| Konrad Becker on 16 Oct 2000 15:04:05 -0000 |
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Dear Nettimers,
Public Netbase would like to express its gratitude for the strong support
we have been receiving in the last days and also thank the people who have
initiated it. Some of the finest people in culture&technology have voiced
their concern and supported the Open Letter to the Austrian Public. More
than 600 signatories have joined the campaign by now, still more coming in
every day.
I can assure you that your efforts are very valuable in our situation and
we would like to encourage you to pass on the message to further possible
supporters. Spreading the Open Letter and asking people to sign, is a way
you can further help make an argument for free media and emancipatory
participation in digital networks. We are still trying to get some more
momentum before we the deliver the Letter with all the signatories in an
offical act to the political representatives in this country.
Of course it remains to be seen how much of an impression this effort will
make on the protagonists of authoritarian neoliberal politics in Austria.
But it certainly proves that the "internet-generation" (quote: Chancelor
Schuessel) lives up to its reputation of standing up against nationalist,
rightwing politics.
It is very clear, that the Austrian government is still very cautious of
an international debate - the modest publicity that some activities of the
ruling parties (such as intimidation of journalists, anti-social
regulations, etc.) got in the media helped to avoid some of the more
serious consequences.
But the rise of the extreme right has become a serious European issue as
can be seen in Belgium, parts of Germany or Denmark. Austria has become
the first country in Europe with elements of the extreme right in the
national government, and it proves to be a model of how neoliberal and
fascist ideologies perfectly blend into a "sleep of reason that begets
monsters".
This is just a tiny state, but from the political rethoric of the last
months you could have believed this people would have wanted to start
another war all over.
We believe that this highlights a deep problem which challenges all of us
not only in theory but also in practice. I would be happy if the
unfortunate situation in Austria would help to raise awareness to some of
the uncanny developments in European politics and its underlying
ideological currents.
for the Public Netbase Team:
Konrad Becker
a small (necessarily incomplete) excerpt of the list of 600 signatories so
far:
Alex Adriansen, Director V2, Rotterdam/Netherlands
Eric Alliez, Professeur titulaire de la Chaire d'
Esthetique � l'Acad�mie des Arts plastiques ,
Vienne/Austria
Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta/USA
Eddie Berg, FACT, UK
Kristin Bergaust, Artist and Director of Media-Lab
Atelier
Nord, Norway
Andreas Broeckmann, Artistic Director transmediale
Berlin/Germany
Ted Byfield, Author NY/US
Antonella Corsani, enseignant-chercheur Universit� de
Paris/France
Critical Art Ensemble, Artist Group, USA
Amanda Crowley, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Australia
Erik Davis, Author and Contributing Editor, Wired
Magazine, San Francisco/USA
Manuel DeLanda, Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, New Jersey/USA
Mark Dery, Author, Editor of Artbyte, NY/USA
Sara Diamond, The Banff Center, Canada
Sher Doruff, Society for Old and New Media,
Amsterdam/Netherlands
Timothy Duckrey, Author and Lecturer, USA
Adele Eisenstein, C3 Center for Culture &
Communication,
Budapest/Hungary
Andrea Ellmeier, Kulturdokumentation, Vienna/Austria
Valie Export, Artist, Vienna/Austria and Academy of
Media
Arts K�ln/Germany
Bronac Ferran, Arts Council, UK
Vera Frenkel, Ontario/Canada
Martin Fritz, Curator EXPO 2000 (In Between),
Hannover/Germany
Matthew Fuller, Lecturer in Media, Communications and
Culture at Middlesex University, working with the
artists'
collective Mongrel, UK
Alex Galloway, rhizome.org, NY/USA
Gabriele Gerbasits, IG Kultur �sterreich,
Vienna/Austria
Lizbeth Goodman, Director of The Institute for New
Media,
Performance Research School of Performing Arts -
University of Surrey/UK
Franz Graf, Professor Academy of Fine Arts,
Vienna/Austria
Reinhold Grether, Dr, Netscientist University
Konstanz/Germany
Henning Gruner, Kunsthaus Tacheles/Berlin
Cees J. Hamelink, Professor of International
Communication, University of Amsterdam/Netherlands
Honor Harger, Tate Modern, London/UK
Lisa Haskel, Media Art Projects, UK
Perry Hoberman, Artist, teaches at the School of Visual
Arts, New York/USA
Danny Holman, No D Media Lab, Prague/Czech Republic
John Hopkins, Media Lab - University of Art and Design,
Helsinki/Finland
Erkki Huhtamo, Professor UCLA, Dept. of Design, Finland
Eric Kluitenberg, Media Theorist and Curator New Media,
de
Balie - Center for Culture and Politics,
Amsterdam/Netherlands
Knowbotic Research, Artist Group, Germany
Piotr Krajewska, WRO Center for Media Art,
Wroclaw/Poland
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors CTHEORY, Boston,
Massachusetts/USA
Spela Kucan, Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab,
Slovenia
Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, WRO Center for Media
Art,
Wroclaw/Poland
Jacques Le Rider, Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Section des sciences historiques et philologiques,
Sorbonne, Paris/France
Geert Lovink, Media Theorist, Canberra/Australia
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Art and Technology Foundation,
Madrid/Spain
Tapio Makela, M-cult, Finland
Armin Medosch, Telepolis, London/UK
Wolfgang Modera, Ars Electronica Center, Linz/Austria
Sally Jane Norman, Directrice G�n�rale de l'Ecole
sup�rieure de l'image, Angoul�me, Poitiers/France
Robert Palmer, Director Brussels2000, Belgium
Sylvie Parent, Curator, Centre international d'art
contemporain, Montr�al/Canada
Ana Parga, Art and Technology Foundation, Madrid/Spain
Marko Peljhan, Project Atol, Ljubljana/Slovenia
Constance Penley, Professor and Chair Department of
Film
Studies University of California, Santa Barbara/USA
Miklos Peternak, Director C3 Center for Culture &
Communication, Budapest/Hungary
Sadie Plant, Dr, Writer, Birmingham/UK
Susie Ramsay, Art and Technology Foundation,
Madrid/Spain
Veronika Ratzenb�ck, Director Kulturdokumentation,
Vienna/Austria
Christian Reder, Professor University for Applied Arts,
Vienna/Austria
Martin Reiter, Kunsthaus Tacheles/Berlin)
RTMark, Artist Group, USA
Gerhard Ruiss, IG Autorinnen Autoren, Austria
Annette Schindler, Director Plug In, Basel/Switzerland
Christine Sch�pf, Ars Electronica Center, Linz/Austria
Dieter Schrage, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig,
Vienna/Austria
Pit Scultz, Artist, Berlin
Yukiko Shikata, Curator, Japan
Rasa Smite, E-LAB Electronic Arts and Media Center,
Riga/Latvia
Raitis Smits, RIXC The Center for New Media Culture,
Riga/Latvia
Stahl Stenslie, Artist and Curator, Oslo/Norway
Marleen Stikker, Society for Old and New Media,
Amsterdam/Netherlands
Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Center, Linz/Austria
Martin Sturm, O.K Centrum f�r Gegenwartskunst,
Linz/Austria
Janos Sugar, Media Research Foundation,
Budapest/Hungary
Daniela Swarowsky, Manager of DEAF_2000 Festival /
V2_Organisation, Rotterdam/Netherlands
Peter Tomaz, President Association for Culture and
Education, Multimedia Center KiberSRCeLab - KIBLA,
Maribor/Slovenia
Toshiya Ueno, Associate Professor, Sociologist,
Tokyo/Japan
Markus Wailand, Artist and Curator, Vienna/Austria
Ulrich Wegenast, Wand 5/Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Dirk de Wit, Brussels2000, Belgium
Siegfried Zielinski
Gr�ndungsrektor Kunsthochschule fuer Medien Koeln
Professor Art and Media Studies
Heimo Zobernig, Artist, Vienna/Austria
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