Opening of exhibition: Open Community – Open Networks
Respublika! curator, Nico Carpentier and NeMe coordinator Helene Black opened on 4 November 2017 the first main Respublika! exhibition, entitled Open Community – Open Networks, at the NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol, Cyprus.
This exhibition features the work of the international artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud. Their work combines an activist use of digital technologies to enhance communicative networks, with a deep sensitivity for the social needs of communities, and a critical stance towards state control.
More information about the Respublika! exhibition Open Community – Open Networks can be found at the NeMe exhibition webpage.
Respublika! is an arts festival and exhibition that translates the principles of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the (de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, and empowering members of one or more communities.
Nico Carpentier is professor in media and communication studies at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.
(Image removed) Exhibition opening talk by Nico Carpentier.
Photo: Hazal Yolga
(Image removed) The Respublika! exhibition Open Community –
Open Networks. Photo: Hazal Yolga