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- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates
- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription
* Introduction *
Dear friends,
almost half way into October, the Skopje travellers are returning home and
are beginning to file their reports. It sounds like it was a great meeting
with lots of people, and another one that we can learn a lot from for
future events. The Syndicate being the loose and fluid phenomenon that it
is, we'll hopefully never find the 'right' form for these meetings, and
what seems to have been the most important part of the Junction Skopje
were, once again, the long evenings in the local bars. Encounters,
lectures, discussions - there were lots.
The second Syndicate Reader that was produced for Junction is a proper book
of 200 pages, and I must admit that I was positively surprised at the truly
substantial content that Inke has put together. (We'll post information
about how to get hold of your copies as soon as possible.) There has been
so much traffic on the list over the past months, and quite some 'noise',
that it was good to see how much good and important content is also flowing
through this channel. The discussion about the Prix Ars .net jury generated
some debate, as did Arthur Bueno's announcement of the work that he has
started doing on the V2_East website. It seems a good idea to use Annick
Bureaud's (bureaud@altern.org) IDEA online database for artists and
institutions in the electronic arts field (http://nunc.com) as one of the
resources that we use for the Syndicate network. I'd therefore like to
again encourage everybody to sign up there and become visible and
contactable for other people working in this field.
Another issue that has generated some traffic is the Kosovo crisis and the
appeals against the Nato-threats to bomb Serbian targets. Tonight Holbrook
and Milosevic were saying on the news that an agreement has been reached
which will avert air strikes and which will hopefully stop the fighting in
Kosovo. I was shocked to hear that some people in Macedonia are supposedly
talking about political tension in their country as though fighting a war
might be the only way to release this tension. Don't these people have
anything better to do? The war-mongering that is going on is, in my eyes,
obscene and stupid.
Meanwhile ... it was good to see that the CyberRex centre in Belgrade was
opened despite the political situation, because in times like these it is
even more important to have public meeting places and workspaces. In the
Update section below, there are announcements about recently opened media
centres in Prague, Belgrade, Paris and Sofia.
In Skopje, there seems to have been some talk about the next Syndicate
meetings, although no firm commitments were made as yet. There is an
attempt in Berlin to organise something next year that would possibly
follow up on the Deep Europe workshop, and people from Belgrade and Moscow
also suggested possible meetings. The Next 5 Minutes 3 conference in
Amsterdam might be a good moment to get together as well (12-14 March), and
if only for the reason that the first Syndicate gathering took place during
the N5M2 conference in 1996. As this list suggests, there are no clear
bids, and everybody's curious to find out who will actually ask us to come
and get together.
Meanwhile, please, continue the mailing list with some consideration and
post your announcements, texts and observations. (For un/subscription info,
please, write to me and not the list.) To be able to keep the Syndicate
list open and unmoderated is an important asset, and the recent discussions
and clonings on dear Auntie Nettime show how fragile these social
communication channels are, and how important to preserve.
best wishes, and see you soon,
-a
* Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions *
(check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these
events)
- 8 - 29 October 1998: When Art's Doin' It, Ljubljana/SI
- 9 - 18 October 1998: MuuMediaFestival, Helsinki/Fi
- 10 - 21 October 1998: City of Women, Ljubljana/SI
- 15 - 18 October 1998: Transart Communication Festival, Nove Zamky/SK
- 15 - 25 October 1998: Nouveau Cinema/Nouveaux Medias, Montreal/CA
- 16 - 18 October 1998: net - art - world, Berlin/D
- 16 - 25 October 1998: Pandaemonium, London/UK
- 23 - 25 October 1998: MoneyNations: Oekonomie der Grenze, Zurich/CH
- 29 - 31 October 1998: Digitale Schnitte, Koeln/D
- 30 October - 6 December 1998: SURRO GATE, Karlsruhe/D
- 17 - 22 November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL
- 18 - 22 November 1998: AVE Festival, Arnhem/NL
- 19 - 22 November 1998: Circles of Confusion 4, Berlin/D
- 19 - 21 November 1998: French-Baltic-Nordic Video and New Media Festival,
Tallinn/EE
- 20 - 21 November 1998: XIXth Locarno VideoArt Festival, Locarno/CH
- 26 - 28 November 1998: SKIKT conference, Bergen/NO
- 3 - 6 December 1998: Festival of Film & New Media on Art, Athens/GR
- 4 - 6 December 1998: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU
- 4 - 6 December 1998: In Between the Images, Graz/AT
- 9 - 13 December 1998: image|architettura in movimento, Florence/IT
- 14 - 17 January 1999: 12. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart/D
- 12 - 21 February 1999: transmediale, Berlin/D
- 12 - 14 March 1999: Next 5 Minutes 3, Amsterdam/NL
- 20 - 24 August 1999: At Home Abroad, Tabor/CZ
- 24 - 28 November 1999: film+arc 4, Graz/AT
* SCCA-Ljubljana
The World of Art. Curatorial Course 1998
WHEN ART'S DOIN' IT
exhibition
Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, October 8-29
&
September issue of Vroci Kaj and October issue of Top Secret
magazines, Slovenia.
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/porno/
Accompanying program:
13 Oct - on porno Slovene & Balkan porno movies, issues of
contemporary porno-movie industry delivered by Mr. Janez, local
producer!
27 Oct - screening of Max Modic's favourite movie!
29 Oct - pornophile Magnifico presents himself!
The curatorial course for contemporary art departed from the
hypothesis that it is necessary, or beneficial, to teach future
experts the sum of skills and methods they will need in confrontation
with the uncertain and unpredictable material of the world of art. The
course had 3 parts: Theory (a series of open lectures on Theories of
Display), Practice (an introductory module and 8 months of exhibition
preparation, under supervision), Study exchanges (in 1998 between
Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Bratislava and Ljubljana). The program was
conceived by Alenka Pirman, Lilijana Stepancic, and Igor Zabel within
the frame of the SCCA Network Regional Program (SCARP).
* City of Women
4th International Festival of Contemporary Arts
Ljubljana 10-21 Oct 1998
info:
mesto.zensk@guest.arnes.si
tel. +386-61-329 184
fax +386-61-1323092
http://www.sigov.si/uzp/city/
* Transart Communication Festival 1998
Slovakia - Cinema Mier
Hungary -Mucsarnok Palace of Art
Program of the Transart Communication 10. and Sound off Festivals (two in
one)
Nov� Z·mky - Cinema Mier, Viol�n 1998 okt�ber 15-18
Thursday 15th October: 16.00: Cinema Mier: Official opening 16.30:
Bar-Oko Club at the Cinema Mier and Gallery K-49: Opening of the exhibition
Rosenberg Museum. Program at the opening: Milo? Bo?a/Juraj ?uri? (SK),
S·ndor Gy?rffy (H), Annegret Heinl/ Jan Stekl�k (D/CZ) 18.00: Cinema Mier:
Simone Kurz (CH), Baji Mikl�s Zolt·n (H), Julie Bacon (GB), Ewa Jacobson
(NOR), Alejandro Fogel (USA), Rolland Miller (GB) 22.00: Cinema Mier:
Zsolt Kov·cs/Zsolt S?r�s (H), Stevie Wishart (GB), Kaffe Matthews (GB), Jon
Rose/Tom Demeyer (AUS/NL)
Friday 16th October: 15.00: ViolÃ?n: Collective action "The Putting of the
Basic Stone for Rosenberg Museum" The bus for ViolÃ?n will leave from
parking place behind the Cinema Mier at 2.00 p.m. 18.30: Cinema Mier:
Michal Murin/Werner Puntigam/Jon Rose (SK/A/AUS) - Triptychon, Nora
Stojanovich (MAC), Dariusz Gorczyca (PL), Enik? Sz?cs (SK), Irma Optimist
(FIN), Shelley Berc (USA), Ott� M�sz·ros (SK/H) 22.00: Cinema Mier: Hannes
Lâ??schel/Paul Skrepek jr./Martin Zrost (A), Iv·n Barvich/ Gheorghe
Costache/Gheorghe Rada/ Gheorghe Rada jr. (H/RO), Max Nagl/ Paul Skrepek
jr./ Vincenz Witzlsperger (A), Machine For Making Sense (AUS)
Saturday 17th October: 15.00 Cinema Mier: The Meeting of Writers and Poets
18.00: Cinema Mier: Paul Panhuysen (NL), L·szl� L. R�v�sz (H), Artur
Tajber (PL), J�zsef R. Juh·sz (SK), Sug·r J·nos (H), Marek Choloniewski
(PL), Fumiko Takahashi (J), Peter Kalmus/Michal Murin (SK), Ben Patterson
(USA/D) 22.00: Cinema Mier: Zdenek Plachâ?º/Blahoslav Rozbo?il/David
©ub�k/Josef Dan?k (CZ), 3.W. Lab (H), Aleks Kolkowski (GB), Phil Durrant
(GB)
Sunday 18th October: 19.00.: CSEMADOK building: Istv·n Kov·cs (H), Phill
Niblock (USA), The Necks (AUS), Andre Smirnov (RUS)
Budapest - Mucsarnok (Palace of Art), 1998 oktÃ?ber 20-22
Tuesday 20th October: 17.00.: Simone Kurz (CH), Baji Mikl�s Zolt·n (H),
Julie Bacon (GB), Ewa Jacobson (NOR), Alejandro Fogel (USA), Roland Miller
(GB), Phill Niblock (USA)
21.00.: Iv·n Barvich/Gheorghe Costache/Gheorghe Rada/Gheorghe Rada jr.
(H/RO), Zdenek Plachâ?º/Blahoslav Rozbozil/David SubÃ?k/ Josef Danek (CZ),
Aleks Kolkowski (GB)
Wendesday 21st October: 17.00.: Nora Stojanovich (MAC), Dariusz Gorczyca
(PL), Eniko Szucs (SK), Istv·n Kov·cs (H), Irma Optimist (FIN), Shelley
Berc (USA), Ott� M�sz·ros (SK/H), Andrej Smirnov (RUS), Fumiko Takahashi
(J) 21.00.: 3.W. Lab (H), Kaffe Matthews (GB)
Thursday 22nd October: 17.00.: Paul Panhuysen (NL), L·szl� L. R�v�sz (H),
Artur Tajber (PL), J�zsef R. Juh·sz (SK), Marek Choloniewski (PL), Sug·r
J·nos (H), Peter Kalmus/Michal Murin (SK), Ben Patterson (USA/D) 21.00.:
LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS (SK), Zsolt Kov·cs/Zsolt S?r�s (H), Phil Durrant (GB)
The video-art presentations will run during the whole festival.
Info - Transart Communication: J�zsef R. Juh·sz, Jazdeck· 20, 940 80 Nov�
Z·mky, Slovakia, tel./fax: 00421-817-415 174, 00421-905-404-312, e-mail:
erte@nzamky.sk
Info - SOUND OFF: Jozef Cseres, �elezni?iarska 11, 940 01 Nov� Z·mky,
Slovakia tel.: 00421-817-420 684, e-mail: cseres@pentacom.sk The
organizers reserve the rights for changes in program.
Jozsef R. Juhasz Studio erte Nove Zamky erte@nzamky.sk
see also www.studio-erte.sk
* MoneyNations@access
23rd Oct. to 13th Dec. 1998
Exhibition, Webzine, Video and Newspaper Project, Workshop and
Conference
Iara Boubnova (Sofia), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Ayse �ncü (Istanbul),
Oleg Kireev/ Anatoly Osmolovsky/ RADEK (Moscow), Beat Leuthardt (Basel),
LokalTV (Cologne/Bonn), Alenka Pirman / Ljudmila (Ljubljana), Dr. Anna
Wessely / Marton Oblath (Budapest), Radio Boom 83 (Pozarevac), Media Aid
Ex-Yugoslavia (Zurich), Melita Gabric, Blaz Habajan (Ljubljana), Mina
Vuletic, B92 (Belgrade), K3000 (Zurich), Bettina Musiolek (Stuttgart),
Martine Anderfuhren (Geneva), Nedko Solakov (Sofia), Mehmet Akiol
(Zurich), Gülsün Karamustafa (Istanbul), Marion Baruch/Name Diffusion
(Paris/Milan), Lia & Dan Perjovschi (Bucharest), Luchezar Boyadjiev
(Sofia), Boris Michajlov (Kharkiv), Peter Riedlinger/Pascal Petignant
(Zurich/Vienna), Berta Jottar (New York), Aspekt (Bratislava), Tibor
Varnagy (Budapest), Kalin Serapionov (Sofia), Edit Andras (Budapest),
Zelimir Zilnik / Terra Film (Novi Sad), Jörg Arendt (Bonn), Oliver
Sertic, Attak (Zagreb), Dominic Hislop/Erhard Miklos (Glasgow/Budapest),
Jochen Becker (Berlin), Alain Kessi (Sofia/Zurich), Level Ltd. (Zurich),
Dogfilm, A-clip (Berlin), Natalie Seitz / Sascha Roesler (Zurich),
Markus Jans (Luzern), Paula di Bello/ Marco Biraghi (Milan), Eva Danzel
Fouares (Zurich), Radio Zid (Sarajevo), ABSOLUTNO (Novi Sad), V2_East
Syndicate/Deep Europe (international), Campaign 'Nobody is illegal' (Kein
Mensch ist illegal) (international).
The MoneyNations@access project ends our program for this year, which
investigated social and economic changes in the late nineties. Before
this background on the occasion of this project weâ??d like to take a
closer look at the complex and controversial process of the
develloppment identity. This discussion is focussed on the fact that
Western-European border policies are becoming stricter towards Central
and South-Eastern Europe, resulting in an increased discrimination
against people from non-EU member-states. When reporting about countries
of the former Eastern Block, the media continues to use stereotype
images. Categorisation and exoticism, as well as attributions are not
only being made by the media, but also by exhibitions on
Eastern-European art. They produce authenticity (Ludwig Collection), or
maintain a new internationalism (Manifesta), and ignore the border
constructions of the â??Fortress Europeâ?? or the role of Eastern Europe as
a global low-wage location. The MoneyNations@access project wants to
make these contradictions a central theme.
WebZine www.moneynations.ch
Contributors to the exhibition are: Marion Baruch, Jochen Becker,
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Group augenauf, Gülsün Karamustafa, Lia Perjovschi/
Pascal Petignant/Peter Riedlinger, Polnischer Sozialrat [Polish Social
Council] Berlin.
Contributors to the MoneyNationsTV video-exchange project are: A-Clip,
Ak-kraak, Paula di Bello/ Marco Biraghi, B92, Dogfilm, Melita
Gabric/Blaz Habajan/Martine Anderfuhren, Gülsün Karamustafa/ Ayse �ncü,
Lokal Tv Köln, Kalin Serpianov, Shedhalle Prod., Peter Spillmann,
Syndicate/Deep Europe, Terra Film Novi Sad.
* Conference 'Border Economies'
from Friday, 23rd to Sunday, 25th October 1998
in the Shedhalle Zurich
Friday, 23rd Oct. 1998
6.30 p.m. Beat Leuthard, (author of â??Festung Europaâ?? [Fortress Europe]),
will present the confused relationship between private economy
(Siemens), and the extension of border security in so-called transit
countries (Latvia, Ukraine, Poland).
7.30 p.m. The campaign â??Nobody Is Illegalâ?? [Kein Mensch ist illegal]
will be presented. This campaign started on the occasion of Documenta X
(Kassel, Germany) and is run by an anti-racist group together with
culture workers.
8.30 p.m. Lecture about the â??Border Workshopsâ?? and activist artistic
practice against U.S. border policy by American/Mexican artist Berta
Jottar.
Final discussion about border creation and resistance.
Saturday, 24th Oct. 1998
2 p.m. The Calida Story: Mehmet Akiol, GBI [Swiss Union for Building and
Industry] will talk about the battles of workers in the Swiss textile
industry. Bettina Musiolek (not confirmed) will talk about companies
out-sourced to South-Eastern Europe.
3 p.m. Eva Danzel Fouares of the Fraueninformationszentrum Zürich
(Womenâ??s Information Centre) will discuss trade in women in the context
of asylum-seekersâ?? legislation and economy. The following discussion
will have the aim of investigating what we should be demanding as a
result of this situation.
5 p.m. Suitcase Trade: Dr Anna Wessely and Marton Oblath, sociologists
from Budapest, will present the research project â??Shopping Tourismâ??,
which had been investigated by various scientists from Central Europe in
order to create a new system to evaluate border trades
8 p.m. Die Polen vom Potsdamer Platz [The Polish from Potsdam Square]: A
film about the life of Polish commuting workers in Berlin.
Sunday, 25th Oct. 1998
1.30 p.m. Talking absolute Business: Peter Spillmann (k3000 Zurich) will
present his research into the Eastern-European Fund and its effects on
transnational wealth accumulation.
2 p.m. Globalisation from Below?: Geert Lovink, media activist and
political scientist from Amsterdam, will discuss the function of
stock-market speculator George Soros in conjunction with NGOs and civil
society in Central and South-Eastern Europe.
3.30 p.m. ASPEKTE: A feminist magazine project from Bratislava,
Slovakia, will present itself. The focus will be on the position of an
independent institution in the framework of the current economic/social
situation in Eastern Europe
4 p.m. RADEK: An artmagazine from Moscow will be presented by Oleg
Kireev. RADEKâ??s editing co-operative sees itself as an activist group.
Which approaches to practice, politics and art are adopted by this
independent institution?
5 p.m. Final discussion about inclusion and exclusion of
Eastern-European positions in the international art market with
Luchezar Boyardiev (artist, Sofia), Iara Bubnova (curator,
Sofia/Moscow), Edit Andras (art historian, Budapest), Oleg Kireev (art
critic, Moscow), and including the audience. Facilitation: Marion v.
Osten (Shedhalle).
The language for the conference will be English
Subject to alterations.
Project Information: Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, P.O.Box, Seestrasse 395,
8038 Zürich, Tel. ++41 1 481 59 50, Fax ++41 1 481 59 51, email:
shedhalle@access.ch
* Digitale '98: Digital Cuts in Cologne
28-31 October
Computers were not initially invented to produce images but rather to
control other machines. Undoubtably, today these control and command
machines are changing the field of film editing. The breaking up and
rebuilding of visual and sound sequences which characterizes the classical
film editing gives way to a compositional working method thus following
linear and hierarchical working methods similar to word processing. Editing
and mixing are joined together in a single apparatus. While crossing
through the shared digital code, complex layers of music, language, text,
pictures and movement are formed. Filigreed weave structures which are no
longer bound to real work spaces are the outcome. Beginnings of homebased
artwork surface, showing once again that film production can take place
outside of professional film making centres.
Nils Roeller
Academy of Media Arts
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
50676 Cologne
nils@khm.de
0049 - 221 - 20189- 226
Fax : 17
http://digitale.khm.de
* COLLOQUIUM ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE INTERNET
This is our second invitation to participate in the
http://www.tinet.ch/videoart/va19/../va19/collo.i.html
Colloquium on the challenges of the Internet, to be held in parallel with
the XIXth Locarno VideoArt Festival.
Friday, November 20th : 9:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00
Saturday, November 21st: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Faculty of Science of Communication of the University of the
Italian-speaking part of Switzerland via Ospedale 13 CH-6900 Lugano
Switzerland
Participation: (registration is without cost) Pre-registration and hotel
reservations through the: AIVAC P.O. Box 146 CH-6604 Locarno Phone: +4191
751 22 08 Fax: +4191 751 22 07 E-mail: avart@tinet.ch
Main topics:
1. How can the negative effects of globalization be avoided?
2. How can new educational programs be developed?
3. How can a new ethical code be developed?
4. How can new forms of artistic creativity be developed?
5. How can new relationships be developed between people, institutions and
cultures?
6. Is a new kind of basis of society - the "cyber-sacred" - beginning to
take shape?
You are invited to send your opinions on the impact of the Internet in
these areas directly to the website of the Colloquium:
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/UF/. This is also the site of the "Observatory for the
Study of the University of the Future" (OEUF).
Joseph Brenner, Consultant-Coordinator P.O. Box 235, CH-1865 Les
Diablerets Switzerland Phone: +4124 492 21 18 Fax: +4124 492 13 81
E-mail: jebrenner@compuserve.com
* 1st International Festival of Film and New Media on Art
3 - 6 December 1998, Athens/Greece
The 1st International Festival of Film and New Media on Art is going to
take place the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th of december 1998 in Athens and is
going to present in competition 31 films and 18 cd-roms on all domains of
art from around the world: architecture, design, painting, sculpture,
theatre, cinema, photography, perfomance art, multimedi art, interactive
art, video art, music, literature, poetry, art history, as well as,
museology and restoration. We are interested in a multidisciplinary
approach towards art. We also want to suggest a wedding of the different
media of multimedia, film and digital cinema. The festival is going to be
held in the Fine Arts School of Athens and it will include installations,
lectures and round tables.
I have to say that our intention is not to present academic films and
cd-roms on asrt. On the contrary, we are moslty inetersted in creative
documentaries and cd-roms that use the possibilities of the new medium at
its most. Here is a list of some of the cd-roms: TOMATO 2 by Antirom LE
CRI NEERLANDAIS by the Netherlands Design Institute LE LOUVRE by
Montparnasse Multimedia THE COMPLETE MAUS and FREAK SHOW by Voyager
HOUSE by Joost Grootens TCHNOPHOBIA by Dooley Le Lappellaine SCRUTINY IN
THE GREAT ROUND by Jim Gasperini IMPROVISATION TECHNOLOGIES and
ARTINTACT 2,3,4 by ZKM MUCHROOM JAZZ &SOUL MOTION by OM Records
REGISTROS DE ARQUITECTURA by Vilente Guallards COTTONMOUTH TEXAS by
Circumstance Design
Unfortunately good cd-roms are rare to find in Greece. The designers are
just starting to get the grips of the techlology. However, more and more
producers are getting interested on the new medium. Unfortunately, I sense
the same goes with the countries of the East. We have not managed to find
good cd-roms from these countries. If you do have any suggestions to make
please, you are very welcome. As a matter of fact we are very interested
to see what the METAFORUM MEDIA ART FESTIVAL in Budapest has to present.
Unfortunately I cannot get into their site. Do you have their full
address?
I hope this gave an idea about what the festival is all about. The site of
the festival is due within few days from today.
Thank you again and I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Yiannis Skourogiannis
57 Archimidous Gr-11636 Athens tel:01-7520065 fax:01-9242407
"Ioannis Skourogiannis" <alas@ath.forthnet.gr>
* VideoMedeja
4 to 6th December 1998 in Novi Sad
The Third International Video Summit VideoMedeja dedicated to presenting
works done by women will take place from 4 to 6th December 1998 in Novi Sad,
Yugoslavia. The suggested, but non-obligatory topics of the festival are
'East/West: Trends and Non-Styles" and "Theme as Challenge: Undo&Redo".
These topics can help artists to select their works for the festival, and
also serve to the critics and art historians as a trigger of their
observation which will be induded in the catalogue or a special publication.
The program will cover: The official selection: Presentation of the video
works; Video installations; Performances.
The accompanying programs: Retrospectives; Presentations of the
distributors, national videographies, the centers of new art, multimedia
research institutes, video schools etc.
In the official competitive selection VideoMedeja awards:
Sphinx statuette (award for the individual authorial achievement)
VideoMedeja plaquette (three awards of equal rank)
"Bogdanka Poznanovic" Award (to the best young author)
The Board of the Festival: Biljana Tomic, Balint Sombati, Kathy Rae Huffman,
Tatjana Mogilevskaya, Vera Kopicl
Production and organization by:
Yugoslav Video Art Association VideoMedeja
Produced by: Simon Grabovac / Curator: Vera Kopicl/ Secretary: Elza Vuletic
DEADLINE: 1st November 1998
The works must not be older than two years
ADDRESS:
VIDEOMEDEJA
Jevrejska 4/1
21000 Novi Sad
Yugoslavia
tel/fax: +381 21 621-308
email: videomed@fodns.opennet.org
http://www.videomedeja.opennet.org
* IN BETWEEN (THE) IMAGES
Bewegungsbilder in ihrer äu�eren und inneren Expansion
Graz, 4. bis 6. Dezember 1998
ALEX ADRIAANSSEN, V2_, Rotterdam, STUDIO AZZURRO (I), PIERRE BONGIOVANNI,
Centre International de Création Vidéo, Montbélliard, BARBARA BORCIC, Soros
Center, Ljubljana, JANET CARDIFF (CAN), SHU LEA CHEANG (USA), CHRIS DERCON,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, TIMOTHY DRUCKREY (USA), KEN
FEINGOLD (USA), RUDOLF FRIELING, Zentrum für Medienkunst, Karlsruhe, PERRY
HOBERMAN (USA), PIERRE HUYGHES (F), ANDRÃ? ITEN, Saint Gervais Geneve,
MARGARETHE JAHRMAN, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Linz, DAVID LARCHER
(GB), MALCOLM LEGRICE (GB), DIANA MCCARTY, Intermedia Department, Akademie
der bildenden Künste, Budapest, SIMON PENNY (AUS), NICOLAUS SCHAFFHAUSEN,
Frankfurter Kunstverein, BILL SEAMAN (USA) and MIKE STUBBS, Hull Time Based
Arts, Hull.
INFO:
[ art.image ]
HallerschloÃ?straÃ?e 21, A-8010 Graz
Tel.: ++43 316/ 356155, Fax: ++43 316/ 356156
e-mail: art.image@thing.at
http://www.thing.at/art.image
* 12. Stuttgarter Filmwinter 14.-17.1.1999
Short Fiction, Experimental, Documentary, Animation, Video Art,
CD-rom, Internet, Installations, Exhibitions, Expanded Cinema
The Stuttgart Filmwinter is among the outstanding events in the area of
shortfilm and experimental film, as well as new media. In spite of the
very good public response and an opulent framework, the
communication of artists and audience is the most important
intention of the Stuttgart Filmwinter.
Last festival, by awarding for the first time the International
Domnick-Scholarship Award for Experimental Film endowed with
DEM 20,000 (winner: Karl Kels, Frankfurt a.M.) and with a detailed
retrospective of the French artistic film, we demonstrated the vitality
of
the genre of experimental film, whereas in the area of multimedia
with high-quality lectures and presentations we ranged between
game and architecture. At the forthcoming festival we will pick out
as a central theme among others, the direct interactions of the various
media.
In the process we strive - same procedure as every year - for the
realization of our long-standing utopia, to connect theory and
practice, avantgarde and pop, media criticism and media euphoria.
The 12th Stuttgart Filmwinter: four days of successful failure, of
pleasant effort and of the harmonious confrontation on all
axes.
Deadline for applications to the competitions: 1.10.1998 (few days later o.k.)
Wand 5 e.V., a non-profit organisation promoting independent film and
media culture, invites artists to present their work on Super 8, 16mm, 35mm,
video, CD-rom, and via internet/www.
Information and entry form @ http://www.wand5.de
Special recommendation: State Capital Stuttgart Award for New Media
This award, endowed with DEM 2,000 goes to an independently produced
artistic work on CD-rom or a project in the internet/www.
Further prizes and honorary awards.
Wand 5 e.V. - Verein zur Förderung unabhängiger Film- und Medienkultur
Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Filmhaus Stuttgart
Friedrichstr.23A
70174 Stuttgart
Tel.: +49-711-2269160
Fax: +49-711-2269161
web: http://www.wand5.de
mail: wanda@wand5.de
* AT HOME ABROAD
An Arts Festival of Cross-national Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Reflections on Adopted Cultures from Im/E/Migrants, Refugees, Extra-legal
and Resident Aliens, and Others making their Homes on Foreign Soil
Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor, Czech Republic
August 20-24, 1999
As world borders grow, change or disappear, the results are evident in
movement: here to there, near to far, inside to outside. This is not a new
occurrence, nor is it strange, yet foreigners remain strangers. Through 'At
Home' Abroad we will take a look at our societies from the Other side by
discussing and witnessing the experiences, rejections, losses, gains and
illusions of these social voyeurs, these uninvited viewers. We will debate
the placement of foreigners into non-participatory social categories and
offer their descriptions as integral contributions to understanding our
societies as a whole. Through the process of collaboration the artists
themselves will also investigate the similarities and differences of their
adopted cultures.
CESTA's festival parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary
collaborations represent the center's commitment to developing
communication through creative expression. We base our selection of
artists on a review of applications resulting from our annual open call.
Interested artists submit a prepared concept that fits the festival
parameters or request CESTA to connect them with potential collaboration
partners. For 'At Home' Abroad participants must join or present a
collaboration group in which the members:
1) currently live in a country in which they are considered "foreign"
2) are using different artistic media
3) create a large portion of the work(s) exclusively for 'At Home' Abroad
We do not accept consecutive year applications from previous CESTA festival
participants. For more information or an open call application form for 'At
Home' Abroad, please contact CESTA.
Second deadline is still January 1st 1999.
http://www.cesta.cz/tandt.htm
CESTA is an international non-profit center committed to the development of
cultural understanding and tolerance through the arts.
CESTA was founded in 1993 in the southern Bohemian city of Tábor, Czech
Republic. For the past four years our association has pursued the
development of this center through community events and annual arts
festivals of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations. Housed in a
century-old mill, the project serves as a resource center for local and
regional artists, and exhibition and performance space for festival
participants and visiting artists.
CESTA Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Cech Republic tel: +420-361-258-004 email:
http://www.cesta.cz
* Updates *
* md3169@mclink.it (Lorenzo Taiuti) writes:
New Media Show in Rome
Dear Syndicalists,
when in Rome come and visit media show "Coscienza luccicante"( video, Cd
Rom, internet etc...) at the Palazzo Delle Esposizioni- Via Nazionale 194
-Roma- tel: 06/4745903-
Till end of october 1998-
Since i am involved in it you may ask me more info through my e-mail
Lorenzo Taiuti
Roma
* Marek Tuszczynski writes:
Dear Syndicalists,
if you are interested in the arts link applications and guidelines
please see our page
http://www.scca.net (go to the section "news")
Marek Tuszynski - Internet Program Coordinator
The Stefan Batory Foundation (4822)488055
http://www.batory.org.pl http://www.scca.net
* Danny Holman <video@terminal.cz> writes:
After 2 years of rumours, the Terminal Bar internet cafe finally opened
it's doors in Prague, Czech Republic in December 1997.
The Terminal Bar is a multi-media cafe incorporating a bar and cafe,
internet surfing, a book & magazine store and a video rental department. It
also has a small performance space to hold events and is actively carrying
out a cultural agenda beyond the confines of the walls of the bar itself.
At the core of the Bar's ideology is the concept of information exchange
through the various media at it's disposal. With the rapid globalization of
Eastern Europe following the collapse of communism, the Bar is aiming to
become a passionate, contradictory, radical cultural force for "fringe and
underground culture" (words which are used uncomfortably) to show that
alternatives are viable and available. This agenda is deeply entrenched in
iconoclasm and change. But it is the change typified by David Cerny
painting a Soviet tank pink in Prague in 1989 rather than the cliches and
limitations of black-clad anarchistic counter-culture.
The Terminal Bar is a privately funded venture run on a market-based
economy i.e. it has to sell coffee, books and surfing time to survive. It
receives no funding. This maintains independence, keeps it on it's toes and
allows a close hands-on interaction with the public. The Terminal
Foundation has also been established as a non-profit organization to host
events. Outside funding is sometimes sought for larger scale events
through this foundation.
Previous actions have included on-line documentation of the Ars Electronica
1997 and the the Conference for New Media at the Prague Castle 1997, a tour
of Czech Republic by authoress/performer Lydia Lunch, cult film screenings
and the the enabling of the first ISDN transmission of a live event between
Czech Republic and abroad with a live DJ set from The End club in London.
In the immediate future, Terminal Bar is inviting cyberartist Stelarc to
Prague for his first visit to give a presentation of his work on 24th
September and is organizing a programme of underground films for the Prague
Indies Film Festival in October.
The Terminal Bar is eager to establish links with like-minded organizations
and individuals across Europe and beyond and would welcome feedback,
interaction and exchange.
Contact information:
Daniel Holman - Media Manager
Terminal Bar, Soukenicka 6, Praha 110 00, Czech Republic
tel (4202) 21871 115
fax (4202) 21871 910
email video@terminal.cz
http://www.terminal.cz
* Sinisa Rogic <shile@opennet.org> writes:
Opennet and Cinema REX are inviting you to the
opening of the CybeREX & Opennet's birthday party, October 11, 1998
2000 - 2230
Cinema REX, Jevrejska 16, Belgrade or
http://www.cr.opennet.org
CybeREX is an open new media lab dealing with experiments and expansion
of borders in Internet, multimedia and digital video, and it offeres
technical and logistic support to artists, art groups and interested
individuals through education, research and production within the
covered fields.
CybeREX cooperates with similar regional and international centers and
non-government organisations. As the active studio for new media enables
us for even more intensive links and contacts with artists and
theoreticians and them for stronger partnerships.
CyberREx is a part of OpenNet (Internet Department of Radio B92), and it
was formed upon initiative from Cinema Rex.
In the first stage, CyberREX initiated and organized lectures and
presentations in the fields of new media. In the second stage, it works
on presentation of the artists and art groups on Internet, starts its
own projects and does commercial ones. CD-ROM and Web Movie (WM)
production, improvement of communication through organisation and
maintenance of mailing lists, chats, vdeo conferences, cooperation with
students of various profiles, implementation of digital video technology
and creative use of the new media.
CyberREX is also a gathering place for all people interested in new
media forms.
Donors of CyberREX are Fund for an open Society and Swedish Helsinki
Committee.
We are very glad to inform you that you can view a new Web site, dedicated
to the Serbian contemporary low-budget, non-professional and underground
film, based on video and digital technology. Site is also available in
English.
The address is: http://REX.opennet.org/Low-fi
* jens gebhart <gebhart@ensba.fr> writes:
infozone a temporary workspace in Paris
The poject infozone shows up in a space in the center of Paris, as an
open mixed-media-studio has creating, collecting, selecting, linking,
resuming and distributing of information and contents as a goal.
Article are predominantly social, political and cultural questions. In
infozone should be the possibility for the comment, interview,
discussion and for the presentation of the different users.
infozone is ambient space and file, pin wall and global newspaper,
represented locally by the workspace and world-wide by Internet. From
this diversity the project can be started, planned however nevertheless
improvised as laboratory, is connecting old and new media, which
presents itself in a dynamic system openly and closed, privately and
publicly.
infozone mixes old and new media, a crossover of different disciplines,
which in its structure, spontaneous re-organizations are to develop.
This is to be operated by discourses, presentations, seminars, events,
and many guests in this infozone.
It is a place of critical thinking and productive conflict, a social
space, in the consent is manufactured and disagreement in course set. A
place at the distribution, accommodation and production compress
themselves and extend. In the social context the relationship between
senders and recipients, let the things develop.
Meanwhile will the traditional mass media such as radio, television and
magazines to technical metaphors around information " on the network ".
infozone however energize a direct public and a co-operation with
producers, groups and other forums and makes available the space for a
easy and direct way to produce alive contents.
The distribution outside of the workspace infozone is achieved over
Internet and printed media. A publication planned afterwards will
document the flow of information and contents during the three months to
made it further accessible.
http://campus.ensba.fr/infozone
...greetings jens gebhart
*Ventsislav Zankov <venci@osf.acad.bg> writes:
New media art Center in Sofia
for more info see
www.photone.ch/interspace
or
www.bulgariaonline.bg/interspace
* 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 260 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), Dessau (Ostranenie 97, November
1997), Tirana (Pyramedia, May 1998), Skopje (Junction, October 1998).
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