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Table of Contents:

   Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio                                             
     Eric kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>                                                

   Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis                 
     "Konrad Becker" <konrad@t0.or.at>                                               

   real.-Radio Resonance 104.4 fm, London                                          
     schwarze@student.uni-kassel.de                                                  

   MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM                                           
     Benjamin Fischer <benjamin@typedown.com>                                        

   en) NYC - Discuss & Deploy:  Convergence of Media and Technology @ctivists      
     "anarcho sando" <anarcho_sando@hotmail.com>                                     

   RDS 2.0: CONFERENCE ON RACE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES                                
     Tara McPherson <tmcphers@usc.edu>                                               

   opening / vernissage                                                            
     "- G a r r e t t -" <garrett_44@hotmail.com>                                    

   Debate in NYC: No Logo vs. Pro Logo                                             
     "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>                                                

   Call for Papers - Historicising Digital Art                                     
     Charlie Gere <c.gere@bbk.ac.uk>                                                 

   Oekonux-Conference 2002: Invitation                                             
     Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de>                                              

   kuda.org > Geert Lovink                                                         
     "office" <office@kuda.org>                                                      

   OMAN tour starting today                                                        
     "t.ballevart" <t.ballevart@travellab.net>                                       

   The Imaginary Hotel, a networked installation                                   
     Andrea Zapp <zapp@snafu.de>                                                     



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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:29:38 +0200
From: Eric kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio

Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Radio

Live stream: http://freeteam.nl:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/n5m&file=dummy.pls


Saturday 21 September, 18.00-21.00 GMT+1
- ----Debate: Migration and Illegality

How can illegal people tell thier own stories while still remaining "invisible"
to the authorities? And what can be done against the systems in society,
politics and the media society, used to catagorize and register people?  A
panel including Paul Keller [ExpertBase], Roshini Kempadoo [Virtual Exiles],
Yehudi van de Pol [Baobab Connections] alongside representatives of local
migrant groups, will address these questions with the participation of a public
audience. Included will be a screening of Joost Bohnen's video "Suffer", which
follows the life of Mauritanian immigrant Ibrahim. A live phone-in line and
internet chat room will allow for extended public participation in the debate.
Moderator: Menno Grootveld.

Live Simulcast on:

Radio 100, Amsterdam:
- ---ether: 99.3 FM

RAZO [SALTO Radio Zuidoost], Amsterdam Zuidoost:
- ---ether: 105.2 FM
- ---cable: 103.8 FM

Live Phone-In: +31 (0)20 489 48 66
Live Chat: http://chat.indymedia.org  -or- irc.indymedia.org  channel= #n5m


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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:23:20 +0200
From: "Konrad Becker" <konrad@t0.or.at>
Subject: Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis

Dark Markets is a two day strategic conference that will look into the
state of the art of media politics, information technologies, and
theories of democracy. A variety of international speakers will inquire
into strategies of oppositional movements and discuss the role of new
media: 

Pauline Borsook, Oleg Kireev, Soenke Zehle, Franco Berardi Bifo, Chantal
Mouffe, Arianna Bove, Erik Empson, Christopher Spehr, Geert Lovink,
Florian Schneider 

- -> DARK MARKETS, Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times
of Crisis

These are some of the questions Dark Markets would like to address:

Has the Internet still its original potential to foster a ‘network
democracy from below’? Aren’t new media already too much compromised by
the ever growing state and corporate influence? Can the Internet be
reclaimed as a ‘digital commons’ or has the current crisis already
reached a meta media level, beyond propaganda and its mirror
counter-campaigns?

Crisis, which crisis?
For a growing number of people the "1989" promise of democracy and
market economy, guided by EU, NATO and IMF, is turning into a disaster
recipe. Corporate globalization, unbeatable in the nineties, has reached
an all time low. Despite US-military spending up due to the War on
Terrorism, a unilatarist foreign policy and protectionalism, the Bush
Jr. administration is rapidly losing its global hegemonic position. The
globally distributed power of empire is turning into an old school
imperialist exercise. There is not much left of the credibility of the
once mighty neo-liberals and their proclaimed ‘end of history’. The list
of ‘scandals’ and unresolved crises is growing by the day: the outbreak
of AIDS in Africa, China and Russia; failed privatizations; endemic
unemployment and poverty; the rise of Europe’s populist and
‘culturalist’ right; the violent vicious circles of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict; global warming and the Kyoto treaty drama;
the economic-monetary crisis in Argentine and power struggles in
Venezuela and last but not least the astonishing roller coaster ride
from dotcom mania to plummeting stock markets.

Democracy: the Empty Signifier

The decline in public interest for party politics and elections stands
in strong contrast to the promises of an ‘electronic democracy’. While
the Internet and its democratic potentials are spreading rapidly, the
majority has never been as silent in the history of liberal democracies.
With democratic culture on the rise, the gap between society and its
representatives is so big that it seems hopeless. Today’s social
movements not only lack a political wing, there is not even a wish to
move into such a direction. Unlike the 68 generation with the leftist
splinter groups and Green parties, contemporary dissent doesn’t even
bother with local or national politicians and immediately address the
agencies of real power: transnational corporations and their
international bodies. However, this post-political condition leaves a
lot of questions unanswered. Today’s movements and their new media are
anything but transparent.  There a just a few decision-making tools
available on the Internet. Nor can we say that the medium itself is
managed in an open and accountable way (just think about the ICANN
domain name policy disaster). The promises of an ‘e-democracy’ are in
danger of fading away as one of the many nineties utopias that talked
and talked but failed to deliver. It is therefore time that the radical
democracy criticisms are also going to be applied the consensual
premises of the new media story.

Intelligence of Information Politics

In the midst of economic slump intelligence agencies of all kinds remain
untainted of the economic crisis and have grown into a major
intelligence industry geared to economically exploit the databody but
also to influence policy and public opinion. 
Corporations, consumers of economic intelligence, routinely advance the
merging of editorial information with corporate public relations in the
media. The interest of private capital is further supported by
manipulating policy through a multitude of think-tanks which publish
ideologically biased research or hidden agendas masked as independent
academic work. These intelligence products are not balanced by research
that is driven by the public interest or models for a digital commons.
Unlike the billion-dollar brainware industry put into place by corporate
interest, there are no "foresight institutes" exploring the potential of
human communication beyond the role as consumers. It seems as if the
control of socio-technological development is in the hands of
technocratic elites, ill informed bureaucrats and a shadowy but
aggressive lobbyism. The layout for the future of communication is
decided behind closed doors. This logic of control over the information
market is strongly opposed to the cultivation and formation of a public
sphere, and the dysfunctionality of the communication markets generates
crucial deficiencies in itself. 
Therefore it seems necessary to draw up information policies suited to
protect the digital commons, to establish Cultural Intelligence Agencies
to raise awareness on conflictual issues and to strengthen the basis for
a broad discussion of the political 
implications of ICT.

New Media and Democracy

With that much problems on the rise, the question concerning aim and
organization of a global resistance movement has become pertinent. The
‘new’ movements and media are not yet mature enough to question the
powers to be and lack sufficient leverage at the negotiating table. The
claim to ‘embody the future’ in a conservative climate like is becoming
a weak and empty gesture. On the other hand, the call of many activists
to return to “real life” does not provide us with a solution to how
alternative new media models can be lifted to the level of mass culture.
Therefore, rather then making up yet another concept it is time to ask
the question of how software, interfaces and alternative standards can
be installed in society. Ideas may take the shape of a virus, but
society may hit back with even more successful immunization programs:
appropriation, repression and neglect Most movements and initiatives
find themselves in a trap. The strategy of becoming “minor” (Guattari)
is no longer a positive choice but the default option. 
With access to the political process effectively blocked, further
mediation seems the only available option. However, gaining more and
more “brand value” in terms of global awareness may turn out to be like
overvalued stocks. One day they might pay off, but meanwhile they are
pretty worthless. 
Instead of arguing for “reconciliation” between the real and virtual we
call here for a rigorous involvement and implementation of social
movements into technology.



http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/


Thursday 3 + Friday 4 October 2002


Conference by Public Netbase/t0 Vienna
Concept: Geert Lovink, Florian Schneider, Konrad Becker


On Show: 


Florian Schneider: 
Was tun? (What's to be done?)
Video, 43 min., online, 2002
Originally a program for the German-French TV station ARTE, the project
has been extended online. Whatstobedone.org (www.wastun.org) is a
collaborative streaming media project interweaving video, audio and text
contributions on the burning questions of a movement of movements. In
Vienna it will be first time presented in form of a video installation.
The films feature a general debate about the future of global activism,
and then portray three different campaigns: The Italian Tute Bianche,
the German Deportation.Class campaign and new labor struggles in the
Californian high-tech industries.



Oliver Ressler:
This is what democracy looks like!
Video, 38 min., 2002
The video picks as a central theme the events that took place around a
demonstration against the World Economic Forum in Salzburg 2001. In this
demonstration, which was forbidden by the police, 919 demonstrators were
encircled in a police blockade and detained for over seven hours.


Christoph Spehr: 

Time is on my side 
Video, 17 min., 2002 The video deals with political utopias - why we
need them, what problems we have with them, how we change our approach
to them while getting older, and why it's important for men to take care
of their looks. It's a cut-up from different science-fiction-movies
(Godzilla, Star Trek, Matrix) combined with a spoken background text.

Vorwärts, ihr freien Schweine! (Go on, you free pigs!) 
Video, 25 min., 2002 
The focus of this video is our experience of power/domination-structures
- - and how we get rid of them. Scenes are taken from cartoon movies for
children (The Emperor's New Groove, A Bug's Life, etc.). It is very
educational, very useful for your everyday life, a must for everyone who
has ever considered becoming a free pig. 



Dark Fiber:
Dark Markets will also be the launch of Geert Lovink’s Dark Fiber, a
collection of essays on critical Internet culture, to be published in
September 2002 by The MIT Press. Other translations coming up are
German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. 




Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0
Public Netbase        http://www.t0.or.at




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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:34:50 +0200 (MES)
From: schwarze@student.uni-kassel.de
Subject: real.-Radio Resonance 104.4 fm, London 

hello,

an E-Mailflyer! sure there are some nettimers in London. 

best from 

matze.schmidt@n0name.de 



real.-Mapping real.-Radio  Su., 22/09/2002  8 pm - 9 pm 

Resonance 104.4 fm 

Miho Shimizu, Oyvind Renberg, Sebastian Stegner and 
Matze Schmidt 
Mapping live! on Resonance, London's first radio art station 
A talk about different mappingstrategies, economix and topology 
as a method 
Audio stream http://www.resonancefm.com 
(London Musicians' Collective Limited, http://www.l-m-c.org.uk) 

Soft Season, Danger Museum, http://www.dangermuseum.com 
04/09 - 27/09/02 
The Space@inIVA, London 

info@real-mapping.net 


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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:36:38 +0200
From: Benjamin Fischer <benjamin@typedown.com>
Subject: MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM

media-space 02 (http://www.media-space.org)
September, 19-22, 2002
Stuttgart Filmhaus, Friedrichstr. 23 A

The main stress on the this years edition of media-space lies on New Media,
New Music, Performance, and Theatre. Our guests are i.e. the Amsterdam based
Studio for electroacoustic music STEIM and IRCAM from Paris.

A special event is the STEIM concert on Friday, September 20, 9 p.m. the
composers Joel Ryan, Netochka Nezvanov, and Daniel Schorno give together
with the cellist Frances-Marie Uitti an insight into laptop live music and
instrumental electroacoustics.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MEDIA-SPACE 02 LECTURES - LIVE STREAM
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

ALL LECTURES ON THE MEDIA-SPACE CAN BE WATCHED VIA
http://video.lf.net:554/ramgen/encoder/ms02.rm AS LIVE VIDEO STREAM.

To watch the live video-stream you will need the RealPlayer. The free Real
Player Basic can be downloaded at http://www.real.com.

>>> all times are indicated in Middle European Time  (MET)

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 02
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
14.00 time and space on the stage and in the film - a comparison.
Klaus-Peter Platten

15.00 Medial interactions: Adaptive textiles
Henrik Mauler und Gert de Bryn

16.00 Ambiente sensibili - The work of Studio Azzurro
Axel Wirths 

21.00 Steim concert evening

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 02
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
14.00 Video work for Wooster Group und Forsythe
Philip Bußmann 

15.00 Stuttgart Library. A music library
Manuel Poletti und Andreas Breitscheid

16.00 Jitter - realtime performance tool
Jeremy Bernstein und Randell Jones

17.00 Scanned Christian Ziegler

21.00 Lounge 

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 02
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
15.00 Cosmos in the head - theatres without actors
Via Lewandowsky 

16.00 n/a Michael Simon

17.00 The realization of peaks in the high mountain landscape
Hanna Groninger and Kerstin Weinbrecht

19.00 Panel discussion 


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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:52:19 +0000
From: "anarcho sando" <anarcho_sando@hotmail.com>
Subject: en) NYC - Discuss & Deploy:  Convergence of Media and Technology @ctivists 



Discuss & Deploy:
A Convergence of Media and Technology Activists
September 27 -- September 29
http://www.abcnorio.org/conference

ABC No Rio, Autonomedia, FREE.THE.MEDIA!, InterActivist Network, Openflows 
Networks Ltd and TAO invite you to attend a conference addressing issues 
related to media autonomy and self-determination.

Discuss & Deploy will explore the convergence of technology, activism and 
culture, examining what this digital convergence means in terms of public 
access and the rights of noncommercial networks to exist in the 
corporate-owned digital world.

The conference will include panel presentations, workshops, and 
conversations/dialogues on topics including open source software, models of 
autonomous networks, security culture and more.

Registration is $10--$30 US (sliding scale). Registered conference attendees 
receive complimentary breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings; free admission 
to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Saturday evening; and $1 off all beer and 
drinks at the Lotus Club.

All panels, discussions and workshops will take place in locations on the 
Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. All venues are within walking 
distance of each other.

More detailed information about Discuss & Deploy can be found at 
http://www.abcnorio.org/conference


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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:24:42 -0700
From: Tara McPherson <tmcphers@usc.edu>
Subject: RDS 2.0: CONFERENCE ON RACE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES


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RDS 2.0 EVENT PROBES RACE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous 
contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, 
journalists, and scholars. Researchers from the University of 
California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's Annenberg Center for 
Communication will host a three-day event, Race in Digital Space 2.0, to 
explore current issues and celebrate the accomplishments of minorities 
using digital technologies, Thursday, 10 October through Saturday, 12 
October 2002, at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and on the USC campus.
Day after day we engage with media and technology on multiple fronts.  
The Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event defines "digital space" as a 
flexible arena that reflects the continual change of technology in 
relation to the practices and processes of the everyday.  Following upon 
both the recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events of 
9/11, the once-euphoric conversations about new media have largely 
quieted.  Race in Digital Space 2.0 seeks to intervene in this 
constricted field, offering compelling new analyses of both the 
potentials and the risks of new technological development.  This 
important event offers an opportunity to comment on the ways media and 
technology are used by a diverse array of citizens and to examine how 
this interaction defines society and culture.  Conference sessions will 
explore current public policy affecting "digital divide" and privacy 
issues, the global reach of new media, as well as innovative and 
creative uses of technology within communities of color.  This 
international conference will serve as a touchstone for thinking 
critically and usefully about race in digital spaces.

Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post 9/11'; 'Tracking 
Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining Race: Representin' Race in New 
Media Environments'; 'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in 
Digital Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live Mixes: 
Teens and New Technologies.'  A concurrent digital salon will feature a 
number of cutting-edge art and music performances as well as online 
exhibits and video screenings.  Featured speakers and artists include 
Isaac Julien, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Greg Tate, Todd Boyd, 
Rubén D. Ortiz Torres, Sue Ellen Case, Wendy Chun, Tony Wilhelm, Chela 
Sandoval, Daniel Martinez, Pamela Z, Los Cybrids and many, many more!

The conference is free and open to the public.  Registration information 
and further details are available online at www.annenberg.edu/race


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Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous contributions
of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars.
Researchers from the University of California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's
Annenberg Center for Communication will host a three-day event, <b><i>Race
in Digital Space 2.0</i></b>, to explore current issues and celebrate the
accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies, Thursday, 10 October
through Saturday, 12 October 2002, at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and
on the USC campus. <br>
Day after day we engage with media and technology on multiple fronts.&nbsp; The
<i><b>Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event</b></i> defines "digital space" as
a flexible arena that reflects the continual change of technology in relation
to the practices and processes of the everyday.&nbsp; Following upon both the
recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events of 9/11, the
once-euphoric conversations about new media have largely quieted.&nbsp; <i><b>Race
in Digital Space 2.0</b></i> seeks to intervene in this constricted field,
offering compelling new analyses of both the potentials and the risks of
new technological development.&nbsp; This important event offers an opportunity
to comment on the ways media and technology are used by a diverse array of
citizens and to examine how this interaction defines society and culture.&nbsp;
Conference sessions will explore current public policy affecting "digital
divide" and privacy issues, the global reach of new media, as well as innovative
and creative uses of technology within communities of color.&nbsp; This international
conference will serve as a touchstone for thinking critically and usefully
about race in digital spaces.<br>
<br>
Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post 9/11'; 'Tracking
Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining Race: Representin' Race in New Media
Environments'; 'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in Digital
Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live Mixes: Teens and New
Technologies.'&nbsp; A concurrent digital salon will feature a number of cutting-edge
art and music performances as well as online exhibits and video screenings.
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Z, Los Cybrids and many, many more!<br>
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:23:37 +0000
From: "- G a r r e t t -" <garrett_44@hotmail.com>
Subject: opening / vernissage

+-----------------------------------------------------------+

Hello everyone

Last email via hotmail as i'm dumping this address, if any of you need to 
contact me use my other email address, if you don't have my other email 
address, mail me and ask me for it.

Small anouncement, Michael and I are participating in the exhibition 
"Reload"  at the Istanbul Contempory Art Museum 
(http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/) with "_pause".  I have my doubts whether 
this is the real museum of contempory art in Istanbul or not but tonight 
(Saturday the 21st) at 6pm GMT (thats 5pm in France) the opening is being 
webcast.  See the site for more details.

+-----------------------------------------------------------+



+-----------------------------------------------------------+

Salut tous

Dernier email via hotmail, si vous avais besoin a me contacte utilise mon 
autre email, si vous avais pas mon autre email, email moi et demande le s'il 
te plait.

Petite announe, Michael et moi participe dans le expo "Reload" au Musee de 
Art Contemporain a Istanbul (http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/) avec le projet 
"_pause".  J'ai mes doubts si c'est vraiment le Musee de Istanbul ou pas 
mais ce soir (Samedi le 21) a 6 heure GMT (5 heure en France) il y a un 
webcast de le vernissage de le expo.  Voir le site pour de details specific.

+-----------------------------------------------------------+


a+
gar


+-----------------------------------------------------------+

http://www.asquare.org/
http://www.zendco.com/
http://rhizome.org/artbase/2855/index.html

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:46:35 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Debate in NYC: No Logo vs. Pro Logo

(from the nation)

Hello,

Naomi Klein's No Logo gained international notice, in part for being the
first book to survey and track the growing global resistance movements to
corporate-led globalization. Equal parts cultural analysis, journalistic
expose and mall-rat memoir, No Logo introduces a broad range of global
activists taking aim at corporation's most sophisticated marketing
techniques.

Last year, the Economist published an in-your-face retort in the form of a
cover-story, Pro Logo, written by Sameena Ahmad, a business correspondent
for the magazine, which argued, in part, that branding was actually a
postive, empowering process for consumers.

This Wednesday in New York City, Klein and Ahmad will debate in a free
public forum sponsored by the Nation, The Economist and public radio
station WNYC. Also including panelists Owens Wiwa and Peter Marber, the
proceedings will be moderated by Brian Lehrer, host of the award-winning
WNYC program The Brian Lehrer Show.

No Logo vs. Pro-Logo
September 25, 2002, 7:00-9:00pm
The New York Society for Ethical Cultures: 2 West 64th Street
Free Admission; Arrive Early. Doors Open at 6:15pm
For more info: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/4390

WNYC is also going to broadcast the entire event later in the week  as
well as make the audio available for listening online. For info:
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/4390

For more on No Logo and Klein's latest collection, Fences and Windows:
http://www.nologo.org

To read Ahmad's cover-story (September 6, 2001 issue of The Economist):
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=770992

And check out Klein's previous Nation writings-including her most recent
report from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020916&s=klein

Finally, please pass this message on to any groups or people you know who
may be interested. But, remember, please arrive early.

Best Regards,

Peter Rothberg
Associate Publisher, The Nation




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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:48:27 +0100
From: Charlie Gere <c.gere@bbk.ac.uk>
Subject: Call for Papers - Historicising Digital Art

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be 
interested

Call for Papers

Historicizing Digital Art

Session for the 2003 Association of Art Historians Conference 
'Articulations'

To be held at Birkbeck College and University College London
10th - 13th April 2003

Art made using computers and other new technologies has in general 
received little attention from art historians. Since the 1960s it has 
been treated as a marginal activity that is largely irrelevant to the 
concerns of the history of art and to the trajectories and debates it 
engages with. But recently, with the rise of the World Wide Web and the 
increasingly important role played by digital technology in current 
society, this has begun to change. The critical interest generated by 
contemporary artistic movements such as net.art has also enabled the 
recovery of a rich history of practice in this area, going back to the 
1950s and before. Digital and computer practice is being belatedly 
recognised as an important part of the history of contemporary art. 
There is a certain urgency to this as both the work and knowledge of 
pioneering practitioners are in danger of disappearing before they can 
be properly accounted for and given their due place in the narratives of 
modern and post-modern cultural history.

For this session proposals are invited for papers that look at the 
history of digital and computer art, or which consider the issues in 
historicizing this area, which, hitherto, has not received the attention 
it deserves. Contributions are also welcome that look at questions of 
curation, conservation and collecting of digital art.

Proposals should be no longer than 200 words and be accompanied by 
contact details and an email address. Speakers are not paid and are 
expected to pay conference fees, but are offered reduced rates. If you 
are intending to apply for funding please let me know. This is 
particularly important if your attendance is conditional on funding, or 
if you are applying for British Academy funding.

The deadline is the 1st November 2002. Please send proposals to

Dr Charlie Gere

By email to

c.gere@bbk.ac.uk

Or by snail mail to

School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media
Birkbeck College, University of London
43 Gordon Square
WC1H OPD
London
United Kingdom

Enquiries to Dr Gere on ++44(0)20 7 631 6128



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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:42:45 -0400
From: Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de>
Subject: Oekonux-Conference 2002: Invitation

Free of value and just for fun!
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>From Free Software to Free Society?
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2. Oekonux Conference

Invitation

Free Software is a mystery to someone who thinks only in terms of labor and
money. Thousands of volunteers build highly complex software, without which
for instance the Internet would not even be imaginable - and the majority
of them receive no money. Nonetheless the developers benefit from their
doing: They are completely absorbed by it, it fits their personality to do
precisely that - in short: It is their life.

This opportunity for individual and collective self-unfolding is
accompanied by global networking and self-organization, which evolves from
the development of computer technology. Based on the new technology
"Internet" a new form to produce what is necessary arises Free Software
being a germ form. And with a great deal of creativity the new technical
possibilities are employed to experiment with new forms of social
interaction freely and easily.

The Project Oekonux [http://www.oekonux.org/] does research on the
economical, political and social forms of Free Software. Similar to the
development of Free Software, here too different people with different
reasons and different approaches get together in this project to build
something new. One question, a lot of people are interested in, is, whether
the principles of the development of Free Software can serve as a basis for
a new society.

The 2. Oekonux conference [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/] takes up the
diversity of the project. It aims at learning something about how the
example of Free Software is perceived and realized in other fields. And it
already is being experimented with in many fields:

o    Education and school

o    Knowledge and information transfer and archiving

o    Technics and arts

In addition the program [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/program/] of
the conference will contain:

o    A discussion of the book "Empire"

o    Studies on Free Software itself

o    Contributions from the theory built in Project Oekonux

We hope and expect that in an open atmosphere critical voices as much as
the enthusiasm of the hackers will merge into a creative process. We hope
and expect, that the wide range of presentations contributed by German and
international guests will lead to new insights and broader understanding
for all participants. We hope and expect, that the 2. Oekonux conference
will be as great an experience as the 1. Oekonux conference
[http://erste.oekonux-konferenz.de/] was.

2. Oekonux Conference

1.-3. November 2002

Technische Universit”t Berlin

Please register

http://www.oekonux-konferenz.org/registration.html





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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:22:57 +0200
From: "office" <office@kuda.org>
Subject: kuda.org > Geert Lovink

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kuda.lounge
kuda.org
Saturday
21.09.02.
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Geert Lovink (Sidney, Amsterdam)

Lecture:
The Cult of Surveillance Paranoia
The Impact on New Media Networks

The days of cyberutopia are over. After the dotcom crash and 911 an
atmosphere of general uncertainty has taken over the Internet. What effect
do surveillance, hacktivism and infowar discourses have on cyberculture at
large? Is the emphasis of artists and activists on surveillance creating a
culture of suspicion and paranoia, an atmosphere of distrust? This lecture
will look into the example of the collapse of the Syndicate mailinglist
network in August 2001 and discuss the difference between information
warfare and net.art strategies. Also it will look into possibilities of
weblogs to filter out the 'trolls'.

Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist, net critic and activist,
based in Sydney, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam.
He is member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal
Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in
1983 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch). Most of the texts of Adilkno in Dutch,
German and English can be found at http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet. He was the
co-organizer of conferences such as Wetware (1991), Next Five Minutes 1-3
(93-96-99) http://www.n5m.org, Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96)
http://www.mrf.hu, Ars Electronica (Linz, 1996/98) http://www.aec.at and
Interface 3 (Hamburg 95). In 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the
international 'nettime' circle http://www.nettime.org which is both a
mailinglist (in English, Dutch, French, Spanish/Portuguese, Romanian and
Chinese), a series of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, 'Netzkritik
' (ID-Archiv, 1997, in German) and 'Readme!' (Autonomedia, 1998).
A recent conference he organized was Tulipomania Dotcom conference, which
took place in Amsterdam, June 2000, focussing on a critique of the New
Economy www.balie.nl/tulipomania. In early 2001 he co-founded
www.fibreculture.org, a forum for Australian Internet research and culture
which has its first publication out, launched at the first fibreculture
meeting in Melbourne (December 2001).

Lecture is organized with the support of  Royal Netherlands Embassy in
Belgrade

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Andreas Broeckmann (Berlin)
Lecture and presentation: Transmediale: Art plays global  plays global which
was intented to be on Tuesday, 24.09.02 is postponed for October




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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:16:07 +0200
From: "t.ballevart" <t.ballevart@travellab.net>
Subject: OMAN tour starting today

Ladies and Gentlemen,

OMAN - The Independent Artist 

is going on tour: from travellab Berlin to HISK Antwerp to TU Eindhoven and via KHM Cologne back to Berlin (September 24-26).

As artist and robot OMAN turns the situation upside down: instead having people expecting him to do something for them, he expects people to do something for him. Egg-shaped OMAN cannot move by himself, he has to talk people into helping him along. He calls cabs, sleeps in hotels and pays with his card. He speaks English, sings and djs. OMAN asks questions and sometimes he provokes: six mood functions (happy/sad, love/hate, fear/interest) challenge his interlocutor, the great entertainer is permanently >in the mood<.

OMAN - The Tour

Tuesday, September 24 at 9 am OMAN starts at Berlin Alexanderplatz. With a van and some friends he gets on the Autobahn and visits gas stations on his way to the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK - Higher Institute for the Fine Arts), Antwerp. He checks in at the hotel and does a lecture show at 8 pm at Blow Up, Kloosterstraat 62. 
The next morning OMAN continues his journey to the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, where in the evening he takes part at the opening talkshow of Man Machine Festival. Thursday OMAN will visit the Kunsthochschule fuer Medien (KHM - Academy for Mediaarts) in Cologne and then go back to travellab, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin, where he is expected at 6 pm.

You can see OMAN's excursion in his own view. Every minute he sends a new picture to http://oman.berlin.heimat.de/images.php through GPRS. More information on OMAN is provided at http://www.oman.berlin.heimat.de.

OMAN wishes to thank his friends

Francis Wittenberger (Israel / Europe): project coordinator
Birgit Schoene (Germany): egg model and costumes
Boris Svirsky (Israel): artistic director
Clark Nova (Germany): voice
Katja Gruetering (Germany): funding and public relations 
Manuel Bonik (Germany): conceptual debugging, texts, voice
Michael Mikina (Austria): texts, media concept, artistic research relations
Peter Ravil (Australia): web programming
Raimo Ihle (Germany): audio-visual online kernel programming
Soern Raagard (Denmark): sounds
Sukandar Kartadinata (Germany / Indonesia): hardware/hardware programming

OMAN is sponsored by

berlin.heimat.de (Germany): webspace
bit-side GmbH (Germany): programming 
Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Thailand): 
Chiang Mai TV Co. Ltd (Thailand): finances
enemy.org (Austria): SSL
e-plus GmbH (Germany): GPRS communication
Girder (The Netherlands): automation software
Kunstpunkt Berlin (Germany): hosting
paybox AG (Germany): online banking
q-bik (Germany): construction
q-bus (Germany): hardware, shipping & production
Schoene Grakif.de (Germany): fashion & design
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Studium Generale

(c) OMAN INDEPENDENT ARTIST ROBOT 
A project by Francis Wittenberger and Boris Svirsky in collaboration with travellab.net and friends

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:59:50 +0100
From: Andrea Zapp <zapp@snafu.de>
Subject: The Imaginary Hotel, a networked installation

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The Imaginary Hotel
An interactive Installation linked to the Internet.

By Andrea Zapp

Gallery visitors are invited to make up their own room.
Internet users are invited to take part online at www.azapp.de/hotel.

The Imaginary Hotel allows visitors to occupy and design their ideal 
room and fill it with personal content and inspiration. It will be 
set up in the Chapman Gallery in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK 
between October 9th and 31st, 2002. The installation architecture 
resembles a typical hotel room; yet choosing image, video and sound 
footage from the net via the room TV menu, can alter the standard 
interior and even hotel location. At the same time internet 
participants can interfere by modifying or uploading further material 
via the hotel website. They are also able to ring up the gallery 
visitors via a specially designed web-telephone interface. A web cam 
is streaming real time video from the hotel to the website to 
document the ongoing changes.

A hotel as such stands for an anonymous social melting pot in a 
constant state of flux - The Imaginary Hotel further mirrors digital 
travel in a distorted concept of space and time. It represents a 
virtual retreat accommodating permanently migrating residents. 
Similar to a blank canvas, the vacant room is successively populated 
and shaped by individuals. Real and virtual guests arrive, meet and 
disappear from out of nowhere and leave their personal traces, 
reflecting the seamless border between physical and imaginative 
places of being.

Supported by the Leverhulme Trust London, the University of Salford 
and the North West Arts Board.

Coding by Onno Baudouin

The Chapman Gallery, Salford, Manchester
Opening of the physical hotel and the website: 6.00 pm (GMT), October 9th, 2002

The Chapman Gallery, Peel Park Campus, University of Salford, 
University Rd, Salford, M5 4WT,
Tel. 0161-295-5241
October 10th to 31st, 2002, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm, Monday - Friday. 
Admission is free.

Web terminals are set up at the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly 
Gallery, Lancaster.

Special project presentations by the artist:

October 10th, 6.30 pm, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
October 19th, 2.00 pm, Folly Gallery, 26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ

and ISEA 02, Nagoya, Japan - Poster Sessions, 30th of October.

www.azapp.de/hotel
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