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Table of Contents: another hot weekend @ playground festival in stralsund garage <[email protected]> "Frozen White" at the ICA David Mandl <[email protected]> TOKYO ART JUNGLE "press@2dk" <[email protected]> I, ROBOT (PHASE ONE) - 20th-25th August 2002 Mark Godber <[email protected]> >> i n f o m e r a "|||| | ||| |||||||| ||" <[email protected]> GOLEM FROM PRAGUE: Michael Bielicky tonight at 34k Manuel Bonik <[email protected]> PLUG_AND_PLAY - 18th AUGUST @ PUBLICLIFE "plug and play" <[email protected]> COLLOQUIUM ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND MORAL COMMUNITY: MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS AND Nicholas Kiersey <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:19:00 +0200 From: garage <[email protected]> Subject: another hot weekend @ playground festival in stralsund play>>rules>>principles 3rd weekend of the festival playground/garage stralsund germany >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> th 08.08.02 > Deterritoriale Schlingen (sound installation. Thom Kubli/Sven Mann. K�ln) > Flaming Vacuuum Cleaners - Don't play with fire! (Staalplaat Soundsystem) fr 09.08.02 > slap the spider (video installation. Bauhaus Kolleg Dessau) > thilges 3 (Wien) play audio golf through the town sa 10.08.02 > relay - 12 musicians/performers - 3 places - constant movement >(concept: John Bisset) su 11.08.02 > public playground - playgrounds of arts (panel discussion) > Armchair Traveller (Berlin) - unusual instruments, special playing techniques details: 08 august 02 -- speicher 9 -- 21:00 > Deterritoriale Schlingen (Thom Kubli, Sven Mann. K�ln) Sound Installtion A sound space stretched by 11 transmitters that dynamically form loops (Schlingen). These structures are perpetually generated in real time and are broadcast via short-range FM radio to cheap commercial pocket radios and ghettoblasters. followed by open air > Flaming Vacuum Cleaners - Don't play with fire! (Bastiaan Maris, >Geert-Jan Hobijn. Berlin) The fascination of fire as material for performances Bastiaan Maris is a Dutch inventor of "chemo-acoustic" instruments, a musician and installation artist residing in Berlin. Bastiaan is an artist engaged in the process of engineering and operating unique industrial instruments to create original scores of music and site specific installations. The chemo-acoustic organs redefine industrial music with a blast of flaming propane gas. The instruments are usually played via PowerBooks and a MIDI keyboard and drumpads. The computers generate the background rhythm, while the MIDI signals control the gas valves and igniters. Geert-Jan Hobijn, founder of the Staalplaat Amsterdam as well as of the Staalplaat Soundsystem. Staalplaat is a forum for sound artists, an international network for the intercultural exchange of ideas and label. Staalplaat's strategy is to invest in the future by stimulating new sounds, establishing and supporting new routes, connecting artists with new improvisational themes and experimental music ideas, the exchange and exploration of different meta musical concepts and thus expanding the boundaries of what we call "music". The Staalplaat Soundsystem is a group of sound activists creating "musique korrekt" with the everyday tools that surround us and putting them into the form of orchestras and installations. They see themselves as reinterpreters of modern sound installation tradition and use the constructive elements of sound-art combined with the dynamics of DJ culture. The Staalplaat Soundsystem's content is a modern, dilettantish audio collage sound work show and is often performed with self-built, customized tools. Maris and Hobijn will organize for Stralsund an Open Air for chemo-acoustic organs and 100 vacuum cleaners. http://www.staalplaat.com http://www.lhpo.org/ http://www.chemo-acoustic.org/ 09 august 02 -- garage -- 21:00 > Thilges3 (Austria) Thilges3s mission is the acoustic introduction of public places, museums, galleries, A goal crystalizes which represents a questioning of fixed values or truths and their origins. These principles stood behind the performance Paradox in Vienna and the installation Johanna in Munich (in cooperation with the German artists M&M) facts are presented in a twisted manner to stimulate discussion. In Paradox for example, which was held in the facilities of the MAK, Thilges3 collaborates with a military brass band. It goes without mentioning that this is a rather unconventional and unexpected combination, however content-wise it turns into a quite interesting meeting. Artists, listeners and organizers at Paradox find themselves confronted with their social opposites in one kind of a melting pot. For Thilges3 aesthetic perfection becomes crucial at that point to provide a well-connecting element for the opposite types of music, as well as the adequate visual presentation of their works. The outcome of such attempts naturally depends on the existing conditions of the event location, which ideally would be a public or semi-public place. Such working-conditions confront Thilges3 with completely new challenges each time, for they have to consider not only the potential audience and their realities but also the given event location. The concept of entertainment loses its innocence when exposed to such play with expectations, attitudes and contradictions, which this artistic form of expression involves. Thilges3 works exclusively with modular analogue synthesizers to create and process their unique sounds. The flexible employment of such machinery provides opportunities for dynamic moments, which lay beyond any known MIDI limitations. By constantly modifying the configurations of the modules new ideas are created incessantly and simple sound creation seems surpassed on many levels. It has been through this method of working the modules that Thilges3 developed their famous quadrophonic play (O). One characteristic element of Thilges3 and introduction of completely opposite groups of interest which leads to fascinating blends of target audiences and has conventional entertainment expectations come tumbling down. Once again, the connecting element becomes Thilges3s musical intelligence, as well as a pinch of fine irony. Tolerance finds its place between the usually (by choice) separated groups of people by accepting and exploring the given confrontation, as well as close observation and analysis of their surroundings.To document the continuity of their works, each event is recorded and archived. Thilges 3 will golf with analogue synthesizers through the town of Stralsund. The three Austrians will choose spontaneously interesting places in the town area as goals. Those places will be reproduced acoustically (Thilges 3 wearing golf suits) and then met with several concerts of the just produced sounds. The single sounds will be recorded and eventually presented in a final concert. http://www.thilges.at > slap the spider (Installation by Bauhaus Kolleg. Dessau) Slap the Spider combines in a game setup, elements of traditional videogames with physical workout. When climbing a wall, players have to slap objects left by moving characters, scoring points and having fun while improve their climbing skills. The climbing wall is a super sized screen where a beamer displays the "spiders" to be slept by the players. They are supposed to move around the wall trying to slap the most spiders they can in the meantime they still can resist the effort. Currently 3 different game levels exist in which different types of tasks have to be performed. http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/slap-the-spider 10 august 02 -- garage speicher tischlerei -- 20:00 >relay concept: John Bisset duration: 3 hours John Bisset (London) - guitar Michael Renkel (Berlin) - guitar Jim Denley (Sydney) - flutes, saxophone Andrea Ermke (Berlin) - sampler Burkhard Beins (Berlin) - percussion Kai Fagaschinski (Berlin) - clarinette Sebastian Hilken (Berlin) - cello Silvia Ocougne (Berlin) - string instruments Werner Durand (Berlin) - wind instruments Wieland (Stralsund) - percussion Wulf Beck (Berlin) - guitar Thomas Ankersmit (Berlin) - saxophone Since 1993, Bisset has been organising Relay, an annual event, with 3 venues and 12 musicians rotating through the venues in randomly determined combinations such that the number playing at each venue is always the same: when one arrives, another must leave. http://www.atlanticwaves.org.uk/John%20Bisset.htm 11 august 02 -- speicher am katharinenberg -- 14:00 > public playground -- playgrounds of art panel discussion Art historians, sociologists, game developer, game experts, media theorists, artists and networkers discuss play and game in the context of art and culture. For one day lectures, project presentations, workshop results and experiences of the previous festival weeks are on the schedule. The audience is invited to participate in an open discussion. with: Barbara Barthelmes, Musicologist and Cultural Scientist, Publicist, Berlin http://www.positionen-bznm.de/ Konrad Becker (Austria) Artist, curator, organizer, publicist and producer in the field of electronic media. He is chairman of the Institute for New Culture Technologies, head of public netbase/t0 and founder of world-information.org. http://www.t0.or.at Sabine Breitsameter (Berlin) Radio author, -producer and curator. She is specialized in avantgarde acoustic art forms. She is curator of international events on the topics �hearing� and �acoustic media art� and she also presents a radio show on SWR 2 - AudioHyperspace - which has a focus on soundart in the internet. http://www.swr2.de/audiohyperspace/index.html Volker Grassmuck (Berlin) Sociologist, publicist and information scientist. Co-founder of the berlin based media platform micro.org and organizer of the conference "wizards of OS". http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ re-p/m.ash/unrast (Austria) Vienna based artist group re-p/m.ash/unrast (Maia Gusberti, Michael Aschauer, Sepp Deinhofer, Nik Th�nen). Invited to the festival with their project ./Logicaland. http://www.logicaland.net http://www.re-p.org Sven Mann / Thom Kubli (Cologne) Invited to the festival with their sound installation "Deterritoriale Schlingen". Alexej Paryla (Berlin) Stage designer and video artist, invited with his project "2,3+12". Time's Up (Austria) Lab for the construction of experimental situations from Linz. Invited with their project "sonic pong" to the festival. http://www.timesup.org/ 11 august 02 -- speicher -- 21:00 > Armchair Traveller (Berlin) Silvia Ocougne - placked + hammered and e-bowed guitars + string instruments Hella von Ploetz - glassharp Werner Durand - traditional + invented wind instruments Sebastian Hilken - cello + frame drums + metal percussion Nowadays, the music of foreign lands and peoples arrives postpaid from a plug in the wall: World Music! World Music? Under this handy label, a strategic marketing battle cry against the tired body of pop and classical music of Euroland and the North American continent, sickly-sweet pablums in sundry flavors are concocted from all kinds of exotic ingredients that are combined, congealed in a sticky synthetic digital sauce, decorated on top with colorful bits of samples - and served ready-to-hear. Why understand, when you can just enjoy; why differentiate more precisely where the musical properties come from? Why learn more about the original music - its cultural contexts, its peoples, places and rites - when it is enough merely to cleverly arrange the exotic sounds in a way that provides the largest screen for projections of wanderlust, and so satisfies our longing for ostensibly authentic foreign elements. But don't let them get too close, if you please! ArmChair Traveller plays it inside out, twists the facts, and so perhaps finally brings forth the real, authentic, ethnic music of our time. It is real, because everything about it is unreal; it is authentic, since it has just been totally invented. But it sounds archaic because it has been created by musicians who have developed specific playing techniques, mostly on their own, for handmade instruments built from everyday materials and for conventional instruments they have specially prepared. It is ethnic because chance providentially brought these musicians together at the same time in a big city like Berlin - metropolitan centers have become homelands for quasi-ethnic groups. Armchair Traveller's music always sounds somewhat �as if�, it denies its ancestry by not denying it; it plays with exotic atmospheres, but always conditioned by multiple refractions, like billiard balls caroming off the cushions. The individual pieces, imaginally located on various meridians of the globe, sound like tribal music that somehow is simultaneously experimental and (post)industrial. Much of it sounds electronic, but everything is acoustic. Sebastian Hilken's cello, bristling with paper clips, sounds like a Mbira, the African thumb-piano. Werner Durand auditorially transforms his PVC tubes, with their plastic bag membranes and saxophone mouthpieces, into a drill. Hella von Ploetz rubs the glass rods of her glass harp with water, or bows the metal sheet that serves as its resonance board, eliciting sounds that evoke the mirage-like foghorn of an ocean steamer deep in the desert, or the trumpeting of elephants. Silvia Ocougne plays every possible variant of guitar and modified guitar - tiny children's guitars, samba guitars, and a guitar strung with crossed strings that sounds like no guitar one has ever heard before. An Indian Tambura is played like a Brazilian Berimbao; the embouchures used for the Arabic and Iranian Ney are applied to PVC tubes. Flower pots and aluminum pizza pans also acquire a voice. The instruments start to sound so different that you can no longer tell them apart. And so, Laos and Sao Paolo, Patagonia and Portsmouth, Ghana and Gera meet musically in the homey family room, which projects the exotic fantasies back upon itself. Travellers in their armchairs discover -at once alienated and fascinated - the foreignness in themselves. Hindustry! (Matthias Osterwold) - -- garage - festival for art, music and film ||||||||||||||| playground |||||||||||||||| 26 july - 17 august 2002 stralsund http://www.garage-g.de [email protected] +49 (0)30 4412015 +49 (0)3831 298429 how to get there: mapblast: http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/map.mb?CMD=LFILL&IC=54.31576:13.09113:8:&CT=54.31576:13.09113:1000000&GAD3=STRALSUND&GAD4=Germany&W=456&H=259&AD3=stralsund&AD4=DEU&LV=8 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: David Mandl <[email protected]> Subject: "Frozen White" at the ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1. Tube: Piccadilly Circus/Charing Cross. Tickets and Information 020-7930 3647. www.ica.org.uk 6, 7 & 8 September 2002 at 8pm Produced and directed by Stan Wijnans, "Frozen White" is a technically elaborate mixed media performance which addresses states of being and becoming: what would happen if people incarcerated in medical institutions were suddenly able to control a liberating technology? Against a stunning video backdrop dancers emerge from comatose rigidity to a state of utter abandon, shadowed by a restless musical improvisation. Utilising the Soundbeam Ultralight Sensor System the dancers colour and influence the live music and determine its atmosphere. Their dramatic ascent into consciousness is both uncanny and ecstatic - and their increasingly assured grip on the mechanisms of control offers a fascinating study of empowerment. Presented by London Musicians' Collective With dancers Julia Clarke and Gabriela Solini; musicians Gail Brand (trombone), Rhodri Davies (harp) and Stvee Noble (percussion); Anne Nigten (video); Nick Rothwell (computer programming); and Stan Wijnans: sound effect design, video, mixdown. PLUS Electronic sound artist Phil Durrant and dancer Sophia Lycouris build a palpably architectural environment in "building". Through dynamic interaction and intricate improvisation, they erect an edifice with the beguiling allure of a mirage glimpsed through a desert storm. With Phil Durrant (laptop, live processing) and Sophia Lycouris (movement, video). Performance: �10, �9 concs, �8 ICA Members and "A week to view" open rehearsals (Frozen White only): 2 - 5 September 2002, 10am-6pm Free with ICA membership. - --------------------------------------------- London Musicians' Collective Limited 3.6 Lafone House, 11-13 Leathermarket Street, London SE1 3HN Tel: 020 7403 1922 Fax: 020 7403 1880 http://www.l-m-c.org.uk Registered charity number 290236 - --------------------------------------------- Are you tuned to Resonance 104.4 FM? http://www.resonancefm.com - --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:49:16 +0900 From: "press@2dk" <[email protected]> Subject: TOKYO ART JUNGLE Please find information on a large-scale "experiential" contemporary art exhibition, Tokyo Art Jungle (Building as a Magazine), curated by David d'Heilly: http://www.2dk-taj.net For further information please contact [email protected] Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:57:18 +0100 From: Mark Godber <[email protected]> Subject: I, ROBOT (PHASE ONE) - 20th-25th August 2002 - ------------------------------------------------------------------ I, ROBOT (PHASE ONE) - ------------------------------------------------------------------- An intelligent telerobotic installation by James Coupe In collaboration with Hedley Roberts and John Williamson I, ROBOT (PHASE ONE) Wednesday 20th - Sunday 25th August 2002 Open 6pm-9pm Wed-Fri; Midday-6pm Sat & Sun Opening Event: 6pm-9pm Wednesday 20th August - Arts Caf�, Toynbee Studios Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6LS, UK Toynbee Studios nearest tube: Aldgate East - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Telerobotics makes it possible to represent oneself in remote places through a network. But how do others know that the robot is operated by a real person? And how do we know that the robot is representing the world accurately back to us? I, Robot is a new art project that explores artificial intelligence, physical computing and remote control. It is an installation consisting of a social network of robots, live video streams and genetic algorithms. For three weeks in August, Artsadmin will host I, Robot. This will culminate in a five-day exhibition, where visitors will have the opportunity to compete to parent robots and remotely participate in the robots' evolution within a sealed environment. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ James Coupe is an artist who works with installation, electronics and digital media. Recent projects have focused upon the creation of viral systems, networked communities, remote control and tele-operative structures. Two installations (Digital Warfare Network Project Phase One and Digital Warfare Network Project Phase Two) have explored the relationship between the individual body and total digital system. These installations allow people to remotely control physical devices connected to a computer network. "The DWN project was initially inspired by my experience of digital technologies combined with the spatial awareness my sculpture projects provided. I had been interested in aesthetics of disappointment, failures of perception, massive scale projects that could not be experienced as a whole. Kant's description of the sublime as a conflict between our ability to conceive something and our ability to present something was important. I am interested in exploring unpresentable excesses which can only be represented partially at best, making the notion of a 'beautiful' expression of it difficult if not impossible." "Digital Warfare Network (Project Phase Two)" was selected for "New Contemporaries 2001", and exhibited at Camden Arts Centre. In 2002 he received an Artsadmin Artists' Bursary, for which he has created a new installation, "I, Robot (Phase One)", which employs genetic algorithms to create a remote controlled robot ecosystem. "I, Robot" will also be presented at the forthcoming ISEA 2002 in Japan. Future projects include work with mobile positioning systems, satellites and artificial intelligence. He has a degree in Fine Art from Edinburgh University and an MA in Creative Technology from Salford University. He is currently lecturer in Digital Art at London College of Music and Media, a Faculty of Thames Valley University. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about the event, contact Mark Godber at Artsadmin: 020 7247 5102 / [email protected] This project, as part of the Artsadmin Artists' Bursary Scheme, is supported by the Arts Council of England, CIDA, Creative People, the Esm�e Fairbairn Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and London Arts. It is also financially supported by the London College of Music and Media, a Faculty of Thames Valley University. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:31:56 -0300 From: "|||| | ||| |||||||| ||" <[email protected]> Subject: >> i n f o m e r a infomera.net champions of the WWW present> an online ephemeral match enconstruccion.org VS no-content.net mario garcia constructor from enconstruccion.org from mexico with 27 years and 3 in the professional league influenced by siqueiros, carrion and the construction workers will try to certificate in a programming castigate style combat vs brian mackern no-content.net from montevideo uruguay aka vibri , zigurat99 psycho-byte influenced by las ensenanzas de don juan humito ,bily holliday thelonius monk will use ( depending on ram ) his nubes aleatorias,data-overflow-ascii and chamanic interferences in a blend of tao and rads technique 13 -14 agosto online at http://www.infomera.net/ enconstruccion.org VS no-content.net they will destroy . create . transform a massive info manipulation combat unique no-database no-rules opn ftp access found about their challenges at : http://www.museotamayo.org/inmerso/infomera/batallas/enconstruccionVSnoscont ent.htm collect the player cards > biographical info ( plus ) an exclusive interview www.enconstruccion.org http://www.museotamayo.org/inmerso/infomera/playercards/MARIO.htm www.no-content.net http://www.museotamayo.org/inmerso/infomera/playercards/brian.htm http://www.museotamayo.org/infomera cyberlounge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:23:30 +0200 From: Manuel Bonik <[email protected]> Subject: GOLEM FROM PRAGUE: Michael Bielicky tonight at 34k travellab welcomes you to GOLEM FROM PRAGUE a media lecture by Michael Bielicky Special guest: video artist Anu Pennanen from Helsinki. Tonight, Wednesday, August 14 2002, at 9 pm. 34k Kastanienallee 34 10435 Berlin contact phone: Berlin 4490705 and 0160-99018889 - ------ Michael Bielicky was born in Prague in 1954 and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1969. In 1984 he began studying at the Art Academy in D�sseldorf, where he became a master-class pupil of Nam June Paik. He graduated from the Art Academy in 1987 and then worked as an assistant to Nam June Paik. In 1991, Bielicky founded the Department for New Media at the Art Academy in Prague, where he has been a professor and director of the same department since 1995. In addition to this, he is an adviser for the European Council for Culture and Technology. He has been involved in numerous German and international exhibitions and projects. To mention but a few: Bielicky's art was displayed in the Red Salon of the People's Theatre (Volksb�hne), Berlin in 1993 and he was a guest artist at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe (1999/2000). His video sculpture >Manorah< is permanently installed at the Jewish Museum Berlin. He is also an advising professor for travellab's ICECA (Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts), Chiang Mai, Thailand. - ------ Anu Pennanen born 1975 Kirkkonummi Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Studies: Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Media Art Department, MA -studies 2001- Turku Polytechnics, Arts and Media Department 1996-2000 Nordic School of Art 1994-1995. Solo Exhibitions: >Detached< (4min12sec/16 mm film) and >The Walker< (videoinstallation) will be installed as DVD-loops in solo exhibition at Gallery Lontar in Jakarta Indonesia from the 7 - 20 .6.2002. The exhibition is connected to an exhibition of Finnish video art. I participate the group show with video >Laws of Drama<. >I traded my safety for the glass beads of fantasy<, a 3-week videoinstallation with the presence of a performer. BA-diploma work exhibition at gallery Just, Turku 14-29.4.2000. Film screenings: >Detached< at gallery Muu, Helsinki. >Detached< will be broadcasted at Finnish Television channel YLE TV 1 during Spring 2003. - -- Manuel Bonik <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:11:09 +0100 From: "plug and play" <[email protected]> Subject: PLUG_AND_PLAY - 18th AUGUST @ PUBLICLIFE - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------ PLUG AND PLAY SUNDAY 18th AUGUST @ PUBLICLIFE ///////////////////////PLUG/ //////////////////////AND// /////////////////////PLAY/ http://www.gabba.net/pnp/ //////////////////////// /////////////////////// ////////////////////// ///////////////////// //////////////////// /////////////////// ////////////////// ///////////////// //////////////// /////////////// - -------------- - -Sunday 18th/ - -AUGUST/ - -2000002/ - -@ PublicLife/ - -outsideSpitalfieldsChurch/ - -82a.Commercial.st/ - -E1.London/ - -6PM till later/ - -ENTRY FREE/ - -------------- - -------------- OPEN_SOURCE event = bring data/ bring laptop/tech/ - -------------- ////////////PLUG ///////////it in //////////PLAY - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------ Plug and Play is a monthly London art/music 'event' anyone can come along and PLUG in their laptops, or any other a/v technology and PLAY music or visuals they have made, whatever..... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://www.gabba.net/pnp - event info ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://www.gabba.net/bluescreen - message boards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://www.gabba.net/amp - MP3s for the download ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:09:41 -0400 From: Nicholas Kiersey <[email protected]> Subject: COLLOQUIUM ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND MORAL COMMUNITY: MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS *** PLEASE CIRCULATE *** A CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS COLLOQUIUM ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND MORAL COMMUNITY: MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORED BY: THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AFFAIRS AND PLANNING, VIRGINIA TECH SEPTEMBER 26-28 HOTEL ROANOKE ROANOKE, VIRGINIA The Virginia Tech Departments of Political Science and of Urban Affairs and Planning will be conducting a workshop colloquium on ACCOUNTABILITY AND MORAL COMMUNITY: MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, under the auspices of a Virginia Tech ASPIRES faculty research grant. Scholars and policy practitioners interested in submitting papers and who are invited to participate will receive an honorarium of between $500.00-$1500.00 in addition to their lodging and food during the conference. All proceedings will be conducted in the historic Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia, situated in the heart of the beautiful Blueridge Mountains. The colloquium begins with a welcome dinner on Thursday, September 26th and will run through Friday and Saturday morning. The co-chairs of the colloquium are Professor Edward Weisband, Department of Political Science, and Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech. Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be edited and assembled for purposes of publication. The colloquium is designed to examine the theory and practice of accountability in multilateral and civil society organizations. Papers will focus on the following: - - Theoretical perspectives, analytical definitions, and conceptual frameworks pertaining to accountability systems in and among multilateral institutions and civil society organizations; - - Normative perspectives on the relationship between accountability, ethical practice and moral community; limitations of and social concerns about accountability, particularly in relation to organizational and institutional performance, effectiveness and responsibility; - - Policy and comparative analyses of programmatic and practical mechanisms and procedures adopted by a broad range of actors that apply standards of accountability. Prospective participants are cordially invited to contact Mr. Nicholas Kiersey, the administrative coordinator of the colloquium for further information. - ------------------------------------------------ from Nicholas J. Kiersey PhD student Department of Political Science VPI&SU phone: (540) 998-1218 email: [email protected] ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]