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Press Release
Brussels, Vienna - June 29th 2000
WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG
@ Brussels 2000
>>> Exhibitions
>>> Conference
>>> Events
June 30th to July 30th 2000
Centre Brussels 2000
Rue de l'écuyer 50 Schildknaapstraat
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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CONTACT AND INFORMATION
World-Information.Org
Information Office Brussels Information Office Vienna
Tine Verschaeve Martin Lengauer, Florian Sedmak
tine.verschaeve@brussels2000.org
info-office@world-information.org
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GSM: +32 (486) 55 45 41
>> Visuals, audio-jingles and more information can be downloaded from
http://world-information.org
1) Introduction
World-Information.Org
Exploring the infosphere
"Who owns the Internet?" "How does it work?" "How can society benefit from
it?" "How do information and communication technologies change everyday
life, work, arts, politics, economy and society?" "How does public opinion
emerge?" "How do artists work with information technologies?" "What will be
the cultural heritage of our future?"
Under the patronage of the UNESCO, World-Information.Org explores the
fascinating and complex sphere of information production, -manipulation,
-distribution and -control to provide the public with cultural
intelligence: clear, high-quality and easily accessible information on the
cultural, societal, economic, and technological foundations of the
globalizing Information Society.
>From June 30th to July 30th, World-Information.Org will be publicly
presented for the first time. As the lead project of the
New-Media-programme of Brussels 2000 - European City of Culture for the
year 2000, World-Information.Org will turn the Centre Brussels 2000 in its
temporary headquarter.
As an international network (initiated by the Viennese Institute for New
Culture Technologies / Public Netbase), World-Information.Org cooperates
with a variety of renowned partners in the fields of cultural work, art,
media theory, -economy and -policy. Among others, global communication
expert Cees Hamelink (NL), Privacy.Org-founder Simon Davies (UK),
investigative journalist Duncan Campbell (USA) and media theoretician
Edward S. Herman (USA) regularly contribute to the research work.
Artistic input will be given by artists such as "Documenta X"-participant
Marko Peljhan (SLO), media-camouflage specialists RTMark (USA) or Ingo
Günther (GER/USA), famous for his cultural and political world maps.
2) World-Information.Org @ Brussels
>From June 30th and July 30th, World-Information.Org presents a three-part
exhibition at the Centre Brussels 2000 in co-production with Brussels 2000
- European City of Culture for the year 2000.
In the heart of the city, visitors can sensually discover the world of
information:
an environment assembling exhibits and visual diagrams explaining the
complex nature of information technologies, interactive installations, and
artistic works.
>>> The World Infostructure Exhibition
>>> The Future Heritage Expo
>>> The World-C4U-Exhibition - Command Control Computer Communication Unit
Centre Brussels 2000, Schildknaapstraat 50, B-1000 Bruxelles/Brussels
June 30th - July 30th 2000, daily 11.00 - 21.00, Sundays until 19.00,
closed on Mondays
3) Exhibitions
The World Infostructure Exhibition
>From the Alphabet to the Internet - a journey into the World of Information
The transition from the Industrial to the Information Society has
dramatically changed the role and function of information. Today,
Information has become one of the most valuable economic goods and the
development of the Information Society has created both a new, global
technical infrastructure and - along with the New Economy - a historically
unique power structure. World-Information.Org presents a close-up of the
economic, technical, and political foundations of the globalising
Information Society.
The World Infostructure Exhibition focuses on the development of
communication technologies and their societal, cultural, and economic
impacts. Beginning with the alphabet, the exhibition visualises and
describes the development of media: communication codes, tools, and
increasingly sophisticated technical instruments.
Media have diversified and have become global - the media and IT sectors
currently being among the most prominent in a trend towards large-scale
mergers. Ownership of media equals power and influence. To demonstrate
this, the exhibition features the big players of the global media market,
who control literally thousands of newspapers, online services, TV and
radio stations: the production, manipulation, distribution and control of
information is concentrated in the hand of few media oligopolies worldwide.
The question as to who owns and controls the electronic networks is one
major issue covered by the exhibition. The technical information
infrastructure is another. Satellites and cables provide the world's
central nerve system of information. The exhibition gives an overview on
the complex interrelations of technology, private investments and the
public interest.
The displays show the distribution of information and power: the winners
and losers of information globalisation, the information-rich and the
information-poor.
Finally, the exhibition points out the problem of human rights in a digital
world. A democratised society is based upon a broad understanding of
communication processes and the underlying technologies. Therefore
universal human rights have to be extended to incorporate the Information
Society. Basic digital human rights mean the right to access the electronic
domain, the right to freedom of expression and association online, and the
right to privacy.
Research, Content & Design: World-Information.Org
The Future Heritage Expo
Arts for the digital Millenium
World-Information.Org invites you to discover the cultural heritage of our
future. The Future Heritage Expo presents works of artists experimenting
and operating with information and communication technologies.
Artists have always been among the first to explore the potentials of the
new media as modes of expressing their work. Some of these media - such as
electronic information processing and even the Internet itself - actually
have a military origin. In supporting the process of accepting and
discovering new forms of communication, artists have concentrated on
appropriating these new media as their means of artistic expression.
The artistic exploration of multimedia and the electronic domain has
generated a shift in contemporary arts toward digital, net-based,
interactive and multimedia creation and distribution of art. Information
itself has become a raw product of artistic production. In essence, artists
have turned into "informers". The Future Heritage Expo, therefore,
introduces artists who present the most important aspects, ideas and
artistic experiments in the digital domain.
The digital electronic cultures - so rich, diverse and vital - represent a
testimony of our time. A testimony that helps us to understand the
complexity of life and cultural identities.
Digital art of today is the cultural heritage of tomorrow.
Artists & Exhibitors:
Ingo Günther-GER&USA, Marko Peljhan-SLO, Critical Art Ensemble with Faith
Wilding & Paul Vanouse-USA, RTMark-USA, Oliver Ressler-A, Mongrel-UK, Jason
Skeet & Andi Freeman-UK, Matthew Fuller, Simon Pope & Colin Green-UK,
e-lab-LV, Constant-BE, Apsolutno-YU, Volkstanz-A, Heinz Nixdorf
MuseumsForum-GER, a.o.
The World-C4U-Exhibition
Command, Control, Computer Communication
Total Security and the Virtual Doppelganger
Enterprises and corporations, military and governmental bodies, online
service providers and secret services employ an impressive arsenal of high
technology for control and security purposes. Under the pretext of national
security, intelligence services have built up huge eavesdrop systems like
Echelon, which allow them to intercept all electronic communication such as
telephone calls, fax messages or exchange of e-mail worldwide. In a growing
number of cities, the public and private areas are controlled by CCTV
(Closed Circuit Television). Electronic voice, fingerprint recognition and
other biometric technologies allow or deny access to bank accounts, to
buildings, or to information.
Internet service providers track individual data, identify a user's
favourite site and special interest, and create individual customer
profiles - valuable personalised data for marketing professionals and
e-commerce enterprises. Data mining and data tracking technologies
transform information on personal shopping behaviour or fields of interest
into the virtual doppelganger.
The World-C4U-Exhibition highlights state-of-the-art security and control
technologies. The exhibition allows hands-on experience and presents live
demonstrations of eavesdropping and information interception.
For detailed and update information on the exhibitions and all related
events, please visit our website - http://world-information.org - or look
them up in the World-Information.Org "Magazine".
Artists & Exhibitors:
Cinema Nova Video Library-BE, Max Moswitzer-A, Monochrom-A, The Association
of Autonomous Astronauts-INT, Namebase-USA, SYNREAL-INT, Anita Witek-A&UK,
Technisches Museum Wien-A, a.o.
4) Artists
Among the artists whose works are presented in the Future Heritage Expo
respectively in the World-C4U-Exhibition there are:
· Marko Peljhan (SLO)
In his work, Marko Peljhan frequently employs technology from the military
industrial complex. This includes the examination of practical and
theoretical possibilities of telecommunications interception of satellite
based networks such as satellite scanning.
With the projects "Projekt Atol" and "Makrolab", Peljhan started to create
an autarc communication and distribution system as an apocalypse tool in
1992. "Makrolab" is designed to survive any possible infrastructure breakdown.
In the World-Information.Org exhibition Peljhan will present two sets of
works: One presenting plans for the conversion of tactical cruise missile
into a tactical media platform. The other based on Makrolab, consisting of
a monitoring and analysis system for high frequency radio and processed
radar data, news feeds and financial information displays.
The electronic media monitoring platform will be at different times
accessible also for private lectures and consultation with the operator on
site. As part of the project, there will be a series of three lectures,
covering the fields of satellite construction, data protection, design and
policy issues and satellite telecommunications monitoring issues.
Marko Peljhan, born in Nova Goricia (SLO) in 1969, started to experiment
with amateur radio communication and technology at an early age, and has
continued working with information and communication technologies.
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org holds a lot of information on both "Makrolab"
and the artist.
· Ingo Günther (GER / USA)
Defining the role of the artist as an informer, Günther combines artistic,
journalistic and scientific approaches to make secret information
accessible to the public. Since 1989, globes have become one of his central
means of artistically impacting and stimulating political processes.
A series of articles and interviews stemming from his visits to refugee
camps in Thailand became the foundation for his ongoing project "Refugee
Republic".
Ingo Günther, born 1957, studied Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and Art
in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. Since the 1970ies, numerous travels took him
to Northern Africa, North and Central America and Asia. Günther has
participated in diverse international exhibitions such as the German
"Documenta" and has taught at several renowned universities.
A collection of his works can be found via http://www.worldprocessor.com
· Critical Art Ensemble - CAE (USA)
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) respond to recent developments in the
biological sciences by creating a faux cult in collaboration with Faith
Wilding and Paul Vanouse - The Cult of the New Eve (CoNE). CoNE corresponds
to the Human Genome Project as the attempt to decode the human DNA. The
Human Genome Project is based on the DNA of a single woman. For the Cult,
she is the New Eve.
Currently, scientists involved in new biological developments are pitching
their work in very theological terms like "new universalism" or "discovery
of immortality".
With CoNE, CAE relays these promises back to the public through the filter
of an obscure cult. Combining a website, electronic information systems and
performance techniques of street theater, CAE extols the utopian promises
of biotechnology and provokes engagement in critical discussions on
biotechnology.
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE, founded in 1987, is a collective of five
tactical media artists of various specialization including computer art,
film, video, photography, text art, book art, and performance. CAE's focus
has been on the exploration of the relations and intersections between art,
critical theory, technology, and political activism.
http://critical-art.net http://critical-art.net/cone
5) The Future Heritage Events
Along with the exhibitions, World-Information.Org offers a series of
events: expert and public meetings, presentations and an international
conference.
July 5th: RTMark (USA)
"Captain Euro versus Leonardo Finance"
A performance-lecture event staged by the US-American artists group RTMark,
who became famous with their fake website of the World Trade Organisation's
Summit in Seattle (http://www.gatt.org). For more than five years, RTMark
has been funding acts of sabotage with activist or aesthetic aims. The
group succeeded in generating more than twenty acts of 'creative
subversion' that were directed against Mattel ("Barbie Liberation
Organization"), the World Trade Organization, Novartis or George W. Bush
among others. In their lecture RTMark will introduce their new campaign on
"Captain Euro".
July 8th: CONSTANT vzw (BE)
"Surveillance Camera Roundtrip"
The belgian partner CONSTANT vzw will organize a roundtrip through the city
of Brussels to explore the numerous surveillance technologies implemented
to control the flow of people in the city. Based on an old TV episode of
the famous Columbo crime series, CONSTANT will explore the legacy of the
Cold War control systems and invites the audience to join: "It has no
become impossible to go out into the street in sloppy clothes, you star
against your will" (CONSTANT vzw).
July 2nd: Hugh Daniels (USA)
"Secure Wide Area Network Protocols, Problems, Solutions, Implementations"
and
July 18th: Marko Peljhan (SLO)
"Independent Satellite Development: Policy, Design & Construction, Launch
Issues"
In the framework of Marko Peljhan's Makrolab platform in the exhibition,
various guest speakers will present their work in the fields of independent
media work: covering issues of satellite & space communications and privacy
& data-protection among others, these two events are targeted at the
interested community of artists and IT specialists.
6) World InfoCon
The central conference being World InfoCon on July 13th and 14th at the
Centre Brussels 2000: Artists, experts, intelligence agents, scientists and
politicians gather to discuss the issues of digital ecology, future culture
heritage and media economy.
Well-known experts such as Cees J. Hamelink (NL, University of Amsterdam,
author of various UNESCO reports on communication), Steve Wright (UK,
Control Technologies Omega Foundation), Edward S. Herman (US, University of
Pennsylvania), Simon Davies (UK, Privacy.Org) or Saskia Sassen (famous
media theoretician, US & UK, LSE) will take part in this major conference.
World InfoCon: July 13th, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 - 6 p.m.
July 14th, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
World InfoCon - Workshops and Seminars with the World InfoCon-participants:
July 15th, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Centre Brussels 2000, Rue de l'écuyer 50 Schildknaapstraat, B-1000
Bruxelles / Brussel
For detailed and update information on the World InfoCon issues,
participants, lectures and dates please visit our website -
http://world-information.org - or look them up in the World-Information.Org
"Magazine".
7) SPONSORS & PARTNERS
The WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG team wishes to express its thankfulness for the
kind support of the following Corporate Sponsors, Partners & Institutions:
PATRON and CO-PRODUCER
PATRON CO-PRODUCER
UNESCO BRUSSELS 2000 - European City of Culture for the year 2000
CORPORATE SPONSORS
PLATINUM SPONSOR
EXCALIBUR TECHNOLOGIES
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
BLUE-C KEYWARE TECHNOLOGIES BERGDATA
AKG
ACOUSTICS ESRI GEOSPACE
NETWORK INSTRUMENTS SCHAUER MASCHINENFABRIK
SUPPORTERS
City of Vienna - Department for Cultural Affairs
City of Vienna - Department for Planning and Future Developments
Austrian Federal Chancellery - Department for the Arts
PARTNERS
Constant Cinema Nova European Cultural
Foundation
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Paderborn Kender Thijssen VIDISQUARE
Independent Media Center Belgium FreeSpech Internet Television
De Balie European Cultural
Backbone - ECB
Technisches Museum Wien
National Museum of American History - Smithsonian Institute
Public Information Research Iridium Communications Germany
MEDIA PARTNERS
De Standaard Roularta Der Standard Canvas Radio 1
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