Video from the lecture​

Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies – NAPON is a non-profit organization

based in Novi Sad/Serbia. NAPON’s activities are fields of social and cultural practices,

information and communication technologies (ICT) and recent official and unofficial

media and cultural history. Besides dealing with global questions, the Institute is also

oriented towards cultural problems emerged in local and regional history.

Novi Sad is the first Serbian city that the Danube river reaches. Being created on coasts

of the Danube, its development took place around this river, but also greatly depends on

it. Throughout the history, the Danube shaped city of Novi Sad into a multicultural place.

Artist and cultural organizations of this city try to includes Danube in it's rich and diverse

art scene through art projects and artistic research.

First focus of this lecture will be on cultural practice of Institute for Flexible Cultures and

Technologies – NAPON as organizer and producer of various events that doesn't involve

Danube directly but remains open to it and tries to create opportunities for new practices

in the field of art & science that may or may not include it. Second part of the lecture will

shortly introduce the current state of Novi Sad art scene and art projects that include

Danube river as ecological and environmental factor in their research.