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Table of Contents: Art, Technology, Consciousness "geert" <geert@xs4all.nl> 12hr creative commons update { brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com> February 2002 Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> WIPOUT Contest Accepts Submissions until 03/15 Soenke Zehle <soenke.zehle@web.de> Autonogram 10: Saints / Help / Exchange / Lab geert lovink <geert@desk.nl> new After 9/11 book from AlterNet (fwd) Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> New activism and issue guides from MediaChannel! Aliza Dichter <liza@mediachannel.org> M/C Call for Contributors for 'urban' "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture" <mc@media-culture.org.au> fAf Feb02: Diagramming Innovation-scapes by Pia Ednie-Brown linda carroli <lcarroli@pacific.net.au> ARTE.RED -updated- 2002 "Stefano Caldana" <st.cal@teleline.es> FILE-2002 electronic language international festival "file electronic" <fileart_2002@hotmail.com> WSSOHWTE? All on the net "Wapke Feenstra" <Wapke@euronet.nl> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:00:43 +1100 From: "geert" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: Art, Technology, Consciousness From: "Kay Bosanko-Sheady" <mail@bosanko-sheady.fsnet.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:30 PM Art, Technology, Consciousness mind @large Roy Ascott (ed) This popular title, now in paper back, presents the most up-to-date discussions in the intersection between Art, Technology and Consciousness and brings a whole new set of perspectives to this complex and compelling field. Developing on the studies published in Roy Ascott's successful Reframing Consciousness, this volume documents the very latest work from those connected with the internationally acclaimed CAiiA-STAR centre. Their artistic and theoretical research in new media and art includes aspects of: . artificial life . robotics . technoetics . performance . computer music . intelligent architecture . telematic art The contributions to this volume represent the work produced at conferences and in journals which are only now emerging into more accessible literature. With profound insights for those in fields of Art, Media and Design - both academics and professionals - this book will also provide new ideas for software designers working on material to be used by the arts community. These artists have been involved in a variety of public exhibitions and the vast majority of their work is available online. Internet references throughout make this book a window for the reader to a large collection on online art projects. Art, Technology, Consciousness will be published in 2002. For a paperback copy (ISBN: 1-84150-073-9 ) at £19.95, order from all good online bookshops, from your local bookseller, or contact the publisher directly: Intellect, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK Tel: +44 (0) 117 958 9910 Fax: +44 (0) 117 958 9911 Email: orders@intellectbooks.com. For further details of all Intellect books, paper journals and web journals: www.intellectbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:16:34 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com> Subject: 12hr creative commons update _______ _ __ ___ _ -_ | | | |__ ___ | | ) | |__ _ __ |__| |_| |_|\___| |_|____|_| |_|_| _____ _____ ____ _ _ _ _____ ___ ___ _ ____ _| | | (___ | |_) | \| |___ ___ | | |__) | |__ | | __ _| _|_ ____) | |_) | |\ | | |__| | | | |___| |__| | |_____ _|_____/|____/|_| \_| _ \____/|_| |______\_____ _ | __ \ (_) | | _| |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_ | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ _ _/ | _ |__/ > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project ----------------------------- began December 30, 1994 Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events... A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone... [ see ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/books.txt ] KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered, de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless... >> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate... >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative, poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless... >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting, entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, expansive... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even publish them... Here`s how: (Note: all "Teleport" addresses (web/ftp/email) have been eliminated: no thanks to Earthlink scum. Please choose alternates listed below:) ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher... ~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.idiom.com /users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /u/b/bbrace Download from -> hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address nearest you: * ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.luth.se ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@census.gov bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet bitftp@vm.gmd.de bitftp@plearn.edu.pl bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu bitftp@pucc.bitnet * * ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too! The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Average size of images is only 45K. * Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror * ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups: alt.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent, PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews) ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural projects and sources. ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established at topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg - -- This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones. Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions, can also be made at http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html - -- ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. [ftp ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/] - -- (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 <bbrace@eskimo.com> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:23 +0100 (CET) From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> Subject: February 2002 Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- February 2002 In this issue: ...Yossi Beilin on why Israel needs Arafat, behind the scenes at Camp David, newly poor in Argentina, on the move in Xinjiang, tired of waiting in Senegal... and the world's great scams: Enron, Russia's nuclear waste business and the Aids drug Yale discovered... A small number of these articles and our editorial are available to non-subscribers To read the rest of this month's essential articles go to http://MondeDiplo.com and click on Subscribe. It couldn't be easier... LEADER Old Italy, new facism by IGNACIO RAMONET Translated by Ed Emery <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/02/01berlusconi> A PARTNER FOR THE FUTURE Why Israel still needs Arafat by YOSSI BEILIN Yasser Arafat did not break with the Oslo peace accords, nor did he refuse Ehud Barak's famous "generous offer" at Camp David at least according to new books written by Israelis present at negotiations with Arafat (see 'Constructing catastrophe'). Many Israelis believe, after 25 years of national denial, that Arafat is still the only potential partner who can deliver peace. Translated by Wendy Kristianasen <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/02/02beilin> Conducting catastrophe * by AMNON KAPELIOUK What really happened at Camp David? Three books by Israelis who were involved in the peace negotiations both reveal and conceal Ehud Barak's strategies and the parts that the authors themselves played in the events. Original text in English YALE SHARES PROFITS FROM AIDS DRUGS The high cost of living by PHILIPPE DEMENET The world's largest pharmaceuticals company, Pfizer, and 10 others have promised to give the US Congress General Accounting Office all the data it needs to check drug prices. Like Europe, the US is concerned about the massive profits made by the pharmaceuticals industry. In rich countries, the laboratories' pricing policies are a scam; in poor countries, they are preventing most people from getting treatment. Stavudine, used to treat Aids, is the perfect demonstration of what is wrong with the system. It hugely profits its makers and Yale University, where it was researched. Translated by Malcolm Greenwood <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/02/04stavudine> Drug deals in Europe * by PHILIPPE RIVIÈRE Translated by Malcolm Greenwood THE REAL, VILE MEANING OF FREE MARKETS Enron: Elvis lives * by TOM FRANK The collapse of Enron is one of the biggest scandals in US economic history. Besides ruining many of its employees and wiping out their pensions, the affair reveals the cynicism of the directors, the links between US politics and multinationals, and the weird practices of auditors. Original text in English WHY A ONCE RICH COUNTRY ROSE IN REVOLT Argentina's nouveaux pauvres * by PIERRE KALFON For 25 years the rich in Argentina have grown richer, the state has been dismantled and the country's industries run down. In December the people rose in revolt. The two political parties the Peronists and the Radicals that have historically governed the country have been swept away, together with the ruling elite. The international community wants Argentina to adopt a coherent and sustainable programme presumably to protect the interests of multinationals, creditors and the IMF. Translated by Luke Sandford Ten days that shook the World Bank by DIANA QUATTROCCHI-WOISSON Translated by Harry Forster <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/02/08tendays> Bad debts * by ÉRIC TOUSSAINT Translated by Malcolm Greenwood UIGHURS RESIST AS CHINESE SETTLE THE FRONTIER LANDS Xinjiang: China's wild west * by our special correspondent ILARIA MARIA SALA China supports the international coalition against terrorism mostly to get acceptance for its policy of repression in the Muslim province of Xinjiang, which isn't working. Beijing has failed to contain Uighur nationalism and there has also been a new upsurge of Islamic militancy in the region. Translated by Barry Smerin Minorities in China * IMS Translated by Barry Smerin Central Asian fundamentalism * IMS Translated by Barry Smerin THE RISKY BUSINESS OF WASTE DISPOSAL Russia's nuclear sewer * by our special correspondent NATHALIE MELIS A journalist was sent to prison for four years last year after filming the Russian navy dumping radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan. He, like many other Russians and environmental organisations, opposed the new laws that allow the privately profitable import of foreign nuclear waste. Translated by Luke Sandford THE RISKY BUSINESS OF WASTE DIPOSAL Who exports this stuff? * by NATHALIE MELIS Translated by Luke Sandford Where the dirt is * NM Translated by Luke Sandford 'IF IT LED TO CHANGE, WE WOULD HAVE ELECTED A GOAT' Senegal: rap and wait * by our special correspondent ANNE-CÉCILE ROBERT Senegal, once the showpiece of francophone Africa, has suffered over 20 years from the financial change demanded by international investors. It is now classed as one of the world's least developed countries, and poverty and unemployment force many people to live hand to mouth. Their patience with the coalition elected in 2000 may be running out. Translated by Julie Stoker France forgets its colonial past * PHILIPPE LEYMARIE Translated by Luke Sandford The people's hero: Goorgoorlou ACR Translated by Luke Sandford <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/02/18goorgoorlou> EURO LAW WRONGLY DEFINES TERRORISM It's a crime * by JOHN BROWN The new European Union arrest warrant is a worrying part of the West's misguided attempt, in the name of anti-terrorism, to criminalise all forms of political, economic and social protest against any established order. Translated by Harry Forster ________________________________________________________________ _ (*) Star-marked articles are available to paid subscribers only. Yearly subscription fee: 24 US $ (Institutions 48 US $). ______________________________________________________________ For more information on our English edition, please visit http://MondeDiplo.com/ To subscribe to our free "dispatch" mailing-list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-on@monde-diplomatique.fr To unsubscribe from this list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-off@monde-diplomatique.fr English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen _______________________________________________________ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 1997-2001 Le Monde diplomatique ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:05:48 +0100 From: Soenke Zehle <soenke.zehle@web.de> Subject: WIPOUT Contest Accepts Submissions until 03/15 WIPOUT, the international intellectual property counter-essay contest, is entering its latter stages after receiving more than 30 essays from 12 countries. The closing date for entries is 15 March 2002. Entrants are asked to address the same topic that the World Intellectual Property Organization asked in a contest it also launched in 2001: "What does intellectual property mean to you in your daily life?" All of the essays submitted to WIPOUT to date and the contest rules can be found on the WIPOUT site. http://www.wipout.net Submissions are welcome in English, French, German and Spanish. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:39:06 +1100 From: geert lovink <geert@desk.nl> Subject: Autonogram 10: Saints / Help / Exchange / Lab (for those who wanna get onto this autonomedia newsletter, please write to ben. /geert) From: "Ben at Autonomedia" <ben@autonomedia.org> To: <Recipient List Suppressed:> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: Autonogram 10: Saints / Help / Exchange / Lab Greetings and hello again -- Here's your irregular update about the goings-on and grindstone-nosings here at Autonomedia HQ. It's a fairly brief list this time, but don't take that as a sign of our slackness. We all managed to survive the meetings of the World Economic Forum here recently, with several of us covering events for the independent media, participating in the various counter-summits, maintaining the barricades with the Anarchist Kazoo Block, and so forth. We also hosted a serialized novella about the disturbances at the WEF meetings, which generated a fair amount of interest in the days before the meetings opened (most notably from inside the WEF, as well as from at least one member of the Special Investigations unit of the Swiss government). The novella is still viewable at http://www.autonomedia.org/davos. Another Autonomedia-related activity related to the WEF meetings was a net strike against the WEF web site, sponsored by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre, in which a massive number of requests for the WEF site may have resulted in a denial of service of the site's server. This neatly fits into the rubric of "hacktivism", which is also the title of a forthcoming collection edited by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre. More on all of this can be found at http://www.thing.net/~rdom. And without further ado, here's your Autonogram 10. * * * * * * * * * "Help Yourself!" is the newest discharge in the Unbearables' series of blasts on American culture, in which they dismantle, parody, and otherwise mangle the literary tradition of the Self Help Book. More than 75 individual contributors took on the topic, and in their Unbearable tradition, demolish the myths of self help in more than 75 ways. There are far too many people and topics involved in this to list them adequately here, but click on http://www.autonomedia.org/helpyourself for a full table of contents, Jim Feast's introduction to the book, and information on how to order the thing. Also, for more Unbearables than will fit on the head of a dull pin, or just to find out who these Unbearables are and what's their deal anyway, go to http://www.unbearables.org. * * * * * Here's another plug for the Info Exchange on our website, found at http://slash.autonomedia.org. Recent articles have focussed on, among other things, the World Economic Forum and its discontents, the World Social Forum, an interview with Toni Negri on the state of empire after 9/11, the Enron debacle, and the raisethefist.com seizure and arrest. Of particular note, though, are Bill Weinberg's regular World War 3 reports, subtitled a "Vigilant, Independent Sentinel of Truth in the War on Terrorism," which is itself something of an understatement. Weinberg, who you may know as a host of WBAI's "Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade" and as a co-editor of our book "Avant Gardening", has been issuing this weekly newsletter since the bombing campaign began in October. He casts a wide net in examining the many effects of this war, dividing his reports into digestable individual items organized by area of import: Afghanistan, the Middle East, the War at Home, New York City, and "Watching the Shadows," in which his skills at investigative journalism shine the brightest. He also has included special reports on Enron and the WEF, in an effort to tie these issues into the larger war culture. For the World War 3 report for February 9, please click the link below: http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/11/154211 Also, when you visit the Info Exchange, you'll notice a new "Make a Donation" button on the left side of the page. This is something we're trying out in an effort to offset the hosting costs for the Info Exchange. The site has been expensive to run, and for a little while it looked like we were going to lose our shirts on it; whereas that situation has cooled down somewhat, it's still a little pricey for us, and we're not too proud to get out our coffee cups and do some spare changing. If you find the Info Exchange useful and happen to have some spare money lying around, by all means, feel free to send some our way! The Info Exchange is a joint project of Autonomedia and ABC No Rio (the venerable Lower East Side community arts center), both of which are legally charitable institutions ready to give tax write-offs, so if you need a tax break with your difficult-to-find radical news and dynamic gabfest, well then, please do click the "Contribute!" button. Thanks. * * * * * Autonomadic props go out to Kevin Pyle, who was honored by the Society of Illustrators with a Silver Medal for his book "Lab USA", which came out in July 2001. If you haven't seen the book yet, look at http://www.autonomedia.org/labusa for a sample -- it's a terrifying, but very well-researched, visual history of abuse in the institutionalization of humans in the United States, particularly focussed on military and medical experimentation gone gruesome. His artwork is fantastic, and the stories he tells are both important and overlooked. And for a cute snapshot of Kevin and his new son Calvin, go to http://www.societyillustrators.org/this_week/thisweek4.html * * * * * Calendar Sale! Everyone knows and loves the Jubilee Saints calendar and the Sheroes and Womyn Warriors calendar, and we still have some of the 2002 editions available for cheap. $5 per each includes domestic shipping; go to http://www.autonomedia.org/saints or http://www.autonomedia.org/sheroes if you want to see them. * * * * * Finally, if you're anywhere near New York City, do come down to the Theatorium on Stanton Street to see the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus's annual Winter Cabaret. The Bindlestiffs have been part of the Autonomedia Collective for years, and tour the country twice a year with the Autonomadic Bookmobile Roadshow. The show this season takes a western theme, and is mouth-wateringly titled "Buckaroo Bindlestiff's Wild West Gender Bender Jamboree." Getcher tickets now, ladies and gennelmen, and have a look at http://www.bindlestiff.org. They've got the best radical vaudeville show NYC has to offer. Hooray for the cirkus! * * * * * * * * * That does it for this installment. As always, if receiving these emails causes you surprise, irritation, or plain disappointment, just send me an email and I'll have you removed from the list. On the other hand, should they inspire feelings of encouragement, lust, or glee, by all means let me hear about that as well! Send hosannas and praises, coffee and treats! We love you! Hooray! indeed, that's it. bests, Ben at Autonomedia http://www.autonomedia.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: new After 9/11 book from AlterNet (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:24:14 -0600 From: AlterNet <info@alternet.org> To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: new After 9/11 book from AlterNet Dear AlterNet community members -- AlterNet is proud to announce the publication of an important new book: "After 9/11: Solutions for a Saner World" This diverse collection of 42 articles untangles the knot of our new post-9/11 landscape. It features leading writers like Bill Moyers, Barbara Kingsolver, Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Edward Said, Arianna Huffington, Laura Flanders, Nat Hentoff and Arundhati Roy. For more information, or to order a copy online, go to: http://www.alternet.org/911book "After 9/11" tackles every subject from civil liberties to Islamic fundamentalism to economics to sex. It goes beyond America's initial grief and anger, providing vision for a saner, safer future. If we are to steer the national conversation away from knee-jerk flag-waving and scare tactic, and toward solutions and true security, this book needs to reach farther than the growing AlterNet community. So we need your help. We encourage you to not only pick up a copy for your own family, but also to introduce "After 9/11" into your communities -- your local bookstores, your houses of worship, your classrooms, your community centers and wherever else people gather. And please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in a copy. For more information or to order the book online, go to: http://www.alternet.org/911book (For those of you who previously tried to purchase online, our system is now fully functional. We apologize for the earlier glitches.) Want to sound off about any of the stories above? Visit AlterNet's rapidly growing online community: http://www.alternet.org/discuss ***ABOUT ALTERNET*** AlterNet depends on word-of-mouth to publicize our site. If you found the AlterNet Headlines useful, interesting or entertaining, we hope you'll email them to a friend and suggest they sign up. The Headlines are free and anyone can sign up to receive them at: http://lists.alternet.org/headlines ***AN APPEAL TO SUPPORT INDY JOURNALISM *** Help AlterNet continue to promote independent news and information. Make a donation to our parent organization, the Independent Media Institute, at: http://www.alternet.org/donate.html ***NEED CONTENT?*** Need content for your publication? With the AlterNet syndication service you'll have access to thousands of articles on a wide range of topics, with extensive archives updated each week. Bring what Brill's Content calls "News and opinion that are hard to find in most other media outlets" to your Web site, newspaper or magazine. For more information contact info@alternet.org. - --- Sponsored by SKYLIST Email Solutions - http://www.skylist.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:25:24 -0500 From: Aliza Dichter <liza@mediachannel.org> Subject: New activism and issue guides from MediaChannel! APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING!!!! Dear friends: we've just published two new issue & action guides on media concentration, including links & tools for people to contact the FCC & Congress, participate in a demonstration and join a letter-writing campaign. The announcement follows. Happy V Day! - -Liza ===================== Concerned about media concentration? Know what to do about it? MediaChannel has just produced two new Web features focused on issues of media concentration. Please take a look and share the links with your friends, colleagues and readers. U.S. Media Ownership: Issues and Actions The U.S. government is getting ready to eliminate the last remaining media ownership limits. This in-depth guide explains the issues and gives you the tools to get involved. http://www.mediachannel.org/news/indepth/fcc Issue Guide: Media Concentration Is global media concentration a threat to democracy? Check out this Issue Guide: debates, case studies and ownership charts. http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership Please check out these pages and help spread the word. Consider adding a link to one or both of these pages on your Web site. We have created buttons and banners that you can use to help inform and activate your Web community IMAGES PAGE: http://www.mediachannel.org/images/ownership ===================================== A nonprofit, global network of media-issues groups, MediaChannel.org is dedicated to public participation in media reform, media making and media criticism. http://www.mediachannel.org ===================================== Thanks and please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions! Aliza Dichter Senior Editor MediaChannel liza@mediachannel.org www.mediachannel.org Eye On Global Media ======================================================= *GET FREE WEEKLY UPDATES FROM MEDIACHANNEL.ORG* To subscribe, send a blank message to: TheMediaChannel-on@list.mediachannel.org Or sign up on our home page http://www.mediachannel.org MediaChannel: the nonprofit, public interest network of more than 800 media-issues groups worldwide. ======================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:25:23 +1000 From: "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture" <mc@media-culture.org.au> Subject: M/C Call for Contributors for 'urban' This posting contains a call for contributors for the upcoming issue of M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture: M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture <http://www.media-culture.org.au/> Call for Contributors The University of Queensland's award-winning journal of media and culture, M/C, is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. To see what M/C is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit <http://www.media-culture.org.au/contribute.html>. We're also welcoming submissions to our sister publication M/C Reviews, an ongoing series of reviews of events in culture and the media. M/C Reviews is available at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/reviews/>. We are now accepting submissions for the following issue: 'urban' - article deadline: 11 March 2002 issue editors: Liz Ferrier & Laurie Johnson The increasingly urbanised nature of Western society raises a number of questions. What is the social significance of increasingly large collections of houses? Are we more or less secure in an urban environment? How has urbanity changed over the centuries? Indeed, given that "urbanity" indicates both urban life and a suave manner, are these concepts related or is it merely semantic coincidence? How does behaviour and urban environment interact? As these issues feed off one another, other questions arise. For the 'urban' issue of M/C, editors invite pieces relating to the town or city. These interventions may take any form, and may address any manifestation of urbanity: the city in novels, in films or in television, urban spaces in art, or art's space in the urban environment, urban dwellers or urban landscapes, rebuilding or reclaiming, political or social urban manifestations. issue release date: 10 April 2002 Further issue topics for 2002: 'colour' (deadline 6 May / release 5 June) 'loop' (deadline 1 July / release 31 July) 'self' (deadline 26 Aug. / release 25 Sep.) 'love' (deadline 21 Oct. / release 20 Nov.) Axel Bruns - -- M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture mc@media-culture.org.au The University of Queensland http://www.media-culture.org.au/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:54:17 +1000 From: linda carroli <lcarroli@pacific.net.au> Subject: fAf Feb02: Diagramming Innovation-scapes by Pia Ednie-Brown Sincere apologies for cross posting - ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.fineartforum.org/ In fineArt forum's February issue, Editor-in-Chief Nisar Keshvani announces fAf's alliance with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA). "Both publications have a rich history, and were linked since its earliest days. Through this alliance we aim to balance news and critical content via the fAf-LEA publishing channels. We are on the lookout for contributors, if you have ideas, please do email lea@mitpress.mit.edu We'd be happy to hear from you," he said. He added, "We aspire to build east-west bridges exposing upcoming communities to the established and enhancing opportunities for exposure through the fAf - Leonardo networks and resources." This month's feature is Pia Ednie-Brown's essay "Diagramming Innovation-scapes", reprinted from the recently released fibreculture reader, "Politics of a Digitial Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory". Reviews (http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n02/text/): :: Architecture and Science edited by Giuseppa Di Cristina is reviewed Teri Hoskin :: David Cox reviews New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City edited by Iain Borden & Sandy McCreery :: Jane Turner responds to Unlocking the Clubhouse, a study of women in the computing industry by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher :: Olliver Dyen's Metal and Flesh: The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over is considered by Glen Wetherall :: Linda Carroli takes a look at the Australian Network for Art and Technology's publication, Arcadia: Writings on Theology and Technology. PLUS all the usual news and information - upfront, events, opps and stuff. send info to: editor@fineartforum.org - -------------------------------- The latest art and technology news on the net can be viewed at fAf's Australian based URL: http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/Fineart_Online/ Or elsewhere at: http://www.fineartforum.org To subscribe to the fAf digest, go to: http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/subscrip.html "This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body." http://www.ozco.gov.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:34:06 +0100 From: "Stefano Caldana" <st.cal@teleline.es> Subject: ARTE.RED -updated- 2002 ARTE.RED 2002 ARTE.RED http://www.elpais.es/especiales/2002/arte/portada.htm has been updated with new sections. ARTE.RED is a net.art history realized for "El Pais Digital", the online edition of the spanish daily newspaper "EL PAIS". (In Spanish). NEW SECTIONS: 1:\Year 2001> a new chapter of the "Historia", with a selection of the most outstanding web-based projects from the year 2001. http://www.elpais.es/especiales/2002/arte/histo.htm 2:\AUSTRALIA 20.02> a view of the online artistic creation in Australia trough the most important projects of 20 artists http://www.elpais.es/especiales/2002/arte/buzon.htm AUSTRALIA was the guest country of ARCO 2002, the International Contemporary Art Fair (Madrid, Spain. 14-19 February 2002). - -- ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ ROBERTA BOSCO Y STEFANO CALDANA Email: ro.bosco@teleline.es Email: st.cal@teleline.es - -- CIBERP@IS: http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es - -- ARTE.RED: http://www.elpais.es/especiales/2002/arte/portada.htm CONEXION REMOTA: http://www.macba.es/english/09/conexion_remota.html ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:37:22 +0000 From: "file electronic" <fileart_2002@hotmail.com> Subject: FILE-2002 electronic language international festival Call for registrations to participate in FILE-2002 electronic language international festival from februrary 1st- to april 15th- of the year 2002 . The festival is also calling for pappers to participate in the FILE Symposium - 2002. The guidelines, entry form and others informations are accessible at: http://www.file.org.br/file2002/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:27:24 +0100 From: "Wapke Feenstra" <Wapke@euronet.nl> Subject: WSSOHWTE? All on the net Announcement of new online art project: www.wssohwte.net www.wssohwte.net is the WWWshow of "Who Says Seeing Only Happens With The Eyes?" www.wssohwte.net is an online art catalogue and interactive site. It shows works of art by Anne Lise Stenseth, Toril Rygh (Norway), Martin Walde (Austria), Paul Devens, Wapke Feenstra and Zeger Reyers (the Netherlands); and essays about artistic space by Maaike Engelen, Sandra Fauconnier, Domeniek Ruyters, Renée van de Vall, Kristine Kolrud, Trond K.O. Kristoffersen and Tor Andreas Gitlesen. With www.wssohwte.net the Web is utilized to explore and show the area between an exhibition catalogue and the interactive possibilities of the Internet. Experiences and recordings of visits to the 'wssohwte?' exhibitions at TENT. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (August 16. through September 17. 2001), and at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway (November 24. 2001 through January 13. 2002) have been turned into a website, which fits in with other sites representing art, but also tries to be innovative in its offering of Internet experiences that are not solely of a representational nature. In several essays specifically written for this site the artistic spaces taken up and evoked by 'wssohwte?' are being addressed, e.g.: the 'white cube' , the mental space of the exhibition and the artistic space of the Internet. www.wssohwte.net is created by graphic designer Ariënne Boelens (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), by translating information into communication. For the development of this site she received a designer-project grant from the BKVB Fund in Amsterdam. For questions and remarks contact wapke@wssohwte.net # 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