From netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au Thu Nov 1 01:01:18 2001 From: netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au (][mez][) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:01:18 +1100 Subject: [spectre] Divergence & Annoy][No D][ance][Possible][ Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011101120059.0228cea0@pop.hotkey.net.au> --=====================_10939727==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed _FIND:_ c][o][r][rode][ust.ini:: .. .. ............ ......................................... ................................................................... ................................................ ::th][l][ink-switching ........................................................ ::heat.sink.][k][ing][& qu][pr][eening russet ego-robes][ ....................................................................... :: drown-out appropri.at][ion sing][eing][ me a lull.ah.bye][e cauls ................... :: DIY.][on the][vergence & annoy][no d][ance][possible][ ............................... -- -- -- -- _NAME:_ absorption.err:: sober.reap.ah.line. deep.heat.yr.soul.drench. lick.yr.theory.wound.N.harden.c][orrespondance][rust. trawl.yr same.hic.fields.N.draws.of.s][h][elf cara][s][melled.wonders.drowned.in.repeat.soups. mis.N.turp][Nstrip that potential painting][ret][no rutting][. .................... ........ ............................. ][choking.in.strang][l][.errs][ ....................... .............. .. ............ . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ .smothering..n.struments..go.here. xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... --=====================_10939727==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"


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--=====================_10939727==_.ALT-- From chris@mediascot.org Thu Nov 1 09:09:39 2001 From: chris@mediascot.org (Chris Byrne) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:09:39 +0000 Subject: [spectre] Interstanding 4 Message-ID: 'end repeat' Interstanding 4 'end repeat' consists from conference and exhibition, the last will also occupy various types of spaces outside the gallery. Time: 1st - 18th of November 2001 Space: Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage, Ahtri 2, Tallinn Wed.- Fri.12.00 - 20.00; Sat.- Sun. 11.00 - 18.00; Tallinn city space, http://www.interstanding.ee. 'end repeat' aims to reveal the boundary between the current status of digital arts and the potential that awaits. The programme of events has been selected to reveal the conditions necessary for terminating the loop and progressing into new territories. 'end repeat's' main objective is to examine the loop. The uptake of digital technology is pervasive across the many disciplines of both Arts and Sciences. With uniformity in the hardware, operating systems and software adopted, a common ground has emerged. This convergence presents = an ideal, although possibly temporary, opportunity for varied practitioners = to collaborate between disciplines. Behind this, an impetus to innovate is motivating the need to exploit this potential to further benefit the disciplines in and of themselves. 'end repeat' emphasises the state of over exploitation of visual sense (t= he screen) in digital arts. 'end repeat' is an invitation to investigate interfaces other then the visual. Artists are invited to exploit the 'invisible' computer and produce work which uses communication innovative ways. 'end repeat' relocates from the Estonian Academy of Art's E-Media Centre = to Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage transforming into an open medialab: = a place for workshops, performances, presentations, webcasts and other activities. Thursday, 01.11.2001 Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage 17.00 press conference 18.00 an opening of the exhibition "end repeat" 19.00 concert "The Light of Cyberflute": Monika Mattiesen (flutes), Airi Eras (light), Margo K=F5lar (live electronics), Vambola Krigul (drum= s) [EST]; Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage Friday, 02.11.2001 Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage 10.00 Sirje Helme, Ando Keskk=FCla, Mare Tralla "Welcome" 10.15 Peter Ride [UK] "Discovering new forms of creativity with new technologies" 11.00 artist presentation Luke Jerram [UK] 11.15 Tapio M=E4kel=E4 [FIN] "Digital Fever" 12.00 Nina Czegledy [HUN/CA] "Digibodies" 12.45 - 13.00 artist presentation Gediminas Urbonas, Nomeda Urboniene [LT= ] 13.00 - 14.00 lunch break 14.00 Chris Meigh-Andrews [UK] "Artist/Engineeers: Pioneering Video Artis= ts and electronic imaging technology: 1968 - 78" 14.45 artist presentation Tomo Savic Gecan [CRO/NL] 15.00 Darko Fritz [CRO] "Amnesia International - early computer art and t= he Tendencies movement" 15.45 Ando Keskk=FCla [EST]. Presentation of Estonian retrospective 16.00 - 16.15 coffee break 16.15 Andres Kurg, Toomas Tammis [EST] "Dispersed Urbanism" 17.00 - 18.00 Open Discussion Saturday, 03.11.2001 Arts Centre Rotermann's Salt Storage 10.00 Iliyana Nedkova [BUL] "Spacecraft" 10.45 artist presentation Magdalena Pederin [CRO] 11.00 Sabine Seymour [USA] "Fashionable Technology" 11.45 Karin Paulus [EST] presentation "Multifunctional Objects" 12.00 Mare Tralla [EST/UK] "What craft(s)?" 12.45 - 13.00 artist presentation "Share Joy" [EST] 13.00 - 14.00 lunch break 14.00 Adam Hyde [NL] "Frequency Clock" 14.40 presentation Jaanis Garancs [LV] 14.50 Rasa Smite [LV] 15.30 artist presentation Shawn Pinchbeck [CA] and Ivika Kivi [EST] 15.45 - 16.00 coffee break 16.00 presentations: Eddy Berg [UK], Chris Byrne [UK], Nina Czegledy [HUN/CA], Iliyana Nedkova [BUL] 17.00 ISEA 2004 presentation 17.15 - 18.00 Open Discussion 18.15 Beverly Hood [UK] performance "Translocale" 'END REPEAT' MEDIA LAB Pre-conference activities: 15.10 - 31.10 series of open courses at E-Media Centre (room 204, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tartu mnt. 1, Tallinn= ). 01.11 - 18.11 Media lab people: Lewis Bray, Jaanis Garancs, Stephen Emmott, Adam Hyde, Dagmar Kase, Raul Keller, Ivika Kivi, Hilda Kozari , H= eiki M=E4nnik, Shawn Pinchbeck, Piret R=E4ni, Kristel Sibul, Rasa Smite, Raiti= s Smits, Mare Tralla, students of the Estonian Academy of Arts and others. Interstanding media lab activities are in constant change, please= check the daily programme from Interstanding homepage www.interstanding.ee Participating artists: Jordan Baseman[UK], Laura Beloff [FIN], Alistair Gentry [UK], Darko Fritz [CRO], Luke Jerram[UK], Dagmar Kase [EST], Ivika Kivi [EST], Hilda Kozari [FIN], Chris Meigh-Andrews [UK], Magdalena Peder= in [CRO], Shawn Pinchbeck [CA], Tomo Savic Gecan [CRO/NL], Share Joy [EST], Gediminas Urbonas and Nomeda Urboniene [LT], Estonian Retrospective, EAA students. Video-programmes: Crossing Over, FACT, Timelines. ------------------------------------------------------------ Interstanding 4 is organized by: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia Estonian Academy of Arts Curators: Mare Tralla, Ando Keskk=FCla http://www.interstanding.ee Interstanding 4 project coordinator: Sirje Helme Piret Lindpere Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia Vabaduse v=E4ljak 6 Tallinn 10146 tel. +372 6314050 fax +372 6314049 e-mail post@skkke.ee http://www.scca.ee From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 1 13:40:34 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:40:34 +0200 Subject: [spectre] rhein.tanzmedia.web - Call for Proposals Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:05:40 +0100 =46rom: Tanz Performance Koeln --=====================_3283710==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed i like 2 think my perception][s][ is/r geared 2wards/thru-out a range of inputs & ob.serve.][r][ations, all gathered 2g][t][ether][ed][ more often than ][k][not a manifest][ering][ net.wurked sp.here][& now][......... ....the cybagenic lattrix if u will ][or won't:)][.... .....my tendency 2 fuse actions that r performed b.yond this ][forced reality][ field N the very procedural nuances that this sensing d.mands x.ists as a very fragile, convoluted actuality..... ...this percept is currently taking a battering, as the very structure that has allowed its gestation, its nesting, m.mergence, & x.tended x.pression is b.ing gradually ][sl][a][ugh][ltered.... ][e.motive lang.u][s][age, i know, but bear with me][..... -- ...when i ][*.][ini.tially orbited this net.wurked reality ][& by this i'm n.ferring a state of passive flux, where my hands first crab-crouched a keyboard & slid ova a su.Pine mouse, waiting 4 a con][cussive][nection hit][ the amnesiac-like newness, its fugue capabilities were so n.trinsically seductive that @ 1nce, the resultant output was infernoesque, participants all collaboratively floundering in this creative niche that allowed 4 x.tended x.ploration N wild rewritings of creative cod][a][es, or established artistic conventions, or critiquer f.actua][ry][nts... ....predicated questionings and standardizations were not even termed/realised as truthful reference points or relevant POV's, largely b.cause][N e.ffect][ of the formless "cyberspace" condition][ing][........of course, i'm blin][d][kered in terms of the sphere of functioning that ][i have deemed][ *was* e.mergent in terms of mailing lists N web/net.insitution construction, and of course, i'm being terribly intro][duction lacking][.spec][ula][tive][, n yes, i'm pixellating the past with a nostalgic you.topian sweep, but there was a stage of the net.wurked development that more than re][n.][flected this type of ][de][function][........even as others rushed to quantify. anal.][e][y][e][se & rati][onalize][fy it.......smooth it in2 satis.Factory communication corners........... ............][4give me my meme.ory n.dulgence, please][................... ..now u may all clip away typing that this er][ror][a neva x.isted, or that the tendrils r still deliciously ][&n obviously][ pre.s][c][ent, that i'm becoming 1 of those old, crusty "net.art is dead" advocat][ions][es, that i'm missing the meat of the x.change, the distended details........ ........i mite well be......i fervently think ][hope][ not......from this e.longated angle, my mezangelled perceptive base - N granted its a difficult one to "get" in terms of affective merging with this communication style in which i wallow - this stage of explosive n.quiry & blase ][net][ wurking is bleeding dis][t][ast][e][rously in2 the ][predictable][ established, an n.s][i][t][u][itutionialised strain of though & overt action.......N its not blanket-d][ea][f.ined thru the corp.][r][o][a][r.ate glutt.ON.isation of the web, but thru much more n.siduous modes........ ........4 x.ample, when we ][read: artists who m.brace & position them.cell][ves][s as firm advo.Ka][n][ts of things net.wurked, whether that b electronically/collaboratively/spouting new media ethics till we r blue in the screen][ drag traditionally-ratified mechanisms of critique back in2 play, or fall in2 the power-dynamically-d.fined act of ][cap][s][lock][houting in order 2 make our point, or seek 2 regulate the way a peer releases output via mandatory subtle regressions in2 labels that postulate absolutes ]["design", "use.ability" "ease of use"][, or reason our position via logos, we are shutting the door on a multi][log][tude of prospective actualities, we are cutting off the avenues that make the net.wurk a place worthy of creative x.pansion........... ...& i kno some of u will retort, correct, s.sue differences of opinions, portray a stance that allows 4 acceptable banter that seeks +itive fluid resolutions....& all the while i weep 4 the mis][b][gotten phrase, the typo, the flame-bait that isn't, the nudge that is bypassed in terms of readability & community function...... ....this closing-off, shutting down, m.bracing of the literal over the nodal/lateral is ridiculously difficult 2 describe, given the tools that i'm m.ploying r drenched in the very stench of this terror- vision of the concrete, the conflagration of the predictable, the x.plainable, the acceptable, the *ma][i][n*.if][then][est....... ][even now, my post is too long, i've dis.m.bowelled the n][etwurked key][.cremental & sp][outing][iderling meaning threads, the potential of a personalised re][wurking][affirmation....all this in an f.fort 2 offer x.][& y & z][planations, 2 rationalise my position, 2 justify my e.motives in order that others can ][*][app.rehend....i'm contemplating transcribing this in2 "regular" english 4 the masses.......so nettime might post this as they now re.fuse 2 post anything from me that's remotely mezangelled...this will be another terrible net.wurk fracture, another crawling back in2 the comprehension shell][........ i will leave u now with no safe ending, no cloistered summation paragraph][ic][. i'll send this as a translated piece][meal][ as well ._____________________________________________ _Tracking a Net.Wurk O(r)bit_ (I like to think that my perceptions are geared towards/through-out a range of inputs & observations, all gathered together and tethered (more often than not) via a manifest net.wurked sphere.......the Cybagenic Lattrix if you will. My tendency to fuse actions that are performed beyond this (forced reality) field - and the very procedural nuances that this sensing demands - makes this detection exist as a very fragile, convoluted actuality. This detection percept is currently taking a battering, as the very structure that has allowed its gestation/ emergence/nesting and extended expression is gradually being slaughtered.) -- When I initially orbited this net.wurked reality (and by this I'm referring to a state of passive flux where my hands first crab-crouched a keyboard and slid over a supine mouse, essentially waiting for a concussive connection hit) the amnesiac-like newness and fugue capabilities were so seductive that, at once, the resultant output was infernoesque, with participants collaboratively floundering in this creative niche that allowed for extended exploration and wild rewritings of creative codes and established artistic & critique conventions. Predicated questionings and standardizations were not, therefore, termed or realized as "truthful" reference points (or even relevant points-of-view according to the concept of the formless "cyberspace" condition). Of course, this reasoning is blinkered in terms of the sphere of functioning that (I have deemed) was emergent in terms of mailing lists and web/net.institution construction - and of course, I'm being terribly introspective, and yes, I'm pixellating the past with a nostalgic Utopian sweep. I would counter, however, that there was a stage of net.wurked development that more than reflected this type of (de)function, even as others rushed to quantify, analyze, rationalize and smooth entity-spacing into satisfactory communication corners. Now, you may all cogitate away that this era never existed, or that these tendrils are still deliciously and obviously present - in essence, that I am becoming one of those crusty "net.art is dead" advocates and in doing so am missing the meat of the exchange as well as the distended details. And I might well be. I do, however, fervently think (and hope) this not to be the case. From this elongated angle (my mezangelled perceptive base) - and granted it is a difficult one to "get" in terms of affective merging with the communication style in which I wallow - this stage of explosive enquiry & blase net.wurking is bleeding disastrously into the predictably established, an ins(i)t(u)itutionialised strain of though and overt action. It is dangerous to assume that blanket-defined corprorate gluttonisation of the web is only to blame, as there are much more insidious modes that have created this situation. For example, when we (read: artists/theorists who embrace and position themselves as firm advocates of things "net" - whether that be electronically/collaboratively defined - or those who spout new media ethics until they are blue in the face/screen) drag traditionally-ratified mechanisms of critique back into play, or fall into power-dynamically-defined acts of caps-lock shouting in order to make our point, or seek to regulate the way a peer releases output via mandatory subtle regressions into labels that postulate absolutes ("design", "usability" "ease of use") or even rationalize our position via logos, we are shutting the door on a multitude of prospective actualities and are cutting off the avenues that make the net.wurk a place worthy of creative expansion. This closing-off, shutting down, embracing of the literal over the nodal/lateral is ridiculously difficult to describe, especially given the tools that I'm employing are drenched in the very stench of this terror-vision of the concrete, the conflagration of the predictable, the explainable, the acceptable, the manifest. I know some of you will retort, correct, issue differences of opinions, portray a stance that allows for "acceptable" banter in order to seek positive fluid resolutions. All the while I weep for the misbegotten phrase, the typo, the flame-bait that isn't, the nudge that is bypassed in terms of readability & community function. -- (Even now, my post is too long, I've disemboweled the incremental & spider-like trails of meaning and the potential of a personalized re-worked affirmation - all this in an effort to offer explanations, to rationalize my position and to justify my (e)motives in order that others can ap(com)prehend. This will be another terrible net.wurk fracturing-through-solidification, another crawling back into a communicative comprehension shell.) . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ .smothering..n.struments..go.here. xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... --=====================_3283710==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i like 2 think my perception][s][ is/r geared 2wards/thru-out a range of inputs & ob.serve.][r][ations, all gathered 2g][t][ether][ed][ more often than ][k][not a manifest][ering][ net.wurked sp.here][&
now][.........

....the cybagenic lattrix if u will ][or won't:)][....

.....my tendency 2 fuse actions that r performed b.yond this ][forced reality][ field N the very procedural nuances that this sensing d.mands x.ists as a very fragile, convoluted actuality.....

...this percept is currently taking a battering, as the very structure that has allowed its gestation, its nesting, m.mergence, & x.tended x.pression is b.ing gradually ][sl][a][ugh][ltered....
][e.motive lang.u][s][age, i know, but bear with me][.....

--

...when i ][*.][ini.tially orbited this net.wurked reality ][& by this i'm n.ferring a state of passive flux, where my hands first crab-crouched a keyboard & slid ova a su.Pine mouse, waiting 4 a con][cussive][nection hit][ the amnesiac-like newness, its fugue capabilities were so n.trinsically seductive that @ 1nce, the resultant output was infernoesque, participants all collaboratively
floundering in this creative niche that allowed 4 x.tended x.ploration N wild rewritings of creative cod][a][es, or established artistic conventions, or critiquer f.actua][ry][nts...

....predicated questionings and standardizations were not even termed/realised as truthful reference points or relevant POV's, largely b.cause][N e.ffect][ of the formless "cyberspace" condition][ing][........of course, i'm blin][d][kered in terms of the sphere of functioning that ][i have deemed][ *was* e.mergent in terms of mailing lists N web/net.insitution construction, and of course, i'm being terribly intro][duction lacking][.spec][ula][tive][, n yes, i'm pixellating the past with a nostalgic you.topian sweep, but there was a stage of the net.wurked development that more than re][n.][flected this type of ][de][function][........even as others rushed to
quantify. anal.][e][y][e][se & rati][onalize][fy it.......smooth it in2 satis.Factory communication corners...........

............][4give me my meme.ory n.dulgence, please][...................


..now u may all clip away typing that this er][ror][a neva x.isted, or that the tendrils r still deliciously ][&n obviously][ pre.s][c][ent, that i'm becoming 1 of those old, crusty "net.art is dead"
advocat][ions][es, that i'm missing the meat of the x.change, the distended details........

 
........i mite well be......i fervently think ][hope][ not......from this e.longated angle, my mezangelled perceptive base - N granted its a difficult one to "get" in terms of affective merging with this communication style in which i wallow - this stage of explosive n.quiry & blase ][net][ wurking is bleeding dis][t][ast][e][rously in2 the ][predictable][ established, an n.s][i][t][u][itutionialised strain of though & overt action.......N its not blanket-d][ea][f.ined thru the corp.][r][o][a][r.ate glutt.ON.isation of the web, but thru much more n.siduous modes........


........4 x.ample, when we ][read: artists who m.brace & position them.cell][ves][s as firm advo.Ka][n][ts of things net.wurked, whether that b electronically/collaboratively/spouting new media ethics till we r blue in the screen][ drag traditionally-ratified mechanisms of critique back in2 play, or fall in2 the power-dynamically-d.fined act of ][cap][s][lock][houting in order 2 make our point, or seek 2 regulate the way a peer releases output via mandatory subtle regressions in2 labels that postulate absolutes ]["design", "use.ability" "ease of use"][, or reason our position via logos, we are shutting the door on a multi][log][tude of prospective actualities, we are cutting off the avenues that make the net.wurk a place worthy of creative x.pansion...........


...& i kno some of u will retort, correct, s.sue differences of opinions, portray a stance that allows 4 acceptable banter that seeks +itive fluid resolutions....& all the while i weep 4 the mis][b][gotten phrase, the typo, the flame-bait that isn't, the nudge that is bypassed in terms of readability & community function......


....this closing-off, shutting down, m.bracing of the literal over the nodal/lateral is ridiculously difficult 2 describe, given the tools that i'm m.ploying r drenched in the very stench of this terror- vision of the concrete, the conflagration of the predictable, the x.plainable, the acceptable, the *ma][i][n*.if][then][est.......


][even now, my post is too long, i've dis.m.bowelled the n][etwurked key][.cremental & sp][outing][iderling meaning threads, the potential of a personalised re][wurking][affirmation....all this in an f.fort 2 offer x.][& y & z][planations, 2 rationalise my position, 2 justify my e.motives in order that others can ][*][app.rehend....i'm contemplating transcribing this in2 "regular" english 4 the masses.......so nettime might post this as they now re.fuse 2 post anything from me that's remotely mezangelled...this will be another terrible net.wurk fracture, another crawling back in2 the comprehension shell][........

i will leave u now with no safe ending, no cloistered summation paragraph][ic][. i'll send this as a translated piece][meal][ as well

._____________________________________________


_Tracking a Net.Wurk O(r)bit_
(I like to think that my perceptions are geared towards/through-out a range of inputs & observations, all gathered together and tethered (more often than not) via a manifest net.wurked sphere.......the Cybagenic Lattrix if you will. My tendency to fuse actions that are performed beyond this (forced reality) field - and the very procedural nuances that this sensing demands - makes this detection exist as a very fragile, convoluted actuality. This detection percept is currently taking a battering, as the very structure that has allowed its gestation/ emergence/nesting and extended expression is gradually being slaughtered.)=20
--


When I initially orbited this net.wurked reality (and by this I'm referring to a state of passive flux where my hands first crab-crouched a keyboard and slid over a supine mouse, essentially waiting for a concussive connection hit) the amnesiac-like newness and fugue capabilities were so seductive that, at once, the resultant output was infernoesque, with participants collaboratively floundering in this creative niche that allowed for extended exploration and wild rewritings of creative codes and established artistic & critique conventions. Predicated questionings and standardizations were not, therefore, termed or realized as "truthful" reference points (or even relevant points-of-view according to the concept of the formless "cyberspace" condition). Of course, this reasoning is blinkered in terms of the sphere of functioning that (I have deemed) was emergent in terms of mailing lists and web/net.institution construction - and of course, I'm being terribly introspective, and yes, I'm pixellating the past with a nostalgic Utopian sweep. I would counter, however, that there was a stage of net.wurked development that more than reflected this type of (de)function, even as others rushed to quantify, analyze, rationalize and smooth entity-spacing into satisfactory communication corners.

Now, you may all cogitate away that this era never existed, or that these tendrils are still deliciously and obviously present - in essence, that I am becoming one of those crusty "net.art is dead" advocates and in doing so am missing the meat of the exchange as well as the distended details. And I might well be. I do, however, fervently think (and hope) this not to be the case. From this elongated angle (my mezangelled perceptive base) - and granted it is a difficult one to "get" in terms of affective merging with the communication style in which I wallow - this stage of explosive enquiry & blase net.wurking is bleeding disastrously into the predictably established, an ins(i)t(u)itutionialised strain of though and overt action. It is dangerous to assume that blanket-defined corprorate gluttonisation of the web is only to blame, as there are much more insidious modes that have created this situation.

For example, when we (read: artists/theorists who embrace and position themselves as firm advocates of things "net" - whether that be electronically/collaboratively defined - or those who spout new media ethics until they are blue in the face/screen) drag traditionally-ratified mechanisms of critique back into play, or fall into power-dynamically-defined acts of caps-lock shouting in order to make our point, or seek to regulate the way a peer releases output via mandatory subtle regressions into labels that postulate absolutes ("design", "usability" "ease of use") or even rationalize our position via logos, we are shutting the door on a multitude of prospective actualities and are cutting off the avenues that make the net.wurk a place worthy of creative expansion.

This closing-off, shutting down, embracing of the literal over the nodal/lateral is ridiculously difficult to describe, especially given the tools that I'm employing are drenched in the very stench of this terror-vision of the concrete, the conflagration of the predictable, the explainable, the acceptable, the manifest.

I know some of you will retort, correct, issue differences of opinions, portray a stance that allows for "acceptable" banter in order to seek positive fluid resolutions. All the while I weep for the misbegotten phrase, the typo, the flame-bait that isn't, the nudge that is bypassed in terms of readability & community function.

--=20
(Even now, my post is too long, I've disemboweled the incremental & spider-like trails of meaning and the potential of a personalized re-worked affirmation - all this in an effort to offer explanations, to rationalize my position and to justify my (e)motives in order that others can ap(com)prehend. This will be another terrible net.wurk fracturing-through-solidification, another crawling back into a communicative comprehension shell.)=20
 











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--=====================_3283710==_.ALT-- From sica@dasein-design.com Fri Nov 2 08:42:18 2001 From: sica@dasein-design.com (yukiko shikata) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:42:18 +0900 Subject: [spectre] symposium&lecture of "YCAM" on nov.24, 25 Message-ID: <4.0.1-J.20011102174107.01113870@pop.asahi-net.or.jp> *sorry for the cross-postings... yukiko shikata ----------------------------------------------------------- November 2nd, 2001$B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(B Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media "People, City, and Future; Toward a Creative Society in the 21st Century" Pre-opening event #3 of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media Symposium and Lecture inviting Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Center $B!!(B-Organized by: Yamaguchi City, The Board of Education of Yamaguchi City, Pre-opening event executive committee of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media $B!!(B-Support: Yamaguchi Cultural Promotion Foundation -Coordinator: Yukiko Shikata (curator/media art) "Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media" (*1), opening in autumn, 2003, invites Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria, for a symposium and lecture as its pre-opening event #3. The purpose of the event is to study how the combination of "information technology" and "art/culture" will have influences on urban society in the near future as well as other aspects of daily life. Since the second half of the 1990s, various media centers mostly in Europe have launched social and cultural activities and drawn public attention by pursuing new interactions of "Art and Media Technology." They are trying to activate the urban life and develop the new visions in the postindustrial society, using many kinds of expressions made possible by information and communication technologies. Invited for this pre-opening event #3 is Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica Festival and Center in Linz, Austria. This center is regarded as a precedent of such media center. Its activities will be used as a case study, to examine how a media center can develop and revitalize industries, tourist business, education, etc., and to investigate directions in which local cities and media centers should progress in the future both on a local and global basis. (*1) "Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media" is a complex of facilities that will open in autumn 2003, in the center of the city, as the key base for "Yamaguchi Information Culture City," which Yamaguchi Prefecture is working to create. The complex includes studios, media laboratory, and library for productions, performances, and exhibitions on such themes as "information," "culture," and "cultural exchanges." Centered on art/ culture, its aims include development of art programs to be participated by local people, international networking through producing latest arts and performances, and interchanges among different genres such as education, industry and science. "Future of Art, Culture and City - Information, Art and Society in the 21st century" Date/Time: November 24 (Sat.), 2001; 14:00-18:00 Venue: PaRuRu Plaza Yamaguchi, 4F hall 1-15, Sodayu-cho, Yamaguchi-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture Language: Simultaneous interpretation in Japanese and English Admission: Free Panelists: Gerfried Stocker (Director / Ars Electronica Center) Katsura Hattori (Staff Writer of Asahi,Shimbun newspaper) Chihiro Minato (Photographer, Critic and associate professor of Tama Art University) Munefusa Saito (President / Yamaguchi Cable Vision Corporation) Moderators: Part I: "Media Center and Vitalization of Local Communities" Junya Yoshimitsu (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Part II: "Media Technology and Possibilities of Culture and Arts" Kazunao Abe (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Panelists: $B!&(BGerfried Stocker Born in Austria in 1964. Studied at Graz Electronic Communication University. He has actively worked as a media artist since 1990, and established "x-space" in 1991 to realize interdisciplinary projects. He produced many installations and performances in the areas of interaction, robotics, and telecommunication. In 1996, he was appointed a managing director of Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, and also works as an artistic director of "Ars Electronica," together with Christine Schoepf. $B!&(BKatsura Hattori Born in 1951. He is a staff writer of the Asahi Shimbun, and studied the media industry in the United States for two years as a researcher at the MIT media laboratory. After working as a reporter of the science section, and the chief editor of "PASO," he is now in charge of the digital section of the news editorial office. He covers extensively the trends of media in general, and is knowledgeable about the latest technologies and theories of media. His books include "The World of Artificial Reality" (Industrial Study Association in 1991), "The World of Artificial Life" (Ohm Publishing Co., 1994), and "A Prophet of Media -Rediscovery of McLuhan--" (Kosai- do Publishing Co., 2001). He also translated "A Hacker Laughs" (NTT Publishing Co., 1995). $B!&(BChihiro Minato Born in 1960 and is an associate professor of Tama Art University. He presents his works as a photographer, and actively works as a critic in different areas such as film and media art, and also curated "Serendipity: Photography, video, experimental film and multimedia installation from Asia" in 2000.His has written many books including "Thinking Skin--On Touching Culture" (Seido-sha, 1993), and "The Third Eye--Imagination in the Digital Age" (Kosai-sha Publishing Co., 2001). His collections of photographs include "At the Plaza Tomorrow---in Europe, 1989 - 1994" (Serika-shobo, 1995). $B!&(BMunefusa Saito Born in 1953. He is president of Yamaguchi Toyota Automobile Corporation, a board director of TV Yamaguchi, and assumes many other high positions. He rendered service in establishing Yamaguchi Cable Vision in November 1991 to cope with the radio wave problem around Yamaguchi. He became president and succeeded in tapping a potential demand for the services of information communications. He has worked on providing local information through cable TV, and launched the cable Internet service this year with the catch-phrases of high speed, ample capacity, and reasonable price, to strategically arrange local information networking. "Present, Past and Future of Ars Electronica" Date/Time: November 25 (Sun), 2001; 14:00-16:00 Venue: The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Lecture Room 3-1 Kameyama-cho, Yamaguchi-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture Language: Word-for-word translation English to Japanese Admission: Free * * * For furtuer information, please contact: Executive committee office of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi Cty 2-1 Kameyama-cho, Yamaguchi-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 753-8650 E-mail: artscafe@mbd.sphere.ne.jp Tel: 083-934-2718 Fax: 083-934-2670 http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/artscafe/ Yukiko Shikata aka carmela * sica@dasein-design.com and/or s t o i c o m e d i a t o r From zankov@altern.org Fri Nov 2 09:50:08 2001 From: zankov@altern.org (zankov@altern.org) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:50:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [spectre] offener kanal berlin Message-ID: Wenn Sie Lust und Zeit haben konnen Sie ein Teil des Videos am TV sehen: Am Sonntag 4.11.2001 ab 22.30 Uhr werden die "HAUSAUFGABEN", videos von Ventsislav Zankov uber Offener Kanal Berlin presentieren/ausstrahlen wiederholund 3.12.2001 21.00 Uhr OKB herzliche Gluckwuhsche Ventsislav Zankov http://www.ctrl-z.org/zankov From ctgr@free.fr Fri Nov 2 12:15:13 2001 From: ctgr@free.fr (clement Thomas - pavu.com) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:15:13 +0100 Subject: [spectre] [pavu.com/iaaf][http://vnatrc.org/IAAF/ \\__kesako?++++++++++c]] Message-ID: <3BE28E50.74AA242B@free.fr> - cross posting presentations bilingue to begin - [informative arts art foundation ] Re:i.-m.achination 2_11_01 http://pavu.com/iaaf/show.htm vnatrc curated by Po|Od irc vernissage 22h00 paris-Bordeaux party-time welcome. party at the TNT - Manufacture de chaussures - 226 bd alfred 1er - 33300 Bordeaux /*/respect the rules/*/ http://pavu.com is not responsand but cutable. see you tonight. http://rdh.vnatrc.free.fr/IAAF/i_mAchination/pin.html "the gold you gold me chez i burn the pine !" signate ! 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textz.com newsletter november 2001 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011102174444.00946d90@pop.snafu.de> [simply g=E9nial! // sorry for cross-posting // greetings, inke] From: "textz.com" Subject: [rohrpost] textz.com newsletter november 2001 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:00:16 +0100 ________________________________________________________________ textz.com newsletter november 2001 ________________________________________________________________ we are glad to announce that we have finally released the first plain ascii versions ever of empire by antonio negri and michael hardt, abfall fuer alle by rainald goetz and to have done with the judgement of god by antonin artaud. there is of course much more, and even more is obviously missing. to contribute a text to our engine, all you have to do is mail it to inbox@textz.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- see below: 10 of our most recent textz 10 of our most popular textz in october 10 of our least popular textz in october 10 of our textz that still need some editing 10 of our shortest textz ---------------------------------------------------------------- napster was only the beginning an introduction to textz.com [updated version 0.5.5] a spectre is haunting the corporate world--the spectre of organized world-wide file-sharing. mp3, to name the most common synonym for the becoming-distributor of millions of former customers, has clearly shown that the flows of digital data are much more driven by people and popular protocols than they are determined by legislation, ownership or the new global rules of the corporate-political. napster has reverse-engineered the ideology of a whole industry, and it has finally proven its total, complete and absolute obsolescence. today more than ever, the nets are zones of excess, immune against the business model of electronic scarcity. the transnational companies that are trying to break up the file-sharing networks have declared a war they will never be able to stop. there are going to be thousands of napsters. textz.com is not even zero-point-five of them. we are not the dot in dot-com, neither are we the minus in e- book. the future of online publishing sits right next to your computer: it's a $50 scanner and a $50 printer, both connected to the internet. we are the & in copy & paste, and plain ascii is still the format of our choice. it shouldn't require a plug- in to read a book on the net, nor should it require a credit card. the text industry is a paper tiger. along with the mass erosion of their proprietary rights goes the vanishing of their digital watermarks. packed today, cracked tomorrow. whatever electronic gadgets they will come up with--they are all going to be dead media on their very release day. forget about your brand new kafka dvd. i already got it via sms. one shouldn't expect the 50 million former users of napster to be digitally illiterate: they won't judge an e-book by its cover. this is not project gutenberg. it is neither about constituting a canonical body of historical texts (by authors so classical that they've all been watching the grass from below for almost a century of posthumous copyright), nor is it about htmlifying freely available books into unreadable sub-chapterized hyper- chunks. texts relate to texts by other means than a href. just go to your local bookstore and find out yourself. the net is not a rhizome, and a digital library should not be an interactive nirvana. the conceptual poverty of today's post-academic, post- corporate public online services--and we haven't seen dot-museum yet--is not and has never been a desirable alternative to the dystopic vision of a future controlled by the super-pervasive data-streams of the emerging military-entertainment complex. there are still other options. nostalgia is slavery. stay home, read a book. information does not want to be free. in fact it is absolutely free of will, a constant flow of signs of lives which are permanently being turned into commodities and transformed into commercial content. textz.com is not part of the information business. they say there was a time when content was king, but we have seen his head rolling. our week beats their year. ever since we have been moving from content to discontent, collecting scripts and viruses, writing programs and bots, dealing with textz as warez, as executables--something that is able to change your life. this is not promotional material. facing the unified principles of information--the combined horror of global communication and so-called guerilla marketing--there is no more need for media theory or cultural studies. the resistance against corporate culture can itself no longer remain in the cultural domain. you make a mistake if you see what we do as merely apolitical. we are studying the coils of the serpent, watching the walk of the penguin, mapping the moves of our wired enemies. intellectual, digital and biological property--cornerstones of the new regimes of control--are the direct result of organized corporate piracy. they are not only replacing such dubious and obsolete notions as freedom, democracy, human rights and technological progress. all these new forms of ownership are, in the first place, attempts to expropriate people's work, data and bodies--just as the they begin to acquire, for the first time in history, the technical means to organize them in a radically different way. today's global media and communication conglomerates are mafias, and we shouldn't count on what's left of the national governments when it comes to fighting back. "humanity won't be happy until the last copyright holder is hung by the guts of the last patent lawyer." napster was only the beginning. the nineties of the net are over. let's move on. a.s.ambulanzen, berlin/germany, october 2001 no copyright textz.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 of our most recent textz ---------------------------------------------------------------- raoul vaneigem: the revolution of everyday life http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dvaneigem+life hakim bey: a war in heaven http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dbey+war jacques derrida: gespr=E4ch =FCber kino http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dderrida+kino marion von osten: fight back the determinator http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dosten+determinator rainald goetz: abfall f=FCr alle http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgoetz+abfall stephan geene: des hi=E9rarchies plates http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgeene+hierarchies tom holert: mikro-=F6konomie der geschichte http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dholert+geschichte antonin artaud: to have done with the judgement of god http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dartaud+judgement franco berardi bifo: panic war http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dbifo+war michael hardt / antonio negri: empire http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dhardt+negri+empire ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 of our most popular textz in october ---------------------------------------------------------------- douglas adams: the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadams+guide kathy acker: the language of the body http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dacker+language a.s.ambulanzen: feminists like us http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dambulanzen+feminists noam chomsky: on the bombings http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dchomsky+bombings klaus theweleit: twin towers http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dtheweleit+towers theodor w. adorno: on popular music http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadorno+music cia: psychological operations in guerrilla warfare http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dagency+operations stephen hawking: a brief history of time http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dhawking+history sun tzu: the art of war http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsun+war adilkno: cracking the movement http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadilkno+movement ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 of our least popular textz in october ---------------------------------------------------------------- franz kafka: ein junger ehrgeiziger student http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dkafka+student serge daney: the t(h)errorized (godardian pedagogy) http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddaney+pedagogy stephen pfohl: the cybernetic delirium of norbert wiener http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dpfohl+delirium franz-josef strauss: die zeit der entschiedung ist da http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dstrauss+zeit bruce sterling: the manifesto of january 3, 2000 http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsterling+manifesto guy debord: preface to the third french edition of la soci=E9t=E9.= .. http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddebord+preface+third+french friedrich kittler: ph=E4nomenologie versus medienwissenschaft http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dkittler+medienwissenschaft felix reidenbach: entpolitisierte kulturkritik und der krieg... http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dreidenbach+kulturkritik saskia sassen: the topoi of e-space http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsassen+topoi roberto ohrt: asger jorn, guy debord und die si http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dohrt+jorn+debord ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 of our textz that still need some editing ---------------------------------------------------------------- james joyce: ulysses http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Djoyce+ulysses herman melville: moby dick http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dmoby+dick neal stephenson: snow crash http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsnow+crash d.a.f. de sade: justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsade+justine william gibson: all tomorrow's parties http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgibson+parties lautr=E9amont: les chants de maldoror http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dlautreamont+maldoror gilles deleuze: spinoza http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddeleuze+spinoza stephen king: the library policeman http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dking+policeman ralf reinders / ronald fritzsch: die bewegung 2. juni http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dreinders+fritzsch+bewegung jacques derrida: m=E9moires http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dderrida+memoires ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 of our shortest textz ---------------------------------------------------------------- theodor w. adorno / max horkheimer: tierpsychologie http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadorno+tierpsychologie elektro music department: two words about the internet http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Delektro+internet anti-pop consortium: tragic epilogue http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dconsortium+epilogue d. diederichsen: das netz als technologie permanenter inklusion http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddiederichsen+netz ulrike meinhof: brief aus dem toten trakt http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dmeinhof+brief f=E9lix guattari: vers une =E8re post-m=E9dia http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dguattari+ere paul garrin: the disappearence of public space on the net http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgarrin+disappearence comit=E9 d'occupation de la sorbonne: t=E9l=E9grammes http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dcomite+telegrammes joseph jean rolland dub=E9: livraison gratuite http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddube+livraison my bloody valentine: loveless http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dvalentine+loveless ___________________________________________________________________ http://textz.com - we are the & in copy & paste 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Winners of the Ithaque round II pavu.com' PIMP Tour honoured ! the whole history to be revived in warm winter at home motion ! http://www.pavu.com/PIMP/pimpNews.htm Congratulations to the winners ! the pavu.com team http://pavu.com -/ spouring the beat ! /- From inke@snafu.de Sun Nov 4 13:13:46 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:13:46 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Bits & Pieces, 4th Intl Symposium, University of Hartford Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011104141346.00911a60@pop.snafu.de> From: JoanWalden@aol.com Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:56:39 EST The Media Advisory is attached and is also copied and pasted below MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release PHOTO & VIDEO OPPORTUNITIES CONTACT: Zina Davis, (860) 768-4090 -OR- Joan Walden (860) 236-9620 http://www.hartfordartschool.org/symposium WHAT: BITS & PIECES: THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION - FREE!! RENOWNED MEDIA ARTISTS from EUROPE and ASIA join artists from the USA for cutting-edge EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCE, LECTURES and SYMPOSIUM dealing with subjects and techniques that range widely from Early Cinema and TV to Racial and Social Differences, Botany and the exploration of Real and Virtual Time by employing computer and digital technology. WHEN: Monday, November 12 - Perry Hoberman Lecture at 11 AM; Keith Piper at 1 PM Zoe Beloff Performance at 7:30 PM - Wilde Auditorium, Gray Center, UH Tuesday, November 13 - Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Lecture at 10:30 AM; VinylVideo Lecture at 11:30 AM; Paul DeMarinis lecture at 1 PM - Wilde Auditorium Opening Reception at 5:30 PM, Joseloff Gallery Wednesday, November 14 - Symposium at 11:30 AM - a dialogue with visiting artists moderated by Timothy Druckrey, Wilde Auditorium* WHERE: Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Wilde Auditorium University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. WHO: Zoe Beloff, Paul DeMarinis, Perry Hoberman, Keith Piper, VinylVideo and Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. Bits & Pieces is co-organized by Timothy Druckrey, curator and Zina Davis, Director, Joseloff Gallery. Schedule is subject to change. Please consult website or call to confirm. - http://www.v2.nl/~arns/ From inke@snafu.de Sun Nov 4 16:27:02 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 17:27:02 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Welcome to the Revolution, Zurich, Nov 9-11, 2001 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011104172702.007d6d20@pop.snafu.de> Welcome to the Revolution* International Symposium November 9th to 11th, 2001=20 Institute for Theory of Design and Art (ith) at the 'Hochschule f=FCr Gestaltung und Kunst Z=FCrich' (HGKZ)=20 How are subjectivity, collectivity and their gender-specific manifestations formed against the background of non-linear work and lifetime conditions? What impact does this tendency of society as a whole have on political culture and on current cultural practice? Ulrich Br=F6ckling (Freiburg/D) Karen Lisa Goldschmidt-Salamon (Kopenhagen/DK) Michael Hardt (New York/USA) Bettina Heintz (Mainz/D) Tom Holert (K=F6ln/D) Verena Kuni (Frankfurt a. M./D) Angela McRobbie (London/UK) Faith Wilding (New York/USA) Entrance fee: 2-day-pass SFR 50,-=20 Single day SFR 30,-=20 @ Hochschule f=FCr Gestaltung und Kunst HGKZ, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8031 Z=FCrich, Main Building, Lecture Hall, 2nd floor=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the events of 1968 the view of society as a universal whole has changed. The social movements in the West as well as the emancipatory movements in the countries of the global south have secured an understanding of the particularity, difference and specificity of social issues, which has become part of the thinking of and about postmodernity. These developments on the intellectual and socio-political terrain are mirrored in the dynamics of a post-industrial society, in which the consolidation of the service industries on the one hand and of new communication technologies on the other hand has been furthered since the mid-1970s. The level of production has continuously been replaced by management and marketing of consumer goods. Management literature advertises company restructuring with titles like "Welcome to the Revolution". New organisational structures like "Fractal Organisation", "Lean Production" and "Chaos Management" have already found real application in companies. Rigid hierarchies are being dissolved and replaced by team work, self-dynamics, and social competence. Comparisons are made with guerilla strategies and the Italian 'autonomia', who in the late 1970s developed radical democratic organisational paradigms in a dialogue with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. There are correlations between the counter-culture of the 60s/70s and their 'groupuscles' on the one hand and group work in new company strategies on the other hand. The incorporation of former dissident practices and subject positions in favor of making institutions and economically motivated organisational processes more efficient is to be located within the context of neo-liberal politics, which declare the regulating effect of the market as well as its agent, the entrepreneur/manager, to be the most effective paradigm and sell this as an emancipatory project. Business and marketing strategies have become essential players in terms of the formation of our cultural environment, the creation of life styles and the definition of how a society describes, feels and sees itself. At the same time the consolidation of the production of consumer goods has lead to an 'asthetization of everyday life' in the fields of the branding and marketing industries. Also in Switzerland, particularly in Zurich, a booming 'creative industry' has taken shape and formed a new generation of free-lancers, whose self-understanding is similar to that of artists and produces new hybrid forms of cultural practice. The life of a cultural worker, artist, author, journalist becomes the model for a flexible and creative organisation of life. The former dichotomy between work and leisure, formal and informal, is beginning to become more diverse and aesthetic in areas other than the image industry as well. With the concept of flexible working biographies of the so-called life-entrepreneur it is becoming increasingly difficult to pin down when, how and why we call something work or non-work. Also in the new service-oriented work relations work and lifetime overlap or even become wholly identical. This transformation not only produces new spaces of collective experience and hybrid cultural forms but in its positive assumptions also opens up possibilities for new subject positions, which could be understood as enemies to traditional gender dichotomies on the one hand, but also as neo-liberal technologies (of the self) in the sense of Foucault on the other hand.=20 Concept/Realisation: Marion von Osten and Sibylle Omlin Institute for Theory of Art and Design (ith), Zurich=20 Organisation/Information: Isabel Kempinski, Institute for Theory of Art and Design (ith), Postfach, 8031 Z=FCrich, telephone 0041-1-446 26 52, email: info@ith-z.ch=20 FRIDAY, 9.11. 2001 14.00=20 Transformation of the concept of "labor" / Technologies of the Self=20 Introduction by Marion von Osten and Sibylle Omlin 14.30-15.15=20 KAREN LISA GOLDSCHMIDT SALAMON Kopenhagen/DK=20 Spiritual Transformation at Work. Contemporary Social Networks and Ideological Discourses of Management Consultants=20 Business professionals have become culturally sensitive and explicitly concerned with integrating so-called cultural values in management practice. Their ideal is one of a 'corporate religion' and opens a heterogeneous ideological form (involving a broad range of New Age spiritual practices and religious and philosophical traditions). The Spiritual Transformation of Work can thus be viewed as a multi-local and transnational, polycentric ideological movement, organized in the form of communicative networks that address central issues of neo-liberal workplace organization and strongly influence corporate management today.=20 Karen Lisa Goldschmidt-Salamon (Kopenhagen/DK), social anthropologist. She has published among others in "Cultural Capitalism: Politics after New Labour" (London: Lawrence & Wishart). She teaches at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Kopenhagen Business School. 15.15 discussion and pause 16.30 - 17.15 DR. ULRICH BR=D6CKLING Freiburg/Germany Intrapreneurship. Excursions into the world of quality- and self-management Manuals and seminars about personality coaching not only convey tehcniques of efficient time planning, work organization or stress coping, but also design a comprehensive model of neo-liberal subjectivity: the model of the entrepreneurial self. The manuals for the successful marketing of 'Ego&Co' make use not least of the fund of feminist and leftist critique. Paradoxical hybrid forms appear as the vanishing points of self-modelling: the team-oriented single combattant, the empathetic maximiser of benefits, the self-portrayer with a view of the whole, or the customer-oriented slick guy with a highly idiosyncratic profile. Dr. Ulrich Br=F6ckling (Freiburg/Germany), reseacrh field: sociology with a focus on cultural sociology, history and social technologies. Co-editor of "Gouvernementalit=E4t der Gegenwart. Studien zur =D6konomisierung des Sozial= en" (Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp Verlag). Research assistant at the Sonderforschungsbereich "Literatur und Anthropologie" at the University of Konstanz. 17.15 discussion and pause 18.00 - 18.45 TOM HOLERT K=F6ln/Germany Requirement-Intelligences=20 In digitized "work environments" profiles of competence emerge which are informed by ideals of coginitive and social competence but also by the battle cries of neo-liberalism and social darwinism. Against the background of a dichotomy of the official "soft skills"-ideology and inofficial brutalization/naturalization the question is pursued how a) the new categories of "gender" and "intelligence" are being inscribed into the new "work environments" and how b) the representation of these categories in the context of "profession&work" has changed in the course of the last decades with the computerization of the work place. Dr. Tom Holert (K=F6ln/Germany), freelance cultural theorist and journalist in K=F6ln. From 1992-1995 editor at 'Texte zur Kunst', from 1996-1999 co-editor of 'Spex', from 1997-1999 Professor for Theory of Culture and Media at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. April 2000 foundation of the Institute for Studies in Visual Culture (isvc) with Mark Terkessidis. Book publications: K=FCnstlerwissen (1998), Mainstream der Minderheiten. Pop in der Kontrollgesellschaft (Editor, with Mark Terkessidis, 1996), Imagineering. Visuelle Kultur und Politik der Sichtbarkeit (Editor, 2000). In preparation: Books on the "visual formations" of today and on categories of intelligence in popular culture. 18.45 discussion and pause=20 19.30-20.15=20 FAITH WILDING New York/USA Collective Maintenance a lecture/performance=20 In recent decades, the mass deployment of electronic technology in offices and workplaces has profoundly changed the structure of work. The relationship of home and work life in ways which are having particularly disturbing effects on women worldwide. Once again many women are confined to the private sphere of the home where they perform double maintenance labor, simultaneously maintaining the family and the global consumer economy. I will present a model of cyberfeminist collective work and discuss the problematic maintenance of collectivity. My example will be the cyberfeminist collective subRosa, an activist cultural production group deeply committed to critical performance, creative subversion of authoritarian institutions, and radical restructuring of social relations. Faith Wilding (New York/USA), artist and cultural theorist, mixes her biography with that of subRosa. SubRosa is a (cyber)feminist collective which studies new information- and bio-technologies as well as their effects on female body-, life-, and work-relations in a combination of art, activism and politics. In her lecture/performances Faith Wilding draws a comparison between the Feminist Maintenance Performance developed in the 1970s by the Woman's Action Coalition and the political conditions of cyberfeminism. SATURDAY, 10.11.2001 14.00 Immaterial Work I. Cultural Perspectives: Introduction by Sibylle Omlin=20 14.30 - 15.15=20 VERENA KUNI Frankfurt a.M./Germany=20 "Pre-Register Now!" J'est un JobCreator.Bot=20 On Cultural Part Time Worker Self-Management under Net_Conditions In future, will cultural workers be required only as friendly hosts/hostesses, cleaning ladies of data spaces and graveyard gardeners in the holiday parks of the information society? Are self-organization and the work on, in and with collaborative structures only warming up exercises in trainee centers conditioning us for mc-jobs the sweatshops of culture industry? Any alternative options? (This text was automatically generated by an abstract generator bot). Verena Kuni (Frankfurt a.M./Germany), art historian and critic with a focus on gender studies in the the fields of art and media studies and on theory and aesthetics of electronic art. Member of the 'old boys network' and the 'webgrrls'; co-founder of the 'filiale zeitgen=F6ssische kunst gender vermittlung'. Research assistant in art history at the University of Trier and coordinator of interdisciplinary gender studies.=20 15.15 discussion and pause 16.00 - 16.45=20 PROF. ANGELA MCROBBIE London/UK=20 Everyone Is Creative... Artists as Pioneers of the New Economy? The lecture considers UK policy on creativity and employment. It also explores the full impact of corporate interests in hitherto state funded arts and argues this contributes not to the expansion of creativity but to the extinguishing of the 'indies'. The lecture concludes by asking how cultural workers can organise as 'new labour'?=20 Prof. Angela McRobbie (London/UK), research field: Culture, Gender and Media Studies. She has published among others "Feminism and Youth Culture: >From Jackie to Just Seventeen" (1991), "Postmodernism and Popular Culture" (1994),"British fashion design: rag trade or image industry?"(1998), "In the culture society: art, fashion, and popular music" (London: Routledge 1999). Editor of "Zoot Suits and Second Hand Dresses" (1989). She teaches at the Department for Media and Communication, Goldsmith College London. 16.45 discussion and pause 17.30 Immaterial Work II. New Gender-Perspectives: Introduction by Marion von= Osten 18.00 - 18.45 MICHAEL HARDT New York/USA Affective Labor The concept of biopower has been important in discussing the progressive indistinction between production and reproduction, the indefinite, expansive nature of the length of the working day. The concept of affective labor has also helped recognize the corporeal nature of these new, immaterial productive forms. This new paradigm of laboring activity constitutes not only a new regime of control but also contains the possibility of liberation: The powers of invention, of mixture, hybridization, and metamorphosis of immaterial labor present a new liberatory potential for the autonomous construction of subjectivity.=20 Prof. Michael Hardt (New York/USA), romance languages and literature. He has published among others with Antonio Negri "Empire" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) and "Die Arbeit des Dionysos" (Berlin: ID Verlag). He teaches at Duke University, Durham, New York. 18.45 discussion and pause 19.30 - 20.15 PROF. DR. BETTINA HEINTZ Mainz/Germany The Power of the Global: Women's Rights in the context of world society Untouched by the public discourse on globalisation gender research in the social sciences is still looking for the causes of the continuing disadvantage to women within national states. Today, the change and the form of gender relations cannot be explained without reference to the level of world society. When globalisation is the subject matter, the diagnosis is mostly one of loss. But specifically in the field of women's rights and national gender cultures the 'process of globalisation' has not only negative consequences. Prof. Dr. Bettina Heintz (Mainz/Germany), sociologist. She has published among others: "Listen der Ohnmacht. Zur Sozialgeschichte weiblicher Widerstandsformen" (Syndikat 1981, 3rd ed. 2000, with Claudia Honegger), "Die Herrschaft der Regel. Zur Grundlagengeschichte des Computers" (1993) and "Mit dem Auge denken. Strategien der Sichtbarmachung in wissenschaftlichen und virtuellen Welten" (Berlin: Springer Verlag 2001, with J=F6rg Huber). Professor for sociology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit=E4t Mainz. 20.30 - 21.45 Final discussion Moderation: Eva Nadai, Z=FCrich SUNDAY, 11.11.2001 Colloquium With the speakers and students of HGKZ=20 By registration only (limited number of participants) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- "Welcome to the Revolution" is a production of the Institute for Theory of Art and Design (ith), Zurich, in cooperation with the Theoriepool (STH) of the Hochschule f=FCr Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich (HGKZ). The event is sponsored by the British Council/Switzerland and Migros Kulturprozent. From abroeck@transmediale.de Mon Nov 5 11:11:09 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:11:09 +0200 Subject: [spectre] M. Punt: Postdigital Analogue Message-ID: LEA Volume 9, Number 10 Editorial < Human Consciousness and the Postdigital Analogue > by Michael Punt, E-mail: As Steven Wilson points out in his review of the book Ars Electronica, =46acing the Future, this book is "a marvelous resource that will be much appreciated by artists, critics, historians, and anyone interested in the convergence of art and technology." (See LDR Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2001) Among other things, the book provides a historical record that catalogues the changing perceptions of the emergence of digital technology as a popular medium. Seventeen years ago, for example, Gene Youngblood reminded us that the computer translates the continuous phenomena of the world into discrete units. At the same time, Peter Weibel pointed out that whereas the analogical follows principles of similarity, congruency and continuity, the digital uses the smallest discontinuous, non- homogeneous elements. Five years later Roy Ascott, with characteristic visionary insight, appealed for a restoration of the metaphor to the agenda in order that the undivided whole could once again be regained. It was a call that Nick Herbert responded to a year later in a lucid and accessible account of quantum physics, concluding with some irony that holistic physics really would erase the distinction between subject and object and there would be a real danger of getting lost in space. Facing the =46uture's history lesson ends in 1998 with Friedrich Kittler's confirmation that in the realms of electronic warfare we resisted this danger since copying a "hostile CPU is easier, cheaper, and therefore more likely to proliferate than copying a hostile phase radar." This is not merely the carry- through of old technology into the new (as, for example, film and video), but a return to the ideal of the analogue. According to Kittler's analysis of warfare, in less than a decade digital media recovered the relevance of the principles of similarity, congruency and continuity. This apparent persistence of the analogue invites us to consider that the morphological resemblance between pre- and post-digital modes of expression (or industrial and enlightenment, for that matter) could be significant symptoms of the hesitance of users to abandon "felt" experience in favor of the =E9clat of >seductive technologies of description. At the distance that Ars Electronica: Facing the =46uture allows us, it becomes apparent that empowered users negotiating with digital media have found themselves engaged in this recurring cycle, in which the idealization of representation is in conflict with the dominant technology, which disavows daily experience as an undifferentiated circulation of metaphors for desire and resistance. As much was at stake in the pre-cinematic age, when Jules Etienne Marey, for example, inquiring into the nature of movement, regarded the new techniques of chronophotography as inferior to graphic methods using smoked drums and scribes attached to pneumatic sensors. Photo-technology used shutters that insisted upon the moment as a finite duration and consequently ruptured the flow of movement as experienced in a flux of time. The pseudo- guarantees of objectivity that this scientifically acceptable idealization could offer, however, outweighed the deficits, and the representation of movement as an incremental sequence in a small finite and discontinuous moment became an acceptable norm to the extent that the subject was indeed collapsed into the object and temporarily "lost in space." However, whereas chronophotography chained vision to the materiality of the body, in the post-chronophotographic analogue the principles of similarity, congruency and continuity found new life in the cinema of narrative integration (the movies) which rescued the subject in a seamless reality of the infinitely malleable virtual bodies, for whom the eye was transcendent. The intellectual project of Ars Electronica, =46acing the Future leaves little doubt that the digital revolution was, from its technological and conceptual inception, always destined to be the postdigital in which similarity, congruence and continuity found new applications. At stake in the postdigital analogue however, is more than the recovery of the subject: it is nothing less than the question of whose vision of paradise prevails. The postdigital analogue points to a version of paradise that is not a finite discontinuous place or a non-homogeneous moment of time, not Eden in a nostalgic future, but a thick membrane in which local conditions, desire and resistance are constantly stabilized to form a whole identity. Where the digital proposes the perfect finite conditions for a perfect existence regardless of matter (as for example in the human genome project), in the postdigital analogue (as for example in the ironies of genetic and wet biological art) human consciousness is regarded as almost infinitely malleable, able to shape its identity in response to local and technological conditions and aware all the time of the range of possibilities not yet developed, both digital and analogue. From nc-agricowi@netcologne.de Mon Nov 5 18:16:54 2001 From: nc-agricowi@netcologne.de (Agricola de Cologne) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:16:54 +0100 Subject: [spectre] JavaMuseum News 11 Message-ID: <017d01c16626$0dc21c60$8c6afea9@agricola2> A Newsletter JavaMuseum November 2001 info@javamuseum.org www.javamuseum.org 1. Solo show Jody Zellen 2. Solo show of Tiia Johannson 3. Online Show 1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media 4. JavaArtist of the Year 2001 Award 5. Actual deadline list 1.Since 5 November 2001, the solo show of Jody Zellen (USA) is online. She belongs to a new generation of artists using the Internet as a platform for their artistic expression, she participate= d in lot of well-known international festivals and exhibitions and is JavaArtist of Year 2001 Award winner. The solo show collects all of the net based works of this fascinating artist. The works are script based, as well as image based, using Javascript as technological preference. The show will run for three months and remain available online for permanent. =2E Visit the show of Jody Zellen on www.javamuseum.org 2. On 8 October the solo show of Tiia Johannson (net artist from Estonia) opened. The exhibition includes the most comprehensive collection of 19 net base= d art works using as technologies preferably Quicktime, Shockwave and Javascript. The works of this very talented artist are originating from t= he past years and are well represented in international media exhibitions an= d festivals. Visit the solo show of Tiia Johannson on www.javamuseum.org 3. Since 3 September 2001, the first online show of JavaMuseum is running= , entitled: 1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media The exhibition is based on a competition organized online earlier this ye= ar. It gives a snapshot on the actual artistic working with Internet related technologies. The exhibition represents the variety of 37 net artists, many of them already well known, others are emerging. The show will run until the end of 2001 and will remain afterwards as an = art source on JavaMuseum server for permanent. Visit the show on www.javamuseum.org 4. The JavaArtist of the Year Award is given in 2001 for the first time. JavaMuseum honours following three artists who combine technology, artistic expression and statement each one in a v= ery individual way with a lot of power, activity, excellence of working and a technology related poetry: **Tiia Johannson (Estonia) **Jody Zellen (USA). **mez [mary-ann breeze], (Australia) Learn more on www.javamuseum.org 5. Actual deadline list See more on www.javamuseum.org/calls/home_calls.htm Wilfried Agricola de Cologne Editor and Director of JavaMuseum info@javamuseum.org www.javamuseum.org JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art ( JAVA =3D Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) ___________________ A Newletter is a free informations service by NewMediaArtProjectNetwork pr@nmartproject.net Copyright =A9 2001 by Agricola de Cologne. All rights reserved. From ave@cornish.edu Mon Nov 5 20:04:55 2001 From: ave@cornish.edu (Adrian Van Egmond) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:04:55 -0800 Subject: [spectre] subscribe Message-ID: ave@cornish.edu From domiziana@nexus.it Tue Nov 6 09:01:57 2001 From: domiziana@nexus.it (domiziana) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:01:57 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Understanding the art market Message-ID: "Understanding the art market" an essai, a concept, an artwork, a method. http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org/under/index.html -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DSI dsi@DigitalSistersIndeed.org It was pure bliss when I finally achieved silence. http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From nc-agricowi@netcologne.de Tue Nov 6 09:03:27 2001 From: nc-agricowi@netcologne.de (Agricola de Cologne) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:03:27 +0100 Subject: [spectre] AVM News 11 Message-ID: <011101c166a1$e639ccc0$8c6afea9@agricola2> A Virtual Memorial Newsletter November 2001 www.a-virtual-memorial.org info@a-virtual-memorial.org Visit the Memorial project! *0. Selected Memorial days *1. Features of the Month *2. Featured Artist of the Month *3. Featured Project of the Month *4. Contribute to "A Memorial for the Victims of Terror and "A Memorial for the victims of AIDS" *5. News *6. Actual deadline list 0. Selected Memorial days **7 November 1917 - October Revolution (Russia) **9 November 1938 - Progrom night 1938 (Germany) **9 November 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall (Germany) **16 November International Day of Tolerance (UN) 1. Features of the Month The Features of the Month are monthly changing collections of multimedia works and links which form in the totality of the composition an artwork of theirown to be created on a webpage of theirown within the Memorial project. ***Subject of the Month is A never ending nightmare - Commemorating the victims of state terror 2. Featured Artist Raquel Partnoy **Family portrait of this Argentine artist** can be viewed as part of Features of the Month or AVM Magazine on www.a-virtual-memorial.org 3. Featured Project: ***Memorial for the victims of terror*** collaborative project combining two calls for artists in one project *Memorial for the victims of state terror* and *Memorial for the victims of terror* (11 September 2001) More than 50 artists from many countries are participating Visit the project as one Feature of the Month or via AVM Magazine on www.a-virtual-memorial.org 4. News Several net based art works originating from A Virtual Memorial participate(d) in October/November in *Viper Computer Art Festival (Switzerland) *4th International Meeting of Experimental Poetry (Buenos Aires/Argentina) *Casting a Net (McLean Projects for the Arts/USA) 5. Call for submissions ***1.) No dead line - submissions always welcome Artists are invited to send their contributions to **A Memorial for the Victims of Terror** initiated in connection with WTC terror in September. Submit one single work: image (.jpg), URL (net based work) or text (email or .txt file) and send it to september11@a-virtual-memorial.org visit the Memorial on www.a-virtual-memorial.org ***2. Deadline 1 December 2001 - but submissions welcome through month December Although at present AIDS is out of the news, the dramatic situation of new infections and infected people did not change, at all: the human tragedy keeps going on world-wide. On occasion of World AIDS Day on 1 December The "Features of the Month December 2001" on www.a-virtual-memorial.org are dedicated entirely to the victims of AIDS. In order to create a Memorial for the Victims of AIDS to be published online on 1 December, artists are invited to submit either one image (.jpg) or one text (email or .txt file) or one web based work (URL or Flash .swf file/Quicktime .mov file) which has a subject connected to AIDS. ***Main Deadline 1 December 2001.*** But submissions are welcome afterwards, as well during month December and will be posted online immediately. ***Send your submission to aids@a-virtual-memorial.org 6. Visit also the actual deadline list for further calls www.a-virtual-memorial.org/calls/calls.htm and participate! Wilfried Agricola de Cologne info@a-virtual-memorial.org A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity www.a-virtual-memorial.org corporate member of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork _______________________ A Newsletter is a free information service of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork pr@nmartproject.net From nc-agricowi@netcologne.de Wed Nov 7 08:03:49 2001 From: nc-agricowi@netcologne.de (Agricola de Cologne) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:03:49 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Feature and invitation to artists Message-ID: <00b401c16762$bbfa8d20$ab68a8d5@agricola2> Feature: Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org is happy to launch online a series of Featured Artists. Starting in November 2001 with STANZA, net artist from London (UK). visit the first edition of Featured Artists on www.le-musee-divisioniste.org Invitation to artists: Le Musee di-visioniste is looking for exceptional artists and their projects in order to include them in the series of Featured Artists. Artists are invited to submit the URL(s) of their projects, either net based art work or physical art projects documentated or displayed in an extraordinary way on a homepage. A selection of the best submissions will be included in these series. There are no limitations concerning the used media, subjects and size. Send your submission, i.e the URL (s) completed with your name, email address, CV and three still photos (.jpg) of the project(s) to feature@le-musee-divisioniste.org Wilfried Agricola de Cologne info@le-musee-divisioniste.org www.le-musee-divisioniste.org Le Musee di-visioniste is a net based museum and corporate member of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork. From mpandil@soros.org.mk Wed Nov 7 10:12:50 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 11:12:50 +0100 Subject: [spectre] 3 more days till deadline Message-ID: <20011107111141.66D6.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION Location: Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Date: December 1 - 2, 2001. Organizer: Contemporary Art Center - Skopje; Melentie Pandilovski - Director Tel/Fax: ++389.2.13.35.41 ++389.2.21.44.95 Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia http://www.scca.org.mk/utb/index.htm e-mail: scca@scca.org.mk Concept, Selection Committee, and Moderators: Melentie Pandilovski, Bojan Ivanov, Branislav Sarkanjac, Zoran Petrovski. Supported by: Foundation Open Society Institute - Macedonia, European Cultural Foundation, ProHelvetia Reseaux Est-Ouest The project titled as UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS is conceived as a challenge to examining the alteration stratum of the Balkans, concentrating strongly on questions of society, culture, art, and history. Reflections and analysis dedicated to these complex issues were examined during the Conference that took place in Ohrid, October 2000. The project UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS has in the past year grown from a list of participants of a Conference to a Network of intellectuals from the region, that has focused on examining the intersection of the acquired codes in the social, historical, cultural context we have used on the Balkans in our immediate past, as well as in considering the changes through which our societies, and culture, have undergone over the past decades. In preparing the publication of contributions and texts offered during the last year's Conference, we have grown to believe that there is a real Balkanic profile of practical thinking. It transpired that the Conference did not take course towards an all-embracing theorizing discourse; moreover, it was oriented towards the processes of modelling a concrete answer to those ever more diverging streams of Balkanic memories and expectations. As a certain follow up the organizing team for the project Understanding the Balkans has selected this year the theme of THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION. The questions to be discussed on the forthcoming Conference, in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, are the effects and the effectiveness of globalisation in respect to the Balkans. As globalisation represents an elusive term, entering the totality of factual and virtual processes in the spheres of ideology, economy, and socio-politics, researchers are urged to concentrate on the themes of: - the practical form that the globalisation demonstrates; - challenges posed by globalisation in the region of the Balkans - aspects of periphery and centers; - the marginalization of the area of the Balkans - margins of the globalisation; - the possibility of existing of rules regarding the phenomena of globalisation - global market or global desire?; - the cultural posture of the region in respect to globalisation - between love-hate and the cautious indifference. Further on researchers are expected to reflect on, and possibly challenge the definitions and especially practices of globalisation coming from the West about the globalisation. Are ideas about it evolving? Is globalisation an irreversible situation i.e. is globalisation just a one-way street where the mainstreaming is expected to come from the West, or does the Balkans vice versa also produce certain effects which significantly cross the threshold of the globalising phenomena, thus effecting the West, as well as the other corners of the world? What should the answers to the questions posed by globalisation be on the Balkans? Are there any Balkanic questions to be asked? Is the thesis that "if globalisation is a global situation then the answer to it should also be global" correct? Is the notion of globalisation equally understood on the Balkans as on the West, and do the notions and practices of globalisation differ considerably in various parts of the Balkans? Who in reality has the leading role in the dealing with culture on the Balkans, in the context of globalisation? Is the State, reduced to a contributory role, and is it up to civil society, to deal with culture, or is the situation such as to that the State still represents a leading force in the dealing with this issue? The format of the Conference UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION is inviting 20 independent thinkers from the Balkan region as well as outside from it, covering a wide expertise (sociologists, philosophers, historians, art historians, culture theoreticians, and artists). DEADLINE for submitting up-to 2 page abstracts: November 10 (Integral texts between 8 - 12 pages) Selection Committee notification: November 15 Internet coverage a. Web site. The information about the UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS 2000 Conference as well as a summary of the texts is available on the web site of the Conference. http://www.scca.org.mk/utb/index.htm b. The information about the UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS 2001 Conference, THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION, as well as a summary of the texts will be available on the web site of the Conference. c. The Conference will be covered by video footage directly from the Conference on our web page, during the entire duration. Proceedings The catalogue from the UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS Conference 2000 is in print, and will be delivered to the participants of both Conferences. The proceedings from the Understanding the Balkans 2001 Conference THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION will be published in English and Macedonian with a possible translation to the other Balkan languages. --------------------- Original Message Ends -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From mpandil@soros.org.mk Wed Nov 7 11:18:53 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:18:53 +0100 Subject: [spectre] exhibition of Slavica janeslieva Message-ID: <20011107121535.6717.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> he Contemporary Art Center - Skopje, Macedonia cordially invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition Telling stories by Slavica Janeshlieva Wednesday, 07.11.2001, 8 PM CIX gallery http://zayac.scca.org.mk/zajak6/prikazni.htm The project consists of stories and visual materials (objects made from items in everyday use). Stories that I am telling are, in fact, the same stories that I have hear from my relatives and somehow (because all of these stories are true) with them I present analogy and contrast of life now and in the past, life unique of one Balcan family, which is a mixture of different traditions, religions and nationalities. This way of presenting the story with objects accompanied by photographs and text (the story itself) is coming out from one total and that is that: its not important how often we are listening to some story - we never remember the words in the story, we only create a picture for that and always when we paraphrase that story we are in fact describing the picture that we ourselves create. Janeshlieva ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From kumpri@jabolko.si Wed Nov 7 09:23:46 2001 From: kumpri@jabolko.si (borut kumperscak) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:23:46 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Cyberpipe Ljubljana opening - call for participation Message-ID: _Cyberpipe_ _9th_november_2001_ _Ljubljana_Slovenia_ A new cyber/media/art centre in Ljubljana/Slovenia is opening this friday. More info on the centre at http://www.cyberpipe.org (not much english yet, sorry). _call for partecipation_ The opening event starts at 8pm friday evening and consists of several activities, one of which is live video streaming from the Internet. With this we want to present to our audience that this is a viable means of communication and inspire any future members of our centre. Streams will be presented on big screens, several streams per screen /depending on size, bitrate and quality/, probably mixed with some prerecorded stuff by a VJ. Everything will be recorded and eventualy re-streamed back to the Internet /or at least later availabe for download/. This is an invitation to all of you, groups and individuals, to partecipate at the event with your works, the choice of content is free! This is also an experiment for future such sessions which are planned to evolve in regular events. We'll have a realvideo server set up for the event but will also connect to your servers.... The contact for everything /any questions, suggestions, discussion/ is kumpri@jabolko.si. Regards, kumpri -- Let Forever Be | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (a) (c) (o) (u) (s) (t) (i) (c) ( ) (s) (p) (a) (c) (e) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | information&comunication channel | for net.broadcasters http://xchange.re-lab.net (Xchange) net.audio network xchange search/webarchive: http://xchange.re-lab.net/a/ From march@kud-fp.si Wed Nov 7 10:30:59 2001 From: march@kud-fp.si (marko kosnik) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:30:59 +0200 Subject: [spectre] press/predavanje - produkcija IEM 2001 Message-ID: V prostorih novonastajajoce Cyberpipe, http://www.cyberpipe.org/ medijskega okolja v drobovju Studentskega kulturnega centra na Kersnikovi 6 v Ljubljani, se bo 8.11. ob 18h zgodila press konferenca v obliki kratkega predavanja, s katerim bo Marko Kosnik predstavil dve novoizdani multimedijski zgoscenki in najnovejsi projekt Instituta Egon March, multimedijsko opero Theothea. Interaktivni cd-rom hEXPO http://meta.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/hexpo/ je pestra zbirka fotografij, racunalnisko prirejenih videov, tekstov in zvocnih dokumentov, zlozenih v obliko potopisa po trotedenskem festivalu hexpo, med mariborom, koprom in ljubljano. V tem zaporedju se je pred dobrim letom gibala skupina, po zacetnem mestu delovanja poimenovana Mariborska, in tedensko izmenjevala okolje z vzporedno delujocima zdruzbama, Ljubljansko in Kopersko skupino. Na ta nacin je veriga koproducentov (Pekarna, Kibla, Radio Mars, Mkc Maribor, Slovenska Kinoteka, Metelkova mesto, Radio Student, Ljudmila, Galerija Kapelica, Mkc-Dpzn Koper in Pina) propagiralo slovensko kulturno platformo: celovito ustvarjalno, izobrazevalno, ustvarjalno, socialno in tehnolosko podprto okolje, ki naj bi predvsem omogocilo zivahnejsi in globji pretok kulturnega utripa med slovenskimi mesti in sirsim podobnomislecim svetom. Preko sedemdeset mednarodnih gostov in preko petdeset delujocih na lokacijah in tele-net-komunikacijah se je se posebej posvecalo zaokrozeni produkciji - nacinu ustvarjalnega delovanja, ki omogoca sprotni digitalni prenos in arhiviranje dogodkov na nacin, ki tudi naknadno omogoca poljubni ogled dogodkov preko interneta. Hexpo cd-rom je multimedijski prirocnik in zbirka umetniskih dosezkov tako naravnanih ustvarjalcev. Medtem ko je hEXPO cd-rom zgleden primer vecsmerno berljivega interaktivnega medija, predstavlja "Beyond the digital mirror" precej bolj elementaren pristop in izkorisca medij zgoscenke predvsem kot nosilec odprtega arhiva digitalnih video dokumentov iz zadnjih petnajstih let delovanja Instituta Egon March, http://www.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/emi/ ki obenem letos praznuje tudi desetletnico svoje prve produkcije. Poleg odlomkov iz "Bellum contra solem" (1991) najdemo tudi najnovejsi video "A message from Solovki" (2001). Dokumenti "Cukrarna", "PA-RA", "Desktop cinema", "Onetothree" so montirani na nivoju plesnih videov oziroma spotov, medtem ko so "Parahouse", "A.B.sence", "The thing" in "Cavis Negra" dokumentarnega karakterja. Skupno si lahko na zgoscenki ogledamo preko stirideset minut izvirneih videov. Multimedijsko opero "Theothea" je Institut Egon March premierno uprizoril v veliki dvorani SKC v Beogradu za zakljucek mednarodnega simpozija "Towards the new theatre in South-Eastern Europe", ki je potekal konec septembra letos. Glavni junak opere je bil dr.Misko Suvakovic, ki je izvedel asociativno predavanje na osnovi zivega preigravanja racunalniske grafike in videa, zasnovane na kljucnih besedah iz njegovih esejev o umetnosti. Poleg njega so na odru nastopili Margrit Rieben (glasba, kompozicija), Dirk Bruinsma ( glasba, dirigiranje) Ulrike Gabriel (programiranje, zivi video) in Marko Kosnik (rezija, zivi video), medtem ko je Monika Glahn v okviru projekta vodila internet delavnico, Andreas Findeisen pa je skrbel za filozofski okvir in povezavo s simpozijem. Izdajo "Beyond the digital mirror" in projekt "Theothea" je podprlo Ministrtsvo za kulturo. Vljudno vabljeni From abroeck@transmediale.de Wed Nov 7 16:01:57 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:01:57 +0200 Subject: [spectre] General Survay, Tirgu-Mures, Romania Message-ID: GENERAL SURVAY Installations Organizer: ARTeast Foundation, Tirgu-Mures, Romania 09. nov. 2001 size=5>Jozsef BARTHA / ASYLUM / Videoperformance, projection Zsolt FEKETE / PARADISE / Photographies size=5>Zsolt IRSAI / ANNA'S KIDNAPPING 9 (FESZT FOOD) / Installation 10. nov. 2001 size=5>Peter PAL / ASIAN WORKS / Photographies Sandor SEBESI / ONE AND A HALF HOUR STILL LIFE / videoinstallation Zoltan SZABO / DIALOG / Installation face=Arial> The exhibitions can be visited on the day of 9 and 10 november 2001 between 13-22 h. in the Hall of the Palace of Culture, Targu Mures, Romania From wieland@filmladen.de Thu Nov 8 00:30:33 2001 From: wieland@filmladen.de (Wieland Hoehne) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 01:30:33 +0100 Subject: [spectre] ( ( ( o ) )()o ) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011108012949.0244c8a0@mail.filmladen.de> 18th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest=20 14th to 18th of November 2001=20 www.filmladen.de/dokfest=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 - 43 programmes with 155 films and videos from 24 countries=20 - documentaries and videoart=20 - The exhibition MONITORING presents media installations by:=20 Candice Breitz, Stan Douglas, Eric Hattan, J=F6rg Herold,=20 Ute H=F6rner/Mathias Antlfinger, Annette Hollywood,=20 Susanne Kutter, Katrin Leitner/Walter Peter, Christine Lohr,=20 Christoph R=FCtimann, Jaap de Ruig, Rada Sesic, Thomas Sterna,=20 Florian Thalhofer, Catrine Val=20 - interfiction: www.interfiction.net=20 - special programme:=20 documenta & Film=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 The complete programme is now online.=20 You are invited to visit our website:=20 http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest=20 ( ( ( o ) )()o )=20 ----------------------------------------=20 18. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest=20 November 14-18, 2001 http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest phone: ++49-561-70764-21=20 fax: ++49-561-70764-41 mail:=20 c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V.=20 Goethestrasse 31, 34119 Kassel=20 Germany=20 ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Wieland Hoehne Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest phone: ++49-(0)561-7076421 fax: ++49-(0)561-7076441 -> download entry form http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest ------------------------------- From abroeck@transmediale.de Wed Nov 7 20:45:10 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:45:10 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Entry Call: AIM III International Online Student Competition Message-ID: Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:56:24 -0800 =46rom: AIM Manager Subject: Entry Call: AIM III International Online Student Competition To Whom It May Concern: I am emailing you on behalf of Janet Owen, Director of the Art In Motion =46estival. PLease add the following information to your website regarding t= he online call for entries of student competitions. Thank You- Art In Motion ART IN MOTION: THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TIME-BASED MEDIA PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline: JANUARY 15, 2002 Entry is FREE Entry form and further details: http://www.usc.edu/aim Contact: aim@usc.edu THE AIM FESTIVAL AIM, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, presents Luna Park: a series of critical inquiries into the crucial issues raised by the nexus of art, technology, entertainment and activism in the context of globalization and the rising privatization of culture. At the core of this debate is the ascendance of entertainment and our ubiquitous, and largely unquestioned, fascination with the spectacular. Titled in reference to the world's first modern amusement park AIM III: Luna Park takes place January =82 April 2002, and consists of a series of dynamic lectures, culminating in a two-day symposium, an International Student Competition and exhibition, and a number of related events. Further festival details: www.usc.edu/aim THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION AIM III seeks student entries for its International Student Competition. The selected entries will be hosted by AIM in an online exhibition, featured in an exhibition at USC, and will become part of the select pool of works that AIM draws on when touring internationally. Prizes, including the $1000 USC SOFA Award, will be awarded by a distinguished jury including: designer, writer, researcher, and performer Brenda Laurel, and author, researcher, and curator Erkki Huhtamo. Submission Criteria: Works must be 'time-based' and created by a student, of any age, working in any discipline. Works should also be capable of exhibition on the Internet, and address the festival theme. AIM defines 'time-based' to include: websites, Internet projects, film, video, digital video, hand-drawn and digital animation, interactive computer games, sound pieces, digital media, CD-ROMs, and DVDs - as well as various emerging hybrids that elude traditional categorization. All entries must be completed after October 1, 1999, and be complete enough for on-line presentation at the time of submission. All entries must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2002. How to Enter: Submission to AIM is free. Submit copies of projects (no originals please) in the form of a DVD, VCD, VHS (NTSC), Macintosh CD-ROM, or a URL, as appropriate. Other formats can be accommodated by prior arrangement with AIM. ENTRY FORM AND FURTHER INFORMATION AT: http://www.usc.edu/aim CONTACT: aim@usc.edu From anjadorn@gmx.de Wed Nov 7 21:05:11 2001 From: anjadorn@gmx.de (Ania) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:05:11 +0200 Subject: [spectre] videophilosophy by Maurizio Lazzarato in Cologne Message-ID: a p r i l in parking meters presents =20 Videophilosophie Symposium and Videoscreenings 9. 11. November 2001 at April in Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26, 50668 K=F6ln and at the K=F6lner Filmhaus, Maybachstra=DFe 111, 50670 K=F6ln Entry fee: Per day:= DM 10,- All three days: DM 25,- Single entry: DM 5,- The book "Videophilosophie" by the Italian theorist Maurizio Lazzarato will be published this fall by b_books Berlin (www.bbooksz.de). Lazzarato lives and works in Paris and has published books in Europe, Brazil and the US. (e.g., Immaterial Labor and Radical Thought in Italy - A potential politics, University of Minesota Press). In Videophilosophie Lazzarato demonstrates that new electronic or digital technologies do not actually simulate or double reality; rather, video and computers imitate the functions of perception: a new system of synthezising duration and the affective intensity. Image processing as a technology operates with specific mechanism that at the same time define the process of subjectivation. In this vein, video (camera and editing) are interpreted as a technical system that simulates the neurological function of memory. Staging an imaginary dialogue between the philosopher Henri Bergson and the video artist Nam June Paik Videophilosophie analyzes the function of digital technologies as a "crystallization", a kind of synthesis of time. Based on these mediaesthetic analyses as well as contemporary French and Italian political theory Lazzarato traces an ontological shift in contemporary economy from post-fordism to the economy of immaterial labour. April in Parking Meters has invited Jem Cohen, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Carlos Nader, Hito Steyerl, Angela Melitopoulos, Minimal Club, Irit Batsry and Christoph Keller to show their videos in the screening room of the K=F6lner Filmhaus (Maybachstr.111) and to discuss their concept= s of working with video in relation to the ideas advanced in videophilosophy. The video works of these artists reveal a specific connection exploring live and moving image production, self-perception of thinking and memory, the video technology and artistic working methods. Video as a medium of time, duration, and memory relates to generative aspects of narration. The possibilities of image processing point to a different conception of a more fluid, nomadic or 'multiple' subject. =20 Most of those experimental, feature length videos have received awards at media festivals throughout Europe. They represent a coming digital cinema and a new era of image and sound production. During this three day meeting Lazzarato will give a talk divided into three intervals, each followed by informal presentations of the invited artists. In Parking Meters, an alternative gallery space, a round table discussion will take place every day. The discussion is open to the public. Wine and snacks will be served. The discussions will be recorded on tape. =20 Videophilosophie Program Friday, November 9, 2001 11.00 14.00 h Symposium # 1: at April in Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26 Welcoming, introduction of Maurizio Lazzarato: Henri Bergsons ontology of time and the texts of the videoartist Nam June Paik. Videoscreenings at the K=F6lner Filmhaus, Maybachstr. 111 15.00 h Wolves (Francisco Ruiz de Infante, 92 min, 1995) 17.00 h Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen, 35 min, 1996) = =20 Saturday, November 10, 2001 11.00 16.00 h Symposium # 2: at April in Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26 -Maurizio Lazzarato: Bergson/Deleuze (crystallazition of time), Walter Benjamin (labour and perception), Dziga Vertov (movement of the Kinoki), immaterial labour Angela Melitopoulos: Video, memory and time: conzeption of the video Passing Drama Hito Steyerl: Ones and Zeros: Feminism, economy of information, war. =20 Videoscreenings at the K=F6lner Filmhaus, Maybachstr. 111 19.00 h b_books Berlin and the Minimal Club presents Videophilosophie a book by Maurizio Lazzarato Theoretisches Fernsehen (b_books and the Minimal Club) Videos and lecture > 20.30 h The Empty Center (Hito Steyerl, 61 min, 1997) 22.00 h Passing Drama (Angela Melitopoulos, 66 min, 1999) Sunday, November 11, 2001 11.00-14.00 h Symposium # 3: at April in Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26: Maurizio Lazzarato: Thinking in durations as an experience of defining all semiotics of subjectivity as synthesis of time beyond seperation of body and spirit. > Videoscreenings at the K=F6lner =46ilmhaus, Maybachstr. 111 15.00 h Videos by Carlos Nader: Trovada, 17min, 1995 =20 Carlos Nader, 16 min, 1998 Concep=E7=E3o, 17min 2001 Portait of a Serial Kisser, 29 min, 1992 17.00 h Leaving the Old Ruin (Irit Batsry, 34 min, 1990) This event is kindly supported by Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse D=FCsseldorf, M7 book store and the K=F6lner Filmhaus. Information: april in parking meters contact : Angela Melitopoulos amelit@khm.de Lichtstr.46 50825 Cologne phone: Angela Melitopoulos 0221 541735, Anja Dorn 0221 3100239, Alice Koegel 0221 2409080 April is a society for the support of the arts and culture.The membership fee is 15.-Euro for 3 months or 50 Euro for one year. =20 Curatorial and editorial board of "April in Parking Meters": Anja Dorn, Gerald Echterhoff, Stephan Gripp, Marc Hartmann, Olaf Karnik, Alice Koegel, Angela Melitopoulos. Curator of Videophilosophy: Angela Melitopoulos From sica@dasein-design.com Thu Nov 8 11:03:48 2001 From: sica@dasein-design.com (yukiko shikata) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:03:48 +0900 Subject: [spectre] ISEA Nagoya (2002) participation info. Message-ID: <4.0.1-J.20011108195604.0117b9e0@pop.asahi-net.or.jp> hi all, ISEA participation info. is in the folowing site: http://www.isea.jp/participation/E/ first deadline of art work submission is on november 30. all the best, yukiko shikata Yukiko Shikata aka carmela * sica@dasein-design.com and/or s t o i c o m e d i a t o r From JSalloum@aol.com Thu Nov 8 14:18:54 2001 From: JSalloum@aol.com (JSalloum@aol.com) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:18:54 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Position Artist/Photography/Digital. Asst. Prof. Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Artist/Photography/Digital. Asst. Prof. Tenure track. Start Sept. 2002. MFA, PhD, or equivalent. Significant exhibition record and teaching experience (a minimum of two years of college level). Candidate should possess interest in curricular development in order to contribute fully to a dynamic department that offers studio, art history, and visual studies including film and video. The Department emphasizes interdisciplinary exploration of the historical and conceptual frameworks that govern the interpretation and making of visual art, artifacts, and images. The internationally recognized Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies is housed in this department. A/D January 31, 2002. AC-INT, prior appointment only. Send letter of application with documentation of work, artistic and pedagogical statements, CV, syllabi, names and addresses of three referees, and SASE to: Search Chair, Department of Art and Art History, 424 Morey Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627. 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--=====================_4849838==_.ALT-- From eike@c3.hu Fri Nov 9 07:49:46 2001 From: eike@c3.hu (Eike) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:49:46 +0200 Subject: [spectre] frames'games, Haus Ungarn Berlin,15. November 2001 Message-ID: Liebe Freunde, ich m=F6chte Euch/Sie herzlich zu unserer ersten gemeinsamen Ausstellung in Deutschland einladen: "frames'games" - Videoinstallationen von Hajnal N=E9meth, Gyula V=E1rnai und EIKE Er=F6ffnung am Donnerstag, den 15. November 2001 um 20.30 Einf=FChrung: Christoph Tannert Haus Ungarn / Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Mitte Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9 Vorstellung von Multimedia-CDs aus Ungarn durch G=E1sp=E1r Benedek (Stiftung C3 Budapest) am Freitag, den 16. november um 19.30 Die Ausstellung ist bis zum 15. Dezember ge=F6ffnet. "frames" ist ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Videospace Budapest mit drei in Ungarn lebenden Medienk=FCnstlern: http://videospace.c3.hu Die Ausstellung wird vom Ungarischen Nationalen Kulturfond und dem K=FCnstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin unterst=FCtzt. Tel. Haus Ungarn (+49-30) 242 3738 (Gy=F6rgy Feh=E9ri) Tel. Videospace Budapest (+36-20) 9843669 (Eike) From abroeck@transmediale.de Fri Nov 9 09:02:44 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:02:44 +0200 Subject: [spectre] b.tv 2001 festival, Sheffield/UK Message-ID: b.tv 2001 festival. The International celebration of creative use and abuse of convergence media ( the coming together of cinema, tv, the net, mobiles, gaming and live performance ). Programme. Friday 30.11. & Saturday 1.12. Introduction and overview. Staggering new combinations of cinema, tv, the net, mobiles, gaming and live performance are revolutionising the way we live. But what exactly is this revolution all about? What can we actually do with the all this brave new technology? What new culture and communication is being born? What difference will it really make to our lives? b.tv brings together some of the world's leading known and unkown artists, media producers and theorists to begin to answer these questions . The b.tv 2001 festival is 2 inspired and inspiring days of creative people, work, ideas, music, installations, specially commissioned artworks, performances, screenings and parties that start to make sense of the creative use and abuse of convergence media. Cross platform creativity sessions. 1a. Successes and failures of interactivity, How does interactivity work across tv / the net / interactive games? Are principles of human psychology the same for different media? Is interactivity the revolutionary idea driving the convergence revolution? Presentation and discussion of leading work and ideas by: Celia Pearce, University of California. Stuart Nolan, Oyster Partners. Steve Fitzpatrick, Head of interactive Strategy, Saatchi and Saatchi. and SIX more. Media / Live Art sessions. 1b. Transaction : Live webcast remote from Australia, live chat, and local presentation outlining long term collaboration between The Transmute Collective (Brisbane), Site Gallery (Sheffield), V2 (Rotterdam) and The Powerhouse - Centre for Live Arts (Brisbane). 2b. Blast Theory in conversation with Matt Locke / The Media Centre. 3b. Desperate Optimists in conversation with Kelli Dipple / Site Gallery. 4b. Lisa Watts and Brian McClave in conversation with Michelle Hirschhorn / independent arts & new media curator. 5b. Lisa Wesley in conversation with Anne McNeill /Director of Impressions. 6b. George Chakravarthi in conversation with Steve Manthorp / Digital Media Officer / Yorkshire Arts. 7b. Forced Entertainment present The Institute of Failure. The Shooting Live Artists 2001 commissions are: " Can You See Me Now " by Blast Theory. A game of chase played out between the actual and virtual worlds. Game players log on to an online computer game to be chased around a virtual Sheffield city centre by real life artists in the streets of Sheffield. " Domestic " by Desperate Optimists. An alternative kitchen sink drama shot on digital film for the Web using multiple camera shots. The film will be shot during the festival and the shoot will be streamed live on the Web. " The Institute of Failure Studies " by Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment and Matthew Goulish of Goat Island. A real and imaginary think tank dedicated to the study of failure as it occurs in all aspects of human endeavour. Deviant scholarship... " Life without Soap " by Lisa Wesley. A self-confessed soap addict withdraws from her daily fix, allowing herself only the company of other soap addicts in online chat rooms. Lisa's recording of cold turkey will be broadcast on the Web as a fortnightly video update. " Escape Mechanism " by Lisa Watts and Brian McClave. A powerful video and installation of the artist performing tricks and escapes with her body, presented as a virtual, rotating, 3D illusion. " Bar Flies " by George Chakravarthi. Three glimpses of transvestite bar life shot in different bar locations mixed with conversations from transvestite chat lines. Shot on digital film and presented as a video triptych for installation and the Web. From: Andy Stamp & Katz Kiely b.tv > The Culture Company The Workstation 15 Paternoster Row Sheffield S1 2BX Landlines / 24 hour ansaphone : 0114 - 225 - 4615 /6. Andy's mobile: 07816 - 000 - 891. Katz's mobile: 07855 - 333 - 458. Fax: 0114 - 225 - 4606. E: bastard@theculturecompany.co.uk, katzkiely@hotmail.com Nigel Fischer, b.tv Production Manager is on: 0114 - 225 - 4644. E: nigelfischer@hotmail.com Please go to: http://www.convergence-arts.com http://www.theculturecompany.co.uk and hit the b.tv button. Thankyou. From epk@xs4all.nl Fri Nov 9 10:56:34 2001 From: epk@xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:56:34 +0100 Subject: [spectre] FWD: Excavating the Future Message-ID: Thought this might be of interest... e. -------------------------- From: "milos" Subject: excavation the future Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:59:12 +0100 EXCAVATING THE FUTURE: AN ARCHEOLOGY AND FUTURE OF MOVING PICTURES ENCOUNTERS OF ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, HISTORIANS, AND FUTUROLOGISTS Prague, December 3-5, 2001 This media symposium brings together artists, scientists, and critics to discuss theory and practice, and to reflect on the past, present and futu= re of new media, and on their social, political and cultural context. Organized by: Goethe Institute Prag, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, National Film Archive. As contemporary societies' dependency on new communication technologies i= s growing, we need to understand what the roots and ramifications of their = use are. The appearance and transformation of various forms of image-making associated with the recent development of digital technology have had a major impact on our perception and our concept of reality. But, for all their novelty, these changes were unthinkable without cinema and other ea= rly technologies and methods, as well as without scientific discoveries that made them possible, starting with the exploration of the persistent image= by scientists in the early 19th century. In his dissertation published in Prague in 1818, Johann Evangelista Purki= nje (Jan Evangelista Purkyn=CF) observed that we still see a latent image of = an object a fraction-of-a-second after it disappears from our visual field. = The study of this perception-phenomenon, which was described in a greater det= ail by Peter Mark Roget in 1824, laid the foundation for technical devices an= d new media which turned still images into moving pictures, including cinem= a, television, as well as digital audiovisual technologies. Purkinje's work, which represents a fundamental connection between the da= wn of neuroscience and the rise of the technologies of the moving image, can serve as a point of departure for reflections on the present development = of electronic media and their influence on our everyday life. As these technologies provide us with new possibilities and change our way of life= , they necessitate explorations of their historical and theoretical concept= s, raising questions such as: 1. How have our perceptions of reality changed in respect to a more and m= ore sophisticated technical apparatus, constructed to record, scan, and gener= ate images, and even to artificially simulate audio-visual environments and situations? 2. How do new cognitive models contribute to the evolution of electronic media and, conversely, what is the role of digital technology in cognitiv= e science? 3. How is the rapid growth of electronic media embedded in history? 4. How do cultural traditions condition the use and development of new me= dia on one hand, and how do new media reconfigure these traditions and our notion of history on the other? 5. How do different timeframes of discourse (social, political and geographical...) determine our reflection of technology? 6. What models of collaboration between scientists and artists have been = and still are constructive? And what are the platforms, goals and framing issues of such inter-mediations? Preliminary program: Sunday 2nd December 5.p.m. informal meeting and Machine Centred Humanz Guy van Belle Audio-visual Performance will be confirmed National Museum of Technology Kosteln=CC 42 170 78 Praha 7 www.ntm.cz Monday 3rd December Goethe Institut. 10. - 13.00 Opening statement: Johann Evangelista Purkinje: From Dromology to Moving Pictures Jaroslav And=CFl, Independent Scholar, New York. Johann Evangelista Purkinje, whose work provides a framework for the conference, can be considered a precursor of dromology, a discipline that studies the perception of movement. The opening presentation argues that = the exploration of the perception of movement inspired the rise and rapid advance of the technologies of moving image - a link evident in Purkinje'= s work. His ideas and experiments serve as historical reference for the six topical themes of the conference. Observation and Experiments of the Physiology of Senses Ji=AF=CC Hoskovec, Professor, Charles University Prague Purkyn=CF, polymath of the Czech/Austrian/German scientific community in = the 19th century whose work is associated with the dawn of neuroscience, made= a number of influential discoveries, but none of them as interesting as his earliest enquiries into vision. Prof. Ji=AFi Hoskovec collaborated on the recently published book Purkinje=A5s Vision: The Dawning of Neuroscience = by Nicholas J.Wade and Josef Bro=E6ek. 11:00 - 13:00 Session 1. Moving Pictures and Optical Devices: Machines for Observation and Machine= s for Dreaming - Technology, Science, Entertainment and Art. Among many developments leading to the emergence of early cinema and movi= ng pictures in the 19th century, is the most spectacular the tradition of optical and communication instruments, associated with painting, optics, natural history, but also with entertainment industry and magic: Magic Lanterns, Kaleidoscopes, Phenakistoscopes, Zoetropes, Praxinoscopes, Zoopraxinoscopes, Mutoscopes, as well as tools used in the Fantasmagorie performances by Etien Gaspard Robertson. These did contributed towards th= e rise of Cinematographe and Cinema, and this tradition determined shapes a= nd contemporary approaches towards new telecommunication devises. Media archaeology explores the recurring elements and motives underlying and guiding the development of media culture and "excavates" the traces in wh= ich these traditions and formulations have been "imprinted" on different medi= a machines and systems in different historical contexts. 14: 30-16:30 Session 2. Kinetic and Cinematic: From Mobility to Telematic Bodies. Cinema and the consequent generations of new media can be viewed both as products and symbolic systems of mobility, one of the principal characteristics of modernity. The study of the perception of moving bodie= s laid foundations for the development of new media. This further fostered = the fascination with dynamics, fluidity, and the transitory that have inspire= d a great number of modern scientific and artistic concepts. This link thus provides a historical context for understanding the multiple interchange between new media and new fields of explorations. 16:30-18:30 Session 3. Exploring Senses, Reinventing Media. The notion of visual culture has recently been hailed as a fresh approach= to reality that contests the dominance of text-oriented thinking in favour o= f the visual perception. Purkinje=A5s ideas and experiments suggests that t= he dichotomy of the visual and the discursive can be surpassed by exploring = how different senses contribute to the constitution of reality and how they relate to each other. His work can serve as an inspiration for a deeper understanding of issues of inter-mediality and trans-mediality - studies = of the relationships and interchange between different media as well as sens= es in relation to the constant effort to negotiate our concepts of reality. Tuesday 10:00-12:00 Session 4. Media Inventors: Redefining the Boundaries between Science, Technology, a= nd Art. Media inventors through the history have often crossed the boundaries between individual fields while redefining their relationships. The scientist Purkyne was a prolific translator of poetic works and bridged t= he gap between science and art by executing his scientific experiments on himself. The painters Daguerre and Morse invented media that accelerated = the growth of scientific knowledge and the poet Charles Cross used scientific systems for groundbreaking inventions of colour photography and sound recording as well as for a visionary method of communication with extraterrestrial civilizations. 11:15-13:00 Session 5. The Moment of Discovery: From Science to Art and Technology and Vice Vers= a. Discoveries connect different traditions and fields while opening new developments. This was the case of Purkinje's exploration of the movement= of the eye, which inspired his prediction of the rise of abstract and kineti= c art. His studies of the perception of movement led him to contribute to t= he emerging science and art of moving pictures. Similarly, color theories pa= ved the way for Neo-Impressionism and technologies of color photography. In t= he twentieth century, the invention of the computer was made possible by mathematical theories. How does the notion of the thinking machine effect the cross-fertilisation of arts, science and technology? Panel 6. Media Visions: Beyond the Dialectic of Liberation and Control? In his article "Kinesiskop," written in 1865, Purkinje envisioned the spectacular advance of the visual associated with the moving image and it= s applications in science and art. He also introduced the system of fingerprint reading (dactyloscopy), which was soon adopted for personal identification and became one of the first modern methods of control and surveillance. Empowerment and domination, liberation and control are clos= ely intertwined in the rise and evolution of technology and new media. Can we find today a frame of reference that would enable us to look beyond this = dia lectic? .........................................................................= ... 19.30 Dawn of Cinema (from the National Film Archive Prague) KINO KONVIKT PONREPO first films from the collection of The National Film Archive, Prague Bartolom=CFjsk=B7 11, Praha 1, tel.: 24237233 Additional Program Wednesday 5th December 10. - 13.30 Academy of Fine Arts - New Media Department U Akademie 4 Discussion and presentations 7.30 p.a. Camera Magica, (from the archive of Werner Nekes) Kino Konvikt Bartolom=CFjsk=B7 11, Praha 1, tel.: 24237233 quotes from Purkyn=CF works "For a couple of years I have been interested in the theory of the so-cal= led optical magic wheels this being but the result of my observations of the pseudo-picture (Purkinje's term for the persistent image) carried through long ago. The pseudo-picture lasts through the wink of the eye in front o= f the inner sense causing that the vision of the realities viewed is uninterrupted. I succeeded to discover several modifications of the here mentioned apparatus by which the representation has been speeded up as th= e popularisation of the apparatus made easier after all. I have felt so muc= h enthusiastic for that idea which I think to be of much significance not o= nly as a branch of art but also in the respect of profit so that I decided to have it registered as a patent on the result of which I still wait in." In: "Z neznam=C8 korespondence J.E.Purkyne II," edited by F.X.Halas, Universitas 87. Revue Univerzity J.E.Purkyne v Brne, vol. 20, April 1987,= p. 50(?, 56?). "Kinesiscope, is a word from Greek for the instrument of physiology and physics by which various movements of natural as well as artistic objects can be represented. That is to say every movement is becoming in a sequen= ce of time, in every moment of this time the object occupies a certain spati= al position, which changes while making transition into the next moment. The= se changes represent themselves on a moving plane in a sequence, when this plane then moves either in a circular or linear way so that individual pictures occupy the same position in a highest speed and stop for a momen= t there, the eye conceive them as if on the same spot changing in time. In this way, one can achieve that even movements of all kinds can be represented. To achieve this goal, there are various means used, simple o= r more elaborated according to how this branch has evolved with time. (.) i= t is especially important that the most diverse movements of natural, historical, and artistic performances can be presented even to a wider public, and a special branch of scientific industry will emerge from this= , useful in schools and, in general, for education and entertainment. For instance, in the field of physics, it is possible to present various kind= s of the wave motion of liquids, sound, and light, the most complex machine= s in their motion; in the field of physiology, the motion of the heart, the blood circulation, the nerve currents, the muscle activity; in natural history, the movement of various animals on the ground and in the air, th= e most diverse play of colors, physiognomic expressions on the human face, dramatic motions, the growth of plants and other organic bodies, figurat= ive representation from all sides, which otherwise is not possible to execute= on a simple plane; in the field of history, the performances of various groupings of human action, for instance, battles, balls, marches and others. These performances can take place either on a smaller scale or in any enlargement on transparent surfaces. It can be expected that thanks t= o the mastery of artists this thing will become in time a special branch of fine arts, in which it will not suffice to create only a single moment of the evolving act, but also a complete story and complete narrative." ("Kinesiskop," Riegruv slovn=CCk nau=CBn=9B, 1865) .........................................................................= ... ................................................................ Initiators: Jaroslav And=CFl, Art Historian, Curator, New York Milo=BC Vojt=CFchovsk=9B, Art Historian, Curator, Prague, Michael de la Fontaine, Program Director of Goethe Institut Prag, Michael Bielicky, Media Artist, Academy of Fine Arts Prague The project Excavating the Future is part of the activities of the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, resulting from the Center's long-term interest in broader applications of art and technology in everyday life. Excavating the Future originates in the framework created by several projects that FCCA organized or participated in in recent years, includin= g the New Media Exhibition Orbis Fictus (1995), active participation in the series of Flusser Media Symposia in Prague, and other programs related to the Media Laboratory founded by the FCCA three years ago. Organizers hope= to help foster new international connections between individuals from differ= ent backgrounds, resulting in durable and fruitful collaborations in the futu= re. The conference will be documented in a small brochure and, more extensive= ly, on a website. The project Excavating the Future continues in the tradition of the Fluss= er Media symposium series organized by the Goethe Institute Prag between 199= 2 and 1998. supported by: German Czech Future Funds, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Royal Netherlands Embassy in Prague, Ministry of Culture of Czech Republi= c, Ministry of culture of Finland, British Council, Austrian Cultural Institute, Pro Helvetia Zurich and Prague, Polsk=9B kulturn=CC institut v= Praze. The program of Medialaboratory is supported by grant from Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Collaborating Institutions: Department of Informatic of The Charles University Prague, The Faculty of Fine Arts of The Technical University Brno, The Academy of Fine Arts Prag= ue, The National Museum of Technology in Prague, The National Museum Prague, = The Center for Culture and Technology Budapest, The Institute for Advanced Studies at Charles University, The National Film Institute Prague, Center for Culture and Communication Budapest, Center for Old and new Media Amsterdam, and other Czech and foreign initiatives, individuals and institutions. Milo=BC Vojt=CFchovsk=9B, Katherine Kastner Center for Contemporary Arts Jeleni 9 118 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic tel 00420 224373178 fax 00420 57320640 milos@fcca.cz katherine.kastener@fcca.cz www.fcca.cz Michael de la Fontaine Program Director Goethe Institut Prag Masarykovo nabrezi 32 CZ - 110 00 Praha 1 Tel: (00420 2) 219 62-111 Fax: (004202) 219 62-250 email: fontain@goethe.cz Jaroslav And=CFl 309 East 4th Street, New York Tel/Fax: 001 212 387 9347 email: jaroslavandel@hotmail.com coordinator: Eva K=AFepelka Goethe Institut Prag Masarykovo nabrezi 32 CZ - 110 00 Praha 1 Tel: (00420 2) 219 62-111 Fax: (004202) 219 62-250 email: spra@goethe.cz film screenings: Milan Klepikov N=B7rodn=CC filmov=9B archiv Male=BCick=B7 12, 130 00 Praha 3 tel. +420 2 71770509, +420 2 71770502-3 fax. +420 2 71770501 e-mail: nfa@nfa.cz email: milos@fcca.cz From epk@xs4all.nl Fri Nov 9 14:02:48 2001 From: epk@xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:02:48 +0100 Subject: [spectre] FWD: DATATRANSFER Festival of cyber-culture (Praha) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:33:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: DATATRANSFER Festival of cyber-culture (Praha) From: Danny Holman DATATRANSFER Festival of cyber-culture: digital film, internet, design, performance http://www.datatransfer.cz Theme: "The Street finds it's own use for things" (William Gibson, Neuromancer) 12. - 24. 11. 2001 Archa Theatre, internet, Prague metro Datatransfer festival is a new regular festival aiming to bind the emergi= ng Czech e-culture scene with recognized and up-coming international artists from abroad. The festival is planned as an annual event. FESTIVAL CONCEPT Taking its title from a line in William Gibson's Neuromancer novel, the festival will feature developments in e-culture where hi-tech becomes a p= art of our every day life, enriched with new cultural and social aspects. The festival will transcend the traditional art showcase concept and beco= me a part of city life - a significant part of the program will be presented among the internet community on the web. We will screen short sequences o= f the digital film section on the video screens in the Prague metro station= s Mustek, Muzeum and Florenc, from Nov 12th to Nov 24th. PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL: 1. DIGITAL FILM: Future visual styles. Digital film is the format which has liberated filmmaking from the expens= ive demands of celluloid and opened up many possibilities for more experiment= al work. As different mediums converge, film is becoming more and more influenced by music videos, graphic design and computer games. Together w= ith our special DVD section we present the best of onedotzero, the world=A5s largest festival of digital film and a documentary about William Gibson, = the influential 'cyberpunk' sci-fi writer. 2. INTERNET: Dynamic world of internet virtual street. The nature of the internet is characterized by William Gibson=A5s metapho= r of a megalopolis called The Sprawl, a flexible, adapting, unlimited urban culture. Internet is one of the key elements of cyber-culture and therefo= re we dedicate a significant part of the festival program to it, allowing it= to grow and develop exclusively on the internet and among the web community. 3. DESIGN: Visual history of the Prague streets. An exhibition of music poster design from the last decade is the first of its kind in Prague. It is a non-traditional retrospective of Czech poster art - one of the main visual media of the street. Digital technologies ar= e widely embraced by poster artists and heavily influence their work. 4. PERFORMANCE: Music of isolation in the world of modern technologies. Robin Rimbaud - Scanner - is a leading pioneer of ambient electronic musi= c. His performances are based on "rediscovering" electronic sounds, broadcas= ts and anonymous phone conversations. They express feelings of the human condition, of living in a world suffering from information overload. From info@furtherfield.org Sun Nov 11 01:34:46 2001 From: info@furtherfield.org (furtherfield.org) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 01:34:46 +0000 Subject: [spectre] Window (marc garrett) Message-ID: <3BEDD5B6.470B6017@furtherfield.org> --------------FDA09B49F395863C16147432 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Window (Memories of a Bastard) Witness my personal depiction of a male’s deep unresolved insecurity. Reach deep inside of your soul and acknowledge the truth. Open that window a little wider for you are about to see a micro situation of every day life that occurs all over the world. Of course my story is not unusual. You too may have memories of personal pain wrapped up in twisted and dysfunctional angst. I dare you to open your arms out to me, hold me, thus holding yourself, whilst accepting deep torment. Kiss my pain, become part of my memory, live it for a moment. Yes open that window, that’s it, a little wider… My father lays stony cold and wrinkled by times uncaring scars. I could smell his raw shit wallowing around the shuttered room. Even though pride was an asset that pushed his chauvinistic attitude to the limits. His eyes penetrated through me as his mouth released an angelic smile conveniently forgetting all the torment that he had created. It was as if he felt forgiven. I suppose he was. He can now claim his honour and of course death forgives. Now I can feel guilty for wishing him dead. A wife beater and a child hater has turned me into a father hater and a man hater. I left the hospital room and sat outside not able to deal with the confusion. My mother stayed in the room. I pulled out my small personal radio set from my coat pocket and then inserted the single earphone into my ear. I listened to the music blaring its independence. It felt warm. As if it wanted to be a part of me putting my mind some place else. It seemed as if the music was deliberately whisking me away out of the battlefield of dysfunction and placing me into an environment of virtual love. It had escaped me what the day it was today. The music suddenly ended. A solemn voice announces the time and the date. 11 o'clock. 11/11/77. A silence followed.... I thought of my father and his relentless one-dimensional onslaught on all our family. Perhaps you've had a father like that too. As the silence reigned its power over me it offered a sense of timelessness. The sensation to cry began to take hold but I couldn't. I had to be strong. For today is a special day. At this moment in time a window is open and it is waiting for the inevitable change. A feeling dominates giving me the sense that life is going to be different from now on. I turned the volume up and the silence was loud. The crackle of the radio's white noise was cutting deep into my cranium. Two minutes silence... As I received the signal of that silence it expounded a loudness so penetrating that I began to imagine the ghosts of Slaughterhouse 5, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and all the other killing fields where many men took it upon themselves to make the decision to kill others. My witness to all these deaths have always been via the television screen, eyes catching the visual demolition of millions. People that I have never met and never will. It felt as if I had an affinity with these dead people in my own small way. I also new what it was like to be tortured and exploited by an insecure male. I knew that if my father had a gun and a deluded cause, he would be happy to exterminate others at whim. He would carry any flag for the chance to wield his wrath upon the unfortunate. Dinner had to be placed on the table at the same time every day at the hour of six o'clock after he had finished a day's work without fail. If my father's demand was not delivered he would stuff my mothers head in the oven. "You're nothing but a fucking, selfish bitch." My brother and I would watch helplessly as this ugly man physically abused our mother. "You miserable slut!" Like animals we were all beaten down into a position of a state of submission. If we tried to stop the violence his fists would hammer into mine and my brother's stomachs until we were sick. Often after the event of being punched in the gut we would huddle together, clinging to each other inside our frightened world of tears. His dad used to beat him to a pathetic whimpering pulp so he thought it natural that he should do the same to us. Sometimes when hiding in the bedroom. With my crayons I would inscribe the image of my father. He would be held captive in a cage surrounded by strong iron bars. This image was always on my best paper. His face would be contorted, snarling at me with his relentless vicious hate and anger. The colour was always red mixed with a deathly black. I would slowly scratch him out with a blunt pencil while he was snarling at me. Soon he would be completely gone. It would signify the end of the drawing and the end of him. Once dad got carried away with hitting me and my face was battered and it was covered with cuts and bruises. Mother took me to the hospital. I was told not to mention how the marks had come about. Mother told the doctor that I was always getting into scuffles and fighting at school. A male Doctor patched my wounds. Instant fear arrived as I associated the Doctor's authority with my fathers. When mother left me alone my screams filled the ward. The Doctor asked if my dad loved my mother and me? Love was a word that at the time could not be comprehended. All that I could relate to was that love could mean need. I was certainly needy. So the answer was yes he did love us. Life turned into a dream as soon as I returned and the family was laughing together again. Country walks became a regular event and mother and father kissed in front of us. This made my brother Steven and I feel happy. It felt as if the pain put upon me was of some significance and influence to this positive outcome. Mother said that Dad was very sorry about how horrible he had been to us all. However time soon ate away the glorious joys and smiles that we had suddenly grown accustomed to. Pain re-entered killing off the hopefulness that had flourished and turned into just a memory. A past-dream. I soon woke up. As soon as the marks on my face had faded, my father possessed an urgency to renew them. Arguments filled the air between my parents, mother seemed to be getting stronger against the ogre. Yet he sustained dominance using his predictable unimaginative bullying tactics. Here my father lies on the hospital bed unable to move. While he was at work some scaffolding had collapsed onto him, breaking his spinal cord. Clamps were inserted into his forehead suspended by weights. We were told that a bone at the back of his neck was no longer working. The nerves that usually transmit signals to the arms and legs are now incapable of functioning due to this mishap. Never again will he be able to walk or move his arms and legs. My mother asked the nurse in the room to leave us with father for a while. The nurse nodded and then left the room leaving my mother and I alone with my father. We sat in silence staring at the once strong monster now helpless at the mercy of fate's deciding conclusion. Not knowing how one should act I decided to cry because that's what people do. "Blow your nose Sammy." Mother handed me a handkerchief. I grabbed the piece of pink cotton and placed it over my nose. Muffled, sniffles passively filled the room. "Is he dead mum?" "No." A shudder leapt into my bones, I cried again. Mother clasped my hand and guided me into the corridor, shutting the door behind me. Nurses and doctors were rushing by and tending to various broken people in the building. My feet decidedly wandered the length of the corridor, shuffling meekly. So many people in pain. A smell aroused me. A smell that now can only be associated with a hospital. And now my mother also... "Sammy!" I turned round, my mother was standing in the middle of the hallway. A couple of nurses were rushing into my father's hospital room. Mum knelt down onto the sparse, spotless, corridor floor with her arms open. I ran into my mother's arms as she wrapped them around me. "He's gone son, he's gone." END An extract taken from a larger book called frailty. 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Window (Memories of a Bastard)

Witness my personal depiction of a male’s deep unresolved insecurity. Reach deep inside of your soul and acknowledge the truth. Open that window a little wider for you are about to see a micro situation of every day life that occurs all over the world. Of course my story is not unusual. You too may have memories of personal pain wrapped up in twisted and dysfunctional angst. I dare you to open your arms out to me, hold me, thus holding yourself, whilst accepting deep torment. Kiss my pain, become part of my memory, live it for a moment. Yes open that window, that’s it, a little wider…

My father lays stony cold and wrinkled by times uncaring scars. I could smell his raw shit wallowing around the shuttered room. Even though pride was an asset that pushed his chauvinistic attitude to the limits. His eyes penetrated through me as his mouth released an angelic smile conveniently forgetting all the torment that he had created. It was as if he felt forgiven. I suppose he was. He can now claim his honour and of course death forgives. Now I can feel guilty for wishing him dead. A wife beater and a child hater has turned me into a father hater and a man hater.

I left the hospital room and sat outside not able to deal with the confusion. My mother stayed in the room. I pulled out my small personal radio set from my coat pocket and then inserted the single earphone into my ear. I listened to the music blaring its independence. It felt warm. As if it wanted to be a part of me putting my mind some place else. It seemed as if the music was deliberately whisking me away out of the battlefield of dysfunction and placing me into an environment of virtual love. 

It had escaped me what the day it was today.  The music suddenly ended. A solemn voice announces the time and the date. 11 o'clock. 11/11/77. A silence followed....

I thought of my father and his relentless one-dimensional onslaught on all our family. Perhaps you've had a father like that too. As the silence reigned its power over me it offered a sense of timelessness. The sensation to cry began to take hold but I couldn't. I had to be strong. For today is a special day. At this moment in time a window is open and it is waiting for the inevitable change. A feeling dominates giving me the sense that life is going to be different from now on. 

I turned the volume up and the silence was loud. The crackle of the radio's white noise was cutting deep into my cranium. 

                      Two minutes silence... 

As I received the signal of that silence it expounded a loudness so penetrating that I began to imagine the ghosts of Slaughterhouse 5, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and all the other killing fields where many men took it upon themselves to make the decision to kill others. My witness to all these deaths have always been via the television screen, eyes catching the visual demolition of millions. People that I have never met and never will. It felt as if I had an affinity with these dead people in my own small way. I also new what it was like to be tortured and exploited by an insecure male. I knew that if my father had a gun and a deluded cause, he would be happy to exterminate others at whim. He would carry any flag for the chance to wield his wrath upon the unfortunate.

Dinner had to be placed on the table at the same time every day at the hour of six o'clock after he had finished a day's work without fail. If my father's demand was not delivered he would stuff my mothers head in the oven. "You're nothing but a fucking, selfish bitch." My brother and I would watch helplessly as this ugly man physically abused our mother. 

"You miserable slut!" Like animals we were all beaten down into a position of a state of submission. If we tried to stop the violence his fists would hammer into mine and my brother's stomachs until we were sick. Often after the event of being punched in the gut we would huddle together, clinging to each other inside our frightened world of tears. His dad used to beat him to a pathetic whimpering pulp so he thought it natural that he should do the same to us. 

Sometimes when hiding in the bedroom. With my crayons I would inscribe the image of my father. He would be held captive in a cage surrounded by strong iron bars. This image was always on my best paper. His face would be contorted, snarling at me with his relentless vicious hate and anger. The colour was always red mixed with a deathly black. I would slowly scratch him out with a blunt pencil while he was snarling at me. Soon he would be completely gone. It would signify the end of the drawing and the end of him. 

Once dad got carried away with hitting me and my face was battered and it was covered with cuts and bruises. Mother took me to the hospital. I was told not to mention how the marks had come about. Mother told the doctor that I was always getting into scuffles and fighting at school. A male Doctor patched my wounds. Instant fear arrived as I associated the Doctor's authority with my fathers. When mother left me alone my screams filled the ward.

The Doctor asked if my dad loved my mother and me? Love was a word that at the time could not be comprehended. All that I could relate to was that love could mean need. I was certainly needy. So the answer was yes he did love us. 

Life turned into a dream as soon as I returned and the family was laughing together again. Country walks became a regular event and mother and father kissed in front of us. This made my brother Steven and I feel happy. It felt as if the pain put upon me was of some significance and influence to this positive outcome. Mother said that Dad was very sorry about how horrible he had been to us all. 

However time soon ate away the glorious joys and smiles that we had suddenly grown accustomed to. Pain re-entered killing off the hopefulness that had flourished and turned into just a memory. A past-dream. I soon woke up.

As soon as the marks on my face had faded, my father possessed an urgency to renew them. Arguments filled the air between my parents, mother seemed to be getting stronger against the ogre. Yet he sustained dominance using his predictable unimaginative bullying tactics.

Here my father lies on the hospital bed unable to move. While he was at work some scaffolding had collapsed onto him, breaking his spinal cord. Clamps were inserted into his forehead suspended by weights. We were told that a bone at the back of his neck was no longer working. The nerves that usually transmit signals to the arms and legs are now incapable of functioning due to this mishap. Never again will he be able to walk or move his arms and legs. My mother asked the nurse in the room to leave us with father for a while. The nurse nodded and then left the room leaving my mother and I alone with my father. 

We sat in silence staring at the once strong monster now helpless at the mercy of fate's deciding conclusion. Not knowing how one should act I decided to cry because that's what people do.

"Blow your nose Sammy." Mother handed me a handkerchief. I grabbed the piece of pink cotton and placed it over my nose. Muffled, sniffles passively filled the room.

"Is he dead mum?" "No." A shudder leapt into my bones, I cried again. Mother clasped my hand and guided me into the corridor, shutting the door behind me. Nurses and doctors were rushing by and tending to various broken people in the building. My feet decidedly wandered the length of the corridor, shuffling meekly. So many people in pain. A smell aroused me. A smell that now can only be associated with a hospital. And now my mother also...

"Sammy!" I turned round, my mother was standing in the middle of the hallway. A couple of nurses were rushing into my father's hospital room. Mum knelt down onto the sparse, spotless, corridor floor with her arms open. I ran into my mother's arms as she wrapped them around me. 

"He's gone son, he's gone."

END
 
 

An extract taken from a larger book called frailty. By Marc Garrett 1999.
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From abroeck@transmediale.de Mon Nov 12 09:54:12 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:54:12 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Tirana Biennial website Message-ID: The Tirana Biennial site is at http://www.biennale.net From PROPAGANDA@0100101110101101.ORG Tue Nov 13 00:18:11 2001 From: PROPAGANDA@0100101110101101.ORG (PROPAGANDA@0100101110101101.ORG) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:18:11 +0100 Subject: [spectre] /// 0100101110101101.ORG /// biennale.py - The Return of The Media Hype Message-ID: <3BF066C4.94754717@0100101110101101.ORG> /// PROPAGANDA /// HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG /// # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS /// from "Telepolis", 7 Jul 2001 /// http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/sa/3643/1.html biennale.py - The Return of The Media Hype by Cornelia Sollfrank In conversation with the creators of the Biennale virus, 0100101110101101.ORG In the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Biennale a group of artists and hackers, 0100101110101101.ORG and EpidemiC, is exhibiting a new computer virus called 'biennale.py'. The announcement of this piece of net.art has caused a kind of sensation, and a big crowd came to the opening in order to see the virus. Cornelia Sollfrank, a net.artist herself, asked members of 0100101110101101.ORG some critical questions. CS: Could you please first explain what a virus is? 0100101110101101.ORG: Computer viruses are self-copying programs which behave according to the modus operandi of biological viruses: they attack an "organism" (a computer) by installing themselves inside and become active when the program is executed. CS: What is special about your virus? 0100101110101101.ORG: "biennale.py" is the first virus ever written in Python language. Many developers think that Python will be the language of the future. It is multiplatform, but not easy to write. "biennale.py" is a 47 lines program that attaches itself to all files and software which are written in Phyton language (so ending with .py or .pyw), which means it is only able to survive in Python environments. CS: Is there anything else special except the fact that it is the first .py virus? 0100101110101101.ORG: For example that it has been done in absolute transparency. We’ve announced before what we were going to do. Our names and domains are written into the code. This is a big difference to the traditional cracking scene. Additionally, before starting to spread the code, we have sent it to all anti-virus software houses, together with an explanation of how to erase it. The main goal of our virus is just to survive. And, it can better survive when it doesn’t do any harm to the host. If it would kill its host, it would die itself, too. So, it sucks energy, but tries to stay invisible as much as possible. It is only save as long as nobody discovers it. "biennale.py" is completely invisible. It just installs itself in the background. CS: You have mentioned before that Phyton is not widely spread. This also means, that your virus is not very viable and quite harmless. It doesn’t have many potential hosts. 0100101110101101.ORG: Of course adding a piece of new code to a software might always damage it, but this is not its main purpose. Additionally, Python is only useful on servers, which are usually run by professionals who know how to trace and treat a virus. CS: That means "biennale.py" would never infect personal/ private/ home computers? 0100101110101101.ORG: Probably not, at least not this version. Maybe in future when the language will be also used on PCs, there might be a danger. As we have already told, its main goal is not to damage computers, otherwise we wouldn’t be here talking about it publicly. CS: So, basically, "biennale.py" is a very peaceful virus, and right the opposite of what has been announced in your press release where it has been called "evil" and "causing chaos". 0100101110101101.ORG: The press release was not written by us, and anyway it said that "A virus is usually considered evil, causing chaos...", not referring to "biennale.py", but to the usual hysteria that spreads among computer users. We are not interested in damaging a computer, but more on the media effect viruses have. You often have these virus warnings on the net which mostly turn out to be pranks. People are hysterically spreading these messages without verifying them, and we simply work with the hysteria, with the media attention a virus automatically gets [*]. Additionally, by showing the code in the pavilion, by printing it on t-shirts and post cards, we want people come close to it, and so demystify the aura of a virus. They can find out how it looks like, and that it works exactly as any other software. CS: I think it is part of the hysteria that most people do not know how computers function beyond the graphical interface. In this sense, it doesn't make much sense to show the code, because not many people will be able to read it, and to make sense out of it. Probably, you could show any piece of software, and make most people believe, that it was a virus! Isn’t this just another step of mystification, to pretend transparency, but in fact confront people with code they cannot decipher? 0100101110101101.ORG: The idea was to let people get the hang of viruses. And even this interview is part of the mystification. Everybody who is reading it will automatically be part of it, but mystification is always better than didactics. CS: Actually, I am hoping that my interview will contribute to filter out your strategies, intentions, and motivations, instead of stupidly reproducing any hype or hysteria. That is why I would like to continue talking about the code. Let’s keep the question, if your work demystifies or mystifies viruses open... The code appears in three different versions in the pavilion: It is printed in large letters on a banner (3:4m), it is to be seen on a computer-monitor (the computer cannot be operated), and, interestingly there is 10 golden CD-ROMs hanging framed at the wall, which also contain the virus. Why did you choose these forms of aesthetisaion for the virus? 0100101110101101.ORG: It’s a matter of visibility. To reach more people, you need more means: websites, t-shirts, postcards, canvases, articles, tv shows, any medium is effective to reach our goals. CS: In the press release you say that "biennale.py" has especially been conceived for the Biennale. Was it a commissioned work? 0100101110101101.ORG: Not directly, but we spent part of the money we got as fee from the Biennale on the project. In addition, this years’ Biennale is sponsored, amongst others, by Microsoft. Therefore, we could conclude that our virus has been sponsored by Microsoft. We were interested in checking out how free we were regarding the work we wanted to present here. Writing a virus is not illegal, but spreading it is illegal. The author is not responsible for what other people do with it. We gave our virus to the Biennale and asked them to put the code on their website. And they did it. Technically, they are spreading the virus as much as we are. We are interested in the conflict that evolves when we offer a piece of work which is illegal to a big institution which has invited us. They have to accept it and at the same time they have to take the responsibility for it. Furthermore, the virus is being spread by the people who wear the t-shirts with the code. Theoretically, they could also be sued, as well as all the magazines and websites as "Domus", "Mute", or "Wired" which are going to print the code of the virus. CS: That means you yourself try to stay on the safe side, and make mostly others do the dirty work for you? 0100101110101101.ORG: Exactly. CS: But, you are just playing with the notion of crime. Taking a closer look shows that you are doing nothing illegal. You just let other people spread your harmless virus! That’s it. 0100101110101101.ORG: Yes. CS: I would like to compare your work to an action of the German artist Ulay, who had announced in the 70s in an art magazine that he was going to steel a painting from a museum. Nobody had taken him serious until he had, in fact, stolen a 19th century painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. He had brought it to a Turkish family in Berlin Kreuzberg where they hung it on their living room wall. In terms of transparency and crime this action has parallels to yours, but the difference is, that Ulay actually committed a crime, and that he personally has been made responsible and sued for this "art crime". 0100101110101101.ORG: Even if we have always considered this action as one of the most interesting ever, we definitely prefer Erik Hobijn’s theft of a drawing by Keith Haring from the Stedelijk Museum in 1983: not only he didn’t go to prison, but he even got a ransom. CS: What would your exact goal be? You’re doing nothing criminal, and you are making your action explicitly as artists in an artcontext. That’s why nobody would sue you in the end, and if, you would even profit from it for your own propaganda. Furthermore, your action here will not have any influence on further criminalization of hackers and crackers. And honestly, don’t you think, that the art system does exactly live on the production and celebration of taboo braking? The more radical art seems to be, the better for the institution, at least, as long as it does not cause real trouble--like your virus. 0100101110101101.ORG: This is the same old excuse that mediocre artists use to jusify their arty-farty work. Our action could set a precedent, so that in future cases viruses could be declared as works of art. CS: Do you mean that any programmers who cause troubles and serious damage with viruses etc. should refer to your action and call themselves artists in order not to be made responsible for what they were doing? 0100101110101101.ORG: Yes. CS: Sorry, but this sounds naive to me. Who defines that somebody is an artist? It is a complex process of self-proclamation, acting, reference, and acceptance by a system. I would doubt that a judge would be willing to accept that a dangerous virus-programmer suddenly has turned into an artist, refering to your precedent. Maybe, the only way would be, if you are really serious with that concern, that you declare future virus writers, who are sued for what they’re doing, as members of your group, i.e. the guy who has recently been sentenced in (was it Bologna). You already have the legitimation of the art system, so it might turn into a really interesting case in terms of checking the limits of art conception. 0100101110101101.ORG: Thanks, we’ll keep this for the next Biennale. CS: But before that, I would doubt that the people you pretend to work for find out at all about your action. Although there are national differences, the worlds of hackers, artists and political activists are pretty much separated. There is not just different motivations behind this different activities, but often fundamentally different strategies in following goals, which seem not to go together very well. For example, political activists often tend to understand art as a source to deliver mere illustrations of their goals, or they are afraid that their political credibility might be reduced when their battle is related to art. 0100101110101101.ORG: While most people think in watertight compartments, some of the most interesting and succesful actions are produced by the combination of different knowledges. Have a look at Mongrel, I/O/D/, Electronic Disturbance Theatre, Rtmark, Surveillance Camera Players, Negativland, just to mention a few examples. Making the hacking, art and activist scene join, you obtain a bomb. This is necessary not only for technical reasons, but also for marketing and selling. One of our goals at the Biennale is to sell the virus, to make money out of it. CS: How much are CD-ROMs? 0100101110101101.ORG: 1.500 USD each. CS: It is now one week after the opening. Did you already sell any copies? 0100101110101101.ORG: We have already sold two of them to private collectors. CS: Your talking about the "bomb" before ends in selling a product. Is this what you mean by having/placing a bomb? Creating a product which generates money? 0100101110101101.ORG: A bad idea perfected is better than a good idea attempted. CS: Thank you for the conversation. I am looking forward to your future bombings;- [*] Subject: help Date: Wed, 13 Jun 20A 11:07:43 +0200 From: "Carolyn R. Miller" To: biennale.py@0100101110101101.ORG I think I may have gotten the biennale.py virus from the website of your collaborator, 0100101110101101.ORG. I read the press release, which was circulated on AIR-L and visited both websites, but at the 0100101110101101.ORG website I got caught in an approval loop that seemed to tell me that "now we’re in your computer". I certainly did NOT know when I went to the site that this would happen and I did not voluntarily download any virus. 48 hours later or so I started having major problems. I run a MacG3, OS 8.6. I can’t find any information on an internet search about how to get rid of the virus, so I hope you can tell me what to do. Thanks, Carolyn Miller North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA /// PROPAGANDA /// HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG /// From iterate@csse.monash.edu.au Tue Nov 13 07:07:54 2001 From: iterate@csse.monash.edu.au (iterate) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:07:54 +0200 Subject: [spectre] ANNOUNCE Second Iteration : emergence - programme Message-ID: Apologies for multiple/cross postings. The Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) invites you to attend... Second Iteration : emergence 2nd international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts http://www.2iteration.net info@2iteration.net - Conference dates 5-7th December, 2001, Melbourne, Australia Invited speakers include: N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA/USA); Driessens/Verstappen (Netherlands), Sommerer & Mignonneau (Japan) and others. - A full conference programme is now online - Early registration closes 14th November Papers, Artist & Tech Sketches, Generative Audio & Video, Generative Art Software Second Iteration : emergence is the event for anyone with an interest in the relationship between generative processes, creativity and artistic practice. The key theme is emergence: the property of simple, interacting processes to acquire characteristics and form beyond those directly attributable to the sum of the individual components. 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Following on from the highly successful First Iteration (1999), this year's conference will again be held in Melbourne, Australia. - Second Iteration : topics of interest Artificial Life Artificial selection Cellular automata Cultural interpretations of generative theories & methodologies Digital nature Evolutionary aspects of creativity & creative behaviour Feedback networks Genetic algorithms Learning & knowledge-based systems Mathematical & generative modelling Memes Models of creativity and creative processes Neural networks Recombinant media Rule-based systems Software artworks Systems theory - Second Iteration : applications Architecture Animation Computer graphics Cultural theory Electronic & computer-based music composition Evolutionary theory Software development Visual, sound & performance art Virtual environments - Further details are available on the conference website http://www.2iteration.net or by emailing the organizers on info@2iteration.net -- Second Iteration : emergence 2nd international conference on generative processes in the electronic arts 5-7th December 2001. Melbourne, Australia. http://www.2iteration.net From drazen@xs4all.nl Tue Nov 13 08:09:04 2001 From: drazen@xs4all.nl (Drazen Pantic) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:09:04 +0200 Subject: [spectre] delay of new Broadcast Act in Serbia Message-ID: via ----- Forwarded message from mediawatch@lists.opennet.org ----- Subject: AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL PUBLIC AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL PUBLIC We would like to advise you that the final version of the draft Broadcast Act was submitted to the Serbian Government four months ago. This model legislation was drafted, on the initiative of the Association of Independent Serbian Journalists, by an expert group brought together by the Media Centre and the Yugoslav Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights, with expert consultancy from the OSCE and the Council of Europe and broad public discussion among broadcasters and media experts. The final version of the draft is generally assessed as being in line with European standards in the field. We are unaware of any legal reasons for the Serbian Government=EDs delay in considering this law and tabling it in Parliament. There are in fact pressing reasons to do so, with technical and media chaos in Serbian broadcasting constantly worsening, with hundreds of new broadcasters since October 5, 2001, threatening total collapse of both the airwaves and the advertising market. The victims of this situation are the independent media who were repressed under the former regime by repression of the media space and a discriminatory advertising market. We are against any stop-gap solutions which, lacking any legislative structure, bring new or different privileges. We seek fair competition under legal criteria and the revocation of privileges which have been acquired through political loyalties. 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With respect, NUNS (Association of Independent Serbian Journalists), Gordana Susa ANEM (Association of Independent Electronic Media =F1 84 radio and TV member stations ), Veran Matic SPEKTAR (Association of Private Broadcasters =F1 70 radio and TV member stations), Slavica Corbic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mediawatch-unsubscribe@lists.opennet.org =46or additional commands, e-mail: mediawatch-help@lists.opennet.org ----- End forwarded message ----- # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net From irina@icca.ro Tue Nov 13 13:07:25 2001 From: irina@icca.ro (irina) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:07:25 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Fw: subREAL Message-ID: <005c01c16c44$63b27420$137ce7c1@csac.sfos.ro> > ----- Forwarded message from syndicatpotentiel ----- > Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:52:32 +0100 > From: syndicatpotentiel > Reply-To: syndicatpotentiel > Subject: subREAL > To: syndicatpotentiel > > subREAL > INTERVIEWING THE CITIES... > STRASBOURG > > Collectif d¹artistes roumain, subREAL est en residence à Strasbourg du 3 > au > 8 novembre 2001, au cours de laquelle ils poursuivront leur projet > INTERVIEWING THE CITIES deja mene dans les villes de Helsinski, Turku, > Vienne, Amsterdam et Montreal. Ce projet prend à Strasbourg la forme > d¹une > enquete photographique sur les artistes vivant et sur les sculptures et > monuments ponctuant l¹espace urbain dont subREAL realise des > ³interviews > sonores² comme si elles etaient vivantes. Les portraits et entretiens > sont > realises selon des techniques photographiques mises au point par > subREAL > dans le but de documenter l¹importance du facteur humain dans > l'engrenage de > l'art ainsi que l¹influence de l¹art sur le patrimoine collectif d¹une > ville. L¹exposition et la conference de subREAL retraceront le parcours > artistique du groupe, du sauvetage et de l¹analyse des archives de la > revue > roumaine ARTA - point de depart de leur demarche - aux multiples villes > deja > interrogees. > > INTERVIEWING THE CITIES : photographies du groupe subREAL, au Syndicat > Potentiel, 9 - 25 novembre 2001, du mercredi au dimanche, 15 heures - > 19 > heures. > > RENCONTRE / VERNISSAGE > Conference sur le travail de subREAL, suivie du vernissage de leur > exposition au Syndicat Potentiel > Le jeudi 8 novembre, 19 h > > en partenariat avec apollonia > > > Syndicat Potentiel > 13 rue des Couples 67000 Strasbourg - Tel: 03 88 37 08 72 > http://www.syndicatpotentiel.fr.st > > Apollonia > http://www.art-exchanges.com > > SubREAL > http://www.plueschow.de/fellows/subreal/subreal.html > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > From inke@snafu.de Tue Nov 13 14:52:15 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Arns/Broeckmann) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:52:15 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Rise and Decline of the Syndicate Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011113155215.009023c0@pop.snafu.de> Rise and Decline of the Syndicate: the End of an Imagined Community Inke Arns & Andreas Broeckmann, Berlin, November 2001 The Syndicate mailing list imploded and went down in August 2001, destroying the life-line of the Syndicate network. The network had been in a shaky situation for a while, due - we believe - to the destabilisation of the problematic balance between personal contacts of list members, lurking and filtering-and-not-reading-let-alone-posting subscribers, and a growing number of self-promoters who used the list as a personal performance space and disregarded the social rules of the online community. Some people insisted on continuing the list on a new server, taking over the subscriber list, while we decided to form a new list, SPECTRE, which has been running on the previous Syndicate list-serve in Berlin since 28 Aug 2001. The list currently has 250 new subscribers (Nov 01) and continues the tradition of the Syndicate list as a low-noise, open platform for exchange and cooperation in media culture in Europe. After six years of successful work with and for the Syndicate community, the demise of the Syndicate list in August 2001 was a rather shocking experience for many of us, imposing on us the realisation how feeble such a community channel can be, and how easily destroyed. It proved that responsibility and care are essential elements in a viable social online environment, and we had to learn the hard way that there is no consensus about the rules that should guide behaviour and interaction. The following text gives a brief summary from our personal perspective of the Syndicate initiative as it developed since its inception in 1996, and attempts an evaluation of its end. Andreas started administering the Syndicate mailing list after its installation on the server of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz (aec.at) in January 1996, helping people to subscribe, unsubscribe and post to the majordomo list. As the subscriber base grew from the original 30 subscribers to about 300 in 1998, Inke joined in administering the list and - together with Arthur Bueno of the V2_Organisation in Rotterdam, who also maintained the Syndicate website and archive on www.v2.nl/syndicate from 1998-2000 - mostly managed the list administration through these years. We taught ourselves the basic majordomo commands, had our private mail accounts jammed with bounced messages, and therefore installed an admin account. Each time we would look into this account there would be hundreds of mails sitting there and voraciously waiting for us ... but somehow it worked. Problems started appearing on an entirely different field. With its completely open structure (technically and socially speaking) the Syndicate mailing list soon proved to be vulnerable. In the beginning of November 1998 the list was first targeted: all the subscribers were unsubscribed. Luckily we had been extracting the "who"-file on an almost daily basis and thus were able to reconstruct the list quickly. In September 2000 the list software on the server faced a serious crash which the sysops in Linz could not take care of because of the festival they were in at the time. So we decided to relocate the list onto a server to which we would have easier access for administration and configuration. Since then, the Syndicate list was hosted by an ISP in Berlin (openoffice.de) which also soon gave us the opportunity to switch from Majordomo to the more easily administratable Mailman software. But the Syndicate was much more than a piece of software: it was a network of people. The Syndicate was founded in January 1996 on the last day of the Next 5 Minutes 2 Festival in Rotterdam. It was a network which devoted itself to fostering contacts and co-operation, improvements in communication and an exchange between institutions and individuals in Eastern and Western Europe active in the media and media culture. By allowing regular e-mail communication between participants regarding forthcoming events and collaborative projects the Syndicate mailing list developed into an important channel and information resource for announcing and reporting new projects, events and developments in media culture. The complete mail archive is kept at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/ Since the first meeting in Rotterdam in 1996, which was attended by 30 media artists and activists, journalists and curators from 12 Eastern and Western European countries, the Syndicate network grew steadily. In August 2001, it linked over 500 members from more than 30 European and a number of non-European countries. The original idea was to establish an East-West network as well as an East-East network. In the meantime, however, the Syndicate had increasingly developed into an all-European forum for media culture and art. Over the last few years the division between East and West had been growing less important as people cooperated in ever-changing constellations, in ad-hoc as well as long-lasting partnerships. Syndicate meetings and workshops have been held regularly, in most cases as part of festivals and conferences. The main meetings have taken place at half-yearly intervals in Rotterdam (Sept. 96), Liverpool (April 97), Kassel (July 97), Dessau (Nov. 97), Tirana (May 98), Skopje (Oct. 98), Budapest (April 99), and Helsinki (Oct. 99), with many smaller meetings and joint projects, presentations and workshops happening in between. Readers edited by Inke and published on the occasion of some of the meetings (Rotterdam 1996, Ostranenie Dessau 1997, Junction Skopje 1998) have collected the most important texts from the mailing list in printed form. It was worth condensing Syndicate stuff in this way because most of the time the mail traffic was dominated by announcements. Attempts to turn the Syndicate list into a discussion list and encouragements for people to send their personal reports, views, perceptions of what was happening, were met by only limited response. In the beginning, when many people on the list still knew each other personally, this strategy was more successful, later, with the exploding rate of lurkers, less. While in the first three years of its existence, the Syndicate held its meetings quite regularly (almost every six months!), and organised panels and workshops with its members, since 1999 the Syndicate list came to be more like a sleeping beauty which in times of crisis would awake and show its full potential. Suddenly, when necessary, everybody was back on, communicating almost breathlessly with each other ("Have you heard about X?" - "The cultural center Y was closed!" - "Z received his mobilisation call.") The list was last activated in order to support Edi Muka, Tirana-based long term Syndicalist, who had been sacked from his post at the cultural center Pyramid by some politically malevolent officials. The meetings and personal contacts off-list were an essential part of the Syndicate network: they grounded the Syndicate in a network of friendly and working relationships, with strong ties and allegiances that spanned across Europe and made many cooperations between artists, initiatives and institutions possible. The Syndicate thus opened multiple channels between artists and cultural producers in Europe and beyond, which is probably its greatest achievement. It connected people and made them aware of each other's practice, creating multiple options for international cooperation projects. A structure like that can work so long as it is supported and protected by a sufficient number of participants. It needs an ethical consensus about what is and what isn't possible on the list, which kinds of actions support and which may tilt the social equilibrium. The case of Andrej Tisma, a Yugoslav artist from multi-cultural Novi Sad and a defender of the Milosevic regime throughout the late 90s, is a case in point: many perceived his tirades against the West and against NATO as pure Serbian propaganda which became unbearable at some point. Later, Tisma came back to the list and continued his criticisms by posting links to anti-NATO web pages he had created. For us, he was always an interesting sign post of Serb nationalist ideology which it was good to be aware of. And it was good that he showed that people can be artists 'like you and me', and be Serb nationalists at the same time. The Syndicate could handle his presence after he agreed to tune down his rants. However, this consensus was further eroded through the last two years. The nn episode on Syndicate in August 2001, then, was a symptom, but not the reason for the death of Syndicate. This started way before August 2001. Not only that there were no more meetings after 1999, one could also notice that since mid 1999 people felt less and less responsible for the list. Many Syndicalists of the first hour grew more silent (this was partly incited by the hefty discussions during the NATO bombings in Yugoslavia), perhaps more weary, perhaps less naive, many also changed their personal circumstances and got involved in other things (new jobs, new families, new countries ...). At the same time, the number of subscribers kept growing: more and more newbies kept flowing onto the Syndicate list. The major change that occurred on the Syndicate around that time (1999) was the transition from a network of people and of trust to a more and more anonymous mailing list, a list for announcements like so many others. A growing majority of Syndicate subscribers now tended to see the mailing list merely as a quick and handy tool for spreading self promotion. The mailing list was to serve them for promotional goals, rather than as a tool of communication. When calls went out for support in the adminstration of the list, far too few people responded at all. Many people still do not understand the voluntary nature of the Syndicate initiative, and that the whole project depended on the sharing of work and responsibility. Too many people took the efforts of too few people for granted. Investing time and energy in the administration of such a list became more and more frustrating. When some fellow Syndicalists joined the admin team early 2001, we could have realised that the project had peaked and should have been transformed into something different altogether. The net entity nn (Netochka Nezvanova, integer, antiorp, etc.), a pseudonym used by an international group of artists and programmers in their extensive and aggressive mailing list-based online-performances and for other art projects, had been subscribed to the Syndicate list in 1997. It was, as the first of less than a handful of people ever, unsubscribed against its will because it was spamming the list so heavily that all meaningful communication was blocked. In January 2001, nn sent an e-mail asking to again be subscribed to the Syndicate mailing list. (What nn never bothered to realise was that subscription to the list had always been open so that, at any point, it could have subscribed itself - we have always wondered why Majordomo is such a blind spot in this technophile entity's arsenal.) After getting assurances from nn that she was not out to misuse the list, we subscribed it to the Syndicate list. Naively, as we had to realise. nn went from one or two messages every day in February to an average of three to five message in April and up to eight and ten messages per day in May and June - and that on a list which had a regular daily traffic of three to five messages a day. The distributed nature of the nn collective makes it possible for them to keep posting 24 hours a day - great for promoting your online presence, irritating for people who have a less frantic life rhythm. nn's messages are always cryptic, sometimes amusing, often tediously repetitive in their quirky rhetorics and style, and generally irritating for the majority of people. Its activity on the Syndicate - like on many other lists it has used and terrorised - soon came to look like a hijack. But the sheer mass of traffic nn was generating, the sheer amount of nn's presence, was overwhelming. Perhaps this phenomenon could be compared to SMEGL, short for super mental grid lock, a term that was developed to describe traffic jam situations in NYC back in the eighties (or was this term coined in Berlin-Kreuzberg's famous Fischbuero? Who knows, the boundaries get blurred...). In the spring of 2001, nn's and other people's activities who use open, unmoderated mailing lists for promulgating their self-promotional e-mails, triggered discussions about 'spam art', on Syndicate as well as on other lists. Actually, given the extreme openness and vulnerability of a structure like the Syndicate it remains quite astonishing that this structure survived for such a long time. What happened in the course of 2000/2001 (not only to Syndicate, but also to several other mailing lists) was that the openness of these lists, i.e. the fact that they were unmoderated, was massively abused, and, finally, destroyed, by relentless 'creative' spamming. One of the basic principles of the Internet - its openness - suddenly seemed to become a mere tool for attacking this very principle. 'Netiquette' did not seem to be of much value anymore and was sacrificed for the egotistical self-expression of (distributed) artist egos. The irony of this process is that, like any good parasite, this artistic practice depends on the existence of lively online communities: it not only bites, but kills the hand that feeds it. - These parasite nomads will find new hosts, no doubt, but they have over the past year helped to erode the social fabric of the wider net cultural population so much that communities have to protect themselves from attacks and hijacks more aggressively than before. Their adolescent carelessness is partly responsible for the withering of the romantic utopia of a completely open, sociable online environment. However educational that may be, we despise the deliberation with which these people act. nn got unsubscribed from the Syndicate without warning on a day when there had been nothing but ten messages from her. After some days of silence and sighs of relief, angry protests by nn came through. On the list, accusations of censorship and/or dictatorship were made. A small but noisy faction denounced unsubscribing nn as an act against the freedom of speech. They called the administrators fascists, murderers, and 'threatened' to report the case to 'Index on Censorship'. While some other list members welcomed the departure of nn on and off the list and the admin team again and again explained their move, the ludicrous allegations and vociferous insults continued. The real shock for us was that the majority of list subscribers did not participate in the discussion and thus silently seemed to accept what was going on. It was personally hurtful not to receive more support against the insults raised against us, but more frustrating was the indifference that made the whole process possible. Within few days, the alienation from the atmosphere on the list was so great that we admitted defeat, re-subscribed nn and began to withdraw from the Syndicate. The list was moved to a different server and is now administered by other people at anart.no/~syndicate. We wanted to avoid further verbiage and conflict and therefore gave up the name, but we insist that from our perspective the Syndicate project that was founded in 1996 ended in August 2001. What remains under its name is a zombie kept alive by misconceptions about what the Syndicate really was. Maybe we should have stopped the project altogether in the summer? Filtering has, in a way, done us in. Before there were effective e-mail clients that could filter out lists and other mail communication, everybody on the list got everything more or less instantly, which also meant a higher level of social awareness and social control of what goes on on the list. Today, many people filter the lists they subscribe to and only look at the postings at irregular intervals - some mailboxes don't get opened for months. Like this, people consume the list passively and do not even notice a fiasco like the one that we experienced on the Syndicate list in the summer. I guess that some people who remain subscribed to the Syndicate list still have not noticed that anything has changed. For a social community, that kind of behaviour - automated deferance - can be fatal. "There's a spectre haunting Europe ..." In August 2001, after unsubscribing from the Syndicate, we initiated a new mailing list under the name SPECTRE. It is an open, unmoderated list for media art and culture in Deep Europe. SPECTRE offers a channel for practical information exchange concerning events, projects and initiatives organized within the field of media culture, and hosts discussions and critical commentary about the development of art, culture and politics in and beyond Europe. Deep Europe is not a particular territory, but is based on an attitude and experience of layered identities and histories - ubiquitous in Europe, yet in no way restricted by its topographical borders. (The term Deep Europe was coined by Anna Balint in 1996. It was passed on by Geert Lovink. It was used by Andreas Broeckmann and Inke Arns. It was interpreted by Luchezar Boyadjiev. It was used more by Sally Jane Norman, Iliyana Nedkova, Nina Czegledy, Edi Muka, and many others.) SPECTRE is a channel for people involved in old and new media in art and culture. Importantly, many people on this list know each other personally. SPECTRE aims to facilitate real-life meetings and favours real face-to-face (screen-to-screen) cooperation, test-bed experiences and environments to provoke querying of issues of cultural identity/identification and difference (translatable as well as untranslatable or irreducible). The new list was immediately welcomed by many frustrated Syndicalists who quickly made the move. SPECTRE is an unmoderated, but by not means open mailing list. With the Syndicate experience in mind we felt the need to explicitely formulate some basic, apparently no longer self-evident netiquette rules, like "meaningful discussions require mutual respect," and "self-advertise with care!" The list is initially hosted by the two of us who also have to approve requests for subscription. The blurb explicitely reads: "Subscriptions may be terminated or suspended in the case of persistent violation of netiquette." We regret that we have to introduce such a system of control but see no other effective way of protecting something that is dear to us. A lack of sensible protection brought down the Syndicate. Information about SPECTRE: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre We try to continue the good Syndicate tradition of amiable exchange and are more hesitant about the illusion of being an 'online community'. We maintain our romantic belief in lasting friendships and insist on the need to infuse networks with a strong sense of conviviality. We believe in people and their needs more than we believe in art. Inke Arns, Andreas Broeckmann Berlin, November 2001 From reiner.s@netartefact.de Tue Nov 13 17:33:58 2001 From: reiner.s@netartefact.de (Reiner Strasser) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:33:58 +0100 Subject: [spectre] just subscribed Message-ID: Hello - >The list currently has 250 new subscribers (Nov 01) and >continues the tradition of the Syndicate list as a low-noise, open >platform for exchange and cooperation in media culture in Europe. do i know some of the 250 ? best Reiner ::::::::::::::::: Reiner Strasser reiner.s@netartefact.de reiner.s@netartefact.com ::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: netArteFact ::::::::::::::::: the si[gh]t_e of the artist(s) ::::::::::::::::: http://netartefact.de/ http://netartefact.com/ ::::::::::::::::: From mia@fiftyfifty.org Tue Nov 13 18:15:29 2001 From: mia@fiftyfifty.org (mia) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:15:29 +0200 Subject: [spectre] F_SCAPES_II/DIGITALES Message-ID: -- =46_SCAPES_II A showcase of videoworks and patches from emerging female videoartists and programmers. Special focus on realtime video environments like nato.0+55= =2E http://www.fiftyfifty.org/f-scapes_II more info : mia@fiftyfifty.org =46_SCAPES_II is part of DIGITALES (Brussels) 15/16/17 -11 -2001 3 journ=E9es de rencontres-ontmoetingsdagen- meetingdays http://www.digitales-online.org -- From kika@alcor.concordia.ca Tue Nov 13 20:35:42 2001 From: kika@alcor.concordia.ca (KINGA ARAYA) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:35:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [spectre] Rise and Decline of the Syndicate-SOME THOUGHTS In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20011113155215.009023c0@pop.snafu.de> Message-ID: Dear Inke and Andreas, I have been a rather 'silent' member on your ex-Syndicate list. After the unpleasant events with Miss nn et al., I abandoned the Syndicate list and I gladly joined the Spectre list you created. I do appreciate time you took in writing to all of us about the summer events on the old Syndicate list. I actually did not have a clear idea what was really going on except that I was sensing that SOMETHING was going wrong with the virtual community you created. I did not know who the nn-crowd was and what they really wanted. Even though I was not a very active member of the Syndicate, I always appreciated the pieces of information you provided. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ANDREAS and INKE FOR YOUR WORK. And since I am an artist and a doctoral student who is always 'on the run', I regret that fact that when nn abusive e-mails where polluting my e-mail box I was simply deleting them and kept going on with my busy life in-between languages, countries and cultures. (I do not live on internet). Your e-mail Inke MADE ME understand that the silence of the members is no longer possible. Yes, we DO have certain responsibilities to each other, we-virtual and invisible specters. I think that your e-mail touches on a very critical issue of ethical and aesthetic responsibilities of virtual e-mails that have never been dealt successfully (at least to my knowledge). Well, now when I finally CAME OUT what would be my/our next step? I believe that all the Spectre subscribes share certain responsibilities to each others (it is already voiced in Inke's mail) and I am not sure what to propose given the large number of member of Specters. We cannot send each others personal e-mails and start interdicting each other - it would create a virtual chaos! But I strongly believe that we have to DO something. As a flamboyant artist I would say: "Hey, who/where are you? Let's go for a drink and talk about art!" Unfortunately it can only remain a rhetoric call. The only thing I CAN do right now is to VOICE my virtual presence more often on the Specter's list because I have great respect to people who work very hard to make sure that we get important and wonderful information about our cultural and political status quo. Thank you and best wishes to Inke, Andreas and all the 250 (+) member of the Specter, Kinga Araya (an interdisciplinary artist currently working and studying in Montreal, Canada) From kat@snafu.de Wed Nov 14 00:48:26 2001 From: kat@snafu.de (Kathrin Becker) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:48:26 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Kinga =?iso-8859-1?Q?Araya=B4s?= comment Message-ID: Dear Inke, dear Andreas, dear Kinga, I totally agree with that plus same question...... very best ka be I have been a rather 'silent' member on your ex-Syndicate list. After the unpleasant events with Miss nn et al., I abandoned the Syndicate list and I gladly joined the Spectre list you created. I do appreciate time you took in writing to all of us about the summer events on the old Syndicate list. I actually did not have a clear idea what was really going on except that I was sensing that SOMETHING was going wrong with the virtual community you created. I did not know who the nn-crowd was and what they really wanted. Even though I was not a very active member of the Syndicate, I always appreciated the pieces of information you provided. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ANDREAS and INKE FOR YOUR WORK. And since I am an artist and a doctoral student who is always 'on the run', I regret that fact that when nn abusive e-mails where polluting my e-mail box I was simply deleting them and kept going on with my busy life in-between languages, countries and cultures. (I do not live on internet). Your e-mail Inke MADE ME understand that the silence of the members is no longer possible. Yes, we DO have certain responsibilities to each other, we-virtual and invisible specters. I think that your e-mail touches on a very critical issue of ethical and aesthetic responsibilities of virtual e-mails that have never been dealt successfully (at least to my knowledge). Well, now when I finally CAME OUT what would be my/our next step? From netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au Wed Nov 14 01:27:04 2001 From: netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au (][s][.Urge.Protect.][or][) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:27:04 +1100 Subject: [spectre] _Moderator Intentions Regarding the _arc.hive_ Mailing List_ Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011114122647.023d9030@pop.hotkey.net.au> --=====================_7993194==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed _Moderator Intentions Regarding the _arc.hive_ Mailing List_ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _Define:: Moderator:_ ::any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors ::someone who presides over a forum or debate ::someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence Obviously the criteria that governs moderation on the _arc.hive_ list doesn't slide easily or definitively into any the categories listed above. The expectation that the _arc.hive_ list exists in/under - in terms of moderation - is that there won't actively (need to) be any, in terms of a heavy handed force from above that will fix or sweep, pick or chastise in regards to the lists subscribers/content. In my own naive fashion, I'd like to assume that an implicit respect for others will allow for extant list-meaning fractures/interactions without necessary recourse to established methods of list construction and expectation [what others terms as "nettique"....which is not a statically defined/absolute term, nor should it be - though some view it as such]. Hopefully the everyday communication traffic that exists in/on the _arc.hive_ list [and therefore, in turn creates the perceived community] will be guided by this underlying/inherent respect loading [ie respect for other subscribers/posters as well as for the actual content of their posts.] This isn't to assert that the list should be sanitized in terms of content, nor that _arc.hivers_ should deliberate or over-cogitate before posting [unless that's your orientation, obviously] as the value of a type of affective communication/posting is also acknowledged, such as the instinctual reactive "text-flick". Correspondingly, _arc.hivers_ will be free in terms of the volume of postings they send to the list, as it is assumed that anyone who is technologically astute enough to join and participate in a mailing list is also able to filter unwanted postings or request help in this regard. The only manifest qualifier in regards to posting - as I've stressed previously - is this latent or actual respect nuancing at all times. This allows for a surprising amount of scope and emotional & intellectual territory to be covered if the default assumption is that a subscriber is trying to _communicate_ rather than spam or fragment the list community. It's a guideline I'd like to assume exists in the _arc.hive_ underwiring, and this [hopefully] will not need to be enforced in terms of regular moderator actions. - The _arc.hive_ list [as it currently] functions is a catcher/dissemination node of all things net, incremental or otherwise. All that is classed by regular [email] communication channels as textual refuse, experimental pap, or elements to be filtered or ignored are welcome here - as are expressions we have come to expect of a burgeoning net.community in terms of cohesive infodata - such as debates, issues, announcements, calls to participation/conferences, etc. Content alteration is another area that will be encouraged here, on a creative/expressive/performative level. This informatically diverse mix won't cater directly for every expectation, especially if those who hold the expectations are unable to extend their perceptions towards building a community/list space in which the underlying aim is to create and express via an avenue where value [of both poster and post] is the primary consideration. What Martin [ftr] and I had in mind when formulating this list was the need to offer an alternative to existent methods of net.wurk formulation [in terms of theory & shape.age] via email lists and the communities that are shaped around them. We hope you will feel comfortable joining and contributing to _arc.hive_. Go to: http://lm.va.com.au/pipermail/_arc.hive_/ to subscribe. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ][k][links, mez and ftr. . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ .circ][e][uitry..n.struments..go.here. xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... --=====================_7993194==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

_Moderator Intentions Regarding the _arc.hive_ Mailing List_

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_Define:: Moderator:_
::any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
::someone who presides over a forum or debate
::someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence


  Obviously the criteria that governs moderation on the _arc.hive_ list doesn't slide easily or definitively into any the categories listed above. The expectation that the _arc.hive_ list exists in/under - in terms of moderation - is that there won't actively (need to) be any, in terms of a heavy handed force from above that will fix or sweep, pick or chastise in regards to the lists subscribers/content. In my own naive fashion, I'd like to assume that an implicit respect for others will allow for extant list-meaning fractures/interactions without necessary recourse to established methods of list construction and expectation [what others terms as "nettique"....which is not a statically defined/absolute term, nor should it be - though some view it as such].

  Hopefully the everyday communication traffic that exists in/on the _arc.hive_ list [and therefore, in turn creates the perceived community] will be guided by this underlying/inherent respect loading [ie respect for other subscribers/posters as well as for the actual content of their posts.] This isn't to assert that the list should be sanitized in terms of content, nor that  _arc.hivers_ should deliberate or over-cogitate before posting [unless that's your orientation, obviously] as the value of a type of affective communication/posting is also acknowledged, such as the instinctual reactive "text-flick".

  Correspondingly, _arc.hivers_ will be free in terms of the volume of postings they send to the list, as it is assumed that anyone who is technologically astute enough to join and participate in a mailing list is also able to filter unwanted postings or request help in this regard. The only manifest qualifier in regards to posting - as I've stressed previously - is this latent or actual respect nuancing at all times. This allows for a surprising amount of scope and emotional & intellectual territory to be covered if the default assumption is that a subscriber is trying to _communicate_ rather than spam or fragment the list community. It's a guideline I'd like to assume exists in the _arc.hive_ underwiring, and this [hopefully] will not need to be enforced in terms of regular moderator actions.

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  The _arc.hive_ list [as it currently] functions is a catcher/dissemination node of all things net, incremental or otherwise. All that is classed by regular [email] communication channels as textual refuse, experimental pap, or elements to be filtered or ignored are welcome here - as are expressions we have come to expect of a burgeoning net.community in terms of cohesive infodata - such as debates, issues, announcements, calls to participation/conferences, etc. Content alteration is another area that will be encouraged here, on a creative/expressive/performative level.

 This informatically diverse mix won't cater directly for every expectation, especially if those who hold the expectations are unable to extend their perceptions towards building a community/list space in which the underlying aim is to create and express via an avenue where value [of both poster and post] is the primary consideration. What Martin [ftr] and I had in mind when formulating this list was the need to offer an alternative to existent methods of net.wurk formulation [in terms of theory & shape.age] via email lists and the communities that are shaped around them.

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--=====================_7993194==_.ALT-- From JSalloum@aol.com Wed Nov 14 02:01:37 2001 From: JSalloum@aol.com (JSalloum@aol.com) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:01:37 EST Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE + Message-ID: Dear Inke and Andreas, Thank you for the the update on the demise of the Syndicate and the founding of Spectre. It was very informative for me who was an on and off again subscriber to Syndicate. If 'proper' and possible it would be interesting to know who is on the Spectre list, who we are addressing when we post.. perhaps a list of names or if people send a brief 'hello' would be useful. In any case, best wishes with all, Jayce ps: feel free to delete the self promotion bit below. -- Jayce Salloum World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (to 11/11/01) Museum of Civilization, Hull (Ottawa), "The Lands Within" (to 3/03) Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, "Conversations" (to 12/2/01) http://www.dijafragma.com/konverzacija/1salloum.htm http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/programme/0salloum.htm http://www.argosarts.org/exhibition-salloum.html http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce2.htm http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/0newarabvideo.htm From mpandil@soros.org.mk Wed Nov 14 08:59:40 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:59:40 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Fw: "Taystes" Message-ID: <20011114095925.27F1.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> *For Immediate Release* November 13, 2001 "Taystes", a new web-based work by New York artist Jenny Marketou http://www.taystes.net will premier as an interactive installation commissioned by: Cornerhouse Gallery / futuresonic, Manchester, UK "Broken Channel" exhibition 15 November - 21 December, 2001 http://www.cornerhouse.org http://www.futuresonic.com ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Big Brother is Watching you... "TaystesROOM" will have its world premier at the exhibition "BROKEN CHANNEL", at Cornerhouse Gallery, UK in association with FUTURESONIC (the UK's festival of electronic and sonic arts). This exhibition will also feature the work of 2 other artists: Harun Farocki and Ravi Deepres. The three artists examine a world of high tech surveillance and voyeurism, whether sinister and controlling or personal and erotic. For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny Marketou, has constructed "taystesroom", an elaborate, interactive installation; it uses mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic arena. The installation evokes the erotic tension of watching and being watched, seeing and being seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores the new vectors of desire that erupt in an increasingly technological and networked surveillance of voyeurs . TaystesROOM prizes open observational technologies to reveal erotic fantasies of control, hacking into surveillance cams drawing you into a world of voyeurism where the watchers are watched and the trackers tracked. Where Ravi Deepres has slipped between the wire to enter military complexes and gain aesthetic perspectives on state-of-the-art bugging, tastesroom breaks into closed circuits to examine networks of surveillance that are at once intimate and global. Taystes has a sonic open source component which is dynamically generated as the application extracts and generates sounds (in real time) while it is searching for taysty tid bits of information in the surveillance databody, not unlike a detective, sifting through the body of evidence. Special Acknowledgements: Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis (architect, Greece) Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (dj, artist,musician, Macedonia) Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their generous support of the sonic component of Taystesroom. http://www.timebase.org/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: About the artist: Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She has been working in different media, including photography,video, public performances, computer installations, using internet, telepresence environments and interfaces, networking technologies and artificial smells. Her work has been shown internationally including "CTRL [SPACE], ZKM, Karlsruhe, "Markers Art / Re:Duchamp Exhibition" 49 Venice Biennial, Italy;represented Greece in Sao Paolo Biennial 1998; Net_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Manifesta I, Rotterdam; "Tenacity", Swiss Institute, NYC. Her lectures include: "Invencao", Sao Paolo, Brasil; okie doke mez, we um got the point now after several iterations david From ctgr@free.fr Wed Nov 14 10:02:41 2001 From: ctgr@free.fr (clement Thomas - pavu.com) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:02:41 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Kinga =?iso-8859-1?Q?Araya=B4s?= comment References: Message-ID: <3BF24135.4607B437@free.fr> dear list, the THIS version of syndicate story is written. Done ! It doesn't mean there are no others. I simply notice that spectre is never more alive than when discussing about Syndicate case. Is there no rising spectre ? you inke and andreassito would better not eat the bear before you shoot it down ! Syndicate is still a largely frequented list, and you insult syndicate people by your childish attitude. Did you ever believe you were seigneurs in this networked world ? You did insult me. I simply drop your stone back to your garden, before i throw the big one to follow. with no greatings to you, unfair citizen of the network. -- clément Thomas Kathrin Becker a *crit : > Dear Inke, dear Andreas, dear Kinga, > > I totally agree with that plus same question...... > > very best > ka be > > I have been a rather 'silent' member on your ex-Syndicate list. After the > unpleasant events with Miss nn et al., I abandoned the Syndicate list and > I gladly joined the Spectre list you created. I do appreciate time you > took in writing to all of us about the summer events on the old Syndicate > list. I actually did not have a clear idea what was really going on except > that I was sensing that SOMETHING was going wrong with the virtual > community you created. I did not know who the nn-crowd was and what they > really wanted. > > Even though I was not a very active member of the Syndicate, I always > appreciated the pieces of information you provided. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO > ANDREAS and INKE FOR YOUR WORK. And since I am an artist and a doctoral > student who is always 'on the run', I regret that fact that when nn > abusive e-mails where polluting my e-mail box I was simply deleting them > and kept going on with my busy life in-between languages, countries and > cultures. (I do not live on internet). > > Your e-mail Inke MADE ME understand that the silence of the members is no > longer possible. Yes, we DO have certain responsibilities to each other, > we-virtual and invisible specters. I think that your e-mail touches on a > very critical issue of ethical and aesthetic responsibilities of virtual > e-mails that have never been dealt successfully (at least to my > knowledge). > > Well, now when I finally CAME OUT what would be my/our next step? > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From mpandil@soros.org.mk Wed Nov 14 11:32:21 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:32:21 +0100 Subject: [spectre] last line Message-ID: <20011114121648.65EE.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> The Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition=20 -LAST LINE - of Ivana Urosevic Ismet Ramicevic Miroslav Stojanovic - Suki Wednesday November 14, 2001. at 20.00 hrs. CIX Gallery,=20 Orce Nikolov 109, Skopje ------------------------------------ The project =93Last Line=94 follows the development of current events. Observing our unfortunate destiny, the authors of the project ask openly whether we want to get used to this or we simply have to live in such a world, where the price for human life is none, and sometimes even in the hands of people that only use violence and arms. As authors of this group exhibition, Ivana Urosevik, Ismet Ramicevik and Miroslav Stojanovik-Suki try to show the current situation in every way, but at the same time, give a warning and set the final-end line, after which there is no turning back, line behind which death, chaos and terror await. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From kika@alcor.concordia.ca Wed Nov 14 13:45:17 2001 From: kika@alcor.concordia.ca (KINGA ARAYA) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:45:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [spectre] Kinga =?iso-8859-1?Q?Araya=B4s?= comment In-Reply-To: <3BF24135.4607B437@free.fr> Message-ID: Dear Clement, Yes, this is a new spectre list and we are not going to continue talking about the 'shot bear' - the Syndicate for ever... It was my FIRST and ONLY comment. Amen. I am just before my doctoral exams and I would be very gratefufl and intellectually stimulated if you Clement coudl please share with me/us some of your views on the ethical responsabilities in building the 'virtual communities'? How do you see these communities? How do you define them? It might start a productive dialogue (I hope). Love and peace, kinga From norman@wanadoo.fr Wed Nov 14 21:20:37 2001 From: norman@wanadoo.fr (Sally Jane NORMAN) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:20:37 +0100 Subject: [spectre] bonsoir Message-ID: <001201c16d52$54c53240$5ee9f8c1@PORTABLEGIP> C'est un message de format MIME en plusieurs parties. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C16D5A.B6899A40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Spectres, Long strange saga, this hisss-story. Poignant and irritating. Interstanding perhaps still not quite attained in our spectra. Question of wavelength ? Nanometric netiquette ? Hoping that those at recent and current and future face-to-face encounters are to some extent fired by the energy and will that brought some of us together in the first place. It’s been encouraging to follow up a bunch of recent announcements complying with my archaic vision of the list ; sort of helps when they break through some of the verbal exhibitionism. Which may be how others see my contribution so I won’t lay it on too thick – does netiquette mean respecting others to the extent of not voicing personal preferences even and especially when somebody obviously very well-bred is decent enough only to advertise a tiny chunk of excruciating textual « genius » ? Under all these doubts a persistent, gnawing irritation (those rats in the roof again ?), perhaps mine alone. I’m perplexed at the way/ fact that analysis of passivity and lurking by anonymous subscribers is so clearly described as the (partial) cause of upheavals and changes in the prevous list, while its successor has meanwhile snowballed overnight from a few dozen to 250, again raising the same old issue of anonymity : who’s talking, who’s listening, who cares ? Paradoxical. To harp on again with an old obsession, it might be of interest to a few of us get an overview of the current list, in terms of geographies and cartographies, including the nomads and homeless and proverbial voyagers. To see how « deep Europe » we still really are. (Speaking as a kiwi, naturellement) But I’m well aware of the fact that that kind of thing is a task in itself. Especially when it means overviewing a mushrooming community and winter's setting in. Looking forward to discovering Skopje in a fortnight and having a go at « Understanding the Balkans ». Odd coincidences mean that my funny little cognac comic-strip town of Angoulême has cultural ties with Skopje that may make it possible to build some more lasting links. Between people basically. Via art. Because I tend not to dissociate art, in keeping with my probably solipsist/ autistic definition of it, from people and their needs. In fact, to really put my foot in it (that’s ok, I got two), would define art as something people need. The art of living is a real seller these days. But oh shit, that’s verging on the polemical, something that seems to have fallen out of fashion. Like my uncontrollable fucking bad language. Love and kisses to all sjn ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C16D5A.B6899A40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear Spectres,

Long strange saga, = this=20 hisss-story. Poignant and irritating. Interstanding perhaps still = not=20 quite attained in our spectra. Question of wavelength ? Nanometric=20 netiquette ?

Hoping that those at recent and current and future=20 face-to-face encounters are to some extent fired by the energy and will = that=20 brought some of us together in the first place.

It’s been encouraging to follow up a bunch of = recent=20 announcements complying with my archaic vision of the list ; sort = of helps=20 when they break through some of the verbal exhibitionism. Which may be = how=20 others see my contribution so I won’t lay it on too thick – = does netiquette mean=20 respecting others to the extent of not voicing personal preferences even = and=20 especially when somebody obviously very well-bred is decent enough only = to=20 advertise a tiny chunk of excruciating textual = =AB genius =BB ? 

Under all these doubts a persistent, gnawing = irritation=20 (those rats in the roof again ?), perhaps mine alone. I’m = perplexed at the=20 way/ fact that analysis of passivity and lurking by anonymous = subscribers is so=20 clearly described as the (partial) cause of upheavals and changes in the = prevous=20 list, while its successor has = meanwhile=20 snowballed overnight from a few dozen to 250, again raising the = same old=20 issue of anonymity : who’s talking, who’s listening, = who cares ?=20 Paradoxical. To harp on again with an old obsession, it might be of = interest to=20 a few of us get an overview of the current list, in terms of geographies = and=20 cartographies, including the nomads and homeless and proverbial = voyagers. To see=20 how =AB deep Europe =BB we still really are. (Speaking as a = kiwi,=20 naturellement) But I’m well aware of the fact that that kind of = thing is a task=20 in itself. Especially when it means overviewing a mushrooming = community and winter's setting in.

Looking forward to discovering Skopje in a = fortnight and=20 having a go at =AB Understanding the Balkans =BB. Odd = coincidences mean=20 that my funny little cognac comic-strip town of Angoul=EAme has cultural ties with Skopje that may make it = possible to=20 build some more lasting links. Between people basically. Via art. = Because I tend=20 not to dissociate art, in keeping with my probably solipsist/ autistic=20 definition of it, from people and their needs. In fact, to really put my = foot in=20 it (that’s ok, I got two), would define art as something people = need. The art of=20 living is a real seller these days. But oh shit, that’s verging on = the=20 polemical, something that seems to have fallen out of fashion. Like my=20 uncontrollable fucking bad language.

Love and kisses to all

sjn

 

------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C16D5A.B6899A40-- From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 15 08:27:08 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:27:08 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Call: Organising Sound and Silence, Barcelona, July 2002 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:40:16 +0100 From: Steffen Bohm Subject: Call for Papers: "Silence is (not) Sexy: Organising Sound and Silence", EGOS, Barcelona, 4-6 July 2002 Silence Is (not) Sexy: Organising Sound and Silence Conference stream at the 18th EGOS Colloquium, 4-6 July 2002, Barcelona, Spain (www.egosbarcelona.com) CALL FOR PAPERS Silence can be heard only from those who are disposed to wait for a while, it is slowness. Sound travels through the air at sonic velocity, it is modern speed. But silence is also what is denied, made invisible, hard to discuss; and sound can be local expressions of wider silences. Hence the ethics of sound and silence is not easily decidable. We invite contributions which deal with the dialectic between sound and silence as an occasion to explore fields of art, organisation, resistance, change and hope; as a chance to give voice to emotion, desire, indifference and seduction. The following list of themes should be seen as an inspiration: - - Aesthetics and the sublime of sound and silence - - Anti-modern silence: mysticism, religion and God - - Body noises, voices and silences - - Conferences as noise factories - - Desire of sound and silence - - Ethics of sound and silence - - Hearing the disabled: giving voice to the lost, hidden, neglected and marginalised - - Historical perspectives of sound and silence - - Modernity and the loss of silence - - Music of organisation and organisation of music - - Noise=Sound? - - Organisational sound and silence - - Production and consumption of sound and silence - - Resistance of sound and silence; sound and silence of resistance - - Silence=Woman?, Sound=Man? - - Spaces, places and spheres of sound and silence - - Speed and sound - - The scream: the silence and sound of pictures and images - - Urbanity: the sound and silence of the city - - Why do we have to talk all the time?, or, the fear of silence This list is, of course, not exhaustive. We are very much concerned to include a wide range of interdisciplinary and diverse voices. In order to go beyond traditional conference modes of organising sound and silence, we would like to encourage the submission of a range of different forms of contributions; that is, besides the usual academic paper format we very much welcome experimental forms of representation of text, images and sound. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words by email to all convenors by the 15th December 2001. If you are considering to submit a piece of art (music, picture essay etc), we would still like you to send us the required abstract describing your piece and your planned presentation at the conference. Stream convenors: Steffen Bohm, University of Warwick (s.g.bohm@warwick.ac.uk) Attila Bruni, University of Trento (anomalo@libero.it) Alessia Contu, University of Lancaster (a.contu@lancaster.ac.uk) From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 15 09:13:13 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:13:13 +0200 Subject: [spectre] bonsoir In-Reply-To: <001201c16d52$54c53240$5ee9f8c1@PORTABLEGIP> Message-ID: dear sally, the whole issue is very muddled and i wish we had an opportunity to discuss the many different questions f2f; this mail communication with cross-posting and very diverse approaches is not easy to get through. for those of you who are interested, there is some discussion going on on Syndicate (www.anart.no/~syndicate) about the text inke and i wrote (nn: i wish you fail. for i have succeeded. so did the communists.), and rhizome_raw (www.rhizome.org). sure, the text is an attempt at closing the subject, and yet it opens the can of worms once again. what we tried to do was spell out how we see understand the events of the past months. i can imagine a fruitful discussion in which we try to dig around and take up some of the issues, like sally does. i am not sure we got it right. but i also try not to get completely locked up in a story that is passed. sally writes: >Under all these doubts a persistent, gnawing irritation (those rats in >the roof again ?), perhaps mine alone. I =19m perplexed at the way/ fact >that analysis of passivity and lurking by anonymous subscribers is so >clearly described as the (partial) cause of upheavals and changes in the >prevous list, while its successor has meanwhile snowballed overnight >from a few dozen to 250, again raising the same old issue of anonymity : >who =19s talking, who =19s listening, who cares ? Paradoxical. To harp on >again with an old obsession, it might be of interest to a few of us get >an overview of the current list, in terms of geographies and >cartographies, including the nomads and homeless and proverbial voyagers. >To see how =AB deep Europe =BB we still really are. (Speaking as a kiwi, >naturellement) But I =19m well aware of the fact that that kind of thing is >a task in itself. Especially when it means overviewing a mushrooming >community and winter's setting in. > for me, Syndicate worked so long as i could imagine it as a community, a circle of friends who share certain ideas, know each other, and look forward to seeing each other; a community like this, in my eyes, only works if people share ideas about the ethics of communication (no insults, no threats) and about the purpose of the media that they use (no spamming); these shared ideas need to be protected through the kind of social control that does not require authoritative invigilation, but that people like to submit to because it is part of their friendly being together. when there are many people on the list who disturb that consensus, and even more who are so passive that they would not even defend basic principles of sociability, i believe that that passivity becomes part of the problem. as regards the subscriber base, the problem is that i don't want to publicise the list because it might be abused, and i don't know how to corrupt the addresses sufficiently so they cannot be used for spamming etc. but sally, i offered you before to give you a peek at the list - i repeat that offer. >Looking forward to discovering Skopje in a fortnight and having a go at >=AB Understanding the Balkans =BB. Odd coincidences mean that my funny lit= tle >cognac comic-strip town of Angoul=EAme has cultural ties with Skopje that >may make it possible to build some more lasting links. Between people >basically. Via art. Because I tend not to dissociate art, in keeping with >my probably solipsist/ autistic definition of it, from people and their >needs. In fact, to really put my foot in it (that =19s ok, I got two), >would define art as something people need. you know that i do not disagree; but there is art that is deliberately disruptive or asocial, and when i get a performance artist who pisses on my carpet i reserve the right not to invite him again. again, i know that this is tricky and i am not sure about it. take nn who takes pride in 'succeeding' with regard to the syndicate. it is art, i guess. but is it something people need? when? how? where? greetings, -a From bortizc@telesat.com.co Thu Nov 15 11:46:42 2001 From: bortizc@telesat.com.co (Bernardo Ortiz) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:46:42 -0500 Subject: [spectre] bonsoir In-Reply-To: Message-ID: As someone living in former european colony, I would like to understand better your concept of Deep Europe. I find some very interesting hints (that, by the way, made me subscribe t= o this list) but it isn't clear enough. I hope you don't find my request to tiresome regards bernardo ortiz -----Mensaje original----- De: spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de [mailto:spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de]En nombre de Andreas Broeckmann Enviado el: Jueves, 15 de Noviembre de 2001 04:13 a.m. Para: spectre@mikrolisten.de; Sally Jane NORMAN Asunto: Re: [spectre] bonsoir dear sally, the whole issue is very muddled and i wish we had an opportunity to discu= ss the many different questions f2f; this mail communication with cross-posting and very diverse approaches is not easy to get through. for those of you who are interested, there is some discussion going on on Syndicate (www.anart.no/~syndicate) about the text inke and i wrote (nn: = i wish you fail. for i have succeeded. so did the communists.), and rhizome_raw (www.rhizome.org). sure, the text is an attempt at closing the subject, and yet it opens the can of worms once again. what we tried to do was spell out how we see understand the events of the past months. i can imagine a fruitful discussion in which we try to dig around and take up some of the issues, like sally does. i am not sure we got it right. but i also try not to get completely locked up in a story that is passed. sally writes: >Under all these doubts a persistent, gnawing irritation (those rats in >the roof again ?), perhaps mine alone. I =19m perplexed at the way/ fac= t >that analysis of passivity and lurking by anonymous subscribers is so >clearly described as the (partial) cause of upheavals and changes in the >prevous list, while its successor has meanwhile snowballed overnight >from a few dozen to 250, again raising the same old issue of anonymity = : >who =19s talking, who =19s listening, who cares ? Paradoxical. To harp = on >again with an old obsession, it might be of interest to a few of us get >an overview of the current list, in terms of geographies and >cartographies, including the nomads and homeless and proverbial voyagers. >To see how =AB deep Europe =BB we still really are. (Speaking as a kiwi= , >naturellement) But I =19m well aware of the fact that that kind of thing= is >a task in itself. Especially when it means overviewing a mushrooming >community and winter's setting in. > for me, Syndicate worked so long as i could imagine it as a community, a circle of friends who share certain ideas, know each other, and look forward to seeing each other; a community like this, in my eyes, only wor= ks if people share ideas about the ethics of communication (no insults, no threats) and about the purpose of the media that they use (no spamming); these shared ideas need to be protected through the kind of social contro= l that does not require authoritative invigilation, but that people like to submit to because it is part of their friendly being together. when there are many people on the list who disturb that consensus, and even more who are so passive that they would not even defend basic principles of sociability, i believe that that passivity becomes part of the problem. as regards the subscriber base, the problem is that i don't want to publicise the list because it might be abused, and i don't know how to corrupt the addresses sufficiently so they cannot be used for spamming et= c. but sally, i offered you before to give you a peek at the list - i repeat that offer. >Looking forward to discovering Skopje in a fortnight and having a go at >=AB Understanding the Balkans =BB. Odd coincidences mean that my funny = little >cognac comic-strip town of Angoul=EAme has cultural ties with Skopje tha= t >may make it possible to build some more lasting links. Between people >basically. Via art. Because I tend not to dissociate art, in keeping wi= th >my probably solipsist/ autistic definition of it, from people and their >needs. In fact, to really put my foot in it (that =19s ok, I got two), >would define art as something people need. you know that i do not disagree; but there is art that is deliberately disruptive or asocial, and when i get a performance artist who pisses on = my carpet i reserve the right not to invite him again. again, i know that this is tricky and i am not sure about it. take nn who takes pride in 'succeeding' with regard to the syndicate. it is art, i guess. but is it something people need? when? how? where? greetings, -a ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 15 11:57:29 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:57:29 +0200 Subject: [spectre] where is deep europe? Message-ID: here is an excerpt from a text that i wrote in 1997 for the third ostranenie catalogue; i think it clarifies at least my understanding of the notion 'deep europe': For the Syndicate workshop at the Hybrid WorkSpace during the documenta X in Kassel we chose the title "Deep Europe". We were looking for a term that was neither East- nor West-specific, that carried some of the historical baggage of the notion of Europe, and that was at the same time strange enough to be easily understood as ironic. It was an experimental title that turned out to be an interesting focus for thinking about the context of our work. In the end, Luchezar Boyadijev's (Sofia) reading of 'Deep Europe' was accepted by most participants: 'The notion is a metaphor which could be problematic. In the logic of this metaphor, deepness or depth is where there are a lot of overlapping identities of various people. Overlapping in terms of claims over certain historical past, or certain events or certain historical figures or even territories in some cases. It could also be claims over language or alphabet, it could be anything. Europe is deepest, where there are a lot of overlapping identities.' This mapping of culture and of the depth of identities onto the mental and physical geography stands not in contradiction to, but is a condition of the work that is being done in electronically networked translocal environments equipped with all sorts of telematic gear. After the workshop, Branka Milicic Davic wrote: 'what is deep europe? is it real? is it safe? my answer is - yes. deep europe is real. it exists. i do not need visa to be there, i do not need an invitation letter to be there, i can simply sit and think and i am there - in the land without borders, policemen, elections, president, government.... where no radio or TV station will be banned... whose citizens are speaking different languages without shame... and lot more. deep europe is my homeland, my private mental space, which i share with others. deep europe recognizes words like exchanging, sharing, growing. and that's why i believe deep europe exists. because i went there, and i can go there whenever i wish. to exchange, share, grow and understand.' On the surface, the Syndicate is an informal network and an 'intercom' system for people in the media art community in Europe and beyond. At the same time, this inter-communication effects a re-mapping of cultural and mental territories that transcends the political, religious and territorial separations which we regard as a temporary nuisance, rather than as the last word on this imagined continent/container. Lisa Haskel (London) concludes her Deep European 'letter from home': 'So perhaps, this is what Deep Europe is all about. Not a political position, a utopia or a manifesto, but rather a digging, excavating, tunnelling process toward greater understanding and connection, but which fully recognises different starting points and possible directions: a collaborative process with a shared desire for making connection. There may be hold-ups and some frustrations, quite a bit of hard work is required, but we can perhaps be aided by some machinery. The result is a channel for exchange for use by both ourselves and others with common aims and interests.' http://www.v2.nl/east/archive/deep_europe/ From blair@telepathic-movie.org Thu Nov 15 14:55:49 2001 From: blair@telepathic-movie.org (David Blair) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:55:49 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE digest, Vol 1 #102 - 7 msgs In-Reply-To: <20011115052608.13FDCC7A4@coredump.buug.de> Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011115155549.013423c0@pop3.norton.antivirus> >I simply notice that spectre is never more alive than when discussing about >Syndicate case. >Is there no rising spectre ? Welcome, as always, Clement, but well, gee, as they say in the movies, this list may be more than a bit dead or deadly professional, but it seems to me that you are almost never more alive here than when you visit with Bile-Colored glasses from the land of Honest Folk. >I simply drop your stone back to your garden, before i throw the big one to >follow. um, Maitress! Clement has stones! ok, now i have insulted you. but let me just say that one of the real problems of the previous collapse was the use of endless and gratuitous insult and injury [otherwiseknownasflaming, to be secretive].... so please wash your hands before you pass the bread. >with no greatings to you, unfair citizen of the network. speaking no good french at all, I however appreciate your play, turning greet into great into grate. But frankly I prefer have the slight hum of a slow list to more insults, good morning, good afternoon, and good night. David From ctgr@free.fr Thu Nov 15 15:46:03 2001 From: ctgr@free.fr (clement Thomas - pavu.com) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:46:03 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE digest, Vol 1 #102 - 7 msgs References: <3.0.3.32.20011115155549.013423c0@pop3.norton.antivirus> Message-ID: <3BF3E323.543956B8@free.fr> // apologies for self promoting insults providing promotional lessons // [ I cc to syndicate for this is about it too ] David Blair a *crit : > >I simply notice that spectre is never more alive than when discussing about > >Syndicate case. > >Is there no rising spectre ? > > Welcome, as always, Clement, but > well, gee, as they say in the movies, this list may be more than a bit dead > or deadly professional, but it seems to me that you are almost never more > alive here than when you visit with Bile-Colored glasses from the land of > Honest Folk. ben voyons. (helps you practice your french) > > >I simply drop your stone back to your garden, before i throw the big one to > >follow. > > um, Maitress! Clement has stones! I also have Chardens for the boronalian you too. > > ok, now i have insulted you. but let me just say that one of the real > problems of the previous collapse was the use of endless and gratuitous > insult and injury [otherwiseknownasflaming, to be secretive].... so please > wash your hands before you pass the bread. amen > > >with no greatings to you, unfair citizen of the network. > > speaking no good french at all, I however appreciate your play, turning > greet into great into grate. But frankly I prefer have the slight hum of a > slow list to more insults, good morning, good afternoon, and good night. I'm never tired of wood spoken words. please come back whenever you want, next time you have a special promo rebaxas kit avec le petit seau et la pelle. > > David -- Pute Pussy and the Funky Ogre From reiner.s@netartefact.de Thu Nov 15 15:43:21 2001 From: reiner.s@netartefact.de (Reiner Strasser) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:43:21 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE + In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > If 'proper' and possible it would be interesting to > know who is on the Spectre list, who we are addressing when we post.. perhaps > a list of names or if people send a brief 'hello' would be useful. would be fine - "hello" (and/or a link ........... seems to uncommon to introduce on "spectre" ?........ ) to get a spectr.e.um (or [once again] communicating in the dark) > http://www.dijafragma.com/konverzacija/1salloum.htm > http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/programme/0salloum.htm > http://www.argosarts.org/exhibition-salloum.html > http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm > http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce2.htm > http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/0newarabvideo.htm Jayce, appreciated the "self advertising" - are there any of the video.s online? best wishes from Germany Reiner From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 15 16:17:31 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:17:31 +0100 Subject: [spectre] re: Arns/Broeckmann Message-ID: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. [via anna balint. I thought that it would be fair to offer another aspect of the story, once Andreas Broecmann and Inke Arns started an international campaign to discredit individual artists and the syndicate list. is there room at spectre at least for a more complex approach when an artist on whom bombs were falling is infamed? greetings -a.] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:10:31 +0100 From: Andrej Tisma Organization: Happiness Subject: Re: Rise and Decline of the Syndicate A very touching report on Syndicate history, indeed. But listmasters should have admit some of their faults too, for their full right to mention the word ethics. Since I am mentioned personally in the report, and I am thankful for former listmasters' understanding for keeping me on Syndicate all the time (unlike Nettime), I want to stress once more: yes I was expressing my anti-Western and anti-NATO attitude, and I am doing it still with the same intensity. But in that very vivid artistic and political engagement my aim was never to defend "Milosevic regime" (in the same logic I could claim you defended Clinton's or Schroeder's regime on this list), but rather to oppose Western, mostly American neoimperialism, interventionism and globalization, like many progressive Western intellectuals do. In that aim I had and still have a great support and admiration by numerous people world-wide, specially on the West. Even now when "Milosevic regime" doesn't exist, you might remark that my activities didn't stop or change, and that they are maybe even growing. Also the support for my engagement and art is growing, and with time and new Western violent, arrogant and inhuman activities the statements I was publishing on the list seam to get more proofs. This is what I wanted to say. And about reasons of Syndicate's "decline" you should also ask yourselves, if it was right to leave the list in the most difficult and sensitive moment, or you just felt that your mastering is under reasonable questioning, which you couldn't endure. Regards, Andrej Arns/Broeckmann wrote: > The case of Andrej Tisma, a > Yugoslav artist from multi-cultural Novi Sad and a defender of the > Milosevic regime throughout the late 90s, is a case in point: many > perceived his tirades against the West and against NATO as pure Serbian > propaganda which became unbearable at some point. Later, Tisma came back to > the list and continued his criticisms by posting links to anti-NATO web > pages he had created. For us, he was always an interesting sign post of > Serb nationalist ideology which it was good to be aware of. And it was good > that he showed that people can be artists 'like you and me', and be Serb > nationalists at the same time. The Syndicate could handle his presence > after he agreed to tune down his rants. -- ANDREJ TISMA is Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) based artist, art critic and curator. Since the early '70s mail-artist and networker. Founder of The Institute for the Spreading of Love (1991) and Embargo Art campaign (1992). Since 1997 web.artist and activist. HOMEPAGE: http://aaart.tripod.com/ > > From honor@va.com.au Thu Nov 15 17:00:23 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:00:23 +0000 Subject: [spectre] bonsoir In-Reply-To: References: <001201c16d52$54c53240$5ee9f8c1@PORTABLEGIP> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011115164708.0240a940@va.com.au> hey everyone, andreas wrote: > >as regards the subscriber base, the problem is that i don't want to > >publicise the list because it might be abused, and i don't know how to > >corrupt the addresses sufficiently so they cannot be used for spamming etc. on yahoogroups, you can peek at the subscribers lists, and they present all eemails as half formed addresses, making it impossible to see the full address. eg. astridb@i... B.Aardewerk@z... bajosway@h... ben@o... bernicekew@v... braun@m... calebk@l... calin@e... i'm not sure if it would be even remotely useful, but you _could_ send the subscription list via this method if you wanted (of course it would mean manually deleting the end of the addressed). if people really wanted to they could then add in their name, location: eg honor@v .... honor harger, new zealand emigre might be a bit of a silly long-winded way of doing things though. for tjhose curious about who's on the list though, it could be a good way of seeing. best honor From abroeck@transmediale.de Thu Nov 15 16:58:45 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:58:45 +0200 Subject: [spectre] bonsoir In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011115164708.0240a940@va.com.au> References: <001201c16d52$54c53240$5ee9f8c1@PORTABLEGIP> Message-ID: h- >i'm not sure if it would be even remotely useful, but you _could_ send the >subscription list via this method if you wanted (of course it would mean >manually deleting the end of the addressed). i realise this is possible, but maybe somebody else wants to spend those two hours preparing that list? -a From koch@mac.com Thu Nov 15 08:16:46 2001 From: koch@mac.com (Joerg Koch) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:16:46 +0200 Subject: [spectre] 032c "What's Next?" 3rd issue out now///exhibition BLN, 16.11.01 Message-ID: 032c/Berlin newsletter#3/November 2001 A) 032c exhibition "THE SEARCHING STAYS WITH YOU" An introduction to the ideas of the third issue. 032c workshop in collaboration with BLESS and HIDEKI NAKAJIMA 16.11.-30.11.2001, vonRot, Torstr.114, 10119 Berlin, www.vonrot.com -> OPENING: Friday, November 16, 20:00 Soundfiles: ATA, MICHEL GAUBERT 03.12.-31.12.2001, Pineal Eye, 49 Broadwick Street, London W1F 9QR B) 032c, 3rd issue "WHAT'S NEXT?", Berlin Winter 2001/2002, OUT NOW. Contributors: Dario Azzellini, Chewing the Sun, Chicks on Speed, Olafur Eliasson, Foundation 33, Carsten Hoeller/Jens Hoffmann, Stephen Gan/Tobias Schweitzer, Masamichi Katayama, Nicolette Krebitz/Elisha Smith-Leverock, Niklas Maak, Hideki Nakajima, Ulf Poschardt, Florian Pumhoesl, Peter Richter, Jeremy Scott, State Design, V + W C) 032c web diary, http://www.032c.com The web diary will return to the weekly schedule next week. ------------------------------------------------------- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost Info: http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de From prazeres@ip.pt Thu Nov 15 11:48:00 2001 From: prazeres@ip.pt (natxo) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:48:00 +0200 Subject: [spectre] ZDBmuzique a partir de =?iso-8859-1?Q?s=E1bado?= from Buenos Aires Message-ID: Zdbmuzique @ ZDB Gallery rua da barroca 59 _ bairro alto_lisboa zdbmuzique@ip.pt =20 www.fatmama.net/zdbmuzique Sbado 17 de Novembro 22h30 Argentina Tronic com Jorge Haro + Pablo Reche Jorge Haro _ electronics A multifac=E9tica actividade de Jorge Haro enche a sua biografia de encontros musicais com todas as disciplinas: cinema, televis=E3o, plataformas multim=E9dia, artes visuais, fotografia, sendo um = dos fundadores de Fin del Mundo, site dedicado exclusivamente a divulga=E7=E3o = de net-art. Na sua actividade estrictamente sonora, desenha concertos acusmticos e produz discografia que operam em franjas m=FAltiples: texturalidade, ambientes electr=F3nicos, r=EDtmicas perversamente discretas= , m=FAsicas polis=E9micas que oferecem novas escutas sucessivas e que est=E3o tingidas pela melanc=F3lica eleg=E2ncia que se pode degustar em todos os trabalhos deste artista._ (texto LEM 2001)_ www.findelmundo.com.ar/musica Pablo Reche _ electronics Os "Sonic Landscapes" de Pablo Reche =E9 um laborat=F3rio pessoal que explora o campo da electr=F3nica em m=FAltiples planos: um emocional, onde as texturas e os silencios jogam o papel de enlaces com a intimidade do ouvinte, um outro de desarticula=E7=E3o/articula=E7=E3o do ruido como elemento vivo, em transfor= ma=E7=E3o, ainda um outro, dinmico e surpreendente, onde se encontra um verdadeiro talento compositivo. Com o trabalho deste m=FAsico, a electr=F3nica adquire= a texturalidade de outras m=FAsicas mais f=EDsicas ao mesmo tempo que se submerge em universos an=EDmicos totalmente in=E9ditos._ (texto LEM 2001)_ www.pabloreche.da.ru Apoio: LEM festival organizado por Gr=E0cia Territori Sonor em Barcelona www.gracia-territori.com Ter=E7a-feira 20 de Novembro 22h30 Fred Lonberg-Holm + Margarida Garcia + Manuel Mota + Sei Miguel Fred Lonberg-Holm _ violoncelo =E9 sem d=FAvida um dos musicos mai= s solicitados na cena internacional da nova musica improvisada. enquanto residente em NYC trabalhou em projectos que incluiram o seu grupo Peep, Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra, John Zorn, e God Is My Co-Pilot, entre outros.No final dos anos 90 mudou-se para Chicago e trabalha regularmente com Michael Zerang, Ken Vandermark, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, sendo tamb=E9m membro do Peter Brotzmann Tentet. http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/fredlh.html http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/lonberg.html Margarida Garcia _ contrabaixo electrico http://www.geocities.com/headlights_h/mg.html Manuel Mota _ guitarra electrica http://www.geocities.com/headlights_h/mmm.html Sei Miguel _ trompete http://www.ananana.pt/label-c01.php3 Sabado 24 de Novembro 22h30 Boris Hauf + Martin Siewert + Manuel Mota Boris Hauf _ sax, electronics Nascido no Reino Unido mas residente em Viena, prop=F5e-nos um trabalho onde a abertura est=E9tica da nova m=FAsica improv= isada se dirige para a austeridade e abstrac=E7=E3o que t=E3o caracter=B4stica = =E9 na musica experimental electr=F3nica feita em Vienna. Membro dos Fuckhead e Efzeg. http://hauf.klingt.org/bio.html http://efzeg.klingt.org/start.html=20 Martin Siewert _ guitar, electronics Residente em Vienna, mas tb nascido fora (alemanha), e membro tamb=E9m do grupo Efzeg, o trabalho de Martin Siewert dirige-se para a expans=E3o das possibilidades s=F3nicas da guitarr= a por interm=E9dio de tecnologia anal=F3gica. J trabalhou com ken vandermark, taku sugimoto, manuel mota, christian fennesz, roger turner,kevin drumm, jim o'rourke, entre outros http://www.durian.at/bio/biosiewert.html http://efzeg.klingt.org/start.html Manuel Mota _ guitar http://www.geocities.com/headlights_h/mmm.html =20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- -------------------------------------- ZDelBarrio representa Sbado 1 de Dezembro 22h30 LOOP @ ZdB # 2 Rodney P + Os Micro + DJ Kwan Rodney P =E9 uma estrela em ascen=E7=E3o no universo hip hop brit=E2nico e= uma das mais respeitadas vozes da actualidade, tendo atrs de si uma longa hist=F3ria e colabora=E7=F5es com gente como Skitz, um dos grandes= produtores do momento. Rodney P acaba de editar um lbum e lan=E7ar a sua pr=F3pria editor= a, a Riddim Killa. Rodney P apresentar-se-=E0 com um DJ portugu=EAs =E0 anunc= iar. Os Micro, editaram em 1999 o lbum de estreia "Microesttica". Depois de algumas mixtapes e concertos, os Micro de D-Mars, Sagas e DJ Nel'assassin preparam-se para editar em Dezembro na Loop:recordings o seu novo EP, "Demo Style", que antecipa a edi=E7=E3o do segundo lbum agendado para 2002. Este espectculo ser, por isso mesmo, a apresenta=E7=E3o de "Demo Style" ao p=FAblico. Nos pratos nessa noite estar DJ Kwan, dos Mundo Complexo e Pitch Zerosete, e ainda membro honorrio dos Arkham Hi*Fi e "host" de Caixa de Ritmos, programa dirio na Rdio Marginal. Tb haver proje=E7=E3o de v=EDdeos relativos ao universo hip hop. From brainstorm@i-love-u.ch Thu Nov 15 23:31:57 2001 From: brainstorm@i-love-u.ch (brainstorm) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:31:57 +0100 Subject: [spectre] [i love u] future november 2001 Message-ID: <3BF4506C.F1F10E53@i-love-u.ch> http://www.i-love-u.ch http://www.i-love-u.tv To future-cat Night by night you mingle with my thoughts. Again and again it draws me to the window to look out for you and I do. Listening for your steps outside makes me feel you're close. Somewhere in the dark headlights draw near. I keep the door wide open and bright my room. What if you came along and didn't find me here? It is as if I've always known you, but nothing I ever thought you were. You're past recognition and my memory always fails. so I draw a picture on the wall of you, to force you here. And I spin around - a vodoo dance might do, your music in my ear, feel a little fear - hear. Your rhythm - my longing grows and my mind goes still - you are here and gone real fast, in speed you disappear. No trace, nothing I ever thought you were, I will never know. But my door remains open and my arms the same, you'll sure come again. And while I wait, hemp helps through, it gives us some more time to spend - in honour of you. In patience by past-dog november issue 2001: "future" monthly appearing e-zine for multimedia art, monthly changing subject, no-commerce platform for cyber-artists, photographers, screen-designer, e-musicians, movie-makers, comic-developers... visit http://www.i-love-u.ch http://www.i-love-u.tv our snailmail: i love u ezine kellergaesslein 7 CH-4051 Basel Switzerland / Europe die redaktion see editorial at http://www.i-love-u.ch To unsubscribe, write mailto:response@i-love-u.ch (subject: unsubscribe) Next month's theme: neighbour. feel free to join us and to send contributions to response@i-love-u.ch From honor@va.com.au Fri Nov 16 12:38:47 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:38:47 +0000 Subject: [spectre] fwd: Messed-Up Games In-Reply-To: <3BF4506C.F1F10E53@i-love-u.ch> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011116123614.021b0810@va.com.au> ] call for submissions [ ........................... ___________________________________________________________________________ "Messed-Up Games" SelectParks is putting together a large public database of experiments and artworks exploring the use and/or modification of computer gaming technologies. Of particular interest is work coming from either a fine-arts or theoretical perspective. We are also interested in work purely concerned with exploring the limits of the technology: Including: ___________________________________________________________________________ 3D engine hacks Architectural Investigations Gameboy and handheld hacks Game to real world applications [eg: robotics] AI / Bot design Console modifications Machinima Game Engines for audio installation / performance Renderer Hacks [PanQuake etc] Research on Platform Independence / Portability Written Theory ___________________________________________________________________________ SelectParks is not interested in game-related illustrations, conventional level design, tags and skins, or work that celebrates in-game exploits. While work does not have to result in an operable game, it must directly engage gaming technology specifically, toward the ends of developing it for applications outside of the computer game marketplace.. We are also not seeking flash or shockwave games. The site will feature: ___________________________________________________________________________ Resources Festival and Funding billboard Howto's Downloads Online Multi-user Game Lab Forum Code repository Catalogue Some Other Things ___________________________________________________________________________ Submissions [Due 26th November]: For each submission we require either a 120 * 90 image or a 500k [or less] mp3, and two lines of text. From these we will link to your site. Alternatively we can link to a project page that we will make for you. We will soon have servers for popular multi-user development platforms like Quake [II and Q3a], Unreal Tournament, with support also for Linux based engines. The site will bring together the resources and innovations of the computer gaming and demo scenes in contact with those wishing to explore alternative applications for these rich technologies. Please email nearhere@selectparks.net with questions and / or details of your project[s]. ___________________________________________________________________________ Cheers, SelectParks From so5@nyu.edu Fri Nov 16 13:01:45 2001 From: so5@nyu.edu (saul ostrow) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:01:45 -0500 Subject: [syndicate] Re: RHIZOME RAW: Re: RHIZOME RAW: Re: [spectre] Kinga =?iso-8859-1?Q?Araya=B4s?= comment References: <007501c16e78$1a709040$97130950@hotmail> Message-ID: <3BF50E38.3BBDA3A5@nyu.edu> Glade to see the level of discourse on this list has reached new heights porculus wrote: > > Your attitude is so breathy and fatuous, like every US academic who reads the > French bullshit theories of Reagantime; the attitude is like, French Gap fashion for > profs. It's so fuckin lame. > > > Check please motherfucker, > > breathy fatuous etc. bah who is out of such reach, just hope no more than my turn. > for the rest please..have you forgotten i am jc vandam ? the half of 'french' tribe > whom you drew evanescent et superstitionist figure would prefer to be some texan with > even small horns on his car and other part even just a front quarter of a tacky > mineapolis porno producer rather a whole jc vandam...and who hassle the entire > world with all french heidegger & pk dick mangy parrots ? check & rock it baby > > From inke@snafu.de Fri Nov 16 13:23:08 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:23:08 +0100 Subject: [spectre] RTMark: Site-stealing program answers WTO crackdown Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011116142308.008fbc70@pop.snafu.de> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:16:19 GMT From: RTMark Bulletin Subject: Site-stealing program answers WTO crackdown This message is not commercial. [...] November 15, 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WTO ATTACKS WEBSITE, REAPS HUNDREDS OF OTHERS As it meets in Qatar, WTO attempts to shut down critical website; group counters with site-stealing software Contacts: Jonathan Prince (mailto:jonathan@killyourtv.com) Jean-Guy Carrier (mailto:jean-guy.carrier@wto.org) Verio (mailto:copyright@verio.net) The Yes Men (mailto:info@theyesmen.org) Software: http://www.theyesmen.org/yesiwill/ http://yesiwill.plagiarist.org/ http://detritus.net/projects/yesiwill/ Last Friday, Jonathan Prince, who owns the Gatt.org domain, received a call from Verio, Gatt.org's upstream provider. The World Trade Organization had just asked Verio to shut down the domain for copyright violations, and Verio told Prince that it would do just that if nothing was changed by November 13--the last day of the Doha Ministerial, as it would happen. An official email followed (http://rtmark.com/verio.html). (Last-minute update: Verio's shutdown is currently expected sometime after noon EST today--watch software sites above for updates.) "It's the war," says Prince. "Bush has popularized zero-tolerance, and it's open season on dissent of any kind. So just when they're meeting in Doha, the WTO has decided to divert attention from its problems by attacking a website." "Or maybe they really do want to make it so that protest has as little place on the web as it does in Qatar," adds Prince. Oddly enough, the WTO has been aware of the parody website since before the 1999 Ministerial in Seattle, when it issued a public statement claiming the site misled visitors (http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres99_e/pr151_e.htm). Two weeks ago, the WTO issued another release (http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news01_e/gattdotorg_e.htm), this one claiming that Gatt.org was harvesting e-mails, an allegation reprinted as fact in some newspaper articles (http://rtmark.com/pressgat.html). While it may be puzzling why the WTO chose to issue a second press release about Gatt.org two years later, it is even more surprising that they are now taking concrete steps to stop the critical site. In statements made just last week to the French daily newspaper Liberation and to others, WTO spokesperson Jean-Guy Carrier stated that "It's not our job to use legal means against people. We appreciate dissidence and honest criticism." Why the sudden change of attitude? "They got nervous, it's only human," said Elaine Peabody, a spokesperson for The Yes Men (http://www.theyesmen.org), the group that maintains the Gatt.org website. "The WTO remembers what happened the last time they had one of these meetings [in Seattle]. They felt like tackling something they knew they could handle--and a satirical website fit the bill." BATTLE HEATS UP But the WTO could well have stepped on a hornets' nest. To counter the attack, the Yes Men have are releasing today a piece of open-source "parodyware" (http://theyesmen.org/yesiwill/) that will "forever make this kind of censorship obsolete," according to Peabody. "Using this software, it takes five minutes to set up a convincing, personalized, evolving parody of the WTO.org website, or any other website of your choice," said Peabody, who helped to develop the program. "All you need is a place to put it--say, WTOO.org, WorldTradeOrg.com, whatever." The software, called "Yes I Will!", automatically duplicates websites as needed, changing words and images as the user desires--with results that can be very telling. The WTO site can be made to speak of "consumers" and "companies" rather than "citizens" and "countries." Unleashed on the CNN.com website, the software can simplify the reporting even further by referring to Bush as "Leader," and the war in Afghanistan as one between "Good" and "Evil"; a Time.com article linked from the site then discusses "The Poor Way of War". The parody site updates itself automatically as the target website changes. "The idea is to insure that even if they shut down our website, hundreds of others will continue our work of translation," said Peabody. "The more they try to fight it, the funnier they're going to look." "Such heavy-handed tactics work as poorly in cyberspace as they do on the geopolitical stage," said Cooper Kharms, another Yes Man. "At least Gatt.org was transparent: you could tell what it was by reading a line or two. These other sites may not be so obvious." Prince thinks the software, while interesting, is not a solution. "With their attack on Gatt.org, an unelected, unaccountable organization is running roughshod over the USA Bill of Rights," said Prince. "But every day they violate people's rights in the Third World, or enable corporations to do so. This time it's just closer to home." For more on the legal basis of the WTO's attack, see also http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15296&group=webcast RTMark's primary goal is to publicize corporate subversion of the democratic process. To this end it acts as a clearinghouse for anti-corporate projects. From so5@NYU.EDU Mon Nov 19 08:13:15 2001 From: so5@NYU.EDU (saul ostrow) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:13:15 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Uni of Connecticut positions Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT invites applications for a tenure track position in Digital Media Art in the School of Fine Arts at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2002. The Department of Art and Art History seeks an outstanding artist and teacher to strengthen a developing direction in digital media art within a multi-disciplinary BFA/ MFA program. Professional activity should include innovative and exploratory work in digital media art, which may encompass, but is not limited to, work in animation, book arts, installations, interactive presentations, video, or web art. An ideal candidate should have a broad practical and theoretical understanding of the impact of technology on contemporary culture and the arts. Teaching responsibilities include participating in existing undergraduate and graduate programs as well as developing new courses. Active exhibition record, MFA in relevant discipline, and teaching experience required. Application materials should consist of a letter of application, curriculum vitae, names and contact information for three references, artist's statement and examples of work (15-20 slides, digital and/or VHS up to 10 minutes), statement of teaching philosophy, and examples of student work. A/D: January 28, 2002 for possible CAA interview; position open until filled. Please send materials with SASE to: Chair, Digital Media Artist Search, University of Connecticut, Department of Art and Art History, 875 Coventry Road, U-1099, Storrs, CT 06269-1099. URL: www.art.uconn.edu. AA/EOE/WMA. AC-INT by appointment. ART HISTORIAN, MODERN UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor in 20th century Modernism to begin August 2002. The Department of Art and Art History seeks an innovative scholar and educator who will contribute to the development of excellence within the department's undergraduate and graduate programs. The department welcomes applications from individuals with a strong interdisciplinary focus specializing in 20th century Modernism. Applicants will be responsible for developing 20th century modern and contemporary component of undergraduate art history program, participating in introductory survey, contributing to planned MA program in art history and MFA degree in studio. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in art history, teaching experience, and strong record of scholarly publication, with promise of continued research and publication. Application materials should consist of a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching philosophy, course syllabi, samples of scholarly work and names of three referees. A/D: January 28, 2002 for possible CAA interview; position open until filled. Please send materials to: Chair, Modern Search Committee, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut, U-1099, 875 Coventry Road, Storrs, CT. 06269-1099. URL: www.art.uconn.edu. AA/EOE/WMA. AC-INT by appointment. ASIAN AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in Asian American Visual Culture to begin August 2002. The position is a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Art History and the Asian American Studies Institute. Candidates should have a primary research focus in Asian American visual culture. A strong secondary research interest in Asian art is desirable. Responsibilities include teaching introductory and upper level courses in Asian American, Asian art, or related areas as well as participating in a planned M.A. program in art history. Ph.D. in art history and a strong record of research and teaching required. Application materials should consist of a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, statement of research, teaching interests and approaches, and names and contact information for three referees. A/D: January 28, 2002 for possible CAA interview; positions open until filled. Please send materials to: Chair, Asian American Visual Culture Search, Department of Art & Art History, U-1099, 875 Coventry Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1099. URL: www.art.uconn.edu. AA/EOE/WMA. AC-INT by appointment. COMMUNICATION DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT invites applications for two full-time, tenure track faculty positions in the School of Fine Arts at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2002. The Department of Art and Art History seeks an innovative designer and educator who will contribute to the development of excellence within the BFA and MFA degree programs. The department welcomes applications from individuals versed in the practice, theory, and history of communication design. Additional experience in related fields such as architecture, digital information environments, film/video, and industrial design are also encouraged to apply. MFA or equivalent terminal degree, professional activity, and teaching experience required. Application materials should consist of a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and contact information of 3 references, statement of teaching philosophy and research/creative activity, and 20 examples of professional work; include student work where available (slides, digital media, and VHS up to 10 minutes accepted). A/D: January 28, 2002 for possible CAA interview; positions open until filled. Please send materials with SASE to: Chair, Design Search; University of Connecticut, Department of Art and Art History; 875 Coventry Road Unit 1099; Storrs, CT 06269-1099. URL: www.art.uconn.edu. AA/EOE/WMA. AC-INT by appointment. From wim_langenhoff@hotmail.com Mon Nov 19 08:09:33 2001 From: wim_langenhoff@hotmail.com (Wim Langenhoff) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:09:33 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Bombardement: vowels for bosnia! Message-ID: BUSH DEPLOYS VOWELS TO BOSNIA Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Crzny to Be First Recipients Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Bush announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A, E, I, O and U, in the hope of rendering countless Bosnian names more pronounceable. 'For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world,' Bush said. Today, the United States must finally stand up and say, "Enough." It is time the people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their words. The US is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavour.' The deployment, dubbed 'Operation Vowel Storm' by the State Department, is set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and Crzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport planes, each carrying over 500 24-count boxes of 'E's,' will fly from Andrews Air Force Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities. Citizens of Crzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. 'I do not think we can last another day,' Trszg Crzdnjkln, 44, said. 'I have six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or to anyone else. Mr. Bush, please send my poor, wretched family just one "E." Please.' Said Sjlbvdnzv president Crg Hmphrs, 67: 'With just a few key letters, I could be George Humphries. This is my dream.' The airdrop represents the largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since 1984. During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to Ethiopia, providing cities like Ouaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital, life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's. Wim Langenhoff Strobloemstraat 15 5643 JW EINDHOVEN T1 +31(0)402112523 T2 +31(0)402903590 F +31(0)402903591 E w.langenhoff@bml.nl www.bml.nl www.dse.nl/ibw www.periferico.org www.ibwww.nl _________________________________________________________________ Download MSN Explorer gratis van http://explorer.msn.nl/intl.asp From honor@va.com.au Mon Nov 19 12:26:50 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:26:50 +0000 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <3BF3E323.543956B8@free.fr> References: <3.0.3.32.20011115155549.013423c0@pop3.norton.antivirus> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011119105949.02229ec0@va.com.au> hi everybody, in the last little while there's been some discussion about how it would be nice if we had some sense of who else is subscribed to the spectre list. when the list started it was a mere 30 - 40 of us, and now we've blossomed to a group of about 250 or so. many are interested in who they're addressing on the list. we've talked about sending a note to the list with the partial addresses of all the subscribers. this will give interested spectres an idea of who roughly is on the list, and a vague (and quite possibly inaccurate) notion of domain demographics. this is the format we're thinking of posting the addresses in: abroeck@.....de inke@.....de honor@.....au ie. - the portion of the address following the @ symbol and before the country domain is blocked out. does anybody have any strong objections to having their address posted to the rest of the list in this way? if so, please send me an email by midday on wednesday, and let me know the address you subscribed to the spectre list with. i'll remove your address from the list of addresses that i'll send to everyone else. bestest honor From office@mec-kuda.org Mon Nov 19 13:05:36 2001 From: office@mec-kuda.org (kuda.org) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:05:36 +0100 Subject: [spectre] InterSpace in kuda.org-report Message-ID: <3BF903A0.10AD7E91@mec-kuda.org> --------------2092BDD9044CF5427C6E0E27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.t0.or.at id fAJD7vJ71289 >> >> InterSpace in kuda.org >> Event held on Sunday 11.11.2001. in the centre for new media >> kuda.org >> >> Galina Dimitrova, curator and art projects co-ordinator in Media Art >> Centre Interspace, has presented current projects (video, >> net art, electronic sound) and activities of Interspace centre. >> InterSpace is a New Media Art Centre, based in Sofia, founded in >> 1998. as a non-profit organization aimed at art production, >> development and popularisation of author=92s projects in the space >> between art and technologies - video art, multimedia installations, >> net art and electronic sound. >> >> More information regarding the project presented in kuda.org can be >> found on following links: >> www.i-space.org >> www.i-space.org/shizoid >> http://www.i-space.org/end >> http://www.i-space.org/urbancycles/ >> www.netuser.cc >> www.cult.bg >> >> [Image] >> >> -- >> >> kuda.org >> office@mec-kuda.org >> brace mogin 2 >> po box 22 >> 21113 novi sad >> yugoslavia >> tel: +381 21 323 174 >> fax: +381 21 23 391 >> www.mec-kuda.org >> > > > --------------2092BDD9044CF5427C6E0E27 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------3F310316EDED8BD653CDC1A2" --------------3F310316EDED8BD653CDC1A2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.t0.or.at id fAJD7vJ71289  
 
 
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Galina Dimitrova, curator and art projects co-ordinator in Media Art Centre Interspace, has presented current projects (video,
net art, electronic sound) and activities of Interspace centre.
InterSpace is a New Media Art Centre, based in Sofia, founded in 1998. as a non-profit organization aimed at art production,
development and popularisation of author=92s projects in the space be= tween art and technologies - video art, multimedia installations,
net art and electronic sound.

More information regarding the project presented in kuda.org can be found on following links:
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www.i-space.org/shizoid
http://www.i-space.org/end
http://www.i-space.or= g/urbancycles/
www.netuser.cc
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Daut Pasa Amam, the former turkish warm bath from the 15th century, becomes a laboratory, where thoughts, creative positions and work expressions relax the energies. supported by: Ministery of Culture, Republic of Macedonia Institut f=FCr Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart, Germany In the frame of the UNESCO "Year 2001 - Dialog of Cultures" please find further information: http://www.culture.in.mk/story.asp?id=3D1190 a catalogue has been printed and a web-site is in preparation (will be announced seperately). -- --------------------------------------------------------------- m e d i a i n m o t i o n berlin/zagreb --------------------------------------------------------------- Ingeborg Fuelepp - Heiko Daxl if@mediainmotion.de hd@mediainmotion.de --------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Web-Sites media in motion berlin: http://www.mediainmotion.de VideoKunstMultiMedia Berlin: http://tat.bln.de/vm/ Media-Scape Zagreb: http://www.arhitekt.hr/casa --------------------------------------------------------------- G O R T , K L A A T U B A R A D A N I K T O --------------------------------------------------------------- November 15th - December 5th 2001 Art Gallery Daut Pasa Amam / National Gallery Skopje - Republic of Macedonia =20 Works by: Jovan Balov Heiko Daxl Ingeborg Fuelepp Berhard Garbert Ismet Ramicevic Zaneta Vangeli Birgit Maria Wolf =20 =93Multilog=94 is a platform for new ways of joint action. Daut Pasa Amam, the former turkish warm bath from the 15th century, becomes a laboratory, where thoughts, creative positions and work expressions relax the energies. supported by: Ministery of Culture, Republic of Macedonia Institut f=FCr Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart, Germany In the frame of the UNESCO "Year 2001 - Dialog of Cultures" please find further information: http://www.culture.in.mk/story= =2Easp?i d=3D1190 =20 =20 a catalogue has been printed and a web-site is in preparation (will be announced seperately). =20 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- m e d i a i n m o t i o n berlin/zagreb --------------------------------------------------------------- Ingeborg Fuelepp - Heiko Daxl if@mediainmotion.de hd@mediainmotion.de --------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Web-Sites media in motion berlin: http://www.mediainmotion.de VideoKunstMultiMedia Berlin: http://tat.bln.de/vm/ Media-Scape Zagreb: http://www.arhitekt.hr/casa --------------------------------------------------------------- G O R T , K L A A T U B A R A D A N I K T O --------------------------------------------------------------- Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-ID: Content-Disposition: inline; filename=3D"/MAC%20HD%202.jpg" From norman@wanadoo.fr Mon Nov 19 19:58:10 2001 From: norman@wanadoo.fr (Sally Jane NORMAN) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:58:10 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011119105949.02229ec0@va.com.au> Message-ID: <000701c17136$511221c0$1c40f9c1@PORTABLEGIP> Dear Honor, dear Spectre I'm perplexed that we have to go to such measures to preserve anonymity, when what we're trying to uphold/ relaunch (or at least as I see it) is a quality of dialogue. What reasons do people have for not wishing to publish their identities? There were some very good ones a couple of years ago, but where are the risks today? Are they the same reasons that 200+ people do not openly participate in exchange? If so, either there's something we can learn from or else what the hell are they/ we doing here? Are we becoming spectres twofold through sheer paranoia? Can we even hope to build up communication with people unwilling to say who they are? What about us idiots who repeatedly risk our electronic lives by sending emails with our full addresses on them? Sorry to sound cynical but I personally find this whole situation distressingly obscurantist. Need some sunlight. Bad timing for the northern hemisphere. shady lady sjn -----Message d'origine----- De : spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de [mailto:spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de]De la part de honor Envoye : lundi 19 novembre 2001 13:27 A : spectre@mikrolisten.de Objet : [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? hi everybody, in the last little while there's been some discussion about how it would be nice if we had some sense of who else is subscribed to the spectre list. when the list started it was a mere 30 - 40 of us, and now we've blossomed to a group of about 250 or so. many are interested in who they're addressing on the list. we've talked about sending a note to the list with the partial addresses of all the subscribers. this will give interested spectres an idea of who roughly is on the list, and a vague (and quite possibly inaccurate) notion of domain demographics. this is the format we're thinking of posting the addresses in: abroeck@.....de inke@.....de honor@.....au ie. - the portion of the address following the @ symbol and before the country domain is blocked out. does anybody have any strong objections to having their address posted to the rest of the list in this way? if so, please send me an email by midday on wednesday, and let me know the address you subscribed to the spectre list with. i'll remove your address from the list of addresses that i'll send to everyone else. bestest honor ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From jeremy.welsh@khib.no Mon Nov 19 20:58:14 2001 From: jeremy.welsh@khib.no (Jeremy Welsh) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:58:14 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? Message-ID: <3BF97265.E7DBD343@khib.no> shady lady: they/we're all hiding in shadows (not remaining in light) ghosts of X-mass passed through spectral filters talking to somebody@somewhere 4 somereason/goodreason/noreason..... From peter@maxavision.com Mon Nov 19 21:27:06 2001 From: peter@maxavision.com (peter@maxavision.com) Date: 19 Nov 2001 13:27:06 -0800 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? Message-ID: <20011119212706.799.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> Dear SJN - The problem most folks have nowadays with technology is balancing their hunger for the enormous possibilities inherent in global communication with a corresponding paranoia about protecting their privacy. After a certain point of understandable precaution, you reach a fork in the road. You can’t have it both ways. Committing yourself to interactivity brings with it the need for honest and ever more in-depth revelations about one’s true identity, feelings and beliefs. The world has had enough of double, triple and multiple standards. Technology is here to open doors, not to create a plethora of individual prison cells. Keep the faith. Peter Peter Rubin Visual Artist, VJ Amsterdam/New York On Mon, 19 November 2001, "Sally Jane NORMAN" wrote: > > > Dear Honor, dear Spectre > > I'm perplexed that we have to go to such measures to preserve anonymity, > when what we're trying to uphold/ relaunch (or at least as I see it) is a > quality of dialogue. What reasons do people have for not wishing to publish > their identities? There were some very good ones a couple of years ago, but > where are the risks today? Are they the same reasons that 200+ people do not > openly participate in exchange? If so, either there's something we can learn > from or else what the hell are they/ we doing here? Are we becoming spectres > twofold through sheer paranoia? Can we even hope to build up communication > with people unwilling to say who they are? What about us idiots who > repeatedly risk our electronic lives by sending emails with our full > addresses on them? Sorry to sound cynical but I personally find this whole > situation distressingly obscurantist. Need some sunlight. Bad timing for the > northern hemisphere. > > shady lady > > sjn > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de > [mailto:spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de]De la part de honor > Envoye : lundi 19 novembre 2001 13:27 > A : spectre@mikrolisten.de > Objet : [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? > > > hi everybody, > > in the last little while there's been some discussion about how it would be > nice if we had some sense of who else is subscribed to the spectre > list. when the list started it was a mere 30 - 40 of us, and now we've > blossomed to a group of about 250 or so. > > many are interested in who they're addressing on the list. we've talked > about sending a note to the list with the partial addresses of all the > subscribers. this will give interested spectres an idea of who roughly is > on the list, and a vague (and quite possibly inaccurate) notion of domain > demographics. > > this is the format we're thinking of posting the addresses in: > > abroeck@.....de > inke@.....de > honor@.....au > > ie. - the portion of the address following the @ symbol and before the > country domain is blocked out. > > does anybody have any strong objections to having their address posted to > the rest of the list in this way? > if so, please send me an email by midday on wednesday, > and let me know the address you subscribed to the spectre list with. i'll > remove your address from the list of addresses that i'll send to everyone > else. > > bestest > > honor > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From kireev2000@cityline.ru Mon Nov 19 21:59:12 2001 From: kireev2000@cityline.ru (Oleg Kireev) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:59:12 +0300 Subject: [spectre] smth on what Inke and Andreas told about Message-ID: <017501c17145$d46a4160$65ac2ec3@kireev> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0155_01C1715E.9160F6C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear friends, it's really a pleasure to join a new list instead of the old one which = really seemed to be stagnating. I think there were some peculiar moments = in the very beginning of the Syndicate existence which made it so = innovative. first, people were from different countries, many from the = Eastern ones, and the list could briefly be informed on the events going = on across Europe. people used to comment in the net what we saw on TV = and we had the immediate analytical reports from the people we knew. = that was especially so in the case of Balcanian war. I remember a buhcn = of Serbian guys telling what's on with the bombings, and for sure always = brave Melentie with his newsservice, etc. i ever thought, why people = don't simply ask and tell what's going on in their countries on the = fields of policy, arts, new media, theorism or whatever. Net = communication let us do and know so much. i myself tried to tell the = Russian realities, especially the underreported ones, in my mailgetto = project: political marginals, zines, activists groups etc.=20 Let me try to proceed with some kind of report on today's Moscow in = general. maybe such genre is more informative than the announcements. First, nobody really expected any antiglobalists to be here when = promised - at the small pre-WTO meeting early November. some TV man even = woke me up early at morning calling and saying: you're known to be an = anarchist, so where're your friends, what're they doing today? i said, = no friends, let me dream about anarchy. the police nevertheless waited = for the crowds of protestants in the center of the city, in order to = protect boutiques and so on. nooone appeared. at the same time a crowd = of 2 thousand skinheads were killing southern traders in the suburban = area and no cop was there. This was the the first rise of such a massive = fascist grouping, gathered of the football fans mostly. a really high = percent of Moscovites expressed their solidarity. the skins say, they = were going to beat antiglobalists as well if they come. in general, Moscow's growing and changing rapidly. the streets and = especially the subway seem OVERfillled by the people, as if it weren't = able anymore to contain all of them. the city now is full of luxury = buildings, stores, hotels, and sometimes you can hardly recognize a = street if you weren't for a few months there. Putin and Bush now party = in Texas, and Moscow seems to become a real globalization capital. after a year-long television obscenity (after Putin's elections there = were only extra-low-budget propagandist movies about militia and = Chechnya war, mexican serials, talk-shows and so on) it became more or = less interesting again. for ex., TV-6 is a channel where the former NTV = team was thrown to. NTV belonged to Gusinsky, a central tycoon of 90s, = and was the most critical and intellectual channel until 2000, i'd say. = Noone cares about the newspapers, but TV and internet are really on the = top. and it's funny, how sometimes brave and sharply critical many = journalists and programs have become. The matter is, Putin never made = any political repressions, as many of us expected him to do before he = came. a few people, probably the innocent ones, were put into jail and = stay there, but there were no prosecutions at all. As a leading Moscow = art-critic Katya Dyogot said, the people in the press weren't anyhow = forced to serve the power, they did their best themselves to do what the = power, they supposed, would like them to do. it lead to a real = degradation of media. but now we see some new sort of the brave media. i = wouldn't praise them so much as well, but they're interesting as a = phenomenon anyway. everyone now is "leftist" and all criticize capitalism - from the = coloured magazins for teenagers till the established TV talking heads. some draw a sharp satire on Putin but never say anything about what's = really going on in Chechnya. People keep telling Putin's only diplomatic = victory since Sept. 11 was to make America forget about the human rights = violation in Chechnya - cause now they're getting violated worldwide. = People get really depoliticized and care about cultural things only. = that's where the media industry was really successfull and did some big = stuff last time. a real trend during last weeks is a newest TV-show "Behind the Glass" at = TV-6 which all the russian internet is filled with. 3 boys and 3 girls = were left in an IKEA-styled flat with cameras in every corner, and = millions of people can see them eating, sleeping etc. I mean, they're = good guys - very young, progressive and so on, the girls are cute, and = the main hero, Max, has yellow-black coloured hair. They listen to = Rammstein (by the way, they gave a concert here just yesterday), = Metallica and Massive Attack, the latter, they say, saves a lot. the = guys have to kick one every week away by their own decision , though = they can sell their voices on some TV-auction by some tricky system, = etc. now there're just four staying.=20 finally they started to have sex last week. Max, this hair-coloured guy, = and Margo, a dancer. intellectuals count the show for dirty and stupid. = Why such purism? Guys give an extreme image of what the society is. they = talk as we talk, they show what we ever knew but were afraid to confess. = they could maybe pose for a couple of days but after a week they already = gave up playing, they simply live and do their best for not to die of = boredom. some may be shocked by their extremities, but that's the play = the audience and actors are playing together. the image of a = contemporary young person is finally shown and will from now be = manifested, not latent, in that society. an everyday-life is not = anymore a secret. everything's open.=20 the last thing, Vladimir Sorokin, a very famous Russian (and German) = writer came to the "Behind-the-Glass" flat yesterday and a had a talk = with the heroes. (they can have one guest every weekend, and it was = Zhirinovsky the previous time) Sorokin warned them from becoming a = Soviet-sort communal community which he hates a lot. Sure, his friend = Kabakov made a whole mythology of such communal living. anyhow, Sorokin = and IKEA, Rammstein, Putin and Taliban look all very hip for the stylish = Behind-the-Glass heroes, but all and all is whirling around sex for = them. the girls talked for long whom of them Sorokin liked better. paradoxically, such sex propaganda is extremely popular since the very = beginning of perestroika, but i haven't seen any really sex-centered = people of my age in my own surrounding. i suspect, a true underground of = our time must keep some incredible chastity... ------=_NextPart_000_0155_01C1715E.9160F6C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear friends,
 
it's really a pleasure to join a = new list=20 instead of the old one which really seemed to be stagnating. I think = there were=20 some peculiar moments in the very beginning of the Syndicate existence which made it so = innovative. first,=20 people were from different countries, many from the Eastern ones, and = the list=20 could briefly be informed on the events going on across Europe. people = used to=20 comment in the net what we saw on TV and we had the = immediate analytical=20 reports from the people we knew. that was especially so in the case of = Balcanian=20 war. I remember a buhcn of Serbian guys telling what's on with the=20 bombings, and for sure always brave Melentie with his newsservice, = etc. i=20 ever thought, why people don't simply ask and tell what's going on in = their=20 countries on the fields of policy, arts, new media, theorism or = whatever.=20 Net communication let us do and = know so=20 much. i myself tried to tell the Russian realities, especially the=20 underreported ones, in my mailgetto project: political marginals, = zines,=20 activists groups etc.
 
Let me try to proceed with some = kind of=20 report on today's Moscow in general. maybe such genre is more = informative than=20 the announcements.
 
First, nobody really expected=20 any antiglobalists to be here when promised - at the small pre-WTO = meeting=20 early November. some TV man even woke me up early at morning calling and = saying:=20 you're known to be an anarchist, so where're your friends, what're they = doing=20 today? i said, no friends, let me dream about anarchy. the police = nevertheless=20 waited for the crowds of protestants in the center of the city, in order = to=20 protect boutiques and so on. nooone appeared. at the same time a crowd = of 2=20 thousand skinheads were killing southern traders in the suburban area = and no cop=20 was there. This was the the first rise of such a massive = fascist=20 grouping, gathered of the football fans mostly. a really high = percent of=20 Moscovites expressed their solidarity. the=20 skins say, they were going to beat antiglobalists as well if they=20 come.
 
in general, Moscow's growing and = changing=20 rapidly. the streets and especially the subway seem OVERfillled by the = people,=20 as if it weren't able anymore to contain all of them. the city = now is full of luxury buildings, stores, = hotels,=20 and sometimes you can hardly recognize a street if you weren't = for a=20 few months there. Putin and Bush now party in Texas,  and Moscow = seems to=20 become a real globalization capital.
 
after a year-long television = obscenity=20 (after Putin's elections there were only extra-low-budget propagandist = movies=20 about militia and Chechnya war, mexican serials, talk-shows and so=20 on) it became more or=20 less interesting again. for ex., TV-6 is a channel where the former = NTV=20 team was thrown to. NTV belonged to Gusinsky, a central tycoon of 90s, = and was=20 the most critical and intellectual channel until 2000, i'd say. Noone = cares=20 about the newspapers, but TV and internet are really on the = top. and=20 it's funny, how sometimes brave and sharply critical many journalists = and=20 programs have become. The matter is, Putin never made any political = repressions, as many of us expected him to do before he came. a few = people,=20 probably the innocent ones, were put into jail and stay there, but there = were=20 no prosecutions at all. As a leading Moscow art-critic Katya Dyogot = said,=20 the people in the press weren't anyhow forced to serve the power, they = did their=20 best themselves to do what the power, they supposed, would like them to = do. it=20 lead to a real degradation of media. but now we see some new sort of the = brave=20 media. i wouldn't praise them so much as well, but they're interesting = as a=20 phenomenon anyway.
 
everyone now is "leftist" and all = criticize=20 capitalism - from the coloured magazins for teenagers till the = established TV=20 talking heads.
some draw a sharp satire on Putin = but never=20 say anything about what's really going on in Chechnya. People keep = telling=20 Putin's only diplomatic victory since Sept. 11 was to make America = forget about=20 the human rights violation in Chechnya - cause now they're getting = violated=20 worldwide. People get really depoliticized and care about cultural = things only.=20 that's where the media industry was really successfull and did some big = stuff=20 last time.
 
a real trend during last weeks is = a newest=20 TV-show "Behind the Glass" at TV-6 which all the russian internet = is filled=20 with. 3 boys and 3 girls were left in an IKEA-styled flat with cameras = in every=20 corner, and millions of people can see them eating, sleeping etc. I = mean,=20 they're good guys - very young, progressive and so on, the girls are = cute, and=20 the main hero, Max, has yellow-black coloured hair. They listen to = Rammstein (by=20 the way, they gave a concert here just yesterday), Metallica and Massive = Attack,=20 the latter, they say, saves a lot. the guys have to kick one every week = away by=20 their own decision , though they can sell their voices on some = TV-auction by=20 some tricky system, etc. now there're just four staying.
 
finally they started to have sex = last week.=20 Max, this hair-coloured guy, and Margo, a dancer. intellectuals count the show = for dirty and=20 stupid. Why such purism? Guys give an extreme image of what the society = is. they=20 talk as we talk, they show what we ever knew but were afraid to confess. = they=20 could maybe pose for a couple of days but after a week they already gave = up=20 playing, they simply live and do their best for not to die of boredom. = some may=20 be shocked by their extremities, but that's the play the audience and = actors are=20 playing together. the image of a contemporary young person is finally = shown and=20 will from now be manifested, not latent, in that society.  an = everyday-life=20 is not anymore a secret. everything's open.
 
the last thing, Vladimir Sorokin, = a very=20 famous Russian (and German) writer came to the "Behind-the-Glass" = flat=20 yesterday and a had a talk with the heroes. (they can have one guest = every=20 weekend, and it was Zhirinovsky the previous time) Sorokin warned them = from=20 becoming a Soviet-sort communal community which he hates a lot. Sure, = his friend=20 Kabakov made a whole mythology of such communal living. anyhow, Sorokin = and=20 IKEA, Rammstein, Putin and Taliban look all = very hip for the=20 stylish Behind-the-Glass heroes, but all and all is whirling around sex = for=20 them. the girls talked for long whom of them Sorokin liked = better.
 
paradoxically, such sex = propaganda is=20 extremely popular since the very beginning of perestroika, but i haven't = seen=20 any really sex-centered people of my age in my own surrounding. i = suspect,=20 a true underground of our time must keep some incredible=20 chastity...
 
 
 
 
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_0155_01C1715E.9160F6C0-- From a.ludovico@neural.it Tue Nov 20 07:41:03 2001 From: a.ludovico@neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:41:03 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Tecnologie di liberazione [Liberation Technologies] Message-ID: Tecnologie di liberazione [Liberation Technologies] net.art + hacker.activism curated by: Scum collective + Neural.it [http://www.neural.it/tdl/] friday 23 november 2001 . Ass.Cult. Anarres via De Nittis 42, Bari [Italy] . Tecnologie di liberazione [Liberation Technologies] is a conference and a performance/concert to find new aesthetics and practices in a non-conventional use of the new media. We want to stimule thoughts deviated from the oppressive market paths in a conference with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, philosopher and author of seminal analysis on the digital work in the last ten years, Jaromil, artist and programmer that daily experiments his open and collaborative artworks, Alessandro Ludovico, editor in chief of Neural, the Italian new media culture magazine, and Antonella Marino, contemporary art critic and curator of electronic art exhibitions. Later, for the very first time, 'KILL A T.V. TODAY, a performance/concert with use of multiple media (electronic and acustic music, video, software, microphones, tv-set and a specific choreography) to reflect on the invasive broacasting practices. - 16:30 hr, conference: Franco .Bifo. Berardi, rekombinant.org Jaromil, dyne.org Alessandro Ludovico, neural.it Antonella Marino, repubblica.ba - 21:30 hr, performance/concert KILL A T.V. TODAY Digital Artifacts + Videosoftware + live e-music st'arring: jaromil pinna shezzan din don info+map: http://www.neural.it/tdl/ http://tubocatodico.dyne.org -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Online - http://www.neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.apogeonline.com/catalogo/614.html ISBN 88-7303-614-7 From abroeck@transmediale.de Tue Nov 20 07:52:11 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:52:11 +0200 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <000701c17136$511221c0$1c40f9c1@PORTABLEGIP> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011119105949.02229ec0@va.com.au> Message-ID: dear sally, >I'm perplexed that we have to go to such measures to preserve anonymity, >when what we're trying to uphold/ relaunch (or at least as I see it) is a >quality of dialogue. What reasons do people have for not wishing to publish >their identities? honor's question came on my suggestion - i thought it would be more polite to ask before we post that list (from which honor kindly edited the domain names). maybe more importantly, the postings to the list get archived in a public archive, which would mean that - if we don't obscure the addresses - the list would be an invitation for spammers to use it. greetings from sunny, cold berlin, -a From s.norman@eesati.fr Tue Nov 20 10:56:54 2001 From: s.norman@eesati.fr (Sally Jane Norman) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:56:54 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <000001c171b2$120bdfd0$1e1410ac@PORTABLEGIP> Dear Andreas, Honor, Spectres Not wishing to put down current attempts and initiatives and offers of precious time to build up a sorely needed minimum of recognition and confidence on the list - I realise that "purging" mail as Honor is proposing to do is a time-consuming process and am very grateful that there are moves underway to make things more transparent. Also realise that spamming is an inevitable danger in our electronic communities. Misgivings there nevertheless about where to stop - isn't any public action prone to "spamming" in some form or another? Something old fashioned called give and take that goes with communication. Not wanting either to trigger the pundits into philosophising vapidly about public and private space. On the other hand, perhaps wanting this (at least) threefold question - the issue of anonymity, of identity, of communication - to be tackled front on by a bunch of people who should theoretically be capable of original reflection on the implications and behaviours and quirks of online communities. We all (at least, those of us who were around at the time) know why numerous syndicate subscribers had to adopt electronic camouflage in spring 99. How have things evolved since to make camouflage demands a mere social convenience, as opposed to a poignantly expressed and respected wartime survival strategy? Can a list like this one accommodate a multiple persona correspondent? Does it want to? Are we a diehard community attached to the myth of the integral, singular, unviolable individual (Feyerabend showed Greek mosaic "individuals" of antiquity, patchworks of beliefs and toythings of the gods, to be close in many ways to composite modern humans - though hemlock's a good test for anybody's physical integrity any time). Hey Melentie, maybe we have a good subject for next weekend? Balkanising identities? Though I guess this is a permanent subject you're extremely well versed in - just looks a bit novel from a cartesian viewpoint, even if we've since embraced all kinds of bergsonian and post-modern and rhizomatic phlogisten in my current part of the world. HO hum. Better shut my door, school's brimming with problems and humans are spamming my office. cheers (and warmest greetings to you friends who are battling to resolve these social and epistemological problems in their everyday manifestations - i.e. by keeping this communication vehicle running) sjn -----Message d'origine----- De : Andreas Broeckmann [mailto:abroeck@transmediale.de] Envoye : mardi 20 novembre 2001 08:52 A : spectre@mikrolisten.de; Sally Jane NORMAN Objet : RE: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? dear sally, >I'm perplexed that we have to go to such measures to preserve anonymity, >when what we're trying to uphold/ relaunch (or at least as I see it) is a >quality of dialogue. What reasons do people have for not wishing to publish >their identities? honor's question came on my suggestion - i thought it would be more polite to ask before we post that list (from which honor kindly edited the domain names). maybe more importantly, the postings to the list get archived in a public archive, which would mean that - if we don't obscure the addresses - the list would be an invitation for spammers to use it. greetings from sunny, cold berlin, -a From mpandil@soros.org.mk Tue Nov 20 12:39:07 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:39:07 +0100 Subject: [spectre] - Weather report - Message-ID: <20011120133826.3F1F.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> The Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition - Weather report - Tanja Lazetic (Slovenia) Dejan Habicht (Slovenia) Wednesday, 21. November 2001. at 20.00 Hrs. CIX Gallery, Orce Nikolov 109, Skopje -------------------------------------------------------------- Weather report In the cynism of contemporary news making, politics turmoil's bears the same importance as changing of weather. Its easy to get an impression that individual is equal powerless in the relation to her/his government as to sun wind, rain, snow or turning of seasons. In the project Weather report we decided, "to write" an on going diary. We download the satellite image of Europe and add the first headline of the day on Macedonian topics from the CNN. We are going to stop the diary when Macedonia will loose the attention of international media. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From mpandil@soros.org.mk Tue Nov 20 14:05:37 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:05:37 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <000001c171b2$120bdfd0$1e1410ac@PORTABLEGIP> References: <000001c171b2$120bdfd0$1e1410ac@PORTABLEGIP> Message-ID: <20011120150401.3F4D.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> Can a list like this one accommodate a multiple persona correspondent? Does it want to? Are we a diehard community attached to the myth of the integral, singular, unviolable individual (Feyerabend showed Greek mosaic "individuals" of antiquity, patchworks of beliefs and toythings of the gods, to be close in many ways to composite modern humans - though hemlock's a good test for anybody's physical integrity any time). Hey Melentie, maybe we have a good subject for next weekend? Balkanising identities? Though I guess this is a permanent subject you're extremely well versed in - just looks a bit novel from a cartesian viewpoint, even if we've since embraced all kinds of bergsonian and post-modern and rhizomatic phlogisten in my current part of the world. Dear SJN, Would you catre to speak about it during the conference? Melentie ------------------------------------------------------- Melentie Pandilovski Director Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541 Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495 Mobile: +389.70.217.075 http://www.scca.org.mk ------------------------------------------------------- From tmr_s@netvision.net.il Tue Nov 20 14:30:57 2001 From: tmr_s@netvision.net.il (tamar s) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:30:57 +0200 Subject: [spectre] DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES References: <200111191102.GAA29705@bbs.thing.net> Message-ID: <001201c171cf$f96e02f0$0200a8c0@t> DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES A silent voice comes to life triggered by the deep Europe concepts t= o comment about its identity. I speak from an immigrant country, my an= cestors came from Poland, I have friends whose origins are from all over the = globe. I leave in a mixed village by the sea where Moslems, Christians and J= ews leave together. 15 minutes from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Muasine =96 Mus= lim narrator, prays 5 times a day, this sound is overwhelming and punctua= tes the days. I cook Arab food with recipes I get from a woman I know at the local = market, mixed with Eastern European recipes I have from home. The language of= my trade is English, my syntax is weird, but my sense of poetry comes fr= om the bible, which is written in my mother tongue. Life hazards, due to local terrorism attacks, is being reported dail= y on tv, Our sense of a safe geographic map had shrunken during the last y= ear, but my real window is window's nt. The internet had always served as = a strong displacement tool, through which my displaced identity found f= ellow voices that shared and enhanced my new media enthusiasm. Internet communities like real life communities are always trying to= define an `other`, a bad guy, in order to map their boundaries. I find the l= ost of boundaries thrilling. My web sites design, net.art projects and inter= active installations I dream up, trying hard to realize in a place where the infrastructure for such a venture is scarce, are all strengthened by = info bubbles the travel through my mailbox, for I'm an artist who found th= e virtual reflections a hell of a place to be. Tamar Schori From honor@va.com.au Tue Nov 20 12:36:04 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:36:04 +0000 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <000001c171b2$120bdfd0$1e1410ac@PORTABLEGIP> References: Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011120122855.02173de0@va.com.au> hi all, given the amount of unwanted spam mail i get per day (between 2 and 10 marketing spam messages, and countless other slightly more 'friendly' spam messages), i think it unwise to publish the full list of subscribers' email addresses on a public list which is archived on the web. it would be utterly straight forward for a web spider to locate the list of eddresses from the web archive, copy them all and immediately place everyone on spectre on a spam list if we did this. by obscuring part of the addresses we at least protect the subscribers of the list from automated spam bots. sure, if somebody really wanted to, its reasonably easy to manually copy the email addresses of the people who *post* to the list from the web archive. but it's be much more difficult to obtain a full list of the subscribers' email addresses (including the large number of lurkers). if we made this data publically available in an email, we will be doing the spam bots' job for them. i think you get a pretty good idea of who the subscribers' are, by listing the addresses partially. you see the subscribers' domain (.de, .hr, .si etc) and the first part of their email address. best honor From domiziana@nexus.it Tue Nov 20 16:00:24 2001 From: domiziana@nexus.it (domiziana) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:00:24 +0100 Subject: [spectre] DigitalSistersIndeed.org Message-ID: -- Digital Sisters Indeed.org http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org "Waiting" Considering language as revolution, DSI finds new resources for dealing with a different kind of war hidden as a shade in the outer side of the Self, that belongs to life as much as other and more evident wars. A new work by DSI is on line now. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DSI dsi@DigitalSistersIndeed.org It was pure bliss when I finally achieved silence. http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From kika@alcor.concordia.ca Tue Nov 20 17:23:17 2001 From: kika@alcor.concordia.ca (KINGA ARAYA) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:23:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [spectre] DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES In-Reply-To: <001201c171cf$f96e02f0$0200a8c0@t> Message-ID: Tamar, Great inspiring message. I hope to see some of your artwroks somewhere (in Canada?). Take care, Kinga (the 'other' displaced 0/1...) On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, tamar s wrote: > DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES > A silent voice comes to life triggered by the deep Europe concepts to > comment about its identity. I speak from an immigrant country, my ancest= ors > came from Poland, I have friends whose origins are from all over the glob= e. > I leave in a mixed village by the sea where Moslems, Christians and Jews > leave together. 15 minutes from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Muasine =96 Muslim > narrator, prays 5 times a day, this sound is overwhelming and punctuates = the > days. > > I cook Arab food with recipes I get from a woman I know at the local mark= et, > mixed with Eastern European recipes I have from home. The language of my > trade is English, my syntax is weird, but my sense of poetry comes from t= he > bible, which is written in my mother tongue. > > Life hazards, due to local terrorism attacks, is being reported daily on > tv, Our sense of a safe geographic map had shrunken during the last year, > but my real window is window's nt. The internet had always served as a > strong displacement tool, through which my displaced identity found fello= w > voices that shared and enhanced my new media enthusiasm. > > Internet communities like real life communities are always trying to def= ine > an `other`, a bad guy, in order to map their boundaries. I find the lost = of > boundaries thrilling. My web sites design, net.art projects and interacti= ve > installations I dream up, trying hard to realize in a place where the > infrastructure for such a venture is scarce, are all strengthened by info > bubbles the travel through my mailbox, for I'm an artist who found the > virtual reflections a hell of a place to be. > > Tamar Schori > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > From fritz.d@chello.nl Tue Nov 20 17:58:22 2001 From: fritz.d@chello.nl (darko fritz) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:58:22 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? Message-ID: <20011120175613.NKVJ1203.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@[24.132.97.83]> dear all i don't urge to know *all* list members names particularly, but i don't mind about listing the names as well... > i think you get a pretty good idea of who the subscribers' are, by listing > the addresses partially. you see the subscribers' domain (.de, .hr, .si > etc) and the first part of their e-mail address. if the subscriber list will be published, here is a suggestion: to publish only names [real / artistic / institutional / corporate / split / multiple personalities ...] with no e-mail addresses ... [no spam guaranteed!] ... and no domains -> if we add domains than we deal with wide questions of data-body self[?]representation. we can read certain context of domains as well as each element of web or e-mail address and its position. is this self[?]presentation de/territorial [.net / .nl .de .hr] or social-controlled labeled [.com .org .edu ...] or arty [.whatever .art etc] or fake one opens too deep techno-identity complexity for a simple list of mailing list subscriber list. domains can disinformed us as well [i know many people have different domains vs. where they actually live] as well as someone can find it repressive because [mostly] repressive powers invited it and made it obligatory. talking personal: i live in 2 countrys + traveling a lot [aprox. 10 countrys in last six month] + having net identity. mostly i am from .project are all these @hotmail people really hot about their mail? someone can find politically non-correct @chello. in my address -- and i agree -- and i admit my sins! -- i sell my soul to terrible multinational corporation because of more brandwith. [and i am paying my sins with terrible service :)]. are my guilt feelings readable from my web and e-mail address? i have a feeling that data-body [and domains name as part of it] tells less about real privacy and real people, but tells a lot to [sucsessfull or not] repression and [sucsessfull or not] selfpresentation. best d ____ >>>>>>>>>>____ darko fritz propaganda . http://members.ams.chello.nl/fritzd ___________________________.......... Darko Fritz___________________________________.......... Jacob van Lennepstraat 349 . 1053 JL Amsterdam . The Netherlands tel + fax [++] 31 [0] 20 - 6831814 ___________________________________________.......... Srpanjska 1 . 10000 Zagreb . Croatia tel [rings in cro only] [++] 385 [0]91 5800193 ___________________________________________.......... From honor@va.com.au Tue Nov 20 18:18:18 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:18:18 +0000 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? In-Reply-To: <20011120175613.NKVJ1203.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@[24.132.97. 83]> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011120181323.00ac36b0@va.com.au> hi darko, all > >if the subscriber list will be published, here is a suggestion: to publish > >only names [real / artistic / institutional / corporate / split / multiple > >personalities ...] with no e-mail addresses ... [no spam guaranteed!] i don't think spectre collects this information. if they did, this would obviously be the most sensible thing to distribute. as far as i know, no-one has this data centralised . i understood that when you subscribe to spectre, you simply supply an email address. andreas? inke? the list of subscribers' partial email addresses may have to do for now. at least people can look at the list and have a small sense of who is on the list. i'll be sending it out tomorrow at about noon GMT. if anyone wants me to omit their partial edress from the posting, let me know :) .hh From md3169@mclink.it Tue Nov 20 18:24:31 2001 From: md3169@mclink.it (Lorenzo Taiuti) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:24:31 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Deep Europe Message-ID: <005001c171f0$b5aba7e0$a0856ec3@hamsil> Messaggio in formato MIME composto da piy parti. ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C171F8.FA7E64E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Tamar=20 your message seems to talk about Deep Europe as roots ( and = impossibility to have only one country-culture?). Is that what you mean?=20 Do your net-art works deal with this? Ciao Lorenzo Taiuti Tamar said:=20 DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES A silent voice comes to life triggered by the deep Europe concepts to comment about its identity. I speak from an immigrant country, my = ancestors came from Poland, I have friends whose origins are from all over the = globe. I leave in a mixed village by the sea where Moslems, Christians and Jews leave together. 15 minutes from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Muasine - Muslim narrator, prays 5 times a day, this sound is overwhelming and punctuates = the days. I cook Arab food with recipes I get from a woman I know at the local = market, mixed with Eastern European recipes I have from home. The language of my trade is English, my syntax is weird, but my sense of poetry comes from = the bible, which is written in my mother tongue. Life hazards, due to local terrorism attacks, is being reported daily = on tv, Our sense of a safe geographic map had shrunken during the last = year, but my real window is window's nt. The internet had always served as a strong displacement tool, through which my displaced identity found = fellow voices that shared and enhanced my new media enthusiasm. Internet communities like real life communities are always trying to = define an `other`, a bad guy, in order to map their boundaries. I find the lost = of boundaries thrilling. My web sites design, net.art projects and = interactive installations I dream up, trying hard to realize in a place where the infrastructure for such a venture is scarce, are all strengthened by = info bubbles the travel through my mailbox, for I'm an artist who found the virtual reflections a hell of a place to be. Tamar Schori ______________________________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C171F8.FA7E64E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Tamar
your message seems to talk about Deep Europe as roots ( and = impossibility to have only one country-culture?).
Is that what you mean? 
Do your net-art works deal with this?
Ciao
Lorenzo Taiuti

Tamar said:
DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES
 A silent voice comes = to life=20 triggered by the deep Europe concepts to
comment about its = identity.  I=20 speak from an immigrant country, my ancestors
came from Poland, I = have=20 friends whose origins are from all over the globe.
I leave in a mixed = village=20 by the sea where Moslems, Christians and Jews
leave together. 15 = minutes from=20 Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Muasine – Muslim
narrator, prays 5 times = a day, this=20 sound is overwhelming and punctuates the
days.

I cook Arab = food with=20 recipes I get from a woman I know at the local market,
mixed with = Eastern=20 European recipes I have from home. The language of my
trade is = English, my=20 syntax is weird, but my sense of poetry comes from the
bible, which = is=20 written in my mother tongue.

 Life hazards, due to local = terrorism=20 attacks, is being reported daily on
tv, Our sense of a safe = geographic map=20 had shrunken during the last year,
but my real window is window's nt. = The=20 internet had always served as a
strong displacement tool, through = which my=20 displaced identity found fellow
voices that shared and enhanced my = new media=20 enthusiasm.

 Internet communities like real life communities = are=20 always trying to define
an `other`, a bad guy, in order to map their=20 boundaries. I find the lost of
boundaries thrilling. My web sites = design,=20 net.art projects and interactive
installations I dream up, trying = hard to=20 realize in a place where the
infrastructure for such a venture is = scarce, are=20 all strengthened by info
bubbles the travel through my mailbox, for = I'm an=20 artist who found the
virtual reflections a hell of a place to=20 be.

 Tamar=20 Schori





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------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C171F8.FA7E64E0-- From inke@snafu.de Tue Nov 20 19:08:41 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:08:41 +0100 Subject: [spectre] [Workshop] Adajania: Art for the Future Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011120200841.00967dd0@pop.snafu.de> [I met Nancy Adajania, editor of ArtIndia, during my trip to India in September 2001; Monica Narula, who sent this to the Sarai workshop list is right: Nancy is great talking to! Greetings, Inke] --------------------------------------- From: Monica Narula Subject: [Workshop] Art for the Future Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:05:12 +0530 Taking the conversation "of a south Asian perspective' yet further: (Nancy is the editor of ArtIndia Magazine, and good fun to talk to!) When the website anthology-of-art.net began to ask the following question, Nancy Adjania replied with the essay below. "What is, in the context of contemporary art, your vision of a future Art?" Take the Fast with the Slow Nancy Adajania (www.anthology-of-art.net) In an age of fatal de-sensitisation, when the horrific and the terrible are routine, it is almost inevitable that I should choose to start with an apocalyptic vision of the future: this vision will be less of a celebration and more of a cautionary tale. In the future, I suspect, art will undergo a comprehensive process of 'de-matting'. I am employing this financial metaphor, drawing it from the realm of stocks and shares, to push to the extreme the idea of a de-materialised and de-localised art of the future. In the scenario that I will outline here, such conventional art institutions as galleries and museums will perhaps become defunct (as the cyber-artist Jeffrey Shaw notes playfully, discussing his installation, 'The Virtual Museum', the telematic living room of the future will be occupied by "sedentary travellers in a simulated world" with world-ranging access to art holdings at their cybernetic fingertips). Theoretically, at least, technology will ensure that the process of production, access and reception of art will be fully democratised. Art, therefore, will be vehiculated through telematics: this will transform not only its form, but also its content, in radical ways. 'De-mat art', as I will call this telematics-based art of the future, will function in a constantly changing virtual landscape that is trans-time and trans-space. Rapid advances in the field of telematics (especially the increasing use of computer systems in the former Third World) will ensure the sustenance of such a de-materialised art, and also facilitate the entry into this new space of art of impulses that were not formerly regarded as 'art-worthy': we will have a further democratization here, an opening-up of the terrain of art-making to constituencies that were not formerly regarded as art-makers, or whose experiences have not been recognised by formal art institutions as a valid basis for art. The monopoly of academy-trained artists will be challenged by citizens at large, empowered by cybernetics. Correspondingly, with the dismantling of the conventional art infrastructure (or, at least, its marginalisation in favour of telematics-based art venues), the users of de-mat art will no longer belong to the traditional community of art-gallery viewers. New constituencies of users -- let us call them cybernauts -- would emerge. Here comes the caveat, however: even as the process of art-viewing becomes de-hierarchised, art may run the risk of becoming indistinguishable from entertainment, sharing a hyphenated relationship with fashion and commerce, it will always be topical. We must reflect on whether it would not, in its very novelty, cease to have a determinate bearing on the textures and directions of our lives, if it is constantly ephemeral, spasmodic, if it scintillates briefly before our eyes and is gone? This momentariness of the new de-mat art experience will, perhaps, negate the values of more conventional art-works: those of contemplative energy, poised presence, critical subversion and robust affirmation. Will de-mat art sacrifice substance to speed? Discussing the harmful effects of speed and movement in a telematic environment, in Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, the cultural theorist Paul Virilio asks, "And what if the primary goal of travel was not to 'go' somewhere, but simply to no longer be where one is? What if the aim of movement has become like that of military invasions or sports records: to go faster while going nowhere, in other words to disappear?" This phenomenon of "going fast, but going nowhere" can be described, in the context of virtual art, as the art of the fast lane (as against the slow lane of conventional art, based on the display of physical art-works). In a speed-saturated virtual art scenario, artistic expressions would become even more aleatory and fractal than today. At the culmination of de-mat art there would be a total disintegration of the image. Let us, polemically, accentuate this alarmist vision of the art of the fast lane. Here, technology augments the role of human agency so that the mind-body functions through prostheses. With so much free play on offer, the possibility of aleation, coupled with the sheer availability of visual and textual content, makes the viewers/users forget what they were looking for in the first place. When the viewer/user is clicking/jumping from one hypertext to another, s/he is always on the move, but motion is not movement, just as speed is not a guarantee of arrival, or even of discovery. Motion and speed become goals in themselves, and this is a dangerous development. Eventually, this situation would lead to an atrophy of the senses. The producers and receivers of art will no longer function as autonomous beings within their mind-bodies; they would be handicapped without their machines. And now, with advances in biotechnology that may change our faculties through implants rather than prostheses, the enslavement to technology, and especially to telematics, would be complete, insidious, and binding. In this, dromomanic environment (in Virilio's phrase; the word comes from the Greek 'dromos', meaning a race, a pursuit of speed) we may become a superhuman species, but we would lose the possibilities of wonderment that go with being human. Telematics, a product of globalisation, is no longer just an option: it is a condition. Speaking for my own country, India, it has been estimated that there will be 4 million Internet users by 2003, to be followed by an exponential growth in their numbers. Already, after the opening-up of the Indian economy through the 'liberalisation' policies determined by the International Monetary Fund, we have witnessed the installation of several thousand roadside cybercaf=E9s across the country. Dromology has changed the pace, space and architecture of the Indian street, and the emergence of a cyber-community cutting across traditional boundaries of class, caste, gender, region. Two Indian cities, Hyderabad and Bangalore, are considered the dream-destinations of the software industry. Consider Hyderabad, for instance: it was once the feudal capital of the Nizami kingdom and it became the capital of the province of Andhra Pradesh after independence. Today, it has been transformed by software dromomania into a postmodern city of virtual finance, high technology, spectacular entertainment and accelerated consumption. Not surprisingly, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, is a dedicated Netizen. Recently, a popular magazine ran a story about his administration willing to respond to citizens' grievances sent by email. But what of the illiterate, the disempowered, those without access even to the usual channels of justice, leave alone a PC terminal or a lease-line? How do these people (who number in the millions) reach the Chief Minister at his email address? In rural Andhra Pradesh, outside the capital Hyderabad, poverty and undernourishment are endemic conditions. Impoverished weavers, broken by the failure of the cotton crop and the lack of insurance, continue to commit suicide. Maoist guerrillas continue their armed struggle for the rights of the impoverished peasantry, and are engaged in a brutal war with the police, but Chief Minister Naidu would not embellish his website with such details: the website, like the entire image of techno-savvy, is driven by the redemptive vision of global capital; it is meant to attract foreign investment to the province. One need not spell out, therefore, that cyber-access has become a simulation of democracy in this case: an ersatz advertisement selling technological progress as democratic progress! Neither cyber-access nor a nascent cyber-community translates automatically into emancipation. Commenting on the unequal geography of access in electronic space, Saskia Sassen talks of a new "geography of centrality and one of marginality." ("The Topoi of e space: Global Cities and Global Value Chains", posted on Nettime, 28 October 1996, also available in the Sarai Reader 01, and at www.sarai.net/journal.reader1.html) Can the dromological architecture of cyberspace be made truly democratic? Can it become a virtual venue for artistic and political activism? This is where artists can, in the future, work as ethical and political agents of change by setting up counter-republics in virtual space, dynamising the dispersed cyber-community of the present into a coherent public force. So that speed does not result in an implosion of space, these republics should aspire to being truly res publica, "things of the people". Take the fast with the slow, galvanise speed towards action and not passive reception. We should not allow technology to shape us. We should shape its contours and make it more humane. If we do not want technology to take over public spaces of protest and resistance, we will have to alter the dromological architecture of telematic space. Artists will have to explode the one-way lanes of image-consumption and articulate broader political and social needs through artistic strategies that enter public debates laterally. Artists will, perhaps, have to form alliances with activists, architects, scientists and cultural theorists. They would have to set up multiple interfaces, getting out of even the singular interface between the gallery and street which fascinates so many artists today: already, it has become played out, become an aestheticised act without political edge. In formal terms, artists can use the device of interruption, which, as Virilio put it (in conversation with Sylvere Lotringer, in 'Pure War'), acts as punctuation to the existent dromomania: "Interruption is the change of speed". When art becomes dromomanic, as we have seen, the image, which is an irreducible unit of all art-works, becomes less dynamic, and gets dispersed and fragmented. Fast-lane art has yet a few things to learn from the old-fashioned slow-lane art: the image in the slow lane, by reason of its slowness, can develop substance, assert ethical weight and determinacy. Being a physical entity, to be approached in space and time, it provides within itself a pause for reflection, revelation and contemplative attention to the art-object. What it lacks in terms of reflecting the accelerated momentum and dizzying transformations of the telematic age, it makes up for in these ways. The lesson that the slow lane offers the fast is this: the freedom promised by telematics will be realised only if there is actual material empowerment: telematic freedom must be positioned within a robust understanding of the political economy, or else it is doomed to being mere fantasy-play. Salvation lies neither in speed nor in inertia, then, but in their creative re-working. The art of the future will be modulated between the slow and the fast lanes, especially for former Third World countries; for us, indeed, such a modulation will be far saner than a plunge into the no-holds-barred, no-upper-limit traffic of the fast lane, enticing as it is. After all, artistic freedom without responsibility is like driving= blind. And finally, so that art does not become a 'no-exit' situation, we should embrace the Gandhian model of political resistance. Art, whether material or de-mat, should be inspired by the strategy that Mahatma Gandhi described as satyagraha, a truth-offering, resistance that gives the self autonomy, not by isolating it within ideological judgements, but by inviting the world to share in the experiment of dialogue. --- --- --- --- Nancy Adajania Born Dec. 1971 in Bombay, India. Nancy Adajania is an art theorist and film-maker based in Bombay. She has been editor of the art journal =91Art India=92, since March 2000. In this capacity, she has accentuated the importance of public art and new media for contemporary art, emphasising the intimate connections between the aesthetic and the political, the private artist-self and the public sphere. She studied Politics at Elphinstone College, Bombay (1989-1992), and Social Communications/Media at Sophia Polytechnic, Bombay (1993-1994). From 1995-1996 she worked as programme coordinator of the newly constituted crafts research department of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay, organising a number of seminars and workshops, including the national-level symposium, =91Should the Crafts Survive?=92 (April 1995). N. A. then trained in film at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune (1996-1998). She has made a video documentary critique of the failed welfare state which turned into an instrument of oppression, =91Khichri Ek Khoj=92 (=91In Search of Khichri=92), 2000, and is currently working on a cy= cle of video-poems. She has written catalogue essays for selected artists and has regularly contributed essays and articles to journals and newspapers as =91Art India= =92, =91Humanscape=92, =91The Times of India=92, =91The Hindu=92, =91The Indian= Express=92 and =91The Asian Age=92, writing on the visual arts, development issues, popular culture, and the relationship between art practice, technology and political engagement. Her specific area of interest is the emergence of what she describes as a =91new folkloric imagination=92, a variegated mode of resistance, aligned across an array of cultural practices including installation, cinema, photography and street theatre. - http://www.v2.nl/~arns/ From diana@vifu.de Tue Nov 20 20:02:09 2001 From: diana@vifu.de (Diana McCarty) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:02:09 +0100 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011120181323.00ac36b0@va.com.au> Message-ID: <3BFAB6C1.68CA3698@vifu.de> Hello all, So the real spectre is privacy protection! Honor, if you are willing to take the time, I'd suggest doing something along the lines of posting the names of all the subscribers. If that is not included in the info provided to subscribe, how about the people on the list send a mail, off list to you for this purpose. Of course, this is a lot of work. If people are willing to send their names, they might also want to include urls to give some idea of what they do. ciao, diana > > >if the subscriber list will be published, here is a suggestion: to publish > > >only names [real / artistic / institutional / corporate / split / multiple > > >personalities ...] with no e-mail addresses ... [no spam guaranteed!] > > i don't think spectre collects this information. if they did, this would > obviously be the most sensible thing to distribute. > as far as i know, no-one has this data centralised . > i understood that when you subscribe to spectre, you simply supply an email > address. > andreas? inke? > > the list of subscribers' partial email addresses may have to do for > now. at least people can look at the list and have a small sense of who is > on the list. > i'll be sending it out tomorrow at about noon GMT. if anyone wants me to > omit their partial edress from the posting, let me know :) > > .hh > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From annickb@altern.org Tue Nov 20 11:29:54 2001 From: annickb@altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:29:54 +0800 Subject: [spectre] spectres partially uncovered? References: <20011120175613.NKVJ1203.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@[24.132.97.83]> Message-ID: <3BFA3EB1.82AF74A9@altern.org> Dear All Trapped in urgent deadlines, I had no time to join the discussion but : darko fritz wrote: >=20 > if the subscriber list will be published, here is a suggestion: to publish > only names [real / artistic / institutional / corporate / split / multiple > personalities =2E=2E=2E] with no e-mail addresses =2E=2E=2E [no spam guara= nteed!] I agree with that=2E >mostly i am from =2Eproject If only this was existing, I would go by it !!! Or by =2Eplanet-Earth=20 Annick --=20 ----------------------------------------------- Annick Bureaud (annickb@altern=2Eorg) t=E9l/fax : 33/143 20 92 23=20 mobile : 33 (0)6 86 77 65 76 ----------------------------------------- IDEA online/International Directory of Electronic Arts : http://nunc=2Ecom OLATS/Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Techno-Sciences : http://www=2Eo= lats=2Eorg From honor@va.com.au Wed Nov 21 15:02:36 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:02:36 +0000 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011121145706.0257bbb0@va.com.au> hola, ok, here is the edited list of subscribers to spectre. hope this satisfies some curiosity :) best honor spectre subscribers +@=85net 09039378595@=85.jp a.ludovico@=85..it abroeck@=85.de addfield@=85.gr adele@=85.hu adepocas@=85..org aic99@=85..edu alaforet@=85..fr alduque@=85..co alessio@=85.net alex@=85..nl alexei@=85..org alina@=85..com amra@=85.ba ana.peraica@=85.hr andres@=85.com anne@=85..nl anneke@=85..uk annet@=85.nl annickb@=85.org annika.blunck@=85.com ap@=85.ro aplohman@=85..org are@=85.nl aries@=85.org asz@=85.hu atle.barcley@=85..no atobu@=85..jp ave@=85.edu barsantos@=85.com barschberlin@=85.de bbrace@=85.com blair@=85.org blinkface@=85.net bljace@=85..mk bljace@=85..mk bluedahlias@=85.com bo.pejic@=85.de borre.nilsen@=85.no bortizc@=85.co brainstorm@=85.ch brizzi@=85.it bruces@=85.com c@=85.at canderss@=85.com cathy@=85.nl cb@=85.org ch19697@=85.at chaspurdy@=85.com chris@=85.org christa@=85.at christa@=85.edu csm@=85.yu ctgr@=85.fr cvrca@=85.yu cwm@=85.at czas@=85.pl czegledy@=85.com d.busch@=85.de dalkjive@=85.com daniel@=85.org dejansr@=85.net delire@=85.com diana@=85.de diegop@=85.com domiziana@=85.it drekde@=85.com druckrey@=85.net dwh@=85.de ediqnk@=85.com edupradi@=85.com eikona@=85.gr email@=85.org epk@=85.nl eric@=85.com ericdeis@=85.cx estella@=85.yu eurindie@=85.com eva.diegritz@=85.de floor@=85.org fls@=85.org fritz.d@=85.nl ft@=85.at fuchs-eckermann@=85.at g.dietrich@=85.de garrett@=85.org geert@=85.nl ggibbs@=85.edu gif@=85.org giraffe@=85.uk gordana.novakovic@=85.net gtaylor@=85.net helen@=85.uk hine@=85.com hkumao@=85.edu hoffmann@=85.de honor@=85.au iaraica@=85.bg ieva@=85.net igor@=85.hr iisg@=85.de ilich_030@=85.mx ilmungo@=85.it ilya@=85..tw info@=85.org info@=85.org info@=85.org info@=85.nl inge@=85.de inke@=85.de ipa@=85.tw irina@=85.ro iris@=85.at jaipals@=85.com jchaudhuri@=85.com jdbeltrn@=85.net jean-philippe.halgand@=85.com jernej.kozar@=85.si jf@=85.de joasia@=85.net joel@=85.com jorgen@=85.no jperron@=85.org jsalloum@=85.com jurij.krpan@=85.org jutempus@=85.lt jw@=85.no jwadmin@=85.edu kaiser@=85.de kalins@=85.bg karin@=85.se kat@snafu.de katarina@=85.org katherine.kastner@=85.cz katja@=85.de keitwirik@=85.net kenf@=85.com kessi@=85.org kika@=85.ca kireev2000@=85.ru kitblake@=85.nl klif@=85.hr kranz@=85.it kristin@=85.no lab@=85.yu laporta.interport@=85.com lenilaperi@=85.com line@=85.edu lskoog@=85.com luchezb@=85.net ludvik.hlavacek@=85.cz m@=85.nl mail@=85.com mailman@=85.com marjan@=85.si marksearch@=85.net marta@=85.nl martket@=85.gr math@=85.nl matthawthorn@=85.com mbiederman@=85.net md3169@=85.it melinda@=85.net mia@=85.org michael.benson@=85.si miki@=85.com milos@=85.cz milovan@=85.org minx@=85.net mokus@=85.com monikasz@=85.ca mpandil@=85.mk mucko@=85.yu mv@=85.de n_milikic@=85.com nat@=85.nl natmagnan@=85.org nc-agricowi@=85.de netlight@=85.net netwurker@=85.au ngingra@=85.net nicole@=85.de nietzche@=85.com niklas@=85.com nils@=85.net nmelancon@=85.com norman@=85.fr nova@=85.org office@=85.org offline@=85.ee og@=85.ru oksana111@=85.ru pascal.guernier@=85.fr patrick@=85.com perika@=85.hu peter@=85.com peternak@=85.hu philip.pocock@=85.de plagiari@=85.org pniblock@=85.com prog2@=85.org programmation@=85.org project.mimique@=85.com rafael@=85.com rasa@=85.lv rebecca@=85.com recycle@=85.uy reiner.s@=85.de reinhold.grether@=85.de revoltaire@=85.ro rhidian@=85.net rlinz@=85.au roddy@=85.org ruine-kuenste.berlin@=85.de s5.reijnders@=85.nl saracat@=85.net saul@=85.com schilling@=85.de schulze@=85.de sciatto@=85.org sdorval@=85.edu sevo@=85.org sher@=85.org shtini@=85.com shuddha@=85.net sica@=85.com sj@=85.hu so5@=85.edu sopan@=85.com stud2081@=85.no t_gorucheva@=85.com theairport@=85.com thescribblerin@=85.in thirsch@=85.edu tm@=85.de tmr_s@=85.il tobias@=85.nl toktumi@=85.net translocal@=85.uk treborscholz@=85.net ulfstyren@=85.com vesnamil@=85.yu vlasterx@=85.net vondada8@=85.com vv13@=85.it vyb02547@=85.jp werg@=85.de wieland@=85.de wvdc@=85.org xtiiax@=85.ee zankov@=85.org zapp@=85.de zarevac@=85.yu zblace@=85.hr zitaj@=85.com zpet@=85.mk From reiner.s@netartefact.de Wed Nov 21 15:25:44 2001 From: reiner.s@netartefact.de (Reiner Strasser) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:25:44 +0100 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011121145706.0257bbb0@va.com.au> Message-ID: thx honor added my name ;) + one url best Reiner [without fear to be known] > spectre subscribers >=20 > +@=85net > 09039378595@=85.jp > a.ludovico@=85..it > abroeck@=85.de > addfield@=85.gr > adele@=85.hu > adepocas@=85..org > aic99@=85..edu > alaforet@=85..fr > alduque@=85..co > alessio@=85.net > alex@=85..nl > alexei@=85..org > alina@=85..com > amra@=85.ba > ana.peraica@=85.hr > andres@=85.com > anne@=85..nl > anneke@=85..uk > annet@=85.nl > annickb@=85.org > annika.blunck@=85.com > ap@=85.ro > aplohman@=85..org > are@=85.nl > aries@=85.org > asz@=85.hu > atle.barcley@=85..no > atobu@=85..jp > ave@=85.edu > barsantos@=85.com > barschberlin@=85.de > bbrace@=85.com > blair@=85.org > blinkface@=85.net > bljace@=85..mk > bljace@=85..mk > bluedahlias@=85.com > bo.pejic@=85.de > borre.nilsen@=85.no > bortizc@=85.co > brainstorm@=85.ch > brizzi@=85.it > bruces@=85.com > c@=85.at > canderss@=85.com > cathy@=85.nl > cb@=85.org > ch19697@=85.at > chaspurdy@=85.com > chris@=85.org > christa@=85.at > christa@=85.edu > csm@=85.yu > ctgr@=85.fr > cvrca@=85.yu > cwm@=85.at > czas@=85.pl > czegledy@=85.com > d.busch@=85.de > dalkjive@=85.com > daniel@=85.org > dejansr@=85.net > delire@=85.com > diana@=85.de > diegop@=85.com > domiziana@=85.it > drekde@=85.com > druckrey@=85.net > dwh@=85.de > ediqnk@=85.com > edupradi@=85.com > eikona@=85.gr > email@=85.org > epk@=85.nl > eric@=85.com > ericdeis@=85.cx > estella@=85.yu > eurindie@=85.com > eva.diegritz@=85.de > floor@=85.org > fls@=85.org > fritz.d@=85.nl > ft@=85.at > fuchs-eckermann@=85.at > g.dietrich@=85.de > garrett@=85.org > geert@=85.nl > ggibbs@=85.edu > gif@=85.org > giraffe@=85.uk > gordana.novakovic@=85.net > gtaylor@=85.net > helen@=85.uk > hine@=85.com > hkumao@=85.edu > hoffmann@=85.de > honor@=85.au > iaraica@=85.bg > ieva@=85.net > igor@=85.hr > iisg@=85.de > ilich_030@=85.mx > ilmungo@=85.it > ilya@=85..tw > info@=85.org > info@=85.org > info@=85.org > info@=85.nl > inge@=85.de > inke@=85.de > ipa@=85.tw > irina@=85.ro > iris@=85.at > jaipals@=85.com > jchaudhuri@=85.com > jdbeltrn@=85.net > jean-philippe.halgand@=85.com > jernej.kozar@=85.si > jf@=85.de > joasia@=85.net > joel@=85.com > jorgen@=85.no > jperron@=85.org > jsalloum@=85.com > jurij.krpan@=85.org > jutempus@=85.lt > jw@=85.no > jwadmin@=85.edu > kaiser@=85.de > kalins@=85.bg > karin@=85.se > kat@snafu.de > katarina@=85.org > katherine.kastner@=85.cz > katja@=85.de > keitwirik@=85.net > kenf@=85.com > kessi@=85.org > kika@=85.ca > kireev2000@=85.ru > kitblake@=85.nl > klif@=85.hr > kranz@=85.it > kristin@=85.no > lab@=85.yu > laporta.interport@=85.com > lenilaperi@=85.com > line@=85.edu > lskoog@=85.com > luchezb@=85.net > ludvik.hlavacek@=85.cz > m@=85.nl > mail@=85.com > mailman@=85.com > marjan@=85.si > marksearch@=85.net > marta@=85.nl > martket@=85.gr > math@=85.nl > matthawthorn@=85.com > mbiederman@=85.net > md3169@=85.it > melinda@=85.net > mia@=85.org > michael.benson@=85.si > miki@=85.com > milos@=85.cz > milovan@=85.org > minx@=85.net > mokus@=85.com > monikasz@=85.ca > mpandil@=85.mk > mucko@=85.yu > mv@=85.de > n_milikic@=85.com > nat@=85.nl > natmagnan@=85.org > nc-agricowi@=85.de > netlight@=85.net > netwurker@=85.au > ngingra@=85.net > nicole@=85.de > nietzche@=85.com > niklas@=85.com > nils@=85.net > nmelancon@=85.com > norman@=85.fr > nova@=85.org > office@=85.org > offline@=85.ee > og@=85.ru > oksana111@=85.ru > pascal.guernier@=85.fr > patrick@=85.com > perika@=85.hu > peter@=85.com > peternak@=85.hu > philip.pocock@=85.de > plagiari@=85.org > pniblock@=85.com > prog2@=85.org > programmation@=85.org > project.mimique@=85.com > rafael@=85.com > rasa@=85.lv > rebecca@=85.com > recycle@=85.uy > reiner.s@=85.de Reiner Strasser Wiesbaden, Germany http://netartefact.de/ > reinhold.grether@=85.de > revoltaire@=85.ro > rhidian@=85.net > rlinz@=85.au > roddy@=85.org > ruine-kuenste.berlin@=85.de > s5.reijnders@=85.nl > saracat@=85.net > saul@=85.com > schilling@=85.de > schulze@=85.de > sciatto@=85.org > sdorval@=85.edu > sevo@=85.org > sher@=85.org > shtini@=85.com > shuddha@=85.net > sica@=85.com > sj@=85.hu > so5@=85.edu > sopan@=85.com > stud2081@=85.no > t_gorucheva@=85.com > theairport@=85.com > thescribblerin@=85.in > thirsch@=85.edu > tm@=85.de > tmr_s@=85.il > tobias@=85.nl > toktumi@=85.net > translocal@=85.uk > treborscholz@=85.net > ulfstyren@=85.com > vesnamil@=85.yu > vlasterx@=85.net > vondada8@=85.com > vv13@=85.it > vyb02547@=85.jp > werg@=85.de > wieland@=85.de > wvdc@=85.org > xtiiax@=85.ee > zankov@=85.org > zapp@=85.de > zarevac@=85.yu > zblace@=85.hr > zitaj@=85.com > zpet@=85.mk >=20 > ______________________________________________ From abroeck@transmediale.de Wed Nov 21 15:54:39 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:54:39 +0200 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011121145706.0257bbb0@va.com.au> Message-ID: r- >added my name ;) >+ one url great, thanks; just, please, don't copy the entire 7K list when replying ... greetings, -a From michael.benson@pristop.si Wed Nov 21 18:54:19 2001 From: michael.benson@pristop.si (Michael Benson) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:54:19 +0100 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list Message-ID: <012401c172bd$f0249800$aa01f9c2@ibmnotebook> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0121_01C172C6.4EDD46A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It's great to get the list, and I wanna thank honor for plowing through = the job. Seems to me, though, that what people may have been more or = less asking for between the lines is that this disembodied list of = subscribers give some kind of shout-in-the-dark account of themselves. = Rather than just reposing in a list, with or without spam-ready e-mail = particulars, useful though it is. What's important in forming some sort = of weird atomized "community of sorts" is at least a nominally tangible = sense of just who's out there, presumably based on the particulars of = what people choose to say about themselves. "Who's out there" in the = manner of Ripley in Alien: "Who the _fuck's_ out there?!" A question as = expanded in a kind of pop-art cartoon bubble as a caption in a = Lichtenstein painting, only in this case transmitted via Ridley Scott. = Otherwise there's the risk of feeling like atomized radio stations = sending signals out into infinity, as though all this were merely a = spreading sphere of electromagnetic waves fired outwards from Earth at = the speed of light, just another temporal info-sphere bubble evaporating = into infinity. Though I suppose there's a lot of truth in that... (As = for using analog icons in the brave new floating world, Lichtenstein's = just another trope at the gates of all our suspended-animation = information, all those atoms and circuits knitted together like a kind = of cat's cradle-clockwork joining creeds and continents, if not = socioeconomic categories. It's finally all extended out under the = exploding stars comprising distant grid-works of information and = activity, over and across the farthest horizon of our crystalline = cyberspace structures, a place as far removed from contemporary = knowledge as the phenomenon of the sun spot was before Galileo.)=20 In other words, being a "successor" to syndicate is hardly enough, it = runs the risk of identification/sense-of-self based on an opposition to = a defunct system finally retrospectively also formed in opposition to = another ideology, and so on and so on ad infinitum. (Or even an = identification/self-sense built on nostalgia for the past. In the = Tarkovskian sense: the kind with a candle in a drained swimming pool). = As Andreas and Inke pointed out recently, the whole dynamic of what it = means to be part of an on-line community may have irrevocably changed. = Utopias crash faster and faster these days, becoming just branching = trees of fossilized associations in the process. After all, we can't = deny, given the "dramaturgy" of the split from syndicate, and the roots = of the name of spectre (and how it was chosen over "mir," i.e. "peace"), = how very weirdly and of course unintentionally the whole seemingly = removed story suddenly was subjected to a new series of associations in = September, like a slam from cold, hard, real, real-world TV. Given that = the Al Jazzera of the Western World, a.k.a. CNN, has been broadcasting = 24 hours a day of Wolf Blitzkrieg involving the real intentions behind = organizations formed with the literal aims espoused in Cold War = pseudo-sci-fi (for example, the James Bond series), it's hard not to = remember the proto-spectre group considering the meanings behind = S.P.E.C.T.R.E., one of a number of factional acronyms for the = innumerable al Quieda networks of history. (Meanwhile Mir had come = crashing down, of course, as literally and figuratively as you want to = take it.) Not that all _that_ really matters. In the end it all leads umbilically = back, down the tunnel of history, to distant pre-digital data-banks = labeled "Dante, Homer, etc." And ultimately to the wine dark sea, a = place not particularly unlike 'wine dark cyberspace,' since after all = the former was conveyed in an oral tradition not dissimilar to the = immediacy of mailing lists (and definitely more so than dusty shelved = books). Only in this case, our case, the wheeling "stars" form = data-banks in that good old Gibsonian way, ziggurats and glowing = pyramids of data, like Las Vegas at night, or Hong Kong harbor = transmuted into 21st century LA by Ridley Scott. To jump momentarily = from Alien to Blade Runner. In this case, our case, the sea below's = awash with electronically transmitted words, a roiling sea of them = filling the Mediterranean Basin, a.k.a. the cradle of civilization, = "words, words, words/as though all worlds were there." (Robert Creeley) = The true Deep Europe, at last in these terms, with its white pillars of = knowledge blasted by the Aegean sun, extends outwards, backwards in = time, forward to our contemporary future, and it serves as a linking = device. (Among other things it's a bridge to the hallowed, hollow holy = land, with its waves of anger and desperation, its wars, bombs, tanks, = and machine guns, its injustices and sense of terminal days visible on = terminals these interminable days.)=20 So I guess what I'm saying, a few spectral words to fill the seas. = They're what we're using, in the end, to link worlds, addresses with or = without suffixes, and the data-clusters of the contemporary Aegean, = still struggling for democracy under white columns planted in wretched = refuse beside teeming shores. Meanwhile civilizations that once looked = like they were clashing still do, as the slander pounds down. And the = world revolves, producing of course its harvest, time.=20 Cheers, MB=20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0121_01C172C6.4EDD46A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It's great to get the list, = and I wanna=20 thank honor for plowing through the job. Seems to me, though, that what = people=20 may have been more or less asking for between the lines is that this = disembodied=20 list of subscribers give some kind of shout-in-the-dark account of = themselves.=20 Rather than just reposing in a list, with or without spam-ready e-mail=20 particulars, useful though it is. What's important in forming some sort = of weird=20 atomized "community of sorts" is at least a nominally tangible sense of = just=20 who's out there, presumably based on the particulars of what people = choose to=20 say about themselves. "Who's out there" in the manner of Ripley in = Alien: "Who=20 the _fuck's_ out there?!" A question as expanded in a kind of pop-art = cartoon=20 bubble as a caption in a Lichtenstein painting, only in this case = transmitted=20 via Ridley Scott. Otherwise there's the risk of feeling like atomized = radio=20 stations sending signals out into infinity, as though all this were = merely a=20 spreading sphere of electromagnetic waves fired outwards from Earth at = the speed=20 of light, just another temporal info-sphere bubble evaporating into = infinity.=20 Though I suppose there's a lot of truth in that... (As for = using analog=20 icons in the brave new floating world, Lichtenstein's just another trope = at the=20 gates of all our suspended-animation information, all those atoms and = circuits=20 knitted together like a kind of cat's cradle-clockwork joining = creeds and=20 continents, if not socioeconomic categories. It's finally all extended = out under=20 the exploding stars comprising distant grid-works of information and = activity,=20 over and across the farthest horizon of our crystalline cyberspace = structures, a=20 place as far removed from contemporary knowledge as the phenomenon of = the sun=20 spot was before Galileo.)
 
In other words, being a = "successor" to=20 syndicate is hardly enough, it runs the risk of = identification/sense-of-self=20 based on an opposition to a defunct system finally retrospectively also = formed=20 in opposition to another ideology, and so on and so on ad infinitum. (Or = even an=20 identification/self-sense built on nostalgia for the past. In the=20 Tarkovskian sense: the kind with a candle in a drained swimming pool). = As=20 Andreas and Inke pointed out recently, the whole dynamic of what it = means to be=20 part of an on-line community may have irrevocably changed. Utopias crash = faster=20 and faster these days, becoming just branching trees of fossilized = associations=20 in the process. After all, we can't deny, given the "dramaturgy" of the = split=20 from syndicate, and the roots of the name of spectre (and how it was = chosen over=20 "mir," i.e. "peace"), how very weirdly and of course unintentionally the = whole=20 seemingly removed story suddenly was subjected to a new series of = associations=20 in September, like a slam from cold, hard, real, real-world TV. Given = that the=20 Al Jazzera of the Western World, a.k.a. CNN, has been broadcasting 24 = hours a=20 day of Wolf Blitzkrieg involving the real intentions behind = organizations formed=20 with the literal aims espoused in Cold War pseudo-sci-fi (for example, = the James=20 Bond series), it's hard not to remember the proto-spectre group = considering=20 the meanings behind S.P.E.C.T.R.E., one of a number of factional = acronyms for=20 the innumerable al Quieda networks of history. (Meanwhile Mir had come = crashing=20 down, of course, as literally and figuratively as you want to take=20 it.)
 
Not that all _that_ really = matters. In=20 the end it all leads umbilically back, down the tunnel of history, to = distant=20 pre-digital data-banks labeled "Dante, Homer, etc." And ultimately to = the wine=20 dark sea, a place not particularly unlike 'wine dark cyberspace,' since = after=20 all the former was conveyed in an oral tradition not dissimilar to the = immediacy=20 of mailing lists (and definitely more so than dusty shelved books). Only = in this=20 case, our case, the wheeling "stars" form data-banks in that good old = Gibsonian=20 way, ziggurats and glowing pyramids of data, like Las Vegas at = night, or=20 Hong Kong harbor transmuted into 21st century LA by Ridley Scott. To = jump=20 momentarily from Alien to Blade Runner. In this case, our case, the = sea=20 below's awash with electronically transmitted words, a roiling sea of = them=20 filling the Mediterranean Basin, a.k.a. the cradle of civilization, = "words,=20 words, words/as though all worlds were there." (Robert Creeley) The true = Deep=20 Europe, at last in these terms, with its white pillars of knowledge = blasted by=20 the Aegean sun, extends outwards, backwards in time, forward to our = contemporary=20 future, and it serves as a linking device. (Among other things it's a = bridge to=20 the hallowed, hollow holy land, with its waves of anger and desperation, = its=20 wars, bombs, tanks, and machine guns, its injustices and sense of = terminal days=20 visible on terminals these interminable days.)
 
So I guess what I'm saying, = a few=20 spectral words to fill the seas. They're what we're using, in the end, = to link=20 worlds, addresses with or without suffixes, and the data-clusters = of the=20 contemporary Aegean, still struggling for democracy under white columns = planted=20 in wretched refuse beside teeming shores. Meanwhile civilizations that = once=20 looked like they were clashing still do, as the slander pounds down. And = the=20 world revolves, producing of course its harvest, time. =
 
Cheers, MB
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------=_NextPart_000_0121_01C172C6.4EDD46A0-- From annickb@altern.org Wed Nov 21 10:44:37 2001 From: annickb@altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:44:37 +0800 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011121145706.0257bbb0@va.com.au> Message-ID: <3BFB8596.BFB3D4C@altern.org> The "raton laveur" is missing (I guess that only the French speaking people on this list will understand what I mean.... Sally, help !). I love it, looks like a poem of nn or mez :-) Annick honor wrote: > > hola, > > ok, here is the edited list of subscribers to spectre. > hope this satisfies some curiosity :) > -- ----------------------------------------------- Annick Bureaud (annickb@altern.org) tél/fax : 33/143 20 92 23 mobile : 33 (0)6 86 77 65 76 ----------------------------------------- IDEA online/International Directory of Electronic Arts : http://nunc.com OLATS/Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Techno-Sciences : http://www.olats.org From zone@Desk.nl Wed Nov 21 20:04:37 2001 From: zone@Desk.nl (Zvonimir Bakotin) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:04:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011121145706.0257bbb0@va.com.au> Message-ID: Dear Spectators Great work Honor, however it=B4s never late for latest patches, so proposed *anatomy of a list* aka AOL v 1.01 should contain string; zone@^=C5.nl greetings to all ex-syndicalists best z who recently subscribed after period of examining online archives, yes list seems spam free so far. chmod a+x /bin/laden From moca@sonet.com.mk Thu Nov 22 10:17:28 2001 From: moca@sonet.com.mk (Zoran Petrovski) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:17:28 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Cattelan Message-ID: <001301c1733f$3fc69f80$0201a8c0@S32Q1F2> Dear All About a month ago on the Spectre list circulated a letter from Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (written I guess to Giancrlo Polliti), which was concerning his participation at the Tirana Biennial. Unfortunately, after a while I have deleted it from my Inbox, but as it appears now I need it for a text that I'm currently writing. Could you please help me to get it again (Edi Muka perhaps, or anybody else)? Please write to zpet@sonet.com.mk (the very last address on the Honor list) Thank you Wishing the best to SPECTRE Zoran Petrovski Museum of Contemporary Art-Skopje From savitsky3000@yahoo.com Thu Nov 22 10:48:08 2001 From: savitsky3000@yahoo.com (Andrey Savitsky) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:48:08 +0200 Subject: [spectre] mix-performance "Dialogue" Message-ID: <012601c17343$2f32dc70$d6bea8c0@savitsky> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0123_01C17353.EFEEF7E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dialogue 28.11.2001-30.11.2001 Belarusian Organization of Friendship and Cultural relations with = Foreign Countries Belarus Address: Zaharova str., 28, Minsk, Belarus Artists: Lisa Stauffer, is a single artist. She lives and works in Kuttigen, Aargau, Switzerland. An Angelico group: Anton Snt, Minsk. In 2001 year founded the group of artists and designers An Angelico Lives ant works in Minsk, Belarus. Vitaly Degtyarev, Minsk. In 2001, he also created the group of artist and designers An Angelico. In this project he will make the interior and invitation cards design, video and light maintenance. Andrey Savitsky [www.hhtp.org], Minsk. He works with digital video and sound. For this project he will write the original soundtrack. The main topic for entire performance is to represent the dialog between = new technology and traditional techniques in the Art. Twelve artworks made = by Lisa Sauffer and An Angelico will be presented at the exhibition. Works will be placed on a two walls bended outwards each other, imitating the = form of a boat.=20 Exhibited works include the following: - 6 weavings by Lisa Staufer (size 125x125 cm) - six digital color video projections (6x12 images) by An Angelico = (portraits, size 153x117 cm). The whole performance lightened from within will be staying in the = center of a darkened pavilion. Video of moving sea weaves will be projected on = the outside surface of each wall. Special soundtrack is planned to accompany the exhibition during the = Opening Ceremony that will 3 days. Upon completion of the exhibition we plan to record the CD with virtual catalog of the performance that will be later presented to the worldwide public via the internet. Sponsors: Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland, http://www.pro-helvetia.ch/; Partnerschaft Aargau-Belarus Department Bildung, Kultur und Sport des Kantons Aargau (Switzerland); Belarusian Organization of Friendship and Cultural relations with = Foreign Countries Belarus; T&C. ------=_NextPart_000_0123_01C17353.EFEEF7E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dialogue

28.11.2001-30.11.2001
Belarusian = Organization of=20 Friendship and Cultural relations with Foreign
Countries = Belarus
Address:=20 Zaharova str., 28, Minsk, Belarus

Artists:
Lisa Stauffer, is a = single=20 artist.
She lives and works in Kuttigen, Aargau, = Switzerland.

An=20 Angelico group:
Anton Snt, Minsk. In 2001 year founded the group of = artists=20 and
designers An Angelico Lives ant works in Minsk, = Belarus.
Vitaly=20 Degtyarev, Minsk.  In 2001, he also created the group of = artist
and=20 designers An Angelico. In this project he will make the interior=20 and
invitation cards design, video and light maintenance.
Andrey = Savitsky=20 [
www.hhtp.org], Minsk. He=20 works with digital video and
sound. For this project he will write = the=20 original soundtrack.

The main topic for entire performance is to=20 represent the dialog between new
technology and traditional = techniques in the=20 Art. Twelve artworks made by
Lisa Sauffer and An Angelico will be = presented=20 at the  exhibition. Works
will be placed on a two walls bended = outwards=20 each other, imitating the form
of a boat.
Exhibited works=20 include the following:
- 6 weavings by Lisa Staufer (size 125x125 = cm)
-=20 six digital color video projections (6x12 images) by An Angelico=20 (portraits, size 153x117
cm).

The whole performance lightened = from=20 within will be staying in the center of
a darkened pavilion. Video of = moving=20 sea weaves will be projected  on the
outside surface of each=20 wall.

Special soundtrack is planned to accompany the exhibition = during=20 the Opening
Ceremony that will 3 days.

Upon completion of the=20 exhibition we plan to record the CD with virtual
catalog of the = performance=20 that will be later presented to the worldwide
public via the=20 internet.

Sponsors:
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland, = http://www.pro-helvetia.ch/;
= Partnerschaft=20 Aargau-Belarus Department Bildung, Kultur und Sport des
Kantons = Aargau=20 (Switzerland);
Belarusian Organization of Friendship and Cultural = relations=20 with Foreign
Countries=20 Belarus;
T&C.

------=_NextPart_000_0123_01C17353.EFEEF7E0-- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From Garrett@asquare.org Thu Nov 22 11:12:36 2001 From: Garrett@asquare.org (Garrett Lynch) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:12:36 +0100 Subject: [spectre] my shout-in-the-dark account Message-ID: >Seems to me, though, that what people may have been more or = >less asking for between the lines is that this disembodied list of = >subscribers give some kind of shout-in-the-dark account of themselves. = >Rather than just reposing in a list, with or without spam-ready e-mail = >particulars, useful though it is. What's important in forming some sort = >of weird atomized "community of sorts" is at least a nominally tangible = >sense of just who's out there, presumably based on the particulars of = >what people choose to say about themselves. "Who's out there" in the = >manner of Ripley in Alien: "Who the _fuck's_ out there?!" ok question heeded dont like speaking about me and i lurk here only occasionally contributing, always listening. anything you want to know about me you can find out by looking at the following +-----------------------------------------------------------+ my sites: http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.intimacyandloneliness.f2s.com/ http://www.playpause.f2s.com/ contributor at: http://www.metapod.com/ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ hope that helps! >The "raton laveur" is missing (I guess that only the French speaking >people on this list will understand what I mean.... Sally, help !). I >love it, looks like a poem of nn or mez :-) moi je parle francais mais je comprend pas trop de quoi tu parle? explique!! a+ Garrett Garrett@asquare.org _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From honor@va.com.au Thu Nov 22 13:02:51 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:02:51 +0000 Subject: [spectre] anatomy of a list In-Reply-To: <012401c172bd$f0249800$aa01f9c2@ibmnotebook> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011122125718.01afe8f0@va.com.au> michael, et al, >So I guess what I'm saying, a few spectral words to fill the seas. They're what we're using, in >the end, to link worlds, addresses with or without suffixes, and the data-clusters of the >contemporary Aegean, still struggling for democracy under white columns planted in wretched >refuse beside teeming shores. greetings and sincere notes of gratitide to michael for one of the most lyrical and evocative emails i've had all year. thanks for reminding me / us that these occasional lingual gems, gleaming in the murky and swirling textual dissolve, are one of the best things about being able to talk to each other in this way ... .hh From michael.benson@pristop.si Fri Nov 23 13:36:25 2001 From: michael.benson@pristop.si (Michael Benson) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:36:25 +0100 Subject: [spectre] A drone of drones Message-ID: <6369F08EBDDD524FBAFE288A6163E98FFD7B@mailroom.pristop.local> > greetings and sincere notes of gratitide to michael Thanks Honor... I got back late last night, through the dense fog of Ljubljana in winter, which is laced with coal smoke, and was going to answer immediately but then got all engrossed in the ominous futuristic weirdness of reading the following in the New York Times. It's about remote controlled US spy-planes called Predators, which are now armed with missiles: Just last week, a Predator operated by the Central Intelligence Agency was used to coordinate the surgical strike in which one of Osama bin Laden's closest lieutenants was killed, administration officials said. The drone pinpointed the house where a group of senior Al Qaeda officials, including Muhammad Atef, had gathered and relayed live video pictures of the scene to C.I.A. and military officials (...) As people fled the building, the Predator opened fire on them with Hellfire missiles. Finally, it circled the area, assessing the damage. * * * ...So increasingly we have this eerie science-fiction spectre (sorry) of this godlike omnipotence -- not just American power projected from the Olympian skies, which is an old story, but now even the pilots have been removed from the scene, and we have circling robot drones armed to the teeth and staring down from on high with high-res optical systems. It's a jump, in the space of a few months, from one form of chilling apparent insanity (loaded and fuelled passenger jets steered directly into skyscrapers) to another (remote drones controlled from distant safe locations by anonymous CIA operatives and fully capable of serving as assassination devices). Apart from all the other questions this raises, does anyone seriously doubt that this kind of technology won't find its way eventually into the hands of urban police forces? The LAPD comes to mind. We're entering Robo-cop territory here... All the best, MB From mail@bosanko-sheady.fsnet.co.uk Fri Nov 23 12:10:22 2001 From: mail@bosanko-sheady.fsnet.co.uk (Kay Bosanko-Sheady) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:10:22 +0200 Subject: [spectre] Creativity and Cognition 4 Call Message-ID: CREATIVITY & COGNITION 4, 14-16 Oct., 2002 Processes and Artefacts: Art, Technology and Science Loughborough University UK ********************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: 10 Jan 2002 http://creative.lboro.ac.uk/eae/ CC02/CC4.html ********************************************* In October 2002 Creativity and Cognition 4, an ACM SIGCHI International Conference will take place at Burleigh Court, Loughborough University UK and in locations around the campus including the University Gallery. The first Creativity and Cognition Conference was held at Loughborough in 1993, and two further conferences, in 1996 and 1999 have continued the expressed aim of creating opportunities for artists and scientists to engage in a dialogue about their ideas and working practices. As before, the dialogue will center upon issues of immediate or potential concern for creative computer-human interaction. -- ________________________________________________________________________ email ernest@ernestedmonds.org.uk sms mobile@ernestedmonds.org.uk http://www.ernestedmonds.com phone +44 (0) 1509 222690 fax +44 (0) 1509 610815 From honor@va.com.au Fri Nov 23 16:25:01 2001 From: honor@va.com.au (honor) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:25:01 +0000 Subject: [spectre] milosevic charged with genocide in bosnia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011123162217.00acf910@va.com.au> hi, i'm sure you've heard the news already, but if not: Quoted from B92: "Hague charges Milosevic with genocide 14:40 THE HAGUE, Friday =96 The International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague= =20 has formally charged Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia. The court has confirmed that an indictment drawn up by Prosecutor Carla Del= =20 Ponte concerning atrocities against Croats and Muslims contained enough=20 evidence to proceed to trial. In addition to genocide, the new indictment includes charges of crimes=20 against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the=20 Bosnian war of 1992 to 1995. In its summary of the indictment, the prosecution alleges that Milosevic=20 =93participated in a joint criminal enterprise, the purpose of which was the= =20 forcible and permanent removal of non-Serbs from the Republic of=20 Bosnia-Herzegovina=94. The indictment alleges that thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats were=20 killed and thousands more imprisoned in more than fifty detention=20 facilities under inhumane conditions. Many more were forcibly transferred=20 from their homes. (Reuters) " Quoted from BBC:=20 "The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has formally charged former=20 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in connection with the= =20 1992-1995 Bosnian war. " best honor http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1672000/1672414.stm From nc-agricowi@netcologne.de Fri Nov 23 17:08:58 2001 From: nc-agricowi@netcologne.de (Agricola de Cologne) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:08:58 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Call for submissions Message-ID: <006e01c17441$8b121980$1568a8d5@agricola2> A Virtual Memorial is calling for artists ***Main Deadline 1 December 2001*** Although at present AIDS is out of the news, the dramatic situation of new infections and infected people did not change, at all, the human tragedy keeps going on. On occasion of World AIDS Day on 1 December The "Features of the Month December 2001" on www.a-virtual-memorial.org are dedicated entirely to the victims of AIDS. In order to create a Memorial for the Victims of AIDS to be published online on 1 December, artists are invited to submit either one image (.jpg) or one text (email or .txt file) or one web based work (URL or Flash .swf file/Quicktime .mov file) which has a subject connected to AIDS. ***Main Deadline 1 December 2001.*** But submissions are welcome afterwards, as well during all December and will posted online immediately. Send your submission to aids@a-virtual-memorial.org Wilfried Agricola de Cologne info@a-virtual-memorial.org www.a-virtual-memorial.org A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity From geert@xs4all.nl Sun Nov 25 00:47:31 2001 From: geert@xs4all.nl (geert lovink) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:47:31 +1100 Subject: [spectre] Russian NGO industry meets Putin for a civil society summit Message-ID: <016501c17572$aaf6ff40$b3de3dca@geert> http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIss ue=22&NrSection=3&NrArticle=2750 Transitions On Line (Prague) 23 November 2001 The Kremlin Tames Civil Society The Kremlin is trying to bring Russia's civil society to heel and transform it into a loyal supporter of the authorities. by Dmitry Pinsker MOSCOW, Russia -- A pompous gathering, pretentiously called the "Civic Forum," will take place in the Kremlin on 21 November. The forum's aim is twofold--for Russian civil society to demonstrate its existence to the world and show its loyalty to the president. This undertaking began back in May, when, with military precision, President Vladimir Putin ordered court spin doctor and director of the Effective Politics Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky to come up with a concept for Russian civil society within two weeks and begin its immediate implementation. The Kremlin spin doctors paid no heed to the Narodnaya Assambleya (People's Assembly), an independent association of Russia's largest civil society organizations, [which] warned that it's impossible to "build civil society from above." The association has now found itself also roped into organizing the forum with the Kremlin. True, the Kremlin would have liked to and even tried to ignore these independent organizations, but that strategy didn't work. Civil society organizations today are the last area of public political life not to have been integrated into the "power vertical." The Kremlin has brought the Federation Council to heel, established a firm pro-presidential majority in the Duma, and tamed the regional governors. It has used the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to rein in businessmen and has brought most of the media under its control. Russian NGOs provide 1.5 million jobs, and another 10 million are involved with them or concerned by them in some way. This represents 10 percent of voters--on the whole particularly active voters. As Pavlovsky pointed out quite openly, this is a political resource the authorities can't afford to overlook. The authorities have at least three other reasons for wanting to get involved in building civil society: First, they are concerned by the interest that exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been showing in the issue. Berezovsky and his money are behind the Foundation for Civic Freedoms, which allocates grants to various social and human-rights programs, such as the Sakharov Museum and the Alexander Yakovlev Foundation, which is collecting archive material on Soviet-era repressions. The second reason is financial. The Kremlin is worried by the fact that almost all Russian public organizations survive on foreign money. For Russian officials with their paranoia--whether real or merely a tribute to the current fashion in the Kremlin--and visions of plots by foreign secret services at every turn, the fact that money is coming in from abroad and isn't controlled by the state is obvious cause for concern. "Most of this money is normal, 'clean' money, of course," said one highly placed Kremlin official. "But we know full well that some of it, especially coming through Islamic organizations, is sent by extremists to fund terrorism and anti-state activities. And some of it comes from foreign intelligence services." This is about the most liberal opinion coming from the Kremlin. Finally, the third reason for the state's interest--though it won't admit it--is that these public organizations have become a serious force that is ever harder to ignore. The state became particularly aware of this when environmental organizations took only three months to collect 2.5 million signatures for a petition that a referendum be held on bringing foreign nuclear waste into Russia. The Kremlin's initial strategy was to build up loyal organizations in parallel with the "awkward" ones, which would gradually push genuine opponents of the authorities to the sidelines and then take their place at negotiations with government officials and act as representatives on the international scene. Pavlovsky later tried to explain the fact that major organizations--such as Memorial or the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers--weren't invited to take part in a forum held in June by saying that the organizers didn't want to frighten the authorities right away. In fact, the organizers tried to invite Alexander Auzan, the head of the Consumers Confederation, without inviting other members of the Narodnaya Assambleya. As a result, Auzan refused to take part. "The Kremlin's mistake is that civil society isn't the field in which the authorities can be virtually the sole player," Auzan said. "The consolidation process that Pavlovsky calls for is already under way. After what happened in June, it has been moving even faster. They've only made us stronger." The June attempt to build a loyal civil society didn't work, and the Kremlin found itself having to agree to cooperate with the "awkward" organizations . But, having agreed to play by rules not of their own making, the civil society organizations find themselves always one step behind. It's entirely possible that next week's forum could make what many NGO leaders have feared a reality, even though they continue working in the forum's organizing committee--namely, that the authorities will find a way to go back on their agreements and will simply use the independent organizations' names and authority to pursue their own aims. The first of these aims is purely organizational--to create an administrative structure to represent Russian civil society at the international level and to engage in dialogue with the president. Obviously, this structure has to be a "comfortable" one for Putin. Most unpleasant for the NGO leaders is that the Kremlin has already begun creating this structure, only not from above, but from below, by turning to regional associations with little knowledge of Moscow politics but with an intuitive, Soviet-style attraction to power. The second aim is ideological and propagandistic. Pavlovsky has been busy repeating it the last few weeks. After the events of 11 September, the idea goes, society's main task today is to help the state ensure national security and help broaden the president's powers. As for any idea of debate, Kremlin officials say that if anyone wants to raise controversial issues at the forum, they're free to do so and can speak their minds. The main thing is that by the end of the forum, the president should have a loyal, organized civil society ready to give all his policies its full support. /Dmitry Pinsker is a political correspondent for Yezhenedelny Zhurnal./ This article originally appeared in the 16-22 November issue of The Russia Journal, which is published weekly in Moscow and Washington. From inke@snafu.de Sun Nov 25 15:27:35 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:27:35 +0100 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Job_Offer_/_Le_Mois_de_la_Photo,_Montr=E9al,_?= Canada Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011125162735.00b30cc0@pop.snafu.de> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:00:32 -0500 From: Vox Subject: Offre d'emploi 04 Le Mois de la Photo =E0 Montr=E9al est =E0 la recherche d'une personne pr=EA= te =E0 relever le d=E9fi de la direction pour sa prochaine =E9dition qui se tiendra= en septembre 2003. Mis sur pied en 1987, le Mois de la Photo =E0 Montr=E9al pr=E9sente des expositions et des activit=E9s d'animation dans pr=E8s de 40 sites de la Vil= le de Montr=E9al. L'ambition de l'=E9v=E9nement est d'interroger des enjeux d'actualit=E9 de la photographie contemporaine =E0 travers les recherches de= s artistes, des commissaires d'exposition et des sp=E9cialistes de l'image. La biennale offre en effet un terrain propice aux =E9changes et aux d=E9bats en favorisant les rencontres et en permettant =E0 un public curieux de voir et de comprendre la photographie contemporaine. Responsabilit=E9s - assurer la direction artistique de l'=E9v=E9nement - repr=E9senter l'=E9v=E9nement aupr=E8s des m=E9dias et des intervenants= politiques - d=E9velopper les relations internationales - repr=E9senter l'=E9v=E9nement aupr=E8s des diff=E9rents partenaires - diriger la recherche de financement - superviser l'=E9quipe de travail - =E9laborer les =E9ch=E9anciers Exigences - connaissance des pratiques et de la th=E9orie de la photographie= contemporaine - connaissance du milieu de l'art contemporain - comp=E9tences certifi=E9es en histoire de l'art, arts visuels ou= photographie - exp=E9rience en direction de projets ou gestion d'organismes culturels - sens de l'initiative et de la concertation - aisance =E0 communiquer et =E0 r=E9diger (bilingue) - aptitudes essentielles en gestion de ressources humaines et du travail d'=E9quipe Disponibilit=E9 un mandat de deux ans qui d=E9bute le 15 janvier 2002, =E0 temps plein Les personnes int=E9ress=E9es doivent envoyer leur curriculum vit=E6, une s=E9lection de deux textes publi=E9s ainsi qu'un projet d'intention (400 mot= s maximum) proposant une orientation artistique pour le prochain Mois de la Photo =E0 Montr=E9al qui se tiendra en septembre 2003. Un comit=E9 repr=E9se= ntatif du milieu des arts visuels montr=E9alais s=E9lectionnera de 3 =E0 4= candidats qui seront convoqu=E9s en entrevue pour la s=E9lection finale. Votre candidature devra nous parvenir avant le 14 d=E9cembre 2001 au 460, ru= e Sainte-Catherine Ouest, local 320, Montr=E9al (Qu=E9bec) H3B 1A7. Pour de plus amples informations, pri=E8re de contacter Pierre Blache au (514) 390-0382. ___________________________________________________________ Le Mois de la photo =E0 Montr=E9al is looking for a person who is ready to t= ake on the challenge of directing the next biennale, to be held in September= 2003. Since 1987, Le Mois de la photo =E0 Montr=E9al has been organizing exhibitio= ns and other public events in more than 40 locations across the city of Montreal. The aim of the event is to question issues in contemporary photography by presenting the work of artists, curators, and other specialists in visual culture. The biennale offers formal opportunities for exchange and debate and gives its growing audience the chance to see and understand contemporary photography. Responsibilities: - giving artistic direction to the event; - representing the event to the media and government officials; - developing and maintaining international relations; - representing the event among its various partners; - directing fund-raising; - supervising the working team; - developing and meeting the production schedule. Requirements: - knowledge of the practice and theory of contemporary photography; - knowledge of the contemporary art scene; - qualifications in the history of art, the visual art and/or photography; - experience in project management or management of cultural organizations; - proven initiative and capacity to bring partners together; - communication and writing skills (French and English); - experience in managing human resources in an atmosphere of team-work. Availability: The mandate is full time for two years, beginning on January 15, 2002. Interested persons should send their resumes, two published texts, as well as an expression of interest (maximum 400 words) proposing an artistic direction for the next Mois de la Photo =E0 Montr=E9al, September 2003. A committee drawn from the visual arts community of Montreal will choose 3-4 candidates who will be asked to attend a final interview. Your application must be received before December 14, 2001, at 460 Sainte-Catherine Street West, Suite 320, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7. For additional information, please contact Pierre Blache at 514-390-0382. _ =20 VOX, centre de diffusion de la photographie Organisateur du Mois de la Photo =E0 Montr=E9al 460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, local 320 Montr=E9al (Qu=E9bec) H3B 1A7 CANADA www.voxphoto.com Phone : (514) 390-0382 Fax : (514) 390-8802=20 From Garrett@asquare.org Sun Nov 25 19:25:15 2001 From: Garrett@asquare.org (Garrett Lynch) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:25:15 +0100 Subject: [spectre] new work 'Mailstory' / nouveau travail 'Mailstory' Message-ID: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Hello everyone Some new(ish) work online (actually old work redone for the internet). A sound piece entitled "Mailstory" which is featured in the newly relaunched http://www.slackerbonding.com/ the review and link to the work, can be found by going to x-posed > gallery > mailstory or directly ... http://www.slackerbonding.com/x_posed.php?i=06&a=gallery/MailStoryby and the work can be found at ... http://www.asquare.org/mailstory/bottom.html +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Salut tous Nouveau travail (en fete travail re-fait pour l'internet) en son avec le nom "Mailstory" qui est choisi pour le galerie, a le tout nouveau http://www.slackerbonding.com/ le revue et lien a le travail, peut ete trouve a x-posed > gallery > mailstory ou directement ... http://www.slackerbonding.com/x_posed.php?i=06&a=gallery/MailStoryby et le travail peut ete trouve a ... http://www.asquare.org/mailstory/bottom.html +-----------------------------------------------------------+ a+ Garrett Lynch +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Garrett@asquare.org http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.intimacyandloneliness.f2s.com/ http://www.playpause.f2s.com/ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From chris@mediascot.org Sun Nov 25 23:42:55 2001 From: chris@mediascot.org (Chris Byrne) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:42:55 +0000 Subject: [spectre] New Media Scotland - 3 new projects Message-ID: New Media Scotland presents: Desktop Icons a programme of short digital films curated by Iliyana Nedkova 7.00pm, 30 November, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Tickets =A34/=A32.50 - CCA box office, 0141 352 4900 More information at http://www.mediascot.org Desktop Icons will be launched as part of New Media: Networks Conference at the CCA before touring to venues across the UK and Europe. Desktop Icons features short digital films and videos by Scottish and international artists, exploring the cross over of popular culture, media and new creative technologies. Artists include Chris Cunningham (England), Kristin Lucas (USA), Michael Maziere (England), Matt Hulse (Scotland), Phil Collins (Northern Ireland), Richard Fenwick (England), Beagles and Ramsay (Scotland), and many others from around the world. Desktop Icons is funded by the Scottish Arts Council and supported by Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; Media Arts Academy, Cologne; Atelier Jeunes Cineastes, Brussels; Partizan Midi Minuit, Paris; Zenith Publishing, Cambridge. ------------------ 01game+01application artist's software by Torsten Lauschmann Available for free download from http://host.mediascot.org Torsten Lauschmann is interested in how our perceptions of media are influenced by shifting contexts, in this case he has looked again at the art of programming. Lauschmann's concerns around the twin strategies of deconstruction and d=E9tournement are once more in evidence, but expressed through software. The artist has created two applications available to download as freeware. The first, 'Restart' from 1999, re-works the arcade classic Space Invaders with a novel twist. Torsten has created a new application, 'Diskompactor', specially for HOST. The software re-mixes any audio CD placed in your computer's CD-ROM drive. 'Diskompactor' was funded by Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Arts Council. ------------------ Blind Date Croatia/Scotland artists' exchange 5pm, 12 December, Collective Gallery, 22-28 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh 6pm, 13 December, Street Level, 26 King Street, Glasgow More information at http://www.mediascot.org In early 2001, 3 Scottish based artists: Kevin Kelly, Annemarie Copestake and Karen Cunningham travelled to Croatia to undertake short residencies. Each artist worked alongside a Croatian artist to produce work for exhibition in 3 two-person shows at the Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb. Two events celebrate the return visit by Croatian artists to Scotland, featuring talks and presentations by the artists and curators involved in the project. Copies of a beautiful full colour catalogue produced for the exhibitions will be available. This cultural 'Blind Date' is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery with the support of the British Council, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Collective Gallery and Street Level Photoworks. New Media Scotland works nationally to enable arts activity shaped by new technologies. We aim to support research and development in new media, and to increase the number and quality of opportunities for artists in this area. 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--=====================_14847734==_.ALT-- From czegledy@interlog.com Mon Nov 26 20:25:36 2001 From: czegledy@interlog.com (Nina Czegledy) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:25:36 +0100 Subject: [spectre] NEW MEDIA in CANADA Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties. NEW MEDIA IN CANADA: THREE UNIQUE EVENTS =46EATURING ART WORK, DISCUSSIONS, IMAGES AND SOUNDS BY LEADING NEW MEDIA ARTISTS, CURATORS, PRODUCERS AND DJS. =46REE TO THE PUBLIC www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb www.criticalmedia.ca Streaming info will be available on the websites. ********** WHEN: Saturday December 01 2001, 20:00 - 23:00 WHAT: Information technology and art event featuring new media art work, djs, live net sounds; nio live video mixing; generative rhythms and soundscapes, artists' videos, net-art, elounge, open mouse, cash bar WHERE: Old City Registry Building, Nicholas St. (corner Daly), Ottawa WHO: Presenters: Nichola Feldman-Kiss curator www.itac.ca/ItandArt; Dr. Marilyn Burgess, the Canada Council for the Arts; Sandra Acs, NSERC; Nancy Paterson, new media artist (the library, stockmarket skirt). Performers: Michelle Kasprzak artist, Jim Andrews, new media artist; =AEegistered =A9opyright; artengine.ca; selected net-art and artists videos HOSTED BY: The Ottawa Art Gallery ********** WHEN: Sunday December 02 2001 10:00 - 17:00 WHAT: Symposium - Curating New Media Organized by the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB) and Critical Media and hosted by the Ottawa Art Gallery WHERE: Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa WHO: Jean Gagnon; Kathleen Pirrie-Adams; Catherine Richards; Liane Davison; Nichola Feldman-Kiss; Sarah Cook; Nina Czegledy; Skawennati Tricia Fragnito; Michelle Kasprzak TOPICS: Three sessions, centered on the key areas of Production, Distribution, and Consumption. The presentations will focus primarily on inclusive, overall issues of producing, presenting and experiencing new media in Canada, illustrated by novel approaches, practical examples and will indicate directions to take in the future. RSVPs essential: Ottawa Art Gallery 613-233-8699, ext. 221 ********* WHEN: Sunday December 02 17 00 - 23 00 WHAT: elounge / open mouse / cash bar WHERE: Old City Registry Building, Nicholas St. (corner Daly), Ottawa WHO: 4 turntable set - djs Jeff Waye and Louis Braden, ninjatune From info@kulturamt.oldenburg.de Mon Nov 26 12:29:23 2001 From: info@kulturamt.oldenburg.de (Kulturamt der Stadt Oldenburg) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:29:23 +0200 Subject: [spectre] exh. Cyberfem Spirit - Spirit of Data, Oldenburg/D Message-ID: Pressemitteilung Ausstellungsank=FCndigung "Cyberfem Spirit - Spirit of Data" Er=F6ffnung der Ausstellung: 30. November 2001, 19 Uhr, 20 Uhr PowerPoint Performance 'Microsoft Me' von Heather Cassils und Cathy Davies Dauer der Ausstellung: 1. Dezember 2001 - 13. Januar 2002 Ursula Biemann (CH) - Heather Cassils / Cathy Davies (USA) - The Gender Changer Academy (NL, S, CA, ZA, HK) - Diane Ludin / Francesca da Rimini / Agnese Trocchi / (USA, I, AUS) - Jen Liu (USA) - Jenny Marketou (GR) - Die Patinnen Teil II (D) - Cornelia Sollfrank (D) - Pernille Spence (GB) - Linda Wallace (AUS) Konzept: Helene von Oldenburg, kuratiert von: Rosanne Altstatt und Helene von Oldenburg Mit dem Begriff "Cyberfeminismus" k=F6nnen feministische Strategien, Innovationen und Kritiken, die sich in Relation zum digitalen Medium definieren, bezeichnet werden. Cyberfeminismus ist ein sich in permanenter Bewegung befindliches Netzwerk aus Theorie, Politik und k=FCnstlerischer Praxis, das immer wieder neu definiert und potentiell durch jede zus=E4tzliche Position ver=E4ndert wird. Die Ausstellung "Cyberfem Spirit - Spirit of Data" gibt demzufolge keine einheitliche Definition des Cyberfeminismus vor, sondern die unterschiedlichen k=FCnstlerischen Positionen werden die Koordinaten in der aktuell stattfindenden cyberfeministischen Ortsbestimmung verschieben. W=E4hrend der Ausstellung gibt es mehrere Aktivit=E4ten von K=FCnstlerinnengruppen. Heather Cassils und Cathy Davies pr=E4sentieren sich am Er=F6ffnungsabend in einer PowerPoint Performance als Klone von Bill Gates. Die Gender Changer Academy veranstaltet am 11./12. Dezember 2001 einen Hardware Computer Workshop f=FCr einen unkonventionellen Umgang mit der Maschine. Und zur Finissage am 12. Januar 2002 werden die DJs Die Patinnen Teil II sich pers=F6nlich die Ehre geben, zum Kurzfilm 'la storia di giradischi a Madame Hu' live ihre K=FCnste in krimineller Elektronik zu zeigen. In der Ausstellung stellt Jenny Marketou mit 'TaystesROOM :www.taystes.net' ein Open Source Tool f=FCr einen eigenverantwortlichen Umgang mit =DCberwachung im Netz zur Verf=FCgung. 'eurovision' von Linda Wallace ist eine interactive Videoinstallation zum globalen Einfluss wissenschaftlich-technischer europ=E4ischer Medienexporte. Cornelia Sollfrank f=FCgt mit 'improved television' einer Reihe von Interventionen in ein Musikst=FCck von Arnold Sch=F6nberg eine cyberfeministische Variante hinzu. 'i look up ... i look down' ist ein Video von Pernille Spence =FCber die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit von Schwerkraft. Im Video 'Remote Sensing' zeichnet Ursula Biemann eine Topographie des globalen Sexhandels im Zeitalter geografischer Informationssysteme. Die Arbeit von Jen Liu 'world domination projekt in RGB' ber=FChrt das Thema virtueller Macht. Das Edith-Ru=DF-Haus f=FCr Medienkunst realisiert mit "Cyberfem Spirit" die Ausstellungsetappe einer Veranstaltungsreihe zum Thema Cyberfeminismus, die im Dezember in Bremen, 7.-9. Dezember 2001, mit dem Laboratorium "technics of cyber<>feminism ", Frauen.Kultur.Labor Thealit und in Hamburg, 13.-16. Dezember 2001, mit der Konferenz "very Cyberfeminist International", Old Boys Network stattfindet. In Kooperation mit CONSTANT vzw. Vereniging voor kunst en media, Brussels (BE), Les P=E9n=E9lopes, Paris (F), MAKE, the organisation for women in the arts, formerly The Women's Art Library, London (GB). Gef=F6rdert von der NORD MEDIA, der Oldenburgischen Landesbank und with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union, Directorate General Education and Culture. Bildmaterial rufen Sie bitte ab unter www.edith-russ-haus.de/presse-c/. =46=FCr weitere Fragen stehen wir Ihnen gern zur Verf=FCgung. From Michael@Mandiberg.com Tue Nov 27 06:57:16 2001 From: Michael@Mandiberg.com (Michael Mandiberg) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:57:16 +0200 Subject: [spectre] calls x 3 -- a digest of calls for work Message-ID: hi all, i've started maintaining a digest of calls for work, and i thought i would open it up to the various communities that most of the calls are catalogued from. the calls come from net mailing lists (rhizome, nettime, thingist, franklin furnace), net sources (artswire), and calls sent to me directly, etc... the traffic is about two emails a week, with a range of 1 to 5 calls in each digest. this is a one time spam. if you want to join, go to http://theredproject.com/calls and enter your email. feel free to forward this. anyone and everyone is free to join also, i encourage you to email any calls for work to calls@theredproject.com, and I will post them in the digest. peace, m n.b. your email will not be used for anything other than sending you the calls digest. http://theredproject.com/calls calls@theredproject.com ------- Deadline: November 2001 Artist, Writers - how the events of September 11 have altered your behavior -- toward others, your city, your daily life -- how the events changed your perception of reality and the world around you REACTIONS, Exit Art, New York City We are living in a historical moment. The essence of life has changed. The world's psyche has been irrevocably altered. In this new era, Exit Art, as a cultural space near the World Trade Center, feels an obligation to interpret or translate the feelings of a larger community into a collective expression of analysis. We want to know how the events of September 11 have altered your behavior -- toward others, your city, your daily life -- how the events changed your perception of reality and the world around you. A change of behavior is a change of culture, which is why Exit Art is organizing a global project called REACTIONS. This project aims to be an international response from both inside and outside the art world, a reflection of how these events have changed your life. We want to hear and share your reactions. We are inviting you to participate in REACTIONS by submitting your response on a flat, 8-1/2 x 11" sheet of paper. Your submission can take the form of a letter, text, drawing, poem, painting, collage, photograph, or any other format that can fit on a piece of paper. REACTIONS will be an exhibition on view at Exit Art in New York City from January 12 - March 30, 2002. All responses will be exhibited. Your visual and poetic work will be put into a context of historical witness. We hope that like us, you feel a sense of urgency to respond and participate in this necessary, collective expression. Your effort will be valued; your voice will be heard. Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Co-Directors, Exit Art Jodi Hanel and Bibi Marti Exhibition Coordinators SUBMISSIONS Submit your 8-1/2 x 11" response (or European letter-size equivalent) via post, email, or in person. Please note that your submissions will be kept by Exit Art and will not be returned. By submitting responses, you are giving Exit Art all rights to your work, which may include publication and tour. Responses must be received by December 15, 2001. Three-dimensional or oversized responses will NOT be accepted. Please mail responses to Attention Reactions, Exit Art 548 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Or email reactions@exitart.org EXIT ART is - A nationally and internationally renowned site for innovative and experimental exhibitions, performances, and multi-media programs. - An interdisciplinary laboratory for contemporary culture that brings artists, curators, and audiences together to explore new ideas. - A place that challenges widely held and accepted ideas about culture and society and is regarded by contemporary art audiences as a vital source of new ideas and new work. - Committed to presenting the work of young and emerging artists, and to placing their work within the context of contemporary art issues. - An independent view of American culture. Exit Art, a non-profit cultural center in New York, has charted the new in art and contemporary culture since it's founding by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo in 1982. Over the course of more than 19 years, Exit Art has been presenting groundbreaking exhibitions on visual art, design, performance, popular culture and media, bringing under-recognized concepts and art practices to a larger public locally and globally. Deadline: December 15, 2001 Artists whose focus is sculpture International Residency Program, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Sculpture Space is an international residency program providing access to a specialized studio facility for professional artists whose focus is sculpture. There are no geographic or stylistic restrictions. The Studio is located in downtown Utica, New York, in proximity to light industry, and various fabrication shops. The facility consists of 5,500 square feet of open studio, and one 400 square foot private studio for special projects. The space is outfitted with concrete floors, a two ton system of traveling hoists, and extra wide overhead doors. The 3/4 acres of land that surround the building can supplement indoor studio space in the summer. An outdoor work pad is equipped with a 50' monorail hoist. Depending on the scale of the work, a maximum of four artists can be accommodated at one time. Each year twenty new artists are selected for two full month residencies each year. Each artits receives a $2000 stipend to help pay their residency expenses. A subsidized three bedroom apartment is available at low cost to artists within walking distance of the studio. Food is the artists' responsibility and there is a fully equipped kitchen in both the apartment and studio. The deadline for application is December 15th of each year. For complete details, visit http://www.sculpturespace.org Deadline: January 1, 2002 (extended) Proposals on all aspects of new media and writing, especially by those whose work is based in new media, on or off the internet Incubation 2002, Nottingham Trent University, UK Extended Deadline Call for Proposals for Incubation 2002 to be held on 15-17 July 2002 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ We invite proposals for Incubation2, the leading international conference on Writing and the Internet. For our second conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and telecommunications and particularly invite contributions that address the way new media create new potentials and re-define the acts of writing and reading. We welcome proposals on all aspects of new media and writing, especially by those whose work is based in new media, on or off the internet. PANELS In response to several queries, we would like to confirm that we welcome suggestions for panels as long as they include a nominated organiser. DEADLINE EXTENDED In view of the difficulties since 11 September, the deadline for proposals has been extended to 1st January 2002 Proposals must be submitted via webform. The form, and full details of the conference can be found at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ INCUBATION ARCHIVE 2000 For three days in July 2000 trAce provided a platform for the most essential voices on the web today. Writers, critics, theorists and web-artists came from around the world to speak at Incubation at The Nottingham Trent University. Incubation Archive is the online record of this dynamic event. It includes audio, text and electronic versions of presentations and performances; information about contributors; a gallery of photographs taken over the three days, and the background of the conference itself. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/archive/2000/index.htm -- # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net From eurindie@yahoo.com Tue Nov 27 21:07:47 2001 From: eurindie@yahoo.com (Aleksandar Gubas) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:07:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [spectre] Mikrokino FEST 2002 Call For Entries Message-ID: <20011127210747.12945.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> CALL FOR ENTRIES Mikrokino FEST 2002 is an international short film festival to be held for the second time from February 22-26th, 2002 in Belgrade, Serbia. Mikrokino FEST is organized by LOW-FI VIDEO (Belgrade-based organization promoting short, independent and alternative films), the leading Eastern European microcinema programmer. LOW-FI VIDEO was launched in 1997, and to this date it has screened almost 500 Serbian and more than 160 foreign short film. The success of Mikrokino FEST 2001 where 80 short films, 2 interactive CD-ROM projects and one full-length feature film, from five continents, were presented to the Serbian audience logically led to Mikrokino FEST 2002. Mikrokino FEST 2002 will be a competitive festival with two symbolic awards: 1. Mikrokino Audience Award 2. LOW-FI VIDEO's Mikrokino2002 Reward Mikrokino FEST 2002 is looking for titles from all over the world. The categories are: 1. Short narrative (drama, comedy, action, any other genre) 2. Short animation (any kind) 3. Short experimental 4. Documentary 5. Internet and CD-ROM film (made primarily for the Internet or CD-ROM presentation) There is no entry fee. There is no censorship. Each film will be previewed by the preview jury, which will select the films to be shown at the Mikrokino FEST 2002. Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2002 Entry form and declaration can be downloaded at: www.lowfivideo.com/mikrokino mailto: mikrokino@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 From rafael@csi.com Tue Nov 27 21:21:31 2001 From: rafael@csi.com (Rafael Lozano-Hemmer) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:21:31 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Life 4.0, Jury Statement Message-ID: JURY STATEMENT The jury for the Life 4.0 competition - Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman and Nell Tenhaaf - reviewed 35 artworks that utilise artificial life concepts and techniques. These pieces were pre-selected from a group of 63 submissions received from 18 countries. The first prize of the Life 4.0 competition is shared by Scott Draves for Electric Sheep, a collectively generated screensaver, and Haruki Nishijima for Remain in Light, an interactive sound and light installation. This latter project was also the public's choice at the presentation of the awards in Madrid. The third prize is awarded to the Web-based artwork Novus Extinctus by the collective Transnational Temps (Andy Deck, =46red Adam, and Ver=F3nica Perales). =46IRST PRIZE EX AEQUO (US$4,250 each) Electric Sheep Scott Draves, USA http://electricsheep.org http://draves.org Electric Sheep, named after Philip K. Dick's famous novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", aims to realise the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the Internet. A screen-saver serves as a shared visual space, where clients offer computational power to generate animations or so-called "sheep". These are individual graphic entities based on a 65-number string of code randomly chosen by the server, rendered using the artist's fractal flame software (future versions will implement other generative animation software). Users can download the flock of sheep at any time and monitor the rendering of new ones - a permanent digital lambing season. User nicknames are stored for those who want to muster their own livestock. Though disk space limits the flock to about thirty live specimens, users can vote to extend the lives of their favourite sheep. The artificial life premise of this work functions effectively at both the metaphorical and software design levels: generative algorithms allow us to breed an online farm of digital "sheep". The work is strongly anchored in the ethics of freely distributed and participatory software development processes: creative energies firing new graphic beings come from donated computing cycles, and many enthusiastic shepherds have formed an active developer community. Thus, the "electric sheep farm" offers fertile ground for a new digital and social knowledge commons. Remain in Light Haruki Nishijima, Japan We live surrounded by invisible electromagnetic waves. Wireless transmission signals create a dense network around us, a communicative tapestry that remains invisible. The Japanese artist Haruki Nishijima has visually represented these signals that surround us. In his installation Remain in Light the user becomes an entomologist who goes out to hunt for sounds equipped with a head set, a backpack handcrafted in the form of a traditional wooden collector=B4s box, and a butterfly net that doubles as an antenna. While walking through the city, the user captures fragments of sounds from media such as cellular phones or radio. In the installation site, the box that has recorded the sounds is opened for viewing, and is networked to a computer that coordinates a visual display. This display is composed of firefly-like lights projected on multiple transparent screens; each light corresponding to an individual sound. The screens are made of the same material that is used in Japan as insect screening. When the viewer approaches a projection screen, the floating points of light scatter, and as they hit the edge of the screen their corresponding sound is triggered. This is a poetic installation that binds an urban soundscape with an imaginary ecology. THIRD PRIZE (US$1,500) Novus Extinctus Transnational Temps (Andy Deck, Fred Adam, Veronica Perales), USA., =46rance, Spain http://www.artcontext.org/novus The artists have made an extensive Internet artwork that includes a taxonomy of Web domain names, a search engine that sorts through this strange data, marketing slogans, user input into the site, and mysterious graphics that seem to be constructed from code. The key idea and message of Novus Extinctus is that the expansion of human presence on the World Wide Web parallels a frightening decline in biodiversity in our real world habitats: the number of Web domain names registered climbs daily but so does the number of extinct species. And so, to build the metaphor, domain names on the site are associated with Latin species names. When one selects a domain name and processes it, this association appears and also links to real animal sites, like TigerDirect.com. The marketing spoof continues in the Free Domain search engine for finding domain names that have recently become available through extinction, and in testimonials where the artists appear among others, praising the usefulness of the engine. The sociopolitical astuteness of this work is summed up in the artists' statement that our growing data bank of genetic codes, as in the Human Genome Project, cannot in any way compensate for the loss of species. Following from this perception, the site marvellously undermines the platitude that computer code and genetic code are somehow interchangeable, reminding us that an easy idea can become a dangerous one. This work was developed with the support of the Electrography Museum in Cuenca, Spain. HONORARY MENTIONS (alphabetical order) Relazioni Emergenti Mauro Annunziato, Piero Pierucci, Italy Entering the space, one encounters feather-like abstract patterns spreading on the screen accompanied with sound. As the participant moves his/her hand on the screen, the generation of graphic patterns follows the hand movement. Although they are not given life-like forms, the graphical and acoustical patterns evolve autonomously according to the genetic information and algorithm that allows them to mutate. A participant can freely interact with them by guiding and nurturing them, as the hand position fosters germination. The combination of continuous autonomous evolution and the transplantation by participants produces distributed local communities of patterns with subtle variety and beauty. The experience is as if one is given a green thumb in a digital garden. The piece invites participants to enjoy creating images with their bodies, showing the potentials of alife concepts not only in art-making but also in offering the joy of art and design experiences for many people. The Table: Childhood Max Dean and Raffaello D'Andrea, Canada and USA. Table is an ordinary-looking piece of furniture, something you might have in your office, that unexpectedly displays autonomous movement in response to someone entering its environment. The artificial behaviour that is built into this work is simple in one sense, because the table just glides across the floor of a small room that it can't get out of. But it is also unpredictable and complex. For example, it picks only one person from a group to respond to, it learns the body language of the individual it initiates a relationship with, and it also moves when there is no one in the room. The interaction is controlled through a vision system that uses a video camera and custom software. The Table's visible behaviour might be described as teasing: it makes small inviting movements when a person first comes into the room, it parries the person's movements as if it were challenging her or him (in fact, if a person is unresponsive the table becomes more active and enticing), and it might even block the doorway as the viewer is trying to leave through it. The Table: Childhood was a popular participant in the Venice Biennial, and its maturation process into adolescence and adulthood continues. Castenedize!: Dingir 2.0 Ivor Diosi, E/Bone, Slovak Republic Ivor Diosi combines projected virtual entities and primitivistic sculptural elements in a multi-user interactive installation space. Optical trackers and sound sensors monitor participant body motions and speech, using data thus gathered to trigger and catalyse computer graphics avatar behaviours. The screened view of the world offered to participants conveys a simple but effective impression of enmeshed realities: multiagent software animates playful, responsive swarms of graphic creatures. One of the challenges in mixed reality works is to create a convincing visual register for the aesthetics of combined real and virtual worlds: how can we build coherent relationships between solidly rooted physical objects and their weightless, computer-generated counterparts? Inspired by Casta=F1eda cosmology, Dingir 2.0 embeds its sensors and speakers in hulks of simulated organic appendages which, in the physically and virtually morphed universe displayed to participants, enter into strange resonance with the digital avatar swarms. Breathe Jessica Findley and Margot Jacobs, USA These two artists have collaborated several times on interactive works, with an interest in creating experiences that invoke emotional responses. In the environment Breathe, the viewer has to enter a chamber made of white fabric where he or she lies down facing upward. A force sensitive resistor is strapped around the chest and then the person relaxes, breathing deeply. The resistor measures the flow of breath, and this is translated into a signal sent to two small motors that turn a pair of dowels. The person lying below sees two sets of strings moving up and down between the dowels: one follows their breathing, and the other plays back the breath of the previous occupant. A microchip coordinates all of the movement and records the breath. This mechanism generates a simple but elegant method for looping one person's experience into the next person's, or weaving together the breathing rhythm of an infinite string of people. This is a very accessible feedback system built with an intelligent economy of means. Skeletal Reflections Chico MacMurtrie, USA Sooner or later, our world will be co-inhabited with humanoid robots with elegant looking yet robust bodies and intelligence. That is what robots such as Honda's PINO or Sony's ASIMO demonstrate. However, Chico MacMurtrie's Skeletal Reflections is quite different. The autonomous robot is designed intentionally as a skeleton without skin, with artistic taste. It simulates human beings as a machine, with a system that controls muscles. When a human demonstrates a posture, the robot recognizes it using the motion capture software, and mimics it. Gestures that we know from paintings depicting historical moments such as praying or elegant bowing, which have been associated with social, psychological, spiritual activities of human beings and legitimated in art history, become strangely out of place when they are convincingly performed by the skeletal robot. The piece deliberately and ironically raises questions about the relationship between humans and robots, and the way we have represented and recognized our emotions through postures in the course of history. Eden Jon McCormack, Australia Eden is an interactive self-generating artificial ecosystem. McCormack uses a cellular automata model of A-life, with creatures in constant evolution simulating the characteristics of a real ecology. The creatures search for food, confront predators, and reproduce with other creatures. Simultaneously, they move through their environment transmitting and listening for each other's sounds, generating the soundscape that we hear while experiencing Eden. The survival of the virtual world depends on the presence of people in the installation space, because their movement feeds the creatures. The artificial world is projected onto two translucent screens that form an "x" in the space. This original configuration creates transparency and depth effects that enrich the reading of the work. Eden illustrates the emergent properties and open nature of A-life systems. Machine autiste-artiste Samuel Neuhardt, France This young French artist's work conveys a critical approach to robotics and artificial life, where new technologies are often acclaimed as improving communication and exchange, and the cloning mythology tends to focus on propagating ideal and idealised creatures. Many robotics artists today strive to build virtuoso artificial artists: in the lineage of Vaucanson's eighteenth century clavecin-player, increasingly accomplished robots delight us as they paint, play music, write poetry, etc. Neuhardt's "machine autiste-artiste" is animated but at the same time totally refractory to communication. It rocks mechanically in a corner, ignoring all contact with the outside world. Its patently, noisily mechanical movement bleakly conveys an undeniably human pathology. The artist's twin or clone, designed to reflect the introversion and obsession he experiences during creative activity, thus acts as a disturbingly, chillingly intriguing specimen of artificial life. There is no empathy at work here, just irrefutable recognition of the state of non-communication that - like it or not - is also a vital component of human behaviour. INCENTIVE FOR NEW PRODUCTIONS (US$5,000 each) The Life 4.0 jury has also split the first "production incentive" award designed to help development of new A-life artworks in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The two winning proposals represent very different artistic approaches to the field. Cuarteto de Cuerda Rob=F3tico Carlos Corpa, Basilio Mart=ED, David Cabellos, Spain One of the most compelling aspects of this group's robots is that they are born as part of a performative "community" --breaking the stereotype of a solitary anthropomorphic robot developed to serve humans. The robots are highly specialised individuals whose contribution to a collective performance of visual art and music proposes new machine aesthetics. Carlos' work seeks to contrast high-art elements like the string quartet with festive events closer to a popular carnival of excess. The gesticulating robotic performers will grind and strum devotedly at authentic, finely crafted musical instruments to generate sounds for a 21st century salon of decidedly concrete music. To focus solely on the parodic elements of the work might be to miss the fact that the mechanical spasms of these aspiring maestros, these would-be Paco de Lucias, call into question our perception of robots as utilitarian instruments capable of executing precise pre-calculated movements. The jury felt that the Robotic String Quartet may be taken to a next level of chaotic sophistication by supporting their development. El Continuo Enrique Rosas Gonz=E1lez, Mexico Enrique Rosas Gonz=E1lez is a Mexican artist who is exploring the relationship between art science and technology in a thoroughly renaissance spirit, covering fields as diverse as electricity, electronics and botany. For the new Life 4.0 category to encourage new productions the artist has proposed "El Continuo", a complex, dynamic electrical and electronic sculpture. Enrique Rosas is interested in the cognitive processes of pattern recognition that we use to decipher reality, but from a very unique standpoint: he intends to relate scientific studies of matter with other more esoteric fields of knowledge such as archetypal memory and futurology. "El Continuo" clearly evokes Marcel Duchamp, particularly his famous "Bachelor Machine" considered by many people to be a metaphoric model of artificial life. "El Continuo" connects many elements including a plant, 24 networked computers, and two rotating discs that generate sparks and become praxinoscopes, those XIX century proto-cinematographic optical apparatuses that recreate the illusion of movement from static images. Couched in enigmatic language, this project reminds us of alchemical investigations of another era, which aimed to connect matter with the energetic dimension of life. The technological sophistication and highly personal aesthetics of Enrique Rosas's work appealed strongly to the Life 4.0 Jury. =46urther information http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida4 -- From info@mediainmotion.de Tue Nov 27 14:37:22 2001 From: info@mediainmotion.de (daxl-fuelepp) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:37:22 +0200 Subject: [spectre] kroatische Kuenstlerinnen in Berlin Message-ID: Einladung zur Ausstellung 2 mal Donassy ERDE LUFT WASSER MENSCH LEBENSRAUM INFORMATION GESELlSCHAFT REFLEKTION Kunst Mode in 2D & 3D =20 der kroatischen K=FCnstlerinnen Branka und Dunja Donassy am Donnerstag, dem 29. Nov. 2001, 18:30 - 21:00 im IFS (Institut f=FCr Sprachvermittlung), Potsdamer Str. 98, 10785 Berlin (Tiergarten) Eine Veranstaltung der Botschaft der Republik Kroatien und des Instituts f=FCr Sprachvermittlung und internationalen Kulturaustausc= h -- --------------------------------------------------------------- m e d i a i n m o t i o n berlin/zagreb --------------------------------------------------------------- Ingeborg Fuelepp - Heiko Daxl if@mediainmotion.de hd@mediainmotion.de --------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Web-Sites media in motion berlin: http://www.mediainmotion.de VideoKunstMultiMedia Berlin: http://tat.bln.de/vm/ Media-Scape Zagreb: http://www.arhitekt.hr/casa --------------------------------------------------------------- G O R T , K L A A T U B A R A D A N I K T O --------------------------------------------------------------- =20 From abroeck@transmediale.de Wed Nov 28 08:39:12 2001 From: abroeck@transmediale.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:39:12 +0200 Subject: [spectre] xing #3.2 -ingl. NETMAGE FESTIVAL/DIESEL AWARD/XING - Bologna 6-9 dec Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:22:27 +0100 Subject: xing #3.2 -ingl. NETMAGE FESTIVAL/DIESEL AWARD/XING - Bologna 6-9 dec =46rom: XING info XING presents NETMAGE 02 CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE IMAGES ON ART, MEDIA, COMMUNICATION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL produced in collaboration with Diesel Bologna December 6th - 9th, 2001 =46rom the 6th through the 9th of December, the city of Bologna will host the second edition of Netmage, an international festival dedicated to celebrating innovation in the vast field of contemporary visual arts. Netmage 02 will focus primarily on multimedia design - on images and on cutting-edge "styling." Our aim is a celebration of the new, the innovative, the talented. A multiscreen projector, developed explicitly for this event, will enable the viewing of original audiovisual materials produced ad hoc for the first ever European prize in video-jing, the artistic medium which utilizes web, CD rom, dvd, and video clips in exciting live performances before an audience. =20 Over the course of its four days, Netmage will serve as the meeting point for young creative minds and talented multi-media artists from all over Europe. The 2001 edition is produced in collaboration with Diesel, thus enabling the creation of the Netmage Diesel Award. This prize will be awarded on the fourth day of the festival by a jury of experts. The first and second prize consist in the funding to produce an original showreel of the artists' work. Every night, special guests will perform live electronic and eletroacoustic music. Specifically, three international groups, renowned for their fame in this field, are invited: the Norsq (Paris), the Farmersmanuelle (Mego - Vienna) and the Dat Politics (Paris). Performances which make innovative use of images are also in store. The theatrical group Motus will debut the new edition of their Rooms project (Room 101), an experiment in digital imaging. Rooms is installation; at once theatre and cinema; real, hyperreal and fiction. In this performance, Motus creates for us two parallel worlds: a hotel room and a second "digital" room, which changes and interacts with the first. Netmage will also host a series of afternoon workshops (illustrating international scenarios, involving screenings and discussions) led by specially invited production teams. Among these, London's Onedotzero and Paris' Batofar. We will close with a workshop illustrating the birth of the new Italian art scene curated by Rome's Ala Est . Every day, the curious festival-goer will have the opportunity to browse materials related to artists and guests in a special consulting library. Netmage was created and realized by Xing, a team active in Bologna, Milan, Rome and Paris, dedicated to celebrating the arts without artificially-imposed boundaries: music, performance, visual arts, cinema, and communications media. Sponsors Diesel, Tele + D+, RAI SAT, AFAA Association Fran=E7aise d'Action Artistique, Minist=E8re des Affaires Etrang=E8res , The British Council, Com= une di Bologna, Kataweb Art, ZeroEdizioni, Blow Up, RAI RADIO2 Weekendance, Gianni Grassili Sound Service, Adcom Where Scuderie Bentivoglio- Piazza Verdi - Bologna Info + booking Netmage festival (only from 2 to 9 December 2001) Scuderie Bentivoglio - Piazza Verdi 2 - Bologna tel ++39.051.223192 e-mail info@netmage.it info@xing.it =20 websites www.netmage.it www.xing.it www.diesel.com press office Xing Bologna Silvia Fanti tel ++39.335.5727161 =20 e-mail pressoff@xing.it press office Diesel Monica Salmaso tel ++39.02.70151123 e-mail Monica_Salmaso@diesel.com __________________________________________ PROGRAM THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER H15 WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY Batofar (Parigi) H 22 VJ CONTEST -Reel Crew / Dj Seam (UK) -Mordka / Jake Mandell (USA) -Visual Kitchen Vzw / Styrofoam (B) H 23 VJ CONTEST -Sun Wu-Kung (I) -lleuchtmittell / Bernd Karner (Heimelektro Ulm) (D) -Visomat Inc. / Dj Skate (labstyle/berlin) (D) H 00.30 GUEST Norscq (F) Presented by Batofar FRIDAY 7 DICEMBRE H15 WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY Onedotzero (Londra) H 22 VJ CONTEST -Ogino Knauss (I) -Kar=F8 Goldt / Rashim (A) -VDJ Safy Sniper (D/Israel) H 23 VJ CONTEST -D-Fuse / DJ Fibla (UK) -Exceeda / Dj Tom Guest (Steady Beats) (UK) -Qubo Gas (F) H 24 Onedotzero video screening: J-Star H 01.30 GUEST Farmersmanuelle (A) SATURDAY 8 DICEMBRE H15 WORKSHOP PLUG&PLAY Roma H 22.30 VJ CONTEST Assegnazione di Netmage Diesel Awards H 23.00 SANTI SAULE (I/B) Super8 vj-iing H 23.30 VJ CONTEST Show 2=B0-1=B0 vincitori Vjing H 00.30 GUEST Dat politics (F) Presented by Batofar ___________________________ SPECIAL EVENT ( EVERY DAY FROM 6TH TO 9TH DECEMBER): Motus (I): Room 101 Scuderie Bentivoglio - 1=B0 piano: Thursday 6 =20 H 21.00 e H 23.00 Friday7 H 21.00 e H 23.00 Saturday 8 H 21.00 e H 23.00 Sunday 9 H 21.00 From inke@snafu.de Wed Nov 28 13:36:18 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:36:18 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Assistant Professor, Theory and History of Art, Ottawa Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20011128143618.00912390@pop.snafu.de> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:18:57 -0500 From: Catherine Richards Subject: "please post to the spectre list" http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/arts-visuels/eng/english_depteng.html Department of Visual Arts University of Ottawa THEORY AND HISTORY OF ART ASSISTANT PROFESSOR The Department of Visual Arts of the University of Ottawa announces the opening of a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Theory and History of art. The Department offers a B.A. with Concentration in Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts programmes which are committed to studio practice and theory. Requirements: * Ph.D. or equivalent with a specialization in modern art and contemporary art * Teaching and research experience * Publications * The candidate will teach in English and in French * Salary will be determined according to the Collective Agreement of the University of Ottawa Starting date: July 1st, 2002. Deadline for applications: December 1st, 2001 or until appointment of a suitable candidate. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Equity is a University Policy. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae, examples of recent published works and the names of three referees. The letters from the referees should be sent directly to the Chair of the Department: Tibor Egervari, Chairman Department of Visual Arts University of Ottawa P.O. Box 450, Stn A Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 For more information, please contact us at : finearts@uottawa.ca, by internet: www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/arts-visuels, or by phone at the following number : (613) 562-5868. -- From mpandil@soros.org.mk Wed Nov 28 14:17:03 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:17:03 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Program of UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION Message-ID: <20011128151235.FBA4.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION - December, 01 - 02, 2001,=20 Museum of Macedonia,=20 Str.Kurciska b.b., Skopje, Republic of Macedonia CONFERENCE Saturday, 01.12.2001. 11:00 - Opening of the Conference & Promotion of the book=20 "Understanding the Balkans", 2000.=20 11.30 - Sandra DUNGACIU (Romania) Uses, misuses and abuses of the concept of globalization in the Balkans 12:00 - Stevan VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia) Haunted by the Balkan ghosts 12:30 - Bojan Ivanov (Macedonia) Globulization 13:00 - Ferid MUHIC (Macedonia) Balancing between Balkanization and Globalization =20 13:30 - Discussion 14:00 - Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia) Irreversibility of Globalisation? 14:30 - Charis MELETIADIS (Greece) Balkans and the European Integration Proces: The construction of the cultural argument 15:00 - Discussion PRESENTATION & PROJECTS Sunday, 02.12.2001. PRESENTATION 11:00 - Nada SVOB DOKIC (Croatia) Redefining Cultural Identities: "South-eastern Europe" 11:30 - Alexander Kiossev (Bulgaria) Nexus 12:00 - Walter van der Cruijsen (Holland) European creative network; Draft for a trans-cultural network in East-Eur= ope 12:30 - Discussion PROJECTS 13:00 - Zoran NASKOVSKI & Vesna PAVLOVIC (Yugoslavia) 1. CROSSOVER, video, 2000. 13:30 - Ventsislav ZANKOV (Bulgaria) The Balkans belong with us=85.. Where do we? 14:00 - Zoran PANTELIC, "APSOLUTNO" (Yugoslavia) In the Balkans, video 2.5 min., 1998. 17:00 - 18.00 - Basket Ball Game between the participants of the Conference ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From email@ctrlaltdel.org Wed Nov 28 14:25:30 2001 From: email@ctrlaltdel.org (Peter Luining) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:25:30 +0100 Subject: [spectre] [artcart] Multiple Personalities Message-ID: <3C04F3DA.B033A9EC@ctrlaltdel.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES: AN ONSITE / ONLINE GROUP EXHIBITION OF ARTIST MULTIPLES & EDITIONS An Onsite / Online Group Exhibition of Artist Multiples & Editions Link: http://www.artcart.de/multiples/ + http://www.hainesgallery.com/ artcart is pleased to announce the participation of our artists Valéry Grancher, Mario Hergueta and Peter Luining in the group exhibition "Multiple Personalities" - organized by HAINES GALLERY in San Francisco. Throughout history, the multiple has been seen as a vehicle for information and way to de-emphasize the obsession and privileges of the art "object". Utilizing the mass-distribution and communication of the Internet, innovative printing equipment and model building software, net artists have continued the philosophy of the art multiple to the highest degree. Essentially, everything that is created on the net is a multiple. Technology has given artists the means to truly dematerialize art. Haines Gallery presents its first group exhibition which is comprised solely of artist multiples and editions. This show includes work by Marina Abramovic, Polly Apfelbaum, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Rob Craigie, Michael Daines, Mark Dion, Douglas Gordon, Valéry Grancher, Ann Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Mario Hergueta, Barbara Kruger, Peter Luining, Michael Mandiberg, MTAA, David Nash, Dennis Oppenheim, Alan Rath, Jonathan Seliger, John F. Simon, Jr., Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Fred Tomaselli, Mary Tsiongas, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will exist both physically and virtually, comprised of work by traditional and experimental artists and thus emphasizing the extent of this art forms context as a product, a concept and a methodology. LOCATION & CONTACT INFORMATION 49 Geary Street Fifth Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 (415)-397 8114 Fax: 415.397.8115 E-mail:info@hainesgallery.com http://www.hainesgallery.com/ Haines Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday 10.30am - 5.30pm and on Saturday from 10.30am - 5.00pm. The Gallery also stay open late on the First Thursday of every month until 7.30pm. artcart: http://www.artcart.de E-mail: info@artcart.de artcart stay open all day and all night. Visit it our special selection for "multiple personalities" at: http://www.artcart.de/multiples From arotert@emaf.de Wed Nov 28 13:31:49 2001 From: arotert@emaf.de (EMAF) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:31:49 +0200 Subject: [spectre] European Media Art Festival 2002 Message-ID: European Media Art Festival 2002 Osnabrueck 24.-28.April 2002 http://www.emaf.de --Call for entries!!!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- (First part: german text- second part: english text.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- "New Images - New Stories" - Art in Modern Media: So pr=E4sentiert sich das EMAF 2002. Produktionen international renommierter K=FCnstler werden ebenso vertreten sein, wie innovative Arbeiten junger Talente. Als Forum f=FCr internationale Medienkunst zeigt das EMAF Filme, Videos, Performances, multimediale Installationen und digitale Medien wie CD-ROM, DVD und Internet. Specials informieren =FCber neue Produktionen der Independent-Szene in China und Korea und =FCber die neuesten XS-Movies f=FCr Internet, Mobil-Telefone und Handhelds. Im Rahmen des Festivals wird der Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik f=FCr die beste experimentelle Film- und Videoarbeit vergeben. Mit dem OLB -Medienkunstpreis des EMAF werden richtungsweisende Medien-Installationen ausgezeichnet. Die Ausstellung des Festivals wird vom 24. April- 20. Mai 2002 in der Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche gezeigt. Die Festivalsektionen sind: Cinema, Ausstellung, Kongress, Electronic Lounge, Internationales Studentenforum, Performances, Veejay Battle. Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, sich mit Ihren Arbeiten und Projekten am EMAF 2002 zu beteiligen! Weitere Informationen und Anmeldeformulare finden Sie auf unserer Homepage http://www.emaf.de Ihr Festivalteam! --------------------------------------------------------------------- European Media Art Festival Postf.1861 Lohstr.45A D-49074 Osnabrueck T:+ 49/541/25779/21658 =46:+ 49/541/28327 Email: info@emaf.de http://www.emaf.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- =46=F6rderer des EMAF > Nord Media- die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Hannover Stadt Osnabrueck Ausw=E4rtiges Amt, Berlin Bundesministerium f=FCr Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg EU Commission, Brussels und Zusch=FCsse weitere F=F6rderer. -------------------------------------------------------------------- European Media Art Festival 2002 Osnabrueck 24.-28.April 2002 http://www.emaf.de --Call for entries!!!-- The theme of this year's EMAF 2002 is "New Images - New Stories " - Art in Modern Media. Productions from internationally renowned artists as well as innovative works from creative young talents are on exhibition. The EMAF plays a major role as a forum for international media art presenting film, video, performances, multimedia installations and digital media such as CD-ROM, DVD and the Internet. Specials feature current productions from China and Korea and the latest XS-Movies for Internet, mobile phones and handhelds. As part of the festival the German Film Criticism Prize is awarded to the best experimental film and video production. The OLB Media Art Prize is awarded to the most innovative media installations. The exhibition of the festival in the Kunsthalle Domenikanerkirche will be shown from 24. April - 20. May 2002. =46estivalsections are: Cinema, Exhibition, Congress, Electronic Lounge, International Studentforum, Performances, Veejay Battle. We would like to invite you to take part in the EMAF 2001 with your artworks and projects! =46or further information and application forms please visit: www.emaf.de Your festival team! --------------------------------------------------------------------- The EMAF is supported by: Nord Media- die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Hannover Stadt Osnabrueck Ausw=E4rtiges Amt, Berlin Bundesministerium f=FCr Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg EU Commission, Brussels and contributions made by other supporters. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you do not want to receive any further information please return this message and write REMOVE in the subject line. Thank you very much! Wenn Sie keine weiteren Informationen erhalten m=F6chten, schreiben Sie bitte ENTFERNEN in die Betreffzeile und senden Sie diese Mail an uns zur=FCck. Vielen Dank ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- From epk@xs4all.nl Wed Nov 28 17:11:42 2001 From: epk@xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:11:42 +0100 Subject: [spectre] Debate: Critical Design Discourses #1 Message-ID: A N N O U N C E M E N T Critical Design Discourses #1 Visual Communication - Addressing the critical mass Thursday December 6, 2001 De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Start: 20.00 hrs. Last year the "First Things First 2000 Manifesto" appeared in various international design magazines. It was a call to designers world-wide to develop a more critical approach to their profession. This call was signed by an impressive list of designers, critics, editors of design magazines, and art directors. The authors of the manifesto claim that an increasing number of practitioners, designers, visual communicators, are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with a very narrow definition of their design practice, primarily geared towards effectively packaging and selling consumer products. Designers should address their social and political responsibilities more consciously, and apply their problem solving skills to the multitude of urgent social questions that require solutions. The text of the First Things First manifesto can be found at: http://adbusters.org/campaigns/first/ Since its publication a certain discussion about the social and political role and context of design has started, but this discussion is still very much in its infancy. De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, would like to provide new impulses for this discussion to unfold and has decided to organise a first debate with a number of internationally recognised specialist in the field of visual communication. In this debate we primarily would like to make an inventory of the current status of critical design discourses, well over a year after the publication of this manifesto. There are many questions at hand; a critique of the experience economy, sustainability, responsibility as business model, the relation of design with the public domain, and the new multicultural and intensely internationalised context in which design has to operate. What concrete efforts have been made to address these questions? Participants in the debate are; Jamie Hayton (SP) designer and head of the design department of Fabrica (IT); Wendelin Hess (CH), graphic designer and art-director of Grenzwert Magazin; Mieke Gerritzen (NL) graphic designer and co-author of "Catalogue of Strategies"; and Femke Snelting (NL) designer and member of De Geuzen - Foundation for Multivisual Research. The debate will be chaired by Max Bruinsma (NL), ex-editor in chief of the design magazine Eye (London), independent critic, and 'editorial design' instructor. The debate can be followed live via internet at: http://www.balie.nl/live ____________________ tickets & reservations: price: Euro 7,50 (f 16,50) / E. 5,00 ( f 11,00) opening hours box office: work days 13.00-18.00 hrs or until the start of the program. In the weekend 1 1/2 hour before the programs starts. Reserve by phone: 31.20.55 35 100 during opening hours until 45 minutes before the program starts. De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam http://www.balie.nl From cinetron@passport.ca Thu Nov 29 06:42:52 2001 From: cinetron@passport.ca (Jim Ruxton) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:42:52 -0500 Subject: [spectre] Call for Submissions to 5th Annual Subtle Technologies Conference Message-ID: <013901c178a1$127e0100$0100a8c0@oemcomputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0136_01C17877.29094800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Call for Submissions to "Subtle Technologies 2002" Subtle Technologies Conference May 9,10,11,12 2002 University of Toronto, Toronto Ont. Canada We are currently inviting speakers to present at the fifth annual Subtle Technologies Conference in Toronto. The Subtle Technologies Conference is an opportunity for scientists and artists to come together and share each others language in those areas = which are still searching for definitions, explanations and meaning. This conference explores the discoveries made by artists and scientists. We = are looking for speakers to provide a global perspective on the exploration = of subtle phenomena and its representations. Approaches that go beyond mainstream theories and would be considered controversial are welcome. = Some of the topics which we are interested in having represented by = scientists and artists include but are not limited to: consciousness research, = quantum physics including quantum computing and other unconventional computing technologies, holographic modeling, mathematical explorations including neural networks and fuzzy systems, biomagnetics, alternative energy = systems, chaos theory, genetics, sonic explorations, bioenergy, pharmacology, theories of cosmology, neurobiology, sensing systems and devices, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. It is our goal to have a varied program to provide a forum for the cross pollination of ideas. Presentations will be 50 minutes long including questions. An honorarium will be offered to all speakers. Since the = audience will be from diverse backgrounds the presentation should be accessible = to a general audience. Please send a brief one page abstract of the topic you would like to present to the co-ordinates listed below. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. If you know any one who would be interested in speaking, please pass this invitation along to them. The deadline for submissions is December 21 2001. The Subtle Technologies This conference is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and = Toronto Arts Council. Contact Co-ordinates Jim Ruxton Home (416)535-4405 Work (416)927-7679 Email cinetron@passport.ca Address 258 Salem Avenue Toronto, On M6H 3C7 Canada http://www.subtletechnologies.com ------=_NextPart_000_0136_01C17877.29094800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

"Call for Submissions to "Subtle Technologies 2002"

Subtle=20 Technologies Conference
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University of Toronto,
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We are currently inviting = speakers=20 to present at the fifth annual Subtle
Technologies Conference in=20 Toronto.

The Subtle Technologies Conference is an opportunity for = scientists and
artists to come together and share each others = language in=20 those areas which
are still searching for definitions, explanations = and=20 meaning. This
conference explores the discoveries made by artists and = scientists. We are
looking for speakers to provide a global = perspective on=20 the exploration of
subtle phenomena and its representations. = Approaches that=20 go beyond
mainstream theories and would be considered controversial = are=20 welcome.  Some
of the topics which we are interested in having=20 represented by scientists
and artists include but are not limited to: = consciousness research, quantum
physics including quantum computing = and other=20 unconventional computing
technologies, holographic modeling, = mathematical=20 explorations including
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cybernetics, and artificial intelligence.
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questions. An = honorarium will=20 be offered to all speakers. Since the audience
will be from diverse=20 backgrounds the presentation should be accessible to a
general = audience.=20 Please send a brief one page abstract of the topic you
would like to = present=20 to the co-ordinates listed below. If you have any
questions, feel = free to=20 contact us. If you know any one who would be
interested in speaking, = please=20 pass this invitation along to them. The
deadline for submissions is = December=20 21 2001. The Subtle Technologies
This conference is sponsored by the = Canada=20 Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts
Council.

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Home (416)535-4405
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------=_NextPart_000_0136_01C17877.29094800-- From geert@xs4all.nl Wed Nov 28 11:53:28 2001 From: geert@xs4all.nl (geert lovink) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:53:28 +1100 Subject: [spectre] fibreculture meeting, melbourne, december 6-8 2001 Message-ID: <000401c1784e$5924a300$afde3dca@geert> | f i b r e - c u l t u r e | || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| i n t e r n e t || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| theory | criticism | research || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| ::fibreculture:: politics of a digital present 6 - 8 December, 2001, Melbourne Noting a vacuum in critical Australian net culture and research, ::fibreculture:: was founded as a mailing list in January 2001 by David Teh and Geert Lovink. The purpose of the list has been to exchange articles, ideas and arguments on Australian IT policy and practice in a broad context. The inaugural ::fibreculture:: meeting considers four key areas of net culture and research: theory, policy, education and the arts. Co-organised by Cinemedia and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a public debate on the evening of 6 December will precede the meeting. The debate seeks to address these issues in dialogue with a wider audience. A 2 day meeting follows the debate. All are welcome. Both events bring together a community of critical thinkers engaged with new media/Internet theory and practice, with a view to constructing a strategic program of how Australia might better support innovation, R+D and the applications and culture of new technology. A reader has been prepared for publication prior to the ::fibreculture:: meeting. It can be ordered from the ::fibreculture:: website (www.fibreculture.org). Submissions of 1500 to 3000 word short essays, position papers, or manifestos were invited that address at least one of the four key themes, and these were posted to the ::fibreculture:: mailing list and subject to peer review. The aim of the ::fibreculture:: meeting is not to present formal papers, but to circulate papers in advance which can operate as a point of reference and basis for discussion during the meeting. We aim to produce more readers, monographs, edited collections and newspapers. Proposals to the list are most welcome for future publications. We see this as one key intervention into the current political economy of commercial academic publishing and the "command economy" approach to academic production by DETYA. Digital publics: a debate Thursday 6 December, 7pm - 10pm Organised together with Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza 1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne Registration: at the door ($10 full/$7 concession) 7pm sharp Introduction Moderator: Geert Lovink 7.15pm - 7.50pm Session 1 - Net Theory Key Speaker: Mathew Allen, Associate Professor, School of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology; author of Smart Thinking; and the Executive of the Association of Internet Researchers (http://www.aoir.org). Respondent: Esther Milne, writer and PhD candidate, Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne. 7.50pm - 8.25pm Session 2 - Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Commercial Practices Key speaker: Victor Perton, Victorian Shadow Minister for Technology & Innovation; Victorian Shadow Minister for Conservation & Environment; former Chairman, Victorian Government Multimedia Committee, Data Protection Advisory Council, Electronic Business Framework Group. Respondent: Tom Worthington, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian National University; electronic business consultant; author of the book Net Traveller; information technology professional. BREAK - 25 minutes plus launch of book, Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory on Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory · light snacks and drinks available in foyer 8.50pm - 9.25pm Session 3 - New Media Arts/Culture and the Arts Key Speaker: Terry Cutler, currently a member of the Australian Information Economy Advisory Council. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, reflecting his strong interest in the role of, and opportunities for, Asian countries in the new information era. Terry Cutler is also Chairman of the Australia Council, having previously chaired its New Media Arts Board, and he is on the Council of the Victorian College of the Arts. He has previously served as a director of Cinemedia and Opera Australia. Respondent: Amanda McDonald Crowley, currently Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002. Cultural worker, researcher, facilitator, curator working primarily in the new media/ electronic arts field. Previous Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology. 9.25pm - 10pm Session 4 - Education Key speaker: Paul James, Senior Lecturer, Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University; President of Association for the Public University; author of Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community; editor of The State in Question: Transformations of the Australian State and Technocratic Dreaming: Of Very Fast Trains and Japanese Designer Cities; editorial member of Arena publications. Respondent: Anna Munster, Lecturer in Digital Media Theory, School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is also a media artist whose work ranges across new media, time-based and photomedia (see her online work: http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au). Anna has written for ctheory, m/c, Photofile and Artlink among others and is currently researching biotechnical art and ethics. Closing Panel ::fibreculture:: inaugural meeting, 7 - 8 December, Organised together with the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) 234 St Kilda Road Southbank, Melbourne VIC 3006 Registration: $50/$30 full; $30/$20 single day (payable at the door - NOTE cash or cheques only). Registration includes lunch, tea, coffee and copy of the book, Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory. Venue: a PDF map of the room locations can be downloaded from www.vca.unimelb.edu.au - go to the link "Where is the VCA". Program Friday 7 December Venue: Room 216 in the Music School (entry from St Kilda Road) 10.00am - 10.30am Introduction of ::fibreculture:: facilitators and organisers 10.30am - 12.30pm Mapping Australian FibreCulture Round with introductions and 3 minute presentations · Researchers, critics, theorists, writers, programmers, designers, developers, consultants: WHERE are you and WHAT are you up to? 12.30pm - 1.25pm - Lunch break 1.30pm - 3.30pm Session 1: Network Theory/Philosophy Topics: · Debating neo-emperical approaches and the return of objective social science after the exhaustion of post-structuralism · Crisis of the offline (AI/VR) body centred Deleuzian notions · Hegemony of digital Darwinism and biologism within new media arts and IT industry · Importance of media archaeology, mapping pre-histories of new media · Global governance debate · Public Domain vs. the Corporate State · Problematic relation to Cultural Studies · Network theories for the future-present 3.30pm - 4pm - Tea/coffee break 4pm - 6pm Session 2: Policy Topics: · Telstra, broadband, right of access, bandwidth · Australia and the censorship tendency (political, pornography, gambling, etc.) · Alternative plan for IT Centre of Excellence · Mapping the policy players · How to fight the consumerist ethos in IT policy - "access" as cyber literacy and skill, not high bandwidth data-gluttony · How can ::fibreculture:: be heard and operate on the policy level? · Policy futures 6pm onwards - drinks/dinner party (location to be decided) Saturday 8 December Venue: Federation Hall (entry from Grant Street, Southbank) 11.00am - 1pm Session 3: Culture and the arts Topics: · Cult of representation, proximity to political power · Patronage system (cultural state apparatus) · Primacy of aesthetics · Lack of game/net.art and e-literature funding · Deliriating over an (absent) synergy of arts and science · Generationalism in new media arts 1pm - 2pm - Lunch break · screening of The Code - a Linux documentary from Finland 2pm - 4pm Session 4: Education Topics: · Current approaches/paradigms: teaching new media/internet studies and e-learning · Corporatisation and the Virtual University - profit obsessions, confused IT sovereignty, limited teaching and research outcomes · What constitutes the mode of production? · Relationship between curricula development and university funding and policy · Both government and opposition share limited horizons. How can we explode these? 4.15pm - 6pm Closing session ::fibreculture meeting:: · Directions of ::fibreculture:: · Discussion about the list · Legal structures for ::fibreculture:: as formal organisation · Futures: the place of ::fibreculture:: within policy making, research funding and practice Convenors: Hugh Brown (Brisbane) hughie@onlineopinion.com.au Geert Lovink (Sydney) geert@xs4all.nl Helen Merrick (Perth) H.Merrick@exchange.curtin.edu.au Esther Milne (Melbourne) e.milne@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Ned Rossiter (Melbourne) Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au David Teh (Sydney) dteh@arthist.usyd.edu.au Michele Willson (Perth) M.Willson@exchange.curtin.edu.au With special thanks to: John Arnold, Head of School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Alessio Cavallaro, Producer/Curator New Media Projects Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Nikos Papastergiadis, writer and Head of the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Louise Adler, Deputy Director of VCA Arena Printing and Publications Pty Ltd., http://www.arena.org.au Sponsors: Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image Humanities Division, Curtin University of Technology Monash Publications Grants Committee School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University The Power Institute, University of Sydney ::fibreculture:: promoting independent australian internet research & theory mail to fibreculture@lists.myspinach.org ::to subscribe:: email "fibreculture-request@lists.myspinach.org" with "subscribe" in the subject line. ::archive:: http://lists.myspinach.org/archives/fibreculture ::homepage:: http://www.fibreculture.org From netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au Thu Nov 29 00:42:18 2001 From: netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au (][D(NA).fence][) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:42:18 +1100 Subject: [spectre] Re: (ad) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011129114210.02505930@pop3.norton.antivirus> --=====================_9907526==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed .read.transitive.DOC.scr:: .@m = bad transitive male.err][or][ .@mm = bad ][trans][missives ma][shed up N groupie][le.err][ors][ .pay.load][ings][ = c.rash][ed N ruby red][ing computer .w][tid][a][l][+ a.lite.ting yr text with ][key][stroked n.tent .Da.][screened][mage][s scream in static fury][ = memory residing + triggered e.vent][u.alities][ + ][I][N.][the silicon ][crypt.ing + poly.][wants a cracked Outlook][morphically perverse .D.grading & ][cod(ual)e][ perfor][ations][mance = s l o ][thish][ w i n g s .D.l][ites in][ete.ing = f][@mm][iles .Geo][phtical][spatial di][e][.stri][p][][(a)bution(s) = high ][on the ][ g.][lingual][lob][es][al threat + medi][a][um + low][ings of the virus literate][ (localized or non-wild threat). .In.][af][fect.ion l][str][ength = s][r][izing up the viral c][pr][o][grammatic][de .La][nguage of the ciph(destroy)er][rge scale e-mailing = massed p][l][ayloading by the s][ vitriolic v][endor emails + a][b][ccess.ing local][e][ add.res][t][s books . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ .U.phoric.magn.et][h][ic.moments.go.here. xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... --=====================_9907526==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"




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--=====================_9907526==_.ALT-- From a.ludovico@neural.it Thu Nov 29 07:47:16 2001 From: a.ludovico@neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:47:16 +0100 Subject: [spectre] first (italian) emendment: Free speech is forbidden on the Net ! Message-ID: From: Ferry Byte -- first (italian) emendment: Free speech is forbidden on the Net ! The above sentence sounds as a rule for Italian police, justice and government as free speech and dissident are nowdays counteracted in Italy by any means New legislative measures - on copyright, publishing industries, police controls, but also monitoring and intimidation procedures have been recenlty used to infringe protests' privacy taking a deep look at their chat-tools, mailing-lists, mailboxes etc. along with inquiries concerning every kinds of people involved in net-jokes or real protest (an animal-rights supporter site has been closed because of a single page considered a libel one, but also other Web sites dealing for example with supposed saint or bonsai-kitten) Two specific polital persecutions on the Net involve us directly: the first one relates a fascist thug named Caradonna that wants 129.000 of Euro to be forgotten while the second one relates the suppression of the right to netstrike - a new telematic way to organize a political march (also known as virtual sit-in) For these reasons we invite You to "take a look" at us not only as a show of solidarity but also because on our site - and expecially by our mailing-lists - you can find news on these emerging kinds of censorships; but first of all we advise You to have the right idea of this "good-looking" country no-profit organization "Isole nella Rete" [ http://www.ecn.org ] [ mailto:inr@ecn.org ] (press release in occasion of the first Italian Cyberspace Law Conference - www.iclc.org edition) -- -- Ferry Byte della comunita' cyber-rights di Isole nella Rete Key fingerprint = A5 F9 A5 D3 35 70 BF 25 25 90 C1 18 ED B8 AC 64 ,::. n-:;:;.' http://strano.net/mutante /_\ `;:.' |~~~| ``' |~~~| |___| -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Online - http://www.neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.apogeonline.com/catalogo/614.html ISBN 88-7303-614-7 From geert@desk.nl Wed Nov 28 23:04:43 2001 From: geert@desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:04:43 +1100 Subject: [spectre] THE THEMERSONS AND THE REMAKE OF PHARMACY BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY Message-ID: <044501c17869$86177cf0$afde3dca@geert> THE THEMERSONS AND THE REMAKE OF PHARMACY BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY December 4th, 2001 7PM Location One 26 Greene Street NYC 10013, Between Grand and Canal Subway: Canal Street (N, R, 6, A, C, E, J, M, Z) Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 PM (212) 334-3347 Streamed live at www.location1.org To see our invite go to: http://www.location1.org/artists/images/checefsky_invite.jpg Location One is pleased to announce Bruce Checefsky's presentation of the groundbreaking work of experimenal filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. Perhaps the most influential of Polish cutting-edge artists, the Themersons produced five short films between 1930 and 1937 in Warsaw that rank among the greatest of European avant-garde: Pharmacy, Europa, Moment Musical, Short Circuit and The Adventure of a Good Citizen. Whereas only the last three films survived the war, a remake of Pharmacy (1930, b/w, silent, 3 minutes) was produced in Budapest in 2001 under the direction of award winning animator and film writer Laszlo L. Revesz and Bruce Checefsky. Bruce Checefsky will present a short contextual history of the photogram as it relates to the Themersons and show slides of his work followed by a screening of Pharmacy (2001, b/w, silent, trt 4:40 minutes). Checefsky explains: "Our remake of Pharmacy is not a reconstruction of the original but an interpretation based on surviving documents, film stills, and notes. I wanted to remake Pharmacy because it was an extremely important film. It is a way of talking about a sort of stimulant to make the thinkable something as yet untaught. It points to that strange zone where art and action discover secret and unpredictable relations with one another. The problem is how to inhabit this condition and how to continue the underground aesthetics of resistance and extend it into the problematic borders of and in our view of justice" Bruce Checefsky is an artist/photographer based in Cleveland. He is director of the Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art and has organized and curated numerous exhibitions. His own works have been presented in solo exhibitions in numerous countries such as Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine. The event is organized jointly by Location One and the Polish Cultural Institute (www.PolishCulture-NYC.org). Location One (www.location1.org) is a new not-for profit art center, which fosters the convergence of all types of creative expression. We maintain a gallery space suitable for every form of performance and exhibition, and within this space, multimedia net-broadcasting facilities that allow us to web cast a 24-hour stream of both live and archived events. Our International Residency Program invites artists from other countries to experiment with emerging technologies. Location One is an exploration space for continual creative discovery. From inke@snafu.de Fri Nov 30 00:47:02 2001 From: inke@snafu.de (inke@snafu.de) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:47:02 GMT Subject: [spectre] Sound in Art - Gallery Priestor Message-ID: Von: Juraj =?iso-8859-2?Q?=C8arn=FD?= Datum: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:14:13 +0100 Betreff: Sound in Art - Gallery Priestor Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts have a pleasure to invite you to the exhibition Sound in Art Marc Behrens /D/, Monogramista T.D. /SK/ Marko Peljhan /SLO/, Susan Philipsz /UK/ Marjetica Potrc /SLO/, Carina Randlov /DK/ Egill Saebjornsson /IS/, Scanner+Tonne /UK/ curator: Natasa Petresin /SLO/ opening: 7th December 2001 at 5 pm address: Somolickeho 1/B, Bratislava, Slovak Republic opening program: 5.30 pm Marc Behrens - performance parallel program: 7th December - Buryzone, Cajakova ul. 11 7pm - Egill Saebjörnsson - sound event 8pm - Presentation of Apsolutno group 9pm – Closing party exhibition lasts till: 16th December 2001 more info: www.publicis.sk/priestor In the age of new technologies, evolving new media and tactics in contemporary art, so called sound art or practice of introducing aural dimensions into visual arts has confronted a revival of its characteristics. We can trace its roots back to early 20th century into the Futurist and Dada movement and find its most important realisations in the 60ies with the breakthrough of the neo-avantgarde in the form of John Cage, Nam June Paik and Laurie Anderson, and continue to find its connectedness with contemporary experimental and electronica music from 80ies until now. In exhibited projects the participating artists are developing subjective relationships with sound. I was interested to display as broad and various spectrum of sound art works as possible. These include 'silent' pieces (Monogramista T.D., Susan Philipsz), web-based art works (Marjetica Potrè, Scanner+Tonne), sound sculpture (Marc Behrens), music video (Egill Saebjörnsson ) and installation and video ambience that include sound as its most constitutive element (Marko Peljhan, Carina Randlov). Natasa Petresin Websites: Marc Behrens - www.mbehrens.com, Marko Peljhan - makrolab.ljudmila.org, Marjetica Potrè - www.potrc.org, Egill Saebjörnsson - www.egill.org, Scanner - www.scannerdot.com, Tonne - www.tonne.org.uk Thanks for support: Publicis Knut, Spinner, Palisády s.r.o, Daimler-Chrysler, SME, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Aena d.o.o., Brocadero d.o.o., Velvyslanectvo Republiky Slovinsko From nils@x-i.net Fri Nov 30 13:19:44 2001 From: nils@x-i.net (Nils Claesson) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:19:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [spectre] Landmark_new_venue_in_Bergen Message-ID: <1007126384.3c0787704af33@mail.x-i.net> Landmark. Bergen is going cool. As cool as cool will be in Norway. The music scene is getting hyped, MTV are devoting special time to cover=20 Bergen and groups like the famous R=F8yksopp are starting to sell records. But under the hype and the somehow ill fitting coolness the development o= f=20 the Bergen scene is a result of things that started in the dance and perf= ormance scene in the end of 80ts and beginning of 90ts when groups like Baktruppe= n and places like Teatergarasjen was formed and made Bergen the place (In Norwa= y)=20 for contemporary dance and performance art. Now Bergen is taking lead over Oslo even in the field electronic arts. The name of the place is Landmark. Landmark is a way of distributing new media art in a social environment w= here people socialize. Landmark is a laboratory; it deals in one way with the problem Eric Satie pointed out when he wrote his music for furniture, to create art in a=20 partial hostile environment. Landmark is a room specially designed for new media, it has a bar and it=20 has excellent video-projectors and sound systems. Naturally the place is always on line, (http://www.lmark.no). Landmark has been created as a collaborative effort between BEK, Bergen=20 centre for electronic arts ( http://www.bek.no) and Bergen Kunsthall. Lo= cal=20 Art hall.( quite big) BEK is an artist run media lab. One of the roots in the Landmark concept was when artist and programmers participated in The =93Caf=E9 9=94 project last year. Part of =93Caf=E9 9= =94 was online=20 performances and dj-ing. J=F6rgen Larsson one of the founding members of = BEK and=20 responsible for Landmarks programming explains that =93Caf=E9 9 =93defini= tely created=20 the taste for more and the only way to still the hunger and create respec= t for=20 media art was to make its one venue. Still electronic arts are not really respected in Norway, many people sti= ll se it as boyish techno masturbating. Landmark is here to be a new land mark. Now keystroke festival is taking place at Landmark. It started the 26 and= =20 will continue until the 6 December. 22 artist will participate in a mix of streaming events. Connecting Bergen with Toronto, Berlin, Holland and other places. Also a newly written book over new media by Grete Melby one of BEKs most trigger-happy members is getting distributed on the monitors of Landmark. It is possible to follow and participate in the key-stroke festival=20 on-line. Landmark has a great potential and the Baltic/Russian scene with all its streaming and audio-experiments could benefit from this new venue. And if you by chance have ideas for Landmark. Do not hesitate to contact=20 J=F6rgen Larsson at Mail: larsson@bek.no. By the way the name Landmark came from an architect in Bergen called=20 Landmark. He designed quite a few modernist buildings in Bergen, structures needed = to make a contrast to the nice, neat and idyllic. Nils Claesson Artist and filmmaker and Coordinator for PNEK The production network for the electronic arts of Norway _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.as= p ----- End forwarded message ----- From mpandil@soros.org.mk Fri Nov 30 13:58:05 2001 From: mpandil@soros.org.mk (Misko) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:58:05 +0100 Subject: [spectre] update of the program THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION Message-ID: <20011130145638.8A6C.MPANDIL@soros.org.mk> UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION - December, 01 - 02, 2001,=20 Museum of Macedonia,=20 Str.Kurciska b.b., Skopje, Republic of Macedonia CONFERENCE Saturday, 01.12.2001. 11:00 - Opening of the Conference & Promotion of the book=20 "Understanding the Balkans", 2000.=20 11.30 - Sandra DUNGACIU (Romania) Uses, misuses and abuses of the concept of globalization in the Balkans 12:00 - Stevan VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia) Haunted by the Balkan ghosts 12:30 - Bojan Ivanov (Macedonia) Globulization 13:00 - Ferid MUHIC (Macedonia) Balancing between Balkanization and Globalization =20 13:30 - Discussion 14:00 - Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia) Irreversibility of Globalization? 14:30 - Charis MELETIADIS (Greece) Balkans and the European Integration Proces: The construction of the cultural argument 15:00 - Dimitrina SEVOVA (Bulgaria) and Alain KESSI (Switzerland)=20 Fragmented and Deterritorialized The Balkan Patient or the Balkan Client 15:30 - Discussion 16:00 - Special program PRESENTATION & PROJECTS Sunday, 02.12.2001. PRESENTATION 11:00 - Nada SVOB DOKIC (Croatia) Redefining Cultural Identities: "South-eastern Europe" 11:30 - Alexander Kiossev (Bulgaria) Nexus 12:00 - Walter van der Cruijsen (Holland) European creative network; Draft for a trans-cultural network in East-Euro= pe 12:30 - Discussion ART PROJECTS=20 13:00=09 Zoran Naskovski + CO crew - Vesna Pavlovic, Man in Yellow CROSSOVER (a work in progress) 13:30 - Ventsislav ZANKOV (Bulgaria) The Balkans belong with us=85.. Where do we? 14:00 - Zoran PANTELIC, "APSOLUTNO" (Yugoslavia) In the Balkans, video 2.5 min., 1998. 16:00 - 18.00 - Basket Ball Game between the participants of the Conference ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- From md3169@mclink.it Fri Nov 30 15:31:52 2001 From: md3169@mclink.it (Lorenzo Taiuti) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:31:52 +0100 Subject: [spectre] BerlusconiMania: the Gun & the Book Message-ID: <005701c179b4$3ae75d80$66826ec3@hamsil> Messaggio in formato MIME composto da piy parti. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01C179BC.84B43660 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "BERLUSCONIMANIA: The Gun & the Book" In perfect consistency with the Outlaw directions of the New Berlusconi = Government, a few significant news design the situation in Italy:=20 The Gun=3D In the general scheme of neutralizing the italian magistrates = ( notoriously pursuing Berlusconi for several reasons) the government = has taken away the police force put in defence of magistracy dealing = with dangerous cases.=20 That means for instance leaving them defenseless in the struggle = against the Mafia. The last week's elections in Sicily marked an enormous success for = Berlusconi=20 ( by now knicknamed "Cavalier Silvio Banana...of course because of = Banana Republic). The Berlusconi's campaign has been marked by unprecedented cynicism.=20 His men have been attacking anything ordered by the centreleft, = therefore giving breath to any kind of unlawful structures & the Mafia. A strong message of freedom for house building abuse is been given by = the new powerful man of the Culture Ministery , Sgarbi who is been = defending (sic) the villas built inside the Agrigento archeological park = "Valle dei Templi". ( abusive building is one of the main investments of = Mafia in Sicily) The Book=3D The "italian Thatcher", Iron/Lady Moratti Minister of = Education has given state financing on the same level to private and = state education, pushing hard in direction of liberism and industrial = sponsoring of education.=20 Her speeches are costantly underlined by deep distrust for culture (that = is considered, expecially if modern) on the left side. (Goebbels=3D"When = i hear the word culture my hand goes to the gun...") Students and teachers are manifesting against the new laws. More to Come!......... Ciao Lorenzo =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01C179BC.84B43660 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

"BERLUSCONIMANIA: The Gun & the Book"
In perfect consistency with the Outlaw directions of the = New=20 Berlusconi Government, a few significant = news design the=20 situation in Italy: 
The Gun=3D In the general scheme of = neutralizing the=20 italian magistrates ( notoriously pursuing Berlusconi for several = reasons) the=20 government has taken away the police force put in defence of magistracy = dealing=20 with dangerous cases.
That means for instance leaving them=20 defenseless  in the struggle against the=20 Mafia.
The last week's elections in Sicily marked an enormous success=20 for Berlusconi
( by now knicknamed "Cavalier Silvio = Banana...of=20 course because of  Banana = Republic).
The Berlusconi's campaign has been marked by unprecedented = cynicism.=20
His men have been attacking anything = ordered=20 by the centreleft, therefore giving breath to any kind of unlawful=20 structures & the Mafia.
A strong message of freedom for house building=20 abuse is been given by the new powerful man of the = Culture=20 Ministery , Sgarbi who is been defending (sic) the villas = built=20 inside the Agrigento archeological park "Valle dei Templi". = (=20 abusive building is one of the main investments of Mafia in=20 Sicily)
The Book=3D The "italian = Thatcher",=20 Iron/Lady Moratti Minister of Education has given state = financing on the same level to private and state education, pushing hard = in=20 direction of liberism and industrial sponsoring of education.
Her speeches are costantly underlined by deep distrust for = culture=20 (that is considered, expecially if modern) on the left=20 side. (Goebbels=3D"When i hear the word culture my hand = goes to=20 the gun...")
Students and teachers are manifesting against the new laws.
More to Come!.........
Ciao
Lorenzo
      
  
------=_NextPart_000_0054_01C179BC.84B43660-- From md3169@mclink.it Fri Nov 30 17:11:42 2001 From: md3169@mclink.it (Lorenzo Taiuti) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:11:42 +0100 Subject: [spectre] BERLUSCONIMANIA Message-ID: <010b01c179c2$2e91adc0$66826ec3@hamsil> Messaggio in formato MIME composto da piy parti. ------=_NextPart_000_0108_01C179CA.76E5A240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Andreas you ask me "why is it that the italian people vote for somebody like that? what is it that they are being promised, or believe they will get?". It's difficult to answer. The answer could be a flat "anybody is doing it" (from time to time). = Think about english people and Thatcher. Austrians & Heider. And what = about Bush cheating on votes!.... But there is probably what could be defined as a "national difference". Italy has been for almost 50 years an ideological battlefield sharpened = by beeing one of the burning points of the two Political Blocks. When the ideological fields collapsed, they brought down with them an = idea of politics as "expression of ideas". Now is extremely difficult to define what politics are. In the meantime the only idea left is that ideas/politics are Fake. And neo-liberism embodies this and a more general pragmatism: if = ideas/politics are Fake, the only good politics is the one that is on my = (economical) side.=20 There are not morals to defend.=20 Economy (Money) is all. And then of course there is the enormous power of the Old Media. Millions of people watching tv/serials & Talk/shows 24 hour a day = offered by Big Berlusconi/Brother extend their positif judgement on The = Man. This is not old-fashion media-analisys, it's tremendously true. Like in a 50's Science Fiction movie the hypnotical power of TV is now = beyond any possible valuation and becomes the power of hypnosis of the = Man who owns TV. =20 Ciao Lorenzo=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0108_01C179CA.76E5A240 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Andreas
you ask me "why is it that the italian people vote for=20 somebody
like that? what is it that they are being promised, or = believe they=20 will
get?".
It's difficult to answer.
The answer could be a flat "anybody is doing = it"=20 (from time to time). Think about english people and = Thatcher.=20 Austrians & Heider. And what about Bush=20 cheating on votes!....
But there is probably what could be defined as a = "national=20 difference".
Italy has been for almost 50 years an ideological battlefield = sharpened by=20 beeing one of the burning points  of the two Political=20 Blocks.
When the ideological fields collapsed, they brought down with them = an idea=20 of politics as "expression of ideas".
Now is extremely difficult to define = what=20 politics are.
In the meantime the only idea left is that ideas/politics are Fake.
And neo-liberism embodies this and a more general pragmatism: if=20 ideas/politics are Fake, the only good politics is the = one that=20 is on my (economical) side.
There are not morals to defend.
Economy (Money) is all.
And then of course there is the=20 enormous power of the Old=20 Media.
Millions of people watching tv/serials & Talk/shows 24 hour a = day=20 offered by Big Berlusconi/Brother extend their = positif=20 judgement on The Man.
This is not old-fashion  media-analisys, it's tremendously = true.
Like in a 50's Science Fiction movie the hypnotical power of=20 TV is now beyond any possible valuation = and=20 becomes the power of hypnosis of the Man who owns=20 TV.  
Ciao
Lorenzo 
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