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V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 98/10 - Introduction - Dates of upcoming events - Updates - General info about the Syndicate list - Subscription * Introduction * Dear friends, the good news is that it looks as though the next big Syndicate picnic will be held in Belgrade in the spring. it'll be a few more weeks before the precise dates will be announced, but there are plans to hold an event there in march or april, and it'll be an opportunity for another one of those syndicate excursions, tirana-style. stay tuned for that. very importantly, it should be an opportunity for organisations in the region (YU/RO/BG/BiH/HR/HU/...) to cooperate with the organisers in Belgrade and get some of the participants of the Belgrade meeting over to Novi Sad, Arad, Sofia, Varna, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Athens ... the bad news, which you have seen, read and heard about, is that the political situation in Belgrade remains extremely tense. the very livelihood of people in the independent media and cultural sector is being threatened by new laws that reprimand anything but the government's truths. it would not be the first time that a government uses the opportunity of external pressure for an internal clamp-down on oppositional groups. but if at all possible, i would like to go for that first spring walk in Belgrade anyway. the administration of the list has been a bit turbulent in the last week, due to an as yet unexplained crash of the whole list. we still don't know whether this was an act of infowar or an accident, but it is a strong reminder for the fragility of the infrastructure that we are dealing with and communicating through. for the first time now, i am receiving the forwarded messages of the list-owner: there are plenty of bouncing addresses, time-outs and messages that are undeliverable, so you will have to put up with some more list-management messages in the next days. the more feedback you give on these matters, the easier it is to do things smoothly. (if somebody is interested in helping with this, you'd be more than welcome [thanks to dan for that message to javor]. i find this stuff as boring as everybody else.) the upcoming weeks are very busy, with lots of parallel events all over europe. please, if possible, write longer or shorter reports about places that you visit and things that you see - you all know how nice it is to receive those impressions for other corners of deep europe. for the moment, however: 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) - 31 October - 6 December 1998: surrogate, Karlsruhe/D - 5 - 28 November 1998: Kino-Eye3: CyberCities, Antwerp/B - 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 - 25 - 29 November, 1998: Baltic Media Cultural Festival, Riga/LV - 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 - 28 April - 2 May, 1999: WRO 99 - THE POWER OF TAPE, Wroclaw/PL - 20 - 24 August 1999: At Home Abroad, Tabor/CZ - 24 - 28 November 1999: film+arc 4, Graz/AT * s u r r o g a t e, Karlsruhe/D 31 October - 6 December 1998 One Exhibition in Two Parts at Two Times Recent Interactive Installations produced at ZKM Institute for Visual Media www.zkm.de/surrogate One year after the opening of the Center for Art and Media, the Institute for Visual Media presents surroGate, an exhibition which chronicles its current position within the productive domain where art, technology and society meet. surroGate offers diverse models that communicate via a playful mediated interaction between word, image and sound. Here art proves to be a sensitive embodiment of new developments that will ultimately encompass all facets of contemporary life. surroGate describes new forms of expression and unfamiliar spaces of experience. Visitors are invited to participate and cooperate in network installations and interactive environments, while at the same time they are confronted with possible expository scenarios of societal processes. * Kino-Eye3: CyberCities A festival on the relocation of urban space 5-28 November (conference 20-22 November) A Production of De andere Film/Centrum voor Beeldcultuur Koninklijk Paleis, Meir 50, Antwerp (Belgium) AGENDA Thu 5 Nov. 20.00 City Symphonies: Metropolis (F. Lang) Sat 7 Nov. 22.00 City Symphonies: Blade Runner (R. Scott) Tue 10 Nov. 20.00 City Symphonies: Rain (J. Ivens), Images d'Ostende (H. Storck), A Propos de Nice (J. Vigo), Rien que les heures (A. Cavalcanti) Sat 14 Nov. 21.00 City Symphonies: Heat (M. Mann) Mon 16 Nov. 20.00 City Symphonies: Menschen am Sonntag (R. Siodmak & E.G. Ulmer) CONFERENCE Fri 20 Nov. 20.00 Scott Bukatman: 'The Syncopated City: New York and Musicals' (lecture) 21.00 Utopia/Dystopia (video) 23.00 City Symphony: New York Sat 21 Nov. 14.00 Saskia Sassen: 'Electronic Space and Power' (lecture) 15.30 David Blair: 'MetaTokyo' (presentation) 17.00 Mapping the City (video) 20.00 Edward Soja: 'SimCities: Hyperreality and the Restructured Urban Imaginary' (lecture) 22.00 Virus/Surveillance (video) 23.00 City Symphony: Rudy Burckhardt (film) Sun 22 Nov. 14.00 Christine Boyer: 'Crossing CyberCities' (lecture) 15.30 Closing debate 17.00 City Symphony: Dominic Angerame (film) 20.00 City Symphonies: Kino-Glaz (D. Vertov) Mon 23 Nov. 20.00 City Symphonies: La Tour + Paris qui dort (R. Clair) Fri 27 Nov. 22.00 City Symphonies: Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grossstadt (W. Ruttmann) Sat 28 Nov: 21.30 City Symphonies: Playtime (J. Tati) KINO-EYE3: CYBERCITIES "It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on their magical powers. They are immaterial; that is to say one sees but the lighted windows. Squares after squares of flame, set and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will." (Ezra Pound on New York) The birth of the modern city, the railroad and the cinema are - as any film historian knows - intimately linked events. The geometric sublimity of the city with its bridges and skyscrapers and the dynamic sublimity of the train journey could only be rationalized via a cut up reality, the cuts and close-ups of the cinema. To a large extent early cinema reflected the experience of the fl=E2neur, the city dweller who with every new passage took in new constellations of bewildering images which he then later (re-)constructed into a coherent, sometimes narrative whole. The close-up disturbs the passage of time, freezes what is in permanent motion and would otherwise remain blurry, chaotic, invisible. As Walter Benjamin has amply demonstrated in his groundbreaking studies of early modernist experience, both the narrative logic, the phenomenological reality and the technical apparatus of the cinema are reflections of the caleidoscopic reality of the metropolis. The past century has seen a countermove in which the city has in its turn become more and more cinematographic, illusory, virtual. The sweatshop production logic of industrial city life (the city of Dickens and Dreiser) was replaced by the ethereal datalabor of uniform(ed) knowledge workers, the polymorphous masses of the agora were replaced by the standardized and hyper-transparent meeting place of the shopping mall, human contact is induced via fiberoptic cables and the city loses its material center. Postmodern urbanists like Jean Baudrillard talk about the 'hyperreality' of the city as 'pure simulation'. Cities like New York are "vital, kinetic and filmic". While the city threatens to lose its meaning as public space cyberpunk-auteurs like William Gibson dream of the cyberspace matrix as a virtual reality version of Le Corbusiers Radiant City. And it's not only in fiction that cyberspace is rediscovered as a utopian urban space. While the Infobahn is essentially an anti-spatial space, the traditional fora of urban life are easily transferred to the ethereal dataspace. An interesting thing about the virtual city - the "city of bits" - is that its spatial model can best be described as a condensed infinity (Rem Koolhaas' "culture of compression"), an infinite space without space, a meeting place with an infinite number of entrances. Just as the early twentieth century dream of progressive urbanization, of the city as final fullfilment of all democratic promise was corrupted by the monopolization of public space, the dream of digital democracy is threatened however by the corporate take-over and socio-economic control of the virtual agora. Kino-Eye3: CyberCities will explore the relationship between visual media and urban structures, between the disappearance of public city space and the budding urban infrastructure (virtual libraries, museums, theaters, bookstores, banks, shopping centers, ...) on the internet. What can we learn from these new cohabitation models, from these 'cities of bits'? Is the city of tomorrow a hypnotic, vertiginous mirage inspired by Blade Runner and Baudrillard or a concrete - albeit anti-spatial - collective of conscious users? Lectures: 150 BF Video and film: 120 BF Weekend price: 1350 BF Cd-rom, internet and debate: free admission Reservations: Centrum voor Beeldcultuur (32) 3-234.16.40 (tel.) (32) 3-226.27.64 (fax) asinema@glo.be (e-mail) http://www.dma.be/cvb/as (website) Location: Koninklijk Paleis/Filmmuseum Meir 50, Antwerpen By car: parking facilities (Hopland, Oude Vaartplaats, Stadsschouwburg, St. jacobsmarkt, Groenplaats, Eiermarkt, Lombardenvest, Oudaan) Public transportation: tram =E9 (Hoboken/linkeroever), tram 15 (Mortsel/Linkeroever) AS/Sinebase/Kino-Eye/TechnoLust De andere Film v.z.w. Meir 50 B-2000 Antwerpen Belgium/Europe 0032-3-234.16.40 (vox) or:0032-3-233.85.71 0032-3-877.44.88 (fax) or: 0032-3-231.86.60 asinema@glo.be (e-mail) http://www.dma.be/cvb/as * 1. Symposium für Schwerdatenforschung Samstag, den 14. November 1998 INM-Institut für Neue Medien in Frankfurt/M. Gabriele Gramelsberger Zum Stand der Schwerdatenforschung Joachim Peinke Eine Methode wie man Rauschen und Deterministik trennen kann Martin Warnke Size matters! Michael Klein V-real data Frieder Nake Daten-Dadaismus. Die Aufspaltung der Wirklichkeit in Aktuales und Reales Hartmut Winkler Kalte Datenfusion Thomas Bayrle Winzlinge aller Etagen vereinigt Euch! Otto E. Rössler Schwerdaten â?? Leichtdaten â?? Weltbombe oder Wie gefährlich ist das Interface Naehere Informationen unter http://www.inm.de Gabriele Gramelsberger INM-Institut fuer Neue Medien Daimlerstrasse 32 60314 Frankfurt Tel: ++49-69-941963-10 fax: ++49-69-941963-22 gabriele@inm.de * DUTCH ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL - DEAF98 SYMPOSIUM - THE ART OF THE ACCIDENT DATES: Friday 20 November - Saturday 21 November , 1998 TIME: Morning Session:10.00 - 13.00 Afternoon Session: 14.00 - 18.00 LOCATION: Conference Hall, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Museumpark 20 3015 CX Rotterdam INFORMATION: DEAF98 c/o V2_Organisation P.O.Box 19049, 3001 BA Rotterdam tel: ++31-(0)10-2067275 fax: ++31-(0)10-2067271 e-mail: deaf@v2.nl The DEAF98 Festival explores the productive potentials of rupture, friction, instability and unpredictability. The 'ars accidentalis' embraces malfunction and accidents as inherent to technology and integrates them into the creative process. DEAF98 presents and discusses accidents and their preferred environments in areas like art, sound, architecture, urban planning, economy, and electronic networks. The DEAF98 Symposium is a two-day conference that includes lectures by an international panel of artists, theorists, trans-architects and scientists. It initiates a productive dialogue about unpredictability and control, perception and construction, non-linearity, dynamic environments, and changing concepts of time and space. Social, political, artistic and architectural discourses intersect on this interdisciplinary discussion platform. (Symposium language: English) SPEAKERS: FRIDAY 20 November: - Marcos Novak (USA): architect, writer, one of the first to take a step in cyberspace - Otto E. Roessler (D): scientist, is developing Endophysics as a science of the world as interface - N. Katherine Hayles (USA): historian, has published widely about experiences and the fate of the body in cyberspace - Perry Hoberman (USA): media artist, inventor of playful and accident-happy multi-user media art installations - Greg Lynn (USA): architect, writer of 'Animate Form' and 'Folds, Bodies and Blobs' SATURDAY 21 November: - Lars Spuybroek (NL): architect, building without horizon, where walking and falling are entangled - Knowbotic Research(D/A): artist group who build experimental network interfaces for translocal urban environments - Brian Massumi (AUS): philosopher, translator of Deleuze & Guattari's 'Thousand Plateaus' and theorist of a new topology of events - Steve Mann (CND): artist, walks around with a camera, putting his environment online on the internet - Detlef Linke (D): neurologist, published several texts on ethics, coma, brain death, personality and brain chips MODERATOR: - Bart Lootsma (NL): architectual theorist, historian, writer * BALTIC MEDIA CULTURE FESTIVAL November 25-29, 1998, Riga, Latvia The festival programme contents various events - such as: XU [xchange unlimited] - annual international new media festival "art+communication-3" organised by E-LAB in collaboration with BIN [baltic interface net] - 2nd conference on cultural collaboration and networking in Baltic Sea region and BALTIC PARTY audio-visual-public presentation of the idea to establish Digital Culture centre in Riga. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * X U * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *XU - art+communicationIII is third international new media conference organised by E-LAB /Electronic Arts and Media Center/ in Riga. This year 'art+communication-3' event with the title "Xchange Unlimited" focuses on such topics: >> inter-fund - the aim, models and structures -> how to develop international self-supporting platform for innovative and creative projects and research in new media field / -> how to support small scale artists-run spaces and individual initiatives / -> access to fundings instead of 'growing your own capital'/ >> establishing of the digital culture centre in riga - e-lab in co-operation with other independent organisations and projects (Casablanca2000, Locomotive, Sloka Sound System/ELAST, OPEN-London, TI, etc.)... -> the presentation of the concept will be presented not in conference only but also in 'real space' at the exhibition hall ARSENALS in the event called BALTIC PARTY >> net.radio conference+workshops -> "Xchange" meeting: about the developing real audio servers' networks -> live session: real audio + video transmission in internet, radio experiments, etc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * B I N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIN - Baltic Interface Net -> 2nd BIN conference on cultural network development in the countries around the Baltic Sea will bring together representatives - artists administrators, officials, employees and others - from 11 countries. -> BIN meeting will focus on both levels - a practical organisational (structure and projects) and on a a political level (preparing for the 4th conference of the ministers of culture from Baltic Sea countries in Gdansk 1999). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I N F O * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * XU PARTICIPANTS: tbc: Eric Kluitenberg (Amsterdam, NL), Heath Bunting (London-Banff, UK-CAN), Pit Schultz (Berlin, D), Zina Kaye (Sydney, AUS), Jutempus (Vilnius, LT), Yvanne Faught, Susan Kennard (Banff, CAN) Hanno Soans (Tallinn, EE), Thomax Kaulmann (Berlin, D), Diana McCarty (Budapest, HU) Locomotive (Riga, LV), Luka Frelih (Ljubljana, SLO), Ilze Strazdina (Riga-London, LV-UK), Armin Medosch?, Lisa Haskel ?, Manu Luksch? and many others ? are welcome... :) ORGANISED [XU] by: E-LAB [BIN] by: Goethe Institut Riga in co-operation with E-LAB [Baltic Party] by: Casablanca2000 and E-LAB EVENT SUPPORTED BY: Goethe Insitut Riga, Swedisch Institut, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga City Council, Latvian Culturalcapital Foundation, Soros Foundation Latvia, and others. WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE! contact: <e-lab@re-lab.net> or Rasa Smite <rasa@parks.lv> www: http://re-lab.net/xu [xchange unlimited] (not updated yet!) http://xchange.re-lab.net [xchange network] http://www.baltic-interface.net [baltic interface net] * 1st International Festival of Film and New Media on Art 2-6 December 1998, Athens By seeking new experiences the Festival blends technological innovation with emerging forms of creation. This year´s eclectic selection is composed of creative documentaries and cd-roms on the most domains of art that challenge a tradition of research and renewal. 18 countries participate with films on Gilbert and George, Panamarenko, Felice Varini, Carlo Scarpa, Guggenheim Bilbao, Notre Dame dÂ¥Amiens, V28, Rosas Danst Rosas, Christo, Zaha Hadid, Albert Camus, Gaudi, Guy Bourdin, Shostakovitch, Alberto Camesi, Costakis, Vladimir Merta, Akira Kurosawa, Yiannis Tsarouchis and many others. 19 cd-roms from 13 countries will be presented on a special designed installation at the Fine Arts School of Athens. Among them are: MAUS, LE LOUVRE COLLECTIONS AND PALACE no2, LE CRI NEERLANDAIS, REGISTROS DE ARQUITECTURA, TECHNOPHOBIA, ITALIAN DESIGN:THE PLAYERS ON CD-ROM, SCRUTINY IN THE GREAT ROUND, FAMILY FILES, TOMMY THE INTERACTIVE CD-ROM, LEONARDO DA VINCI CD-ROM, THE HOUSE, I.D. INTERACTIVE DESIGN REVIEW,TOMATO, IMPROVISATION TECHNOLOGIES ZKM and many others. Lectures on cinema on art and multimedia on art will be held for two days, 5/12 and 6/12 noon to 17:00, with guest speakers from Louvre, Centre George Pombidou, Arts Council of England, ERT, Funny Garbage, Antirom, YLE, VPRO, EYE magazine, Media Desk and Mediamatic. For any more info: PR office 01-7520064 fax 01-9242407 Mr. Chrisostomos Chalkidis http://www.filmart.gr Yiannis Skourogiannis Director of IFFNMA 57 Archimidous GR-116 36 Athens * WRO 99 - 7th International Media Art Biennale April 28th - May 2nd, 1999 // Wroclaw, Poland <>International competition for video art <>Curated programs: #THE POWER OF TAPE - screenings and retrospectives with various art forms created for the tape in XX century # exhibitions # live tv and net events # performances & miscellaneous activities WRO 99 printed announcement included entry forms available from mid November. WRO 99 new web site www.wro.art.pl will be started in the third decade of November. WRO 99 International Competition is organized by Open Studio and new founded WRO Center for Media Art Foundation. Piotr Krajewski, artistic director Open Studio tel./fax: (48 71) 342 26 91 PO Box 1385 tel. (48 71) 44 83 69 54-137 Wroclaw 16 email: wro@info.wcss.wroc.pl Poland * Updates * * Kalina Bunevska <kbunevsk@soros.org.mk> writes: You may see our Web TV report for the seven days of SEAFair '98 on http://www.scca.org.mk/SEAFair98/webtv/index.htm You may also see the pictures (with the possibilities to browse by person or category) that we took during the Festival: http://www.scca.org.mk/sf/pictures.dll * Junction Reader Mail Order Info The second V2_East/Syndicate reader, entitled "JUNCTION SKOPJE: DEEP_EUROPE. The 1997 - 1998 edition", documents Syndicate related activities from October 1997 - August 1998. It was edited by Inke Arns and comprises a selection of texts, reports and articles sent through the V2_East/Syndicate mailing list. The Syndicate/Junction Reader was was first presented in Skopje in October and is now available for ordering from the V2_Archive. The Reader costs NLG 16,-. For postage, add: - in Europe NLG 7,00. - in the USA & other overseas countries: NLG 21,00 airmail (4 - 6 days) or NLG 15,00 with Standard Mail (2 to 3 Weeks). Payment: - With Mastercard - International Money Order from the postoffice - a Eurocheque - or Dutch Cash money (at your own risk). If you prefer to transfer money or send a cheque, please inform us. This costs extra money (between fl 6,50 to fl 20,00). You can obviously also buy the reader directly at the bookshop in Rotterdam, for instance during DEAF98. info: <archief@v2.nl>, Peter Duimelinks / V2_Archief mailaddress: Postbus 19049 shopaddress: Eendrachtsstraat 10 3001 BA Rotterdam 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands The Netherlands T: +31.10.206 7276 F: +31.10.206 7271 e-mail: peter@v2.nl URL: http://www.v2.nl/Archief VAT: NL 96.89.102.B.01 * "Vide0party" <video@imprese.com> write: Videøparty new address: Immagine Leggera (international videoart + media + film) Festival http://www.imprese.com/video * Marta Smolikova <marta.smolikova@osf.cz>: detailed information about Prague Indies Film Festival you can find at: http://www.indies.cz/ * Olia Lialina <olialia@cityline.ru> writes: I'd like to inform u that from now on CINE FANTOM is at http://www.cinefantom.org i'm now updating information on films, videos, club and other events in russian and english. * fuchs-eckermann <fuchs-eckermann@t0.or.at> write: We would like to introduce to you the SoundCalendar project TRY OUT! for Europe: http://www.EARnet.org/soundcalendar/ for US, CAN: http://www.umas.on.ca/soundcalendar/ * The Fort Sztuki Association opens its own IRC channel. We are welcome all of interested in contemporary art subjects to discussion on its general ideas as well on the Fort Sztuki 98 festival topic. This year it was called Ã?Letter - Word - Sentenceî and was focused on text and linguistic form based art. More detailed info concerning Association and festival you can find on our home page http://www.fortsztuki.art.pl If you are not IRCing and you don't know how to connect to channel #fort and joint to our discussion, you can find instruction on our home pages together with a link to free software supporting IRC channel. We begin 30 October started from 6 p.m. Polish time (CET) The next session of discussion we are going to launch 14 November, in the same time. All the dialogues from the first discussion will be archive and will be available on our home pages. * VIDEOMEDEJA write: http://videomedeja.opennet.org is now available. VIDEOMEDEJA Jevrejska 4/1 21000 Novi Sad Yugoslavia tel/fax: +381 21 621-308 email: videomed@fodns.opennet.org * 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 Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an institution. The Syndicate 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 300 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. Other meetings were held in Rotterdam (DEAF96, September 1996), 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), and Skopje (Junction, October 1998). * 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 your@email.address To unsubscribe from the syndicate list, please, send a message to <syndicate-request@aec.at> with the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe your@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 to: abroeck@v2.nl.