Friday, 15.09, 18h – 19h, Palatul Ștefania, Timișoara Darko R. Suvin, scholar, critic and poet, born 1930 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. Was co-editor of Science-Fiction Studies, editor Literary Research/Recherche littéraire, visiting professor at 10 universities, has won various awards for scholarship and prizes... Continue Reading →
Miloš Petrik – The Serbian Front: From the Fringe to the Mainstream (in person)
Friday, 15.09, 19:30h – 20:30h, Palatul Ștefania, Timișoara This talk will examine in brief the history of Serbian genre film, comic books, literature, and other media, centering on the sci-fi genre. The time in which sci-fi, alongside horror and fantasy was either disparaged as a lower form of content, mislabelled as thrillers or misinterpreted as children’s... Continue Reading →
Partisans in Space – kuda.org & APSOLUTNO screenings in the holodeck 2023
Edition: "Partisans in Space"Cozzzmonautica, Palatul Stefania , September 2023 For more information on the videos check here ‘Safe Distance’, video, kuda.org ‘a.trophy’, asocijacija Apsolutno 1999/2002.projection/video installation/text & video
Partisans in Space edition Cozzzmo – the space
The project is part of the national cultural program “Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” and is financed and organized in partnership with the Municipality of Timișoara through the Projects Center. Supported by BRD-Groupe Société Générale. Special thanks to Darius Hupov, Felix Petrescu, Mihai Drăgan, Azilul de Calculatoare, Darko Suvin, Zoran Pantelić, Robert Schilling,... Continue Reading →
Kids workshop: Interdimensional Ships with Rareș Moldovan N.E.U.R.O.
The Interdimensional Ship Workshop is, on one hand, inspired by the geometry of Plato’s solids, Archimedes, and Johnson, and on the other hand, by the aesthetics and construction logic with metallic elements found in Meccano, Erector, or Merkur-type games. The interdimensionality of the ships is revealed as we navigate between the abstract dimension of a... Continue Reading →
Collective comics workshop Partisans in Space with Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremić
Saturday, Sept. 16 2023, 15h -17:30h, Ștefania Palace In their intervention entitled “One step forward, two steps back” in the public collection of the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Vladan and Rena deal with the heritage of modernism and drastic consequences of seemingly unlimited growth and extractivism. With the dawning of No Planet B, both extraction and unlimited exploitation is... Continue Reading →
PARTISANS IN SPACE program – Cozzzmonautica at Stefania Palace/Timisoara/15-16 September 2023
15.09 – 16.09.2023, Ștefania Palace, Timișoara “Cozzzmonautica this year is imaginatively reaching not just across vast, unreachable galactic gulfs and voids, but across the river Danube to the Balkans.At times, the city of Timisoara felt pulled closer to Belgrade, Novi Sad, and beyond.Since we know that the universe seems to be flying apart faster than our... Continue Reading →
Cozzzmo pdf booklet Forest of Antennae 2022
ARCHIVE.ORG FREE DOWNLOAD PDF We finally have a catalog/booklet and it is a first. We never had any more than posters, stickers and flyers. We also had a welcoming, comfy spaceship with lots of participants, but considering the amplitude of the event of last year, there was a need for something like this. Many thanks... Continue Reading →
Forest of Antennae -_mindcraft stories 2022 interview with SF author Stanley Chen Qiufan 陈楸帆 (in RO)
for the original interview check here Cozzzmonautica: SF-ul și inteligența artificială s-au îmbinat cu arta și metafizica De Vlad-Marko Tollea 06.10.2022 Am vorbit cu Stanley Chen Qiufan, autor SF invitat la ediția din acest an a Cozzmonautica, la Timișoara, despre diversele căi prin care putem ajunge într-un viitor ultratehnologizat Cozzzmonautica, care se definește drept „o serie de evenimente culturale... Continue Reading →
As always many thanks to Mimi Cioara (http://mimiciora.ro/) for the artwork.