José Luis Brea <jlbrea@aleph-arts.org> on Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:21:49 +0200 |
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Re: Syndicate: black curtain for war victims ... |
hi, valery grancher, i´ve translated your e-mail (to spanish) and forwarded it to our ::forum:: mailing list. please, find two spanish proposals similar to yours at: http://www.abaforum.es/merzmail http://www.teleline.es/personal/stidna jlb --- At 09:45 21/04/99 +0100, you wrote: >[the euro-english in this message can be a bit misleading at some points, >but i think it is clear what valery has in mind; apologies for the >interference; -a] > >From: valery grancher <vgranger@imaginet.fr> > > >To all of you, > >Following different events and how is evolving this war context >specially on mediatic level, I would like to share some thoughts with >all of you: >Since several weeks nothing has changed and war innocent victims are >getting more and more pain and are dying under TV camera and various >media as internet... and all of us, I guess want to stop it... >All around this war there is inflation of images and noise: > >- debate noise >- bombs noise >- ideology noise >- war images >- victims images >- bombing images >- Pain images > >Through our net activism we are bringing more and more images, sign and >texts and nothing is changing !!!!! >May be we are becoming a kind of agent of 'the society spectacle' as >Debord defined. Until a little moment we will be included in the global >noise !!!! and we will loose our protest, position, and ethics .... > >How to fight against that ? > >I'm suggesting to make an art protest stronger and more pacific by >breaking the "spectacle logic" (as Debord defined), by now making a big >silence, by disapperaing in front of all of the eyes ..... > >We should now make a black screen whithout anything, dedicated to dead >victims in this war ... >I suggest also to all of us to make our website as a black screen during >this war to protest .... > >I started today to shut up my website and we launch a big movement on >the web to invite everybody to shut up his website for one day on next >may 1st. >check this black screen at my URL: >http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory > >this balck screen is a black background with black text (H1): > >This black curtain is dedicated to the War victims until the kosovar >genocyd continue and until the NATO bombing will continue.We >decided to stop to partcipate to the "spectacle society" by putting a >black screen to my website!We have to fight against war for peace and >dignity!!!! >This screen is dedicated to WAR victims !!!!! > >This black screen during one day on May 1st 1999 should be an >international "one minute of silence" dedicated to innocents war victims >all around the world an specially to kosovo .... > >Please keep me informed about who's participating to this movement... >Forward thie email to your circle contact ... > >Valery Grancher >vgranger@imaginet.fr >http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory > > >------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- > Syndicate network for media culture and media art > information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ > to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> > in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress > ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress