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Table of Contents: Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio Eric kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl> Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis "Konrad Becker" <konrad@t0.or.at> real.-Radio Resonance 104.4 fm, London schwarze@student.uni-kassel.de MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM Benjamin Fischer <benjamin@typedown.com> en) NYC - Discuss & Deploy: Convergence of Media and Technology @ctivists "anarcho sando" <anarcho_sando@hotmail.com> RDS 2.0: CONFERENCE ON RACE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Tara McPherson <tmcphers@usc.edu> opening / vernissage "- G a r r e t t -" <garrett_44@hotmail.com> Debate in NYC: No Logo vs. Pro Logo "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Call for Papers - Historicising Digital Art Charlie Gere <c.gere@bbk.ac.uk> Oekonux-Conference 2002: Invitation Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de> kuda.org > Geert Lovink "office" <office@kuda.org> OMAN tour starting today "t.ballevart" <t.ballevart@travellab.net> The Imaginary Hotel, a networked installation Andrea Zapp <zapp@snafu.de> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:29:38 +0200 From: Eric kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl> Subject: Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio Live stream: http://freeteam.nl:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/n5m&file=dummy.pls Saturday 21 September, 18.00-21.00 GMT+1 - ----Debate: Migration and Illegality How can illegal people tell thier own stories while still remaining "invisible" to the authorities? And what can be done against the systems in society, politics and the media society, used to catagorize and register people? A panel including Paul Keller [ExpertBase], Roshini Kempadoo [Virtual Exiles], Yehudi van de Pol [Baobab Connections] alongside representatives of local migrant groups, will address these questions with the participation of a public audience. Included will be a screening of Joost Bohnen's video "Suffer", which follows the life of Mauritanian immigrant Ibrahim. A live phone-in line and internet chat room will allow for extended public participation in the debate. Moderator: Menno Grootveld. Live Simulcast on: Radio 100, Amsterdam: - ---ether: 99.3 FM RAZO [SALTO Radio Zuidoost], Amsterdam Zuidoost: - ---ether: 105.2 FM - ---cable: 103.8 FM Live Phone-In: +31 (0)20 489 48 66 Live Chat: http://chat.indymedia.org -or- irc.indymedia.org channel= #n5m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:23:20 +0200 From: "Konrad Becker" <konrad@t0.or.at> Subject: Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis Dark Markets is a two day strategic conference that will look into the state of the art of media politics, information technologies, and theories of democracy. A variety of international speakers will inquire into strategies of oppositional movements and discuss the role of new media: Pauline Borsook, Oleg Kireev, Soenke Zehle, Franco Berardi Bifo, Chantal Mouffe, Arianna Bove, Erik Empson, Christopher Spehr, Geert Lovink, Florian Schneider - -> DARK MARKETS, Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis These are some of the questions Dark Markets would like to address: Has the Internet still its original potential to foster a ‘network democracy from below’? Aren’t new media already too much compromised by the ever growing state and corporate influence? Can the Internet be reclaimed as a ‘digital commons’ or has the current crisis already reached a meta media level, beyond propaganda and its mirror counter-campaigns? Crisis, which crisis? For a growing number of people the "1989" promise of democracy and market economy, guided by EU, NATO and IMF, is turning into a disaster recipe. Corporate globalization, unbeatable in the nineties, has reached an all time low. Despite US-military spending up due to the War on Terrorism, a unilatarist foreign policy and protectionalism, the Bush Jr. administration is rapidly losing its global hegemonic position. The globally distributed power of empire is turning into an old school imperialist exercise. There is not much left of the credibility of the once mighty neo-liberals and their proclaimed ‘end of history’. The list of ‘scandals’ and unresolved crises is growing by the day: the outbreak of AIDS in Africa, China and Russia; failed privatizations; endemic unemployment and poverty; the rise of Europe’s populist and ‘culturalist’ right; the violent vicious circles of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; global warming and the Kyoto treaty drama; the economic-monetary crisis in Argentine and power struggles in Venezuela and last but not least the astonishing roller coaster ride from dotcom mania to plummeting stock markets. Democracy: the Empty Signifier The decline in public interest for party politics and elections stands in strong contrast to the promises of an ‘electronic democracy’. While the Internet and its democratic potentials are spreading rapidly, the majority has never been as silent in the history of liberal democracies. With democratic culture on the rise, the gap between society and its representatives is so big that it seems hopeless. Today’s social movements not only lack a political wing, there is not even a wish to move into such a direction. Unlike the 68 generation with the leftist splinter groups and Green parties, contemporary dissent doesn’t even bother with local or national politicians and immediately address the agencies of real power: transnational corporations and their international bodies. However, this post-political condition leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Today’s movements and their new media are anything but transparent. There a just a few decision-making tools available on the Internet. Nor can we say that the medium itself is managed in an open and accountable way (just think about the ICANN domain name policy disaster). The promises of an ‘e-democracy’ are in danger of fading away as one of the many nineties utopias that talked and talked but failed to deliver. It is therefore time that the radical democracy criticisms are also going to be applied the consensual premises of the new media story. Intelligence of Information Politics In the midst of economic slump intelligence agencies of all kinds remain untainted of the economic crisis and have grown into a major intelligence industry geared to economically exploit the databody but also to influence policy and public opinion. Corporations, consumers of economic intelligence, routinely advance the merging of editorial information with corporate public relations in the media. The interest of private capital is further supported by manipulating policy through a multitude of think-tanks which publish ideologically biased research or hidden agendas masked as independent academic work. These intelligence products are not balanced by research that is driven by the public interest or models for a digital commons. Unlike the billion-dollar brainware industry put into place by corporate interest, there are no "foresight institutes" exploring the potential of human communication beyond the role as consumers. It seems as if the control of socio-technological development is in the hands of technocratic elites, ill informed bureaucrats and a shadowy but aggressive lobbyism. The layout for the future of communication is decided behind closed doors. This logic of control over the information market is strongly opposed to the cultivation and formation of a public sphere, and the dysfunctionality of the communication markets generates crucial deficiencies in itself. Therefore it seems necessary to draw up information policies suited to protect the digital commons, to establish Cultural Intelligence Agencies to raise awareness on conflictual issues and to strengthen the basis for a broad discussion of the political implications of ICT. New Media and Democracy With that much problems on the rise, the question concerning aim and organization of a global resistance movement has become pertinent. The ‘new’ movements and media are not yet mature enough to question the powers to be and lack sufficient leverage at the negotiating table. The claim to ‘embody the future’ in a conservative climate like is becoming a weak and empty gesture. On the other hand, the call of many activists to return to “real life” does not provide us with a solution to how alternative new media models can be lifted to the level of mass culture. Therefore, rather then making up yet another concept it is time to ask the question of how software, interfaces and alternative standards can be installed in society. Ideas may take the shape of a virus, but society may hit back with even more successful immunization programs: appropriation, repression and neglect Most movements and initiatives find themselves in a trap. The strategy of becoming “minor” (Guattari) is no longer a positive choice but the default option. With access to the political process effectively blocked, further mediation seems the only available option. However, gaining more and more “brand value” in terms of global awareness may turn out to be like overvalued stocks. One day they might pay off, but meanwhile they are pretty worthless. Instead of arguing for “reconciliation” between the real and virtual we call here for a rigorous involvement and implementation of social movements into technology. http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/ Thursday 3 + Friday 4 October 2002 Conference by Public Netbase/t0 Vienna Concept: Geert Lovink, Florian Schneider, Konrad Becker On Show: Florian Schneider: Was tun? (What's to be done?) Video, 43 min., online, 2002 Originally a program for the German-French TV station ARTE, the project has been extended online. Whatstobedone.org (www.wastun.org) is a collaborative streaming media project interweaving video, audio and text contributions on the burning questions of a movement of movements. In Vienna it will be first time presented in form of a video installation. The films feature a general debate about the future of global activism, and then portray three different campaigns: The Italian Tute Bianche, the German Deportation.Class campaign and new labor struggles in the Californian high-tech industries. Oliver Ressler: This is what democracy looks like! Video, 38 min., 2002 The video picks as a central theme the events that took place around a demonstration against the World Economic Forum in Salzburg 2001. In this demonstration, which was forbidden by the police, 919 demonstrators were encircled in a police blockade and detained for over seven hours. Christoph Spehr: Time is on my side Video, 17 min., 2002 The video deals with political utopias - why we need them, what problems we have with them, how we change our approach to them while getting older, and why it's important for men to take care of their looks. It's a cut-up from different science-fiction-movies (Godzilla, Star Trek, Matrix) combined with a spoken background text. Vorwärts, ihr freien Schweine! (Go on, you free pigs!) Video, 25 min., 2002 The focus of this video is our experience of power/domination-structures - - and how we get rid of them. Scenes are taken from cartoon movies for children (The Emperor's New Groove, A Bug's Life, etc.). It is very educational, very useful for your everyday life, a must for everyone who has ever considered becoming a free pig. Dark Fiber: Dark Markets will also be the launch of Geert Lovink’s Dark Fiber, a collection of essays on critical Internet culture, to be published in September 2002 by The MIT Press. Other translations coming up are German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 Public Netbase http://www.t0.or.at ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:34:50 +0200 (MES) From: schwarze@student.uni-kassel.de Subject: real.-Radio Resonance 104.4 fm, London hello, an E-Mailflyer! sure there are some nettimers in London. best from matze.schmidt@n0name.de real.-Mapping real.-Radio Su., 22/09/2002 8 pm - 9 pm Resonance 104.4 fm Miho Shimizu, Oyvind Renberg, Sebastian Stegner and Matze Schmidt Mapping live! on Resonance, London's first radio art station A talk about different mappingstrategies, economix and topology as a method Audio stream http://www.resonancefm.com (London Musicians' Collective Limited, http://www.l-m-c.org.uk) Soft Season, Danger Museum, http://www.dangermuseum.com 04/09 - 27/09/02 The Space@inIVA, London info@real-mapping.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:36:38 +0200 From: Benjamin Fischer <benjamin@typedown.com> Subject: MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM media-space 02 (http://www.media-space.org) September, 19-22, 2002 Stuttgart Filmhaus, Friedrichstr. 23 A The main stress on the this years edition of media-space lies on New Media, New Music, Performance, and Theatre. Our guests are i.e. the Amsterdam based Studio for electroacoustic music STEIM and IRCAM from Paris. A special event is the STEIM concert on Friday, September 20, 9 p.m. the composers Joel Ryan, Netochka Nezvanov, and Daniel Schorno give together with the cellist Frances-Marie Uitti an insight into laptop live music and instrumental electroacoustics. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL LECTURES ON THE MEDIA-SPACE CAN BE WATCHED VIA http://video.lf.net:554/ramgen/encoder/ms02.rm AS LIVE VIDEO STREAM. To watch the live video-stream you will need the RealPlayer. The free Real Player Basic can be downloaded at http://www.real.com. >>> all times are indicated in Middle European Time (MET) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 02 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.00 time and space on the stage and in the film - a comparison. Klaus-Peter Platten 15.00 Medial interactions: Adaptive textiles Henrik Mauler und Gert de Bryn 16.00 Ambiente sensibili - The work of Studio Azzurro Axel Wirths 21.00 Steim concert evening - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 02 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.00 Video work for Wooster Group und Forsythe Philip Bußmann 15.00 Stuttgart Library. A music library Manuel Poletti und Andreas Breitscheid 16.00 Jitter - realtime performance tool Jeremy Bernstein und Randell Jones 17.00 Scanned Christian Ziegler 21.00 Lounge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 02 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.00 Cosmos in the head - theatres without actors Via Lewandowsky 16.00 n/a Michael Simon 17.00 The realization of peaks in the high mountain landscape Hanna Groninger and Kerstin Weinbrecht 19.00 Panel discussion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:52:19 +0000 From: "anarcho sando" <anarcho_sando@hotmail.com> Subject: en) NYC - Discuss & Deploy: Convergence of Media and Technology @ctivists Discuss & Deploy: A Convergence of Media and Technology Activists September 27 -- September 29 http://www.abcnorio.org/conference ABC No Rio, Autonomedia, FREE.THE.MEDIA!, InterActivist Network, Openflows Networks Ltd and TAO invite you to attend a conference addressing issues related to media autonomy and self-determination. Discuss & Deploy will explore the convergence of technology, activism and culture, examining what this digital convergence means in terms of public access and the rights of noncommercial networks to exist in the corporate-owned digital world. The conference will include panel presentations, workshops, and conversations/dialogues on topics including open source software, models of autonomous networks, security culture and more. Registration is $10--$30 US (sliding scale). Registered conference attendees receive complimentary breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings; free admission to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Saturday evening; and $1 off all beer and drinks at the Lotus Club. All panels, discussions and workshops will take place in locations on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. All venues are within walking distance of each other. More detailed information about Discuss & Deploy can be found at http://www.abcnorio.org/conference _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:24:42 -0700 From: Tara McPherson <tmcphers@usc.edu> Subject: RDS 2.0: CONFERENCE ON RACE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES - --Boundary_(ID_M8rFkZtgcTKS3lkJWz5wEA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT RDS 2.0 EVENT PROBES RACE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars. Researchers from the University of California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's Annenberg Center for Communication will host a three-day event, Race in Digital Space 2.0, to explore current issues and celebrate the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies, Thursday, 10 October through Saturday, 12 October 2002, at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and on the USC campus. Day after day we engage with media and technology on multiple fronts. The Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event defines "digital space" as a flexible arena that reflects the continual change of technology in relation to the practices and processes of the everyday. Following upon both the recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events of 9/11, the once-euphoric conversations about new media have largely quieted. Race in Digital Space 2.0 seeks to intervene in this constricted field, offering compelling new analyses of both the potentials and the risks of new technological development. This important event offers an opportunity to comment on the ways media and technology are used by a diverse array of citizens and to examine how this interaction defines society and culture. Conference sessions will explore current public policy affecting "digital divide" and privacy issues, the global reach of new media, as well as innovative and creative uses of technology within communities of color. This international conference will serve as a touchstone for thinking critically and usefully about race in digital spaces. Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post 9/11'; 'Tracking Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining Race: Representin' Race in New Media Environments'; 'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in Digital Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live Mixes: Teens and New Technologies.' A concurrent digital salon will feature a number of cutting-edge art and music performances as well as online exhibits and video screenings. Featured speakers and artists include Isaac Julien, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Greg Tate, Todd Boyd, Rubén D. Ortiz Torres, Sue Ellen Case, Wendy Chun, Tony Wilhelm, Chela Sandoval, Daniel Martinez, Pamela Z, Los Cybrids and many, many more! The conference is free and open to the public. Registration information and further details are available online at www.annenberg.edu/race - --Boundary_(ID_M8rFkZtgcTKS3lkJWz5wEA) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> <b>RDS 2.0 EVENT PROBES RACE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES</b><br> <br> Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars. Researchers from the University of California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's Annenberg Center for Communication will host a three-day event, <b><i>Race in Digital Space 2.0</i></b>, to explore current issues and celebrate the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies, Thursday, 10 October through Saturday, 12 October 2002, at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and on the USC campus. <br> Day after day we engage with media and technology on multiple fronts. The <i><b>Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event</b></i> defines "digital space" as a flexible arena that reflects the continual change of technology in relation to the practices and processes of the everyday. Following upon both the recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events of 9/11, the once-euphoric conversations about new media have largely quieted. <i><b>Race in Digital Space 2.0</b></i> seeks to intervene in this constricted field, offering compelling new analyses of both the potentials and the risks of new technological development. This important event offers an opportunity to comment on the ways media and technology are used by a diverse array of citizens and to examine how this interaction defines society and culture. Conference sessions will explore current public policy affecting "digital divide" and privacy issues, the global reach of new media, as well as innovative and creative uses of technology within communities of color. This international conference will serve as a touchstone for thinking critically and usefully about race in digital spaces.<br> <br> Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post 9/11'; 'Tracking Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining Race: Representin' Race in New Media Environments'; 'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in Digital Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live Mixes: Teens and New Technologies.' A concurrent digital salon will feature a number of cutting-edge art and music performances as well as online exhibits and video screenings. Featured speakers and artists include Isaac Julien, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Greg Tate, Todd Boyd, <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Rubén D. Ortiz Torres, </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Sue Ellen Case</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">, </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Wendy Chun</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">, Tony Wilhelm, </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Chela Sandoval, Daniel Martinez</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">,</font> Pamela Z, Los Cybrids and many, many more!<br> <br> The conference is free and open to the public. Registration information and further details are available online at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.annenberg.edu/race">www.annenberg.edu/race</a><br> <br> </body> </html> - --Boundary_(ID_M8rFkZtgcTKS3lkJWz5wEA)-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:23:37 +0000 From: "- G a r r e t t -" <garrett_44@hotmail.com> Subject: opening / vernissage +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Hello everyone Last email via hotmail as i'm dumping this address, if any of you need to contact me use my other email address, if you don't have my other email address, mail me and ask me for it. Small anouncement, Michael and I are participating in the exhibition "Reload" at the Istanbul Contempory Art Museum (http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/) with "_pause". I have my doubts whether this is the real museum of contempory art in Istanbul or not but tonight (Saturday the 21st) at 6pm GMT (thats 5pm in France) the opening is being webcast. See the site for more details. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Salut tous Dernier email via hotmail, si vous avais besoin a me contacte utilise mon autre email, si vous avais pas mon autre email, email moi et demande le s'il te plait. Petite announe, Michael et moi participe dans le expo "Reload" au Musee de Art Contemporain a Istanbul (http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/) avec le projet "_pause". J'ai mes doubts si c'est vraiment le Musee de Istanbul ou pas mais ce soir (Samedi le 21) a 6 heure GMT (5 heure en France) il y a un webcast de le vernissage de le expo. Voir le site pour de details specific. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ a+ gar +-----------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.zendco.com/ http://rhizome.org/artbase/2855/index.html +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:46:35 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: Debate in NYC: No Logo vs. Pro Logo (from the nation) Hello, Naomi Klein's No Logo gained international notice, in part for being the first book to survey and track the growing global resistance movements to corporate-led globalization. Equal parts cultural analysis, journalistic expose and mall-rat memoir, No Logo introduces a broad range of global activists taking aim at corporation's most sophisticated marketing techniques. Last year, the Economist published an in-your-face retort in the form of a cover-story, Pro Logo, written by Sameena Ahmad, a business correspondent for the magazine, which argued, in part, that branding was actually a postive, empowering process for consumers. This Wednesday in New York City, Klein and Ahmad will debate in a free public forum sponsored by the Nation, The Economist and public radio station WNYC. Also including panelists Owens Wiwa and Peter Marber, the proceedings will be moderated by Brian Lehrer, host of the award-winning WNYC program The Brian Lehrer Show. No Logo vs. Pro-Logo September 25, 2002, 7:00-9:00pm The New York Society for Ethical Cultures: 2 West 64th Street Free Admission; Arrive Early. Doors Open at 6:15pm For more info: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/4390 WNYC is also going to broadcast the entire event later in the week as well as make the audio available for listening online. For info: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/4390 For more on No Logo and Klein's latest collection, Fences and Windows: http://www.nologo.org To read Ahmad's cover-story (September 6, 2001 issue of The Economist): http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=770992 And check out Klein's previous Nation writings-including her most recent report from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020916&s=klein Finally, please pass this message on to any groups or people you know who may be interested. But, remember, please arrive early. Best Regards, Peter Rothberg Associate Publisher, The Nation ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:48:27 +0100 From: Charlie Gere <c.gere@bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Call for Papers - Historicising Digital Art Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be interested Call for Papers Historicizing Digital Art Session for the 2003 Association of Art Historians Conference 'Articulations' To be held at Birkbeck College and University College London 10th - 13th April 2003 Art made using computers and other new technologies has in general received little attention from art historians. Since the 1960s it has been treated as a marginal activity that is largely irrelevant to the concerns of the history of art and to the trajectories and debates it engages with. But recently, with the rise of the World Wide Web and the increasingly important role played by digital technology in current society, this has begun to change. The critical interest generated by contemporary artistic movements such as net.art has also enabled the recovery of a rich history of practice in this area, going back to the 1950s and before. Digital and computer practice is being belatedly recognised as an important part of the history of contemporary art. There is a certain urgency to this as both the work and knowledge of pioneering practitioners are in danger of disappearing before they can be properly accounted for and given their due place in the narratives of modern and post-modern cultural history. For this session proposals are invited for papers that look at the history of digital and computer art, or which consider the issues in historicizing this area, which, hitherto, has not received the attention it deserves. Contributions are also welcome that look at questions of curation, conservation and collecting of digital art. Proposals should be no longer than 200 words and be accompanied by contact details and an email address. Speakers are not paid and are expected to pay conference fees, but are offered reduced rates. If you are intending to apply for funding please let me know. This is particularly important if your attendance is conditional on funding, or if you are applying for British Academy funding. The deadline is the 1st November 2002. Please send proposals to Dr Charlie Gere By email to c.gere@bbk.ac.uk Or by snail mail to School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media Birkbeck College, University of London 43 Gordon Square WC1H OPD London United Kingdom Enquiries to Dr Gere on ++44(0)20 7 631 6128 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:42:45 -0400 From: Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de> Subject: Oekonux-Conference 2002: Invitation Free of value and just for fun! =============================== >From Free Software to Free Society? =================================== 2. Oekonux Conference Invitation Free Software is a mystery to someone who thinks only in terms of labor and money. Thousands of volunteers build highly complex software, without which for instance the Internet would not even be imaginable - and the majority of them receive no money. Nonetheless the developers benefit from their doing: They are completely absorbed by it, it fits their personality to do precisely that - in short: It is their life. This opportunity for individual and collective self-unfolding is accompanied by global networking and self-organization, which evolves from the development of computer technology. Based on the new technology "Internet" a new form to produce what is necessary arises Free Software being a germ form. And with a great deal of creativity the new technical possibilities are employed to experiment with new forms of social interaction freely and easily. The Project Oekonux [http://www.oekonux.org/] does research on the economical, political and social forms of Free Software. Similar to the development of Free Software, here too different people with different reasons and different approaches get together in this project to build something new. One question, a lot of people are interested in, is, whether the principles of the development of Free Software can serve as a basis for a new society. The 2. Oekonux conference [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/] takes up the diversity of the project. It aims at learning something about how the example of Free Software is perceived and realized in other fields. And it already is being experimented with in many fields: o Education and school o Knowledge and information transfer and archiving o Technics and arts In addition the program [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/program/] of the conference will contain: o A discussion of the book "Empire" o Studies on Free Software itself o Contributions from the theory built in Project Oekonux We hope and expect that in an open atmosphere critical voices as much as the enthusiasm of the hackers will merge into a creative process. We hope and expect, that the wide range of presentations contributed by German and international guests will lead to new insights and broader understanding for all participants. We hope and expect, that the 2. Oekonux conference will be as great an experience as the 1. Oekonux conference [http://erste.oekonux-konferenz.de/] was. 2. Oekonux Conference 1.-3. November 2002 Technische Universit”t Berlin Please register http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/registration.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:22:57 +0200 From: "office" <office@kuda.org> Subject: kuda.org > Geert Lovink >> kuda.lounge kuda.org Saturday 21.09.02. 20:00 << - ------------------ Geert Lovink (Sidney, Amsterdam) Lecture: The Cult of Surveillance Paranoia The Impact on New Media Networks The days of cyberutopia are over. After the dotcom crash and 911 an atmosphere of general uncertainty has taken over the Internet. What effect do surveillance, hacktivism and infowar discourses have on cyberculture at large? Is the emphasis of artists and activists on surveillance creating a culture of suspicion and paranoia, an atmosphere of distrust? This lecture will look into the example of the collapse of the Syndicate mailinglist network in August 2001 and discuss the difference between information warfare and net.art strategies. Also it will look into possibilities of weblogs to filter out the 'trolls'. Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist, net critic and activist, based in Sydney, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam. He is member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch). Most of the texts of Adilkno in Dutch, German and English can be found at http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet. He was the co-organizer of conferences such as Wetware (1991), Next Five Minutes 1-3 (93-96-99) http://www.n5m.org, Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96) http://www.mrf.hu, Ars Electronica (Linz, 1996/98) http://www.aec.at and Interface 3 (Hamburg 95). In 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime' circle http://www.nettime.org which is both a mailinglist (in English, Dutch, French, Spanish/Portuguese, Romanian and Chinese), a series of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, 'Netzkritik ' (ID-Archiv, 1997, in German) and 'Readme!' (Autonomedia, 1998). A recent conference he organized was Tulipomania Dotcom conference, which took place in Amsterdam, June 2000, focussing on a critique of the New Economy www.balie.nl/tulipomania. In early 2001 he co-founded www.fibreculture.org, a forum for Australian Internet research and culture which has its first publication out, launched at the first fibreculture meeting in Melbourne (December 2001). Lecture is organized with the support of Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade - ------------------ Andreas Broeckmann (Berlin) Lecture and presentation: Transmediale: Art plays global plays global which was intented to be on Tuesday, 24.09.02 is postponed for October >to unsubscribe from this list, reply with subject: unsubscribe< - -- kuda.org office@kuda.org brace mogin 2 po box 22 21113 novi sad yugoslavia tel/fax: +381 21 323 174 http://kuda.org - -- kuda.org office@kuda.org brace mogin 2 po box 22 21113 novi sad yugoslavia tel/fax: +381 21 323 174 http://kuda.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:16:07 +0200 From: "t.ballevart" <t.ballevart@travellab.net> Subject: OMAN tour starting today Ladies and Gentlemen, OMAN - The Independent Artist is going on tour: from travellab Berlin to HISK Antwerp to TU Eindhoven and via KHM Cologne back to Berlin (September 24-26). As artist and robot OMAN turns the situation upside down: instead having people expecting him to do something for them, he expects people to do something for him. Egg-shaped OMAN cannot move by himself, he has to talk people into helping him along. He calls cabs, sleeps in hotels and pays with his card. He speaks English, sings and djs. OMAN asks questions and sometimes he provokes: six mood functions (happy/sad, love/hate, fear/interest) challenge his interlocutor, the great entertainer is permanently >in the mood<. OMAN - The Tour Tuesday, September 24 at 9 am OMAN starts at Berlin Alexanderplatz. With a van and some friends he gets on the Autobahn and visits gas stations on his way to the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK - Higher Institute for the Fine Arts), Antwerp. He checks in at the hotel and does a lecture show at 8 pm at Blow Up, Kloosterstraat 62. The next morning OMAN continues his journey to the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, where in the evening he takes part at the opening talkshow of Man Machine Festival. Thursday OMAN will visit the Kunsthochschule fuer Medien (KHM - Academy for Mediaarts) in Cologne and then go back to travellab, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin, where he is expected at 6 pm. You can see OMAN's excursion in his own view. Every minute he sends a new picture to http://oman.berlin.heimat.de/images.php through GPRS. More information on OMAN is provided at http://www.oman.berlin.heimat.de. OMAN wishes to thank his friends Francis Wittenberger (Israel / Europe): project coordinator Birgit Schoene (Germany): egg model and costumes Boris Svirsky (Israel): artistic director Clark Nova (Germany): voice Katja Gruetering (Germany): funding and public relations Manuel Bonik (Germany): conceptual debugging, texts, voice Michael Mikina (Austria): texts, media concept, artistic research relations Peter Ravil (Australia): web programming Raimo Ihle (Germany): audio-visual online kernel programming Soern Raagard (Denmark): sounds Sukandar Kartadinata (Germany / Indonesia): hardware/hardware programming OMAN is sponsored by berlin.heimat.de (Germany): webspace bit-side GmbH (Germany): programming Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Thailand): Chiang Mai TV Co. Ltd (Thailand): finances enemy.org (Austria): SSL e-plus GmbH (Germany): GPRS communication Girder (The Netherlands): automation software Kunstpunkt Berlin (Germany): hosting paybox AG (Germany): online banking q-bik (Germany): construction q-bus (Germany): hardware, shipping & production Schoene Grakif.de (Germany): fashion & design Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Studium Generale (c) OMAN INDEPENDENT ARTIST ROBOT A project by Francis Wittenberger and Boris Svirsky in collaboration with travellab.net and friends - -- t.ballevart <t.ballevart@travellab.net> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:59:50 +0100 From: Andrea Zapp <zapp@snafu.de> Subject: The Imaginary Hotel, a networked installation - --============_-1179264502==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The Imaginary Hotel An interactive Installation linked to the Internet. By Andrea Zapp Gallery visitors are invited to make up their own room. Internet users are invited to take part online at www.azapp.de/hotel. The Imaginary Hotel allows visitors to occupy and design their ideal room and fill it with personal content and inspiration. It will be set up in the Chapman Gallery in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK between October 9th and 31st, 2002. The installation architecture resembles a typical hotel room; yet choosing image, video and sound footage from the net via the room TV menu, can alter the standard interior and even hotel location. At the same time internet participants can interfere by modifying or uploading further material via the hotel website. They are also able to ring up the gallery visitors via a specially designed web-telephone interface. A web cam is streaming real time video from the hotel to the website to document the ongoing changes. A hotel as such stands for an anonymous social melting pot in a constant state of flux - The Imaginary Hotel further mirrors digital travel in a distorted concept of space and time. It represents a virtual retreat accommodating permanently migrating residents. Similar to a blank canvas, the vacant room is successively populated and shaped by individuals. Real and virtual guests arrive, meet and disappear from out of nowhere and leave their personal traces, reflecting the seamless border between physical and imaginative places of being. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust London, the University of Salford and the North West Arts Board. Coding by Onno Baudouin The Chapman Gallery, Salford, Manchester Opening of the physical hotel and the website: 6.00 pm (GMT), October 9th, 2002 The Chapman Gallery, Peel Park Campus, University of Salford, University Rd, Salford, M5 4WT, Tel. 0161-295-5241 October 10th to 31st, 2002, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm, Monday - Friday. Admission is free. Web terminals are set up at the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly Gallery, Lancaster. Special project presentations by the artist: October 10th, 6.30 pm, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH October 19th, 2.00 pm, Folly Gallery, 26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ and ISEA 02, Nagoya, Japan - Poster Sessions, 30th of October. www.azapp.de/hotel ________________________________________________ - --============_-1179264502==_ma============ ------------------------------ # 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