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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 98/02
- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates
- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription
* Introduction *
Dear friends,
it's hardly surprising: with the early arrival of spring, the wandering
birds a cleaning their feathers and the syndicalists are planning their
next meetings. Edi Muka has invited us to come to Tirana at the end of May,
and there is a growing number of people who are announcing their
participation in this deeply European event. We are a little worried about
the political situation in Albania and in Kosovo, but we hope that things
will not escalate and that we can go to Tirana anyway. Going there can be
an important gesture and support for our friends who are working there. The
details are listed below, and I want to encourage you to let Edi or me know
if you want to come as well. Accommodation will be provided by the hosts,
while travel will have to be arranged by the guests (that's us). For
support with invitations, visa, etc., please get in touch. We plan to turn
this into a nice, energetic meeting!
The Virtual Revolutions workshop series (see below, Updates) is also an
important opportunity for a large group of artists connected to the
Syndicate to meet and work together in Sofia, Rotterdam, Tornio and
Manchester. The deadline for applications is 20 March.
We have had more subscriptions to this list over the past month, and
membership is now approaching 250. The Syndicate is a network of people who
share an interest in media culture and media art, and who are seeking
cooperation and exchange in this field, mainly within Europe. There is a
large number of people on the list who never post things and who don't
respond to calls. It would be good to hear from you from time to time -
little reports to the list that say what you are doing are perfect! I
sometimes get requests for subscriptions from people who say they are
interested to receive 'news about art events in Europe'. Although a lot of
the postings on this list are just that, it is not something that should be
the priority for people to join. If this list was a mere information
channel, and not a means of communication and a way to plan or announce new
projects and stay in touch in-between meetings, it would be far less
interesting and might not last. There are, at the moment, too many people
who are not contributing to this conversation, and I would like to
encourage everybody to become visible. If you post things to
<[email protected]> it goes out unfiltered to everybody, the list is still
unmoderated.
There are 26 people from Yugoslavia on this list, mainly from Belgrade and
Novi Sad, and it would be great if we could have a meeting there at some
point in the future. Maybe you could first arrange a local meeting for
everybody to get to know each other, and then plan a bigger, international
meeting, possibly for next year.
This week, a bunch of Berliners + satellites founded a new Verein, called
mikro, which is devoted to the 'advancement of media cultures in Berlin'.
Most of them are Syndicalists, and one of the plans is to organise a
network-node-event at some point.
Anyway, stay in touch, and I hope to see you soon - maybe in Stockholm,
Osnabrueck, Sofia, Tirana, or wherever,
best wishes,
-a
* Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions *
(check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these
events)
- 13 - 18 March 1997: Film & Architecture, Berlin/D
- 17 - 31 March 1998: Installation Festival 1998, Budapest/HU
- 18 April - 3 May 1998: Avatar, Amsterdam/NL
- 23 - 26 April 1998: Shaking Hands and Making Conflicts, Stockholm/SE
- 4 - 10 May 1998: BREAK 21, Ljubljana/SI
- 6 - 10 May 1998: EMAF - European Media Art Festival 1998, Osnabrueck/D
- 10 - 15 May 1998: Gioconda's Smile, Chisinau/MD
- 13 - 17 May 1998: 9th Impakt Festival, Utrecht/NL
- 19 - 24 May 1998: VIPER, Lucerne/CH
- 28 - 31 May 1998: PiraMedia, Tirana/AL
- 18 - 20 June 1998: SONAR 98, Barcelona/ES
- 26 - 28 June 1998: 3rd International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, Budapest/HU
- 1 - 30 July 1998: Polar Circuit 2, Tornio/Lapland/FI
- September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D
- 2 - 7 September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK
- 3 - 6 September 1998: Subfiction - 3. Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz/D
- 7 - 12 September 1998: ars electronica, Linz/AT
- 18 - 23 September 1998: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL
- 2 - 10 October 1998: L'Immagine Leggera, Palermo/IT
- 8 - 18 October 1998: MuuMediaFestival, Helsinki/Fi
- 15 - 25 October 1998: Nouveau Cinema/Nouveaux Medias, Montreal/CA
- 16 - 25 October 1998: Pandaemonium, London/UK
- 17 - 22 November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL
* gioconda's smile - from mythic to techno-ritual
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova from May 10 to 15
gioconda's smile is conceived as a meeting of the representatives from several
countries for a few days of collaboration in an artistic medium which is
performance. The title is essentially in order to analyze and rethink the genre
>from the viewpoint of the historical evolution of fine arts. Meanwhile the
festival will be an official presentation of performance to the local audience.
The festival will take place in city of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova from
May 10 to 15.
We advise our foreign participants to submit a project to the centre. It
should contain
photos, drawings and other explanatory materials, to indicate the place
where the artist
will perform his/their work/s and expected human / technical resources.
Curator Octavian ESANU
SCCA Chisinau
str. Bulgara 32
Chisinau 2001, Moldova
t. 373 2 26 40 81
f. 373 2 26 05 07
email: [email protected]
http://www.scca.soros.md
* Piramedia - Tirana, 28 - 31 May 1998
"Piramedia" is an invitation to adventure, first physically by going to
Tirana (yet undiscovered), and secondly to discover the new
transformations of media art practice in the new cultural environments
of East and West whith their new problematic and their new challenges.
- What's the function of media art in such territories with social and
political unrest, and such others with inarrestable technological
advancing. Is there a meeting point between the two?
- Is it possible to have an independent, critical stand towards the
media as its importance has increased in the East while in the West it
is already important?
- Are there any common features that help forming and identity of media
culture of the Eastern European countries except for the low high tech?
Can such an identity, if it exists overcome social differences caused by
ethnic and nationalist problems?
This and other issues can be topics for selection and discussion for the
Piramedia program.
This time we decided to have a light selective structure. Instead of a
jury selecting the works mailed to Albania, we chose to have several
coordinators for eventual applications in a local base.
The dead line for applications is April 12th.
Accepted formats VHS, S.VHS, Beta Cam.
Regarding contact persons, information to follow in the Syndicate
mailing list.
Edi Muka
"edi muka" <[email protected]>
cc to <[email protected]>
* ISEA98 Revolution
Liverpool 02, 03 & 04 September 1998
Nine ISEA98 Symposium Panels curated and convened by Liverpool Art School.
Please, contact the convenors if you are interested in participating in
these panels.
Deadline for receipt of full proposal 15th March 1998.
For full info, cf Syndicate 16 Feb 1998.
- EVOLUTION 2.0 - Colin Fallows ([email protected])
- ST. PETERSBURG 3.0 - Colin Fallows ([email protected])
- SONIC BOOM - Colin Fallows ([email protected])
- VISUAL LANGUAGES - David Crow ([email protected])
- MEDIATED NATIONS - John Byrne ( [email protected])
- VIRTUAL INTERVENTIONS: DIGITAL AVANT-GARDES - John Byrne
([email protected])
- DIGITAL AESTHETICS - Michelle Wardle ([email protected])
- VARIANT ARCHITECTURE(S) WITHIN CYBER-CELIBACY - Lulu Jones
([email protected])
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTIMEDIA PROFESSIONAL - Peter Fowler
([email protected])
Liverpool Art School,
John Moores University,
68 Hope Street,
Liverpool L1 9EB, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)151 231 3110 / 709 3420
Fax: +44 (0)151 231 5096
* ARS Electronica Festival 98
September 7 - 12, 1998
Linz, Austria
check: http://www.aec.at/infowar
In 1998, under the banner of "INFOWAR", the Ars Electronica Festival
of Art, Technology and Society, is appealing to artists, theoreticians
and technologists for contributions relating to the social and
political definition of the information society. The emphasis here
will lie not on technological flights of fancy, but on the fronts
drawn up in a society that is in a process of fundamental and violent
upheaval.
Gerfried Stocker/ Christine Schoepf
Ars Electronica Festival
For any additional information please contact:
Ars Electronica Festival
Jutta Schmiederer
Hauptstrasse 2
A-4040 Linz
Austria
+43-732-72 72 - 0
+43.732.72 72 - 77 fax
[email protected]
http://www.aec.at
======
PRIX Ars Electronica 98
http://prixars.orf.at
prize for artistic creativity and pioneering work in the field of
digital media. total prize money: US$ 105,058
entry deadline: april 30, 1998
* MuuMediaFestival
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki/Fi
8 - 18 October 1998
Submissions in all new media categories welcome, particularly on the theme of
'Globalization - New Geographies in Art and Media'.
More information:
MMF'98/AV-ARKKI
Tallberginkatu 1 E 76
FIN-00180 Helsinki
+358-9-685 4404
[email protected]
* Pandaemonium - London Festival of Moving Images
Lux Centre, London/UK
16 - 25 October 1998
Submissions invited to the single screen and new media sections.
Info and application form:
Pandaemonium Festival
LEA
2-4 Hoxton Square
GB-London N1 6NU
fax +44-171-684 1111
[email protected]
* Updates *
VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS
[vr]
open call for participants
---==> VR IS <==---
- a series of 4 media art workshops with a specific
on-line follow-up process
- delivered at various venues across europe in sofia,
rotterdam, tornio and manchester
---==> VR IS ABOUT <==---
- bringing diverse and international teams of artists/writers
together to work and enjoy each other's experiences at
different times & locations
- producing a cd-rom & an accompanying web-docu-narrative
which are to be presented at isea98 in liverpool &
manchester
- exploring the metaphor of revolution
- getting beyond the former east/west divide of europe
- testing the creative potential of translocality & virtuality
---==> VR IS FOR YOU IF <==---
- you are a media artist/writer who needs critical
discussion, collaborative environments and exposure more
than any instructions, or pre-defined concepts
- you would like to work in an international context and to
challenge your assumptions with other fellow artists in an
open-ended & active way
- you could sustain good working contacts in your vr
teamwork both from an on-line distance and at the workshop
venue in the period between march-october 1998
- you can communicate well in english
-----====##====-----
HOW TO APPLY FOR ONE OF THE VR WORKSHOPS?
- deadline for applying: friday, march 20, 1998
- no formal application needed
- e-mail your brief vr statement on what you would
like to achieve through participating in vr
[max 200 words] + your cv to [email protected] or
fax it to +0044 [0]151 707 2150 [c/o: illie nedkova]
- your application will be assessed through an open
submission on first come first considered basis by
the end of march 1998
- please indicate which are your first/second/third
choices regarding locations & dates. [see the vr
schedule below]
-----====##====-----
THE VR WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
[1]
######## -----====# [1]vr1/4 #====-----########
#
# profile: electronic arts at the doorstep of the communication
# revolution, aspiring to challenge the skeptic
# vision of artistic teamwork channelled
# through the means of internet remote communication
# + broad media coverage of the communication process
# by tvs, magazines, vr1/4 website, e-mail
# exclusive: availability for virtual communication &
# work from your current area of living in between
# march & october 1998.
#
# capacity: a core group of 6:
# preferably a photographer;
# video operator/director/actor; sound
# master/composer/musician; internet specialist;
# visual artist/graphic designer;
# writer/theoretician/editor
# [vr1/4 is wide open to on-line observers]
#
-----====> vr1/4 seminar@sofia
# time: end of april, 1998 [dates to be fixed by vr1/4 team]
# place: sofia, bg
#
# format: informal get together meeting rather than hard work +
# cultural visits in & around sofia
#
# facilities: to be arranged to meet the demands of vr1/4 team
# organiser: soros center for the arts, sofia
# vr coordinator: javor raitchev [[email protected]]
#
########
[2]
########-----====# [2] vr@v2_ #====-----#######
#
# time: june 29 -july 5, 1998
# place: rotterdam, nl
#
# profile: the doppelgaenger revolution - selves, others,
# avatars and agents in virtual environments;
# experimenting with networked environments as
# sites of agency and of collaboration
#
# format: hands-on brainstorming sessions & workshop,
# treading the line between high & low tech
#
# location: v2_lab, rotterdam
# facilities: pc & mac workstations, digital video & audio,
# network facilities
# capacity: 6 - 8
# organiser: v2_organisatie, rotterdam, nl
# vr coordinator: andreas broeckmann [[email protected]]
########
[3]
########-----====# [3] [email protected] #====-----#######
#
# time: between july 1-30, 1998
# place: tornio, lapland, finland
#
# profile: [email protected] blends in to the social environment of
# about 25 writers and artists who work and enjoy with
# 24 h sunlight and media access. the theme of doppelgaenger,
# your other selves, or fake selves in the media, was
# proposed by polar circuit participants in 1997. this theme
# is now processed simultaneously in rotterdam and lapland.
#
# format: vr sub workshop within polar circuit is an open forum; each
# participant comes with her or his own baggage of themes,
# critical questions, and audiovisual materials. independent work
# and critical dialogue are the key words, and good dinners.
#
# location: tornio polytechnic
# capacity: 6
# facilities: 50 Mac PowerPCs, 12 pentiums, 5 integraph
# workstations, nt server, good net connection,
# 3 avid mcx & 1 avid composer edits, sound edits
#
# organiser: polar circuit association, tornio/rovaniemi, finland
# vr coordinator: tapio makela [[email protected]]
########
[4]
########-----====# [4] vr@revolting_&_isea98 #====-----########
#
# time: august 24 - september 7, 1998
# place: salford, manchester, uk
#
# profile: virtual migration, digital nowhereness/
# translocality & the shift of geopolitical
# centres/peripheries; the impact of digital art &
# criticism dislocated from established art venues
#
# format: both work at media lab at salford university &
# public workspace in manchester as part of the 'fluid'
# residencies of 'revolting'
#
# capacity: 15
# facilities:
# media lab at salford university: workstations: MAC, PC and
# Silicon Graphics; limited sound possibilities, video:
# 1 S-VHS linear edit suite, 3 digital edit suites.
#
# revolting public workspace in manchester: consumer
# electronics for video and audio [incl. DAT, VHS, normal
# tape, DJ deck & mixer, mini-FM transmitters]
#
# organiser: fact, liverpool
# co-organiser: department of arts & design, salford university
# vr coordinator: illie nedkova [[email protected]]
########
-----====> FOR FURTHER VR INFO:<====-----
- please feel free to contact one of the 4 vr
coordinators:
illie nedkova [[email protected]]
at fact, liverpool, england
tapio makela [[email protected]]
at polar circuit, tornio/rovaniemi, finland
javor raitchev [[email protected]]
at sca, sofia, bulgaria
andreas broeckmann [[email protected]]
at v2_, rotterdam, the netherlands
- or check the vr website at:
www.fact.co.uk/vr
* Tatyana MOGUILEVSKAYA (Russia) : [email protected] and Gilles Morel (France)
: [email protected] write:
We are happy to announce the last update of "VENT D'EST" & "3 ROUBLES 62
KOPEKS" Web Ressources
http://services.worldnet.net/~coronado
"VENT D'EST"
eastern new-media-art collection
collected by Tatyana MOGUILEVSKAYA and Gilles MOREL
Initialized in 1993, the "Vent d'Est" collection contains almost 120
titles. The catalog is unique: video art, archives of
action, fictions, documentaries, music clips, mixs, from the very
beginning of Eastern video-art to the lastest creations performed by
more than 120 artists who are living in Russia, Ukraina and Moldova.
"3 ROUBLES 62 KOPEKS"
Eastern Contemporary Art Web Ressource
managed by Gilles MOREL
The "3 Roubles 62 Kopeks" web ressource supplies informations about
almost 120 Russian, Ukrainan and Moldovan artists :
full exhibitions, biographies, event announcements and reports, archives
including video-art, media-art, visual-art installations, performances,
land-art....
More than 1200 files included
* Jukka Ylitalo writes:
Installation at Internet.Galaxis
(http://www.adam.hu/internet.galaxis/html/)
Budapest, Hungary 26.2.-4.3.98
ifxs/public creative surveillance:automatic body language interpreter
Sometimes you hear people complain face to face communication is getting
more and more rare when working with computers. More emails and web pages
instead of real life human contact.
What is missing in networked communication? Unless you are using media that
transmits the image and/or sound, the non-verbal communication is missing.
But sending moving image through network requires a lot of bandwidth. So
why not translate and compress the non-verbal aspect of communication into
something less bandwidth demanding?
IFXS body language interpreter does just that. It is based on an extremely
effective compression method of the nonverbal messages. Step in front of a
video camera and make some movements and your deepest nonverbal and
unconscious messages are translated into ordinary language. The message is
also automatically published as a web page. To browse the translated
messages go to
--->http://ifxs.c3.hu
------bio-movement to html conversion version 1.0------
email:[email protected]
* George Widener (University of TN) writes:
My name is George Widener and I am interested in art
exchanges/dialogues with Eastern European artists. I put together a
U.S./Bulgarian show on the net (http://www.bulgaria.com/moft) that was
received with mixed results.
* Daniel ([email protected]) writes:
I am based in Valencia Spain/Mediterranean area. Very good weather but a
little isolated. I was living half a year in Germany recently. I think you
can see what I am doing, more of less visiting the webs...I am working
simultaneously in another projects/cd'rom, instalations and so on but this
is more complicate to explain by mail... now i am very interested in VR,
it's in my way of work...
I started Technologies To The People¨ project for discord.sabotage of
>realities/hamburg. Technologies To The People¨ is a work in progress:
http://www.irational.org/daniel/
http://www.irational.org/daniel/TTTP/TTTP.html
Technologies To The People Foundation
==================================================
We don't just make better technology
We make better Sponsoring
* Milica Tomic <[email protected]> writes:
I will be in N.Y., there is an exhibition and panel (I am
participating) in New Jersey. It is a year-long seminar 'Visual Arts of
Russia, Central and East Europe Since 1989' presented by CREES (Center for
Russian, Central and East European Studies) in collaboration with the
Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Arts.
* International Award for Video Art / ZKM
Competition for Video, CD-ROM, Internet
(information from the web site http://www.videokunst.swf.de
- be careful, it takes several minutes for transferring all the data! -i)
The Suedwestfunk Baden-Baden (SWF-Southwestern
Broadcasting Corporation) and the ZKM | Zentrum fŸr Kunst
und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media)
have mutually organized since 1992 the Ã?International Award
for Video ArtÃ? in order to provide a forum of presentation and
a new field for experimentation with video, CD-Rom and the
Internet in collaboration with the SF DRS (Swiss
Broadcasting Corporation).
1998 International Award for Video Art 50000 DM
Supporting Prize 5000 DM
Production Award
Audience Award
[For terms of participation, see the website or Inke Arns' post to the list
on 6 March 1998]
The works must be sent to the following address by 15 April, 1998:
ZKM | Zentrum fŸr Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
Lorenzstrasse 19
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
The post-mark is considered to be the valid date of mailing.
7. A preselection jury consisting of representatives of the
SWF, the ZKM, and the SF DRS will select a maximum of 50
of the submitted works. Among the nominations the
independent jury will determine the winners. The awards will
be presented publicly on 25 October 1998 in Karlsruhe and
will be published in a catalogue as well as on the Internet.
Deadline:
15 April 1998
Jury:
Wibke von Bonin, art critic (Cologne / D)
Christine van Assche, curator, Centre Pompidou (Paris / F)
Pipilotti Rist, artist (Zuerich / CH)
Miklâ??s Peternâ?¡k, director of C3 (Budapest / HU)
Lee Young-chul, artistic director of the Biennale Seoul (Seoul / Corea)
* General Info *
V2_East is an initiative of V2_Organisation Rotterdam, which is aimed at
creating a network of people and institutions who are involved with or
interested in media art in Eastern Europe and which wants to create an
infrastructure that facilitates cooperations between partners in East and
West. With its 'Syndicate' mailing list, website <http://www.v2.nl/east>
and regular meetings, V2_East is becoming an important tool for fostering
ties within the media art community in Europe which makes it increasingly
obsolete to think in term of 'East' and 'West', and which will eventually
make the V2_East initiative itself redundant.
The V2_East/Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an
institution. <[email protected]> is the address of a mailing list which is
dedicated to an exchange of information and ideas relating to the situation
and future development of electronic and media art in Eastern Europe. A
Syndicate-mail archive for messages that are coming in over the list (since
April 97) can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/
The list members include more than 240 artists, curators, networkers,
writers, festival organisers, etc., from East as well as West European
countries and beyond, who, through the 'Syndicate', are trying to improve
the communication and cooperation between artists and organisations in East
and West. The list was first installed following the initial meeting of the
V2_East initiative at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam on January 21, 1996, at
the end of the second Next 5 Minutes conference. During the DEAF96 festival
in September, we held a V2_East Meeting in which around 30 people from 12
different countries participated. Other meetings were held in Liverpool
(LEAF97, April 1997), Kassel (Deep Europe workshop, August 1997), Linz
(Syndicate Net.Shop, September 1997), and Dessau (Ostranenie 97, November
1997).
* Subscription *
To subscribe to the syndicate list, please, send a message to
<[email protected]> with the following text in the body of the
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For more information about the Syndicate, please, contact <[email protected]>
(Andreas Broeckmann).
*Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition
of this newsletter (deadline: 30 March 98) to: [email protected].