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Silence of statues: inside Memento Park and House of Terror in Budapest

House of Terror, Budapest / Photo: Johann Sebastian Hanel

Could things have been different for Hungary today if it had a revolution back in 1989? Fluffy patches of clouds drift over a windy hilltop at the outskirts of Budapest. There is little urban settlement out here and the scenery

McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history

Kosovo: a DIY McDonald's

From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans In March of 1988, Belgrade, Yugoslavia became the first city in the communist world to open

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Mikser Festival 2012

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Mikser 2012 is running from May 25 to June 2 at a new location, in an exciting but neglected quarter of central Belgrade – Savamala, whose revitalization is the central topic of this year’s festival As part of the strategy

Robots in Slovenian art

ROBOTICA - Sašo Sedlaček, Žicar, 2006 / photo: Hiromitsu Murakami

The first comprehensive exhibition focused on robots in contemporary Slovenian art lands in Venice, Italy The exhibition Robotica includes fields such as interactivity, robotics, informatics and multimedia. It the first comprehensive showcase of this part of contemporary Slovenian art. The

Balkan united by typography

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The Balkan typeface system decodes Latin and Cyrillic for the sake of tolerance and better communication. And it got the looks, too Created by Marija Juza and Nikola Djurek, a Ph.D. in type design and owner of Croatian Typonine, Balkan

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Kosovo 2.0 not coming to Share Conference due to threats from Serbian ultranationalists

Kosovo 2.0

Kosovo 2.0, an independent media outlet and webportal published in Albanian, Serbian and English, has been forced to cancel its presentation at this year’s Share Conference in Belgrade for security reasons. The ultra right-wing group Nasi (“ours”) released a semi-literate

Vuk Cosic: the origins of net.art

Vuk Cosic - Eisenstein

Back in 1994, when the Internet was still young and most people were struggling to grasp what it even was, the net.art movement was born “Net.art”, a term widely attributed to Belgrade-born artist Vuk Cosic, refers to a group of

Bturn presents: Actress and Redshape live @SHARE2

Share night Actress

BTURN magazine & SHARE Conference present: ACTRESS (live), REDSHAPE (live) Saturday, 28 Apr 2012, 23:00h / The Tube – 21 Simina, Belgrade (SER) Actress Music of this enigmatic London-based producer is pretty much based on the elements of lo-fi aesthetics,

Wonderfully freaky: Doris Bizetic, ready for LA

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We need this woman to become a superstar Grotesque, bizarre and trashy at first glance, with her mutated, self-produced R&B that sounds like Ariel Pink and Night Jewel overdosing on auto-tune, the 26-year old Doris Bizetic Nygrin absolutely kills it.