Notes from the Table: A Not-Yet Manifesto

An experimental text that takes as its point of inspiration a circuit-board-like diagram drawn in 1990 by Ivan Paić, co-founder of the Multimedia Center, Student Center Zagreb (MM Center). Founded in 1976 and led initially by Hrvoje Turković with Ivan Ladislav Galeta and Ivan Paić, the MM Center was a hub for experimental media and performance within the framework of the Student Center cultural department. Mapping the interconnectedness of cultural activities and economic means, Paić’s circuit-board-like diagram provides a model for thinking about the terms of, as well as relations between, aesthetic production, social action, and public presentation. As a digital rendering, the piece enacts an imagined expanded cinema installation in which Zone Collective reconfigures the drawing to see what it might offer for articulating the entanglements of critical praxis, memory politics, and material conditions.