Published: 18 April 2010.
Balt, Baltazar, Balt, Baltazar...
And while in the many parts of the world eruption of the volcano
stopped work and travel, on saturday other type of the eruption
stopped time at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Forteen speakers,
six performers, musicians and 233 participants of the first
Croatian TEDx event found themselves in a time capsule.
But in there all the time were also twitters and facebookers who
watched the event via the web cast. Had there been by their wish
lunch would surely have lasted less, aswell as all other breaks,
but this was the time for introductions, exchanging ideas, advices.
Talk begun after the lights switched off in the theatre and lasted
right up to Baltazar call.
"It may seem inappropriate that instead of watching someone's
eyes you first check what it says on the pass, but here it is
desirable," said Nenad Maljković one of the curators and
organizers, the night before the gathering of participants at the
hotel Porin. But what to write as the topic at the place where all
topics are permitted and where the mind is wide open for areas that
may not be the center of interest in everyday life?
Biologists have listened with pleasure marketing specialist Tina
Lee Odinsky-Zec, scientists liked the story about the love of their
fellow Davor Pavuna, and all were equally thrilled with crested
irony and almost child's giggle of designer Boris Ljubičić.
For us it was a day in the laboratory of Professor Baltazar.
Everything seemed possible and reasonable by itself. Out of space
achievements, electric car, secret codes printed on silk,
transparent politics, world peace and reducing emissions of carbon
dioxide through marine snow and air exhauster.
"We're on the TEDx map now" - said Željko Krnjak, creative
director TEDxZagreb.
It is a good start, we would add.
While expecting videos to show up on our web and Facebook page,
check out these photos to see how it was...