Syndicate: V2_East Newsletter 98/01

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 98/01

- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates

- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription


* Introduction *

Dear friends,

The Syndicate is a network of people who share an interest in media culture
and media art, and who are seeking cooperation and exchange in this field,
mainly within Europe. This list is a tool through which we exchange
information about upcoming events, plan or announce new projects, and stay
in touch in-between meetings.

In 1997, we had two larger meetings in Liverpool and in Dessau, but there
are no clear plans for such bigger get-togethers this year. The PiraMedia
event in Tirana, whose date has been moved by one week to 28-31 May, is
still in the planning phase, and it is not clear how many people can be
invited to go there. The 'Shaking Hands' symposium in Stockholm in April
has been suggested as a potential meeting place, but it seems rather close
already to organise a full-scale Syndicate meeting. Following will be the
workshop situations on the Polar Circuit (June/July), 'Revolting' in
Manchester, and Virtual Revolutions. ISEA98 is also an obvious date, as is
the ars electronica, both in September. There is also talk of a meeting in
Belgrade, which would be great because Yugoslavia has seen the largest
growth in 'Syndicate-population', but the organisational backing for such a
meeting is unclear.

I guess that somebody should come forward and say, OK, we'll organise the
1998 Syndicate meeting, on which we can all concentrate. It would certainly
be nice to have one meeting place, in addition to the other, more regional
events where informal Syndicate meetings can take place. So, if you feel
that you want to do it, and you're not worried about a wave of moral
support and visa applications, please, go right ahead.

Otherwise: please, continue to use the list for posting information about
what you are up to, and for getting in touch with people in other parts of
Deep Europe.

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)

- 12 - 22 February 1998: Transmediale / 11th Videofest, Berlin/D
- 13 February 1998 -: Mail Art - Eastern Europe in the International
Network, Budapest/HU
- 16 March 1997: Opening Film & Architecture, Berlin/D
- 17 - 31 March 1998: Installation Festival 1998, Budapest/HU
- 18 April - 3 May 1998: Avatar, Amsterdam/NL
-  23 - 26 April 1998: Shaking Hands and Making Conflicts, Stockholm/SE
- 4 - 10 May 1998: BREAK 21, Ljubljana/SI
- 6 - 10 May 1998: EMAF - European Media Art Festival 1998, Osnabrueck/D
- 13 - 17 May 1998: 9th Impakt Festival, Utrecht/NL
- 19 - 24 May 1998: VIPER, Lucerne/CH
- 28 - 31 May 1998: PiraMedia, Tirana/AL
- 18 - 20 June 1998: SONAR 98, Barcelona/ES
- 26 - 28 June 1998: 3rd International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, Budapest/HU
- September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D
- 2 - 7 September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK
- 3 - 6 September 1998: Subfiction - 3. Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz/D
- 7 - 12 September 1998: ars electronica, Linz/AT
- 18 - 23 September 1998: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL
-  2 - 10 October 1998: L'IMMAGINE LEGGERA, Palermo/IT
- 15 - 25 October 1998: Nouveau Cinema/Nouveaux Medias, Montreal/CA
- 17 - 22 November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL


* Film & Architecture Festival, Berlin/D

"In March 1998 the German Center of Architecture (DAZ) hosts the third
Berlin festival film and architecture. The opening will be on Friday, March
16 with an evening titeld "New Visions". Lars Spuybroek will be holding a
lecture on the architectural visions of NOX, and afterwards screening "The
Way of the Weed", the new visions award winner of film+arc.graz. The
evening will be closed by a party at DAZ."


* SHAKING HANDS AND MAKING CONFLICTS
FÅ rgfabriken, Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture,
Stockholm Sweden, April 23rd - 26th, 1998

a symposium on the role of culture in a new world order
- local differences in the encounter with the dream of global sameness
- exploring mental luggage in the age of transformation
- culture in the name of democracy: dialogue and conflicts

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Shaking Hamds and Making Conflicts symposium will be held at
FÅ rgfabriken, Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture, April 23rd -
26th, 1998. It is produced on the initiative of FÅ rgfabriken and The
Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the
Ministry of Culture and the Swedish Institute. It will be held in the
installation/ theatre play "Dabloids", by the Russian artist Leonid
Tishkov.

Shaking Hands and Making Conflicts proposes to set up an
unusually broad-based meeting, where not only representatives for
various countries can meet, but where what is already established  can
meet what is to come, where political discussion is related to art in
practice, and where the exchange of diplomatic views relates to various
local differences and conflicts. It is about historical roots, but also
about how these roots wander into the present, branch off onto new
paths, meet and collide at crossroads  - and are recreated.
What are the values, mental luggage and languages that we carry with us
when we meet beyond national boundaries?

Some of the issues we would like to shed light on:
1 POWER AND CULTURE
2 LANGUAGE - A TOOL FOR CONVERSATION OR OPPRESSION?
3. NEARLY TEN YEARS AFTER THE WALL CAME DOWN
CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY

We are now preparing a tabloid with texts and images that will be
published prior to the symposium. We have invited some contributors and
are now looking for more.
Please contact us at FÅ rgfabriken, info@fargfabriken.se
+46-8-645 07 07, fax +46-8-645 50 30



* BREAK 21
Ljubljana/Slovenia, 4 - 10 May 1998

The student organisation of University of Ljubljana (SOU), Slovenia is
organising the international festival of independent young artists BREAK 21
which will take place in Ljubljana during the week between 4 and 10 May 1998.

The festival's aim is to present independent young emerging artists (under
30 years old) who work within media of live performance, visual arts, film,
fashion design, music or cartoon art and to enable communications between
different artists throughout Europe by organising discussions, lectures,
workshops.

Application Deadline: February 15, 1998.

Information and applications:
BREAK 21
SOU kultura
Kersnikova 4
1000 Ljubljana, slovenia
tel.: (+386 61) 1317 010 ext.226
fax: (+386 61) 319 448 (addressed to SOU kultura)
e-mail: saso.jovanovic@kiss.uni-lj.si


* VIPER 98
International Film, Video and Multimedia Festival Lucerne, Switserland
19 - 24 May 1998

Info:
fax. +41-1-450 6261
festival@viper.ch
http://www.viper.ch


* Festival Nouveau Cinema/Nouveaux Medias
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema & New Media
Montreal/CA, 15 - 25 October 1998

Info:
fax. +1-514-843 4631
montrealfest@fcmm.com
http://www.fcmm.com

* Updates *

* ISEA98 website
http://www.isea98.org



* ARTISTIC PRACTICE IN THE NETWORK
a critical forum presented by Eyebeam Atelier and the X Art Foundation

February 1 - April 30, via mailing list

This forum aims to further a critical discourse on artistic practices in
the global communications network. It concerns practices that employ
networking technologies as a means of critically reflecting on
contemporary societies.  Featuring an international group of scholars,
critics, and artists, this virtual symposium maps the clashes and
exchanges of cultures, uncovering the historical and material currents
that jostle below user-friendly interfaces.  Articulating changing modes
of perception, representation, and identification, the forum will
develop new possibilities for artistic and critical intervention.

~moderator~
JORDAN CRANDALL, founding editor of Blast and director of the X Art
Foundation, New York

TO SUBSCRIBE
send email to eyebeam@list.thing.net with the following single line in
the body of the message:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT
agent@blast.org
a web archive of the discussions is located at http://www.eyebeam.org

Eyebeam Atelier is a new cultural and education institution dedicated to
advancing digital art in cinema, fine arts, humanities and on the
internet.  In June 1998 Eyebeam Atelier will be relocated to 21st street
in Chelsea to a newly renovated building which will house an atelier/lab
space and The Digital Museum.

-Beth Rosenberg
  Education Director
  Eyebeam Atelier
  29 Greene Street
  NY, NY 10013
  212/966-3030 ext. 228 (tel.)
  212/965-9520 (fax)
  bethr@spacelab.net


* Natasha Manzhali (Program Coordinator of SCCA) <manzhali@scca.kiev.ua>
writes:

Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev Ukraine.
SCCA-Kyiv (as part of the SCCA Network) had been implemented in
1993 with funding by George Soros for contemporary visual arts in Ukraine,
integrating a system of grants directed toward the support of exhibitions
curated by the country's art professionals and curators, commissioning of
artist projects, artist participation in international exhibitions and
symposia, distribution of information relating to international exhibition
opportunities and studies in the area of contemporary visual art,
educational opportunities, and a wide range of materials and international
periodicals relating to contemporary visual art and theory.

In Fall 1995, the SCCA-Kyiv moved into a restored and renovated historical
landmark forming a composite visual arts center referred to as The Soros
Center for Contemporary Art Gallery at the University of "Kyiv Mohyla
Academy", establishing the first exhibition center for contemporary art
within the country. Now we are broadening our activity. We are opening in
our Center Media and Internet Lab for the artists responding to the growing
interest of the artists, art historians and theoreticians to the new
technologies.



* Matthew Fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk> writes:

One of the most interesting figures from the academy to write about related
areas of focus to Nettime has been Friedrich Kittler.  Until now, only one
book <Discourse Networks 1800-1900> has been available to anglophone
readers.  At the end of 1997 however a short collection of his essays was
published in English.

Friedrich A. Kittler
Literature, Media, Information Systems
edited and introduced by John Johnson
publisher: G+B Arts International
ISBN 1025-9325

Contents:

Introduction
Friedrich Kittler: Media Theory After Poststructuralism
John Johnston

Essays by Friedrich Kittler

Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter
Dracula's Legacy
Romanticism - Psychoanalysis - Film: A History of the Double
Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
Media Wars: Trenches, Lightning, Stars
The World of the Symbolic - A World of the Machine
There Is No Software
Protected Mode


* de andere film <asinema@glo.be> write:

Some news on AS - Andere Sinema, a bi-monthly publication on media politics.

In the Feb. issue:

-'Canvas is Canvas is Canvas: A Frame-Up': Gojim 5.1 - Bureau for Identity
Research on Flemish Television's second channel and its
cultural-educational ambitions.

-'Television is not art!: A Conversation with Regine Clauwaert': Former
BRTN-programming director Regine Cauwaert was recently promoted to
production manager at Canvas. We asked her about the goals and aspirations
of a channel that wants to bring culture to the masses.

-'Dionysus and Riot Girls: A Conversation with Rosi Braidotti on the Future
of Post-Feminism': Post-feminism and its many hangups post postergirl
feminists like Naomi Wolf and Camille Paglia.

-'Loplop/re/presents: the im/pulse to see': Edwin Carels on his Max Ernst
project: an exploration of phenomenological relations between viewer and
object as filtered through surrealist identity games and the Quay Brothers'
prankster aesthetics.

-'Game Over for Pitfall Harry': Tom Paulus on videogame mania as nostalhia
for an eighties' lifestyle product that is still filling the shelves. Where
Pitfall Harry first learns that the game is fixed...

-'Leave Your Message after the Beep: On the Right to Stupidity, the Art of
Forgetting and the Bolero 1000: Marc Holthof's epistemology of the
answering machine, or why Heidegger couldn't put the Nazis on hold...

-'Taking Shape: Morphing and the Discovery of the Self': Scott Bukatman
discusses the liberatory potential of morphing technology and its
reactionary use in ethnic and gender stereotype-ridden fare like The Mask
and Michael Jackson's Black or White.

-'The Future is Unmanly': Sofie Redele on Sadie Plant and the
(cyber-)feminist take on scientific production values.

-'Phantom PMS: The End of the Millennium': Dieter Roelstraete on millenary
madness and commercialism. Who will hold the best seats to the end of the
world?

AS are Herman Asselberghs, Edwin Carels, Maarten Delbeke, Stefan Franck,
Marc Holthof, Dieter Lesage, Jeroen Olyslaegers, Tom Paulus, Pieter Van
Bogaert and Koen Van Daele.

You can subscribe to AS by depositing 700,-Bfr. or fl.45 on ABN bank
account nr. 526382120, or gironummer ABN Roosendaal 1109000.

AS-Sinebase-Kino-Eye-TechnoLust
De andere Film v.z.w.
Rotterdamstraat 82
B-2060 Antwerpen
Belgium/Europe
0032-3-234.16.40 (vox)
0032-3-226.27.64 (fax)
asinema@glo.be (e-mail)
http://www.dma.be/cvb/as



* From: nomads@nomadnet.org (Laura McGough)

You are cordially invited you to stop by MASSAGE <http://www.nomadnet.org>
for a stimulating little rubdown on contemporary media, art and culture.

MASSAGE is a quarterly Web journal designed to aid in the circulation of
ideas, critical discourse and discussion.

Volume One of  MASSAGE includes articles by Keith Roberson, Beverly Ress
and Stacy Pershall.  Art Jones' media-inspired musing "goal" is featured in
The Project Room -- a space devoted to works-in-progress and artist
projects.

MASSAGE is also pleased to publish in its entirety   "Attention!
Production! Audience! Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980" by
Chris Hill . This essay was originally written as a curatorial introduction
to   "Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the
U.S. (1968-1980)", a definitive 17 hour  survey curated by Hill for The
Video DataBank. In  "Attention! Production! Audience!" Hill offers a
historical  overview  of the formative years of video art /alternative
media. The essay also includes excerpts from interviews with  pioneering
media practioners including Tony Conrad, Woody Vasulka, Philip Mallory
Jones and Perry Teasdale.

MASSAGE is published by NOMADS, an arts organization dedicated to
developing global pathways, real or virtual, connecting artists,
institutions and audiences

For more information contact Laura McGough and Marion Ware at
nomads@nomadnet.org
http://www.nomadnet.org


* The January 1998 issue of Wired magazine (6.01) contains an extensive
article by Syndicalist Bruce Sterling about St. Petersburg ('Art and
Corruption', p.118-40), which also features Syndicalists connected to
Gallery 21, Pushkiskaya Desyat-based artists, and observations of Russia in
the autumn of 1997.


* 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 190 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. Other meetings were held in Liverpool
(LEAF97, April 1997), Kassel (Deep Europe workshop, August 1997), Linz
(Syndicate Net.Shop, September 1997), and Dessau (Ostranenie 97, November
1997).


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(Andreas Broeckmann).


*Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition
of this newsletter (deadline: 28 February 98) to: abroeck@v2.nl.