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Table of Contents: -empyre-Avatar Manifestos with Gregory Little Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Communiqu=E9_****_Exposition_Buy-Sellf?= <info@buy-sellf.com> Pixxelpoint Newsletter Blaz Erzetic <blaz@erzetich.com> FREE WARE: BORDERHACK! fran ilich <ilich@de-lete.tv> ULTRASOUND FESTIVAL / 2002 / "Tom Holley" <tomholley@the-media-centre.co.uk> screenings at the Cinematheque Ontario JSalloum@aol.com Robert Atkins lectures on The Artworld, Community and Activism: A Meditation Robert Atkins <robert@robertatkins.net> ZKM/Exhibition Andrea Buddensieg <buddensieg@zkm.de> AFTERNEEN Maaike Gottschal <maaike@cascoprojects.org> [Fwd: ZONES D'ECHANGES - mardi 26 novembre 02 - ensba] liz <liz@no-log.org> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:05:29 -0500 From: z <z@apiece.net> Subject: @jihui:The Question Concerning Media Technology - A Dialogue: Timothy Druckrey and Mark Stafford jihui - Digital Salon presents A Dialogue: Timothy Druckrey and Mark Stafford Friday, November 22, 2002 7 PM @ Parsons Center for New Design 55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl. New York, NY 10011 Live Webcast @ http://netart-init.org starts 7pm EST. The Question Concerning Media Technology The history of media theory has been primarily rooted in attempts to legitimize the potential of surfaces and effects as signifiers of the 'radical' possibilities of representation. This privileging of form, or, in the 'media arts,' the implementation of form as effect, creates vexing problems that differentiate between communication and expression. This 'difference' emerges time-and-again in the development of 'theories' of interactivity and so-called 'net.art.' Because of the intricate reciprocity evident in an 'art of exchanges,' a theory of media cannot adequately frame issues without a rethinking of representation in terms of its transformed function, its shifting relationship with visibility, its probing of the 'immaterial,' its reformulation of reception (and cognition), its understanding of the 'mechanization of the world picture,' or its conceptualization of a philosophy rather than a theory of communication. This dialogue will pose the issue in discursive form and on examples of works that rupture or disrupt the flow of effects... Timothy Druckrey is a curator, writer, and editor living in New York City. He lectures internationally about the social impact of electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. He co-organized the international symposium Ideologies of Technology at the Dia Center of the Arts and co-edited the book Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Bay Press). He curated the exhibition Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography and edited the book by the same name published by MIT Press. He edited Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation and is Series Editor for Electronic Culture: History, Theory, Practice published by the MIT Press that includes Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, net_condition: art and global media, Dark Fiber (by Geert Lovink), and Future Cinema: the Cinematic Imaginary after Film (edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel) and The Un-archaeology of the Media (by Siegfreid Zielinski) both forthcoming. Mark Stafford is a psychoanalyst and a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. His recent research work has focused on the relationship between aesthetic practice and the subjective experience of the boundaries of the human body. He is particularly interested in the relation between media production and the ideological implications of science. Mark Stafford teaches at MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design. He also lectures at the School of Visual Arts. jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc. jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared. jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design jihui is organized by agent.netart, a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:53:58 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: showtime Robert Beck Memorial Cinema Presents November 2002 19 November 2002 9:00 pm ALAN SONDHEIM Curated by Marianne Shaneen RBMC presents new digital video, live reading, laptop demo and other work from Alan Sondheim, multifarious maverick of video, film, CD-ROM, performance, sound, text, cyberculture and hypermedia. His books include the anthology "Being on Line: Net Subjectivity" (Lusitania, 1996), "Disorders of the Real" (Station Hill, 1988), and ".echo" (alt-X digital arts, 2001). For the past several years, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, sexuality, and virtuality. "worlds, tribly" - 35 minute digital video, Alan Sondheim and Azure Carter the chant of trilby-svengali... 85 worlds intersecting: the torus cutting across...the seven watching men, the doubled doubled seven watching men...the swollen mold and its emission...the double framing window... ** - -A.S. For more info about the work of Alan Sondheim be sure to check out these urls! http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ RBMC is a laboratory for the auto-didact, a genuine Temporary Autonomous Zone for cine-mavericks and metaphysicians, and a realm to disorder and regain the senses. For more than 4 years, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema has illuminated the snowy-white screen of the Collective Unconscious of New York.... the enigmatic Mr. Robert Beck, soldier of the 1st World War, lost his senses in battle and later, recovering in a sanatorium, regained them while watching a film! Bradley Eros & Brian Frye ...the extraordinary Robert Beck Memorial Cinema... captures some of the improvisational feeling of earlier avant-garde film presentations, also accommodating films and related events that require unusual projection set-ups...probably my favorite place anywhere to see films -Fred Camper DIRECTIONS: RBMC is at the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS 145 Ludlow St., NYC between Stanton and Rivington 1.5 blocks south of Houston St. SUBWAY: F train 2nd Avenue stop, walk east on south side of Houston past Eldridge (you will see the Sunshine Cinema Movie Theater on the corner of Eldridge and Houston), Allen, and Orchard streets, and turn right (south) on Ludlow. The Collective Unconscious RBMC is on Ludlow between Stanton and Rivington, on the West side of the street. FROM WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE: Once off the bridge take a slight Right onto DELANCEY ST., turn Right onto ALLEN St., turn Right onto STANTON St., and turn RIGHT onto LUDLOW St. FROM MANHATTAN BRIDGE: Off Manhattan Bridge, turn Right onto CANAL St., turn LEFT onto ALLEN ST., turn RIGHT onto STANTON ST., then turn RIGHT onto LUDLOW ST. **worlds, tribly - 35 minute digital video - 85 worlds intersecting: the torus cutting across, the sparrow flitting from one to the other, the golden droplets swarming among them, the seven watching men, the doubled doubled seven watching men, the woman from the london gaiete shuddering, the second woman adding and removing dressing and corset, the man and woman swirling and watching across, the woman with the cross evolving and splitting and shuddering outward, the white stars in the blue-black sky, the yellow stars in the blue-black sky, the great fabric of being and the construct of the helices, the mouths wide open, eyes wide open, the look of astonishment and the gaze, the swollen mold and its emission, the bearded man, the torus bending and shuddering, the torus taking on the colors and patterns, the sparrow flitting, the inner and outer spaces, the backdrop spaces, the seven watching men ... the dark break the double framing window, the window embossing, the small victorian blouse, the body staring and disappearing, the serene landscape, body through the landscape, the quietening sounds, the fading out ... */ the chant of trilby-svengali. i am her trilby to her svengali and she is my trilby to my svengali. i trilby make perfect fuck, sharing the dream of svengali and trilby: trilby to svengali's edison, dolly shot in cinerama, her trilby to her svengali, my trilby to my svengali. she nobody. svengali and trilby make that trilby. that into into night night window from folding. against of folding jacket. trilby, my my is singing woman. i would be that woman that trilby. trilby, she is my woman, she is singing within the woman. hair hair duplicate face. body would trilby. be into that night trilby. my trilby, is my singing singing against without there without singing. /* === ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:18:59 -0500 From: Meg McLagan <margaret.mclagan@nyu.edu> Subject: Illegal Art panel at NYU 11/15 The Center for Media, Culture and History, in conjunction with the Institute for Law and Society, presents a panel discussion this Friday: ILLEGAL ART: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age November 15 Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street 7:00-9:00 p.m This panel will bring together people from the art, academic and legal fields to discuss the effects of current copyright laws on creative expression. Who: Mark Hosler, Negativland Steven Feld, Music and Anthropology, Columbia U. Rebecca Tushnet, NYU School of Law Howard Besser, Cinema Studies, Director of the Moving Image and Archiving Program, NYU Natalie Jeremijenko, technoartist and design engineer Meg McLagan (moderator), Anthropology, NYU Co-sponsors: Institute for Law and Society. American Studies, Cinema Studies, Photography+Imaging/TSOA For information call 212.998.3759 The Illegal Art Program also features a visual arts exhibit at CBGB's 313 Gallery, 313 Bowery, November 13 - December 6, 2002. The exhibit, which features murdered Disney characters, the Colonel Sanders mandala, and a Texaco-laced doily, is sponsored by Stay Free! magazine and the Internet Archives, Prelinger Archives. Meg McLagan Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology New York University 25 Waverly Place NY, NY 10003 212 998 2108 (office) 212 995 4014 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 22:03:44 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: eyebeam online forum From: "Beth R." <bethr@eyebeam.org> EYE TO EYE The artists and technologists at Eyebeam have begun their fifth annual online discussion forum, and if preceding years are any indication, you really ought to strap on a crash helmet and dive in. The topic this time is "THE RESTRUCTURED SCREEN: Conversations on the New Moving Image," and they'll be featuring new works weekly from artists who'll be creating pieces in tandem with what's happening in the discussions. The forum will continue until December 13. Go to--www.eyebeam.org/restructuredscreen so--everyone--pass this around to your friends and colleagues and please post. THE {RE}STRUCTURED SCREEN Online Forum: Nov.11 - Dec.13, 2002 www.eyebeam.org/restructuredscreen.org The five week online forum (www.eyebeam.org/restructuredscreen) is an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the language, narrative structues, unique environments, and politics of the new moving image. Topics to be explored include: immersive screen based environments in public spaces and art works; concepts of looping, sampling and multi-formatting that have affected narrative structure; expanded media access that has widened film distribution and global activism; and new forms of interactive interface composition, special effects compositing, and 3D computer graphics that have forever modified the contemporary lexicon and changed current aesthetics. Forum participants include: Jeremy Blake, Anthony Bregman, Brian Drolet, Steve Hamilton, Chrissie Iles, Mary Lucier, Craig Kalpakjian, Jeff Kleiser, Peter Lunenfeld, Pat O'Neill, John Pilson, Matthew Ritchie, Alex Rivera, Benjamin Weil, Grahame Weinbren and others. Artistic Interventions in the forum website by: Entropy8zuper!, Jesse Gilbert & Carol Kim, Fakeshop, Yucef Merhi, Marina Zurkow. Essays by: Norman Klein, Marc Lafia, Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich. Interviews with: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Harun Farocki, Scott Ross, Tom Tykwer Technical Support: Scharff Weisberg Media Sponsors: Artnet and Artkrush ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:45:38 -0800 From: Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net> Subject: -empyre-Avatar Manifestos with Gregory Little Virtual Construction, part 2 on -empyre- =empyre- is pleased to announce that Gregory Little joins our ongoing November dialogue today as host for the topic "Virtual Construction" Many thanks to Joseph Nechtaval for his insights into 'viractuality' during the first part of November. Please join us as Gregory introduces "Avatar Manifestos". - ---> Gregory Little is an electronic media artist working with philosophical and theoretical issues related to the technologies of immersive virtual reality, netart, and avatars; specifically with respect to issues of identity, embodiment, and human sentience. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Bowling Green State University, USA; and an associate editor for Intelligent Agent. Avatar Manifesto: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/ava_text_1.html Projects: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/menu_1.html Presence and the AE: http://art.bgsu.edu/~glittle/presence/index.html Warm regards Christina - -- Christina McPhee <http://www.christinamcphee.net> <http://www.naxsmash.net> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:37:13 +0100 From: <info@buy-sellf.com> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Communiqu=E9_****_Exposition_Buy-Sellf?= Dans le cadre du festival des cultures =E9lectroniques ACCES(S) #02 =E0 = Pau du 19 au 24 novembre 2002 Exposition Buy-sellf au Pavillon des arts de 10 h 18 h et dans le Hall de la mairie de Pau ouvert toute la journ=E9e de 9 h =E0 = 18 h avec les oeuvres des artistes : Mike Batard, Guillaume Poulain, Laurent Hart, Jose Ramon Aiz Bruno Persat, Sebastian Santa maria, Simon Boudvin, Marco Scoffier Guillaume Arami, Pierre Hourquet, Laurent Perbos, Fred Latherrade. Vernissage le Lundi 18 novembre =E0 18h Garden party, musique du collectif HydroDisko. *** Voir la bande annonce en flash : > Version fille ou > Version Gar=E7on En savoir +=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= to be removed from this mailing list, click the link below :=20 mailto:no_mercy@buy-sellf.com?subject=3Dremove (sorry for MultiPostings) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:25:12 +0100 From: Blaz Erzetic <blaz@erzetich.com> Subject: Pixxelpoint Newsletter Pixxelpoint 2002 - International Computer Art Festival " " -- Newsletter - November 18 2002 -- Hi to everyone! You are kindly invited to attend the opening of festival in City Gallery Nova Gorica on Friday, November 22, at 8 pm. After the official opening: the concert of All Capone Strajh Trio, at 9:30 pm. The exhibition will be open until Friday, November 29, every day from 9 am to 9 pm. For programme and aditional info about festival and lodging, please visit our website: http://www.pixxelpoint.org If you need invitation letter, please contact Mrs Pavla Jarc at mestna.galerija-NG@guest.arnes.si In case you have a question or comment, don't hesitate to send us an e-mail at info@pixxelpoint.org Best regards, Blaz Erzetic & Pixxelpoint staff http://www.pixxelpoint.org PS If you don't want to receive further informations about Pixxelpoint, please kindly reply to this email with "Remove" in subject line. - ------------------------------ Pixxelpoint 2002 - Mednarodni festival racunalniske umetnosti " -- Novice - 18. november 2002 -- Pozdravljeni! Vljudno vas vabimo na otvoritev festivala v petek, 22. novembra 2002, ob 20. uri v Mestno galerijo Nova Gorica. Po uradni otvoritvi bo ob 21:30 nastopila glasbena zasedba All Capone Strajh Trio. Razstava bo odprta do petka, 29. novembra, vsak dan od 9. do 21. ure. Program in ostale informacije na nasih spletnih straneh http://www.pixxelpoint.org V primeru, da imate kaksno vprasanje ali pripombo, vas vabimo, da nam le-to posljete na nas elektronski postni predal info@pixxelpoint.org Lep pozdrav, Blaž Erzetic in Pixxelpoint osebje http://www.pixxelpoint.org PS Ce ne zelite vec prejemati novic o Pixxelpoint-u, prosimo, odpišite na prejeti email z "odstrani" v naslovni vrstici. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:54:23 -0600 From: fran ilich <ilich@de-lete.tv> Subject: FREE WARE: BORDERHACK! NOVEMBER 21 FREE WARE: BORDERHACK!, 7 PM, LECTURE ROOM Fran Ilich is the director of Borderhack!, an annual three-day event that takes place in Tijuana, Mexico. New media artists, activists, and punk rockers alike gather to explore the impact that the U.S.-Mexico border has on daily life. As technology and global economic forces continue to blur the boundaries between cultures, the existence of a physical dividing line between the two countries is called into question. For this talk, Ilich discusses Borderhack! and his current work, Modem Drama. (UN)SCENE: MAKE ART EVERY THIRD THURSDAY:VIVA LA WEB! HACKTIVISM AND CYBERGUERRILLAS , 5-9 PM, AGES 14-19 ONLY The Internet was made for free communication, but is caught between the virtual borders of corporations and copyright laws. Come learn about Web artists fighting this battle and the history of artists and activism. Check out some online activism and create art with a message with internationally known artist-designer Piotr Szyhalski. Also, tune in to Fran Ilich as he talks about hacktivism and the guerrillas working to free the virtual borders of the Internet on the border of Mexico and the United States (see Free Ware, this page). To reserve a spot in the workshop, call 612.375.7683 before November 21. WALKER TEEN PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE SURDNA FOUNDATION AND BEST BUY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:55:12 -0000 From: "Tom Holley" <tomholley@the-media-centre.co.uk> Subject: ULTRASOUND FESTIVAL / 2002 / ================================================= DRU {1} / 22.11.02 / ================================================= http://www.druh.co.uk ================================================= Apologies for cross-posting. ================================================= ULTRASOUND FESTIVAL / 2002 / 28 / 29 / 30 / NOV / ================================================= Ultrasound is a new three day international festival exploring the territory of experimental sound and electronic music. Ultrasound 2002 presents an eclectic mix of experimentalists and artists from the UK and overseas. ================================================= ULTRASOUND / WEBSITE / FULLY UPDATED TODAY / ================================================= http://www.ultrasound.ws ================================================= ULTRASOUND / LIVE / ================================================= The Ultrasound Live sessions oscillate between the extreme and the sublime in musical terms, embracing the full range of contemporary digital music practise from experimental generative programming techniques to rich synthesised electro-pop. http://www.ultrasound.ws/live/index.html ================================================= ULTRASOUND / CONFERENCE / ================================================= Space, Soundscape and the Urban Landscape ================================================= The conference presents a series of papers and projects that explore the ambient sonic environment and the relationship between lived space, soundscape and the urban landscape. http://www.ultrasound.ws/conference/index.html ================================================= ULTRASOUND / SHOWCASE / ================================================= An informal afternoon discussion showcasing developments in the creative use of software in the areas of electronic music and sound art. http://www.ultrasound.ws/showcase/index.html ================================================= BLACKTRONICA / WORKSHOP / CLUBNIGHT / ================================================= Because there's more to Black music than Hip-Hop, Garage and R&B. Conceived by DJ, producer, writer and Attica Blues frontman Charlie Dark. http://www.ultrasound.ws/blacktronica/index.html ================================================= ULTRASOUND / CONTACT / ================================================= The Media Centre 07 Northumberland Street Huddersfield HD1 1RL UK Info / 0870 990 5003 / info@ultrasound.ws / http://www.ultrasound.ws ================================================= The Digital Research Unit {DRU} is a research and production facility based at The Media Centre, Huddersfield. DRU is a partnership between The Media Centre and the University of Huddersfield. ================================================= contact: info@druh.co.uk ================================================= subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.druh.co.uk/mailinglist ================================================= ================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:53:31 EST From: JSalloum@aol.com Subject: screenings at the Cinematheque Ontario in/tangible cartographies: new arab video November 21-28, 2002 untitled: recent works by Jayce Salloum November 26, 2002 Cinematheque Ontario presents "in/tangible cartographies: new arab video", a series of 15 recent videos made by artists working in Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Palestine. The series has been guest curated by Vancouver-based media artist Jayce Salloum, who will be present on November 28 for the final programme. Video artists represented in the series include: Elia Suleiman, Mohamed Soueid, Akram Zaatari, Walid Ra'ad, and Danielle Arbid. Cinematheque Ontario also hosts Jayce Salloum in person with an evening of his own videotapes on Wednesday, November 27, 6:30pm as part of our free series, The Independents. All screenings are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (please use McCaul Street Entrance) and are restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older, unless otherwise noted. Prices are $5.75 for Cinematheque Ontario and AGO Members, $5.25 for Student Members & Seniors and $9.60 for Non-members. For program details see the notes below or: www.bell.ca/cinematheque ph: 416-968-FILM ccummings@torfilmfest.ca - --- Program details: Programme 1: stretching the sky after the rain falls RED CHEWING GUM (AL-LLKA AL HAMRA) Director: Akram Zaatari Lebanon 2000 10 minutes video Cast: Ziad Antar, Nabil Kojok Within the changing urban environment of Beirut, two souls find themselves in a cycle of loss, departure, rupture, and celebration. An impressive video letter inspired by a story of separation between men. NIGHTFALL Director: Mohamed Soueid Lebanon 2000 70 minutes video Drawing from his diaries, Soueid recounts his time spent in "The Student Squad" of the Palestinian resistance movement Fateh during the Lebanese Civil War. Stories of old friends fallen during the war and of others still alive unravel amongst copious amounts of drinking and carousing. A lyrical artist, Soueid defies oral conventions by blending narrative with prose, essay with poem, and conversation with speculation. Thursday, November 21 6:30 p.m. - -- Programme 2: traversing times/breaching distinctions MEDITERRANEAN MODERN (BOUTROS AL ARMENIAN) Director: Jamelie Hassan Lebanon/Canada 1997 8 minutes video An itinerant Armenian painter, a refugee fleeing the 1915 genocide in his country, makes a circuitous voyage to a mountain village in Lebanon where he is commissioned to paint the interior of Hassan's family home. Hassan deftly maps the uneasiness of reinventing identity, adaptability, and cultural preservation. "Home is not a fixed place but a constantly negotiated space between self and location." HER + HIM, VAN LEO Director: Akram Zaatari Egypt/Lebanon 2001 32 minutes video A portrait of a portrait photographer, about photography before video, the defects of the negative, perfection of the body image, and a relationship between youth and the immortal. A WOMAN TAXI DRIVER IN SIDI BEL-ABBÈS (UNE FEMME TAXI À SIDI BEL-ABBÈS) Director: Belkacem Hadjad Algeria/Belgium 2000 52 minutes video After the death of her husband, Soumicha must make money to support herself and her children. As most jobs are reserved for men, she takes a chance and becomes the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria, where tradition still reigns and extremist political violence takes place. Winner of the best documentary film, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival, Qatar. Friday, November 22 8:15 p.m. (note early start time) - -- Programme 3: days of our lives, transfer/transform/transgress, auto seen voyeurs, maps and demarcations BLUE Director: Azza Al Zarouni United Arab Emirates 2000 3 minutes video Private space as discomforting comfort zone at home in Abu Dhabi. Ubiquitous cell phone ringing punctuates this stream of dissatisfaction with pop culture salvation. COSMETIC SURGERY (GERAHAT AL TAGMIL) Director: Hassan Khan Egypt 2000 14 minutes video A wry look at the rising class in Cairo and how they deal with self-image. With a backdrop of malls and clinics, questions of politics, religion, gender, economy, and marginality are couched in terms of beauty and the body. SHAMELESS TRANSMISSION OF DESIRED TRANSFORMATIONS PER DAY (BATHTH WAQUIH LI KAMMIYYAT AL TAHAWOULAT AL MUSHTAHAT YAWMIYAN) Director: Mahmoud Hojeij Lebanon 2000 25 minutes video Just as fruit and vegetables are picked for their external appearance, three women at Beirut checkpoints are asked to reveal their intimate acts supposedly done in the dark. FUCK THIS FILM (KOS OM EL FILM DAH) Director: Hassan Khan Egypt 1998 4 minutes video Surrounded by a multitude of reasons to tape and seeing none, the videomaker runs at life haunted by forces inside with a soul lost to despondency. LOOKING AWRY Director: Sobhi al-Zobaidi Palestine 2001 32 minutes video American producers commission Zobaidi to make a videotape about ancient Jerusalem. They want only the calmer side of the old city, but as soon as the taping starts an Intifada breaks out after Israeli attacks at Al Aksa Mosque. DIARY OF A MALE WHORE (YAWMEYAT A'HER) Director: Tawfik Abu-Wael Palestine 2001 14 minutes video A videotape about memory, positioning itself in relation to the "other," so that it can be seen as a metaphorical account of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process." Based loosely on the novel For Bread Alone by Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri. Tuesday, November 26 6:30 p.m. - -- Programme 4: history: making/ tracing/leaving marks, a logic of the senses THEY WERE HERE (ENAHOUM KANOO HONNA) Director: Ammar Al Beik Syria 2000 8 minutes video Coming to terms with the end of the industrial era, Al Beik's elegant and eloquently composed study reverberates with lives lived, fading images, and relics of retrospection. CYBER PALESTINE Director: Elia Suleiman Palestine 2000 16 minutes video Displaying sardonic wit and attention to detail, Suleiman creates a terse but forceful transposition of the biblical story of Mary and Joseph as a framework to illustrate the repressive controls of movement and the abuses of daily Palestinian life suffered under Israeli military occupation. THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS Director: Walid Ra'ad Lebanon/USA 1996-99 17 minutes video A videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). ALONE WITH WAR (SEULE AVEC LA GUERRE) Director: Danielle Arbid Lebanon/France 2000 59 minutes video Searching through remembrances of the war for answers that of course are not to be told and not to be found, where there are only people trying to get on with their lives. Arbid tries to construct a history by seeking a truth and finds one at each corner, under each bed, and behind the pockmarks of each stray bullet left from the civil war we all are trying to forget. Winner of the best documentary award at the 2000 Locarno film festival. Guest curator Jayce Salloum will be present at screening. Thursday, November 28 8:15 p.m. (note early start time) - -- CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO presents THE INDEPENDENTS untitled: recent works by Jayce Salloum (Jayce Salloum in person) Wednesday, November 27 6:30 p.m. "Jayce Salloum, curator of the New Arab Video: in/tangible cartographies series, will present two of his own works, part of his ongoing untitled project, a series of videos addressing social and political realities. In part 1: everything and nothing, Salloum, off-camera, asks questions of Soha Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter who was detained for ten years in the notorious El-Khiam torture and interrogation center in South Lebanon. In a riveting and intimate conversation, Salloum inquires about home, ordinary days, being interviewed, and the distance between Paris, where Bechara now lives, and Khiam. In part 2: beauty and the east Salloum turns to the former Yugoslavia. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, and residents address topics ranging from identity and fascism to optimism and monsters. In both anecdotal and theoretical recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region of displacement and redefinition; their words are located within Salloum's images of cities and landscapes." (Pacific Film Archive) In part 3: (as if) beauty never ends*, a montage of orchids blooming and footage from the sites of the 1982 massacres at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian dispossession. part 1: everything and nothing Director: Jayce Salloum Canada 1999-2001 40 minutes video part 2: beauty and the east Director: Jayce Salloum Canada 1999-2002 work-in-progress, excerpt c. 20 minutes video part 3: (as if) beauty never ends* Director: Jayce Salloum Canada 2002 11 minutes video The Independents is a free series that screens the work of a wide range of independent film and video artists, and features many personal appearances. Programming suggestions and submissions are welcome. Please note: All presentations in this series are FREE, non-ticketed events, and are held in Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.. Screening is restricted to individuals 18 years of age and older. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:03:52 -0800 From: Robert Atkins <robert@robertatkins.net> Subject: Robert Atkins lectures on The Artworld, Community and Activism: A Meditation Inspired by the Events of September 11th London, Bristol, Valencia November 13: 6:30 pm CARTE/University of Westminster, Portland Hall at the Univ of Westminster, Little Titchfield Street London November 20, 6:30 pm: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol November 25 Polytechnic University, Valencia The Artworld, Community and Activism: A Meditation Inspired by the Events of September 11th In the wake of September 11th, we are awash in government- and mass media rhetoric about "patriotism," "sacrifice," and "change." Many of these representations serve to further the already-defined agenda of those in power, rather than to promote discussion and democracy. Art's role in crisis--if it is regarded as relevant at all--is seen as entirely therapeutic. Crisis creates pressures to dispense with business-as-usual, sometimes revealing the real (cultural) fissures of the day. In terms of arts practice, we might consider such questions as: What does community mean in a Western culture of increasing transience, materialism and diminishing public space? Given the apotheosis of the artist as an individual genius for the past 500 years, is the very idea of post-Renaissance art involving community a contradiction in terms? Why have exemplars of community-minded, often public art been excluded from the art-historical canon? (Consider the performances of Suzanne Lacy, the confrontational AIDS-activist works by the Gran Fury collective and many others, and even Joseph Beuy's founding of the Free University in 1972.) Is the Internet the last, best hope for art attempting genuine social change? What effective community-oriented initiatives have been created online? What catalytic or symbol-making role can artists play in times of crisis? How can critical works find their place in an entertainment-oriented museum culture? And in an increasingly monolithic, mass-media age how can the arts promote the emergence of diverse and independent voices? This illustrated lecture will address these matters, tracing the post-sixties history of activist art and the emergence of organizations such as Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and Visual AIDS, as a backdrop for considering both current cultural conditions and artistic practice. The evolving interpretations--and use and abuse--of representations of September 11th during 2002 will also be discussed. Robert Atkins--a New York and California-based art historian, author and activist--is a former columnist for The Village Voice, the author of books including "ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contempory Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords" and "From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS," as well as the recipient of numerous awards for art criticism . A fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, he is arts editor of The Media Channel (www.mediachannel.org), editor in chief of Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum (www.artistswithaids.org/artery), an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the former editor-in-chief of the Arts Technology Entertainment Network. He is a founder of Visual AIDS, the group that originated Day Without Art and the Red Ribbon, the initiator of 911‹THE SEPTEMBER 11 PROJECT: Cultural Intervention in Civic Society (http://rhizome.org/911), and is currently at work on an anthology of his writing called "I Witness: Art Writing as Activism, Criticism and Reportage." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:04:48 +0100 From: Andrea Buddensieg <buddensieg@zkm.de> Subject: ZKM/Exhibition ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2002-11-11, press-mail 66 E x h i b i t i o n FUTURE CINEMA The Cinematic Imaginary after Film Curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel November 16, 2002 – March 30, 2003 Press Conference: Thursday, November 14, 2002, 11 a.m., ZKM-Medientheater Exhibition Opening: Friday, November 15, 2002, 7 p.m., ZKM-Foyer The conditions of cinematographic art have changed radically over the past years. On the verge of a material revolution new possibilities of camera and production techniques have emerged that also allow new modes of narration and image languages. FUTURE CINEMA is the first major international exhibition of current art practice in the domain of video, film, computer and web based installations that embody and anticipate new cinematic techniques and modes of expression. No commercial or industrial working teams à la Hollywood will be presented, but the individual efforts of artists who overcome or undermine the global standards of the cinema industry. The exhibition will premier numerous works, some specially commissioned for this exhibition, and a few actually produced at the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media. A strong curatorial emphasis will be on installations that diverge from the conventional on the wall mounted and projected screen format and which explore more immersive and technologically innovative environments such as multi-screen, panoramic, dome projection, shared multi-user, and on-line configurations. Another central focus will be on works that explore creative approaches to the design of interactive non-linear narrative content. The exhibition gives an overview of creative possibilities in these areas of cinematographic research – a laboratory where scientists and artists can meet and a window into the future. Further information on the exhibtion: http://www.zkm.de/futurecinema The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog in English by The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. - -- Dr. Andrea Buddensieg Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leitung Head of Public Relations ZKM /////// / |< ||| | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Lorenzstr. 19 D-76135 Karlsruhe Tel +49-(0)721-8100-1201 Fax +49-(0)721-8100-1139 Email buddensieg@zkm.de www.zkm.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:21:56 +0100 From: Maaike Gottschal <maaike@cascoprojects.org> Subject: AFTERNEEN press release AFTERNEEN Miltos Manetas November 16 - December 15, 2002 / opening: November 16, 2002 at 5 pm Computing is to NEEN what fantasy is to Surrealism and freedom to Communism. It creates the context but can also be postponed. (Miltos Manetas) In May 2000 Lexicon Branding (the company that developed the names Powerbook and Pentium, among others) was commissioned by artist Miltos Manetas to invent a term for a new art movement that is characterised by artistic experiments between the real and virtual worlds, between studio and screen. NEEN was the resulting term, a palindrome created by a computer programme after it was fed with words like 'screen' and 'new'. NEEN represents the mentality of an undefined generation of NEENsters; contemporary artists, software programmers, web designers and videogame animators. NEEN refers to Internet and computer art, software and hardware, architecture and design. NEEN is a category for the unmade, the undefined and functions as a third category: good, bad and NEEN, or: art, non-art and NEEN. In old-Greek NEEN is "exactly now, no second later". This is a nice coincidence as it reflects what Manetas's NEEN stands for. It is impossible to grasp NEEN, because after a second it is already gone. In this spirit, Manetas chose to entitle the first presentation and introduction of NEEN in Europe AFTERNEEN. For AFTERNEEN in Casco, Manetas invited about thirty internationally operating NEENsters to participate. The installation consists of the interactive NEENWORLD, designed by Manetas in collaboration with architect Andreas Angelidakis. This world can be visited online and is projected in the space of Casco. Avatars discuss the future based on manifestos by Manetas, like 'Websites is the art of our times', 'NEEN and Telic', or 'A Prisoner' (a manifesto against copyright). The audience will be invited to visit the world by NEENsters who are embodying the avatars. During the opening some NEENsters will also be walking around in real life and real space: dressed in their avatar-costume they will bring about a confusing doubling. As part of the AFTERNEEN-show Manetas selected ten websites, which will be projected onto a screen in Casco. They can also be visited online at Fout! Bladwijzer niet gedefinieerd.. Gnac, Mark Tranmer, Trinasim, Boy in Static, Sawako, Nobukazu Takermura and Aki Tsuyuko have composed special music for the show. Miltos Manetas (1962) lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. There will be a special press preview preceding the opening on Saturday November, 16 in the presence of participating NEENsters at 4 pm. AFTERNEEN is open Wednesdays -Sundays, 3-8 pm, Fridays until 10 pm. For further information, please contact Roos Gortzak at 030-2319995. C A S C O . P R O J E C T S . I S S U E S . S A L O N . P R E S E N T A T I O N S Contact: Maaike Gottschal (in the office on Thursday and Friday) home: m.gottschal@worldonline.nl for information, upcoming programme, documentation and shop go to: http://www.cascoprojects.org if you want to contact us: mailto:info@cascoprojects.org phone & fax: +31 30 2319995 office hours: tue-fri 10am-6pm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:38:16 +0100 From: liz <liz@no-log.org> Subject: [Fwd: ZONES D'ECHANGES - mardi 26 novembre 02 - ensba] - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ZONES D'ECHANGES - mardi 26 novembre 02 - ensba >>fwd! Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:15:29 +0100 From: onlineonsite <onlineonsite@ensba.fr> To: 0etudiants@ensba.fr ZONES D'ECHANGES - Forum Mardi 26 novembre 2002 / Tuesday november 26th 2002 - 14h / 2pm CID - Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts Palais des études, escalier de droite, premier étage intervenants/speakers : Shu Lea Cheang - GARLIC = RICH AIR - http://www.rich-air.com .. Redundant Technology Initiative - http://www.lowtech.org .. Multipoint, groupe de recherche international de l'Erban .. Patrick Bernier .. Valérie Bert .. Gérard Esmérian, Oumar N'Dyaye, Balasingam Visuvalinagam, les guerriers plasticiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest .. a2a.dyndns.org, peer-to-peer éphémère .. Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts / National superior school for fine arts 14 rue bonaparte - 75006 Paris - M° St.Germain des Prés - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://campus.ensba.fr/forum/zones.htm Cet espace de recherche est maintenu de façon collégiale par des artistes, étudiants, enseignants, activistes et acteurs culturels. Il est accueilli par le CID-Centre d'Information et de Documentation de l'Ensba. This space for research is set collegially by artists, students,teachers, activists and cultural actors. It is wellcomed by Ensba CID-Center for Information and Documentation Contacts : +/> onlineonsite @ensba.fr - http://campus.ensba.fr/forum & martine.markovits@ensba.fr - Tél : 01 47 03 50 45 - http://www.ensba.fr - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- a2a - Tutorial de connexion a2a est un peer-to-peer ou poste-à-poste, un système d'échange de fichiers en ligne entre personnes privées, ouvert à l'occasion de Zones d'échanges. Pour se connecter, il est nécessaire d'installer un logiciel client du logiciel serveur du peer-to-peer, DirectConnect pour Linux. - - Pour Linux : Télécharger et installer un client DirectConnect : http://dc.ketelhot.de/files/dcgui/stable/0.1/src Dans le menu 'Actions', cliquer sur 'HubList'. Entrer l'adresse a2a.dyndns.org dans le champ de connexion de la fenêtre 'Hublist', puis cliquer sur 'Connect'. La liste des ordinateurs connectés à a2a.dyndns.org s'affiche dans une nouvelle fenêtre. - - Pour Windows : Télécharger et installer un client DirectConnect : http://www.networkingfiles.com/FileShar/Directconnect.htm Cliquer sur 'Connect' et entrer l'adresse a2a.dyndns.org dans le champ de la fenêtre. La liste des ordinateurs connectés à a2a.dyndns.org s'affiche dans une nouvelle fenêtre. - - Pour Mac OSX : L'installation du client DirectConnect pour MacOSX requiert l'installation préalable du logiciel X-Darwin. Télécharger et installer X-Darwin : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xonx/XInstall_10.1.sit + Mise à jour : https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=118483 Télécharger un client DirectConnect : http://campus.ensba.fr/forum/downloads/mac/DC-osx/dcgui-osx.tar.gz + Conducteur des commandes d'installation : http://campus.ensba.fr/forum/downloads/mac/DC-osx/conducteur-dcgui-macosx.html - - Pour Mac OS9 : Télécharger et installe Virtual PC : http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5m.html Installer un système d'exploitation windows. Télécharger et installer un client DirectConnect pour Windows : http://www.networkingfiles.com/FileShar/Directconnect.htm Cliquer sur 'Connect' et entrer l'adresse a2a.dyndns.org dans le champ de la fenêtre. La liste des ordinateurs connectés à a2a.dyndns.org s'affiche dans une nouvelle fenêtre. D'autres clients DirectConect pourraient recquérir l'adresse entière de a2a : http://a2a.dyndns.org:411 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- a2a - Connection tutorial a2a is a peer-to-peer, a system for exchanging files between private persons, opened for 'Zones d'échanges'. Connecting to this peer-to-peer requires the installation of a software client of the server software, DirectConnect for Linux. - - For Linux : Download and install a DirectConnect client : http://dc.ketelhot.de/files/dcgui/stable/0.1/src In the menu 'Actions', click on 'Hublist'. Enter the address a2a.dyndns.org in the field for connexion, and click on 'Connect'. The list of the computers connected to a2a.dyndns.org appears in a new window. - - For Windows : Download and install a DirectConnect client : http://www.networkingfiles.com/FileShar/Directconnect.htm Click on 'Connect' and enter the address a2a.dyndns.org in the field of the window. The list of the computers connected to a2a.dyndns.org appears in a new window. - - For Mac OSX : The installation of this client for DirectConnect requires the installation of the software X-Darwin. Download and install X-Darwin : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xonx/XInstall_10.1.sit + X-Darwin update : https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=118483 Dowload a client for DirectConnect : http://campus.ensba.fr/forum/downloads/mac/DC-osx/dcgui-osx.tar.gz + Howto - step by step installation : http://campus.ensba.fr/forum/downloads/mac/DC-osx/conducteur-dcgui-macosx.html - - For Mac OS9 : Download and install Virtual PC : http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5m.html Install a Windows operating system. Download and install a DirectConnect client for Windows : http://www.networkingfiles.com/FileShar/Directconnect.htm Click on 'Connect' and enter the address a2a.dyndns.org in the field of the window. 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