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[apologies for delays and/or duplications. we're a little, uh, understaffed these days.--tb] From: Australian Network for Art and Technology <anat@anat.org.au> Subject: ANAT announce: Alchemic outcomes From: Alternative <altreur@tin.it> Subject: From: "Premsa del MECAD" <press@mecad.org> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PRESENTACI=D3N_ARTEVISI=D3N?= From: Boaduchild@aol.com Subject: Check this out!!!!! - New Ghanaian Artist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From: "Chris Drew" <ddrew@21stcentury.net> Subject: ART-ACT Notes 20b From: Kalina Bunevska <kalina@scca.org.mk> Subject: Invitation From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Subject: Final CFP: Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University From: Alice Smits <113163.120@compuserve.com> Subject: press release Hotel New York PS1 Sunday May 21 From: Ute Lenssen <Lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de> Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg 2 EventCity From: Diana McCarty <diana@vifu.de> Subject: ART@VIFU Call for proposals!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:56:42 +1030 From: Australian Network for Art and Technology <anat@anat.org.au> Subject: ANAT announce: Alchemic outcomes The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) announce --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public presentations emanating from ** Alchemy ** International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators in partnership with Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts, Queensland, Australia, May/June 2000 and live on the internet at http://www.anat.org.au/alchemy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANAT's International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators is currently in progress at the new Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts. For five intense weeks (from 8 May to 9 June 2000) artists, curators and theorists have come together to germinate and hothouse their ideas, test their hypotheses, develop new processes and create new works, within the context of an intensive learning environment. To culturally contextualise the project, satellite events - combining fora with open days - will be held, giving the public and media an opportunity to view the work-in-progress produced by participants. These events will be streamed live to the web. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All events will take place at: Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts 117 Lamington Street New Farm, Brisbane, Qld --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY 22 MAY 6.30- 8.30 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (08.30 - 10.30 GMT) VISY THEATRE, Brisbane Powerhouse "Hardspace vs Softspace" New media exhibition and Net Art practices Alchemy Tutors Mike Stubbs, Sara Diamond, Alexei Shulgin, and Mongrel will be joined by Ross Gibson, Artistic Director of the Cinemedia Galleries, Federation Square, Melbourne. The session will be chaired by Julianne Pierce, ANAT chairperson, artist and new media curator. THURSDAY 25 MAY 6.30 - 8.30 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (08.30 - 10.30 GMT) VISY THEATRE, Brisbane Powerhouse "A DIGITAL REGION?" Alchemy tutor Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and participants of the masterclass Gong-xin Wang, Shilpa Gupta, Deborah Lawler-Dormer, Hartanto and Christiawan will present their work and discuss repercussions of working in Digital Media in an Asian and Pacific context. The session with be chaired by ANAT Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley. WEDNESDAY 31 MAY 7 - 9 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (08.30 - 10.30 GMT) COURIER MAIL ROOFTOP TERRACE, Brisbane Powerhouse Performance - streaming media/ web demonstrations by Alexei Shulgin, Blast Theory and participants of the Alchemy Masterclass. Join Alchemy participants for an informal evening of performance. AND STAY TUNED FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A PRESENTATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS ON JUNE 8 IN THE VISY THEATRE!! During the Alchemy masterclass, all participants are being provided with 24 hour access to a lab., exhibition / installation, performance space and workrooms in the exciting new Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts <http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.com>. Highly experienced curators and artists are providing training and leading workshops for participants, within the context of a critical production site. The makeup and composition of the Masterclass will constantly evolve, as tutors and participants undertake different aspects of the project. The Masterclass will engage with a diverse range of topics: from science discourses to indigenous issues to curatorial practice. Of particular note will be the component of the masterclass dedicated to performance and hybrid practices being developed in collaboration with the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council. As the project is intended as a dynamic one, there will be continual opportunities for exchange of ideas. Tutors for the project are: * Alexei Shulgin, net artist, performer and curator, from Moscow * Nina Czegledy, An independent media artist, curator and writer, Czegledy divides her time between Canada and Europe * Mongrel, a mixed bunch of people and machines working to celebrate the methods of an 'ignorant' and 'filthy' London street culture. Mongrel make socially engaged cultural product employing any and all technological advantage that they can lay their hands on * Geert Lovink, lecturer and activist who has participated in many conferences on independent media, the arts and new technologies internationally, and has presented at previous ANAT events, CODE RED and resistant media: NxT * John Tonkin, animator, web artist who develops his own software in low level programming languages such as C++ and Java. Tonkin has taught at many of the previous ANAT National Summer Schools and is currently in receipt of a fellowship from the Australia Council's New Media Fund * Rea, (Gamileroi/ Wailwan), an internationally recognised artist who specialises in developing digital media, and who also participated in the 1999 ANAT National Summer School in Science and Art * Mike Stubbs, artist and curator who works with sculptural installation, performance, film, video and installations. Until recently he was the Director of Hull Time Based Arts and has just started a Research Residency at the Department of Television Imaging, Dundee University, UK * Sara Diamond, Director for the New Media and Visual Arts programs of the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada * Tess de Quincy and Laura Jordan, respectively performance artist and new media artists. Tess and Laura have collaborated on performance and research events including Triple Alice, an ongoing project over three years which seeks to provide a space for cross disciplinary research and development * Marko Peljan, Ljubljana based performance and communication artist and writer, founder of the arts organisation Projekt Atol and Program Coordinator of Ljudmila (Ljubljana digital media lab). His most recent work Makrolab was part of Documenta X, and is currently installed at Rottnest Island as part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Homeproject; <http://makrolab.ljudmila.org> * Blast Theory, is a group of four artists (two of whom will be at Alchemy) based in London who make live events, installation and new media work * Shuddhabrata Sengupta from New Delhi, India is currently working towards the establishment of the Sarai new media initiative, participant of ANAT's Resistant Media project as part of the NxT Darwin Multimedia Symposium last year. Shuddha also works with the RAQS Media Collective in New Delhi on video and other media based projects <http://www.sarai.org> Participants for this inaugural International Masterclass are: Brook Andrews (NSW), Bruce Gladwin (Vic), Caroline Farmer (SA), Chris Dempsey (Qld), Christian Thompson (Vic), Christiawan (Indonesia), Deborah Lawler-Dormer (NZ), Dena Curtis (NT), Edwina Bartleme (Qld), Gongxin Wang (China), Grisha Coleman (NY), Hartanto (Indonesia), Jane Schneider (Qld), Jenny Fraser (Qld), Jernej Kozar (Slovenia), Jo Law (WA), Kamal Krishna (Qld), Keith Armstrong (Qld), Kelli Mccluskey (WA), Kim Machan (Qld), Lisa Anderson (Qld), Mae Adams (Vic), Mari Velonaki (NSW), Maryanne Lynch (Qld), Megan Rainey (SA), Mike Stubbs (UK), Monica Narula (India), Partha Pratim Sarker (Bangl.), Patricia Adams (Qld), Peter Toy (WA), Raewyn Turner (NZ), Raul Ferrera (Mexico), Rebecca Youdell (Qld), Rolando Ramos (NSW), Sam James (NSW), Sarah Ryan (Tas), Sarah Neville (SA), Sheridan Kennedy (NSW), Shilpa Gupta (India), Sophea Lerner (NSW), Steve Bull (WA), Vanessa Mafe-Kean (Qld). For additional information, visit http://www.anat.org.au/projects/alchemy/ or contact Amanda McDonald Crowley on 0419 829 313. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alchemy is made possible with the generous financial assistance of the Daniel Langlois Foundation the Young and Emerging Artists Initiative (an initiative of the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council), the federal government's arts funding and advisory body) the Australian Film Commission, and has received further support from Arts Queensland, the South Australian Government through Arts SA, Arts Tasmania and the NSW Ministry for the Arts. The event is being sponsored by Apple Computers (Australia) Choice Connections, Macromedia and Adobe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE DESK OF THE AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY anat@anat.org.au postal address: PO Box 8029, Station Arcade, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia web address: http://www.anat.org.au/ ph: +61 (0)8-8231-9037 fax: +61 (0)8-8211-7323 Director: Amanda McDonald Crowley (mobile: 0419 829 313) Manager: Amber Carvan Web & Technical officer: Michael Shanahan Information Officer: Charity Bramwell Memberships: $A12 (unwaged), $A25 (waged), $A50 (institutions) Please note that memberships are subject to GST. ANAT receives support from The Australia Council, http://www.ozco.gov.au the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:13:09 +0200 From: Alternative <altreur@tin.it> Subject: Rivista "ALTERNATIVE" Numero monografico di riflessione e analisi sulle prospettive dell'alternativa ----------------------------------------------------- * SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, LONDRA. CONTRO IL NEOLIBERISMO, E' L'ORA DELLA SOCIETA' "INCIVILE" * HAIDER. LA PUNTA DELL'ICEBERG DELLA CRISI POLITICA DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA * CONTRIBUTI ROSSO-VERDI PER UNA CRITICA DEL CAPITALISMO Testi di N. Bullard, P. Cacciari, P. Ferrero, D. Jervolino, G. Prestipino, F. Russo, A. Tosel, L. Vinci ---------------------------------------------------- Chi non conosce "Alternative" puo' chiederne una copia omaggio. 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I sommari dei numeri precedenti sono sul sito della rivista: <http://web.tiscalinet.it/alternativeuropa> ------------------------------------------------------ Rivista "Alternative" - V.le Zara 119 - 20159 Milano 02/683287 - altreur@tin.it - http://web.tiscalinet.it/alternativeuropa ------------------------------------------------------- Se si desidera essere cancellati da questa mailing list, si prega di inviare una reply a questo messaggio scrivendo nel subject, o nello spazio per il testo: "cancellatemi dalla mailing list". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Premsa del MECAD" <press@mecad.org> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PRESENTACI=D3N_ARTEVISI=D3N?= Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:07:21 +0200 MECAD y el Museo de Arte Contempor=E1neo de Barcelona MACBA=20 se complacen en invitarles a la presentación del CD-ROM=20 ARTEVISION - UNA HISTORIA DEL ARTE ELCTRONICO EN ESPA=D1A que tendr=E1 lugar=20 el viernes 19 de mayo, a las 19:30h en el auditorio del MACBA, Pla=E7a dels Angels, 1, Barcelona Con la participación de Eugeni Bonet, asesor cient=EDfico, Lilia = Pérez, realizadora y Claudia Giannetti, directora de la edición. ArteVisión - Una historia del arte electrónico en Espa=F1a, = producido por MECAD, es la primera investigación exhaustiva de la = historia, sus creadores y las principales obras realizadas en Espa=F1a = en el =E1mbito del arte electrónico desde los sesenta hasta los = noventa. Esta edición en CD-ROM incluye una amplia antolog=EDa de los artistas = espa=F1oles y sus obras (m=E1s de 200 entradas ilustradas), = información completa de los diferentes medios (cine experimental, = electrógraf=EDa, holograf=EDa, v=EDdeo, instalación audiovisual e = interactiva, performance, infograf=EDa y animación digital, = fotograf=EDa digital, arte en CD-ROM y en Internet), as=ED como = bibliograf=EDas espec=EDficas y un amplio directorio actual. La edición est=E1 dirigida por Claudia Giannetti y cuenta con la = asesor=EDa cient=EDfica de Eugeni Bonet, la colaboración teórica de = Joan Fontcuberta, Marisa Gonz=E1lez y Vicente Carretón; y la = creación musical original de Eduardo Polonio. (Edición castellano/inglés, versión para Mac y PC) Con el apoyo de: Fundació Caixa de Sabadell, Sabadell-Barcelona Escola Superior de Disseny ESDI, = Sabadell-Barcelona Para m=E1s información consultar: http://www.mecad.org/cd-rom.html MECAD, Avda Marqu=E8s de Comillas, 79-83 08202 Sabadell/Barcelona Tel. 93 745 70 40 Fax. 93 726 81 83 e-mail: info@mecad.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Boaduchild@aol.com Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:04:15 EDT Subject: Check this out!!!!! - New Ghanaian Artist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To: nettime-l@Desk.nl Hello, Check out this new artist of Ghanaian descent - Abenaa. Fantastic voice, AND great songs too! - She'll be performing in NYC for the "To Amadou with love": A Tribute to the slain Amadou Diallo, June 19th, 2000. click here! <A HREF="http://www.abenaa.com"> Abenaa.com website </A> Enjoy! Paula - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Chris Drew" <ddrew@21stcentury.net> To: "Chris Drew" <umcac@art-teez.org> Subject: ART-ACT Notes 20b Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:21:26 -0500 To unsubscribe from To unsubscribe from ART-ACT Notes 20b simply reply with unsubscribe in the Subject line. Welcome Australian artist - Dean Teniswood. Welcome back Ellen contributing from South Africa. Welcome Carlos N. Molina from New York. In case you have not noticed the pace of contributions to ART-ACT is picking up. That is because it is an idea whose time is near for a break through. Thanks for remaining on our list. Please pass on the news of this active mailing list to friends. Check out "Family Rights are Human Rights" by Ellen Papciak-Rose submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/epr2.htm Check out "Stomp Out Racism" by Dean Teniswood submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/dt1.htm Check out "DWB - Driving While Black or Brown" by Carlos N. Molina submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/cnm1.htm The On-Going Story of Community Art (will return in ART-ACT Notes 21) It is important for me to continue this story of what went into building UM-CAC. It is - in the end much more than I who have built UM-CAC into what it is at present. I have simply been blessed to be their servant over that period, appointed by the fact I was willing to accept the job at no-pay for a dozen years. Hundreds of artists from Chicago and beyond have contributed over these years. This story will resume in a soon to come ART-ACT Notes long ago, when I am facing my landlord in St-Paul, Minnesota in 1977. I had up to this point, never experienced the sting of welfare. I had - however - experienced the sting of the "road" or the "street" or the "feet in a shelter" before. I had a start on the process of acclimation. Tune - in for next episode and keep checking out the ART-ACT art. Chris Drew <mailto:umcac@art-teez.org> Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center http://www.art-teez.org We dress Chicago and the Internet in t-shirt art. Come get some! 773/561-7676 USEFUL LINKS FOR DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING WEBSITES Search Engines http://www.searchenginewatch.com/whatsnew.html Free Newletter that is well known. http://searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi Webmasters discuss Search Engine issues. http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/searchengine.htm Articles on Search Engines. http://www.virtualpromote.com/ Free Newletter with promotion tips - plus much more. http://www.techmailings.com/ Free Newletters sorted into categories tech & web help topics. Internet Promotion http://www.online-pr.com/ Great source for media links and public relations needs. http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Informat ion_and_Documentation/Site_Announcement_and_Promotion/ Lots of Promotion sites including many of the above. http://www.newsbureau.com/tips/ Articles on dealing with the media to promote your website. Website Maintenance http://www.netmechanic.com/ Check your links, HTML, page load time, and spelling. http://www.linkpopularity.com/ Link Popularity - Check out what sites link back to yours. http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Free software to check all the links on your site. http://inventory.go2.com/inventory/Search_Suggestion.jhtml Test your keywords/find new ones. simply reply with unsubscribe in the Subject line. Welcome Australian artist - Dean Teniswood. Welcome back Ellen contributing from South Africa. Welcome Carlos N. Molina from New York. In case you have not noticed the pace of contributions to ART-ACT is picking up. That is because it is an idea whose time is near for a break through. Thanks for remaining on our list. Please pass on the news of this active mailing list to friends. Check out "Family Rights are Human Rights" by Ellen Papciak-Rose submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/epr2.htm Check out "Stomp Out Racism" by Dean Teniswood submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/dt1.htm Check out "DWB - Driving While Black or Brown" by Carlos N. Molina submitted to ART-ACT at http://www.art-teez.org/artists/cnm1.htm The On-Going Story of Community Art (will return in ART-ACT Notes 21) It is important for me to continue this story of what went into building UM-CAC. It is - in the end much more than I who have built UM-CAC into what it is at present. I have simply been blessed to be their servant over that period, appointed by the fact I was willing to accept the job at no-pay for a dozen years. Hundreds of artists from Chicago and beyond have contributed over these years. This story will resume in a soon to come ART-ACT Notes long ago, when I am facing my landlord in St-Paul, Minnesota in 1977. I had up to this point, never experienced the sting of welfare. I had - however - experienced the sting of the "road" or the "street" or the "feet in a shelter" before. I had a start on the process of acclimation. Tune - in for next episode and keep checking out the ART-ACT art. Chris Drew <mailto:umcac@art-teez.org> Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center http://www.art-teez.org We dress Chicago and the Internet in t-shirt art. Come get some! 773/561-7676 USEFUL LINKS FOR DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING WEBSITES Search Engines http://www.searchenginewatch.com/whatsnew.html Free Newletter that is well known. http://searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi Webmasters discuss Search Engine issues. http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/searchengine.htm Articles on Search Engines. http://www.virtualpromote.com/ Free Newletter with promotion tips - plus much more. http://www.techmailings.com/ Free Newletters sorted into categories tech & web help topics. Internet Promotion http://www.online-pr.com/ Great source for media links and public relations needs. http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Informat ion_and_Documentation/Site_Announcement_and_Promotion/ Lots of Promotion sites including many of the above. http://www.newsbureau.com/tips/ Articles on dealing with the media to promote your website. Website Maintenance http://www.netmechanic.com/ Check your links, HTML, page load time, and spelling. http://www.linkpopularity.com/ Link Popularity - Check out what sites link back to yours. http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Free software to check all the links on your site. http://inventory.go2.com/inventory/Search_Suggestion.jhtml Test your keywords/find new ones. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:51:30 +0100 From: Kalina Bunevska <kalina@scca.org.mk> Subject: Invitation The Contemporary Art Center - Skopje, Macedonia cordially invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition SPIRAL Andrej Mitevski http://www.scca.org.mk Wednesday, 17.05.2000, 8.00 PM CIX Gallery (Orce Nikolov 109) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:19:08 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Subject: Final CFP: Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University Please distribute this CFP widely, Thank You. Submission Deadline June 1. Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables for: Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University webpage: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning Submission system: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/lol September 27-30, 2000 Hotel Roanoke Roanoke Virginia Drawing upon six years' of experience, the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech will continue the serious, sustained, and on-going debate about the merits of online teaching and distance education launched at "Learning Online '98" in June 1998 with "Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University." The purpose of this conference is to gather colleagues from around the world who are interested in the shape and substance that the virtual university is acquiring in practice. In addition we hope to debate the advantages or disadvantages of digital discourse, learning online, and virtual university life. By reviewing the quality of faculty life, the pressures on support staff, the impact on student learning, the demands on university administrators, and the potentials for reaching new types of learners, a series of paper sessions, round-table discussions, panels, and keynote speakers will address the wide range of issues that emerge in this domain. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Carole Barone, Educause Keith Fulton, Urban League Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at University of California Los Angeles Michael Joyce, Professor of English at Vassar College Stuart Moulthrop, Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Baltimore Mark Poster, Professor of History at University of California Irvine Some Suggested Topics: Administering Online Universities Best Practices in Online Learning Digital Discourse For Profit and Not For Profit Virtual Universities Hypertext/Hypermedia Intellectual Property and Online Learning Legalities and Illegalities Online Meanings of and Motives for Virtualizing University Education Online Learning Environments: Creating Communities Scholarship and the Teaching Profession Online What Fails Online and Why? If you have questions about the conference contact Len Hatfield at Len.Hatfield@vt.edu or Tim Luke at twluke@vt.edu Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:35:08 -0400 From: Alice Smits <113163.120@compuserve.com> Subject: press release Hotel New York PS1 Sunday May 21 HOTEL NEW YORK P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Gallery 205 Hotel New York is an initiative of the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, that marked her participation in the International Studio Program 1998/99 at PS1. Jeanne has passed the torch to Alice Smits to organize Hotel New York 2000. Gallery 205 at PS1 is transformed into a replica of a hotelroom of Hotel New York in Rotterdam, that is located in the former head office of the Holland-America line. Until 1978 people from all over Europa left for America from this harbour town to find their luck across the ocean. The studio is called the Willem de Kooning Room, in memory of Willem de Kooning who left Rotterdam as a stowaway on board of the Holland-America line to New York. With Hotel New York PS1 a cultural line to New York is created. Hotel New York functions as a working/ and showing space for artists, performers, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and curators. During the year Alice Smits will invite guests to stay, work and present projects, performances, and lectures to the public. As a hotelroom, Hotel New York echoes the history of travel and thus reflects the migration and nomadic movements of the contemporary art world. While artists and curators travel all over the world, the hotel room is where it all happens. Hotel New York is a space for live events focusing on artists projects that emphasize interdisciplinarity and public interaction. In the intimate situation of a living space, Hotel New York offers an interesting context for making and presenting such projects within the contemporary art museum. Sunday, May 21 Hotel New York presents "Prada in Hotel New York/L.A.Raeven" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:57:13 +0200 Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg 2 EventCity From: Ute Lenssen <Lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de> > Diese Nachricht ist im MIME-Format. Da Ihr Mailreader dieses Format nicht unterstützt, könnte diese Nachricht ganz oder teilweise unlesbar sein. Event City Bauhaus Kolleg 2 The second Bauhaus Kolleg, which begins in September 2000, will examine the changes in architecture and the urban environment in an event-oriented society. The urban entertainment culture of the 21st century has spawned a host of event worlds for shows, amusement and consumerism. Malls, theme parks, amusement centres and events are symbols of the cultural change accompanying the disintegration of the previously separate spheres of culture, politics, society and business. The marketing of cities and regions with spectacular presentations of history and culture and the redevelopment of city centres to create event spaces for shopping and entertainment are an eloquent expression of this development. In ever fewer cases is this process of urban reorganisation the product of town planning schemes devised by the public authorities. The commercialisation of cities is being accompanied by a loss of public space, increasing controls and a growing exclusion of the poor and destitute. The commercialisation of culture is celebrating its triumphal march in the event city. Architecture, as an artistic product, is barely in a position to hold its ground against the powerful flow of cultural goods. It forms part of the window dressing which cities are using to generate an image for themselves. Architecture becomes a consumer item. Global popular culture is leaving its mark on cities in the 21st century. Urban life is the vessel for a colourful mixture of blends and interfusions, for the re-composition of cultural practices and the re-telling of narratives. The images and scripts of global mass culture are being woven into the routines and imaginary worlds of everyday urban life. Cities are witness to struggles for cultural representation. The power configurations for the articulation of different cultures in the event city provide an indication of the social structure of the post-industrial city. The culture of the 21st century city is an area of conflicting interpretations and practices with an explosive juxtaposition of new inequalities and non-contemporaneity. This confused situation makes it more and more difficult for architects and urban developers to exercise their responsibility for the design and structure of public spaces. The second Bauhaus Kolleg will focus on the changes in the urban environment brought about by the cultural revamping which cities are undergoing. It will investigate and analyse the changed conditions in the development of the urban environment in an event-oriented society with a view to drawing up design strategies for an "event city beyond sprawl". Urban entertainment centres with their combination of shopping and popular culture can be seen as prototypes for the re-urbanisation of cities. They illustrate the globalisation of urban culture. Project development, management and design are in the hands of trans-national companies. The goods they have on offer can be found anywhere in the world. It is in these centres that the global and the local space come together. The second Bauhaus Kolleg will incorporate a study of themed department stores as urban spatial nodes. The design opportunities incorporated in the blueprint for an urban entertainment centre as an event space for diverse cultures and as a flexible structure for change and exchange will be discussed using this type of event city as an example. 1st term - September 1st to November 30th 2000 "Event worlds" - theory and method The aim of the first term is to provide a comprehensive overview of the development trends in culture, society, economics, planning and architecture in the event-oriented society. It will deal with the theory and history, methodological access to and practical knowledge of the development of the event city. The first term will be divided up into two blocks. The lectures and seminars in the first block will provide an overview of the complexity of the event city. The workshops in the second block will focus on methods of studying and designing urban environments using the project location, the European quarter in Frankfurt, as an example. The teaching programme will be supplemented by excursions to urban event worlds in Germany and to the project location. 2nd term - February 14th to May 11th 2001 "Urban spatial node" - an architectural blueprint Frankfurt am Main is planning to erect a new district, the European quarter, around an urban entertainment centre for shopping, entertainment and popular culture on disused railway sidings and a site not far from the exhibition centre. This project is one of the many examples of urban redevelopment engineered by an alliance of private investors, trans-national companies and commercial architectural interests. The ensuing transfer of the centre to a homogenised, commercialised and controlled event world is the subject of much discussion. The flashy shop window of a standardised urban future clearly reflects a loss of urbanity. The Bauhaus Kolleg will devise a model for an urban entertainment centre in the European quarter in Frankfurt as part of an architectural blueprint. It will be based on an understanding of the urban event world as an "urban spatial node", as a flexible structure providing an interfusion of local and global space, commercialised cultural events and everyday cultural practices. 3rd term - June 19th to September 14th 2001 "Artscapes" - art in practice "Artscapes" is the term Arjun Appadurai applies to images of the here and now, images on which works of art are based and from which they derive their motivation. The suffix "-scape" refers to a recognition of the mobility of images and to the connections and relations between them. Heterogeneous cultural materials, scripts and images merge with one another to form urban spatial nodes in the urban event spaces. Artscapes take up the short-circuit between global flow and local images and the way they are changed and exchanged. They characterise the movement between images and the mass-cultural context of their production and provide an indication of the changeability of meanings. The Bauhaus Kolleg will make use of artistic interventions in the form of artscapes to document the relations of visibility in the artificial environment of the urban entertainment centre. They will thus be operating at the interface between what images in the city reveal and what remains hidden behind the surface of the images. APPLICATION DEADLINE : JULY 10 2000 PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS: ACADEMIC DEGREE and/or SEVERAL YEARS' PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE in the following disciplines; architecture, art, urban and/or landscape planning, design, the social sciences or humanities, documented in a curriculum vitae. PORTFOLIO STATEMENT OF INTEREST PROOF OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH KNOWLEDGE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BASIC SKILLS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASIC SKILLS IN USING NEW MEDIA A selection committee chooses a maximum of 25 international participants. Preference is given to those who apply for the entire year. Depending on course capacities, applicants may also be considered for an individual trimester. TUITION FEES are 3000 DM per trimester. Not included are housing costs, living expenses, travel costs or study materials. Possibilities of privately financed scholarships are constantly examined. HOUSING ARRANGEMENTS Both the studio wing of the historic Bauhaus building and the dormitory located ca. 4 km away offer accommodation at very reasonable rates. For further information and reservation please contact the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. STUDY FACILITIES The participants will have access to all facilities at the Bauhaus, including the library, archive, and media lab. Studio room equipped with work space and computer access will be provided. I am looking forward to your responses! Please feel free to address any question to me right away. Ute Lenssen Contact Ute Lenssen Bauhaus Dessau Foundation BAUHAUS KOLLEG Project Manager Gropiusallee 38 06846 Dessau Tel: ++49 (0)340-6508-402, Fax: ++49 (0)340-6508-404 E-mail: lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:46:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Diana McCarty <diana@vifu.de> Subject: ART@VIFU Call for proposals!! ART@VIFU COMPETITION WWW.VIFU.DE/NETART DEADLINE JUNE 16th, 2000 The Virtual International Women's University, as part of the International Women's University, is pleased to announce ART@VIFU, an international, juried competition open to women artists working with the internet. The competition will result in four, new internet works being commissioned with each recipient also being awarded a cash prize of 3,000 German Marks. Proposals should be submitted no later than June 16th, 2000,through the entry form available via www.vifu.de/netart In its brief history, the internet has proven a "fertile ground" for a broad range of cultural trends and practice - with its roots as a military command and control technology; then later as a communications tool for international scientists and academics; and still later, when much of the networked world hailed the dawn of a new era with the slogan "information wants to be free". Today, in the early twenty-first Century, the internet looks quite different, "information wants to get rich" might be the current slogan with E-commerce dominating most the internet debate. Yet, there are still possibilities for this vast network and the territory once claimed for knowledge and communication still exists. With more people around the world going on-line, the potential for meaningful exchange is greater than ever. Enter the Virtual International Women's University. The International Women's University (ifu), under the overall theme of "Technology and Culture", in its first semester (July 15-October 15, 2000) will offer 900 female students from all over the world the opportunity to participate in a postgraduate research and study program. ifu will offer interdisciplinary academic work, including artists' interventions, in six project areas: BODY, CITY, INFORMATION, MIGRATION, WATER, WORK. The Virtual International Women's University (vifu), as the virtual extension of ifu, supports activity-oriented, cooperative, self-organized learning, organizing of software as a cooperative process, and relating the local to the global, makes the virtual actual by providing environments for constructing new architectures of knowledge and establishing communities for research and learning. ART@VIFU encourages artists to look to the primary goals of both ifu and vifu for areas of exploration and expansion. ART@VIFU poses such questions as: what are the limitations and implications of body politics in a networked society; how is the local defined by the global, and vice-versa, and is that enhanced by new technologies; are protocols relevant to everyday networked communication; what are the new architectures of knowledge; how do internet technologies define virtual communities; can software development improve as a cooperative process; can immaterial work provide a real livelihood; do new technologies facilitate communication and cross-cultural understanding; can the cooperation between scientists and artists alter technological innovation; how do these topics affect the daily lives of women around the globe; where are new zones of contestation? ART@VIFU invites individual and/or groups of women artists to expand on these themes and questions through the innovative use of the internet and its accompanying applications. Proposals for interactive works that go beyond the presentation of static webpages are of special interest, as are those that are processual, utilize streaming technologies, explore the role of such protocols as TCP/IP and ECP, or relate directly to the content, design, and structure of the vifu server. The submitted proposals should be for projects to be realized and hosted on the vifu server. The ART@VIFU jury is comprised of internationally recognized women with expertise in the field of new media: Natalie Bookchin, Los Angeles Shu Lea Cheang, Digital Nomad Minerva Cuevas, Mexico City Kathy Rae Huffman, Hull Cillie Rentmeister, Erfurt Olga Shishko, Moscow The ifu art advisory board is represented in the jury by Barbara Loreck, Hanover/Berlin. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION: ART@VIFU is open to women artists from all countries. Proposals submitted for jury consideration should be for new works to be realized. A submission form and further details can be found at www.vifu.de/netart All works will remain the property of the artists while vifu will retain the rights of fair use. ART@VIFU coordinator/contact person: Diana McCarty <diana@vifu.de> Technical advisor: Barbara Schelkle <schelkle@informatik.hu-berlin.de> vifu project coordinator: Dr. Heidi Schelhowe <schelhowe@informatik.hu-berlin.de> For more information concerning the International Women's University and the Virtual International Women's University, please see www.vifu.de ART@VIFU WWW.VIFU.DE/NETART DEADLINE JUNE 16th, 2000 --------------------------please forward---------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - another day, another dollar [heh, not] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net