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- - - - - - - | 9 9 . 4 8 | - - - - - - - | <nettime> announcer | a | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | b << | - - - - Nathalie Magnan <volt@cybercable.fr> : ART 3000 = less than 5% women | 0 8 | - - - - Frederic Madre <fmadre@wanadoo.fr> : _introduction_to_palais-tokyo_ | 0 9 | - - - - Heinrich Dubel <hdubel@chopper.in-berlin.de> : Helikopter Hysterie | 1 0 | - - - - Stephan Schroeder <spiv@hgb-leipzig.de> : BUSY ART COSMOS v1.0 | 1 1 | - - - - John Armitage <john.armitage@unn.ac.uk> : ANGELAKI 4.2 (fwd) | 1 2 | - - - - ME <artactivism@gn.apc.org> : CULTURES OF RESISTANCE - art exhibition | 1 3 | - - - - weweje <weweje@cicv.fr> : ++ new multimedia arts festival in france ++ | 1 4 | - - - - Switch Publication <switch@cadre.sjsu.edu> : Steve Dietz lecture | 1 5 | - - - - TNU Newsletter <sylbreu@dds.nl> : free online workshop - new economy | 1 6 | - - - - Valery Grancher <vgranger@imaginet.fr> : "oriental bazaar" / "24h00" | 1 7 | - - - - nmherman@aol.com : Call for Footage - The Genius 2000 Video | 1 8 | - - - - postmaster <postmaster@material.net> : POW on MEDI@TERRA FESTIVAL | 1 9 | - - - - Dimos Dimitriou <addfield@ath.forthnet.gr> : Call for submissions | 2 0 | - - - - Dooley Le Cappellaine <dooley@thing.net> : Sorry - Error | 2 1 | - - - - Lizzy Fichtl <lizzy.fauna@snafu.de> : Rettet das Videodrom!!! | 2 2 | - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | delivered each weekend into your inbox | | mailto:nettime-l@bbs.thing.net | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 8 | - - - - Hello, Les 3eme Etats Generaux de l'Ecriture interactive (The 3rd meeting of interactive writting) organised by ART 3000 took place in Paris this week : 43 speakers 2 women. Art 300 is organising ISEA 2000 next year........... >From the country "des droits de l'homme" Nathalie - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 9 | - - - - .h.i.s.t.o.r.y. the palais-tokyo mailing-list was initially put up to backup the joint pleine-peau/infozone conferences within the zac99 show at the musee d'art moderne de la ville de paris (france) .t.o.p.i.c. the purpose of this france based mailing-list is to discuss and further all initiatives within the broad spectrum of net art .u.s.e.r.g.u.i.d.e. the languages used on the palais-tokyo mailing-list tend to be both french and english palais-tokyo is not moderated and never will be .t.e.c.h.n.i.q.u.e. to join palais-tokyo send a message to palais-tokyo-list-request@pleine-peau.com with the word subscribe in the body of the message f. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 0 | - - - - Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, am Sonntag, dem 28.11.1999 bringt Heinrich Dubel der Kreuzberger Bevölkerung den videogestützten Vortrag "Der Hubschrauber im Magischen Auge", der bereits beim Interfilm-Festival auf großes Interesse seitens des Fachpublikums gestoßen ist. Zusätzlich wird es ein neues, 15minütiges Video mit dem Titel "Das DDR-Sandmännchen und die Utopie des Menschenfluges" zu sehen geben. Es besteht die Gelegenheit zum Erwerb der jüngsten Dubel-Publikation "Helikopter Hysterie" (Maas Verlag). Ort: Manteuffelstraße 39 Zeit: 23 h - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 1 | - - - - The mediart Server Busy (www.verybusy.org), besides the successful increase of the searchenginedatabase content, offers new interessting content for you. At this time an interview section has been set up with realvideo data from mediatheoretic, philosophic and socialogic people and artists. a choice of referents: GERD HARRY LYBKE DIETER DANIELS ZBIGNIEW LIBERA ROBERT RUMAS VILÉM FLUSSER JEAN BAUDRILLARD NIKLAS LUHMANN regrettable, up to now we only got german videos here, so I would be happy on helps building that archive. _____________________________ _________ ______ ___ __ _ BUSY COSMOS Stephan Schröder shows first Concept Previews of his 'hardwired Output' . Busy COSMOS is avaible after each serach on www.verybusy.de , at the bottom of the Outputlist or directly under www.verybusy.org/cosmos_check.htm . ABOUT BUSY ART COSMOS: Nowadays (media)art has to explain itself. What art is, is not understood by the context of the works anymore, but their explaintations. (media)art doen't know anymore what it is, should be and what it effects on. Simply the artists work as statement, does not fit the intelligibility anymore, as we need metainformation that speak for the work. Is the populardefinition via keywords enough to have control over that neverending net(art)machinery and that online universe ? How does art explain itself - now in the lack of time - where isn't space for explaintations anymore ? The Busy Server not only as Artsearchengine, but also transparent Database on the discover for netspecific abnormalities, let the Machine itself and the Computerprogram BUSY COSMOS decide. A COSMOS is being shown that you - the net community - generated unaware, but are responseable for. Shown are the most common requests for keywords at the BUSY Searchengine, as constellation of planets and therefor metaphoric 'our' online-netart-universe - somewhere between traumatic size and nothing. ___________________________________________________________________ Thanks for your interess, Stephan (Spiv) Schröder in hope of a her hardwired workshp - in the intress of the community I remain, spiv. ___________________________________________________________________ Dont hesitate to build up a new mediaart place for all: add your projec today : http://ww.verybusy.org/add.htn _________________________________________________________ __ busy. \ / / \ www.verybusy.org ¯¯ |||||||||||||||||||| mediaart archivist and center for hardwired arts ||||| ||| | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 2 | - - - - From: John Armitage [john.armitage@unn.ac.uk; j.armitage@technologica.demon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999, 8.25AM To: Cultural Studies Subject: ToC: ANGELAKI 4.2: MACHINIC MODULATIONS: NEW CULTURAL THEORY & TECHNOPOLITICS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello everyone After nearly three years in the making, it gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of ANGELAKI 4.2: MACHINIC MODULATIONS: NEW CULTURAL THEORY & TECHNOPOLITICS. As you will see from the e-flyer and Table of Contents below, the issue contains contributions from many distinguished authors and artists in the field of critical cultural theory, technology, and politics. Consequently, I would be very grateful if friends and colleagues would post the e-flyer on e-lists far and wide. Copies can be obtained through Carfax - see the web address below. Best wishes John Armitage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MACHINIC MODULATIONS new cultural theory & technopolitics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The new issue of _Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ is out. Please find the contents below. For more information on the journal, please visit: http://www.carfax.co.uk/ang-ad.htm A N G E L A K I journal of the theoretical humanities volume 4 number 2 september 1999 special issue: MACHINIC MODULATIONS new cultural theory & technopolitics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ issue editor: John Armitage, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK are cybernetic machines and postmodern cultural theories of technology now yielding to new *hypermodern* theories and the emergence of technopolitics? the writers assembled here present a variety of perspectives on contemporary technocultural and technopolitical practices, ranging across the key contributions of marxist, situationist, post-marxist, poststructuralist, postmodern, and hypermodern theorists. CONTENTS ~~~~~~~~ Editorial Introduction John Armitage 1 Section I: New Cultural Theory All That is Solid Melts into Airwaves McKenzie Wark 19 Situationist Strategies and Mutant Technologies Alastair Bonnett 25 Theory, Technology and Cultural Power: An Interview with Manuel Castells Joanne Roberts 33 Crash Theory: The Ubiquity of the Fetish at the End of Time Roy Boyne 41 A Virtual Theory of Global Politics, Mimetic War, and the Spectral State James Der Derian 53 Dissecting the Data Body: An Interview with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker John Armitage 69 Bathos of Technology and Politics in Fourth Order Simulacra Mike Gane 75 The Information Bomb: A Conversation Paul Virilio and Friedrich Kittler 81 Data Crash: Apocalypse and Global Economic Crisis Michael A. Weinstein 91 Stories from the Research Labs Text and Pictures Louise K. Wilson 95 Section II: Technopolitics Globalisation from Below? Toward a Radical Democratic Technopolitics Douglas Kellner 101 Ontological Anarchy, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, and The Politics of Cyberculture: A Critique of Hakim Bey John Armitage 115 Whither the Virtual: Slavoj Zizek and Cyberfeminism Verena Andermatt Conley 129 Theory of State: Deleuze, Guattari, and Virilio on the State, Technology and Speed Patrick Crogan 137 The Female UNIX Mark Dery 149 Touch, Digital Communication and the Ticklish Cathryn Vasseleu 153 Against Virtual Community: For a Politics of Distance Kevin Robins 163 Conducting Technologies: Virilio's and Latour's Philosophies of the Present State T. Hugh Crawford 171 Getting "The Real Facts": Contemporary Cultural Theory and Avant-Garde Technocultural Practices Nicholas Zurbrugg 183 Practical Anarchy: An Interview with Critical Art Ensemble Mark Little 192 Pictures throughout by Louise K. Wilson and Critical Art Ensemble ISBN 0 902879 26 X About ANGELAKI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ is a print journal published three times a year by Carfax Publishing Limited. The journal publishes two theme issues and one general issue per volume. ISSN: 0969-725X. _Angelaki_ was selected Best New Journal in the 1996 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards. For further details of the journal and contents listings please visit: http://www.carfax.co.uk/ang-ad.htm 'Since its inception in 1993, the journal _Angelaki_ has established itself as a leading forum of theoretical reflection, providing a practical refutation of all those who would celebrate "the end of theory." Whether it is focused on thematic issues of the most varied nature, introducing thinkers to English-language readers, or treating a variety of problems in open issues, _Angelaki_ challenges the complacency of the self-evident. Required reading for the next millennium.' Samuel Weber > From: john.armitage@unn.ac.uk > To: nettime > Sent: 26/11/1999 > Subject: ANGELAKI 4. 2.: MACHINIC MODULATIONS > > Hi folks > > Apparently, the Angelaki website has moved from Carfax to Taylor and > Francis/Routledge and as such has a new URL. For all those who have > emailed me saying they cannot access the Carfax site, here is the new > Angelaki Site. > > Best wishes > > John Armitage > > ================================================================= > New Angelaki Site: > > http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html > =========================================================== > > ______________________________________________ > "The military is the message." > > John Armitage > Principal Lecturer in Politics & Media Studies > Division of Government & Politics > University of Northumbria at Newcastle > Newcastle upon Tyne > NE1 8ST > UK > Tel: 0191 227 4971 > Fax: 0191 227 4654 > E-mail: (w) john.armitage@unn.ac.uk > E-mail: (h) j.armitage@technologica.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 3 | - - - - >CULTURES OF RESISTANCE - art exhibition > >LONDON - 12th-17th December - in a new squatted venue yet to be revealed... > >This is an invitation to encourage people to make new creations or dig out >some old material and contribute to the exhibition - "cultures of >resistance" > >It is intended to be a celebration, review and reflection on the direct >action movement, a cross-over between art and activism, a chance to express >ourselves in whatever way we want, and generally a bit of get together..... > ....squatting...protesting...partying... > ....surviving...entertaining...diy... > ....attacks on serious culture... > ....wierd art...hoaxes...crowd power... > ....music...cycling...photos... > ....drugs...sculpture... > ...sex..dogs..and drum'n'bass... > > >though the dominant culture prevails and the world is increasingly based on >profit not on people - we are not going away and the one thing that can >never be taken away from us is our creativity! > >Contact: 0958 765 151 (Adele) or > < rachred57@hotmail.com > (Rachel) >before the 5th December, if you would like to contribute. > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at ><http://www.hotmail.com/>http://www.hotmail.com > "There are no limits to creativity . There is no end to subversion." Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 4 | - - - - a new multimedia art festival is born in france, and will take place in Belfort from 17 to 26 dec.1999. all details are: www.nuits-savoureuses.net, wich is the name of the festival. there is a net-art section all notes, new URLs, problems with descriptions in that section are welcomed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 5 | - - - - Steve Dietz, Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will speak on the topic of net.art at the SJSU Arts Lecture Series hosted in conjunction with the CADRE Institute Visiting Artists Program. San Jose State University is located at One Washington Square, San Jose, California USA. The lecture will take place in the Art Auditorium (room 133 in the art building), November 30th, 1999 at 5 PM Steve Dietz is the founding Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art Center, where he is also responsible for curating the online Gallery 9, including commissioning of new works. He initiated one of the earliest archive-collections of net.art, The Walker's Digital Arts Study Collection. He co-organized the series of online exhibitions and discussions, "Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age" and co-initiated the award winning ArtsConnected collaboration with the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. In 1998 he curated the online exhibition "Beyond Interface: Net Art and Art on the Net." In 1999, for Parts Gallery, he curated "Digital Documentary: The Need To Know And The Urge To Show" and "Cybermuseology" for the Museo De Monterrey. He is currently working on an online exhibition, "Art Entertainment Network" for the Walker Art Center in February 2000, guest editing an issue of MCN's Spectra on Museums at the Millennium, co-organizing an international conference, "Media Arts in Transition Again," to be held at the Walker in April 2000, organizing the exhibition "Telematic Embrace" for Independent Curators International, and Presenting "Memory, Archive, Database" at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media. In 1999, The Walker Art Center web site and ArtsConnected were judged best museum web site and best education site in the International Museums & The Web Competition, and ArtsConncected was awarded the Golden Muse Award by the American Association of Museums for best web site. He talks and writes extensively about "New Media," including a regular newsletter, WebWalker, http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9 -A Natalie Thompson Endowment and CADRE Institute Visiting Artist presentation- Switch, the new media journal of the CADRE institute http://switch.sjsu.edu/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 6 | - - - - ***************** The [European] Network University offers a free online workshop over the New Economy ***************** What: a free online workshop providing tools for finding your way through this maze called the new economy Where: meet you at our website http://www.netuni.nl When: 15 december 1999 Time: feel free to log-in and participate at any time between 9.00 - 21.00 European Standard Time Who: hosted by The [European] Network University an initiative from the University of Amsterdam Contact: Lara van Druten [laraguy@xs4all.nl] Gerd Junne [gjunne@inter.nl.net] Vic Klabbers [ipe@dds.nl] Tel: + 31 (0)20 525 5305 The New Economy has become a buzzword peppered throughout newspapers and magazines. Books are devoted to the subject. Ministers refer to it in parliamentary debates and companies that are valued in the billions yet are still to make a profit explain their existence by the workings of this new system. Yet, what exactly are the contours of this new economy? And what are some of the key issues defining the debate on the subject? This is the topic that The [European] Network University [TNU] will tackle during a full day of online collaborative learning devoted to "The New Economy: find your way through the maze". A premise of the New Economy is: if you want to capture attention - a scarce commodity in the networked age - 'give your product for free'. This is the strategy TNU has chosen. For the launch of its new website on 15 December TNU will offer a free one day online workshop in which the subject of the New Economy is explored. Anyone, anywhere with an interest in the subject and a connection to the Internet is welcome to participate. In a playful and dynamic environment the online workshop will provide participants with strategies, discussion topics, and an overview of authors and statements on some of the key characteristics of this new terrain. Furthermore, participants will be asked to submit short assignments on which they will receive feedback and are welcome to discuss a broader range of issues pertaining to the New Economy with a panel of key personalities and thinkers on the subject. These include Gerd Junne (professor University of Amsterdam), Erik Mandersloot (independent consultant, associate prof. University of Nyenrode), Annemieke Roobeek (professor University of Amsterdam, University of Nyenrode), Geoffrey Underhill (professor University of Amsterdam) and Karel van Wolferen (Director Institute for Comparative Political and Economic Institutions) who will participate from Japan. There will be further online participation from New York University, University of Bradford and the Erasmus University. The online workshop that is being offered forms a slice of a full one week course offered by TNU in January on the same subject. The [European] Network University [TNU] is an ambitious project, with its roots in the University of Amsterdam. TNU aims to provide highly interactive, innovative Internet based distance learning to a global audience. The initiative is based on the concrete attempt to create educational alternatives that match the needs of the networked age. This is achieved through the creation of collaborative learning networks in which a broad range of stakeholders play an active part in the knowledge creation process. In this way dynamic collaborative learning knowledge clusters around subject topics are created. A central role in the TNU concept is played by the online academic call center. On the one hand this provides a high degree of direct supervision and support to each participant giving immediate and personal feedback to individual learning trajectories. On the other hand, it is central in the "real-time" reworking of ideas and experiences of participants back into the courses. Interested? We hope to welcome your log-in on the 15th! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 7 | - - - - Hi everybody, I have the pleaseure to give some news about "Oriental Bazaar" In Yokohama, Japan, and about "24h00" in Berkeley In USA. ARTISTS---------------------------------------------------------- John Miller/ GAME SHOW PAINTINGS 2 Takuji Kogo / John San Federico Baeonello from Ethical Bros / Mouchette / Why Did You Kill My Cat? Varely Grancher/ Nowhere never Installation-------------------------------------------------------- Takuji Kogo and Kazunari Horiguchi ------------------------------------------------------------------ Babara London from MOMA in New York during her trip in Japan went to see this project and she will diffused this collective piece on the MOMA website: http://www.moma.org check also the project on this address, Candy Factory in Yokohama in Japan: http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga2750/ see the message from Takuji hereafter: >Hello Valery >Show is over >I met Barbara London last night. >She will bring our installation into her website with realvideo soon. >So you can see the show soon at moma website >But maybe she will find herself in the video that I gave her, I made a trap >again. >She want to report us, >but I reported her and reported some TV news crew taken by her. >Anyway Thanks all and keep in touch >http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga2750/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding my last project in USA: at the Berkeley Art Museum, "24h00" project. This internet project: http://24h00.tsx.org "24h00" is entering in this museum collection as a new acquisition. Regarding this project, Constance Lewallen senor curator had an interview with CNN england: You will be able to see this interview on CNN in art club on next november 27. I thank you for your attention, all my best, Valery Grancher vgranger@imaginet.fr http://nomemory.tsx.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 8 | - - - - November 27, 1999 The second version of the Genius 2000 Video is now under production. We are accepting unsolicited submissions of footage which must be postmarked on or before January 1, 2000. Tape should be in some common format, preferably Hi-8, VHS, or Betacam. Please send your tape to the Project at the following address: The Genius 2000 Project 935 Washington Ave. SE, PMB 231 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Be sure to include a signed release form permitting use without restriction by the Genius 2000 Project. Your submission may be used in a two-hour compilation tape or stored in an on- or off-line archive. No royalties will be paid for the use of or right to access your submission. ++++++++ General Guidelines for Footage The range of content is completely open, but we are most interested in material that in some way relates or refers to the Genius 2000 Project to date. We are now conducting interviews on a continuing basis on the following three topics: 1. Contribution One and Lesson Two from the First Edition. 2. TBA 3. TBA You may use these topics or any of your own as the basis for your interviews. Be sure that all interviewees also sign a release form. Also, submissions will not be returned but receipt will be acknowledged with a signed letter of recognition from the Project. Footage created after November 27, 1999 will receive priority consideration. For more information, contact Max Herman at nmherman@aol.com or visit the project website. You may forward this message to any interested parties. Max Herman The Genius 2000 Project www.geocities.com/~genius-2000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 9 | - - - - Dear friends, Our project, www.blueprintit.com/pow ,is now on MEDI@TERRA FESTIVAL (=20 http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/webmed/ ) Mediterranean and=20 Balkan Art and Technology Festival Athens, Greece. There are many=20 interesting works and authors presented in the selection of the=20 festival. Take a look and don't forget to vote. best igor =46ournos Cultural Center is organizing at the 10th, 11th and the 12th of December 1999 the 1st Mediterranean, Balkan Art and Technology Festival devoted to the new art and communication techniques at Athens with the support of the Greek Ministries of Culture and Development and the support and participation of the European Council. With the aim and participation of CICV Pierre Schaeffer Montbeliard Belfort Links of net-related art-works, to the net-section of Mediaterra festival. are to the URL: http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/webmed/ Visitors are invited to send through a forum their comments, reviews and preferably to vote for the works. Participants : 0100101110101101.ORG Antoni Abad Annie Abrahams Roberto Aguerrizabal Lucia Alavanou Aleph Mark Amerika Aleksander Antic ARN Organization (Actions Reseaux Numeriques) Angeliki Avgitidou Ludovic Burel Gregory Chatonsky Arcangel Constantini Contemporary Art Center - Skopje Cahon Cristophe d2b.org Diana Danelli Caterina Davinio Paul Devautour Boriana Dragoeva Ricardo Iglesias Garcia Jens Gebhart Panikos Georgoudis Gomi Corp Group Apostolos Grigoropoulos Pol Guezennec Ingo G=FCnther Ani Rosen Herman Thanasis Hondros & Alexandra Katsiani Andrea Iacovella & Demosthenes Agrafiotis Michel Jaffrennou Jerome Joy Knowbotic Research Niki Konstantinou Lampropoulou Emmanuel Kornelakis Olia Lialina Richard Lord Jannis Melanitis Marcello Mercado Mouchette On Air website Oreste Horit Peled Drouhin Reynald Marcel Li Antunez Roca Sinisa Rogic Antoine Schmitt Teo Spiller Igor Stepancic Igor Stromaher Lina Theodorou Giacomo Verde Nebojsa Vilic Silvia Wyder Ventstslav Zankov Jaka Zeleznikar Katarina Zivanovic - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 2 0 | - - - - Submit and/or Suggest links of Mediterranean and Balkan region you find interesting One filter only = related to art and to free expression and no commercial commissioned (We have to enlarge and reinforce our communication ) sharing ideas speed up our concepts Call for submissions and suggestions for Mediterranean and Balkan net activities Call for submission and/or suggestion of net-based art-works, art-actions, net-projects and net-communications. The submissions will form an attempt, for the compilation of a “map of activities and works” of the Mediterranean and Balkan region. The submitted addresses will take part to the Mediaterra festival (Athens 10, 11, 12 of Dec. 99) in the out-of-competition section. The days of the Mediaterra festival could be a provisional deadline time key to present the map of net-based art-works and activities of the Mediterranean and Balkan region. The aim of the call, is the realization of a map of artistic works and intentions of the Mediterranean and Balkan area. It is an attempt to form an approximate view of the complex artistic image of this area. How is configured by the local artistic intentions, will and feelings toward the international net-space. What will emerge out of the submitted artistic works? well expressed cultural differences or unavoidable net-homogeneity? The creators of the works must come from the Mediterranean and Balkan countries. The works can be located anywhere in the net. It is clear that works related to the net space, in local languages, or “bad English” are welcome. Commercial commissioned works and communications will be excluded. (Deadline for submissions is 7 of December 99) Please, feel free to submit and suggest addresses contact: { HYPERLINK mailto:addfield@ath.forthnet.gr }addfield@ath.forthnet.gr Mediaterra.festival / net.section / competition-participants: URL {HYPERLINK "http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/webmed"} Mediaterra.festival info : URL { HYPERLINK http://www.fournos-culture.gr/festival/1999/index.html } The <fournos-culture>[mailing list]: To subscribe post to: { HYPERLINK mailto:majordomo@fournos-culture.gr } and in the body (not to the subject) of the e-mail write : subscribe fournos-culture Or go to { HYPERLINK http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/webmed/ } to the link <fournos-C> for info. dd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 2 1 | - - - - Sorry there was a problem with the number: >The gallery is pleased to announce that "Technophobia" CD Rom is now >available at: this is the correct number: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=196623562 We're sorry for the misunderstanding. The item number for your auction is 196623562, rather than 19662356. We've checked your auction, and it is running and properly listed on our site. Here's where it's currently showing up in the listings: In Current Items: Top : Computers : Software : Games : General : Page 226 Top : Computers : Software : Games : Page 554 Top : Computers : Software : Page 1047 http://www.thing.net/dooley Phone and Fax (212) 966-3046 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 2 2 | - - - - > Rettet das Videodrom!!! > > [...] /* to support the Videodrom, please collect names + e-mail addresses & mailto:lizzy@flora-fauna.de */ > [...] > > Die Pressekonferenz findet übrigens am Montag, den 29.11. um 11.00 Uhr im > Eiszeit, Zeughofstr.. 20 statt. Dazu seid Ihr herzlich eingeladen. > > Für Rückfragen und Support erreicht Ihr die Videodrom-Leute unter > 0171 - 266 377 9. taz berlin vom 24. November Zensur? Macht doch nix! Nach Polizeiaktion ist die stadtbekannte Videothek Videodrom in ihrer Existenz bedroht. Tausend Kassetten wurden beschlagnahmt. "Nichts Besonderes", finden die Behörden Morgens um halb zehn klopften die Polizisten ihn rüde aus dem Bett: Karsten Rodemann, Mitinhaber des Videodroms - der wichtigsten Videothek Berlin. Wie in einem schlechten Film hielten ihm die Ordnungshüter einen Durchsuchungsbefehl vor die Nase. Rodemann, auch bekannt unter dem Namen Graf Haufen, hatte sich noch nicht einmal angezogen, da sprangen die Beamten schon auf sein Bett und fingen an sein Comic-Regal zu durchforsten. Exemplare des Heftes "Strapazzin" waren offenbar so spannend, dass sie mit auf die Wache genommen wurden: "beschlagnahmt". Eigentlich ging es nicht um Comic-Hefte. Einige Stunden nach der Hausdurchsuchung sitzt Rodemann mit seinen Videodrom-Kollegen im Café direkt gegenüber dem Laden in der Kreuzberger Mittenwalder Straße: Das Videodrom ist von der Staatsanwaltschaft geschlossen worden, die Tür versiegelt. Die Kunden geben ihre Kassetten nun erst mal im Café ab. Seit zehn Jahren ist die Videothek, in der man die Geschichte der Independent-Filmszene von vorn bis hinten studieren kann, eine kulturelle Institution der Stadt und mindestens genauso wichtig wie das Schöneberger Kino Arsenal. Videodrom ist Anlaufstelle für Cineasten, Filmverrückte und Kritiker. Seit Dienstag sind das Büro und der Kellerladen der engagierten Filmvertreiber geschlossen. Den ganzen Tag über haben Polizisten kistenweise Filme und Drucksachen aus dem Videodrom in einen Lkw verladen. "Rund 1.000 Videos wurden beschlagnahmt", sagt Rodemanns Kollegin, die Videodrom-Mitinhaberin Ines Ruf. Ruf musste morgens plötzlich die Polizisten in den Laden lassen. Neben den Kassetten nahm die Polizei die elf Computer der kleinen Firma mit. Auch für Rufs Wohnung hatten die Ermittler einen Durchsuchungsbefehl. So ganz nebenbei mokierten sich die Beamten darüber, dass die Wohnung ja wohl mindestens genauso dreckig sei wie das Videodrom selbst. Die zuständige Staatsanwältin Twachtmann war gestern nicht zu erreichen. Die Pressestelle bestätigte den Vorgang, der im übrigen aber "nichts Besonderes sei". Der Name des zuständigen Ermittlungsrichters werde - wie üblich - nicht genannt. Man befinde sich in einem ganz normalen Ermittlungsverfahren "wegen Verbreitung gewaltverherrlichender Schriften". Wer und ob überhaupt jemand Anzeige erstattet hat, ist unklar, ob Videos juristisch als "Schriften" gelten, ebenfalls. Ines Ruf ist über diese Art von staatsanwaltlicher "Normalität" entsetzt. Vor sich hat sie einen Aktenordner mit handschriftlichen Listen der beschlagnahmten Dinge. Unter den hunderten von Kassetten sind viele Filme, die wochenlang unbeanstandet im Kino oder TV liefen: David Lynchs "Wild At Heart" oder "Leon der Profi". Auch Christoph Schlingensiefs "100 Jahre Hitler" wird sich der erneuten Begutachtung durch die Staatsanwaltschaft aussetzen müssen. Scheinbar planlos sackten die Ausleiher ohne Ausweis alles ein, was nur im Geringsten nach Porno oder Gewalt aussah. Kassetten mit nackten Brüsten (Peter Walkers Film "Cool it Carol") oder zu großen Knarren auf dem Cover wanderten sofort in die mitgebrachten Kartons. Wir verleihen keine indizierten Videos", sagen die Betreiber. Sie sind entsetzt, dass ihnen innerhalb weniger Stunden die gesamte Geschäftsbasis entzogen wurde: Fünfzehn Leute würden bei einer längeren Schließung arbeitslos. Sie vermuten, dass dem international gerühmten Videodrom in einem scheinbar günstigen Moment das Wasser abgegraben werden soll. Seit der Diskussion, ob nach einem Mord an einer bayerischen Lehrerin Filme erlaubt sind, in denen Lehrer ermordet werden sollen, scheint es auch in Berlin Interesse daran zu geben, der Zensur das Wort zu reden. Obwohl in dem Film "Tötet Mrs. Tingel" kein Mensch zu Schaden kommt, hat der Verleih Kinowelt sich dafür entschieden, den Streifen in "Rettet Mrs. Tingel" umzubenennen. Das war möglicherweise erst der harmlose Anfang einer Hysterie in Sachen "Gewalt und Kunst". Bedeutet die Schließung des Videodroms, dass jetzt in Berlin ein neues Interesse an Zensur besteht? Da kann man nur viel Spaß beim Sichten der Filme wünschen. 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