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Table of Contents: Left Curve no. 25 Csaba Polony <leftcurv@wco.com> ONE CUBIC METER INTELLIGENCE "Ruine der Kuenste Berlin" <ruine-kuenste.berlin@snafu.de> Welcome to Communication Front 2001 - and Syndicate @ CFront Alain Kessi <kessi@kein.org> n2+o bulet!n integer@www.god-emil.dk CULT 2001 - Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001 - ANNOUNCEMENT "Pia Vigh" <pia.vigh@www.kulturnet.dk> lev manovich, lux, london matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk> announcement molly hankwitz <mollybh@netspace.net.au> PDA/IA Show Update "patrick lichty" <voyd@voyd.com> tigergarden game experience kristin bergaust <kristin@anart.no> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:09:20 -0700 From: Csaba Polony <leftcurv@wco.com> Subject: Left Curve no. 25 The new issue of Left Curve (no.25) has been published. Selected contents from the hard copy are posted on: http://www.ncal.verio.com/~leftcurv We welcome critical feedback and are open to submissions of work. Left Curve is an artist-produced open, critical journal that addresses the problem(s) of culural forms, emerging from the crises of modernity, that strive to be independent from the control of dominant institutions, and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality. Our orientation is premised on the recognition of the destructiveness of commodity systems to all life, and the need to build a non-commodified culture that could potentially create a more harmoneous relationship among people, and between the human and natural world. We encourage open, critical defetishized work that attempt to unravel, reveal contemporary (inner/outer) reality in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect for the human condition. Each issue is a mix of traditional and/or experimental essays, graphics, photographs, visual/verbal art, poems, fiction, documents, reviews, etc. Csaba Polony (ed.) Left Curve leftcurv@wco.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:37:29 +0200 From: "Ruine der Kuenste Berlin" <ruine-kuenste.berlin@snafu.de> Subject: ONE CUBIC METER INTELLIGENCE Presse INFO German text below RUINE DER K=DCNSTE BERLIN =20 =20 =20 One Cubic Meter Intelligence and Emotions =20 WOLF KAHLEN Retrospectives 2000-2003 Part IV Since Gutenberg: Books/Photos/Internet Works since 1970 June 3 - Sept. 2, 2001, saturdays and sundays 3 - 7 p.m. and by = appointment Opening, Sunday, june 3rd, 2001, 3- 7 p.m, free admission =20 The consciouness mediating character of a potato is no different from = that of the internet by a millimeter, gram or second,=20 says the media sculptor Wolf Kahlen today, like a similar statementon = video he made in the 60s, when he worked on his video pieces and did = impressive media immanent pieces. We recently showed his first 25 = videotapes (1969-1975) in Part III of the tenfold retrospective. More = may be seen together with his video sculptures and installations in a = later part, which all present phenomena or topic oriented selected = corner stones out of his ouvre. In this fourth part we present other = media pieces SINCE GUTENBERG: i.e. one of a kind BOOKS with unique = PHOTOS as results from interfered photographic processes, and INTERNET = pieces, net.art and what he coined net.sound.art. In ne of the leporello books for example: a paper photograph got wet, = the photo document of the wet one was flooded by milk, the document of = this event happened to strand in the rain=85.Only the outer parts of = these Russian doll like photos of photos of photos look real, frame by = frame inside the frame becomes more and more abstract, wood cut like, = unbelieveable. Photos are unreliable. Mine too, Wolf Kahlen said 1978 in his catalogue of the Freiburger Kunstverein = show almost as a manifesto. Of course he did not only mean the lean = argument of todays fakeability of any document. The leporello books mirror a philosophy of the Loss of the One and the = Return (rebirth) of the Other, an experience he encountered with his = family, when they shipwrecked in the Archipelago of Galapagos Islands in = the Pacific on July 19th, 198o. Among the other book sculptures is: A Cubic Meter of Intelligence and = Emotions. A mass of one cubic meter Russian books is stacked up as a = cube and on top covered with dust he works with for more than thirty = years as one of his ephemeral materials. Out of the dust drains the = meditative sound of turning pages, as if one reads. The books were = rescued from burning, when an East-Berlin public library wanted to get = rid of all Russian influence in 1989. Other books have become plaster frozen impossible to use anymore. =20 Please announce our show, visit it or ask for interviews.Photos on = demand also as email JPG. With kind regards=20 David Allen RUINE DER KUENSTE BERLIN =20 =20 Ein Kubikmeter Intelligenz und Emotionen =20 Wolf Kahlen Retrospektiven 2000-2003 Teil IV Seit Gutenberg: B=FCcher/Photos/Internet Arbeiten seit 1970 3. Juni - 2. Sept. 2001, samstags und sonntags 15-19 h=20 und nach Vereinbarung, Eintritt frei Er=F6ffnung Pfingstsonntag, den 3. Juni, 15-19 h =20 Der Bewusstsein vermittelnde mediale Charakter einer Kartoffel ist von = dem des Internets keinen Millimeter, kein Gramm und keine Sekunde = entfernt, sagt der Medienbildhauer Wolf Kahlen heute, wie aehnlich in den 6oer = Jahren, als er das Medium Video primaer befragte und in bis heute = beeindruckenden schluessigen medienimmamenten Stuecken ausspielte. Seine = ersten 25 Videotapes (1969-1975) haben wir in der letzten Ausstellung = Teil III der 10-teiligen Retrospektive zusammen mit Raumsegmenten und = Drapes (1965-69) gezeigt. Im jetzigen, vierten Teil, alle sind an Themen oder Phaenomenen seiner = ueber vierzigjaehrigen Taetigkeiten orientiert, zeigen wir = Medienstuecke SEIT GUTENBERG, also UNIKATE BUECHER mit prozesshaften = PHOTOS aus vier Jahrzehnten und neue interaktive INTERNETSTUECKE, z..B. = net. sound. , wie er seine rein akustischen Internetarbeiten genannt = hat. In den Photo-Leporellos geht es durchweg um Ablaeufe von Situationen, = die auf der ersten Seite photographisch 'festhalten'. auf der zweiten = Seite im Dokument der Wiederholung des 'ersten' Geschehens als = Vergangenheitshinweis wieder auftauchen und 'sich schaemen, wie wenig = real sie sind im Vergleich zum neuen Bild. Ja, sie werden als Bild im = Bild im Bild immer holzschnitthafter, immer konstrastreicher, immer = unehrlicher, man k=F6nnte auch sagen, abstrakter und nehmen damit aber = gleichzeitig eine neue Wirklichkeit an. Diese also doppellaeufigen = Prozesse des Verlustes an einer Art von Realitaet einerseits, und der = Zunahme anderer Realitaeten, sind spannende 'Geschichten': Ein Papierphoto wird wassernass, das Photo von diesem Vorgang ist = milchueberschwemmt, das Dokument davon ist in den Regen geraten....Nur = der jeweils aeussere Rand der Bilder im Bild erscheint real, das Innere = der Bilder wird schrittweise immer unglaubwuerdiger.=20 Photos sind unglaubwuerdig. Meine auch., hat Wolf Kahlen 1978 in seinem Katalog des Freiburger Kunstvereins = manifestartig beschrieben. Damit war nat=FCrlich nicht die platte (neue) = Wahrheit gemeint, dass alle Photos (heute) perfekt gefaelscht sein = k=F6nnen. Diese Faltbuecher sind in New York 1980, nach einem ueberlebten = Schiffsuntergang der Familie Wolf Kahlen's im Galapagos-Archipel, = entstanden und spiegeln eine schon vor dem Ereignis latent vorhandene, = nach ihm aber bildgewordene Philosophie der Gleichzeitigkeit vom Tod des = Einen und der (Wieder-)Geburt des Anderen. Unter den anderen 'Buecher'-skulpturen der Ausstellung ist auch: Ein = Kubikmeter Intelligenz und Emotionen, ein kubikmetergrosser = quadratischer Stapel von 1989 in Ostberlin vor dem Verbrennen = geretteten vorwiegend russischen Buechern, der auf der Oberseite = verstaubt ist, aus dem aber noch das Ger=E4usch bewegter, gelesener = Seiten klingt.=20 Andere Buecher sind von fluessigem Gips durchflossen und unlesbar = geworden. =20 Wir bitten um Ver=F6ffentlichung und stehen zu Besuchen und Interviews = gerne zur Verfuegung, Photos auf Anforderung auch per email als JPG. =20 RUINE DER KUENSTE BERLIN=20 Hittorfstr. 5 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Tel/Fax 831 34 35 Email: ruine-kuenste.berlin@snafu.de Homepage: http://home.snafu.de/ruine-kuenste.berlin Net.art: www.wolf-kahlen.de Net.sound.Art: www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:02:17 +0300 From: Alain Kessi <kessi@kein.org> Subject: Welcome to Communication Front 2001 - and Syndicate @ CFront Welcome to CFront 2001! Communication Front 2001 is coming closer (1-14 June). In this mail, you will find the program of this year's CFront, the list of participants and an updated description of the project. From 7-9 June, you are welcome to attend the Syndicate @ CFront meeting, a guest event of CFront 2001. Hoping to see you there, Dimitrina & Alain Program of Communication Front 2001 Cyber and my sp@ce – Netizens and the new geography Friday, 1 June, 10:00h beginning of theoretical meeting and working seminar at the ArtToday Lab based in the Mexican House, in the Old City of Plovdiv. The theoretical meeting and working seminar will continue every day until 14 June, from 10:00h-15:00h. 19:00h multimedia performance “Infonoise” by Gordana Novakovic, Yugoslavia/UK, at the Center of Contemporary Art in the Old Turkish Baths, Plovdiv. Saturday, 2 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h Marilena Preda-Sanc, Romania – presentation of the “Remapping the World” project 19:00h Gordana Novakovic, Yugoslavia/UK – lecture and discussion “Interactive Installation and its Representation” Sunday, 3 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h BLUNT, Canada (Biliana Velkova, Barbara Prokop, Naomi Potter) – presentation and discussion 19:00h discussion with Diana McCarty, Germany Monday, 4 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h Biljana Tanurovska, Macedonia – lecture and presentation about Macedonian video art 19:00h Kathy Rae Huffman, USA/UK – lecture and discussion Tuesday, 5 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h Barbara Konopka, Poland – presentation 19:00h Maria Vassileva, Bulgaria – lecture “Cyber and My Kitchen Space” Wednesday, 6 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 19:00h opening of the CFront 2001 exhibition “Cyber and my sp@ce” Thursday, 7 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 10:00h opening of Syndicate @ CFront meeting, discussions and working seminar, which will last until 9 June 18:00h Maria X, Greece – presentation about Fournos, Athens, and the Mediaterra festival Friday, 8 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 15:00h internal family meeting of the Syndicate 19:00h Andreas Broeckmann, Germany – lecture and discussion “The Syndicate – A History of Personal Contacts and Collaborations between East and West” Saturday, 9 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h Saso Vrabic, Slovenia – lecture and discussion “Slovene ‘micro reality’ after Manifesta 2000 in Ljubljana or more personally I’m a professional babysitter (Essay on ethics, arts, information and life in Slovenia)” 19:00h Bojana Kunst, Slovenia – lecture “Body and my sp@ce” Sunday, 10 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 18:00h Igor Stepancic and Irena Paunovic, Yugoslavia – presentation of the POW project and interactive presentation of the project 3Brain Monday, 11 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 18:00h Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz and Brigitta Kuster, Switzerland/Germany – lecture and discussion “Viruses, Green Card, Brain Drain, Subjectivities” Tuesday, 12 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 15:00h i-love-u (Eva Michalcak and Adnan Hadziselimovic), Switzerland – lecture and discussion “Free License for Art - What could an Open Source Art World look like?” 16:30h Brigitta Kuster, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Switzerland/Germany – lecture and discussion “High Technology, Heterosexuality, Work Place and Home” 18:00h CFront and Pro Helvetia Sofia Drink Party at the ArtToday Media Lab based in the Mexican House in the Old City of Plovdiv Wednesday, 13 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar 17:30h presentation of CFront 2000 Book in front of a broader audience 19:00h presentation of results of the theoretical meeting and working seminar in front of a broader audience Theoretical meeting and working seminar – each successive day the participants in CFront 2001 will get together from 10:00h to 15:00h – without being watched by an audience – to outline shared ideas and strategies linked to “Cyber and my sp@ce – Netizens and the new geography”, and to develop a common concept and produce articles and Web works for a common Web-based project. The lecture program is public and open to all interested visitors. The exhibition is open to the public every day, from 7-21 June 2001, from 11:30h-17:30h in the downstairs exhibition space of the Mexican House in the Old City of Plovdiv. - ----------------------------------------------------------- List of participants: Authors of concept and curators: <curators@cfront.org> Dimitrina Sevova, Bulgaria <sevo@kein.org> Alain Kessi, Switzerland/Bulgaria <kessi@kein.org> Emil Miraztchiev, Bulgaria <arttoday@arttoday.org> Coordinator of theoretical meeting: Dimos Dimitriou, Greece <addfield@ath.forthnet.gr> Participants in CFront 2001 and in Syndicate @ CFront Adele Myers, UK <adelemyers@yahoo.com>; Adnan Hadziselimovic, Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Aleksander Gubas, Yugoslavia <eurindie@yahoo.com>; Ana Peraica, Croatia <ana.peraica@janvaneyck.nl>; Andrea Sponring, Austria/Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Andreas Broeckmann, Germany <abroeck@transmediale.de>; Anja Kaufmann, Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Athanasia Kyriakakos, Greece <siakyriakakos@yahoo.com>; Barbara Konopka, Poland <konopka@mailcity.com>; Barbara Prokop, Canada <wait@sub-rosa.de>; Biliana Velkova, Canada/Bulgaria <bg_videofest@hotmail.com>; Biljana Tanurovska, Macedonia <bljace@multimedia.org.mk>; Bojana Kunst, Slovenia <bojana.kunst@guest.arnes.si>; Boris Kostadinov, Bulgaria <b_kostadinov@yahoo.com>; Brigitta Kuster, Switzerland/Germany <b_rigitta@chickmail.com>; Chris Byrne, UK <chris@mediascot.org>; Diana McCarty, USA/Germany <diana@vifu.de>; Eleni Laperi, Albania <lenilaperi@yahoo.com>; Eva Michalcak, Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Galina Dimitrova, Bulgaria <galia@i-space.org>; Gordana Novakovic, Yugoslavia <gordana.novakovic@virgin.net>; Igor Stepancic, Yugoslavia <igor@blueprintit.com>; Igor Djordjevic, Yugoslavia <zadruga@email.com>; Irena Paunovic, Yugoslavia <irena@blueprintit.com>; Irina Cios, Romania <irina@icca.ro>; Jane Brake, UK <island@breathemail.net>; Jen Southern, UK <bus.gas@mcr1.poptel.org.uk>; Jenna Collins, UK <jennacollins@yahoo.com>; Katarina Zivanovic, Yugoslavia <katarina@opennet.org>; Kathy Rae Huffman, USA <kathy@vgtv.com>; Kristel Sibul, Estonia <sips@artun.ee>; Kristina Miljanovska, Macedonia <kika@soros.org.mk>; Luka Princic, Slovenia <nova@mail.ljudmila.org>; Maria Natasha Stukoff, UK <redirecther@yahoo.com>; Maria X, Greece <info@fournos-culture.gr>; Maria Vassileva, Bulgaria <mariaart@mail.bol.bg>; Marilena Prede Sanc, Romania <mpsanc@valhalla.racai.ro>; Melentie Pandilovski, Macedonia <misko@scca.org.mk>; Naomi Potter, Canada <ivystar@gmx.co.uk>; Pauline Boudry, Switzerland/Germany <paulinep@snafu.de>; Petros Diveris, UK <p.diveris@mmu.ac.uk>; Renate Lorenz, Germany <renate@berlin.snafu.de>; Rupert Francis, UK <R.P.Francis@tees.ac.uk>; Ruth Bugmann, Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Saso Vrabic, Slovenia <saso@mail.ljudmila.org>; Stefan Niederhauser, Switzerland <response@i-love-u.ch>; Steve Bradley, USA <sbradley@umbc.edu>; Tatiana Novikova, Belarus <novikova_2001@yahoo.com>; Zvonimir Bakotin, Croatia <zone@Desk.nl> - ----------------------------------------------------------- For the third year, the curators Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi and Emil Miraztchiev together with the ArtToday Foundation, Plovdiv present Communication Front 2001, Plovdiv, Bulgaria /project of electronic and media art and theory/ At the Center for Contemporary Art in the Ancient Bath, Plovdiv and the ArtToday Lab, Plovdiv >From 1 to 14 June 2001 Under the title: Cyber and my sp@ce – Netizens and the new geography General background on CFront CFront 2001 <http://www.cfront.org> is the third edition of the curatorial project Communication Front and, like the two previous years, is an international event oriented towards the production of works and analyses on a concrete topic, chosen to be directly relevant to the concrete situation of the Internet and media art and culture community, raising critical questions of immediate concern to that community. This year, we chose to focus on the relation between cyberspace and physical space and the ways new communication technologies structure one and the other, and specifically how they influence the art and culture community. CFront is a platform consisting of three approaches, a Theoretical Meeting for developing ideas relating to the development of new media and cultural politics in the region, a Working Seminar for producing a Web site presenting and developing further the results of the discussions in the Theoretical Meeting in the form of texts and art-works inspired by the discussions, and an exhibition closely linked to the topic of the Theoretical Meeting. CFront purposely avoids having festival or conference character, taking a critical stance to what Tapio Makela, Susanna Paasonen (both Finland) and Steve Bradley (USA) have called “media tourist” (http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront/workshop/tourist/index.html), namely “experts” travelling from town to town, from country to country, to present one and the same lecture to different audiences. As opposed to this, CFront includes the participants in a work process, in which new ideas and analyses, and Web-oriented works, are developed in collaboration. The concrete contacts between the participants over the period of two weeks allow us to build on the experience of each and on the results of previous projects and networking efforts, and to prepare the way for further networked activities and bring important discussions a step forward. The discourses and ideas developed in the context of CFront are closely linked to a continuous international process. While being firmly anchored in the reality of Bulgarian and South-East European electronic and media art and theory, the project is tightly embedded in the European and world-wide media culture environment. CFront stands in a line of international projects with similar working and networking character, like Geert Lovink’s temp.media.lab in Helsinki, with the working meeting “The Future State of Balkania” (October 1999, http://www.savanne.ch/balkania), or his Hybrid WorkSpace, which took place during the Documenta X (1997) in Kassel, the MoneyNations project that started in December 1998 at Shedhalle in Zurich (http://www.moneynations.ch/) and then developed into several working meetings in different countries, the series of working seminars and festivals OSTranenie at Bauhaus Dessau (1993-1997), Lina Dzuverovic-Russell’s and Lisa Haskel’s tech-nicks project at The Lux Gallery, London, that lasted for four weeks in summer 2000 (http://www.noaltgirls.org/tech_nicks), and numerous others. A number of such projects are presented in “The Hybrid Media Lounge” (http://www.medialounge.net). Descriptions and reports on projects similar in structure to CFront can be found in the archive of the Syndicate mailing list at <http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/>. The Regional Context Although Western curators and critics, the Art World with a big A, developed some interest in Eastern European artists in the 90ies, this has remained rather limited, and does not easily give these artists opportunities to realize themselves in this context. The net.art and media art community, on the other hand, has developed a broad network of contacts also in Eastern Europe, which has given rise to opportunities for collaborations on a variety of levels. The medium of the Internet and the less institutionalized functioning of the media art community provides opportunities for more even participation of artists, theorists and writers regardless of their geographical location. To this day, for a large part of the art and culture community in Bulgaria and the region, the access to the international Internet and media art and culture community has remained limited, due to problems of access to technology, but also a lack of knowledge about possible uses of these technologies, and a lack of local context in which to develop ideas and work, and of international contacts to facilitate their integration in ongoing projects. To overcome these barriers, there is a need for international events like Communication Front in which artists, curators and theorists from Bulgaria, other Balkan countries and the world at large meet and develop common perspectives in concrete collaborational work around current and important problems and questions, with which discussions and ideas on these questions are advanced in an international context of media art and culture and of the information society. “Cyber and my sp@ce – Netizens and the new geography” The personal computers, e-mail, World Wide Web can be seen as tools with which to achieve a given set of tasks. More important however for our discussion is that in combination they give rise to what we can call a digital revolution, and open up an entire new social (virtual or cyber) space, with a whole variety of social groups with their respective codes of behavior. The driving forces for the development and structuring of this space are the rising power of technologies, the standardization of communication protocols, including the worldwide spread of English and the Latin alphabet, and the restructuring and decentralization of production and marketing processes by large international companies. The corporate cyberspace (company Intranets) exerts a powerful pressure on the structuring of the public cyberspace. The rise of e-business, e-advertising and e-services reconfigures fundamentally the virtual geography. Search engines like Altavista have modified their way of sorting search results to give preferential treatment to business companies as compared to the average personal home page. You either pay, or your page becomes less visible. Can we find, in virtual geography, structures similar to cities, to neighborhoods, or other structures known from physical space? To what extent do the Web communities, consisting of users attracted by commercial portal sites like Yahoo, GMX or MSN/Hotmail with free e-mail and other services, show characteristics similar to those of a city or neighborhood? It may be interesting to note that the digital ‘cities’ build up around market needs, much like the physical cities of the middle ages. The term Netizen (from Net & citizen) was introduced back in the mid-70ies, at the time of the first Usenet fora and long before the World Wide Web would give access to the Internet to a broad audience. The Netizens of the time debated the freedom of speech, the development of the Internet and perspectives for the future of communication. In 1980 the MacBride Commission to the UNESCO <http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rvincent/mcbcon1.htm>, named after one of the leaders of Netizens, prepared a special report on the future of communication. In the report titled “Many Voices – One World”, the commission criticized the unequal access to information, which in practice leaves the countries of the Third World without a voice. The commission demanded a free flow of information. A large part of the world population (as well as of the Balkan population) are ‘PONA’ – People of No Account. They have no access to the Net, or if they do, they have insufficient knowledge about it to use it. They form what Olu Oguibe has called the ‘digital third world’ <http://camwood.org/springer.htm> (see also <http://eserver.org/internet/oguibe/>). The Internet, in its development, ignores local interrelations and jumps over borders. How will the relations between Netizens and remaining ‘PONA’ pockets in various locations develop? If someone from the Balkans, or another ‘PONA’-dominated region, has a personal access to the Net, does that automatically make her/him part of the Internet community? How does the lack of a supporting (sub-cultural) environment influence her/his possibilities for contributing to an innovative development of the Internet community? Robin Bloor extends the meaning of the concept ‘PONA’ to include people who do have access to and knowledge about the Internet, but who access it through Internet Cafes and other anonymous access providers. A typical example of this case is hackers. How will people escaping identification be considered by other Netizens? How might mechanisms installed to prevent anonymity and activities considered as suspect turn into instruments of censorship that could, among other things, place restrictions on art projects? In the interactive ‘jungle’ of cyberspace, on mailing lists such as Syndicate and nettime and a variety of smaller lists, that have formed like global neighborhoods around people with a common interest in media culture and Net practices, important questions about the development of the cultural, artistic and social environment in cyberspace. Such fora provide artists, theorists, writers and others from Eastern Europe with a feeling of community, with a way to interact socially while escaping the structures of the local art scene. Is there a private space on the Internet? What could private space mean on the Internet at all? Maybe closed chat rooms can be compared to hotel rooms that provide the coziness of a temporary rented ‘private’ space? How does the illusion of private space, through personalization of public cyberspace pioneered by e-commerce giants like Amazon, affect the relation of people/clients to cyberspace? Given that the Internet never sleeps and has no opening hours, how does this time regime affect Internet users and the Net community as a whole? How do people use communication technologies (and thus fill them with “sense” or “meaning”), and how do technologies influence and change people? The focus of CF01 on space and its structuring allows references to historical discussions of women's movements in the 70ies on relations between the (private) personal and the (public) political spaces. How have the radical changes in recent years, under the influence of new technologies and means of communication, affected the relations between urban space, cyberspace, working space, personal space, as well as, in parallel, the relations between people among themselves and between people and technologies. How do gender relations express themselves on the Internet? What kind of professional and social hierarchies can be found? What is the effect of voyeurist projects breaking the taboo of the personal space? Does the gendered hierarchy between client and service personnel get carried over from physical into cyberspace? The different parts of CF01 The exhibition “Cyber and my sp@ce” This year’s CFront exhibition presents multimedia installations by women artists. The exhibition opens on 6 June in the downstairs exhibition space of the Mexican House in the Old City of Plovdiv, where the theoretical meeting and working seminar are taking place. It will remain open until 21 June. We hope that by organizing an exhibition of women artists’ works in the context of an international project like CFront we can contribute to overcoming the isolation of Bulgarian and South-East European women artists, to creating a context in which they can further develop socially critical art practices, and to legitimizing feminist approaches. The theoretical meeting In daily round-table discussions and work in smaller groups (5 hours a day), the participants will develop new ideas on relations between people and technologies and social changes under the influence of new technologies, and texts to be published online and in book form bilingually in English and Bulgarian. The working language for the seminar is English. The working seminar Taking up ideas from the round-table discussions, the participants will develop web-based artistic projects (texts, sound, artworks, software) in a common process, while developing at the same time an integrated interface for the web site. The working language of the seminar is English. The accompanying program of public lectures In daily evening lectures, the participants will present to a local audience their work and experience in the field of media culture. A special emphasis will be put on discussions after the lecture. The lectures will be in English, with consecutive translation to Bulgarian. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: integer@www.god-emil.dk Subject: n2+o bulet!n \/\ n2+o - bulet!n nn - reciprocal altruism avec kapelica gallery \ student organizatie of the univ. of ljubljana - http://www.kapelica.org/ nn - digital_is_not_analog - real-time.snail.traces + http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/dina nn - ultra.violet.beez.tanz http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/beez.tanz/ nn - article for spielart [zmakc] `theater etcetera` publication http://www.membank.org/inter.body nn - salon magazine + net-flyer magazine are traveling to .eu to interview mememememememememememe - http://www.net-flyer.com/ nn - 242.koelenterate has been selekted for esf short film festival http://www.m9ndfukc.org/data/filmz/242.koelenterate.mov nn - Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC) will feature mememememememememememe in the next issue http://www.ciac.ca/magazine - http://www.eusocial.com/juzt/memememememe nn - Art + Gender Theory www transcript [later in the week] http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/cccp ds! - http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org at venice biennale - http://www.labiennaledivenezia.net/ nn - kome meLTtt+ m! !sz dresz at - http://sonar.es http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/!sz.sch!vrz nn + mez article by beatrice beaubien - http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/leak!ng.!ntegerz nn - siggraph CAA doc http://membank.org/dataset/f/sig.jpg 1001 ventuze /_/ / \ \/ i should like to be a human plant \/ __ __/ i will shed leaves in the shade \_\ because i like stepping on bugs *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Netochka Nezvanova nezvanova@eusocial.com http://www.eusocial.com http://www.biohakc.com http://www.ggttctttat.com/! I am not Greta Garbo!!! http://steim.nl/leaves/petalz *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- --*--*--*--*--*--*-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:26:33 +0200 From: "Pia Vigh" <pia.vigh@www.kulturnet.dk> Subject: CULT 2001 - Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001 - ANNOUNCEMENT CULT 2001 Exploring an interface between Cultural heritage, Net art and State of the art projects Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001 New Culture and visions of collaborative culture Old structural barriers have been transgressed on the cultural scene, due to the digital economy and the new media strategies. New creative models of collaboration emerge between institutions preserving cultural heritage, performing arts creating new expressions, and information technology providing tools of communication. The interface between Cultural Heritage, Net Art and State of the art projects is new. It is both innovative, challenging and a critical vehicle for issues concerning collaboration, communication and dissemination strategies in modern societies. CULT 2001 CULT 2001 wishes to establish a platform for discussions and reflections on these new visions of collaboration and dissemination strategies. Central keynote speakers from major cultural institutions, as well as international net artists and computer scientists will provide the basis for this platform. A central experience of this conference will be the manifestation of national and international cultural networks, and national CultureNets that brings together institutions dealing with Cultural Heritage, Net Art and State of the Art technology. CULT 2001 offers an opportunity to reflect on this cultural interface. This opportunity is aimed widely at international cultural institutions, organisations for technology and the visual arts, web oriented artists and curators, as well as already existing national CultureNets. We invite artists, theorists, the cultural sector, festival organisers and new media industry people to meet, discuss and reunite within the framework set by international keynote speakers. There will be plenty of opportunities to reflect further on the future of this new cultural interface in parallel sessions and social events during these two days in Copenhagen. Contact: culturenet-denmark@www.kulturnet.dk :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CultureNet Denmark, organiser of CULT 2001, has since 1997 gained a unique experience being a web based platform for various cultural institutions and expressions. These include traditional state cultural institutions, independent net artists, international cultural networks and market based technology. CultureNet Denmark participates in the development and implementation of national IT visions on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Culture. Programme and registration will soon be available at: http://www.kulturnet.dk Kind regards, Pia Vigh :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: C U L T 2 0 0 1 :: C o p e n h a g e n :: Organizer: CultureNet Denmark Christians Brygge 3 DK-1219 Copenhagen K P +45 33 13 50 88 F +45 33 14 11 56 culturenet-denmark@www.kulturnet.dk http://www.culturenet-denmark.dk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:13:20 +0100 From: matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk> Subject: lev manovich, lux, london LEV MANOVICH PRESENTS Sunday 3 June 2.00 Lux Cinema 2-4 Hoxton Sq London N1 6NU BOOKING LINE 020 7684 0201 "Everything you wanted to know about new mediabut were afraid to ask Dziga Vertov" Lev Manovich, the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001). http://www.manovich.net What are the new possibilities for film language opened up by digital media? Which filmmakers from the past already explored the fundamental questions of digital media, even though they worked before computers were available? What are the classics of digital cinema? In order to explore these questions, Lev Manovich will screen and discuss a number of short films and film segments. Filmmakers/artists to be discussed will include Vertov, Whitney, art+com, Walitzky, Boustani, and others. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:39:19 +1100 From: molly hankwitz <mollybh@netspace.net.au> Subject: announcement ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE, 7-10pm worldwide, all time zones As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of summer, June 21 at 7pm - 10pm in all time zones (this will roll it across the planet). It's a simple protest and a symbolic act. Turn out your lights from 7pm-10pm on June 21. Unplug whatever you can unplug in your house. Light a candle, kiss and tell (or not), take a stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not electronic - have fun in the dark. The Cheney-Bush team is blowing smoke when they tell us that "... conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement those technologies..." Pick up the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by Hawken and Lovins to learn that conservation/high efficiency technologies already ARE on-the-shelf. If implemented, these revolutionary ideas would pay themselves off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot. Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government representatives and environmental contacts. Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and alternative fuel efforts -- and an end to over-exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources. mollyhankwitz 0348 050759 61 7 3846 5457 archimedia : ' ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 21:00:19 -0500 From: "patrick lichty" <voyd@voyd.com> Subject: PDA/IA Show Update May 27, 2001 Announcement: (re)distributions: PDA and IA Art as Cultural Intervention First show date/Accretion Process: JUly 1-7 to October 31, 2001 SECOND CALL FOR WORKS, and REDEFINITION OF SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Although the response for our (re)distributions show has been excellent. A small cache of equipment has been acquired by private donation for development of the show, and progress is coming along quite well. However, because of the nascent quality of this medium, some of the work is still in development, and in order to facilitate the exhibition of a number of these works, our entry and exhibition policy is being amended. The show opening date will be in the first week of July, depending on logistics and schedules. There are a number of artists who will shown in the opening exhibition, but there are more who are on the brink of completing some very interesting work. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AMENDMENT: Deadlines: WORKS and PAPERS: June 15-October 15. 2001 Anyone wishing to submit works that utilize PDA's, Information Appliances, and nomadic devices are welcome to contact me for inclusion in the exhibiton. The application process will be different from typical exhibitions, as this is no typical exhibition. The opening deadline for works will be June 15th, and the selection criteria will more inclusive in the beginning. Pieces and texts will also be considered until two weeks before of the 'end' of active phase of the online exhibition, which is 10/15/2001. However, as time passes, judging criteria will be tightened until the end of the active phase, at which time a catalogue and physical arrangements will be finalized. It is my hope that this accretive phase will serve to increase the breadth of and quality of the work in the show. *************************** REVISED PROSPECTUS FOLLOWS: *************************** Call for Virtual Entries and Critical Texts "(re)distributions: Information Appliance & PDA Art as cultural intervention" Exhibition/Online Symposium Sponsored by voyd.com July 1, 2001 October 15, 2001 Patrick Lichty, Curator Statement: As technological forms of art such as web-based works gain acceptance at major cultural institutions, questions arise to the potential narrowing of technological works to the browser, and to the representational issues of technological art in general. Personal Digital Assistants and informational appliances like pagers, cell phones and connected organizers are creating a culture of distribution and nomadism, intimacy with our machines combined with the resultant 'precious-ness' of the information appliance, and a closer integration of technology of the body. The IA/PDA poses to create new cultural modes of representation as these technologies create their own communities and networks while not wholly relying on the Internet proper. What are the issues of expression and artistic representation (visual, aural, narrative, etc) that the emergence of wireless technologies creates? How does this technology affect our relationship with one another and with these new developments? (re)distributions will seek to address the shifts in cultural practice through showcasing works that utilize PDA OS, WAP or other wireless technologies to make visible critical issues (on micro- and macrocosmic levels) relating to the coming of the embedded self and the wireless Web. Call for entries: Projects for consideration will focus on works created for PDAs, like the Pilot, Visor, and Pocket PC platforms, as well as pagers, cell phones, etc. and works for information appliances utilizing various protocols, such as WAP or Bluetooth. Works will be judged a number of criteria, including their critical engagement with the subject and/or audience and technical accessibility. Palmtop applications will be hosted at voyd.com, and the artist or their technical staff will administrate WAP/wireless installations, which will be accompanied by suitable links and curatorial pages. In addition, documentation for completed events or works-in-progress will be accepted as expository works. If response is sufficient, a separate category will be created for this body of work. The curatorial staff has access to Palm III only at the present time, so those submitting other works are responsible for documenting the work in a way that is accessible (preferably HTML). EMULATION WILL BE ALLOWED. Call for Essays & Texts: In conjunction with the exhibition, critical essays are invited for submission for inclusion in the discussion of the online exhibition. The archives will be posted on the site, and proceedings of the works will be electronically published as well. Format: MS Word or compatible format, 2500 words max. or multimedia hypertext. Abstracts (250 words), text only. Deadlines: SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AMENDMENT: Deadlines: WORKS and PAPERS: June 15-October 15. 2001 Anyone wishing to submit works that utilize PDA's, Information Appliances, and nomadic devices are welcome to contact me for inclusion in the exhibiton. The application process will be different from typical exhibitions, as this is no typical exhibition. The opening deadline for works will be June 15th, and the selection criteria will more inclusive in the beginning. Pieces and texts will also be considered until two weeks before of the 'end' of active phase of the online exhibition, which is 10/15/2001. However, as time passes, judging criteria will be tightened until the end of the active phase, at which time a catalogue and physical arrangements will be finalized. Notification of acceptance: June 15-October15. 2001 Contact/submission information: Patrick Lichty Curator, (re)distributions C/O 355 Seyburn Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70808 225-766-3811 USA Voyd@voyd.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- t h i n g i s t message by Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com> archive at http://bbs.thing.net info: send email to majordomo@bbs.thing.net and write "info thingist" in the message body - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:38:04 +0200 From: kristin bergaust <kristin@anart.no> Subject: tigergarden game experience The theatre company Hollow Creature in Norway has made the performance Tigergarden which is based on the texts of the American author Kathy Acker. At http://www.hollowcreature.com/tigergarden you can visit tigergarden game experience which has been made at Atelier Nord, Oslo by www.institutors.org - -- Kristin Bergaust ------------------------------ # 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