Andreas Broeckmann on Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:52:08 +0100


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Syndicate: V2_East Newsletter 97/06


V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 97/05

- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates

- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription


* Introduction *

Dear Syndicalists,

this month almost twenty new members joined the network after a special
round of invitations. Some of you had sent me requests to invite a number
of people, and there were positive responses from Yugoslavia, Romania,
Latvia, Ukraine, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Carlo Giovanella wrote a
description of his activities in Rome, and I would like to encourage other
people to also introduce themselves to the other people in the
V2_East/Syndicate network. More than anything, this initiative is about
sharing information, building cooperation structures and realising projects
together. Knowing who else is involved in the network is therefore of vital
importance.

The next meeting place for us will be the Deep Europe workshop which the
V2_East/Syndicate is organising at the Hybrid Workspace in Kassel
(28.7.-6.8.). (http://www.documenta.de/workspace) We will use the occasion
for discussing Syndicate-related issues, for presenting work done by people
associated with the network to the dX public, and for producing some
'content' in the form of texts, interviews, radio, video- and audiotapes,
etc. The possibilities are endless, and below there is a list of keywords
that points to some of the issues we might be dealing with. I do hope that
we'll have a little Syndicate-potlach there in Kassel this summer with many
of you joining or at least dropping by. We can arrange official documenta
invitations if you need them to apply for travel, accommodation, etc.
money. About 15 people have already announced their participation and are
currently discussing plans and ideas for the workshop. If you want to join
in, please, get in touch with me <abroeck@v2.nl>.

The ars electronica in Linz/Austria (9.-13.9.) will be hosting the
Syndicate Net.Shop, an Internet-Art-workshop for young net artists. And
then we are planning the next bigger Syndicate meeting for the  Ostranenie
Forum in Dessau/Germany from 5.-9. November. The deadline for submissions
to the festival programme is today and the jury will be meeting in Dessau
in the course of July. What we will try to do is draw together a lot of the
questions that have been raised at earlier meetings in Rotterdam,
Liverpool, Ljubljana, Kassel and elsewhere, and discuss them in a
concentrated way during Ostranenie. It would be great if as many of you as
possible would come to Dessau in November, so please do start making your
travel plans early and get in touch with the team at
<emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de> for information, invitations, etc.

In this newsletter, beside the list of upcoming events, there are some
shorter infos and URLs from people who have just recently joined the
network. It would be nice to receive more of these glimpses from the
network nodes from time to time.

I hope to see you soon, maybe in Kassel, but certainly in Dessau?

Best wishes,

-a



* Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions *
(check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these
events)

- 2 July 1997: Net.Radio Exchange Project on OZOneRiga/Lv
- 5 July 1997: Parallel Space, London/UK
- 28 July - 6 August 1997: Deep Europe at dX, Kassel/D
- 8 - 10 August 1997: Hacking In Progress, HIP97, Almere/NL
- 6 - 12 September: Just Watch, Zurich/CH
- 8 -13 September 1997: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz/A
- 12 - 18 September 1997: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL
- 15 September - 15 October 1997: Messages/REflections, Chisinau/Md
- 22 - 27 September 1997: ISEA 97, Chicago/USA
- 26 September - 4 October 1997: l'immagine leggera, Palermo, It
- 3 - 23 October 1997: Hi-Tech/Art '97, Brno/CZ
- 4 - 11 October 1997: 3rd Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor/SI
- 5 October - 2 November 1997: Screens, Trondheim/NO
- 7 - 19 October 1997: Interstanding 2, Tallinn/EE
- 10 - 12 October 1997: ROOTless  '97, Hull/UK
- 16 - 26 October 1997: VIPER 97, Lucerne/CH
- 18 October 1997: opening ZKM, Karlsruhe/D
- 21 October 1997: SeaFair: Interactive Narration/Int. CD ROM exhibition,
Skopje/MK
- 24 October 1997: opening Multimediale 5, Karlsruhe/D
- 3 - 9 November 1997: LADA 97, Rimini/It + San Marino/Sm
- 5 - 9 November 1997: OSTranenie, Dessau/D
- 10 - 16 November 1997: Video and Electronic Art Festival, Riga/LV
- 4 -7 December 1997: Recycling the Future, Vienna/A
- 5 - 7 December 1997: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU
- September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D
- September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK



* NET.RADIO EXCHANGE PROJECT ON RADIO OZONE
<RADIO LINKS COMPILATION>

First <Radio Links compilation> ON-LINE - Wednesday 2nd of July
in riga net.radio OZOne:
<http://www.ozone.parks.lv>
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozone>
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
proposal:
exchange of audio content. It will be published in OZOne RaLinks page as:
# audio archive - programs (radio-plays, interviews, news, reportages, radio
experiments, etc.), music (experimental, ambient, techno, DJs, etc.), arts &
performances
# live broadcasting - links to live-broadcasting pages
...
call for participation:
*all netcasting and broadcasting radios as well as individuals are welcome
to submit their audio content till the 1st of July, 1997,  of any subject,
any length, any language.
...
*we will later send you the URL location of your sound file. That way you
will be able to link directly to the sound file from your page as well.
...
*goal: create net.radio.network for alternative net.broadcasters in
collaboration with different net.radios in europe. Radio Links project could
be the starting point for this collaboration project
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
practical info:
all audio formats are acceptable.
you can send:

*tapes, DAT, CD, mini disc, opticals and floppies (.wav, .ra files), etc.
...to the following address:
E-L@b / Rasa Smite
11.Novembra Krastmala 35-94
LV 1050, Riga
Latvia
*.ra files (if you choose to encode them yourself to real audio format -
download free r/a encoder: www.realaudio.com)
...to  e-mail: e-lab@parks.lv
*URL addresses of your audio file you would like to see in this project (if
you  have  r/a server)
...to e-mail: rasa@parks.lv or e-lab@parks.lv
*your gifs, radio logos are welcome

*we will return your tapes upon request

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
deadline for first radio compilation - 1 July
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
deadline for next compilation - 1 August
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

OZOne:
<http://www.ozone.parks.lv> (since 16 June),
<http://www.parks.lv/home/E-LAB/OZOne> (at the moment)
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozone>



* Parallel Space: The Geography of Virtual Worlds
A one day conference,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London/UK, 5th July 1997

Part of the ICA/ACE series:
"Towards the Aesthetics of the Future"


Walls are going up in cyberspace.  The use of architectural
models and the increasing privatisation of information are
creating boundaries within the communication space of the
internet.  But as in the "real" world,  artists and activists
are colonising the fluid terrain in between.  This one-day
conference brings together demonstrations of the latest
technologies for building virtual worlds with critical
perspectives and projects from artists, geographers and
cultural commentators. Parallel Space is an attempt to map
the real and virtual territories of the information age.

Speakers:  McKenzie Wark, Simon Bore, Doreen Massey, Constance Penley, Inke
Arns, Steve Benford, Iain Borden, Derek Richards and Janice Cheddie of
Displaced Data, Matthew Cornford and David Cross, Scott Lasch.

ICA
Box Office: 0171 930 3647
The Mall
London SW1
URL: http://www.illumin.co.uk/ica/

Parallel Space has been programmed by Lisa Haskel <lisa@lisa.demon.co.uk>
with Will Bell and ICA talks.


* Deep Europe @ Hybrid WorkSpace @ documenta X
A V2_East/Syndicate workshop in Kassel, Mon, 28.7. - Wed, 6.8.97

- keywords: building networks, forgetting pseudo-East/West, questioning
ideologies, shifting borders, critique of the 'Western gaze', culture in a
'New Europe', the disappearance of Europe in the new global economic
context, and in light of the local federalist/isolationnist efforts,
culture-and-money, culture-and-power, the analog networks as a new form of
"cult" activism, NGOs and PGOs, catching up (with technology, ideology,
economy etc) versus keeping one's own identity


* J U S T   W A T C H
Symposium, Workshop, Videoprogramm, Internetproject
Representational Politics in the Electronic Media
By (mainly) Women Media Producers From the Global South

Shedhalle Zurich, Switzerland
September 6th - 12th, 1997

The global aspect of new technologies is often praised as democratization
of communication. Technology critics wonder, however, whether cyberspace
does not simply reproduce patriarchal and colonial structures of the global
media networks. The project JUST WATCH addresses the question of access to
and alternative use of the electronic media to women from Africa, South
America and Asia as well as minorities and migrants in Europe who are
involved in media production (video, tv, internet).

We will have a close look at the representation of women from the Global
South in local and western tv-productions and discuss the current
priorities and strategies in cultural articulation and self-representation.
These questions will engage us in a discussion around identity politics in
the representation and definition of ethnicity and gender. A debate which
has been widely neglected in Europe eventhough media is known to play a
crucial role in shaping western imagination and attitudes towards cultural
values in other parts of the world. By the same token, these images have a
great impact on the public opinion in the European domestic relations to
migration, refugees and racism. The use of women as metaphors for nature,
submission, victimization, backwardness or exotification still dominates
media representation. Rather than simply producing counter narratives, we
are interested in ways to reclaim and reconstruct various on-going
geo-political histories and multiple identities.

* Symposium September 6th and 7th
Audio-visual presentations by women from independent media, community TV
and video units from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

*Video programm
A video programm on the above issues will be put together. Please send in
your video tapes for screening.

* Media Workshop September 8th - 12th
A one week workshop on media theory and practice for migrant and minority
women in Europe who want to focus on identity politics in western media and
formulate positions in self-representation. Detailed information available
in June.

*Internet Project
JUST WATCH will have it's own web site which provides information on the
symposium, video programm, workshop and minority media productions in
Europe. If you wish to participate, please send us information about your
activities and media programs.

*Media File
Special attention is given to media productions by transnationals, migrants
and ethnic minorities in Europe with an emphasis on women's productions.
JUST WATCH initiates a file providing sources and titles to enhance
communication between producers + contribute to a wider public access.

Ursula Biemann & Martine Anderfuhren
Shedhalle
PF 771
CH-8038 Zurich / Switzerland
tel 00411 481 59 50 fax 00411 481 59 51
uleshedhalle@access.ch
manderfu@worldcom.ch


* l'immagine leggera
Palermo International Videoart, Film and Media Festival
September 26 - October 4,  1997

The second edition of L'IMMAGINE LEGGERA - Palermo International
Videoart, Film and Media Festival will include an International Videoart
Competition which is open to works coming from every country, in any video
or computer animation technique.

The applicants to the Festival's Competition must submit their video
work for the selection (only VHS tapes for preview) before August 1, 1997
at the very latest. The postmark is considered to be the valid date of
mailing. In any case works reaching us after August 15, 1997 will be
authomatically refused. In order to better keep under control the shipping
times, we advise you to send an e-mail (00253aaa@mbox.infcom.it,
immagineleggera@usa.net) or a fax (+39-91-6111682) to the Festival
Direction right after the forwarding, to announce you've shipped the
videotapes.

L'IMMAGINE LEGGERA
Palermo International Videoart, Film and Media Festival
Casella Postale 136 (P. O. Box)
I-90100  Palermo / Italy
voice 	+39-(0)91-696.17.40, +39-(0)330-96.82.48
fax 	+39-(0)91-611.16.82
http://web.tin.it/iside/immagineleggera
e-mail:   00253aaa@mbox.infcom.it
e-mail:   immagineleggera@usa.net
(visiting address:
c/o Direzione Regionale Beni Culturali
via delle Croci 8  -  90141 Palermo  -  Italy)



* NEWS ABOUT
18. VideoArt Festival, Locarno

http://www.tinet.ch/videoart

Grand Prix de la Ville de Locarno

Entries must have been produced between 1996
and 1997 and either be presented for the first time in general or not yet
have been awarded a price at another international event. Only one work
per candidate shall be accepted.

Works are to be sent by mail to:

VideoArt Festival
via Varenna 45
P.O. Box 146
CH-6604 Locarno

Deadline for applications: 15 juillet 1997



* LADA 97 - L'ARTE DELL'ASCOLTO
7th International Festival of Radio and Media in the Electronic Space

MISURE (Measures)
Rimini (I) / San Marino (RSM), November 3 - 9, 1997

Call for Proposals for:
Lectures, performances, sound/light installations in public space
(including radio and internet), radio broadcasts, webcasts.
Project proposals must be sent to <lab@giardini.sm> with the subject:
*LADA97* [deadline: July 15, 1997].

The festival is focused on public spaces' interventions and is curated by
Giardini Pensili together with Amici della Musica Rimini, Comune di Rimini,
Repubblica di San Marino, RTV San Marino Broadcasting Corporation,
RAI Audiobox / Italian Broadcasting  Corporation, ORF Kunstradio / Austrian
Broadcasting Corporation.

The title MISURE comes from the concept of definition of a space through
various tools like distance, sound, time, geometry. What a border is? How
does it work? The measurement of a space defines naturally its borders and
deals with social infrastructures as well. What is a portable and nomadic
border? How can the border be organised in a positive way in terms of
reciprocal understanding based on difference?

City means public space and of course architecture, streets, sounds,
everybody's daily activites. It also means public and private transportation
and transit places. All kinds of interfaces between us and our environment.
The creation of projects in public spaces involves the necessity of dealing
not just with the art world public but with everybody.

In LADA emphasis is given to the praxis of the *permanent workshop*. This
means that through all the year a series of events and presentations create
a stream of activities where LADA can be regarded as a more visible point
and the first part of the festival, between November 3 and 5, is totally
dedicated to workshop activities. Radio Lada will be the on-line audio
connection to the project. For this year's project we also intend to
develop videoconference and wireless data transmission as art tools.

Kunstradio is planning a project in the framework of LADA97 as a part of
the preparation for *Recycling the Future* (Vienna, 4-7 Dec., 1997),
Kunstradio's 10th anniversary project.

Further information:

Giardini Pensili
voice/fax: + 39 541 759316
email: lab@giardini.sm
www.giardini.sm/LADA97



* OSTranenie 97
International electronic media forum, Bauhaus Dessau/D
5-9 November 1997

This year, for the first time, in addition to the "traditional"
presentation of video works, multi-media installations, performances and
discourse, we would like to present as many network based projects as
possible, especially those which focus on the cultural/political context of
(Eastern European) society in transition.

deadline: 30 June 1997

And please check out:
http://www.misa.uni-magdeburg.de/events/ostranenie97/ost_home.htm

Studio Electronic Media Interpretation
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Gropiusallee 38
D-06846  Dessau
Germany
tel.: 49.340/ 6508.313
fax: 49.340/ 6508.326
<emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de>
Stephen Kovats:  <100662.2476@compuserve.com>
Adele Eisenstein:  <adele@caesar.elte.hu>



* FRENCH-BALTIC-NORDIC VIDEO & ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL
10. - 16. November 1997. Riga, Latvia

The organizers of the French-Baltic-Nordic New Media Art festival is the
Multimedia Center of the Latvian Academy of Culture (MMC), French Embassy in
Latvia and The Information Bureau of Nordic States.

The competition is open to works in any video or computer animation
technique emphasizing the equality of image and sound in creating an
artistic unity.

*The deadline for French-Baltic-Nordic Video & Electronic Art Festival entry
*forms is prolonged till the 1-st of August 1997.

Valdis Poikans
Director of Festival.
<valdis.mmc@parks.lv>




* Updates *

* Vladislava <vlslv@unsff.ns.ac.yu> from Novi Sad writes:
Currently, i am working on a special issue of the electronic journal
ELECTRONIC BOOK REVIEW (http://www.altx.com/ebr), dedicated to the
postmodern writing in eastern europe, so if you know somebody (writers, net
artists, multimedia artists) who'd like to contribute, just spread the info!

* Michiel van der Haagen from Warsaw writes:
Marta just finished the second workshop for artists which ended
in a show of the projects. To our pleasant suprise they where
very nice:  http://csw.art.pl/warsztat02/

* Katarina Zivanovic <katarina@opennet.org> and Sinisa Rogic
<shile@opennet.org> from Belgrade: http://www.rex.opennet.org

* Dan Matei, director of the CIMEC - Information Center for Culture and
Heritage in Bucharest/Romania		<dan@cimec.sfos.ro>:
http://cimec.sfos.ro/

* Nikos Vittis <kloni@compulink.gr> writes from Greece:
Well I am basically a musician, but I know a lot of programming. I have
worked in a couple of multimedia projects, and I have made  a few proposals
myself about new multimedia projects.  (By the way you can check two short
animations "the egg" and "Martha" at http://broad.way.com/art/Lydia.html
which i did the music for).
In Greece, there are things happening in terms of commercial work. Some of
these are nice but only a few can be seen from an artistic point of view.
Everybody here is so "burried" under his work. You see everything takes
more effort to be done than it is actually needed for. It is the way that
things are.

* Gintaras Seputis <Gintaras.Seputis@vda.lt> from Vilnius in Lithuania writes:
I would like to introduce you Raimundas Malasauskas, art critic and
curator, temporary working in Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, who will
replace me and will keep going SYNDICATE contacts in future.
Born 1973 in Vilnius, 1995 Bachelor degree of Vilnius Academy of Arts (The
Departament of History and Theory of Art), 1995 curated (in cooperation
with Sandra Skurvidaite) Soros contemporary art center annual exhibition
"For Beauty", 1996 - 1997 participated in the third Curatorial training
programme at, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam. Since 1994 he collaborates in
cultural weekly "Siaures Atenai" presenting articles and essays on
contemporary art and culture.

* Carlo Giovanella of MIFAV (Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti
Visuali) in Rome: http://wwwas.roma2.infn.it



* General Info *

V2_East is an initiative of V2_Organisation Rotterdam, which is aimed at
creating a network of people and institutions who are involved with or
interested in media art in Eastern Europe and which wants to create an
infrastructure that facilitates cooperations between partners in East and
West. With its 'Syndicate' mailing list, website <http://www.v2.nl/east>
and regular meetings, V2_East is becoming an important tool for fostering
ties within the media art community in Europe which makes it increasingly
obsolete to think in term of 'East' and 'West', and which will eventually
make the V2_East initiative itself redundant.

The V2_East/Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an
institution. <syndicate@AEC.at> is the address of a mailing list which is
dedicated to an exchange of information and ideas relating to the situation
and future development of electronic and media art in Eastern Europe. A
Syndicate-mail archive for messages that are coming in over the list (since
April 97) can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/
The list members include more than 150 artists, curators, networkers,
writers, festival organisers, etc., from East as well as West European
countries and beyond, who, through the 'Syndicate', are trying to improve
the communication and cooperation between artists and organisations in East
and West. The list was first installed following the initial meeting of the
V2_East initiative at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam on January 21, 1996, at
the end of the second Next 5 Minutes conference. During the DEAF96 festival
in September, we held a V2_East Meeting in which around 30 people from 12
different countries participated. In April 97 the LEAF97 meeting in
Liverpool brought together more than 30 people from across Europe.


* Subscription *

To subscribe to the syndicate list, please, send a message to
<syndicate-request@aec.at> with the following text in the body of the
message: 'subscribe [email-address]'
For more information about the Syndicate, please, contact <abroeck@v2.nl>
(Andreas Broeckmann).


*Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition
of this newsletter (deadline: 30 July 97) to: abroeck@v2.nl.


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