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01 . Dooley Le Cappellaine . "Accidents Have No Holidays"
02 . K1 . TERRORISM NOW!
03 . Tommaso Tozzi . NETSTRIKE per il Centro Popolare Fi-Sud
04 . J.Salloum . Free Speech Internet Television
05 . olia lialina . Moscow CINE FANTOM
06 . teo spiller . Megatronix competition (first award: 700 $)
07 . meter
08 . CyberSalon Announce . WORKERS IN NEW MEDIA
09 . waz . Swallow #12. Smellier than Chanel #5.
10 . lounge . Greetings from the Lounge.
11 . Andrew Forbws . net-art98 results
12 . scotartt . Archive To Be Deleted!
13 . emaf . EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
................................................................... 01
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:23:29 +0100
From: Dooley Le Cappellaine <dooley@thing.net>
Dooley Le Cappellaine
is an artist and curator focused on the cutting edge of art and technology.
She curated and produced "Technophobia" the first independently produced
interactive exhibition of original multimedia works on CD Rom.
She is currently curating a program of art works for the Web at
http://www.thing.net/dooley.
She has just completed a new work
titled "Accidents Have No Holidays" (CD ROM, and photographs) .
"In this work I'm examining the roots of human awareness where our
perceptions and motivations come from. I'm interested in the concept of
"tropisms" as proposed by Nathalie Sarraute; those oddities of behavior
that reveal what is really happening behind appearances.
It's based on two mutually linked and antagonistic propositions:
The idea that we are unique, the center of our universe and in control of
our destinies, and the idea that we are insignificant and not at all in
control of what may happen to us at any moment.
For me ideas of "the accident" and the pathalogical sense of
extra-sensory control are the basis for this body of work.
................................................................... 02
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 03:43:55 -0600
From: K1 <Might@iname.com>
After 10+ yrs of noise terrorism, Kommune-1 can now be found on the web.
POLITICAL TERROR
ITS THE ONLY THING THEY UNDERSTAND
TERRORISM NOW!!
http://menschenfiend.com/kommune1
................................................................... 03
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:00:07 +0100
From: Tommaso Tozzi <t.tozzi@ecn.org>
ENGLISH TRANSLATION AT BOTTOM
---------------------------------
NETSTRIKE per il Centro Popolare Fi-Sud
Dopo nove anni di autogestione dell'ex-area dismessa "ex-Longinotti",
martedi' 22 dicembre il Consiglio Comunale di Firenze approvera' il
progetto per la realizzazione di un ennesimo centro commerciale targato
Coop delle dimensioni di 11.000 mq decretando la fine di tutte le
attività sociali, politiche e culturali (ricordiamo a riguardo la
vittoria contro lo spaccio di eroina nel quartiere, lo splendido
rapporto con la cittadinanza, le centinaia d'iniziatve di solidarieta'
politica, l'offerta culturale unica in citta' con realtà residenti nel
centro riconosciute a livello italiano ed europeo) del C.P.A. Fi-sud. La
vostra presa di posizione pubblica puo' essere in questo momento di
grande aiuto nel tentativo di dissuadere le spinte speculative di
interessi politici ed economici a cui nulla sembra interessare la
svendita di spazi della citta' non più dismessi bensi' importanti e
vitali. (Un cinema, un teatro, un auditorium da 1.500 posti, una sala
per il ballo liscio, una biblioteca pubblica, un archivio, quattro sale
prove musicali, una sala di posa cinematografica, una palestra, un
parco, una mensa, tre bar, uno spazio mostre ed allestimenti, una sala
di montaggio cinematografico dotata di moviole in 16 e 35 mm., una
camera oscura e laboratorio fotografico, una serigrafia, un'area per lo
skate, un campo da pallavolo e da calcetto, e tanto altro spazio per
chiunque voglia realizzare progetti ed iniziative nello spirito
dell'autogestione.)
Ti invitiamo quindi a partecipare al corteo telematico caricando
continuamente le pagine sugli indirizzi http://www.comune.firenze.it e
http://www.coop.it con la cache = 0 e coordinandosi sul canale irc
#strkxcpa, che si terra' il 4 gennaio dalle 18.00 alle 19.00 contro la
decisione del Comune di Firenze di costruire un supermercato che
cancellerebbe un'importante esperienza politica, sociale e culturale... la
stessa che ha sostenuto l'organizzazione di hackit98.
Riferimento:
http://www.ecn.org/cpa/
...CONTINUA...
NETSTRIKE FOR CPA FI-SUD
After nine years of selfmanaged activity within the former industrial area
"Longinotti" in Florence South, Tuesday December 22nd. The City Council of
Florence has approved the project for the construction of yet another
shopping mall, in this instance a "Coop" ("red" version of a chain store)
for a total of 11.000 square meters. This has sealed the fate of our
center, putting an end to all our social, political and cultural activities
(we'd mention here the battle won against heroin dealing in the
neighborhood, the wonderful relationship with our community, a cultural
offer unique to this city, an entire range of cultural experiences - music,
theatre, videoart, Hack.it - born and grown in the Center).
Do the Right Thing ! Netstrike (with cache=0) x CPA against the decision of
the Municipality of Florence to build a supermarket and erase an important
political, social and cultural experience: the same one that supported
hackit98. RELOAD your browser with cache = 0 with (4th january 1998 6.00 -
7.00 p.m. GMT +1) on http://www.comune.firenze.it and http://www.coop.it
and stay tune on #strkxcpa irc channel
for more info:
http://www.ecn.org/cpa/
... to be continued...
CPA FI-SUD
Viale Giannotti 79 50100 Firenze
tel./fax. (+39) 055 6580151
e-mail: cpa@ecn.org
http://www.ecn.org/cpa/
** IL CPA E' SOTTO SGOMBERO! **
Tommaso Tozzi
Via XXIV Maggio 14
50129 Firenze Italy
Phone/Fax: +39-55-485996
e-mail: t.tozzi@ecn.org
BBS: +39-55-499720
WEB Home page: http://strano.net/tozzi.htm
................................................................... 04
From: JSalloum@aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:20:17 EST
Free Speech Internet Television, a major activist media web project at
http://www.freespeech.org/, with three employees and over 25,000
visitors/day, seeks a Project Director. This full-time, salaried position
requires residence in (or relocation to) beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The
ideal candidate will have an understanding of progressive political issues
and experience in developing websites. Knowledge of streaming media is a
plus, as is experience in a member-based web hosting environment. Women
and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Duties include:
* Supervise all web project staff, including technical personnel,
volunteers, and interns
* Develop strategies for the site in a fast-changing web environment
* Maintain and manage the freespeech.org homepage, related website pages,
and email newsletter
* Collaborate with freespeech.org members on their own webpages and
audio/video broadcasts.
* Administer and participate in drafting web project budgets
* Develop revenue sources and meet income targets
* Publicize the website, including managing its advertising strategy
* Negotiate alliances and links with other websites.
The Director reports to the FStv president.
Salary: $35,000 per annum.
Benefits include health insurance.
Please send a cover letter and resume, including salary history, using any
of the following means (in order of preference):
by email to schwartz@usa.net with a cc: to joey@freespeech.org
(HTML, ASCII and Word attachments are all acceptable);
by fax to (303) 442-6472
attn: John Schwartz, President
by snailmail to:
FStv Web Project
PO Box 6060
Boulder, CO 80306
Attention: John Schwartz
* * *
********************************************************************
FREE SPEECH TV: a progressive voice in the media revolution
>bringing activist & alternative media into seven million homes each week<
Programming Department: Eric Galatas, Linda Iggi, Jon Stout
P.O. Box 6060, Boulder, CO 80306
phone: 303-442-8445, fax: 303-442-6472
email: programming@fstv.org, website: http://www.freespeech.org
********************************************************************
................................................................... 05
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:29:18 +0300
From: olia lialina <olialia@teleportacia.org>
January 8
7p.m.
Moscow CINE FANTOM club presents RUSSIAN PARALLEL FILM program at
Antology Film Archives NY:
Films and videos, 90-s, Moscow and St.Petersburg
more at http://www.cinefantom.org and info@cinefantom.org
................................................................... 06
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:38:20 +0100
From: teo <teo.spiller@rzs-hm.si>
Megatronix competition (first award: 700 $)
call for participation
Megatronix, the open multicreator web action game is now open for
submitions. 700 $ will be given to the autor of the best
of the first valid 100 arrived scenes. The commission will be composed of
three experts: for design, multimedia and artistic
impression. Deadline: the 1st of january 2000.
Every participant may submit as many different scenes as he wants.
http://www.teo-spiller.org/megatronix/odlocise.htm
Megatronix is an open online project, an interactive, social critical
theater, concepted as an arcade game, where the player
becomes the actor. The "free choice" is just a fictive solution, because
the game is leaded by a random generator.
It is the continuation of the idea of a random leaded game, first used in
Esmeralda (Esmeralda was presented on the art festival OSTRANENIE 97 in
the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany)
The open structure of the game lets every user of the web to add his own
action scene into the MEGATRONIX game.
The scene must be written in the HTML, it may include pictures and sounds,
but it may not include frames.
If you are using any plug-in, you must give a player choice to continue
also without it. You may not link from your scene anywhere but back to
Megatronix random generator.
Every scene is concept as a fictive situation, where the player arrives. It
must be descriptive and it must harangue the player (like:"you just
arrived..", "you are in a trouble again", "great done! After a short
vacation, boss sent you to... where you...", etc.) There must be at least
two possible decisions (links) for a player to continue to the next scene.
For example: You are arrested in the evil wizard's castle, the eagle peck
your liver every afternoon.
What will you do?
a) make a liver spread
b) get cirrhosis
c) peck eagle's liver
Every link must be like this:
<A HREF="Javascript:newscene()" TARGET="MEGATRONIX">
a text or a picture...
</A>
The "newscene" is a function, running the random generator. It is
positioned in the frame called
"MEGATRONIX".
.
As a user clicks that link, the random generator will choose another scene.
You can also use "sub scenes" (the complexity of the scene is one of very
important properties by estimateing the scene). It
means, the player's decision is followed by a logical continuation of the
scene, but than the sub scene must end with the
upper link
for example:
If a player chooses "a) make a liver spread", it may be linked to a new
HTML file, where he is asked for the name of the
spread:
1) Gavrilovic
2) Bucco
3) Microsoft
but every of possible answers must than end with the upper link
The pages (scenes or sub scenes) may not content any other links !
HOW TO SUBMIT:
after you have created your scene (or even more scenes), please click the
link "TEST YOUR SCENE"
http://www.teo-spiller.org/megatronix/odlocise2.htm and tell the full URL
(the internet address - for example
"http://www.yourserver.com/yourdirectory/yoursubdirectory/yourscene.html")
of your scene, test all links and tell your
e-mail adress and we will add your URL to the random generator.
One scene is also "GAME OVER" and a random generator can load it anytime.
Whenever it loads it, it ends the game.
So is the user jumping from one scene to another in a random order until
the "GAME OVER" scene appears, having a
feeling, he plays a game, but in fact, the random generator runs it.
for more information please visit http://www.teo-spiller.org/megatronix/
or send mail to teo@teo-spiller.org
P.S. thanks to our sponsors, who made this competition possible
................................................................... 07
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999
From: meter@flicker.dk
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~raf/A9FF.html
................................................................... 08
Date: 4 Jan 1999
From: CyberSalon Announce <cs-announce@hrc.westminster.ac.uk>
WORKERS IN NEW MEDIA
You are invited to a meeting for Workers in New Media
in the Asquith Room at BECTU Head Office
on Monday 11th January 1999
at 7 p.m.
Notes of the previous meeting can be found below.
BECTU is now in the process of establishing a New Media Branch specifically
for workers in new media.
The agenda on 11th January will pick up on the issues discussed last time.
1. Job titles/rates of pay:
to be tabled: a discussion document on job titles - but more information is
needed on the current level of fees/going rates.
2. Model contracts:
to be tabled: a discussion document on contracts, including copyright issues.
3. Health & safety/working time:
to be tabled: written advice on health & safety law, VDUs, Working Time
Regulations.
4. Advice and information:
to be discussed: ideas for setting up an information flow so that BECTU can
use its website and other means to provide effective advice to new media
workers.
==============================================================================
WORKERS IN NEW MEDIA
NOTES
from a meeting held at BECTU Head Office, 16th November 1998
Present
16 participants (see contact list).
In attendance: Roy Lockett & Martin Spence (BECTU).
Introductions
Martin set out the reasons for calling the meeting:-
Similar contracts in film/TV and in new media;
Similar issues re working conditions, e.g. health & safety issues around
computer workstations;
Often the same employers operate in both sectors;
BECTUís experience in supporting film/TV freelances means that it is well
placed to provide the same service in new media.
Everyone described their own areas of work and reasons for coming. The
majority were working in the commercial new media sector as website
animators/programmers/graphic designers etc.
Model contract
It was suggested that BECTU draw up a ìmodel contractî or some other form
of standard contract advice. Agreed that Roy/Martin take this on.
Rates of pay
The principle of a ìrate for the jobî was discussed. Different individuals
had different experiences re job titles. Some stressed the Junior /
Middleweight / Heavyweight hierarchy. Others broke jobs down broadly into
Programmer, Coder, Designer, Producer, Account handler.
Freelances are often asked to quote a fee for the job rather than a daily
rate, although in estimating their fee they will make a (rough & ready)
estimate of the amount of work likely to be involved.
Where freelance hourly rates exist they vary enormously, from £15/hour to
£50/hour.
Noted that going rates have been published in various places, including the
Wired website.
Various sources of information were identified for further research.
Noted that, as and when it becomes appropriate to approach employers to
discuss pay and working conditions, BIMA would be the most appropriate
employersí organisation.
Copyright
Roy stressed BECTUís work and expertise around copyright issues, and the
fact that it retains a professional copyright consultant. This was agreed
to be an area of interest. Many new media workers are aggrieved by the fact
that they are rarely credited for their work.
BECTU website
It was felt that there would be great interest if BECTU were able to
publish (a) going rates (b) contract advice (c) advice on the Working Time
Regulations on its own website. This would enhance its credibility in the
sector. Noted that any information on the webpage was by definition freely
available to all, so it might take the form of a ëtasterí, with more
detailed advice/information available only to union members.
The BECTU website itself was discussed and subjected to a friendly critique.
Agreed to meet again on Monday 11th January 1999.
................................................................... 09
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999
From: waz@easynet.co.uk
Swallow #12. Smellier than Chanel #5.
!gulp¡
Swallow #12 - tired, emotional, late
So. There's an interview with N. Katherine Hayles by Josephine Bosma,
various wonderful things by jcn, Adidasgirl, Michael G. Salinger and
Goat, plus a whole new redesign so hideous I nearly didn't post it.
¡plug!
http://www.waz.easynet.co.uk/swallow/ <-- URL still same
This is a partially organic spam, which has come to you because for one
reason or another I have the idea that you would like to know about the
new issue of Swallow. If you do not give a shit about the new issue of
Swallow, please let me know, and I will take you off the list at once.
................................................................... 10
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:03:23 -0800 (PST)
From: lounge@waag.org
Greetings from the Lounge.
Please go to http://www.medialounge.net
We invite organizations active around the intersection of art, culture and
politics to join the Hybrid Media Lounge.
The Lounge will be an interactive web database and spinoff CD-Rom whose
purpose will be to graphically map, facilitate and strengthen
electronically-driven cultural networking in Europe.
The idea for the Lounge grew out of the Hybrid Workspace project at
Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, 1997. The group of institutions that
participated there serves as our beginning point in compiling the database.
We aim to record the activities and alliances of these and other European
cultural organizations that are linked in online-based ways and have a
stated motive other than profit.
If you represent such an organization, we hope you will contribute
information about it via the online response form at www.medialounge.net.
The response area closes Wednesday, January 20, so please visit it soon!
Participating entities may also electronically send us samples of their
work (further details at the web response site) and notify us of other
groups, organizations or networks that should be included on the list but
aren't yet.
We will post each organization's information on its own page in the
database. This page will contain contact information; information about the
projects, publications and events you tell us about; your organization's
explanation of its mission and philosophy; and names of other organizations
you tell us are in your network.
Using information provided by the organizations, we will attempt to map the
links and other relationships between them. We will also combine everyone's
data to see what trans-European patterns are revealed.
The database is being set up by the Society for Old and New Media in
Amsterdam. The website and "freeze" CD-Rom will be presented at the Next
Five Minutes conference, March 12 through 14, 1999, in Amsterdam and
Rotterdam. The database will be freely accessible on the web and will not
be sold.
The CD-Rom will be distributed by participating organizations as well as
with the book "New Media Culture in Europe." Organizations will be able to
apply for stacks of CD-Roms for free distribution in places where web
access and bandwidth is more problematic.
For more information you can contact the database editors at lounge@waag.org.
Best regards,
Laura Martz, Geert Lovink, Marleen Stikker
Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam
------------------------------------------------------------------
Hybrid Media Lounge
lounge@waag.org
www.medialounge.net
Editors: Laura Martz, Geert Lovink
Supervisor: Marleen Stikker
Design coordinator for website and CD-Rom: Mieke Gerritsen
Database coordinators: Bente van Bourgondien, Michael van Eeden
Producer: Philippe Taminiau
Designer: Janine Huizenga
Advisor: Thorsten Schilling
................................................................... 11
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:23:51 +0000
From: Andrew Forbws <andy@j15.co.uk>
Results for the net-art98 event are now posted on
the site http://www.net-art.org.
net-art98 ran from September to December 1998 and
comprised a randomized listing of web specific art
sites, nominated by site vistors, and then voted
on by any registered visitors to the site.
Regitered visitors could cast between -5 and
fifteen points per site visted, return and change
that vote but not vote twice over for same site.
The resulting list we think gives a fresh
perspective to the web specific art that was
around last year and some sense of a community
concensus as to what people most enjoyed and found
of interest. Included in the lists are many new
workers in the medium getting a publicised open
showing of their sites for the first time.
We hope to be able to continue the experiment
1999. So far a completley unfunded initiative, the
plans at the moment are to start publicly listing
nominations in during March 1999, voting to start
again in June and finish in September. Nominations
are open now at http://www.net-art.org.
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From: scotartt <scot@systemx.autonomous.org>
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:31:15 +0100
From: emaf@BIONIC.zerberus.de
Reply-To: info@emaf.de
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EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
OSNABRUECK
MAY 5.-9. 1999
http://www.emaf.de
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We cordially invite you to submit your contributions to the 12th
European Media Art Festival. Dedicated to artistic experiment, the
festival has an open policy with room for projects ranging from
process-based experiments and technological innovation to dexterous
crossovers between the media and genres. For five stimulating days,
this international forum for contemporary media art brings together
filmmakers, multimedia and performance artists, theorists, journalists
and the interested public.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Eligible for consideration are works in the areas of film, video,
installation, performance, CD-ROM, and the Internet. The deadline for
submissions is 1 February 1999. The festival commission will select
contributions and projects to be included in the festival programme.
During the EMAF, the German Film Critics' Award for the best German
experimental film or video production will be presented by a
specialist jury.
We also invite the submission of media-relevant discussion papers,
essays or criticism. Selected contributions will be published in the
festival catalogue and/or on the Internet.
METROPOLIZED
Spaces under Pressure - Bodies in Excess
This project is being advanced with the support of the E.C.F.F.
(European Coordination of Film Festivals) in collaboration with the
Biennale film+arc.graz, Festival die Populi, Florence, and the EMAF.
The content of this focal programme is the reciprocity resulting from
interaction between urban structures and the human psyche.
RETROSPECTIVE
Planned is a retrospective featuring films and TV productions by the
US filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos. In the course of his creative
career, he developed a refined montage technique involving in-camera
editing further heightened by double e xposure and dissolves. Orbiting
around the director's own homosexuality, the subjects of his films are
persuasively integrated into adaptations of ancient Greek tragedies.
ELECTRONIC CAFE'
"To me, it seems there's no way round contributing to the design of
one's own times using modern means." (Lazlo Moholy Nagy)
The Internet, CD-ROM and multimedia networks are the contemporary
media for inter-media undertakings. At the same time, they act as
interfaces between social processes and artistic activity. The
festival presents works and projects implemented on, or originally
conceived for, these platforms.
EXHIBITION, 5-30 May 1999
The "Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche" is the central venue for the
Electronic CafŽ along with an exhibition of international film, video
and computer installations. The space offered by this historic
building is ideal for implementing artistic concepts encompassing
sculpture, projection and interactive systems.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FORUM
This festival section is dedicated to students attending colleges in
Germany and abroad, and their current output. A focal point is the
exhibition with video and computer installations. The festival invites
the submission of new productions by students working in media- and
AV-related fields.
MEDIA MINDS
Congress on Culture and Multimedia in Europe
On the occasion of Germany's EU presidency in 1999, the EMAF is
staging an interdisciplinary congress devoted to culture and
multimedia in Europe. Under discussion will be the perspectives for
arts and multimedia promotion in the ever more closely linked
countries of Europe, against the background of the new EU framework
programme for cultural promotion in 2000-2004.
The global interaction of art, culture, technology, science and
business has led to new structures that raise questions about
society's cultural self-image. The transformation into a mediatized
society, and the radical changes and progressi ve dissolution of
traditional social and economic structures this process involves,
poses the major cultural challenge we must face as the millennium
draws to a close. The goal of the conference is to discuss the
problems and perspectives of European cultural subvention at the
crossroads between a future policy of centralized or regional
decision-making.
European politicians specializing in arts and media, cultural
philosophers, as well as artists and academics in various disciplines
will come together to discuss the role of new technologies in the
transformation processes affecting arts an d society, and present
their blueprints and projects.
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For applicationforms visit our website: http://www.emaf.de
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European Media Art Festival
Lohstr. 45a
PO Box 1861
D-49074 Osnabrueck
Tel: +49/541/21658/25779
Fax: +49/541/28327
Email: info@emaf.de
Internet: http://www.emaf.de
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Festivalboard: Alfred Rotert
Hermann Noering
Ralf Sausmikat
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Funding by:
Niedersaechsisches Ministerium fuer Wissenschaft und Kultur, Hannover
Stadt Osnabrueck
Auswaertiges Amt, Bonn
Bundesministerium f¸r Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn
European Commisssion, Bruessel
European Coordination of Film Festivals, Bruessel
British Council
and contributions made by other supporters
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