| Oliver Ressler on 4 Aug 2000 13:54:29 -0000 |
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VIRTUALMANIFESTA.COM The web-project Virtual Manifesta is a response to strong disagreements and differences in curatorial visions between the four curators of Manifesta 3 (the show can be seen in Ljubljana in Slovenia till September 22, 2000). Virtual Manifesta is curated and produced by Manifesta 3 curator Ole Bouman. It includes web-projects by Martine De Maeseneer, Ginger Freeman, Laura Kurgan, Albert Weis, Fat, Wim Cuyvers and Oliver Ressler. All projects can be seen at http://www.virtualmanifesta.com "I'M Fired (IMF) a contribution to Virtual Manifesta by Oliver Ressler: The International Monetary Fund IMF stands for "I'M Fired. At least in South Korea where a U$58 billion Structural Adjustment Program in 1998 caused an average of 8.000 people a day to lose their jobs. As a result, as many as 25 of those committed suicide each day. In other countries the effects of these programs imposed by big international financial institutions were even worse. The web-project "I'M Fired (IMF) focuses on the marginalized argumentation that the neoliberal economy policies of the international trade organizations especially of the IMF can be seen as the main reason for the economic, political and social breakdown of Yugoslavia and the resulting civil wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The project makes a contribution to raise the public consciousness about the IMF to get these disastrous policies changed. In this sense Yugoslavia functions as a mirror for so many other countries where similar economic restructuring programs are being imposed. visit http://www.virtualmanifesta.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold