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Table of Contents:
Job Vacancies at Pavilion
matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
The 4th Annual Subtle Technologies Conference
Slavica Ceperkovic <slavica@digitalexhaust.com>
Call for contributors for M/C 'sick' issue
Elissa Jenkins <mc@api-network.com>
<interglose>
"papri.com" <pavu@papri.com>
3 saucers.mov
computer fine arts <doron@computerfinearts.com>
Online-Demo
b.reit@gmx.net
Sex, mysticism, or revolution?
"Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb@slip.net>
no:response----- (iy)
mario@enconstruccion.org
Live Webscast: Ecological Debt & Climate Justice
n ik <fragments@va.com.au>
for announcer
"geert" <geert@basis.desk.nl>
Melentie Pandilovski <misko@scca.org.mk>
[~] Call for Participation 25.-29.4.
"Oliver Thuns" <oliver.thuns@web.de>
[no subject]
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:16:38 +0100
From: matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Job Vacancies at Pavilion
Job Vacancies at Pavilion
Pavilion promotes the creative uses of new media within projects that bring
together artists, creative professionals, communities and e-businesses.
Pavilion’s programme includes publicly-sited commissions, new media
training, community-based production facilities, mentoring, artists’
residencies and talks. This includes projects that are multidisciplinary
and that are designed to address social exclusion in urban contexts.
Pavilion is currently running ‘Switched On’, a three-year programme of new
media training, access, mentoring and arts projects for disadvantaged 16-25
year olds in Leeds.
Pavilion is seeking candidates for the following posts:
New Media Curator £16-20k
The New Media Curator will initiate, research, develop and manage
Pavilion’s artistic programme, commissioning challenging new arts projects
that will include innovative uses of new technologies and may be
multidisciplinary. He/she will work closely with Pavilion’s Artistic
Director and other Pavilion core and project staff. This is a new post,
initially funded for two years through the Regional Arts Lottery Programme.
The successful candidate for this post will have vision, enthusiasm,
knowledge of the new media/photography/public arts practice, the ability to
communicate effectively about art to a diverse range of audiences, and
sound fundraising and project management skills.
Administrator £18;22K
The Administrator will work closely with Pavilion’s Artistic Director, and
deputise in her absence. The successful candidate will ideally have
experience of working in finance and fundraising in the arts sector, and
enjoy working in a creative environment.
The main purposes of the job are:
¥ to ensure the overall smooth running of Pavilion's office,
administrative, bookkeeping and financial reporting systems, playing an
active role in all aspects of the company's development as an innovative
and expanding arts agency;
¥ to identify fund-raising opportunities, and to support the Artistic
Director in making successful fund-raising applications;
¥ to manage and oversee the future re-location of the organisation.
Pavilion welcomes applications from all sections of the community. The
deadline for applications is Wednesday 23rd April 2001. For application
details please contact: Nicola Hutcheson, Artistic Director, Pavilion, 2
Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD, T: 44 (0) 113 243 1749, E:
admin@pavilion.org.uk
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:32:14 -0400
From: Slavica Ceperkovic <slavica@digitalexhaust.com>
Subject: The 4th Annual Subtle Technologies Conference
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The 4th Annual
Subtle Technologies Conference
May 17-20, 2001
A conference, video screening and exhibition
exploring the space between Science and Art
http://www.subtletechnologies.com
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Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto Campus
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Subtle Technologies Conference is a 4-day multidisciplinary event
that explores the strands and patterns of thought, feeling and culture,
that connect and resonate in the space between art and science.
We hope to provide an immersive conference environment, which encourages
the discussion and development of new concepts and areas of research in
both the arts and sciences, fusing topics that range from quantum
physics to dance.
Some of the many other topics that will be explored during each 50
minute presentation include: artificial intelligence, topology (a field
of mathematics), genetic algorithms for creating music, consciousness,
interactivity, ancient cave inscriptions, brainwaves, sociology,
magnetic fields and alternative computer interfaces.
Please visit our website for abstracts and more information on the
speakers.
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This year we have expanded the bounds of the conference to include
an evening screening of artists' videos and a exhibition of
interactive artworks.
°°° 'Subtle Broadcast' on May 17th, will include video shorts by Tom
Sherman, Laiwan, Ken Rinaldo and many others.
°°° 'Mid-Air' opening May 19th-June 9th, will feature artworks by Andrea
Polli, Ken Gregory, Tegan Smith and An Te Liu, that explore air as a
medium of sound, vision, and an elemental life force. Presented in
conjunction with InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.
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Speakers presenting at this year's conference include:
° Johannes Birringer: "New Environments for Dance: Ecologies of
Networks", Ohio State University, USA
° Josh Bongard: "Biological Growth and the Automatic Design of Robots",
University of Zurich, Switzerland
° Gwen Boyle: "Magnetic fields/magnetism", Canada
° Jane Krakower: "Space-Time Matrix", University of Southern Florida,
USA
° Maja Kuzmanovic & David Tonnesen: "Particle Systems for Artistic
Expression", FoAM, Belgium & sponge, USA
° Ted Lumley & Jacques Rainville: "Inclusionality: an immersive
philosophy of environmental relationships", Canada
° George Magalios: "Unconcealment of the Ground Palette: An Alternative
Paleontological Investigation of a Subtle Technique", Carnegie Mellon
University, USA
° Bill Marks: "A Scientific Approach to Consciousness and the Infinite",
National Institute of Health, USA
° Som Naimpally: "Topology and Applications", University of Toronto,
Canada
° Gary Lee Nelson: "Sonomorphs: An Application of Genetic Algorithms To
the Growth and Development of Musical Organisms", Oberlin College, USA
° Sageev Oore: "The Space Between Music and Science", University of
Toronto, Canada
° Nina Sobell & Stacey Pershall (Parkbench): "Thinking of You", NYU, USA
° Dale Thomas: "The Evolution of Morphogenetic Art Forms ", University
of Zurich, Switzerland
° Evan Harris Walker: "Polygons, Neural Nets, Quantum States, and
Rainbows", Walker Cancer Research Institute, USA
° Adam Zaretsky: "Posthuman Temptation, Eros and Mutagenesis", MIT, USA
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Admission is limited and as we expect the conference to be sold-out, we
encourage you to purchase tickets in advance.
4-day conference passes are $125 CND
To purchase conference passes call:
416-872-1212 or toll free 1-800-461-3333
The Phone Box Office is open Monday to Saturday 9am-8pm
and Sundays 10:30am-4pm.
For further information, please visit our website at:
http://www.subtletechnologies.com.
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The Subtle Technologies Conference would like to acknowledge the support
of this year's sponsors: Toronto Arts Council, Science for Peace,
InterAccess Media Arts Centre, VTape, Year01 and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
°° Please accept our apologies if you received this as a cross posting
°°
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:20:05 +1000
From: Elissa Jenkins <mc@api-network.com>
Subject: Call for contributors for M/C 'sick' issue
Call for Contributors
M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture is looking for contributors for its
latest issue 'sick'.
M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a
blind- and peer-reviewed journal.
To see what M/C is all about, check out our web site, which contains all
the issues released so far, at http://www.api-network.com/mc/.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
http://www.api-network.com/mc/contribute.html.
'sick'
- - article deadline: May 14 2001
- - issue editors: Nick Caldwell, Catriona Mills
How Sick are You?
In this issue of M/C we investigate the cultural manifestation of
sickness in all of its varied forms. To be sick is to be marginalised
in a number of ways; sickness is a central object in the discourses of
moral conservatism, of biology and medicine, of social control and
disapproval. But "sick" is also now a slightly outdated, slang term of
commendation. These functions operate separately, but also feed off one
another.
We invite articles that address the discourse of sickness and its moral,
mental, physical and cultural manifestations. Is a "sick" text a
manifestation or dimension of that sickness? What makes a text "sick"?
How have discourses and manifestations of sickness changed over time, and
how does this change our reading of "sick" texts from earlier historical
periods, especially when an older text is reconstructed in a new modern
format through the magic of film or television.
If you want to be part of the sickness, send your articles to the issue
editors. Details are:
Nick Caldwell - n.caldwell@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Catriona Mills - c.mills@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Article Deadline: 14th May 2001.
Issue Release Date: 13th June 2001.
- --
Elissa Jenkins
Co-ordinating Editor
M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
mc@api-network.com (e-mail address currently out of order)
http://www.api-network.com/mc/
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:38:32 +0200
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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:20:57 -0500
From: computer fine arts <doron@computerfinearts.com>
Subject: 3 saucers.mov
.
http://www.computerfinearts.com/3sauces/
.
data: 55kb/s
duration: loop 30:04 sec
quicktime streaming media
fast connection recommended
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:42:59 +0200
From: b.reit@gmx.net
Subject: Online-Demo
Online-Demonstration against Deportation Business
The ''No one is illegal network'' and ''Libertad!'' call for electronic civil
desobedience against the corporate deportation business
Public disguise against the Deutsche Lufthansa AG is growing. Since more
than one year antiracist and human rights activists have continously
protested at airports, travelling agencies, tourism fairs, pilot schools
etc. Activists were even present at the yearly shareholders meetings,
denouncing the airline's ongoing involvement in the ''deportation
business''. No one is illegal (http://www.contrast.org/borders/kein) and
Libertad! (http://www.libertad.de) are now calling for a new round of
protests, which will take place specifically on the internet.
While corporations profiting from deportations are currently creating new
businesses on the internet, no one should wonder, if the net becomes the
proper place for electronically protesting against the inhumane corporate
practises. Just like a real life sit-in, thousands of internet users are
invited to show their protest by a virtual sit-in infront of the Lufthansa
website. Ads in real life. the political effect of such measures relies on
a large number of participants, and herefore no one is illegal and
Libertad! call individuals, groups and organizations worldwide to join in
the preparation process of an online-demonstration. So far, the date has
not yet been decided upon, but for a day X we may expect broad
participation.
Every year there are more than 30,000 people being deported from Germany by
airplane. The Lufthansa corporation, offering its ''world wide net of
connections'', sells the vast majority of the so-called
''deportee-tickets''. Consequently, ''Deportation Class'' is a relevant
business. But it's not only that: Since 28th of May 1999, when the Sudanese
citizen Amir Ageeb died on board of a Lufthansa flight as a result of being
ill-treated by three German borderguards, the company is exposed to
constantly growing demands to renounce this dirty business. No one is
illegal has since stressed the legal responsebility of the aircraft captain
in case of a passenger travelling involuntarily dying. The captains'
association Cockpit has recommended its members to refuse the boarding of
people ''not willing to travel''. The public workers union OeTV called its
members inside the Lufthansa administration board to take measures to stop
the deportation flights.
It got even worse for the Lufthansa management when the company's bad image
was noticed in the United States. In this year's January 29th issue, the
Wall Street Journal dedicated an extensive article to the debate over the
deportation flights - bad publicity, and even worse so, since Lufthansa had
just explained to their shareholders that the USA was the ''future
strategic market''. A market which Lufthansa plans to conquer via the
internet. In 2005, the eCommerce-portal, today only selling about 10% of
the tickets, shall be responsible for 40% of the company's total turnover.
Electronic commerce may be very profitable, but also its risks are
considerable. For that reason, Lufthansa, together with other
international companies like Siemens and Telekom and, not to forget, the
German Federal Police Agency, has become a member of the so- called
''Commission for the Protection of Infrastructure''. This circle dedicates
itself - far away from public opinion - to the improvement of police
control over the net. In the executive board rooms fear seems rife of being
targeted by hackers - as CNN, yahoo and Microsoft already had to
experience. And they might be even more scared about an increase of
political net activism. However, in Octobre 2000, when Lufthansa instructed
their lawyers to intimidate a no one is illegal - activist, they already
gave proof for their receptiveness to online activism. If an art exhibition
against deportation didn't disappear from the net, Lufthansa would bring
him to court and make him pay a considerable fine. This quite conventional
behaviour resulted in a campaign by dozens of internet projects around the
world who showed their solidarity by mirroring the exhibition in question
on their own sites.
So, one may be curious about Lufthansa's reaction to the coming
online-demonstration. If activists together really would manage to block
the access to the corporate website, in spite of the company's high
capacities to maintain its internet presence, it certainly would not
contribute to the customers' trust in the eCommerce portal, where they are
to book their future flights. We are optimistic. We are sure, that
criticism to deportation flights is shared by lots of people, so that a
massive and international demonstration will take place. To make sure
everyone's possibility to take part, we will release in time a
user-friendly protest software. And in the meantime protests at airports
will continue.
7th of March 2001
''Kein Mensch ist illegal'' and ''Initiative Libertad!''
more information: http://www.deportation-alliance.com and
http://www.libertad.de
contact: online-demo@gmx.net
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:50:40 -0700
From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb@slip.net>
Subject: Sex, mysticism, or revolution?
When Kenneth Rexroth was about to give a reading of his poems, he sometimes
wryly asked, "Well, what would you like tonight -- sex, mysticism, or
revolution?" He loved to tell about the time a young woman in the audience
responded: "What's the difference?"
Spanning six decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s, Rexroth's poems include
memorials to rebels and rebellions of the past (Emma Goldman, Sacco and
Vanzetti, Kronstadt, the Spanish revolution, Hungary 1956) . . . satirical
digs at T.S. Eliot and academia . . . an appreciative open letter to William
Carlos Williams . . . a bitter diatribe on the death of Dylan Thomas (which
probably influenced Ginsberg's "Howl") . . . a subversive Bestiary for his
two daughters . . . street-wise lyrics written to jazz . . . memories of
Chicago in the roaring twenties, and of journeys in Europe and Mexico . . .
lovemaking in all sorts of circumstances (in an ancient Greek temple, on the
beach, in the woods, and in one case in a floating canoe!) . . .
eco-mystical visions while camping in the Western mountains or sitting
beside a waterfall . . . Buddhistic meditations from his later years in
Japan, where he also wrote a series of erotic poems in a feminine persona,
which he pretended he had translated from a young Japanese woman . . .
A generous selection of these poems is now online at
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/rexroth/poems
* * *
The Bureau of Public Secrets website features writings by Ken Knabb
(recently collected in the book "Public Secrets"), Knabb's translations from
the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that helped
trigger the May 1968 revolt in France), and the Rexroth Archive (texts by
and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth).
BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
PO Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA
http://www.slip.net/~knabb
knabb@slip.net
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Date: 16 Apr 2001 00:33:51 -0700
From: mario@enconstruccion.org
Subject: no:response----- (iy)
no response (IY)
no_response: the recipient name is not recognized?
no_response: VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS $10,000.00 --- These exhibitions
will deal with issues related to the most relevant expressions in the arts
of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and the United States.
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http://www.museodemonterrey.org.mx/english/mediateca/menu.html, http://www.museodemonterrey.org.mx/english/mediateca/mediateca2.html,
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:44:23 +1000
From: n ik <fragments@va.com.au>
Subject: Live Webscast: Ecological Debt & Climate Justice
fwd: live webcast
- --
Dear Friends,
Friends or the Earth Australia is hosting a public meeting on Ecological
Debt & Climate Justice. The event will also be a live webcast. We invite
you to tune in to this exciting event. Our guest speakers are:
Ricardo Navarro (El Salvador) Chair, Friends of the Earth, International
Ricardo is often described as "the best known Latin American
Environmentalist" and is one of the founders of the Salvadorian Centre for
Appropriate Technology (CESTA/ FoE El Salvador).
Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria)
Nnimmo is the chairperson of Environmental Rights Action (ERA/ FoE Nigeria).
He has been at the forefront of the campaign to stop Shell's involvement in
human rights abuses in Nigeria. He is the Chair, Oilwatch Africa and member
of the Steering Committee of Oilwatch International. Oilwatch International
is a Southern network of NGOs and community based organisations committed to
the defence of fragile ecosystems where oil is exploited.
Patrina Dumaru (Fiji)
Patrina is a highly regarded campaigner in the areas of climate change and
the transport of nuclear waste through the South Pacific. She is an
outspoken advocate on issues of ecological debt and ecojustice and widely
recognised
for her insights and leadership in the Asia Pacific region.
The address will be LIVE AUDIO WEBCAST on the FoE Australia site:
http://www.foe.org.au
Day: Wednesday 18th April
Time: 7pm EST (GMT +10)
Audio will also be archived shortly after the event. Check out the site and
take actions against the Australian Government's poor record on climate
justice.
Your opportunity to listen to these truly inspiring speakers, live!
The event is co-hosted by the Community Advocacy Unit, RMIT, Melbourne
Australia.
Please publicise this event through your networks. We thank you for your
consideration.
- - FoEA Climate Justice Campaign.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:05:52 +1000
From: "geert" <geert@basis.desk.nl>
Subject: for announcer
From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>
To: <politech@politechbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:14 AM
Subject: FC: RSF global Net-censorship report now available in English
*********
Background:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01612.html
*********
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:44:17 +0200
From: jmm <jmm@rewriting.net>
To: declan@well.com, jya@pipeline.com
Subject: Who are the enemies of the Internet?
Hi,
Transfert.net recently wrote a report about the "ennemies of the
internet" that has been published by Reporter Without Borders, an
NGO dedicated to fight for journalists' rights.
59 countries have been surveyed, both démocratic and
non-democratic, as censorship, cybersurveillance and threats to
civil liberties covers both of those.
This report, previoulsy released in french, has been translated in
english and is both available online on RSF's website, or in
digital and paper formats which can be purchased at 00h00.com.
As I closely look at the informations you deal with, this could
interest your readers.
Regards,
jmm
the report (in french) : http://www.transfert.net/fr/som_rsf.cfm
the english translation : http://www.rsf.fr/uk/homennemis.html
the bookstore : http://www.00h00.com/direct.cfm?titre=4802011802
- ---------------
The Internet has radically changed the traditional balance of power
between governments and those who produce information. Governments,
over-whelmed by these complex issues, are on the defensive. They all
want the Internet, but dream of a network under their control. For the
first time on, Reporters without borders and Transfert. Net issued a
report which is an inquiry about the restrictions implemented to block
the free circulation of information in fifty-nine countries, that is,
in western democracies as well as in developing countries.
- ----------------
Jean Marc Manach
http://www.transfert.net
33 (0)1 42 21 59 69 / 59
mailto:jmm@transfert.net
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:09:32 +0200
From: Melentie Pandilovski <misko@scca.org.mk>
SEAFair 2001 - Society and Genomic Culture
Date and place: 15 - 20 June, 2001
Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje,
Republic of Macedonia
Organizer: Contemporary Art Center - Skopje;
Curator: Melentie Pandilovski
http://seafair.scca.org.mk/
tel. (+ 389 2) 133.541;
e-mail: scca@scca.org.mk, misko@scca.org.mk;
AIM
Creating of critical discourse, and an on-going debate regarding the
cultural, social, ethical and ideological issues of genetics and
biotechnology.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
SEAFair 2001 - Society and Genomic Culture
The project Society and Genomic Culture investigates the overall
implications of the cross-issues of biotechnology, genetics (GM Food, Human
Genome Project, etc.), informatics, and techno-utilization.
The Center has envisioned the project Society and the Genomic Culture as a
forum bringing together artists, sociologists, biotechnologists, ethicists,
culture theoreticians and practitioners, in a constructive dialogue. We
expect the project to produce an open atmosphere for critical discourse,
and an on-going debate regarding the ideological, social, and ethical
issues of genetics and biotechnology. The idea of this edition of SEAFair
is to investigate what the abandoning of the electronic for the moist, or
their fusion will result with in the next period, and how the evolution of
society, politics, networks, and media, will be critically examined in an
overall platform. This platform will include series of continuous
standpoints questioning the very ideology of biotechnology and genetic
engineering, but should as a consequence result with a developing of a
sensible attitude to the corpus of biotechnological issues. This especially
because current research of broad fields in biotechnology and aspects of
genetic engineering (GM food, Human Genome Project, etc.) in a cultural and
a social sense, may assist us in the visualizing of our future.
STRUCTURE
The project in itself has 8 phases:
i. Selection of participants
ii. On-Line Debate
iii. Exhibition
iv. Workshop
v. Symposium
vi. Publishing of catalogue and book
vii. Producing of Bio Tech Art
viii. Media Campaign and Coverage
All artists, theorists, curators, who are active in this field are invited
to participate in the event. The idea of the biotech project must have a
content wise potential for further development in artistic way.
· The On-Line Debate is thought-out as concentrating on issues of ideology
and biotechnology. The debate will feature an on-going discussion for a
period of 2 months before the Symposium regarding ideological, social and
ethical discourses of genetics and biotechnology. The discussion will take
into account the spreading of Bio-Sciences (including flourishing
bio-business, genetic databanks, security issues) and the reception by the
politics, media, and the general public.
· Exhibition The exhibition will feature between 15-20 artworks by leading
contemporary international and domestic artists. The artworks are in fact a
collaboration of artists with scientists in the fields of: genomics,
biotechnology, media &communication bio works. The artworks will be
displayed in the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts in the period June 15 -
September 1, 2001.
· Symposium A two-day Symposium, by leading theoreticians in the field is
planned. Around 10 international and domestic theoreticians will be invited
to participate. Also the artists taking part in the exhibition and
workshop will be invited to participate in the Symposium. The main theme of
the Symposium will be SOCIETY AND GENOMIC CULTURE (the influence of
techno-scientific change upon society, the ethical implications of Genetic
Engineering, research and industrialization).
· Publishing The book and catalogue will be printed in English and
Macedonian, with a possible translation to other East European languages.
· Workshop
The artists will be gathered in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje,
Macedonia. They will be provided with experimental tools and a room with-in
the Museum. The audience will also be able to see the work of the artists
on the workshop. The workshop will be led by international and domestic
experts dealing with the aesthetic, scientific, and ethical aspects in
connection with the use of biotechnology and genetics as artistic medium.
The workshop will be aimed at 20 artists from Macedonia and Central&Eastern
Europe who will take part in it. The artists will be provided lodging and
food. The workshop will take place June 15 - 20. The workshop will serve
as a theoretical and practical introduction in the creation of biotech art.
During this period the leaders of the workshop will perform:
1. - Introduction to Bio-tech Art and relevant international work to the
artists attending the workshop
2. - Practical demonstration and development of individual concepts for
work in Bio-tech Art.
3. - Assistance in the realization of their works and bringing the artists
to a level from which the artists can continue to develop the projects on
their own.
The goals of the workshop are:
· To enhance the knowledge of artists in the workshop about envisioning,
preparation, and implementation of bio-tech art projects.
· To enable the artists to disseminate information and experiences gathered
in this workshop to colleagues in their own surrounding.
· To produce the improved version of their projects.
· To test their ideas.
· To prepare their future work.
· To have a public presentation on the end of the workshop, in the framework
of the EXHIBITION.
· Producing of Bio-tech Art work
The Contemporary Art Center will attempt to produce the initiated projects
on the workshop. The aim of the new produced biotech artwork is for it to
be a part of major international art events and flows.
You may pick up the application from :
http://seafair.scca.org.mk/01/default.asp
The selection decision will be made by May 1, 2001.
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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:33:56 +0200
From: "Oliver Thuns" <oliver.thuns@web.de>
Subject: [~] Call for Participation 25.-29.4.
[~] muziko interaktiva
Call for Participation
25. - 29. April 2001
Micro Radio / Webcast / Sound Installation
European Media Art Festival
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
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analog vs. digital
A 4m² large steel plate as a loudspeaker, on which audio streams from the
net are played and its sound is sent back to the net. A bass becomes
thundering and the resonant frequencies are amplified. You decide what will
happen. At http://popstation.de you could send the url of a audio stream,
which is then played on a steel plate. This could also be a live stream in
MP3 or RealAudio format. Our MP3 and a RealAudio server could be used, if
you don't have access to one.
To the steel plate, which is the digital part, there are analog
counterparts, which are also located at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück during the
European Media Art Festival. 3 movable microradio transmitters are
broadcasting on the same frequency. The strongest signals are received by
radios attached to sound objects. Depending upon the position of the radio
transmitters the sound in the space changes.
We are using the open source Ogg/Vorbis encoder for streaming, reencoded to
Realaudio at radiostudio.org.
More information, live streams, and irc chat at http://popstation.de
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Radiosender vs. Webcast
Radiophone Schrottobjekte vs. Stahlplatte
Eine 4m² große Stahlplatte als Lautsprechermembran, die mit Audio Streams
aus dem Netz bespielt wird und deren Sound ins Netz zurück geschickt wird.
Ein Bass wird zum Donnern und Frequenzen schaukeln sich auf. Was in
Osnabrück zu hören ist, ist nicht vorgegeben. Über http://popstation.de
kann die URL eines Audio Streams eingeben werden, der dann auf einer
Stahlplatte abgespielt wird. Dies kann natürlich auch ein Live-Stream sein.
Sowohl RealAudio als auch MP3 Streams funktionieren, ein MP3 und RealAudio
Server stehen zur freien Verfügung.
Der auf die Stahlplatte gestreamte Sound ergänzt den Klang der
nicht-digitalen Gegenstücke, die in der Kunsthalle während des European
Media Art Festival stehen, genauer gesagt hängen oder sich bewegen. 3
verschiebbare Microradio Sender übertragen auf der gleichen Frequenz. Nur
die stärksten Signale bringen an der Decke hängende Objekte vom
Schrottplatz zum klingen. Je nach Position der Radiosender verändert sich
der Empfangsbereich des Schrotts und somit der Klang im Raum.
Live Streams, IRC-Chat und weitere Informationen sind im WWW zu finden
unter http://popstation.de
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Oliver Thuns
Inga Skworanek
Matthias Schnell
Franziska Heine
Supported by radiostudio.org
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2001
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