/// A conversation with Željko Blaće ///
Stop by Voz Alta Wednesday night for an informal discussion with Željko Blaće, a media activist from Croatia who has worked with the MAMA net.culture club, as well as many other projects...
Wednesday, January 25th, 7:30pm
@
Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway
16th and Broadway in downtown San Diego
This event brought to you by:
borderlands Hacklab, San Diego Indymedia, aRt&D, Voz Alta
Blaće is interested in media arts and aesthetics particularly in the context of streaming media practices and visual observations. He is working with UC faculty including Natalie Jeremijenko and Lev Manovich to develop and present a streaming media exhibition and symposium in the fall of 2006...
Željko Blaće (1976, Čapljina - Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina) is active in new media culture scene of Central Europe since 1996 (in Croatia) as web designer, artist and journalist. In recent years he has moved into the international media arts scene via roles as organizer, researcher and curator. He is active in the media-culture organizations: LABinary (co-editor of print newsletter), radioActive (event organizer and web developer) and Multimedia Institute (full time employed as programs and projects co-coordinator, executive board member). He is a contributor for cultural programs of the national radio and TV ("Transfer" and "Triptih"); and occasionally writes for ICT magazines, in the cultural magazine Zarez, and on radioActive and linux.hr web portals. Blaće promotes non-profit net projects, and is working on strengthening the impact of NGO sector on Croatian netspace (both in terms of infrastructure and legislation).
More info about Željko here:
http://crca.ucsd.edu/view_event.php?id=6
