[spectre] [transmediale] newsletter 06 - US Department of Art and Technology

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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 + + + t r a n s m e d i a l e . 0 2 + + +  n e w s l e t t e r  06
 + + + 21-01-02 + + + t r a n s m e d i a l e . 0 2  + + +
 international media art festival + + + Feb. 5-10th, 2002
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 1. Special Guest at the transmediale opening
 2. The US Department of Art and Technology
 3. The Global Virtualization Council
 4. Tel-SPAN
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 1. Special Guest at the transmediale opening

 Randall M. Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art and Technology,
will give the opening address for transmediale.02. Secretary Packer is
committed to confronting artistic constraints free from anachronistic
tendencies, defined by revolutionary practices, and dedicated to upholding
the visionary aspirations of the avant-garde. For the opening of
transmediale.02, the Secretary will deliver his first European address -
Web broadcast live over Tel-SPAN - outlining a proposed Charter (Berlin
Virtualization Charter) and its effort to catalyze the world's media
artists.
 February 5, 19.00 hrs
 Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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 2. The US Department of Art and Technology

 The US Department of Art and Technology - http//www.usdept-arttech.net - is
 the United States Government's principal agency for facilitating  the
 artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where
 ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual
 well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide
 immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social
 sphere. Secretary Packer will make certain that the Department fulfills its
 utopian promise and honors its radical heritage, not only by articulating
 the visions of the past, but by supporting the advancement of all American
 media artists embracing the integration of art and technology as the
 artistic reality of the 21st century.

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 3. The Global Virtualization Council

 The Global Virtualization Council, patterned after the Councils of the
 United Nations, is a new initiative introduced by the US Department of Art =
&
 Technology to mobilize and coordinate artistic forces of virtualization
 internationally. Secretary Randall M. Packer, together with his staff, is
 currently drafting a Charter, referred to as the Berlin Virtualization
 Charter, to be approved by an international consortium of artists
 representing all nations attending the transmediale.02 in Berlin. At the
 opening of the transmediale.02 the artist representatives will ratify the
 Charter by participating in a collective signing ceremony. This represents
 the first global accord between the artistic avant-garde and international
 Government.
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 4. Tel-SPAN

 Tel-SPAN is a public service created by the US Department of Art &
 Technology. Its mission is to provide global access to the artistic process
 in an increasingly cybernated society. Tel-SPAN provides its audience acces=
s
 to live, real-time distribution of broad forms of cultural content, and to
 other forums where critical artistic issues are discussed, debated and
 decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced
 presentation of all radical points of view. Tel-SPAN provides media artists
 who seek to influence the political discourse, public policy, and the futur=
e
 of art a direct conduit to its audience without filtering or otherwise
 constraining their points of view.
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 transmediale.02 +++ newsletter 06 +++ annette schaefer
 +++ press office +++ presse@transmediale.de +++
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 Annette Sch=E4fer
 Presse&=D6ffentlichkeitsarbeit

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