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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 97/09
- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates
- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription
* Introduction *
Dear Syndicalists,
what a weekend: at this moment, members of the Syndicate are (co)organising
events in Hull (ROOTless), Maribor (Festival of Computer Art), Tallinn
(Interstanding2), Trondheim (Screens), Brno (Hi-Tech Art) and Graz
(Steirischer Herbst). Good places to meet, all of them ...
I just finished proof-reading part of the Syndicate Reader which we are
producing for Ostranenie and which will include an selection of texts and
messages which were posted on the list over the past 18 months. It shows
what a long way we have come, and how many open questions there are for
discussion. In Dessau, where the Ostranenie festival will take place in 3
and a half weeks, we will hold an internal Syndicate meeting on Saturday,
Nov. 8th, and an open forum discussion on Sunday, Nov. 9th. For exact time
and place check the programme updates that will come in over the next days.
(If you still need help regarding your travel to Dessau, please, get in
touch with Marci Jost at <emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de> for information,
invitations, etc.)
If you look at the programme of the festival that Stephen Kovats sent out
the other day (or at the excerpts below) you will see a most amazing
collection of videos, performances, exhibition pieces and lectures - a deep
european feast which hopefully many of you can participate in. We should
also talk about the next steps - like a tentatively proposed informal
meeting in Tirana next spring, and the possibilities for a special presence
of the Syndicate at ISEA98 in Liverpool/Manchester next September.
(Deadline for submissions will be 15 January.)
Please, also note the deadline for the VideoMedeja festival of women's
video in Novi Sad coming up on Oct. 15 - the information about this
December event is again included below.
I hope to see you soon,
best wishes,
-a
* Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions *
(check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these
events)
- 3 - 23 October 1997: Hi-Tech/Art '97, Brno/CZ
- 5 October - 2 November 1997: Screens, Trondheim/NO
- 7 - 19 October 1997: Interstanding 2, Tallinn/EE
- 10 - 12 October 1997: ROOTless '97, Hull/UK
- 16 - 26 October 1997: VIPER 97, Lucerne/CH
-17 - 24 October: CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana/Si
- 18 October 1997: opening ZKM, Karlsruhe/D
- 21 October 1997: SeaFair: Interactive Narration/Int. CD ROM exhibition,
Skopje/MK
- 24 October 1997: opening Multimediale 5, Karlsruhe/D
- Nov - December: Da-Da-Net, Moscow/Ru
- 3 - 9 November 1997: LADA 97, Rimini/It + San Marino/SM
- 5 - 9 November 1997: OSTranenie, Dessau/D
- 8 - 16 November 1997: Art & Communication, Valencia/ES
- 10 - 16 November 1997: Video and Electronic Art Festival, Riga/LV (incl.:)
- 12 - 14 November 1997: art+communication #2, Riga/LV
- 24 - 25 November 1997: Flusser Media Film, Prague/CZ
- 4 - 7 December 1997: Recycling the Future, Vienna/A
- 5 - 7 December 1997: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU
- 12 - 22 February 1998: Transmediale / 11th Videofest, Berlin/D
- September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D
- September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK
- November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL
* Interstanding2, Tallinn/Estonia
Interstanding 2 is organized by the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts,
Estonia in co-operation with the Estonian Academy of Arts.
After the first festival week, videoprograms and exhibition continue from
Oct.9 - Oct.19
in Rotermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn, Ahtri 2
and in the Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Kuperjanovi 9
-The 90s in Polish video art
-Creatures, Slovenian video art from 90s
-Ã?kuc-Forum Video Production, Slovenian video art from early 80s
-Real Life, Croatian video art from 90s
-Video Medea, Yugoslavian feminist video
-To Bite or to Lick? (Oleg Kulik)
-St. Petersburgâs video art from 90s
-Ukrainian video art from 90s
Artists participating in the 5th annual exhibition
Guest artists: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia, Gleb Katchuk, Ukraine, Damijan
Kracina, Slovenia, Maksim Mamsikov, Russia , Dalibor Martinis, Croatia,
Gia Rigvava, Russia, Mikhail Ryklin, Russia, Arsen Savadov, Ukraine
>From Estonia: Jan J.Graps, Maria Ruus, Pier Li, F.F.F.F. (Kristi Paap,
Kaire Rannik, Berit TeeÅ Å r, Ketli Tiitsaar), Anu Juurak, Kai Kaljo, Raivo
Kelomees, Ando KeskkŸla, Ilmar KruusamŠe, JŸri Ojaver, Martin Pedanik,
Liina Siib, Jaan Toomik, Mare Tralla, Urmo Vaikla, TŸŸne-Kristin Vaikla,
Mart Viljus
Exhibition places: Rotermannâs Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn,
Ahtri 2
Draakon Gallery, Tallinn , Pikk 18
Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, VÅ ike-Karja 12
Sammas Gallery, Tallinn, Vabaduse vÅ ljak 6
Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts,Tallinn,Tartu mnt 1
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Kuperjanovi 9
TV
Net
City space
Curator: Ando KeskkŸla
* 3. International Festival of Contemporary Arts - CITY OF WOMEN
Ljubljana/Si 17 till 24 October 1997.
The preliminary programme of our festival is available at:
http://www.sigov.si/uzp/city/97/
The final programme will be available on October 1.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
Ursula Cetinski Koen Van Daele
artistic director programme coordinator
CITY OF WOMEN
TOMSICEVA 4
1000 LJUBLJANA - SLOVENIA
Phone: +386+61/215.748
Fax: +386+61/125.60.57
Email: mestozensk@uzp.sigov.mail.si
koen.vandaele@uzp.sigov.mail.si
HomePage: http://www.sigov.si/uzp/city/
* OSTranenie 97
International electronic media forum, Bauhaus Dessau/D
5-9 November 1997
at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the NETLounge, KIEZ e.V.
Forum Programme Overview:
open borders
- Lev Manovich hypostulates on ostranenie
- Stephen Kovats on the Opening of Borders
- Irina Aktuganova presents the Gallery 21 CD-ROM 'Free For All', Caius
Grozav presents the Kinema Ikon CD ROM 'Intermedia' and Andrei Ventslova
presents St.Petersburg TV Art in an examination of the commercial packaging
of media art
- APSOLUTNO will present the coming of the new Millenium and...
-the Syndicate Forum introduced by Andreas Broeckmann will examine the
Cultural Transformation of Deep Europe
landscapes
-Piotr Krajewski on Polish New Media
-Dejan Sretenovic on the international reception of Yugoslav Art in the
90's
-Lascha Bakradse on establishing a Georgian image
-Piotr Wyrzykowski on the Body and the Technology
-Nebojsa Seric Soba on the Necessity of the Abstract
-Dunja Blasevic on establishing new cultural infrastructures in Bosnia
-Nikola Radic on the Electronic Interpretations of Architecture
-Raivo Kelomees on Estonian Signals
-Edi Muka on the emerging Albanian Media Landscape
-Iliyana Nedkova introduces Crossing over Cultures in Bulgaria
-Enes Zlatar and Dejan Vekic on Video in the War and after the War
-Jovan Cekic on the Zoo Effect and Alexander Davic and B92 on Revolution
and Chaos
-Guenther Petzold presents 'Video in the former GDR - Opportunities Offered
by a New Medium', and
-Peter Zorn presents the Media Initiative Saxony Anhalt and EMARE
netivity
- Cyberknitting!
Nina Czegledy introduces new forms of Electronic Knitting suitable for all
Genders with a Panel examining the issue, composed of Cyberknitters:
Tapio Maekelae, Inke Arns, Edi Muka, Lisa Haskel, Mare Tralla, Calin Dan
and Katy Deepwell
Cyberknitting Sound Environment by Denis Neimand and Performance by Branka
Milicic-Davic and GROUP BAZA
- Marko Kosnik and the International Guests of the Egon March Institute
Welcome all to PARAHOUSE
- Steven Greenwood will exhibit 'Woven Presence'
-Network based Projects, presented by Olia Lialina, including works by
Jeff Instone, Dariusz Nowak-Nova, Petko Dourmana, Gints Gabrans, Nelli
Rohtvee, Esmeralda, Andrea Zapp, Dominik Kowalczyk, Gert Tschoegel,
AKCELERATOR,
- while Alexei Shulgin will be silent on Art, Power, and Communication
pioneers
- Velimir Abramovic introduces Tesla's Timeless Universe as a prelude to
Wardenclyffe 2 - a performance by rastermusic and Marko Peljhan
-Irina Vanechkina introduces Alexander Scriabin's Light Symphony Prometei
-Bulat Galeyev introduces Lev Theremin while Lydia Kavina grasps music
from the air with the Thereminvox
-Wojciech Bruszewski expands on the HORIZON and Brian Reffin Smith will
install his 'Cooperative Drawing'
-and legendary Oskar Sala will reflect upon his life-long relationship
with, and development of, the Trautonium
Jury Programme:
The ostranenie Jury, composed of Bojana Pejic, Michael Bielicky, Olia
Lialina, Piotr Krajewski and Kristine Schroeder selected works including:
for the first time at ostranenie works from Albania by Erjona Daka and
Anri Sala, from Moldova by Pavel Brailla, Juri Suiu and Juri Cibotaru,
from Georgia by Koka Ramischvili, from Belarus by Maxim Tyminko, and
from Bosnia-Herzegovina in a programme introduced by Enes Zlatar
and Installations by The Active Men, Milica Tomic, Calin Man, Dida Zende,
Kasia Kujawska, Artistarch Tschernishev, Dalibor Martinis, Talent Factory,
Alexei Shulgin, Luchezar Boyadjev, Anja Steidinger, Sandor Antik, the
Academic Training Group and Krassimir Terziev...
Videos by Moderegger, Bolewski, Kowalczyk, Donnersmack, Zamiara, Zumpe,
Tobreluts, Mader, Johannson, Pape, FIA Art, Gagarin, Zavadskis, Zimmer,
Perlovsky, Koshkin, Clouin, Dada, Art Terror, Poljak, Nagy, Brynntrup,
Moillanen, Zarevac, Borisova, Radkowska, Paetorprsta, Vickovic, Miro,
Melhus, Zdunczyk, Bogojevic-Narath, Smedstad, Krenz, Bard, Kotnyek,
Szlezinski, Miastowski, Sanborn, and Maeki
Special Documentaries by Russlan Umarov and Natalja Petrova, Ulrike
Ettinger, Iurie Suiu, Olivera Todorovic, Jujla Loginiva, Marina Preda Sanc
and Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid, and Janko Baljak
and Performances by:
-Tibor Szemzoe and Gabor Rosko and 15 special guests opening ostranenie
with the 'Doppelkonzert'
- Istvan Kantor playing his Executive Machinery
-CUKT - Piotr Wyrzykowski and Haleh Abghare performing the Technopera
- The Audio Ballerinas grace ostranenie with light sensors and digital
memories
- Laszlo Kerekes and Dragana Cukavac ask Where do we go from Here?"
and last but definitely not least
- Balint Szombathy (Art Lover) and Milan Mumin raise a Toast (35 times) to
the last Video Artwork
For all questions and requests (including invitations for visa, etc.),
please, get in touch with the ostranenie-team on <emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de>,
or tel. +49-340-6508 311, fax +49 340 6508 326
Stephen Kovats: <100662.2476@compuserve.com>
Adele Eisenstein: <adele@caesar.elte.hu>
http://www.ostranenie.org
* 2nd international new media festival in Riga (art+communication #2)
12-14 November, 1997
with *XCHANGE on-air session* live Internet broadcasting in 13th-14th
November,1997
Updated information see at Xchange homepage http://re-lab.net/Xchange
Contact: e-lab@parks.lv
XCHANGE - the second international new media festival
"art+communication-2" (organized by Riga E-Lab) will take place in Riga,
November 12th-14th, 1997, together with French-Baltic-Nordic video and
computer arts festival (organized by Multimedia center Riga, 10th-16th
November, Riga).
Xchange festival is 3 day event focusing on audio+visual work - live
Internet broadcasting (real-audio/real-video), radio experiments (in local
radio stations), public presentations, live electronic music jam sessions,
net.art and experimental music workshops.
An open broadcasting studio will be available in conference place with
live video and audio stream screening in two more public spaces in Riga -
in E-CafŽ and Latvian Academy of Arts.
Xchange festival is divided in sessions:
--->morning sessions - conference (lectures, presentations, discussions)
--->day sessions - live Internet broadcasting with participation of
remote groups (remote presentations, net.castings, press-conferences,
etc.), radio workshop; electronic music workshop
--->night sessions - open public events with live music mixes,
experimental music concerts, performances, videoloops, DJs, etc.
Festival organized by E-LAB
E-lab ----> Re-LAB is a new media art organization /Riga, Latvia/ that
develops new strategies for different contexts and across formats.
Address:
11.Novembra Krastmala 35-94, LV 1050, Riga, Latvia. Tel. 371-7210297
Contact:
Email: <e-lab@parks.lv>, Rasa Smite <rasa@parks.lv>, Raitis Smits
<raitis@parks.lv>
URL:
E-Lab ---> Re-LAB: http://re-lab.net
XCHANGE: http://re-lab.net/Xchange
net.radio OZOne: http://re-lab.net/ozone
* Prague Media Symposium: Flusser Media Film
November 24 and 25, 1997
For the sixth time, the Goethe-Institut Prag and the Academy of Fine Arts
Prague (Prof. Michael Bielicky) are organizing an international and
interdisciplinary symposium on the media development, communications
philosophy and media art. The event will take place November 24 and 25,
1997, at the Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo na. 32, Prague 1.
We believe we are in the midst of a major shift of paradigms that will
affect every aspect of our social, cultural, political and private lives.
The rapid development of new media technologies has as its consequence not
only a drastically changing mode of communication, but also a radical
rupture in the way we perceive the world and ourselves. It is, therefore,
of the highest priority for us to reflect this process, but also to
participate in it in a constructive and creative manner.
This year«s symposium should be seen as an open forum for new and unusual
reflections and ideas. We will also try to evaluate the developments of the
last six years, and, possibly, draw conclusions. Above all, we will
concentrate on two aspects this time: VilŽm Flusser (a part of whose work
has been translated into Czech) and the interrelation between the new media
and film.
The symposium has been developed as a continuation of a line of previous
events that dealt with subjects like "Mass communication and elitist
communication", "Change of paradigms" (1991), "VilŽm Flusser - Pioneer of
post-history" (1992), "After-images - Post-images. Interaction with digital
media" (1993), "New media and ethics" (1994), "Artificial environments as
artifacts" (1995) and "Media art - Intercultural hope or art without a
message?" (1996).
Languages spoken (and simultaneously interpreted) will be Czech, English
and German. Free admission. In cooperation with the Soros Center for
Contemporary Arts Prague and the Institut Francais Ë? Prague.
Information: Goethe-Institut Prag
Ramona Ullmann or Andreas Stršhl
Masarykovo nâ?¡b¿ezâ?? 32
CZ-110 00 Praha 1
The Czech Republic
Tel.: (++420/2) 24 91 57 25, Fax: (++420/2) 29 94 21
e-mail: kultur@goethe.cz or progr@goethe.cz
* VIDEOMEDEJA '97
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 5th to 7th December 1997
The second Video Festival "VideoMedeja", dedicated to presenting works done
by women, will be held from 5th to 7th December 1997 in Novi Sad,
Yugoslavia. The thematical span of this issue is representation of personal
female erotologies artistically directed towards dialogue with their own
possibilities in the argument with the opposite sex as well as possibilities
of artistic engagement today and investigations of functions and scope of
the art margins.
The Programme includes: 1) Projections of video works (official selection);
2) Video installations, performances (official selection); 3) Accompanied
programmes (opus presentation of outstanding authors, other festival's
presentations, video schools); 4) Round table (topic: New technologies in
Video Art).
In the official festival programme, which is of the competitive character,
"VideoMedeja" awards the following prizes:
- The figurine of the Sphinks (prize for the author's opus)
- "VideoMedeja" plaquete (three equal prizes)
- "Bogdanka Poznanovic" prize (for the best young woman
author).
The Festival's Council composed of three members will make the selection of
works and choose members of the Jury until November 1st 1997. Deadline for
sending the works is October 15 this year.
The production, organization and preparation of the Festival will be run by
artistic Association "Apostrof" in Novi Sad and the editor of the Festival
is Vera Kopicl.
The works must not be older than two years. The works should be sent to the
following address:
Festival "VideoMedeja"
Asocijacija "Apostrof"
Jevrejska 4/I
21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
tel/fax: +381 21 621 308
E-mail: videomed@fodns.opennet.org
* Transmediale / 11th Videofest
12 - 22 February 1998, Berlin/D
The upcoming Transmediale / 11th Videofest will once again be hosted
parallel to the Berlin Film Festival.
[A paper version of the call has been sent out, but I have not received the
requested e-mail version yet.]
"Submitted may be works from the areas of video, computer animation,
television, films with digital parts and multimedia projects (CD-ROM, CD-I,
discs, cartridge, internet) which were produced since 1996. Works will be
considered for selection which are dealing with reality in an innovative
way, or those which aim at furthering their respective medium.
Exhibition installations and performances are expressedly invited for
submission.
The transmediale will award three prizes of DM2500,- for outstanding works
in the fields of video, television and multimedia. Further awards will be
donated by sponsors."
DEADLINE: November 28th, 1997
For details about the festival, about conditions of submission and
application forms, please contact:
transmediale
Klosterstrasse 68-70
D-10179 Berlin
tel. +49-30-247219-07
fax +49-30-247219-09
email: <info@transmediale.de>
URL: http://www.transmediale.de
[abroeck adds: I am not sure whether either of these digital addresses are
operational yet; if you have problems reaching transmediale, try the fax; I
have no further info on this but will post it to the list as soon as I have
it.]
* Updates *
* I was surprised that nobody reacted to the rumour of Uncle George pulling
the plug on the SCCAs - is this just another round of the recurring rumour
and everybody is keeping their heads down, hoping the spectre will go away
again? Somebody was talking about a letter that has been sent to all Soros
Foundation branches that contains the deadline for the whole Foundatons
Network to close by the year 2010, and it specifies the programs, such as
the SCCA Network, that will have to achieve independency by 2000. In the
end the letter is said to talk of an anti-corruption commission that is
being established inside the Foundation. Ooops. Given the fact that a lot
of what we do in the Syndicate-circles is heavily dependent on Soros funds,
we should really enter the next round of the Soros-debate soon.
* We would like to encourage you to react to the postings regarding the P2P
- Conference in Amsterdam and Rotterdam at the end of October. From
Practice to Policy - Towards a European Media Culture will be an important
platform for lobbying the policy makers of different national and
international funding bodies. With some luck, it will be possible to
describe the difficult working conditions of many smaller media initiatives
and thus actually make an impact on the way in which funds for cultural
cooperation (incl. the big Euro-money) are being spent. Examples from our
practice - like the Suggestions we put together during the Deep Europe
workshop - may actually be able to make a difference.
* General Info *
V2_East is an initiative of V2_Organisation Rotterdam, which is aimed at
creating a network of people and institutions who are involved with or
interested in media art in Eastern Europe and which wants to create an
infrastructure that facilitates cooperations between partners in East and
West. With its 'Syndicate' mailing list, website <http://www.v2.nl/east>
and regular meetings, V2_East is becoming an important tool for fostering
ties within the media art community in Europe which makes it increasingly
obsolete to think in term of 'East' and 'West', and which will eventually
make the V2_East initiative itself redundant.
The V2_East/Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an
institution. <syndicate@AEC.at> is the address of a mailing list which is
dedicated to an exchange of information and ideas relating to the situation
and future development of electronic and media art in Eastern Europe. A
Syndicate-mail archive for messages that are coming in over the list (since
April 97) can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/
The list members include more than 160 artists, curators, networkers,
writers, festival organisers, etc., from East as well as West European
countries and beyond, who, through the 'Syndicate', are trying to improve
the communication and cooperation between artists and organisations in East
and West. The list was first installed following the initial meeting of the
V2_East initiative at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam on January 21, 1996, at
the end of the second Next 5 Minutes conference. During the DEAF96 festival
in September, we held a V2_East Meeting in which around 30 people from 12
different countries participated. In April 97 the LEAF97 meeting in
Liverpool brought together more than 30 people from across Europe.
* Subscription *
To subscribe to the syndicate list, please, send a message to
<syndicate-request@aec.at> with the following text in the body of the
message: 'subscribe [email-address]'
For more information about the Syndicate, please, contact <abroeck@v2.nl>
(Andreas Broeckmann).
*Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition
of this newsletter (deadline: 30 October 97) to: abroeck@v2.nl.