations. At local radio the call for the contact of the author was broadcasted, but nobody reacted. As part of its programmig sceheme the grey) (area inviting guest curators. In previous programs Stefan Rusu (Moldavia) presented video art from Central Asija, Ana Peraica (Split) presented work of Alban Muja (Pristina) and Dunja Blazevic video production of the PRO.BA (Sarajevo). This year as curators the KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis presenting Beggar 2.0 - a robot for the materially deprived by Slovene artist Saso Sedlacek. The Beggar robot is above all the messenger of the news that too much of the world is getting poorer not richer and that's unfortunately bad news for us all. Beggar 2.0 is a robot for the materially deprived which is made of old electronics and computer spare parts. The original 1.0 was tested in Slovenian shopping malls where it is forbidden to beg, but no such rule was made for robots. The experiment showed that richer part of society shows more sympathy towards the marginalized groups if they communicate from a safe distance and via technological interface. The new upgrade version of Beggar robot made at IAMAS institute in Japan was tested in the beginning of July on Tokyo streets where begging isn't really a frequent phenomena and where interface communication is ubiquitous. The new version runs on Linux (written by Yu Fukui) and will be soon available on this web site for anyone to download the program and copy the robot. BAGGAR 2.0 version was made at IAMAS ( Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science) More info: BAGGAR 2.0 . http://www.sasosedlacek.com/anglesko/projects_beggar.htm KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis . http:// www.kontejner.org Drazen Vitolovic's work entitled Satellite consists of the the ready- made satellite dish of 95 cm diameter, which concave side is entirely covered with small hand-made terracotta balls in its natural reddish color. Satellite dish is not in its technical function, i.e. it is not connected to further hardware. As such the communication is propelled toward the visual and absurd and poetic-imaginative sphere. The installation is setup at the facade of the historic building in the old town of Korcula, over the eye-level, almost unnoticeable to the passers-by. grey) (area will continue the gallery program from 7th September 2008. _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann