Re: [oldboys] Announcement: Next 5 Minutes at Imagine IC

[Rachel Greene <rachel@rhizome.org>]

hey -- would someone be willing to cover some of the gender-related forums
for rhizome? we pay... thanks, drop me a line, rachel


> A   N   N   O   U   N   C   E   M   E   N   T
> 
> Next 5 Minutes 4 at Imagine IC:
> 
> A Temporary  Media Laboratory for Tactical Media
> @ Imagine IC in Amsterdam Southeast
> September 12 - 22, 2002
> 
> 
> Opening Program: Thursday September 12 18.00 hrs
> 
> Imagine IC - Bijlmerplein 1006 - 1008 Amsterdam
> 
> 
> Next 5 Minutes website:
> http://www.n5m.org
> 
> Website Imagine IC
> http://www.imagineic.nl
> 
> 
> Imagine IC, the new centre for the visual representation of migration
> and cultures, is the location for a temporary public media laboratory
> from September 12th till 22nd. Open at all times to the wider
> audience, artists, campaigners, local and international media makers
> and activists will develop and discuss their work for 10 days, hold
> workshops with local media groups, present examples, realise live
> media programs on-line and via radio and tv, and execute various
> projects. This Tactical Media Laboratory (short: TML) will be the
> first of an international series of TMLs, organised in various
> cities, and on different continents.
> 
> The key-concept "tactical media" originates from a series of infamous
> conferences and festivals that have been organised in Amsterdam since
> 1993 under the title Next 5 Minutes. Tactical media deals with the
> meeting point of art, media, and social and political questions.
> After three earlier editions the need is felt for a new approach. The
> purpose of the international series of TMLs is to investigate the
> role of media in contemporary cultural and political life, each time
> from within a new local context and perspective. At the heart of our
> concern is the question who is given a voice in the contemporary
> media landscape, and which voices are left out.  How can the
> individual as  well as  an as diverse as possible representation of
> cultural and political groups make their own voice be heard by media?
> 
> The Amsterdam TML will focus on the relationship between media and
> migrant cultures. Workshops and presentations will run continuously
> around themes such as: Virtual Shelter, net.radio and Home-Land
> Connections, GenderChangers: Women and Technology, Migration and
> Illegality, Wireless Media, and the Power of Personal Testimony.
> The TML is the joint effort of a large number of artists and media
> groups, amongst others: ambient tv, ASCII, De Balie, Harwood,
> dine.org, Waag Society, RAZO, NYU Center for Media, Culture and
> History, Gender Changers Academy, expertbase.net, ghetto.ru, Paradox,
> Salto, and many more.
> 
> After Amsterdam the series of TMLs will be continued in New York,
> Delhi, Sydney, Cluj, Moscow, Berlin, Barcelona, in Latin America, and
> in other cities. The results of this series will be brought together
> in a concluding festival that is organised in Amsterdam in the end of
> May 2003.
> 
> 
> Web Journal:
> 
> More information about the background of next 5 Minutes may be found
> on the web site:
> 
> http://www.n5m.org
> 
> At this location a web journal will be launched in the first week of
> September that will contain reports, daily programs of the TML,
> pictures, audio and video, as well as essays and other materials.
> 
> 
> Overview of Main Themes of the Amsterdam Tactical Media Laboratory:
> 
> Virtual Shelter
> 
> In a world of nation states, to be, for whatever reason, without a
> state, often means to be forgotten, or worse. For those who have
> always known the security and protection afforded by citizenship it
> is hard to imagine the vulnerability and helplessness of the
> stateless person, the refugee. These are the brute facts behind the
> initiative in which a group of refugees will be working on a long
> term project with Imagine IC, Paradox, and the Amsterdam Tactical
> Media Lab (a team of developers, artists and other experts) to
> develop the website: the 'Virtual Shelter' online environment for
> refugees. We imagine Virtual Shelter as a space in which refugees can
> both network together privately, access vital information and, on a
> more symbolic level, become a space for personal testimony, the
> commemoration of the past and the imagination of other futures.
> 
> 
> net.radio and Homeland Connections
> 
> In co-operation with RAZO, the radio and television organisation of
> Amsterdam Southeast, a workshop is organised around the combination
> of internet and radio. Especially in a district like Amsterdam
> Southeast, where so many migrant cultures live next to each other,
> the desire is abundant to exchange signals with the home land
> directly and without outside interference.. The combination of
> internet and radio offers unique opportunities to do just that. The
> workshop will be an exploration of this fascinating area, and will be
> supervised by a number of experienced international pioneers of the
> new net based media.
> 
> 
> Migration and illegality
> 
> Tactical media have always been trying to give a voice to the
> voiceless and to make things visible that are left unseen by
> mainstream media. In the case of illegality this approach obviously
> gives rise to certain problems. Most illegal people prefer to remain
> 'invisible', out of fear of being detected by the authorities. But
> this makes it very difficult for them to get their story across. Are
> there ways in which tactical media can help to solve this problem?
> And what can we do against the increasing tendency to categorise and
> register people, culminating recently in the Schengen Information
> System, a huge database in Strasbourg containing files on illegal
> immigrants? A couple of presentations and a debate will deal with
> these questions.
> 
> 
> Wireless Networks
> 
> Since the adoption of wireless technology to access the internet, and
> to set up separate wireless networks for specific communities, seems
> to be taking a high flight soon, this is a good moment to ponder the
> possibilities for tactical media makers, and to consider the
> consequences for the media landscape in general. During the Amsterdam
> TML several tactical implementations of wireless technology will be
> experimented with. There will be hands-on workshops (how to build
> your own antenna) and discussions about the risks (legal and
> otherwise) of open access-points. If we want to build something more
> lasting than the once famous but now derelict Amsterdam Digital City,
> we should make a proper assessment of the dangers and opportunities
> which lie ahead of us.
> 
> 
> GenderChangers: Women and Technology
> 
> The GenderChangers Academy will present a series of workshops during
> the TML aimed at providing hands-on training for women interested in
> media technology. These workshops will include sessions on recording
> and streaming audio and video, on DJing and VJing, and on computer
> hardware and building your own PC from parts.
> 
> http://www.genderchangers.org
> 
> 
> Expertbase
> 
> Expertbase is a site for people with extraordinary skills. It's a
> site for people, who are not found in any commercial or official
> databases. A site for people, who are being ignored by vulgar
> head-hunters and usually excluded from the labour market -- either
> because of their residence permit status or because of their origins,
> but in the last instance because of their unique abilities and
> singular qualifications. Expertbase is a site for people, who have
> gained expert knowledge on any field and who are willing to share
> these experiences with others.
> 
> A data base can neither give people their dignity, nor a job. The
> expert base is an experiment, currently in the investigation phase
> and in future it will perhaps be a mirror of the multi-faceted,
> multi-lingual and international co-operation around work and
> migration. An example of networks and cross-border initiatives.
> 
> http://www.expertbase.net/
> 
> __________________
> 
> General information about Next 5 Minutes:
> 
> http://www.n5m..org
> 
> e-mail: n5m4@balie.nl
> (attn. Derek Holzer)
> 
> Office:
> De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics
> Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
> 1017 RR Amsterdam
> 
> http://www.balie.nl
> 
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