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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,

SHARE Conference crowdsourced posters

Share poster

SHARE invited you to design and submit your ready-to-print posters for their upcoming conference in Belgrade Apr 26-28. Some of the posters were quite good and we picked what we think are the best ones. See if you can find

Are you for real? Inside Second Life: interview with Khannea Suntzu

Khannea Suntzu

Lily Lynch jumps into the virtual world to find out who the hell is this transhumanist, blogger, activist, conceptual artist and Second Life genderqueer prostitute. If you’d like to see for yourself, you can catch up with Khannea in person

SHARE by night: new artists added

Share night artists

SHARE Conference adds new artists to the night programme line-up, including Actress, Redshape and Roska Bturn presents: Actress (live) In the last 5 years of running the Werk label, Actress, a.k.a Darren J. Cunningham set himself apart as one of

The future of reading

Readmill

New reading devices might not change the face of literature, but they will create readers’ communities. According to Readmill, books have a future and the future is digital* Literature is a strange form of art: the art behind all arts, it

SHARE Conference night programme released

Tim Exile

In three days of SHARE Conference (Apr 26 – 28), several Belgrade clubs host a number of cutting edge and genre-bending electronic music acts, including Tim Exile, DJ Pete, DMX Krew and Redlight Tim Exile Musical genius, geek and entertainer

Crowdsourced constitution: better than the real thing?

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From Cyber Yugoslavia to Iceland, online democracy is no longer just a fantasy. Plato must be turning in his grave During the late-1990s Internet era, the forgotten micronation of Cyber Yugoslavia (“CY”) was born. CY was launched in 1999, when

Let there be copy: Missionary Church of Kopimism, world’s only file sharing religion

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BTURN teams up with SHARE Conference, a three-day international event in Belgrade, Serbia, focusing on Internet, new media and social activism, packed with talks, discussions, presentations and music gigs. In the upcoming weeks, we keep you informed on whos and