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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 98/03-04 - Introduction - Dates of upcoming events - Updates - General info about the Syndicate list - Subscription * Introduction * Dear friends, I don't know how many of you noticed, but I skipped the March-newsletter and make this one a March/April issue, just for archival consistency. Going through last months postings on the list, selecting the info and editing it always takes an evening, and last month that evening didn't happen. Some of us are still scratching our heads about the recent conference in Stockholm. Those of you who read Tapio's report and the Partnership for Culture Plan (TM) will have got an idea about the atmosphere there. The composition and the performance of the Plan (TM) came close to the euphoric days of the Visa Department performance in Kassel last year, and Lisa has remarked that the two actions are actually related on several levels. (I don't see the Syndicate becoming a performance group, but it seems that, when assembled in larger groups, we can develop interesting and challenging performative statements.) Never before have we, as far as I can recall, felt so much like a real syndicate or, as our cousins from the Mediterranean said, like a Family. It had a lot to do with the pressure that was exerted on the group by the conference project leader from the Swedish foreign ministry, but I was later thinking that it could also have something to do with the site, Faergfabriken, which a couple of years ago created the Interpol incident. Maybe it's the Swedish insistence to be nice and to avoid conflicts that provokes? Looks like we won't have *that* problem when we go to Tirana in four weeks from now. There is a group of over ten people from the network who have booked tickets to the Albanian capital to participate in the PiraMedia event in which we will showcase media art for the local audience. Tirana and neighbouring cities will, at the end of May, certainly also become the venue of one very memorable Syndicate meeting. How much more 'Deer European' can you get? If there is anybody of you who want to join the illustrious group, just get in touch. Flights and visa seem to be easy to get for most of us. There is a growing number of more or less Syndicate-related projects happening this summer which in some way prove that the network is working. The Virtual Revolutions workshop series will get a large group of artists to meet and work together in Sofia, Rotterdam, Tornio and Manchester, Crossing Over 3 seems to be happening in Novi Sad, and a big international group will meet on the second Polar Circuit. Quite a few of us have been taken aback by the cost of the attendance fee for the ISEA98 conference in Liverpool and Manchester in September. This international forum for electronic art would be a great place to bring a larger group together, but at GBP 315 per head that is pretty unrealistic. There seems to be some pusing and shoving going on behind the scenes, and it is possible that there will be partial grants available for some people in a few weeks. But I wouldn't hold my breath. More realistic is the Syndicate meeting that has been all but formally announced for 2-4 October in Skopje, in the context of the SEAFair exhibition (the call for the exhibition is included below). As we could see again in Stockholm, such meetings are of great importance for the network, and you should try and make an effort to participate in them in order to meet your fellow syndicalists from time to time. Otherwise this is just another mailing list and not a network of people who share an interest in media culture and media art, and who are seeking cooperation and exchange in this field, mainly within Europe. The most impressive moment of the conference in Stockholm was probably when the participants from Belarus expressed the urgency of their situation. The political situation there is dire, with a growing level of pressure in the cultural field and censorship in the press, and people are in desperate need of support, not least in the form of texts, ideas, information and contacts. If you have contacts or friends there, get them connected! Stay in touch, and I hope to see you soon - 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) - 4 - 10 May 1998: BREAK 21, Ljubljana/SI - 6 - 10 May 1998: EMAF - European Media Art Festival 1998, Osnabrueck/D - 10 - 15 May 1998: Gioconda's Smile, Chisinau/MD - 13 - 17 May 1998: 9th Impakt Festival, Utrecht/NL - 19 - 24 May 1998: VIPER, Lucerne/CH - 28 - 31 May 1998: PiraMedia, Tirana/AL - 29 May - 14 June 1998: Avatar, Amsterdam/NL - 18 - 20 June 1998: SONAR 98, Barcelona/ES - 23 - 24 June 1998: Sub Rosa III, Plasy/CZ - 26 - 28 June 1998: festival limbo, Plasy/CZ - 26 - 28 June 1998: 3rd International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, Budapest/HU - June - July 1998: Polar Circuit 2, Tornio/Lapland/FI - September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D - 2 - 7 September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK - 3 - 6 September 1998: Subfiction - 3. Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz/D - 4 - 13 September 1998: pictures of (e)motion, Bonn/D - 7 - 12 September 1998: ars electronica, Linz/AT - 18 - 23 September 1998: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL - 2 - 9 October 1998: SEAFair - COMMUNING, Skopje/MK - 2 - 10 October 1998: L'Immagine Leggera, Palermo/IT - 8 - 18 October 1998: MuuMediaFestival, Helsinki/Fi - 9 - 11 October 1998: ROOT, Hull/UK - 15 - 25 October 1998: Nouveau Cinema/Nouveaux Medias, Montreal/CA - 16 - 25 October 1998: Pandaemonium, London/UK - 17 - 22 November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL * EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 6-10 May 1998, Osnabrueck/D http://www.emaf.de Between 6th & 10th May, the 11th European Media Art Festival (EMAF) will again be presenting innovative works from the world of film, video, installation, performance, CD-Rom and the Internet. This year we have received a total of 845 entries from 33 different countries for the various sections of the festival. Next to Germany, both the USA and Canada, as well as Great Britain and the Netherlands are traditionally well represented. In addition, and among entries from other countries, productions from Brazil, France and Russia will be seen, all representing a broad spectrum of creative ideas and visual aesthetics. Retrospective Over the course of the last 25 years, Pat O'Neill (USA) has made a name for himself in Hollywood as a leading specialist for visual effects and animation techniques (POLTERGEIST, RETURN OF THE JEDI etc.). However, he sees his own artistic focus moreso in the development of a personal visual language, the expressive power of which is created through the composition and layering of the broadest variety of image planes. In Osnabrueck, O'Neill will be presenting a complete show of his artistic works. Electronic Lounge New CD-Roms, Internet projects and technologically advanced productions are to be presented in this section of the festival. With THE LAST COWBOY from Nomad Productions (Potsdam), the CD-Roms KYBERKUR, LOKI and KRYPTIC, VIBRATORS OF THE HOUSE OF BRODSKY (Suzanne Treister). David Blair (USA), one of the pioneers of the interactive media will be presenting his new project THE TELEPATIC MOTION PICTURE OF THE LAST TRIBES, which tells the bizarre story of the Manchu Edison Film Studios in Shinkyo (China), which planned the production of telepathic cinema films. 2B OR NOT 3D is the title of a new time+motion Production (Berlin) for the cultural television channel arte. On a trip through chosen virtual worlds, the innovative 3D visualisation technique INVISIBLE SHAPE from art+com (Berlin) is brought into action. InterNetworks Faces: grrl power In an open workshop, Kathy Rae Huffmann (Vienna), Diana McCarty (Budapest), Sabine Seymore (NY), Margarete Jahrmann (Vienna) and Vali Djordjevic (Berlin) will be offering guided technical information, organising Web tours, initiating Chats and providing information about a wide variety of female Web environments, including: the fe.mail.data-set; a server theory in the form of a SUperFEMper4MANce from Margarete Jahrmann (A), to take place at the festival as a live event. Special: Sweden In a country-specific special, filmmaker and curator Claes Soderquist will be presenting experimental Swedish films from between 1950 and 1990. Recent film and video works will be presented by Monica Nickels, professor for video at the Stockholm Art Academy. Performances Floating Memories - Keiko Ichii The Dante Organ - Hot Hardware - Erik Hobijn (NL) Cut to the chase - multimedia performance - knob-twiddler and composer Steve Gibson (CDN) Lectures Net-Culture Moderation: the curator and telepolis editor Armin Medosch (Munich/London). Participants: the artist Cornelia Sollfrank (Hamburg), sociologist Frank Hartmann (Vienna), and the Networkers Rena Tangens and padeluun (Bielefeld). Media Bodies The role of the body in a world defined by the media is the subject of lectures by Gerhard Johann Lischka (CH) and Hartmut Winkler (D) respectively titled Everybody is a Mediator and Pain, Perception, Experience, Peasure. Here they examine developments in a society increasingly governed by the media in an art historical and media critical manner. With the presentation of their project 3 ROUBLES AND 62 KOPEKS, Tanya Moguilevska (RUS) and Gilles Morel (F) will provide us with information on and an insight into the development of the art and media scene in Russia, the Ukraine and Moldavia. International Student Forum - THRUST, TECHNOLOGY, TARTS Festival TV With his programme LOOP UND LITANEI, Egon Bunne - video artist and professor at the media academy in Cologne - and his team will be reporting daily from the European Media Art Festival. His 'paticipatory' TV event will provide up to the minute insights into the happenings at the festival. Exhibition From 6th - 24th May at the art gallery in the Dominican church, kinetic art objects, interactive installations, and works of art employing light, video and computers can be experienced inviting observation, touch and consciousness. Simon Penny (AUS) - THE FUGITIVE Peter Bogers (NL) - RITUAL 1&2 Anne Quirynen, Peter Misotten and An Marie Lambrechts (B) - EVERYTHING WILL BE ALLRIGHT Peter Svedberg - PILLAR and GLASS OBJECT In addition to the installations mentioned here, Thomas Bartels (D), Dalibor Martinis (CRO), Candela2 (D) and Nigel Johnson (GB) will be presenting their most recent works. More information and updates in our programm, which will be published by April 20th or on our website. European Media Art Festival Postfach 1861 Lohstrasse 45A D-49008 Osnabrueck Tel: +49/(0)541-21658 /25779 Fax: +49/(0)541-28327 Internet:http://www.emaf.de e-mail:emaf@bionic.zerberus.de * AVATAR Of postmodern times and multiple identities Oude Kerk, Amsterdam 29 May - 14 June 1998 opening 28 May Participating artists Hamish Buchanan (CDN), Jake & Dinos Chapman (GB), Susan Collins (GB), Luc Courchesne (CDN), Yael Davids (NL), Ken Feingold (USA), Lynn Hershman (USA), Merel Mirage (NL), Tony Oursler (USA), Ine Poppe/Jetty Verhoeff (NL), David Rasmus (CDN), Cindy Sherman (USA), Debra Solomon (NL), Vibeke Tandberg (N), Bea de Visser (NL) Info Axis Oudezijdsvoorburgwal 72 1012 GE Amsterdam T +31 (0)20 4655530 F - 4654290 E axisvm@xs4all.nl * f e s t i v a l l i m b o o f unconventional art 26 - 28 June 1998 Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic With LIMBO we hope to evoke those "folk" summer celebrations of the recent and distant past, if only because of late they have appeared so rarely. The festival program will be diverse and out-of-the-ordinary, both "light" and "challenging": concerts of experimental, festive, and unexpected music; circus acts; inventive amateur theater & contemporary performance; video projections and outdoor movies . . . . All in all, we hope that LIMBO will hark back to (and towards) those old and new traditions and forms of art that sweep boredom and mediocrity aside. All events, performances, acts will be held on the grounds of the Plasy Monastery ... a whole range of spaces is available - outdoor & indoor, gorgeous & rotting, huge & intimate. Have a look at photos on the web site ("The Space" page under Center for Metamedia ... beware - the site sometimes downloads slowly). All participants will be housed at the monastery. Food & per diem will also be thrown into the deal. If a modest honorarium is really needed on top of all the fun you'll have participating, we can talk . . . international travel costs will have to covered from other sources - we can help with applications. The Sub Rosa III meeting is connected with the "Limbo Festival". The meeting's program will be held from June 23-24. Thursday will be a "open day" and the music and performance festival will run June 26 - 28. All will be invited with accommodations, etc. June 22-28. W h e r e letters/questions can come by email to - hermit@pvtnet.cz - or fax - 00 420-182 2909 other materials by post - Center for Metamedia, P.O. Box 25, 331 01 Plasy, Czech Repubic questions can also be directed to - 00 420-182 2909 or 00 420-2 827 8815 We will be looking for your responses each and every day! Milos Vojtechovsky, Jo Williams, Karel Sidorjak, Martina Tomaskova - Center for Metamedia Nadace Hermit / Spolecnost pratel umeni Plasy / Centrum pro Metamedia Hermit Foundation / Society of Friends of Art-Plasy / Center for Metamedia Klaster, PO Box 25, 331 01 Plasy, Czech Republic tel./fax +420-182 2909 http://www.hermit.cz * POLAR CIRCUIT 2 Rovaniemi, Tornio, Haparanda June/July 1998 (application deadline was April 21st) Polar Circuit media art workshop was organised for the first time in 1997, at the College of Art and Media in Tornio, South-West part of Finnish Lapland. 52 artists, writers and students gathered there to work on projects, discuss and enjoy the 24 hour access to sunlight and media labs. The response from those who visited was very positive. I am glad to release this call for Polar Circuit 2. This year´s event starts in June in Rovaniemi, even closer to the Arctic Circle. Two workshops are hosted by New media research lab at the University of Lapland. The workshops are given by Steve Bradley and Darij Kreuh. Between and during the workshops the lab is offered for the use of Polar participants as a "free space". The environment is a new Silicon Graphics lab, where Olli Mannerkoski and Lassi Immonen will assist in technical issues. All together 15 participants will be accepted to this starting phase of Polar Circuit 2. (see the program for more details). The second part of Polar Circuit 2 takes place in Tornio and Haparanda. This session is hosted by the College of Art and Media in Tornio and the Swedish-Finnish vocational institute in Haparanda, Sweden. (It is just a 10 minute walk across the border). This is the main event of the Polar Circuit, bringing together 70 artists, writers and students from approximately 15 different countries. pc2@tornio includes, like last year, the free space where each artist or student may work on their own projects either together or individually. The workshop program is splendid: many artists have volunteered to exchange their ideas with a group of likely motivated guests. There are worksohps given by Adrianne Wortzel, Ken Gregory, Owen Kelly, Steven Bradley, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, and others. Topics range from Sound art to on-line drama, real audio to using Director on the Internet. One thing is common with all workshops: bringing together a brainstorm to create new ideas. Tapio Makela <tapio@projekt.net> for more information please approach Olli Mannerkoski <omannerk@levi.urova.fi> * pictures of (e)motion international festival for dance, film and new media 4 - 13 September 1998 Bonn, Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland info: Madeline Ritter Tanz Performance Koeln Melchiorstr.3 D-50670 Koeln tel. +49-221-722133 fax. +49-221-7392030 e-mail: <tpkoeln@aol.com> * Skopje Electronic Arts Fair '98 COMMUNING V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD-ROM Art Exhibition Venue: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art October 02 - 09, 1998 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia An international call for V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD ROM Art projects. The exhibition Communing addresses the theme of the visions of the artists including the processes of Imagining, Meditation, Dreaming, Reflection and Visualization, during the process of art creation. The exhibition will feature the result of the Communing i.e. the digital language of different international artists that express themselves in V.R., the WWW, Net -Linked Installations, and CD-ROM. The exhibition is conceived as an encounter of artists, technologies and visionaries. Communing is especially interested in original innovative projects. The exhibition welcomes all projects using information technology and different multi-media applications, hypertext, vrml. Deadline for submission: July 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 1998 The web site of CefCA [Center for Computer Arts] which acts within the frameworks of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje [http://www.scca.org.mk] will be updated frequently and will contain full information on these events. Also see SEFair '97 on: http://www.soros.org.mk/scca/seafair Submit proposals for the event to: Melentie Pandilovski, Curator of SEAFair '98 Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia Orce Nikolov 109, 91000 Skopje mpandil@soros.org.mk scca@soros.org.mk http://www.scca.org.mk tel/fax: 389.91.133.541 * Updates * * Oleg Kireev <radek@glasnet.ru> writes from Moscow: short info about our radical theory magazine magazine, Radek, is at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1457 * egon march institute:<paparapapa> writes: we are glad to announce you that emi had finaly opened a home page http://www.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/emi (mirror: http://www.radiostudent.si/~march ), where, at this very moment, at least the basic information is served about the institute, to announce the latest event, paparapapa, which is synchronised web-cast performance going on in kapelica gallery since april 20 till 24. you can observe the cu-see-me communication bridge ljubljana-frankfurt-paris on reflector kapelica 194.249.168.2 and/or live video-audio webcast at http://www.kapelica.org/live (when announced). welcome, in any media, we prefer flash (flesh?) marko kosnik *French magazine CRASH On a recent trip to Paris I picked up a new French magazine called CRASH (no.2, march-april 1998) which is a bit like a French equivalent of the British MUTE <www.metamute.com>. It has a mix of news and short articles about various aspects of cyber- and pop-culture, and is possibly the best source for getting an idea about the French scene and perspective. They can be contacted at <crash@crash.fr>, the website is at http://www.crash.fr. (abroeck) * The European Forum for Arts & Heritage (EFAH) serves as an umbrella for arts and heritage organisations in Europe. It exists to debate and to give a voice to the cultural sector on issues related to European cultural policy. Created in 1992, EFAH has over 50 member organisations across Europe ranging from national artists' organisations to European-wide performing arts or heritage networks and has established itself as one of Europe's leading multi-disciplinary NGOs. Christina Sleszynska EFAH Coordinator European Forum for Arts and Heritage Fax : 32-2-514 2265 e-mail : efah@innet.be * 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 240 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. Other meetings were held in Liverpool (LEAF97, April 1997), Kassel (Deep Europe workshop, August 1997), Linz (Syndicate Net.Shop, September 1997), and Dessau (Ostranenie 97, November 1997). * 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 May 98) to: abroeck@v2.nl.