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Table of Contents: An Evening with Carey Young, MoMa, Monday January 27 "geert lovink" <[email protected]> jihui Digital Salon presents Perry Hoberman z <[email protected]> FILE 2003- electronic language international festival "file 2003" <[email protected]> Infrastructures of Digital Design - Graduate Conference - Immediate Release [email protected] =?iso-8859-1?Q?V2=5F/DEAF03:_=91Exhibition_=91Data_Knitting_?= - From =?iso-88 Marjolein Berger <[email protected]> ART FILM -- by Chris Murray [email protected] V2/DEAF: Subject: WOSEMA - Workshops/Seminars/Masterclasses Marjolein Berger <[email protected]> Chicago: illegal art film and video festival "geert lovink" <[email protected]> \international\media\art\award 2003 : call for submissions -- Petra Kaiser <[email protected]> ART, STORYTELLING, AND THE FIVE SENSES Diane Ludin <[email protected]> Video "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Disobbedienti=22?=: upcoming presentations / aktuelle Vor Oliver Ressler <[email protected]> Rhizome.org Benefit February 25 From: nettime's_roving_reporter <[email protected]> BitParts Digital Art Festival [email protected] ART IN OUTPUT 2003: lost and found "adriaaN" <[email protected]> FreeNetworks Conference 2003 "geert lovink" <[email protected]> Press Release - MasterPlan "Le Musee di-visioniste" <[email protected]> BANQUETE =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=2D?= international traveling exhibition Oliver Ressler <[email protected]> BANQUETE - international traveling exhibition "geert lovink" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:07:15 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]> Subject: An Evening with Carey Young, MoMa, Monday January 27 From: "Intern3, Film" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:40 AM Subject: MediaScope: An Evening with Carey Young -- Monday January 27 MoMA at The Gramercy Theatre presents MediaScope Monday, January 27, 8:30 An Evening with Carey Young (Great Britain/USA) The London-based artist Carey Young infiltrates the inner workings of the multinational corporation, adopting its language, codes, and tools in order to reflect on ideas of identity, strategy, and progress. Young will discuss works made in a variety of physical and electronic mediums, including her recent performance-based videos Everything You've Heard Is Wrong (1999) and I Am a Revolutionary (2001). Program approx. 90 min. Upcoming MediaScope Programs: An Evening with Przemyslaw "Shemie" Reut (New York) Monday, February 10, 8:15 An Evening with Miranda July (Portland, Oregon) Monday, February 24, 8:15 An Evening with Piotr Wyrzyrowski (Gdansk/Kiev) Monday, March 24, 8:15 MoMA at The Gramercy Theatre 127 East 23 Street at Lexington Avenue For ticket information: <http://moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/index.html> SUBWAY: 6 to 23 Street BUSES: M23 to Lexington Avenue; M1 to Park Avenue and 23 Street; M101, M102, M103 to Third Avenue and 23 Street ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:20:13 -0500 From: z <[email protected]> Subject: jihui Digital Salon presents Perry Hoberman jihui Digital Salon presents Perry Hoberman Friday, January 31, 2003 7 PM @ Parsons Center for New Design 55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl. New York, NY 10011 Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST. Perry Hoberman will be discussing his current exhibition at Postmasters Gallery. In this exhibition, Hoberman tackles one of our current dilemmas: in a world of ever-increasingly "powerful" media technologies, our own power to creatively make use these technologies is under constant threat on a variety of fronts. Restrictions and surveillance are being hard-coded into the hardware, software and networks we use daily in a process that seems determined to make us little more than fodder for an ever-more-profitable army of passive and fearful consumers. Several works satirize the endless attempts to price and profit from what has become known as "intellectual property" - a term that emphasizes ownership above all. A series of prints is based on the ubiquitous dialog boxes that appear whenever we open, save, close, delete, or do anything at all with the files on our computers. Another series of prints consist of superimposed images of every spam email message that Hoberman received over a given period of time, in an attempt to visualize the increasing onslaught of unsolicited advertising and to transform an utterly debased form of communication into something beautiful. Several works deal with iconography of the All-Seeing Eye, recently repurposed as the symbol of John Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness System," thus shifting its meaning from a suggestion of divine omniscience to a more earthbound ideal of total surveillance. Perry Hoberman is one of the pioneers of new media art, having addressed the form, content and social implications of media technology for over twenty years. During that time, he has exhibited internationally, with major shows throughout the USA and Europe. His work is currently on view in the "Future Cinema" exhibition at the ZKM Center for New Media in Karlsruhe. Hoberman has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is both a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Art Fellow. jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc. jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared. jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org), a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:02:15 +0000 From: "file 2003" <[email protected]> Subject: FILE 2003- electronic language international festival The FILE 2003- electronic language international festival is now open for new registrations: http://www.file.org.br/file2003ins/english/inscricoes.htm This year the FILE 2003 electronic language international festival is launching a new project, the FILE HYPERSONICA that is also open for registrations: http://www.file.org.br/file2003ins/english/insc_hipersonica.htm _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:37:09 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Infrastructures of Digital Design - Graduate Conference - Immediate Release For Immediate Release http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu (information) http://crca.ucsd.edu/livemedia/ (live event stream) + + + Infrastructures of Digital Design Graduate Conference January 31 -� February 2, 2003 at UCS "Infrastructures of Digital Design" is a graduate conference that will take place January 31 to February 2 at the University of California San Diego Center for Research in Computing & the Arts as part of the UC Digital Cultures Initiative. This conference will feature paper presentations and new media works from 30 graduate students inside and outside the University of California, and will be supported by distinguished faculty members and invited guest speakers. "Infrastructures of Digital Design" will commence with a keynote speech by Howard Becker leading sociologist of art and professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara to be followed by two days of plenary presentations that will address the following issues: Enabling Design - What strategies and models of cultural production can be developed from the realization of new infrastructures? Health Information Systems - What are the ethical and technical questions produced through the representation and collection of patient data and the formulation of new medical knowledge? Spatiality and Built Environments - How does the collection, mapping and visualization of data affect the understanding built environments and the relationship between the local and the global? Digital Environments for Learning/Community/Identity - What types of models facilitate and produce new forms of understanding between both oneself and the group or others? Designing Regulation and Regulating Design - How are infrastructures developed and employed by both the private and public sector, setting standards for new policy and invention? Graduate projects will be showcased in a New Media Works Festival, held at the Herbert Marcuse Gallery in the Visual Arts Department, concurrent to the panel presentations. Between exhibition and presentation, a night of emergent performance, real-time data-mixing and sonic intervention will take place the evening of Saturday, February 1st as part of the festival. All panels and paper presentations will be held at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) located in building #408 University Center on the campus of UCSD. Artist presentations and installations will take place at the Marcuse Gallery in the UCSD Visual Arts Facility across from CRCA on Russell Lane. All panels and presentations will be streamed and available for viewing at http://crca.ucsd.edu/livemedia/. Since the facility has limited seating, virtual attendance is encouraged via the Live Media website, although art events will be free and open to the public. Support for Infrastructures of Digital Design is being provided by the UC Digital Cultures Project; UCSD Departments of Visual Arts, Communication, and Sociology; the UCSD Divisions of Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities; the Center for Research in Computing & the Arts, and the Science Studies Program of UCSD. A full conference program can be found at http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu. Questions and requests for more information may be sent to [email protected]. Maps and directions to CRCA and the UCSD Visual Arts Facility are available at http://crca.ucsd.edu/information/map.html + + + http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu http://crca.ucsd.edu/livemedia/ http://crca.ucsd.edu/information/map.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:26:53 +0100 From: Marjolein Berger <[email protected]> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?V2=5F/DEAF03:_=91Exhibition_=91Data_Knitting_?= - From =?iso-8859-1?Q?=92Wunderkammer=92?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_to_Metadata=92.?= Wednesday 26 February until Sunday 9 March, closed on Monday. Open from: 11:00 - 20:00 hrs. Location: Pakhuis Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade 66-68 (Kop van Zuid), Rotterdam, The Netherlands Opening: Tuesday 25 February 18:30 - 21:00 hrs. Admission: 7,- euro Discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) 5,- euro Entrance opening: free The exhibition is part of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival �DEAF03 Data Knitting�, organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media (25 February - - 9 March 2003 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands). DEAF03�s exhibition presents recent, mostly interactive art that addresses the role and meaning of information in our knowledge based society in an inventive, confronting, but at the same time witty manner. DEAF03�s running theme is the use of archives and databases, where information is viewed in its wider sense as a building block for our knowledge and view of the world. As individuals we are being bombarded with streams of information that should provide us with knowledge but which are often so �out of control� that they tend to confuse rather than enlighten us. Visitors to the exhibition can interact with these artworks at several levels by changing and manipulating them. In this way they can use the databases and archives these artworks deploy, to generate experiences and images of a world that is forcing itself upon us as increasingly complex and global, but which at the same time is more and more local. The presented installations are: �Pockets full of Memories�, George Legrady (H) - 2001 <www.pocketsfullofmemories.com> �Synthia�, Lynn Hershman (USA) - 2002 �PoliceState�, Jonah Brucker-Cohen (USA), in samenwerking met RSG - 2002 �Erotogod�, Stahl Stenslie, Asbj�rn Fl�, Knut Skagen en Trond Lossius (N) - 2001 �Nybble-Engine-Toolz�, Margarete Jahrmann en Max Moswitzer (A) - 2003 �Poetry Machine 2.0�, David Link (D) - 2002 �100.000 STRATEN�, Geert Mul (NL) - 2002 �PainStation�, Volker Morawe en Tillman Reiff (D) - 2001 �Soft Cinema�, Lev Manovich (RUS/USA) - 2002 �Agent Ruby.com�, Lynn Hershman (USA) - 1990 - 2002 <www.agentruby.com> �Zgodlocator�, Herwig Weiser (A) - 1998 - 2002 �Phonic Frequencies�, Tam�s Szak�l (H), in samenwerking met MARS Exploratory Media Lab - 2002 �Web of Life�, Jeffrey Shaw (AUS/D) - 2002 <www.web-of-life.de> �World Processor�, Ingo G�nther (D) -1988 - 2003 <worldprocessor.com > �They Rule�, Josh On & Futurefarmers (NZ) - 2001< www.theyrule.net> �Code Zebra�, Sara Diamond en Code Zebra inc. (CDN), een �European Culture 2000� programma. �East by West�, Sher Doruff (USA/NL), Johannes Birringer (D/USA), Orm Finnendahl (D) en Arjen Keesmaat (NL) - 2002, een �European Culture 2000� programma. �Exactitudes�, Ari Versluis en Ellie Uyttenbroek (NL) �Arena�, Atelier van Lieshout (NL) - 2003 �Can You See Me Now?�, Blast Theory (GB) - 2001 �Globe Jungle Project�, Yasuhiro Suzuki (J) - 2001 More information about the festival program, associated programs and coproductions can be found on �DEAF03 Online�: http://deaf.v2.nl. �DEAF03 Online� offers the possibility to view the festival online and to participate in various festival activities. For educational programs and/or guided tours during DEAF03 please contact Valentijn Webbers, [email protected] or +31 (0)10 750 15 18 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:14:31 EST From: [email protected] Subject: ART FILM -- by Chris Murray ART FILM Shocked that the Brooklyn Police purportedly ransacked the apartment of a late conceptual artist, an Australian television producer conducts interviews and searches for the truth. A film by Chris Murray Tuesday, February 4th 8:30PM -- $3 at the door Carroll Gardens Brooklyn @ Boudoir 273 Smith Street, between Sackett & Degraw F or G trains to Bergen or Carroll Street stops For more information please visit www.artfilm.biz or call 718.388.9897 - ------------------------------------------------ “Art Film” has or will screen at: - ------------------------------------------------ The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF 2003) in South Korea & as well as the DOCUMENTARY BIENNALE 2003 - ------------------------------------------------ International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA 2002) Docs for Sale - ------------------------------------------------ Nominated for Best Documentary Awarded Special Prize for Artistic Merit Dahlonega International Film Festival (DIFF) - ------------------------------------------------ The Scope Art Fair NYC • “Cinema-scope” Curated by: Artist Lilah Freedland & Anne Ellegood Curator for The New Museum. - ------------------------------------------------ Artsfest Film Festival (AFF) - ------------------------------------------------ Directed by Chris Murray Featuring: Jesse Bercowetz, Claudio Orrico, Chris Murray, Hajoe Moderegger, Ruth Adams, Aron Namenwirth, Steve Rhodes, Chris VandeGuchte, Lisa Ng, Pablo Helguera, Seth Founds, Jocelyn Shipley, Aimee Mower, Vallessa Monk, Ward Shelley, Tom Frank, Kristen Todd, Tom Smith, Laszlo Sulyok, Glenn Reynolds, Matt Bua, Franzy Lamprecht, Chris Wert, Lars Haga ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:37:05 +0100 From: Marjolein Berger <[email protected]> Subject: V2/DEAF: Subject: WOSEMA - Workshops/Seminars/Masterclasses Wednesday 26 February until Friday 7 March 2003 Locations: V2_groundfloor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam Calypso, Mauritsweg 5, Rotterdam Pakhuis Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade 66-68 (Kop van Zuid), Rotterdam Goethe-Institut, Westersingel 9, Rotterdam The WOSEMA-progam is part of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival �DEAF03 Data Knitting�, organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. (25 February - 9 March 2003 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands) WOSEMA includes the following program parts: Seminar �Copy the Rights!� 26 February, 11:00 - 17:00 hours, Calypso. Admission � 25,- Discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) � 20,-. �Copy the Rights!� is a seminar about copyright. It will address various copyright aspects of digitizing and opening up archive collections or databases (online), as well as the issue of copyright in a changing art practice: unstable art projects that center around recycling and copying material often arise out of collaborative efforts where the classic notion of authorship no longer applies. In a number of hands-on presentations some examples of �good practice� will be demonstrated. Artists from both the Netherlands and abroad will present their activities to the audience. �Copy the Rights!� has invited a number of prominent foreign speakers to inspire the debate on alternative copyright models copyleft, open source, open content, open access and whether these may fit within the Dutch context. Moderator: Paul Rutten, head of the Information and Communication unit of TNO STB (NL). The seminar will be in English. Media Academy Day 27 February, 11:00 - 18:00 hours, Pakhuis Las Palmas, in the Arena. Admission � 10,- Discount (student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+) � 8,-. The space of media art education begins to expand and cross ever-new disciplinary borders. We see an explosion of educational methodologies and structures. Both in the Netherlands and abroad, experimental educational models are being tested, responding to transformations within the social, economic and cultural domain where communication media play such a crucial role. Five institutions from the Netherlands and Europe chosen for their unique and innovative curricular models have been invited to present their programs and discuss their concepts and methodologies. Students will be invited to demonstrate their projects. Those creating the academic agenda will participate in a public panel to discuss their vision and strategy. Invited academies are: School of Communication and the Arts, Malm� (S), Bauhausuniversit�t Weimar (D), Intermedia Dept., Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (H), Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea (I), Hochschule f�r Gestaltung und Kunst, Z�rich (CH), Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL) The program is moderated by Geert Lovink (NL) Workshops During DEAF03 there will be a number of workshops that focus on the transfer of knowledge and expertise, aiming to stimulate (inter)national collaborative efforts. These workshops will treat DEAF03�s theme and discuss various aspects of information design, information accessing, data visualization, copyright issues and open-source software developments. The workshops are intended for artists, producers and developers from various segments of the cultural field and representatives of the scientific community. Workshop �Media Knitting�, in collaboration with Exstream, as a European Culture 2000 program. A three-day hands-on workshop, the selection of participants is closed. 26 - 28 February, 12:00 - 22:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor. Workshop presentation: 28 February, 20:00 - 22:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor Admission free, reservations via ticketline Collaboration between developers and artists from different disciplines often results in merged media or new media formats. �Media Knitting� is a three-day hands-on workshop for artists, engineers, and designers working with software to knit various media formats and applications together for live or real-time interactive performances. The scope of the media used for collaboration in �Media Knitting� will include video, streaming media, audio and 3D modelling. In this workshop thirty participants will work together to discover and patch each other�s domains together by means of software and human interaction. Several experts will be brought in from the commercial software field for Mac and Windows as well as from the field of �open source� and �free software�. The participants and the workshop leaders will work together on the realisation of performances or media jam sessions. The end result of the workshop will be presented in an informal media concert open to the audience. Workshop �Data Perception� 1 March, 13:00 - 17:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor. Admission � 15,-. As we�ve become more immersed in our digital environment, it occurs more significant that data can not be seen as neutral entities: the atoms of information acquire their meaning through contextualization and visualization. The constantly changing dynamics of the digital context has a tremendous impact on our experience. How can we master this constantly changing data environments and knitting these qualities together into a new single experience? Artists could question the shifting paradigms, and lead the way into new representations and their readings. �Data Perception� tries to get a grip on such aspects as navigation, retrieval and perception in the field of multi dimensional environments; dynamic or static information; familiar geometries or abstract topologies; and mapping data spaces or assigning metadata. �Data Perception� brings together diverse speakers who will present and demonstrate their own project specific requirements and solutions:Julie Tolmie (CDN), Ben Schouten (NL), Zolt�n Szegedy-Masz�k and M�rton Fernezelyi (H), Sheelagh Carpendale (CDN) and Brigit Lichtenegger(NL). Presentations/debat �Data Quilting: XX Patterns in Media Practice and Theory Salon-like event�. 2 March, 14:00 - 17:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor. Admission � 8,-. �Data Quilting� focusses specifically on gender issues in interdisciplinary collaborations and technology networks. Before 1920 American women were not allowed to vote and they had therefore been deprived of a public voice. The action of quilting had literally been the text/ile for expressing political, social and emotional positions. Nowadays quilts still signify palimpsests of meanings, which make up a testimony of their makers and time. One could argue that quilts are fabrics of knowledge: patches of data stitched together in particular ways to form a coherent whole. �Data Quilting� considers the interstitial [inter/stitchial] information spaces, where a collaborative effort is made to thread skills and knowledge together. It wants to investigate which strategies women working in new media apply to foster collaboration and spur interdisciplinary practice.The major focus will be on identifying, testing, mapping, and exchanging patterns. Moderator: Nat Muller (NL). Featured Guests a.o.: Michelle Teran (CDN), Nina Czegledy (CDN), Sara Diamond (CDN), Sharon Daniel (USA), Susan Kozel (CDN/GB), Thecla Schiphorst (CDN), Kristina Anderson (DK/GB), Anke Bangma (NL). Presentations �Knitted Europe�, a �European Culture 2000� program. 27 February, 13:00 - 18:00 hours, Goethe-Institut. Admission free, reservations via ticketline �Knitted Europe� will showcase a range of best practice projects that are part of European programs like �Culture 2000� and the �Information Society Technologies Program (I.S.T.)� that promote collaboration between European art institutes and cultural organisations. These consortia will present either work in progress or recently finished projects and share their experiences with the audience. These projects are �Realtime and Presence�, �MIR � Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research�, �Code Zebra�, �Virtual Media Centre�, �Exstream�, �Worldinfo.com�, �Playing Field�, �Interfacing Realities� and �Worldinfo.com�. A representative of the European Committee will comment on these programmes and four institutes will then present their projects and discuss the results with the audience. Dutch representatives of the programmes will discuss the chances for European collaboration in the future. �Knitted Europe� is supported by the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam. Masterclass �Collaborative Culture�, a �European Culture 2000� program. Part of a series of four master classes, called �Interfacing Realities�. 3 - 7 March, 11:00 - 18:00 hours, V2_ groundfloor. Admission � 200,- Student discount � 100,- For more information see also: www.v2.nl/Projects/interfacing_realities Interdisciplinarity in current arts practice has several aspects. One of them is within the medium itself: digitized mediums or modalities such as sound, image, text, touch and gesture meld together. Another one is the collaboration between disciplines, including the sciences, engineering, technology, interdisciplinary arts and critical theory. The �Collaborative Culture� master class will analyse these two aspects in their relationship with one another and with the emergent aesthetics within the culture of online communities. Sher Doruff, a digital artist, will guide ten participants.This master class is part of a series of four master classes, called �Interfacing Realities�. They focus on new concepts for information management in general, and the usage and creation of databases and archives in contemporary art practices in particular. More information can be found on �DEAF03 Online�: http://deaf.v2.nl �DEAF03 Online� offers the possibility to view the presentations online and to participate in various festival activities. For educational programs and/or guided tours during DEAF03 please contact Valentijn Webbers, [email protected] or +31 (0)10 750 15 18 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:46:41 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]> Subject: Chicago: illegal art film and video festival From: "edmar" <[email protected]> Illegal Art Film Festival February 7 and 8 2003 Buddy, 1542 n. milwaukee ave, Chicago il 6022 773.342.7332 Illegal art Film and video program, at Select Media's gallery, buddy, 1542 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd floor. 773.342.7332. Evolution Control Committee is scheduled to perform. Films will also be available for viewing at the In These Times exhibit space. See: http://www.inthesetimes.com/ http://www.inthesetimes.com/about.php?id=36_0_6_0_M http://www.illegal-art.org/ Program One Friday , February 8 Shorts program 7pm: Illegal Art These films and videos appropriate others' intellectual property, whether through the use of found footage, unauthorized music, or shots of copyrighted or trademarked material. (Filmmakers and videographers now have to get permission for just about every concert t-shirt, store sign, or other piece of intellectual property that happens to appear onscreen). Phil Patiris "Iraq Campaign 1991" Video, 1991, 19 min. Video artist Phil Patiris transformed network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage into a critique of the media/industrial complex. Brian Boyce "State of the Union" Video, 2001, 2 min. In this brief video, Brian Boyce combines unauthorized CNN footage of George W. Bush with clips from The Teletubbies. Joe Gibbons "Barbie's Audition" Pixelvision, 1995, 12 min. Gibbons' darkly comic take on the Hollywood casting couch was rejected by Sundance lawyers. Paul Harvey Oswald "Fair Use," 2002, 2 min. "A Natural Thing," 2000, 4 min. Video Two video collages from Paul Harvey Oswald, a collective based in Rockford, Illinois. Bill Wasik, Eugene Mirman, and Brian Spinks "Black Thunder" Video, 2001, 2 min. These parodies of political advertising are composed of found footage. Naomi Uman "Removed" Film, 1999, 5 min. Using a soft porn film from the 70s, nail polish, bleach and a magnifying glass, Naomi Uman transforms a writhing, naked woman into a hole--an empty, animated space. Michael Colton "Puppy Love" Digital video, 2002, 1 min. This improvisational short, starring a bull terrier named Punchie, was created in the offices of the Modern Humorist. D. Jean Hester "Buy Me" Digital Video, Super 8, 2002, 4 min. For this surreal meditation on consumer culture, D. Jean Hester recorded images from fast-food and automotive commercials. Negativland and Tim Maloney "Gimme the Mermaid" Quicktime video, 2002, 5 min. Disney animator Tim Maloney created this new short for Negativland using his employer's equipment after hours. Keith Sanborn "The artwork in its age of mechanical reproducibility" PROGRAM One Friday , February 8 FEATURE: 8:30 pm Todd Haynes "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" Film, 1987, 43 min. With Barbie dolls as the principal actors, Superstar portrays the life of Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia. Used without permission. 9:30pm Performance: Mark Denardo (Gameboy player and hero) Doug Harvey Olwald??/ tentative remixers of video (TBD) DJ Mark of Evolution Control Committee : http://evolution-control.com/ Hopefully playing his hit! DJ Spin-Laden, the master of the turntablism (TBD ... we pray he will fly in from Bharain) ???????? PROGRAM TWO Digital Video Detournement February 8,2003 7pm Digital Video D�tournement is a selection of works by radical cultural workers and experimental video makers critiquing various coercive forces and systems. Using desktop editing techniques mixed with humorous direction many of these makers appropriate work, divert and re-edit it as a way to register their dissent or to create something surreal. Described as tactical mediaticians, culture jammers, troublemakers, media activists and humorists, these makers create works that are a sampling of the digital video underground that is impacting our cultures during a time of global crisis. GNN [ S-11 (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse ] 2001, Video, Color, Approx 12 min. Culled from over 20 hours of television footage recorded over a one month period and across 13 networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. Be warned - this video moves quickly and will require at least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its post-impact coverage the same way, ever again. www.gnn.tv DAVY FORCE! [MF-47 Network - USA-K ULTRA] 2000, Video, Color, Approx 8 min. Patriotism Shopping, and mind control www.davyforce.com Davy Force! [ MF-47 TV NETWORK - CELL PHONE] 2001, Video, Color, Approx 3 min. The MF-47 Network is an Information Agency that operates in conjunction with the Office of Fatherland Defense. This last MF-47 Network news blurb entices you to use the cell phone. Bryan Boyce [Special Report ]- 1999, video, Color, Approx 4 min. What if TV news wasn't merely horrifying but literally came from horror movies? Bryan Boyce (maker of last year's State of the Union) puts terrifying words in the mouths of America's top-rated merchants of terror. Fensler [Knowing was half the Battle] 2001, Animation, Color, Approx 6 min. Public Service Announcements from our pals at GI Joe , Agreat American hero cartoon series Mike Nourse [Terror, Iraq, Weapons ] 2002, Video , Color, aprox 4 min President Bush re-edited for meaning during anti-iraq speech in Ohio. Paper Rad [Videos de Paperrad] 2002, video, color, 12 min the new media lo-tech aesthetic . www.paperrad.org //// Feature Documentary February 8,2003 8:30 pm Brian Springer "Spin" Video, 1995, 60 min. The behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s are exposed in Brian Springer's documentary. Performance: 9:30 pm Rotten Milk : Evolution Control Committee : http://evolution-control.com/ DJ Douggpound and DJ JaimeReid : mash up -o-rama //////// Information about the free CD you get when coming to the festival: Hear the music now.. http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/historic.html STAY FREE'S ILLEGAL ART COMPILATION CD This free CD will be given away at exhibit events 01 Negativland U2: Special Edit Radio Mix (5:46) 02 Biz Markie Alone Again (2:52) * 03 People Like Us Swinglargo (5:20) 04 Culturcide They Aren't the World (4:30) * 05 The Evolution Control Committee Rocked by Rape (4:28) 06 Beastie Boys Rock Hard (4:53) * 07 Dummy Run f.d.(1:23) 08 John Oswald black (2:01) 09 Corporal Blossom White Christmas (3:19) 10 Tape-beatles Reality of Matter (2:37) 11 Public Enemy Psycho of Greed (3:11) 12 The Verve Bittersweet Symphony (4:35) * 13 Wobbly Clawing Your Eyes Out Down to Your Throat (1:21) 14 De La Soul Transmitting Live from Mars (1:07) * 15 Buchanan and Goodman The Flying Saucer (4:18) * 16 The JAMs The Queen and I (4:50) * 17 Elastica Connection (2:20) * 18 Steinski and Mass Media The Motorcade Sped On (4:26) * 19 Invisibl Skratch Piklz white label edit (5:30) * 20 Xper.Xr Wu-chu-tung (1:43) 21 Boone Bischoff Happy Birthday To You (0:28) * used without permission LINER NOTES Music has always been a craft of borrowing. In traditional, or folk, music, melodies and lyrics were handed down from generation to generation. At every stage, musicians would change the tune or substitute words at will, adapting songs to their own situations. Like their predecessors, the artists featured here have drawn from the music around them--whether by borrowing a guitar riff or taking a digital sample--to create something new. But unlike their folk ancestors, they all run the risk of getting sued. Two technologies, separated by centuries, have brought us to this point. First, writing and printing gave birth to the composer and the idea that a single person could own a piece of music. Second, sound recording allowed music performances to be stored and replayed--again, permitting an individual (or a company) to claim it as property. These two kinds of musical property are reflected in present-day copyright law: "publishing rights" apply to the ownership of written music and "master rights" apply to the ownership of a recording of that music. When you use a portion of someone else's recording of a song, you need permission from the publisher and "clearance" from the owner of that recording. When you record without these permissions--and the exorbitant fees that go with them--you're in trouble. Not surprisingly, only a few musicians, like Puff Daddy and Fatboy Slim, can afford to sample legally. For our culture to be a space for free expression and for creativity to flourish, audio artists must be able to build on bits and pieces of preexisting music. While the "fair use" doctrine allows artists to appropriate other works, it does so only in cases of commentary or parody. Fair use doesn't apply to the majority of "second-takers," those artists who reuse sounds without directly referring to the original. Most of these tracks would never have existed if the artists had adhered to copyright law. Many other works might never be heard unless we act soon to grant artists the right to create them. Negativland "U2: Special Edit Radio Mix" The story behind this track and why it is officially "unavailable" is perhaps one of the best-known cases of a corporate giant record company crushing obscure artists in the name of intellectual property. In summary, U2�s label, Island Records, sued Negativland and SST Records for trademark and copyright infringement. The resulting fiasco inspired Negativland to publish a book, Fair Use, which meticulously documents the entire affair. Negativland is now a tireless advocate of relaxing copyright laws and has often helped other artists fight off litigation; many major labels now understand that messing with Negativland will almost certainly result in bad publicity. Biz Markie* "Alone Again" Gilbert O�Sullivan�s 1991 lawsuit against Biz Markie for the uncleared use of 20 seconds from O�Sullivan�s "Alone Again (Naturally)" was a major turning point in the evolution of hip-hop. Markie lost the case; the judge told him, verbatim, "Thou shalt not steal." With that, the era of carefree sampling was over. Sample-heavy albums in the vein of Public Enemy�s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back or the Beastie Boys� Paul�s Boutique became impossibly expensive and difficult to release. Many artists continued to sample but retreated into using more and more obscure source material. People Like Us "Swinglargo" England�s People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) hasn�t been sued yet, perhaps because most of her source materials are obscure. Her work is almost 100% uncleared samples. Culturcide* "They Aren�t the World" In 1987 a group of artists based in Houston took the name Culturcide and released a record called Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America. The album had no information about who was in Culturcide or how to contact them�perhaps because what they had done could have gotten them into legal trouble. Each track on the record is a pop hit with new lyrics recorded crudely over the top, sometimes with bits of noisy guitar added on. The new words are extremely pointed criticisms of the music industry. The Evolution Control Committee "Rocked by Rape" Built from AC/DC�s "Back in Black" and snippets from Dan Rather newscasts, this piece was released as a single in 1999 by Eerie Materials but then withdrawn under threat of litigation from CBS. Beastie Boys* "Rock Hard" The Beastie Boys released this as a single in 1985, and it quickly went out of print. The song was to reappear on their 1999 The Sounds of Science anthology, but they had to cut it after AC/DC refused permission for the use of "Back in Black." Beasties member Mike D reportedly talked to the band personally on the phone: "AC/DC could not get with the sample concept. They were just like, ONothing against you guys, but we just don�t endorse sampling.�" Dummy Run "f.d" British collagists Dummy Run make their music almost completely from other music. Taken from their 1996 album Pink Rocket, this piece is a self-reflective glimpse at some of the issues involved in sampling. John Oswald "black" Oswald constructed this piece out of a dizzying array of James Brown samples, partially as a commentary on just how often Brown�s work has been reused by others. The track originally appeared on his 1989 CD Plunderphonic, which brought Oswald threats of legal action from the Canadian Recording Industry Association. He eventually was forced to relinquish all remaining copies of the disc, which were then physically destroyed. Despite all this, the album has become a cult classic in the genre of sample-based music. Corporal Blossom "White Christmas" This track, which originally appeared on A Mutated Christmas (Illegal Art, 2001), combines various recordings of the classic Christmas carol. None of the samples have been cleared. If Corporal Blossom were forced to pay for all of them, the track would have to disappear. Tape-beatles "Reality of Matter" The Tape-beatles� goal since their inception in 1987 has been to explore the potential of making music without musical instruments, using only recording technology. They also believe that "recontextualization of previously Ofinished� works can be done ethically and can in itself constitute authorship." This example of their work comes from their 1999 disc Good Times. Public Enemy "Psycho of Greed" This unreleased track was recorded for PE�s latest CD, Revolverution. It contains a sample of the Beatles� song "Tomorrow Never Knows." The clearance fee demanded by Capitol Records and the surviving Beatles was so high that PE decided to pull the track from the album. The Verve* "Bittersweet Symphony" This hit pop song uses a sample from a string arrangement of "The Last Time" by the Rolling Stones. The Verve had trouble getting a licensing agreement from the Stones� publisher, Alan Klein, who said, "I don�t agree with sampling as a matter of principle, and certainly not on a Stones song." (This is a strange stance, given that the Stones launched their career with covers of blues songs without compensating the original artists.) Eventually Klein gave in, but only after the Verve agreed to sign over all royalties to "Bittersweet Symphony" to the Stones. Later, when Nike approached the Verve about using the song in a commercial, the band refused. Nike then approached Klein about recording a cover version, since he owned the publishing rights. When members of the Verve found out about this, they agreed to let Nike use their version and donated their fee to charity. "The last thing in the world I wanted was for one of my songs to be used in a commercial," said Richard Ashcroft of the Verve. "I�m still sick about it. But it could have been worse. If we didn�t fight for the song, OSymphony� would have ended up in a cheeseburger ad and no one could ever have taken our record seriously again." Wobbly "Clawing Your Eyes Out Down to Your Throat" >From Wobbly�s Playlist (Illegal Art, 2001), this song contains samples from a variety of sources, including several Johnny Cash songs. Like many sample-based works that don�t explicitly criticize the source material, this track would probably not be defendable in court as Fair Use. De La Soul* "Transmitting Live from Mars" This track, from the album 3 Feet High and Rising, samples a song by the 1960s band The Turtles, which sued De La Soul in 1989 and won a judgment of $1.7 million. For its next album, De La Soul made sure to clear all samples, which cost a total of $100,000. Buchanan and Goodman* "The Flying Saucer" Released in 1956, this record is probably the first successful use of "sampling" in popular music. It was done with magnetic tape, as digital technology did not yet exist. Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan edited together this alien invasion skit out of popular songs, for which they were sued for multiple copyright infringements. Their record label came to an agreement with the publishers of the original songs, and the record went on to sell close to a million copies, spawning a whole genre of "break-in" or "snippet" records. The hit record also served to boost sales of the sampled songs, and spurred interest in their creators, many of whom were African-American singers whose original renditions had never been heard by a mainstream (white) audience. Ironically, a recently released retrospective CD of Goodman�s work substitutes an alternative version of "Flying Saucer" (with reworked snippets) for the original, most likely due to licensing problems. The JAMs* "The Queen and I" The iconoclastic Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released their first album in 1987, called 1987: What the Fuck�s Going On? It included many tracks that contained uncleared samples of popular music, but this one got them into particular trouble when they were sued by the Swedish group Abba for using almost all of "Dancing Queen." The album was deleted and remaining copies destroyed. The record�s original label read: "All sounds on this recording have been captured by The JAMs in the name of Mu. We hereby liberate these sounds from all copyright restrictions, without prejudice." (The JAMs are also known as the KLF, which stands for Kopyright Liberation Front.) Elastica* "Connection" The British punk band Wire thought the main guitar riff from this song sounded too similar to its "Three Girl Rhumba," released in the 70s. In 1995, Wire threatened Elastica with legal action, and the matter was settled out of court. Steinski & Mass Media* "The Motorcade Sped On" Steven Stein created this cut-up of Kennedy assassination coverage. His label, Tommy Boy, was unable to officially release it because CBS refused to grant clearance for the use of Walter Cronkite�s voice. It was instead released as a white label 12-inch single in 1986. Invisibl Skratch Piklz* white label edit The Piklz are a special sort of band composed of a rotating lineup of hip-hop DJs, including Q-bert, Mixmaster Mike, and Shortcut. These highly skilled turntablists scratch out songs together live, each using a record and a record player as an instrument, each contributing, in real time, a different part (like drums, bass line, or horn stabs) to the music. This track comes from a 12-inch record pressed and circulated in 1996 with no information (a "white label"). Hip-hop and dance records often appear in this limited, underground manner and then vanish forever, never to be officially released due to copyright issues. Xper.Xr "Wu-chu-tung" Originally from Hong Kong and now based in London, Xper.Xr adds his own personal accompaniment to EMF�s pop hit "Unbelievable." From his album Lun Hsiao Shai (Vaseline). Boone Bischoff "Happy Birthday To You" Yes, the song the entire Western world sings at birthday parties is actually owned by a large corporation, and every time someone sings it in public without permission, it is an infringement of copyright. The song�s tune was published by schoolteachers Mildred and Patty Hill in 1893 as "Good Morning to All" in their book Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Children began singing it at birthday parties but with words they came up with themselves, which is how folk music typically develops. Nevertheless, the song�lyrics and all�is now owned by AOL Time Warner, the largest entertainment company on earth, and the corporation aggressively defends its property. Selected Sources Jeremy J. Beadle, Will Pop Eat Itself: Pop Music in the Soundbite Era, Faber & Faber, London, 1993. Kembrew McLeod, Owning Culture, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2001. Peter Shapiro, "Tangents", The Wire, April 2002, issue 218, p. 47. * used without permission Track research, selection, and liner notes by Philo T. Farnsworth, Steev Hise, and Carrie McLaren. Thanks also to Alexandra Ringe. For more information: See: http://www.inthesetimes.com/ http://www.inthesetimes.com/about.php?id=36_0_6_0_M http://www.illegal-art.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:28:55 +0100 From: Petra Kaiser <[email protected]> Subject: \international\media\art\award 2003 : call for submissions -- - --------------D249F0BCCA699FE8C02ED7DF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit \international\media\art\award 2003 :: call for submissions Constructed Life: Scenarios of Fiction among computer games, cyber-sex, nanobytes and robotic arts One impact of global medias on culture and economy, on politics and society is the progressive substitution of the mechanisms of the social construction of reality by the mechanisms of the media construction of reality. The media are not only fields of action but also the constructors of prescriptions for the action. �How to make things with media�: that�s the performative turn of media society. >From laptop-music to the standardized entertainments industry, from the computer game to genetic engineering, from the daily �chat� in the Internet to the use of intelligent tools, we see the increase of constructibility and artificiality. Whether in business and in correspondence, whether in leisure time or in private relationships ? for their organization we use the virtual data space. This year the \\international\media\art\award wants to know from artists all over the world: How do you see the �Constructed Life�? What is your vision of our future? Where are the chances and dangers of this development? - - Peter Weibel - The competition for the \\international\media\art\award 2003 is being jointly organised by S�dwestrundfunk Baden-Baden (SWR) and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in cooperation with the Swiss television station SF DRS, and ARTE. This award is the successor to the International Video Art Award, awarded for the first time in 1992. The general term �media art� is intended to provide a forum on the television and in the general public for artistic videos as well as other media and interactive arts projects. \\\\\ prizes \\\\ \\international\media\art\award 2003 \\ VIDEO \ EUR 12,000 \\ international\media\art\award 2003 \\ INTERACTIVE \ EUR 12,000 special award \\ production at ZKM and TV documentary on SWR viewers' award \\non-monetary prize deadline: 1st april 2002 Only entries postmarked no later than the deadline for submission will be accepted. SWR S�dwestrundfunk Redaktion Medienkunstpreis D-76522 Baden-Baden \\information and entry form: http://www.medienkunstpreis.de [email protected] - --------------D249F0BCCA699FE8C02ED7DF ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:49:25 -0800 From: Diane Ludin <[email protected]> Subject: ART, STORYTELLING, AND THE FIVE SENSES We invite you to the first public exhibition of the children's workshop ART, STORY-TELLING, AND THE FIVE SENSES (Comit� Sant�simo Sacramento, Asociaci�n Tepeyac) With a special performance by multi-media artist RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, based on the acclaimed book "The Story of Colors." Friday January 31, 6pm-8pm 34-43 of 93rd Street, Jackson Heights, Queens. (see directions at end of message) 1. About the Special Performance: La historia de los colores/The Story of Colors: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas Authors: Anne Bar Din Subcomandante Marcos Domitilia Dominguez March, 1999 Adapted and performed by Ricardo Dominguez 2. About the Artist: Among many other issues, Ricardo Dominguez' multi-media work explores the relationship between art, technology, and social engagement. He has been involved with numerous individual and collective initiatives including Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Disturbance Theater, and The Thing. You can visit his site at: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ 3. About Our Workshop and Exhibition: Art, Story-Telling, and the Five Senses is an experimental arts workshop for bilingual children (English-Spanish) initiated and run through the efforts of the Asociaci�n Tepeyac, its after-school program "Encontrando Nuestras Ra�ces," and the community of Sant�simo Sacramento in Queens. Asociaci�n Tepeyac is an organization run by and for the Hispanic community in New York. Please visit: http://www.tepeyac.org Through various narrative techniques and artistic disciplines we are working toward the completion of a book, an audio piece, and an art video for a mixed community who wishes to share the dreams and labors of the Hispanic community in New York and elsewhere. As the students strengthen their own voice, they also learn to appreciate and use their complex heritage against today's favorite backdrop: New York City. Our first exhibition includes two videos, a slide narrative, booklets, costumes, sculpture, drawing, and games, all produced and executed by the students themselves. Instructors: Daisy Rosenblum Polina Porras Juventino Mosso Vicencio M�rquez Peter Lasch Director: Peter Lasch 4. We thankfully acknowledge: Ricardo Dominguez Asociaci�n Tepeyac Dedalus Foundation Comit� Sant�simo Sacramento Padres y Madres de Familia Iglesia de Blessed Sacrament Televisi�n Tepeyac Service 5. Directions: Take the #7 train to Flushing. Get off on Junction and walk on Roosevelt Ave until 93rd Street. Turn right and keep walking until you reach the corner with 35th Ave. We're in the church's basement. For more information on the workshop or this exhibition contact: Peter Lasch [email protected] NOTA DE PRENSA Te invitamos a la primera exposici�n p�blica del taller infantil EL ARTE, EL CUENTO Y LOS CINCO SENTIDOS (Comit� Sant�simo Sacramento, Asociaci�n Tepeyac) con una presentaci�n especial del artista multi-media RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, basada en el c�lebre libro "La historia de colores." Viernes 31 de enero, 6pm-8pm 34-43 de 93rd Street, Jackson Heights, Queens. (vea direcciones al final del mensaje) 1. Sobre la presentaci�n especial: La historia de los colores/The Story of Colors: Un Cuento Biling�e de las Selvas de Chiapas Autores: Anne Bar Din Subcomandante Marcos Domitilia Dominguez Marzo, 1999 Adaptado y representado por Ricardo Dominguez 2. Sobre el artista: La obra de Ricardo Dominguez trata, entre otros temas, sobre la relaci�n entre el arte, la tecnolog�a y el compromiso social. Ha participado en un gran n�mero de iniciativas individuales y colectivas como Critical Art Ensemble, El Teatro del Disturbio Electr�nico, y The Thing. Puedes visitar su sitio en: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ 3. Sobre nuestro taller: El arte, el cuento y los cinco sentidos es un taller de arte experimental para ni�os biling�es (Espa�ol-Ingl�s) iniciado e impulsado por los esfuerzos de la Asociaci�n Tepeyac, su programa de escuela de tarde "Encontrando Nuestras Ra�ces" y la comunidad de Sant�simo Sacramento en Queens. La Asociaci�n Tepeyac es una organizaci�n de y para la comunidad hispana en Nueva York. Por favor visite: http://www.tepeyac.org A trav�s de varias t�cnicas narrativas y disciplinas art�sticas estamos completando un libro, un audio-cassette y un video para una comunidad mixta que desee compartir los sue�os y las labores de la comunidad hispana en Nueva York y otras partes. Mientras toman confianza y fuerza en su propia voz, los ni�os tambi�n aprenden a valorar y usar su compleja herencia cultural frente al tel�n de fondo favorito de nuestros d�as: la ciudad de Nueva York. Nuestra primera exposici�n incluye dos videos, una narrativa de proyecciones, libretos, vestuarios, escultura, dibujo, y juegos, todos producidos por los alumnos del taller. Instructores: Daisy Rosenblum Polina Porras Juventino Mosso Vicencio M�rquez Pedro Lasch Director: Pedro Lasch 4. Agradecemos a: Ricardo Dominguez Asociaci�n Tepeyac Dedalus Foundation Comit� Sant�simo Sacramento Padres y Madres de Familia Iglesia de Blessed Sacrament Televisi�n Tepeyac Service Direcciones: Tome el tren #7 hacia Flushing y baje en Junction. Camine sobre Roosevelt Ave. hasta la calle 93. Vire a la derecha y siga hasta llegar a la esquina con la avenida 35. Estamos en el s�tano de la iglesia. Para mayor informaci�n sobre el taller o la exposici�n escriba a: Pedro Lasch [email protected] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:38:26 +0100 From: Oliver Ressler <[email protected]> Subject: Video "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Disobbedienti=22?=: upcoming presentations / aktuelle Vorfuehrungen This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------070207050507080200030705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit DISOBBEDIENTI A video by / Ein Video von Oliver Ressler In cooperation with / in Kooperation mit Dario Azzellini Video, 54 min, 2002 Upcoming screenings / Kommende Videopr�sentationen: (announcement in the language of the presentation) The Cube Cinema, Bristol (GB), 28.01.03, 8 p.m. http://www.cubecinema.com transmediale.03, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (GER), 01.02.03, 12 Uhr, http://www.transmediale.de "Sichere Freiheit", lothringer13, M�nchen (GER), 01.02.03 http://www.lothringer13.de "Vorw�rts", Rote Fabrik, Seestra�e 395, 8038 Z�rich (CH), 08.02.03, 20 Uhr Norrk�ping Konstmuseum, Norrk�ping (SE), 11.02.03, 6 p.m. http://www.norrkoping.se/konstmuseet Filmcasino, Wien (A), 13.02.03, 18 Uhr http://www.filmcasino.at Kulturzentrum r�d@, Steyr (A), 20.02.03, 20 Uhr http://www.servus.at/roeda AK-Bildungshaus J�germayrhof, R�merstra�e 98, 4020 Linz (A), 26.02.03, 20 Uhr (im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Stopp GATS") Diagonale - Festival des �sterreichischen Films, Graz (A), 24 - 30.03.03 http://www.diagonale.at Centre for Contemporary Arts - Belgrade, Belgrade (YU), 29.04.03 http://www.dijafragma.com (for a German video description and a video still please scroll down) The video "Disobbedienti" thematizes the Disobbedienti's origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement. The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The "Tute Bianche" were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies - protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields - in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. The Tute Bianche first appeared in Italy in 1994 in the midst of a social setting in which the "mass laborer," who had played a central role in the 1970s in production and in labor struggles, was gradually replaced in the transition to precarious post-Fordist means of production. By forcing the closing of detention camps through specially developed acts of dismantling the Tute Bianche became involved in protests against precarious working conditions and the immigrants' struggle for freedom of movement. The Tute Bianche were part of the demonstration against the WTO in Seattle in 1999 and the IMF in Prague in 2000. They sent delegates to the Lakandon rainforest in Chiapas and accompanied the Zapatist Comandantes 3,000 kilometers to Mexico City. At the G8 summit in Genoa the Tute Bianche decided to take off their trademark white overalls that had given them their name and instead blend in the multitude of 300,000 demonstration participants. The transition from the Tute Bianche to the Disobbedienti, the disobedients, also marked a development from "civil disobedience" to "social disobedience." The repressive actions and massacre by the police force in Genoa brought the practice of social disobedience in from the streets to the most diverse social realms. In the video, the Disobbedienti spokesperson Luca Casarini describes the Tute Bianche as a subjective experience and a small army, whereas Disobbedienti is a multitude and a movement. Disobbedienti maintains the political form of the Tute Bianche and attempts to create a better legal justice for and from the people. Spectacular actions are still being carried out against detention centers, such as the dismantling of the detention camp in the Via Mattei in Bologna on 25 January 2002, as shown in the video. Additionally, attempts are being made to further develop "social disobedience" as a collective practice of various groups, to block the flows of goods and communication, to make general the strikes of individual groups, and to plan and carry out general strikes. The conversations with the Disobbedienti were carried out in Italian in Bologna and Genoa in July 2002. There are two versions of the video "Disobbedienti," one with German and one with English subtitles. Concept, interview preparation, editing, realization: Oliver Ressler Interviews, conceptual work, translation: Dario Azzellini Camera: Claudio Ruggieri Sound: Rainer Antesberger Interview partners: Luca Casarini, Ulia Conti, Gianmarco de Pieri, Enrico Ludovici, Federico Martelloni, Francesco Raparelli, Francesca Ruocco D e u t s c h : Das Video "Disobbedienti" thematisiert die Entstehungsgeschichte, die politischen Grundlagen und die Aktionsformen der Bewegung der Disobbedienti (die Ungehorsamen) anhand von Gespr�chen mit sieben Beteiligten. Die Disobbedienti gingen w�hrend der Demonstrationen gegen den G8-Gipfel im Juli 2001 in Genua aus den Tute Bianche hervor. "Tute Bianche" war die Bezeichnung f�r jene wei� gekleideten AktivistInnen aus Italien, die ihre durch Schaumstoff, Reifen, Helme, Gasmasken und selbst gemachte Schilde gesch�tzten K�rper bei direkten Aktionen und Demonstrationen als Waffe des zivilen Ungehorsams einsetzten. 1994 traten die Tute Bianche erstmals in Italien in einem gesellschaftlichen Umfeld in Erscheinung, in dem der in den 70er Jahren in der Produktion und in Arbeitsk�mpfen eine zentrale Rolle spielende "Massenarbeiter" schrittweise durch prek�re postfordistische Besch�ftigungsformen abgel�st worden war. Die Tute Bianche beteiligten sich an Protesten gegen prekarisierte Arbeitsbedingungen und am Kampf der MigrantInnen f�r Bewegungsfreiheit, indem sie mit der speziell entwickelten Aktionsform der Demontage die Schlie�ung von Abschiebelagern erzwangen. Die Tute Bianche waren Teil der Demonstrationen gegen die WTO in Seattle 1999 und den IWF in Prag 2000, entsandten Delegationen in den Lakandonischen Regenwald in Chiapas und begleiteten die zapatistischen Comandantes 3000 Kilometer weit nach Mexiko-Stadt. Beim G8-Gipfel in Genua beschlossen die Tute Bianche, die identit�tsstiftenden und namensgebenden wei�en Overalls abzulegen, um in der Multitude der 300.000 DemoteilnehmerInnen aufzugehen. Der �bergang von den Tute Bianche zu den Disobbedienti, den Ungehorsamen, ist auch eine Entwicklung vom "zivilen Ungehorsam" zum "sozialen Ungehorsam". Durch das repressive Vorgehen und die Massaker der Polizeikr�fte in Genua wurde die Praxis des sozialen Ungehorsams von der Stra�e in die verschiedensten gesellschaftlichen Bereiche hineingetragen. Der Disobbedienti-Sprecher Luca Casarini beschreibt daher im Video die Tute Bianche als subjektive Erfahrung und kleine Armee, die Disobbedienti hingegen als Multitude und Bewegung. Die Disobbedienti setzen die Politikform der Tute Bianche fort und versuchen, eine gerechtere Legalit�t von unten zu schaffen. Es werden weiterhin spektakul�re Aktionen gegen Abschiebelager durchgef�hrt, wie die im Video gezeigte Demontage des Abschiebelagers in der Via Mattei in Bologna am 25. Januar 2002. Dazu kommen Versuche, den "sozialen Ungehorsam" als kollektive Praxis unterschiedlicher Gruppen weiterzuentwickeln, Waren- und Kommunikationsfl�sse zu blockieren, Streiks einzelner Gruppen zu generalisieren, Generalstreiks zu planen und durchzuf�hren. Die Gespr�che mit den Disobbedienti wurden im Juli 2002 in Bologna und Genua auf Italienisch gef�hrt. Das Video "Disobbedienti" gibt es mit deutscher und englischer Untertitelung. Konzept, Interviewvorbereitung, Schnitt, Realisation: Oliver Ressler Interviews, konzeptionelle Mitarbeit, �bersetzung: Dario Azzellini Kamera: Claudio Ruggieri Ton: Rainer Antesberger Gespr�chspartnerInnen: Luca Casarini, Ulia Conti, Gianmarco de Pieri, Enrico Ludovici, Federico Martelloni, Francesco Raparelli, Francesca Ruocco ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:16:35 -0100 From: nettime's_roving_reporter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Rhizome.org Benefit February 25 Honorary Chairperson Yoko Ono Honorary Co-Chairpersons Morgan Fairchild Yvonne Force Villareal & Leo Villareal Chairpersons Jeffrey A. Dachis Rachel Greene, Raymond J. McGuire And the Board of Directors of Rhizome.org invite you to an evening of dining, dancing, and digital art in honor of our friend and founding board member David Ross. Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7PM Cocktails 8PM Dinner 9:30PM Dancing 540 West 21st Street, New York City Benefit Committee Sandra Gering & Russell Calabrese Sue de Beer, Devon Dikeou, Matthew Dontzin Nadine Hack & Jerry Dunfey, Ruth Lloyds & Bil Ehrlich Lia Gangitano, Richard Gluckman, Iara Lee & George Gund Robert Hammond, John G. Hanhardt, Walter Hopps Todd James , Claire Jervert, John Johnson, Paul Judelson Hedy & Arnold Kanarick, Christiane Paul & John Klima Pamela & Richard Kramlich, Julian Laverdiere Ann Tenenbaum &, Thomas H. 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If you would prefer not to receive emails like this one in the future, you can opt out at http://rhizome.org/preferences/email.rhiz. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:12:04 -0500 From: [email protected] Subject: BitParts Digital Art Festival FACT presents BitParts, a series of seven newly commissioned digital arts projects by leading British and international artists. The works will be premiered in venues across the West Midlands between February and April 2003. These projects include: Paul Sermon’s interactive Peace Talks and Gair Dunlop & Dan Norton's Console, a modern, stripped down version of a control room open at Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, 1 February - 1 March. Paul Sermon’s piece presents an absurdist virtual theatre in which the performer/users unwittingly participate in a simulated peace talks conference. Dunlop and Norton’s joint project explores the ‘Industrial Sublime’, in which mighty technological forces are seen to be the powerhouse of the workplace. Lucy Kimbell unveils The Most Beautiful Thing in the Gallery, her interactive installation at New Art Gallery, Walsall, 14 February – 30 March. She takes as her point of departure the commonly held view that art’s value is in accordance with its beauty. Presenting us with statements defining beauty, her artwork is essentially a 3-D questionnaire where our response to the title of the work is registered by a hidden computer, which aggregates our replies and calculates a score, effectively issuing a performance rating for the piece. Austrian artist Herwig Weiser will be presenting a major new work, The Intimator at The Custard Factory, Birmingham, 28 February – 15 March. This project continues the artist’s exploration into the representation and reinterpretation of the raw stock that fires new technologies by creating a remarkable sound sculpture containing reactive magnetic substances modulated via a live internet based sound source. Ken Feingold’s animatronic installation, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (Virtual); and Alison Craighead and Jon Thomson’s internet-based Weather Gauge open at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, 8 March - 26 April. Feingold’s latest project features three virtual characters whose personality, vocabulary, habits and obsessions are embodiments of ways of thinking about human nature and violence. Weather Gauge is a deceptively simple installation which presents live-linked information publicly accessible via a world weather site. Numerical weather data from over 150 countries is projected on the gallery wall accompanied by a soundtrack arranged from web radio streams. By re-presenting this found material, the artists hope to produce ‘an hypnotic abstraction of what in reality amounts to just a grid of numbers, place names and songs.’ BitParts also includes a series of internet TV programmes by artists Geoff Broadway, Jose Ferreira and the collective C21 Vox’s. These will broadcast on the Superchannel network (www.superchannel.org). BitParts is supported by regional arts board, West Midlands Arts, who are committed to developing digital arts practice in the region and to supporting the infrastructure for future commissioning and exhibition. FACT was selected by West Midlands Arts, to commission and manage this important digital arts initiative, in recognition of FACT’s expertise in this area. FACT is the UK’s leading agency for the commissioning, production and presentation of artists’ film, video and new media, and in February 2003 opens the FACT Centre, a major new centre for film, art and creative technology, in Liverpool. BitParts also coincides with Metapod, an annual showcase of innovative, experimental digital media arts in Birmingham, 28 February – 3 March 2003. BitParts also presents a series of artists’ talks and seminars exploring the range of issues and ideas suggested by these artworks, such as artificial intelligence and creative developments in streaming media. Ken Feingold is in conversation at the Music Hall, Shrewsbury, 8 March at 2.00pm. Paul Sermon is in conversation at Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, 8 February at 2.00pm. For further information please contact either: Vanessa Booth on 0121 685 2621 x 29 email: [email protected] Or Eddie Berg at FACT on 0151 707 4444 www.fact.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:45:25 +0100 From: "adriaaN" <[email protected]> Subject: ART IN OUTPUT 2003: lost and found This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0090_01C2C6F5.09AA2D30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ART IN OUTPUT 2003: lost and found Festival on the intersection of art, technology and society =20 February 17 - March 2 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Eindhoven, The Netherlands =20 http://www.artinoutput.nl =20 ART IN OUTPUT is a biennial festival in the field of art, technology, = and society. The Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and its over 6000 = students constitutes a unique supportive environment for the festival.=20 Technology is an increasingly common aspect of modern art. The merge of = art and technology in ART IN OUTPUT has the unusual benefit of being = embedded in an environment of advanced technological research and = education. =20 ART IN OUTPUT 2003: lost and found takes a look at data files as if they = were objects from the lost and found department of an airport or railway = station. Once upon a time the suitcase was part of a meaningful context: = the life of its owner. Having been found but not collected, it becomes a = fragment that can be given any desired function or meaning by an = outsider. =20 The heart of the festival is a major exhibition of media art. Other = elements of the festival are the seminar lost data, a continuous video = program, the multimedia theatre show Chinese Whispers and a film night.=20 A special feature of the festival is the Hidden Track project. =20 =20 =20 Exhibition of interactive art installations February 17 - March 2 =20 People are collectors. What started as a necessity, gathering food to = survive the winter, has become a goal in itself. The collecting craze = has many faces, from chaotic kitchen drawers full of rubbish to neatly = organized stamp collections. In the digital era all practical barriers = for collecting have disappeared. We can store almost anything as digital = data, and that's exactly what we do; wanted and unwanted, conscious and = unconscious. =20 The interactive installations at the ART IN OUTPUT exhibition reflect = the data-collection-craze of the digital era in their own unique ways. = The tricky questions remain the same: How do you visualize data? How do = you ever find anything? How can you get rid of your collection? Or how = do you create even more data? And what about privacy? =20 The following works are exhibited: =20 You think therefore I am (following you) - Magali Desbazeille and = Siegfried Canto (France) Remain in light - Haruki Nishijima (Japan)=20 The giver of names - David Rokeby (Canada) S.N.O.W.D.O.M.E. reanimated - Jennifer Petterson (Sweden/Netherlands) Homo indicium - Ioannis Yessios (USA) Summoned voices - Iain Mott en Marc Raszewski (Australia) DAP Disguises - Roel Wouters (Netherlands) =20 =20 =20 Hidden Track A mobile multimedia installation. February 26 - March 2 A bus is useful but can be rather dull. It takes groups of people from A = to B, but as a passenger you can do little else but stare straight ahead = while underway. Looking out of the window many images flash by - = stimulations of the retina. Now imagine the bus commenting on what you = see. Imagine it providing you with background information. This would = turn your bus ride into an audiovisual experience! Hidden Track is a bus containing a multimedia installation that during = the ride responds to its surroundings; location, speed and acceleration = generate a continuous flow of sounds inside the bus. Sounds that tell = you about the surroundings and your journey. Between February 26 and March 2, Hidden Track will function as a shuttle = service between the DEAF festival in Rotterdam, and the ART IN OUTPUT = festival in Eindhoven. Tickets for the trip can be bought at both = festivals. Hidden Track is a co production of ART IN OUTPUT and DEAF03, and is = realized by artists' collective e-Xplo (USA). =20 Chinese Whispers February 26-28 =20 Chinese Whispers is a musical theater performance consisting of = compositions by Nora Crane, Alison Isadora, Christoph Maria Wagner, = Harry de Wit and Yorrit Tamminga, that are performed as one coherent = entity Chinese Whispers takes its lead from the children's game where a message = is passed on by whispering, and the content of the message slowly = changes. Here, it is the composers whispering their message to the light = designer, and the light designer to the video-artist, and so on. Chinese Whispers is a theatrical performance of five compositions, in = which the composers have whispered there message to the light designer, = the light designer to the video artist, and so on. Chinese Whispers is a location performance developed for the unique = space of the former university laboratory for high pressure experiments, = the GASLAB. =20 =20 Composers: Nora Crane, Alison Isadora, = Christoph Maria Wagner, Harry de Wit, Yorrit Tamminga=20 Musicians: John Addison, Marcel = Andriessen, Stefani Liedtke, Jacob Plooy, Lorenda Ramou, Andrea = Zierleyn, Maartje de Lint=20 Instrument builders: Harry de Wit e.a. Direction & video installation Henk Schut =20 =20 =20 =20 More information is available on: http://www.artinoutput.nl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:12:18 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]> Subject: FreeNetworks Conference 2003 From: "Cory Doctorow" <[email protected]> The FreeNetworks Conference (FN-CON) 2003 is focused on giving the public an in-depth look into the the fast growing worldwide movement of Community Wireless Networking (CWN). FN-CON aims to gather the experts and implementors in community wireless networking groups from across the globe, innovators from the wired community and municipal networks, and the technologists designing the hardware for future phases of this amazing movement. The conference will combine overviews of the technologies and motivations, status reports from the frontline, and in-depth coverage of implementation details that provide the conference attendee with the knowledge to bootstrap a CWN in their own locale. Link: http://con.freenetworks.org/cfp.phtml Discuss: http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/UzvAgqa2nyvs (Thanks, Schuyler! [http://nocat.net]) - -- Posted by Cory Doctorow to Boing Boing Blog at 1/29/2003 10:58:40 AM Powered by Blogger Pro - ---- > http://con.freenetworks.org/cfp.phtml Overview The FreeNetworks Conference (FN-CON) 2003 is focused on giving the public an in-depth look into the the fast growing worldwide movement of Community Wireless Networking (CWN). In the past few years, these decentralized, non-commercial networks have gained world recognition and populist support as the adoption of the IEEE Standard for wireless ethernet, 802.11b, more commonly known as WiFi has gained ground. FN-CON will show you how these networks started, the directions they are taking, and provide you with enough technical knowledge to bootstrap your own networking group. FN-CON aims to gather the experts and implementors in community wireless networking groups from across the globe, innovators from the wired community and municipal networks, and the technologists designing the hardware for future phases of this amazing movement for a conference like no other. The conference will combine overviews of the technologies and motivations, status reports from the frontline, and in-depth coverage of implementation details that provide the conference attendee with the knowledge to bootstrap their own CWN in their locale. The conference will start with one day of in-depth, hands-on tutorial. Attendees will leave the tutorial with a working piece of hardware that they can build, configure and replicate for use in their own community wireless network. The second and third day will be done in standard fashion with multiple tracks and multiple speakers on each track. Purpose Bring together both wireless and wired FreeNetworks participants. Educate people on the benefits and impact of FreeNetworks. Enable people to use available technologies (802.11b and others) and to prepare for future technologies. Showcase the status of FreeNetworks worldwide and learn from the experience of the early adopters. Discuss upcoming social, political and technological developments that affect the FreeNetworks movement. Where Alexis Park Resort - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA When June 6-8, 2003 Call For Papers We are now accepting presentation proposals for FN-CON. Here are some possible topics that come to mind however we are in no way limiting it to these, and we expect that you will have some creative ideas in addition to those listed below: New advanced routing protocols that could benefit Free Networks and ad-hoc networks in general, reports on use of said protocols in a real world environment. Examples of community networks in use serving a real world purpose that may or may not be possible on traditional carrier-built networks. Research and development of networking technologies that can help further the FreeNetworks movement. Applications/tools which might be considered useful for FreeNetworks. Hands on tutorials that will enable people to build their own wireless router or some other cool and useful wireless device. What To Send Us A brief description (two, three paragraphs max) of your topic. Your bio, resume, portfolio or whatever you have that says something about your experience, why you are qualified to discuss said topic and any other major achievements you may have accomplished. Please include URLs wherever possible. If you plan on doing something other than a traditional slideshow, please let us know of any special requirements you may have; i.e. duelling projectors, laser shows, two turntables and a microphone. We want to know if you will need anything other than the usual projector and PA setup. Contact unformation; at the very least, you must provide us with an email address that you check on a frequent basis. Physical address and phone numbers if you desire. Submit material in ASCII or PDF format to [email protected]. Program Committee SeattleWireless - Ken Caruso (Chair), Matt Westervelt Bay Area Wireless Users Group - Matt Peterson, Cliff Skolnick, Tim Pozar NYCwireless - Terry Schmidt, Ben Serebin Consume - Ben Laurie NoCat - Rob Flickenger Security Travel - Tina Greene Sponsorship Think you would like to sponsor what has the potential to be one of the coolest and most unique conferences yet? Please let us know. Last Modified 01/15/03 @ 22:34 PST - -- DRM is Theft! We are the Stakeholders! New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cc/cc.html I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:33:18 +0100 From: "Le Musee di-visioniste" <[email protected]> Subject: Press Release - MasterPlan Press Release "Le Musee di-visioniste" www.le-musee-divisioniste.org is happy to launch its latest online showcase within the 'Featured artists' series, entitled "MasterPlan" net-based art works ****************************************** The exhibition is open from 30 January 2003 and will run until May/June 2003, but will be available online for permanent afterwards ****************************************** "Edition 06 of Featured Artists series, entitled "MasterPlan" is featuring following artists: 1. Daniel Young, USA 2. Patrick Simons/Kate Southworth, UK 3. jimpunk, France 4. Dan Norton, Scotland 5. Nicolas Clauss, France ******************************************** "MasterPlan" represents an exhibition reporting about five most individual artists' personalities each one following a strong individual conception: a "MasterPlan" determining the course of events. Daniel Young, collects in his generative project "NewZoid" continously daily news, chops them up and endlessly reassembles the pieces into absurd, funny, shocking and thought-provoking headlines, resulting a kind of "infotherapy". The artists Patrick Simons and Kate Southworth investigate in their collaborative project "Glorious Ninth" the material world and communicate their findings using many different approaches to 'knowing'. jimpunk explores in his >www.nowar.nogame.or-project< controlling and the hypnotic feeling of being contolled and helpless. Dan Norton opens in his generative project "ablab" interactive fields and lets the users search for the limits of 2D-interactivity. Nicolas Claus collects in his "Flying Puppet" project examples of human entaglements. The selection of the four works <The Cry, The Sleepers, Trauma and Before the night> shows the artist/user as the "Creator" holding the human individual (like a puppet on string) who remains unable to escape from the "MasterPlan". ****************************************** The exhibition "MasterPlan" is curated and created by Agricola de Cologne. ****************************************** Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org is an online museum based on a philosophical idea, currently partially under reconstruction, and corporative member of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork, the experimental platform for art in Internet. Agricola de Cologne, multi-disciplinary media artist from Germany is the creator, founder, editor, producer of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork and its seven corporate sites. ***************************************** www.le-musee-divisioniste.org www.a-virtual-memorial.org PRESS NewMediaArtProjectNetwork contact: [email protected] ******************************* Minimum technical requirements: 1024x768 VGA resolution, soundCard Pentium III 800 Mhz or comparable MAC Flash 6, MS Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Netscape 6.0+ minimum 56K or 64K ISDN modem, recommended DSL highspeed modem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:40:45 +0100 From: Oliver Ressler <[email protected]> Subject: BANQUETE =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=2D?= international traveling exhibition This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------070204060204050607000703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit BANQUETE international traveling exhibition Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona (January/March 2003) ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (May/August 2003) Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid (September/November 2003) Concept and direction: Karin Ohlenschl�ger / Luis Rico Curators: Iv�n de la Nuez / Karin Ohlenschl�ger / Luis Rico / Peter Weibel Humanity is made up of an irregular tapestry of relations involving six thousand million individuals who are co-evolving within an ecosystem of limited resources. The complexity of contemporary experience, and the diversity of sensibilities and outlooks mingling within this tapestry, together with the vertiginous process of transformation in which we are immersed on a global scale, have generated countless tensions and uncertainties. "Their comprehension requires us to overcome lineal and monosectorial technical schemas to arrive at a totally different hermeneutics if we wish to approach this new reality". (Jos� Vidal Beneyto). In this context, banquete has been conceived of as an exploratory and open conversation between art, science, thought and society. A conversation understood as a process in which information and values, experiences, knowledge and meanings flow, mingle and act reciprocally; in which they are revealed by means of a metabolic process that synthesises and transforms the abstract ingredients and materials that shape daily experience. [...] The project banquete formulates the analogy between metabolism and communication as a productive mechanism that makes it possible to carry out a critical, and also propositional analysis of the models and instruments that govern flows of food and information; study the possible extrapolation of dynamics, processes and structures from one field to another, for the purpose of determining some of the symptoms - tensions, dysfunctions, contradictions, interferences or abuses, among others - and also the potentialities that characterise a global metabolic process that includes materials, information and energy, as well as people, symbols, ideas and emotions. Likewise, banquete proposes to establish relations between different metabolic scales that range from endosomatic processes in the spheres of physics, biology and the cognitive sciences, to social, political, economic and cultural dimensions, interpreted as a species of exosomatic, collective metabolism. Overall, the aim of banquete is to articulate a choral seismograph capable of registering new transdisciplinary cartographies; explore and develop a multidimensional and interdependent dialogical vision of interconnected processes, and try out new ways of thinking and perceiving the world. Invited artists: Marina Abramovic (Holland/Serbia) Joseph Beuys (Germany) Mark Boswell (USA) Tania Bruguera (Cuba) Maureen Connor (USA) Daniel Crooks (Australia) Douglas Davis (USA) Juan Downey (Chile) Peter Fend (USA) Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz (USA) Daniel Garc�a And�jar (Spain) Ramon Guardans (Spain) & Adolf Mathias (Germany) & Martin Sch�ttler (Germany) Jenny Holzer (USA) Knowbotic Research (Switzerland) Hilla Lulu Lin (Israel) Gordon Matta-Clark (USA) Ryoichi Majima (Japan) Lisa May Post (Holland) Nicos Navridis (Greece) Nam June Paik (South Korea/USA) & Charlotte Moorman (USA) Oliver Ressler (Austria) Jill Scott (Australia) Paul Sermon (Great Britain) Jiri Suruvka (Czech Republic) Minnette Vari (South Africa) Liu Wei (China) Peter Weibel (Austria) Oliver Ressler (Austria) is part of the exhibition with the work THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!, 38 min, 2002 This video records a banned march against the World Economic Forum that took place in Salzburg in July 2001. The central theme of this documentary is the suspension of a basic democratic right, that of protest, and reflection on the physical and structural violence exercised by state power, and which in this case took the shape of a seven-hour police siege of around 900 people. The video also alludes to media manipulation, the tendency to criminalise any expression of dissidence whilst legitimising a supranational economic and financial structure that, although not instituted democratically, nevertheless exercises power of decision over millions of people all over the world. Video material from Indymedia Austria, Filmliga Linz, Offscreen-Offenes Film Forum Salzburg, UTV Vienna and Oliver Ressler. http://www.t0.or.at/democracy # 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]