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. a weekly digest of calls . actions . websites . campaigns . etc .
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01 . . about the announcer
02 . Fred Forest . Pourquoi ne pas acheter un morceau
de l'Europe avant 99
03 . Lloyd Dunn . ( static ) Update no. 10
04 . Mejor Vida Corp. . -Web Site-
05 . jean-philippe halgand . announcement from pericles
06 . Janos Sugar . Miklos Erdely retrospective
07 . mike stubbs . INVITATION TO ROOT FESTIVAL - 6.0 PM
FRIDAY 9TH OCT
08 . shedhalle . PressreleaseMoneyNations
09 . Ken Knabb . Public Secrets website
10 . miekal and . An afternoon with Peter Lamborn Wilson
11 . Sinisa Rogic . Opennet + cybeRex
12 . NoFlyby Action Site . UN PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE UNDERMINING
OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY BY
GOVERNMENTS' PLANS TO WEAPONIZE
AND NULCEARIZE OUTER SPACE
13 . Nils Roeller . Digital cuts in Cologne 28-31 October
14 . The New Venue . The New Venue - Feature 14 - "On
the Ephemeral Nature of Little Movies"
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To interested nettimers -
The announcer has been going out as a separate digest for more than a year
now, and I would very much appreciate your comments about a few issues;
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Please let me know what and how much you would like to do, and we'll find a
way to arrange this.
Warm greetings,
fokky
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 02:24:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: forester@worldnet.fr (Fred Forest)
Subject: Pourquoi ne pas acheter un morceau de l'Europe avant 99
COMMUNIQUE
ART COLLECTORS WHY NOT BUY A PIECE OF FRANCE ( OF EUROPE ) ?
Art ou Immobilier sur Internet ?
Participez à une "course-poursuite" de 40 jours sur Internet pour
l'acquisition d'une oeuvre d'art. Cette oeuvre est une magnifique propriété
: "Le Territoire", dépendance réhabilitée du château d'Anserville, située
dans l'Oise à quelques kms de Paris.
http://www.fredforest.org/territoire
Fred Forest artiste de l'Internet fait de nouveau parler de lui ! Après
avoir vendu en première mondiale une oeuvre numérique à l'Hôtel Drouot de
Paris en Octobre 1996 sous le marteau de Maître Binoche, il réalise
aujourd'hui un nouvel événement sur le web. Il bouscule les règles du
marché de l'art officiel en opérant un téléscopage avec le marché de
l'immobilier. Il propose une " course-poursuite " de 40 jours sur Internet
sous forme d'une compétition d'achat à l'issue de laquelle, musées,
collectionneurs et amateurs d'art du monde entier, sont invités à faire
l'acquisition, au plus offrant, d'une oeuvre d'art pour le moins
originale...( Un musée américain et un musée allemand sont déjà sur les
rangs ! )
Il s'agit d'un " territoire " indépendant, et pourtant une propriété bien
réelle, avec ses bâtiments gouvernementaux et ses propres lois. Une sorte
de pays autonome, au sein de la France profonde, siège d'un Etat artistique
souverain installé sous les frondaisons d'un parc séculaire.
Ce projet qui appartient désormais à la mythologie de l'art contemporain a
été édifié par l'artiste au cours des trente années dernières, au long
d'une longue et patiente pratique.
A qui fera l'acquisition de cette oeuvre, dûment expertisée par Maître
Binoche, et validée comme telle par Pierre Restany critique d'art, Fred
Forest offre donc, en même temps, pour le même prix, une... magnifique
résidence dans l'Oise, à quelques kms de Paris !
Le fruit de cette vente est destiné à l'implantation d'un nouvel outil de
travail artistique : un centre de recherche multi-media à Sophia-Antipolis,
sous une forme fondamentalement inédite...qui n'existe pas encore à l'heure
actuelle en France.
Pour visiter le " Territoire " ce lieu mythique, ( peut-être le lieu même
de votre future résidence?) et prendre connaissance du règlement,
précipitez-vous sur Internet :
http://www.fredforest.org/territoire
La " course-poursuite " se déroulera sous le contrôle de Maitre De Lattre
huissier de justice à Paris, du 1er novembre au 31 décembre 1998. Au
douzième coup de minuit, et très exactement au passage de l'année 1998 à
l'année 1999, le gagnant désigné sera avisé par e-mail officiel de sa
victoire.
Le règlement de participation, le descriptif de l'oeuvre, les photos et
tous les détails sur cette mise en vente, sont documentés sur le site
internet :
http://www.fredforest.org/territoire
Visite des lieux sur place ( réservée exclusivement à la presse sur
invitation et aux personnes ayant déposé un dossier de candidature auprès
de maître De Lattre huissier tel 01 42 79 01 23 )
Pour tous renseignements tel : 01. 48. 18 .19. 51 ou 03 44 08 43 05
forester@worldnet.fr
Artiste et Professeur des Universités
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1. http://www.fredforest.org/territoire
2. http://www.fredforest.com
3. http://www.imaginet.fr/forest
4. http://www.nart.fr/forest
5. http://www.coda.fr/Hypermonde/Forest (Textes théoriques)
E-mail forester@worlnet.fr
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:48:17 -0500
From: Lloyd Dunn <eleven@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: ( static ) Update no. 10
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PUBLIC WORKS web site UPDATE no. 10 October 2, 1998
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New issue.
Psrf 49 is now available. This issue is a first for our series, being
produced in full color. The big feature is the text "IC" by F.C. which --
if you can believe it -- is rendered in Reformed English Spelling, in
keeping with certain utopian strains in F.C's work. Although it may be
challenging to read, the reward of the text itself is well worth it.
Combine that with a visual "puzzle" by L.D., a series of 27 full-page color
graphics by L.D. -- which we shall herein neglect to describe since you can
see them on the web to get a taste. Just remember they were designed for
paper and reach their fullest impact on the printed page.
Get your copy by sending $5 to the address at the end of this message; the
price is postage paid.
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Get a taste for some of the graphics by visiting our home page; click on
"The Construct" or "The Construct II":
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf
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If you get stuck with the reading material, consult the cross-translitered
version which you will find at, along with a few words about spelling
reform:
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf/IC
<.11.> Lloyd Dunn
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf
http://www.detritus.net/ASCW
Static Output \\ P.O. Box 3326 \\ Iowa City IA 52240 \\ USA
Tel. 319 358 1053 Fax 319 358 1053
eleven@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
psrf@detritus.net
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Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 18:43:03 -0500
From: "Mejor Vida Corp." <mvc@irational.org>
Organization: M.V.Corporation...Yes,It's FREE!
Subject: -Web Site-
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Best Regards,
Representative
Mejor Vida Corp.
http://www.irational.org/mvc
A.P. M-2246
Mexico D.F. 06002
MEXICO
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:26:50 +0000
Subject: announcement from pericles
From: "jean-philippe halgand" <Pericles@insat.com>
hello world ;-)
we are currently updating Pericles, french website devoted to online art,
and plan to add a weekly letter about events related to new media (websites
announcements, call for projects, actions, etc) as most information about
this subject is only available in english.
The first letter - a digest - will be online tuesday 13th.
expected submissions must not be more than four lines long and must be
received two days before.
If it is possible for you : in french, otherwise they will be translated.
As this letter will be mostly read by french surfers, please submit infos
that can be of general interest.
Thanks in advance.
On the other hand, we are thinking of digital twinnings of independant sites
related to new media in order to organize common actions or coproduce
webprojects.
If you feel interested, your suggestions are welcome.
with my best regards from Bordeaux, France
jean-philippe halgand / Pericles@insat.com
pericles, atelier virtuel depuis 1995
- http://www.insat.com/Pericles -
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:09:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Janos Sugar <sj@mrf.hu>
Subject: Miklos Erdely retrospective
Miklós Erdély (1928-1986) was one of the most influential and least
acknowledged Hungarian avant-garde artist. The first major retrospective
exhibition of his work will be held in the Mücsarnok, Budapest Kunsthalle,
from 1998. October 16 - November 18 (www.mucsarnok.hu)
curators: Laszlo Beke, (lbeke@computronic.hu)
Miklos Peternak, (peternak@c3.hu)
Annamaria Szoke (szoeke@irisart.elte.hu)
opening by Jan Hoet, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent,
The complete ouevre of his paintings and drawings, as well as his objects
and photographic works will be on view.
In conjunciton with the exhibition, Erdély's films will be shown in the
Mucsarnok's Auditorium.
As a part of the retrospective there will be the first complete
documentation and a new work of the group INDIGO on display.
During his retrospective between the 26. and 28. of October a three days
symposion will be held on his artistic and theoretical work in the
Mucsarnok.
The complete catalogue of his work will be published after the exhibition.
For further information please contact (beside the above mentioned persons
and institutions):
the Deak Gallery (deakgal@c3.hu)
the Artpool (www.artpool.hu/Erdely/)
Media Research Foundation (mrf@mrf.hu)
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:17:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: mike stubbs <stubbs@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: INVITATION TO ROOT FESTIVAL - 6.0 PM FRIDAY 9TH OCT
DEAR FRIENDS
INVITATION TO ROOT FESTIVAL - 6.0 PM FRIDAY 9TH OCT
ROOT 98 - Lucid New Ways of Seeing
HTBA's International Festival of Live and Media Art
Programme opens Friday 9th October - 3.30pm
'Action: Image' - key note talks from Steve Mann, Jay Koh, Denise Robinson
et al.
Opening Reception featuring performance by Hayley Newman - 6pm
and free drinks
then onto:
POL - Granular Synthesis - psycho video and sub base action
in addition - Farmers Manual, Req, Jega, and Baby Ford...
Hull Arena. doors open 7.30pm - £5. contact Hull Arena - 44(0) 1482 325 252
Elsewhere -
Sat 1.0 pm private view Gina Czarnecki, Perry Hoberman & Anne Whitehurst -
Ferens Art Gallery
more free drinks ....
Featured exhibitions - Gina Czarnecki, Perry Hoberman, Tapio Makela, Ann
Whitehurst, Mongrel, Andy Hazell, Heinrich Luber .....
.........too many to mention - over 25 artists, screenings and
performances, webcasts and parties over the weekend
ring HTBA or mail bak here for scedule details or just show up!
£30 - for three days of art, talk, intervention, party and debate ..
ROOT hub - 42 High Street Hull. Other events throughout the city!
tel: 44 (0) 1482 216 446 root@htba.demon.co.uk
"Out Of Time"
An HTBA publication on the artists interventions and strategies
commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts, including the work of:
Jason E Bowman
Susan Collins
Critical Art Ensemble
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Granular Synthesis
Rita Keegan
Alastair MacLenna
Nick Stewart
Including essays by Gillian Dyson, Rob Gawthrop and Mike Stubbs.
Edited by Andrea Philips, designed by Simon Poulter.
OUT NOW - ONLY £15.00 Stirling + Postage
ISBN 0953162303
Contact us for further details, or visit our webpage at:
http://www.htba.demon.co.uk.
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 19:31:22 +0200
From: shedhalle <shedhalle@access.ch>
Subject: PressreleaseMoneyNations
MoneyNation@access
23rd Oct. to 13th Dec. 1998
Exhibition, Webzine, Video and Newspaper Project, Workshop and
Conference
Iara Boubnova (Sofia), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Ayse Öncü (Istanbul),
Oleg Kireev/ Anatoly Osmolovsky/ RADEK (Moscow), Beat Leuthardt (Basel),
LokalTV (Cologne/Bonn), Alenka Pirman / Ljudmila (Ljubljana), Dr. Anna
Wessely / Marton Oblath (Budapest), Radio Boom 83 (Pozarevac),
Medienhilfe Ex-Jugoslawien (Zurich), Melita Gabric, Blaz Habajan
(Ljubljana), Mina Vuletic, B92 (Belgrade), K3000 (Zurich), Bettina Musiolek
(Stuttgart),
Martine Anderfuhren (Geneva), Nedko Solakov (Sofia), Mehmet Akiol
(Zurich), Gülsün Karamustafa (Istanbul), Marion Baruch/Name Diffusion
(Paris/Milan), Lia & Dan Perjovschi (Bucharest), Luchezar Boyadjiev
(Sofia), Boris Michajlov (Kharkiv), Peter Riedlinger/Pascal Petignat
(Zurich/Vienna), Berta Jottar (New York), Aspekt (Bratislava), Tibor
Varnagy (Budapest), Kalin Serapionov (Sofia), Edit Andras (Budapest),
Zelimir Zilnik / Terra Film (Novi Sad), Jörg Arendt (Bonn), Oliver
Sertic, Attak (Zagreb), Dominic Hislop/Erhard Miklos (Glasgow/Budapest),
Jochen Becker (Berlin), Alain Kessi (Sofia/Zurich), Level Ltd. (Zurich),
Dogfilm, A-clip (Berlin), Natalie Seitz / Markus Jans (Luzern), Sascha
Roesler (Zurich), Markus Jans (Luzern), Paula di Bello/ Marco Biraghi
(Milan), Eva Danzel Fouares (Zurich), Radio Zid (Sarajevo), ABSOLUTNO (Novi
Sad), V2
Syndicate/Deep Europe (international), Campaign "Nobody is illegal”
(Kein Mensch ist illegal) (international).
The MoneyNations@access project ends our program for this year, which
investigated social and economic changes in the late nineties. Before
this background on the occasion of this project we‘d like to take a
closer look at the complex and controversial process of identity
developments.
This discussion is focussed on the fact that Western-European border
policies are becoming stricter towards Central and South-Eastern Europe,
resulting in an increased discriminationagainst people from non-EU
member-states.
When reporting about countries of the former Eastern Block, the media
continues to use stereotype images. Categorisation and exoticism, as well as
attributions are not only being made by the media, but also by exhibitions on
Eastern-European art.
They produce authenticity (Ludwig Collection), or maintain a new
internationalism (Manifesta), and ignore the border constructions of the
“Fortress Europe” or the role of Eastern Europe as a global low-wage
location. The MoneyNations@access project wants to make these
contradictions a central theme.
During the past year, we have established a “net of correspondents”, in
which theorists, (media) activists and artists from Middle, Central and
South-Eastern Europe, from various perspectives, have contradicted the
“ethnisising” and racist attributions in the context of Eastern Europe.
One of the project‘s aims is the development of counter-representations
to the hegemonial, and euro-centric perspectives, as well as to exchange
and introduce textual, visual or subjective ways of reporting.
One important precondition for the mutual establishment of contacts, as
well as for the discussions which emerged, was the question of whether a
common basis for interpretation could be assumed from the post-communist
and “Western” points of view. In this way hegemony, euro-centrism and
racism are not just investigated as a question of representation, but
this is taken further so that it also includes forms of
selfrepresentation and the question to what extent patronising (cultural
left-wing) behaviour towards post-communist cultural professionals
applies.
The exchange process brought about video productions, photographic work,
installations, theoretical texts and reports. The productions of artists
and video producers will be presented in the Shedhalle. All
contributions can be copied and easily sent out, so that they can be
shown in the cities of the participants too. Textual and visual
contributions, as well as reports form the “correspondents”, will be
published in the WebZine www.moneynations.ch. In the course of the
project, the magazine “The Correspondent” will be published with a
selection of contributions. During next year, the project will be
continued in some of the cities participating.
Contributors to the exhibition are: Marion Baruch, Jochen Becker,
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Group augenauf, Gülsün Karamustafa, Lia Perjovschi/
Pascal Petignat/Peter Riedlinger, Polnischer Sozialrat [Polish Social
Council] Berlin.
Contributors to the MoneyNationsTV video-exchange project are: A-Clip,
Ak-kraak, Paula di Bello/ Marco Biraghi, B92, Dogfilm, Melita
Gabric/Blaz Habajan/Martine Anderfuhren, Gülsün Karamustafa/ Ayse Öncü,
Lokal Tv Köln, Kalin Serpianov, Shedhalle Prod., Peter Spillmann,
Syndicate/Deep Europe, Terra Film Novi Sad.
Events:
Friday, 23rd October 1998
5 p.m. Opening of the exhibition
6.15 p.m. Introduction to the project and conference
6.30 p.m. “Border Economies”
Conference from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th Oct. 98 (see program)
Tuesday, 27th to Saturday, 31st October 1998
One-week workshop with radio and video producers from former Yugoslavia
? including B92 (Belgrade), Attak (Zagreb), Radio Zid (Sarajevo),
Ljudmila (Ljubljana), Radio Boom 93 (Pozarevac), Media Project
(Pristina), Terra Film (Novi Sad), k3000 (Zurich) and Level Ltd.
(Zurich),
at 8 p.m. each day, presentations by the groups with bar afterwards.
The workshop will take place in the new premises of k3000/media
laboratory in Schöneggstrasse 5, 8004 Zurich, Bus No 32
Militär-/Langstrasse. This is an event organised by
Medienhilfe Ex-Yugoslavia, Shedhalle and k3000 Zurich.
>From 15th October the program will be available from the Shedhalle.
Wednesday, 18th November 1998
6 p.m. Narration, authenticity, memories: Discussion about the
“commodification” of history with Nedko Solakov (BUL) and Boris
Michajlov (UKR) in
the framework of an exhibition in the Ars Futura gallery by Nedko
Solakov and guest Boris Michajlov. The event will take place in the Ars
Futura gallery, Bleicherweg 45, 8002 Zurich.
Thursday, 9th to Sunday, 13th December 1998
at 6 p.m. each day, MoneyNationsTV video screenings, “unlimited viewing
across the Schengen Curtain”
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Conference “Border Economies”
from Friday, 23rd to Sunday, 25th October 1998
in the Shedhalle Zurich
Traditionally European identity was established in opposition to the
“big other”, Africa, USA, Japan, Asia and the Orient. This identity was
defined by recalling the particularities of its cultural traditions, in
order to depreciate those of the “others” at the same time. The
expansion of the EU borders towards the east, or an accession to NATO,
which is being made so attractive for Eastern-European countries
nowadays, reconfirms this exclusivity of the “old” Europe and the
Western centre. However, the reality of the former socialist union of
states, or of those of the global South, is just being ignored. The
current unification of Europe, as well as the Monetary Union, are
directly linked to the global competitive economy, so that the
establishment of identity as well as discrimination can be explained
with economic arguments. Rather than merely attributing the
intensification of borders (in Switzerland too) to capitalist production
methods, we prefer to focus on the role that post-communist countries
play in the formations of centre and periphery, and on the significance
that racist and sexist attributions or practices have for the productive
forces of late capitalism ? or art ?, as well as on the form of
contradictions, instabilities and resistance that can be derived from
this.
Deregulation of nation-state entities, as an effect of the
liberalisation of world trade, destabilises national borders as well as
the traditional gender regime, and calls them into question once more.
In their critical analyses, the theorists Saskia Sassen and Gayatri
Spivak point out repeatedly that the process of “globalisation” creates
new supranational formations which can challenge the old national
entities with their sexist and racist policies.
In the context of Eastern Europe, the discussion about civil society
also deals with the function of Western investors, or holders of
financial capital, who spend money on culture and social movements
(Georg Soros). Moreover, positive assumptions about global
democratisation processes must be countered with the real practices of
intensified immigration laws, and the refusal to give migrants a legal
status within the European Union. The so-called three-circle-model
[Swiss immigration model] discriminates Eastern Europeans to a high
extent, pushing them into the informal sector as “ commuting workers”,
or into other mostly gender-specific, segregated and unequal work
relationships (as sex workers, cleaning personnel or servants).
A central part of the project pursues a new evaluation of the so-called
informal economies, and their interpretation as a practice of power
control. In this context, the conference will make the specific, social
and economic position of post-communist nations a central theme. On the
one hand the observation has been made that, due to its geographic
proximity, South-Eastern Europe serves as prime low-wage location for
the European textile industry, - a branch of the economy in which mostly
young women work without any security, partly as homeworkers, who have
acquired the breadwinners‘ role in their families. On the other hand,
since 1989 new markets emerged in the form of small scale trade, which
have become invaluable for Eastern-European economies and which push the
Western centre into a peripheral position. Istanbul for instance has,
since 1989, developed into the central market place for South-Eastern
European countries. In Sofia (Bulgaria) a market for illegal CD copies
has established itself, which, although against the law, still makes up
for a large part of a functioning economy. These forms of trade
deconstruct Western values in many ways: They call the protected
trade-marks into question, as well as the border agreements between
nations. In the framework of the transformation processes, they
simultaneously establish a real basis for existence in post-communist
countries.
Conference Program:
Friday, 23rd Oct. 1998
6.30 p.m. Beat Leuthard, (author of “Festung Europa” [Fortress Europe]),
will present the confused relationship between private economy
(Siemens), and the extension of border security in so-called transit
countries (Latvia, Ukraine, Poland).
7.30 p.m. The campaign “Nobody Is Illegal” [Kein Mensch ist illegal]
will be presented. This campaign started on the occasion of Documenta X
(Kassel, Germany) and is run by an anti-racist group together with
culture workers.
8.30 p.m. Lecture about the “Border Workshops” and activist artistic
practice against U.S. border policy by American/Mexican artist Berta
Jottar.
Final discussion about border creation and resistance.
Saturday, 24th Oct. 1998
2 p.m. The Calida Story: Mehmet Akiol, GBI [Swiss Union for Building and
Industry] will talk about the battles of workers in the Swiss textile
industry. Bettina Musiolek (not confirmed) will talk about companies
out-sourced to South-Eastern Europe.
3 p.m. Eva Danzel Fouares of the Fraueninformationszentrum Zürich
(Women‘s Information Centre) will discuss trade in women in the context
of asylum-seekers‘ legislation and economy. The following discussion
will have the aim of investigating what we should be demanding as a
result of this situation.
5 p.m. Suitcase Trade: Dr Anna Wessely and Marton Oblath, sociologists
from Budapest, will present the research project “Shopping Tourism”,
which had been investigated by various scientists from Central Europe in
order to create a new system to evaluate border trades
8 p.m. Die Polen vom Potsdamer Platz [The Polish from Potsdam Square]: A
film about the life of Polish commuting workers in Berlin.
Sunday, 25th Oct. 1998
1.30 p.m. Talking absolute Business: Peter Spillmann (k3000 Zurich) will
present his research into the Eastern-European Fund and its effects on
transnational wealth accumulation.
2 p.m. Globalisation from Below?: Geert Lovink, media activist and
political scientist from Amsterdam, will discuss the function of
stock-market speculator George Soros in conjunction with NGOs and civil
society in Central and South-Eastern Europe.
3.30 p.m. ASPEKTE: A feminist magazine project from Bratislava,
Slovakia, will present itself. The focus will be on the position of an
independent institution in the framework of the current economic/social
situation in Eastern Europe
4 p.m. RADEK: An artmagazine from Moscow will be presented by Oleg
Kireev. RADEK‘s editing co-operative sees itself as an activist group.
Which approaches to practice, politics and art are adopted by this
independent institution?
5 p.m. Final discussion about inclusion and exclusion of
Eastern-European positions in the international art market with
Luchezar Boyardiev (artist, Sofia), Iara Bubnova (curator,
Sofia/Moscow), Edit Andras (art historian, Budapest), Oleg Kireev (art
critic, Moscow), and including the audience. Facilitation: Marion v.
Osten (Shedhalle).
The language for the conference will be English
Subject to alterations.
Project Information: Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, P.O.Box, Seestrasse 395,
8038 Zürich, Tel. ++41 1 481 59 50, Fax ++41 1 481 59 51,
email: shedhalle@access.ch.
MoneyNations ProjectTeam:
Concept: Maron v. Osten
Organisation, Proofreading, Editing:
Agnes Bieber, Marion v. Osten, Natalie Seitz, Sascha Roesler
Translations & English Proofreading: Gabriela Meier
Webdesign & Newspaper Layout: Natalie Seitz
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From: "Ken Knabb" <knabb@slip.net>
Subject: Public Secrets website
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:08:47 -0700
Announcing a new website for the BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS:
http://www.slip.net/~knabb
The site features extensive selections from Ken Knabb's
SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY (translations from the
notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in
France) and from PUBLIC SECRETS, the recent collection of
Knabb's own writings, including "The Joy of Revolution,"
"How I Became an Anarchist," "How I Became a Situationist,"
and an assortment of comics, leaflets and articles on
Wilhelm Reich, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, the sixties
counterculture, radical women, social engaged Buddhists,
urban "psychogeography," the Watts riot, the Iranian
revolution, the Gulf war, and the recent jobless revolt in
France. Many other texts, old and new, will be added in the
coming months.
Bureau of Public Secrets
P.O. Box 1044
Berkeley, CA 94701
E-mail: knabb@slip.net
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:28:20 +0000
From: miekal and <dtv@mwt.net>
Subject: An afternoon with Peter Lamborn Wilson
The Beginning of civilization -- the long long Babylonian CON --
"History" starts at Sumer with the invention of sacred kingship -- and
Temple-based debt system. Separation and alienation are not
universal human conditions -- they have historic origins. Does it do us
any good to know these things? The date and place of our
disenfranchisement? I need to know -- please come and discuss. --PLW
a talk by
PETER LAMBORN WILSON
@ DREAMTIME VILLAGE
October 24, 1998 1PM
$5-$10 donation for the event.
author of: Angels, Little Book of Angel Wisdom; Temporary Autonomous
Zone; Sacred Drift; Pirate Utopias; Gone to Croaton; Ploughing the
Clouds : The Soma Ceremony in Ancient Ireland; Scandal : Studies in
Islamic Heresy; The Drunken Universe : An Anthology of Persian Sufi
Poetry; Immediatism; Millenium
A potluck will follow, bring a dish to share. & a dance party following
that. Call ahead for overnight accommodations.
You are also invited to help out in our first prairie burn on Oct 23 @
noon. We will be burning 10 acres. Wear appropriate clothing.
for more info or directions to Dreamtime Village (in southwestern WI)
call 608-625-4619
--
-Dreamtime Village-
<http://net22.com/dreamtime/index.shtml>
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:40:54 +0200
From: Sinisa Rogic <shile@opennet.org>
Subject: Opennet + cybeRex
dear friends,
although situation here is pretty much historical we are continuing with
announced activities. hopefully, guys (that are main support to our
venture) will stay with us /mobilization wave just started/ and we will be
able to carry out the Event on Sunday evening. have to excuse ourselves
cause pressure is very high and we are not sure that we will be able to
finalize all
things we anounced. anyhow, we hope you will find the time to join us on
October 11 in Jevrejska 16 or on www.cr.opennet.org.
Opennet and Cinema REX are inviting you to the
Opennet's birthday party & opening of the CybeREX.
October 11, 1998
2000 - 2230
Cinema REX, Jevrejska 16, Belgrade or
http://www.cr.opennet.org
Important time for the October 11:
2001 rew (recapitulation of the work so far)
2021 play (official openning ceremony)
2040 ffwd (presentattion new projects)
22:21 stop (closing time)
visitors of both "sites" (www and Jevrejska 16):
1-10, 167, 243, 502, 999
will have the chance to get many presents
Detailed schedule of opening ceremony can be obtained at
cr@opennet.org or on phone: 638-752
made possible by: Fund for an open Society and Swedish Helsinki
Committee
production: Radio B92
help for the opening: Media Center - Belgrade and Magic Box - Novi Sad
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CybeREX is an open new media lab dealing with experiments and expansion
of borders in Internet, multimedia and digital video, and it offeres
technical and logistic support to artists, art groups and interested
individuals through education, research and production within the
covered fields.
CybeREX cooperates with similar regional and international centers and
non-government organisations. As the active studio for new media enables
us for even more intensive links and contacts with artists and
theoreticians and them for stronger partnerships.
CyberREx is a part of OpenNet (Internet Department of Radio B92), and it
was formed upon initiative from Cinema Rex.
In the first stage, CyberREX initiated and organized lectures and
presentations in the fields of new media. In the second stage, it works
on presentation of the artists and art groups on Internet, starts its
own projects and does commercial ones. CD-ROM and Web Movie (WM)
production, improvement of communication through organisation and
maintenance of mailing lists, chats, vdeo conferences, cooperation with
students of various profiles, implementation of digital video technology
and creative use of the new media.
CyberREX is also a gathering place for all people interested in new
media forms.
Donors of CyberREX are Fund for an open Society and Swedish Helsinki
Committee
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:03:10 -0400
From: NoFlyby Action Site <noflyby@nonviolence.org>
Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: .
UN PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE UNDERMINING OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY BY
GOVERNMENTS' PLANS TO WEAPONIZE AND NULCEARIZE OUTER SPACE
UN PRESS CLUB: Thursday, October 15, 1998, 2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Speakers:
Alyn Ware: Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Joseph Mangano: Author of "Low-level Radiation and Immune System
Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy"; 1998
Karl Grossman: Professor of Journalism, State University of NY;
author of "The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Life";
1997
Moderator
Tina Bell: Coordinator, Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom (NY)
New York City - You are invited to attend a press conference at the United
Nations Thursday, October 15, 1998, 2-3 pm. This conference is to help alert
the press and public to Governments' actions that undermine the Outer Space
Treaty, 1967, and other related treaties, including the Anti Ballistic
Missile Treaty. The U.S. Space Command has stated in its "Vision for 2020"
that it is "dominating the space dimensions of military operations . . .
integrating Space Forces into war fighting."
The press conference is being held on October 15, exactly one year after
NASA in cooperation with the European Space Agency, launched the Cassini
space probe (using a Titan IV rocket), carrying 72.3 pounds of plutonium.
Cassini is still scheduled to flyby Earth on August 18, 1999 even though the
Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel found that Cassini's plutonium
containers were not designed to withstand the heat of atmospheric reentry,
and reentry occurred, 9 kgs of plutonium could be released. The panel also
noted that a complete burn-up of the space craft could cause "several tens
of thousands" of fatal lung cancers, which independent doctors and
scientists' claim are understating the risk. In the Cassini Earth Swingby
Report, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has listed 18 different kinds of
failures that might send the space probe out of control. One of these is an
electronic failure similar to the kind that caused a Titan IV rocket to
explode at take off on August 12, 1998.
Although the 1997 UN resolution GA 52/37 calls for the reestablishment of
the Ad Hoc Committee on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
(PAROS), this has not occurred. At the UN Conference on Disarmament on
August 13, 1998, China stated that "immediate action should be taken to
prevent weaponization of outer space and to ban the test deployment and use
of any weapon systems in outer space prohibit the utilization of outer space
for striking ground targets. " Come and learn about stopping the dangerous
nuclearization and weaponization of outer space.
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UN PASSES MUST BE OBTAINED - CALL ASAP WILPF (NY) (212)533-2125
Organized by: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (NY)
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Von: nils@khm.de (Nils Roeller)
Datum: 08.10.98, 14:46:57
Betreff: Digital cuts in Cologne 28-31 October
Digitale '98
Digital Cuts
Computers were not initially invented to produce images but rather to
control other machines. Undoubtably, today these control and command
machines are changing the field of film editing. The breaking up and
rebuilding of visual and sound sequences which characterizes the classical
film editing gives way to a compositional working method thus following
linear and hierarchical working methods similar to word processing. Editing
and mixing are joined together in a single apparatus. While crossing
through the shared digital code, complex layers of music, language, text,
pictures and movement are formed. Filigreed weave structures which are no
longer bound to real work spaces are the outcome. Beginnings of homebased
artwork surface, showing once again that film production can take place
outside of professional film making centres.
The Present and the Absent shows in four examples how Israelic artists in a
contemporary way handle memories in film and how they combine history with
the present. The day has been curated by Irit Batsry. Her film "The Roman
Wars" will be screened as the opening of the day, followed by David Perlov
who will talk about his works and will show excerpts of his film "DIARY"
shot on 16mm, a diary filmed from 1973-1983.
The seventeen years old Yonatan Vinitsky has produced during the last two
years a very personal home video about identity and the history of
violence. "I LIVE YOU" will be screened for the first time during the
Digitale '98.
Tirtza Even presents her beginnings dealing with hi(story) in hyptertext.
Adam Berg shows a new version of his work "Inter-View II: Unfolded
Dialogue" which has been reworked especially for the Digitale '98.
Separating and Stringing Together shows positionings of montages in
opposition to each other. Roberto Perpignani will report about his works as
an editor of Orson Welles' films, about his collaboration with Bernardo
Bertolucci and the Brothers Taviani. Maurice Lemaître is a pioneer of
Lettrist cinema. Lettrism as the most radical art movement in the 50's had
the determination to revolutionise cinema with techniques such as cover
painting and scratches. In how far editing as a principle in film making
can be avoided will be discussed in Heinz Emigholz' talk and presentation.
In the "Chequerboard" of the fourth "Roth-Wiener-Teppich", written text and
one-dimensional pictures are interwoven, but also usually disregarded
pieces about live and "garbage".
Ingrid Wiener will report on this collaboration with different artists - a
collaboration which has been kept alive through her individual loom. Lynn
Hershman, who also deals with industry based weaving art, theorises about
the relationship between computer based work, social production of
identities and memories. She uses Ada Lovelace as a working example.
Thomas Brinkmann and the RECHENZENTRUM atomise visual images and sounds
during their performances, thereby destroying contrasts. M. Meisen-Jelas
will simultaneously translate the performance into sign language.
PIC'N'MIX Peter Whitehead loves to see himself as a magician, falconer, god
and eccentric film and rockstar of the 60's movement. Chris Petit, Iain
Sinclair and Dave McKean use reports and self-representations of this
character and through techniques of collage and montage created a
documentary - "The Falconer". Fiction and reality merge together in this
Avid-controlled assemblage about this living beat generation legend. The
first ever German screening will take place in the afternoon and is later
discussed by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair.
Remixing has already established itself in the music industry: Amos
Zamorski and Andrew Chitty are renowned for their sound and film remixes
for British television and will respond to Petit's recently procuded "radio
on" remix.
Keith Griffiths and John Wyver curate this day and show the connections
between comics, cut-ups and strange cuts. In the evening, musician Bruce
Gilbert will first transmit acoustic SOLI and will prepare us for a
screening of "RADIO ON", a long lasting visual journey.
Homework In larger pre-industrial communities spinning and weaving were a
collaborated production process of goods and tales. Production took place
in front of the homely hearth. Today, most hearths have been exchanged for
television screens. Work takes place outside the home and the telling of
tales is left to others. There are some film makers who have taken this as
a starting point and have interfered in this run of things. Andrej Ujica
and Heinz Emigholz will show us their work copied out of private recordings
and the television and will talk about their associations towards this
work: the revolution in Romanian television and the tears of a Brazilian
football star are just two examples of their electronic plundering. Thomas
Balkenhol will talk about his collaborated work with children in Turkey and
Canada. His aim was to use Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye in the production of
contemporary technical pictures.
Yvonne Angkawidjaja and Filip Krejelk are organisers of the Fan Film
Festival in Deggendorf and will look at films and fans and their positive
response to the film and television industry.
F.M. Einheit/GRY and band will be performing in the basement of the Koelner
Filmhaus on the last evening of the festival. The sounds and voices
recorded at this event will simultaneously be screened on various internet
channels. The relationship between an on-line concert and text will be
tested.
The Filmhaus Cinema will be screening David Perlov's "DIARY III-VI".
An "Instant Archeology" project recorded on an ES 7 will be filmed and
edited during the Digitale '98. Parts of this work will be screened as a
finishing film during the final evening.
www: Timothée Ingen-Housz
ES 7: Michael Mikina, Chris Chroma, Anja Theismann
Inserts: Loki - a project of Anselm Weidmann and Peter C. Simon
Nils Roeller
Academy of Media Arts
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
50676 Cologne
0049 - 221 - 20189- 226
Fax : 17
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:43:45 +0000
From: The New Venue <update@wishnow.com>
Subject: The New Venue - Feature 14 - "On the Ephemeral Nature of Little
Movies"
History Repeats on
The D.FILM Digital Film Festival
N E W V E N U E
Created by Jason Wishnow.
MONDAY 5.OCTOBER.1998
THE NEW VENUE PRESENTS
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"On the Ephemeral Nature of Little Movies," a totally self-referential
digital flick comparing the birth of movies on the computer to that of
the moving image on celluloid, by artist and media theorist Lev
Manovich.
After visiting the New Venue, click on "About the Movie".
Follow the link to the "Little Movies" web site for more in the series.
And now...
See what digital flicks are all about. This week --
http://www.newvenue.com
NEWSFLASH
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The New Venue now archives all its past movies! Check 'em out!
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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Submit *your* digital flick to the New Venue.
Deadline: Ongoing.
Requirements: Under 5 MB.
Make it for the web.
Macromedia FLASH and Apple QUICKTIME formats only.
http://www.newvenue.com/submit
D.FILM : THE D1G1TAL F1LM FEST1VAL
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The D.FILM Festival is traveling around California and across the globe.
THIS MONTH: >> D.FILM 98/99 TRAVELING FESTIVAL and
>> D.FILM UNIVERSITY TOUR (a slightly different venue)
October 14th & 15th - PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
at the Digital Video Conference and Expo
October 15th, 16th, 17th, 23rd & 24th - UC SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
in Kresge Town Hall
October 16th & 17th - KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
at Trans-Fest
October 17th & 20th - SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
at San Juan Cinemafest
Complete schedule information is available on the D.FILM website.
http://www.dfilm.com
MISCELLANY
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Server space for D.FILM and The New Venue has been provided by Meridian
Partners, Ltd. http://www.mpl.net
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