Multimedia Institute (short: MI2]; original in Croatian: Multimedijalni institut) is a non-profit association based in Zagreb, founded in 1999 and working at the intersections of culture, arts, technology and activism[1].
Activities
editSince its early days it has organized around a multi-facetted community that weaves together interests in diverse cultural and social fields: 1) critically inflected digital arts, film, music and literature; 2) digital commons: free software, free culture and open access; 3) philosophy and theory; 4) cultural networking, advocacy and grass-root organizing; 5) protection of public domain and struggles for spatial justice (#PravoNaGrad).
Locally it is mostly identified with the social and cultural center MaMa (initially as: net.culture club) in Zagreb (opened since May 14th 2000), where it’s organizing cultural, educational and technology programs, hosting a local hacker community and providing an open venue for other cultural initiatives[2]. But it is also the co-organizer of Human Rights Film Festival, electronic music events, publishing activities and the Croatian localizer of Creative Commons licenses.
Bibliography
edit- Monoskop (regional culture focused) Wiki: https://monoskop.org/MaMa
- Creative Commons wiki: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Croatia
- "Multimedia Institute (mi2): Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak interviewed by Joanne Richardson", subsol, April 2002.
- Tomislav Medak, "Multimedia Institute - mi2", ISEA Newsletter #93, June-August 2003.
- Klaudio Stefancic, "New Media Art in Croatia", Nettime, 10 July 2008.
- Brian Droitcour, "On Tour: Southeastern Europe Travelogue, Part 2", Rhizome, 26 June 2009.
References
edit- ^ Razsa, Maple (2015-04-06). Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01588-4.
- ^ "On Tour". Rhizome. Retrieved 2020-06-06.