[spectre] Re: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 96, Issue 6

[Alex Goldblum]

The question on my mind is a philosophical one:

Internet Revolution vs. Internet Gradualism.

How can we change the status quo? Through direct revolutionary action, or
through gradual change?

The answer seems to me that Revolutionary action results in violent and
bloody conflict.

A philosophy of gradual change through gradated and calculated steps will be
the only way to resolve the world's growing conflicts in the new millenium.

With Love to the World,
A.M. Goldblum

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>   1. Web Symposium: The Middle East, the Revolution,   and the
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>   2. CologneOFF 2011 --> February 2011 ([Coff2011])
>   3. Rewire 2011 - Conf. on the Histories of Media Art, Science
>      and Technology (Oliver Grau)
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> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:35:51 +0100
> From: Franck Ancel <ancelfranck at gmail.com>
> Subject: [spectre] Web Symposium: The Middle East, the Revolution,      and
>        the Internet.
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> On Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 at 12:00 PM EST (GMT-5) Access will be
> hosting a live streamed online symposium entitled: /The Middle East, the
> Revolution, and the Internet/. The full description of the event appears
> below. Symposium participants include:
>
>    * Frank La Rue: United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion
>      and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
>    * Marietje Schaake: Dutch Member of the European Parliament
>    * Jillian York: Harvard University Berkman Center
>    * Tarek Amr: Egyptian Digital Activist on Global Voices
>    * Walid Al-Saqaf: Yemeni software developer and journalist
>    * Brett Solomon: Access (Moderator)
>
> /During the event, you can tweet questions using the #Q4Access hashtag
> or e-mail us at info at accessnow.org/.
>
>
>      The Middle East, the Revolution, and the Internet
>
> Tech-utopians and tech-doomsayers continue their debate over the impact
> of the internet on politics and democracy. Meanwhile mass demonstrations
> have spread across the Middle East, causing the downfall of one
> government and putting others on high alert. In each case we know
> technology has played a vital role in mobilizing protestors and
> transmitting information in real time around the globe. The existential
> threat it plays to a regime has been demonstrated by Egypt's internet
> shutdown. "The Middle East, the Revolution and the Internet" brings
> together experts in the field to discuss and debate the issues in real
> time.
>
> Access's live web symposium will examine the impact of new (social)
> media and the internet on political freedom. On the one hand, we can
> expect grassroots activists to make use of technology to facilitate
> their activities. On the other hand, the new era provides opportunities
> for dictators and regimes to survey and monitor like never before. With
> voices from academia to the front line, Access will explore how
> activists use the net, the challenges for state actors, and the likely
> winners and losers in the digital cat and mouse game.
>
> Please join us for this in-depth and dynamic discussion.
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> https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/The-Middle-East-The-Revolution-And-The-Internet
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> From: "[Coff2011]" <the-network at koeln.de>
> Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF 2011 --> February 2011
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> CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
> nomadic festival project
> 1 January - 31 December 2011
> http://coff.newmediafest.org
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> _______________________________________________
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> After its official launch on 1 January 2011,
> CologneOFF 2011 has now all basic components installed online
> and it's ready for its physical and virtual tours around the world.
>
> The virtual tour started when CologneOFF 2011 was launching on 6 January
> its basic festival program - CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate
> including all videos selected by the international jury
> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=153
>
> The physical tour started on 26 January 2011 in the framework of
> Rotterdam International Film Festival at CUCOSA Art Space Rotterdam
> with the special selection "Attracted by the Opposite?"
> more info on netMAXX http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=161
>
> February 2011
>
> 1. virtual tour
> geographical focus: USA
> solo feature: Henry Gwiazda, USA
>
> In February, CologneOFF 2011 starts its program series of videoart
> from different geographical regions around the globe - with videoart from
> Northern America, basically USA.
> The first released component represents the solo feature of 6 videos by
> the US media artist - Henry Gwiazda, who is following his own individual
> artistic path.
> In his animated 3D worlds he pays attention to the minimal physical and
> psychological movements
> of his  protagonists in an everyday world, and makes hidden secrets
> visible,
> always fascinating the viewer who does not know what is coming next.
> Henry Gwiazda's solo feature can be accessed via the main festival
> application on
> http://coff.newmediafest.org, but also via
> Screen 3 on http://www.nmartproject.net or
> Screen 4 on http://www.newmediafrest.org
>
> During February 2011, each week additional aspects of video art from
> Northern America
> will be posted and featured online.
>
> 2. physical tour
>
> 1.
> Rotterdam continues until 6 February 2011
> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=161
>
> 2. CologneOFF 2011 is jumping to Finland presenting in collaboration with
> Live Herring 2011 two compilations under the themes
> "Privat Space -Open Space?" & "Imagining the Real" to be presented between
> 10 Feb and 31 March in Jyvaskyla and Keuruu - more info on netMAXX
> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=170
>
> 3. Between 18 and 20 February, CologneOFF 2011 is making a short visit
> in India, where CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity is being celebrated in
> Sattal,
> a place not far from New Delhi, but located deeply in the Himalaya
> mountains.
> Agricola de Cologne, the creator and curator of CologneOFF 2011,
> who is also co-curator of this event of digital art, is presenting
> CologneOFF 2011
> as it was previously shown on Delhi International Arts Festival 12-13 Dec
> 2010,
> consisting of the basic festival program CologneOFF VI and the programs by
> 5 curators
> included in the curatorial programs of CologneOFF 2011 -
> Margarida Paiva (Norway), Alysse Stepanian (USA),
> Pedro Almeida & Sergio Gomes (Portugal), Kai Lossgott (South Africa)
> and Giorgio Fedeli (Italy)
>
> More details on netMAXX - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=175
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> CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
> is organised online via multi screens.
> -->
> The Mains Screen 1 - http://coff.newmediafest.org
> offers the entire project of CologneOFF 2011 in one single application
> while the additional screens display individual components separately.
>
> Here is the list of currently available screens
>
> Main screen 1 - CologneOFF VI
> http://coff.newmediafest.org
>
> Screen 2 - interactive -
> the interactive component of CologneOFF VI
> http://www.javamuseum.org
>
> Screen 3 - geographical
> this monthly changing geographiocal focus is under construction, yet.
> http://www.nmartproject.net
>
> Screen 4 - solo features
> from February 2011 on, each month an individual videoartist
> from another country will be featured with a selection of 5 video works
> http://www.newmediafest.org
>
> Screen 5 - curatorial
> will be containing all info and lists videos & artists
> selected by about 40 participating curators, under construction
> http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
>
> Screen 6 - topical
> This screen is displaying from February 2011 on
> each month  other video selections under different topics
> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
>
> Screen 7 - special
> This screen will feature special videos from CologneOFF VI
> and the future CologneOFF VII (see also the current call for entries)
> http://cinema.nmartproject.net
>
> Screen 8 - contextual updates & info
> This is the festival blog where all textual info can be found
> the ideal pleace to keep oneself updated
> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/ (English)
> http://2011.newmediafest.org (Deutsch)
>
> Screen 9 - exhibition details
> This screen will display the info about the programs of the
> physical venues
> http://maxx.nmartproject.net
>
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> CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
> nomadic festival project
> 1 January - 31 December 2011
>
> powered by
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> artvideoKOELN  - the curatorial initiative
> "art & moving images"
> http://video.mediaartcologne.org
> &
> CologneOFF -
> Cologne International Videoart Festival
> http://coff.newmediafest.org
>
> 2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:34:41 +0100
> From: "Oliver Grau" <Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at>
> Subject: [spectre] Rewire 2011 - Conf. on the Histories of Media Art,
>        Science and Technology
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> Rewire 2011 - Call for Proposals
> The Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
> Science and Technology
>
> Location: Liverpool , UK (Host: FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative
> Technology)
> Dates: September 28 - October 1, 2011
>
> = >> Due to large number of submissions that continue to come in
> towards the last few days before the closing deadline, it was decided to
> keep the submissions open until the 17th of February 2011.
>
> submit : www.MediaArtHistory.org
>
> = >> Media Art History 2011 - Rewire will increase the voltage and
> ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of
> histories, which takes account of the questions surrounding
> documentation and methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims
> to illuminate the global phenomena of media art. Given Liverpool*s
> historic role as a center of British industry and its leadership in
> the sector of digital culture, we shall explore the relationship
> between the industrial revolution and the information age with respect
> to media art around the world. Considering the international scope of
> the histories of media art, science and technology, Rewire is also
> listed as part of the "McLuhan in Europe" programme, and will take place
> concurrently with The Asia Triennial in Manchester and Abandon Normal
> Devices, the North West's festival of new cinema and digital culture
> which returns to Liverpool in September 2011.The reviewers especially
> welcome proposals for presentations that resonate thematically with
> these events.
>
> We are looking for original research on:
> * Media art history in relation to the biological, biomedical and
> ecological sciences
> * Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art, science
> and technology
> * How the field of science and technology studies (STS) can offer
> useful models for new paradigms for art history
> * Writing art history in a technologised and scientific culture,
> including the documentation of media art and how it is changed in a
> technologised and scientific culture
> * Local histories and practices of media art
> * Relations between the histories of media art and those of computing
> and new technologies
> * New paradigms and alternative discourses for media art and media art
> history, such as, for example, craft, design, social media, or
> cybernetics
> * The relations between art, science, technology and industry, both
> historically and now
> * The heritage of British industry and computing and its global
> contributions to media art
>
> = >> Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff,
> Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 09 Re:live
> in Melbourne, Media Art History 11 Rewire will host three days of
> keynotes, panels and poster sessions.
>
>
> =>> Hosted by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology),
> Liverpool. In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John
> Moores University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the
> Universities of the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of
> Virtual Art at the Dept. for Image Science.
>
> Rewire Conference Chair:
> Mike STUBBS, FACT
>
> Rewire Conference Co-chairs:
> Paul BROWN, University of Sussex
> Sarah COOK, University of Sunderland/CRUMB
> Colin DAVIES, Liverpool John Moores University
> Charlie GERE, Lancaster University
> Andy MIAH, University of the West of Scotland
> Ed SHANKEN, University of Amsterdam
> Laura SILLARS, FACT
>
> International Advisory Committee:
> Steven BALL, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Stuart COMER, Sean CUBITT, Dieter
> DANIELS, Sara DIAMOND, Vince DZIEKAN, Charles ESCHE, Sarah FISHER, Jean
> GAGNON, Graham HARWOOD, Erkki HUHTAMO, Nick LAMBERT, Debbi LANDER, Tapio
> MAKELA, Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, Frieder NAKE, Taylor NUTTALL, Steve
> PARTRIDGE, Christiane PAUL, Ned ROSSITER, Paul SERMON, Jinsuk SUH, Brett
> STALBAUM, Julian STALLABRASS, Atau TANAKA, Andrea ZAPP
>
>
> MediaArtHistory Board (Conference Series Steering Committee)
> Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver
> GRAU,
> Doug KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS
>
>
> = >> forwarded by::
> Department for Image Science at Danube University, Austria
> Media Art History conference series partner and web-platform home
> www.mediaarthistory.org
> www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah
> (mediaarthistories group)
> www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=36056054067<http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#%21/group.php?gid=36056054067>
> (rewire group)
> www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=109013832492013<http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#%21/group.php?gid=109013832492013>
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