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[Nettime-nl] WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG @ De Balie - Donderdag 23 Maart |
A A N K O N D I G I N G / A N N O U N C E M E N T (english press-info below) WORLD-INORMATION.ORG - Building the New Information Order De Balie - Donderdag 23 Maart - Salon 20.00 uur Op Donderdag 23 Maart vindt de officiële presentatie plaats van het project World-information.Org, bij De Balie in Amsterdam. World-Information.Org is het kernproject van het nieuwe media programma van Brussel 2000. Het project zal van 30 juni tot 30 juli 2000 onderdak bieden aan een serie tentoonstellingen, internationale conferenties en bijeenkomsten. World-Information.Org, een culturele informatie provider, is een coproductie van Public Netbase - Instituut voor nieuwe Cultuurtechnologie (Wenen) en Brussel 2000. Het treedt op als een transnationale multipartnerorganisatie voor de wetenschappelijke en artistieke verkenning van informatie- en communicatietechnologie. Als samenwerkingsverband van organisaties en individuen die streven naar een grotere publieke betrokkenheid bij informatie- en communicatietechnologie, volgt World-Information.Org van dichtbij de ontwikkelingen in de wereld van de onzichtbare informatienetwerken en brengt het terrein voortdurend in kaart. World-Information.Org kiest voor culturele vrijheid en voor de democratisering van informatie- en communicatietechnologie. Het verdedigen van digitale mensenrechten en de "milieubescherming" binnen de info-sfeer zijn cruciaal voor de opdracht van World-Information.Org. World-Information.Org wordt georganiseerd onder het beschermheerschap van de UNESCO en in samenwerking met partners als De Balie en de European Cultural Backbone verbindt het de activiteiten van culturele werkers, kunstenaars, technici, onderzoekers, experts en wetenschappers. Mmv Konrad Becker (Public Netbase), Dirk de Wit (Brussel 2000), Marleen Stikker (E.C.B. / Waag), Geert Lovink (Reclaim the Net), Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie). Meer informatie over het project World-Information.Org is te vinden op de web site: http://world-information.org Dit programma wordt tevens live via het Internet uitgezonden in samenwerking met De Digitale Stad (DDS). Zie: http://www.balie.nl/live --------------------------------- KAARTVERKOOP EN TELEFONISCH RESERVEREN --------------------------------- Toegangsprijs: Ÿ 12,50 (Ÿ10,00 CJP/CKV/PAS 65/Stadspas/Collegekaart). Reserveren: 020 - 55 35 100. Ma t/m do van 14.00 - 20.00 uur, vr van 14.00 - 21.30 uur en za van 17.00 - 21.30 uur. Openingstijden kassa: ma t/m do van 17.00 - 20.30 uur, vr en za van 17.00 - 22.00 uur. De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam http://www.balie.nl ----------------- Engelstalig persbericht: ----------------- Brussels / Vienna, December 15th, 1999 PRESS INFORMATION WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG >> Public Information >> Future Heritage >> Global Communication >> Information Systems Media Relations & Further Information WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG - Public Information Agency info-office@world-information.org Martin Lengauer >> ++43 (0)1 522 18 34 Florian Sedmak >> ++43 (0)1 522 18 34 > Press information, Power Point Presentation, Visuals and Audio Jingles >are available at http://world-information.org WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG http://world-information.org WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG@Brussels2000 The Centre Brussels 2000, formerly known as the Vanderborght Building, will provide the venue for WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG's first public presentation in Europe, to be followed by a WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG showcase in Vienna. From June 30th to July 30th 2000 WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG will link up with the New Media Projects of co-producer Brussels 2000 and adapt two floors of the Centre Brussels 2000 as temporary headquarters. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG will host three major exhibitions - the World-Infostructure Exhibition, the World-C4U Exhibition and the Future Heritage Expo - as well as numerous conferences, meetings and symposia. The World-Infostructure Exhibition focuses on the human dimension of ICT in a dynamic world of technology. The exhibition offers visualizations of the infosphere and provides an understanding of global electronic information processing and communication. The World-Infostructure Exhibition will answer questions such as "What is the internet?" "How does it work?" "Who owns it?" Besides identifying the key players of media economy worldwide, the exhibtion will facilitate discussion on the delicate balance of security and privacy and highlight the financial and technical interests in global communication. The World-C4U-Exhibition (Command Control Computer Communication Unit) creates a technical set-up to demonstrate scientific, commercial and artistic applications regarding security, control and identification. Walking through the exhibition, the visitors of WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG will have hands-on experience of state-of-the-art control technologies and security systems, including iris scan, fingerprint recognition, robotics, closed circuit TV, electronic tracing and tracking, and satellite and space technology. The Future Heritage Expo aims to create an understanding of the emergence of the future cultural memory of the information society. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG presents new art forms and modes of cultural communication. Leading international artists such as Ingo Günther (GER/USA), Marko Peljhan (SLO). Critical Art Ensemble (USA), Mongrel (UK) or RTMark (USA) have been invited to present their works and provide insight into digital artistic practice. Projects, applications, interfaces, and site-specific multimedia installations will demonstrate the empowering potential of electronic audio-visual productions. At the Centre Brussels 2000 and in the Brussels opera-house, WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG will invite renowned artists, media experts, intelligence agents, cultural workers, scientists and politicians to discuss issues of future culture in the frame of meetings, public presentations, conferences and workshops, some of which are open to the public. Among many others, Cees J. Hamelink (NL, University of Amsterdam, author of various UNESCO reports on communication), Steve Wright (UK, Control Technologies Omega Foundation), Simon Davies (UK, privacy.org, and Edward S. Herman (USA, University of Pennsylvania, author of "The Global Media" will take part in international gatherings such as the World-InfoCon. A New Model for Cultural Maps of the Infosphere "An ill-informed person is a subject, a well-informed person is a citizen". In the framework of the digital revolution, this traditional saying raises one of the most important questions for the future of European democracies: Who will provide citizens with adequate information indispensable for well-founded democratic judgments? A democratic society depends on an informed public taking political choices. The rapid development of information and communication technologies has been affecting societies, arts, culture, work and politics. Nevertheless, the public at large is not yet fully aware of the changes brought by today's information and communication technologies. "The future is too important to leave it to experts" WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG faces the growing challenges of Information Society and serves to meet the needs of European citizens for reliable and high quality information on the emerging digital environment. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG enters the field of communication and recognises it as the motor and expression of social activity. As long as citizens are not familiar with the complexities of Information Society, the potential benefits of information and communication technologies will not be put to the advantage of a majority of humankind. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG tries to avoid the break up of society in a small circle of well informed and a majority of under-informed people. Infosphere environment: save the digital e~cology! If the underlying principle of information and communication technologies is commercialisation, all the productions of art, science and culture mediated by these technologies will be affected. In the world of today cultural freedom and diversity are endangered by growing concentration of ownership in the global media market. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG bundles its efforts to help protecting the digital environment from homogenisation of content. Research into the techniques of communicating ideas and digitally augmented social interaction has to be a common good and dedicated to the benefit of public interests. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG contributes to the richness and diversity of information culture against mere market interests. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG supports a vision of life that guarantees an active pursuit of cultural freedom. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG - http://world-information.org What is WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG? WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG is a provider pf cultural information. It explores new technologies, future communication environments and their implications. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG offers and distributes high-quality information focusing on the new information and communication technologies (ICT), their opportunities and impacts. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG - The objectives WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG establishes a network of researchers, technicians, artists and cultural workers. Their contributions will be compounded into a high-quality info-database, whose open accessibility invites to worldwide use and distribution. The efforts of the WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG network are dedicated to the following goals: - Democratising the access to information and communication technologies (ICT) - Building up new information environments in order to meet the needs of civil society - Exploring control and surveillance technologies and their implications on civil rights - Researching into the structure of global media economy - Creating Meta-Information: informing about information, mapping the world-wide "INFOSPHERE", identifying the interests of information producers and distributors - Exploring the emergence of public opinion - Presenting new art forms and modes of communication - Supporting the artistic examination of ICT as a contribution to future cultural heritage - Extending the continental and global net-working of NGOs that endeavour a broader competence in electronic media To provide a unique, publicly accessible knowledge base and an independent platform for future artistic heritage WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG runs four agencies with multiple divisions and organization units: the PUBLIC INFORMATION Agency, the FUTURE HERITAGE Agency, the GLOBAL COMMUNICATION Agency and the INFORMATION SYSTEMS Agency. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG has been initiated by the Institute for New Culture Technologies / Public Netbase t0 Media~Space in Vienna, Austria. WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG is a co-production with BRUSSELS 2000, European City of Culture for the Year 2000, under the patronage of UNESCO. Contact and Information: WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG Public Information Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1 A-1070 VIENNA AUSTRIA Phone: ++43 - (0)1 - 522 18 34 Fax: ++43 - (0)1 - 522 50 58 http://world-information.org e-mail: info-office@world-information.org ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl).