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Table of Contents:

   CIRCUS 2001                                                                     
     david garcia <davidg@xs4all.nl>                                                 

   Interview Yourself - Latest Interviews 4/7/01!                                  
     Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org>                                         

   Mary and Jacques                                                                
     James Allan <james@teleportacia.org>                                            

   [ULTRA-RED] Performances in Portugal, Spain and SF                              
     snoble@mac.com                                                                  

   metabolics#4 with geert lovink                                                  
     florian schneider <fls@kein.org>                                                

   ZAYAC 5                                                                         
     Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>                                     

   [Research Symposium on ICANN Elections]                                         
     t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>                                                  

   cast01: Call for Entries / Submission Deadline May 31, 2001                     
     cast01@netzspannung.org                                                         

   Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum                                                     
     Robert Atkins <robertatkins@earthlink.net>                                      

   Third PGA conference                                                            
     "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>                                                

   internet art projects : shilpa gupta : india                                    
     "shilpagupta" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com>                                         



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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:09:02 +0200
From: david garcia <davidg@xs4all.nl>
Subject: CIRCUS 2001



+ + CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT + + CALL FOR PAPERS +  +


CIRCUS 2001: NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY

      THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR
CONTENT INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN CREATIVE USER SYSTEMS

     Glasgow,  20TH -22ND SEPTEMBER 2001

Supported by the European Commission's Esprit programme
under the CIRCUS project.


Further details of the conference:
http://www.music.arts.gla.ac.uk/events/CircusConference2001/

Further details of the CIRCUS project:
http://www.circusweb.org/

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W e l c o m e   t o    t h e    C I R C U S   C o n f e r e n c e

The circus conference will bring
together artists, designers, performers, theorists and computer scientists to
debate the research issues posed by the next generation of advanced information
technology for the creative and performing arts, media and the electronic
publishing industry (in its broadest sense).

The circus conference will bring together previously distinct disciplines and
encourages the replacement of 'technology push' by 'creative pull' for
multiple-media research that integrates advanced technologies with new media
types and modes of creation. The circus conference will relate technological
applications research to content issues in a theoretical understanding of
vision, sound and movement.

- -----------------------------------------------------

C O N F E R E N C E   T H E M E S

INTERACTIVITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CREATIVE PRACTICE

Technology Push - Creative Pull Applications
User interfaces and interfaces extensions to support creative processes
Creative empowerment - applications supporting style development and style
flexibility
Best practice in education for creative users
Experimental interactive creative environments
Taxonomies of interactivity

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTS  FOR INNOVATION OR CREATIVE PULL

Implications for Education and Training
Production methodologies for the creative industries
Vertical Markets in the Creative Industries
Business Models supporting creative processes
Methodology for reflexivity within interdisciplinary practice

DESCRIPTION OF CULTURE: ARCHITECTURES OF INFORMATION

Metadata for creative use contexts
Cultural and Connectionist Metadata
Standards supporting creativity
Open standards in creative use contexts
Data Structures for digital creative production systems
Style, Manner, Expression and processes in digital creative productions

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF DIGITAL CREATIVE PRODUCTION CONTEXTS

Theory relevant to practice
Best Practice examples
Strategic Citing of experimental work

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I M P O R T A N T   D A T E S

7th June 2001      Paper/Presentation Deadline

15th Aug. 2001     last early registration possible

20th Aug. 2001     Conference in Glasgow

- -----------------------------------------------------

C A L L   F O R   P  A P E R S

Papers and presentations are invited from the topics coming out of the
conference themes.  Submission of papers will be done only in electronic form
via pdf and ps. Proceedings will be on CD-ROM handed out at the  conference. A
selection of papers will be published in bookform.

Submission includes information in the body of an email in text form, and an
attachment of the full paper in pdf (Adobe) or postscript format. Any other
formats of media or performance data will need to be discussed on a individual
basis. (See contacts on website)



- --
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
       "Is this just a clockwork of fabulous design,
      or does it actually tell time" (Virgil Thomson)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
Carola Boehm                  http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/carola
Centre for Music Technology
Department of Music           Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 4903
University of Glasgow         Fax: +44 (0) 141 330 3518



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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:52:43 -0700
From: Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org>
Subject: Interview Yourself - Latest Interviews 4/7/01!

http://plagiarist.org/iy

Plagiarist.org is pleased to announce the latest additions
to the Interview Yourself Literary Archive:

Valery Grancher - as interviewed by Valery Grancher
D42 Kandinskij - as interviewed by D42 Kandinskij 
Dimos Dimitriou - as interviewed by Dimos Dimitriou 
mi_ga - as interviewed by mi_ga 
Mark River - as interviewed by Mark River 
Curt Cloninger (playdamage.org) - as interviewed by Curt Cloninger
(playdamage.org)
and
Andrej Tisma - as interviewed by Andrej Tisma 

Remember, Interviews are accepted on a rolling basis at
interview@plagiarist.org

Join the Web Celebs at Interview Yourself... Celebrity interviews just
like Warhol used to do 'em.... only cheaper.


....IY-IY-IY-IY-IY-IY...Interview Yourself Interview Yourself Interview
Yourself....


- -plagiarist




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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:59:11 -0400
From: James Allan <james@teleportacia.org>
Subject: Mary and Jacques 

A quick interjection.

I suppose some people have planned a moment of quiet reflection for the
birthday of Jacques Lacan (Paris, April 13, 1901), but if I'm going to be
singing happy birthday to any dead one this week it's going to be to Mary
Pickford - Hollywood's first superstar - born April 9, 1893 (Toronto). A
chronic over-achiever, she had 194 films in the can before Jacques could
finish a bowl of l'amour fou.

Happy Birthday Mary Pickford.

(3 rare pictures)

http://art.teleportacia.org/james/happybirthday/mary.html



- --James


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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:39:42 -0700
From: snoble@mac.com
Subject: [ULTRA-RED] Performances in Portugal, Spain and SF





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ULTRA-RED BRING "TRABAJO Y DÍAS" TO PORTUGAL, SPAIN AND SAN FRANCISCO

This summer, Los Angeles audio-activists Ultra-red will appear in three
prestigious music and media arts festivals: the San Francisco Electronic
Music Festival, Barcelona Spain's Sonar Festival and the "Squatters"
Festival at the Casa Serralves in Porto, Portugal. For each appearance,
Ultra-red will showcase a new program titled "Trabajo y días (Social Factory
No. 3)". 

Following Ultra-red members' participation in a variety of campaigns and
projects around immigrant labor in Los Angeles, "Trabajo y días"
(translated, Work and days) combines field recordings, pre-recorded
interviews with workers and organizers, sound and image processing, and
spoken word. A mixed media bucolic, the performance cuts across protocols of
lap-top electro-acoustic music, press conference polemics and panel
discussion dialectics.

At the center of "Trabajo y días" is a collaboration between the audio
activists of Ultra-red and the band Los Jorneleros del Norte. Comprised
entirely of immigrant day laborers, Los Jorneleros are modern-day
troubadours. Drawing on the influences of Mexican and Central American
popular music, Los Jorneleros sing about the daily life of day laborers in
Los Angeles. 

In contrast to Los Jorneleros who wed social commentary to popular music
forms, Ultra-red endeavor to politicize the form itself. This struggle
between pop form and its transformation aesthetically and politically
permeates "Trabajo y días" as well as the tension between new media
technologies and their social conditions. From its electro-acoustic music to
its spoken word poetics, "Trabajo y días" argues that organizing for change
entails listening for its possibility.

Whether it's their acclaimed albums or headline-grabbing political
interventions, Ultra-red consistently explore the ways experimental art can
reconceptualize social justice organizing. This commitment brings together
the group's current line-up of Elizabeth Blaney (Video and Textual Poetics),
Pablo Garcia (Digital Sound Processing), Shannon Noble (Digital Image
Processing - not on tour), Dont Rhine (Sound Design) and Leonardo Vilchis
(Video and Textual Poetics).

*   *   *

Saturday, May 5, 2001
Event:  San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (May 3, 4, 5 and 6)
Site: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant St., San Francisco (Between 18th and 19th)
URL: http://www.sfemf.org

Saturday, June 16, 2001
Event:  Sonar 2001 (June 14, 15 and 16, 2001)
Site:  Sonarmacba, Barcelona, Spain.
URL: http://www.sonar.es

Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Event:  "Squatters" Exhibit and Performance Series, Foundation Serralves
Site: Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal
URL: http://www.serralves.pt

*   *   *

Founded in 1994, Ultra-red have released CDs and albums on Comatonse
Recordings (Oakland, California), Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt, Germany), True
Classical (Los Angeles) and Beta Bodgea (Miami). For more information about
Ultra-red visit their website at http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/

To contact Ultra-red directly, email Dont Rhine at dontr@earthlink.net




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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:13:49 +0200
From: florian schneider <fls@kein.org>
Subject: 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:
<http://www.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/vorsicht>


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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:35:00 +0200
From: Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>
Subject: ZAYAC 5

The Contemporary Art  Center - Skopje, Macedonia
cordially invites you to attend the promotion of the Internet magazine 

ZAYAC No. 5 
and the
New video spot of the music group "String Forces" 
made in co production with the Contemporary Art Center - Skopje.

http://zayac.scca.org.mk
http://zayac.scca.org.mk/index2.htm
http://zayac.scca.org.mk/zayac5/menu/index.htm


Wednesday, 11.04.2001, at 20.00 hrs.
CIX Gallery 
(Orce Nikolov 109)

In new issue of ZAYAC the authors are attempting to give their own views
on the actual situation in the cultural life in the community where they live. 
Ivanka Apostolova is commenting and providing short briefing on events in
media-culture and cultural politics that some media are trying to develop. 
Dejan Spasovic is conveying a story about traditional instruments from
the territory of the Balkan peninsula and in the same time he is asking
the question which of those instruments are really traditional and have
ethnic marks. 
Ana Bakalinova is making systematic research and bringing to us new
information about E-commerce. 
Bobi Stojanovski in his project " Urban Life " is attempting to explain stereotypes in urban way of live.
Phreddy Lee is present with his cycle of photographs titled "Pretty nice day (for a party). 
Slavko Popushilic VS Kofalanja is making fun of current events on the political scene through a kind of " Strip-Trip".
In new issue of ZAYAC there are reports about two big projects that took
place on the end of 2000 and beginning of 2001.
"Tik Tak Tok", a co production between CAC-Skopje and University of Dundee, Scotland 
and "Capital and Gender" an international project held in Skopje on the
beginning of 2001 organized by the Open Graphic Art studio in
cooperation with the Contemporary Art Center - Skopje. 
Together with the promotion of fifth issue of ZAYAC there will be promotion of new video
clip of the music group "String Forces". The video clip is made in co production between
CAC-Skopje, Profundus and Demek Productions.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
The idea for the creation of an Internet zine, in the field of visual arts, is
strongly urged by the desire of young people who 
are involved in contemporary art, and other cultural events to find a
venue for the realizing of their concepts. Following our aims we are
trying to develop ZAYAC as Internet space for the release of critical
texts, concepts, projects and other studies connected with exhibiting
and cultural aspects of contemporary and electronic arts in Macedonia.
ZAYAC is the first and so far only zine in this medium in Macedonia and
in Southeast part of Europe. 
The basic aim of ZAYAC is to unite people who want to actively take part in creating of the 
young contemporary art sceneand is strongly connected to  the use of new technologies.
The concrete results of the issuing of ZAYAC as an internet zine are
related to the entering of new technologies in contemporary art in
Macedonia, as well as to the presentation of a part of the domestic art
activities to the international audience and in providing new contacts
of young people with the institutions and persons who act in the same
field all over the world. The long-term aim of ZAYAC is to develop a
greater interest among the artists for new technologies and to create
opportunities to work in international framework, aiming to involve the
Macedonian contemporary art in the current European and international trends. 


For more info contact: 
Nikola Pisarev
editor of the ZAYAC magazine
Contemporary Art Center Skopje
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
nikola@scca.org.mk
scca@scca.org.mk


- -------------------------------------------------------
Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
- -------------------------------------------------------



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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:25:37 -0400
From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>
Subject: [Research Symposium on ICANN Elections]

- ----- Forwarded 

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:02:06 -0400
From: Hans Klein <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>
Subject: Research Symposium on ICANN Elections


The August 2001 issue of _INFO_ will be dedicated to the ICANN elections
and will feature contributions from eight authors.  The table of contents
is below.  

Full abstracts are available on the symposium website at:
     http://www.icannmembers.org/symposium.html

Table of Contents: "Global Democracy and the ICANN Elections"
=============================================================

Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University
"ICANN, 'Technical Coordination,' and Majority Rule"

Renee E. Marlin-Bennett, American University
"ICANN and Democracy: Contradictions and Possibilities"

Eliesh O'Neil Lane, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Shaping Technology Policy Via Public Participation: A Case Study of ICANN"

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, University of Aarhus
"Towards A New Triletarism Between Industry, Citizens and Governments: 
ICANN as a New Co-Regulatory Policy Model?"

Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology  
"The Social Prerequisites of Global Democracy: Does the Internet Make
Global Democracy More Feasible?"

Myungkoo KANG, Seoul National University
"ICANN Election and Asian Public Sphere"

William F. Averyt, University of Vermont
"Exit-Voice Dynamics In The Domain Name Regime"

Chistian Ahlert, University of Giessen
"How to Make Online-Democracy Work:  Think Outside the Traditional Ballot
Box!"




===========================================================================
  Prof. Hans K. Klein
  School of Public Policy, MC:0345                  
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Atlanta, GA 30332-0345
  hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
  http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/faculty/hklein.htm

  Chair, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
  http://www.cpsr.org
  http://www.civsoc.org

========================================================================

- ----- Backwarded


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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:04:26 +0200
From: cast01@netzspannung.org
Subject: cast01: Call for Entries / Submission Deadline May 31, 2001

cast01 Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology 
September 21-22, 2001 / GMD - Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin /
Bonn, Germany

CALL FOR ENTRIES / deadline for submission: May 31, 2001 

We invite you to participate in the cast01 conference on intersections
of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: 

LIVING IN MIXED REALITIES 

cast01 invites submissions of innovative research, media art practise
and theory. We are looking for ground breaking media art and inspiring
research projects on topics like: Semantic Web, Mixed Reality, Advanced
Interfaces and Future Media Spaces that symbolise the influence of
information technology on patterns of life and work in a networked
society.
 
Proposed contributions (english or german) may be in the form of
research papers or artistic presentations as well as blueprints and
posters of developing concepts. Researchers, artists, theorists,
practitioners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit
interdisciplinary projects and critical reflections on the merging
of the virtual and the real. 

Topics:
*  Agents and Narrative Intelligence 
*  Artistic Productions / Mixed Reality Architecture
*  Awareness, Memory Space and Knowledge Discovery
*  Cultural Archives 
*  Distributed Systems and Parallel Architectures for the Web 
*  Hypermedia Formats (XML, VRML, MPEG-4, MPEG-7) 
*  Interactive TV 
*  Mixed Reality Environments 
*  Performative Interfaces 
*  Tracking, Tracing, Vision Systems 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2001 
Early registration deadline: July 31, 2001 (reduced price) 

PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the
Conference proceedings. A special issue of netzspannung.org journal of
Art, Design and Innovation Research will be published with cast01
conference best papers.

BEST PAPER AWARD: The best paper, artistic presentation, blueprint /
poster and student presentation will be honored with the cast01 award. 

http://netzspannung.org/cast01 
e-mail: cast01@netzspannung.org 

cast01 is organised by netzspannung.org and by the GMD - German National
Research Center for Information Technology. It is supported by the
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (bmb+f) and by the
European Commission. It is hosted by MARS Exploratory Media Lab:
http://imk.gmd.de/mars


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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 18:58:51 -0400
From: Robert Atkins <robertatkins@earthlink.net>
Subject: Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum

April 3, 2001
For Immediate Release

Contact: Robert Atkins, artery@allianceforarts.org, 212/662.2961


Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum, (www.artistswithaids.org/artery) is proud to
announce its Spring Literary Special. An in-between-issues special
publication, it highlights several  projects sponsored by Artery and the
Estate Project for Artists With AIDS. (The Estate Project for Artists With
AIDS, which produces Artery, is an initiative of the Alliance for the Arts.)

The Spring Literary Special features three essays from "Loss Within Loss,"
an Estate Project-coordinated anthology of writers on major talents who¹ve
died of AIDS, published by the University of Wisconsin and edited by the
noted author Edmund White. In addition to White¹s introduction, Artery is
pleased to publish an essay by Andrew Solomon and Keith McDermott¹s memoir
of the artist Joe Brainard.

 The Spring Literary Special also features a gallery of portraits of writers
who¹ve died of AIDS by photographer Robert Giard, and the finalists for "In
Rage and Remembrance," a poetry and prose contest co-sponsored by Artery and
POZ magazine. (Winners will be announced in early July.)

Artery is "the" resource for examining the AIDS crisis and its ever-changing
face as reflected in the arts. Part zine, part data base, and part
conversational forum, Artery is now in its second year of publication.





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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:00:31 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Third PGA conference

From: "Peoples Global Action Secretariat" <pgasec@gmx.net>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: Third PGA conference

          *** please distribute widely ***

           THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
          OF PEOPLES' GLOBAL ACTION  (PGA)
          ********************************

    COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, September 16 - 24, 2001

     [Deadline for applications: May 15 2001]

By way of introduction:
***********************

What prevents us from realising our dreams and aspirations of a just and
peaceful society, where our dignity and our different ways of life are
respected? Do we have control over our own lives and communities? Who takes
the decisions that affect us?

At no other time in history have so few institutions dominated so many
women and men. The 15 biggest corporations are present in over 120
countries. Corporations control 70% of world trade. Our governments have
actively contributed to expand the power of these companies. This growing
centralised economic power has resulted in the creation of institutions
such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a legal vehicle for their
policies that counts with the support of almost all our governments. More
countries are now more deeply indebted than ever been before in history.
The Third World pays far more in terms of services and debt transfer than
it receives in the form of assistance, investment and aid.

Whilst continuing to promise prosperity for all, the present phase of
capitalism is creating more victims, more environmental havoc and more
vulnerability than ever before. Wealth and power are concentrated in fewer
hands than they ever have been. In the last 30 years the rich have doubled
their capital while poverty and misery grow. The poorest 20% possesses less
than 4% of world resources whereas the richest control over 85%. The
complex life of this planet, which is the source of sustenance and cultural
diversity for all men and women, is increasingly transformed into a
merchandise, mercilessly exploited, privatised, patented and irreversibly
transformed. There are ever-increasing numbers of firearms in private
hands, more destructive potential in the form of modern armies and greater
stocks of conventional nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than ever
before. The purpose of the majority of them is to defend the privileges of
the leading players in the dominant economy.

Peoples' Global Action (PGA), since its creation in February 1998, has
provided a common communication and coordination tool for movements that
struggle against the social, economic and political processes that have
increased vulnerability, dependence and environmental destruction. An
instrument done by and for those who, from their homes, fields, factories
and workplaces, are confronting all the authoritarian, centralising and
homogenising processes and institutions, and believe in the importance of
internationalising the struggle due to the global roots of their local
problems. PGA, although being still in its own process of construction,
provides a global forum for the struggles against the old and the new
capitalism to associate their efforts and share experiences and skills. It
has also nurtured the hope that, if we remain united within the respect to
diversity, we will prevent dignity and justice from being undermined,
manipulated or destroyed.

This hope strengthens our commitment to fight against oppression,
domination and destruction, to unmask and abolish the institutions and
companies that regulate the global capitalist regime, to build a broad
unity based on the respect to difference and diversity, and to continue
defining, practising and spreading local alternatives to take back control
over our destiny. This hope, that lives in the irreverent determination of
our bodies, minds and feelings, can and must realise our dreams of
self-governance, freedom, justice, peace, equity, dignity and diversity.


due to oversize for nettime-l's announcer:

----CUT

What is Peoples Global Action
 
Invitation to the 3rd PGA Conference

Application form
Appendix I   -Brief History of PGA
Appendix II  -Convenors' Committee for the Third International 
              Conference of PGA
Appendix III -PGA Manifesto
Appendix IV  -Organisational principles of the Peoples' Global Action


to watchout for the full length posting, visit:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/new/struggles/Bulletin6.html

----CUT




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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:49:22 +0530
From: "shilpagupta" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com>
Subject: internet art projects : shilpa gupta : india



Sentiment-Express.com, web based installation
Century Cities, Tate Modern, London
on till April 30


an online version of this project is at
http://www.sentiment-express.com


As a large number of international companies re-route their phone calls and internet sites through india, a new industry has developed in Mumbai, where English is widely spoken, labour is cheap and productivity high. This project draws attention to the implications of these 'sweat shops'. Visitors are invited to dictate a love letter and also select paper and scent for their letter of love! And your letter of love will be sent to Mumbai to be transcribed and mailed to your object of affection.




 
http://www.geocities.com/diamondsandyou
internet art project dealing with blood diamonds.
"At Diamonds and You, choose not only size, color, and shape of your diamond online but also the origin, right from the best available bargain from war zones of Sierra Leone on its way to being processed by eyes of the youngest boys from Surat ..."



Shilpa Gupta
Bombay, India






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