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Table of Contents: Crisis Media: Iraq Journal providing daily reports dhalleck <dhalleck@weber.ucsd.edu> x@avu.cz Resolution to Authorize Artistic Acts of Mediation US Department of Art & Technology <press@usdept-arttech.net> Fw: November Film Schedule "Geneva J. Anderson" <geneva@iscweb.com> textz.com has been relaunched today "textz.com" <sebastian@rolux.org> Curriculum Online/Culture Online UK "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> sydneyjob josephine starrs <starrs@autonomous.org> www.observatori.com/_llenameelsite_ lele luchetti <lele@observatori.com> Job Opportunity @ London "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> Migrant Navigator / Home project . Darko Fritz <fritzd@chello.nl> DAC call for works Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no> Live streaming! "netzspannung.org redaktion" <redaktion@netzspannung.org> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:22:11 -0400 From: dhalleck <dhalleck@weber.ucsd.edu> Subject: Crisis Media: Iraq Journal providing daily reports Jeremy Scahill, Jacquie Soohan are in Iraq and are providing a series of audio, video and text reports. The site (iraqjournal.org) has simplicity and clarity and on-the-ground reporting from this beleagured country. This morning they covered the opening of the Iraqi prisons. Amazing. It will be posted this afternoon. DeeDee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 02:28:28 +0200 From: x@avu.cz "EXHIBITION" by Michael Bielicky http://exhibition.avu.cz/ WHEN : 25.10.2002 -3.1.2003 WHERE : Paris Espace Electra and in the Web "EXHIBITION" is an online project. A web cam and an old bread mill are installed on a table. The visitor enters the room and sits on the chair. She/he turns the handle of the mill and with this she/he creates an image of her/him self. This image is automatically up loaded to the web page where all images of the visitors will be stored. Each of the images will be framed by an old frame. The spectator see on the wall a projected image of that web site. The visitor generally comes to a gallery or to a museum to see an art piece. Instead of seeing a piece of art he/she him/her self becomes an object of an EXHIBITION in another cultural space which is the Web. Anybody who has an access to the net will see the "album" of the images. The Internet connection is made by ADSL link. The interface (the mill) was made by Milan Gustar. The software and the web design was created by Vaclav Vancura. "Exhibition" is a contribution to a show "Laterna Magika" (historical and contemporary electronic media art from Czech Republic) in Paris at Espace Electra. Opening: 25.10.2002 at 7pm EDF - Espace Electra 6 rue Recamier - 75007 Paris tl: 01 53 63 23 45 Metro: Sevres-Babylone ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:25:48 -0400 From: US Department of Art & Technology <press@usdept-arttech.net> Subject: Resolution to Authorize Artistic Acts of Mediation US Department of Art & Technology Washington, DC http://www.usdept-arttech.net press@usdept-arttech.net Press Secretary For Immediate Release: October 23, 2002 Secretary Packer Pushes for Resolution to Authorize Artistic Acts of Mediation Washington, DC - Secretary Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology has offered a ground-breaking resolution: the Secretary has called for Department Staff and the Artist-Ambassadors of the Global Virtualization Council to consider and vote on the Joint Resolution to Authorize Acts of Artistic Mediation (US DAT J. Res. 1). The Covenant for the Articles of Artistic Mediation, collectively co-authored by artists and critics from around the world, was originally transmitted on June 19th, 2002 to the US Department of State at the World Mediation Summit in Washington, DC. The resolution now under debate would effectively carry out authorization of the Articles of Artistic Mediation in this historic resolve to help bring about world peace.The resolution reaffirms the power of art to prevent war, it promotes artists to act in emergency, and it specifically calls for the artistic action as an alternative to military force against Iraq. "There is a need for the American public to understand the dangerous tendencies of the Bush Regime," Secretary Packer stated in his office in Washington, DC. "There has been some public discussion, but relatively little. This resolution calls for regime change in America by authorizing acts of artistic mediation in an effort to bring the artist message to center stage of the political process." The Joint Resolution of the US Department of Art & Technology and the Global Virtualization Council, would provide a basis for international understanding of the artist's position on cultural conflicts, which are of great concern in our increasingly apocalyptic world. According to Secretary Packer, "Approving this resolution means that artistic action is imminent and unavoidable. If this authorization of the use of artistic mediation is supported by thoughtful and experienced members of our Staff and the Council of Artist-Ambassadors, the international community might well be reassured that artists speak with one voice and are determined to make the demands of the civilized world mean something. We will be sending a message to President Bush: his only choice is full compliance, and the time remaining for that choice is limited." "The President's actions have put us on notice," Packer stated, "and there is no refuge from our responsibilities. We did not ask for this present challenge, but we accept it. As Marshall McLuhan said, 'To prevent undue wreckage in society, the artist tends now to move from the ivory to the control tower of society.'" ******* The US Department of Art & Technology http://www.usdept-arttech.net The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere. Covenant for the Articles of Artistic Mediation http://www.usdept-arttech.net/covenant.html The Covenant for the Articles of Artistic Mediation was officially transmitted on June 19th, 2002 to the US Department of State at the World Mediation Summit in Washington, DC. The World Mediation Summit was convened under the theme "Artist as Mediator on the World Stage," held at the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, the German Cultural Center in Washington, DC, as a signal of the cultural community's determination to tackle head-on the extraordinary challenges faced by the world after the attacks of September 11th. Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology press@usdept-arttech.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:40:42 -0700 From: "Geneva J. Anderson" <geneva@iscweb.com> Subject: Fw: November Film Schedule - ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen V Schell <dragonflygraphics@earthlink.net> To: Film Series Announcements <dragonflygraphics@earthlink.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: November Film Schedule **** FRIDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES **** **** NOVEMBER SCHEDULE **** Hello everyone, Join us in November for a another great lineup of films! We begin the films at at new time this fall, 7:30pm at the Petaluma Coffee Café. Examine modern America's most controversial political contest with the Independent Filmmakers' latest offering, "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election"; laugh and learn with Sustainable Petaluma, presenting "Blue Vinyl"--the cinematography winner at Sundance and audience favorite at Bioneers; and delve into the historic rebellion in Mexico with the Petaluma Progressives' showing of "Zapatista". We will be closed for the Thanksgiving weekend. As an added feature, some of the films this season will have speaker contact information added to the listing after the film, so if you have more questions on the subject, you can follow up later. We have added contact info to the Bio-diesel film page and The Shaman's Apprentice film page. Come a little early for coffee, tea and snacks! The counter will be open until the film begins at 7:30pm. Check out the listings below and the Sustainable Petaluma website which features an ongoing schedule of the films. See you there! Karen Schell Friday Night Film Series 2nd and H Streets at the Foundry Wharf, Petaluma http://sustainablepetaluma.net **************************************************************************** Friday, November 8, 2002 7:30pm FREE Independent Filmmakers Present: *UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION* With Discussion to follow http://sustainablepetaluma.net/films_nov_2002/unprec.html Directed by Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler; Narration by Peter Coyote; 2002; 50 minutes Berkeley Film Festival award winning documentary, Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, narrated by Peter Coyote, is the riveting story of the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler examine modern America's most controversial political contest: the election of George W. Bush. What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate's brother. In one memorable scene, the filmmakers freeze-frame a 'protest' against the ballot recount, identifying participants as staff members of Republican elected officials. **************************************************************************** Friday, November 15, 2002 7:30pm FREE Sustainable Petaluma Presents: *BLUE VINYL* With Special Guests http://sustainablepetaluma.net/films_nov_2002/blue.html Directed by Judith Helfand and Dan Gold; 2002; 90 minutes Judith Helfand's parents have just installed vinyl siding on their home, much to her dismay. She tries to convince them it's bad for the environment, but her mother thinks she's over-reacting, while her father praises its durability. A smash hit at Bioneers and winner of the Sundance Film Festival's documentary cinematography award, Blue Vinyl, billed as a "toxic comedy", follows filmmaker Judith Helfand as she takes the viewer (and her parents) on a hilarious world-wide journey to discover the destructive life-cycle of one of our most popular substances: vinyl. You'll laugh, you'll cry. Helfand tells a story so complex and shady, we could never have known it otherwise, leading us to wonder why we have products with such complex stories in the first place. Will her parents remove the siding after knowing the real story? Come find out for yourself! **************************************************************************** Friday, November 22, 2002 7:30pm FREE Petaluma Progressives Present: *ZAPATISTA* With Discussion to follow http://sustainablepetaluma.net/films_nov_2002/zap.html 1999, 54 minutes Zapatista was filmed over two years while the filmmakers lived in Mexico with the Zapatistas, and is the definitive look at the civil war in Mexico. It combines first hand footage with extensive interviews and testimonies from campesinos, rebel leaders, activists and intellectuals working on both sides of the border. Zapatista shows how this revolt grew out of 500 years of indigenous resistance and how it addresses the current intolerable conditions of the Mayan people in Mexico. It is the most realistic look at this historic rebellion that you will ever see on film. Don't miss it. **************************************************************************** FOR MORE INFO: (707) 763-8134 For full calendar listing: http://www.sustainablepetaluma.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:00:10 -0400 From: "textz.com" <sebastian@rolux.org> Subject: textz.com has been relaunched today +---------------------------------------+ | | | textz.com has been relaunched today | | | | --> http://textz.com ... thanks | | | | o__o |_ /) \/ |_ ^/ /^ /\ |/|/| | | /::\_ \_ \_ /\ \_ /_ o \_ \/ | | | | | we are the & in copy & paste | | | +---------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:00:39 +0000 From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> Subject: Curriculum Online/Culture Online UK for announcements L X Dear E-group members. Sorry to send you two e-mails in one day, but you may find the following seminar of interest. As usual, please contact the person listed below for further details and only respond to me if you wish to be removed from the group. The seminar is on the 28 October _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear All Here is information about a seminar that you may find interesting. It is a workshop addressing issues relevant to registration, self-certification of resources and tagging of resources, to make sure that you get it right first time with minimum extra effort, and understand how to make the most of the opportunities offered through Curriculum Online. Digital Content Seminar Victoria Park Plaza, Victoria, London SW1V 1EQ Monday 28 October 2002 Curriculum Online - What is it? Curriculum Online is an exciting new educational service paving the way towards a new generation of innovative, media-rich learning resources. It offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve step changes in teaching and learning by delivering high quality digital learning material directly into the classroom. It is being developed through a unique partnership between government and industry to create a new market place bringing together users, suppliers and materials. An independent showcase for all educational digital resource providers, it is provider independent, offering teachers a reliable one-stop shop for certified resources, searchable by Key Stage, subject and topic. Why get involved? Curriculum Online will provide major opportunities for all those involved in education to benefit not only from the overall investment we are making in educational Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - £1.8bn from 1998-2004 - but also from the specific resources available to schools to purchase public and private sector products showcased though the portal - £50m to be made available to all schools in England for the school year 2002/2003. This same opportunity is available to public sector organisations who also want to encourage the use of their freely-accessible materials in schools. Curriculum Online will be a key tool for teachers in encouraging the use of all types of electronic learning resources - either on CD-ROM or Online. What do you need to do? All content providers will be required to register to become Curriculum Online registered content providers. There are parallel arrangements for retailers also. Details of how the registration process will operate are available at <http://register.curriculumonline.gov.uk/> . Content providers are required to self-certify and tag the digital resources they wish to appear on the portal in line with the guidance contained at the above site and on www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculumonline <http://www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculumonline>. By special agreement with DfES, registered museums, publicly funded archives and public libraries already meet the 'due diligence' criteria to be included in Curriculum Online. How can we help you? The DfES Curriculum Online team, working with technical partners BECTa, Simulacra Media and Parity, have developed and tested the BECTa Tagging Tool to help you tag your resources against the required Curriculum Online metadata scheme. We have teamed up with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and are now writing to invite you to attend a workshop addressing issues relevant to registration, self-certification of resources and tagging of resources, to make sure that you get it right first time with minimum extra effort, and understand how to make the most of the opportunities offered through Curriculum Online. An outline programme for the seminar is attached and presentations will include: · an update on Culture Online outlining progression as to how Culture Online and Curriculum Online may complement each other . illustrations as to how education is being prioritised for the cultural sector and how that work is being supported; · feedback of user testing of the Tagging Tool and technical guidance; · Portal search functionality overview; · feedback of user testing from teachers in relation to Curriculum Online; … · open sessions with technical support teams to address individual enquiries. To attend, please complete the attached registration form and return it to the conference organisers by either e-mail to c-online@pauljamesassociates.co.uk or fax on 0115 943 5520 as soon as possible. Joining Instructions, including a location map will be sent to you shortly. Should you have any queries or require any further information about arrangements for the seminar, please telephone the organisers on their helpline number: 0115 943 5579. We look forward to seeing you on Monday 28 October. Yours sincerely Doug Brown Divisional Manager ICT in Schools Department for Education and Skills Ruth Shaw Project Development Officer Culture Online Department for Culture, Media and Sport Lachlan Brown T(416) 826 6937 VM (416) 822 1123 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:01:22 +1000 From: josephine starrs <starrs@autonomous.org> Subject: sydneyjob <bold><fontfamily><param>Palatino</param><bigger><bigger>Sesqui Lecturer in 2D and 3D Visualisation Sydney College of the Arts Reference No. B43/003111 </bigger></bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Palatino</param><bigger><bigger>Sydney College of the Arts, is the Contemporary Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney and the Faculty seeks an experienced academic who will take the lead in developing the integration of digital technology into all of the Studio based programs of the Faculty. This full-time position is designed to assist researchers, staff and students in gaining digital visualisation and production skills appropriate to visual arts practice. It is envisaged that this position will enable developments and linkages in digital research and teaching through the 3D studio programs of Sculpture and Object & Art Design as well as between Painting, Printmedia, Electronic & Temporal Art and Photomedia, including facilitating 2D and 3D output. For full advertisement, please refer to the University's web site at http://www.bull.usyd.edu.au/personnel/ For further information and the full position description contact: Mirabel FitzGerald, Associate Dean Academic Administration (02) 9351 1060 or e-mail: <underline><color><param>0000,0000,00FF</param>M.Fitzgerald@sca.usyd.edu.au</color></underline> or Mr Geoff Weary Associate Dean Research (02) 9351 1055 or e-mail <underline><color><param>0000,0000,00FF</param>g.weary@sca.usyd.edu.au</color></underline> <bold>Closing: </bold> 14 November 2002 </bigger></bigger></fontfamily>Josephine Starrs http://sysx.org/starrs Lecturer Media Arts Sydney College of the Arts University of Sydney tel 61 2 9351 1035 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:42:48 +0200 From: lele luchetti <lele@observatori.com> Subject: www.observatori.com/_llenameelsite_ at(t)en(t/c)ion al loro ¡keep-out! warning !! warning ::alarm(a):: s.o.s. nnooooooooooo!!!! la siguiente convocatoria the following call for proposal www.observatori.com/_llenameelsite_ os invita a participar en una copia de invites you to take part to a copy of <http://www.infomera.net/informacion-efimera> > desarrollado, developed, _infomera.net_, por/by arcangel constantini y promovido, and supported, _infomera.net_, por/by <http://www.laagencia.org <http://www.laagencia.org/> > _fill up my site_/_lléname el site_ está desarrollado por it's been developed by LeLE & casares aka _los machín_ aka _latino lovers_ en colaboración con powered by alex y paco de adev.es nnooooooooooo!!!! s.o.s. ::alarm(a):: warning !! warning ¡keep-out! al loro at(t)en(t/c)ion :::::::::::observatori'02:::::::::: :::festival of art investigation::: festival de investigación artística :::nov(i)emb(r)e(r) 1, 2, and/y 3:: :::::::valencia (e/spain/ña)::::::: ::::::::::::presents/a::::::::::::: _fill up my site_/_lléname el site_ net.art open space espacio abierto para arte enredado _fill up my site_ _lléname el site_ with everything you can! ¡con lo que quieras! it's an open call for proposal for online art pieces una convocatoria abierta para obras en línea observatori'02 opens to you from november 1st to 3rd observatori'02 se abre a ti y desde el 1 hasta el 3 de noviembre you can introduce the most art you can puedes introducirle todo el arte que desees. you just have to follow the very easy steps explained in basta con seguir las fáciles indicaciones presentes en www.observatori.com/_llenameelsite_ P.S. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> infomera.net acceso abierto ftp , username : infra01. pW : b0207 > crea - destuye - transforma > acceso abierto a la informacion > + data is to use, + data is not to wear < * respect * la data se usa , no se pone < * respeto " el lenguaje es un virus " < < abrir canales , continuar el flujo . > cambiar conciencia generar discurso http://www.infomera.net/ colectivo individuo < informacion-efimera <http://www.infomera.net/informacion-efimera> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LeLE & Casares aka _los machin_ aka _latinolovers_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:18:39 +0000 From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> Subject: Job Opportunity @ London for announcer Job Opportunity at London Arts Education Officer 4 month fixed term contract (Dec 2002 to March 2003 Salary in range £22,527 - £26,640 pa (pro rated) (Officer, spinal points 28 - 34) Based in the London Arts offices, 2 Pear Tree Court, LONDON EC1R 0D London Arts are looking to appoint an Education Officer to join our Access Unit on a fixed term contract commencing in December. This position involves the design, monitoring and maintenance of the Access Unit’s education services. In this role you will be required to liaise with client organisations and repond to requests for information and advice from artists, arts organisations, schools, and other representatives. The main areas of the Access Unit’s work are social inclusion, education, training and disability. More specific details about the role are contained in the attached job description and person specification. Applications must be received by midday (12.00pm) on Friday 1 November 2002. To apply by post please mark your envelope “Application - Education Officer” and send to Sarah Cowles, London Arts, 2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DS. Interviews are provisionally set for Wednesday 13th November. We accept applications in a range of formats: - - You can apply by email; send your application to recruitment@lonab.co.uk. (It is your responsibility to make sure the email has arrived; we always acknowledge receipt so please check if you don’t hear from us. There is no need to send a hard copy; if you are shortlisted you will be asked to sign your application at interview.) - - Faxed applications can be sent to 020 7340 1087. - - Disabled applicants are welcome to apply in other formats, for example on tape or braille. If you need help or advice please email or call us (020 7608 6164/6165). The application form, job description and person specification is attached. If you have any job related queries, please contact Adrian Chappell, Head of Access, on 020 7608 6118. London Arts is committed to equality of opportunity. We positively welcome applications from Black and Asian people and deaf and disabled people as they are currently under-represented in our workforce. Disabled applicants who meet the person specification will be guaranteed an interview. London Arts, 2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DS. Tel: 020 7608 6100 Direct Line: 020 7608 6110 London Arts joined with the other regional arts boards and the Arts Council of England on 1 April 2002 to create a new, single arts funding and development organisation. Lachlan Brown T(416) 826 6937 VM (416) 822 1123 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 0:47:49 +0100 From: <fritzd@chello.nl> Subject: Migrant Navigator / Home project . Darko Fritz . announcement . Home project . Darko Fritz . 01 - 15. 11. 2002 . posters at billboards close to Croatian borders . 01 - 04. 11. 2002 . posters at billboards in Zagreb . 31 . 10. 2002 . 12 h . Migrant Navigator project presentation @ mama . Preradoviceva 18 . Zagreb . participants: Darko Fritz [artist] . Iva R. Jankovic [Motel Jezevo] . Leila Topic [Motel Jezevo] . Migrant Navigator project . Darko Fritz . http://artefact.mi2.hr/migrant/navigator.htm How many people living at the places they were born? The Migrant Navigator project deals with the issue of migration, the notions of home, identity and nostalgia. It consists of three parts: . Home - poster project . The Future of Nostalgia - flower installation . illegal immigrants dis.information - on-line project . illegal immigrants dis.information . on-line project since April 2002 Recently is included at low-fi list [http://www.low-fi.org.uk] where is described: <We are lead into 'home' by repeated iconography of the home button from Netscape including a fantastic page where the icon has grown to a square meter. Once you get beyond the 'home' icon, this 'dis.informative' site about illegal immigration issues was built by '[mis]using TraceNoizer software'. This process renders pages which are less than helpful and a sort of representation of confused and second hand information. The project develops to question notions of home and displacement.> illegal immigrants dis.information is listed at Open clone projects by TraceNoizer. [http://www.tracenoizer.org] Included works by: Netscape, Jo van der Spek, TraceNoizer, Kein Mensch is Illegal . The Future of Nostalgia . Jun - October 2002 The 'home' icon was planted as a 9 x 9 meter flower bed at the city park close to railway station in Linz, Austria. This work is part of the Talking the City project. . Home . 1 - 15 . 11 . 2002 3 x 4 meter posters with a black/silver Home button icon only are displayed at the commercial billboards close to Croatian borders. 1 - 5. 11. 2002. posters will be displayed at billboards in Zagreb as well. Billboards locations: railway station, main city square and Savska Street. This work is part of the Jezevo Motel project. - --- darko.fritz.propaganda . http://members.ams.chello.nl/fritzd - --- THE JEZEVO MOTEL PROJECT Participating artists: Hsyein Alptekin (TUR), Olaf Arndt & BBM (GER), Maja Bajevic' (BIH), Miroslaw Baka (PL), Jovan Balov (MK), Sokol Beqiri (K), Luchezar Boyadjiev (BUG), Boris Cvjetanovic' (HR), Tanja Dabo (HR), Danica Dakic' (BIH), Uros Duric' (YU), Vadim Fishkin (RUS), Darko Fritz (HR), Ghazel (IRR), Grady Gerbracht (USA), Igor Grubic' (HR), Aleksandar Battista Ilic' (HR), IRWIN (SLO), Sanja Ivekovic' (HR), S(ejla Kameric' (BIH), Shalva Khakhanashvili (GEO), Ivana Keser (HR), Svebor Kranjc (HR), Andreja Kuluncic' (HR), Anton Lederer & Margharette Makovec (A), Kristina Leko (HR), Pia Lindman (USA), Marko Lulic (A), Dalibor Martinis (HR), Dan Oki (HR), Tanja Ostojic' (YU), Bertha Jottar Palenzuela (USA), Danica Phelps (USA), Marjetica Potrc (SLO), Oliver Ressler & Martin Krenn (A), Sandra Sterle (HR), Nedko Solakov (BUL), Nebojsa Seric' Soba (BIH), Slaven Tolj (HR), Milica Tomic' (YU), Luca Vitone (I), Manuela Vladic' (HR), Zelimir Zilnik (YU). Curators, critics, theorists involved in the project: Carlos Basualdo, Nada Beros, Boris Buden, Ana Devic', Zoran Eric', Branko Franceschi, Markita Franulic', Marina Grzinic', Natasa Ilic', Silva Kalcic', Zelimir Koscevic', Dejan Krsic', Shkelzen Maliqi, Suzana Milevska, Tihomir Milovac, Rastko Mocnik, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Zarko Paic', Sabina Sabolovic', Branka Stipancic', Leila Topic', Nevena Tudor, Iva R. Jankovic. At the end of the nineties, newspaper articles about Jezevo, that is, the Reception Centre for Foreigners, a waiting-room of the detention centre type for illegal migrants from the whole world, appeared occasionally and unobtrusively in the local press. At the beginning of summer 2000, the theme of Jezevo intruded all by itself into the consciousness of a small group of artists, curators and critics from Zagreb. We had no doubt whatsoever about the question of "why Jezevo?", but for months we had acrimonious discussions about the methods, manners, objectives... agreeing at the end, in line with the aspiration to start off an artistic project based on the work-in-progress principle, that the ideas and the approaches would necessarily and unremittingly be formed through concrete and common work. <http://artefact.mi2.hr/web/pix/project_jezevo_paper.jpg> ... Several thousand migrants a year go through Jezevo, the number of them constantly rising. In 2001 the motel got an annexe to meet at least partially the growing needs - now Jezevo can take about 180 people a day. In four years, about 4,000 illegal migrants have passed through Jezevo. They come from some fifty countries, and about 84% of them are men, 12% are women and 4% children. However, the statistics are still more relentless: in 2000, more than half a million illegal migrants entered the EU, only in Croatia more than 23,000 being arrested. There is hardly a border crossing in Croatia at which illegals are not arrested. ... Jezevo is just one of the many reception centres of illegal immigrants along the borders of Fortress Europe. Unlike that in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, in Bosanski Petrovac, which can receive up to 2000 people a day, in hard facilities or in tents, where the problems are exacerbated and the contrasts of black and white dominant, in Jezevo everything is in shades and transitions. We decided on Jezevo as the real and symbolic point of departure for a multimedia and multidisciplinary project, the Jezevo Motel, for several reasons. At first glance we were intrigued by the form and one-time function of the building in interaction with its current purpose. The motel building is a typical example of the way modernist architecture was brought down to ground in the former Yugoslavia in late socialism. The modest prefabricated building is an excellent witness of the economy and aesthetics of a time, and of the general belatedness of "peripheral structures", in which the great ideas from the world are facilely accepted and still faster watered down, but still have a remarkable ability to survive, to be transformed and take on new substance. The Jezevo Motel then is a metaphor for life on the periphery, at the darkling edge of things. A motel, of course, always symbolises transit and motion. But its guests, the stowaways, the wretched of the Third World, the Romanians, Iranians, Turks, Yugoslavs, Iraqis, Moldavians, Albanians, Macedonians, Tunisians, and those from even more distant lands like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Zaire, Afghanistan?. are stopped here, held, before their movement, this time forcible, continues in an unwanted way - into the neighbouring state from which they illegally crossed the border. This is not the end however. Their journeys continue "across seven seas and seven mountains", setting up, in spite of their wishes, a big domino effect of successive deportations from one country to another, until they arrive at their point of origin, where they are most often awaited by an impoverished and disappointed family, quite frequently by jail, and sometimes the death penalty. We are convinced that no one can be left unmoved by this domino effect, like the butterfly effect. <http://artefact.mi2.hr/web/pix/project_jezevo_paper2.jpg> In the ambivalence of movement, forced halting and sojourning, and then again of unwanted movement, it is also possible to recognize symbolic figures of civilization such as the Wandering Jew or Sisyphus, but also the paradigm of lasting un-ease that defines the artist per se. For after all, but not last of all, illegal migrants in many ways resemble the world of the contemporary arts: that large international fraternity, ever at the edge of existence, on the edge of the laws, often placed in a ghetto in a society that is profit-oriented, is ever in motion, ever dissatisfied, searching for the as yet untried, ready to put everything it has on the roll of the dice. Hence there is no wonder that the many artists, critics and theorists who have joined us have seen a new "ethics of solidarity" at work in the Jezevo Motel project. The Jezevo Motel, started off in summer 2000, is an independent, low-budget project by local and international artists, critics, curators and theoreticians, developing while bypassing establishment cultural institutions and guaranteed sources of financing. Since the project is conceived as work-in-progress the list of participants is constantly growing and being added to. For objective circumstances, many of these will never have the opportunity to be in Jezevo. Their participation in the project is based on the experience of similar problems in their own societies, and on theoretical and media acquaintance with the problem area. A large number of the artists, on the other hand, carry out their ideas, and will do so, in direct work with the Jezevo migrants, the process of mutual learning doubtless having a therapeutic effect for both sides (Boris Cvjetanovic', Dalibor Martinis, Andreja Kuluncic', Kristina Leko, Manuela Vladic', Hsyein Alptekin Pia Lindman, Grady Gerbract, Danica Phelps, Roman Ondak, Marko Lulic, Darko Fritz, Shalva Khakhanashvili, Nedko Solakov, Uros Duric'?). Some of the works included in the project were created ostensibly independently of Jezevo (if we forget the lesson about the domino-effect) but are without any doubt spiritual kin to the Jez(evo Motel, for which reason we have called on a number of artists to get involved in the project with works that already exist (Zelimir Zilnik, Tanja Ostojic', Marjetica Potrc, Tanja Dabo, Roman Ondak, Sokol Beqiri, Oliver Ressler and Martin Kren, Anton Lederer and Margarethe Makovec, Sandra Sterle and Danica Dakic', Aleksandar Battista Ilic'?) Alongside the continued sequence of artistic workshops and encounters at Jezevo, where during spring and summer 2001 the greatest number of works (photographic, film and video, drawing and painting workshops) will be accomplished, the Jezevo Motel projects will be available to the general public on the pages of art-e-fact, on the pages of local papers and journals, and in the public areas of cities - posters, neon lights, and in shop windows, at info-points, in travel agencies and in hotels. http://artefact.mi2.hr/web/frameset.htm - ------- - ------- - ------- - ------- to unsubscribe from darko.fritz.propaganda mailing list please sent mail NO MORE PROPAGANDA to: fritz.d@chello.nl - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:32:38 +0200 From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no> Subject: DAC call for works Apologies for any cross posting that may occur. This announcement may be of interest to some list members. begin announcement ____________________ conference url http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ cfw url http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/cfw.html +playengines+ MelbourneDAC exhibition DUE TO NUMBER OF LATE ENTRIES/REQUESTS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 2002: Exhibition categories (one category per work): computer games, interactive film/video, streaming media, hypermedia what genre(s)/category(ies) your art might nearly just about go in: online game, browser game, interactive film/video, streaming fiction, streaming nonfiction, streaming other, text game, interactive graphic narrative - fiction , interactive graphic narrative - nonfiction , interactive graphic narrative - other , interactive text narrative - fiction, interactive text narrative - nonfiction, interactive text narrative - other, Flash fiction, Flash nonfiction, interactive fiction, (other?) entry is open to: independent artists, students, researchers, producers and/or small teams, computer game artists, real timers, 3D on-line gamers , interactive film/art creators, Flash artists, word players, interactive fiction creators regards adrian miles Adrian Miles Conference Chair | Antoanetta Ivanova Conference Producer adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au | antoanetta@novamediaarts.net _______________________________ end of announcement ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:43:44 +0200 From: "netzspannung.org redaktion" <redaktion@netzspannung.org> Subject: Live streaming! Live streaming des Workshops "Online Archive - Perspektiven vernetzter Wissensräume" sowie der Preisverleihung des Hochschulwettbewerbs digital sparks! Am kommenden Freitag, den 25.10., ab 12:00 Uhr sowie am Samstag, den 26.10., ab 10:00 Uhr wird der Workshop "Online Archive - Perspektiven vernetzter Wissensräume" auf netzspannung.org in deutscher und englischer Sprache live gestreamt: http://streaming.netzspannung.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/deutsch.rm http://streaming.netzspannung.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/english.rm Der Workshop wird seinen Fokus auf Entwicklungsperspektiven und - -potentiale medienkultureller Plattformen legen. Mehr zu den einzelnen Themen sowie die Liste der Referenten unter: http://netzspannung.org/workshops/online-archives/ Die Preisverleihung des diesjährigen Hochschulwettbewerbs digital sparks 02 mit Vorstellung der prämierten Arbeiten wird ebenfalls am Freitag, den 25.10., ab 19:00 Uhr live auf selbiger URL gestreamt. - ------------------------------------------------- Live streaming of the workshop "Online Archives – Perspectives on networked knowledge spaces" and the awards ceremony for the digital sparks academy competition! This Friday, October 25 at 12.00 noon and Saturday, October 26 at 10.00 a.m., the workshop "Online Archives – Perspectives on networked knowledge spaces" will be streamed live on netzspannung.org in German and English: http://streaming.netzspannung.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/deutsch.rm http://streaming.netzspannung.org:8080/ramgen/encoder/english.rm The workshop will focus on the developmental prospects and potential of media-cultural platforms. Find out more about the individual topics under discussion and the list of speakers at: http://netzspannung.org/workshops/online-archives/en The awards ceremony for this year's digital sparks 02 academy competition with a presentation of the winning entries will also be streamed live at the same URL on Friday, October 25 at 7.00 p.m. - -------------------------------------------------- Kontakt: redaktion@netzspannung.org MARS - Exploratory Media Lab | Fraunhofer Institut für Medienkommunikation D-53754 Sankt Augustin | Germany | - ---------------------------------------------------- # 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