<nettime> NO PROTEST NO PROFIT >>> Consultation

[The Thing Roma <thingnet@ecn.org>]

NO PROTEST NO PROFIT
First International Competition of Net.Protest
<<<CONSULTATION>>>


25/11/00

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The Thing Roma and 0100101110101101.ORG open a public consulatation on how
to employ the amount of profits earned during the net.art contest NO
PROTEST NO PROFIT.

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The investors of NO PROTEST NO PROFIT have earned 500 US dollars of
profits so far. In a fax letter dated November 11th, 2000, sent to the
Vice Direzione Generale del Comune di Roma (see text below), the
organization of Observatori Festival of Valencia, Spain
(http://www.observatori.com) have offered to the Comune di Roma the amount
of 700 dollars to buy the Inboxes of the e-mail software of Mariella
Gramaglia, Mauro Biddau e Claudia De Paolis.

These Inboxes contained the originals of the e-mail protests sent to the
Comune di Roma, as part of the NO PROTEST NO PROFIT contest, for the
several cases of censorship on the Rete Civica Romana during the month of
October (the whole documentation is available on the The Thing Roma
website at http://www.ecn.org/thingnet)

At the end of the net.art contest , promoted by 0100101110101101.ORG e The
Thing Roma, Observatori has exhibited, between November 2nd and November
4rd, some of the works sent as Bcc to the promoters of NO PROTEST NO
PROFIT. It has then offered 700 US dollars to exhibit permanently on its
website the original of the Inboxes of the Comune di Rome employees.

Since they have not had, after two weeks, any answer by the Vice Direzione
Generale del Comune di Roma (that has probably thrown the originals away,
notwithstanding the several request of not doing so), Observatori has made
an offer of 500 US dollars (a little less than the 700 dollars established
by the Jury because of the non-completeness of the work) to
0100101110101101.ORG and The Thing Roma.


0100101110101101.ORG and The Thing Roma have in the meantime evaluated,
together with the International Jury that included Natalie Bookchin, Steve
Dietz, Ricardo Dominguez, Matthew Fuller e Cornelia Sollfrank, the e-mails
arrived as Bcc and of the total value of the work, that amounts to about
700 dollars, according to this estimation. Such estimation can be seen on
the NO PROTEST NO PROFIT website, at
HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/PROTEST=PROFIT


The investors (and protesters) are deciding these days how to re-invest
the earned profits and the final decision will be upon the them, as stated
in the contest rules. However, 0100101110101101.ORG and The Thing Roma
believe that NO PROTEST NO PROFIT is a common treasure of all of those who
have fought against censorship.

We are thus opening this public consultation through the mailing lists
that have been more closely involved in this matter, so that everybody
could suggest how to re-invest the 500 $. The general opinion is to use
the money for related causes, but every suggestion is welcome, especially
the ones with a strong imaginative content. The game has just started.


Kind regards

The Thing Roma http://www.ecn.org/thingnet

0100101110101101.ORG
HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG


PROTEST! INVEST!
HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/PROTEST=PROFIT

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To:Vice Direzione Generale Comune di Roma
L. re dei Pierleoni, 1 00186 Rome ? Italy
Tel. +39 6 67103082 Fax +39 6 69923160

Dear Mariella Gramaglia,

Observatori 2000, the 1st Festival of Artistic Investigation that has been
held in Valencia on the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th of November, organised by
Pistolo Eliza y Blanco Ano, is proud to announce you that the letters of
protest received by the City of Rome, and in particular by your office, in
relation to the censorhip of The Thing Rome and Avana Net spaces, have
been selected for our competition. The international Jury of No Protest No
Profit, composed by Natalie Bookchin, Steve Dietz, Ricardo Dominguez,
Matthew Fuller and Cornelia Sollfrank and established a value for the
artwork of 700 US $.

We asked to The Thing Rome to buy the original artwork in order to display
it during the Festival (thousands of visitors are expected). The Thing
Rome stated that only Mauro Biddau, Claudia De Paolis and you might have a
backup of all the e-mail protests that compose the final artwork. The
Thing Rome explained us that you should have been advised by the members
of the Jury that the mails you received do have an economical value.

Therefore we ask you to produce a backup on cd-rom of all of the Inboxes
of Mariella Gramaglia, Claudia De Paolis and Mauro Biddau. We’ll pay the
cd-rom the amount of 700 US $, as established by the Jury.

Observatory started on Thursday 2nd of November, but we absolutely need
the cd with the originals, in order to be sure that no e-mails are
missing. The Thing Rome and 0100101110101101.ORG provided some copies of
the e-mails (they received them as Bcc) but we absolutely need the
originals.

Your sincerely,
Miguel Claver Fos (Pistolo Eliza)
Director of Observatori 2000

10/11/2000





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