[spectre] World-Information.Org Amsterdam: Exploring the Network Society of
Control
Eric Kluitenberg
epk@xs4all.nl
Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:51:41 +0100
Dear Spectrites,
Here is some general info about the upcoming Amsterdam edition of
World-Information.Org, which includes an extensive exhibition, artist
projects, WIO-Works a temporary work and presentation space and an
international conference on information politics.
The program of the conference (December 6th and 7th 2002) will be
announced here shortly and via the web page:
http://www.balie.nl/wio
best wishes,
Eric
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World-Information.Org Amsterdam:
Exploring the Network Society of Control
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World-Information.Org Amsterdam
November 15 - December 15, 2002
De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
http://www.world-information.org
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After World-Information.Org's successful presentations in Brussels,
Vienna (2000), Munich, Helsinki (2001) and Berlin (2002) it is now
preparing for a major event in Amsterdam. From November 15 through
December 15, 2002, World-Information.Org will once again stage its
extensive exhibition and conference program in the Oude Kerk, the
earliest parish church in Amsterdam. Here the World-Information
Exhibition will present digital culture projects by renowned and
pioneering artists, historic and state-of-the-art control and
surveillance technology and the results of World-Information.Org's
research program. Visitors will be offered an art mediation program
that will enable them to gain inside views of the comprehensive
content of World-Information.Org.
The exhibition consists of "World-Infostructure", "World-C4U" and the
"Future Heritage Expo" a series of art projects. During the
exhibition a temporary media lab will be installed in the Oude Kerk
called "WIO-Works".
World-Infostructure provides insights in the evolution of
communication technologies and their consequences for society. It
presents the progression of historic communication codes to
state-of-the-art applications, and provides an overview of the
relation between technology, private investments and common welfare.
In World-C4U, the public experiences how organisations, companies and
governments use state-of-the-art technologies for control and
security through hands-on practical biometric applications and live
demonstrations of surveillance systems. The exhibition also contains
historical objects such as the code machine 'Enigma'.
WIO-Works is a temporary media lab in which several groups work on
different themes, each during five to six days. In the Oude Kerk,
permanent screening facilities and information terminals will be
equipped and discussions, presentations and workshops will be
organised so that the public will gain hands-on experiences.
Future Heritage Expo includes projects by (a.o.) the following artists:
Critical Art Ensemble
http://www.critical-art.net/
A collective of five artists of various specialisations dedicated to
exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics
and critical theory
Critical Art Ensemble has in recent project focussed on the
implications Biotechnology, a.o. in the project "GenTerra -
Transgenic Solutions for a Greener World"
http://www.critical-art.net/genterra/index.html
Arthur Elsenaar & Taco Stolk
BuBL Space
Do you need a break from the daily mobile soap? Surround yourself
with soothing space. Simply press your pocket-size BuBL device.
Release a bubble of silence. You'll feel pleasantly isolated inside,
even in a crowded place. Evaporate all phone signals up to three
meters around. Enjoy the silence. Create your Personal BuBL Space.
http://www.bubl-space.com
The Yesmen
The Yesmen have staged a series of stunning performances appearing in
cognito as official spokesmen for the WTO at international trade
conferences and seminars. Mistakenly identified and invited via their
spoof website http://www,gatt.org they have recently announced a
schedule for disbanding the WTO that lead to worried reactions
world-wide including a parliamentary intervention in Canada.
http://www.theyesmen.org
Institute for Applied Autonomy
The Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) was founded in 1998 as a
technological research and development organisation concerned with
individual and collective self-determination. Their mission is to
study the forces and structures which effect self-determination; to
create cultural artefacts which address these forces; and to develop
technologies which serve social and human needs.
In Amsterdam a recent "spot-the-cam-in-Amsterdam" action was held to
map observation camera's in the inner city. IAA has developed a
system that produces "maps of least surveillance" charting a route
with as little as possible camera's through any given city, which
will now be applied to Amsterdam.
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
Jill Magid - System Azure
Jill Magid is currently artist in residence at the Royal Academy of
Arts in Amsterdam. She explores the aesthetics of surveillance, and
proposes an alternative treatment of surveillance apparatuses. She
has recently completed the first phase of a restyling of surveillance
camera's of the Amsterdam police department by rhinestoning and
restyling observation camera's at the main Amsterdam police station.
Magid wishes to bring these observation and control systems in the
public consciousness by developing an explicit aesthetics of
observation machines that makes them more visible to the public eye.
RIXC-Riga & Marko Peljhan
The RIXC group from Riga and Marko Peljhan will set up an
installation that maintains a live link with the Irbene 32m dish
antenna, as part of the on-going electronic media monitoring project.
>>From August 4-12, 2001, twenty five media artists and activists
>>from three different continents gathered together in the forests
>>of western Latvia at the site of a Soviet-era 32meter dish
>>antenna. Formerly used to spy on satellite transmissions between
>>Europe and North America by the KGB, the antenna was abandoned and
>>nearly destroyed when the Russians departed in 1994. The dish is
>>currently under repair for civilan use as one of the top 5 most
>>precise radiotelescopes in the world.<<
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab
0100101110101101.ORG - VOPOS_GPS
>>quote:
# Anything has been said about this renegade cyber-entity,
# accused of being "simple thief", dubbed as "media dandy"
# and "cultural terrorists" or, simply, "shit".
# 0100101110101101.ORG is the author of some of the most
# perfect media exploits of the last years, such as the
# creation and diffusion, at the opening of the 49th
# Venice Biennial, of the computer virus "biennale.py" or
# the memorable theft of the art gallery Hell.com.
end quote<<
As part of their project series Glasnost 01.ORG will present their
project VOPOS_GPS, an interface that allows the audience a 24 hour
tracking of all movements of 01.ORG via a GPS system.
HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG
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World-Info Conference 2002: The Network Society of Control
De Balie, December 6 & 7, 2002
De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, will host the
World-InfoCon conference 'The Network Society of Control', an
international and interdisciplinary forum for the critical discussion
of information politics in the network society. A wide variety of
speakers and participants including researchers, politicians,
representatives of social interest groups, activists and cultural
workers will examine recent developments in information security,
public opinion management, new legislation for intellectual property
rights management in the digital domain, and the desire for a digital
commons.
The final program of the conference will be announced shortly and
will also be made available at the website of De Balie:
http://ww.balie.nl/wio
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World-Information.Org is an initiative of Public Netbase/t0 and is
organised in co-operation with Waag Society / for old and new media,
De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics and Netherlands Media Art
Institute, Montevideo/TBA. The project was previously presented in
Brussels and Vienna.
World-Information.Org is realised with the financial support of The
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology;
Netherlands Culture Fund, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dutch
Ministry for Education, Culture and Sciences; Mondriaan Foundation;
Culture2000; VSB Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
http://www.world-information.org