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Table of Contents: Re: new art work n nisbet <nnisbet@yahoo.com> THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> Version>02 Digital Arts Convergence : A tour through the Digital Commons (Chicag geert <geert@xs4all.nl> WEBCAST_Rtmark, Paul D. Miller, Soda Joasia <joasia@caiia-star.net> AGORA 2002 on CHILDREN MEDIA LITERACY message 2 "ALAS" <alas@ath.forthnet.gr> URBAN CYCLES_UK announcement "galia" <galia@i-space.org> Raad at the 2002 Whitney Biennial JSalloum@aol.com CONTRE-CONFERENCE =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A1ensba?= libre! <www.ensba@free.Fr> Lecture TONGOLELE@aol.com [cybersalon] cybersonica>>>call for submissions- digital music festival "cybersalonuk" <cybersalonuk@yahoo.co.uk> (by way of richard barbrook) [FLOGAL_FORUM_FFD] NEWS SERVICE FROM GLOBAL FORUM =?iso-8859-1?q?Prensa=20Foro=20Global?= <comite_organizador_foro_global@yahoo.co salloum vbc screening JSalloum@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:59:18 -0800 (PST) From: n nisbet <nnisbet@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: new art work An announcement of new art work in progress "Tracking Virtual Identity" & "Pop, Goes the Weasel!" some of my thoughts on the project(s) http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/faculty/artworks/nisbet/ as commented on by wired news www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50769,00.html question: is there anyone who is interested in this project who may like to work with me on some of the technical aspects? Nancy Nisbet nnisbet@interchange.ubc.ca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:01:54 +0100 From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> Subject: THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS Call for Applications - EXTENSION: April 15. "THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EMOTIONS" Summer School of the 'Young Academy' (Die Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) September 1st - 8th in Loveno di Menaggio, Lake Como, Italy The summer school entitled "The Young Academy of Emotions" focuses on the role of emotions/feelings/sentiments in the representation, construction, and normative formation of the world. The goal of the summer school is to foster interdisciplinary discourse and exchange between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Towards this goal postdocs from all disciplines who are no more than five years past their Ph.D. will come together in three workshops focussing on "emotions and thinking", "the manifestation of emotions", and "norms and emotions". The summer school will be held in German and English, and no fees will apply. Guest speakers include Ronald DeSousa (University of Toronto), Sigrid Weigel (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Hans-Juergen v. Bose (Hochschule fuer Musik, Muenchen) and Ray Dolan, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London) and other invited speakers. Applications should include information about the applicant's field of study, research interests, a letter of recommendation and a detailed letter of motivation. Applicants should further indicate a first and second preference for a specific workshop. Applications can be send before April 15. 2002 to Dr. Oiver Grau Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar der Humboldt-University Berlin, Dorotheenstrasse 28, 10117 Berlin, Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de Further information is provided at: www.diejungeakademie.de/Projekte/projekte.htm. ******************************** DR. OLIVER GRAU Kunsthistorisches Seminar Humboldt University Berlin Dorotheenstr. 28; 10117 Berlin fon: +49 (0)30 2093-4295 (direct) - 4288 (secr.) Fax: +49 (0)30 2093-4209 Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de www.arthist.hu-berlin.de/arthistd/mitarbli/og/og.html www.diejungeakademie.de ********************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:01:29 +1100 From: geert <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: Version>02 Digital Arts Convergence : A tour through the Digital Commons (Chicago, April 18-20 2002) Version>02 April 18-20, 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago Ilinois, USA http://www.versionfest.org (temp weblog - please go there and participate online) For the first iteration of this event new media producers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, programmers, tactical media provocateurs, designers, information architects, and critical thinkers are asked to comment on the state of the digital commons. The digital commons is a metaphor for the public space that we use to communicate and distribute ideas, where we share tools and resources, and influences. It is a place for commerce, art and the transmission of knowledge. The digital commons requires dialogue about intellectual property, the balance between civil liberties and security, freedom of speech and privacy, issues of access, and the implications of tool use. Some herald the internet and the global communications infrastructure as a protected space that allows creativity and innovation to flourish. Others argue that that our civil liberties are at risk and we are entering a society more perfectly monitored and filtered than any in history. Version>02 focuses on the issues that are defining this debate. Version>02 is a tour through "the digital commons" and offers an opportunity to meet those who tend to the gardens, fences, and pathways, and to investigate the threats and opportunities that the digital commons face. The MCA Theater offers three days of musical performances, films, and a series of panel discussions. The Version Lab, adjacent to the theater, provides gallery space for artists and performers, and The Lobby is transformed into an informational space for web installations and demonstrations by some of the best in the emergent digital arts cultures. A DVD, a Version>02 issue of Select Magazine and an online web gallery are being produced to accompany the event. Version>02 The digital arts and technology convergence is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Select Media, and OVT. ::: Thursday April 18,2002 1 pm through 1am ::: Program One: In the MCA theater Panels: [ Round Table Version] 1 pm: The Work of Art in the Age of Convergence White Cerasulo, Miltos Manetas 3 pm: "Who's the Tool?" Espenschied, and John Dekam Film Programs: [Screen version] 6 pm: JAM THE BOX Mark Hosler presents the latest work of Negativland Films (With Q & A) 10:30 pm: featured film Information War: The Hactivists, plus shorts from PAL 12 am: Chicago Underground Film Festival, Control : Concerts [Stage version] 8pm: Animal Charm http://www.animalcharm.com/, OVT Visuals, http://www.ovtvisuals.com, Scott Gibbons http://nomusic.hispeed.com and Dave Foss http://www.davyforce.com Program Two: Version Lab 12 pm through 1am Version Lab features works by motion graphic designers, animators, video and sound artists taking form as live video, net.art, workshops performance and installations. Lab Film Programs: [Screen version] 12 pm-5pm TBA Lab Presentation: 5pm Scott Reeder (American Movie and Zero TV) A discussion plus question & answer period on filmmaking and distribution, with a focus on showing the works of the Zero TV collective. Lab Performances: 6pm- 1am TV Pow Metalux TeleScene, April Noise and Art Jones Quatazelle Craque Salvo Beta AFTER VERSION: offsite Version>02 events 10:30 pm Heaven Gallery. : DJ Another Astronaut, White Collar Crime and special guests. ::: Friday, April 19,2002 ::: Program One: In the MCA theater 1 pm through 1am Panels: [ Round Table Version] 1 pm: Version>Control Sassen, and representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union 3 pm: Naked Apprehensions of Technology (copresented with Nomads & Homesteaders of the School of the Art Institute) Art Ensemble, Dan Sandin, Katherine Behar, Jon Cates, and Tiffany Holmes Film Programs: [Screen version] 6 pm: Video Data Bank presents E-[d]entity, part 1 World Premier 10:30 pm : Video Data Bank presents E-[d]entity, part 2 World Premier 12 am: Aesthetic underground, digital animation and short films by Katsura Moshino (Nobukazu Takemura), Jon Cates, Lobo, Doug Lussenhop, J Cookson, and others. Concerts [Stage version] 8 pm: Hexstatic (Ninja Tune) http://www.hexstatic.co.uk Johnny DeKam - Bubbling Crude Program Two: In the Version Lab 12 pm through 1am Lab Film Programs: [Screen version] 12pm This Is What Democracy Looks Like Big Noise Films 1pm: TBA 9pm: The Ad and The Ego Lab Presentation, Panels, Readings: 2:30pm Sub>Version with Institute of Applied Autonomy, Adbusters, Stephen Marshall, Mark Hosler of Negativland and Brett Bloom. 5pm Karl Heintz telepoetry reading 5:45pm UnKnowntext reading 6:30pm The Powers of Power Point Lab Performances: 7pm- 1am Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp- AnjB3 A Very Sensitive Device Ledeuce Merkab vs PRDF AFTER VERSION: offsite Version>02 events 9:30pm Empty Bottle: Magas, 8-Bit Construction Set 9 pm - 10:30 pm SAIC N&H program tba ::::Saturday, April 20, 2002::: Program One: In the MCA theater 1 pm through 1am Panels: [ Round Table Version] 1pm: Alt.Media [copresented with Columbia College, Chicago] Marshall, Sander Hicks, Rachel Rinaldo, Paul Dechene and Dave Niddrie (Adbusters), J Cookson, Eric Galatas and Ed Marszewski 3 pm: Creative Technology as Weaponry (copresented with Nomads & Homesteaders of the School of the Art Institute) EnsembleBeth Coleman, Katie Salen, Beth Coleman, Jackie Soohen, and Art Jones. Film Programs: [Screen version] 6 pm: We Interrupt This Broadcast : Shorts and animations by Doug Lussenhop, GNN, Cell Media, Dave Foss Las Agencias, Enron , J Cookson. 10:30 pm: Digital Diversions: International Experimental Video Co-Presented by Chicago Filmmakers and Columbia College Chicago 12 am: Interventions in the Public Sphere Concerts [Stage version] 8pm featured artists John McEntire, John Herndon, (Tortoise) and Casey Rice plus cgc (aka Chris Clepper),Jordan Benwick (Vancouver), Rdie (Shea Ako + TJ Cathey) Program Two: In the Version Lab 12 pm through 1am Lab Presentation, Panels, Readings: 3:30pm Institute For Applied Autonomy Workshop 5pm Developing a Tactical Language 7pm Anonymous Federated http://www.anonfed.com Lab Performances: 8 pm- 1am Fluxcore Pulse Programming Nudge Pal:ndrom AFTER VERSION: offsite Version>02 events 10:30pm Square One aVersion program tba 10:30 pm Beige Records World CJ Cassette Battle http://www.post-data.org/cassette PROJECT VERSION Additional projects in development in conjunction with Version>02 take place throughout Chicago and include: Datamap. Jim Costanza, GPS satellite mapping of the commons in Chicago. Public Bicycle Radio by WPBR Derek Lerner SHOW&TELL World Championship Cassette DJ battle http://www.post-data.org/cassette The Republic of Delicious Food¹s Tea House The Jackal Project STREET VERSION: A tour of Chicago's leading edge galleries and alternative spaces on Sunday afternoon with participating spaces. The public may also visit the spaces on their own time to view current ideas from digital artists. Spaces include: Deadtech Julia Friedman Monique Meloche Heaven Q Studios Square One Seven Three Split Right After version>02 Sunday April 21, 9pm Fireside Bowl: White Collar Crime, TV Sheriff, Animal Charm, OVT NET VERSION http://www.versionfest.org Features of the site include: festival info, article submission and debate, forums and net.art gallery. Exchange Version is being used to post articles and papers informing the Version>02 participants and the public about the issues surrounding the Version>02 convergence. The site is created form freeware using open source code. Net gallery program TBA Version People:: Version>02 Organizers include Ed Marszewski, Brien Rullman, Karl Kuhn and Brian Dressel. Version>02 Coordinators include Yolanda Cursach, Elysia Borowy, Paul B. Davis, Michael Digioia, Geert Lovink, Liz Revision, , and Nato Thompson, Logan Bay, Joel Bruner, Nomads and Homesteaders (SAIC), Columbia College (Pulse 2002), Robert Wyrod, Rachel Rinaldo., Todd Carter Admission Concert Tickets - $10 in advance; $13 at the door 3-day pass to all films, panels and installations - $10 For tickets, call 312.397.4010 or visit mcachicago.org. Complete schedule listings at http://www.versionfest.org. Version>02 Media sponsors: New Art Examiner Select Magazine Lumpen Beige Records 2001-2001 MCA Performances are generously sponsored by: Lead Corporate Sponsor Phillip Morris The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Kovler Family Foundation American Airlines For more information contact ed@select-media.com Press inquires: Eileen Chambers eileenc@carolfoxassociates.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:21:22 +0000 From: Joasia <joasia@caiia-star.net> Subject: WEBCAST_Rtmark, Paul D. Miller, Soda HYBRID DISCOURSE. Art for Commerce / Commerce for Art PAUL D.MILLER / ®ark / SODA Chair: Mike Phillips, i-DAT 18th March 02 / WEBCAST 6 - 8.30pm British Time www.i-dat.org/projects/hybrid Hybrid-Discourse is a series of events investigating current cultural debates in the context of digital media. Focusing on key issues such as relations between art and industry, emerging cultural, commercial and hybrid practices as well as new models of institutional practices this program seeks to re-address critical terms of Adorno and Horkheimer's original concept of the culture industry in a current context. The third session in the series, Art for Commerce/Commerce for Art, investigates relationship between cultural and commercial practices and hosts Paul D. Miller, ®ark and SODA. ®ark, an anti-corporate corporation, operates globally and supports activist projects by providing publicity, information, and finances (www.rtmark.com). In this session ®ark will discuss Tactical Embarassment and other methods for using public opinion as a weapon against corporate abuse of power. SODA combines an arts and research practice with a broad range of commercial activities. This eclectic mix is united by the creative culture of excellence and innovation that has permeated Soda since its inception in 1996. Soda has worked within both a commercial and cultural context, developing a range of projects for clients, curators and internal / external outcomes. Referring to Gregor Schneider¹s phrase Œthe highest form of thinking is doing¹, this presentation will examine the relationship of Soda's work and outcomes to a broader cultural context which is shaping the cultural industry (www.soda.co.uk). PAUL D.MILLER'S work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture and the Ludwig Museum among others. Miller is most well known under the moniker of his Œconstructed persona¹ as ŒDj Spooky that Subliminal Kid¹, a character from his upcoming novel Flow My Blood the Dj Said, that uses a wide variety of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture (www.djspooky.com). Sound Unbound will be a "live" multi-media presentation of the history of digital art and media from the viewpoint of an artist who uses Œfound objects¹ like a dj - i.e. it's a subjective selection where old video material will be remixed and combined with new. History itself will be the material for the mix, and the lecture presentation will focus on how dj culture has evolved out of the same technologies that are used for digital media and art. Place: Sherwell Centre / University of Plymouth / Plymouth / UK Info and to join ON-LINE DISCUSSION: www.i-dat.org/projects/hybrid Hybrid Discourse is organised by Anya Lewin and Joasia Krysa with support from the Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Dartington College of Arts, World of Work, Mute, and the European Social Fund. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:50:59 +0200 From: "ALAS" <alas@ath.forthnet.gr> Subject: AGORA 2002 on CHILDREN MEDIA LITERACY message 2 forwarded by ALAS-Athens Digital Culture Organization = alas@ath.forthnet.gr and ''e-phos'' festival www.filmart.gr apologies for cross posting AGORA 2002 Athens, Greece 15-18 June The Annual Regional Mediterranean Summit opportunities for investements and synergies contact management@ectc.gr Preliminary program at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/ In the heart of the Mediterranean basin AGORA becomes from this year an Annual Mediterranean Summit and attracts children's media professionals, policy makers and researchers in order to create a strong network of synergies, co productions and common projects. In the peak of its activities and maturity AGORA 2002 is the annual = meeting point of the Mediterranean children's audiovisual world with worldknown professionals aiming to enhance the region's political and industrial influence in the global landscape. The Strategy Tower Core nucleus of AGORA is the Mediterranean Observatory, a common event = and planning centre with worldknown personalities from audiovisual policy makers to main broadcasters and producers. The Observatory monitors, = reviews and evaluates the production, promotion, research and training of = children's audiovisual activities of the region.It is an on going living organism = which can provide update information for the regions ctivities in children's = media and to create synergies and projects with transnational and global = impact. The first working day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the Mediterranean Observatory. Children's Fantasy first AGORA cares mostly about children. Being conscious on the impact of audiovisual media on children's upbringing AGORA proposes the Media = Summer School Project. MSS is children's creativity pool. The young talent meets top = professionals of children's media and finds the language and technology to express, = to create and to succeed. In the Giffoni Multimedia Valley, Italy, an environment of of learning, experimenting and playing the children meet the creators of their heros = and discover ways to use the audiovisual language for their own creations = and constructions. The third day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the Media Summer School = Project which will launch operations in 2004. New Technologies in Media Literacy - I believe to know is to interact This part-conference, part-hands-on-lab, to be held the third day of = AGORA 2002, will bring together electronic media producers and e-content programmers, researchers, digital artists, media tutors, media education designers, psychologists and children; anyone who is involved in the = making of the future trends in media youth training and literacy. Citius, Altius, Fortius 2004, Olympics return to their birthplace. Within the Olympic spirit of competition aiming to global synergy The World Sports Expo will present audiovisual works made for children and by children targeting in sports = as a social and cultural language. It will offer behaviour examples showing youth's participation in sports worldwide and illustarting the ways media creations influnce the = youngsters' s sport counscience. The fourth of AGORA 2002 focuses in the World Sports Expo for Youth = which will be launched in 2004 in Greece for a period of 4 months. plus POSTER SESSIONS WORKSHOPS NETWORKS OF COLLABORATION MEETINGS SCREENINGS CLOSED MEETINGS FESTIVAL TRIBUTES opportunities for investements and synergies contact management@ectc.gr Preliminary program at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:43:44 -0000 From: "galia" <galia@i-space.org> Subject: URBAN CYCLES_UK announcement URBAN CYCLES_UK=20 interactive video installation in public space venue: Library Walk, off St Peter=B9s Square, Manchester, UK dates: Thursday 21 - Saturday 30 March=20 times: 8:30pm - midnight Free http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/ Artists: Krassimir Terziev, Petko Dourmana, Nikolay Chakarov, Maria Berova (BG) Jen Southern, Anneke Pettican, Adele Myers, Jenna Collins, Steve Symons, = Gary Peploe (UK) Curator: Galina Dimitrova /Interspace/ Transforming a busy thorough-fare into another time and place, Urban = Cycles invites the public to trigger, provoke, and creatively = participate in the work of ten artists from Manchester and Sofia. = Sensors responding to peoples' movements connect to multiple video = projections along Library Walk, and the street becomes home to both = usual and unusual events...A graffiti artist runs away at the sound of = your approach; satellite surveillance makes you a global pawn, and = children's street games invite you into simple play. Each day the work = of a different artist will collaborate with the city's walking feet, = animating the floorscape with surprising consequences.=20 Firstly shown at The National Palace of Culture, Sofia the second part = of the project will take place in Manchester being a part of = [inter:face] 02 Digital Summer Festival. Urban Cycles_BG was nominated for the ZKM-SWR International Media Art = Awards 2001.=20 A collaboration inititated by Inerspace Media Art Center, Sofia = (Bulgaria) and artists from Manchester (UK), exploring the moving image, = interactive new media technologies and pubic space. Exhibition program:=20 21.03./Thursday Maria Berova "TRANSPOSITION"=20 22.03./Friday Jen Southern "SLIPPERY SURFACE"=20 23.03./Saturday Gary Peploe "LOOK BOTH WAYS"=20 24.03./Sunday Nikolay Chakarov "GHOST GAME"=20 25.03./Monday Jenna Collins "TRACK"=20 26.03./Tuesday Steve Symons "VIRAL SYNTHESIA"=20 27.03./Wednesday Adele Myers "PASSAGE"=20 28.03./Thursday Krassimir Terziev "FOR REAL"=20 29.03./Friday Anneke Pettican "THE TRESPASS OF HER GESTURE"=20 30.03./Saturday Petko Dourama "DIP"=20 for Project Descriptions see: = <http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/projectsuk.html>=20 With the kind support of : DIGITAL SUMMER [inter:face], Manchester City Council Arts and Libraries, = Liverpool John Moores University, University of Huddersfield, Visiting = Arts, The British Council, Bulgaria and IDEA. http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/ http://www.digitalsummer.org http://www.i-space.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:25:26 EST From: JSalloum@aol.com Subject: Raad at the 2002 Whitney Biennial (apologies for cross posting) Walid Raad will present "The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive" on March 27 and April 10, 2002 at 7:30 at the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Raad will discuss his recent project titled, "The Atlas Group" (an imaginary foundation and archive dedicated to the study of Lebanon's contemporary history.) He will present the group, its mission and will show several documents from the archive. Walid Raad is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. Please make reservations and purchase your tickets ASAP as seating is limited. For reservations and tickets, please contact the Whitney Museum at: 1-877-whitney (1-877-944-8639) or go to www.whitney.org. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:56:05 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A1ensba?= libre! <www.ensba@free.Fr> Subject: CONTRE-CONFERENCE CONTRE-CONFERENCE CETTE JOURNEE EST ORGANISEE EN REPONSE A LA CONVENTION PASSEE ENTRE L'ENSBA ET DISNEY http://www.ensba.free.fr _________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================= _-_-_-_-_-Jeudi 14 mars 2002 - De 11h à 20h - Ensba, Salle du CID_-_-_-_-_ ........14, rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris - M° St Germain des Prés........... ======================================================= (à partir de 11H) - - L'ECOLE POTENTI3LLE - Pourquoi être producteurs culturels dans une société de communication ? - - Bureau d'études-collectif d'artistes - Affichage d'archives + rédaction d'une affiche à l'attention des écoles d'art et de création - - Ewen Chardronnet, Anthologie de l'Association des Astronautes Autonomes - présentation - - Brian Holmes - Sur l'adaptation des pratiques artistiques à l'économie des contenus - - Cyrille Larpenteur - Documentation de la journée (14H) projections - - PES - Exposé, Action Micro-édition - - Béatrice Rettig - On line-Off line - - Magali Claude et Frédéric Beaumes - Vidéo-clips - - L'AGENCE/Elodie Huet, Anne-Claire Budin, Rada Boukova - Vidéo - - Jean-Baptiste Bayle - Art & Sécurité - - François Robin - Links - - Ludovic Burel - ACCES 2001 ======================================================== (15h) Jean-Claude Moineau, théoricien de l'art, enseignant à Paris 8 : Art, réseaux et mondialisation - La géopolitique de l'art à l'heure de la mondialisation, internationalisme et rapport global local ======================================================== (17h) Table ronde/Débat : L'enseignement, le public et le privé, ou la question complexe de l'esthétique de la firme Disney rapportée à la morale ou l'absence de morale de ses dirigeants - - Patrick Maldidier, Syndicat UNSA Disney - - Reflex(e), groupe de reflexion art et politique - - Julien Langé, urbaniste - - La coordination des étudiants potentiels et l'ensemble des intervenants Modérateur débat : Didier Semin, historien de l'art, enseignant à l'Ensba ======================================================== (19h) Pot, Mégaphone + Live-Démo - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================== Mailing-List : contreconference@ml.free.fr Recevoir les news : contreconference-request@ml.free.fr, sujet subscribe ======================================================== Merci de faire suivre ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:27:00 EST From: TONGOLELE@aol.com Subject: Lecture ART IN MOTION: The Annual International Festival of Time-Based Media Presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts **** LATEST NEWS **** SAVE THE DATE *** LATEST NEWS **** CONTINUING WITH THE AIM 2002 LECTURE SERIES AIM III: LUNA PARK PRESENTS: COCO FUSCO and RICARDO DOMINGUEZ Saturday, March 23rd, 2-4 pm Ahmanson Auditorium Museum of Contemporary Art (at the California Plaza) 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 Interdisciplinary artist COCO FUSCO has lectured, performed, exhibited, and curated programs throughout the world. Fusco's performances include Dolores from 10h to 22h with Ricardo Dominguez (2001), Votos (1999-2000), Stuff with Nao Bustamante (1996-99), and Sudaca Enterprises (1997), and her work has been included in, among others, the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the London International Theatre Festival. She is the author of English is Broken Here, a collection of essays on art, media and cultural politics; and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999). Her writings appear in numerous publications, including: the Village Voice, the LA Times, Art in America, and Frieze, and a collection of her essays and performance texts will be published by Routledge in 2001. Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. EDT's SWARM action was presented at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998. A former member of Critical Art Ensemble, Dominguez is currently a Worker with Fake-Fakeshop, a hybrid performance group that was included in the Whitney Biennial, and Senior Editor of The Thing. He is the editor of EDT's book Hacktivism: network-art-activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001), and his essays have appeared at Ctheory and recently in Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, edited by Coco Fusco. AIM is the annual international festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts. AIM is directed by Janet Owen and programmed by Christiane Robbins. This lecture is Presented by AIM and co-sponsored by the USC Janet and George Handtmann Lecture Series in Photography. All events are free and open to the public. No reservation required. Further information: http://www.usc.edu/aim aim@usc.edu Tel: 213 740 ARTS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:08:35 +0000 From: "cybersalonuk" <cybersalonuk@yahoo.co.uk> (by way of richard barbrook) Subject: [cybersalon] cybersonica>>>call for submissions- digital music festival Cybersonica International Festival of Digital Music and Sound symposium / exhibition / installation / performance ICA, London June 4th - 7th 2002 For more info see: <www.cybersonica.org> Call for papers, presentations, demonstrations, installations and performances focussing on creative, innovative practice and theory in music and sound. The Cybersonica festival brings together the whole community of sonic innovation, from performers, composers, DJs and VJs to developers, academics, broadcasters and record companies. Symposium - 6th and 7th June, 10am - 5pm, ICA theatre Presentations and discussions of music and sound in relation to: interfaces;interaction and spaces communication; narrative and computer games;generative, algorithmic and process based systems artistry; copyright and commerce. Presentations should last no more than 20 minutes. Academic papers will be published on-line and should be presented in summary form only during the symposium. Performance - 5-7th June, 7.30pm till 1.00am, ICA bar and theatre A selection of abstract textures/digital noise & cut up/idiosyncratic electronica, featuring contemporary digital music makers and fresh, home grown talent - with strong performances in cinema, seated auditorium and bar spaces. Exhibition - 4th to 7th June, all day, New Media Centre in association with soundtoys.net An exhibition of audio artworks or "new audio visual experiences" exploring the fusion of audio and visual output through new technologies available from computing and the Internet. Installation - 6th and 7th June, all day, Brandon and Nash rooms Sonic experiences that engage and react through movement and interactivity.These responsive sonic spaces allow the visitor to interact with the sound around them. To participate If you wish to participate email a proposal or abstract (max 500 words, plain text + URLs) by 31 March 2002 to: Symposium: John Eacott - john@informal.org Performance: Lewis Sykes - cybersonica@lewissykes.com Exhibition: Stanza - cyberfest@soundtoys.net Installation: Clifton Evans - clifton@infostyling.com To sponsor or partner the event: Mark Fitzpatrick - mark@cybersalon.org Press inquiries: Niki Gomez - niki@ica.org.uk Or post a proposal or abstract (max 500 words) + examples of work on CD-ROM/DVD to: John Eacott University of Westminster Watford Road London HA1 3TP UK OR Cybersonica The ICA The Mall London SW1Y 5AH UK Tickets (prices to be confirmed) £90 festival ticket / £55 one-day ticket - full rate - full admission to all events, delegate's pack, lunch and refreshments £55 festival ticket / £27.50 one-day ticket - concessionary (student, unemployed, OAP or small business / hardship) - full admission to all events, delegates pack and refreshments £8 / £7 cons / £6 ICA member - evening ticket - admission to one evening of festival performances and exhibitions Tickets on sale from 1st April 2002 - contact the ICA ticket office on: 0207 930 3647 or tickets@ica.org.uk. To reserve, prior to 1st April 2002, contact: mark@cybersalon.org Cybersonica is supported by the University of Westminster & CARTE [cybersalon] [cybersalon] [cybersalon] [cybersalon] [cybersalon] [cybersalon] [cybersalon] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: cybersalon-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:52:26 -0600 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Prensa=20Foro=20Global?= <comite_organizador_foro_global@yahoo.com.mx> Subject: [FLOGAL_FORUM_FFD] NEWS SERVICE FROM GLOBAL FORUM NEWS SERVICE GLOBAL FORUM, cimacnoticias, MEDIA LIANCE FOR THE GLOBAL FORUM INDEX * NGOs find aid packages to be mere scraps - --Developing world not asking for charity * Foreign debt, a cross to bear for the people of the world: NGO - --Latin America owes 737 billion dollars to financial institutions * Foreign factories in Mexico at risk - --Wages are even lower in Central America * Creating a just global governance Improve quality of life not discover new markets * Representatives express disappointment with Monterrey Consensus - --NGOs proposals not taken into account * Dialogue between financial institutions and NGOs difficult - --World Bank claims goals are the same * Women participating in the Global Forum reject the neoliberal model, war culture, and all forms of violence against women - ---------------------------------------- * NGOs find aid packages to be mere scraps - --Developing world not asking for charity Monterrey, MARCH 15, 2002 (CIMAC)-Social organizations at the Global Forum: Financing for the Right to Sustainable and Equitable Development, criticized the aid offered by President George W. Bush, which they refer to as crumbs for development. Alejandro Villamar, Mexican Steering Committee spokesperson, explained that for each dollar rich countries send as aid, developing countries have to send back six dollars as payment of foreign debt. They also referred to the aid package that the governments of Europe agreed on, which is to raise the percentage of Official Aid for Development (OAD) to .3% by 2006, as scraps. Currently the amount designated for OAD doesn’t reach past .2% of Gross National Products. Roberto Bissio, of the Third World Institute, explained that 5 million dollars is only 5% of the one billion the UN has declared necessary to guarantee an elementary education for every person in the world, as well as basic health services, reducing maternal mortality rates, among other goals set at the Millenium Summit that took place in New York, September of 2000. Meanwhile, the union of the NGOs of Spain expressed their approval of the unilateral decision made by the governments of Europe to raise the percentage of OAD by 2006. As their spokesperson, Alfonso Sancho, said, this decision was made at the European Summit that is being held in Barcelona, Spain. For citizen’s organizations of European countries, this, “last minute decision” is the recognition by the richest countries in the world that the FfD document lacks concrete obligations to reach the objectives of the Millenium Summit. Among which is, reducing in half by the year 2015 the number of people who live in poverty. However, they found these actions to be insufficient to obtain a consensus between the countries of the north and the south that looks towards an agenda that favors equitable and sustainable development. Alfonso Sancho, pointed out that the citizens organizations of the world are not asking for charity on the part of developed countries, but for actions that come from recognizing that the actual financial system is designed to keep developing countries structurally dependant. It’s important to remember that the richest countries, grouped as the G-7 are the ones who make decisions regarding the economic system of the world, and in multilateral financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. According to the UN, of the 4.6 thousand million people that live in the developing world, 826 million lack food, 850 million are illiterate, and almost a sixth of humanity go without systems of drinkable water. - ------------------------------------- * Global Forum of the FfD Foreign debt, a cross to bear for the people of the world: NGO - --Latin America owes 737 billion dollars to financial institutions Monterrey, MAR 15, 00 (CIMAC)- Foreign debt is the burden of the people, and the only lasting solution to this problem is the complete debt cancellation, said Demba Moussa, member of the Worldwide Counsel of Churches, who stated that a proposal regarding the elimination of external debt should be included in the final document of the Global Forum: Financing for the Right to Sustainable and Equitable Development. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL), in the last year, the foreign debt of Latin America has reached 737 billion dollars, this is immoral and intolerable said Mexican ex-deputy Ifigenia Marinez. In a document sent to the Global Forum, that ended this morning, at the historical Steel Mill of Monterrey, Ifigenia Martinez, of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD), said that the politics of foreign debt payment are incompatible with development. Cuban expert Marlen Sanchez, agreed, stating that the debt of Latin America is unpayable, what’s more, Peter Lance, spokesperson of the Jubilee 2000 Campaign, announced that new goals regarding foreign debt that take into account human rights are necessary, so that poor countries have social and economic development opportunities. Representatives of civil society are in agreement that foreign debt is illegitimate and is used to dominate and exploit developing countries. The debt, if continued, will only serve to make people poorer. They believe that the problem of debt is more political than economic and remains a burden of the poor. “Whether or not we like the final document of the International Conference of Financing for Development, NGOs will continue the fight for the elimination of external debt”, said Moussa, a religious representative of Senegal. - ------------------- * Foreign factories in Mexico at risk - --Wages are even lower in Central America MONTERREY, MAR 15, 2002 (CIMAC). Mexico has been converted into a maquiladora country (an assembly line for foreign industry), with the risk that transnational companies will use the country as a jumping off point for moving into other regions where the cost of production is even less. This was the consensus of a group of specialists in the Foreign Direct Investment and Trade tent at a round table discussion regarding the maquiladoras during the Global Forum of Financing for the Right to Sustainable and Equitable Development. Due to the economic decline of the United States, the Maquiladora Industry in Mexico has gone from second to third place as the source of foreign income as of last year. Resulting in the dismissal of 250 thousand workers out of the more than one million employed. Victor Acuna, of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, held that even with the low salaries that Mexico pays it’s workers, it’s still at disadvantage to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or El Salvador, all countries that can provide cheaper labor. Veronica Leyva, participant in the round table discussion, gave her testimony as a laid off maqiladora worker from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, one of the countries major maquiladora areas. In Ciudad Juarez, where nearly 300 workers have been murdered in the last few years, there are 360 factories in this sector, employing 250 thousand people, over 50 percent of whom are women and 60 percent of those whom are single mothers. Even though the average age of workers in the maquiladoras in Ciudad Juarez is twenty two years old, this sector also employs boys and girls starting as young as thirteen or fourteen, whose child labor rights are violated as they work full shifts and nights. Violation of the workers rights is common, particularly toward women, who will not be hired if pregnant. Leyva held that the industry leaders of the area recently signed an agreement with the Canacintra The Camera Nacional de la industria y transformacion that unites them on a national level, together they will compile a black list, (under the pretext of creating an employment service) workers names that have been labeled as “troublemakers or agitators “ for defending their rights. There was also a list made of lawyers who have defended workers whose labor rights have been violated at the hands of their employers. Another detrimental effect maquiladoras have on their surrounding communities is the release of highly toxic and carcinogenic substances as the North American Free Trade Agreement does not require that this toxic waste be returned to the United States. - ----------------- * Creating a just global governance Improve quality of life not discover new markets Monterrey, Mar. 15, 2002 (CIMAC)—Governments are at the service of civil society, not above civil society, stressed Estela Escandola, of the Multilateral Network of Brazil, in a conference on the new global, national and local governance during the Global Forum this morning. Escandola started with a set of questions on how to build global governance, first, should a global government be at the service of governments or of the people? Today, when governments plan development assistance, they do it with the idea that it will create new markets, not because they want people to improve their life conditions, she regretted. She then added that if global governance happens, it shouldn’t be at the expense of local differences. Differences enrich rather than impoverish and conformity is harmful, she added. For example, when the Inter-American Development Bank finances projects of development through tourism, they always build the same kind of hotels. As a consequence, tourists get tired and never come back, only leaving behind prostitution and child labor. The second question to raise is how to create this global governance, Escandola said. Today, only federal executive powers are involved in this process, leaving aside legislative and judicial powers, as well as local representatives and civil society, she regretted. Thirdly, Escandola invited her audience to wonder to whom the rules should apply. Referring to the US war against Afghanistan, she said that once more, the US broke the rules they contributed to define in the context of United Nations, but that small countries are forced to obey these rules. Escandola then stated the ways to reach a fair global governance. First, civil society should strengthen their local nations, because it’s at the local level that people and NGOs can have an influence. Then, civil society should work on the international financial institutions, but from the base. Finally, she stressed the importance of mutual respect among NGOs and of avoiding perpetuating the same paternalist attitude international financial institutions show toward poor countries. - --------------------------- * Representatives express disappointment with Monterrey Consensus - --NGOs proposals not taken into account Monterrey, Mar. 14, 2002 (CIMAC)—NGOs representatives invited to evaluate the chapter on systemic issues of the Monterrey Consensus during the Global Forum this afternoon, expressed their concern about the documents lack of firm language on many issues NGOs consider important. Even though for the first time ever NGOs were invited to make proposals during the preparation of the Monterrey Consensus, their proposals have hardly been taken into account in the final document, said Gemma Adaba, UN representative of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The question is not so much what NGOs have to propose, but how they manage to push their proposals forward, she added. Among these proposals were the need for an effective tax system at the national level, because poor countries do not necessarily lack resources, but they lack a process of redistribution of these resources, said Adaba. Another important recommendation pushed forward by NGOs that was almost dropped in the final document is the implementation of the commitment by industrialized countries to dedicate 0.7 percent of their GDP to assist the poorest countries, said Adaba. She also expressed her disappointment regarding the weakness of the language used in the consensus when referring to human rights and workers´ rights. Martha Arias, political advisor at Oxfam, stressed that two other proposals left out of the consensus were: mentioning the need to analyze the impact on development of the liberalization of capitals, as well as the necessity to realize an external and independent evaluation of international financial institutions work. Both speakers regretted that the only part of the document where strong language is used is in reference to fighting financing for terrorism, whereas, according to Adaba, the document reveals no such sense of urgency concerning issues such as the crisis in Argentina or the HIV-AIDS pandemic. Despite these limitations, both Adaba and Arias said they won’t reject the consensus, but rather accept it while making public their disappointment and stressing that they’re staying engaged. - ------------------------------- * Dialogue between financial institutions and NGOs difficult - --World Bank claims goals are the same Monterrey, Mar. 15, 2002 (CIMAC)— Members of NGOs participating in the Global Forum debated with international financial institutions` representatives around the chapter on systemic issues of the Monterrey Consensus this afternoon, in what both later regarded as a constructive effort. The difficulty of establishing a dialog between international financial institutions and NGOs lies in their different ideological premises, said Frank Schroeder, of the Ebert Foundation. While NGOs consider development efforts should find ways of redistributing the fruits of economic growth, financial institutions appear to be market fundamentalists. While rejecting this label, Prakash Loungani, of the International Monetary Fund, stressed that international financial institutions exist precisely in order to help correct the market’s failures. Aldo Cagliari, of the Center of Concern, expressed his concern about the lack of language on human rights in the part relative to systemic issues of the consensus. However, human rights are mentioned at the beginning of the document, stressed Barry Herman of the United Nations Secretariat, and if they are not mentioned in the rest of the document, it might be that NGOs didn’t lobby effectively. The Monterrey conference was celebrated as the first North- South summit in the last 25 years by Herman who expressed his optimism about NGOs` participation in the conference’s process. The UN is offering a forum to try to resolve disputes, he added. Herman`s optimism was not shared by Paul Tennassee, of the Confederation of Workers, who denounced policies like the 5-billion-dollar promise to aid for development President George W. Bush made yesterday, because poor countries have given much more than this amount to rich countries in interests on the debt, he said. Despite cases like the crisis in Argentina, Tennassee added, the IMF and the World Bank continue to make mistakes. Lungangi from the IMF recognized that his institution makes mistakes, and said it tries to learn from them. When a member of the audience accused the World Bank of impoverishing developing countries´ peoples, Jaime Bilderman of the World Bank said he didn’t accept this accusation and expressed that his institution is committed to reducing poverty, recognizing that NGOs and international financial institutions may have different methods, but they share the same objective. Mexican Representative Leticia Burgos, who took part in the debate at the last minute, stressed the need for more parliamentary representation in the United Nations system, while Representative Maria Elena Chapa expressed the need to give a gender perspective to the issue of development. - ------------------------- * Women participating in the Global Forum reject the neoliberal model, war culture, and all forms of violence against women March, 2002 (CIMAC)-Women participating in the Global Forum: Financing the Right to Sustainable and Equitable Development, rejected the neoliberal model, the war culture and all forms of violence against women, and demanded the total eradication of foreign debt for highly indebted countries. On the first day of work at the NGOs Forum preceding the International Conference: Financing for Development (FfD) women proposed putting forth an agenda for a just peace in the world, a non monolithic worldwide political organization given a say in economics and that enjoys equal representation and a participatory democracy among the worlds countries. In the text of the Women’s Declaration the activists recommended the establishment of a tax on foreign financial transactions the percentage of which is raised in times of crisis to avoid capital flight, specifically speculative capital, that also provides a a way of regulating the flows of international capital. They also asked for a raise in the resources for Official Aid for Development and the elimination of conditional clauses. As well as fulfilling in the agreement that developed countries destine 0.7 of their Gross National Product to the OAD. They also demanded eliminating conditional clauses in structural adjustment programs promoted by the World Bank, the Internation Monetary Fund, and international banks. As for foreign debt, they recommended a re-examination of current criteria and the adoption of a human development focus. All of this in order to measure sustainability which they believe should not be gauged in accordance with what a country can pay or in accordance with the agreement previously acquired, but in accordance with its needs to reach sustainable and equitable gender human development. They also demanded the establishment of a transparent system of arbitration on external debt with a democratic process in the decision making because as it stands lending countries carry enormous weight in deciding which countries can go into the renegotiating process like the Initiative of condemnation of highly indebted countries. The activists pleaded for the democratization of decision making processes within international financial institutions so that of free trade and investments respect the sovereignty of various peoples and that they comply with the objectives of development from the Millenium Meeting. The women stated that the United Nations must take on a leading role in economic and social development through the fulfillment of the UN final document the “Consensus of Monterrey” so that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund’s actions and accounts are submitted for review to the Social and Economic Counsel and are in compliance with international human rights regulations. ===== Comité Organizador México Foro Global: Financiación para el Derecho al Desarrollo Sustentable con Equidad www.ffdforoglobal.org Enlace con medios: Comunicación e Información de la Mujer, Asociación Civil (CIMAC). + 52 (55) 5510-0085/5510-0023/5512-5796 www.cimacnoticias.com Cindy Gabriela Flores, Coordinación de Prensa, ciberfeminista@yahoo.com.mx _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La emoción e intensidad del deporte en Yahoo! Deportes. http://deportes.yahoo.com.mx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 04:03:55 EST From: JSalloum@aol.com Subject: salloum vbc screening (apologies for cross posting) Canadian premiere of a new videotape by Jayce Salloum: 'everything and nothing' An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. One screening only as part of the Signal & Noise Festival @ Video In Friday, March 22, 9:30pm followed by a Q&A Video In 1965 Main Street, Vancouver: single screening $5 for more info: (604)872-8337 exhibit@telus.net - -- Full videotape description: everything and nothing part 1 from the continuous tape, ‘untitled’ Jayce Salloum, 40:40, orig format MiniDV, France/Canada, 2001 An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara* ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of resistance, discussing the recounting to death of her account, the nature of survival, will, separation, distance and closeness, the overexposed image and body of a surviving martyr speaks quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance between the subject and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains. *Soha Bechara is a heroine in Lebanon, pictures of her are seen in many houses in the South and posters of her were seen all around downtown Beirut when I was working there in the early 90’s. She was captured for trying to assassinate the general of the SLA (Israel's proxy army), Antoine Lahad. This video material that I recorded of the time spent with her is not precious, just time, and a conversation, and intense intimacy at a close and unbreachable distance. - -- Screenings to date include; MoneyNations2, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Ayam Bayrout al Cinemaiya, Beirut; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Arab Screen Independent Film Festival, Doha, Qatar; Artists Television Access/Arab Film Festival, San Francisco; Arab & Iranian Film Festival, NYC; Argos Film & Video Festival, Brussels; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; The Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec; Biennale de l’image en Mouvement (Biennial of Moving Images), Geneva; and upcoming at the Pacific Film A rchives, Berkeley, and YYZ, Toronto. ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net