SEEcult.org

SEEcult.org is a Belgrade based NGO, and founder of the same-name internet portal for facilitating exchange of information and enhancing collaboration between South-East European countries (and others beyond SEE) by providing up-to-date news, reviews, interviews, opportunities and open calls, databases and presentations of organisations and artists, as well as by initiating or participating in colaborative projects and organising networking in the region.

Founded in 2003, SEEcult.org portal is developmental informative-educational and presentation-documentary on-line platform for the SEE culture and art, established in aim to inform, present and help development of an open cultural and artistic scene in region, as well as its integration into Europe and international promotion. Its aim is also to help cultural institutions, artists and artistic organizations in planning and exchange of production, presenting their creative works and more active participation in the regional, European and world scene, as well as to encourage ideas exchanges, development of critical standpoints and overcoming stereotypes and to contribute to internet development as new media.

Beside daily updated news production about events, cultural policies, open calls, debates and various projects in SEE region and above (on Serbian and sson to be partly on English), SEEcult.org also has an Events calendar, Photo galleries, Artists gallery (photographs / reproduction of art works of selected artists from different generations (Marina Abramovic, Rasa Todosijevic, Zoran Popovic, Nesa Paripovic, Dragan Ilic, Mrdjan Bajic, Milovan Destil Markovic, Vlastimir Mikic, Aca Rafajlovic, Dragan Papic, Vladimir Peric Talent, Marica Radojcic Presic, Dusan Gerzic Gera, Mileta Prodanovic, Zampa di Leone, Selman Trtovac, Tatjana Ilic, Manik, Branka Kuzmanovic, Vladan Jeremic, Igor Stromajer... plus young talents), Profiles, Blog, E-books, searchable archive, and special tools for users (web mail, intranet, content participation tools…).

Target groups are professionals in art and culture field, as well as general public.

New website, started at the end of 2008, is fully web 2.0 optimised and provides much more interactivity of users, as well as profile presentations of artists and cultural institutions, and other opportunities for creating and distributing of content, including in globally most popular social web networks.

Distribution of content is via newsletter, through media e-mail list and various web 2.0 interactive tools.

SEEcult.org is also one of founders of the Informal Network of South-East European Cultural Portals (www.inSEEcp.net), which is a result of regional workshops and conferencies of cultural portals (Belgrade 2006-2008), organised by SEEcult.org with support of the Goethe-Institute Belgrade / Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe as the first initiative of that kind in the countries of former Yugoslavia.

SEEcult.org is partly sponsored by Belgrade City Council and Ministry of Culture of Serbia, as well as by its founders and partners.

President of SEEcult.org NGO and editor-in-chief of portal is Miroljub Mima Marjanovic, and director and project coordinator is Vesna Milosavljevic.