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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 97/11 - Introduction - Dates of upcoming events - Updates - General info about the Syndicate list - Subscription * Introduction * Dear Syndicalists, After the major Tasmanian order of Syndicate Readers which were produced for Ostranenie I guess that the entire print run will be almost sold out. For those of you who haven't got one yet but want one, this might be the last chance to get one of these collectors' items. (If you want to save money and are not in a hurry, you can also write to me or peter@v2.nl and we will reserve a copy for you and try to get it to you by messenger at the next possible opportunity.) This list is a tool through which we exchange information about upcoming events, plan or announce new projects, and stay in touch in between meetings. The latest upsurge in traffic shows that many people are realising that next year's programmes are only months away now and we have to start planning. Please, continue to use the list for posting information about what you are up to, and for getting in touch with people in other parts of Deep Europe. 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) - Nov - December: Da-Da-Net, Moscow/RU - 3 December - 4 January 1998: Scenic Eye: Visual Arts and Theater, Skopje/MK - 4 - 7 December 1997: Recycling the Future, Vienna/A - 5 - 7 December 1997: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU - 9 - 12 December 1997: IN ART '97, La Laguna/Tenerife/ES - 28 January - 7 February 1998: International Film Festival Rotterdam/NL - 12 - 22 February 1998: Transmediale / 11th Videofest, Berlin/D - 6 - 10 May 1998: EMAF - European Media Art Festival 1998, Osnabrueck/D - 13 to 17 May 1998: 9th Impakt Festival, Utrecht/NL - 21 - 24 May 1998: PiraMedia, Tirana/AL - 18 - 20 June 1998: SONAR 98, Barcelona/ES - September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D - 2 - 7 September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK - 7 - 12 September 1998: ars electronica, Linz/AT - 17 - 22 November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL * IN ART «97 December 9 through December 12, 1997 A symposium at the University of La Laguna, in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. This annual event explores the aesthetics and culture of digital technology. IN ART'97 will address issues related to posthumanism, virtual identities, the denial of the physical in electronic technology and the boundaries of the interfaced self. Tuesday, December 9th 19:30: Official opening of IN ART «97. Welcoming speach and cocktail. Wednesday, December 10th 10:30: Erkki Huhtamo, Findland. Independent researcher of digital technology, writer and curator specialized in the archeology of electronic media. "Through the Peep Hole: Media Art as an Archaeological Practice" 12:00: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Canada-Mexico. Electronic artist, curator of exhibitions and conferences. "Relational Architecture: the art of teleprescence and teleabscence". 17:30: Gerfried Stocker, Austria. Director of Ars Electronica, will speak of this year's festival. "Flesh Factor". 19:00: Sergi Jorda, Spain. Artist and electronic composer, creator of Epizoo, interactive performance. "Cruelty and gratuitousness in virtual reality". Thursday, December 11th 10:30: Esther Mera, Spain-U.S.A.: Multimedia artist, director of the "Hybrids and Mutants" lab at the California Institute of the Arts. Will speal about "Photography, Digital Surgery and Mutations: The Body in Contemporary Art". 12:00: Andreas Broeckmann, V2, Rotterdam/Berlin. "Machinic Aesthetics and Becoming-Cyborg". 17:30: Sally Jane Norman, France-New Zealand. Theorist specialized in the relationship between cyberspace and theatrical space. "Electronic Gesture/Performance aesthetics". 19:00: Orlan, France. Multimedia artist who has performed plastic surgery on her face over 10 times, creating a provocative discourse on the body and its image. "This is my Body, This is my software". Friday, December 12th 10:30: Sandy Stone, U.S.A. Performance artist, director of ACT Lab, Austin, Texas. Specialized in virtual systems, virtual identities and transgender issues in cyberspace. President of Cyberconf, an annual international conference on the culture of cyberspace. 12:00: Panel and discussion. IN ART '97 is sponsored by the University of La Laguna, Tenerife's City Hall, the Regional Province of the Canary Islands and the local bank Caja Canarias. For further information, please contact: comunicacion@in-art.com * EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 1998 Osnabrueck/D, 6-10th May 1998 You are warmly invited to send contributions to the eleventh European Media Art Festival. An international forum for contemporary media art, this festival will gather together artists, theoreticians, journalists and a young engaged public in Osnabrueck from 6 to 10 May 1998. CALL FOR ENTRIES Experimental and innovative works can be submitted on film, video, CD-Rom and the Internet, as well as in the form of installations or performance pieces. The deadline for submissions is 2 March 1998.!!!!!!!! We welcome contributions such as discussion topics and essays on themes relating to specific media. Selected contributions will be published in the festival catalogue and on our web-site. At the festival a jury of film critics will present the German Film Critics award for the best German experimental film or video production of the year. SPECIALS The EMAF programme has been extended to include featured artists, retrospectives and presentations on specific countries. Hong Kong, South America and various countries of Eastern Europe have been the subject of previous festivals. The series will be continued in 1998 with a comprehensive programme from Sweden. RETROSPECTIVES The subject of this year's presentation will be the films and installations of West Coast filmmaker Pat O`Neill, whose films are created on an optical printer, combining the functions of camera and projector. O`Neill has developed and perfected this tool for the manipulation of images since the early 1970s. The results, which can often surprise, are a combination of technically brilliant images and a new kind of film language. INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FORUM The International Student Forum is an integral component of EMAF, giving students from the various European film and media colleges the chance to present their current productions. An important focus is the exhibition of video and computer installations. Students working in all fields are invited to send in their current productions to the festival! INTER NET(Z)WERKE The Virtual Festival Forum is a new EMAF project in which new ways of exhibiting film, video and the digital media are explored, and experiments are developed using the various systems. In co-operation with the Berlage Institut Amsterdam and the Festival film+arc Graz, EMAF has organised Dialogue Spaces, a project in which the new forms of communication provided by the Internet are brought together with modern architectural conceptualisations of real and virtual spaces. Net-Culture Projects, strategies, and constructions are the focus of the symposium Net-Culture, which will throw light on current artistic and philosophical developments in the media. EXHIBITION 6th - 24th May, 1998 As in previous years the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche will be central venue for the Electronic Cafe, the seminars and the international exhibition of film, video and computer installations. This newly renovated building offers an ideal space for realisation of artistic concepts which span sculpture, projection and networking. ------------------------------------------------------------- For further information visit our website or contact: ( Applicationforms are available on our web site.) European Media Art Festival PO Box 1861 D-49008 Osnabrueck Tel: 49/(0)541/ 21658 25779 Fax: 49/(0)541/ 28327 email:emaf@bionic.zerberus.de Internet:http://www.emaf.de Festivalboard: Alfred Rotert Hermann Noering Ralf Sausmikat * Impakt Festival for audiovisual arts, Utrecht. The 9th Impakt Festival will be organized from May 13 to 17, 1998 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Impakt is an international festival for audiovisual arts. The festival is a showcase for innovative film, video art, music, installations, new media and performances. Lectures and exhibitions complete the programme. With its unique approach to the audiovisual arts Impakt clearly distinguishes itself from other festivals. We believe that the similarities between art forms are more important than their differences and we try to stimulate the interaction between different audiovisual arts as much as possible. Also we put great effort into presenting contemporary art in a historic perspective or theoretic context. # The film and video section of the festival consists of thematical programmes, retrospectives and the Panorama programme. In the Panorama programme we show a high quality selection of recent film and video productions. The programme gives an impression of the current state of the audiovisual arts world wide. The thematic programmes in the Impakt Festival deal with important issues and trends in art or society or with issues we feel should be brought to the attention of a wide audience. In the retrospectives we present artists or movements we consider relevant for present developments in contemporary art. An exhibition of installation pieces is also part of the Impakt Festival. The installations will be exhibited in various gallery spaces in the centre of Utrecht. In the music section of the Impakt Festival, young talented musicians are presented alongside pioneers of the avantgarde. The scope of the musical programme is varied and ranges from electro-acoustic music to experiments in popmusic and from multi-media performances to contemporary carillon music. # Call for entries to the Impakt Festival If you wish to participate in the Impakt Festival please ask for an entry form. Our deadline for contributions is January 1st, 1998, but we would appreciate it if you could send us your work as soon as possible. Impakt Festival P.O. Box 735 3500 AS Utrecht The Netherlands Phone: + 31 30 2944 493 Fax: + 31 30 2944 163 E-mail: impakt@xs4all.nl URL: www.xs4all.nl/~impakt * SONAR 98 18-20 June, Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona/ES This is Sonar, International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art in Barcelona. Now prepearing its 5th edition. SONAR 98 will happen on 18, 19. 20 of June in The Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and different locations around the city. You can find out more about Sonar and it's previous editions on our website www.sonar.es. We are currently on the lookout for film and video material from labels and artists, such as yourselves, to include in our cinema programme for 98. The pieces will be shown in a plush seated cinema with a quality soundsystem. In the past this section of the festival has been a huge success with standing room only. Every year the Cinema programme has its own section in the SONAR catalogue and is represented in all the formats of the SONAR promotion campaign. So if you feel that you have anything interesting please contact me on our e-mail number. Thanks in advance Andy Cumming SONAR.Advanced Music Meeting. E-Mail: sonar@sonar.es http://www.sonar.es P.O.Box 38.024-08080-Barcelona-Spain Fax. ++ 34.3.441 53 38 * Updates * * Convergence reviews Inke Arns (inke@is.in-berlin.de) writes: Dear Syndicalists, as you might know, I am guest-editing the Summer 1998 issue of Convergence on New Media Technologies in Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe. The deadline for research articles has passed (30 October 1997 / the Call for Papers was sent to this list twice, in March and in September). Still, I would like to invite all of you to contribute *reviews* on whatever you might find interesting in the field. These reviews can be of books, conferences, exhibitions, festivals, CD-ROMS, web sites etc. They are usually about 1000 words each in length. The deadline for these short reviews is *Thursday, 4 December 1997*. If you have time ;-) and you want to read more ;-) you can find the more extensive proposal which I wrote for the Convergence editors at: http://berlin.icf.de/~inke look for "New" or "Projects". Let's make it another deeply deep_european publication! * AUTONOMOUS CULTURAL FACTORY AUTONOMNA TVORNICA KULTURE - ATTACK ZAGREB [under construction] Initiative has started around political pop mega.zin Arkzin (as part of our 'Towards 2000. development plan') and ZAP (Zagreb Anarchist Movement) to create Autonomous Cultural Factory -ATTACK, as a club/production/ gallery/meeting place, where 'veterans' of civil scene could informally, in friendly discussion exchange informations, develop ideas, as well as pass their knowledge and informations to others, especially youth. It would be a place for exhibitions, performances, lectures and various workshops, where guests from different ex-Yu and European countries and organisations present their work in various fields - be it arts, theory, or civil movements. Cultural politics would be oriented towards multicultural and trans-national exchange. Important part of ATTACKs identity and politics would be productive work, development of creative environment where new ideas and collaborations could arise, a place that would not only present new art, ideas, movements and theories but also create them. Automatic e-mail mailing list is made on ZaMir BBS network so all messages sent to the /attack@zamir-zg.ztn.apc.org/ adress are passed to all members of the list. Currently we are checking various available spaces in Zagreb, in order to rent one by November 15th and start actual work of ATTACK in its own space. Contact persons Vesna JANKOVIC Marko STRPIC Adress ARKZIN [4 ATTACK] Republike Austrije 17/I HR-10000 Zagreb tel: +385 1 / 37 77 866 fax: +385 1 / 37 77 867 e-mail: arkzin_zg@zamir-zg.ztn.zpc.org e-mail: attack@zamir-zg.ztn.zpc.org http://www.arkzin.com * Bulldozer Janos Sugar (js@mrf.hu) writes: In October 97 the Media Research Foundation published BULLDOZER, a 220 pages anthology of contemporary media theory in Hungarian. (ISSN: 1417-6033). Although the material in the book is also available (readable + downloadable) for free, in the spirit of anti-copyright, on two sites on the net (http://www.mrf.hu and in the Hungarian Electronic Library) BULLDOZER became an immediate hit, and was the 3rd among the bestsellers in October in one of the most prestigious bookstores in Budapest. We hope we can go further with the bulldozer! further info: mrf@mrf.hu or http://www.mrf.hu * (XCHANGE) rasa smite, raitis smits, janis garancs write: We are happy to announce - net.audio/radio (Xchange) mailing list has started! if you are interested - welcome to subscribe! You are very welcome to join to the Net.Audio Network - net.audio (Xchange) network A C O U S T I C . S P A C E <http://xchange.re-lab.net> (x) for alternative non-commercial internet broadcasters and individual audio content providers (x) on exchange and linking-up of audio content within the net.space (x) developing towards a net.audio network community (XCHANGE) MAILING LIST - information&communication channel (s) (u) (b) (s) (c) (r) (i) (b) (e) ( ) (i) (n) (f) (o) If you want to SUBSCRIBE to the XCHANGE mailing list: send a message to <Majordomo@re-lab.net> with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe xchange your@email.adddress or contact: owner-xchange@re-lab.net * 'SOUND BOX' Web Broadcast Project Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, is seeking works for possible inclusion for the upcoming web project. SOUND BOX is a RealAudio based experimental broadcast, opening its virtual doors on Friday March 27th 1998. Web broadcast will be online for a period of two months at the following address: http://www.kiasma.fng.fi/soundbox/. SOUND BOX is a countdown project for KIASMA, the new building of The Museum of Contemporary Art, keeping its opening ceremony on Friday May 29th 1998 in Helsinki. SOUND BOX will introduce different kind of works and aesthetics concerning electronic music. SOUND BOX is looking for fresh ideas, works in which sounds and electronic means are used in imaginary and interesting ways. SOUND BOX will give the web audience a versatile vision about the diversity and richness of international sonic art in the 90's. At least 20 works will be selected for SOUND BOX broadcasting. The selected works are broadcasted as a nonstop stream, including text information about every composer and work. Each selected composer will receive a fee of 500 FIM (= ca. 95 USD = 167 DEM = 555 FRF = 57 GBP). Please be sure that you own the copyright of the piece before submitting it. There will also be a possibility that The Museum of Contemporary Art will buy a few of these works for its collection. SOUND BOX project is curated by composer Petri Kuljuntausta (http://muu.autono.net/artists/kuljuntausta/), chairman of the Charm of Sound association. Formats for submission: - DAT, CD/CD-R, Minidisc. Please include: - Written artistic statement about the submitted work and bio about yourself and your previous work in diskette (PC/Macintosh). DEADLINE for submissions is January 30th 1998. Submit your work and diskette to: SOUND BOX The Museum of Contemporary Art Kaivokatu 2 FIN-00100 Helsinki Finland. The SOUND BOX Website at: http://www.kiasma.fng.fi/soundbox/ ------------------- The Charm of Sound association (Aanen Lumo ry) is collaborating on this project, so there will be an opportunity for your work to be performed in an electronic music concert in Helsinki. After the SOUND BOX web broadcasting period we will return all submitted sound material, but if you would like your work to be performed in a live concert we will forward your material to Charm of Sound's collection for consideration of future projects. Please mention if you prefer that possibility. For further information about SOUND BOX or the Charm of Sound association, contact: Petri Kuljuntausta Tunnelitie 9 G 53 FIN-00320 Helsinki Finland. Tel: +358-9-4583950 Email: <petri.kuljuntausta@muu.autono.net> * Shared Visions - Cyberstar '98: International competition for interactive environments bodies responsible: WDR Cologne, Germany and GMD - German Research Center for Communication Technology, Sankt Augustin Cyberstar aims at creating new interactive ways of communication which reflect and utilize today's state of technology from an artistic and creative point of view. The competition supports cooperation between artists, designers, media and computer experts. Concepts for interactive scenarios in the categories television, internet and stage will be awarded with prizes totalling to DM 35.000. The first prize includes a work term of six months at the GMD where the submitted concept can be realized. Submission deadline for Cyberstar 98 is March 31st 1998. Further information and submission guidelines: WDR Cyberstar Germany - 50600 Cologne phone: +49-221-220-6728, fax -6252 e-mail: cyberstar@wdr.de http://www.wdr.de/cyberstar/english_von_wettbewe.html * 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 190 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. Other meetings were held in Liverpool (LEAF97, April 1997), Kassel (Deep Europe workshop, August 1997), Linz (Syndicate Net.Shop, September 1997), and Dessau (Ostranenie 97, November 1997). * 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 November 97) to: abroeck@v2.nl.