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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>
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          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!! 

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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

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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
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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.

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All events will take place at:

Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts
117 Lamington Street
New Farm, Brisbane, Qld
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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.


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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.
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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
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:13:09 +0200
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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

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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

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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
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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
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 Internet in t-shirt art.  Come get some! 773/561-7676


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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

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 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

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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)

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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

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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"

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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:57:13 +0200
Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg 2 EventCity
From: Ute Lenssen <Lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de>

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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

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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




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