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Left Curve no. 25
Csaba Polony <[email protected]>
ONE CUBIC METER INTELLIGENCE
"Ruine der Kuenste Berlin" <[email protected]>
Welcome to Communication Front 2001 - and Syndicate @ CFront
Alain Kessi <[email protected]>
n2+o bulet!n
[email protected]
CULT 2001 - Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001 - ANNOUNCEMENT
"Pia Vigh" <[email protected]>
lev manovich, lux, london
matthew fuller <[email protected]>
announcement
molly hankwitz <[email protected]>
PDA/IA Show Update
"patrick lichty" <[email protected]>
tigergarden game experience
kristin bergaust <[email protected]>
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:09:20 -0700
From: Csaba Polony <[email protected]>
Subject: Left Curve no. 25
The new issue of Left Curve (no.25) has been published. Selected
contents from the hard copy are posted on:
http://www.ncal.verio.com/~leftcurv
We welcome critical feedback and are open to submissions of work.
Left Curve is an artist-produced open, critical journal that addresses
the problem(s) of culural forms, emerging from the crises of modernity,
that strive to be independent from the control of dominant institutions,
and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality. Our orientation
is premised on the recognition of the destructiveness of commodity
systems to all life, and the need to build a non-commodified culture
that could potentially create a more harmoneous relationship among
people, and between the human and natural world. We encourage open,
critical defetishized work that attempt to unravel, reveal contemporary
(inner/outer) reality in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and
respect for the human condition. Each issue is a mix of traditional
and/or experimental essays, graphics, photographs, visual/verbal art,
poems, fiction, documents, reviews, etc.
Csaba Polony (ed.)
Left Curve
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:37:29 +0200
From: "Ruine der Kuenste Berlin" <[email protected]>
Subject: ONE CUBIC METER INTELLIGENCE
Presse INFO German text below
RUINE DER K=DCNSTE BERLIN
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One Cubic Meter Intelligence and Emotions
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WOLF KAHLEN
Retrospectives 2000-2003
Part IV
Since Gutenberg: Books/Photos/Internet
Works since 1970
June 3 - Sept. 2, 2001, saturdays and sundays 3 - 7 p.m. and by =
appointment
Opening, Sunday, june 3rd, 2001, 3- 7 p.m, free admission
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The consciouness mediating character of a potato is no different from =
that of the internet by a millimeter, gram or second,=20
says the media sculptor Wolf Kahlen today, like a similar statementon =
video he made in the 60s, when he worked on his video pieces and did =
impressive media immanent pieces. We recently showed his first 25 =
videotapes (1969-1975) in Part III of the tenfold retrospective. More =
may be seen together with his video sculptures and installations in a =
later part, which all present phenomena or topic oriented selected =
corner stones out of his ouvre. In this fourth part we present other =
media pieces SINCE GUTENBERG: i.e. one of a kind BOOKS with unique =
PHOTOS as results from interfered photographic processes, and INTERNET =
pieces, net.art and what he coined net.sound.art.
In ne of the leporello books for example: a paper photograph got wet, =
the photo document of the wet one was flooded by milk, the document of =
this event happened to strand in the rain=85.Only the outer parts of =
these Russian doll like photos of photos of photos look real, frame by =
frame inside the frame becomes more and more abstract, wood cut like, =
unbelieveable.
Photos are unreliable. Mine too,
Wolf Kahlen said 1978 in his catalogue of the Freiburger Kunstverein =
show almost as a manifesto. Of course he did not only mean the lean =
argument of todays fakeability of any document.
The leporello books mirror a philosophy of the Loss of the One and the =
Return (rebirth) of the Other, an experience he encountered with his =
family, when they shipwrecked in the Archipelago of Galapagos Islands in =
the Pacific on July 19th, 198o.
Among the other book sculptures is: A Cubic Meter of Intelligence and =
Emotions. A mass of one cubic meter Russian books is stacked up as a =
cube and on top covered with dust he works with for more than thirty =
years as one of his ephemeral materials. Out of the dust drains the =
meditative sound of turning pages, as if one reads. The books were =
rescued from burning, when an East-Berlin public library wanted to get =
rid of all Russian influence in 1989.
Other books have become plaster frozen impossible to use anymore.
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Please announce our show, visit it or ask for interviews.Photos on =
demand also as email JPG.
With kind regards=20
David Allen
RUINE DER KUENSTE BERLIN
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Ein Kubikmeter Intelligenz und Emotionen
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Wolf Kahlen
Retrospektiven 2000-2003
Teil IV
Seit Gutenberg: B=FCcher/Photos/Internet
Arbeiten seit 1970
3. Juni - 2. Sept. 2001, samstags und sonntags 15-19 h=20
und nach Vereinbarung, Eintritt frei
Er=F6ffnung Pfingstsonntag, den 3. Juni, 15-19 h
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Der Bewusstsein vermittelnde mediale Charakter einer Kartoffel ist von =
dem des Internets keinen Millimeter, kein Gramm und keine Sekunde =
entfernt,
sagt der Medienbildhauer Wolf Kahlen heute, wie aehnlich in den 6oer =
Jahren, als er das Medium Video primaer befragte und in bis heute =
beeindruckenden schluessigen medienimmamenten Stuecken ausspielte. Seine =
ersten 25 Videotapes (1969-1975) haben wir in der letzten Ausstellung =
Teil III der 10-teiligen Retrospektive zusammen mit Raumsegmenten und =
Drapes (1965-69) gezeigt.
Im jetzigen, vierten Teil, alle sind an Themen oder Phaenomenen seiner =
ueber vierzigjaehrigen Taetigkeiten orientiert, zeigen wir =
Medienstuecke SEIT GUTENBERG, also UNIKATE BUECHER mit prozesshaften =
PHOTOS aus vier Jahrzehnten und neue interaktive INTERNETSTUECKE, z..B. =
net. sound. , wie er seine rein akustischen Internetarbeiten genannt =
hat.
In den Photo-Leporellos geht es durchweg um Ablaeufe von Situationen, =
die auf der ersten Seite photographisch 'festhalten'. auf der zweiten =
Seite im Dokument der Wiederholung des 'ersten' Geschehens als =
Vergangenheitshinweis wieder auftauchen und 'sich schaemen, wie wenig =
real sie sind im Vergleich zum neuen Bild. Ja, sie werden als Bild im =
Bild im Bild immer holzschnitthafter, immer konstrastreicher, immer =
unehrlicher, man k=F6nnte auch sagen, abstrakter und nehmen damit aber =
gleichzeitig eine neue Wirklichkeit an. Diese also doppellaeufigen =
Prozesse des Verlustes an einer Art von Realitaet einerseits, und der =
Zunahme anderer Realitaeten, sind spannende 'Geschichten':
Ein Papierphoto wird wassernass, das Photo von diesem Vorgang ist =
milchueberschwemmt, das Dokument davon ist in den Regen geraten....Nur =
der jeweils aeussere Rand der Bilder im Bild erscheint real, das Innere =
der Bilder wird schrittweise immer unglaubwuerdiger.=20
Photos sind unglaubwuerdig. Meine auch.,
hat Wolf Kahlen 1978 in seinem Katalog des Freiburger Kunstvereins =
manifestartig beschrieben. Damit war nat=FCrlich nicht die platte (neue) =
Wahrheit gemeint, dass alle Photos (heute) perfekt gefaelscht sein =
k=F6nnen.
Diese Faltbuecher sind in New York 1980, nach einem ueberlebten =
Schiffsuntergang der Familie Wolf Kahlen's im Galapagos-Archipel, =
entstanden und spiegeln eine schon vor dem Ereignis latent vorhandene, =
nach ihm aber bildgewordene Philosophie der Gleichzeitigkeit vom Tod des =
Einen und der (Wieder-)Geburt des Anderen.
Unter den anderen 'Buecher'-skulpturen der Ausstellung ist auch: Ein =
Kubikmeter Intelligenz und Emotionen, ein kubikmetergrosser =
quadratischer Stapel von 1989 in Ostberlin vor dem Verbrennen =
geretteten vorwiegend russischen Buechern, der auf der Oberseite =
verstaubt ist, aus dem aber noch das Ger=E4usch bewegter, gelesener =
Seiten klingt.=20
Andere Buecher sind von fluessigem Gips durchflossen und unlesbar =
geworden.
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Wir bitten um Ver=F6ffentlichung und stehen zu Besuchen und Interviews =
gerne zur Verfuegung, Photos auf Anforderung auch per email als JPG.
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RUINE DER KUENSTE BERLIN=20
Hittorfstr. 5 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Tel/Fax 831 34 35
Email: [email protected]
Homepage: http://home.snafu.de/ruine-kuenste.berlin
Net.art: www.wolf-kahlen.de
Net.sound.Art: www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:02:17 +0300
From: Alain Kessi <[email protected]>
Subject: Welcome to Communication Front 2001 - and Syndicate @ CFront
Welcome to CFront 2001!
Communication Front 2001 is coming closer (1-14 June). In this mail, you
will find the program of this year's CFront, the list of participants
and an updated description of the project. From 7-9 June, you are
welcome to attend the Syndicate @ CFront meeting, a guest event of
CFront 2001.
Hoping to see you there,
Dimitrina & Alain
Program of Communication Front 2001
Cyber and my sp@ce � Netizens and the new geography
Friday, 1 June, 10:00h beginning of theoretical meeting and working
seminar at the ArtToday Lab based in the Mexican House, in the Old City
of Plovdiv. The theoretical meeting and working seminar will continue
every day until 14 June, from 10:00h-15:00h.
19:00h multimedia performance �Infonoise� by Gordana Novakovic,
Yugoslavia/UK, at the Center of Contemporary Art in the Old Turkish
Baths, Plovdiv.
Saturday, 2 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h Marilena Preda-Sanc, Romania � presentation of the �Remapping
the World� project
19:00h Gordana Novakovic, Yugoslavia/UK � lecture and discussion
�Interactive Installation and its Representation�
Sunday, 3 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h BLUNT, Canada (Biliana Velkova, Barbara Prokop, Naomi Potter) �
presentation and discussion
19:00h discussion with Diana McCarty, Germany
Monday, 4 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h Biljana Tanurovska, Macedonia � lecture and presentation about
Macedonian video art
19:00h Kathy Rae Huffman, USA/UK � lecture and discussion
Tuesday, 5 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h Barbara Konopka, Poland � presentation
19:00h Maria Vassileva, Bulgaria � lecture �Cyber and My Kitchen Space�
Wednesday, 6 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
19:00h opening of the CFront 2001 exhibition �Cyber and my sp@ce�
Thursday, 7 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
10:00h opening of Syndicate @ CFront meeting, discussions and working
seminar, which will last until 9 June
18:00h Maria X, Greece � presentation about Fournos, Athens, and the
Mediaterra festival
Friday, 8 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
15:00h internal family meeting of the Syndicate
19:00h Andreas Broeckmann, Germany � lecture and discussion �The
Syndicate � A History of Personal Contacts and Collaborations between
East and West�
Saturday, 9 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h Saso Vrabic, Slovenia � lecture and discussion �Slovene �micro
reality� after Manifesta 2000 in Ljubljana or more personally I�m a
professional babysitter (Essay on ethics, arts, information and life in
Slovenia)�
19:00h Bojana Kunst, Slovenia � lecture �Body and my sp@ce�
Sunday, 10 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
18:00h Igor Stepancic and Irena Paunovic, Yugoslavia � presentation of
the POW project and interactive presentation of the project 3Brain
Monday, 11 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
18:00h Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz and Brigitta Kuster,
Switzerland/Germany � lecture and discussion �Viruses, Green Card, Brain
Drain, Subjectivities�
Tuesday, 12 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
15:00h i-love-u (Eva Michalcak and Adnan Hadziselimovic), Switzerland �
lecture and discussion �Free License for Art - What could an Open Source
Art World look like?�
16:30h Brigitta Kuster, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz,
Switzerland/Germany � lecture and discussion �High Technology,
Heterosexuality, Work Place and Home�
18:00h CFront and Pro Helvetia Sofia Drink Party at the ArtToday Media
Lab based in the Mexican House in the Old City of Plovdiv
Wednesday, 13 June, 10:00h-15:00h theoretical meeting & working seminar
17:30h presentation of CFront 2000 Book in front of a broader audience
19:00h presentation of results of the theoretical meeting and working
seminar in front of a broader audience
Theoretical meeting and working seminar � each successive day the
participants in CFront 2001 will get together from 10:00h to 15:00h �
without being watched by an audience � to outline shared ideas and
strategies linked to �Cyber and my sp@ce � Netizens and the new
geography�, and to develop a common concept and produce articles and Web
works for a common Web-based project.
The lecture program is public and open to all interested visitors.
The exhibition is open to the public every day, from 7-21 June 2001,
from 11:30h-17:30h in the downstairs exhibition space of the Mexican
House in the Old City of Plovdiv.
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List of participants:
Authors of concept and curators: <[email protected]>
Dimitrina Sevova, Bulgaria <[email protected]>
Alain Kessi, Switzerland/Bulgaria <[email protected]>
Emil Miraztchiev, Bulgaria <[email protected]>
Coordinator of theoretical meeting:
Dimos Dimitriou, Greece <[email protected]>
Participants in CFront 2001 and in Syndicate @ CFront
Adele Myers, UK <[email protected]>; Adnan Hadziselimovic,
Switzerland <[email protected]>; Aleksander Gubas, Yugoslavia
<[email protected]>; Ana Peraica, Croatia <[email protected]>;
Andrea Sponring, Austria/Switzerland <[email protected]>; Andreas
Broeckmann, Germany <[email protected]>; Anja Kaufmann,
Switzerland <[email protected]>; Athanasia Kyriakakos, Greece
<[email protected]>; Barbara Konopka, Poland
<[email protected]>; Barbara Prokop, Canada <[email protected]>;
Biliana Velkova, Canada/Bulgaria <[email protected]>; Biljana
Tanurovska, Macedonia <[email protected]>; Bojana Kunst, Slovenia
<[email protected]>; Boris Kostadinov, Bulgaria
<[email protected]>; Brigitta Kuster, Switzerland/Germany
<[email protected]>; Chris Byrne, UK <[email protected]>; Diana
McCarty, USA/Germany <[email protected]>; Eleni Laperi, Albania
<[email protected]>; Eva Michalcak, Switzerland
<[email protected]>; Galina Dimitrova, Bulgaria <[email protected]>;
Gordana Novakovic, Yugoslavia <[email protected]>; Igor
Stepancic, Yugoslavia <[email protected]>; Igor Djordjevic,
Yugoslavia <[email protected]>; Irena Paunovic, Yugoslavia
<[email protected]>; Irina Cios, Romania <[email protected]>; Jane
Brake, UK <[email protected]>; Jen Southern, UK
<[email protected]>; Jenna Collins, UK
<[email protected]>; Katarina Zivanovic, Yugoslavia
<[email protected]>; Kathy Rae Huffman, USA <[email protected]>; Kristel
Sibul, Estonia <[email protected]>; Kristina Miljanovska, Macedonia
<[email protected]>; Luka Princic, Slovenia <[email protected]>;
Maria Natasha Stukoff, UK <[email protected]>; Maria X, Greece
<[email protected]>; Maria Vassileva, Bulgaria
<[email protected]>; Marilena Prede Sanc, Romania
<[email protected]>; Melentie Pandilovski, Macedonia
<[email protected]>; Naomi Potter, Canada <[email protected]>; Pauline
Boudry, Switzerland/Germany <[email protected]>; Petros Diveris, UK
<[email protected]>; Renate Lorenz, Germany <[email protected]>;
Rupert Francis, UK <[email protected]>; Ruth Bugmann, Switzerland
<[email protected]>; Saso Vrabic, Slovenia <[email protected]>;
Stefan Niederhauser, Switzerland <[email protected]>; Steve Bradley,
USA <[email protected]>; Tatiana Novikova, Belarus
<[email protected]>; Zvonimir Bakotin, Croatia <[email protected]>
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For the third year, the curators Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi and Emil
Miraztchiev together with the ArtToday Foundation, Plovdiv present
Communication Front 2001, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
/project of electronic and media art and theory/
At the Center for Contemporary Art in the Ancient Bath, Plovdiv and the
ArtToday Lab, Plovdiv
>From 1 to 14 June 2001
Under the title: Cyber and my sp@ce � Netizens and the new geography
General background on CFront
CFront 2001 <http://www.cfront.org> is the third edition of the
curatorial project Communication Front and, like the two previous years,
is an international event oriented towards the production of works and
analyses on a concrete topic, chosen to be directly relevant to the
concrete situation of the Internet and media art and culture community,
raising critical questions of immediate concern to that community. This
year, we chose to focus on the relation between cyberspace and physical
space and the ways new communication technologies structure one and the
other, and specifically how they influence the art and culture
community.
CFront is a platform consisting of three approaches, a Theoretical
Meeting for developing ideas relating to the development of new media
and cultural politics in the region, a Working Seminar for producing a
Web site presenting and developing further the results of the
discussions in the Theoretical Meeting in the form of texts and
art-works inspired by the discussions, and an exhibition closely linked
to the topic of the Theoretical Meeting.
CFront purposely avoids having festival or conference character, taking
a critical stance to what Tapio Makela, Susanna Paasonen (both Finland)
and Steve Bradley (USA) have called �media tourist�
(http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront/workshop/tourist/index.html), namely
�experts� travelling from town to town, from country to country, to
present one and the same lecture to different audiences. As opposed to
this, CFront includes the participants in a work process, in which new
ideas and analyses, and Web-oriented works, are developed in
collaboration. The concrete contacts between the participants over the
period of two weeks allow us to build on the experience of each and on
the results of previous projects and networking efforts, and to prepare
the way for further networked activities and bring important discussions
a step forward.
The discourses and ideas developed in the context of CFront are closely
linked to a continuous international process. While being firmly
anchored in the reality of Bulgarian and South-East European electronic
and media art and theory, the project is tightly embedded in the
European and world-wide media culture environment. CFront stands in a
line of international projects with similar working and networking
character, like Geert Lovink�s temp.media.lab in Helsinki, with the
working meeting �The Future State of Balkania� (October 1999,
http://www.savanne.ch/balkania), or his Hybrid WorkSpace, which took
place during the Documenta X (1997) in Kassel, the MoneyNations project
that started in December 1998 at Shedhalle in Zurich
(http://www.moneynations.ch/) and then developed into several working
meetings in different countries, the series of working seminars and
festivals OSTranenie at Bauhaus Dessau (1993-1997), Lina
Dzuverovic-Russell�s and Lisa Haskel�s tech-nicks project at The Lux
Gallery, London, that lasted for four weeks in summer 2000
(http://www.noaltgirls.org/tech_nicks), and numerous others. A number of
such projects are presented in �The Hybrid Media Lounge�
(http://www.medialounge.net). Descriptions and reports on projects
similar in structure to CFront can be found in the archive of the
Syndicate mailing list at <http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/>.
The Regional Context
Although Western curators and critics, the Art World with a big A,
developed some interest in Eastern European artists in the 90ies, this
has remained rather limited, and does not easily give these artists
opportunities to realize themselves in this context. The net.art and
media art community, on the other hand, has developed a broad network of
contacts also in Eastern Europe, which has given rise to opportunities
for collaborations on a variety of levels. The medium of the Internet
and the less institutionalized functioning of the media art community
provides opportunities for more even participation of artists, theorists
and writers regardless of their geographical location.
To this day, for a large part of the art and culture community in
Bulgaria and the region, the access to the international Internet and
media art and culture community has remained limited, due to problems of
access to technology, but also a lack of knowledge about possible uses
of these technologies, and a lack of local context in which to develop
ideas and work, and of international contacts to facilitate their
integration in ongoing projects.
To overcome these barriers, there is a need for international events
like Communication Front in which artists, curators and theorists from
Bulgaria, other Balkan countries and the world at large meet and develop
common perspectives in concrete collaborational work around current and
important problems and questions, with which discussions and ideas on
these questions are advanced in an international context of media art
and culture and of the information society.
�Cyber and my sp@ce � Netizens and the new geography�
The personal computers, e-mail, World Wide Web can be seen as tools with
which to achieve a given set of tasks. More important however for our
discussion is that in combination they give rise to what we can call a
digital revolution, and open up an entire new social (virtual or cyber)
space, with a whole variety of social groups with their respective codes
of behavior. The driving forces for the development and structuring of
this space are the rising power of technologies, the standardization of
communication protocols, including the worldwide spread of English and
the Latin alphabet, and the restructuring and decentralization of
production and marketing processes by large international companies.
The corporate cyberspace (company Intranets) exerts a powerful pressure
on the structuring of the public cyberspace. The rise of e-business,
e-advertising and e-services reconfigures fundamentally the virtual
geography. Search engines like Altavista have modified their way of
sorting search results to give preferential treatment to business
companies as compared to the average personal home page. You either pay,
or your page becomes less visible.
Can we find, in virtual geography, structures similar to cities, to
neighborhoods, or other structures known from physical space? To what
extent do the Web communities, consisting of users attracted by
commercial portal sites like Yahoo, GMX or MSN/Hotmail with free e-mail
and other services, show characteristics similar to those of a city or
neighborhood? It may be interesting to note that the digital �cities�
build up around market needs, much like the physical cities of the
middle ages.
The term Netizen (from Net & citizen) was introduced back in the
mid-70ies, at the time of the first Usenet fora and long before the
World Wide Web would give access to the Internet to a broad audience.
The Netizens of the time debated the freedom of speech, the development
of the Internet and perspectives for the future of communication. In
1980 the MacBride Commission to the UNESCO
<http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rvincent/mcbcon1.htm>, named after one of the
leaders of Netizens, prepared a special report on the future of
communication. In the report titled �Many Voices � One World�, the
commission criticized the unequal access to information, which in
practice leaves the countries of the Third World without a voice. The
commission demanded a free flow of information.
A large part of the world population (as well as of the Balkan
population) are �PONA� � People of No Account. They have no access to
the Net, or if they do, they have insufficient knowledge about it to use
it. They form what Olu Oguibe has called the �digital third world�
<http://camwood.org/springer.htm> (see also
<http://eserver.org/internet/oguibe/>). The Internet, in its
development, ignores local interrelations and jumps over borders. How
will the relations between Netizens and remaining �PONA� pockets in
various locations develop?
If someone from the Balkans, or another �PONA�-dominated region, has a
personal access to the Net, does that automatically make her/him part of
the Internet community? How does the lack of a supporting (sub-cultural)
environment influence her/his possibilities for contributing to an
innovative development of the Internet community?
Robin Bloor extends the meaning of the concept �PONA� to include people
who do have access to and knowledge about the Internet, but who access
it through Internet Cafes and other anonymous access providers. A
typical example of this case is hackers. How will people escaping
identification be considered by other Netizens? How might mechanisms
installed to prevent anonymity and activities considered as suspect turn
into instruments of censorship that could, among other things, place
restrictions on art projects?
In the interactive �jungle� of cyberspace, on mailing lists such as
Syndicate and nettime and a variety of smaller lists, that have formed
like global neighborhoods around people with a common interest in media
culture and Net practices, important questions about the development of
the cultural, artistic and social environment in cyberspace. Such fora
provide artists, theorists, writers and others from Eastern Europe with
a feeling of community, with a way to interact socially while escaping
the structures of the local art scene.
Is there a private space on the Internet? What could private space mean
on the Internet at all? Maybe closed chat rooms can be compared to hotel
rooms that provide the coziness of a temporary rented �private� space?
How does the illusion of private space, through personalization of
public cyberspace pioneered by e-commerce giants like Amazon, affect the
relation of people/clients to cyberspace?
Given that the Internet never sleeps and has no opening hours, how does
this time regime affect Internet users and the Net community as a whole?
How do people use communication technologies (and thus fill them with
�sense� or �meaning�), and how do technologies influence and change
people?
The focus of CF01 on space and its structuring allows references to
historical discussions of women's movements in the 70ies on relations
between the (private) personal and the (public) political spaces. How
have the radical changes in recent years, under the influence of new
technologies and means of communication, affected the relations between
urban space, cyberspace, working space, personal space, as well as, in
parallel, the relations between people among themselves and between
people and technologies. How do gender relations express themselves on
the Internet? What kind of professional and social hierarchies can be
found? What is the effect of voyeurist projects breaking the taboo of
the personal space? Does the gendered hierarchy between client and
service personnel get carried over from physical into cyberspace?
The different parts of CF01
The exhibition �Cyber and my sp@ce�
This year�s CFront exhibition presents multimedia installations by women
artists. The exhibition opens on 6 June in the downstairs exhibition
space of the Mexican House in the Old City of Plovdiv, where the
theoretical meeting and working seminar are taking place. It will remain
open until 21 June. We hope that by organizing an exhibition of women
artists� works in the context of an international project like CFront we
can contribute to overcoming the isolation of Bulgarian and South-East
European women artists, to creating a context in which they can further
develop socially critical art practices, and to legitimizing feminist
approaches.
The theoretical meeting
In daily round-table discussions and work in smaller groups (5 hours a
day), the participants will develop new ideas on relations between
people and technologies and social changes under the influence of new
technologies, and texts to be published online and in book form
bilingually in English and Bulgarian. The working language for the
seminar is English.
The working seminar
Taking up ideas from the round-table discussions, the participants will
develop web-based artistic projects (texts, sound, artworks, software)
in a common process, while developing at the same time an integrated
interface for the web site. The working language of the seminar is
English.
The accompanying program of public lectures
In daily evening lectures, the participants will present to a local
audience their work and experience in the field of media culture. A
special emphasis will be put on discussions after the lecture. The
lectures will be in English, with consecutive translation to Bulgarian.
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: n2+o bulet!n
\/\ n2+o - bulet!n
nn - reciprocal altruism avec kapelica gallery \ student organizatie
of the univ. of ljubljana - http://www.kapelica.org/
nn - digital_is_not_analog - real-time.snail.traces +
http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/dina
nn - ultra.violet.beez.tanz
http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/beez.tanz/
nn - article for spielart [zmakc] `theater etcetera` publication
http://www.membank.org/inter.body
nn - salon magazine + net-flyer magazine are traveling to .eu
to interview mememememememememememe - http://www.net-flyer.com/
nn - 242.koelenterate has been selekted for esf short film festival
http://www.m9ndfukc.org/data/filmz/242.koelenterate.mov
nn - Centre international d'art contemporain de Montr�al (CIAC)
will feature mememememememememememe in the next issue
http://www.ciac.ca/magazine - http://www.eusocial.com/juzt/memememememe
nn - Art + Gender Theory www transcript [later in the week]
http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/cccp
ds! - http://www.digitalsistersindeed.org
at venice biennale - http://www.labiennaledivenezia.net/
nn - kome meLTtt+ m! !sz dresz at - http://sonar.es
http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/!sz.sch!vrz
nn + mez article by beatrice beaubien -
http://www.eusocial.com/nnnnnnnn/leak!ng.!ntegerz
nn - siggraph CAA doc
http://membank.org/dataset/f/sig.jpg
1001 ventuze
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i will shed leaves in the shade
\_\ because i like stepping on bugs
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Netochka Nezvanova [email protected]
http://www.eusocial.com
http://www.biohakc.com
http://www.ggttctttat.com/!
I am not Greta Garbo!!! http://steim.nl/leaves/petalz
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:26:33 +0200
From: "Pia Vigh" <[email protected]>
Subject: CULT 2001 - Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001 - ANNOUNCEMENT
CULT 2001
Exploring an interface between Cultural heritage, Net art and State of the
art projects
Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001
New Culture and visions of collaborative culture
Old structural barriers have been transgressed on the cultural scene, due to
the digital economy and the new media strategies. New creative models of
collaboration emerge between institutions preserving cultural heritage,
performing arts creating new expressions, and information technology
providing tools of communication.
The interface between Cultural Heritage, Net Art and State of the art
projects is new. It is both innovative, challenging and a critical vehicle
for issues concerning collaboration, communication and dissemination
strategies in modern societies.
CULT 2001
CULT 2001 wishes to establish a platform for discussions and reflections on
these new visions of collaboration and dissemination strategies. Central
keynote speakers from major cultural institutions, as well as international
net artists and computer scientists will provide the basis for this
platform.
A central experience of this conference will be the manifestation of
national and international cultural networks, and national CultureNets that
brings together institutions dealing with Cultural Heritage, Net Art and
State of the Art technology.
CULT 2001 offers an opportunity to reflect on this cultural interface. This
opportunity is aimed widely at international cultural institutions,
organisations for technology and the visual arts, web oriented artists and
curators, as well as already existing national CultureNets.
We invite artists, theorists, the cultural sector, festival organisers and
new media industry people to meet, discuss and reunite within the framework
set by international keynote speakers. There will be plenty of opportunities
to reflect further on the future of this new cultural interface in parallel
sessions and social events during these two days in Copenhagen.
Contact: [email protected]
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CultureNet Denmark, organiser of CULT 2001, has since 1997 gained a unique
experience being a web based platform for various cultural institutions and
expressions. These include traditional state cultural institutions,
independent net artists, international cultural networks and market based
technology. CultureNet Denmark participates in the development and
implementation of national IT visions on behalf of the Danish Ministry of
Culture.
Programme and registration will soon be available at:
http://www.kulturnet.dk
Kind regards,
Pia Vigh
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:: C U L T 2 0 0 1 :: C o p e n h a g e n ::
Organizer:
CultureNet Denmark
Christians Brygge 3
DK-1219 Copenhagen K
P +45 33 13 50 88
F +45 33 14 11 56
[email protected]
http://www.culturenet-denmark.dk
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:13:20 +0100
From: matthew fuller <[email protected]>
Subject: lev manovich, lux, london
LEV MANOVICH PRESENTS Sunday 3 June 2.00
Lux Cinema 2-4 Hoxton Sq London N1 6NU BOOKING LINE 020 7684 0201
"Everything you wanted to know about new mediabut were afraid to ask Dziga
Vertov"
Lev Manovich, the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001).
http://www.manovich.net
What are the new possibilities for film language opened up by digital
media? Which filmmakers from the past already explored the fundamental
questions of digital media, even though they worked before computers were
available? What are the classics of digital cinema? In order to explore
these questions, Lev Manovich will screen and discuss a number of short
films and film segments. Filmmakers/artists to be discussed will include
Vertov, Whitney, art+com, Walitzky, Boustani, and others.
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:39:19 +1100
From: molly hankwitz <[email protected]>
Subject: announcement
ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE,
7-10pm worldwide, all time zones
As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of
emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a
voluntary
rolling blackout on the first day of summer, June 21 at 7pm - 10pm in all
time zones (this will roll it across the planet). It's a simple protest and
a symbolic act. Turn out your lights from 7pm-10pm on June 21. Unplug
whatever you can unplug in your house. Light a candle, kiss and tell (or
not), take a stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not
electronic - have fun in the dark.
The Cheney-Bush team is blowing smoke when they tell us that "...
conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement those
technologies..." Pick up the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by Hawken and
Lovins to learn that conservation/high efficiency technologies already ARE
on-the-shelf. If implemented, these revolutionary ideas would pay themselves
off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far less greenhouse gas
into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot.
Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government
representatives and environmental contacts. Let them know we want global
education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and
alternative fuel efforts -- and an end to over-exploitation and misuse of
the earth's resources.
mollyhankwitz
0348 050759
61 7 3846 5457
archimedia
: ' )
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 21:00:19 -0500
From: "patrick lichty" <[email protected]>
Subject: PDA/IA Show Update
May 27, 2001
Announcement:
(re)distributions: PDA and IA Art as Cultural Intervention
First show date/Accretion Process:
JUly 1-7 to October 31, 2001
SECOND CALL FOR WORKS, and REDEFINITION OF SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Although the response for our (re)distributions show has been excellent. A
small cache of equipment has been acquired by private donation for
development
of the show, and progress is coming along quite well.
However, because of the nascent quality of this medium, some of the work is
still in development, and in order to facilitate the exhibition of a number
of
these works, our entry and exhibition policy is being amended.
The show opening date will be in the first week of July, depending on
logistics
and schedules.
There are a number of artists who will shown in the opening exhibition, but
there are more who are on the brink of completing some very interesting
work.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AMENDMENT:
Deadlines:
WORKS and PAPERS:
June 15-October 15. 2001
Anyone wishing to submit works that utilize PDA's, Information Appliances,
and
nomadic devices are welcome to contact me for inclusion in the exhibiton.
The
application process will be different from typical exhibitions, as this is
no
typical exhibition. The opening deadline for works will be June 15th, and
the
selection criteria will more inclusive in the beginning.
Pieces and texts will also be considered until two weeks before of the 'end'
of
active phase of the online exhibition, which is 10/15/2001. However, as
time
passes, judging criteria will be tightened until the end of the active
phase,
at which time a catalogue and physical arrangements will be finalized. It
is
my hope that this accretive phase will serve to increase the breadth of and
quality of the work in the show.
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REVISED PROSPECTUS FOLLOWS:
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Call for Virtual Entries and Critical Texts
"(re)distributions: Information Appliance & PDA Art as cultural
intervention"
Exhibition/Online Symposium
Sponsored by voyd.com
July 1, 2001 October 15, 2001
Patrick Lichty, Curator
Statement:
As technological forms of art such as web-based works gain acceptance at
major
cultural institutions, questions arise to the potential narrowing of
technological works to the browser, and to the representational issues of
technological art in general. Personal Digital Assistants and informational
appliances like pagers, cell phones and connected organizers are creating a
culture of distribution and nomadism, intimacy with our machines combined
with
the resultant 'precious-ness' of the information appliance, and a closer
integration of technology of the body. The IA/PDA poses to create new
cultural
modes of representation as these technologies create their own communities
and
networks while not wholly relying on the Internet proper. What are the
issues
of expression and artistic representation (visual, aural, narrative, etc)
that
the emergence of wireless technologies creates? How does this technology
affect our relationship with one another and with these new developments?
(re)distributions will seek to address the shifts in cultural practice
through
showcasing works that utilize PDA OS, WAP or other wireless technologies to
make visible critical issues (on micro- and macrocosmic levels) relating to
the
coming of the embedded self and the wireless Web.
Call for entries:
Projects for consideration will focus on works created for PDAs, like the
Pilot, Visor, and Pocket PC platforms, as well as pagers, cell phones, etc.
and
works for information appliances utilizing various protocols, such as WAP or
Bluetooth. Works will be judged a number of criteria, including their
critical
engagement with the subject and/or audience and technical accessibility.
Palmtop applications will be hosted at voyd.com, and the artist or their
technical staff will administrate WAP/wireless installations, which will be
accompanied by suitable links and curatorial pages.
In addition, documentation for completed events or works-in-progress will be
accepted as expository works. If response is sufficient, a separate
category
will be created for this body of work.
The curatorial staff has access to Palm III only at the present time, so
those
submitting other works are responsible for documenting the work in a way
that
is accessible (preferably HTML).
EMULATION WILL BE ALLOWED.
Call for Essays & Texts:
In conjunction with the exhibition, critical essays are invited for
submission
for inclusion in the discussion of the online exhibition. The archives will
be
posted on the site, and proceedings of the works will be electronically
published as well.
Format:
MS Word or compatible format, 2500 words max. or multimedia hypertext.
Abstracts (250 words), text only.
Deadlines:
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AMENDMENT:
Deadlines:
WORKS and PAPERS:
June 15-October 15. 2001
Anyone wishing to submit works that utilize PDA's, Information Appliances,
and
nomadic devices are welcome to contact me for inclusion in the exhibiton.
The
application process will be different from typical exhibitions, as this is
no
typical exhibition. The opening deadline for works will be June 15th, and
the
selection criteria will more inclusive in the beginning.
Pieces and texts will also be considered until two weeks before of the 'end'
of
active phase of the online exhibition, which is 10/15/2001. However, as
time
passes, judging criteria will be tightened until the end of the active
phase,
at which time a catalogue and physical arrangements will be finalized.
Notification of acceptance:
June 15-October15. 2001
Contact/submission information:
Patrick Lichty
Curator, (re)distributions
C/O 355 Seyburn Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
225-766-3811
USA
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:38:04 +0200
From: kristin bergaust <[email protected]>
Subject: tigergarden game experience
The theatre company Hollow Creature in Norway has made the performance
Tigergarden
which is based on the texts of the American author Kathy Acker.
At http://www.hollowcreature.com/tigergarden you can visit tigergarden
game
experience which has been made at Atelier Nord, Oslo by
www.institutors.org
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Kristin Bergaust
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