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Table of Contents:
HAL 2001: Call for Participation
Gerrit Hiddink <[email protected]>
Snow Blossom House Open: Online Show
anne-marie <[email protected]>
Ann.: Wizards of OS conference #2
Florian Cramer <[email protected]>
Announcement of invitation to Translation Karaoke at the ICA
"Twenteenth Century" <[email protected]>
Culture Jammers Network: America's true colors will fly on July 4th
"geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Future Bodies Conference, Cologne 28 June-01 July 2001
"geert lovink" <[email protected]>
[plug in] databodies/cloners/tracenoizers/viewfinders
knowbotic research <[email protected]>
SMALL NARRATIVES: UNREAL PRESENCE
"SMART Project Space" <[email protected]>
[email protected]
SEAFair 2001/Society and Genomic Culture
Kalina Bunevska Isakovska <[email protected]>
data aura
[email protected] (Sarah Thompson)
mediaterra .01
"geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Crea e diffondi musica in modo libero: mp3 contest 2001!
"Tommaso Tozzi" <[email protected]>
NAZI~LINE: program & campaign are hitting a raw nerve in germany
NAZI~LINE ~PR <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:54:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Gerrit Hiddink <[email protected]>
Subject: HAL 2001: Call for Participation
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
HACKERS AT LARGE 2001
http://www.hal2001.org/
Hackers at Large (HAL) 2001 promises to be this year's hacker's event
not to miss. From August 10-12, people from all over the world will
converge on the campus of the University of Twente in the Netherlands
for the open-air event.
The Program Committee invites proposals for speakers, panels,
tutorials and special sessions. To submit a proposal, visit
http://www.hal2001.org/hal/03Topics/07CFP/ .
THE VENUE
The University of Twente is 2 1/2 hours by train from Amsterdam. HAL
will set up pavillions outdoors, and use indoor classrooms for some
sessions. An open-air theatre is also available. The entire
conference location will be covered by wireless and wired networking.
Attendees may camp on the Twente grounds, stay in on-site housing, or
stay at off-site hotels.
THEMES
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- biometric technologies
- digital rights management
- closing the gap between hacker generations
- computer security & digital privacy
- weird science: creative applications of technology
TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS
HAL will feature many types of events. Campus classrooms and other
locations will be used for presentations, panels and debates. The
outdoor pavillion will feature areas for group meetings, displays, and
smaller presentations, discussions and tutorials. The outdoor theatre
will be available for artistic endeavours and events that won't fit
inside.
The Program Committee is scheduling dozens of sessions with speakers
and panalists from around the world. Session formats include:
- - Speakers. Speakers will be given 20 or 50 minutes, and may be asked
to be part of a panel or other type of session.
- - Panels. Panels of 2 to 10 people are invited to debate, share their
expertise, and discuss.
- - Tutorials. Do you have skills or knowledge to share? Teach it to
other HAL participants. Tutorials may range from 5 to 500
participants, and the most popular ones may be repeated.
- - Demonstrations. Hacks, ideas, products and skills can be
demonstrated.
- - Special sessions. Do you have other ideas or proposals? Let's hear
it!
In addition, smaller and less formally arranged sessions can be
planned before or during the conference. Daily updates on these
events will be publicized at HAL.
EVERYONE'S A SPEAKER AT HAL
Formal sessions are only part of the experience. HAL participants
should plan on sharing their ideas and expertise with other
participants. This can happen through unplanned gatherings and
debates, contests, games, etc. The local area network will make it
easy to communicate with others and set up ad-hoc technical events.
HOW TO PROPOSE
If you have an idea for a speaker, panel, tutorial or other session,
visit http://www.hal2001.org/hal/03Topics/07CFP to submit a proposal
form. You will get immediate confirmation your proposal was received,
and will hear whether your proposal was accepted within a few weeks.
If you have an idea, but don't want to be the speaker (or don't know
who to invite), submit a proposal form anyway. The Program Committee
can work to make your idea a reality!
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
Corporate tent- and table space is available, and corporate members
are urged to purchase Business Tickets to HAL. If you are interested
in becoming a corporate sponsor or deploying corporate activities in
our tent, submit a session proposal form or contact [email protected]
DEADLINES
The Program Committee is already working on the conference
schedule. Proposals will be accepted up until the last minute,
but for the best chance of being accepted, proposals should be
submitted by July 1.
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:58:30 -0700
From: anne-marie <[email protected]>
Subject: Snow Blossom House Open: Online Show
http://www.fiftyfifty.org/snowblossom/
http://www.opensorcery.net/projects.html
***Snow Blossom House Open: Online Show***
Snow Blossom House is a collection of erotic interactive art, digital anime
dolls, 3-D creatures, and H-games selected by an avid otaku-fem. Snow
Blossom House is a place to feel the chill of cold hard pornography in the
midst of a blinding pink snow petal rain. Snow Blossom House breathes in
and exhales the romantic fantasies of fifteen year old Japanese girls who
build web sites like "Carrot House" and "Strawberry House" to house their
favorite anime characters and home drawn KiSS dolls. Snow Blossom girls
construct their own Snow Blossom boy-dolls to undress--pale thin Goth boys
with pretty dark clothes, anime boys, and sulky action heroes. Snow Blossom
girls like to strip and dress up other girls. They like to pretend to be
non-human, to grow tails, fur, and octopus arms. Snow Blossom House is a
boy pervert protagonist in an all girls' high school, or a young hacker
girl locked alone in her room secretly playing her brother's hentai games.
Snow Blossom House is willful immersion into a world of uncanny cuteness
and sweet dark dreams.
Snow Blossom House features new pieces by Entropy8zuper, Melinda Klayman,
Meta, Dominatrix and recent work by other artists and game developers
including Francesca da Rimini, Kim Galvas, Playskins, and Wilfried Agricola
de Cologne. Snow Blossom House also features new writing by Blackhawk, who
is known as the first critic to "make contact" with the international KiSS
community of electronic paper doll makers. Blackhawk's text "The Art of
KiSS" includes a manifesto for how the KiSS system of doll creation and
exchange could be adventageously adopted by the net art community in
general.
Snow Blossom House opens in conjunction with the Sonar01 Festival in
Barcelona Spain, June 14, 15 and 16 and Snow Blossom offline is on display
at Sonar01 as part of Fiftyfifty Frontline.
Participating Artists and Game Developers:
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Steve Stone, Francesca da Rimini, Michael
Grimm, Ricardo Dominguez, Entropy8zuper, Meta, Playskins, Dominatrix, Kim
Galvas, Ewigkeit, Melinda Klayman, Anna Mae, Pixis, Milky House, Excellents
Japan, Auric Vision, Blackdragon, C's ware
Snow Blossom House is curated by Anne-Marie Schleiner.
http://www.fiftyfifty.org/snowblossom/
http://www.opensorcery.net/projects.html
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:34:41 +0200
From: Florian Cramer <[email protected]>
Subject: Ann.: Wizards of OS conference #2
Subject: press release: Wizards Of OS 2
From: Wizard of OS <[email protected]>
Wizards of OS 2
Open Cultures & Free Knowledge
International Conference at the
House of World Cultures Berlin
11-13 October, 2001
http://wizards-of-os.org/
The three day conference "Wizards of Operating Systems 2" addresses
a broad audience interested in digital media culture and the future
of the knowledge society. It will bring together about 50 German and
international speakers and up to 1000 participants for presentations,
discussions, tutorials, artistic contributions and informal discourse.
organized by
mikro e.V., Berlin
http://mikro.org/
the Federal Office for Political Education, Bonn
http://www.bpb.de/
and the Working Group on Informatics & Society at Humboldt University
Berlin http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/
in cooperation with
Chaos Computer Club Berlin, C-Base Berlin, Debian Project, Berliner
Linux User Group, German Unix User Group, V2_Lab for the Unstable
Media Rotterdam, De Waag -- Society for Old and New Media Amsterdam,
Telepolis, Linux-Magazin, De:Bug and others
### CONCEPT ###
"To defend the freedom of knowledge is probably the most important
task facing us in the future," said Prof. Norbert Szyperski, a leading
micro-economist, at the Wizards of OS 1.
In the "knowledge society", questions related to the production,
distribution, archiving and usage of software-based knowledge become
pivotal. Among computer operating systems -- as GNU/Linux and others
have proven -- free, open solutions are a real alternative to
proprietary, closed products. But what about the other building blocks
of the "knowledge society"?
Radio frequencies, standards and protocols, search engines and archives,
school and universities, libraries and museums, public broadcasting
and the knowledge of public administration -- don't these things also
have the character of an infrastructure, of "operating systems of the
knowledge society", as well? How free or unfree are each of these? We
need an environmentalism of the digital knowledge environment (James
Boyle) with a political economy of "intellectual property" at its
core. How much "knowledge as commodity" can we afford? How much public
knowledge do we need?
The second WOS conference intends to explore routes to an open culture
of free knowledge. It will focus on the changes in the conditions of
intellectual creation of all kinds, the mediation of its results and
their collaborative continued development. How accessible, transparent,
participatory and extensible are any of the various infrastructural
layers? "Intellectual property" has a powerful lobby, but who will stand
up for the rights of common knowledge?
### MAIN TOPICS ###
*** Free Software ***
What is the current state of the concept of free software following its
adoption by big corporations and public administrations and after the
roller coaster ride on the tech-heavy markets such as the Nasdaq and the
Neuer Markt? Representatives from HP, IBM and others offer their views
on what to many remains an unanswered question: How can you make money
with free software?
*** Among Equals ***
Napster and SETI@Home have brought peer-to-peer networking to the fore.
P2P currently supports communities of scientists, technicians and
journalists in the generation, collection and filtering of knowledge.
Can we speak yet of a general shift from competition to cooperation?
*** Biotechnology ***
The human genome is being explored by the international community of
scientists racing against biotech corporations -- some to further public
knowledge, others to protect exploitable private knowledge. Biomaterial
and knowledge from patients and ethnic groups is being expropriated
and patented. Are open source genetics and fair trade agreements an
alternative?
*** The Legal Ordering of Knowledge ***
Global information flows challenge nation-state-based regulation
of copyright, patents and trademark law and tend ever more towards
harmonization. The technical implementation of property claims
hard-codes them into the operating system and at the same time creates
new opportunities for zoning. What about the right of public access -- a
necessary prerequisite for innovation -- that is supposed to be equally
protected by many national laws?
*** Not For Sale: Public Knowledge ***
Libraries, museums, schools, universities and public broadcasting store
and nurture the wealth of common knowledge. Today, public knowledge
resources often appear as luxury goods that in a time of tightened
budgets might just as well be economized -- or even more: delegated for
profit-oriented cultivation by the private sector. But how does this
compare with what the German Constitutional Court called the public
mandate for a basic provision of information?
*** Knowledge Transfer Among Rich and Poor ***
Has the promise of free software furthered the self-determination of the
South, or countered the growth of the Digital Divide?
### SPEAKERS ###
The complete list of currently confirmed speakers is at
http://wizards-of-os.org Here, a few highlights:
Bruce Perens
Open Source Manager at Hewlett Packard, Berkeley CA
Arthur L. Holden
Chairman and CEO First Genetic Trust, Inc., Deerfield, IL
Thomas Krueger
President of the Federal Office for Political Education, Bonn
Rusty Foster
developer of the P2P system Kuro5hin.org, San Francisco
Hansjuergen Garstka
Privacy and Information Access Commissioner of the State of Berlin,
Germany
Cori Hayden
Expert on bioprospecting, biodiversity and pharmaceutical
commercialization agreements, Cambridge, UK
Lawrence Lessig
Cyberlaw Expert, Stanford University
Frank Rieger
Chaos Computer Club and gate5 AG, specialist for geographical
information systems, Berlin
Thomas Macho
Professor of Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin
Tim Hubbard
Head of Human Sequence Analysis at the Sanger Centre and Joint Head
of the open source genome annotation project Ensembl, a joint project
between the Sanger Centre and the European Bioinformatics Institute,
Cambridge UK
Brigitte Zypries
Under-Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in charge of
the eGovernment projects of the Federal Government, Berlin
Brian McConnell
SETI@Home, San Francisco
### THE WIZARDS OF OS 1 ###
The first WOS conference in July 1999 focused primarily on free software
and the open, highly distributed, collaborative process in which it is
created.
More than 600 members of the science, technology, business and art
communities came together in the House of World Cultures in Berlin to
talk about the foundations of the computer-based culture. Since then, a
series of workshops and seminars have addressed computer science, legal,
political, artistic and philosophical facets of the field of topics.
### WOS 1 IN THE PRESS ###
"All in all, one can certainly call the first 'Wizards of OS'
conference, the first in a series of related events, a milestone in the
history of the open source movement." (c't)
"This could be the most important event in years." (Wau Holland, CCC
pioneer in Wired News)
"An important conference because it was not a typical software special
interest conference but dealt much more generally with the social,
political and economic meaning of software, licensing, intellectual
property rights and copyright." (Junge Welt)
"At a recent Berlin conference 'The Wizard of OS -- Open Sources and
Free Software', the techno-intellectuals from the open source movement
made it clear that they are not only interested in technology, but also
and especially in politics." (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)
### CONTACTS ###
If you would like to know more, you can find up-to-date information at
http://wizards-of-os.org/.
You can receive monthly updates by signing up to the mailing list
[email protected]. Send a mail to [email protected] with
"subscribe wos-announce" in the body.
Please address general questions to [email protected] and
questions on topics and organization to [email protected].
If you no longer wish to receive any further information about Wizards
of OS 2, please send a brief message to [email protected]. Your
address will then be removed from the list. Otherwise, you will receive
three more press releases via this distribution list until October.
Wizards of OS
Thomas Thaler, WOS Press
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:18:33 +0100
From: "Twenteenth Century" <[email protected]>
Subject: Announcement of invitation to Translation Karaoke at the ICA
Dear Nettime,
You are cordially invited to try your hand at Translation Karaoke.
On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June, as part of the ICA's London/Berlin
season Twenteenth Century are offering a piece of Battenburg/Victoria Sponge
Translation Cake to anyone daring enough to lay down some Berlin style
tunes.
Try our translation service and have a sneak preview of our cardboard truck
at http://www.twenteenthcentury.com/berlin
If you come on Sunday you are ALL very welcome at a Truckers BBQ at our
studio in Limehouse (Dress: checked shirts and piles).
Hope to see you there,
Saul.
Twenteenth Century
Boxing Club
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road
London
E14 7HA
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:20:48 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Subject: Culture Jammers Network: America's true colors will fly on July 4th
From: "Culture Jammers Network" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: America's true colors will fly on July 4th
500 Corporate America flags raise the alarm on Independence Day
Jammers,
This July 4th, Independence Day, 500 Corporate America flags will be
raised in over 200 cities across the US and around the world. The
"Brands and Bands" will replace the "Stars and Stripes" outside
Starbucks and Blockbuster, at the gates of US embassies in Canada and
Sweden, and at the US-Mexico border. The flags will fly at a US
Military Academy and at the G8 Summit in Geneva. One will burn in
Kansas.
Making sure his whole neighborhood gets the message, a man in Arvada,
Colorado will paint the Corporate flag on the side of his house.
And that's not all...
In New York City, a 600 square foot flag will be displayed on a
billboard just off Times Square.
Find out where the flag will be flying in your area by checking out
our Independence Day Flag Jam website
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/july4/. Send accounts of your Flag Jam
activities to [email protected].
>From the staff and volunteers at Adbusters
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:10:49 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Subject: Future Bodies Conference, Cologne 28 June-01 July 2001
Conference at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
FUTURE BODIES 28 June - 01 July 2001
Morphologies; Artistic Representations; Techniques of Images in Science and
Fiction
http://gender.khm.de/futurebodies/
The Body I will have been .
Symposium centred around Gender|Media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
in cooperation with the International Marie-Jahoda-Chair at the
Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum.
There is a lot of talk about future bodies, interchangeable genders and
posthuman subjects. According to the general trend of ideas, this is all
because the new technologies are threatening to bring about fundamental
change or indeed are already doing so. But if you take a quick look into the
world of the new media in practice (net projects, websites, computer games,
CD-ROM projects) there is less cause for concern. The men and the women are
still there for all to see, the one with muscular bodies and the others with
breasts.
So what is this new thing, this other thing which is starting to take shape
supposed to be? What in fact could it be? Is it perhaps to be found lurking
behind the fa�ade of these images, in places where nobody has looked for it
yet? Are the shifts in the morphology of bodies so subtle that they have not
yet become apparent? Or should we take these 'Future Bodies' as a masquerade
that promises something they do not hold?
If we assume that the genetic code is now staking a hegemonic claim to truth
in place of the laws of physics or the binary code of information
technology, then bodies � and with them their subjects � have met their
material and epistemelogical limits. How in the context of this biological
power, can identities be generated which are co-ordinated through seeing,
perceiving and knowing? How can the relationship between mental and
technical images be determined? How are these new bodies being introduced by
science and fiction? How do they come to be seen by us? And what do these
images and bodies actually show us � bodies we have not yet seen, but which
we will turn out always to have been already?
FUTURE BODIES has invited artists, art historians and media theorists to
discuss their ideas, visualisations, questions and possible answers.
Program:
Thursday 28 OPENING
20 Marie-Luise Angerer & Zo� Sofoulis
Anna Munster Returns of the Diminishing Body
Michele Barker Digital Physicalities
(Sydney, Australia)
Friday 29 MORPHOLOGIES
Presented by: Marie-Luise Angerer
10.00 Zo� Sofoulis (Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia current
Marie-Jahoda-Chair, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum)
Cyborgs and Other Hybrids. The Human, the Non- Human and the
Sociotechnical
11.00 Verena Kuni (Univ. Mainz)
Trans/Gender Utopias vs. Corpo-Realities
12.00 Yvonne Volkart (Z�rich)
Virtual Identities. Femininity as a Metaphor for the
Post-Human
LUNCHBREAK
Friday 29 ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
Presented by: Kathrin Peters
14.30 Hanne Loreck (Berlin)
Bodies which we will not have been. Allegorical Configurations in
Contemporary Art.
16.30 Ilka Becker (Cologne)
Between images, bodies and environments. Atmosphere in art photography
Opening of the MEDIA-LOUNGE
selected by Rike Frank (Wien)
20.00 Jane Goodall (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
The Future Body and the Fin de Si�cle
Presented by: Zo� Sofoulis
Saturday 30 TECHNIQUES OF IMAGES IN SCIENCE
Presented by: Ilka Becker
10.00 Claudia Reiche (Hamburg)
The Visible Human Project. Introduction to an obscene Body of Images
11.00 Simon Ruf (Berlin)
Superhumans. Elements of a Genealogy of the Cyborg
12.00 Christopher Kelty & Hannah Landecker (Rice University, Houston,
Texas)
Experimental Microcinematography, or how to not see what is there.
LUNCHBREAK
Saturday 30 TECHNIQUES OF IMAGES IN FICTION
Presented by: Kathrin Peters
14.30 Gabriele Werner ( HZK, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin)
Sabine's lips. Image Processing and the Processing of Semantic Surpluses
15.30 Ulrike Bergermann (Univ. Paderborn)
Wilmut's 'Dolly', Jeunet's 'Ripley': Representations of Genes in Science and
Fiction 1997
COFFEE BREAK
17.00 Final Panel
Presented by: Zo� Sofoulis & Marie-Luise Angerer
Sunday 01
10.00 Brunch
During the symposium a simultaneous translation from German into English is
available.
The MEDIA-LOUNGE is located in the 1st floor Overstolzenhaus, Rheingasse
6-8, and is open from 29.6. to 1.7.2001 10am-6pm.
Please enrol for the symposium or write to KMW-Sekretariat, Kunsthochschule
f�r Medien, Peter-Welter-Platz 2, D-50676 K�ln, Tel. +49 221 20189-130 Fax
+49 221 20189-230
Location:
Overstolzenhaus - lecture theatre and garden, Rheingasse 6-8
Academy of Media Arts, Peter-Welter-Platz 2, 50676 Cologne,
Tel. +49 221 20189-0
Conceived and organised by:
Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer (Academy of Media Arts)
Prof. Dr. Zo� Sofoulis (current International Marie-Jahoda-Chair at the
Ruhr-Universit�t in Bochum), with the assistance of: Kathrin Peters (Academy
of Media Arts)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:09:14 +0200
From: knowbotic research <[email protected]>
Subject: [plug in] databodies/cloners/tracenoizers/viewfinders
ART Basel, June 2001, Liste 01, 11.-17.6., Burgweg Basel, 13h-21h
[plug in]
_is an internationally oriented pilot project initiating, sponsoring and
mediating innovation in the expansion
of artistic interaction with new media. [plug in] decentralizes the concept
of curatorship with network agents,
who plug projects into our online and offline program. Our network agents
for 2001 are Annette Schindler,
Orlando Fleury, Yvonne Volkart, Michael Pfister and Rafael Koch.
Eventmodul::anonymous.databody.muttering / by knowbotic research (Zurich /
Cologne)
_addresses the phenomenon of our digital identity. knowbotic research
builds data bodies from the many personal
traces we leave when using forms of digital communication. In this
installation, visitors can activate the databodies
of several ART Basel -participants, while these data streams in turn
trigger acoustic and optical signals, and thus provide a
spacial experience. http://io.khm.de/databody/
live stream 13h-21h mez
TraceNoizer. Disinformation on Demand/ by LAN
_Protect your databody clone it. Professional cloning assistance by
TraceNoizer creators. TraceNoizer provides a
tool, which enables the users to clone their databodies, multiply their
userprofile and thus anonymize oneself online.
http://www.tracenoizer.org
Clone-it ! (featuring LAN and knowbotic research)
All databodies of the ART Basel participants get cloned and protected
during the week of the Art Fair.
http://clone-it.org
Viewfinder / by Blast Theory (London)
_promises but ultimately withholds a glimpse of an intimate scene: the
inviting openness of a large projection
leads the visitor to a private view through a camera in which erotic images
are obscured and fragmented.
Filmed continuously over 24 hours using a time-lapse technique, Viewfinder
juxtaposes the everyday with the porno-graphic.
With its reference to webcams and surveillance technology, the piece poses
questions about mediation,
selfreflection and the voyeuristic impulse. http://www.blasttheory.co.uk
location of the installations
Liste 01, 11.-17.6., Burgweg Basel, 13h-21h
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Knowbotic Research
IO_dencies http://io.khm.de
connective force attack http://h---h.de
Klosbachstrasse 45,
CH 8032 Zuerich
tel/fax +41-1-2616412
mobil +41-76-5806412
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:37:35 +0200
From: "SMART Project Space" <[email protected]>
Subject: SMALL NARRATIVES: UNREAL PRESENCE
SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam
requests the pleasure of your company at the exhibition opening of:
SMALL NARRATIVES: UNREAL PRESENCE | Mark Bain, Elisabetha Benassi, Voebe de
Gruyter, Stephanie Kratz, Jacqueline Pennell, Hideyuki Sawayanagi, Yokomizo
Shizuka | Curated by Samuel-Fuyumi Namioka.
Saturday June 16, 21.00 hours - late | After opening party with deejay
Arnold.
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrap in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- - But who is that on the other side of you?
(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land)
Even as we step into a new millennium, many spectres we inherited from the
last century are still haunting us. Though postmodern doubt has proceeded to
rid itself of what the French philosopher Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard has called
'grand narritives', (such universal categories as History, Truth, Art,
etc.), they are still persisting in the present as shadows of our thoughts
and actions. Such ghosts of history also exist in the small narratives of
our daily lives, as expressed in the above quoted lines of T.S. Eliot. The
text is inspired by the account of an Antarctic expedition. Eliot explains
in his original note: "It was related that the party of explorers, at the
extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one
more member then could actually be counted". This awareness of an unreal
presence could be thought of as the testimony of an otherworldly existence
in our physical world, but it could also be attributed to causes of
psychological nature. Feeling the presence of an absent person can occur for
example after somebody has died, or can be caused by a delirious state of
being. But there are many other forms of shadow lives that live among us.
The power of memory to transport us out of the present to people and places
long past plays an important role in experiences of unreal presence. It is
related to a notion of time that is not linear, but opens up a spatial
simultaneity in which unrelated events become connected and exist together.
Sometimes memories can be more real then the present as the French writer
Marcel Proust experienced. In Remembrance of Things Past he relived his own
past through the act of writing. As happened with Proust upon dipping a
Madeleine in tea, it is the seemingly insignificant objects and events that
can become a doorway to past times. The works in this exhibition survey
different aspects of such experiences of unreal presence in the small
narratives of daily life.
SMALL NARRATIVES: UNREAL PRESENCE is sponsored by: Gemeente Amsterdam,
Mondriaan Stichting, Mentrum, Brand Bier, Beam Systems, Yakult Europe BV
SMART Project Space | www.smartprojectspace.net
Exhibition Space: 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20
Office: Keizersgracht 720, NL-1017 EW Amsterdam
Mail to: P.O.Box 15004, NL-1001 MA Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 427.5951 / 427.5952
Phone/fax.: +31 20 420.6028
Email: [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:26:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: [email protected]
bon zo!r bon zo!r
merc! merc!
\/\ n2+o - bulet!n
letz.b!ozkulpt - 01 recipe 4 disaster - nn.sonar.01.m9ndfzzp
http://www.membank.org/sonar.01
nn.dollz.foto - http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010614/ocio/portada.htm
net[SS]daq - the veryvery 1st + veryverygoodnet.art financial board
- realtime art quotes 4 01.nz favorite +\- 99 prozent
.net art impostors. 01 projekt by nn + okz!dent satellites
http://membank.org/net[ss]daq/
genetrade - the communists say: comrade lovers, for your health's sake
TRADE FREELY!!!!!! - http://www.membank.org/genetrade
http://genetrade.org/tradefreel!
fl.garden - FLEKZ!BLE LIKUID GARDEN - nautical m9ndfzzp
http://membank.org/fl.garden/
242.adc~ - http://www.eusocial.com/242.adc
nn.interbzzp - 4 the dokumentary `Neue Kraft, Neues Werk`
also present = Laurie Anderson, Sadie Plant, ....
nn.interbzzp - 4 www.canalweb.es
nn.interbzzp - with Cornelia Sollfrank because `i love phantoms`
1001 ventuze
/_/
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\ \/ i should like to be a human plant
\/ __
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i will shed leaves in the shade
\_\ because i like stepping on bugs
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--
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: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:46:54 +0200
From: Kalina Bunevska Isakovska <[email protected]>
Subject: SEAFair 2001/Society and Genomic Culture
SEAFair 2001, 15 - 20 June 2001
Skopje Electronic Arts Fair
Society and Genomic Culture
Location: Museum of Contemporary Arts
Organizer: Contemporary Art Center Skopje
Suported by: Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia, Ministry of Culture of Macedonia, Embassy of USA in Macedonia, PROHELVETIA Arts Council of Switzerland, Goethe Institute Belgrade, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Macedonian Academy of Science and Art
SKOPJE ELECTRONIC ART FAIR (SEAFair) http://seafair.scca.org.mk/ represents a focal point on the Balkans, in regard to applying new technologies in art projects. In the fifth year of SEAFair titled as Society and Genomic Culture CAC concentrates at investigating the implications of the development of bio-technology and genetics (GM Food, Human Genome Project, etc.), as well as the implications of the cross connections between these fields and the culture, informatics, and techno-utilization.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY 15.06.2001
Museum of Contemporary Arts - Skopje
Workshop, Leader Liljana Simjanovska
10:00 1st Lecture by Liljana Simjanovska
Gene structure and function
11:00 2nd Lecture by Liljana Simjanovska
Mendelian inheritance and recombination
20:30
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
SATURDAY 16.06.2001
Museum of Contemporary Arts - Skopje
11:00 Workshop
3rd Lecture by Liljana Simjanovska
Nucleic acid based methods
19:30 OPENING OF SYMPOSIUM
Panel "Art and Biotechnology"
19:30 - 20:00 Roy Asccot
Moistmedia Art: towards the convergence of bits, atoms, neurons and
genes.
20:00-20:30 Suzana Milevska
Life and Technology in the Work of Eduardo Kac
20:30-21:00 Rainer Matysik
The desire for a more perfect form of life
21:30-22:00 Maja Kuzmanovic
GroWorld
22:00 - 22:30 Diana McCarty
What do Cyberfeminists Eat
22:30 Discussion
SUNDAY 16.06.2001
10:00 - 14:30 Macedonian Academy for Sciences and Arts
Introduction to the Laboratory work in the Research Center for New Technologies - Division of Genetic Engineering and BioTechnology.
Introduction in laboratory practice (methods and equipement for RNA/DNA analyses: RNA&DNA extraction, Southern blot, Northern blot, DNA fingerprinting, PCR, RT/PCR, ASO hybridization, SSCP, DGGE, DNA cloning and DNA sequencing)
- - Practical work
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
17:30 - 18:00 Momo Kuzmanovic
Presentation in the working Space of installation of Andreja Kulundzic
HYPOTHESIS
18:00 - 18:30 Dr. Liljana Simjanovska
The Nitrogen theory
18:30-19:00 Dr. Liljana Simjanovska and Georgi Stoilkov
Vibrations and Cloning
19:00 - 19:30 Discussion
19:30 Panel Biotechnology Debate
19:30 -20:00 Klaus Aman
The role of science in the application of the Precautionary Principle
20:00-20:30 Oliver Ressler
Anti Gene Worlds: Opposition to genetic Engineering
20:30-21:00 Timothy Druckrey
The Genetic Industrial Complex...
21:30-22:00 Nina Czegledy
Digital Body Virtual Spectacles
22:00 - 22:30 Heath Bunting
Superweed
22:30 Discussion
EXHIBITION
- - Andrea Kuluncic (Croatia)
- - CLOSED REALITY - EMBRYO http://embryo.inet.hr
- - Eduardo Kac (Brasil/USA)
- - Alba
- - Genesis http://www.juliafriedman.com/exhib_kac.html
- - Petko Dourmana, Plamen Voushev (Bulgaria)
- - SOCIETOR www.ada.bg
- - Rainer Matysik (Germany)
- - The intimate relationship between living organisms and human beigns replaces clothing
- - Heath Bunting (GB)
- - Biotech Hobbyist http://irational.org/biotech
- - Oliver Ressler (Austria)
- - Focus on Companies
- - Dijana Tomic (Macedonia)
- - Circular Memories
- - Emil Petrov & Kristina Miljanovska (Macedonia)
- - C_on_t_act
- - Diana McCarty (Germany/USA)
- - Faces
- - Tiia Johannson (Estonia)
- - get.real http://artun.ee/homepages/xtiiax/mikki/alien/index.html
- - Brezze Mez (Australa)
- - Cloning God and Angels http://homepages.tig.com.au/~garu/calpha.htm http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame4/mez/clonegod.htm
- - Pavu com group (France)
- Lucy www.pavu.com/lucy
- - Michalis Pichler & Nikolaos Zachariadis (Austria/Greece)
- Proton
- - Irena Paskali (Macedonia)
- Gen... genesis
- - Effie Halivopoulou (Greece)
- www.arachni.net/effie
- - Adam Zaretsky (USA)
- Microinjected fish eggs
______________________
Kalina Bunevska Isakovska
Visual Arts Program Coordinator
CAC - Skopje, Macedonia
Address: Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel./fax: ++389.91/133-541; 214-495
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:04:33 -0400
From: [email protected] (Sarah Thompson)
Subject: data aura
"data aura"
new article by Sarah Thompson
referencing: software, conceptual and video art
{software...art...&...language....zeros....&....no...ones}
http://www.content-type.org.uk
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:50:11 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Subject: mediaterra .01
From: "fournos-culture" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: mediaterra .01
Medi@terra Festival is among the cultural events which are organised in
the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens
CALL FOR PROJECTS
The annual Medi@terra Festival is changing form. Under the title
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the
South to the North in the form of a microMuseum.
Medi@terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions
posed by digital culture, has been included among the events which are
organised on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens.
Its inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 � 2004 has
recently been announced.
Medi@terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously
evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas. As such, it
invites all those with an interest in research and experimentation
around the new conditions that are now being shaped to take part in its
new effort: a moving Festival that will start off from Greece, travel
through the Balkans and end up in Germany.
This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable
structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large
number of works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well as
systems and friendly areas for communication and meetings. The works
that will travel with the microMuseum are ones which experiment with the
new platforms for the production and exhibition of the modern art work
through different creative media. The microMuseum is based on the
logic of the kiosk that one finds mainly in Greece (peripteron), with a
reference at the same time to the concept of the 'small museum,' an idea
which began in the 16th century and continues among today's artists.
In each host city, the events of Medi@terra will be set up within and
around the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital
photography, interactive objects and �hand luggage-sized� installations,
sound environments and electronic music, screenings, an archive with
printed matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual propositions and
presentations as well as cultural events organised by the artists and
art centres of each city. A debate on the subject of the other side of
globalisation will round off the activities of the Festival.
An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and
realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various
associates, and will participate as a co-organiser in the preparations
and making of decisions. In addition, each centre will be able to take
part in Medi@terra's journey as a member of the �Pilot Operating Net�
via the Internet. Through the Internet it will be possible to follow
the path of the microMuseum and participate in its events from a
distance, from every point on the globe. The �Pilot Operating Net� is
initiated by the network of centres which co-organise the festival,
while all the members of the network can observe, guide, disseminate
information and participate with work and activities in the unfolding
events of the journey.
The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the
antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic
Democracy of the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first
industrial unit was created there. Today, this unit has been turned into
a technological park and the Municipality is participating in a
programme for the "smart city."
Medi@terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia &
Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the International
Book Fair in Frankfurt where the honoured country this year is Greece.
Here, the microMuseum will present, along with all the things
experienced on the journey, material with information (videos,
photographs, texts, etc.) which artists will have produced throughout
the duration of the journey.
Important Dates
Submission of:
VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
NET ART & CD ROM
SOUND ART & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Material for the ARCHIVE & E-BOOKs 20 July
Submission of proposals for INTERACTIVE OBJECTS / INTERACTIVE
INSTALLATIONS 31 June
? VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
Conditions of participation:
- - The work should be in mini DV or VHS format, PAL system
- - It can be in any language. English sub-titles essential.
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001
? INTERACTIVE OBJECT / INSTALLATION
Conditions of participation:
- - The work, when packed, should have maximum dimensions those of an item
of hand luggage so as to be transportable (61 x 25 x 41 cm)
- - It should be interactive
- - It should be packed in a wooden or metal case or container �hand
luggage-sized� (it should not require extra packing)
- - It should be technologically autonomous
- - It should be easy to set up by someone without specialised knowledge
- - It should weigh up to 20 kilos
- - It should be accompanied by guidelines for its use/exhibition
Submission Deadline for Proposal/Design: 31/06/2001
In the case that the proposal is selected, the work must be completed by
25 August 2001.
? INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA
- - INTERNET
- - CD-ROM
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001
? DIGITAL SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Conditions of participation:
- - The work should be in wav audio format (stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16bit) AND
in mp3 format (96 or 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, stereo), on CD-ROM
- - It should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
- - It should have been created within the last two years
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001
? COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Conditions of Participation:
- - The work should have maximum dimensions 10 x 15 cm
- - It can be printed on all kinds of paper
- - It should be unframed
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001
? ARCHIVE of the microMuseum
- - This can include electronic books, proposals, biographies, portraits,
testimonies, etc. in digital, internet or printed form (video, CD-ROM,
internet, printed matter). The content can be: a message from the
creator, a presentation by an artist, a demo, a documentary or a
proposal. More specifically:
For VIDEO
- - The work should be in mini DV format
- - It should have a maximum duration of 5 minutes
For CD-ROM, INTERNET:
- - The work should be PC compatible
For PRINTED MATTER:
- - The printed matter can be in any language, so long as it is
accompanied by a summary of the contents in English.
For e-BOOKS
- - The texts must should be on one of the following themes: a) journey
from the South to the North, b) from the other side of globalization, c)
from the small to the large, d) from the single to the multiple
- - It can be scientific, literary, an essay, personal, a diary, thoughts,
suggestions, even a comic, in digital form
- - It should be forwarded in English
- - It can be from 500 to 10,000 words
For DIGITAL MUSIC
- - The work should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
- - It should be designed to function adequately if reproduced by the
multimedia hardware available on an average computer (medium sized
desktop stereo speakers and sound blaster class audio / mini card).
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001
HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION
Fill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and send
it along with the material required for each category, as described
above, to the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies
* by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens
* by fax: +301 6470 069
* by e-mail: [email protected]
For more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of Communication
and Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 6460 748 or +301
6420 451 or Email [email protected]
Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival
Is organized by:
? Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies
? Hellenic Ministry of Culture
? Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 � 2004
? Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise
Is co-organized by:
? ArtToday Foundation [Bulgaria]
? Student Computer Art Society [Bulgaria]
? Multimedia Lab KIBLA [Slovenia]
? Intima Virtual Base [Slovenia]
? European Media Art Festival [Germany]
? CICV Pierre Schaeffer / next-movies [France]
MEDI@TERRA 2001 � STEERING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of
Fournos
Dodo Santorineou, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the
Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Zoe Kazazaki, Head of the International Organizations Department,
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Maria Theodorou, Adviser of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural
Olympiad 2001 - 2004
Andreas Nefeloudis, Director of the Lavrion Municipal Development
Enterprise
MEDI@TERRA 2001 - PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of
Fournos
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the
Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, France
Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Director of the KIBLA Multimedia Lab, Slovenia
Alfred Rotert, Co-Director of the European Media Art Festival of
Osnabruck, Germany
Dimitrina Sevova, Curator of the Communication Front Festival & Member
of the ArtToday Foundation, Bulgaria
Rosen Petkov, President of Student Computer Art Society & Director of
the ComputerSpace Festival, Bulgaria
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:05:49 +0200
From: "Tommaso Tozzi" <[email protected]>
Subject: Crea e diffondi musica in modo libero: mp3 contest 2001!
Crea e diffondi musica in modo libero!
Vinci un lettore MP3!
Partecipa al concorso per musica digitale no copyright in formato MP3!
MP3 CONTEST 2001
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l'alternativa interattiva e orizzontale al Festival di Sanremo
www.mp3contest.org
a cura di
STRANO NETWORK
con la collaborazione di
Le Nozze di Figaro, Controradio, Museo Pecci di Prato, Il Cappellaio Matto,
Teatro Studio di Scandicci
"MP3 contest 2001" � la terza edizione di un concorso a premi per musica
realizzata in formato mp3 della durata massima di due minuti fatta
pervenire gratuitamente attraverso i canali internet e quindi fatta
ascoltare e giudicata da un pubblico presente sia fisicamente al Parterre a
Firenze (una delle principali piazze dell'estate fiorentina), che
virtualmente attraverso internet, giovedi' 6 settembre 2001.
Le votazioni saranno effettuate attraverso la somma dei voti ottenuti
tramite:
- - alzata di mano del pubblico presente al Parterre.
- - votazione tramite chat in internet:
canale IRC: #mp3C01
nel server di IRCnet: irc.ircd.it
Diretta audio dell'evento su Controradio.
Streaming audio dei brani musicali in internet al sito:
www.mp3contest.org
Premi per i primi tre classificati (il primo vincera' un lettore di musica
MP3).
Promozione della manifestazione attraverso differenti media nazionali
prima, durante e dopo l'evento.
Conferenze sulla tecnologia e le problematiche dell'mp3, prima e dopo il
concorso, con la partecipazione di musicisti ed esperti del settore:
- - Parterre, Firenze, 6 settembre ore 15:
"La rivoluzione MP3: come lo standard MPEG ha modificato il rapporto
audio/rete.", di Captain Swing.
"MP3 e liberta'" di Stefano Sansavini.
- - Museo Pecci, Prato, 11 settembre ore 15:
"MuSE - come crearsi la propria radio in internet", di Jaromil.
- - Le Rampe (un'altra delle principali piazze dell'estate fiorentina),
Firenze, 11 settembre ore 21:
"No copyright e MP3", di Raf Valvola Scelsi.
- - Teatro Studio di Scandicci, ottobre, data e orario da confermare
"MP3 e comunita' virtuali", di Luc Pac
PER PARTECIPARE A MP3 CONTEST 2001:
SPEDISCI -> ENTRO IL 31 LUGLIO 2001 <- IL TUO BRANO MUSICALE
GIA' IN FORMATO MP3 (durata max. 2 minuti)
ALLEGATO AD UNA E-MAIL A:
[email protected]
OPPURE SU CD-ROM (non sono accettati altri supporti) PER POSTA NORMALE A:
Tommaso Tozzi, Via XXIV Maggio 14, 50129, Firenze.
IL BRANO DEVE ESSERE CORREDATO DELLE SEGUENTI INFORMAZIONI:
- - AUTORE (nome vero o pseudonimo), TITOLO, DURATA, INDIRIZZO E TELEFONO
DELL'AUTORE (l'autore potra' anche non essere reperibile ma in tal caso non
potremo spedirgli il premio), INFORMAZIONI VARIE SUL BRANO E SULL'AUTORE
(non obbligatorie, max. 1000 caratteri).
Contatti o informazioni:
Tommaso Tozzi
Presidente Ass. Cult. Strano Network
e-mail: [email protected]
Tel/Fax 055-485996
PRECEDENTI EDIZIONI:
MP3 contest 2001 e' la terza edizione (vedi nota in fondo sulle "precedenti
edizioni") di un evento che l'associazione Strano Network ha ideato e
realizzato con la collaborazione di Le Nozze di Figaro (una ben nota
societ� che organizza concerti in Toscana), Controradio (affermata radio
fiorentina), Dada e Il Cappellaio Matto (nota societ� organizzatrice di
spettacoli ed eventi culturali a Firenze) e che nelle due edizioni
precedenti (1999 e 2000) ha riscosso gi� un buon successo di pubblico sia
dal vivo che in Rete (per informazioni: www.mp3contest.org).
Strano Network � attivo dal 1993 nella promozione di eventi culturali,
conferenze e sperimentazioni artistiche nel settore della comunicazione in
rete.
- - La prima edizione 1999 e' stata organizzata da Strano Network con la
collaborazione de Le Nozze di Figaro, Capellaio Matto, Controradio, Dada,
EXC3SS Project, ristorante pizzeria Toto' dell'anfiteatro e indirettamente
il Comune di Firenze visto che la sede principale della manifestazione si e'
svolta nel Parco delle Cascine e che anche le Rampe di San Niccolo' sono
state date in gestione dal Comune di Firenze.
- - L'edizione 2000 e' stata organizzata da Strano Network con la
collaborazione de Le Nozze di Figaro, Capellaio Matto, Controradio, Dada,
Giuseppe Chiari, Roberta Andreucci, Maurizio Montini, ristorante pizzeria
Toto' dell'anfiteatro e indirettamente il Comune di Firenze visto che la
sede principale della manifestazione si e' svolta nel Parco delle Cascine e
che anche le Rampe di San Niccolo' sono state date in gestione dal Comune di
Firenze.
- - Le due precedenti edizioni si sono svolte all'Anfiteatro delle Cascine,
contemporaneamente a Le Rampe di Porta San Niccolo', in Internet attraverso
chat, collegamenti audio-video e sito web (www.strano.net/mp3)e in diretta
su ControRadio FM 93.6 MHz (98.9 MHz per Pisa e Livorno).
Tra i partecipanti alle precedenti edizioni vi sono stat*:
Giuseppe Chiari, Pietro Grossi, Albert Mayr, Vieri e il Generale, Lapo
Lombardi, Maurizio Montini, Kalo' Daniele, Massimo Mori, Phrax99, MP3 Cake,
AMALASUNTA, A.n.d., LineAGOtica, t0maStiK, massimorumore, Pussymotorino,
Albarthjour floreale, Monow, Mauro Paterlini, Lari Hilenja, Paolo Villani,
Di Ienno Enrico, Max Jacob, Tommaso Tozzi, Steve Rozz, Monologiza, depravo,
Lupone Verde, Marco Manetti, EMPORIO COLONIALE, BURP PUBLICATIONS, BUDINO,
Flora & Fauna,SALDOSUOLO, Riccardo Vaglini, Marcello Aitiani, Marziano
Gianfranco, Fernando Del Regno, Pedale Baroque Records, Alex Skull, Enrico
Santinami, avalava, menticriminali, A.N.D, Deadpeach, Stefano Bassanese,
Leonardo Piperno, Vittorio Merlo, cinu' dei mi.s.fu, vetro dei mi.s.fu.,
pinna dei mi.s.fu., Andrea Venturoli, Enrico Di Ienno (e Max Jacob), Nuked
People, marcocavicchioli, Simone Morgantini, Positive, Carla Faggi, Daniele
Cal� e Daniela Longo, Mayasonic, Oil 13", Colonial Recordings, Box of
Surprises, WJM, Jealousy Party, E. Ricci/E. Sanna, Juglans Regia, Simone
Cocco, EXC3SS Project.
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Tommaso Tozzi
Docente di Teoria e Metodo dei Mass Media, Accademia di Belle Arti di
Carrara
Docente di Teoria e Metodo di Sceneggiatura Multimediale, Master in
Multimedialita', RAI e Universita' di Firenze
Via XXIV Maggio 14, 50129, Firenze, Italia
Tel. 055-485996
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:19:12 +0200
From: NAZI~LINE ~PR <[email protected]>
Subject: NAZI~LINE: program & campaign are hitting a raw nerve in germany
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NAZI~LINE program & campaign are hitting a raw nerve in germany
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vienna/Berlin/Zurich/Sofia, June 13th, 2001
Below you find the latest press release by NAZI~LINE
http://www.naziline.com
You can also find this press release at:
http://www.naziline.com/press_release_14062001.html
German version at:
http://www.naziline.com/press_release_14062001d.html
For further information feel free to
mailto:[email protected]
or in urgent cases call our Hotline in Vienna/Austria:
+43 676 930 00 95
+43 1 968 10 22 [fax]
[~] NAZI~LINE PROGRAM & CAMPAIGN ARE HITTING A RAW NERVE IN GERMANY
The NAZI~LINE INTRO-CAMPAIGN officially started in April 2001, when
ubermorgen.com teamed up with german media artist christoph schlingensief.
He was signed as the media anchor for the NAZI~LINE marketing-campaign
from April to June 2001 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Strong media
coverage and controversial debates over hate crime and/or nationalistic
motivated crime are hitting a raw nerve in the german population.
Primary goals and investments of NAZI~LINE Ltd. are hate crime detection,
prevention, alternative research und information distribution. On the
commercial sector, we offer consulting services to corporations seriously
infected with hate crime. NAZI~LINE asks: "How come your company can
afford hate crime?"
NAZI~LINE Ltd. is a new company initated by the the ubermorgen-network
[ http://www.ubermorgen.com ], the same holding-company that produced the
notorious [V]ote-auction web-site during the U.S. presidential elections in
fall 2000. Our holding's headquarters as well as the fully owned subsidiary
NAZI~LINE Ltd. are based in Sofia/Bulgaria [ubermorgen Ltd.].
read more:
http://www.naziline.com
http://www.naziline.com/campaign
http://www.schlingensief.com
http://www.vote-auction.net
[] NAZI~LINE DESIGNER ASSAULTED AT PUBLIC LECTURE IN VIENNA
In April, the multi-awarded star designers bart-n-lisa.com, who created
the look & feel of the NAZI~LINE web-site received an invitation to hold a
lecture in the reknown viennese art museum "Kunstlerhaus". During their
presentation, NAZI~LINE executives Maria Haas, Hans A. Bernhard, and
bart-n-lisa.com designer Alister P.M. were attacked by an idividual
identified as "Stefan". "Stefan" apparently felt that NAZI~LINE was dis-
honoring nationalism and german 3rd reich values by using its aesthetics
to attract neo-Nazis to the program. NAZI~LINE strongly opposes such acts
of raw violence and whishes to express their deepest regrets for the
interpruption by this obviously psychologically-challenged person.
Strangely, staff members of the Kunstlerhaus, which still serves as a
haven for so-called "Old-Nazis" - they serve in the board of members -
decided to ban NAZI~LINE from their website instead of exploring and
discussing the issue.
Please feel free to look at the footage, provided by an amateur filmer
from the audience [a guest of voortekk.com]: http://www.terrorbyte.net
and read more about this attack under...
http://www.naziline.com/campaign [german only!]
and visit the web-site of the NAZI~LINE star-designers...
http://www.bart-n-lisa.com
[] BEFORE AND AFTER: NEO-NAZIS, SKINHEAD MUSIC AND THE GERMAN "REICHSTAG"
NAZI~LINE casted 6 individuals engaged in the german Neo-Nazi scene
for the play "Hamlet" at the "Schauspielhaus" Theater in Zurich,
Switzerland. Here is a quick overview about what happened to some of
the integrated Neo-Nazis and novice actors since the play opened May 12,
2001 in Zurich:
. Melanie Dittmer - the only woman in the crew - returned to her old
routine, and is back with her former Neo-Nazi gang members. She was
subsequently expelled from the "Hamlet" acting-crew.
. Torsten Lemmer, who controls the largest label for right-wing skinhead
music worldwide, has announced his intention to sell off his majority-
share of the music-company to the german ministery of interiors.
negotiations are said to be underway. The label: http://www.rocknord.de
. Markus Boesfleisch, who is a studied actor, was imprisoned in cologne/
germany on charges of failure to comply with a former court ruling.
. Jan Zobel was kicked out from his ongoing apprenticeship in a
dusseldorf/germany based company. he now moved on to acting as the
leading force behind the founding of an alternative exit-program from
and for neo-Nazis [self-support group].
. Martin Kohlmann was kicked out by his "Hamlet" crew members as they
did not consider his motivation to leave Nazism behind to be sincere.
During their latest media appearances at the german "Reichstag" - the
german parliament - guided by green party member rezzo schlauch and
a dozen camera-teams and news-reporters, and at the press conference
june 12 in zurich, crew members stated that they intend to start their
own program, from and for neo-Nazis willing to leave their communities.
Take a look at the picture of the neo-nazi crew at the Reichstag:
http://www.naziline.com/campaign/press_bilder_BER1.html
See pictures of the neo-Nazis and their short-biographies
http://www.naziline.com/campaign/dienazis.html
[] GERMAN "EXIT"-PROGRAM ATTACKS NAZI~LINE VIA THE MEDIA
As Germany seems to be again falling into the pitfalls of fatally interpreted
patriotism, german minister of interiors, Otto Schily [former laywer
of leftist terror group RAF] gave start to a number of federal, state and
community programs aiming to fight Neo-Nazi movements.
The primary goal of these undisclosed and only vaguely described programs,
namely "RAUS" [german for "get out"], is to use classical FBI-strategies in
order to target Neo-Nazi groups by offering attractive crown witness programs
to key people within those movements. The second most prominent program "EXIT"
was initiated by german yellow-press-magazin "Stern" and former intelligence
officer Bernd Wagner. While both of the above-mentioned programs surely want
to seriously reach out to hate-striken people throughout germany, they
unfortunately fail to clearly differentiate between partners and "the enemy":
NAZI~LINE received legal threats by "EXIT" ordering NAZI~LINE to refrain
from mentioning EXIT within their link list. Additionally we have trustworthy
information that "EXIT" has put enormous pressure on small grassroots
organisations such as "WEISSE ROSE DUESSELDORF", in order to avoid their
cooperation with the NAZI~LINE campaign.
Furthermore, the .gov funded RAUS program and their federal and state units
are surfing our web-site day in, day out, trying to find how to legally stop
NAZI~LINE from operating its online services.
http://www.weisse-rose.org
http://www.exit-deutschland.de
http://www.bpb.de
http://www.bmi.bund.de
[~] THE NAZI~LINE CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND
Our european NAZI~LINE ad-campaign intendes to establish the brand
NAZI~LINE within a broad audience. The overwhelming success of the
campaign proofs NAZI~LINE's ideas of artistic and alternative
methods to be a most viable mean of targeting classic taboo issues.
The NAZI~LINE campaign integrated neo-nazis economically by providing
jobs to individuals ready to leave their old world of useless hate
behind. The pilot-project "HAMLET" has recruited 6 neo-Nazis to play
in Shakespears "Hamlet", directed by Christoph Schlingensief.
"..Schlingensief, known for his political incorrectness.. who misses no
opportunity to portray how politics and life are intertwined..."
NZZ, april 2001 http://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss_week/2001/april.html
The NAZI~LINE campaign site has so far gathered around 2.5 Mio Visits
and a registered community of about 17.000 users within the months
April to June 2001. Over 500 News-features [TV, Radio, Online, and
Print] in Europe resulted in a massive media surface. Journalists
in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, but also The Netherlands, Spain,
Denmark, Russia, and France have covered the story since.
The german campaign web-site:
http://www.naziline.com/campaign
The european press-coverage:
http://www.naziline.com/press_archive.html
[~] THE CAMPAIGN TIMELINE; ACTIONS & TOPICS:
10.1.2001 ~ Founding of NAZI~LINE ltd., Sofia/Bulgarien, the operational
company running the program and consulting services NAZI~LINE.
Fully owned by ubermorgen Ltd., the sofia-based holding-corp.
17.1.2001 ~ Swiss nationalistic Party "SVP" initiates parliamentary
session regarding the play "Hamlet" as the party expected riots
in Zurich and thusly requested a clear positioning of the City-
Government of Zurich/Switzerland.
30.1.2001 ~ Corporate Web-Site ONLINE [www.naziline.com]
10.4.2001 ~ Official start NAZI~LINE - THE CAMPAIGN in Zurich/Switzerland
15.4.2001 ~ Campaign Web-Site ONLINE [www.naziline.com/campaign]
16.4.2001 ~ Neo-Nazi casting for "Hamlet" in Berlin, Zurich and Vienna
20.4.2001 ~ NAZI~LINE billboard-distributor shot down with a gas-pistol
in Zurich, NAZI~LINE and Schauspielhaus Zurich employees
receive serious death-threats via cellphones, snail mail/email
25.4.2001 ~ Neo-Nazis arrive in Zurich, public reception with music and
press-conference in Zurich main-station
29.4.2001 ~ The aussault on NAZI~LINE designers in Vienna/Austria
Apr.2001 ~ Hamlet/Schlingensief Street-Action-Theater, NAZI~LINE collects
signatures in the streets of Zurich to ban SVP [Swiss
Peoples Party] and ZSC [Zurich Ice-Hockey Club]:
http://www.naziline.com/campaign/press_bilder_ZH1.html
http://www.naziline.com/campaign/press_bilder_ZH2.html
12.5.2001 ~ PREMIERE/OPENING of "Hamlet" play in Zurich. pictures here:
http://www.naziline.com/campaign/press_bilder_ZH3.html
16.5.2001 ~ .gov programs "EXIT" and "RAUS" publicly attack NAZI~LINE
22.5.2001 ~ Guestplay "Hamlet" in Berlin, Panel-Discussion with german
politicians, "ex"-neo-Nazi T. Lemmer announces the offer to
sell his skin-music label to German Ministery of the Interiors
23.5.2001 ~ "Hamlet" neo-Nazis visit the German Parliament in Berlin,
along with top-politicians, intelligence agents and journalists
12.6.2001 ~ Press-conference of Neo-Nazi actors in Zurich, announcing
their own exit-program
[~] NAZI~LINE PROGRAM TALKS DIRECTLY TO HATE-CRIME INFECTED COMPANIES
How come your company can afford hate crime?
NAZI~LINE consults companies in fighting hate crime and related
economic problems. NAZI~LINE is working on both sides of the problem:
We offer online-programs for infected companies, helping them find
out about their risks and money losses. NAZI~LINE invests into
education and integration and offers add-on services such as
psychological and medical treatment of Neo-Nazis and hate criminals.
We offer classic consulting services in the area of corporate
troublemakers and criminal employees to companies and managers ready
to increase revenues by carefully identifying troublemakers within
their organizations.
Large scaled companies as well as small family businesses have to look
for rising profits in order to maintain a healthy economic position in
their respective markets. But what to do, if your community and therefore
your company becomes infected with hate crime and its ugly side-effects?
One solution, taken by most big corporations, is to move one's
business to another place, where hate crime is either not as apparant
or being taken care of in a serious, preventional manner. However,
this step, clearly deteriorates an already critical situation in
hate crime affected areas.
Solution number two [staying and "fighting"] can seem like more work,
but creates more flexibilty on the side of the company. Companies in
hate-crime infected areas can receive public funding, improve their
image, can influence municipial politics and rocket themselves into
the hearts of small-towners and urban communities.
International corporations as well as individual victims are kindly
asked to register: http://www.naziline.com/report.html
For information on our consulting services, issues regarding hate
crime and indepth-reports, please visit:
http://www.naziline.com
[~] EUROPE FALLS BEHIND: HATE CRIME AS A NON-EXISTENT TERM IN GERMANY
Hate crime and Neo-Nazism can affect the growth and prosperity of companies
and economic networks throughout the whole world! The most recent and most
prominent example for the western world has been the wave of war and crime
throughout the Balkans.
Whereas in the United States the term "hate crime" has been recognized as a
unique form of criminal act since the 1950's, european initiatives and
politicians still focus on neo-nazistic issues and groups. the European
Union [EU] stricly negates hate crime as a phenomenon. Thus, hate crimes are
being viewed not as an act against human core values, but the classic
xenophobic motives are being transformed into extremist political
(non-)values.
Economic downturn becomes a political issue, and communities, families, and
individuals worldwide are the victims of the daily racist, sexist, and
homophobic crimes. a party to the battle which is often being totally forgot
about is the company - employing those who commit hate crimes or even
committing hate crimes themselves - and the impact of hate criminals on
infected companies.
Companies are losing money as we speak because of employees or owners filled
by hatred and prejudice. These costs include huge marketing and image costs
directly caused by harmful communication undertaken by hateful employees.
[~] GET ALL THE FACTS VIA OUR OR RELATED WEBSITES
Corporate Site: http://www.naziline.com
Campaign Site: http://www.naziline.com/campaign
Press-archive: http://www.naziline.com/press_archive.html
Press-pictures: http://www.naziline.com/campaign/press_bilder.html
FBI Press: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/ronn.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/infragard.htm
EU Papers: http://www.europarl.eu.int/workingpapers/libe/102/text3_en.htm
In-depth: http://www.naziline.com/indepth_incidents.html
Partners: http://www.naziline.com/indepth_partners.html
For the friendly support, NAZI~LINE would like to thank its core-partners:
SILVER SERVER, .VOORTEKK, schlingensief.com, bmdi.de, esof ltd,
/DEPARTMENT, MAZZOTTI ACTION, textz.com, VOLKSBUEHNE BERLIN, WEISSE ROSE
for the NAZI~LINE team
maria e. haas hans a. bernhard dr. a. bichlbauer
CEO ubermorgen press-speaker NAZI~LINE campaign-coordinator
[email protected]
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