Adele Eisenstein on Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:25:46 +0100 |
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Syndicate: INFOWAR in and via Budapest! |
Even if you canâ??t make it to Linz this year, you can still take part in Ars Electronica 98: INFOWAR! via C3: Center for Culture & Communication Budapest I., Országház u. 9 tel.: 36.1/ 214.6856 fax: 36.1/ 214.6872 info@c3.hu http://www.c.hu/events/ae98/ INFOWAR Direct Connection Virtual Ars Electronica in Budapest Three-day live communication with the Fesztival in Linz via a high-speed ATM network Installations and on-line art programmes at C3: M. Fleischman, W. Strauss, Ch. Bohn: Liquid Views - Interactive multimedia project Jodi.org: ctrl-space - Unusual quake-playground, from which the weapons are missing. Zoltán Szegedy-M. - Márton Fernezelyi: Demedusator Freely buildable/inhabitable VRML world Open-X from Linz: Acoustic Space (in collaboration with Pararadio), Info weapons stockpile, Ars Electronica Festival Report on-line, Hacker Meeting INFOWAR â??information.macht.kriegâ?? - Ars Electronica Symposium broadcast Continuous live dialogue: un-choreographed video conversation, with changing players and themes, on the border of the private and the public sphere. 8 September 1998, 10.00-13.00, 15.00-18.00 9 September 1998, 10.00-13.00, 15.00-18.00 The guests of C3: CEU-Systems Lab, ICA-Dunaújváros, artists, scientists, and first and foremost, the public audience. Programme of the European Media Laboratory Network (AEC, C3, GMD, V2, ZKM) In Budapest, Linz and Karlsruhe, as well as on the Internet network. With thanks to MATÃ?V Rt. (Hungarian Telecom) for their assistance in the development of the experimental ATM connection. C3, Budapest, 8-10 September 1998, everyday from 10:00-20:00 FROM LINZ Ars Electronica INFOWAR Symposium The information society - no longer a vague promise of a better future, but a reality, and a central challenge of the here-and-now - is founded upon the three key technologies of electricity, telecommunications and computers: Technologies developed for the purposes, and from the logic, of war, technologies of simultaneity and coherence, keeping our civilian society in a state of permanent mobilisation, driven by the battle for markets, resources and spheres of influence. A battle for supremacy in the processes of economic concentration, in which the fronts, no longer drawn up along national boundaries and between political systems, are defined by technical standards. A battle in which the power of knowledge is managed as a profitable monopoly of its distribution and dissemination. The latest stock market upheavals have laid bare the power of a global market, such as only the digital revolution could have fathered, and which must be counted as the latter's most widely-felt direct outcome. The digitally-networked market of today wields more power than the politicians. Governments are losing their say in the international value of their currencies; they can no longer control, but only react. The massive expansion of freely-accessible communication networks, itself a global economic necessity, imposes severe constraints on the arbitrary restriction of information flows. Any transgression of critical control functions in the cybertechnologies' sphere of responsibility and influence puts the central power wielders in a previously unheard-of position of vulnerability and openness to attack. The geographic frontiers of the industrial age are increasingly losing their former significance in global politics, and giving way to vertical fronts along social stratifications. In 1998, under the banner of INFOWAR  information.macht. krieg, the Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society is appealing to artists, theoreticians and technologists for contributions relating to the social and political definition of the information society. The emphasis here will lie not on technological flights of fancy, but on the fronts drawn up in a society that is in a process of fundamental and violent upheaval. INFOWAR on the net: http://www.aec.at/infowar Ars Electronica INFOWAR Symposium Participantsâ?? Biographies Ute Bernhardt/D Author, Managing Director and Member of the Board of the non-profit organisation Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung Kunda Dixit/Nepal Journalist and Director of The Panos Institute South Asia in Kathmandu, Nepal, author of â??Dateline Earth: Journalism As If the Planet Matteredâ?? Tim Druckrey/USA Independent curator, critic and writer concerned with issues of history, representation and technology J. Doyne Farmer/USA Pioneer in chaos research at Santa Fe Institute and Senior Technical Founder of the Prediction Company Michael Geyer/USA/D Historian, Professor at the University of Chicago Lucky Green/USA Cypherpunk, President of the Independent Smartcard Developer Association, Chair of the Cypherpunk GSM Working Group and Senior Advisor on digital telephony issues for the Harmless Little Project Ingo Günther/D/USA Media artist and activist, Refugee Republik Joichi Ito/J Developer and producer in the areas of Virtual Reality and Multimedia Friedrich Kittler/D Media theorist, Professor of Media History and Aesthetics at Humboldt University, Berlin, author of "Discourse Networks" Igor N. Panarin/RU Doctor of political science, Professor of the Faculty of National Security of the Russian Academy, in state service to the President of the Russian Federation Birgit Richard/D Professor for New Media at Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, author of "Todesbilder. Kunst Subkultur Medien" RTMark/USA Artist group, channels funds from donors to workers for the sabotage of corporate products, and for intelligent subversion in general Douglas Rushkoff/USA Media theorist and author of "Cyberia", "Media Virus", "Children of Chaos" and the novel "Ecstasy Club" Georg Schöfbänker/A Armaments expert, Senior Researcher at the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) George J. Stein/USA Member of the faculty of the USAF Air War College and the Chairman of the Department of Future Conflict Studies Gerfried Stocker/A Artist, Founder of x-space, currently Manager and Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center Linz Paul Virilio/F Founder of the école d'architecture spéciale, media theorist and author of works including "Pure War", "Speed and Politics" and "Desert Screen" in conversation (via video conference) with: Derrick de Kerckhove/CDN Director of the McLuhan Institute of Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto Shen Weiguang/RCH Futurologist, Member of the Finance Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China Michael Wilson/IRL An infrastructural warfare field operations professional with over 15 years' experience and Managing Partner of the 7Pillars Partners Moderation: Manuel DeLanda/USA Media expert and author of "War in the Age of Intelligent Machines" and "A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History", lectures around the world on the philosophy of science and technology Tuesday 10.00-13.00 Symposium from Linz P l e n u m 10:00-10:15 Gerfried Stocker 10.15-10.45 Friedrich Kittler 10.45-11.00 Discussion 11.00-11.30 George J. Stein 11.30-11.45 Pause/Break 11.45-12.15 Michael Geyer 12.15-12.30 Discussion 12.30-13.00 Birgit Richard 13.00-15.00 Pause/Break 15.00-18.00 Symposium from Linz S e s s i o n - I S e s s i o n - I I 15:00-15:30 Douglas Rushhoff Joichi Ito 15.30-16.00 Tim Druckrey Lucky Green 16:00-16:15 Pause/Break Pause/Break 16.15-16.45 Kunda Dixit Michael Wilson 16.45-17.15 Pause/Break 17.15-18.00 Paul Virilio in conversation (via viedo conference) with: Derrick de Kerckhove Wednesday 10.00-13.00 Symposium from Linz P l e n u m 10:00-10:30 Georg Schöfbänker 10.30-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.15 Shen Weiguang 11.15-11.30 Pause/Break 11.30-12.00 Igor N. Panarin 12.00-12.15 Discussion 12.15-12.45 Ute Bernhardt 12.45-13.00 Discussion 13.00-15.00 Pause/Break 15.00-18.00 Symposium from Linz 15:00-15:30 J. Doyne Farmer 15.30-15.45 Discussion 15.45-16.15 RT Mark 16.15-16.30 Pause/Break 16.30-17.15 Ingo Günther 17.15-18.00 Closing Discussion FROM C3 (and even if you are in Linz, you can also visit the following presentations and installations in Budapest!) Tuesday, Wednesday 13.00-15.00 Thursday 15.00 JODI: CTRL-SPACE C3 gallery Budapest, OpenX Linz C3 presents: CTRL-SPACE by JODI Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) have made a name for themselves with their radically playful Internet-based body of work located on their web-domain (http://www.jodi.org). They make art with HTML, as a painter with pigment and canvas. They work explicitly with and for the Internet. WWW is their material, as well as their distribution system. The first thing one feels when visiting their site is surprise: a blinking monitor, as if the machine would crash. It is not a crash, however, and visitors may find hyperlinks to other unusual pages. One can surf for a long time through a large number of dynamically edited, radically designed pages without any sort of instructions or textual information. We see only tricky visuals in a deconstructivist manner, oscillating between play and provocation, on the server which shows a different face each week. Children should also feel free to visit the site. They have won numerous awards with their activities, as well as being featured in last yearâ??s Documenta (X) in Kassel, which is one of the most important presentations of contemporary art worldwide, as it is no small feat to define contemporary art for the next five years to come. As guests of the International Residency Program at C3, they developed CTRL-SPACE (http://ctrl-space.c3.hu), a network game available from, and playable on, the Internet. It is a hacked version of the well-known Quake, using its navigation system, but it looks totally different from the gothic style of the original (to that, they reply that its even own Mother would not be able to recognise it). Not only are the weapons missing, but it is designed in the manner how virtual reality was imagined ten years ago. It functions as a meeting-place in cyberspace, a three-dimensional environment where players can navigate, jump, meet, act and talk with the help of their avatars. All this from a subjective perspective: the player sees only the others, not her/his own avatar. It is for advanced users though, since it begins with a little installation procedure. One needs special software to visit CTRL-SPACE. If you are not familiar with software installation, visit http://www.jodi.org instead. Tuesday 18.00 M. Fleischman, W. Strauss, Ch. Bohn: Liquid Views exhibition opening C3 gallery Budapest, OpenX Linz LIQUID VIEWS Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Christian Bohn Get close to the source. Look at it and discover yourself. Touch your own image on the surface of the water. Watch how it disintegrates. The story of Echo and Narcissus is a metaphor of changing identity through spatial experience. Liquid Views - the virtual well of Narcissus tells this ancient story via a spatial installation, in which the visitor is involved as a performer experiencing his own observation. Narcissism in the mirror of society concerns self-reflection and self-knowledge. Our main interest is to make visible the communication between the individual and the virtual selves. Touch and movement are the interface into the virtual world and into a different spatial experience. At the same time, Liquid Views is understood as a metaphor for the act of being on-line; i.e., in our second nature as navigators over the high seas of cyberspace, immersed in the telecommunication world. Thursday 16.00 Presentation by the CEU Systems Laboratory C3 gallery Budapest, ClosedX Linz The CEU Systems Laboratory aims to introduce recent advances in computer modeling and simulation to the study of complex human (social-political-economic-environmental) systems. The presentation summarizes the laboratory's WWW based telemodeling project, followed by a simple interactive network game, based on a model of a famous social dilemma. Thursday 17.00 ICA-D Presentation of ICA-D C3 gallery Budapest, ClosedX Linz Representation of the ICA-D Selection from the productionsof the ICA-D artist residency program in 1998: videos by John Wood - Paul Harrison (GB), Cristoph Draeger - Martin Frei (CH), compositions by Béla Faragó, László Tölgyes - György Ã?rvai INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Vasmû u. 12. 2400 Dunaújváros HUNGARY vox/fax: +36 25 412 220 e-mail: ica-d@dunanet.hu http://www.ica-d.hu The ICA-D is operated by the Public Fund for Modern Art. Since September 1997, the ICA-D, as an exhibition space, presents contemporary visual art exhibitions, as a producer, initiates new projects and aims to take part in theoretical activities (research, symposia, publications). The co-directors and chief curators of the ICA-D are art historians, Ms. LÃvia Páldi and Mr. János Szoboszlai. The ICA-D does not have an operational budget for its activity, and therefore, all the projects are individually financed by sponsors. Projects until September 1998: 21 visual art exhibitions (including solo shows: Mirjam Staub (CH), Nicolas Baginsky (D), John Wood-Paul Harrison (GB), Attila Szûcs (H), András Braun (H), Dezsõ Szabó (H), and group shows: Who By Fire No.1. (6 artists from Croatia), The Dawns Are Silent and The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 5 music performances (including: Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre, Hungarian Radio Electroacoustic Studio, young Hungarian poets rap-gigs) 7 lectures and discussions (including: Discussion on the Institutional Frame of Art, Sex and Erotics in Art, Art and Culture in Serbia) 1 international symposium (Who By Fire No.1., The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art in Central-Eastern Europe) 1 theatre performance (P. Handke: Abusing the Audience (by the Natural Disasters Collective)) artist-in-residency program: The ICA-D invites artists to stay and work in Dunaújváros. The ICA-D, as a producer, deals with fundraising, producing and publishing. (Artists who already have participated: John Wood-Paul Harrison (D), Christoph Draeger-Martin Frei (CH), Barbara Visser (NL); the following candidates for the future: Attila Csörgõ (H), János Kósa (H), András Kapitány (H)) publications (5 catalogues and brochures, 21 invitation cards produced by ICA-D desktop publishing) new website from 12 September 1998! http://www.ica-d.hu museum communication program (Lectures and seminars for local teachers who create new art programmes for children, to run preferably in the building of ICA-D) Thursday 18.00 Colin Andrews: "eh, ça va la vache or i can see your lips moving...." C3 gallery Budapest, ClosedX Linz â??eh, ça va la vache or i can see your lips moving....â?? â??eh, ça va la vache or i can see your lips moving....â?? is an interactive work in which the artist acts as a ventriloquist rehearsing his stage act with his dummy. User interaction causes the ventriloquistâ??s lines and those of the dummy to become confused. Their words, and by association, their roles, become fluid and interchangeable, as it becomes unclear as to from which one the voice is emanating. a presentation in C3 by Colin Andrews, Scotland, EMARE (European Media Artist Residential Exchange) resident 10 september 1998, at 6 p.m. Thursday 18.30 PocketTV C3 gallery Budapest, ClosedX Linz Real videos by Eike, Gábor Gerhes, Tamás Komoróczky, Kriszta Nagy, Hajnalka Németh, Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál, János Sugár, Péter Szarka, Tibor Várnagy, Gyula Várnai PocketTV Eleven short stories oscillating between the personal and impersonal, public and private, old and new, big and small, benefiting from all the advantages and disadvantages of RealVideo: video becomes transmission, and the screen becomes the size of a palm on the basis of the personal instead of the new, and the available as opposed to the complicated: itâ??s a real PocketTV which follows its own rhythm, and not that of the technological progress. Participating artists: Eike, Gábor Gerhes, László Kistamás, Tamás Komoróczky, Kriszta Nagy, Hajnalka Németh, Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál, János Sugár, Péter Szarka, Tibor Várnagy, Gyula Várnai Thursday 19.00 Márton Fernezelyi - Zoltán Szegedy-M.: DEMEDUSATOR C3 gallery Budapest, ClosedX Linz DEMEDUSATOR is a shared virtual world developed by its visitors. Any creative participant can "publish" his/her creatures - let it be a complete virtual world or sound, movie, text or picture - by placing them in a 3D world explorable by any (Web)surfer. People can reflect to another's files by uploading something near to the creatures of others. >From the technical side, the system enables the users to add their parts to the VRML scene. The uploaded files appear in the form of encrypted sculptures to the observers; the original media can be descrypted(viewed) by touching the silent objects. The system of the encryption creates an interface for the users to explore the world without having to download all the multimedia files.