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[new and old nettimers may (not) know that, under the growing and contradictory pressures of more and more announcements from around the world, we set up an independently maintained list for events, exhibitions, publications: nettime-ann. sample below, with un/sub info. -- mod (tb)] ----- Forwarded From: [email protected] Subject: nettime-ann Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3 To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:54:38 +0100 (CET) Send nettime-ann mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of nettime-ann digest..." ________//* nettime-ann list *\\________ Today's Topics: 1. [event] [Amsterdam] 'A Decade of Webdesign' (Institute of Network Cultures) 2. [list] the Sarai Urban Study Group List, India (Curt Gambetta) 3. [event] [Berlin] Superfactory(TM) @ hack.it.art - Berlin ([email protected]) 4. [art] nznl.com digest Dec 30, 2004 - Jan 5, 2005 (Geert Dekkers) 5. [event] [Amsterdam feb12] PRECAIR FORUM: flexible labour/migration/the city (geert) 6. [news] new radio product (Doug Henwood) 7. [call] [site] Meta-CC.net: Launch imminent, call for participants/contributors (alex killough) 8. [link] o:ecs ([email protected]) 9. [event] [Barcelona] CONVERSATION METANARRATIVE(S)? (Raquel Herrera) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:43:11 -0600 From: "Institute of Network Cultures" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [event] [Amsterdam] 'A Decade of Webdesign' To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ----------------------------- A Decade of Webdesign Two day international conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Friday 21 and Saturday 22 January, 2005. More information & registration at www.decadeofwebdesign.org Entrance fee (including lunch): 30 euros per day / 50 euros for two days, Students: 17,50 / 30 euros Make web history at www.designtimeline.org! Organization: Piet Zwart Institute, MA Media Design Research, Rotterdam (http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/) Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam (www.networkcultures.org) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (www.stedelijk.nl) ----------------------------- Conference Programme: FRIDAY JANUARY 21 10:20 Doors Open 10:45 Introduction to the conference by Geert Lovink 11:00 Histories of Web Design with: Adrian Mackenzie, Peter Lunenfeld, Franziska Nori chair: Matthew Fuller What do technical and cultural historians, or those active in the world of museums, propose as ways to make an account of the last decade? 13:00 Lunch break & Timeline Hot Spots 14:00 Distributed Design with: John Chris Jones, Olia Lialina, Hayo Wagenaar chair: Femke Snelting The web amplified an explosion of non-professional design. This panel will ask what happens to design once it becomes a non-specialist network process. 16:00 Tea break & Timeline Hot Spots 16:30 Meaning Structures with: Steven Pemberton, Angela Beesley, Schoenerwissen/OfCD Moderator: Richard Rogers As automated site-design becomes increasingly important, the history of the interweaving of technology and culture up to the point of semantic engineering is mapped out. 18:00 End 18:30 Conference dinner at the Westergasterras SATURDAY JANUARY 22 10.30 Doors open 11:00 Digital Work with: Danny O'Brien, Michael Indergaard, Rosalind Gill Moderator: Geert Lovink Can we redesign work? From economics, sociology and design, key observers and critics of the changing patterns of work in web design will comment on the decade and encourage you to have your say. 13:00 Lunchbreak & Timeline Hot Spots 14:00 Modeling the User with: Helen Petrie, Geke van Dijk, Peter Luining Moderator: Caroline Nevejan Creativity and usability have often been set up as the two key poles of web design. This panel asks instead for a more sophisticated narrative about the change in understanding of user needs and desires over the last ten years. 16:00 Tea break & Timeline Hot Spots 16:30 Plenary Session With all speakers. 18:00 - 19:30 Drinks at Club 11 Don't forget to register at www.decadeofwebdesign.org Also, please check the resource section for interviews with Max Bruinsma and Luna Maurer, and extended bios of the speakers, by INC researcher Goran Batic. http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/resource.html ----------------------------- Sabine Niederer Institute of Network Cultures www.networkcultures.org sabine [at] networkcultures.org ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:44:33 -0600 From: "Curt Gambetta" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [list] the Sarai Urban Study Group List, India To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, We would like to announce the Urban Study Group mailing list for research and discussions on urbanism in South Asia. The South Asian metropolis, like many other global cities, has been rapidly remade in the past fifteen years. The urban environment has experienced dizzying shifts in regimes of property, notions of citizenship/urban politics, and the very physical familiarity of the street or neighborhood. Just as we witness the new elite urbanism of malls, multiplex cinemas, and gated residential communities, we also observe growing counter claims to urban territory in a politics that is rooted in daily life. In what ways do people make claims to the city? What challenges do new forms of urbanism and urban politics pose to existing understandings of the city? There are many forums of discussion currently taking place in India and abroad on the city and its many processes. We hope this list will build on these existing local networks of researchers, students and practitioners. We are also seeking dialogue from other Asian and Third World contexts in order to generate new inquiries and draw critical linkages between analogous urban experiences. http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudygroup This list is a member of Sarai.net, based in Delhi. For more information on Sarai?s mailing lists and programs, please see: http://www.sarai.net/ Regards, Curt Gambetta and Solomon Benjamin, list administrators, Bangalore, India. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:15:26 -0600 From: <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [event] [Berlin] Superfactory(TM) @ hack.it.art - Berlin To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ____- \__/ .. Superfactory(TM) "The problem is NOT copyright or licences, stupid! It's production!" (Anonymus) @ hack.it.art Italian Hacktivism and Net Culture Event Exhibition and Event presented by AHA - Activism-Hacking-Artivism 14th January - 27th February 2005 @ hack.it.art - opening - friday - 14.01.2005 - 19:00 hrs @ Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin You can participate in the super factory in 5 easy steps: Enter (0) As a prosumer you get a bag with a manual and a map, and an original audio-cd with rip-material. (1) Play the ASCII MEMEX Game - "Be A Winner!" and get an antenna for your own Mini-FM transmitter. (2) Join the DIY building of Mini-FM kits at the workshop. (3) Make up your own pirate radio station and broadcast on your own MHz-frequenzy your private/public underground radioshow. (4) Meet, connect, share and mix with the others at the Plug-in Party. (Don't) bring your favourite gadget: MP3/CD/USB-Stick/USB-Drive/ iPOD/GameBoy/Notebook/Audiocassette/WorldReceiver/MD/... (5) You are live on Superfactory Channel TV. Exit by pi-radio & displaced dilemma http://www.superfactory.biz The ASCII MEMEX Game is sponsored by idn Marketing Service Klaus Steputat http://www.idn-box.de ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:20:34 -0600 From: "Geert Dekkers" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [art] nznl.com digest Dec 30, 2004 - Jan 5, 2005 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII nznl.com digest Dec 30, 2004 - Jan 5, 2005 http://nznl.com Dec 30, 2004 I WOULDN'T KNOW IF IT IS MY TONGUE IN MY CHEEK OR MY ARSE ON THE LINE. 2010, INSTALLATION PIECE, FOUND OBJECTS, PLASTER OF PARIS, WEB SITE drawing http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20041230 Dec 31, 2004 (untitled flash movie) http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20041231 Jan 1, 2005 PLAN FOR A SHOW FOR 5295 PEOPLE, MARVELLING, 2010, WHITE CUBE, PLASTER OF PARIS http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20050101 Jan 2, 2005 (untitled drawing) http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20050102 Jan 3, 2005 (untitled fireworks file) http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20050103 Jan 4, 2005 (untitled quicktime vr movie) http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20050104 Jan 5, 2005 PLAN FOR AN "AFTER THE PARTY" INSTALLATION PIECE, 2010, POLYMERES, ACRYLICS, FOUND OBJECTS drawing http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag=20050105 ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:17:19 -0600 From: "geert" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [event] [Amsterdam feb12] PRECAIR FORUM: flexible labour/migration/the city To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Flexmens, Greenpepper Project and SearchWeb present: PRECAIR FORUM: flexible labour/migration/the city A one-day series of forums and workshops examining the precarisation of everyday life within and beyond the Netherlands ? intersecting the changing nature of work (flex/temp/contingent) and production (knowledge-based and immaterial), migration and informal economies, and new strategies for metropolitan struggles. Issues include: flexibilisation, social exclusion, migration and illegalisation, urban regeneration and gentrification, tactics for re-appropriating the city, organising toward EuroMayDay 2005 and demanding social rights to open citizenship, housing and income and more. Featuring: (to be confirmed): local groups such as Vrije Ruimte, OKIA, SASH, NextGenderation and international speakers including Precarias a la Deriva (Madrid, Spain), Maurizio Lazzarato (France), London Particular (London, UK), and P2P Fightsharing (Rome, Italy) and more (tbc) When: 12 February 2005, 14:00 ? 19:00 Where: Plantage Doklaan 12, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Forum is free, but email <[email protected]> to register. For more information and updates, see http://www.precairforum.nl/ or go to our wiki page at www.greenpeppermagazine.org/process ??????????.. Background: Recent years have seen the rise of a knowledge-based economy based on immaterial production (of information and services etc) and flexible labour. This economy is one that requires us to permanently school ourselves, to adapt and move to its rhythms - animated as these are (it is said) by technology, innovation and other codewords for permanent improvement. Yet, as is clear to those put to work in it, it is an economy that operates by producing various kinds of ?precarity? - or social and economic insecurity ? as a structural feature of everyday life. Precarity ? which literally means to be continually uncertain of your own future - and the neoliberal organisation of work are tightly interconnected. Whether as legal or illegalised migrants, as unemployed workers without welfare-state guarantees or as freelancers, temps, part-timers, students or flexworkers, ?flexibility? means the permanent fragility of one?s income, job or housing. It is migrants, undocumented and illegalised workers that disproportionately bear the burden of precarisation. From factory work to agricultural production, domestic labour to sex work, irregular work through familial networks to various forms of self-employment, migrant workers are forced to endure a situation of perpetual social and job insecurity - that is neither temporary nor exceptional ? under the continual threat of blackmail, detention or expulsion. Yet traditional unionization and appeals to citizenship rights are failing to resolve these problems, and there is a pressing need to forge new strategies. And so we find ourselves in a precarious city - a metropolis shaped by processes of gentrification, social exclusion, speculation and mobility, while marked by the erosion of public space, privatization of social housing, by displacement and eviction. Yet, in the Netherlands, the term ?precarity? is little known and rarely used by those most affected by the worst excesses of neoliberalism. Across the rest of Europe, various groups have used the idea of precarity tomake connections between conflicts and to allow them to communicate and circulate. For example, in France it is ?intermittents? (temp workers in the cultural industries), ?sans-papiers? (undocumented workers) and ?chomeurs? (unemployed) who recognise themselves in each others? struggles and situations. In Spain and Italy a number of groups are campaigning around the issue of precarity, such as the flexworkers? syndicate Chainworkers (Milan) and the research collective Precarias a la Deriva (Madrid). In 2004, the First of May was celebrated in Milan and Barcelona by 100.000 people protesting against their precarity and exploitation in the so-called "flexible, modern" neoliberal economy [http://www.euromayday.org]. The Precair Forum ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:33:39 -0600 From: "Doug Henwood" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [news] new radio product To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Finally, after a long postscript-writing and holiday merrymaking, five shows have been freshly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. They are: December 30, 2004 Leslie McCall, professor of sociology & women's studies at Rutgers, on inequality in the U.S. December 23, 2004 Maya Rockeymoore of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, on Social Security privatization's risk to black Americans * Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill, on the Vioxx recall and related matters December 9, 2004 Bertha Lewis, co-chair of the Working Families Party, on their major role in raising the New York State minimum wage and lowering maximum drug sentences * Jamie Galbraith on the U.S. dollar and such November 18, 2004 Nomi Prins, author of Other People's Money, on Wall Street & corporate American in the 1990s * Anatol LIeven, author of America Right or Wrong, on American nationalism November 11, 2004 Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows & Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, on his reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq They join: --------- * Chalmers Johnson on the U.S. empire * Jagdish Bhatwati on globalization * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the arrested political development of the global justice movement * Ralph Nader, at the Council on Foreign Relations, on foreign policy * Susie Bright on sex and politics * Richard Burkholder of Gallup on that firm's Iraq polls * Anatol Lieven on Iraq * Cynthia Enloe on masculinity in the Bush administration (and oil) * Laura Flanders on Bushwomen * Carlos Mejia, deserter from Iraq * Norman Kelley on the crisis in black politics * Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * Lisa Jervis on feminism & pop culture * Joel Schalit on anti-Semitism * Robert Fatton on Haiti * Gary Younge on a foreign journalist's view of the U.S. * Ursula Huws on work and why capitalism has avoided crisis * Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon) * Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability * Corey Robin on the neocons * Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy * Michael Hardt on Empire (several times, the last June 2004) * Judith Levine on kids & sex * Walden Bello on the World Social Forum and alternative development models * Christopher Hitchens on Orwell and his new political affiliations ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:35:34 -0600 From: "alex killough" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [call] [site] Meta-CC.net: Launch imminent, call for participants/contributors To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Meta-CC.net Progress Report January 7, 2005 - the innerweb of conglomco Meta-cc is a project deisgned to allow for realtime, dynamic commentary creation, criticising mainstream television news. Meta-cc is in its final phases of testing and integration. Conglomco estimates a full launch of the Meta-cc engine by mid-January/early February 2005. Currently we have a fully functioning searchable rss-cache, a user editable keyword database, and have implemented functioning video streaming solutions. For more information about the project and how all of this relates, visit http://meta-cc.net In preparation for the site launch, we would like to invite early adopters to participate by adding to our database their blogs, the blogs of those they admire/despise, and keywords they feel appropriate to properly parse the murky waters of cable news. Interested parties should contact one of the project leaders from the contacts page at http://meta-cc.net Cheers, Conglomco ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:50:44 -0600 From: <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [link] o:ecs To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII hds mark noscapes2 scapes ______________________________________________oo______________________oo_______oo______________ooo___ oo_ooo___ooooo___oooo___ooooo___ooooo________________ooooo___oooo_____oo_ooo___oo____oo_oo_oo___oo___ ooo___o_oo___oo_oo___o_oo___oo_oo____o________oo_____o___oo_oo___o____ooo___o_oooo___ooo_oo__o__oo___ oo____o_oo___oo___oo___oo______ooooooo_ooooo__oo____oo___oo___oo______oo____o__oo____oo__oo__o__oo___ oo____o_oo___oo_o___oo_oo______oo_____________oo____oo___oo_o___oo_oo_oo____o__oo__o_oo__oo__o__oo___ oo____o__ooooo___oooo___ooooo___ooooo________oooo_o_ooooo____oooo__oo_oo____o___ooo__oo______o_ooooo_ __________________________________________________oooo_______________________________________________ http://noemata.net/nosce-ips.html __ log isbn 82-92428-10-0 ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:52:41 -0600 From: "Raquel Herrera" <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime-ann> [event] [Barcelona] CONVERSATION METANARRATIVE(S)? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII The Vth Symposium on Art & Multimedia/Metanarrative(s)? will be held soon (28th-29th January 2005, Barcelona, Spain). As a "warm-up exercise", we the coordinators of the symposium (media art historian and curator Antoni Mercader + me) have published an online conversation about the origin of the symposium and the term "metanarratives". Please check it at> http://metanarratives.blogspot.com You can also check the invited speakers at>http://www.mediatecaonline.net/metanarratives Hoping to have your feedback about this project :> Raquel Herrera ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann End of nettime-ann Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3 ****************************************** ----- Backwarded # 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]