[Nettime-bold] from the archives: report by nils röller of the net.time meeting in venice (june 95)

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

[report written by nils roeller on the "net.time" meeting in venice, june 95
where the nettime mailinglist was founded. file re-discovered during digital
excavation works. /geert]

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Net.time

The first Day of Net.time centered on a critique of the magazine Wired.
After a nice break with red wine from the Veneto we returned to the
discussion table in the Teatro Malibran and hacked down the following
sentences:

The desire to be a wired is the myth to have more power.
Mediators grow fat on the profits of intercepted signals. Is communication
enhanced by communication technology or does it reflect power structures at
large? Wired generates today a context which assimilates to the spirtual
cyberspace build up by spiritual or ecclesiastic experiences. The thus
generated myths must have a connection to a reality intended as a
powerstation.

The strategy of discovered powerstations is to come up with something that
disturbs comon power structures:

The people who deeply understood interactivity haven't produced any work.

True cyberpunks are invisible.

In 1989 the wall came down, and VR went up.

Dont think, just type.

I come from a Thatcher generation with a background of global AIDS.

Interactive silence is good.

Time harps on telegraphic violence.

Creating blanks.

The lower the bandwidth, the higher the imagination.

More intermittent bandwidth.

Pervert the net. Digital revolution. The revolution will not be digitized.
The revolution happens when the net breaks down.

The return of the data dandy, who knows how to produce holes, and breaks in
the net.

Wired is a copy of Petra, which sells freedom, to see a horrible, ugly life.
"You're better off poor".

This is a continuing text.

How come we know so little from, so much information.

The second day can be called an "Anti-Grauso-Meeting".

Anti-Grauso: The possibility to build digital comunities in Italy is largly
in danger because of the strategy of a publisher in Sardinia, who is on the
way to install a "Video-On-line" that permitts only advertising on the
Internet and submitting an active use. This is a model of net-capitalism
that can be disturbed by the power that is going to be generated by
net.time.

The third day concluded with the discussion of possible common activities of
the participants. During the discussion a paper circled which was filled
with the following thesis:

I Internet is a possibility to change consumer attitudes by creating places
of strategic silence.

II Internet should provide either vital information for social survival or
viral information for social revolt.

III Net should provide equal rights of page creating for all

One needs ironic sites, impossilbe cities, useless archives, introverted
communication channels, cybercriticism VR--humor , ambiguous keyboards.

IV The right to choose either a public or private space for intelligent or
insipid information.

Connectivity belongs to the Basic rights of public information and
communication. It has not to be reduced to anything else than
multidirectional interactivity.

In the Internet has to be protected the right to use handles. Users have to
be not constrainde to show their "Burocratic" identity.

When the Union of TV, telephon and computer takes place, it will be
necessary to review the traditional difference between two models of
communication: the hierarchical one, that ist TV and the democrativ one,
represented by the phone, which the Net is an extension of.

IIIV Uphold Dignity Creativity.

IX The Revolution will not be digitized where the revolutionary desire get
stored.

X Boycott Netscape!

Mailinglist:

limbo@nexus.it  (Camillo de Marco)
dalo@bbx.nervous.com (Roberto Paci Dalo)
(Carlo Infante)
mfz@contrib.de (Pit Schultz)
geert@xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
nils@khm.uni-koeln.de (Nils Roller)
cleite@cat.cce.usp.br Crea:258.810/D (Carlos Leite de Souza)
ccataldi@nexus.it (Claudia Cataldi)
(http://www.comune.roma.it/COMUNE/sperimentali/videor/quarter.html)
a.ludovico@agora.stm.it (Alessandro Ludovico)
mf@Mediafilter.org (Paul Garrin) (http://MediaFilter.org/MFF/mfhome
dia@szocio.tgi.bme.hu(Diana Mc Carthy)

Nils Roeller
KHM Koeln
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
50676 Koeln
0221 20189239
Fax: 2018917






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