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[Nettime-bold] metabolics#4 with geert lovink


[probably too late for the announcer, but everybody from
the unmoderated nettime stream is invited to switch to 
the metabolics live stream tomorrow night! see you, florian]


>> METABOLICS // STOFFWECHSEL#4

THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2001 20:00 +0100 (MET)
Muffathalle, Munich
Live Stream: <http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics>

RE: MORNING AFTER

With: Geert Lovink (Sidney) and guests

A crash in slow motion: For nearly a year now, technology
stock markets are on decline, as inevitably as they have
risen incredibly the time before. Beyond IPOs and
spectacular mergers the "New Economy" suddenly reveals
discrepancies wich make the cliches appear markedly
harmless: For years the slogan "Laptop and Lederhosen" was
featuring the hype of a new economy in the area around
Munich, which vaunts as the fourth biggest high-tech and new
media cluster worldwide. Immaterial work in electronic
networks promised a radical new definition of gainful
employment that from now on was to be organized flexibly and
in a self dependent way. This idea sounded good and
obviously was not a problem, as long as there was enough
venture capital. 

As it turned out, that not everybody can be a entrepreneur,
and that the new markets are a bit more complicated than a
savings book - what is the point of the "New Economy"? And,
above all: What expects us on the morning after the crash?
Will incrusted structures and old thinking be triumphing, or
just those who joined the swan songs of the information
economy in time? Is there any reason to gloat at all or did
the hype concerning electronic business have its good sides,
too? Which fate will the truly innovative ideas be doomed
to, as it has become more difficult to make money even out
of the most stupid monkey business? And, how does all this
affect the developement of digital cultures and ongoing
artistic production?

METABOLICS/STOFFWECHSEL#4 will discuss what accounts for the
digital economy, especially in times of insolvencies, waves
of dismissals and dramatic share price losses. In an open
debate Lovink will dispute with protagonists of the local
start-up scene as well as cultural activists and artists. 

Geert Lovink is co-founder of Adilkno/BILWET, "The
Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge"
<http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet>, the "Digital City
Amsterdam" <http://www.dds.nl> and "De Waag"
<http://www.waag.org>, the Society for old an new media.
With Pit Schultz he founded in 1995 the mailing list
"nettime" <http://www.nettime.org>, probably the most
important ressource for net criticism until today. Lovink
co-organized numerous conferences and congresses, among them
the legendary "Next five Minutes" <http://www.n5m.org> and
the Hybrid Workspace at documenta X. Recently, in last May,
"Tulipomania Dot Com" <http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania> was
the early attempt of a critique of the internet economy,
wich doesn't fall into cultural pessimism, but still manages
to hold resistance against prevailing dogma. 

METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL is going to present innovative
projects and debates in net.art, .culture and .politics on a
monthly basis, starting from january 2001, in the
Muffathalle in Munich. METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL#1 is
curated by Florian Schneider, Harald Staun and Dietmar
Lupfer. METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL will be streamed live and
stored in a database.
<http://www.linksverkehr.de/metabolics>

If you want to be informed regurarily about the program,
receive additional information and take part in ongoing
discussions, we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter:
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