10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
An introductory note on the workshop’s organisation, context, and core objectives.

10:15 – 10:45 | Tomáš Glanc – The Aesthetics of Kinetic Cybernetics: Its Appearance, Intent, and Reception in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Beyond

10:45 – 10:55 | Julie Dostálová – Presentation: A Catalogue of Soviet Cybernetic Kineticism and Corresponding Bibliography

11:00 – 11:40 | Keynote Speech I: Jane Sharp – Visions and Public Spaces (Dvizhenie Group), followed by Q&A

11:40 – 12:15 | Mari Laanemets & Andres Kurg – Crossing the Threshold of Possibility: Situating IBKS

12:15 – 12:30 | Q&A

12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:30 | Antje Kramer-Mallordy – ‘Avant-garde’ or ‘Conformist Imagination’? The Art of Dvizhenie through a French Perspective

14:30 – 15:00 | Matteo Bertelé – Between ‘Alternative Attuali’ and ‘Individuelle Mythologien’: Lev Nusberg and Dvizhenie across Western Europe (1960s–1970s)

15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:00 | Keynote Speech II: David Crowley – Dvizhenie’s Plastic Visions, followed by Q&A

16:00 – 16:45 | Panel Discussion: Transnational Museum Collaboration and Cold War Legacies

Panellists: Barbora Kundračíková, Julie Dostálová, Ladislav Daněk, and David Voda
Topics: Current exhibition practices, the acquisition of artworks and documentation, and Petr Spielmann’s role in shaping the perception of Eastern European art in Western Europe
Moderator: Tomáš Glanc (with contributions and questions from the audience)

18:30 | Informal Gathering
The discussion will continue over drinks at Cobra Bar.

Neo-Avant-Garde in Cybernetic Socialism

Neo-Avant-Garde in Cybernetic Socialism

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