RHS Linux User on 26 Aug 2000 20:18:43 -0000 |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
[Nettime-bold] (no subject) |
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain13.altern.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[email protected]>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: (qmail 21359 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2000 20:09:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bbs.thing.net) (209.14.134.50) by domain14.altern.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 2000 20:09:43 -0000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by bbs.thing.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA15231 for nettime-l-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:54:16 -0400 Message-Id: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:21:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "nettime's hand compiler" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: <nettime> Announcer: late August 2000 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk 1..... Subject: The Archaeology of Multi-Media 2..... Subject: I R I S H F A E R Y M U S I C (fwd) 3..... Subject: ELO Chat August 30--Epubbing 4..... Subject: Global airguitar play-together tonight! (10pm EET DST) 5..... Subject: Bauhaus Award Event City Conference 6..... Subject: Exhbition at Replica 31.8-24.9 7..... Subject: Project Room: still-life 8..... Subject: Bad Subjects -- Calls for Papers 9..... Subject: The Week Of Small Miracles (London, 1-9 September) 10.. Subject: Latest editorial at www.eyestorm.com 11.. Subject: m e t a . f m r e f r e s h From: "ricardo dominguez" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: The Archaeology of Multi-Media Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:42:37 -0400 ------ _NextPart_000_00A0_01C00F39.962C1DC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset "iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Archaeology of Multi-Media A Conference at Brown University (Providence RI, U.S.A.) Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2000 http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm For two-and-a-half days, participants in the conference will engage and interrogate rhetoric about electronic media that describes them as fundamentally new, irrevocably transformative and virtually unstoppable. Refusing to rely on descriptions such as "new" and "digital" (for what medium has not at one time been new, or is not now produced digitally?), the conference will highlight mixed-media art and scholarship. It will seek some alternative interpretations and understandings of the singularity of electronic content, context, form, and audience, as well as another map of the ways in which media have always been multiple. Archaeology of Multi-Media seeks to integrate historical scholarship and emerging modes of media theory, and to link the study of multimedia with existing work on 'traditional' media, as it opens some emergent spaces of mixture and multiplicity in present research and action. In order to do this, we will launch the conference with a performance/lecture Thursday night by the digital collective Mongrel (a U.K.- and Jamaica-based artists group set up to explore issues of race, technology and new-eugenics, and an agency to co-ordinate and set up other new media projects so that those locked out of the mainstream can gain strength without getting locked into power structures). This event will be followed on Friday and Saturday by eight ninety-minute panels, as well as student mixed-media displays, covering issues like: film, television and video, and print and or as electronic media; language and systems; conflict media; identity and difference; and social movements. "The Archaeology of Multi-Media" brings together an international group of scholars, artists, activists, and technologists, including: Geoffrey Batchen (cultural criticism/history of photography; University of New Mexico, U.S.A.) James Der Derian (international relations; Brown University, U.S.A.) Richard Dienst (cultural criticism/visual media; Rutgers University, U.S.A.) Thomas Elsaesser (film/television/new media theory; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Wolfgang Ernst (history/classics/archaeology/museology/media studies; University of Bochum, Germany) Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project; Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, U.S.A.) Graham Harwood (artist/programmer/co-ordinator; Mongrel, U.K.) Ken Hillis (theories of communication technologies/virtual Geography/social and political identities; University of North Carolina, U.S.A.) Mervin Jarman (artist/programmer/co-ordinator; Mongrel, Jamaica) Thomas Keenan (human rights/literary theory/media studies; Bard College, U.S.A.) Lev Manovich (artist, theorist and critic of new media; University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.) Tara McPherson (gender and critical studies/television/new media/popular culture; University of Southern California, U.S.A.) Thomas Levin (media and cultural history and theory; Princeton University, U.S.A.) Geert Lovink (media theorist and activist; Adilkno + De Waag + many others, Netherlands) Nick Mirzeoff (visual culture/art history; SUNY Stony Brook, U.S.A.) Lisa Nakamura (postcolonial studies/critical theory; Sonoma State, U.S.A.) Renata Salecl (sociology, criminology, and philosophy; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Cornelia Vismann (rhetoric and media techniques of law; European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)) This conference, supported by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and organized by the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, is free and open to the public but registration is required. Please register either on the web or by emailing [email protected]. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm. Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:45:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: I R I S H F A E R Y M U S I C (fwd) -- (Forward from Miekal And) Peter Lamborn Wilson I R I S H F A E R Y MUS I C (workshop / dialogue / listening to recordings of 30 songs) Sept 2, 2000 1pm - 5pm donation of $5-$10 requested Dreamtime Village http://net22.com/dreamtime/index.shtml West Lima, WISCONSIN (80 miles west of Madison) overnight accomodations available for $8/night. ????????????????????????? Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey) is an editor of Autonomedia & the author of many books including TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone), Sacred Drift, Pirate Utopias, Ploughing the Clouds & Escape from the 20th Century. He also has a CD from Axiom of spoken word. A good Hakim Bey site of introductory links can be found at http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/bey/index_body.html [please replicate this message] Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:30:18 -0600 From: Deena <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Subject: ELO Chat August 30--Epubbing Please join us for an Electronic Literature Chat Wednesday August 30, 9 p.m. Eastern time, 8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific, Noon Thursday Sydney time, and 2 am GMT Everything you've wanted to know about epubbing but were too slow to ask with Karen Wiesner. E pubbing has been growing at a rapid rate, with web shattering changes every second. What has been happening with epubbing and where it is going. Karen Wiesner is the bestselling author of ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide {The Most Complete Reference for Non-Subsidy E-Publishing}, the 2nd Edition of which was recently released by Avid Press LLC. Publishers Weekly calls the Guide a "...must-own resource" and it has been nominated for an EPPIE Karen is also the author of three, popular on-going series' published by Hard Shell Word Factory. Her novel FALLING STAR has been nominated for a coveted Romantic Times' 1999 E-Book of the Year and is also a finalist in the EPPIE. In addition, she has a romance anthology published with DiskUs Publishing, a Frankfurt Award nominee. Her Inkspot column, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Q&A, recently won the 1999 Epub Ambassador Award. Her newest work, THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER {or how to avoid carpal tunnel with all those revisions} is forthcoming from Avis Press and her upcoming releases include two more romance novels, a paranormal romance and a children's story. Visit her web pages at <http://www.eclectics.com/karenwiesner> INSTRUCTIONS ON JOINING THE CHATS: To take part in the ELO chats, just go to the Lingua MOO and sign in as a guest. If you'd like to learn more about MOOing, please e-mail Deena Larsen at [email protected] for a short tutorial. To enter LinguaMOO, click onthe URL: http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000 Your browser must be either Netscape Communicator version 4.08 or newer, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or newer. Java, Javascript, and Cookies must be enabled for the system to work. Otherwise, please , telnet to lingua.utdallas.edu 8888 Once in LinguaMOO, type in @go eliterature to get to the electronic literature chat room. Once there, you can type a quotation mark " and your text to start talking. You can also type @who to find out who else is there. We hope you'll join us for this exciting chat. ------------ Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities To subscribe, send a blank message to: [email protected] ------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:53:18 +0300 From: airguitar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Global airguitar play-together tonight! (10pm EET DST) This is the day for the 3rd annual global airguitar play-together on the net! Last year(s) were reported here in http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199908/msg00132.html and we're now building on that, both technically and conceptually, if all the tech works *knock-knock* (on wood). Technical info and links to streams&programs will be at http://an.org/airguitar/ within hours. Basic description here: At 22.00 Finnish time, 10pm EET DST (8pm GMT, right?), after the annual airguitar world championship competition, all the world will join and play together in harmony. The event takes place in Oulu, Finland, as a part of the music video festival (http://www.omvf.net/). Besides the netcast for you to follow, it is all about how people from the net can participate, and trying to make them - you - present for the audience out here on the market square. an-Toni as airguitar@ (sorry about posting this so late - was so busy with the tech that lacked on the invitations activities..) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:37:48 +0200 From: Ute Lenssen <[email protected]> Subject: Bauhaus Award Event City Conference The Bauhaus Award The first International Bauhaus Award will be presented on September 16, 2000. One prize will be awarded for outstanding achievements in architecture and urban development, a second in art and new media, while the third award is a special prize for academic and conceptual work. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will be conferring the Bauhaus Award every two years in the future. It focuses on the themes at the center of the Bauhaus' work, namely city and urban design. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has asked more than 100 international designers from various backgrounds to bring forward potential candidates for the award. Following a pre-selection by the jury, successful applicants will have the opportunity to present their work at the Bauhaus on September 16, 2000. On this day, the final decision will be made. Thematic Focus: Event City The urban entertainment culture of the 21st century, the event city, is made up of theme worlds given over to spectacles, enjoyment, consumption and entertainment.. Malls, theme parks, raves and leisure centers have become hallmarks of big cities. Urban entertainment centers bring together shopping, entertainment and event under one roof and are celebrated around the world as successful examples for the revitalization of inner cities. How can architecture and art maintain their claim to provide guidance when our entire everyday world is increasingly stylized into a holistic work of art? What can architecture and art contribute to the design and integration of an event city? The Bauhaus will address these issues and others at the 2nd International Bauhaus Kolleg starting in September 2000. The Conference Friday, Sept 15, 2000 10.00 - 13.00 h Opening Omar Akbar, Dessau The Culture of Cities in the 21st Century On the road to Event City Regina Bittner, Dessau Citytainment - Public Space Dieter Hassenpflug, Weimar Event Spaces in the cityscape Global Mass Culture Angela McRobbie, London Criticism versus Culture? Walter Prigge, Dessau 15.00 - 18.00 h Architecture of Performance Artificial Paradises John Jerde, Los Angeles Scapes Anna Klingmann, Z�rich Event Space Michael Sorkin, New York Chair: Andreas Ruby, Berlin 20.00 - 21.30 h Panel discussion: The end of art in the event society? Regina Bittner; Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin; Boris Groys, Karlsruhe; Barbara Steiner, K�ln. Saturday, Sept 16, 2000 Conferral of the Bauhaus Award 2000 with introduction of the price categories and presentations by the candidates 10.00 - 12.30 h Architecture and Urban Design 14.00 - 15.45 h Art and New Media 16.15 - 17.30 h Social and Cultural Sciences: Academic and Conceptual Work 17.30 - 19.00 h Meeting of the Jury 19.00 - 20.00 h Handing over of the Award: Gerd Harms, Minister of Culture, Saxony-Anhalt 20.00 h Diner in the Bauhaus Canteen with Klaus Trebes, Gargantua, Frankfurt/Main Klub Session Registration I wish to register <<...>> for the conference on Sept 15 and 16, 2000 <<...>> alone <<...>> in company <<...>> for the conferral of the Award on Sept 16, 2000, 19.00 h <<...>> alone <<...>> in company <<...>> for the festive evening dinner on Sept 16, 2000-07-30 <<...>> alone <<...>> in company Address for your registration: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Servicebereich Gropiusallee 38 D 06846 Dessau Tel. +49 (0) 340 6508 250 Fax +49 (0) 340 6508 226 e-mail [email protected] Please note that the auditorium and the canteen of the Bauhaus offer limited seating capacity and register on time! Conference and Conferral of the Award will be broadcasted live on the Internet: www.bauhaus-dessau.de <http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de>. Here, additional information on the program, on the Bauhaus Kolleg II "Event City" and on other activities of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation can be found. Marie Neum�llers Presse- und �ffentlichkeitsarbeit Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau Gropiusallee 38 D 06846 Dessau tel. +49 (0) 340 6508 225 fax +49 (0) 340 6508 226 mail [email protected] Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:17:43 +0200 To: [email protected] From: Replica fall 2000 <[email protected]> Subject: Exhbition at Replica 31.8-24.9 <fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>"this boy could be me" Group exhibition at Replica Theater & Art Center=20 Maria Miesenberger, Anders Boqvist, Dejan Antonijevic, Charlotte Enstr=F6m, Matts Leiderstam, Annika Eriksson, Sesse Lind, Maria Friberg, Lars Tunbj=F6rk, Lotta Antonsson, Jenny Stigsdotter, and Igor Savchenko. August 31-September 24, 2000 Opening: Thursday August 31, 6-12 pm. Bar and DJ (Patrik Arve from Teddybears) Guest curator: Olga Kopenkina, Minsk/New York. What does it mean to see and to be seen? Replica is pleased to present "this boy could be me" (following Pasolini's statement on the gaze at the object reflecting the viewer's desire), an exhibition which explores how we recognize identities of others and how we place ourselves in relation to the other. The exhibition comprises images that address the complexity of human identity presented by models of fashion and advertizement; individual, corporate, or familial portraits; environmental photographs as well as anonymous footage.=20 The show also explores how a particular space, that of Replica Theater & Art Center, can be a site across which different identities could pass, how it constitutes conditions for vision and recognition. =46or more information: www.replica.nu or call Olga Kopenkina at 08 650 08 84. e-mail: [email protected] _________________________________ Replica Theater & Art Center Hantverkargatan 78 112 39 Stockholm ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:34:57 -0400 From: NOMADS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Project Room: still-life still-life by John Hudak http://www.nomadnet.org/still-life/index.htm three times a day you may see us through van gogh's starry night palette. other times a dining room a cat or a book. every three minutes another look. NOMADS is pleased to announce the launch of still-life, a new web project by John Hudak created for our on-line Project Room. In still-life, Hudak points a black and white webcam at his dining room table capturing a still image every three minutes which is then colorized utilizing van gogh's starry night palette. Each individual image is further converted to audio, creating a unique soundtrack which is updated every time a new still-life is transmitted. Playing-off the notion of a webcam as a surveillance or voyeuristic device, Hudak instead creates a painterly portrait of his life and surroundings. Hudak is a sound artist whose work has been presented on numerous cds and in live performances. He has also created a number of web-based works including three projects for turbulence (http://www.turbulence.org). still-life requires the QuickTime 4.0 plug-in. --- NOMADS www.nomadnet.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:42:11 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] Subject: Bad Subjects -- Calls for Papers BAD SUBJECTS: Politics of Everyday Life CALL FOR PAPERS 2000-2001 Bad Subjects is seeking short, accessible essays relating to the politics of everyday life. Essays should be short (around 3000 words) and should be written in accessible and jargon-free prose. Writing that combines practical issues with theoretical consideration will be especially appreciated. Feel free to query issue editors on essay proposals. Visit the journal at http://eserver.org/bs/ Issue topics for 2000-2001 include: * Spirits * Improper Intellectuals * Alienated Labor * Strangers * Garbage * BOOGIE! SPIRITS -- Bad Subjects #51 We are continuously surrounded by the image, suggestion, and even presence of spirits. Perhaps someone gave you a boxing alien doll for your birthday, or your mother channels on weekends, or you are a day-trading slave to the sinister "invisible hand." A spirit can be something undead, something all-too-dead, or magic that guides the living. Depending on your perspective, we have an overabundance of spirits in our everyday lives, or an underabundance. In overabundance, we have the spirit of capitalism -- no longer in the form of the Protestant ethic -- but in the form of a god-like deus-ex-machina to be revered, not explained. Inexplicable phenomena make for good popular cultural fare, even with the X-Files' ratings on the decline. Even the human genome could be thought of as a map of the human spirit. But at the same time the contemporary popularity of irony and cynicism among the cultured bourgeoisie point to an age devoid of spirit -- of course they also point to the spirit of the age. Subjects for consideration might include: Zeitgeists; poltergeists; the spirit of revolution; the dead; wine and other spirits; school spirit; aether; marginal experiences; science and the spirit world; The Skeptical Enquirer; the Tao, feelings of debt, loss, or grief; spirit photography; radio waves; spirituality; psychic phenomena; trips through time; disembodied beings; angel cards; millennial movements; qi, graveyards; the alien fetish; or credit (perhaps the defining spectre of our era). Deadline for submissions is September 7, 2000. Send submissions to issue editors Jonathan Sterne <[email protected]> and Megan Shaw Prelinger <[email protected]>. IMPROPER INTELLECTUALS -- Bad Subjects #52 Walter Benjamin once bitterly described the condition of being an intellectual as the experience of a perpetual state of homelessness. "The problematic situation of intellectuals," Benjamin argued, leads them to question their own right to exist because society consistently denies them the means to exist, i.e. easy access to respectable forms of employment whose middle class status is simply unquestionable. While Benjamin's beliefs were rooted in his own difficult personal experiences of having his dissertation rejected, and an inability to find proper employment doing what he did best - writing; nonetheless, Benjamin extrapolated from his circumstances that there is a certain lack of cultural value placed upon intellectual activity that ideally culiminates in an experience of political radicalization. In the Improper Intellectuals issue, Bad Subjects would like to invite contributors to explore Benjamin's thesis. Is the alienating experience of being an intellectual really all that radicalizing? For that matter, what's so alienating about intellectual life anyway? Go nuts. Submissions to issue editors Joel Schalit <[email protected]> and Geoff Sauer <[email protected]> due October 17, 2000. ALIENATED LABOR -- Bad Subjects #53 For Marx, capitalism represented "the domination of thing over man, of dead labor over living labor, of the product over the producer." It's a formulation worth recalling in this era of globalization, when mainstream pundits paint the free market as a fountain of youth. And it's one that the activists who participated in the "Battle in Seattle" and subsequent protests against the WTO, World Bank, and other institutions have taken to heart, whatever their position on Marxism. The Alienated Labor issue takes Marx's formulation as the starting point for an exploration of the nature and manifestations of working people's alienation under capitalism. How do we confront and contend with work that we realize is for the benefit of the "prosperous few?" How do we organize workplaces to reclaim the fruits of labor for ourselves? How do we combat the alienation of life energies at work, at home, and on the streets? This issue invites essays on the politics of labor; labor organizing drives and activism; malcontent workers; non-compliance, disobedience, sabotage, work actions and strikes; identity politics and labor; "illegal" labor (like that of undocumented workers or prostitutes); migrant labor; unemployment; working at home and telecommuting; 9-to-5 dead-end jobs; mental health and work; occupational health; bad bosses and tyranny in the workplace; the "disappearance of labor" in consumer economies; laboring for a survival wage; the anomie that comes with meaningless work; and other related topics. Contact issue co-editors Charlie Bertsch at <[email protected]> and Joe Lockard at <[email protected]> if you are interested in contributing. The deadline for finished articles will be November 28, 2000. STRANGERS - Bad Subjects #54 There are strangers in our midst. Every day we deal with people who are to varying degrees unfamiliar to us. Often these interactions take place without much awareness on our part: they barely register on our social radar screen. We buy groceries from complete strangers, exchange pleasantries about the weather with them, or simply pass them on the street -- all without giving it as much as a second thought. But at other times, the strangers in our midst become the focus of our attention, eliciting from us strong responses loaded with political meaning. With hot heads and anxious hearts we denounce the influx of 'foreigners' and 'aliens' into our communities, calling for their expulsion, incarceration or marginalization. Or, in a move equally fraught with political and cultural significance, we travel to the opposite end of the spectrum and eagerly embrace strangers, treating them as fetishes upon which to project our innermost desires and fantasies. And, of course, sometimes the shoe is on the other foot and we find ourselves playing the part of the stranger, when, for example, we travel to another country, interact with a cultural scene different from our own or simply drive through a new neighborhood. Possible topics might include: the marking of certain groups as 'strange'; the definition of strangers, aliens, and foreigners in the politics of immigration and multiculturalism; travel and the experience of being a stranger; personal experiences of feeling strange, odd, and out of place; aliens and extraterrestrials; the stranger in film, literature, and other types of pop culture; discrimination against strangers; exotic strangers; threatening strangers; strangers and fear. Deadline for submissions is January 23, 2001. Send submissions to issue editors John Brady <[email protected]> or Steven Rubio <[email protected]>. GARBAGE -- Bad Subjects #55 Today we live in a world were consumption of innumerable products continues to grow. With each new product or market niche discovered and exploited, the capitalist law of designed obsolescence becomes more apparent. Everything we buy ends up in a landfill coming to a low-income neighborhood near -- but not too near -- you. What is the role of garbage in our world today? Is there such a thing as garbage in the material sense, or as demonstrated by the intense rise in collectibles of every sort over the past five years, has capitalism managed to turn its waste into something other than garbage? What then are the new disposables of the 21st century? Is garbage now confined to immaterial social institutions and beliefs once viewed as indispensable? Property values now matter more than accessible housing. Profits for share holders take precedence over stable labor markets and wages that maintain a quality standard of living. What is the status of family? Friendship? Love? Parenting? Charity? Ethics? This is not an old-fashioned argument for right-wing Christian family values. Rather it is a query to explore the interrelationship of the continual rise of material commodities to the point where almost everything that's physical is potentially a sacred material commodity and the seeming restructuring of the immaterial as expendable, unimportant, irrelevant -- garbage. What is garbage today -- and why? Deadline for submission is March 6, 2001. Send submissions to issue editor Robert Soza <[email protected]>. BOOGIE! -- Bad Subjects #56 More than just music, BOOGIE! suggests its expression through dance, an attitude, assertion and a way of moving. "Boogie" depends on *beat,* which, in the broader sense, reflects and may drive the rhythms of our behavior outside the disco. To cover the sound, the groove and fingerpoppin' of daily life, we seek analysis of the progressive, regressive and repressive in Punk, Rap, Dance, Pop, Country, Crossover Classical, and other, underexamined or unfashionable, musical forms. Replay the politics of music and power, music sold to us, music taken from or by us, musics and communities, music's facilitating technologies, that insistent beat and the power-chord moments when music helped us make political sense of this mystifying world. >From Bronx Italians in Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" to suburban New Agers and those execs on Robert Bly retreats finding their inner African via tropical beats, boogie brings together disparate communities in a symbiosis as universal as the drum itself. In the midst of Manchester's post-urban techno-wasteland, rave culture asserts its organic pulse. Liberation through Ecstasy? Or just more agony? For others, "let's boogie" is just a way to say "I'm outta here!" What does BOOGIE! mean to you? Deadline for submissions is April 17, 2001. Please send submissions to issue editors Mike Mosher <[email protected]> or Lindsey Eck <[email protected]>. Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: nettime <[email protected]> To: Felix Stalder <[email protected]> Subject: BOUNCE [email protected]: Approval required: (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:34:41 -0400 (EDT) From: David Mandl <[email protected]> To: Nettime <[email protected]> Subject: The Week Of Small Miracles (London, 1-9 September) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Announcing THE WEEK OF SMALL MIRACLES Friday 1- Saturday 9 September 2000 The Week of Small Miracles is a Millennium project curated by Peter Cusack and produced by the London Musicians' Collective, realised in and around North London's River Lee. This event celebrates the unique, often bizarre, geography, culture and history of the people in the Lee Valley area. It is a collaboration between artists across the media; performance, writing, visual art, sound/music, video and participatory events. There will be an exhibition, Colourscape music, the Small Miracles free newspaper and website, an audio CD of Lea Valley sounds and stories, a treasure hunt and a boat travelling down the canal which converts into a cinema by night. Featuring Anna Best; John Bisset; Rupert Carey; Peter Cusack; Simon Faithfull; Ella Gibbs; Mss Producers; Viv Corringham; John Wynne; Jeff Higley; Tomoko Takahashi; and Colourscape. Colourscape A vast sculptural environment full of musicians and artists, drawing on performers from the local ethnic communities and running the whole of the first weekend of The Week of Small Miracles. Sat 2nd Sept Jeff Higley (Tibetan singing bowls) and Viv Corringham (voice). Plus recordings of Lea Valley sounds. Sun 3rd Sept At 2pm and 4pm: Kurdish music by Muslum Calgin and Niyazi Akyer. At 3pm and 5pm: Mass Producers: 20-strong saxophone and vocal ensemble, performing a new composition for Colourscape by Caroline Kraabel. Permeable Sanctuary All week at any time in the evening along the canal in Lea Valley Park Sound artist John Wynne will make small-scale sonic interventions at strategic locations during the week. Using electronic reminders designed especially for each site, this diffuse sound piece will unobtrusively but poignantly address the encroachment of sound signals from the surrounding urban soundscape into the Lea Valley Park. Springfield Treasure Hunt Saturday 2nd and Saturday 9th September Springfield Park For children and spirited adults. Track down the Violinic Spider, play a Windmill Trombone and unearth the sleeping Gialophone. Unravel the Spider's Histories of the Valley, discover wildlife - hunt with your ears, eyes and imagination. Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! Music! Music! Music! Start at the Riverside Caf� (next to the Rowing Club, opposite the Marina), at the bottom of Spring Hill. Collect a map / tasksheet anytime between 1.30 and 4pm. Train: Clapton Bus: 253 to Upper Clapton Road Underneath the Arches Saturday 9th September 4pm Walthamstow Marsh Six musicians playing and singing in different combinations in the unique acoustic spaces underneath the Walthamstow Marsh viaduct. The performance is devised and conducted by Caroline Kraabel (sax/ voice), featuring Charlotte Hug (viola / voice), Sylvia Hallett (violin / voice), John Edwards (double bass / voice), Hannah Marshall (cello, voice) and Phil Wachsmann (violin/voice). VISUAL ARTS: Night Stop Cinema 4th - 8th September For five days, Ella Gibbs will take a trip down the Lea valley on the boat 'Jubilee', stopping daily at different places. Each night the boat will be converted into a cinema. Night Stop Cinema Programme includes selected 'favourite' feature films of residents and workers in the Lee Valley area, and short films made by independent film makers and artists. Date Place Nearest transport Mon 4th Cheshunt Lock Cheshunt Station Tues 5th Under M25 Bridge Waltham Cross Station Wed 6th Picketts Lock Bus 363 from Tottenham Hale Tube Thurs 7th Stonebridge Lock Tottenham Hale Tube, Bus 363 Fri 8th The Robin Hood Clapton Station, Bus 253 Ghost House Friday 1st September 6pm - 11pm 2nd - 9th September 11am - 11pm The Robin Hood, 11 High Hill Ferry, Upper Clapton E5 Artists Anna Best and Rupert Carey have hired the Robin Hood function room for an exhibition resulting from their ongoing investigation of ghostly phenomena. They are collecting ghost stories and information for publication. Info: contact Rupert on 020 8690 9989 or email [email protected]. Train: Clapton; Bus: 253 to Upper Clapton Road "It" Games Friday 8th September 10.30pm Springfield Park Following the final Night Stop Cinema (outside the Robin Hood), featuring Tomoko Takahashi. Small Miracles on the Web Lee Navigation by Simon Faithfull www.smallmiracles.org.uk / leenavigation Lee Navigation is an internet based artwork which reflects this enigmatic region. Combining simple line drawings and text, Lee Navigation weaves the echoes of 'real' space to form a strange inverse image - scrolling from the source to the mouth of this river system. River Lea - Source and Mouth by John Smith www.smallmiracles.org.uk / sourceandmouth A short video juxtaposing views of the source and mouth of the River Lea. PLUS: Week Of Small Miracles Newspaper: 20,000 copies will be distributed free throughout the Lee Valley. As well as providing a map and programme of events. The newspaper will include commissioned writing by local poets and historians, artists' contributions and much more. Plentiful colour illustrations. CD release: The Horse Was Alive, The Cow Was Dead: A CD of sounds, stories and people along the Lea Valley - recorded by Peter Cusack. Seventy minutes packed with extraordinary audio. Nightingales beside the humming substation... The bag of gold... Canalside incidents... Two headless bears... Robin Hood Karaoke... Mass football... Rowing boats >from underwater... Walthamstow Marsh dawn chorus... Coots fighting... and much more! �5.00 during The Week Of Small Miracles from Colourscape, the Jubilee boat or (post free) from LMC Ltd, 3.6 Lafone House, 11 - 13 Leathermarket Street, London SE1 3HN. PRESS INFORMATION: Ed on 020 7403 1922 --------------------------------------------- London Musicians' Collective Limited 3.6 Lafone House, 11-13 Leathermarket Street, London SE1 3HN Tel: 0207 403 1922 Fax: 0207 403 1880 http://www.l-m-c.org.uk Registered charity number 290236 --------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:57:40 +0100 From: Angie Wong <[email protected]> Subject: Latest editorial at www.eyestorm.com NEW WRITING The Sleepless Photographer - Hiroshi Sugimoto interviewed Sugimoto's commitment to taking photographs that combine the conceptual, the sensual and the technical has made him a rising contemporary art star. Here he talks to Martin Herbert about what it takes to get the bigger picture. Cross-dressing Cultures - the fifth Biennial of Contemporary Art in Lyon 'Sharing Exoticisms' promised a new approach to the global survey show. Sophie Berrebi argues that it does bravely break new ground, but wonders whether it has fallen at the final hurdle: showing good art. Finders Keepers - the latest Online Art column by Jon Thomson While designers often trawl the web for clever pieces of code to copy, some artists are swallowing whole sites in the name of art. What do people want in web-based art? And who's looking? At Home in the Museums - the latest on the state of contemporary art When art takes its lead from the functionality of domestic objects it isn't getting closer to home, argues writer Ralph Rugoff, just reaffirming its place in the museum. Basel Is Booming - the latest news on the contemporary art market The world's biggest annual art fair has traditionally been the major marketplace for classic 20th-century art. This year, however, Colin Gleadell finds that contemporary artists are the talk of the town. In the DISCUSSION SPACE We ask the questions! Over the summer, eyestorm is giving its expert debate-setters a break and is instead asking site visitors a series of questions straight out: Is having a look at other people's homepages yoyeuristic? Are you yourself an online exhibitionist? What kind of exhibition would you hang on your wall? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:26:34 -0700 To: no-cache:; From: m e t a <[email protected]> Subject: m e t a . f m r e f r e s h new video : http://meta.fm/image/video/ wire.dna.00.mov wire.dna.01.mov precursor data : http://meta.fm/image/still/wire.alpha/0000.html http://meta.fm/image/still/dna.nonsym/0000.html "We are orienting ourselves in places yet unformed. our map: a habitat which is real on both sides of the screen." //m http://meta.fm/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold