[spectre] Waag Society Newsletter May 2002
geert lovink
geert@xs4all.nl
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WAAG SOCIETY l NEWSLETTER MAY 2002
1 SP Start Connected Concerts Series
2 PR Killer Club: Delhi Developments
3 CL 3.1 New site Gouden @penstaart
3.2 Play>> seminar: ICT as one of
the creative arts
4 Waag Facilities 4.1 Radio Reed Flute for Afghans
4.2 Indymedia.nl threatened with
legal action =20
5 Waag Publishing Annual Report 2001 on line
6 Waag General 6.1 Vacancy assistant
business-manager
6.2 Vacancy liaison officer
SENSING PRESENCE=20
1 3, 4 EN 6 MEI CONNECTED CONCERT: ORPHEUS CRYSTAL - opera in two
media=20
A new series Connected Concerts starts on 3 May with Orpheus Crystal, =
an
opera by Manfred Stahnke. It is a coproduction with the eigth Muncher
Biennale. Repeats take place on 4 and 6 May. The opera is performed =
live
on stage in Munchen, with audio input from Amsterdam, New York and San
Francisco. By combining new media and innovative technologies with the
traditional art of opera, a new form of musical theater has been
developed. The international partners represent the voices from the
underworld. Waag Society is the Amsterdam host of internet performers
Erhard Hirt on guitar and Anne LaBerg on flute, with instrumentalist
Marko Ciciliani and violinist Barbara Lunenberg at STEIM.
For Waag Society this event marks the start of the Connected Concerts
series, in which (inter)national locations will be connected for live
performances. In the near future even more advanced experiments will be
made possible by the Waag's GigaPort connection.=20
Date: 3 and 6 May 7.30pm, 4 May 9.30pm
Tickets: Floor van Spaendonck floor@waag.org or at the
door
Admission: 5 Euro, tickets offer access to both locations
and all three perfomances
Url: <http://www.steim.nl/> www.steim.nl /
<http://www.waag.org/> www.waag.org
PUBLIC RESEARCH
2 13 MEI KILLER (APPLICATION IS PEOPLE) CLUB: DELHI DEVELOPMENTS
The Killer (Application is People) Club of 13 May is devoted to Delhi
Developments and the experiences with the exchangeprogramme of new =
media
centre Sarai and Waag Society.=20
The Waag - Sarai exchange programme started at the opening of Sarai in
February 2001 and runs to the end of 2003. The mission of the programme
is to set up projects in the public space of Delhi and to formulate a
mutual agenda for new media and culture in South Asia and Europe.=20
The experiences so far indicate that setting up Open Source projects =
and
conquering the public space in India isn't as straighforward as it =
might
seem. Its practice will be talked about by Ravi Sundaram, one of =
Sarai's
founders. Francois Laureys (International Institute for Cultural
Development) will discuss the role of community radio.
At the evening the second Sarai reader 02, The Cities of Everyday Life,
will be presented. Contributors to the reader are a.o. Geert Lovink, =
Ole
Bouman, Matthew Fuller and Patrice Riemens.
The reader can be ordered from Amazon.com
Date: 13 May 2002
Location: Waag Society, Theatrum Anatomicum
Starting time: 7.30pm
Admission: Free
Contact: Floor van Spaendonck floor@waag.org
Url: <http://www.sarai.net/> www.sarai.net
3 CREATIVE LEARNING
3.1 NIEUWE SITE VOOR GOUDEN @PENSTAART
A new version of the Gouden @penstaart website has gone online. A
national jury consisting of children between 9 and 15 years old =
convenes
to award the best Dutch cd-rom and website of the year with a Gouden
@penstaart. The subscription for 2002 is now open. Next to schools and
teacher training institutes, for the first time this year public
libraries can take part in the project. Also new is a DIY package with
which schools can operate the Gouden @penstaart themselves. In 2002 the
project's age range has been extended to include 13 to 15 year olds.=20
Url: www <http://www.goudenapenstaart.nl/> =
.goudenapenstaart
.nl <http://www.goudenapenstaart.nl/>=20
3.2 PLAY>>SEMINAR: ICT AS ONE OF THE CREATIVE ARTS
Waag Society / Centre of Expertise for ICT and Cultural Subjects takes
part in a seminar on teenagers as producers of new media productions.
How can their digital literacy be promoted?
The event takes place at 15 May and is an initiative of Paradox.=20
Url: www.play-record. <http://www.play-record.nl/> nl
<http://www.play-record.nl/> =20
4 WAAG FACILITIES=20
4.1 RADIO REED FLUTE FOR AFGHANS
Radio Reed Flute is an online communications project. It involves
Afghans in the Dispersion in the reconstruction of their country and
enables them to use information and to communicate via the Internet. =
The
project is an initiative by Jo van der Spek and Bruce Girard. Waag
Society facilitates the server of Radio Reed Flute.=20
Url: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~jo> www.xs4all.nl/~jo
4.2 INDYMEDIA.NL THREATENED WITH LEGAL ACTION
Indymedia.nl issued a statement that it will not scrap links from its
site to the website of Radikal. The press release was a reply to the
letter of a lawyer representing Deutsche Bahn A.G. in which =
Indymedia.nl
is urged to stop referring to the Radikal site. These links concerns
mirror sites, which in turn only lists a large number of articles.
Recently a legal decision forced XS4all to ban internetpages of some of
its subscribers.=20
Waag Society hosts Indymedia.nl and considers organising a public =
debate
on the issues raised by these legal actions. It concerns issues of
freedom of speech and the European jurisdiction on the responsibilities
of internetproviders for content hosted by them.
6 WAAG GENERAL
6.1 VACANCY: ASSISTANT BUSINESS-MANAGER
Waag Society has a vacancy for an assistant business manager. A good
command of Dutch is a prerequiste for this position. For the full text
of the job description, see the website of Waag Society.
Url: <http://www.waag.org/> www.waag.org
6.2 VACANCY: LIAISON OFFICER
Waag Society has a vacancy for a liaison officer the project
Worldinformation.org.
A good command of Dutch is a prerequiste for this position. For the =
full
text of the job description, see the website of Waag Society.
Url: <http://www.waag.org/> www.waag.org
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