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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> ------------------------------ 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/ - ----------------------------------------------------- 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 - ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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> ------------------------------ 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 - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ # 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