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Table of Contents: blasttheory prague "milos" <milos.vojtechovsky@fcca.cz> last call - Dead or Alive jurij.krpan@kapelica.org ///plug and play 200002// ... "pnp" <pnp@gabba.net> 28 / 02 / 2002 "kanonmedia.com" <office@kanonmedia.com> soundtoys call soundtoys <info@soundtoys.net> *Info-night* International Browserday Amsterdam mieke gerritzen <mieke@nl-design.net> salloum video screening in nyc JSalloum@aol.com Tune into Hybrid Discourse Anya Lewin <a.lewin@dartington.ac.uk> exh. control panels. programming as an artistic practice, dortmund Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de> [IBUC Friends] Geodesic Capital 2002: Call for Participants "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@ibuc.com> [BAM New Media] New Essays from the Online Exhibit Under_score Wayne Ashley <washley007@yahoo.com> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:52:52 +0100 From: "milos" <milos.vojtechovsky@fcca.cz> Subject: blasttheory prague The British Council, Center for Contemporary Arts in Prague and mamapapa o.p.s. invite you to installation Desert Rain by www.blastheory.co.uk and a seminar Training machines, games and reality in the British Council Prague (Národní 10, Praha 1, entry from Vorsilska) on Friday 22 February 2002 at 1400 Subjects: New areas of performing art in the age of electronic media; psychology and phenomenology of computer games; reality simulation; examples and experience with co-operation among artists, technicians and scientists; computers and special effects enjoyment. Speakers: Matt Adams and Catherine Williams-Blast Theory members (UK), Scott deLahunta, electronic media and performance specialist and Desert Rain production co-worker (UK), Saul Albert, media artist and activist (UK), Lubor Benda - programme developer (CZ), Stanislav Ulver - film theoretician (CZ), Petr Szczepanik - media theoretician (CZ), L P Fish - media specialist (CZ) and other media artists and theoreticians moderated by Miloą Vojtěchovský The seminar is a complementary event to Blast Theory performances of Desert Rain, taking place in Česká typografia, Na Florenci 19, Praha 1, from 23 February to 1 March 2002. For more information please contact Milada.Novakova@britishcouncil.cz, booking: nikolcz@hotmail.com www.mamapapa.cz www.blasttheory.co.uk www.fcca.cz Scott deLahunta http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela/conv3 http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sdela/dte Saul Alberts www.twenteenthcentury.com/dicshunary www.consume.net www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon - --- Odchozí zpráva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolováno antivirovým systémem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.320 / Virová báze: 179 - datum vydání: 31.1.2002 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:59:09 +0100 From: jurij.krpan@kapelica.org Subject: last call - Dead or Alive Dear colleagues, this is the last call for applications which should be sent by March 1st 2002. Key words: Death, Life, Body, Poison, Oxymoron , Fatal Sex, Biotechnology, Artificial Life, ... CALL FOR ENTRIES - BREAK 21/2002 Break 21 6th International Festival of Young Emerging Artists May 19th – 24th, 2002 Ljubljana, Slovenia Integral description of the festival: http://www.break21.com Organiser K6/4, Kersnikova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia THEME “Dead or Alive” “Dead or Alive” implicates the urge, which tends to satisfy something at all costs, taking no regard whether it demands the life to be taken. It is assumed, that it represents something, for which, imperatively, it is greater than life or death. In the tendency to give up life as the highest value, the sacrifice is implicated or some urgent denunciation in the economy of one’s own life, which we could call a particular death, for the sole purpose – to accomplish something. In the title, the initial question appears. It questions death and life; it demands an answer to the question about definitions, what is actually dead and what is alive. To what extent something is dead, though only inert; to what extent something is alive, though tends to be prolonged with the help of machines; how to understand organic material in the cryobanks and how biotechnical mechanisms/organisms? Are the cyber space and avatars with artificial intelligence, which are present in the Hollywood apparatus of the imaginary or the top cyber laboratories, our or the parallel world? Bionics and eugenics establish new paradigms of life and death as much as nanomechanics and intelligent neuronic nets. Artificial life is the oxymoron, which penetrates the core of our theme. Questions, posed to us by high technology, are still utterly legitimate in traditional sense, since we understand them through the perspective of modern age. Intermingling of everyday violence, which we encounter in the streets, car accidents, murders, suicides, diseases, wars and catastrophes on higher scales are balancing with births, rebirths, changes of identity and initiations, creations of new life situations and cosmic phenomena. Religious repertoires and great ideologies are all built upon dichotomy of life and death. They tend to be valid within the scale of the universal, while moments of ecstasy during meditation or sex, pain and dreams are utterly intimate and identical to themselves. Mental deviations, such as insanity, psychosis, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia and hysteric states were interpreted as a kind of intermediary state between life and death in primitive cultures, while in modern societies, the border between the healthy as an attribute of life and the ill as an attribute of death is being obliterated. Life and death are great themes of art and a lot has been said about them, however, some things can’t be talked about too many times. Our intention is for artists to deal with them innovatively, through the perspective of new art and research artistic practice, which owns a tactical value that points more at the poetics of life than poetics, which is already known from traditional aesthetic paradigms. Forms of expression may not be products and aesthetic artefacts but rather processes, states, situations … that comprise the dimension of time – transition. FIELDS - - THEORY: we will organise a series of lectures and presentations and the texts will be published in the catalogue. We will also publish essays, theoretic and critical texts of the selected theme. The emphasis will be put primarily on the texts, which deal with the complex of life and death through the perspective of contemporary and new art. - - VISUAL ARTS: computer-assisted art (from web art to robotics), comics, graphic prints, digital prints, photographs, interactive works, visual communication (subvertising), etc. - - PERFORMATIVE ARTS - - INTERMEDIA ARTS - - MOBILE PICTURES: films in all categories will be presented at the festival: documentaries, fiction, video art, animated films, experimental films, short films ... - - MUSIC and SOUND: concerts, sound installations and intermedia performances, in which sound holds the priority. - - ARCHITECTURE: we are interested in the projects, which sublimate themes of life and death in the most radical meanings. Architectural semiology should be oriented towards conceptual projects and less towards utilitarian realisations. - - APPLIED ARTS: although we recognise the fashion creativity through fashion machinery of the consumer society, we decided to underline the part of a designing production, which holds highly personalised approach and thus point at semiology of dressing, which wrenches from the vice of mass economy. - - CULINARY ARTS DEADLINE Call for applications should be sent by March 1st 2002 to the following address: Študentski kulturni center Break 21 Kersnikova 6 SI - 1000 LJUBLJANA e-mail: break21@k6-4.org phone: ++ 386 (0)1 438 03 00 fax: ++ 386 (0)1 438 02 02 Thank you! Andreja Kralj Coordinator of the Festival ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:03:09 -0000 From: "pnp" <pnp@gabba.net> Subject: ///plug and play 200002// ... ///////////////////////PLUG/ //////////////////////AND// /////////////////////PLAY/ http://www.gabba.net/pnp/ //////////////////////// /////////////////////// ////////////////////// ///////////////////// //////////////////// /////////////////// ////////////////// ///////////////// //////////////// /////////////// - -------------- - -Sunday 24th/ - -February/ - -2000002/ - -@PublicLife/ - -E1.London/ - -6PM till later/ - -------------- - -------------- OPEN_SOURCE event = bring data/ bring laptop/tech/ - -------------- ////////////PLUG ///////////it in //////////PLAY - -------------- http://www.gabba.net/pnp/ info/upload.data/FTP/ http://www.gabba.net/bluescreen/ feedback/upload.data/ mailto:kilroy@gabba.net infos/abuse/ http://publiclife.org/ venue/ - -------------- less is... more/ ///////////ENDS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:07:06 +0100 From: "kanonmedia.com" <office@kanonmedia.com> Subject: 28 / 02 / 2002 NEW MEDIA LINE exhibition project going online on 28 / 02 / 2002 annie abrahams, au-lab, brad brace, sarawut chutiwongpeti, agricola de cologne, computer fine arts, octavia davis, eric deis, rick doble, eunji cho, fakeshop/(jeff gompertz), yevgeniy fiks, valery grancher, genco gulan, franklin joyce, fransje jepkes, judson, gudrun kemsa, kessica loseby, michael mandiberg, bill marsh, melinda rackham, alan sondheim, stanza, reiner strasser, webbittown all projects on www.kanonmedia.com soon ENJOY & HAVE FUN - --------------------------------------------------------------- kanonmedia.com non-profit org for new media amadeus house 99_48, mariahilfer st. a-1060 vienna call: ++43-1-595 47 40 mailto: office@kanonmedia.com visit: www.kanonmedia.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- please receive our apologies for cross mailing / in case you prefer not receiving our newsletter any more just click on reply and say stop mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:32:09 +0000 From: soundtoys <info@soundtoys.net> Subject: soundtoys call - --============_-1197838564==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" SOUNDTOYS. Soundtoys is curating an exhibition of sonic art and soundtoys at the ICA in london, as part of Cybersonica in June 2002. We are also presenting works at Zeppelin in Barcelona in early march, and Den Hague film festival. We are looking for contributions of audio visual interactive works, net art, web design, application software, multimedia, generative music, interactive environments, essays. Works may take the form of art, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwave movies, flash etc. They could be described as "new audio visual experiences", or multimedia experiments which explore the parameters of our new media world. (1) FOR THE ONLINE EXHIBITION - audio visual work by artists using the internet as a medium. We are interested in the use of all internet friendly programming technologies eg shockwave, flash, vrml, java etc.send in via email.. (2) FOR THE FESTIVALS Soundtoys are being asked to present the works offline at festivals. If you want to take part send in audio visual works and interactive art pieces. These must be finished projects. Send work and information in by cdrom via post. If you work in this area we would like to hear from you. Zip up your work and send some info about it. Don't forget to include relevant details.ie your name, project title, year created, brief bio, info about the work, and also send the work. If you files are too big but you would like it presented at festival send in a cd rom version. Application form online. SOUNDTOYS.NET web and info... .... http://www.soundtoys.net email .......... ..... info@soundtoys.net - --============_-1197838564==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" <fontfamily><param>Arial</param><bigger>SOUNDTOYS. Soundtoys is curating an exhibition of sonic art and soundtoys at the ICA in london, as part of Cybersonica in June 2002. We are also presenting works at Zeppelin in Barcelona in early march, and Den Hague film festival. We are looking for contributions of audio visual interactive works, net art, web design, application software, multimedia, <color><param>0080,0080,0080</param> generative music, interactive environments,</color><color><param>1E9E,2147,1FE7</param> essays. Works may take the form of art, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwave movies, flash etc. They could be described as "new audio visual experiences", or multimedia experiments which explore the parameters of our new media world. </color><color><param>0080,0080,0080</param>(1) FOR THE ONLINE EXHIBITION - audio visual work by artists using the internet as a medium. We are interested in the use of all internet friendly programming technologies eg shockwave, flash, vrml, java etc.send in via email.. (2) FOR THE FESTIVALS Soundtoys are being asked to present the works offline at festivals. If you want to take part send in audio visual works and interactive art pieces. These must be finished projects. Send work and information in by cdrom via post. </color><color><param>1E9E,2147,1FE7</param>If you work in this area we would like to hear from you. Zip up your work and send some info about it. Don't forget to include relevant details.ie your name, project title, year created, brief bio, info about the work, and also send the work. If you files are too big but you would like it presented at festival send in a cd rom version. Application form online. SOUNDTOYS.NET web and info... .... http://www.soundtoys.net email .......... ..... info@soundtoys.net </color></bigger></fontfamily> - --============_-1197838564==_ma============-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:12:02 +0100 From: mieke gerritzen <mieke@nl-design.net> Subject: *Info-night* International Browserday Amsterdam Information meeting March 5 @ De Balie / Kleine Gartmanplantsoen Amsterdam 6th International Browserday - WIRELESS www.browserday.com We would like to invite you to the information evening about the 6th International Browserday. Students, young designers, teachers and others are welcome to ask questions how to become a presenter and show your concept on stage at May 17 in Paradiso. March 5 - start 8 pm - free entrance Program: Introduction - Mieke Gerritzen (NL.Design)/Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie) Disappearing computers - Rob van Kranenburg (UVA/De Balie) Browserpresentations of nominies Berlin Browserday: filter chip - Tara Karpinsky (USA) / Sandberg Institute friend - Dirk Oosterbosch (NL) / Rietveld Academy Special Presentation: cross-media interaction Paul van Ravenstein en Maarten Borst (Mattmo) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 03:18:56 EST From: JSalloum@aol.com Subject: salloum video screening in nyc (apologies for cross posting) New York premiere of Jayce Salloum's "everything and nothing", 42 min., 2001 opening the Arab & Iranian Film Festival, 6:00, Feb 22nd at the Cantor Film Center @ NYU, 36 East 8th St. at Univ. Pl., New York City Subway: N, R to 8th St, 6 to Astor Place contact: nyc@alwan.org (212)691-4267 - -- videotape description: "untitled part 1: everything and nothing" Jayce Salloum, 42:00, France/Canada, 2001 An intimate dialogue weaving back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara, ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. - -- "everything and nothing" has been screened at; MoneyNations2, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Ayam Bayrout al Cinemaiya, Beirut; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Arab Screen Independent Film Festival, Doha, Qatar; Artists Television Access/Arab Film Festival, San Francisco; Argos Film & Video Festival, Brussels; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; The Museum of Civilization, Hull, QuĂ©bec; Biennale de l’image en Mouvement (Biennial of Moving Images), Geneva; and upcoming at YYZ, Toronto. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:29:02 +0000 From: Anya Lewin <a.lewin@dartington.ac.uk> Subject: Tune into Hybrid Discourse > 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. - --MS_Mac_OE_3096883742_104401_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable If you are in the Plymouth UK area please come to the next Hybrid Discourse event and if not tune into the webcast at 6 pm British time on February 25th. www.i-dat.org/projects/hybrid Creative Practices =A0=A0=A0=A0February 25th / 6-8pm =A0=A0=A0=A0Kate rich (BIT), Australia/UK =A0=A0=A0=A0Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, UK =A0=A0=A0=A0Chair: Geoff Cox, i-DAT All lectures are archived on the site Hybrid Discourse is a series of events investigating current cultural debates in the context of digital media. Hybrid Discourse is organised by Joasia Krysa and Anya Lewin. Curatorial Practices and Institutional Practices sessions are organised in collaboration with Geoff Cox, Lina Dzuverovic=ADRussell and Tina Sotiriadi as a part of Instituting Data Exposition hosted by the Institute of Digital Ar= t and Technology. With support from the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, Dartington College of Arts, and Creativity at Work, Mute, and the European Social Fund= . - --MS_Mac_OE_3096883742_104401_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:44:29 +0200 From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de> Subject: exh. control panels. programming as an artistic practice, dortmund Exhibition Kontrollfelder. Programmieren als kuenstlerische Praxis control panels. programming as an artistic practice Hartware, Dortmund/D, 5 April to 5 May 2002 Artists: Scott Draves (USA) I/O/D, Simon Pope, Colin Green, Matthew Fuller (Great Britain) Thomas Kamphusmann (Germany) LAN -Local Area Network (Switzerland) Joan Leandre (Spain) Radical Software Group (USA) Simon Schiessl (Germany) Antoine Schmitt (France) Peter M. Traub (USA) Adrian Ward (Great Britain) hartware medien kunst verein, Dortmund, Germany Tues - Fri: 4 - 10 p.m.; Sat, Sun and public holidays: 1 - 10 p.m. Opening: 5 April 2002, 19.00 hrs A project in cooperation with transmediale Berlin und art.net.dortmund.de Curators: Andreas Broeckmann and Matthias Weiss "Kontrollfelder - Programmieren als kuenstlerische Praxis," presented by hartware medien kunst verein, is the first German exhibition of international software art. "Kontrollfelder" was developed in cooperation with transmediale - international media art festival berlin, and comprises ten current software art productions. The exhibition will be displayed at hartware medien kunst verein as well as in parts on the net art platform "art.net.dortmund.de," which went online in 2001. The exhibition is curated by Andreas Broeckmann (director of transmediale) and Matthias Weiss (hartware). Software artists develop computer programs that exceed the boundaries and possibilities of conventional software or reduce their functions to absurdity. The focus is not on the perfect and optimal function of the programs, but rather on the programs' "dis.functionality" and momentum, which is presented as a playful experience. However, the artists do not see the software as a tool, but rather view the code as fundamental aesthetic material for their artistic creations. While most PC users accept the possibilities and above all the limitations of commercial software as a given, software artists demonstrate all the active and creative possibilities by developing their own independent programs. "Do it yourself!," the motto of the 2001 transmediale, is the slogan with which artists defy the software monopolies. The exhibition "Kontrollfelder. Programmieren als kuenstlerische Praxis" presents software art whose individuality and resistance the visitors can put to the test. Matthias Weiss - -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hartware medien kunst verein Matthias Weiss Guentherstrasse 65 D-44143 Dortmund ++49(0)231-88 20 240 mw@art.net.dortmund.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:58:18 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@ibuc.com> Subject: [IBUC Friends] Geodesic Capital 2002: Call for Participants - --- begin forwarded text Status: U Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:17:58 -0500 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: Geodesic Capital 2002: Call for Participants Sender: <dbs@philodox.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:dbs-on@philodox.com> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- We've been talking about this event for months (if not years, now), and have asked you to save the dates, rescheduled it, well, twice. But, finally, here's what you've been saving the date for... CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS THE FIRST IBUC SYMPOSIUM ON GEODESIC CAPITAL: "GC02 -- Internet Bearer Finance in a Transparent World" April 3-4, 2002 The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston Boston, Massachusetts, USA AN INVITATION The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation invites its friends in finance, cryptography, and in internet security, infrastructure, and commerce to Boston for an informal two-day symposium to discuss bearer finance on a ubiquitous geodesic . WHAT IS GEODESIC CAPITAL? "A Fine Kettle of Fish." Ever since the bottom fell out of the internet finance and digital goods markets in the Spring of 2000, and especially since the terrorist events of the Fall of 2001, there has been a considerable amount of discussion on the net and in the press about the economic efficacy, if not the actual political wisdom, of using specific kinds of putatively anonymous financial cryptography protocols to instantaneously execute, clear, and settle financial and commercial transactions on the internet. And yet, the need for these transactions is greater than ever before: -- THE MARKET FOR DIGITAL GOODS AND SERVICES, which require instantaneous cheap peer-to-peer transactions to survive as stand-alone businesses, has been left in limbo, if not in absolute disarray. There are increasingly ruinous fights over digital property rights, which leave the producers and even distributors of internet content in the position of not producing or distributing content at all in a medium where content distribution is orders of magnitude cheaper than in any other. -- In spite of commercial assurances to the contrary, THE VERY RIGHT TO DECRYPT OR REVERSE ENGINEER ENCRYPTION OR SECURITY METHODS IS NOW VERY MUCH IN DOUBT, with restraining orders and subpoenas flying like chaff, and the odd theatrical arrest of conference participants for publishing any software which does even the simplest crypt analysis of an ostensibly trade-secret protocol. -- We are at the point of REQUIRING AN ACTUAL "FINANCIAL PANOPTICON" BY THE COMING MARKET FOR INTERNET SERVICES, which, at the moment, depends completely on on "is-a-person" identification of its users, primarily because current financial transaction settlement technology requires the identification and apprehension of people who lie about a book-entry in a database somewhere instead of failing potentially fraudulent transactions before they even execute. -- INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE FIRMS like ISPs and co-location facilities are getting over their dot-com bubble hangovers by merging and filing bankruptcy, while, at the same time, their administrative costs, caused primarily by the overhead of the billing and payment process, and moreover, their marketing costs, caused at least indirectly by the same, keep going up. An auction priced cash-settled internet infrastructure market would go a long way to restructuring these markets into something which would be, by definition, profitable, efficient, and, more to the point, dynamically scalable without the waste, fraud, and abuse of the current system. -- Most important, ANY REDUCTION IN SETTLEMENT RISK AND TRANSACTION COST which these protocols could bring to the capital markets themselves IS NOW AT A COMPLETE STANDSTILL, and at a time when costs are being severely controlled, even to the point of threatening the existence of several very good firms, and the increasing possibility of regulatory scrutiny, including the forced divestiture of various business units, raising financial firms' cost structures even more. - - -- The paradox is, CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISES DIRECTLY BY SHARED OWNERSHIP OF CONFLICTING BUSINESS UNITS, such as professional services and auditing, or even underwriting, securities analysis, and market-making. In order to have smaller firms, microeconomics tells us that we *must* lower transaction costs. If transactions are less transparent but considerably cheaper, then firms get smaller, become more specialized, and the need for transaction transparency is reduced. Reduced, in fact, to the point where TRANSPARENCY WOULD BE, like privacy now is, completely ORTHOGONAL TO TRANSACTION COST. Into this chaos steps a class of deliberately *anonymous* transaction protocols, originally designed by decidedly left/liberal academics to prevent corporate control of personal data, and championed on the internet by anarchist/libertarians ideologues as a way to prevent state control of the same information. Yet, the actual *financial* use of these protocols is now being advocated by researchers in financial operations as a way to substantially lower risk-adjusted transaction costs below those currently available with book-entry transactions, probably even greater a reduction than that caused by book-entry transactions themselves. Book-entry vs. Bearer Transactions Book-entry transactions originated first between individuals and firms on telegraphic networks as a way to reduce the physical handling of physical bearer certificates and execution orders, and is now done on proprietary networks like SWIFT, FedWire, the various ATM and EFT networks, NACHA and so on, and cleared through various member-only clearinghouses, securities depositories, and financial institutions around the world. Checks, credit cards, bank-wires, virtually all stock, bond, derivative, and institutional currency transactions are book-entry transactions. In other words, all finance but the bills in your wallet and change in your pockets is book-entry finance. And yet, the most popular *internet* equivalent to using book-entry methods for settlement and clearing (the exchange of consumer debt for cash, for instance) so far have involved tunneling credit-card *execution* requests over the net using TLS/SSL, as is done with the vast majority internet commerce. Though, on a considerably smaller though growing scale, tunneled SSL/TLS is also being used for the actual clearing and settlement of peer-to-peer book-entry transactions using a single database/clearinghouse, like PayPal does for national currencies, or, even, for gold-denominated transactions, like GoldMoney and E-Gold do. Internet Bearer Finance For several years now, many researchers in financial operations, cryptography, security and internet architecture have come to believe that that Moore's Law, coupled with internet financial cryptography, creates something at the same vastly simpler, but capable of significantly more complex and efficient results: an economy based on increasingly smaller, cheaper and highly distributed *bearer* transactions; executed, cleared and settled by increasingly smaller, cheaper, and highly distributed financial intermediaries. Instead of a hierarchical system of interlocking book-entries, requiring law, and force, to clear and settle without fraud, these researchers see a *geodesic* system of single-use bearer certificates, cash for debt, equity, and derivative instruments, from statistically-tested streaming millidollars to single-certificate gigadollar currency derivatives, all of which would execute, clear and settle instantaneously, but only if cryptographic and internet protocols are adhered to by the buyer, seller, and underwriter of a given bearer certificate. Not only is the actual transaction risk of such internet bearer protocols probably reduced to near zero, but, paradoxically, the resulting the lack of audit trails -- the lack of existence of the book-entries themselves -- would reduce the mechanical costs of transactions using these protocols on the internet by more than book-entry settlement did in replacing physical delivery of paper bearer certificates starting a century ago. And so, use of these protocols to underwrite financial instruments, on what Peter Huber observed is an increasingly geodesic global communications architecture itself caused by increasingly falling switching prices, observed at least indirectly by Gordon Moore, is what IBUC has come to call "Geodesic Capital", and the research in and development of markets which use Geodesic Capital is the theme of this Symposium. THE SYMPOSIUM Participants are requested to send their suggestions for content, proposals to talk, etc., to Robert Hettinga of the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation at <mailto://rah@ibuc.com>. What follows is a brief outline of the Symposium's agenda as it now stands. CURRENT AGENDA THE FIRST IBUC SYMPOSIUM ON GEODESIC CAPITAL: "Internet Bearer Finance in a Transparent World" Wednesday Morning, April 3, 2002 08:00 Breakfast/Registration 09:00 Welcome and Keynote Welcome, Introduction: Robert Hettinga, IBUC Keynote: (TBA) 10:00 Break (Coffee, Tea, snacks) 10:15 Morning Session: The Origins of Geodesic Finance History of networks, finance, cryptography. The invention of internet bearer transaction settlement. The promise -- and consequences -- of bearer settled capital markets. Experience so far in researching and developing these markets. 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Early Afternoon Session: First Steps -- Simple Bearer Markets Depository and Custodial Receipts. Simple debt instruments. Simple Cash. 15:15 Break (Coffee, Tea, snacks) 15:30 Late Afternoon Session: Internet Finance Markets for internet content and services, bandwidth, etc. Recursive auctions for content and software. Streaming Cash. Machine to Machine markets. 17:30 Reception, Cocktails and finger-food 19:00 See You in the Morning... - - ------------------------------------------- Thursday Morning, April 4, 2002 08:00 Breakfast 08:30 Early Morning Session: Advanced Capital Markets Equity. Derivatives. Price Discovery. Exchange Protocols. Intercustodial Settlement Networks. Managing bearer market trading staff. Paying Stamp Duty and other taxes. 10:00 Break (Coffee, Tea, snacks) 10:15 Late Morning Session: Advanced Capital Markets, cont'd 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Early Afternoon Session: Regulation and Governance Regulatory Issues. Policy implications. Internet-Based Market Governance. 15:15 Break (Coffee, Tea, snacks) 15:30 Late Afternoon Session: Getting There From Here Market Analyses. Development Planning. Market Entry Scenarios. Meeting the regulatory burden. The market for capital. What's next? 17:30 Conference Close, Reception, Cocktails and finger-food ADMINISTRIVIA What to Bring: Your laptop: We've managed to have at least bonded dial-up access to the net in the past. It's possible we'll do better than that this time. Your talking points: We're leaving plenty of air time for people to present their ideas and opinions. Contact Robert Hettinga <rah@ibuc.com>, about your proposed presentations and any collateral material you would be bringing. In addition, the chair will probably recruit some attendees to present some of a session's content and moderate the discussion. Your ideas, and, most important, your enthusiasm and energy: After the events of the last year, we have a lot of work to do. Fortunately, like the apocryphal Chinese ideograph, disaster and opportunity are very closely related, and, like the troubles we've had recently, the opportunities we now face are quite considerable. Dress Code The dress code at the Harvard Club of Boston is Business Casual, but the suit ratio approaches 100% these days in light of the dot-bomb... REGISTRATION AND FEES Fees The Symposium includes Breakfast, breaks, lunch, and a reception in the evening. The Symposium fee is $875 if received by IBUC before March 1st, 2002. Between March 1st and 15th, the fee is $1062.50. After March 15th, the fee is $1250. Payment Payment should be in the form of a bank wire, or a corporate or cashier's check payable to The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation sent to: IBUC 44 Farquhar Street Boston, MA 02131 Contact Mr. Hettinga, <rah@ibuc.com>, for wire instructions. Include the registrants' names and email addresses. Confirmation of receipt will be sent by digitally signed E-Mail. Discounts and Scholarships Depending on circumstances, there may be discounts and complementary admission for services rendered in kind, and for students and academics, at the discretion of the Symposium Chair. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNTIES In addition, sponsorship opportunities are available, in particular for a keynote speaker, or dinner on either evening. Sponsors would receive two complementary symposium seats, and reserved table space for promotional material. Email Mr. Hettinga for details. SEE YOU IN BOSTON! If you would like to help create world where the internet dramatically reduces the cost of moving money, of the transfer of the ownership of financial assets, digital goods, and internet services, then Boston is where you should be on April 3rd and 4th, 2002. We hope to see you there. Cheers, Robert A. Hettinga, Chairman/CEO, The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 iQEVAwUBPHQD7MUCGwxmWcHhAQExLQf/cMyJM3UNmfsKHFvbm50S7nTdvkzFuWBH 9ltYPLUII0daE5SALkKkE432fwnNAh/91oXYXhoWGtkdzK45Ue04Rm0JDpKcIhcL uTBggnI6B6l6t14hHesPwR6RvrWo2+w+glH1vVlQJUiw0tzHDO8eFKs/TgdFmM2+ n2Vb+UadP0o8vs7Z65ntzFhJFsRSMnrQWfA9OA5JIXLE23LX6Zksb7Ze/YtzcUCx twOBCD2Ur8iF5A8tGX3mFfyHmZXPYvqx/k23gY9NPDuNU9cHxvRpZO3v7uQZKxtY 7pr4Uj3rHCLJ830JSWaAkJs/lNngULpURKn8qI/Kzf/L+lznx6gwFA== =xOyM - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - -- - ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' - --- end forwarded text - -- - ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:51:23 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Ashley <washley007@yahoo.com> Subject: [BAM New Media] New Essays from the Online Exhibit Under_score Update! Two new essays and exhibition catalogue are available to download from Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) online exhibit Under_score: Net art, Sound, and Essays from Australia. Click here to view the exhibit. http://www.bam.org/under_score Essays 1) American anthroplogist Allen Feldman's "The Digital Miniature: Private Perceptions in a Public Space." http://www.bam.org/under_score/felday.html 2) Australian media theorist and author McKenzie Wark's "Now Here's What's Happening in Your World (Even As We Speak)." http://www.bam.org/under_score/warkay.html 3) RealTime's third annual survey of developments in Australian new media features short critical essays on the artists presented in Under_score. http://www.realtimearts.net/wts2001/working_the_screen.pdf About Under_score Under_score: Net art, Sound and Essays from Australia exhibits the works of nine Australian artists for whom the internet has emerged as one of the most significant arenas for artistic experimentation and multimedia production. Under_score was part of Next Wave Down Under, the month-long Australian focus of BAM's Next Wave Festival 2001. Wayne Ashley Organizing Curator mailto:washley007@yahoo.com - ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.bam.org/under_score http://www.bam.org/under_score/felday.html http://www.bam.org/under_score/warkay.html http://www.realtimearts.net/wts2001/working_the_screen.pdf # 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