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   politics of a digitial present: fibreculture debate and meeting:                
     Ned Rossiter <Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au>                                  

   peace event, San Francisco                                                      
     Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>                                               

   Multiples Show in S.F.                                                          
     Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com>                                       

   update of the program THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION                             
     Misko <mpandil@soros.org.mk>                                                    

   STEPPING FROM THE SHADDOWS DECEMBER 7                                           
     n30mural@speakeasy.org                                                          

   European Media Art Festival 2002                                                
     "EMAF" <arotert@emaf.de>                                                        

   program of UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION -          
     Misko <mpandil@soros.org.mk>                                                    

   Debate: Critical Design Discourses #1                                           
     Eric Kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>                                                

   CodeBlueNight                                                                   
     "Manuel Bonik" <mb01@gmx.de>                                                    



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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:28:28 +1100
From: Ned Rossiter <Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au>
Subject: politics of a digitial present: fibreculture debate and meeting:

[FINAL PROGRAM]

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::fibreculture:: politics of a digital present
6 - 8 December, 2001, Melbourne

Noting a vacuum in critical Australian net culture and research, 
::fibreculture:: was founded as a mailing list in January 2001 by 
David Teh and Geert Lovink.  The purpose of the list has been to 
exchange articles, ideas and arguments on Australian IT policy and 
practice in a broad context.

The inaugural ::fibreculture:: meeting considers four key areas of 
net culture and research: theory, policy, education and the arts. 
Co-organised by Cinemedia and the Australian Centre for the Moving 
Image, a public debate on the evening of 6 December will precede the 
meeting.  The debate seeks to address these issues in dialogue with a 
wider audience.

A 2 day meeting follows the debate.  All are welcome.

Both events bring together a community of critical thinkers engaged 
with new media/Internet theory and practice, with a view to 
constructing a strategic program of how Australia might better 
support innovation, R+D and the applications and culture of new 
technology.

A reader has been prepared for publication prior to the 
::fibreculture:: meeting.  It can be ordered from the 
::fibreculture:: website (www.fibreculture.org).  Submissions of 1500 
to 3000 word short essays, position papers, or manifestos were 
invited that address at least one of the four key themes, and these 
were posted to the ::fibreculture:: mailing list and subject to peer 
review.

The aim of the ::fibreculture:: meeting is not to present formal 
papers, but to circulate papers in advance which can operate as a 
point of reference and basis for discussion during the meeting.

We aim to produce more readers, monographs, edited collections and 
newspapers.  Proposals to the list are most welcome for future 
publications.  We see this as one key intervention into the current 
political economy of commercial academic publishing and the "command 
economy" approach to academic production by DETYA.



Digital publics: a debate
Thursday 6 December, 7pm - 10pm
Organised together with Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving 
Image (ACMI)
Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza
1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne

Registration: at the door ($10 full/$7 concession)

7pm sharp
Introduction

Moderator: Geert Lovink

7.15pm - 7.50pm
Session 1 - Net Theory

Key Speaker: Mathew Allen, Associate Professor, School of Media and 
Information, Curtin University of Technology; author of Smart 
Thinking; and the Executive of the Association of Internet 
Researchers (http://www.aoir.org).

Respondent: Esther Milne, writer and PhD candidate, Department of 
English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne.

7.50pm - 8.25pm
Session 2 - Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Commercial Practices

Key speaker: Victor Perton, Victorian Shadow Minister for Technology 
& Innovation; Victorian Shadow Minister for Conservation & 
Environment; former Chairman, Victorian Government Multimedia 
Committee, Data Protection Advisory Council, Electronic Business 
Framework Group.

Respondent: Tom Worthington, Visiting Fellow in the Department of 
Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, 
Australian National University; electronic business consultant; 
author of the book Net Traveller; information technology professional.

BREAK - 25 minutes plus launch of book, Politics of a Digital 
Present: An Inventory on Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory
* light snacks and drinks available in foyer

8.50pm - 9.25pm
Session 3 - New Media Arts/Culture and the Arts

Key Speaker: Terry Cutler, currently a member of the Australian 
Information Economy Advisory Council.  He is a member of the 
International Advisory Panel of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, 
reflecting his strong interest in the role of, and opportunities for, 
Asian countries in the new information era.  Terry Cutler is also 
Chairman of the Australia Council, having previously chaired its New 
Media Arts Board, and he is on the Council of the Victorian College 
of the Arts. He has previously served as a director of Cinemedia and 
Opera Australia.

Respondent: Amanda McDonald Crowley, currently Associate Director, 
Adelaide Festival 2002. Cultural worker, researcher, facilitator, 
curator working primarily in the new media/ electronic arts field. 
Previous Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology.

9.25pm - 10pm
Session 4 - Education

Key speaker: Paul James, Senior Lecturer, Political and Social 
Inquiry, Monash University; President of Association for the Public 
University; author of Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract 
Community; editor of The State in Question: Transformations of the 
Australian State and Technocratic Dreaming: Of Very Fast Trains and 
Japanese Designer Cities; editorial member of Arena publications.

Respondent: Anna Munster, Lecturer in Digital Media Theory, School of 
Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, UNSW.  She is also a 
media artist whose work ranges across new media, time-based and 
photomedia (see her online work: http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au). 
Anna has written for ctheory, m/c, Photofile and Artlink among others 
and is currently researching biotechnical art and ethics.

Closing Panel


::fibreculture:: inaugural meeting, 7 - 8 December,
Organised together with the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of 
the Arts (VCA)
234 St Kilda Road
Southbank, Melbourne VIC 3006

Registration: $50/$30 full; $30/$20 single day (payable at the door - 
NOTE cash or cheques only).  Registration includes lunch, tea, coffee 
and copy of the book, Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of 
Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory.

Venue: a PDF map of the room locations can be downloaded from 
www.vca.unimelb.edu.au - go to the link "Where is the VCA".

Program

Friday 7 December
Venue: Room 216 in the Music School (entry from St Kilda Road)

10.00am - 10.30am
Introduction of ::fibreculture:: facilitators and organisers

10.30am - 12.30pm
Mapping Australian FibreCulture
Round with introductions and 3 minute presentations
* Researchers, critics, theorists, writers, programmers, designers, 
developers, consultants: WHERE are you and WHAT are you up to?

12.30pm - 1.25pm - Lunch break

1.30pm - 3.30pm
Session 1: Network Theory/Philosophy

Topics:
* Debating neo-empirical approaches and the return of objective 
social science after the exhaustion of post-structuralism
* Crisis of the offline (AI/VR) body centred Deleuzian notions
* Hegemony of digital Darwinism and biologism within new media arts 
and IT industry
* Importance of media archaeology, mapping pre-histories of new media
* Global governance debate
* Public Domain vs. the Corporate State
* Problematic relation to Cultural Studies
* Network theories for the future-present

3.30pm - 4pm - Tea/coffee break

4pm - 6pm
Session 2: Policy

Topics:
* Telstra, broadband, right of access, bandwidth
* Australia and the censorship tendency (political, pornography, 
gambling, etc.)
* Alternative plan for IT Centre of Excellence
* Mapping the policy players
* How to fight the consumerist ethos in IT policy - "access" as cyber 
literacy and skill, not high bandwidth data-gluttony
* How can ::fibreculture:: be heard and operate on the policy level?
* Policy futures

6pm onwards - drinks/dinner party (location to be decided)

Saturday 8 December
Venue: Federation Hall (entry from Grant Street, Southbank)

11.00am - 1pm
Session 3: Culture and the arts

Topics:
* Cult of representation, proximity to political power
* Patronage system (cultural state apparatus)
* Primacy of aesthetics
* Lack of game/net.art and e-literature funding
* Deliriating over an (absent) synergy of arts and science
* Generationalism in new media arts

1pm - 2pm - Lunch break
* screening of The Code - a Linux documentary from Finland

2pm - 4pm
Session 4: Education

Topics:
* Current approaches/paradigms: teaching new media/internet studies 
and e-learning
* Corporatisation and the Virtual University - profit obsessions, 
confused IT sovereignty, limited teaching and research outcomes
* What constitutes the mode of production?
* Relationship between curricula development and university funding and policy
* Both government and opposition share limited horizons. How can we 
explode these?

4.15pm - 6pm
Closing session ::fibreculture meeting::

* Directions of ::fibreculture::
* Discussion about the list
* Legal structures for ::fibreculture:: as formal organisation
* Futures: the place of ::fibreculture:: within policy making, 
research funding and practice


Convenors:

Hugh Brown (Brisbane) hughie@onlineopinion.com.au
Geert Lovink (Sydney) geert@xs4all.nl
Helen Merrick (Perth) H.Merrick@exchange.curtin.edu.au
Esther Milne (Melbourne) e.milne@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Ned Rossiter (Melbourne) Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au
David Teh (Sydney) dteh@arthist.usyd.edu.au
Michele Willson (Perth) M.Willson@exchange.curtin.edu.au


With special thanks to:

John Arnold, Head of School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
<John.Arnold@arts.monash.edu.au>

Alessio Cavallaro, Producer/Curator New Media Projects
Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
<alessio@cinemedia.net>

Nikos Papastergiadis, writer and Head of the Centre for Ideas, 
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA),
<n.papastergiadis@vca.unimelb.edu.au>
Louise Adler, Deputy Director of VCA

Arena Printing and Publications Pty Ltd., http://www.arena.org.au


Sponsors:

Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts
Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Humanities Division, Curtin University of Technology
Monash Publications Grants Committee
School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
The Power Institute, University of Sydney

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& theory mail to fibreculture@lists.myspinach.org
::to subscribe::  email "fibreculture-request@lists.myspinach.org" 
with "subscribe" in the subject line.
::archive:: http://lists.myspinach.org/archives/fibreculture

http://www.fibreculture.org


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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:59:03 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>
Subject: peace event, San Francisco

caipirinha productions, in association with mother jones magazine, presents:

CHASING WINDMILLS OF PEACE forum discussion #3
is this war necessary?  are there alternatives?

tuesday, december 11, doors open at 5pm
the presidio film centre- 39 exposure gallery + palm room
39 mesa street, san francisco

6pm- 8pm
- - panel discussion with LAURA FLANDERS, SCOTT SAGAN, DOUG HENWOOD
- - Q & A with audience

also:

- - IARA LEE's short documentary, 'beneath the borqa in afghanistan'
- - NOAM CHOMSKY's MIT lecture excerpt: 'the new war against terror'
- - north six photo exhibit 'afghanistan...a silent majority' by JASON FLORIO

speakers:

*LAURA FLANDERS - host of working assets radio, author of 'real 
majority, media minority: the cost of sidelining women in reporting'
*SCOTT SAGAN - co-director of center for international security and 
cooperation (cisac),  professor of political science at stanford 
university
*DOUG HENWOOD - editor of the 'the left business observer' 
newsletter, author of 'wall street' and the forthcoming 'a new 
economy'

*moderator: JAY HARRIS - publisher, mother jones magazine

for more information: www.caipirinha.com * www.motherjones.com * 
www.northsix.net

CAIPIRINHA productions ('ky-pee-reen-ya') is an independent mixed 
media arts & culture company with activities in the fields of film, 
music and human rights. we promote diversity, tolerance and peace 
beyond borders and seek to encourage ordinary people to participate 
in the discussion of complex world affairs.

MOTHER JONES educates the American public by independently 
investigating and reporting on the most important social and 
political issues of our time, and bringing this critical information 
to wide public attention.


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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:02:40 -0800
From: Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com>
Subject: Multiples Show in S.F.

There's a "mixed" show up in San Fran with some net artists, and some 
analog artists.  The Valeries seem to have pointed a big finger at 
himself, but I wanted to point out all the other Digital Artists who 
are in the show.   MTAA, John F.Simon Jr, Michael Daines, Mario 
Hergueta, Peter Luining, Alan Rath, Karin Sander (her little people 
are made with the same technology that Michael Rees uses 
http://www.artspace.org.nz/shows/00_11.htm), and myself.

In this mixed digi/analog show, it is interesting to see where the 
media cross over, and blend into each other, and how the formal show 
affects choices.  Just because the show has some (probably minor) 
warhol piece in it, doesn't make grancher's paintings of screen shots 
relevant.  They could be relevant, but they could also be pretty 
gimicky, and as the (fake?) miltos says, just ripping off miltos' 
(already uninteresting) paintings.

m




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

http://www.hainesgallery.com  (link will go to the page for the 
multiples show starting next thursday)

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES:
AN ONSITE / ONLINE GROUP EXHIBITION OF
ARTIST MULTIPLES & EDITIONS

December 6, 2001 - January 5, 2002

Opening Reception:  First Thursday, December 6th 5.30 - 7.30pm
Curated by: emerging curator Amy Davila

Haines Gallery is pleased to announce its first group exhibition which is
comprised solely of artist multiples and editions. This show includes work
by Marina Abramovic, Polly Apfelbaum, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Rob
Craigie, Michael Daines, Mark Dion, Douglas Gordon, Valery Grancher, Ann
Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Mario Hergueta, Barbara Kruger, Peter Luining,
Michael Mandiberg, MTAA, David Nash, Dennis Oppenheim, Alan Rath, Karin
Sander, Jonathan Seliger, John F. Simon, Jr., Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith,
Fred Tomaselli, Mary Tsiongas, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will exist
both physically and virtually, comprised of work by traditional and
experimental artists and thus emphasizing the extent of this art form's
context as a product, a concept and a methodology.

Multiple Personalities comments on the history of the multiple and addresses
the reasons behind this art form's development over time. Simply, a multiple
can be defined as an art object that is produced in a quantity of more than
one copy. However multiples are more than a technique used to produce art,
they are also "the embodiment of a theoretical standpoint in relation to the
entire artistic discipline." (Buchholz 1992) The multiple functions as a
vehicle for the transmission of ideas and as it is repeated referencing a
unique work, it becomes a denial of appearances and expectations. From the
60's to present day, "commercial culture thrives on duplication" just as
modern communication depends on repetition as seen in news media, corporate
ad campaigns, and commercial jingles, repetition is a technique used to
reiterate a message's importance and to give it validity, clarity and
strength.

Beginning in the 1960s, artists published multiples or object-editions by
themselves, Piero Manzoni created a work entitled "Merda d'Artista", which
was comprised of 100 cans of his own excrement. In New York, George Maciunas
began the production and distribution of Fluxus multiples, which were based
on the premise that art should belong to everyone by the means of mechanical
reproduction. For Fluxus artists, multiples were not only economical and
easy to distribute, but they were the best art form to present the ongoing
developments of the artists' ideas. Pop artists utilized mass-produced
objects as a commentary on consumerism, and by the latter half of the
decade, multiples became associated with the democratization of art.

Throughout history, the multiple has been seen as a vehicle for information
and way to de-emphasize the obsession and privileges of the art "object".
Utilizing the mass-distribution and communication of the Internet,
innovative printing equipment and model building software, net artists have
continued the philosophy of the art multiple to the highest degree.
Essentially, everything that is created on the net is a multiple. Technology
has given artists the means to truly dematerialize art. The digital art
multiples can be viewed on our website at www.hainesgallery.com and are
available for purchase online.

(Excerpts from Emily Rekow, Walker Art Center Department of Education and
Community Programs and Daniel Buchholz & Gregorio Magnani, "International
Index of Multiples: From Duchamp to the Present" 1992.)

For further information or materials please contact Amy Davila at
415.397.8114 or info@hainesgallery.com.  Haines Galley is located at 49
Geary Street on the fifth floor.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday
10:30 - 5:30 and until 7:30 on the first Thursday of each month. Visit us at
www.hainesgallery.com.

- -- 


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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:01:21 +0100
From: Misko <mpandil@soros.org.mk>
Subject: update of the program THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION

UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS
- - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION -

December, 01 - 02, 2001, 
Museum of Macedonia, 
Str.Kurciska b.b., Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

CONFERENCE
Saturday, 01.12.2001.

11:00 	- Opening of the Conference & Promotion of the book 
"Understanding the Balkans", 2000. 
11.30 	- Sandra DUNGACIU (Romania)
	Uses, misuses and abuses of the concept of globalization in the Balkans
12:00 	- Stevan VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia)
		Haunted by the Balkan ghosts
12:30 	- Bojan Ivanov (Macedonia)
		Globulization
13:00	- Ferid MUHIC (Macedonia)
Balancing between Balkanization and Globalization  
13:30	- Discussion
14:00 	- Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia)
		Irreversibility of Globalization?
14:30 	- Charis MELETIADIS (Greece)
		Balkans and the European Integration Proces: The construction
of the cultural argument
15:00 - Dimitrina SEVOVA (Bulgaria) and Alain KESSI (Switzerland) 
Fragmented and Deterritorialized
The Balkan Patient or the Balkan Client

15:30	- Discussion

16:00 -  Special program

PRESENTATION & PROJECTS
Sunday, 02.12.2001.

PRESENTATION
11:00	 - Nada SVOB DOKIC (Croatia)
		Redefining Cultural Identities: "South-eastern Europe"
11:30	- Alexander Kiossev (Bulgaria)
		Nexus
12:00	- Walter van der Cruijsen (Holland)
	European creative network; Draft for a trans-cultural network in East-Europe
12:30	- Discussion


ART PROJECTS 

13:00	
Zoran Naskovski + CO crew - Vesna Pavlovic, Man in Yellow
CROSSOVER (a work in progress)

13:30	- Ventsislav ZANKOV (Bulgaria)
		The Balkans belong with us….. Where do we?

14:00	- Zoran PANTELIC, "APSOLUTNO" (Yugoslavia)
In the Balkans, video 2.5 min., 1998.

16:00 - 18.00	- Basket Ball Game between the participants of the Conference


- --------------------- Original Message Ends --------------------

- -------------------------------------------------------
Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:48:43 -0800
From: n30mural@speakeasy.org
Subject: STEPPING FROM THE SHADDOWS DECEMBER 7



The Independent Media Center Gallery is proud to present: 

Stepping from the Shadows 
December 7, 2001 through January 1st 2002.

Reception and live DJ madness: 
7pm -10pm Friday December 7th 2001.
 
At: The Independent Media Center
1415 3rd, Seattle, WA, 98101
206-262-0721
 www.indymedia.org


The IMC gallery's most recent exhibition features works on canvas by National graffiti writers, and urban artists from California, Oregon, Washington, Baltimore and New York. The exhibition also includes, found object, installation, sound and video work by emerging and professional National Artists. The purpose of this exhibit is to feature these artists in a gallery setting and show how they are influenced and draw from their urban environments and the graffiti art that surrounds them. Not limited to graffiti and street art, these artists are stepping from the shadows, revealing their artwork on gallery walls.

This exhibit will include works by J.D. Davis, Pars, M. Kelly, Nak, Katsu, Siloette, Mune, Anna Antic, Joker and Cause-B. Also, Baltimorian writer from Iran - exhibiting works in -Farsi- Amir Fallah and San Francisco writer and D.J. who will be bringing experimental sound to the exhibit - Aaron Lazansky-Oliva aka Dj SpazeCrafteOne.

The Independent Media Center Gallery stimulates a diverse and real arts community that draws on the full potential of artists, reflects and responds to civic concerns and aspirations and educates and enriches the lives of all global community members.


# # #



Bios:

*Siloette:
Work by Siloette and affiliation with
http://www.insult2injury.com and http://www.noslogans.com

*Joker:
Abstract typography by Joker from the collective Transcend.
website: http://www.artcrimes.com/sins/

*Anna Antic:
my name is anna antic, and i make photographs.

*J.D. Davis:
JD Davis was born and raised in the Bay Area and grew up around a lot of urban art. JD describes himself as an Experimental painter. His work is a combination of many different aesthetics. He pulls inspiration from graffiti, abstract and minimalist art. As a street artist he learned about experimentation and that is reflected in his gallery work. JD considers himself to be a mixed-media artist who's focus is constantly shifting between Painting, collage, photography, street art, silkscreen and super 8 film.

While his roots are based in Urban Art, JD is now doing many permanent pieces. JD has done many group shows and a few solo gigs. He has been featured in "Dos De Dos" (6 pg. article) and the Portland Mercury... He is a proud member of the online artists collective www.art-aoa.com, the Colaspe think tank and the Esoteks.

J.D. Davis
email: icyfresh@hotmail.com
website: http://www.hijackart.com



*Cause-B:
Cause-B is a spray can artist from Seattle who is currently living in New York. He considers spray can art a vital element of hip-hop culture along with Djing, Breakdancing and MCing. These elements are linked by their flamboyant energy and as expressions of the urban experience.

In addition to spraycan art David has done computer graphics,
theatrical backdrops and children's illustrations. Other shows he has
appeared in include COCA's 'The Whole World is Watching' and Conworks'
'Evidence' which he co-curated.
website: http://www.elsewhere.org/causeb/



*Pars:
The artist PARS uses imagery of delicate cartoon-like child characters set upon blurred environments and raw surfaces such as wood and metal. Pars' work covers canvas as well as these found objects and surfaces. His mediums consist of spray enamel, latex paint, and markers.

Faced everyday with advertisements and the visual noise of modern life, PARS looks to his childhood and memories of being young as his content. Yet, while exploring this innocent time of life, it is contrasted with bleak surfaces and somber emotions.

PARS resides in Seattle where he creates his art, plays metal and
paints it on occasion.
pars@elsewhere.org
http://www.elsewhere.org/~pars



*Aaron Lazansky-Oliva aka Dj SpazeCrafteOne:

Original All-Planet DeeJay and Em Sea, Spaze Crafte One 
Recently blasted out of NYC, and currently dwelling in the Bay area... 

Spaze is setting up shop to collaborate with arts organizations, HipHop labels, event producers, & supporters of the emerging cultures based in global HipHopizm... 

The mission iz to plant seedz of inspiration in fertile ground & leave a trace of light for others to keep aflame... 

www.magicpropagandamill.com


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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:48:58 +0100
From: "EMAF" <arotert@emaf.de>
Subject: European Media Art Festival 2002

        European Media Art Festival 2002
                  Osnabrueck         
               24.-28.April 2002
               http://www.emaf.de

             --Call for entries!!!--
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(First part: german text- second part: english text.)
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
"New Images - New Stories" - Art in Modern Media: So präsentiert
sich das EMAF 2002. Produktionen international renommierter Künstler
werden ebenso vertreten sein, wie innovative Arbeiten junger Talente.

Als Forum für internationale Medienkunst zeigt das EMAF Filme,
Videos,
Performances, multimediale Installationen und digitale Medien wie
CD-ROM,
DVD und Internet. Specials informieren über neue Produktionen der
Independent-Szene in China und Korea und über die neuesten XS-Movies
für Internet, Mobil-Telefone und Handhelds.

Im Rahmen des Festivals wird der Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik für
die
beste experimentelle Film- und Videoarbeit vergeben. Mit dem OLB
- -Medienkunstpreis des EMAF werden richtungsweisende
Medien-Installationen
ausgezeichnet. Die Ausstellung des Festivals wird vom
24. April- 20. Mai 2002 in der Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche gezeigt.

Die Festivalsektionen sind: Cinema, Ausstellung, Kongress, Electronic
Lounge,
Internationales Studentenforum, Performances, Veejay Battle.

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, sich mit Ihren Arbeiten und Projekten am
EMAF 2002 zu beteiligen!
Weitere Informationen und Anmeldeformulare finden Sie auf unserer
Homepage
http://www.emaf.de

Ihr Festivalteam!
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European Media Art Festival
Postf.1861
Lohstr.45A
D-49074 Osnabrueck

T:+ 49/541/25779/21658
F:+ 49/541/28327
Email: info@emaf.de
http://www.emaf.de

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Förderer des EMAF

Nord Media-
die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Hannover
Stadt Osnabrueck
Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn
Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg
EU Commission, Brussels
und
Zuschüsse weitere Förderer.
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        European Media Art Festival 2002
                  Osnabrueck         
               24.-28.April 2002
               http://www.emaf.de

             --Call for entries!!!--


The theme of this year's EMAF 2002 is "New Images - New Stories " -
Art in Modern Media. Productions from internationally renowned artists
as well as innovative works from creative young talents are on
exhibition.

The EMAF plays a major role as a forum for international media art
presenting film, video, performances, multimedia installations and
digital media such as CD-ROM, DVD and the Internet. Specials feature
current productions from China and Korea and the latest XS-Movies for
Internet, mobile phones and handhelds.

As part of the festival the German Film Criticism Prize is awarded to
the best experimental film and video production. The OLB Media Art
Prize
is awarded to the most innovative media installations. 
The exhibition of the festival in the Kunsthalle Domenikanerkirche
will
be shown from 24. April - 20. May 2002.

Festivalsections are: Cinema, Exhibition, Congress, Electronic Lounge,
International Studentforum, Performances, Veejay Battle.

We would like to invite you to take part in the EMAF 2001 with your
artworks and projects!
For further information and application forms please visit:
www.emaf.de  

Your festival team!
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Nord Media-
die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Hannover 
Stadt Osnabrueck
Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn
Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg
EU Commission, Brussels
and
contributions made by other supporters.

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:22:23 +0100
From: Misko <mpandil@soros.org.mk>
Subject: program of UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION -

UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS
- - THE BALKANS AND GLOBALISATION -

December, 01 - 02, 2001, 
Museum of Macedonia, 
Str.Kurciska b.b., Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

CONFERENCE
Saturday, 01.12.2001.

11:00 	- Opening of the Conference & Promotion of the book 
"Understanding the Balkans", 2000. 
11.30 	- Sandra DUNGACIU (Romania)
	Uses, misuses and abuses of the concept of globalization in the Balkans
12:00 	- Stevan VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia)
		Haunted by the Balkan ghosts
12:30 	- Bojan Ivanov (Macedonia)
		Globulization
13:00	- Ferid MUHIC (Macedonia)
Balancing between Balkanization and Globalization  
13:30	- Discussion
14:00 	- Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia)
		Irreversibility of Globalisation?
14:30 	- Charis MELETIADIS (Greece)
		Balkans and the European Integration Proces: The construction
of the cultural argument

15:00	- Discussion

PRESENTATION & PROJECTS
Sunday, 02.12.2001.
PRESENTATION
11:00	 - Nada SVOB DOKIC (Croatia)
		Redefining Cultural Identities: "South-eastern Europe"
11:30	- Alexander Kiossev (Bulgaria)
		Nexus
12:00	- Walter van der Cruijsen (Holland)
		European creative network; Draft for a trans-cultural network in East-Europe
12:30	- Discussion

PROJECTS
13:00	- Zoran NASKOVSKI & Vesna PAVLOVIC (Yugoslavia)
1.	CROSSOVER, video, 2000.
13:30	- Ventsislav ZANKOV (Bulgaria)
		The Balkans belong with us….. Where do we?
14:00	- Zoran PANTELIC, "APSOLUTNO" (Yugoslavia)
In the Balkans, video 2.5 min., 1998.

17:00 - 18.00	- Basket Ball Game between the participants of the Conference


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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:12:49 +0100
From: Eric Kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Debate: Critical Design Discourses #1


A  N  N  O  U  N  C  E  M  E  N  T


Critical Design Discourses #1

Visual Communication - Addressing the critical mass

Thursday December 6, 2001

De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam

Start: 20.00 hrs.


Last year the "First Things First 2000 Manifesto" appeared in various
international design magazines. It was a call to designers world-wide to
develop a more critical approach to their profession. This call was signed
by an impressive list of designers, critics, editors of design magazines,
and art directors. The authors of the manifesto claim that an increasing
number of practitioners, designers, visual communicators, are becoming
increasingly uncomfortable with a very narrow definition of their design
practice, primarily geared towards effectively packaging and selling
consumer products. Designers should address their social and political
responsibilities more consciously, and apply their problem solving skills
to the multitude of urgent social questions that require solutions.

The text of the First Things First manifesto can be found at:
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/first/

Since its publication a certain discussion about the social and political
role and context of design has started, but this discussion is still very
much in its infancy. De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in
Amsterdam, would like to provide new impulses for this discussion to unfold
and has decided to organise a first debate with a number of internationally
recognised specialist in the field of visual communication. In this debate
we primarily would like to make an inventory of the current status of
critical design discourses, well over a year after the publication of this
manifesto. There are many questions at hand; a critique of the experience
economy, sustainability, responsibility as business model, the relation of
design with the public domain, and the new multicultural and intensely
internationalised context in which design has to operate. What concrete
efforts have been made to address these questions?

Participants in the debate are; Jamie Hayton (SP) designer and head of the
design department of Fabrica (IT); Wendelin Hess (CH), graphic designer and
art-director of Grenzwert Magazin; Mieke Gerritzen (NL)
graphic designer and co-author of "Catalogue of Strategies"; and Femke
Snelting (NL) designer and member of De Geuzen - Foundation for Multivisual
Research.

The debate will be chaired by Max Bruinsma (NL), ex-editor in chief of the
design magazine Eye (London), independent critic, and 'editorial design'
instructor.

The debate can be followed live via internet at: http://www.balie.nl/live

____________________
tickets & reservations:
price: Euro 7,50 (f 16,50) / E. 5,00 ( f 11,00)
opening hours box office: work days 13.00-18.00 hrs or until the start of
the program.
In the weekend 1 1/2 hour before the programs starts.
Reserve by phone: 31.20.55 35 100 during opening hours until 45 minutes
before the program starts.


De Balie
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam

http://www.balie.nl




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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:11:02 +0100
From: "Manuel Bonik" <mb01@gmx.de>
Subject: CodeBlueNight

codelab - research zone for generative systems

presents activities developed during
the recent in-residency-phase in Podewil, Berlin.

Codelab & friends

- - Oliver Blomeier, Manuel Bonik, Martin Carlé, Sandro Canavezzi,
Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, Jo Graell, Francis Hunger,
Klaus Janek, Pepe Jürgens, Sean Marquardt, Michael Mikina,
Zwetana Penova, Stuart Rosenberg, Micha Schroetter,
Torsten Sense, Nadia Waigand, Kerstin Weiberg... –

invite you to
____________________________________________________________

3rd:                   CodeBlueNight
                     november 30, 9 pm
                       Podewil Club
           Presentations, concert, float, party
          Livestreaming via www.streamminister.de


‘Till December 2nd:

                     codelab exhibition

"Teach the Machine to Forget (PhaseI+II)" by Oliver Blomeier
re-engineers typewriters on typewriters. 307 bytes, basic.

"Your Face is my Display" by Pepe Juergens weaves captured images
into a painting process. lingo.

Stuart Rosenberg‘s "Entscheidung" incarnates the elementary decision
process. hardwear.

- - supported by: anderslanD/Rene Roemert - BKV - Canada Council
- - Foerdererkreis der HBK Braunschweig e.V. - Hans Huebner - iprimus
- - Kris Krois - magnetic - Jo Seiler - transmediale -
____________________________________________________________



greetings!

codelab

++49-(0)30-44010590 www.codelab-berlin.de
at Podewil, Klosterstrasse 68-70, 10179 Berlin, ++49-(0)30-247496




Das codelab – Forschungsraum für generative Systeme

zeigt Ergebnisse der in-residency-Phase im Podewil, Berlin.

codelab & Freunde

- - Oliver Blomeier, Manuel Bonik, Martin Carlé, Sandro Canavezzi,
Florian Cramer, Ulrike Gabriel, Jo Graell, Francis Hunger,
Klaus Janek, Pepe Jürgens, Sean Marquardt, Michael Mikina,
Zwetana Penova, Stuart Rosenberg, Micha Schroetter,
Torsten Sense, Nadia Waigand, Kerstin Weiberg... –

laden ein zur
__________________________________________________________

3rd:                  CodeBlueNight
                  30. November, ab 21 Uhr
                       Podewil Club
              Praesentationen, Konzert, Fest
          Livestreaming via www.streamminister.de
____________________________________________________________

Noch bis zum 2. Dezember:

"Lehre die Maschine zu vergessen (PhaseI+II)" von Oliver Blomeier
re-konstruiert Schreibmaschinen mittels Schreibmaschinen. 307 bytes,
Basic.

"Dein Gesicht ist mein Display" von Pepe Juergens verwebt
Schnappschuesse in einen Malprozess. Lingo.

Stuart Rosenbergs "Entscheidung" verkoerpert den elementaren
Entscheidungsprozess. Hardwear.

Unterstuetzt von: - anderslanD/Rene Roemert - BKV - Canada Council
- - Foerdererkreis der HBK Braunschweig e.V. - Hans Huebner - iprimus
- - Kris Krois - magnetic - Jo Seiler - transmediale -
____________________________________________________________

Gruesse!

codelab

++49-(0)30-44010590 www.codelab-berlin.de
im Podewil, Klosterstrasse 68-70, 10179 Berlin, ++49-(0)30-247496


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