marcellmars · May 1, 2015 01:28
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 In Zagreb, from May 27th - June 07th the Public Library will get into another iteration in the form of a conference and an exhibition organized by Multimedia institute [^mi2] and WHW[^whw]. Public Library is the synergy of two efforts. First, it makes the case for the institution of public library and its principle of universal access to knowledge. Second, it is an exploration and development of distributed internet infrastructure for amateur librarians.

 Public Library was launched at HAIP Festival in Ljubljana in 2012 and after its start the project got a lot of recognition and invitations for lectures, workshops and presentations (e.g. Transmediale (Berlin), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), 98weeks (Beirut), Impakt festival (Utrecht)...[^timeline]).

 After Ljubljana and Stuttugart, organized in partnership with Württembergischer Kunstverein & Akademie Schloss Solitude (2014), the event in Zagreb will be the third time that program is conceptualized after the claim that certain place is transformed into public library where there is a conference, exhibition, workshops, presentations. A program was organized around themes like: Art as infrastructure (Ljubljana), Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production/Civil disobedience and institutions (Stuttgart) and in Zagreb the main theme will be Activation[^mdr]. Planned guests and initiatives:  [Monoskop](http://monoskop.org)/Dušan Barok, [Aaaaarg](http://aaaaarg.org)/Sean Dockray, [UbuWeb](http://ubu.com)/Kenneth Goldsmith, [Textz.com](http://textz,com)/Sebastian Luetgert,[Ignorant Schoolmaster and his committees](http://www.uciteljneznalica.org/)/Noa Trester, [Constant](http://www.constantvzw.org/site/)/Femke Snelting, Mayday rooms, [WHW](http://www.whw.hr/), Dubravka Sekulić, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars.  

 As the project was developing partnerships of Multimedia institute with social initiatives like [Ignorant Schoolmaster and his committees](http://www.uciteljneznalica.org/) (Belgrade), [Calafou](http://calafou.org) (Barcelona), [Centre for labour studies](http://radnickistudiji.org/) (Zagreb), [Hybrid Publishing Lab](https://hybridpublishing.org/) (Lueneburg/Berlin), [Constant](http://www.constantvzw.org/site/) (Brussels) and [Mayday Rooms](http://maydayrooms.org/) (London), became in many ways the strongest foundation for the future of the project. These partnerships were mostly build by building and sharing  know-how, digital infrastructure and bookscanners, organized around the web domain memoryoftheworld.org. 

 After a decade or more of a wide enthusiasm about forming networks/networked partnerships a lot of initiatives and groups became very skeptical of such a processes. Networking proved to be very difficult. Hopefully loose network of Public library orbits will continue to grow and build healthy productive, practical and useful common grounds. Let it share the books. 

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 [^mi2]:Multimedijalni institut (MI2) is a non-profit association working at the intersections of culture, arts, technology and activism. Since its early days it has organized around a multi-facetted community that weaves together interests in diverse cultural and social fields: 1) critically inflected digital arts, film, music and literature; 2) digital commons: free software, free culture and open access; 3) philosophy and theory; 4) cultural networking, advocacy and grass-root organizing; 5) protection of public domain and struggles for spatial justice.

 [^whw]:‘What, How & for Whom’ (WHW) is a non-profit organization for visual culture and curators’ collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Its members are curators Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović. Since May 2003 WHW has been directing the program of Gallery Nova - non-profit, city owned gallery in Zagreb.
 What, how and for whom are the three basic questions of every economic organization that also concern the planning, concept and realization of exhibitions, as well as the production and distribution of artworks or artists’ position at the labor market. These questions, which were the title of WHW’s first project dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, in 2000 in Zagreb, became the motto of WHW’s work and the title of the collective. Instrumentality of social capital in constituting the social post-socialist reality turned out to be a matrix for the development of WHW’s projects and their internal and external operations.
 All WHW projects have been conceived as a platform for discussing relevant social issues through art, theory and media, as well as a model of collaboration and exchange of know-how between cultural organizations of different backgrounds. Besides exhibitions, WHW projects encompass lectures and public discussions conducted by international artists, curators and cultural theoreticians, publications and a book edition on contemporary cultural practice and cultural theory, radio broadcasts and interventions, screenings and live acts.

 [^timeline]:https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/timeline-of-public-library/

 [^mdr]:Marcell Mars, while working with Mayday Rooms,  found the field "Activation notes" in the main catalog extraordinarily interesting, useful and profound. Together with Tomislav Medak they decided to build the concept in Zagreb around that concept.
	In Zagreb, from May 27th - June 07th the Public Library will get into another iteration in the form of a conference and an exhibition organized by Multimedia institute [^mi2] and WHW[^whw]. Public Library is the synergy of two efforts. First, it makes the case for the institution of public library and its principle of universal access to knowledge. Second, it is an exploration and development of distributed internet infrastructure for amateur librarians.

	Public Library was launched at HAIP Festival in Ljubljana in 2012 and after its start the project got a lot of recognition and invitations for lectures, workshops and presentations (e.g. Transmediale (Berlin), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), 98weeks (Beirut), Impakt festival (Utrecht)...[^timeline]).

	After Ljubljana and Stuttugart, organized in partnership with Württembergischer Kunstverein & Akademie Schloss Solitude (2014), the event in Zagreb will be the third time that program is conceptualized after the claim that certain place is transformed into public library where there is a conference, exhibition, workshops, presentations. A program was organized around themes like: Art as infrastructure (Ljubljana), Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production/Civil disobedience and institutions (Stuttgart) and in Zagreb the main theme will be Activation[^mdr]. Planned guests and initiatives: [Monoskop](http://monoskop.org)/Dušan Barok, [Aaaaarg](http://aaaaarg.org)/Sean Dockray, [UbuWeb](http://ubu.com)/Kenneth Goldsmith, [Textz.com](http://textz,com)/Sebastian Luetgert,[Ignorant Schoolmaster and his committees](http://www.uciteljneznalica.org/)/Noa Trester, [Constant](http://www.constantvzw.org/site/)/Femke Snelting, Mayday rooms, [WHW](http://www.whw.hr/), Dubravka Sekulić, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars.

	As the project was developing partnerships of Multimedia institute with social initiatives like [Ignorant Schoolmaster and his committees](http://www.uciteljneznalica.org/) (Belgrade), [Calafou](http://calafou.org) (Barcelona), [Centre for labour studies](http://radnickistudiji.org/) (Zagreb), [Hybrid Publishing Lab](https://hybridpublishing.org/) (Lueneburg/Berlin), [Constant](http://www.constantvzw.org/site/) (Brussels) and [Mayday Rooms](http://maydayrooms.org/) (London), became in many ways the strongest foundation for the future of the project. These partnerships were mostly build by building and sharing know-how, digital infrastructure and bookscanners, organized around the web domain memoryoftheworld.org.

	After a decade or more of a wide enthusiasm about forming networks/networked partnerships a lot of initiatives and groups became very skeptical of such a processes. Networking proved to be very difficult. Hopefully loose network of Public library orbits will continue to grow and build healthy productive, practical and useful common grounds. Let it share the books.

	---
	[^mi2]:Multimedijalni institut (MI2) is a non-profit association working at the intersections of culture, arts, technology and activism. Since its early days it has organized around a multi-facetted community that weaves together interests in diverse cultural and social fields: 1) critically inflected digital arts, film, music and literature; 2) digital commons: free software, free culture and open access; 3) philosophy and theory; 4) cultural networking, advocacy and grass-root organizing; 5) protection of public domain and struggles for spatial justice.

	[^whw]:‘What, How & for Whom’ (WHW) is a non-profit organization for visual culture and curators’ collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Its members are curators Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović. Since May 2003 WHW has been directing the program of Gallery Nova - non-profit, city owned gallery in Zagreb.
	What, how and for whom are the three basic questions of every economic organization that also concern the planning, concept and realization of exhibitions, as well as the production and distribution of artworks or artists’ position at the labor market. These questions, which were the title of WHW’s first project dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, in 2000 in Zagreb, became the motto of WHW’s work and the title of the collective. Instrumentality of social capital in constituting the social post-socialist reality turned out to be a matrix for the development of WHW’s projects and their internal and external operations.
	All WHW projects have been conceived as a platform for discussing relevant social issues through art, theory and media, as well as a model of collaboration and exchange of know-how between cultural organizations of different backgrounds. Besides exhibitions, WHW projects encompass lectures and public discussions conducted by international artists, curators and cultural theoreticians, publications and a book edition on contemporary cultural practice and cultural theory, radio broadcasts and interventions, screenings and live acts.

	[^timeline]:https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/timeline-of-public-library/

	[^mdr]:Marcell Mars, while working with Mayday Rooms, found the field "Activation notes" in the main catalog extraordinarily interesting, useful and profound. Together with Tomislav Medak they decided to build the concept in Zagreb around that concept.