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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 97/08 - Introduction - Dates of upcoming events - Updates - General info about the Syndicate list - Subscription * Introduction * Dear Syndicalists, I am writing this from the Ars Electronica festival in Linz/Austria, where we are participating with the Remote C project http://remote.aec.at, and the Syndicate Net.Shop which brings together web artists from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland and Latvia for a workshop. It's busy and distracting up here, but it's also great to see and meet so many people. The Syndicate network is still growing slowly and it may be worth repeating, especially for those who have joined more recently, that this is a network of people who share an interest in media culture and media art. It grew out of an East-West cooperation initiative and is now a network that connects more than 160 people from 28 European and 3 non-European countries. We meet regularly in the context of festivals and conferences, like recently at the Video Positive festival in Liverpool, the documenta X in Kassel, or here at the ars electronica. I find it important that you see this list not as an information service, but as your channel to these people. You should try to come to these meetings where we make contact, talk about projects and interests, and develop collaborations - and have a lot of fun. It's situations like the Deep Europe workshop in Kassel, or this meeting here in Linz, where more than 20 people spend a week together, working, talking, eating, drinking, ..., that make the whole thing worthwhile, as far as I am concerned. Preparations for the next Syndicate meeting at the Ostranenie Forum in Dessau/Germany from 5.-9. November are now well underway. We will be hearing more about the programme in the next weeks. There is an opportunity that we can print a Reader that will include a selection of texts that were posted via the Syndicate list in the last 18 months. We have only just begun the planning phase for that, but if any of you have suggestions for what texts should be included, or want to help with the editing, please, get in touch with me (abroeck@v2.nl), or with Inke Arns (inke@is.in-berlin.de). We will be sending out a 'call for subscriptions' soon, so if you know that you want one or more copies of this reader (which will be in 'cheap and fast'-publishing and sold at cost price), please, let us know. If you need help regarding your travel to Dessau, please, get in touch with Marci Jost at <emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de> for information, invitations, etc. She will be very happy to help with special invitations to make it possible for people to apply for travel grants etc. You may have noticed that messages sent to 'syndicate@aec.at' go directly to the list and are not moderated or censored. The noise level has always been relatively low, so we can keep the list open, which makes it possible for all of us to send to the list what we think is important. I would once again like to encourage everybody to send information that you feel is of interest directly to the list. Some people say that there are too many announcements and not enough discussion about 'deep european' topics on the Syndicate list. This is simply a matter of writing, responding, and starting such discussions. There is no limitation of what we can do with this channel, and I think that there are a lot of important issues that should be talked about. Like for instance the restructuring that is happening within the Soros Foundation. 'The network's structure is being revised at the moment. Network funding is secured until the year 2000, after which each center must find ways of supporting themselves, or at least look for matching funds.' A lot of the activities that people from the Syndicate are involved in are co-sponsored by the SCCAs, so that in two and a half years the conditions of our work might change quite radically. It would, I believe, be important to start a dialogue about what this will mean for us in practical terms - maybe somebody who has the details of 'Uncle George's' letter to the Soros network can post a little report about the state of things? Beside the contact through the list, we should discuss these and other issues at the meeting in Dessau. I hope to see you soon, best wishes, -a * Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions * (check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these events) - 30 August - 1 October: near the beginning, Plasy/Cz - 28 August - 9 October: Parallelen, Berlin/D - 6 - 12 September: Just Watch, Zurich/CH - 8 -13 September 1997: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz/A - 12 - 18 September 1997: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL - 15 September - 15 October 1997: Messages/REflections, Chisinau/Md - 22 - 27 September 1997: ISEA 97, Chicago/USA - 26 September - 4 October 1997: l'immagine leggera, Palermo/IT - 1 - 3 October 1997: Digitale, Cologne/D - 3 - 23 October 1997: Hi-Tech/Art '97, Brno/CZ - 4 - 11 October 1997: 3rd Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor/SI - 5 October - 2 November 1997: Screens, Trondheim/NO - 7 - 19 October 1997: Interstanding 2, Tallinn/EE - 10 - 12 October 1997: ROOTless '97, Hull/UK - 16 - 26 October 1997: VIPER 97, Lucerne/CH -17 - 24 October: CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana/Si - 18 October 1997: opening ZKM, Karlsruhe/D - 21 October 1997: SeaFair: Interactive Narration/Int. CD ROM exhibition, Skopje/MK - 24 October 1997: opening Multimediale 5, Karlsruhe/D - Nov - December: Da-Da-Net, Moscow/Ru - 3 - 9 November 1997: LADA 97, Rimini/It + San Marino/SM - 5 - 9 November 1997: OSTranenie, Dessau/D - 8 - 16 November 1997: Art & Communication, Valencia/ES - 10 - 16 November 1997: Video and Electronic Art Festival, Riga/LV - 4 -7 December 1997: Recycling the Future, Vienna/A - 5 - 7 December 1997: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU - September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D - September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK - November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL *PARALLELEN - KUNST AUS MAKEDONIEN Parallels - Art From Macedonia IFA Galerie Berlin 28. August - 9. October 1997. The exhibition Parallelen has for an aim the presentation of four Macedonian artist in the IFA Gallery in Berlin. These artists have been selected among forty most relevant artists and their recent importance in the general Macedonian art scene. The exhibition intends to present four parallels as metaphoric lines of the most interesting and relevant streams in Macedonia among the younger mid generation. It shows the interest for the artistic expression either representing the most actual concepts (sharing) dealing with postmodernist issues such as the questioning of the position of the artist in the society, the inclusion of the space as a part of and the reason of the artistic thought, and the different ways of exploring how the artistic acting can provide approaches towards the specific treatment of the [very widely understood] materials. Therefore, in the works of Tome Adzievski there is a tendency towards the renewal of the manual skill of the artistic shaping, but not in a 'classical' or 'traditional' way. He is confronting, let us say, the casted brass sculpture to the photographs of the ocean shore; or the hand-sculpted wooden hand contra the photo 'portraits' of a free running horse in the meadow; or a wooden-velvet head fronting the photographs of parts of a pine-tree. He asks for a return to the nature and tactility of the artistic creation as one of the most specific characteristics of the acting of the artist. a project by Institut fŸr Auslandbeziehungen Berlin [IFA], Barbara Barsch, PhD and Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia, Nebojsa Vilic, PhD Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje Ruzveltova 34 91000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Tel/Fax: 389.91.133.541 e-mail: scca@soros.org.mk http://www.soros.org.mk * n e a r t h e b e g i n n i n g international, interdisciplinary symposium-exhibition - - CENTER FOR METAMEDIA, Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic - - "The discovery of a stable center is the same thing as creating the world. Its repetition." Mircea Eliade >From August 15, approximately 30 artists -- from various disciplines and continents -- will begin to work at the Center for Metamedia, an artist residency program and project center located on the grounds of a former monastery in Plasy, west Bohemia. The outcome of the participant's approach to the symposium's theme, dialogue with the place, interaction with each other & will be presented to the public from A U G U S T 3 0 t o O C T O B E R 1. - n e a r t h e b e g i n n i n g It is beginning to appear as though many aesthetic, ethical, and physical structures, which have been considered invariable and objectively given, are rather the formations of our perception and senses. We nonetheless still continue to search for some kind of central germ, a firm framework, a life line that gives the world its shape and meaning. Is there a common center where we could all meet? The Near the Beginning project seeks to explore a broad range of approaches to and interpretations of this given theme. In doing so, it could help to clarify the contemporary perception of this problem. Hermit Foundation / Center for Metamedia Klaster 331 01 Plasy Czech Republic tel./fax 00 420 182 - 2909 e-mail hermit@pvtnet.cz (http://www - in construction, stay tuned . . .) * 3. International Festival of Contemporary Arts - CITY OF WOMEN Ljubljana/Si 17 till 24 October 1997. The preliminary programme of our festival is available at: http://www.sigov.si/uzp/city/97/ The final programme will be available on October 1. If you have any questions, please contact us. Ursula Cetinski Koen Van Daele artistic director programme coordinator CITY OF WOMEN TOMSICEVA 4 1000 LJUBLJANA - SLOVENIA Phone: +386+61/215.748 Fax: +386+61/125.60.57 Email: mestozensk@uzp.sigov.mail.si koen.vandaele@uzp.sigov.mail.si HomePage: http://www.sigov.si/uzp/city/ * Network Art Festival "Da-da-net", Moscow, Nov.-Dec. 1997 This year Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) opened its site (www.sccamoscow.ru), where the Center has placed its database on Russian contemporary art. Starting from September, 1, 1997 Soros Center for Contemporary Art will open one more address in Internet (www.da-da-net.ru), this will help to organize the Festival of Russian Art Resources. The Festival "Da-da-net" will take place in November-December 1997. The aim of this competition is to reveal creative possibilities of Russian users. We also would like to invite the users from the Community of Independant States-former Soviet Republics - as subjects of the cultural space, which had been indivisible not so long ago. This project is a logical continuation of Moscow New Media Art Laboratory, which was organised by Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) in 1994, in the frame of which were held "NewMediaLogia" symposium and "NewMediaTopia" exhibition. To get more detailed information about this project, please contact festival's supervisors Ms Olga Shishko (newart@aha.ru) and Ms Tatiana Mogilevskaya (tanusha@aha.ru). * OSTranenie 97 International electronic media forum, Bauhaus Dessau/D 5-9 November 1997 This year, for the first time, in addition to the "traditional" presentation of video works, multi-media installations, performances and discourse, we would like to present as many network based projects as possible, especially those which focus on the cultural/political context of (Eastern European) society in transition. Members of the V2_East/Syndicate will be meeting during the Ostranenie 97 forum in Dessau. Please check out: http://www.misa.uni-magdeburg.de/events/ostranenie97/ost_home.htm Studio Electronic Media Interpretation Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Gropiusallee 38 D-06846 Dessau Germany tel.: 49.340/ 6508.313 fax: 49.340/ 6508.326 <emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de> Stephen Kovats: <100662.2476@compuserve.com> Adele Eisenstein: <adele@caesar.elte.hu> * Festival VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Dec 1997 The second Video Festival "VideoMedeja", dedicated to presenting works done by women, will be held from 5th to 7th December 1997 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The tematical span of this issue is representation of personal female erotologies artistically directed towards dialogue with their own possibilities in the argument with the opposite sex as well as possibilities of artistic engagement today and investigations of functions and scope of the art margins. Festival "VideoMedeja" Asocijacija "Apostrof" Jevrejska 4/I 21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia tel/fax: +381 21 621 308 E-mail: videomed@fodns.opennet.org * Updates * * The P2P - Conference in Amsterdam and Rotterdam at the end of October about which I sent out some information the other day will be an important platform for lobbying the policy makers of different national and international funding bodies. Part of the preparations for this conference was formulated in the 'Suggestions towards a European Media Policy' that were developed during the Deep Europe workshop. Please, watch out for updates and further information about this important event. There will be various ways to intervene and participate even for those people who cannot come or are not invited for the actual seminar and symposium. Stay tuned! * General Info * V2_East is an initiative of V2_Organisation Rotterdam, which is aimed at creating a network of people and institutions who are involved with or interested in media art in Eastern Europe and which wants to create an infrastructure that facilitates cooperations between partners in East and West. With its 'Syndicate' mailing list, website <http://www.v2.nl/east> and regular meetings, V2_East is becoming an important tool for fostering ties within the media art community in Europe which makes it increasingly obsolete to think in term of 'East' and 'West', and which will eventually make the V2_East initiative itself redundant. The V2_East/Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an institution. <syndicate@AEC.at> is the address of a mailing list which is dedicated to an exchange of information and ideas relating to the situation and future development of electronic and media art in Eastern Europe. A Syndicate-mail archive for messages that are coming in over the list (since April 97) can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/ The list members include more than 160 artists, curators, networkers, writers, festival organisers, etc., from East as well as West European countries and beyond, who, through the 'Syndicate', are trying to improve the communication and cooperation between artists and organisations in East and West. The list was first installed following the initial meeting of the V2_East initiative at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam on January 21, 1996, at the end of the second Next 5 Minutes conference. During the DEAF96 festival in September, we held a V2_East Meeting in which around 30 people from 12 different countries participated. In April 97 the LEAF97 meeting in Liverpool brought together more than 30 people from across Europe. * Subscription * To subscribe to the syndicate list, please, send a message to <syndicate-request@aec.at> with the following text in the body of the message: 'subscribe [email-address]' For more information about the Syndicate, please, contact <abroeck@v2.nl> (Andreas Broeckmann). *Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition of this newsletter (deadline: 30 August 97) to: abroeck@v2.nl. ................................................................................ ........ V2_Organisatie * Andreas Broeckmann * abroeck@v2.nl Eendrachtsstr.10 * NL-3012 XL Rotterdam * <www.v2.nl> t.+31.10.4046427 * fx.4128562 * <www.v2.nl/east> second leg: Pfluegerstr.27*12045 Berlin*+30-6233293