Online Seminar 1.9.2025: Media and Professional Identity
Welcome to PMP Online Seminar: Media and Professional Identity
Time: 1 September 2025 at 10.00 – 14.00 CET
Place: Online in Zoom
Registration required: By registering to the seminar, you will get the Zoom-link.
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Join us for the final online seminar of the PMP project! We will address different approaches to the professional identity through engaging presentations and discussions. We will hear from the media experts in the field of culture and talk about the importance of critical reflections in the cultural domain. We will discuss the ecosystem of the art field and talk about how you can build a sustainable career within it. To wrap up, we will hear from an artist’s perspective and get inspired by how identity can be placed in the center of an artistic practice.
Programme
10:00-10:15 Welcome and introduction to speakers and topics / Culture Hub Croatia
10:15 – 11:15 The Role of Criticism in Professional Development / Kurziv
This lecture explores criticism as a space for reflection, learning, and professional positioning within both artistic and broader social contexts, with a focus on its role in the development of artistic practices and the creation of space for public dialogue. Drawing on the long-standing work of the Kulturpunkt portal and its publisher Kurziv in fostering critical practices – from publishing texts to developing educational and discursive formats – the lecture will open up questions around the role of criticism in shaping professional identity, as well as the broader significance of critical thinking in contemporary cultural fields.
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 How do you develop a sustainable career as an artist? / Jessica Capra and Zoë Rivas Zanello, Artists and the Others
It is hard to build a career in the Arts. Presenting your work to an audience, showing it, and gaining visibility is a fundamental part of an artist’s career. However, what are your options? What steps can you take? In this interactive discussion, the Dutch art Foundation The Artist and the Others’ will share the knowledge and experience accumulated in over 10 years of activity, working with different experts and developing projects and workshops aimed at helping artists develop a sustainable career. During the years, common questions have arisen in our Coaching sessions for artists. This lecture provides answers to these fundamental questions. Breaking down key steps, tools and points, this lecture is especially tailored for soon-to-be, and recently graduated artists.
13:00-13:15 Break
13:15 – 14:00 Anne Ampersand – to be and also and and / Marko Gutić Mižimakov
Anne Ampersand is a drag computer vision specialist, working gig-to-gig deleting unwanted objects from stock photos. Her drag isn’t just queenly but a method—passing as material, wearing another’s language. ‘”I’m in drag when I write in English, when I speak through borrowed voices to trespass and play.”
Speakers
JESSICA CAPRA is a cultural professional with over ten years experience, working in culture and supporting artists in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, Turkey and Italy. She initiates and develops cultural projects based on needs, created to make a change. She works for and with artists and cultural professionals. The pillars of every project she develops are: the promotion of shared knowledge, the need to connect people, enhance skills and start new collaborations that can create value for the current cultural situation. Her passion for motivating, empowering and advising others, especially young cultural professionals and artists, led her to the creation of The Artist and The Others. She is also the initiator of the Summer Training for emerging artists. And she is a certified ‘fundamental’ coach. Currently, she is researching the topic of ‘parenting in the arts’, to create a more inclusive and fair art-world.
IG: @allymcjes
ZOË RIVAS ZANELLO is an English-Italian cultural professional working across communication, development, and education in the contemporary art field. With a background in art, education, psychology and cultural studies, she supports artists and organisations through collaborative project coordination, writing, and community-focused engagement in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. She completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Trieste in Italy in 2018, with a thesis on Neuroesthetics and subjectivity in the Arts, and obtained an MA in Arts and Heritage at Maastricht University in 2020, with a research dissertation on the sustainability of International Artist Residencies. Alongside her academic journey, she has also continued to develop her own artistic practice, studying at Turps Independent Art School in London (2022-2024). Driven by a deep interest in exchange, accessibility, and long-term impact, she has been working with The Artist and the Others (NL) since 2021, focusing on the communication and development of artist-centred initiatives. She also coordinates projects for Neo Associazione Culturale (IT) and teaches English for the British Institutes (IT). Believing in the pivotal role of art in society, through all her work, she strives to create spaces for reflection, collaboration, and dialogue.
zoerivas.com, IG: @zoerivaszanello
MARKO GUTIĆ MIŽIMAKOV is a visual, performance and text based artist living between Brussels and Zagreb. They are interested in shaping sensory materials through intimate, collaborative and social processes. In their work bodies, as well as digital and palpable objects, are animated, choreographed and sung into non-orientable forms via different media and processes of translation. Often borrowing from queer science fiction they see their work as a speculative technology of mutual transformation. They have an MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. From May 2022 until September 2023 they were an artistic researcher at a.pass. Currently they are an adjunct faculty member at Paris College of Art in the department of Transdisciplinary New Media.
Organisations
KURZIV is an organisation based in Croatia. Launched in 2005, Kulturpunkt.hr marks 20 years of continuous work in 2025. It is the central project of the organization Kurziv and remains the only Croatian media outlet that systematically covers the independent cultural scene and emerging critical artistic practices. The portal is built around critical and analytical texts produced by its editorial team and a wide network of contributors – including established authors, field experts, and young writers gaining their first professional experience through Kulturpunkt. In addition to the local scene, the portal regularly covers cultural and social phenomena from the wider region and the world, keeping readers informed about relevant international developments and contexts.
THE ARTIST AND THE OTHERS is a non-profit foundation which bases all activities on the understanding that the arts are important for our society, and awareness of the benefits of shared knowledge. The foundation, initiated in 2013, supports artists and cultural professionals in building their careers in the cultural field. Our goal is to overcome the difficulties that artists and cultural professionals encounter, especially in the first years after their studies, a critical period when they need to establish connections, and develop the knowledge and necessary skills to boost their future careers.
theartistandtheothers.nl, IG: @theartistandtheothers
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