[spectre] Let’s Play Majerus G3 - a project by Cory Arcangel, April 27, 2024 – March 15, 2025 Berlin
Dear Spectrites, apologies if this has been cross posted, but in case not ... and if you are in Berlin, don't miss Cory Arcangel's new project */Let’s Play Majerus G3 /*which opened last night at the Michel Majerus Estate! The show features Michel Majerus' laptop and the works therein resuscitated by Cory Arcangel which were thought to have been lost or destroyed after the death of the artist in 2002. A major work of digital art restoration undertaken in cooperation with the New York based digital arts organisation Rhizome, the exhibition underscores "the increasingly prominent role of archiving digital materials and interrogates the ways in which these holdings crucially factor into authoring art-historical narratives surrounding 21st-century protagonists." Tomorrow, Saturday April 27th, 11.00 am til 12.00 noon, the estate/gallery will host a conversation between Cory Arcangel and Dragan Espenschied (Preservation Director, Rhizome) - seating on first come / first served basis. Michel Majerus Estate Knaackstrasse 12 D-10405 Berlin All further info, background and credits via https://michelmajerus.com/ greetings, Stephen -- -- r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH -- Knobelsdorffstr. 22 14059 Berlin openculture.agency X @intertwilight #ASKnet / #defyhatenow / #MMN - Migrant Media Network / #ASKotec / #ROSHOP / // -- // 'We choose to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" JFK, Rice University, 1961 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Open Culture Feminist Cafe featuring Nina Czegledy on Monday Sept 18th!
Dear Spectrites, it's a great pleasure for us to welcome Nina Czegledy, our guest to a special edition of our Open Culture Feminist Café series, Monday September 18th, at our Berlin-Charlottenburg HQ! Nina, whom many of you know and have worked with around the globe, will be discussing her ideas and challenges working with women artists in the contexts of a non-hierarchical collaborative art, science, and technological practice We look forward to seeing you and Nina on Monday! More Info and Registration at ... https://openculture.agency/women-game-changers-in-the-digital-arts/ (the event will also be streamed live) Cheers, Stephen -- -- r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH -- Knobelsdorffstr. 22 14059 Berlin +49 170 5887806 openculture.agency tweet @intertwilight #ASKnet / #defyhatenow / #MMN - Migrant Media Network / #ASKotec / #ROSHOP / // -- // 'We choose to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" JFK, Rice University, 1961 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Praying for Seiko Mikami (1961-2015.1.2)
Dear Yukiko, friends, I'm very saddened to hear about Seiko's passing!! She'll be fondly remembered as a pivotal artist / maker / experimenter, who also left a great mark on people, both young artists and the general public in Europe through her residencies and exhibitions. She left many kids in awe at the digital worlds she conjured, and showed a whole new side of Japanese passion and creativity! Very sad. Greetings from Berlin, Stephen On 13.01.2015, at 01:26, yukiko shikata wrote: To: friends of Seiko Mikami Seiko Mikami, an Internationally-acknowledged artist and professor of Information Design Department at Tama Art University, Tokyo suddenly passed away of cancer with the age 53 on January 2nd. We express our very deep sorrow and grief over her. http://www.idd.tamabi.ac.jp/art/obituaries/20150113/ * * * Seiko started her career in 1984 with huge installations to express Information Society and Body. In 90s she lived and studied in NY, and since 1995, has actively produced cutting-edge interactive works at Canon ARTLAB, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC), and since 00s at YCAM, her works have been shown in many countries worldwide. http://www.idd.tamabi.ac.jp/~mikami/artworks/index.html * * * Seiko was a charismatic and energetic, at the same time very frank and communicative, and had always various people around her. We believe Seiko will alive vividly in our memories and keep inspiring us. Kazunao Abe, Sota Ichikawa, Yukiko Shikata January 13rd, 2015 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre #DoDevDif / Doing Development Differently Jan. 22, 2014 / Embassy of Canada, Berlin registration open until Jan 10 via http://r0g-media.org/dodevdif - r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH - supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight #OSJUBA / #OSWARRAP / #OSBACK / #DefyHateNow / #DoDevDif // -- // 'We choose to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard JFK, Rice University, 1961 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Fwd: Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social Media Era
Hi John, being involved in this event, I share your *moderate* scepticism at what this could be about. My questions about context and audience etc have not exactly been satisfactorily met, but in general I appreciate and support the work that LiZhenhua does. He is the main curatorial energy behind this event, which is also supported by Goethe Institute, and certainly the path that China takes, is taking, or has been taking has been ... ehhm, *different* than that which we would normally chart. I think part of the question which becomes interesting here is whether the flagrant 'mallification' of art here (if that is the case ... i still don't have a clear pic of it) is much different than many gallery, or even biennale situations, which in themselves are sometimes overt masks of commercialism. I'm rather curious, and will gladly report back ... cheers, stephen On 03.06.2013, at 11:40, John Hopkins wrote: Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social Media Era Shanghai K11 Art Mall, is kicking off its new media art exhibition with the theme of “Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money”. The two-month Interesting that any pretext of a complicated interface between art/commerce is completely dropped in China: ART MALL! lol! -- not even the Amurikans would have the brass balls to synthesize that one! As for the Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money part -- I see the seeds of serious discontent being sewn into the pants of the rising dragon -- when it finds out the joke, there will be hell to pay... John -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD beobachten das Tao, anstatt gerade die Dow vom Umfang der Ostsee http://neoscenes.net/ http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre --- r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight // -- // __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Life as art: Vladislav Mamishev-Monroe 1969 - 2013
dear spectrites, for those of you who didn't know, Monroe ... Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe, one the St.Petersburg former 'New Academy' movement stars par excellence and co-founder of Moscow 'Pirate TV', died on March 16th, in Bali, Indonesia. Monroe, whose work was perhaps the most cutting edge and cataclysmically revealing of early post-Soviet society had also become a veritable icon in the struggle for freedom of expression in today's Putin stranglehold on Russia. Joseph Backstein, who puts him in the same league as Marina Abramovic tributes Mamyshev-Monroe, the charismatic, sharp performance artist at: http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/624/life-as-art-joseph-backstein-remembers-iconic-performance-artist-vladislav Many of us, who were first introduced to Monroe's video works (i.e. 'A Bad Mark Again') at ostranenie93 will fondly remember and greatly miss a poetically crazed artist and genius, very much in a uniquely masterful class of his own! cheers, Stephen --- r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight // -- // ** THANKS for recent r0g_EVENTS ** Sourcefabric interview @soundcloud with South Sudan Warrap State Gov. Nyandeng Malek Dielic https://soundcloud.com/sourcefabric/governor-nyandeng-warrap-state Open Systems Solutions @UNESCO WSIS+10 Review Paris, Mar 25 - 27, 2013 https://www.unesco-ci.org/cmscore/events/10-open-solutions-addressing-global-challenges MEDIA MAKERS: JUBA 2012 (#MMJUBA) Juba, Dec 10 - 13, 2012 Open Knowledge Sustainable Media Forum2 http://media-and-makers.tumblr.com/ http://www.facebook.com/events/482451018455628 WIKITOPIA Hong Kong, Jan 19 - 20, 2013 http://videotage.org.hk/project/wikitopia-keynote-and-panel-discussion/ // -- // __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] #OSJUBA - Open Source Culture and Post-Conflict Development
Dear Spectrites, if you are in Berlin (or online for the stream) please join us for #OSJUBA, an event bringing open source, hactivist and digital collaborative strategies together with the challenges faced by emergent states. The event is framed by the case of South Sudan which gained its independence from Sudan one year ago via an internationally recognised and supported referendum process. Can the diverse and community based structures that 'power' open source, accessible data and free culture methodologies play a decisive role in helping to create sustainable and viable states, especially those emerging from - or still very much in the grips of - lingering conflict? #OSJUBA Juba. The world's first Open Source City? Open Source Strategies and Post-Conflict Development in South Sudan Berlin June 21-22, 2012 Thursday June 21 | 19.00 - 21.00 KOW | Brunnenstr. 9, 10119 Berlin South Sudan and Open Source Culture Friday June 22 | 10.00 - 18.00 SUPERMARKT | Brunnenstr. 64, 13355 Berlin #OSJUBA Conference / Workshop http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/ In many parts of the world, new governments and civic societies emerging from shattering conflict and revolution are facing the challenge to (re)construct nothing less than entirely new nations. After more than four decades of brutal conflict, South Sudan, the world's newest country is faced with the need to define political participation, state identity, economic development, self-determination and freedom to speak, learn, move and - very often- to reconcile among resolute opponents. Juba, nominally a capital since the 1972 Addis Ababa peace accords granted the South autonomy, must now act as both an efficient administrator as well as the showcase of the fledgling nation's identity. However recent reports of massive stolen oil revenues and renewed border conflicts underscore the tenuous fragility of the new state's very existence, transforming a seemingly local conflict into an issue of global concern. Why Open Source and South Sudan? #OSJUBA (aka Open Source City Juba) considers these scenarios of fundamental transformation in the age of social networks, citizen media, open innovation and digital collaboration. The conference proposes to apply the innovative mechanisms and sustainable methodologies of the global open source movements as effective engines for a new form of post-conflict development practice. Using open data and crowdsourcing technologies, digital mobility for networking information and communication, new forms of citizen and device journalism the essential characteristic of the open source model is one of sustainability - a key criteria for successful development and knowledge exchange. In doing so, #OSJUBA proposes the creation of the first Open Source Capital City - a model in Africa, for the world. In collaboration with its partners Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT) and SUPERMARKT Berlin, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation, are bringing together leading local and international developers, activists and policy makers to identify and present innovative Open Source projects, platforms and methodologies, while critically examining their robustness and feasibility in an international development and post-conflict context. Venzha Christ, HONF (Yogyakarta), Daudi Were, Ushahidi (Nairobi), Nadia EL-Imam (Strasbourg), Geraldine de Bastion newthinking (Berlin), Micz Flor, Sourcefabric (Berlin/Prague), Maja Bott, KfW (Frankfurt a. Main), Kai Voeckler, Archis Interventions (Offenbach/Amsterdam), Jörn Schultz, icebauhaus (Weimar), Simon Höher + Emanuel Schwarz, knowable.org (Berlin), Christian Bauer, Artesian (Vienna), Jan Tretschok + Carolin Wiedemann, xm:lab (Saarbruecken), Nikolay Georgiev, Open Source Ecology (Karlsruhe), Johnny West, OpenOil (Berlin), Stephanie Hankey, Tactical Technology Collective (Berlin), Georgios Papadopoulos, alt. economies (Athens) #OSJUBA begins with an introduction to South Sudan one year after independence with special guests Duer Danier Galwak (SPLM / Germany) and Johannes Lehne (German Foreign Office) at KOW (Brunnenstrasse 9, Berlin) Thursday June 21, 2012 from 19.00 – 21.00 followed by a Conference/Workshop focussing on Open Source and Post-Conflict Development June 22nd at SUPERMARKT (Brunnenstr. 64, Berlin) from 10.00 - 18.00. Both are free and open to the public. Full program info: http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/osjuba-program The #OSJUBA talks on Friday June 22nd will be streamed live courtesy of Streampark AG via: http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/content/osjuba-juba-worlds-first-open-source-city http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/ Facebook Event and Stream: http://www.facebook.com/events/387391117973861/ Twitter: #osjuba greetings, and apologies if you've already received this info via other channels, stephen --- r0g_media agency for
[spectre] Andy Cameron 1959 - 2012
dear friends, I just saw this incredibly shocking news that Andy Cameron, artist, designer, thinker, all-round-amazing, funny and great persona who crossed all creative disciplines - bringing good things to people around the world ... died May 28th of a sudden heart attack. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/may/andy-cameron terrible, sad ... completely unexpected! my sincere wishes and condolences to his family and colleagues, stephen kov...@r0g-media.org --- r0g_media agency for open culture and critical transformation supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight // -- // ** r0g_EVENTS coming up ... ** #OSJUBA *towards an Open Source South Sudan* June 21/22, 2012 KOW + Supermarkt Berlin http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/ THANKS: CIRCUM / POLARITY + C_plexus Solaris featuring: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch February 29, 19.00 @ Marshall McLuhan Salon Embassy of Canada Berlin http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/calendar http://arcticperspective.org Free Culture Incubator #12 January 26, 19.00 @Supermarkt2011 Berlin Part of transmediale.12 VORSPIEL http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/free-culture-incubator-12-finale --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: Help Support NEWSCOOP free media on Sourceforge
Hi spectrites, I'm forwarding you this message from Adam Thomas of the excellent 'Newscoop' project by Sourcefabric. They've been nominated, and have almost cliched the title for the Sourceforge 'Project of the Month'. I think it's really worthwhile to help them get this 'distinction' and support free/open media, but there's only an hour left in the race, and it's NECK IN NECK against a gaming platform. So if possible - especially those of you in North America, please vote for them ... NOW! and apologies for the (moderate mis-)use of spectre for this appeal! Help NEWSCOOP win at http://twtpoll.com/03i0fe cheers, Stephen Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Thomas adam.tho...@sourcefabric.org Date: 21. Mai 2012 11:00:42 MESZ To: Adam Thomas adam.tho...@sourcefabric.org Subject: One click of your time needed for free media... Dear all, Hope this finds you well! Our independent media tool Newscoop has been nominated as Sourceforge project of the month - today's the last day of the contest and we're narrowly losing Newscoop is co-developed by amazing news organisations like http://netgazeti.ge in Georgia who, despite having a journalist arrested over the weekend, still managed to work with our team there to launch their new website. That's just one example of the amazing community who work every day to improve this valuable project... there are many more who would appreciate your vote! If you have a Twitter account, with one click you could help us win! http://twtpoll.com/03i0fe An RT would be very helpful too! http://twitter.com/#!/SourceAdam/status/204489274945568768 Your help is hugely appreciated! Best, Adam -- Adam Thomas Communications Manager, Sourcefabric adam.tho...@sourcefabric.org www.sourcefabric.com | www.sourcefabric.org Prinzessinnenstrasse 20, 10969 Berlin, Germany +49 (0)151 46430354 twitter: @SourceAdam | skype: adam.thomas.skype stephen kovats --- r0g_media agency for open culture and critical transformation supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight // -- // ** r0g_EVENTS coming up ... ** #OSJUBA *towards an Open Source South Sudan* June 21/22, 2012 KOW + Supermarkt Berlin http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/ THANKS: CIRCUM / POLARITY + C_plexus Solaris featuring: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch February 29, 19.00 @ Marshall McLuhan Salon Embassy of Canada Berlin http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/calendar http://arcticperspective.org Free Culture Incubator #12 January 26, 19.00 @Supermarkt2011 Berlin Part of transmediale.12 VORSPIEL http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/free-culture-incubator-12-finale --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Graham Larkin Lecture @McLuhan Salon Berlin Nov. 25
Dear spectrites, if you are in Berlin (or can make it!), please join us for a special lecture by McLuhan researcher Graham Larkin from Ottawa. This lecture is an 'extra' segment of the 'Re-Touching McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage' conference which took place at the Embassy of Canada earlier this year. THE REAL MESSAGE: MCLUHAN’S MEDIA PRACTICE Lecture by Graham Larkin (Ottawa, Canada) Friday November 25, 16.00 – 18.00 Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada Berlin In a 1959 talk and a 1964 book Marshall McLuhan famously declares that “the medium is the message.” By 1967 the title of a typographically adventuresome book turns “message” into “massage.” In each case McLuhan is urging his audience to care less about the apparent content of communication (what happens to be “on” TV or “in” a book) and more about the psychodynamics of the particular medium (the effects of television or the book per se).Although later interpreters have viewed the medium=message/massage tenet as central to McLuhan’s thinking, there has been little sustained attention to the practical role of inscription, publication and broadcast in his work. In short, it is time to pay closer attention to the media practice behind McLuhan’s media theory. The present talk, based on extensive researches in the McLuhan fonds at Library Archives Canada, will survey the evidence for McLuhan’s quotidian encounters with the very media that he investigates. Graham Larkin lives in Ottawa, where he was curator of European American Art at the National Gallery of Canada from 2005 to 2011. His researches into the early history of cataloguing and collecting include a doctoral dissertation (Harvard 2003) on the origins of the catalogue raisonné in 18th century print albums. While completing his dissertation he assisted information designer Edward Tufte with the award-winning book Beautiful Evidence. Dr. Larkin has taught seminars and curated exhibitions at Harvard University, and at Stanford University where he was a Humanities Fellow from 2003-5. He has published in various journals including Print Quarterly, Word Image, ArtForum and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. This event will be held in English. Admission is free and all are welcome, but please register online in advance to speed up entry and security at the Embassy. A valid photo ID is required when entering the Embassy of Canada. To register, and for more info on this and other events at the Embassy of Canada’s Marshall McLuhan Salon in Berlin please visit: http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/en/calendar The Marshall McLuhan Salon, the Berlin Embassy of Canada's multimedia information centre in Berlin, provides information on and hosts one of the broadest publicly accessible archives about Canadian media philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan. Beyond the lecture by Graham Larkin and other events, the MMS is open weekly on Fridays 10.00 - 17.00, or the rest of the week by appointment. Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada Berlin Ebertstr. 14 , 10117 Berlin Entry/Access via Leipziger Platz 17 S+U Potsdamer Platz greetings, Stephen Initiator / Director McLuhan in Europe 2011 Network - Celebrating the Marshall McLuhan Centennial http://mcluhan2011.eu/berlin #mcluhan2011eu Graham Larkin: THE REAL MESSAGE: MCLUHAN’S MEDIA PRACTICE Marshall McLuhan Salon, Berlin 16.00, 25 October 2011 McLuhan Open Studio / 100 Voices McLuhan Frankfurt Book Fair 12 - 16 October 2011 #100VoicesMcLuhan McLuminations feat. Martina Leeker Marshall McLuhan Salon, Berlin 20 October 2011 RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN Berlin Centennial Weekend | 27 - 29 May 2011 Marshall McLuhan Salon | Embassy of Canada - kov...@mcluhan2011.eu http://mcluhan2011.eu twitter.com/mcluhan2011eu facebook.com/mcluhan2011eu http://www.transmediale.de/Beyond/mcluhan-2011 - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Werkschau Gábor Bódy im AdK Berlin
Dear spectrites, this, from Gusztáv Hámos ... he'll be presenting a number of Gábor Bódy works as part of the excellent Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor Bódy retrospective Der Stand der Bilder. Sunday Nov 20th, at the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin: die Akademie der Künste zeigt im Rahmen der Ausstellung Blickwechsel - Die Medienpioniere Zbigniew Rybczynski und Gábor Bódy das Filmprogramm Der Stand der Bilder. Am Sonntag den 20.11.2011. werden in der AdK am Hanseatenweg eine Auswahl von Gábor Bódy's Filmen gezeigt: Der Dämon in Berlin, Amerikai anzix (American Torso), Kutya éji dala (Nachtlied des Hundes) u.a. Body's Filme werden an diesem Tag von Gusztáv Hámos vorgestellt. Sonntag, 20. November 2011 Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Filmprogramm (II) mit Filmen von Gábor Bódy vorgestellt von Gusztáv Hámos, Medienkünstler Eintritt € 5/3 je Block, Tageskarte € 8/5 Detaillierte Infos: www.adk.de/de/projekte/2011/blickwechsel/film.htm __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Opening Thu 27, 19.30 in Berlin! State of Images. The Media Pioneers Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy
(via Ptr Kraj on FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=309536769061851) State of Images. The Media Pioneers Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy Der Stand der Bilder. Die Medienpioniere Zbigniew Rybczyński und Gabor Body Opening: Friday 27 October, 7.30 pm 28 October 2011 – 1 January 2012 Akademie der Künste in Berlin Hanseatenweg 10, Halle 2 Berlin, Germany Exhibition The State of Images. The Media Pioneers Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy, is an attempt to juxtapose two pioneers of media art, Zbigniew Rybczyński (PL) and Gábor Bódy (HU), both of whom developed under the influence of the first European avant-garde. They begun their artistic enquiries in the early 1970s and immediately took on the challenges of the new media technologies, initially as experimental filmmakers and then in the field of video. Despite similarities, their artistic apparatus is highly distinct: Rybczyński is an illustrator, designer, and an engineer. Bódy in contrast is a poet, linguist, semiotician, and a dramatist. Surprisingly, the paths of these two artists from Central Europe have never crossed before. This exhibition gives a unique opportunity to both appreciate their different artistic languages as well as seek for possible intersections. One immediately noticeable trait in their oeuvres is the spirit of progressive, radical and revolutionary experimentation. Over the years they have used technology to persistently examine the boundaries of both technology and human imagination; regardless of the socrealist regimes in which both of them initially worked. Yet even after moving westwards, where technology was much more advanced and well-developed, they did not relinquish this spirit. In fact, for both Rybczyński and Bódy technology was always a tool and never a goal in itself. The exhibition shows stages of their creative development that were building up through time but also through space and is at the same time a perfect demonstration of how boundaries between East and West might be flux. Presented videos, animations, drawings, calculations and wide-ranging reflections reveal the universalistic quality of their art that is utterly humane. Curators: Piotr Krajewski Miklós Peternák Exhibition’s concept Siegfried Zielinski http://www.adk.de/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/index.htm?we_objectID=30363 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=309536769061851 greetings, Stephen Initiator / Director McLuhan in Europe 2011 Network - Celebrating the Marshall McLuhan Centennial http://mcluhan2011.eu/berlin @mcluhan2011eu McLuminations feat. Martina Leeker Marshall McLuhan Salon, Berlin 20 October 2011 McLuhan Open Studio / 100 Voices McLuhan Frankfurt Book Fair 12 - 16 October 2011 #100VoicesMcLuhan RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN Berlin Centennial Weekend | 27 - 29 May 2011 Marshall McLuhan Salon | Embassy of Canada - kov...@mcluhan2011.eu http://mcluhan2011.eu twitter.com/mcluhan2011eu facebook.com/mcluhan2011eu http://www.transmediale.de/Beyond/mcluhan-2011 - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2011: Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller - Award Ceremony and opening of exhibition - 28 June, 2011
viaKatharina Fichtner katharina.ficht...@international.gc.ca Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2011: Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller English Version below Preisverleihung und Ausstellungseröffnung Dienstag, 28. Juni 2011 · 19 Uhr Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Plenarsaal Begrüßung: Prof. Klaus Staeck Grußwort: Botschafter von Kanada, Peter M. Boehm Laudatio: Prof. Wulf Herzogenrath Träger des Käthe-Kollwitz-Preises 2011 ist das in Berlin lebende kanadische Künstlerpaar Janet Cardiff und George Bures Miller. In ihrer Ausstellung am Pariser Platz wird die Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von akustischer Wahrnehmung und illusionistischen Räumen fokussiert. Denn die wirklichen Vorgänge von Cardiffs und Millers Geschichten entstehen beim Begehen und Betrachten erst mit der visuell-sinnlichen Wahrnehmung. Durch Erinnerung und Vorstellung an und von Räumen, Objekten und Zusammenhängen öffnet sich eine weitere Ebene. Als Betrachter-Zuhörer ist man zwischen Traum und Traumata, Erschrecken und Neugierde hin- und hergerissen. Oft passt das, was man sieht, nicht mit dem zusammen, was man hört oder aber der Klang lässt sich dem imaginierten Ort nicht zuordnen. Killing Machine (2007) ist eines dieser faszinierenden Hauptwerke: Der Foltermaschine im Raum ausgesetzt, erlebt der Besucher einzig durch Licht und eine technisch komplexe Sound-Komposition die bis ins Unerträgliche gesteigerte Maltraitierung eines fiktiven Opfers. Während das wechselnde Licht, mechanische Folterarme und der leere Behandlungsstuhl die innerlich schmerzende Erfahrung befördern, banalisiert die Disco-Lichtkugel diesen Moment. Das narrative Moment der Arbeit spielt sich einzig in unseren Köpfen ab, die Künstler reduzieren ihr Werk auf die akustische und visuelle Wahrnehmung und die Illusion des nicht Vorhandenen. Award Ceremony and opening of exhibition Tuesday, June 28 2011 · 7 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Plenarsaal Address of welcome: Prof. Klaus Staeck Greeting Words: Ambassador of Canada, Peter M. Boehm Laudation: Prof. Wulf Herzogenrath The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2011 has been awarded jointly to Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. On this occasion the artist duo from Canada will be showing four works in the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts). The exhibition at Pariser Platz will focus on the construction and deconstruction of acoustic perception and illusionist spaces. The real occurrences in Cardiffs and Millers stories only reveal themselves when people enter the space and engage their visual and tactile senses. An additional layer is revealed in the process of recalling and imagining spaces, objects and relations. As an observer-listener, the visitor is tugged back and forth between dream and trauma, horror and curiosity. What people see often fails to match with what they are hearing, or it is hard to associate a particular sound with its imagined location. One of these intriguingly narrative main works is entitled "Killing Machine" (2007), on display for the first time in Berlin. Confronted with the machine of torture in the room, the visitor experiences the maltreatment of a fictional victim as it is increased to the unbearable an effect achieved purely through light and a complex sound composition. While the changing light conditions and the empty "treatment chair" convey the experience of inner pain, a disco ball renders the situation trivial. The narrative aspect plays out only in our minds. Ausstellung / Exhibition 29.6. 14.8.2011, Di/Tue So/Sun 11:00 20:00, 5,-/3,- EUR Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin i...@adk.de, www.adk.de Mit Unterstützung der Botschaft von Kanada / Supported by the Embassy of Canada Katharina Fichtner Cultural Attaché- Visual Art, Film, New Media Attachée culturelle- Arts visuels, cinéma, nouveaux médias Embassy of Canada - Ambassade du Canada katharina.ficht...@international.gc.ca www.kanada.de Tel. 0049-30-20 312-262 (Mitnet 466-3262) Fax. 0049-30-20 312-121 Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin, Germany / Allemagne Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada | Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding
hi all, this may sound somewhat naive, but given that the organisations involved are not exactly 'fly-by-night' speculative or frivolous instances, but are historically significant parts of the Dutch, European and broader and international cultural, political, educational, academic and scientific landscapes, i.e. institutions of major significant cultural and national heritage, that perhaps this is an issue that needs to be taken up by a court challenge at the European level, either at the European Court of Human Rights or the European Court of Justice. It's not necessarily so that national governments have either the right, the mandate or the power to disproportionately or unreasonably erase such significant portions of their own cultural identity. any legal experts with relevant experience/insight among the ranks of the spectrites? greetings, Stephen On 14.06.2011, at 20:15, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: (fwd) Last Friday the new policy plans of the new Minister were announced and published and they are very dramatic in general for the whole field of art and culture in The Netherlands. On the PNEK list it was announced as: New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding. The Dutch New Media Art Organisations Steim, De Waag, Mediamatic, V2 NIMK are about to lose all their funding. The Dutch secretary of state for Culture in the Netherlands, Halbe Zijlstra, has published his policy plan for coming years. In contrast to the official recommendations given to him by the Culture Advisory Board, the cutbacks will not be spread out over a number of years, but will take immediate effect in 2013. The budget for visual art will shrink from 53,3 to 31 million. Among the more damaging and destructive decisions is the complete cutting of funding for the six leading New Media Art Organsiations that produce, distribute and facilitate New Media Art; -STEIM: Independent Live electronic music centre that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. -De WAAG: Organisation Worklab for old and new media, developers of open source tools, research technology for the creative independant industry intermediate between art, science and media. -Worm: Rotterdam based laboratory, venue and studios for film, music and internet featuring concerts, new media events, screenings, production of film, music and software art. -Mediamatic: software art projects, lectures, workshops screenings aiming on the young generation of artists, designers tinkerers. -V2: interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology in Rotterdam, activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks operating in an international network -NIMK: The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) promotes the wide and unrestrained development, application and distribution of, and reflection on, new technologies within the visual arts. Since the Netherlands Media Art Institute came into being in 1978 an extensive collection of video and media art has been assembled, to which new works are constantly being added. These institutes together form the foundation for New Media Arts in the Netherlands and forfil an important role in the International Network that shares knowledge, exchanges, produces, distributes and promotes various forms of New Media Art. For most of these organisations the budget cuts will mean their disappearance. (fwd) BUT of course there is more to it. In the document one can read that Architecture, Design and eCulture are fusing together in a new fund called Creative Industry (something non of these sectors wants). ALL organization in the 3 domains won't receive any structural funding anymore in this plan BUT the new Fund, that is now being structured, will likely offer the change to organizations to get structural funding (2 to 4 years). But since this fund is not there yet and since they are having strong debates about the role and function, and program of this fund nothing is indicated about this fund in the published document. So when reading the document you get a different picture of what is being debated right now insight the Ministry and with the 3 sectors. The thing that should be in place for this fund are 1. structural funding to some of the important plpl.ayers in the 3 sectors; and 2. creating space for basic research in the 3 sectors. When we get this done we are still facing a hardcore economic agenda (the Minister is a hardcore liberal) but that we can shape and address 'creatively' since we can't and don't want to fullfill this agenda ourselves. Dealing with the goals of the new Fund will be a major challenge since NO ONE wants this Fund and it has NO bearing grounds. Still, if you read the whole document you can see that probably eCulture, design and architecture are coming out best if you compare what is happening in other sectors
Re: [spectre] Fw: electropera act 7 web page finally up
great! we'll welcome/intro HONF then also cheers, stephen Sent from outerSpace stephen kovats mcluhan2011.eu On 08.06.2011, at 15:04, venzha christ ven...@yahoo.com wrote: hi, thanks Stephen we will join for the streaming :-) http://video.kiberpipa.org/live.html chat: irc.freenode.net #mcluhan2011eu cheers from all fibers here n say hi to K4 people :-) v venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro - Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : ven...@yahoo.com ven...@natural-fiber.com URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com - Original Message From: Stephen Kovats kov...@mcluhan2011.eu To: venzha christ ven...@yahoo.com Cc: Spectre spectre@mikrolisten.de Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 2:00:22 PM Subject: Re: [spectre] Fw: electropera act 7 web page finally up Hi Venzha, yes, the site is up - and the lectures, including those by MICHAEL SAUP, JAAP BLONK, ANDREAS FINDEISEN, and your own IRENE AGRIVINA WIDYANINGRUM from HONF will streamed and live moderated starting this evening 18.00 CEST (Ljubljana). Coding The Society by Egon March Institute and Authors, June 7 - 8, 2011 in Ljubljana Kiberpipa - Caffe Metropol, Kersnikova 6 / Club K4, Kersnikova 4 Coding the Society is Act 7 of electropera, the pilot art project of x-op http://www.x-op.eu live stream (18.00 - 22.00 June 8): http://video.kiberpipa.org/live.html chat: irc.freenode.net #mcluhan2011eu tweet @kiberpipa join us on the stream if you can! cheers, Stephen On 06.06.2011, at 14:39, venzha christ wrote: electropera act 7: coding the society ljubljana, june 6 - 7 2011 http://web.me.com/marchegon/electropera/act_7.html __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre Initiator / Director McLuhan in Europe 2011 Network - RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN http://mcluhan2011.eu/berlin #mcluhan2011eu Berlin Centennial Weekend | 27 - 29 May 2011 Marshall McLuhan Salon | Embassy of Canada - kov...@mcluhan2011.eu http://mcluhan2011.eu twitter.com/mcluhan2011eu facebook.com/mcluhan2011eu http://www.transmediale.de/Beyond/mcluhan-2011 - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Serendipitor @ transmediale.11, New Version, New Website
(Forwarded by Stephen Kovats - On 27.01.2011, at 02:15, Mark Shepard wrote:) Hi there, There's been a lot going on over the past weeks and months behind the scenes, and I'll try to be as brief as possible in this update... + Serendipitor @ transmediale.11 I'll be in Berlin next week for transmediale.11, where Serendipitor has been nominated for the 2011 transmediale Award - http://www.transmediale.de/transmediale-award-nominees-2011. The project will be exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt from February 1 - 6. On Thursday, February 3 and Saturday, February 5 at 4pm I will be conducting group walks with the app. Drop me a note if you will be there and want to connect! + New Version A new version of the software has been released. This version adds an I'm done button that enables you to share the directions you received together with a map of your route and any photos you took along the way - even without reaching the final destination. It also addresses a bug that produced crashes on iOS 3.1.3. Update now! + New Website http://serendipitor.net now features a selection of routes people have shared using the app. View maps, directions and photos from New York, New York; Arhus, Denmark; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Valencia, Spain; Trieste, Italy and more. Contribute your own routes to the site using the new version of the app! Best regards, Mark -+- Serendipitor http://serendipitor.net find something by looking for something else Serendipitor is one component of the Sentient City Survival Kit - http://survival.sentientcity.net - a project of Creative Capital -+- greetings, and apologies if you have already received this note via other channels, stephen artistic director transmediale.11 | 1 - 6 feb 2011 RESPONSE : ABILITY festival for art and digital culture berlin - #tm11 Festival Passes and Tickets http://www.transmediale.de/info/tickets Marshall McLuhan 'COUNTERBLAST' 1954 limited transmediale special edition! publicati...@transmediale.de Open Web Award - Vote and comment on your favourite work: https://www.drumbeat.org/open-web-award-finalists-voting transmediale festival archive 1997 - 2009 BETA online! http://archive.transmediale.de/ Celebrate Marshall McLuhan's 100th in 2011! http://www.transmediale.de/en/beyond/McLuhan-2011 klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale http://www.facebook.com/transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale.11: Reminder / Dec 20th last call for Early Bird Passes!
Ray's photo 'Élevage de poussière' of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. transmediale.11's zones of artistic and critical inquiry, the Open Zone and HacKaWay will open with labs, installations, actions and the inauguration of festival bureaus by Heath Bunting and Christine Lahr, and a performance of 'Latent Image Protocol' by Paul Vanouse who will prepare the first of his unique DNA fingerprint samples. In the studio gallery, transmediale hosts 'The Secrets Trilogy' the 4th Labor Berlin merging Reynold Reynold's 'Secret Life', 'Secret Machine' and 'Six Easy Pieces' in a complex work that twists the notions of time and space - the imperceptible conditions that question the nature of our liveness within the cacophony of technological life. Here you can find a preliminary programme overview: http://www.transmediale.de/content/transmediale11-programme-preview Of the transmediale.11 programme of ca. 150 events and projects some of the major thematic nodes and highlights include ... transmediale's The Open Zone, curated by Ela Kagel and manifested through open studios, challenging workshops and temporary project offices run by leading artists and international experts from the open technology and critical art fields such as Ursula Endlicher, Kelly Sutton, Heath Bunting, Christopher 'moot' Poole, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Elizabeth Stark, Peter Sunde, Les Liens Invisibles and Berlin's Open Design City probes and expands our abilities to respond to the volatility and constant flux of digital life. Helping along the way will be Angel_F, the digitally conceived spyware entity born through the technological-sensual relationship between Biodoll and Derrick de Kerckhove. http://www.transmediale.de/content/preview-open-zone Joining the BODY:RESPONSE conference curated by Markus Huber renowned digital media activists and researchers including Franco 'BIFO' Berardi, Maurizio Lazzarato,Tim Etchells, Carolyn Guertin, Jens Hauser, Marie-Luise Angerer, Tapio Mäkelä,Verena Kuni, Roberto Esposito, Judith Revel, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Eric Kluitenberg, Adrian Heathfield, Franca Formenti (Biodoll), Lynn Hershman and Mark Hansen will be leading a debate into the impact of the hybrid, simultaneous and transformative status of digital liveness on the concepts of identity and physical autonomy within the world of social media and the emergent psycho-political power configurations of the 'born-digital' era. In a special evening performative lecture, Vilem Flusser Theory Award nominee Jordan Crandall will present his politically charged urban surveillance, and augmented locationing technologies research project *EVENT, AGENCY, AND PROGRAM*. http://www.transmediale.de/content/conference-preview-bodyresponse SyncExistence features eleven film and video programmes curated by Marcel Schwierin comprising 58 historical and contemporary moving image works from 18 countries. This year's main focus is a reflection on the vital ways in which 20th century cinema – through its editing techniques and new visual culture – contributed to promoting the sense of growing simultaneity, ubiquity and acceleration which the Internet has since increased exponentially. Additional highlights include a focus on the first live television broadcasts, specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, a leading pioneer of interactive live media art, Ho Tzu Nyen, the transmediale Award Nominee from Singapore, and the second edition of theArabShorts project. http://www.transmediale.de/content/preview-film-video-programme-syncexistence This year’s performance programme LIVE:RESPONSE curated by Sandra Naumann hovers at the interface between the real world and the media sphere, between liveness and reproduction, between virtual and physical. At three locations, in the majestic House of World Cultures Auditorium, on the Café Stage and at the HacKaWay zone performers including Fair Use, Rosa Menkman, Tina Tonagel, Preslav Literary School, Eosin,Dorothy of the Day and Tour de Vinyl will test and weave experimental arrangements throughout the festival programme. Featured are two special 'double-header' performance concert nights, on Wed. Feb 02 with Cécile Babiole Vincent Goudard's DONJON andPeople Like Us with Genre Collage, and on Fri Feb 04 Herman Kolgen's INJECT and Daito Manabe's Face Visualizer piece will square off. http://www.transmediale.de/content/performances-preview-liveresponse Many more featured projects, workshops and satellite events to be announced shortly! For more information please consult http://www.transmediale.de/, and follow the development of the program, watch for workshop and participatory project calls and tell your friends by following us on twitter (#tm11) or facebook. We wish everybody a happy holiday season, great new years ... and looking forward to seeing you at transmediale.11, Stephen Kovats artistic director transmediale.11 | 1 - 6 feb 2011
[spectre] transmediale 2012 and into the future!
Dear friends and spectrites, as many of you already now, I will be leaving transmediale after my fourth and next edition - 'RESPONSE : ABILITY', which will open Feb 01, 2011 in Berlin! Today we have the distinct pleasure to announce that Kristoffer Gansing will take up transmediale for the 2012 edition of the festival (and hopefully beyond, if the funding stars are well aligned)! Kristoffer is a cultural producer and media researcher based usually in Copenhagen and Malmö, whose PhD project, “Transversal Media Practices” at the K3 School of Arts and Communication (Malmö University) explored the increasing hybridization of old and new media technologies in media art and network culture. Recently he was director of The Art of the Overhead, the world's only festival devoted to the Overhead projector. Concerned with the intersections of media culture, art and everyday life, Kristoffer has also been active as a writer since 1999, contributing to international journals and books including “Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts”, “Online Territories” and “Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology”. I look forward to passing on the great transmediale tradition to Kristoffer, and to seeing him and everybody else who can make it to Berlin in February for what is shaping up to be a great festival! With greetings to all, Stephen! PS# Don't forget to vote and give feedback for transmediale and drumbeat's new Open Web Award! Check out the finalists #thimbl, #booki and #GML at: https://www.drumbeat.org/open-web-award-finalists-voting artistic director transmediale.11 | 1 - 6 feb 2011 RESPONSE : ABILITY festival for art and digital culture berlin **Early bird tickets on sale beginning November 10** Open Web Award - Vote now! https://www.drumbeat.org/open-web-award-finalists-voting Free Culture Incubator Workshop series on now: http://www.transmediale.de/content/workshop-no-2-open-nov-27th-betahaus transmediale festival archive 1997 - 2009 BETA online! http://archive.transmediale.de/ Celebrate Marshall McLuhan's 100th in 2011! http://www.transmediale.de/en/beyond/McLuhan-2011 Collaborative Futures Book 2 out now! http://collaborative-futures.org/ klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] reminder: transmediale + Vilem Flusser Theory Awards 2010 - Call for Entries Deadline July 31st!
Dear spectrites, just a gentle reminder that the deadline for Entries to the transmediale and Vilem Flusser Theory Awards 2010 is July 31st! // transmediale Award 2010 // // Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 // _Call for Entries_ :: Deadline: 31 July 2009 Please refer to the complete call and online submission form at: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice from narrative, online and offline work, hybrid or technologically multi-disciplinary and interactive work, to code, network, unstable and hactivist art. The Awards seek to promote art practices that both embrace and question the relationships between media, technology and society, advancing progressive and global forms of cultural media development. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and media culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO. Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburgh), José Luis de Vicente (Barcelona/Madrid), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin/ Karlsruhe). Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include Marcel René Marburger (_Vilém_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University, Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) transmediale.10 - FUTURITY NOW! festival for art and digital culture berlin 03 - 07 February 2010 CTM - club transmediale.10 festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 29 January - 6 February 2010 To receive complete and periodic program information about transmediale please sign up to the transmediale newsletter, or keep in touch with developments and upcoming events on twitter or facebook. http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale10 facebook: transmediale group We look forward to your proposals, and wish you a great rest of the summer, stephen kovats artistic director transmediale.10 | 3 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale Award 2010 submissions: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Carsten Nicolai: 'rota' at new Schering Foundation Space
Hi all, if you happen to be in Berlin this evening, the Ernst Schering Foundation is opening a new space for exhibitions, lectures and workshops at the interface of art and science. The kick-off event will be Carsten Nicolai's exhibition 'rota' at 19.00, Unter den Linden 32-34, Berlin http://www.scheringstiftung.de/lang-en/deutsch/home/18-kultur/2350- carsten-nicolai-rota greetings, Stephen artistic director transmediale.10 | 3 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale Award 2010 submissions: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale10 kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale Award 2010 - Call for Entries
// transmediale Award 2010 // // Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 // transmediale.10 festival for art and digital culture berlin 03 - 07 February 2010 CTM - club transmediale.10 festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 29 January - 6 February 2010 _Call for Entries_ :: Deadline: 31 July 2009 :: Award Ceremony: 6 February 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Complete call, registration information and online submission form at: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO. transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and creative impact of new technologies, network practices and digital innovation. As a festival aiming to define the contours of contemporary digital culture, it seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural and aesthetic techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies. CTM (club transmediale) is dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music and sound creation, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities and social practises that develop within and connect to those audio cultures. Thus, the festival reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within the cultural fabric of society and its technological and social transformations. It explores the intersections of contemporary music and audio art with other artistic forms and cultural fields. A special emphasis is put on the creative use of new technologies, the interplay of sound with other media formats, the situational potential of live performances, the formation of social networks, and the advancement of a positive form of globalization. Previous transmediale Award winners have included renowned artists such as Herman Asselberghs, Shilpa Gupta, Graham Harwood / Richard Wright / Matsuko Yokokoji, Zhou Hongxiang, Istvan Kantor, Thomas Koener, Julia Meltzer/David Thorne, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Netochka Nezvanova, schoenerwissen, ubermorgen.com, Adrian Ward, Herwig Weiser and 242.pilots. The Vilem Flusser Theory Award, in collaboration with the _Vilem_Flusser_Archive of the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, has been awarded to Simon Yuill (2008), Denis Roio aka jaromil and Brian Holmes (2009). Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburgh), Jose Luis de Vicente (Barcelona/Madrid), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin/ Karlsruhe). Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include Marcel Marburger (_Vilem_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) transmediale Advisory Board are Alex Adriaansens (Rotterdam), Dr. Marie Cathleen Haff (Berlin), Prof. Saskia Sassen (New York), Yukiko Shikata (Tokyo). transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, in cooperation with the House of World Cultures and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. CTM is a project by DISK / club transmediale GbR funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and DISK Initiative Bild Ton e.V. We look forward to your proposals, and apologies if you have already received this announcement through other channels, stephen kovats artistic director
Re: [spectre] Re: Re: In memoriam: [...] Oleg Kireev
hi all, this is absolutely shocking - and disturbing news! Oleg was certainly more than an activist, whether VIP or not, but a brilliant artist whose art was the language of critical discourse and action where - to echo Inke's words - such forms of expression are not readily accepted as art but as subversive activity against the state. It's incredible, and for me somewhat incomprehensible, that these pressures may have contributed to Oleg's loss. it's very sad, and perhaps a wake up call of sorts ... greetings, Stephen On 09.04.2009, at 00:40, Diana McCarty wrote: Thanks for this incredible bit of insight. I am sure that everybody mourning the tragic loss of a friend and colleague that they adored should really take a few minutes to consider the injustice of this. We should all take a few minutes to worry about totally irrelevant people that don't actually do anything other than whine about who might be getting a bit of attention. Bravo. Well done. Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:02:41 +0200 From: Matze Schmidt matze.schm...@n0name.de Subject: [spectre] Re: In memoriam: [...] To: spectre@mikrolisten.de Very important Russian activist It is still interesting that the distinction between VIP activists and Non-VIP activists is alive. M __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre artistic director transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale.09 Award Call
transmediale.09 Award Competition - Call transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH festival for art and digital culture berlin 27 January - 1 February 2009 club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 23 - 31 January 2009 _Call for Entries_ :: Deadline: 5 September 2008 :: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009 Find the complete call and submission form for download at: http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries *transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES* As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award. *transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies. *club transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations. For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic focus. transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory global warming debate. transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger. Are we about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and cataclysmic change - a point of no return leaving in its wake uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, systemic and network norms? DEEP NORTH becomes not a fixed location, but a paradigm transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into urgent and revealing states of being and expression. With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, club transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies. This still remains primarily the domain of committed individuals and small, self-organised groups or networks that, often in the most precarious of circumstances, provide the supporting platform for these new artistic articulations and experiments. In its 10th year, CTM looks into the current state and potential development opportunities of these independent structures. Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and projects that respond to these challenges and embody contemporary notions of art that embrace, question and enrich digital culture. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2009 while theoretical abstracts, papers and critical artistic positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling ca. 10.000 EURO. Jury members of the transmediale Award 2009 are Annick Bureaud, Paris; Bronac Ferran, London; Juha Huuskonen, Helsinki; Pooja Sood, New Delhi; Christoph Tannert, Berlin transmediale is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt :: club transmediale (CTM) is a project of DISK - Sound Image Initiative e.V. :: transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation :: CTM is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. *** - transmediale.09 :: 27 January - 1 February 2009 festival for art and digital culture berlin - transmediale :: Klosterstr. 68 :: D-10179 Berlin tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 :: fax. +49
[spectre] Fwd: In Memoriam: Nan Hoover
Dear all, one of the great pioneers of video and electronic art Nan Hoover passed away Monday in Berlin. Montevideo/TBA (Amsterdam) has set up a 'condolences site' for anybody to leave a personal message: Nan Hoover in Memoriam Condoleance book: http://www.condoleance.nl/registers/ register_10254.html Best regards, Stephen Begin forwarded message: From: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11. Juni 2008 21:09:57 GMT+02:00 Nan Hoover New York, May 12, 1931 – Berlin, June 9, 2008 It is with deepest sadness that we bid farewell to Nan Hoover. Dear Nan, you were one of the most important international pioneers of video and performance art. You came to Amsterdam for a vacation, fell in love with the city and decided to stay. With your video art you revealed the beauty of light, stillness and time. You have left us with the memories of your spontaneity, your warmth and sharp eye for the work of your colleagues and students – and of course your oeuvre, preserved in museums and many collections. A special memorial is organized for Nan Hoover on June 20th at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. For questions and/or details please contact us via infoatnimk.nl Heiner Holtappels Director, Netherlands Media Art Institute For all the staff of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA http://www.nan-hoover.com/ Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst / Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 NL-1016 EV Amsterdam http://www.nimk.nl artistic director DEEP NORTH transmediale.09 | 28 jan - 1 feb 2009 festival for art and digital culture berlin klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Today - Berlin Demo Against Data Retention ... and Pirate party ...
Dear Spectrites, for anybody who happens be in Berlin today, (Saturday September 22) you may want to join the protest against government efforts to retain and network personal telecommunications data. Under the motto Liberty instead of Fear (Freiheit statt Angst) the protest organisers (the German Working Group on Data Retention) also hope to illustrate the growing problematic of 'data abuse' and legitimate concerns about the erosion of basic democratic and constitutional rights to individual privacy and freedom of movement. http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/125/116/lang,en/ Protest march in Berlin on Saturday, 22 September at 2.30 pm Civil rights groups are calling on citizens to join in a protest march against excessive surveillance by businesses and governments. On 22 September 2007 concerned citizens will take to the streets, the motto being Liberty instead of fear - Stop the surveillance mania!. We will meet at Pariser Platz (Brandenburger Tor) at 2.30 pm. After the march, the German Pirate Party (www.pirantenpartei.de) will be celebrating its 1st anniversary, and invites anybody interested in their activities, which include securing privacy and data protection, government transparency, open access and non-commercial use and reproduction of digital material: Piratenpartei Birthday Celebration and 'Freiheit statt Angst' Demo Afterparty at C-Base Berlin beginning at 19.00 with: djs alex, b1doppel s (zwieback), pirat location: C-Base, Rungestr. 20, Janowitzbrücke, Berlin http://www.c-base.org/ http://www.piratenpartei.de/ http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ cheers, stephen *** conspire ... tm.08 january 29 - february 03, 2008 stephen kovats artistic director - transmediale festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale - Klosterstr. 68 - 10179 Berlin tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 fax. +49 (0)30.24749-814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.transmediale.de Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Berlin Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B Geschäftsführer: Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Today ... ?Copyriot!-Pirate Movement to Brussels in 2009? / Live-Audiostream+IRC from Vienna
Dear Spectrites ... today, Sunday afternoon and this evening, 10th of June, there will be two panels about the actual problems of European Digital Futures (IPRED2, Data Retention Directive) and ways to react. The event features Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, in conversation with Member of European Parliament (MEP) Eva Lichtenberger on the dispute over the recent so-called „Criminalisation Directive“ (IPRED 2): http://www.copycrime.eu/ copycrime.eu http://www.fsfeurope.org/ http://www.piratpartiet.se/international The events, listed below, will be streamed live with an IRC channel open for commentary and questions: Audio-Live-Stream: www.nextsteppolitics09.org IRC for Questions: irc.goto10.org / Channel: pirate09 --- Pirate-Office, ThePirateBay, Pirate Parties - the Swedes are invading Vienna once again! Sunday, 10th of June 2007 15.00 - 17.00 Wake up! - European Digital Futures at stake? Participants: Eva Lichtenberger (MEP of the Green Party, Austria) / Chris Jeitler (Quintessenz.at; tbc) / Christian Engström (Swedish Pirate Party), Clifford Wolff (coder of RockLinux and Kwaffler, A), Tom Fürstner (programmer and artist, A) 19.00 - 21.00 Next Step Politics!? Pirates to Brussels 2009?! 19.00 Keynote by Rick Falkvinge, Founder of piratpartiet.se 20.00 Panel-Discussion with Rick Falkvinge (SE), Eva Lichtenberger (A) , Adrian Dabrowski (Quintessenz, A), Stephen Kovats (artistic drector of Transmediale, Berlin, CA / DE) www.nextsteppolitics09.org www.transformingfreedom.org --- Organized in cooperation with: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, metalab, monochrom, teichenberg, Transforming Freedom and the Quarter for Digital Cultlure (QDK) at the quartier21 Funded by: work / serious fun Means of the netznetz-community / MA 7 of Wien Kultur greetings, Stephen Kovats *** conspire ... tm.08 january 29, 2008 stephen kovats artistic director - transmediale festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale - Klosterstr. 68 - 10179 Berlin tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 fax. +49 (0)30.24749-814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.transmediale.de Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Berlin Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B Geschäftsführer: Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] DEAF07 - Polar Bending Conference today
DEAF07 - Interact or Die! Polar Bending Conference: I-TASC The Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation Sat. April 14 @ 14.00 - 16.30 V2_Studio Witte de Withstraat 63 Rotterdam I-TASC, an official project of the current International Polar Year, is a decentralized network of individuals and organisations working collaboratively in the fields of art, science and technology on the creative development and tactical deployment of renewable energy, sustainable architecture and open-format, open-source media. I-TASC is a lichen-like structure sharing and integrating local knowledge, resources and skills in order to symbiotically engage with the air, ocean, earth and space commons. Antarctica and the Arctic are the critical departure points for I-TASC, with preliminary research trips having taken place in Nunavut, Canada (2006) and a recently completed trip to SANAE IV, the South African Research base in Antarctica. Polar Bending will present the work and vision of I-TASC, including Polar Radio, Antarctica's first artist-run radio station aimed at linking North and South polar communities, the Antarctica Data Jam using PureData to resample live polar weather data, a live set by the performance entity 'Gem Sqash' as well as a series of proxy projects hosted by the recent I-TASC mission to the Antarctic. Featuring: Ntsikelelo 'First Born' Ntshingila (SA) Adam Hyde (NZ) Thomas Mulcaire (SA) Amanda Rodrigues Alves (BR) Marko Peljhan (SI) With I-TASC participants: Tijmen Schep (NL) Matthew Biederman (CDN) Moderated and introduced by Stephen Kovats, V2_ http://www.interpolar.org/ http://adam.engagetv.com/gem_sqash http://www.broadcastyourpodcast.com Polar Bending is co-produced by: ZAVOD PROJEKT ATOL (Slovenia) with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia DEAF07 - INTERACT OR DIE! APRIL 10 - 29, 2007 www.deaf07.nl *** stephen kovats artistic director - transmediale festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale - Klosterstr. 68 - 10179 Berlin tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 fax. +49 (0)30.24749-814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.transmediale.de Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Berlin Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B Geschäftsführer: Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CREATIVITY 2.0 - 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference (V2_ Rotterdam Satellite)
CREATIVITY 2.0 Rotterdam satellite of the 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference V2_ (Rotterdam) Saturday October 28, 2006 10.00 – 13.00 (CEST - Central European Summer Time) realmedia stream: www.v2.nl (rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm) IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon V2_ invites you to participate in CREATIVITY 2.0, an extra- territorial Tangent_Event taking place in Rotterdam connecting to the 2nd Chinese Bloggers Conference, in Hangzhou China October 28/29. Featuring special guest Régine Debatty we-make-money-not-art.com in Rotterdam and cultural bloggers Zhang Qing and Gino Yu in Hangzhou, CREATIVITY 2.0 will bring together leading independent writers and curators to discuss the rise of the blog as an open medium of expression in establishing and supporting unrestricted forms of dialogue and community, both in the sense of cultural enterprise and artistic practice. Recently, and during the past year in particular, it has become increasingly popular to use the new tools and expanded online facilities that weblogs provide in order to create new social identities, define cultural practices and create active communities beyond the physical constraints of urban or national structures. This is especially the case in countries such as the People’s Republic of China in which a new ‘middle landscape’ of an increasingly affluent and mobile citizenry has zealously and enthusiastically attuned to the latest in global technology and telecommunications. Forming a significant part of the ‘Web 2.0’ phenomenon Blogs pick up the faded myth of the Internet as a user generated space of exchange with both cultural and commercial repercussions. Associated online tools and services such as, YouTube, Biku, Flickr and del.icio.us augment the omnipresence of Blogs into complex global communities of users linked via an infinite number of personal backgrounds, interests and goals and create new forms of social, cultural, artistic and economic networks. In areas where traditional forms of monitoring and control of information is pervasive the complexity and diversity of blogging’s reach drives the creation of new platforms and forms of expression. Blogs brought to life by anyone anytime are now creating a blogosphere rapidly replacing traditional information structures by unifying in cross-media frameworks the same mechanisms of text and visual tagging, cross- referencing of information, and opinion gathering established with the Internet over a decade ago. But how do these structures originate, who do they serve, and how are the bloggers covered by ‘traditional’ or local media? Beyond global entertainment and free- for-all journalism can Blogs instill new cultural identities and open up new zones of dialogue and critique? Can they lead to cultural and artistic production per se, or drown in parody and hasty mash-ups during their authors’ 5 minute bursts of fame? CREATIVITY 2.0 links the worlds of blogging between Europe, Asia and beyond in a live and online dialogue hosting players including Régine Debatty, Zhang Qing, Gino Yu, aaajiao and Kuang Huang who are active in defining and sharpening both active art communities and establishing new contexts for transnational cultural dialogue. CREATIVITY 2.0 will be moderated in Rotterdam by V2_ program curator Stephen Kovats, and in Hangzhou by writer and cultural theorist Tian Sun. The event will be streamed live using REAL MEDIA and IRC moderated online by Berlin based independent curator Vera Tollmann. The stream can be accessed directly via www.v2.nl or by using the following direct REAL player link: rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/cnblog_nl.rm You can download a free Real Player at www.real.com. If you are online we invite you to participate in the event via IRC text chat on: irc://irc.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon --- Schedule and Format: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam Saturday October 28, 2006 10.00 Doors open at V2_, welcome coffee 10.30 CREATIVITY 2.0 intro + selected Chinese videoblog screening 11.00 – go live, online with Hangzhou – Stephen Kovats and Tian Sun 11.05 – speaker 1: Zhang Qing, in Hangzhou 11.15 – speaker 2: Régine Debatty, in Rotterdam 11.25 – speaker 3: Gino Yu, in Hangzhou 11.35 – open discussion with local and online participants 12.00 – close connection 12.00 – 13.00 discussion/conclusion at V2_, with screenings All times listed are local Rotterdam times (CEST) To check your time zone, please consult: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html V2_ will also be streaming the entire conference in Hangzhou and will moderate online selected presentations and discussions. Check the conference site for full schedule: http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en/ Schedule NOTE!: Most areas (but not China!) will revert to Standard Time at 0300 on Sunday October 29
Re: [spectre] Welcome to the Underfire mailing list
Hi Geert, you may have received the mail if you were on the earlier 'underfire' list. V2_ and WdW hosted to the project in an earlier phase, and now Eyebeam has picked it up. They took the old list and reactivated it, so if you don't want to be on it, just write them a cancel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers, stephen! On 16.10.2006, at 08:18, Geert Lovink wrote: hi, did others also get such spam? i never asked to be subscribed to this list. geert Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 October 2006 10:50:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Welcome to the Underfire mailing list Welcome to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list! We encourage you to participate in the conversation. To post a message, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or simply hit Reply to any of the messages you receive. We encourage you to check the Under Fire website often, for images, visual projects, and edited excerpts of postings. http://underfire.eyebeam.org To post to this list, send your email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General information about the mailing list is at: http://underfire.eyebeam.org/mailman/listinfo/underfire If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://underfire.eyebeam.org/mailman/options/underfire/geert% 40xs4all.nl You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your underfire.eyebeam.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Stephen Kovats_Program Curator Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands t_ **31 10 750 1519 f_ **31 10 206 7271 e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.v2.nl Immersive Mixed Reality Environments October 21, 10.00 - 17.00 (CEST) Erasmuc MC I-Space Research Centre featuring Maurice Benayoun, Derek Hales, Sonia Cillari, Pierre Proske more info and registration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREATIVITY 2.0 2nd China Bloggers Conference Hangzhou, China October 28/29, 2006 Live Rotterdam Satellite Saturday October 28, 10.00 - 14.00 (CEST) http://cnbloggercon.org/2006/en FLESHING OUT: Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials and Living Fabrics Seminar: V2_ Rotterdam, Thursday November 9, 2006 Workshop: de Zwijger, Amsterdam, Friday November 10, 2006 more info and registration: www.virtueelplatform.nl/fleshingout REMF - Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival November 10/11, 2006 at V2_ featuring Jochem Paap, Nanko and Scott Pagano tickets and info: www.remf.nl TANGENT_CONSPIRACY featuring übermorgen, Alessandro Ludovico and Florian Cramer Friday December 01, 20.00 (CET) ** IFFR07 Speed of Light - Jan 25 - Feb 10, 2007 ** ** DEAF07 - APRIL 10 - 29, 2007 ** * __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] GWEI hits SPIEGEL ONLINE
Hi all, it took some time ... but finally some people are getting 'worried' ... GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself has just appeared (for German speakers) on Spiegel Online: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,435195,00.html To lend your hand in the GWEI project by UBERMORGEN.COM (feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio), start feeding at: http://www.gwei.org cheers, stephen! ** V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Stephen Kovats_Program Curator Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands t_ **31 10 750 1519 f_ **31 10 206 7271 e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.v2.nl TANGENT_BURN featuring PLATONIQ Friday September 08 @ 20.00 (CEST) with guest performers ... 'onehertexpressions', Zaplab Creative Television and Meticais RealMedia stream live via www.v2.nl www.platoniq.net ** __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] V2_ Conference: The Electromagnetic Bride - Rotterdam Saturday May 6
The Electromagnetic Bride - conference V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in collaboration with Goethe Institut Rotterdam Saturday May 6th, 10.00 - 17.00 (Central European Summer Time GMT+2) The Electromagnetic Bride examines the contemporary relationships in the perception and actions of the human body and the global electromagnetic environment. Taking its cues from an intersection in the work of Nikola Tesla and conceptual contemporaries including Marcel Duchamp, Konrad Zuse and Robert Barry, the conference will examine how these relationships link the histories of electronic technological innovation to the context of current artistic practice. Featuring Horst Zuse (Berlin) on The Origins of the Computer Nina Czegledy (Toronto) on On Tesla and Bio-Electromagnetism David Tomas (Toronto) on Conceptual Art and the Body's Invisible Matrix Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (Berlin) on his 'sonArc::ion' project Æ (Montreal) on Abstract Realism Usman Haque (London) on Ethereal Projects Christa Sommerer (Vienna) on Experiencing Aspects of Nanotechnology Through Interactive Art introduced and moderated by Stephen Kovats, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Registration: please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Electromagnetic Bride will be streamed live via www.v2.nl Location: Goethe-Institut Rotterdam Westersingel 9 3014 GM Rotterdam **31 (0)10 209 2090 http://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/rot/deindex.htm The Electromagnetic Bride conference takes place in conjunction with the exhibition: Electromagnetic Bodies: Aether, Desire and Resonance in Art and Technology Opening Thursday May 4th, 2006 20.30 at TENT.CBK and 22.30 at V2_Rotterdam Referring to the pioneering work of Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), Electromagnetic Bodies: Aether, Desire and Resonance in Art and Technology explores the notions of being and desire in a society determined by our bodily immersion within an ubiquitous and omnipresent electromagnetic realm. Featuring electronic, interactive and acoustic artworks by Ælab, Jean-Pierre Aubé, Craig Baldwin, Matheusz Herczka, Simone Jones, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Carsten Nicolai, Paulette Phillips, Catherine Richards, Jocelyn Robert, Daan Roosegaarde David Tomas, Edwin van der Heideand Norman T. White, with commissioned works premiering by Michiel van Bakel with Bill Spinhoven,and Marnix de Nijs. Exhibition runs daily except Mondays May 4th - June 4th 11.00 - 18.00 at TENT.CBK and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Guided tours are available through [EMAIL PROTECTED] by advance reservation. The project is supported financially by the Mondriaan Foundation, the Stichting CBK Rotterdam, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, TheFilmfonds Amsterdam, and the Canadian Dept. of Foreign Affaires. Electromagnetic Bodies: Aether, Desire and Resonance in Art and Technologyis based on the Resonance: Electromagnetic Bodies international touring exhibition initiated and curated by Nina Czegledy and Louise Provencher in Canada, and co-curated by Stephen Kovats and Willie Stehouwen in Rotterdam. Venues: TENT. Centrum Beeldende Kunst Witte de Withstraat 50 3012 BR Rotterdam tel **31 (0)10 413 5498 www.tentplaza.nl V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam **31 (0)10 206 7272 www.v2.nl * V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Stephen Kovats_Program Development Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands t_ **31 10 750 1519 f_ **31 10 206 7271 e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.v2.nl ELECTROMAGNETIC BODIES Aether, Resonance and Desire in Art and Technology *** opening Thursday May 04, 2006 @ TENT. V2_ *** open 11.00 - 18.00 daily except Mondays til June 04, 2006 The Electromagnetic Bride Conference Saturday May 06, 2006, 10.00 - 17.00 Goethe Institut Rotterdam TANGENT_FEAR on media and phobic objects webstream archived at http://www.archive.org/details/tangents_fear TANGENT_LEAP on emergent media landscapes in China event archived at: http://www.archive.org/details/tangent_leap POLAR_TANGENT on electronic geostationary sound and space from Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada QT webcast: rtsp://mediaserver.v2.nl:555/polar_tangent1.mov * __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] V2_Event: TANGENT_FEAR stream + IRC March 03 ++19.00 CET++
We invite all of you who aren't able to join us in the vicinity of V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam to join online at ... TANGENT_FEAR: INVITING HORROR featuring Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Dennis de Favero, Jill Magid, Jordan Crandall and Marc de Kesel ROTTERDAM + NEW YORK + HELSINKI + MELBOURNE LIVE STREAM: http://www.v2.nl/live MODERATED IRC CHAT SPACE: irc.v2.nl (#V2_FEAR) Friday 3 March 2006 : CET 19:00-22:00 Rotterdam local GMT 18.00 - 21.00 NORTHERN/EASTERN EUROPE (HELSINKI) 20.00 - 23.00 EASTERN STANDARD TIME (NEW YORK) 13.00 - 16.00 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (LOS ANGELES) 10.00 - 13.00 AUSTRALIA STANDARD TIME (MELBOURNE) 05.00 - 08.00 (next day Sat Mar 04) * 'What is rejected and refused in the symbolic order, reappears in reality. Specters, ghosts and phantoms haunt the world.' (Peter Weibel on Jacques Lacan) TANGENT_FEAR presents Inviting Horror, an artistic research project by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat which investigates the experience of fear in public space. In a world in which daily activity is monitored through electronic technologies marked by networked surveillance systems, biometric scanning and profiling mechanisms, people are required to surrender access to their personal spheres of privacy and movement. Under the guise of community safety and anti-terror security a demand for ultimate transparency is made. Suspense is created and the urban space becomes a phobic zone, a horror-scape, in which an explosive mix of aggression and desire results in an irrational need to remove ones self from the public sphere, a desire for the incognito. To invite horror, and offer it a safe haven within our personal realms of well being and spheres of desire, implies both an obvious impossibility and a potential to counter the loss of control of our public domain. Using the movie related notion of horror, we search artistic strategies and scenarios in which the transition from desire and fear to a social phobia can be (re)constructed as a real-time and real-space action occurring live in the public sphere. Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat have invited a group of artists and researchers whose work centers on notions of fear, the body and perception to engage a broader public audience to discuss and explore these issues to bring horror inside from within the public sphere. Participants Jordan Crandall online Helsinki, media artist and theorist, UC San Diego, recently completed Homefront, a video installation exploring the psychological dimensions of the new security culture. http://jordancrandall.com/homefront Dennis Del Favero online Melbourne, artist and researcher, presents his video piece Pentimento, and will discuss the aesthetics of trauma through Nachtraglichkeit, a work in which he introduces the work of Pierre Janet. http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au Jill Magid online New York, both performer and director, she engages the systems of discipline in society, such as police, CCTV, and forensic artists by exploiting the dormant possibilities of their services. She employs the system, via its latent qualities, to establish an intimate and poetic experience. http://www.jillmagid.net Marc de Kesel online Rotterdam, Lacanian philosopher and researcher, Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, will talk about the violence which is inherent to people, and the incapacity to deal with violence lucidly. An impossibility that makes violence only more malicious. Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat online Rotterdam, experiment with new art forms for social cohension using electronic communication devices. In their performances and installations Lancel and Maat use a combination of online and offline media in which they invite the audience to participate. They design projects for urban public space such as those found at train stations, airports, museum lobbies, theaters, universities, construction sites, and city squares. Much of their work is developed in collaboration with V2_Lab (Rotterdam) and Montevideo / TBA Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam). http://www.lancelmaat.nl New York stream in collaboration with EYEBEAM www.eyebeam.org Helsinki stream in collaboration with M_CULT www.m-cult.org Embedded stream and IRC chat: http://www.v2.nl/live or using external clients: REAL MEDIA stream: rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/fear.rm IRC server: irc.v2.nl Channel: #V2_FEAR For technical issues, please use IRC channel: #tech * V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media Eendrachtsstraat 10, NL-3012 XL Rotterdam PO Box 19049, NL-3001 BA Rotterdam, NL Tel + 31 10 206 72 72 | Fax + 31 10 206 72 71 E-mail info AT v2.nl | URL http://www.v2.nl * __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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He's also the only of the three curators who ducked a reply to us after our protests. And on top of that, Inke's text that got ripped off into Just Do It originally had been a lecture of her's at Zollverein - when Waldvogel was its curator, and listening to the talk. So beware of Mr. Waldvogel attending your lectures. There's a chance that they end up, with his name tag, in his next brilliant catalogue, getting him the next big job in the art world. I just learned that he has become a curator at Witte de With in Rotterdam. Hi all, Nicolaus Schafhausen (formerly Frankfurter Kunstverein) became the new Witte de With director and chief-curator on January 1st this year, which here is being seen as quite a positive development. Reading the posting that Waldvogel is (or will be) a curator 'across the street' at Witte de With I was rather hoping that this may have been a slip of the pen. But indeed, further intensive research has confirmed this to be the case ... www.wdw.nl greetings, stephen V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Stephen Kovats_Program Development Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands t_ **31 10 206 7272 f_ **31 10 206 7271 e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.v2.nl events streamed live at www.v2.nl/live and moderated on irc.v2.nl #V2_tangent TANGENT_FEAR on media and phobic objects Friday March 03, 2006 @ 19.00 - 22.00 CET featuring Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat with Marc de Kesel, Jordan Crandall, Jill Magid and Dennis del Favero TANGENT_LEAP on emergent media landscapes in China Thursday March 30 @ 19.00 - 22.00 CET Featuring Michael Anti, Zhang Ga, Karsten Giese and Guobin Yang in collaboration with International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (IIAS) ELECTROMAGNETIC BODIES exhibition opening May 04, 2006 conference: The Electromagnetic Bride - Saturday May 06, 2006 aRt D: Research and Development in Art V2_Publication launched June 04 Beijing Millenium Dialogue In the Line of Flight www.newmediabeijing.org * __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
