Avrupa Kültür Derneg (European Cultural Association) is organising the "International Forum on Turkey-Europe Cultural Relations" in collaboration with and with in-kind contributions of the History Foundation of Turkey, Austrian Cultural Forum, British Council, French Cultural Institute, Goethe Institute, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, Delegation of the European Commission to Turkey, French Embassy, René Seydoux Foundation, YATF (Young Arab Theatre Fund), CCP Germany, Relais Culture Europe, CSG The Event Company, Chameleon Events & PR, Gelis¸im Creative and many artists and cultural operators. The Forum will take place between 6th and 8th May 2005, in the historical Imperial Mint complex (History Foundation of Turkey) within Topkapž Palace. http://www.europist.net/forum_en

MediaActionCenter.org is a community website for activists, researchers, educators, organizers, funders, independent producers, public interest groups and other advocates for media policies and systems that serve social justice and human rights.

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The small, fashionable and powerful iPod seems to have made a breakthrough on its way into university classrooms, as the Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper, reported yesterday. In the article When iPod goes collegiate Elisabeth Moore explores the chances and perspectives of the use of iPods in universities, such as Duke, Georgia College or Drexel University.

The project "Hot Russian line" intends to bring information on current problems and questions of social movements in Russia to the international audience, artistically using the concept of tactical television. The project is made in a form of five video-clips dedicated to key social topics which are: leftist movement, illegal immigration, IT development, 1st Russian Social Forum and a look from Russia at Ukraine and its orange revolution. The clips will be released gradually in a period of time from April, 8th until April, 22nd.

Designers, developers and administrators from Spain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany are working on a special distribution of the Drupal Content Management System that makes it a lot easier to set up your own multi-user, multi-language, multi-purpose internet platform. This distribution is strictly based on the latest drupal-release, but will contain several special features...

Games are a vivid part of popular-culture and for that reflect a lot of symbolical orders from economic, to political, to artistic, to ethical to mere entertainment. Games do not, contrary to common believe, exist in a bubble. They are played, they influence players and non-players alike. They relate to the aforementioned fields and we relate to them. How that happens, what the secret behind the fashionable term interactivity could be, why they are oftentimes so dull at the moment and what they should become in the future, are just some glimpses at the many questions that Kein Game will hopefully if not answer then at least specify.

After series of anti-Semitic incidents in Serbia and Montenegro, eight non-governmental organizations initiated action entitled "Stop the Conspiracy of Silence", appealing on necessity of establishing anti-discrimination laws and politics of tolerance in Serbia. They have started with organizing public actions in cities all over Serbia and started collecting citizens’ signatures that will be pursued until 30.000 signatures are collected and possibility to propose anti-discrimination law to Serbian government is possible.

"a.network" is regional initiative of new media centers, which are involved in production, promotion and critique of new technologies and contemporary new media culture, as well as their influence on the society. Members of this network are: Ljudmila, Ljubljana (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, www.ljudmila.org); mi2, Zagreb (Multimedia Institute, www.mi2.hr); pro.ba, Sarajevo (www.pro.ba) and kuda.org, Novi Sad (New Media Center, www.kuda.org).

In the year 2004 New Media Center - kuda.org as one of the initiators participated in forming of association DIZALICA (CRANE) with aim to establish a platform that will have the role of objective and comprehensive perception, critical insight and affirmative work in the field of social art and culture life in the city of Novi Sad and Province of Vojvodina.

Safe Distance is video that was recorded during NATO air strikes against Serbia and Montenegro in 1999. Videotape shows electronic cockpit of the US Air force plane. There were 4 airplanes flying from NATO base Aviano in Italy to destination in Serbia. Mission objective was to bomb several targets in the area around city of Novi Sad. On the way back, after mission was completed, one plane was shot down. Tape (Sony Super 8) was found near the place where plane crashed in Fruska Gora Mountain (National Park – around 60 km from Novi Sad) in Srem region and it features electronic cockpit with basic graphical interface and voice communication between pilots. Videotape is regular document of flight used by command structures to analyze efficiency and success of every mission. Tape presents these last moments before plane was shot down.