[spectre] Imaginary Media on-line & Archival Mania at De Balie

[Eric Kluitenberg]

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Imaginary Media on-line & Archival Mania at De Balie


* Archaeology of Imaginary Media
    http://www.debalie.nl/archaeology

The lecture program of the mini-festival "An Archaeology of Imaginary 
Media", which was held February 5 - 8, 2004 at De Balie, centre for 
culture and politics in Amsterdam, has recently been made available 
on-line in full length in the Balie web dossier on Media Archaeology.

The following presentations are now available in the dossier:

Siegfried Zielinski - Deep Time of the Media, an anarchaeology of 
hearing and seeing through technological means.

Klaus Theweleit - on pre-apparatus cultural technologies and the 
soccer game as an imaginary medium.

Edwin Carels - on pre-cinema and the iconography of death.

Zoe Beloff - on spiritist media and stereoscopic cinema.

Bruce Sterling - on dead media en never realised media histories.

John Akomfrah - on Afrofuturism and imaginary media.

Erkki Huhtamo - on the archaeology of the dream world of interactivity.

Timothy Druckrey - on the archaeology of the present in the works of 
media-critical media-artists.

-  Please refer to the dossier Media Archaeology for further details:
    http://www.debalie.nl/archaeology

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* Balie Dossiers:
    http://www.debalie.nl/dossierspagina.jsp

De Balie has started to provide access to texts and materials 
collected for programs in its past, as well as registrations, reports 
and essays on the themes dealt with in recent years. These materials 
are grouped around themes that are of particular interest to our 
programs, and we call these collections "dossiers".

Currently the Balie site contains 11 dossiers, and new dossiers are 
already in preparation.

The current themes include: Media Archaeology, Visual Culture, In 
Memoriam: The new Economy, Reclaiming Cultural Diversity, Streaming 
Media, Dlight Dutch Experimental Cinema, dossiers on migration 
issues, globalisation, information politics, and more...

English and Dutch materials are mixed in the dossiers, although a 
substantial part of the texts are published in English, and 
occasionally in other languages. Where possible we publish the 
materials under a creative commons "non-commercial / share alike / 
attribution" license,  provided we receive permission by the authors 
to publish texts under this license.
(License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sa/1.0/ )

Dossiers that also contain extensive video-collections are:
- Media Archaeology
- Network Society of Control
- Streaming Media

- For an overview of all dossiers:
    http://www.debalie.nl/dossierspagina.jsp


* About:

De Balie is a public centre for culture and politics, located in the 
heart of Amsterdam next to the "Leidse Plein". De Balie hosts about 
450 to 500 programs and activities per year, ranging from 
experimental arts festivals and events, cinema and theatre, to social 
and political analysis, media criticism, and programs on new media 
culture and information politics. The programming of the centre is 
developed by the five sections of the centre: debalie media, debalie 
cinema, debalie theater, debalie uitgeverij (publisher), and debalie 
salon (politics and social isues).

It is our firm intention to continue making as many materials as 
possible related to the Balie programming available on-line, but 
always filtered by our editorial staff. To be able to improve this 
process De Balie has started an open source web publishing 
development project in the Fall of 2002. The system we are developing 
is called Culturebase and is built as an application on the basis of 
the open source content management system MMBase 
(http://www.mmbase.org). We hope to be able to release a generic open 
source version of the web publishing application in the Fall of 2004.

Balie-site (mostly in Dutch):
http://www.debalie.nl

Other (related) projects:

- Restored web archive of net.congestion fest. of streaming media (2000):
   http://net.congestion.org

- Archive of Next 5 Minutes 4 - Festival of Tactical Media (2004):
   http://www.next5minutes.org
   (under construction)