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Table of Contents: CPSR's 20th Anniversary Conference and Wiener Award Dinner "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Morpheus "felipe rodriquez" <felipe@xs4all.nl> Dance Review/Timezone Yukihiko Yoshida <yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp> Volunteers In Support of Asylum Seekers "ben moretti" <bmoretti@chariot.net.au> Public Works announces ... Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Marx & Women's Lib "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb@slip.net> Class Composition in Cognitive Capitalism "Ed Emery" <ed.emery@cwcom.net>(by way of richard barbrook) EXCESS "MAAP" <info@maap.org.au> FINAL CALL: transmediale.02 award competition Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de> New to net "Brian Wells" <dirtywork@saber.net> location needed for project on economy in public space in New York Oliver Ressler <oliver.ressler@chello.at> Michael Longford <longford@alcor.concordia.ca> border reports. fran ilich <ilich_030@hotmail.com> BOUNCE nettime-l@bbs.thing.net: Header field too long (>1024) nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net David Larcher's Monkey's Birthday Richard Thompson <richardthompson@lux.org.uk> Celebrate Brenda Laurel's Book Launch - Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press) "Peter Lunenfeld" <peterl@artcenter.edu> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:16:40 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: CPSR's 20th Anniversary Conference and Wiener Award Dinner From: <sevoy@quark.cpsr.org> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: CPSR's 20th Anniversary Conference and Wiener Award Dinner Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility presents Nurturing the Cybercommons: 1981 - 2021 October 19 - 21, 2001, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor http://www.cpsr.org/ In 2001, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility celebrates its 20th anniversary by looking backwards and forwards two decades at the history and future of the global cybercommons. Panels and presentations will examine the key historical events that shaped today's Internet, and the prospects for its future evolution. FEATURED SPEAKERS: Howard Besser UCLA School of Education & Information Studies Jessica Litman Wayne State University Steve Mann Toronto University David Parnas McMaster University NORBERT WIENER AWARD WINNERS: Theodore Postol Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nira Schwartz Citizen Who Cares About our Nation CONFERENCE AGENDA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2:00 - 5:00 (Friday seminars are free and open to the public) ELECTRONIC VOTING: CAN TECHNOLOGY IMPROVE DEMOCRACY? Where some see voting technology coming to democracy's rescue, others fear that increasingly sophisticated technology will lead to increasingly sophisticated and effective electoral abuses. Leading advocates and opponents of the application of advanced information technology to the electoral process will debate each other directly. WHAT IS AN INFORMATION COMMONS AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE? Howard Besser will explain why an information commons is critical to us as social beings. After tracing some of the history of our information commons, he will focus on recent attempts to fence off sections of it and will show that changes to copyright, free speech, and privacy could threaten our very social fabric. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 9:00 - 5:30 ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: WHERE IS THE INTERNET GOING, AND WHO WILL GO THERE? (a special morning double session followed by an open discussion with the panelists) I. TOMORROW'S INTERNET: INTERNET2 AND THE ISSUES IT RAISES Internet2 is a consortium working to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Speakers from Internet2 and EDUCAUSE will provide a glimpse of the Internet of the future, followed by a panel discussion of the key legislative, regulatory, and budgetary issues that such a future entails. ELECTRONIC RECORDS AND GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: PRESENT PRACTICE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS How are government records managed and what implications does that management have for democratic accountability? Panelists will discuss this question and will argue that solving electronic records problems such as hardware and software obsolescence is essential for our continued governance, accountability, and cultural memory. INFORMATION WARFARE AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS Even though information warfare is the subject of headlines and the cause of significant Pentagon expenses, it's often difficult to see what it really is. Using real-world scenarios, panelists will explore some elements of information warfare and its implications for traditional nation-states and military establishments. II. THE DIGITAL DIVIDE As information technology races ahead, too many people are in danger of being left behind. Speakers from the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) and elsewhere will discuss the problem and the opportunities for closing the gap, featuring highlights and conclusions from a summer ACT workshop on the Digital Divide. SOCIAL ISSUES FOR COMPUTING PROFESSIONALS 1987 Wiener Award winner David Parnas will focus on what he sees as the need for computer professionals to inform the culture on issues such as the feasibility (or lack thereof) of software for missile defense, the need for training and licensing for those who write critical software, the benefits of a multiplicity of networks versus only one, and the question of whether computer professionals have been bought out by the military-industrial complex. SUBJECTRIGHTS IN THE CYBORG AGE Informed by twenty years experience with wearable computers, Steve Mann will address some of the philosophical issues of being one with the machine, focusing on the notion of Subjectrights, in which the individual can operate as if he or she were a large corporation. Mann will also discuss self- corporatization, self-bureaucratization, and self-demotion as means for dealing with bureaucratic organizations, as well as his research results in social responsibility and social desponsibility. NORBERT WIENER AWARD DINNER - 7:00 p.m Twenty Years Later: Star Wars Remains Expensive Science Fiction CPSR Awards the 2001 Norbert Wiener Award to Nira Schwartz and Theodore Postol for Their Courage in Exposing that Fiction. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was founded twenty years ago, in part to organize the vast majority of computer scientists who understood that Star Wars was simply not within the realm of technical possibility. Twenty years later, with millions of lines of code written, the concept remains fantasy. CPSR Awards its Annual Norbert Wiener Award to Dr. Nira Schwartz and Dr. Theodore Postol for exposing the failure of Star Wars technology. For disagreeing with those who would accept funding on any pretense, both of these computer professionals have suffered career damage, from refused funding to unceremonious dismissal. Dr. Nira Schwartz, who worked on the Star Wars project in 1995 and 1996, charged her employer, TRW, with misleading the Pentagon and the public by falsifying test results as to the ability of the system to distinguish real warheads from decoys. She was summarily fired, allegedly as a result of her refusal to cooperate with the publication of false test reports. Dr. Theodore Postol, science adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations and professor of science, technology, and national security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discredited the myth that Patriot missiles shot down Scuds during Desert Storm. His independent scientific analysis of the TRW test data concurs with Dr. Schwartz's claims of falsified results. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased without registering for the conference. http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/annmtg01/wiener.html SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 9:00 - 3:00 NEOCAPITALISM AND THE HIVE MIND Jessica Litman will talk about the conflict between the common, collaborative information space developing on the net (the "Hive Mind") and a copyright law that commodifies anything it can nail down and then forbids everyone from using it without explicit permission. CPSR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING (free and open to the public) Including CPSR Activity Updates: ICANN: promoting legitimate Internet governance. UCITA: fighting the legalization of bad software. Register online at: https://swww.igc.apc.org/cpsr/annMtg2001.html For further conference details and online registration, visit http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/annmtg01/program.html > -- Susan Evoy * Managing Director http://www.cpsr.org/ Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility P.O. Box 717 * Palo Alto * CA * 94302 Phone: (650) 322-3778 * Email: evoy@cpsr.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:00:52 -0700 From: "felipe rodriquez" <felipe@xs4all.nl> Subject: Morpheus Hi, I'm sure a lot of you already know this, but today I discovered a new peer-to-peer file exchange tool that works reasonably well. Its called Morpheus. See www.musiccity.com Felipe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:19:50 +0900 From: Yukihiko Yoshida <yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp> Subject: Dance Review/Timezone T i m e Z o n e/ GMT+9:00 ---New Tokyo Dance Style-- Dance and BodyCulture,Dance Diary from TOKYO http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/ (The URL for my review is in the following. http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/timezone.html ) Written By Yukihiko YOSHIDA yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp moderator of Dance Maling List/Japan http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/danceml.html (The page is written in Japanese) StarDancersBallet:http://www.sdballet.com/ "Dragon Quest",12th Aug 2001,at Aoyama Theater Tokyo Tokyo, As video game users know, there is a classic RPG video game called "Dragon Quest" from ENIX (http://www.enix.co.jp/). This ballet took idea from this video game. Minoru Suzuki,known as one of famous and creative choreographers in Japanese ballet scene, produced this ballet. As Haruomi Hosono (Harry Hosono),known as the leader of YMO, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and ambient musician, pointed out, the image worlds in video game and animation make "Romantic" form in their own stories and worlds. "Romantic video game world" just adapts itself to "Romantic ballet world". The harmony and gap of opposite different two worlds could be senced. In both fields of ballet and video game,this ballet was evaluated. >From children to adults, the audience was delighted. Yukihiko YOSHIDA (C)All right reserved by Yukihiko YOSHIDA Questions and Comments should be e-mail to yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp Petition:Martha Graham is still in danger/ http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/graham.html 3 Elements of the world: Joy / Fun / Love - --Yuk;-)iko YOSHIDA Yukihiko YOSHIDA Artist/Systems Humanist/Generalist <.org> Keio University,Graduate School for Media and Governance Japanese Society for Dance Research World Dance Alliance Project Xanadu : working as an assistant <Personal Projects:> The moderator of Dance Mailing List: <http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/danceml.html> Xanalogical Artists Society -- We Fight on ! -- <http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/XaS/> e-mail address : yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp yukihiko@xanadu.net webpage: http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/ closest fax number: <:none> current BGM:<Can't take my eyes off you/BoysTownGang> Travel Path:<none> currnet physical location:<tokio,kanagawa,fujisawa> current physical status: < fine > GPS Coordinates:<.> Citizen of World a young master like Jedi PGP Key <finger yukihiko@sfc.keio.ac.jp> trans(c) Yukihiko Yoshida 2001 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 04:33:56 GMT From: "ben moretti" <bmoretti@chariot.net.au> Subject: Volunteers In Support of Asylum Seekers http://ensemble.va.com.au/visas/ ~ VISAS ~ Volunteers In Support of Asylum Seekers We are a group of artists, cultural workers and friends who meet and discuss ways in which we can raise public awareness about and provide support for asylum seekers both in Woomera and Adelaide, South Australia We run a web site, above, and eGroup mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/v-i-s-a-s/join Please join us and make a difference! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:15:42 +0200 From: Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Subject: Public Works announces ... Public Works is a group of media artists devoted to a core set of ideas and working practices, among which are: * making new works out of previously 'finished' works, thereby commenting on the nature of cultural production * working with limited means and mainly 'obsolete' or otherwise 'common' technology; making work that in principle could be made by 'anyone' * undermining the attractive power of mass-produced works by bringing to the surface latent, often troubling, meanings within them * making use of aggressive and strategic recontextualisation in order to examine how mass-produced works affect us and culture as a whole Public Works is a close-knit group of varying membership. They have been producing music, films and videos, writings, publications, and works in other media since the late 1980s. Their activities draw inspiration from punk, d.i.y., neoism, mail art, zines, and more recently, the inherent (though increasingly threatened) open architectures of the internet and the world wide web. If any of this sounds interesting to you, please take a moment to visit our newly re-designed web site. We are open to any form of interaction that it may inspire. http://pwp.detritus.net/ - -- Lloyd Dunn >> ll@detritus.net The Tape-beatles, Public Works Productions >> http://pwp.detritus.net/ - - - - - - - - - - - - Mail >> c/o Heckovi, Veltruská 531/9, 19000 Praha-9 Prosek, Cz.R. Telephone >> (42) 02-8688-0092 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:30:41 -0700 From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb@slip.net> Subject: Marx & Women's Lib Two classic radical texts have been added to the BPS website: INTRODUCTION TO A CRITIQUE OF HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT (Karl Marx, 1844) - -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/marx-hegel.htm THE TYRANNY OF STRUCTURELESSNESS (Jo Freeman, 1970) - -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/structurelessness.htm The first is one of Marx's earliest and most brilliant writings. Among other things, it's the source of "Religion is the opium of the people," "To be radical is to grasp things by the root," "Practice must seek its theory," "Make shame more shameful still by making it public," and many other phrases later taken up by the situationists. The second is an influential examination of the manipulative tendencies that are often hidden within apparently "structureless" organizations. It was originally addressed to the early women's liberation movement, but its insights continue to apply to present-day radical groups and activities. * * * * * * * * * * * * Apologies to those of you who were unable to access the BPS website for several days during the end of July and the beginning of August. There was a server problem, which now seems to have been resolved. If you visit the site frequently, please note the following alternative URLs: http://www.bopsecrets.org (This is a new alternative address to the same site -- it sometimes works when http://www.slip.net/~knabb doesn't.) http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/bps (This is a mirror site -- it is virtually identical to the original except that it may not include the most recent updates.) BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS PO Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA http://www.slip.net/~knabb knabb@slip.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 02:16:03 +0100 (BST) From: "Ed Emery" <ed.emery@cwcom.net>(by way of richard barbrook) Subject: Class Composition in Cognitive Capitalism PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MAILING TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES An International Seminar on CLASS COMPOSITION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM (THE "KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY") to be held in Paris, 16-17 February 2002 Dear Friends, I am writing to inform you that I am organising a seminar based on the above topic, to be held in Paris on the weekend of 16-17 February 2002. The basic issue is simple. We are in a new phase of capitalist development. The preceding class composition which generated the mass struggles of the period up to the 1980s has been destroyed (miners, dockers, building workers, auto workers, railways workers, road transport workers etc). We are now in a new class composition, built in the new technologies. Broadly speaking, the "knowledge economy", or "cognitive capitalism". To organise the coming phase of class struggle means that we have to understand the contours of this new class composition. That is the purpose of our Seminar: to prepare papers and to compare notes on the new class composition. One of the starting points for the Seminar will be the materials on "Intellectual Property, Free Software and Internet Subjectivities" prepared for the May 2001 issue of the Paris-based journal "Multitudes". Details of that issue can be found at the Website at http://www.samizdat.net/multitudes. This will be an international gathering. This invitation is being sent to comrades all round the world. We invite you to attend the Seminar. And if you feel that you have something to say, we invite you to present a paper. Papers may be presented in English, French or Italian. Papers will eventually be published, either on the Website or in book format. There is no charge for attending the Seminar. We have not applied for funding, so no travel expenses can be paid to contributors. As regards accommodation, we shall do what we can to find cheap or free accommodation, but no promises... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT A PAPER at the Seminar, please write to ed.emery@cwcom.net, presenting an outline of your proposed theme. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND the Seminar, please send your name and contact details to the same address. Furhter details of the Seminar will be posted on the Website at http://www.geocities.com/Cognitif With best regards, Ed Emery ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:26:08 +1000 From: "MAAP" <info@maap.org.au> Subject: EXCESS This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_00CA_01C124DD.D2EB68A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 EXCESS EXCESS EXCESS EXCESS EXCESS=20 Multimedia Art Asia Pacific presents... MAAP01 EXCESS =96 new media festival 12-14 October 2001 Online, Brisbane Powerhouse and regional partner venues =20 This year=92s festival theme =93EXCESS=94 enables an investigation into = artist=92s extreme positions. Digital culture and the information age = imply an overload of information and possibilities, yet in many = situations intimidate, guide and encourage bland response. It can be = argued that we live in an age where the realities of economic and social = control have lead to a climate where rationalisation prevails.=20 EXCESS looks toward artworks and artists that push visual and conceptual = limits and seek to celebrate an indulgence in the outer limits of = original aesthetics. While this may sound somewhat Baroque, EXCESS can = equally rebound into the extremes of minimalism, where excessive and = rigorous theories may catapult expression to extraordinary visual and = audio denial. We hope "EXCESS" will vibrate between the two extremes. Everyday excess in our popular media culture, film and television = promotes desensitisation and ambivalence to the meaning of excess =96 = when artists take an idea and push it conceptually we are refreshed with = ways to re-engage with electronic media, to find deeply personal = positions speaking from richly different cultural positions. The MAAP01 festival program runs in 3 streams:=20 SEE =96 includes screening programs curated from China, Korea, = Thailand, Philippines and Australia. SEEK =96 interactive exhibition program including Internet, CD-ROM, and = new media installations. SPEAK =96 netcast enabled regional forums, training programs, artist = talks and demonstrations. =20 NEXT MAIL... program highlights, visiting artists and website updates! Don't forget that if you collect ALL the Maap Mail clues found at = www.maap.org.au in the lead up to the festival, and e-mail them back to = us you can go into the draw to WIN DREAMWEAVER 4.0 and FLASH 5.0!!! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- 12-14 October, 2001 Online Festival: www.maap.org.au Festival: Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Q AUSTRALIA=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- =20 MAAP is a not for profit organisation that promotes=20 excellence in art and technology in Australia/Asia Pacific regions. Major Sponsors: Platinum - Macromedia Gold - CITEC Silver - Choice Connections, Apple Computers Government Sponsors - Australia Council, Arts Queensland, Brisbane City = Council, Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Cinemedia, = Australian Film Commission Supported by - QUT-Communication Design, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, IdN = Magazine, Malaysian Video Awards Festival, Chinese-art.com, The Loft New = Media Space - Beijing, Qld Artworkers Alliance, QPIX, ANAT, Videotage - = Hong Kong, Institute of Modern Art, Metro Arts, Griffith University, = Griffith Artworks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:37:44 +0200 From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de> Subject: FINAL CALL: transmediale.02 award competition transmediale.02 [go public !] international media art festival berlin 5 - 10 February 2002 Deadline: 31 August 2001 Submission form: http://www.transmediale.de (pdf download) CALL FOR ENTRIES The transmediale is a platform for artistic presentation and critical reflection on the role of digital technologies in present-day society. The festival provides a forum for communication between artists, those working in the media and a wide range of experts and offers a stimulating environment for the presentation of major new projects from digital culture. The transmediale.01 invites the submission of artistic projects developed since1999 in the fields of Interactive, Image and Software Art. INTERACTIVE - Interactive Systems This category covers artistic productions focusing on human interaction with and through digital media. Interactive systems consist of several components which combine to create an artwork that can be experienced invidually or collectively and whose outcome is relatively open and dependent on the recipiant's participation. These can be locally based systems like installations or performances, as well as open, networked or activist processes. The evaluation of these works hinges on their reflection of current social and cultural conditions and on the choice of adequate media and components which articulate the intention of the project. IMAGE - linear and non-linear moving images This new competition category replaces the old video category which was part of the competition for over 10 years. The new category focuses on innovative approaches to the development of moving images in the age of digital, interactive and net-based media. Of particular interest are the transformation of visual languages, new non-linear narrative structures and innovative forms of presentation and reception. The reformulation of this competition category brings into view formats like video performance, Internet movie or interactive story telling, which go beyond the classic video image without developing entirely open and interactive structures. SOFTWARE ART For the first time, transmediale.01 called for submissions in this category which, as a genre, is still being debated. For transmediale.02, we again invite projects in which the artistic process is largely dependent on the execution of code. Software not as a functional tool on which the "real" artwork is based, but software code as the material of artistic creation. Software Art can be the result of an autonomous creative practice, but can also refer critically to the general technological and social meaning of software. The evaluation by the jury requires good documentation of submitted works (especially in the fields of Software Art and Interactive). Where appropriate, an explanation should be given as to which aspects of the works the jury should consider in particular. For understanding jury requirements, please consult last year's jury statements which are online. The selected works will be invited to transmediale.02 and will be presented, circumstances permitting, in the exhibition, screenings, the media lounge or on stage. In addition, we are considering continuous availability of the video works in the media lounge through a local server. transmediale award Prizes worth EU 5,000 will be awarded in each of the three categories Interactive, Image and Software Art. The award winners will be selected by three separate international juries. Festival Theme transmediale.02: [go public!] How do you "go public" today? 15 minutes of fame through an appearance on TV? The IPO of a self-founded company? The publication of a press release? A post-modern shopping-spree? The participation in a street demonstration? Or rather a permanent online-presence through home-installed Web cameras? Dreams of the public sphere as a space free of power relations where citizens communicate to formulate their joint political will, are long gone. The total public sphere of mass media is breaking up into a multiplicity of partial publics where individuals and groups perform and act. Politics is happening somewhere in between. The English term "to go public" originally means "to publicise information", but today it is used primarily in the context of founding a joint-stock company or its IPO (initial public offering). The stock market crash of spring 2000 meant a huge disenchantment for this precarious concept which had fascinated the IT sector for years. Digital media still carry the hope for new forms of democratic participation. But how far do they really open up cultural and political spaces where a public sphere can take shape and where you can "go public"? Does today's cultural and political effectiveness evolve first and foremost in non-public spaces? The shopping mall as a democratic forum, the post-industrial product or service as a ultimate "res publica"? The transmediale.02 encourages artists and media producers to "go public!" and, at the same time, asks how and where efficient models of public spheres are being developed. Artists and media producers experience and explore the frictions and borders between private and public and research the possibilities for constructing new spaces for public action. It remains to be seen whether these are to be found on the trading floor or in your home kitchen, on a free server or on a private TV channel. transmediale Klosterstr. 68 - 70 10179 Berlin Germany Fon ++49 (0)30 / 2472 1907 Fax ++49 (0)30 / 2472 1909 info@transmediale.de ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:31:39 -0700 From: "Brian Wells" <dirtywork@saber.net> Subject: New to net www.dirtyworkdonecheap.com Music/art. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:48:48 +0000 From: Oliver Ressler <oliver.ressler@chello.at> Subject: location needed for project on economy in public space in New York Hi, we – Austrian artist Oliver Ressler and US artist David Thorne – are working on our collaborative project "Boom!”. The project consists of photo-text works in various media designed for flexible production and application in a range of display contexts. The works inject lengthy statements into the traditionally short linguistic structure of the "url” to generate dysfunctional web addresses which examine some of the central myths of globalized capitalism. These urls are combined with additional texts and photographs in order to suggest that the current (or is it "over” now?) economic boom is a manifestation of the deepening crises of capitalism, and that "boom” must be understood not only as "expansion” (capital in search of return) but also as potential collapse or explosion. One version of "Boom!” was included in the exhibition "What, How & For Whom” in Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. We are currently looking for a public space in New York for the project. We would be interested in a large wall or window facing a street or place on a city/state owned space or a private space. The space could be in a good location in Manhattan or elsewhere in New York, where many people are passing. The project should be installed for a few weeks. If you have any ideas or hints how to get such a space we would very appreciate your comments and help. Please contact us at oliver.ressler@chello.at and hotwater@mindspring.com Former projects by Oliver Ressler can be found at http://www.t0.or.at/fluchthilfe and http://www.thing.at/the_global_500, Thanks for your help in advance Oliver Ressler, David Thorne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:59:24 -0400 From: Michael Longford <longford@alcor.concordia.ca> The Design Art Department of Concordia University [Montreal, Canada] is happy to announce that registration has begun for DECLARATIONS of [inter]dependence and the im[media]cy of design Montreal, October 25 - 28, 2001. This international symposium will bring together designers, artists, educators and activists to explore the public sphere as a space of democratic voice and citizenship. For a list of presenters, complete program and registration information please see the web site at: http://design.concordia.ca/declaration/index.html Please forward this message to your colleagues and anyone you think might be interested. Thank you Declarations Organizing Committee Department of Design Art Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., VA 244 Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 Tel: 514-848-4249 Fax: 514-848-8627 _________________ Michael Longford Associate Professor, Department of Design Art Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., VA 244 Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 Vox: 514-848-4249 Fax: 514-848-8627 Vox: 514-848-4249 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:54:09 -0500 From: fran ilich <ilich_030@hotmail.com> Subject: border reports. 'Border Reports' will extend the mission of Borderhack 2.0 to 'delete the border,' by transmitting sound (as audible and radio frequencies) into the immediate vicinity (Tijuana MX, San Ysidro USA). We invite you to create a sound recording for this project. The name 'Border Reports' comes from the AM radio traffic reports in San Diego that let people know how long it takes to get across the border. Drivers have to wait in line and produce passports to cross the border, but sound itself knows no such barriers. The USA used radio for years to transmit the message of capitalism into the communist bloc; we will use sound frequencies similarly, in order to mobilize discussion and understanding of border policies which criminalize the poor and politically persecuted. We would like to present your sound recording as part of this international transmission . We invite you to produce a 5 minute (maximum) audio segment to be transmitted on both sides of the border during the Borderhack encampment on August 24, 25, 25 in Playas Tijuana. Segments can take any form including: Journalistic, conceptual, investigative, political manifestos, creative appropriation, musical, a shout-out, an interview, a mini- history, information, news, noise, a poem. Title your segment: The title of each segment should start with - "Border Report," and then a number or year or title which might indicate the content or feeling of your segment. Examples would be: "Border Report No.365" "Border Report No. 366," "Border Report Year 2060" "Border Report 2.2" "Border Report Berlin 1937" Segments could consider the US Mexico frontier year 2001, but they could also present information about other borders past, present and future. Where and how to produce the segment? There are several ways! Record at Playas de Tijuana: We will have a station at Playas and recording equipment. Bring your text or instruments and find us under the Border Reports flag. Or come up with a spontaneous interview or sound piece at Playas; there should be plenty of inspiration at the encampment. Record at our studio. Please call us at (213) 365-2344 to record with us. Best days would be Monday August 20 and Tuesday August 21. Or email us at slewison@hotmail or ncousino@earthlink.net. Record at your place and deliver the file via mail, or to our house or mailbox in Los Angeles. Please email or call for details/address. Or bring the recording with you to the Borderhack emcampment at Playas. We can take audio cassette, minidisc or CD. Record at your place, and send the file via email. Please contact us for details as to what kind of file we can accept. Any language is welcome: english, spanish, sound, music, noise or any other language transmitted through audiowaves. duration: maximum 5 minutes usable recording formats: cassette tape, mini-disc, cd We hope you will participate in this action! The more, the merrier (and louder). For more information, please contact Nicole or Sarah at 213-365-2344, or ncousino@earthlink, or slewison@hotmail.com. Border Reports is part of Borderhack. See http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack < DELETE THE BORDER! > Borderhack is a festival/camp that is part of the "kein mensch ist illegal" chain of bordercamps. It will take place in Tijuana on August 24, 25 and 26 of the year 2001. The location of the camp will be in the Playas de Tijuana part of the city, in front of the actual border fence that divides the third and the first world, and also where it penetrates the ocean. The camp will offer net art, photograph exhibits, border cinema, ISDN connections, conferences and workshops, not to mention the participation of the global hacktivist and net-media art community. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:12:05 -0400 From: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net Subject: BOUNCE nettime-l@bbs.thing.net: Header field too long (>1024) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:45:22 +0100 From: Richard Thompson <richardthompson@lux.org.uk> Subject: David Larcher's Monkey's Birthday > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. DAVID LARCHER'S MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY 6am SUNDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 2001, LUX CINEMA June `73 - June `75, 360mins, single & twin screen variously, largely 16mm Shot in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iran Shot & processed Prince of Wales Crescent, Chalk Farm First shown 6am, Wednesday 7th May 1975, Gate Cinema A 6 hour long, varying format projection event starting at DAWN; an alchemical travelogue; a psychic and literal road journey, described by refraction through printer effects, refilming, video feedback and single-frame editing. Cinema expanded into an unmissable spectaculist onslaught. MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY extends [the] inner voyage into an externalised odyssey i= n which Larcher and his crew wander across Europe. Years of travelling and filming were finally edited into six hours of footage=8A The film is at once = a diary of that voyage, a romanticisation of the quest implicit in the concei= t of the wandering protagonist, and a universalisation of that quest beyond the individual protagonist=8A Its six hours of images offer more than can possibly be absorbed with continual concentration, and thus the film becomes something larger than an= y one experience of it. It is something to which one must return and reconsider. Larcher occasionally projects the film in a twin screen format which=8A expands the visual information beyond the point of assimilation. [It= ] must be appreciated in the simplicity and beauty of its diary format, in th= e intensity of its personal quest, and in the ambitiousness of its representation as universal odyssey. (Hendrik Hendrikson, Perspectives on British Avant-Garde Film, Hayward Gallery, April 1977) The movie is a third ear, third eye, Diurnal of four years in the Global-Trucking-Company-where-the-truck-occasionally turns-into-a-metallic-Stonehenge-slab-of-white-light-integrating-the-ley-li= n es of technology-into-Titan-tracks.. (Heathcote Williams, 1975) A 2 1/2 Mile film that leaves off at the beginning and eventually comes to an end =8A If there is any point to the point you are there to point it out, so don=B9t let that finger stray. To be put off by the sketchy character of hair in th= e gate is to see babies where there are none. Nothing in the world is bigger than the tip of an April hair, and mount Tai is tiny. Oligocene, pliocene, plasticine, miocene, there is definitely something strange about this planet. Si tu reste dans les mots, lecteur, you might as well walk out. (David Larcher, October 1977) A more luxuriant mind or intellectual hedonist does not exist in British experimental media. (Sean Cubitt, 'A Dictionary of Film & Video Artists', ed. David Curtis) TICKETS: =A37 (=A36 LUX MEMBERS) =A35 CONCESSIONS (=A34 LUX MEMBER CONCESSIONS) THE LUX CINEMA=B72-4 HOXTON SQUARE=B7LONDON=B7N1 6NU BOX OFFICE: 020 7684 0201 www.lux.org.uk For further information or stills please contact Richard Thompson on 020 7684 2848 or email richardthompson@lux.org.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:46:08 -0700 From: "Peter Lunenfeld" <peterl@artcenter.edu> Subject: Celebrate Brenda Laurel's Book Launch - Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press) A Tale in Two Cities Art Center College of Design and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences invite you to join us -- first in LA on September 14, and then in SF on the 15th-- for a signing/reception/reading to celebrate the launch of Brenda Laurel's new book, UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR. Designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp, Laurel's is the inaugural volume in the Mediawork Pamphlet series from the MIT Press. UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR is a heady hybrid of critical thinking, personal narrative, and economic analysis - -- a field manual for those who want to do socially positive work in the context of business. UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR by Brenda Laurel designer: Denise Gonzales Crisp editorial director: Peter Lunenfeld $14.95 | MIT Press, 2001 | ISBN 0-262-62153-3 <mitpress.mit.edu> <mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork> launches 9/5/01, featuring Scott McCloud's on-line comic response to Utopian Entrepreneur *** Friday | September 14th | Pasadena, CA | 7:00-8:30 PM Los Angeles Times Media Center Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street | Pasadena, CA 91103 626.396.2200 | <www.artcenter.edu> Sponsored by Art Center College of Design *** Saturday, September 15th | San Francisco, CA | 5:00-7:00 PM 111 Minna Street Gallery | San Francisco 415.974.1719 | <www.111annex.com> In collaboration with the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences <www.webbyawards.com> *** "...and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" - -- ------------------------------ # 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