Syndicate: DEAF98: Nettime presentation (Nov. 19th, 20.30-23.00)

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Dutch Electronic Art Festival DEAF98

Thursday, 19 November, 20.30-23.00
Lantaren/Venster, Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam


Nettime presentation

Nettime is an international online-forum about media culture and net
criticism. The Nettime mailing list was established in the Spring of 1995,
it's number of subscribers growing from 20 to over 800. Regular meetings,
conferences, workshops and media events, as well as four xeroxed 'ZKP'
readers, are real-life channels for the heterogeneous group of subscribers
and contributors. Topics discussed on the list include the Net's gift
economy, networking and strategies for activists on the net, net.art, the
role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the future of publishing.


The Nettime evening during DEAF98 features the premier presentation of
'README!', the first international publication of the Nettime mailing list.
This 500-page book (published by Autonomedia, New York) collects over a
hundred texts and other contributions and offers a highly substantial
account of contemporary thought and critical debate about Internet culture.

The presentation is followed by a panel discussion about the role that
electronic networks play in the de- and reconstruction of the public
sphere, and about the emergent social topologies they generate.


20.15 Book presentation README!

- Diana McCarty (US/HU), networker and organiser with the Media Research
Foundation Budapest, talks about the realisation of the book

- Pit Schultz (D), artist and net-critic, talks about the different faces
of Nettime and the development of its discourses

- presentation of README!, followed by a short break and opportunity for
buying the first copies


21.00 Panel discussion with statements by:

- Ted Byfield (US), New York-based editor and occasional writer

- Marleen Stikker (NL), co-director of the Society of Old and New Media,
Amsterdam

- McKenzie Wark (AUS), writer and lecturer in media studies at Macquarie
University, Sidney

- Faith Wilding (US), multi-disciplinary artist and Research Fellow at the
Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

- Felix Stalder (CH/CDN), media theorist and writer

The evening will be moderated by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (CDN/MEX).



Bookmarks:

Nettime - http://www.desk.nl/~nettime (http://www.nettime.org)
Nettime Mail Archive - http://www.factory.org/nettime
Media Research Foundation - http://www.mrf.hu
Society of Old and New Media - http://www.waag.org
Felix Stalder - http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/~stalder
McKenzie Wark - http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/~mwark
Faith Wilding - http://www-art.cfa.cmu.edu/www-wilding/


DEAF98, Dutch Electronic Art Festival
17 - 29 November 1998
Eendrachtsstraat 10
3012 XL Rotterdam
Netherlands
tel: ++31.10.2067275
fax: ++31.10.2067271
email: deaf@v2.nl
http://www.v2.nl/DEAF