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Dear friends,
"Pro@Contra - MachineMachy" is the International Symposium that Moscow
MediaArtLab organizes 11-14 May 2000 in Moscow.You are kindly invited to
submit your art works (video, CD-ROM, DVD, Internet projects) to
presentation within the frame of the symposium.
Please find press-release of the symposium and application form bellow.
All selected works will be included in the "Pro@Contra - MachineMachy"
catalogue.

Deadline - April 1, 2000

Sincerely,

Olga Shishko shishko@transts.ru,
Alexey Isaev newart@aha.ru ,
Tania Gorucheva tangor@redline.ru

*****************************************************

Pro@Contra - MachineMachy
May 11-14, 2000
inter-disciplinary  international project

Participants: new technology theorists and activists from Russia, Eastern
and Western Europe, USA, Japan.

The principal practical goal of the project is to integrate through the
Internet Russian scientific, theoretical, artistic and institutional
experience into European community.
The task is to promote professional open discussion on problems of use of
media technologies in contemporary culture as well as to examine various
innovative strategies and experiments within this sphere.

The project is accomplished: with the support of Soros Center for
Contemporary Art, Moscow ("MediaArtLab" program),
under the aegis of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Cultural
and Information Department of  the Russian Government Administration
Co-organizers: Russian State Humanitarian University, Sony Co., Dutch
Embassy, Museum of the Cinema.
Planned sponsors: Goethe Institut, British Art Council, French Embassy,
American Cultural Center, Japan Cultural Center.
Information support: 'The Cinema Art', 'The Art Magazine', 'The Multimedia',
'The InterNet', 'The World of the Internet', 'The Itogui', 'The Media
Digital Video' magazines; 'Intermedia' information agency; 'The Moscow Echo'
radio channel; 'The Culture' TV channel; 'The Russian Magazine',
www.rema.ru, www.polit.ru servers.

Initiative team:
Alexei Isaev (project director), Olga Shishko (curator),
Tatiana Gorucheva (co-ordinator)

Please, mail your proposals to MediaArtLab (SCCA, Moscow)
E-mail(s): newart@aha.ru, shishko@transts.ru , tangor@redline.ru

Venues: Russian State Humanitarian University (RSHU), House of the RF
Government, Media Institute, Museum of the Cinema, other.

The Subject

Total technologization has embraced all life spheres of contemporary
society.
The very logic of technological development directed to progress and
innovation might seem to be pursuing and positively affecting culture and
art that more and more often address technology services.
New technology bears a positive aspect of what we would call the progress.
This notion embraces political, economic, social and cultural factors. On
the other hand, we could witness that new technology development provokes
the situation of devaluation. In this respect, technology becomes repressive
towards traditional cultural, social, economic and political values. As a
result, an active transformation of traditional culture into new
representative forms occurs, evoking both well founded and not grounded
criticism.
On the whole, this position is based on the state that technological
progress does not affect essential and traditional interests of art and
culture.
Thus, a dual evaluation of this problem contains both 'pro' and 'contra'
opinions.
And theorists and activists expressing different opinions (positive and
negative, pro@contra) on the problem will take part in discussions.

Directions:
inter = www = internet
1. inter-information (electronic mass media, contemporary culture and
rt)  - for specialists in information,  electronic mass media theorists and
journalists, editors, artists, and others;
2. inter-art (Internet and art) - for specialists in culture and art on the
Internet, theorists, curators, critics, artists, students, and others;
3. inter-technology (Inter-technologies) - for inter-technology specialists,
directors, marketing staff, programmers, artists, students, and others;
4. inter-institution (Internet and institutions) - for institutional
structures' representatives, media lab and institute directors, professors
(instructors, tutors), students.

Conference Highlights:
1. Art Beyond Definition
Problem of the new technology art research. Functional aspects of the role
of art activity exploring new technology opportunities, and using them to
beat creative goals.
2. Technological Progress and  Technical Regress
Problem of appropriating new technological devices in art culture; artist's
dependence on pragmatic market-oriented logic in development of information
and communication technologies. Status of media-artist and his(her) methods:
researcher, critic, activist, manipulator, and programmer.
3. To New Axiology
Problem of quality value, its criteria in regards to contemporary media
art.
Its place in the art history, from the point of view of idea evolution,
methods and techniques. Media art in cultural archive: the problem of
museufication.
4. Informativity of  Communication <Message is the content>
Content aspect of communication function of media art.
5. New Tactics and Strategies
How to put the goals and creatively realize them: actual methods and forms.


Potential participants shall present topics of their reports and abstracts
(500-750 words), and their CVs, together with a release of interests within
the event by March 20.
Shorts summaries or complete texts shall be mailed by March 30, 2000.

Open discussions, workshops, round table discussions on 'Contemporary
Culture and Art on the Internet'.
This program contains practical goal for Russia that is to integrate through
the Internet Russian scientific, theoretical, artistic and institutional
experience into European community.
'Media Culture and the Internet'
Priority directions: Data, Institutions, Technology, Art.
Meeting, practical seminars, presentations and workshops will be held on the
above directions.

Venues: RSHU, Media Institute, Foundation for Support of Contemporary Art,
the RF Government (conference-hall), Sony Co., etc.

Principal Problems:
1. Information
Official and Independent Mass Media and Contemporary Culture (meetings of
Russian leaders of electronic mass media and critics with Western
specialists presenting culture and art on the Net).
Art Activism
- new forms of creative activity targeted on critical study of contemporary
society problems, and attempts to solve the problem with the help of media
- multi-rational activity in contemporary culture (art servers, electronic
editions, creative teams)
- cultural archives formation (data base - technological priorities,
problems of structuring and navigation).
2. Institutions
New Forms of Education  (exchange of personal and institutional experience
among Russian and Western instructors\tutors)
- distance education
- inter-subject educational programs
- media art educational strategies.
Institutional developing strategies. The role of media centers in formation
of cultural policy.
(Presentation of art media labs from UIS countries and Eastern Europe,
discussion of projects and possible ways of future cooperation, experience
exchange with Western media institutions)
- theoretical research in media culture
- traditional academic system and independent alternative initiatives
- museufication in electronic and digital art, new forms of interaction of
contemporary art/culture and media technology.
3. Technology
Degree of modern technology influence on formation of creative methods of
their use.
- Flash, ASCII, VRML, real-audio, real-video, etc.
New interaction forms between technological and humanitarian community.
ART'n'SOFT (multi-rational creative teams: artists-programmers-designers)
- individual technique of an artist (pro&contra machine logic)
- problem of innovation, dependence on technology, problem of software
- Internet festivals ('Da-da-Net', MachineMachy, Art on the Net)
5. Art
'Pro&Contra' Conference
- media fiction
- museums: pro&contra
- new media theories

Presentation of art projects on:
Net-art
Video-art
CD-ROM and DVD
Deadline to present video, CD, DVD works: April, 1

Net Art  ('MachineMachy' International Festival)
http://www.da-da-net.ru/TrashArt
Deadline to present Internet art works: April 20.

**********************************************************************
You'll find the detailed information on the project on the festival site.
www.danet.ru

**********************************************************************
A catalogue and a CD-ROM containing texts of reports made at the conference,
round table discussion materials, information on the presented  exhibitions
and art projects, will be issued to result the event.
**********************************************************************
Moscow MediaArtLab
Chernyahovskogo, 4A
125319 Moscow
Russia
Tel.: 7 095 151 8706
Tel/Fax: 7 095 151 8816
E-mail:newart@aha.ru, shishko@transts.ru, tangor@redline.ru
www.danet.ru


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                    SHAPING THE NETWORK SOCIETY
          The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace

    A Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Symposium

                       [ First Announcement ]

                  http://www.scn.org/cpsr/diac-00

               May 20 - May 23, 2000, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
                    University of Washington HUB
                      Seattle, Washington, USA

 +++   Cultural Policy and the Arts   +++   Understanding the Network
            Society   +++   Bridging   the Digital Divides   +++ Activism
Old and New   +++   Public Cyberspaces   +++   Networking the Networks
     +++        Crossing Borders   +++ Localism /       Globalism    +++
Strengthening the Civic     Sector                    +++ Strategies
for the Network Society         +++ Multimedia     and Interactive Events
+++      +++      +++   +++  Sociology of Cyberspace             +++

       Cyberspace is likely to become the dominant medium through which
       people create and share information and ideas in the future.  How
       these conversations about the environment, culture, leisure, and
       political decisions, are conducted is everybody's business.

What directions and implications does cyberspace foretell for
community, democracy, education and culture?

                                         Is e-commerce ALL there is?!?

This symposium is the seventh in CPSR's "Directions and Implications of
Advanced Computing" (DIAC) symposium series.  This symposium tackles
important public interest issues related to computing and
communications that are often neglected by the news media.

The objective of DIAC-2000 is to integrate many perspectives,
conversations, and people from around the world.  What is the public
sphere in cyberspace?  What should it be?  How can people use it?  What
experiments, projects, and policies should we initiate?

    We need stories, theories, and ideas that can help us
    discuss, reflect, and take action.

Social and environmental activists, educators, technologists,
government officials, artists, journalists, researchers, and citizens
are coming from all over the world to participate.  15 Russians who are
developing civic networks in six Russian cities will discuss their work
developing new civic institutions.  Prominent researchers and activists
from Europe who are working on issues from human rights to cultural
policy have also been invited to present.  A research thread also runs
through the symposium: How can academia and the civic sector work
together and learn from each other?

Although we are still shaping up the agenda we are expecting the following
eminent participants.

  + Natasha Bulashova; Friends and Partners; Moscow, Russia
  + Fiorella de Cindio; Milano Rete Civiche; Milan, Italy
  + Penny Goldsmith; Poverty Network; Vancouver, Canada
  + Susana Finquelievich; Buenos Aires, Argentina
  + Cees Hamelink; Human Rights and Communication Rights; University of
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  + Nancy Kranich, president-elect of the American Library Association
  + Dmitry Latuhkin; Chelyabinsk Civic Network; Chelyabinsk, Russia
  + Geert Lovink; Media Theorist and Activist; Society for Old and New
    Media (Amsterdam); now in Canberra, Australia
  + Veran Matic; B92 Radio and Internet; Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  + Partha Pratim Sarker; Bytes for All; Dhaka, Bangladesh
  + Judy Sparrow; National Telecommunications and Information Agency;
    Washington, DC.
  + Nicol Turner; Mapping Community Assets; Net Consulting Group, Chicago

Workshops.  As in our 1997 Community Space and Cyberspace symposium
there will be 20 - 35 interactive workshops.  These will cover a
variety of topics including setting up your own community network,
community asset mapping, and many others.

Time and Place. On-site registration opens at 8:00 AM on May 20 and
9:00 on May 21.  The program begins at 9:00 and ends at 5:00 pm.  The
main events will take place in the HUB Auditorium at the University of
Washington.  On Monday and Tuesday (May 22 and 23) we will convene a
variety of smaller, more focused events.  We are assuming that many
participants will not be available for this portion of the symposium.
Therefore we may need to limit attendance to 200 people.  Please let
us know on your registration if you plan to attend on Monday and Tuesday.

Registration. We are intentionally keeping registration fees
affordable.  Registration fees are $35 for students & low income ($50
after May 1); $65 for CPSR and members of endorsing organizations ($85
after May 1); and $95 ($120 after May 1) for others.  Some scholarships
will be available.  The CPSR benefit is $25.  Proceedings are $20
each.  You may register by mail or on-line on the symposium website.
Please send your check to CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94301,
USA.

CPSR Benefit. Meet with conference attendees informally while helping
CPSR at the same time!  Enjoy snacks, drinks, art, and demos!  We're
still planning this one but we know you'll enjoy it. $25 is the
suggested donation.  (Please consider an additional contribution to
help CPSR organize programs like this in the future!)

Organizational Support.  We are interested in working with a variety of
organizations on this.  Please contact us if your organization would
like to become a co-sponsor, supporter or endorser.

Welcome to Seattle.  We'd like to help make it easier for you to get to
Seattle, stay in Seattle, and enjoy Seattle while you're here.  We will
be putting helpful information up soon on our web site.

Volunteers Wanted. For registration, workshop coordination, publicity,
and outreach.  (And registration is free for volunteers!)  Please
contact Ti Locke, tlocke@kcts.org, if you are interested.

DIAC-2000 promises to be one of the most timely and significant
conferences on cyberspace themes ever.  We expect an exciting dialogue
between artists, educators, librarians, researchers, government
officials, journalists, and other community members.  Please mark you
calendars to attend and help us make "Shaping the Network Society: The
Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace" as important and inspiring
as possible.

                 We hope to see you in Seattle this May!

The Virtual Coalition. We are pleased to be a member of the Global 2000
Virtual Community Coalition.  The Virtual Coalition is a loosely
affiliated group of people, organizations, and events all over the
world who are working together in the year 2000 to help promote
democratic use of communication technology and discourage social
exclusion due to inequitable access to communication.  Please contact
Nancy White, njwhite@halcyon.com, if you'd like your event listed.

DIAC-2000 is sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

DIAC-2000 is co-sponsored by the Daniel Evans School of Public Affairs
(UW), the Association For Community Networks, Friends and Partners, and
the Seattle Community Network Association.  We'd like to thank the
Morino Institute for their support.

We'd also like to thank the following organizations for their
endorsement.  Advancing Women, Association for Women In Computing,
Community & Information Technology, Deep Thought Informatics Pty Ltd,
Edmonds Community College, I*EARN Canada, International Women's
University, Loka Institute, Media Jumpstart, Mid-Peninsula Access
Corporation, Municipal Technology, Oregon Public Networking, Paper
Tiger TV, Rae Consulting, The_Network, TINCAN, UW Computer Science
Department, and the UW chool of Library and Information Sciences.  Let
us know if your organization would like to be added to this list.

Need more information? Contact Doug Schuler, douglas@cpsr.org,
206.634.0752.


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m o n o m e d i a  b e r l i n - n e w s l e t t e r   v e r s i o n 2.0
New speakers - new events

-Please distribute-
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monomedia berlin:value
The international conference on the cultural challenges of new media
12. - 14. Mai 2000
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Moechten Sie den Newsletter lieber auf Deutsch? Kein Problem - kontaktieren
Sie uns einfach unter monomedia@hdk-berlin.de (Betreff: deutsch). Hier sind
Sie auch richtig, falls Sie sich von der Mailingliste streichen lassen
moechten

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We have succeeded in attracting further speakers to our sessions: the artis=
t
group Etoy (Switzerland), Brian Eno (UK) and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (IN),

Additional information on these speakers and the others can be found
starting now at the new up-dated monomedia berlin: value website. Also at
your disposal at this website are the registration form and preliminary
program: www.monomedia.hdk-berlin.de

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But beyond the sessions monomedia berlin will offer much more:

Idea Exchange
The Idea Exchanges provide the ideal opportunity for on-site exchange of
information and networking opportunities. At a joint breakfast on Saturday
and Sunday morning selected media projects will be presented and put forth
for discussion. At each table consisting of 15 to 20 participants an
innovative and trend-setting project will be the focus of attention.
Registration for the individual project tables will take place on the first
day of the conference at the monomedia berlin counter.

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the monomedia team
www.monomedia.hdk-berlin.de

monomedia@hdk-berlin.de

Please address this site if you wish to discontinue your subscription. (Re:
abostop).

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monomedia berlin is a joint project of the Berlin University of the Arts
(Hochschule der K=B8nste Berlin) and the following partners: Deutschen Bank
24, Pixelpark Inc., MediaGroup Munich, UUNET, Apple Computer Inc., PIK,
n-tv, Der Tagesspiegel, Horizont, Berlin Excelsior Hotel. It is taking place
under the auspices of an initiative of the city of Berlin called "Project
Future - the Berlin Approach to the Information Society".


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dear all,

here is the information of the Second "Akihabara TV" project
starting this week.("Akihabara" is world-famous electronic
district in tokyo).

as one of "networking members" of command N, i curated
Geert Mul(NL) and Akitsugu Maebayashi(J).

yukiko shikata

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The Second Akihabara City Video Installation
  AKIHABARA TV


*Outline of the project*

This is the second international video art show to take place in Akihabara
- Tokyo's famous electric town from March 16th to March 29th, 2000.
"Akihabara TV" is based on a very simple but unique idea - to change the
ordinary view of Akihabara  through the showing of site specific video art
on monitors and TV screens throughout the town. There are hundreds of shops
and buildings in Akihabara selling high-tech machinery and goods, TV
monitors, video decks and computers. The project will utilize as many of
these televisions and monitors as possible for the installation. 34 artists
from 12 different countries join and new short short video works will be
shown on TV monitors. Visitors to Akihabara will automatically become the
audience and, in seeing art in such an ordinary situation, will be given an
opportunity to experience art in a different way to that normally offered
in museums or galleries.
The dramatic developments in technology, in hardware, make themselves
obvious in the area, but in the meantime, what part has any software or
what is shown on these screens contributed to the development of this site?
By projecting art into a public space, this show will question the meaning
of visual information in this visually diverse world, which may also force
us to consider the controversial position of video art in art history.
   The first Akihabara TV happened in 1999, and drew a great deal of
attention from many different audiences as well as various kinds of media.
In this second project we would like to work in closer co-operation with
local people and municipal corporations, and also with more of the up and
coming international artists in our network.

*command N is here! Information Center Open!
The command N as information center of Akihabara TV temporarily opens for
visitors.
Located just in the middle of Akihabara, here people will be able to get
all the information about the Akihabara TV, as well as watch the video
works at the gallery space. The artist's previous video works and
documentation will  also be available to give more information to visitors.


*Project dates:
This project will run from March 16th to March 29th, 2000

*Place of Exhibition
On TV Monitors or computers  and DVDs in electric consumer goods shops in
Akihabara.

*Project committee
The show will be organized by command N and the Akihabara TV project team.

*Sponsor & Fund
This project will be funded by The Japan Art Fund, the Japan Foundation. It
will also be partly supported by Shiseido Co. Ltd., Chiyoda Matsushita
Consumer Electronics Corporation, Toshiba Chuo Life Electronics, Sony
Marketing Corporation and other companies.

*This project is made possible with the kind support of
ART BY XEROX, Akihabara Electric Town Promotion Association and Chiyoda
Urban Design NPO

*Special support for DVD    Attain Co., LTD.

(for more details about sponsor & fund, please see our website "sponsorship")


*List of artists

Masato Nakamura (Japan)
Noboru Tsubaki (Japan)
Yukio Fujimoto (Japan)
Hideki Nakazawa (Japan)
Kazuhiko Hachiya (Japan)
Akane Asaoka (Japan)
ROOT R (Japan)
Ayako Yoshimura (Japan)
Saki Satom (Japan)
Parco Kinoshita (Japan)
Atsushi Ito (Japan)
Masayuki Watanabe (Japan)
Shunsuke Kamata (Japan)
Takeshi Kusu (Japan)
Patricia Piccinini (Australia)
Ian Haig (Australia)
Jacinta Schreuder (Australia)
Alasdair Duncan (UK)
Peter Bellars (UK)
Kristin Lucas (USA)
Lynne Yamamoto & Lucretia Knapp (USA)
Erich Weiss (Belgium)
Philippe Chatelain (France)
Lilian Bourgeat & Luc Adami (France)
Almut Rink (Austria)
Manuel Saiz (Spain)
Josef Maria Martin (Spain)
Geert Mul (Netherlands)
Kamol Phaoasavasdi (Thailand)
Michael Shaowanasai (Thailand)
Gregory Maass (Germany)
York der Knoefel (Germany)
Nayoung Kim  (korea)


The selection of participants has been made through knowledge of the
individual artist's work or through expressions of interest in Akihabara
made by artists visiting our project head quarters.
*Also two non-profit art spaces overseas have been incorporated as
co-curatiors:
-Gertrude 200 Street (Melbourne) and
-Project 304 (Bangkok)


<Special performance>

*Akitsugu Maebayashi  "Sonic Interface"
Ears will be extended with "sonic interface" a mobile auditory consist of a
computer and headphones with a microphone. It is an interface connecting
your body and surroundings. One pair of two persons walk around Akihabara
with this tool. A navigator will guide you the program. In
ten-minute-experience, you will experiece the sound chaos of Akihabara and
will reflesh the feeling about AKihabara.
March 19 (Sun) and 20 (national holiday)12-18 p.m. (reception desk closed
at 17:30)
place: Akihabara Chuo Street
Free of charge
Reception desk: command N


*3/26 (SUN)2pm- Nishikawa Musen Duty Free Shop
Alasdair Duncan  "The New Future II"
Alasdair Duncan's performances present an extrodinary mix of retro-future
funk with a bad noise aesthetic and an hypnotically stunning, primitive and
poor future-modernist computer generated visual spectacular.This is a rare
and unique opportunity to see Duncan performing in Japan.

*3/26(SUN) 1pm-
Kristin Lucas "Simulcast mobile kit #1"
"Simulcast is about connection, reception, reflection, and deflection. To
simulcast is to shape ambient and competing energies that effect one's mind
and body."
There was a mission from Kristin Lucas in NY to Tokyo's simulcaster.
"Give simulcast mobile kit #1 to the visitors "try our new product, thank you"

for more information, please contact to
Chiaki Sakaguchi
e-mail: chiaki-s@ga2.so-net.ne.jp

  command N
1-7-1-1F, Soto-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021
Tel 81-3- 5297-3506Fax 81-3 -5297-3507
URL: http://webs.to/command -N


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Presseinfo 17. März 2000

EIKK und ZKM präsentieren


VISION POSSIBLE mit DAS WERK
Workshops und Filme rund um das Postproduktionshaus DAS WERK


Die Digitalisierung der Filmtechnik ist längst keine Zukunftsmusik mehr und
aus der zeitgenössischen Filmindustrie nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die
Möglichkeit zum unabhängigen Filmemachen wird ebenso greifbar wie
hochaufwendige Spezialeffekte perfekter und erschwinglicher werden. Vom
dänischen Dogmafilm, in dem die Absenz von aufwendigem Drehequipment zur
Tugend erhoben werden, bis zu George Lucas' Star Wars, der fast nur noch
aus Tricks und Effekten besteht, bedienen sich alle der neuen Technologien,
mit deren Hilfe nicht nur alles billiger, sondern auch alles Vorstellbare
herstellbar scheint.

Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club, der dieses Jahr für den Oscar in der
Kategorie "Bester Dokumentarfilm" nominiert wurde, ist wiederum ein
Beispiel für den unschätzbaren Wert der Videotechnik im
Dokumentarfilmbereich und ihre "neue" ästhetische Verwendung:

"Auf einmal ist es so, als würden alle Filme nur deshalb gemacht, um voll
Stolz die digitalen Effekte herzuzeigen. Das ganze digitale Handwerk muss
sich erst mal davon erholen, nur als Medium der Spezialeffekte betrachtet
worden zu sein. Es gibt noch immer keinen Science-Fiction Film, der die
Eleganz von 2001 hat, und zu dem Zeitpunkt war das Wort digital noch nicht
mal bekannt. Allmählich wird man die Technik beherrschen und dann kann man
sich auch wieder dem Geschichtenerzählen widmen."
Wim Wenders

DAS WERK gibt einen breiten Überblick über neueste Entwicklungen im Bereich
Effekte, neue Technologien wie das neue 24P-Verfahren von Sony, Produktion,
digitaler Postproduktion und Projektentwicklung. Ute Schneider von der Wim
Wenders-Produktionsfirma ROAD MOVIES (u.a. Buena Vista Social Club, The
Million $ Hotel) berichtet über den Stand der Dinge auf internationaler
Ebene.

Im Filmprogramm werden einschlägige Beispiele wie Die Legende vom
Ozeanpianisten und Lola rennt gezeigt. Im zeitgleich eröffnenden Filmpalast
am ZKM ist im Abendprogramm ausserdem der von DAS WERK aufwendig
postproduzierte Film Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm zu sehen, in dessen
Herstellung DAS WERK am Freitagnachmittag Einblick gibt (s.u.).


DAS WERK

DAS PROGRAMM

Donnerstag 23. März
10:00   Introducing DAS WERK mit Wolfgang Borgfeld
11:00   Workshop Film-Expositionen: Spannende Vorspanne
        Wolfgang Borgfeld über Filmanfänge und Titelgestaltung in alten und
neuen Filmen
13:00   Film Lola rennt (Regie:Tom Tykwer)
        Trickarbeiten im Spielfilm. Einführung von Wolfgang Borgfeld
15:00   Workshop Music Clips: Blümchen, Scooter, Nina Hagen
        Berichte und Beispiele aus der Produktion mit Ralf Drechsler (Das
Werk) und Robert Broellochs (Camelot)
17:00   Film Die Legende vom Ozeanpianisten (Regie: Giuseppe Tornatore,
ital. OV/dt.UT)
        Trickarbeiten im Spielfilm. Einführung von Wolfgang Borgfeld


Freitag 24. März
10:00   Workshop Produktion für Kino und Fernsehen
        Jürgen Biefang (TRAUMWERK) über Stoff- und Projektentwicklung
13:00   Film Buena Vista Social Club (Regie: Wim Wenders)
        Digital Video im Kino. Einführung von Andreas Schellenberg
14:00   Workshop FXs
        The Making of Otto-Der Katastrofenfilm. Mit Andreas Schellenberg
15:00   Workshop Digitaler Film: 24P -
        Vorstellung der Sony-Kamera- und MAZ-Systeme
16:00   Workshop Spielfilmproduktion
        Ute Schneider (ROAD MOVIES) über Entwicklung, Vermarktung und
Finanzierung internationaler            Kinoproduktionen am Beispiel von
Wenders' The Million $ Hotel
18:00   Film The A to Z of Separating People From Their Money (Regie:
Hermann Vaske, engl.OV) Einführung von  Kameramann Stefan Jonas


Wo:             im Medientheater und Vortragssaal des ZKM, Lorenzstr. 19,
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Wieviel:                alle Workshops frei - Eintrittskarten an der
Infotheke ZKM ab Mi 22. März
                Filme DM 8,- bzw. DM 5,- (erm.) - Eintrittskarten an der
Infotheke im ZKM ab sofort

Info:
Europäisches Institut des Kinofilms Karlsruhe Tel: 0721-9850520
eikk@compuserve.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


April 6-29, 200- Portland, Oregon, USA

³Carnival in the Eye of the Storm
War/ Art/ New Technologies: KOSOV@"

An international program on the war in Kosov@
exhibition. conference. film series

Curated by Trebor Scholz

Presented by
Pacific NW College of Art
1241 NW Johnson, Portland, OR 97209, USA
contact: Colleen Turnbull (USA) 503-223-4490
or treborscholz@earthlink.net

For detailed information visit:
http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo
http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo
http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo

Carnival in the Eye of the Storm
War/ Art/ New Technologies: KOSOV@
Kosovo/Kosova has been referred to here as Kosov@ to retain the ³o² and ³a²
characters used in both the Serbian and Albanian spellings.

Pacific NW College of Art presents an international program that explores
the role of "new communication technologies" and the absence of the
political in the media coverage of the Kosov@ war. The artwork in the
exhibition consists of voices from Kosov@, the US, Serbia, Germany, Greece,
Switzerland, and the UK. The exhibition, conference and film series examine
aesthetic responses to this war, the significant absence of art activism in
the US/ Europe and the role of "new communication technologies".

The exhibition will be held in PNCA¹s Philip Feldman Gallery, Swigert
Commons and New Media Arts Gallery April 6-29, 2000.  Galleries will be open
from 9am-9pm daily. Artists in the exhibition include:


Martha Rosler
APSOLUTNO
Claus Bach
Abdelali Dahrouch
Leon Golub
Albert Heta
Immaterial Inc.
Emily Jacir
Alexander Hubbard
Dario Kavara
Mary Kelly
Laura Kurgan
Tom Lechner
Janine & Leif Rostron-Liebenschütz
Zoran Naskovski
Hallie O'Brien Kelly & Jaime Schultz
Jenny Perlin
Dimosioypalliliko Retire
Paul Sargent
Sandra Schäfer
Gregory Sholette
Henrik Schrat
Thomas Schunke
Nancy Spero
Gordana Stanisic
Miro Stefanovic
Ocean Earth Production Inc. (represented in Portland by Peter Fend)
Andrew Herscher
Olav Westphalen
Sislej Xhafa.


The most visible war on European territory since WWII to involve the US and
EU countries, the war in Kosov@, was the first to employ the use of the
worldwide web for warfare, for alternative war reporting, for the building
and sustaining of community and as a location to present related net.art.

The conference, April 14, 15, 16 at the NW Neighborhood Cultural Center in
NW Portland, features scholars, artists and film makers who are
international experts on politics in the Balkans, "new technologies", media
studies, and cultural criticism. The participants include:

Renata Salecl
(University of Law- Lubljana, Centennial Professor London School of
Economics)

Geert Lovink
(Activist, Media Theorist, Member of Adilkno Foundation for the Advancement
of Illegal Knowledge, Co-organizer of Next Five Minutes Conference,
Co-Founder of the international ³nettime² Circle)

Brian Holmes
(Art Critic, Translator, Member of ³ne pas plier², France)

Katja Diefenbach
(Author, Journalist for ³Jungle World², co-editor of ³Sechste Hilfe²-
magazine for the service proletariat, member of bookshop and publishing
house collectif ³b_books², journalist at ³Spex², music magazine, Germany)

Aferdita Kelmendi
(Director, RTV 21, Pristina, Kosov@)

Florian Zeyfang
(German artist/ video maker. He has shown in Europe and the US and published
in various magazines. (Shows
include: "3D a la main", Bremen 1999, "I Said I Love. That Is The Promise",
NY1999, "We Are Somewhere
Else (Already)", NY 1998)

Henrik Schrat
(artist/ curator, his work has been exhibited across Europe. Projects
include ³Europe in the Box II², Berlin)

Sislej Xhafa
(artist, representative of Kosov@ at XLVIII Venice Bienal (1999), based in
Pristina, Kosov@ and  Pisa, Italy)

Glenn Bowman
(Anthropologist at Kent University/ Canterbury, UK)

Thomas Keenan
(Director, Human Rights Project, Bard College (NY), where he also teaches
literary criticism, and media theory, USA)

Boris Buden
(Writer, and Theorist from Zagreb, Editor in Chief ³Arkzin², Croatia/
Austria)


The NW Film Center hosts and co-sponsors the film series.  The series
includes:

"The Valley" by Dan Reed

"Predictions of Fire" by Michael Benson

"Victim of Geography" by Pictorial Heroes

"The Walls of Kosovo" by Aleksandar Manic

"A  Cry from the Grave" by Leslie Woodhead

"Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" by Srdjan Dragojevic

"Intervista" by Anri Sala

"Macedonia: the next Bosnia?" by Julian Chomet

"Underground" by Emir Kustorica

"Planet Sarajevo" by Sahin Sicic

³Yellow WAPS: Anatomy of War Crime"by Ilan Ziv

³Yugoslavia: Origins of War² by Christophe Talczewski


Trebor Scholz is an East German-born interdisciplinary artist and curator
who has widely exhibited and lectured in the US and Europe. He studied Fine
Art in Dresden, and Media Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London for
an MFA. Recently he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program, NYC. His book ³Surfacing At A Different Place²
was published by Green Press, London in 1997. He is currently teaching at
Pacific NW College of Art, Portland, Oregon (USA).



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