The Media Are With Us

April 1990, Budapest: The Media Are With Us (A médiumok velünk voltak), a cooperation with the Mucsarnok, and the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, dealt with the role of television in the Romanian revolution. It was the first event to analyze a current event from the perspective of the media to take place in Hungary, and included leading international media theoreticians (Vilém Flusser, Peter Weibel, Margaret Morse, Ingo Günther etc.), and the staff of Romanian television.

"My experience during another recent conference on the role of video and television 'The media are with us', held in Budapest in April 1990, made me especially aware of the difficulties involved in collecting this kind of material. The video material shown there consisted of recordings of the historical TV transmissions in Rumania itself and comparisons with coverage of the same event elsewhere in the world from France and Spain to Japan and the United States. There was also video footage and some documentaries of the same event by professionals and amateurs from different countries and commentary by those directly involved in the live broadcasts from Bucharest and the handling of these events by international television networks. The conference was a unique opportunity to compare how the showing of the same event (the fall of the Ceaucescu regime) on television can have quit different meanings in other contexts." (Tjebbe van Tijen)

Resources:
Tjebbe van Tijen: A context for collecting the new media
http://www.iisg.nl/image_sound/n5m/histintro.html

Related:
MetaForum (Conference series in Budapest, 1994-1996)

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