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Dear friends, we are happy to announce: A SHORT HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC ART - PART ONE - in CINEMA - REX, BELGRADE 11 - 17 April The first part of our project is a series of lectures and dialogues with artists who constituted the "Association of Electronic Media Artists", in 1991 when the last group exhibition of computer art has been held in Belgrade (ULUS gallery, May 8 - 23), mostly with the same authors as participants. There was a very intensive and numerous group of artists with different discourses to the new media at that time. Some of them came from experimental video, some from conceptual art or minimal, or electronic/computer music, closely connected with artists from different countries, thus creating a Yu-media stage as part of the international one. But then the war started. The Association has never been registrated. The years of destruction, disorientation, despair and disappearance of everything that used to be, poverty and hard life in a paranoid environment became a reality. Some of the artists have left the country, the ones that stayed behind have lost connection with the rest of the world, they drowned in everyday problems of survival in circumstances of civil war. And lot of them had no opportunity to continue their experiments: no equipment, no subvention from any cultural fund, none or very few information about what was going on in art and technology. They were cut off from their surrounding and the rest of the world, loosing their context and any kind of feedback. But through all these years, there was a dispersed individual artistic practice in this domain. For a number of intellectuals escapism with autoisolation as a way of living was the only possible choice in those circumstances. The moment when Internet finally appeared here, a very long time after it has appeared as a kind of revolution in "outer space", some new generations became familliar with new art forms, and very few of previous ones. So there was the situation where two parallel streams from basically the same origin existed in the same space/time, with no communication or any exchange. The necessity to make some kind of recapitulation and synthesis became obvious. We are hoping that young authors will join this project, and develop it, by presenting new ideas, in order to articulate the artistic scene here and create theoretical discourse to new forms of art through new technologies . Our intention is to make some continuity in collecting and archiving data about those activities as well, presenting different phases of it's' evolution together with updates, thus giving the opportunity to the audience, especially the younger generations, for better understanding of various forms of electronic art. The following parts of our project will keep on presenting discourses on that new category of contemporary art by inviting authors and theorists from abroad, as well as from our country. 11 April, Vladan Radovanovic / Mihajlo Ristic 12 April, Cedomir Vasic / Sveta Nikolic 13 April, Vojin Tisma / Jozef Klacik 14 April, Predrag Sidjanin / Boris Kovac 15 April, discussion with all participants 16 April, Marjan Sijanec / Bor Turel 17 April, Misa Savic / Gordana Novakovic supported by SCCA, production B92 CINEMA - REX, URL rex.opennet.org producer: Katarina Zivanovic conception & moderating by Gordana Novakovic shirt@eunet.yu URL http://www.shirt.opennet.org