FLUXLIST: Why George Maciunas opposed the Avant-Garde Festivals
Reed Altemus writes, "I'm thinking perhaps Maciunas had little reason to see Charlotte's Festivals as competitive with his Fluxus program, in which case I conclude that he was just generally threatened by women who were doing things cf. Carolee Schneeman (later). He certainly seemed to get along fine with Yoko Ono at the time." George's opposition to the festival was not sexist. It was an issue of programmatic positions in his aesthetic-political system. George saw the Avant-Garde Festival as a large, eclectic stew of projects -- in essence, this raised the problem of the "neo-Baroque" position to which he opposed the "neo-haiku" Fluxus position. George's problem with Carolee was based on the same argument. She was doing happenings and messy, sexy, meaty multimedia performance that stood at the other end of a spectrum from George's demand for a clean, clear, simplified art. This, incidentally, was also George's argument against happenings in general, and this is part of the difficulty with Al Hansen's work. George was a purist but never a sexist. At a time when there was little room for women in the art world, George welcomed and worked with Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Ono, Alice Hutchins, Carla Liss and others. It seemed to many others that there was room for a great deal of overlap, fuzziness and ambiguity in the Fluxus position. The fact that George rejected the Avant Garde festivals did not bother the many Fluxus artists who took part in them. But it should be stated that George was a person who made decisions -- including silly decisions -- on principle, not on the basis of personality, gender, sexual preference, race, religion, etc. To the degree that George was occasionally "cranky," he was an equal-opportunity crank. Ken Friedman --
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?
I tried to find "Mechanisation takes command" on the web. Very little by Giedeon in Sorry, he is spelled GIDEON, Siegfried Gideon, I found one link with altavista to a swiss site, he was architect...
FLUXLIST: government e-mail snooping (fwd)
Subject: government e-mail snooping From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 Peaceful Protests to be considered SERIOUS CRIME Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Peaceful protest is a "serious crime" in the British government's Bill to intercept private email communication Statement from GreenNet In September last year, at a conference on British government plans to give police and intelligence services the right to read private email, Patricia Hewitt, the minister for e-commerce, claimed these plans were necessary "because crime has become global and digital and we have to combat this". What she omitted to mention was that one of the "crimes" the government was setting out to combat was the kind of peaceful protest actions that took place in Seattle at the WTO meeting. This has now been made crystal clear in the proposed Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill. Continuing with a definition first brought in by the Thatcher government to allow police to tap the phones of union members in the 1985 British miners' strike, the Bill specifically designates "conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose" to be "a serious crime" justifying an interception of their private email correspondence. The police requested that this measure be introduced in a report into the demonstration that took place at the City of London as part of an international day of protest actions on June 18th last year. There were violent clashes between the police and this initially non-violent demonstration. The group that organised the June 18th demonstration is a GreenNet user and much of the organisation for the international protest took place using GreenNet Internet facilities. If the RIP Bill had been in place last year there seems little doubt that the police would have applied for an order to force GreenNet to give them access to the private email of people involved in the June 18th events. The police would almost certainly have wanted a similar order over protest activities planned to coincide with the Seattle WTO meeting. Under the RIP Bill, they will now be able to obtain such facilities to spy on the activities of protest groups. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will have to build "interception capabilities" into their systems. When served with an "interception warrant" they will be forced to intercept private email and convey its contents to the police or various intelligence services. Refusal to comply with a warrant will carry a maximum jail sentence of two years. "Tipping-off" someone that their email is being read is punishable by up to five years jail. This also applies to informing anyone not authorised to know about the interception warrant. The warrant will initially be served on a named individual within an ISP. They may inform only those other people they need to help them implement the warrant and these, in turn, face the same penalties for tipping-off. The only exception allowed is to consult legal advisors. A separate section of the Bill deals with encryption. This provides for "properly authorised persons (such as members of the law enforce- ment, security and intelligence agencies) to serve written notices on individuals or bodies requiring the surrender of information (such as a decryption key) to enable them to understand (make intelligible) protected material which they lawfully hold, or are likely to." Such an order can be served on anyone "there are reasonable grounds for believing" has an encryption key. They could face two years jail for not revealing the key and are also subject to the same possible five year jail sentence as ISPs for informing someone that attempts are being made by the authorities to read their email. This section of the Bill has been widely condemned by civil liberties lawyers as reversing the fundamental right of a person to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and will almost certainly be challenged using the European Convention on Human Rights. The British Bill is part of long term plans that have been developed since 1993 to give law enforcement bodies around the world the ability to intercept and read modern digital communications. In that year, the FBI initiated an International Law Enforcement Tele- communications Seminar (ILETS) for that purpose. The ILETS group has operated behind the back of elected parliamentary bodies and within the European Union its plans have been implemented through secret meetings of the Council for Justice and Home Affairs (CJHA). An essential part of these plans involve international collaboration between law enforcement bodies. Large sections of the RIP Bill deal with "International mutual assistance agreements" to intercept communications. Particular reference is made to a "draft Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters" produced within the CJHA. This Convention lays out plans for communications taking place between individuals in one country to be intercepted in
FLUXLIST: Serge Klarsfeld est fou
I liked the action of Beate, who , but M. Serges idea of a demonstration against the Vienna Philharmonics in Paris... He asked them to criticize Mr Haider etc and they refused. Who are the brainpolice Everything behind the rhine is sibiria and a book with a swastica will become a bestseller. Etcpp...this is europe 2000 H.
Re: FLUXLIST: 12 Features
Sol, you are correct. That is why I'm not sure of teir exact meanings as intended by the authors. My own list of Fluxus characteristics is too long and boring for this occasion. -Don Sol Nte wrote: Now I think that Don's twelve features are the 12 aspects of Fluxus as defined by Dick Higgins and refined by Ken Friedman. Am I right Don or have you taken some of those 12 to combine with others? I'm dead curious now. cheers, Sol.
Re: FLUXLIST: Why George Maciunas opposed the Avant-Garde Festivals
Thanks for clearing this up Ken. RA Ken Friedman wrote: Reed Altemus writes, "I'm thinking perhaps Maciunas had little reason to see Charlotte's Festivals as competitive with his Fluxus program, in which case I conclude that he was just generally threatened by women who were doing things cf. Carolee Schneeman (later). He certainly seemed to get along fine with Yoko Ono at the time." George's opposition to the festival was not sexist. It was an issue of programmatic positions in his aesthetic-political system. George saw the Avant-Garde Festival as a large, eclectic stew of projects -- in essence, this raised the problem of the "neo-Baroque" position to which he opposed the "neo-haiku" Fluxus position. George's problem with Carolee was based on the same argument. She was doing happenings and messy, sexy, meaty multimedia performance that stood at the other end of a spectrum from George's demand for a clean, clear, simplified art. This, incidentally, was also George's argument against happenings in general, and this is part of the difficulty with Al Hansen's work. George was a purist but never a sexist. At a time when there was little room for women in the art world, George welcomed and worked with Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Ono, Alice Hutchins, Carla Liss and others. It seemed to many others that there was room for a great deal of overlap, fuzziness and ambiguity in the Fluxus position. The fact that George rejected the Avant Garde festivals did not bother the many Fluxus artists who took part in them. But it should be stated that George was a person who made decisions -- including silly decisions -- on principle, not on the basis of personality, gender, sexual preference, race, religion, etc. To the degree that George was occasionally "cranky," he was an equal-opportunity crank. Ken Friedman --
Re: FLUXLIST: dot-com biennial
Get out your oil paints and charcoal pencils kids, it's back to the dark ages with Mr. Knight. Patricia wrote: http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/calendar/2324/t27765.html
FLUXLIST: summore dot-com biennial
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/03/23 /DD108557.DTL
FLUXLIST: One Less Sense.
in the email today... From: "Ashley Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:13:00 PST One Less Sense. The audience will be lead though a sound/smell/tactile installation blindfolded. -Ashley Smith Co-founder Red Dive One Less Sense vision without sight Produced by Red Dive In the Flamboyan Theater of the Clemente Solo Valez Cultural Center 107 Suffolk (between Rivington and Delancey) Thursday though Sunday April13-16 20-23 27-30 Tours leave between 7 and 10:40 pm, every 20 minutes, 12 tours a night. Each tour last 45 minutes. Call 212-760-4951 for detailed tour times and reservations. Tickets are $11 during first week and $13 thereafter.
RE: FLUXLIST: dot-com biennial
A quick quiz for today's kunstkid: "America's most distinctive contribution to World Culture" (quoting from mr. Knight here, and i don't think he's being ironic) is it: Jazz? James Brown? Basketball? Coca-Cola? (a better, longer list might be generated in time, but it's none of these) no! It's Christopher Knight and his pals, the "democratic, thoroughly self-selected constituency of art, a social construct that may be America's most distinctive contribution to World Culture." And no, i don't think he's joking. Am i wrong, here? People, did Knight make a funny and did i miss the joke? Or does this twit really think he and his are our stars? It's not just the vanity here, it's the vacant, silly, pointless and unearned vanity. -Original Message- From: Reed Altemus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 6:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: dot-com biennial Get out your oil paints and charcoal pencils kids, it's back to the dark ages with Mr. Knight. Patricia wrote: http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/calendar/2324/t27765.html
