Programs and projects

Advocacy

The preconditions for changing the structural conditions of the functioning of civil society organizations, as well as independent culture, are cooperation, networking, and joint public action. The Multimedia Institute systematically works on initiating, capacity building, and cooperation of initiatives, platforms, and networks at the level of Zagreb, Croatia, the post-Yugoslav region, and wider Europe. From these activities in the past ten years, the Clubture network, Operation City, Right to the City, and Kooperativa – Regional Platform for Culture have emerged. -

Creative Commons

The Multimedia Institute is the Croatian localizer of the Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons is a comprehensive way for licensing copyrighted works as publicly available and open content.-

Extended Aesthetic Education

The project explores an artistic experience that retains its autonomy from politics and the market, but at the same time contains a social, emancipatory dimension. The project connects different national contexts and diverse practices, thus exploring a wide range of critical educations in art and culture.-

Fematik in MaMa

As a place of promotion of critical social positions, in 2019, Club MaMa hosted FEMATIK, a feminist-marxist reading group that has been active for more than three years at the initiative of Andreja Gregorina with the aim of expanding the education in the field of left-wing feminism.-

G33koskop

G33koskop explores the cultural and artistic practices of authentic internet culture, as well as the history of the technical culture of this region. Such practices occupy a space between technical innovation and infrastructure construction, new media art, theoretical reflection on media, and social activism.-

Human Rights Film Festival

Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF) - a film festival held on the Human Rights Day in early December in Zagreb. The main goal of the festival is to promote the culture of human rights. HRFF offers the Croatian audience a cross-section of the latest film production, with a special focus on original socially engaged films. The festival also takes place in Rijeka, in cooperation with the Filmaktiv association.-

Music Programs

Since the beginning of MaMa in 2000, the Multimedia Institute has continuously promoted electronic music as part of its own programs (Explicit music and Mamatronik), presenting both experimental approaches and more popular IDM genre.-

Nothing's Gonna Happen

“Nothing's Gonna Happen” brings together a community of people interested in hacker topics, free software, social activism in the digital realm and described by perhaps the best signifier: lovers of geek culture.-

Political Technotope

Through a series of public lectures, "Political Technotope" is presenting the latest directions of critical and artistic reflection on the dominant technologies of today.-

Publishing

You can access our publications in electronic form at monoskop.org.-

Skills Exchange & Hacklab

Since 2005, the Multimedia Institute has been working intensively to bring together a community of technology enthusiasts and fighters for free software, open technologies and free culture.-

The Commons

Conferences The Media Against Democracy | The Economy of Crisis Capitalism and the Ecology of the Commons | The Sites of Neoliberalism: Urban Conflicts in Post-socialist Societies | Freedom to Creativity! Festival of Free Culture, Science and Technology-

Vectors of Collective Imagination

Vectors of Collective Imagination is an international project that has been implement from September 2018 to August 2020 in cooperation with the organizations Berliner Gazette (Germany), Glänta (Sweden), Kontrapunkt (Macedonia), Kuda.org (Serbia), and Kulturtreger (Croatia), with co-financing from the Creative Europe program of the European Union.-

Visual Course

The Visual Course was launched in 2004 with the intention of promoting new and different approaches to (moving) image thinking. Our research into what the image is today - how it is created and how it circulates - is based on the concept and practice of “extended film”.-