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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 96/04
- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Institutions
- E-L@b, Riga/Latvia
- C3 (C cubed) Centre for Culture and Communication, Budapest/Hungary
- Updates
- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription
The V2_East website is at: <http://www.v2.nl/east/>
* Introduction *
As far as I can see the group of people subscribed to the syndicate list is
now around 50, with addresses from most Central and East European
countries, as well as from various 'Western' countries, including the US,
Germany and the Netherlands. Recently, further people from Latvia, Germany
and Poland have joined, and we know that the info gets further distribution
through people connected to the list. Hopefully, it will thus continue to
help connect and inform about developments in media art - once again,
please, continue using the list <syndicate@aec.at> for posting info that is
of interest to the media art community in East and West Europe. Some of you
have promised info about their institutions and activities, and I would
like to encourage you to write a few sentences - there are a lot of curious
people in this growing network who might be future partners for your
projects.
Best wishes, and see you soon,
Andreas Broeckmann (V2_East)
* Dates of (some) upcoming events (info below or in Newsletter 96/..)*
- May 1996 (2-4) WRO96, Wroclaw/PL
- May-June (30-2) Digital Chaos, Bath/UK
- June 1996 (6-9) 5Cyberconf, Madrid/ES (96/03)
- June 1996 (13- July 28) Fototriennale, Graz/AT
- June 1996 (16-19) International Media Conference, Kiev/Ukraine
- September 1996 (2-7) Ars Electronica Festival, Linz/AT (96/02)
- September 1996 (4-8) Film-Video-Forum/Passagen, Freiburg/DE (96/02)
- September 1996 (5-9) Cluster Images, Werkleitz/DE (96/02)
- September 1996 (11-15) European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck/DE (96/02)
- September 1996 (16-20) Inter-Society of Electronic Arts, 7th Conf.,
Rotterdam/NL (96/02)
- September 1996 (17-22) Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam/NL (96/02)
(incl. V2_East/Syndicate Archive and Documentation Meeting) (96/03)
- October 1996 (11-13) Metaforum 3, Budapest/HU (96/03)
- October 1996 (15-25) Ars Digitalis, Berlin/D (96/03)
- November 1996 (28-1.12.) Circles of Confusion Film&Video Festival, Berlin/D
- February 1997 (10-14) WSCG'97, Plzen/CZ (96/02)
- April-May 1997 WRO 97, Wroclaw/PL (96/02)
- June 1997 - Medienbiennale, Leipzig/DE (96/02)
* WRO: MONITOR POLSKI 1996
Polish new media art presentation
Wroclaw, Poland, 2 - 4 May 1996
CONTACT: <wro@misiek.wcss.wroc.pl> (Piotr Krajewski)
PROGRAM also at <http://info.wcss.wroc.pl/~wro/prog_en.html>
2nd MAY (THURSDAY)
17.00 OPENING OF INSTALLATION EXHIBITION
Multimedia Department of Poznan Art Academy
Renata Czajor, Grzegorz Grzesik, Angelina Janas, Miroslaw Kaczmarek, Sasza
Komarow, Zuzanna Lewandowska, Tomasz Lietzau, Joanna Migodzinska, Antoni
Mikolajczyk, Marcin Sztukiewicz, Marek Wasilewski.
19.00 TOMBSTONES. TOTEMS. DRAWINGS. DANCES
Marcin Krzyzanowski - Personal etnic music. Stage cycle for musicians,
dancers and video tape.
21.00 ART. 21. Video for TV
I. CREATIONS: Adam Abel, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Czeslaw Minkus / Yach
Paszkiewicz, Andrzej Urbanski, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Janek Koza, Marta Deskur,
II. DOCUMENTATIONS / CREATIONS: Jozef Robakowski, Agnieszka Mazanek /
Krzysztof Landsberg, Krzysztof Visconti
INSTALLATIONS
Adam Abel, Malgorzata Kazimierczak, Maciej Ozog/Joanna Niekraszewicz,
Joanna Migodzinska
3RD MAY (FRIDAY)
12.00-17.00 LECTURES (+ access to WWW/Internet)
- dr Pawel Misiak "Internet - universal medium "
- dr Ryszard Kluszczynski "Context is the Message. On some problems of
interactive art"
- Piotr Krajewski "Art object in the age of digital communication"
15.00-19.00 Mariusz Jodko ENTROPIA CD ROM (work in progress)
19.00 MONITOR 96. New Polish video (1)
Jacek Szleszynski, Barbara Konopka, Andrzej K. Urbanski, Wojciech
Kozlowski, Igor Krenz, Aneta Lekawska, Jozef Robakowski, Ansambl Lyzka
czyli Chili, Daniel Zdunczyk, Wojciech Bobrowicz, Malgorzata Korenkiewicz,
Tomasz Lietzau / Andrzej Bogaczyk, Dariusz Brzoska Brzoskiewicz / Robert
Turlo
21.00 POLISH VIDEO OF 90'S. COLLECTION
Jan Brzuszek, Miroslaw E. Koch, Barbara Konopka, Yach Paszkiewicz, Jacek
Felcyn, Jozef Robakowski, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Mikolaj Valencia, Wspolnota
Leezec, Jozef Robakowski, Piotr Wyrzykowski,Wojciech Zamiara, Anna
Kuczynska / Katarzyna Radkowska, Andrzej K. Urbanski, Wojciech M. Wojcik,
Wojciech Majewski / Arkadiusz Baginski, Jacek Szleszynski, Janek Koza
23.00 Festival club featuring: Spear, Trymigi
4TH MAY (SATURDAY)
12.00-15.00 LECTURE
- Marzenna and Juliusz Donajski - "Evolution of communication in
interactive media. Art as an echo of contemporary science trends"
16.00 PRESENTATION OF VISUAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT OF WROCLAW ART ACADEMY
Video presentation
17.00 MONITOR 96. New Polish video (2)
Robert Kucharski, Piotr Gorski, Marek Wladek Szpak, Oskar Dawicki, Slawomir
Kulczynski, Pawel Wieckowiak, Agnieszka Malik, Piotr Zabilski, Wspolnota
Leeezec, Filip Popek, Agnieszka Jatkowska, Krzysztof Bialowicz, Malgorzata
Kazimierczak, Jolanta Uczarczyk
19.00-24.00 EVENING OF INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Ansambl Lyzka czyli Chili, Ryszard Jedros, Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, Barbara
Konopka, Tomasz Lietzau, Dariusz Nowak-Nova, Anna Plotnicka, Jozef
Robakowski, Andrzej K. Urbanski, Wojtek Zamiara, Piotr Wyrzykowski,
Grzegorz G. Zgraja
Festival Club
00.00 T party featuring: Nova Techno Scena NTSC, Centralny Urzad Kultury
Technicznej C.U.K.T. oraz znani i nieznani incognito
* DIGITAL CHAOS (A SLACKER CYBERCONFERENCE)
Bath/England, 30 May - 2 June 1996
DIGITAL CHAOS - hub interc@fé/BINGE® will be: facilitating action providing
connectivity between data carriers, curating art in action over four days
(24 hours each day), securing powerful information moments through the
introduction of theorist and artist, postpolititian, digital worker and
supermarket assistant ensuring documentation and detecting meaning and
patterns which emerge from such encounters
Bath Fringe Arts Festival: contact:01 225 427 441
eMail:the_cafe@hub.co.uk
organised by the Hub InterC@fé and BINGE®
Details of conference events : http://www.hub.co.uk/intercafe/front/chaos2.html
* International Media Conference, Kiev/Ukraine
16 - 19 June 1996
Topic: (A)localities - fabrication of culture in electronica
contact:
Vladimir Muzhesky of the Laboratory of New Technologies
at <n_fabrik@euronet.nl>
* 2. OESTERREICHISCHE TRIENNALE ZUR FOTOGRAFIE 1996: RADIKALE BILDER
Graz/Austria (different venues)
Exhibition: 13 June - 28 July 1996
Participating artists include:
Art in Ruins (GB), Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber (A), Henry Bond (GB), Daniele
Buetti (CH), Thomas Demand (D), Helen Chadwick (GB), Critical Art Ensemble
(USA), Philip Lorca diCorcia (USA), Rainer Ganahl (A), Gerald van der Kaap
(NL), Tony Oursler (USA), Jack Pierson (USA), Shirin Neshat (USA), Andres
Serrano (USA), Stephen Willats (GB), Sven Westerlund (SWE)
Curators: Werner Fenz, Reinhard Braun
Contact and further info: <reinhard.braun@thing.or.at>
* "THINKING ALIEN" <THINKING THROUGH SOUND AND IMAGE>
is an inter-disciplinary conference event which will be taking place at
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK on 21-22 September 1996.
Themes will include:
ALIEN IMAGE >BEYOND AESTHETICS: The Crisis of Representation> THE ART
OBJECT: Art as Text or Art as Matter/Function> ART AS SITE OF RESISTANCE:
Lines of Flight> THE VISION MACHINE: Media and Film Theory.
ALIEN SOUND> MUSIC BEYOND FRONTIERS: The meeting of high and Low Culture
Industries> BECOMING MUSIC: The Micropolitics of Noise and Dance>
TECHNOLOGIES OF SOUND> Digitality versus Traditional Forms> CORPORATE
SUBCULTURES: The spaces and places of Modern Dance.
ALIEN BEING> POST-HUMANISM: Theory and Technology> WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
MEANING: Neo-Materialism - D&G> ALIENATIONS: Postcolonial and Multicultural
Theory> THE ALIEN SEX: Feminism and Poststructuralism.
ALIEN WORLD> IMAGES OF THE SPECTACLE: Post structuralism> ALIEN POLITICS:
Cultures of Resistence/ Post-Structuralist Politics> WRITING THE FUTURE:
Science Fiction and Social Theory> IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT:
Modern Apocalypticism, Postmodernism and the End of History.
This event is more than an academic conference. We invite proposals from
artists, musicians, performers and other practitioners, as well as those
working within academia.
ABSTRACTS OF 300 WORDS TO BE RECIEVED BY 1ST JUNE 96'.
A selection of papers will be published.
Nigel Liddell
Centre for Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
U.K.Leeds LS2 9JT
e-mail: finndl@leeds.ac.uk
* Circles of Confusion - 2nd World Wide Film & Video Festival
for <Independent & Underground> Productions
Berlin, 28 November - 1 December 1996
Works must have been completed in the last two years and must not have
received commercial distribution of any kind.
Preview copies (VHS/S-VHS) and registration form must be received by
September 1st.
For further info, please contact:
Circles of Confusion WWFVF Berlin 1996
Cordula Sandow & Melissa Perales
Heinrich-Roller-Str.25
10405 Berlin
Tel/Fax: +49-30-442 5237
*Institutions*
ELECTRONIC ART & MEDIA CENTER "E - L@B" IN RIGA
Rapidly expanding global computer networks promote the emergence of new
communication and information systems. The interactive multimedia industry
is in its development stage in Latvia as well, therefore a question about
public access to new media becomes particularly important.
In each country the circumstances are a little different. At the moment one
of the biggest problems in Latvian society is a catastrophical deficiency
of information about progressive communications, new media, the Internet,
etc. In Latvia influence of new media is emerging more and more, taking
into consideration the growing number of servers and Internet users.
Unfortunately the consumers of existing services are only a small part of
our society while the rest of people have no or very little idea about new
possibilities of communications and networks. This lack of information has
already developed the misconception that media and communications are only
for commercial purposes and elitists.
The goal of E-L@b activities is to make more people understand
interactivity, the new concept of communications, and to end the deficiency
of information in Latvia. In this situation creation of interactive art
projects at the local TV and/or radio stations by joining telecommunication
systems would become extremely important.
The projects planned by E-L@b will address the development of electronic
art and interactive media. "E- L@b" will organize and realize electronic
art projects, exhibitions on the Internet and interactive projects in old
and new media. It is very important to stimulate and support the society's
level of information and to help the developing democratic society of
Latvia.
THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF E-L@B.
E-Arts workshops and art projects on the Internet.
E-Arts workshops will provide artists with possibility of realizing e-arts
projects and injecting them into the Internet. Communications, hardware
and software are still very expensive and only few artists have access to
make sophisticated art projects on the Net.
Media + Communications.
E - L@b plans to organize interactive projects in media - either on more
accessible media for Latvian society (TV, radio) or on the Net.
E - L@b will help artists and curators with information exchange in
Internet, with knowledge in Web-design.
E - L@b will attempt to organize interactive projects, conferences and
e-arts events in Riga in collaboration with other organizations from Latvia
and other countries.
THE PEOPLE
Rasa Smite (1969), director of "E - L@b", artist (mostly working together
with Raitis Smits - installations, videoart, electronic art).
Alise Tifentale (1977), journalist (second year student in Latvian
University in Department of Mass Communications).
Anitra Karnite (1968), "E - L@b" manager. Experience in producing and
management.
Raitis Smits (1966), artist (installations, videoart, actions, electronic art).
Janis Garancs (1973), "E - L@b" coordinator in Sweden, computer designer
and artist.
*C3 (C CUBED): CENTER FOR CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION, Budapest/Hungary
A new center, C3 "Center for Culture and Communication", will be opened in
mid June this year by the Soros Foundation Hungary. As a result of the
collaboration between the Soros Foundation Hungary and Silicon Graphics
Hungary, C3 will facilitate the expanded exploration of digital media
technology, will encourage creative usage of the Internet and will function
as a public forum for debate and innovation regarding communication and
culture.
C3 will function as a research center and media lab, resource facility,
internet provider and public access internet lab, operating a
multi-disciplinary arts and culture program and gallery, and will run
various educational and grants programs dealing with the Internet and new
media art technologies. The latest in Silicon Graphics technology (ONYX,
INDY) will be accessible via C3. C3 will incorporate the SCCA (Soros
Center for Contemporary Arts-Budapest) which will also be located at
Budapest I, Orszaghaz utca 9.
Further information (detailed program and grant application information)
may be obtained as of June 1, 1996, from the
Soros Foundation,
Budapest II,
Bolyai utca 14,
tel: 315-0315
<sccabp@mail.datanet.hu> (Suzy Meszoly, Adele Eisenstein)
For further info, check: <http://www.scca.hu/c3/>
*Updates*
* Lecture on Central European Media Art in Montreal
Nina Czegledy writes:
On April 13, 1996 at Articule Gallery in Montreal, I gave a talk on Media
activities in the Middle of Europe. The lecture compared some of the recent
history of media art in the region with present activities. V2East was
discussed at length and a call went out for information and news for the
organization.
Events such as Next 5 Minutes, OSTranenie 95, the upcoming Metaforum etc.
were mentioned as well as individual projects from St. Petersburg to
Ljubljana.
This lecture was connected to the presentation of In Sight Media Art from
the Middle of Europe, which has been shown in Windsor, Halifax, Saskatoon,
Toronto, Montreal and will be shown in Vancouver in July. Hallwalls of
Buffalo and Arts in General, N.Y. are also considering the program.
Encouraged by the success of the show, I am hoping to curate a new program
involving countries from where media art has not been shown yet in Canada.
* Project on the Net between Vienna and Sarajevo - and beyond
MOVING MOMENTS @ PENDEL
http://www.aec.at/residence/mm96p
an art-project via InterNet
by Barbara Doser, Hofstetter Kurt, Norbert Math
main concept: Hofstetter Kurt
documentation: Judita Pecar-Levacic
CONTACT: pendel@cg.tuwien.ac.at
MOVING MOMENTS 96 is a project over a year. Artists from Sarajevo (Miroslav
Maraus, Dinno Kassalo and Sejo Bajraktarevic) and Vienna (Barbara Doser,
Hofstetter Kurt and Norbert Math) are connected via the InterNet
elaborating visual and acoustic messages - MOMENTS. In the form of
digital videos (max. 10 seconds) they are exchanged on the InterNet. Each
MOMENT is an independent unit which relates to the prior MOMENTS and forms
a building element in the common story which evolves over time.
All MOMENTS are stored in the data pool of the Ars Electronica Center (AEC)
in Linz and are accessible to InterNet users the world over.
Every artist is invited to relate to the on-going communication by sending
a MOMENT to the AEC-pool, thereby participating in the creation of the
story.
(contact: pendel@cg.tuwien.ac.at)
PENDEL is an InterNet sculpture consisting of a network of computer
controlled clockworks. (concept: Hofstetter Kurt)
A video camera pointed to the sky transmits live goings-on into the clock
screen, where three computercontrolled revolving moons indicate the time
through their mutual positions. The data pool of the AEC via the InterNet
constantly forwards incoming MOMENTS to each clockwork, where they are
integrated into the representation of time. The sky with the three
time-moons is temporarely replaced by the MOMENT which may also be heard
via the loudspeaker on the clockwork. Without any human interference the
computer programme uses the current time parameters, to create accidental
events controlling the integration of the messages in the network. They
determine at what point in time which message is sent to and displayed at
which clockwork.
The successive permanent installation of these clockworks as media
sculptures at varius central, publicly accessible spaces all over the world
will make topical artistic messages accessible to a large public beyond the
InterNet.
MOVING MOMENTS 96 is the first project over a year via the
InterNet-Sculpture PENDEL: Every year an other group of artists connected
via the InterNet is going to elaborate visual and acoustic messages
integrated in the InterNet-Sculpture PENDEL.
TOUCH is the InterNet-documentation of the project. (concept: Judita
Pecar-Levacic)
A Web-site of INFORMATION, INTERVIEWS, SMALL TALKS, COMMENTS and NEWS opens
a direct access and a possibility to participate to the project.
* RIVERS&BRIDGES
is a world-wide project for radio and all communications media (Internet,
BBS, Telephone, Fax, etc.) initiated by the ARS ACUSTICA Experts Group of
the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
RIVERS&BRIDGES will focus on the week of September 1 to 7, 1996 with the
main events taking place on September 5 (in the context of the ARS
ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL'96) but it has, in reality, already begun and will
probably never really end ... persisting as long as the rivers and bridges
themselves. Ideally, sub-projects and collaborations between participating
locations should take place before, during and after the official event.
It is also intended that the communications infrastructure created during
the project should continue afterwards as a platform for research,
discussion and collaboration ... as an open laboratory for new projects.
Please have a look to the following URLs for complete information:
www.thing.or.at/thing/orfkunstradio/RIV_BRI/index.html
www.iper.net/giardini/R'n'B.htm
* Web Art
We at moscow wwwart centre have founded a special award - "wwwart medal"
which "we give to web-pages that were created not as art works but gave us
definite "art" feeling." (http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/wwwart/award/)
* WWWAC list
The World Wide Web Artists' Consortium runs an open discussion list,
wwwac@echonyc.com, about the developing uses of the Web to provide and/or
access information and other resources. Membership primarily comprises New
York's Web development community and representatives from web tool
manufacturers, as well as users and other interested parties around the
world. To subscribe, send "subscribe wwwac [Your Full Name]" to
listproc@echonyc.com.
Joshua M.K. Masur -- jmkm@echonyc.com, jmasur@agency.com
Director of MIS, The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Discussion List Moderator, World Wide Web Artists' Consortium
to subscribe, send "subscribe wwwac [Your Name]" to listproc@echonyc.com
to unsubscribe, send "signoff wwwac" to listproc@echonyc.com
http://www.echonyc.com/~jmkm/
* General info about the Syndicate list *
<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. The list members
include 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.
* 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: 26 May 96) to: <abroeck@v2.nl>.
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