[spectre] Media and art : on the yahoo-fr surfers elections in 2003

Wed Jan 7 19:44:01 CET 2004

Hello friends ! I know that I shall not talk immediately on East question
but a global way through continental to East.

Thema-anachronistic way of the actual times includes any references to
memory without order, a sort of post-queer semiotic extract from our
contemporary history out of time.

You know I can remember on creation in a splendid primitive numerical arts
as media and games on screens coming from Praia (an anticipation of every
tendency that we would see now), in sixties, as a true hope to freeness...
that was @ Montreal 1967 the international demonstration were Buckminster
Fuller built the American geodesic dome of which structure stays today as a
skeleton of sky. All the front of culture, letters and cinema were growing
in East and the west European countries received the best from East Europe,
even in sciences or in design. Every doors looked to be open more and more
forever... 

But just a year later in fact the spring of Praia would be repressed. In
1969 I was going in Praia, Budapest, to meet friends who felt enclosed as in
a prison, Vienna, just for Xmas days... it was a sadness in Praia. I tell it
immediately because today the sky looks globally in a darkness for autonomy
and liberty at the beginning of the year ; but it could change so radically
for the best of people. All the contrary, we would be sure of that, be
confidence on hazard selection and critical mass ‹but help them ;-)

        Just now, there is one info concerning our next trans-move and
trans-politic program @ batofar (www.criticalsecret.com residency is one
evening or night every two months), Paris. To-morrow January 8th-9th full
night: performance Kiki & loulou picasso and their collective group in free
meta-media (spip system) unregardmoderne.com and coming guest artists
http://www.incorect.com as VJ/DJ critical creators. Thematic : Mythology of
the real time. This performance is associated with our autumn-winter
2003-2004 heading online of (in the calendar "No utopia") : Integral
mythology of "medium is message" : mythology of the actual (Photo-reporter
John Lecrocheur adventure ‹ integral serial in Flash ‹ Emma awards,
Narrowcast,and FIFI winner in 2000) ‹ ; mythology of the real time from
material to virtual events: unregardmoderne Live, copyleft ADaM-project
online, and so on... Last performance was completely on abstract in
numerical cinema :
Hikaru Fujii and Fabien Giraud installations and the first one to Julie
Morel from http://www.incident.net

        I shall say that on December 26th Yahoo-France has elected
http://www.unrgardmoderne.com and http://www.arteradio.com
Best sites of the year 2003.

In fact, our partner unregardmoderne is a subjective but real and true
daily-news site informing bilingual on micro and macro events, local and
international selections as a criticism on Press-media and TV and using all
the News online (from Reuters to Yahoo). They quote links on their sources
respecting but ironically a symbolic tradition of the proof.

Their visitors count from 400 at least to 2000 all most surfers every day
(that is consequent front of the specific radical and caricaturist consensus
from a special artistic choose .giff as animation base ‹ a democratic system
to open the publication to young authors) in all the world, most anglophone.

They emerge from the collective "Bazooka graphism Resistance", punks No
future, whose iconography in Seventy was so famous through the radical move
from NYc (James White, saxophonist) to Moscow, as the punk music of English
rockers Sex pistols, Siouxie And The Banshees (one cover of the first
records is from their art-pencil)...

After they acted as graph-terrorists on old marble of the newspaper
Liberation (created by Maoists from New Resistance in 1970, as a democratic
front journal directed by Jean-Paul Sartre ‹ leading editor Serge July) They
have invented before anyone the meta-journalism and info as art in an
editorial review (tittle "Un regard moderne") published after @ Liberation
Press and where they hold same time the editing direction and graphs
leading.

The accomplished form of their ideas would need hypermedia in real time for
a radical daily way, telling a story more collective. So they have created
it online in 2002, most authors and graphists are young. To publish is
opened : every one from everywhere can post icons respecting the program.
Loulou is the leading editor who decides at last.

Their first art was an organic deconstructive language associating the
current news in the Press and TV and history of the forms in pub and
communication of socialist and neo-realist modernity and their contemporary
left extreme in post-modernity.

The first deconstruction artists and authors on all modern avant-garde was
from Panik group in sixties (Cieslewicz, Topor, Jodorowski, Arrabal, Averty)
and multifield artists as William Klein (deconstruction of fashion
photo-report) and Guy Peellaert ‹ deconstruction of pop-art, founders on the
post-modernity French-touch just before Goude and Mondino (post-68).

Sorry on my bad English-US.

Thanks to read my actual info would it be thema-anachronistic ;-)

Have a good day and evening.

A.G.
from http://www.criticalsecret.com

> De : "Milo¹ Vojtìchovský" <milos.vojtechovsky at fcca.cz>
> Répondre à : Milo¹ Vojtìchovský <milos.vojtechovsky at fcca.cz>
> Date : Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:26:53 +0100
> À : "spectre microlisten" <spectre at mikrolisten.de>
> Objet : [spectre] F at media
> 
> "FM at dia Forum 04"
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> 
> 
> what:
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> Meeting and workshops of Free Media Initiatives on various strategies in
> Central and Eastern Europe
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> when:
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> June 10th - 13th 2004
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> where:
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> Prague (Cz) - NoD Experimental space
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> Freistadt (A)
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> who:
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> People from a variety of community-, free-, independent-, sovereign-,
> civic-, NGO media and social organisations will gather together in Prague to
> meet, discuss and develop strategies for the liberalisation of the
> information and communication situation in Europe - with special focus on
> Central Europe. Set up for active members and representatives of a number
> civic, cultural and media initiatives from Czech Republic, Slovakia,
> Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Germany, Austria, including guests from both
> western northern, southern and eastern regions.
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> 
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> 
> why:
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> The quickly shifting political and economical circumstances of the
> approaching United Europe pose a challenge to reframe and explore such
> topics as "free speech", "public access", "independence, "creative commons",
> "digital divide" and "content exchange". All this and more requires
> articulating a common idea for better collaboration among media activists,
> artists, free radio, 'zine publishers, internet publishers etc.
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> While the region is characteristic of a relatively high density of media and
> civic activities, the inter-connectivity appears rather low by comparison.
> This meeting seeks to offer the opportunity for improving coordination and
> sharing experiences and know-how among the participants.
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> 
> The output from the "FM at dia" meeting aims to foster communication and
> collaboration between different regions, languages and cultures. The close
> distance between e.g. Nuernberg and Prague, Freistadt and Ceske Budejovice
> or Vienna and Bratislava calls for more collaboration.
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> 
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> The issues of civic media and rights of communication shall be discussed
> within a broader public debate. Special internet "web-streaming" will take
> place during the meeting, in order to broadcast and archive the event.
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> Goals:
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> The FM at dia meeting shall motivate and encourage the establishment or
> continuing of activities of Community Media Projects, especially of
> cross-border projects. It shall be a first step towards a networking in the
> fields of free media and civic organisations and enable the participants to
> develop common ideas for collaboration and content-exchange, and thus
> develop long-term relationships.
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> FM at dia '04 is divided in several blocks and working groups according to
> special interests:
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> (each working group has a supervisor)
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> 1.Media-Wars- Totality, Democracy and the chance for "Community Media"
> 
> 1989 -2004
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> How have the Media-Landscapes developed since the fall of Berlin Wall in
> Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Austria and
> what effects did it have on the quality of public debate and civic rights?
> What should we expect from a European Union media policy (Community Media
> Fund)? What role is there for Free and Community Media movement and what can
> be objectives and relations towards corporate and state mass media?
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> 2. Volksgeist versus Cosmopolit
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> Opportunities, experiences, and possibilities for community-media in the new
> European Union -a survey from different countries: Best practices, best
> models, problems of legality and laws. Lobbying and pirates. Discussion of
> further strategies with a certain focus on the situation in the Czech
> Republic and its connections with international networks.
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> 3. Collaboration or competition?
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> Facing continued fundamentalist copyright regimes how can sustainable models
> of content-exchange within Free Media in the new European Union be achieved?
> What is the impact of the discussion on intellectual property rights on Free
> Media initiatives? Network of cross-national oriented broadcasting and
> information initiatives, their accessibility and possibility of
> implementation, multi-lingual media carriers, broadcasters, media jamming,
> (http://www.tol.cz, http://www.indymedia.org http://www.infoservis.net/,
> Europe from down below, etc)
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> 4. Mobility?- free flow of information
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> Cross-border activities along and near former and new EU-borders. Models of
> inter-regional cultural and social projects. How they can be exploited and
> stimulated by community media and alternative channels for cultural exchange
> and collaboration across the border (for example Upper Austria and South
> Bohemia, Hungary and Slovakia or former Yugoslavia)?
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> Several speakers from national and international political structures will
> be invited to formulate and present their visions on the problem of media
> and communication in the region.
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> Proposed number of participants: 50-100
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> The formats of the conference will be panel discussions (plenary
> discussions), presentations (examples for best practice, marketing,
> networking) and workshops (split up into working-groups with practical
> questions as funding, how to start etc.).
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> The event will be accompanied by evening programs.
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> Alliance of Organizations:
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> Bundesverband Freier Radios Deutschland (BFR), www.freie-radios.de
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> European Civic Forum, www.civic-forum.org
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> Freier Rundfunk Freistadt, Freistadt (A)
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> Radio FRO, Linz (A), www.fro.at
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> Radio Akropolis, Prague http://www.radioakropolis.cz
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> Transition Online www.tol.cz
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> Verband Freier Radios Osterreich, http://www.freie-radios.at
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> Centre for Contemporary Art Prague/Radio Jeleni www.radiojeleni.cz
> 
> Econnect, www.ecn.cz
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> Open list of invited participating organizations:
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> Next 5 minuts festival http://www.next5minutes.org/n5m/index.js
> 
> Open society institute hungary http://www.osi.hu
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> Open society fund http://www.osf.cz
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> Journalist to Journalist The IFJ Safety Fund http://www.eumap.org/about
> 
> One world festival http://www.oneworld.cz
> 
> society for film and sociology http://www.afis.cz
> 
> The Departement of Mass-media Faculty of Social Studies UK Prague
> 
> http://instituty.fsv.cuni.cz/cemes/
> 
> britske listy - online czech language independent media
> 
> http://www.britskelisty.cz
> 
> vulgo - multiligual online magazine
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> http://vulgo.org/
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> Draft: Milos Vojtechovsky (CCA), Alexander Baratsits (Radio FRO), Linz NOV
> 2003
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> you can send your proposal to:
> 
> Alexander Baratsits: alexander.baratsits at fro.at,
> 
> Leonfeldnerstr. 51, 4040 Linz, 0676 508 7335, Austria
> 
> Milos Vojtechovsky: milos at fcca.cz, radiojeleni, jeleni 9,118 00 praha 1,
> Czech Republic
> 
> 
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