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______ASU2______ a rt/alt/act s ervers/streamers/spaces u n l i m i t e d 2 ____________________________________________________ meeting/festival with hands-on workshops, demos, training,presentations, discussions, public performaces, webcasts... of non-profit cultural organisations/projects/initiatives ____________________________________________________ time : September, 08th - 15th 2001. location : KUC "Lamparna" Rudarska 1. 52220 Labin CROATIA organisers : LABinary (HR) www.LABinary.org Joanne Richardson & Nina Czegledy co-organisers : Ljudmila (SI) www.ljudmila.org pro.ba (BA) www.pro.ba Multimedia Institute mi2 (HR) mama.mi2.hr partners : Croatian & Slovenian Linux User Groups CARNet - Croatian Academic & Research Network contact : Zeljko Blace - zblace@alu.hr & Joanne Richardson - subsol2001@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________ The first ASU, Art Servers Unlimited, was organized by Manu Luksch & Armin Medosch on the summer weekend of 1998, in London's New MediaCentre, Backspace and ICA, as a forum in which over 50 participants from European countries gathered to analyze models, compare histories and agendas, and exchange experience of what were loosely named "art servers". ASU was a bottom-up set of initiatives to support the blend of creative/experimental/artistic/ critical use of the net which included providing internet access, bursaries, workspace, meeting, presentation. http://asu.sil.at/ ASU2 is a meeting, workshop and festival bringing together pioneers of autonomous art servers, independent media, and emergent media spaces/labs. It is a collaborative union of what were initially conceived as two independent projects, Art Servers Unlimited and Art Spaces Unlimited. In the context of the recent trend towards unconditional commercialization of Croatian net space, LABinary decided to initiate a second Art Servers Unlimited gathering in order to disseminate alternative ideas of cyber production and distribution locally. A number of projects (web portals, net.radio, independent media, …) whose work is crucial to the development of internet specific structures, hybrid-hyper-media and network distributed productions have been invited to present and discuss their work. The second Art Servers Unlimited is planned as a meeting of projects from the most active fields of independent non-profit web production: .art - net.art, .alt - alternative technologies & .act - activist media. Art Spaces Unlimited was originally planned as a separate event by Joanne Richardson and Nina Czegledy, as a workshop of new autonomous spaces for developing future networks: collaborations on organizing joint events, group applications for funding and sharing of resources, and establishing information lists and sites. Many independent art spaces in East-Central Europe, including technologically sophisticated media labs, still rely on the monopoly of commercial net space and technologies for disseminating material and facilitating networks. The idea to combine Art Servers Unlimited and Art Spaces Unlimited into a single event prang from the current need to extend the activities of self-organized art spaces toward developing their own servers and web production, and, simultaneously, from the desire to provide existing art servers with links to local initiatives that could provide content as well as the possibility to collaborate by hosting events. The first Art Servers Unlimited was a meeting of a technologically sophisticated but closed culture of art servers. ASU2 is extended to those who are not already "experts" in order to expand the field beyond its present boundaries. The goal is begin building a comprehensive infrastructure necessary for an autonomous culture to possesses its own spaces, networks, and technologies—and to control its own destiny. The immediate and long-term objectives of ASU2 are: -to present institutions, projects, and initiatives that creatively use new technologies for media production, content distribution, and archiving -to discuss and reflect on different models and strategies for developing cultural production, independently of state institutions and commercial interests -to offer training in cultural management, organization, and funding for newly established NGO's, and to extend the technical capabilities of media centers through workshops on web servers, streaming technologies, media production and distribution, content managment systems, and community based publishing - to establish a permanent exchange of practical skills, knowledge, and experiences in a wider European context by initiating a new listserv for organising annual meetings that can connect local initiatives with already existing networks from other regions of Europe (ECB, NICE, Interfund...) - to establish a network of non-commercial content providers in the fields of art, alternative technology and autonomus media that would produce and distribute content and share resources and knowledge www.labinary.org & browse.mi.cz/asu Program and list of participants to follow ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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