nettime TOUCH ME festival :: Abuse of Intelligence :: Sept. 8-17 :: Zagreb
| TOUCH ME festival - intersections of technology, science and art | | ABUSE OF INTELLIGENCE | Zagreb, Croatia | Sept. 8-17, 2005 | -- | Container + Multimedia Institute | | Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 | The international festival _Touch Me_ presents contemporary art production at the intersection of science and technology. Including an exhibition, performances and a symposium, it will tackle the topic of Abuse of Intelligence. This thematic framework arises from the need for artistic and cultural analysis of contemporary forms of violence and systems of control. Starting from the twofold meaning of intelligence (implying both information and intellection), the project explores the abuse of information and intelligence, but also the forms of structural abuse brought about by the technological organization of contemporary social processes - abuses relating to information, telecommunications, media, technology, science, the entertainment industry, etc. Alongside the ethical and political problems of the info-sphere, the festival explores the abuse and manipulation of techno-scientific discoveries that disrupt, transform or create the living world and environment. The festival takes places within Operation:City [www.operacijagrad.org]. | exhibition and performances | exhibition [opening Sept. 8, at 19:30, opened every day 16:00-21:00]: + Joe Davis (US), Molly Ferguson (US), Filip Hiemann (DE) and Thomas Kaiser (DE): Multi-channel Audiomicroscope, Microorganism Farm, Listening Libraries, Golden Girl, Car Guitar + Marta de Menezes (PT): Nature? + NRD Van (TCP/IP): NRD Kit + Polona Tratnik (SI): In(threat)timity + Sini=B9a Labrovi=E6 (HR): Flock.hr + Oliver Kunkel (DE): Mosquitobox + William Linn (US): Wargames + Ivan Maru=B9i=E6 Klif (HR): Allo, allo + Radical Software Group: Black Hawk Down (RSG-BLACK-1) + Melville, Pearl, St Jacque, Yona (AU): LifeBoat [opening Sept. 12, at 19:00] performances: + Zoran Todorovi=E6 (SCG) [Sept. 8, at 19:30] + Marnix de Nijs (NL): Vibrating Zagreb [Sept. 8, at 21:30] fashion show: + Stahl Stenslie (NO): S.U.F.I. - Suicide Fashion International presents The Ka-Boom edition [Sept. 16, at 21:00] | symposium | Sept 13., day first: 18:00-19:30 - first session: + Marie-Luise Angerer (DE): Longing for the Real or: Producing Resemblance through Sensation + Bojana Kunst (SI): Disobedient Connections: On Production of Monstruosi= ty 19:30-21:00 - second session: + Matthew Fuller (UK): Calculation Space + Thomas Kaiser (DE): DNAgraphy and Audiomicroscope Sept. 14, second day 18:00-18:45 - first session: + Olivier Razac (FR): Reality TV and Biopolitics (lecture will be in French with translation) 18:45-21:00 - second session: + Jens Hauser (DE): Bios, Techne, Logos: Software and Hardware Approaches to Bioart + Marta de Menezes (PT): On Pipettes and Art Studios: Intersections of Art and Biology + Oron Catts (AU): Victimless Utopia or Victimless Hypocrisy? Sept. 15, third day 18:00-18:45: + Natalie Jeremijenko (US): Silent Observers or Not: Scripting Reciporocity in Interactive Systems | contact | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Touch Me festival is a project realized through the collaborative platform Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 takes place in the framework of projekt relations projekt relations is a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation www.projekt-relations.de supported: Kontakt. The Arts and Civils Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe. Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia Zagreb City Office for Culture FACE Croatia Instituto Camoes INA Student Center in Zagreb Town of Sinj # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for
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Table of Contents: has anyone heard word of my NOLA sweetheart? Bill Spornitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] the heart of a geek still beats in Old Orleans Bill Spornitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Orleans Crisis and US Govt Negligence Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:24:24 -0500 From: Bill Spornitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: has anyone heard word of my NOLA sweetheart? ... a little bar; the Alpine Club, attached to La Boheme restaurant. in the quartier.. the bartenders were volunteers, and carried pistols... John Coltrane on the jukebox... if you sat in the corner of the bar by the window you could feel the whole fucking planet spin around you I fear that the Alpine Club is lost! Any word of my friend on Chartres Street??? sniff - -b -- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 7:09:40 -0500 From: Bill Spornitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the heart of a geek still beats in Old Orleans www.mgno.com A net admin lives with his servers keeping his websites online during the crisis... his latest post: 2:15 am Getting Some Rest It's been a very long day. I'm going to crash for a bit and try to get 5 hours or so of sleep. I apologize again that I cannot respond to each IM. I am trying. We've got that IRC channel going and I'll try to get in there for a while later in the day. I am going to debrief the police officer completely in the morning. He was utterly fatigued, thirsty, and wanted to find out what the hell was really going on. Security has become a major concern now, because the NOPD is ineffective and the looters terrorists are roaming the streets. Word is now that they're lighting buildings on fire, but I can't confirm that. Anyway, we have to run guard shifts and patrol and it limits our downtime. It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It's the wild kingdom. It's Lord of the Flies. That doesn't mean there's murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It's that bad. I will be back on around 0700 or so I think. Team SOTI signing off. Will leave the cam on. -- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:40:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Orleans Crisis and US Govt Negligence Here's an article I wrote that appears in Telepolis. Ronda http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20848/1.html Tantamount to Negligence Is the Catastrophe in New Orleans a Catastrophe of Nature or Policy? By Ronda Hauben It is possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. But we've got to start. To do nothing is tantamount to negligence. Al Naomi, senior project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 2004 The disaster that was predicted to engulf the city of New Orleans in flood waters has happened. A catastrophe of enormous proportions is continuing in the New Orleans region of the US. Reports from the scene describe the condition of the people who remain in the area as turning from 'frustration' to 'desperation'. U.S. public officials, from the President of the US, to the Governor of Louisiana, to the Mayor of New Orleans, admit that it is a problem of tremendous proportions, something unlike anything that has been experienced previously. By Thursday, September 1, 2005. three days after the initial hurricane had hit on Monday morning, there was still no knowledge of how many people in the flood ravaged areas were still alive, or how many had died. The crisis of the continuing flooding of the city, of the inability to repair the levees that had been breached which are responsible for the flooding, of the need to be able to feed and provide for the people who sought shelter in the Superdome or other places around the city, continues to grow more serious. Plans to evacuate people from the Superdome were complicated by many additional people arriving at the Superdome and hoping to be part of the evacuation, as well as by reports of shots being fired at some who were part of rescue operations. The news from the disaster area site is intermittent and often involves hearing public officials giving their view of the situation. A few of the public officials blame the people who didn.t leave for the enormity of the public disaster that is continuing. The provisions for evacuation before Hurricane Katrina, however, were
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Table of Contents: Project for a New Atlantis Paul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project for a New Atlantis pt 2: On Flooded Cities Paul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:14:10 -0400 From: Paul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Project for a New Atlantis Between this and Kanye West's apt observation that George Bush Doesn't Care about Black People on the Aid Marathon for Katrina victims, I can only say - like that old Led Zeppelin song when the levee breaks it's all about reconstruction. Katrina 3: Two Anti-Hurricane Projects (on landscape climatology) Project 1: How do you slow down a hurricane? In the June 2005 edition of The Economist Technology Quarterly (subscription required), we read about Moshe Alamaro, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [who] has a plan. Just as setting small, controlled fires can stop forest fires by robbing them of fuel, he proposes the creation of small, man-made tropical cyclones to cool the ocean and rob big, natural hurricanes of their source of energy. His scheme, devised with German and Russian weather scientists and presented at a weather-modification conference in April, involves a chain of offshore barges adorned with upward-facing jet engines. Each barge creates an updraft, causing water to evaporate from the ocean's surface and reducing its temperature. The resulting tropical storms travel towards the shore but dissipate harmlessly. Dr Alamaro reckons that protecting Central America and the southern United States from hurricanes would cost less than $1 billion a year. Most of the cost would be fuel: large jet engines, he observes, are abundant in the graveyards of American and Soviet long-range bombers. The creation of manmade tropical micro-storms, using heavy, greenhouse gas-burning jet engines towed through the waters of the equatorial Atlantic on what are, for all intents, artificial islands... is really a pretty ridiculous idea. Yet it reminds me of a long-standing BLDGBLOG project that has otherwise gone unpublished. Till now: Project 2: The Aeolian Reef In Virgil's * Aeneid *, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, we read about Aeolia, the weather-breeding isle: Here in a vast cavern King Aeolus Rules the contending winds and moaning gales As warden of their prison. Round the walls They chafe and bluster underground. The din Makes a great mountain murmur overhead. High on a citadel enthroned, Scepter in hand, he molifies their fury, Else they might flay the sea and sweep away Land masses and deep sky through empty air. In fear of this, Jupiter hid them away In caverns of black night. He set above them Granite of high mountains - and a king Empowered at command to rein them in Or let them go. (Book 1, Lines 75-89) Thus: BLDGBLOG's Aeolian Reef . To be fair, this all began as nothing more than an idea for a new, artificial island that would be added to the Cyclades archipelago in Greece. It would be somewhere between Constant's Babylonic mid-sea pavilion - - - an oil derrick - - - the Maunsell Towers - - - and a kind of massive, off-shore, geotechnical saxophone. Full of vaulted tubes and curved ampitheaters - and complex twists through a hollow, polished core - this modern Aeolus, an artificial island, would produce storms (and even, possibly, negate them). A modern Aeolus, in other words, would be a weather-breeding isle - or a weather-cancelling isle, as the case may be: because then there was Katrina. What would happen, I thought, if you built a manmade, weather-cancelling isle that could *stop hurricanes from forming*? I realized, of course, immediately, that you would actually need hundreds of these saxophone-like, anti-hurricane islands - even an entire manmade archipelago of them - because the atmospheric paths of storms are far too unpredictable. You would need, that is, an Aeolian Reef. The Aeolian Reef - and the current author, who cannot draw, hint-hint, would *love* to collaborate with any BLDGBLOG readers who want to illustrate some of these things - would consist of oil derrick-like platform-islands built in climatologically influential patterns throughout both the Gulf of Mexico and the larger, equatorial Atlantic. The Aeolian Reef would: 1) trap and redirect high-speed winds from any burgeoning tropical storms and hurricanes , thus preventing them from actually forming; 2) provide incredibly exciting meteorological/atmospheric observation platforms far out at sea; and 3) be readily exportable to other countries and other climates, for other purposes - land-based anti-tornado clusters, for instance. This would therefore take the subject of an earlier BLDGBLOG post a few steps further: it would use architecture, or landscape
