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A N N O U N C E M E N T Things to Come #21 The Society of Control _____________________ Object: Electronic Surveillance / Automated Observation / Control State / Databody Profiles / Tele-Marketeering / GSM-Taps Date of Operation: Friday August 31 & Saturday September 1 Access: De Balie - Amsterdam De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, starts off the new season with a special edition of the series Things to Come, which is entirely devoted to electronic observation and control. Things to Come is a series of programs of De Balie around interdisciplinary art forms, experimental cinema and new media. The Society of Control questions the exponential growth of electronic observation and control systems. These systems increasingly dominate a variety of aspects of public and private life. First of all the physical space is increasingly monitored by control systems, such as observation cameras, movement detection systems, automated tracking systems that can identify and track individual persons, iris scanners, finger print readers and other "biometric" devices, right up to DNA databases. Also the electronic space of telephones, GSMs and internet are being scrutinised by increasingly sophisticated control technologies. The Netherlands is infamous for the intense deployment of telephone tabs, and it is well known that it is dead-easy to tap into GSM communication. The recent concern raised about the English/American automated global interception and relay system Echelon, used to monitor e-mail and other types of electronic communication, has highlighted for the first time for a wider audience just how vulnerable this electronic communication space is. The myth that the Internet is a free space where anything is possible, and consequently everything happens that is not allowed elsewhere, has been the best pretext to organise the large scale policing of the new communication spaces. What is striking is the fanaticism with which all kinds of communication and publication forms, that have thrived and flourished in the physical space for years, now are are rigorously prosecuted in the digital domain. The fear of an uncontrolled electronic freezone leads to an excessive growth of policing and control systems. The privacy of individual citizens and their fundamental right to freedom of expression are ruthlessly violated - all energy seems focussed on total control. The title of the program refers deliberately to Gilles Deleuze's notion of a Control Society, as he has outlined it in his essay "Postscript on the Societies of Control". http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/societyofcontrol.html A number of befriended artists has been invited by De Balie to create a panorama of electronic observation and control: No abstract discussions but the visceral experience of electronic observation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Live on-air _________ VPRO TELE TAP night CUT-n-PASTE put their system Teletap at the disposal of British sound artist and DJ Scanner to create a live audio landscape of Amsterdam, on the Friday night on VPRO Radio 747 AM and on Saturday night live in De Balie. Friday August 31 - starting at 22.00 on radio 747 AM and stereo via the Amsterdam cable system End: 06.00 uur http://www.tele-tap.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satruday September 1 De Balie - Grote Zaal Aanvang: 21.00 uur Agents: _______ 0100101110110101.org 0100101110110101.org - this Italian artist duo will present a multimedia lecture performance based on their project life_sharing - during one year 0100101110110101.org have made their private computer transparent on their web site, complete with all personal and business transactions... http://www.0100101110110101.ORG CUT-n-PASTE & Scanner CUT-n-PASTE put their system Teletap at the disposal of British sound artist and DJ Scanner to create a live audio landscape of Amsterdam in De Balie. Sounds of assistants equipped with transparent GSM phones are remixed live in the theatre of De Balie. British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud - creates absorbing, multi-layered soundscapes that twist technology in unconventional ways. His controversial early work used scanned mobile phone conversations which he wove into his soundscapes, thus focusing on the split between the public and the private. As well as producing compositions and recordings, Scanner has created soundtracks for films, performances, and radio plays, and creates multimedia installations. http://www.scannerdot.com/ CUT-n-PASTE is a crossmedia company from Amsterdam focused primarily on documentary practice and new media. http://www.cut-n-paste.nl Technical design: Engage.nu Web site / Installation: Pipslab (Keez Duyves) This program can also be followed live via: http://www.balie.nl/live & http;//live.dds.nl And via the teletap web site: http://www.teletap.net Bill Spinhoven - I/Eye __________________ Bill Spinhoven's installation I/Eye - an eye on a monitor tracks people moving in front of it no further action - the feeling of an electronic eye that monitors all our movements,however, becomes inescapable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Screenings __________ A specially selected program of films and video that deal with the theme of observation and control will be screened across both evenings: Friday - August 31, 21:30 - Cinema De Balie TTC # 21: Society Of Control: A look at the Society of Control with 7 short films. COUPLE, Hans Peter Amman, Swe., 1998, 11min, video Analytic film about the human need to ascribe meaning to images. OBSERVATION # 762, Bart Dijkman, NL., 1997, 7min, video The viewer observes, via a security camera, a choreography for one man and one car. SURVEILLANCE, Chris Petit, G.B., 1996, 17min, video Security cameras exist because of the anticipation of future crimes. Simultaneously, an unsuspecting passer-by is seen as a potential suspect. LOOK AT ME, Peter Stel, NL, 1998, 3'30min., video The viewer is witness of the emotions unleashed with an adolescent girl by a concert of the Back Street Boys. iNSIDEoUT, Therese Jacobsen, Erik Vang, Nor., 2000, 2'30min, 35mm In the internet age it has become more easy for the individual to find an audience. Conversely society increasingly invades the private sphere. Besides "Big Brother who is watching you", many "small brothers: have come into existence. LEHRFILM ÜBER DIE REKONSTRUKTION VON STASI-AKTEN, Anke Limprecht, Ger., 2000, 11'30min., 16mm The flim portrays two so-called "Gauckbehörde", who are putting pieces together ina room filled with torn-up Stasi-files. HOST, Kristin Lucas, 1997, 7'36", Eng, video An on-line therapy session, in which the surveillance camera becomes the eye of the media. Saturday September 1, 19:30 TTC # 21: Society Of Control TIME CODE Mike Figgis, USA, 1999, Eng., 92min, no subtitles, dvd Four separate cameras follow the intrigue, sex, power, jealousy and rage of a diverse group of L.A. players as the action unfolds in real time with no edits and no retakes. Sexy, tense, and unnerving, TIME CODE builds toward a shocking and disturbing climax. http://www.timecode2000.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tickets and reservations _____________________ Ticket prices: DFL 16,50 (DFL 11,00 with CJP/CKV/PAS 65/Stadspas/Student Card). Film: DFL 13,75 (DFl 11,-) Opening hours kassa: work days 13.00-18.00 hrs, or till the start of the program. In the weekend 1,5 hrs before start of the program. Telephone reservations: +31 (0)20 55 35 100 duiring opening hours until 45 minutes before start of the program. De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam http://www.balie.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- World-Information.Org ____________________ The program The Society of Control is also organised to announce a large scale art and new media project, World-Information.Org, which will be organised in Amsterdam in the Fall of 2002 by De Waag - Society for Old and New Media, Montevideo - Netherlands Media Art Institute, and De Balie, in co-operation with Public Netbase, Institute for New Culture Technologies, in Vienna. Amsterdam will host the third edition of World-Information.Org around September 2002, a continuation of prior editions in Brussels (2000) and Vienna (2001), where the project attracted appr. 35.000 visitors. Information about the earlier editions and the themes of these programs can be found on the very extensive web site of World-Information.Org: http://www.world-information.org _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold