The project SERBIA.NET started in Belgrade as a part of the seminar tittled NETWORKING at the initiative of the cultural centre Cinema REX. Its aim is to bring culture managers together, introduce them to each other and to encourage them to work together.

The seminar brought together art managers and cultural event organizers, representatives of state financed cultural institutions and NGOs from Kragujevac, Niš, Užice, Cacak, Becej, Novi Sad and Belgrade. During their work which lasted two days they defined problems and collected relevant facts on the basis of which the goals of the project SERBIA.NET were defined. It was concluded that there is a need and that time is ripe for this kind of coordination and collaboration. It is obvious that this is one of rare means of decentralizing culture, since the initiative to collaborate came from the very root. When proposing joint projects as well as exchange projects is concerned the centres and initiatives from Belgrade, Novi Sad and Becej set a good example (the participants who came from Novi Sad and Becej were particularly interested in developing projects in Vojvodina) which indicates that the level of development of the provincial scenes is low. The negotiations on the future co-opration have alredy started in the course of the meeting. Dom Omladine Beograda (the Belgrade Youth Centre) offered its projects, REX, CEMPI and ANT negotiated with colleagues on possible profile of joint projects.

Professor Milena Dragicevic Šešic and Andreas Broekmann delivered introductory lectures about the aspects of networking in Yugoslavia and abroad. On Friday, March 3, 2000 Andreas Broekmann gave a lecture about new trends in the development of media art and the strategies of using electronic networks, which provided examples that range from autonomous art projects to post media on-line experience of the international groups of media activists and artists.