[Nettime-bold] Book Presentation Catalogue of Strategies (Frankfurt am Main, Oct. 10)

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "Andreas Kallfelz" <kallfelz@altavista.de>

Netzkultur 2.0  / Catalogue of Strategies

Wednesday Oct. 10, 9 p.m.

Am Staedelshof 6 (LM Ausstellungsraum), Frankfurt
Organisation: Andreas Kallfelz - Tel./Fax ++49-69-5978859 -
kallfelz@altavista.de
Partner: BIS Publishers / Gingko Press

Book-Presentation: Catalogue of Strategies (M. Gerritzen, G. Lovink, M.
Bruisma; BIS Publishers/Gingko Press 2001)

The CATALOGUE OF STRATEGIES documents a period of 10 years of graphic-, web-
and TV-design by Mieke Gerritzen and her co-workers in the recently founded
firm NL-Design. Gerritzen has coined a unique own style. Words and phrases
here often are used as pictorial elements, whole pages and books are
designed with text. Thus the text looses its function as a mere commentary,
the accompaniment of a pictorial message, or a detached narration, it
becomes itself an icon, a text image that transforms a content into a moment
of action. These forms of design are inseparable from the practical contexts
within which they developed. So the CATALOGUE OF STRATEGIES is also sort of
a work book which focuses on the connection of contents, design and
practical activities and shows how design takes an own specific role within
campaigns, conferences and other activist contexts, yet creating an
independent aesthetic dimension. URL of NL-Design: www.nl-design.nl. The
Dutch presentation of the book took place in Amsterdam on September 22.
Catalogue of Strategies will have a global distribution.

Lectures, Talk, Images: Netzkultur 2.0

The downturn of the internet-economy and the disintegration of digital
utopia - not long time ago having governed the minds - don't make net
culture less relevant today, but lead to a fundamental change of alignment.
Fantasies of our future virtual bodies and living environments have lost
their logic the daily grind and the increasingly perceived problems of the
real world. At the same time the net as a field of conflict is gaining ever
higher importance.

So "net-weariness" is not on the agenda, but instead an increased concern
with the political, economic and cultural circumstances, net-internally
as -externally. "Net-culture" and "net-criticism" are an important potential
counterweight against tightening economic and political power structures.
But it's important to stay pragmatic and not to end in isolated self-centred
attitudes. Practically this means to use creative skills and to establish
and defend autonomous areas, in which an independent and content-based
reflection can articulate and gain momentum.

Participants

Prof. Manfred Fassler is a communication scientist and cultural
anthropologist at Frankfurt University. He is also in charge of the research
project "cyberpoiesis", focusing on the working contexts of net designers,
artists and theorists and on "ambivalent" modes of net-based cultural
production. He is also co-organiser of "Entwerfen" (Oct./Nov. 2001), a
conference on contemporary knowledge production.

Mieke Gerritzen is among the most influential and innovative graphic and web
designers in the Netherlands and embeds her work in various
interdisciplinary contexts. Recently she founded her own firm NL-Design.
Also she is head of the design department of Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam
and initiated the screen-design-competition "International Browserday",
which after Amsterdam and New york is going to take place in Berlin this
year for the fifth time.

Petra Ilyes is a cultural anthropologist and currently working on a
comprehensive investigation of the impact of the ICT-industry on peripheral
societies. She will report on her recent field excursion to Silicon Valley
2001, along with a digital slide show.

Sebastian Lütgert from Berlin since 1998 operates several net portals like "
rolux.org" or "textz.com". At first sight they remind you of commercial
websites, offering various functionalities, decorated with seductive banners
etc. Actually however they contain tools and contents which in a useful
ironic way work anti-commercially and support autonomous and subversive
purposes.

Geert Lovink, Dutch media theorist and net activist who currently lives in
Australia will moderate the event. He is a member of Agentur Bilwet, and
together with Pit Schultz he founded in 1995 "nettime", one of the most
influential mailing lists on the "net discourse". He initiated a number of
important conferences and net culture projects and has written extensively
on media, political and cultural movements and "net criticism". For the last
time he was in Frankfurt with "Tulipomania Dotcom", a conference on the "new
economy" in Kunstverein.

Niels Werber, literary and media theorist, focuses among others on the
misrelation between HiTech utopias of the digital elite and the actual
social transformations taking place around them. Recent texts also examine
the technology discourse in the bourgeois feature pages or the relationship
of "global terrorism" and "cyberwars"




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