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Drazen Pantic : 88 Roses, OpenNet Friendship Park EBR : Electronic Book Review: Call for contributions Alexei Shulgin : Desktop is Station Rose : Gunafa News Matt Locke : Slipstream Conference Leonardo : German Website Shu Lea Cheang : 1 Stop Johannesburg Eric Paulos : Survival Research Laboratories @ ZKM Convergence : CFP: Journalism and new media technologies Keiko Suzuki : eastern hacker steals documenta X web site ................................................................................ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:05:57 +0100 From: Drazen Pantic <drazen@opennet.org> 88.OpenNet.Org: Friendship Park I would like to announce a new action site OpenNet is starting. The site will be called "88: Friendship Park", after all those Friendship Parks that used to exist all around the Eastern Block. The idea was that foreign politicians could plant a tree in a park, a symbol of friendship. So, OpenNet wants to offer some of its Web space and bandwidth to people that are ready to plant a Web tree in OpenNet space. Anybody who wants to participate is kindly asked to send email to 88@opennet.org and will get instructions how to send Web material. Content is up to author, with just one slight catch. The site is to be a starting point for a series of films that will be directed exclusively for the Internet, with underlying context of conflict resolution and investigation. So, let's think in terms of "What The Whole Thing's Gone Wrong", or "What Was The Wrong Step", be it Balkans, Middle East, wherever... Any contributor will get a specially designed OpaNak, a gif certificate of involvement in a project. Salute Drazen ............................................................................... Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:09:23 From: oza@unsff.ns.ac.yu Electronic Book Review Call for Contributions For a long time, Eastern Europe has resembled nothing so much as Borges's image: shreds of territory slowly rotting across the map. We invite contributors to assist us in constructing the postmodern map of the former Iron Curtain countries, by examining the various genres, political actions, and narrative arts practiced there. Although these regions have only recently been introduced to hyperconsumerism and the post-industrial society, its literatures demonstrate all the ambivalent and antagonistic features of postmodernism, such as formal experimentation, narrative self-consciousness, "magicking the real," and minimalist story-telling. Drawing influences from its massive cultural heritage and ongoing political turbulence (its territorial and ideological flame wars), East European pomo suffers no shortage of gifted, remarkable writers of an experimental cast, such as Milorad Pavic, whose work (the print equivalent to a hypertext) will be featured in the issue. General Description _I don't think the ideas were 'in the air'; rather, all of us found ourselves at the same stoplights in different cities at the same time. When the lights changed, we all crossed the streets._ Steve Katz Postmodernism can be equated to a computer icon which takes us into the metonymic world of unknown textual possibilities. In America, it is all about turning the Nietzschean "prisonhouse of language" into the Disneyfied playhouse of language, whereas in Eastern Europe everything's become a "playhouse of (hi)stories": serious issues of repression, dictatorship, and manipulation are being laughed at, played with, and travestied, while national histories are being told, retold, lied about, and twisted into pomo plots and discourses. Kis and Kundera find their stories in histories--in documents and national destinies. Milorad Pavic constructs a lexicography in which history and metahistory are converted into a text. Contemporary Russian writers, from the late Dovlatov and Limonov to Victor Pelevin, observe the dissolution of their culture and tradition in the age of McDonald's and American cars. Can the changes on the map of Eastern Europe provoke changes in writing? How does history affect the text? In what way do new national borders restrict the old patterns and inflect the emerging global system? Do we still observe the change of stoplights, or do we not care if the signs read "walk" or "don't walk"? We welcome reviews of books which deploy postmodern ideas in such recently bordered Zones as Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Hungary. We especially invite essays on books in translation, as well as essays that briefly identify work that deserves to be translated and more widely circulated, in print or on the Internet. Lastly, we hope to review the emerging eastern Internet scene that is opening new lines of power and communication among writers, artists, and critics from all of these countries. Deadline is January 1998. Please contact vlslv@unsff.ns.ac.yu or jtabbi@uic.edu and check out the back issues Of Electronic Book Review at www.altx.com/ebr ............................................................................ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:53:22 +0100 Reply-To: Alexei Shulgin <desktop@easylife.org> DESKTOP IS desktop is the main element of a human - machine interface desktop is your window to the digital world desktop is your first step into virtual reality desktop is a reflection of your individuality desktop is your everyday visual environment desktop is an extension of your organs desktop is the face of your computer desktop is your everyday torture and joy desktop is your own little masterpiece desktop is your castle desktop is a seducer desktop is a reliever desktop is your enemy desktop is your friend desktop is a psychoanalyst desktop is your little helper desktop is your link to other people desktop is a device for meditation desktop is a substitute for so many other things desktop is a question desktop is the answer DESKTOP IS The First International Online Desktop Exhibition http://www.easylife.org/desktop If you would like to participate: - take a snapshot of your desktop ("Prn Scr" button for Windows and "Apple+Shift+3" combination for Macintosh) - save it as a JPEG file and name it "desktop.jpg" - put it on your website and email the link to desktop@easylife.org (if you don't have a website, then email your desktop.jpg file as an attachement - we'll put it online at the DESKTOP IS site). There is no deadline for the exhibition, the new entries will be added when received for at least 6 months from October 20, 1997. We are considering to show DESKTOP IS in a gallery space. All participants will then be contacted to discuss details and conditions. ............................................................................ Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 03:22:40 +0100 From: gunafa@well.com (Station Rose) The Monthly Station Rose Newsletter, October 97 Written by Elisa Rose & Gary Danner Dear Gunafa Netimers, we recently came back from field duty . Station Rose was invited to 2 multimedia festivals, both located in Austria: 1) STEIRISCHER HERBST 2) ARS ELECTRONICA+RADIO FRO (realaudio interview) ------------------------ and, yes, since almost one year we have the 3) FRANKFURT CONFERENCE running at Electric Minds ! ************************************************************ 1) STEIRISCHER HERBST ------------------------- Early October, Station Rose did a multimedia lecture at the festival "Steirischer Herbst 97" in Graz, Austria, as part of "Endoscape/Technoscope", about " the GUNAFA LABEL- - how to PUBLISH/PERFORM/WEBCAST as native hypermedia artists. - HOSTS im social web - the next step after Digital Cocooning". Read more about the concept of "Endoscape/Technoscope" at: <http://cont.stmk-herbst.aon.at/endotechno/index.html> Steirischer Herbst is an annual international festival of art, literature, theater and music, more than 32 exhibitions, symposia, performances are scheduled throughout Styria, mainly in Graz/Austria. The Festival is held every Autumn in Graz, this year's program is online at <http://www.stherbst.at/> 2) ARS ELECTRONICA AND RADIO FRO ---------------------------- An "Interview station rose - john "tex" coate, ars electronica 97" was recorded at Radio Fro during the festival in Linz, Austria, in September Elisa Rose, Gary Danner and John Coate talked about similarities between the 60ies communities and electronic virtual communities, in behaviour, music and artistic fields. Listen to the RealAudio file at <http://www.lang.uni-linz.ac.at/F/rose.ram>. you can access Radio Fro from the Frankfurt Conference "Topic 24: FRO - free radio upper austria" as well. 3) News from the FRANKFURT CONFERENCE at Electric Minds ------------------------------------------- route to YOUR daily online experience: * -> go to <www.minds.com> * -> sign on * -> go to World Wide Jam * -> go to Frankfurt * WELCOME! As you may know already, electric minds is looking a bit different since it moved to a new server. Our impression so far is that it IS possible to get used to a new interface, even though it is not as elegant as Well Engaged was. But it is running, and will improve. It is the art & the contribution of our jammers that makes the frankfurt conference unique. It pushed the limits of electric minds & its tools on from its start. Circumstances are changing & morphing right now (as always). We keep the frankfurt conference active and groovy- on a daily basis. we put energy into it and are there as much as our intense schedule allows it! It is worth to check it out, join us there- either for the first time, or do come back to experience the new version. we look forward to your contributione! if you have any questions, please e-mail or join us directly in the gunafa cafe at <www.minds.com> ;-) ............................................................................... From: Matt Locke <matt@impressions-gallery.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:24:16 +-100 Conference Information: Slipstream - contemporary attitudes to the photographic image Wednesday November 5th to Friday November 7th, 1997 The Racecourse, York, England Photo 98 and Impressions gallery are co-hosting the conference 'Slipstream' in York this November. Slipstream wil l look at the new prominence of photography within contemporary art practise. Slipstream will examine some of the horizons which now reveal themselves in terms of audiences, communities and new sites of display. Slipstream wil l explore the frameworks that flow from contemporary photography in our fast changing culture with reference to i dentity, technology and mass communication. Slipstream is a conference for all practitioners, curators, exhibition organisers, editors, writers and critics w ho engage with photography as an art form. Chaired by Dr. David Alan Mellor, speakers include Andres Serrano, Jor ma Puranen, Bonk Business Inc, Val Williams, Joanna Lowry, Rankin (Dazed & Confused magazine), Gilane Tawadros, G raham Gussin and many others. During the conference there will be presentations of new video and digital work, free Internet access, trade stan ds and a music/projection event featuring DJ Beaumont Hannant on Thursday night. For more information and booking forms, contact: Photo 98 Kirklees Media Centre 7 Northumberland Street Huddersfield HD1 1RL T: +44 (0)1484 531 201 F: +44 (0)1484 513 664 photo98@photo98.com www.photo98.com ............................................................................... Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 05:20:45 -0700 Reply-To: Leonardo <isast@sfsu.edu> German Leonardo Web site collaborates on Digital Content for Culture As part of a collaboration with the Digital Content for Culture Forum, the German Leonardo Web site is calling for participation in a questionnaire for digital content providers and buyers. The questionnaire---with supporting interactive visual content---can be found at: <http//www.iic.dlr.de/dcc/survey092>. The German Leonardo web site can be found at <http://www.iic.dlr.de/leonardo/> Results of the survey will be shared with those who fill out the survey. We are also interested in additional questions you would like to see distributed. For info contact: Barbara Lechler, e-mail: <Barbara.Lechler@iic.dlr.de>. ............................................................................ ate: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:16:33 +0200 From: System Administrator <sysadm@firewall.infobox.net> Message-Id: <199710131216.OAA23133@firewall.infobox.net> Subject: "Brave New World" in UnDO.NeT, arte contemporanea italiana Reply-To: webmaster@undo.net In UnDO.NeT, il sito dell'arte contemporanea italiana, e' on line un nuovo progetto: "Brave New World" a cura di A.Galasso:10 progetti d'arte pensati per il web, piu' di 300 immagini, testi di Augh, Scarlini, Angelidakis, Elkin, Pynchon, Brautigan,Barthelme... "Brave New World" raccoglie interventi di artisti,scrittori architetti e tutti coloro che vogliono esplorare Il Mondo Nuovo... In collaborazione con Il consorzio per la Promozione della ricerca artistica Care of viafarini ed il settore Sport e Giovani, Progetto Giovani del Comune di Milano. http://www.undo.net http://www.undo.net/beyond webmaster@undo.net ............................................................................ Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:15:20 +0900 From: shulea@earthlink.net (shu lea cheang) Shu Lea Cheang and Lawrence Chua present BUY ONE GET ONE at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997 flesh presence with digibento suitcase Johannesburg, 10/11-10/15, 1997 BUY ONE GET ONE this offer will self destruct in 5 seconds NTT/ICC Biennale (October 25 to December 7, 1997), Tokyo, Japan BUY ONE GET ONE is a two month homesteading project housing at http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME Shu Lea Cheang is one of the 9 international artists selected for the first Biennale Exhibition at InterCommunication Center (ICC), sponsored by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). The NTT/ICC Biennale is held to explore further possibilities of new expression in the field of media art and to provide a new vision for science and art. The theme for this first Biennale is Communication/Discommunication. (http://www.ntticc.or.jp) BUY ONE GET ONE derived its name from happy hour at Sphinx at Silom Soi, Bangkok. The project explores a digital (co)existence that borne out of the net-technology. For the past two years, I have been experimenting with a digital living, maintaining no physical address but an e-mail contact. As a drifter homesteader, I have been accessing the net with a borrowed password and passing with a torn ID card. BUY ONE GET ONE homehome(LESS)homepagehome(LESS)pagehome(PAGE)less For the NTT/ICC installation, we claim our HoME in the telecommunication's mainframe to house the home(page)less. Two digital suitcases modeled after Japanese style bentobox and equipped with powerbook, cameras, and phonelines plus a hino maru bento (lunchbox with rice and ume/plum ) are netcast ready for HoME delivery. With Lawrence Chua, we engineer a route that recalls seeds of discontent and desire carried on trade winds between continents. On the road, the digi suitcase is transmission central, our last hold to a connection, our attachment to HoME/System Mainframe. We'll be uploading and 'furnishing' our HoME with wallpapers of the home(page)less, smuggling memory chips of the ever-developing as we cross borderlines of hyperlink (il)logics. Have suitcase, will travel. Our traveling itinery as follows- 10/10 Tokyo <813> to Johannesburg <2711> 10/16 Johannesburg to Harare <263> 10/21 Harare to Accra <202> 10/25 ACCRA to Beirut <961> 10/30 Beirut to New Dalhi <9111> 11/6 New Dalhi to Shingapore <65> 11/17 Singapore to Shanghei <8621> 11/21 Shanghai to Seoul <822> 11/27 Seoul to Taipei <8862> 12/3 Taipei to Hong Kong <852> 12/6 Hong Kong to Tokyo please contact shu lea cheang shulea@earthlink.net or Lawrence Chua elchino@earthlink.net for more information ............................................................................... Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 01:45:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Paulos <paulos@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Subject: SRL-ZKM Survival Research Laboratories www.srl.org ** OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ** Further Explorations in Lethal Experimentation Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) explores the remote manipulation and control of lethal mechanical devices Date: 18 October 1997 Time: 11:00 AM PST Locations: Survival Research Laboratories, San Francisco, USA In this experiment, the second in a continuing series of tele-operated lethal experiments, anonymous participants will establish a direct link using publicly available software over the internet into the control circuitry of one of the most dangerous devices at Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) -- the Air Launcher. The Air Launcher consists of a high pressure gas launcher capable of targeting and delivering an explosive round within a one mile range. For this experiment, the Air Launcher will be limited to firing within a target range containing an assortment of technological artifacts and a few surprises. This system is also equipted with a video and audio feed to the internet. Remote participants will interface directly to the Air Launcher located at Survival Research Laboratories headquarters in San Francisco where they will be capable of remotely targeting objects, sequencing the loading of the projectiles into the air launcher barrel, and ultimately launching the resulting ordnance, obliterating the intended target. All operations will be controlled remotely without any local human intervention. ** QUICK DETAILS ** * Mark Pauline will be in Chicago, IL (USA) and will be firing the first explosive projectile * Successive rounds will be fired by participants at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany * Video and audio from this event will be broadcast live onto the internet including the multicast backbone * Video feed is active **now**. Check the www site form more info. * The event will be active for approx 30 minutes or until all rounds have been detonated * This event is an exploration into participation and voyeuristic tendencies of remote leathal machinery. There will be no local public particpation or viewing. THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC SRL EVENT. We hope to have a public event soon. * More information on the official srl www site at http://www.srl.org Eric Paulos paulos@srl.org ............................................................................... Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:50:43 GMT From: "Convergence" <CONVERGENCE@luton.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS [For mailing list queries see end of message] ***Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies *** Special issue on JOURNALISM AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Convergence 4, no 4 (Winter 1998) is seeking research papers about journalism and new media technologies. Authors are invited to submit original research on topics related to the effects of changes in information delivery systems on news or on news workers, organisations and audiences. In addition, contributions to a debates section, features reports, and reviews of books or other materials on the same range of topics also are sought. This issue will be guest-edited by Dr. Jane B. Singer of Colorado State University, USA. E-mail: jsinger@vines.colostate.edu The deadline for submission of research manuscripts is 30 April, 1998. Contributors to other sections will be commissioned based on proposals submitted. The deadline for proposals is 15 January, 1998; the copy deadline for these sections is 15 May, 1998. Authors should submit three hard copies of their manuscripts -- typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins and pages numbered consecutively -- plus a disk copy (IBM WordPerfect compatible or ASCII format). Research articles should be no more than 9,000 words in length. Debates and feature reports generally are around 3,000 words or less; reviews usually are about 1,000 words each. Convergence uses a version of MLA style; style sheet and details as well as the contents of back issues can be found at the journal's Web site: www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence. Submissions should be accompanied by: o A separate sheet listing each author's name, institution, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. o A 150-word abstract. o A list of keywords related to the article. o A 50-word biography of each author. Completed research papers or proposals for articles for the Winter 1998 issue should be sent to: Jane B. Singer Guest editor, Convergence C-237 Clark Building Department of Journalism and Technical Communication Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1785 USA Telephone: (970) 491-7330 Fax: (970) 491-2908 E-mail: jsinger@vines.colostate.edu Further information: Convergence, which is published quarterly in paper form, is a refereed academic journal that addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. Its approach is interdisciplinary. As a research journal, it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments and for publishing vital research in this emerging field. The principal aims of Convergence are: o To develop critical frameworks and methodologies that enable the reception, consumption and impact of new technologies to be evaluated in their domestic, public and educational contexts. o To contextualise the study of those new technologies within existing debates in media studies and to address specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms. o To monitor the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms. o To promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those culturalpractices within wider cultural and political debates. The Editorial Board: AUSTRALIA: Rebecca Coyle (Macquarie University), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales), Philip Hayward (Macquarie University). CANADA: Micheline Frenette (Universite de Montreal), Will Straw (McGill University). 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Editorial e-mail: Convergence@luton.ac.uk Tel: +44 1582 489031/489144. Fax: +44 1582 489014. Subscriptions and samples from John Libbey Media at the above address. E-mail: ulp@luton.ac.uk Tel:+44 1582 743297. Fax: +44 1582 743298. ................................................................................ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 23:38:28 CET Cc: nettime-l@desk.nl Sender: owner-syndicate@aec.at ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Eastern European Hacker Steals Documenta X Web Site A Slovenian hacker Vuk Cosic, who calls himself a 'net.artist', is identifyed as the person behind the major international art theft that is creating waves of shock among surfers on the net, as well as in the art circles. What this young man did to create such a confusion is that he has created a complete copy of a web site of Documenta X, a major international art show held every five years in German village of Kassel. His gesture, announced only hours before the closing of the official web site of Documenta X, has by now not been denounced officialy as an infringement of material copyright, but it is surely suspicious when the "author" speaks of "net critique through positive engagement". About the Documenta X web site The artistic directorof Documenta X, Catherine David, asked Simon Lamuniere, curator of new media at Switzerland's St. Gervais Geneve museum, to curate a Web site that would accompany the physical exhibition of Documenta X, hoping to enhance Documenta's established reputation as a showcase for the most daring and innovative artists working. Lamuniere was recruited only six months before the prototype went live on 21 March. His approach was to commission original projects that addressed issues relevant to the Internet. "To my knowledge, there had never been before a series of commissioned Internet artworks created specifically for a major exhibition like Documenta," says Lamuniere. That the site not be "just a second-hand information service" was foremost of his concerns. States Lamuniere, "Documenta itself is much too big a physical exhibition to be grasped even through a catalog-type site. The site that I've created, gives the viewer their own perception of the exhibition." The Documenta site, now copied in Slovenia, in both German and English versions, featured sleek graphic interfaces in a bold red, white, and black color scheme, designed by Lamuniere himself. The stolen version is available at the following internet adress: http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/dx/ Keiko Suzuki Ljubljana, September 29th ............................................................................... --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de