The School of History and Theory of Images, Center for Contemporary Art Belgrade
Svebor Midžić,coordinator at The School of History and Theory of Images. Vlada Marković, editor-in-chief of "Prelom", magazine of The School of History and Theory of Images.
The School of History and Theory of Images was founded in October 1999 within the scope of the department for education of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade. The Schools is a full member of the Alternative Academic Educational network.
The School of History and Theory of Images was presented by Svebor Midžić, coordinator at The School of History and Theory of Images and Vlada Marković, editor-in-chief of "Prelom", magazine of The School of History and Theory of Images. They presented the School's activities so far, connections between the School and cultural and educational institutions, as well as some of the future projects, such as case study msub, which will explore the history of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade and its role in the project of modernisation in Yugoslavia. The second issue of "Prelom", featuring, among other things, new texts by Kaja Silverman, Boris Buden and Rastko Močnik, was also announced at the presentation.
The School of History and Theory of Images gathers students of history of arts, students from the academies of arts, students of philosophy, sociology, ethnology, and others and tries to involve them in critic and theoretical debates arising as consequences of contemporary visual artistic practice, especially systems and strategies of visual presentations.The School's aim is to implement interdisciplinary approach into studying of theory of arts, theoretical psychoanalysis, ideology criticism, socio-anthropology, review and gender issues, film studies and studies of popular culture. this approach has been initiated by the inflexibility and inefficiency of firmly structured socio-theoretical disciplines which could not properly treat modern multi-polar society.