nettime The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and Media-Art
The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and Media-Art Researchers, activists and media-artists meet on the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing September 11th - 20th 2005. The conference Capturing the Moving Minds gathers a pack of people -- artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists -- who are interested in the new logic of the economy, the new form of war against terrorism and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance, together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through the different time zones) creates an event, a meeting that not really 'is' but 'is going on'. Is this project about economics, is it political activity or a work of art? This boundlessness or indeterminacy, which always characterizes the creation of new, is where the energy of the project is coming: The enterprise expresses and exposes itself the knowledge economy in which it exists. It is something the orthodox conceptions about work, action, economy and art are unable to grasp. In this organizational experiment everybody is alone together like a pack of wolves around a fire having neighbours to the left and to the right but nobody behind their backs exposed to the desert. There are 50 participants on the train involving well known media-artists, frontline contemporary thinkers and political activists. The project has been invited to participate in the International ARS2006 biennial at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and to arrange an exhibition at the Villa Croce Museo darte contemporanea di Genova during summer 2006. Pressconference and Opening Seminar Wed 7.9., 15:00-19:00, Hemeentie 33 A, 2nd Floor, Helsinki 15:00-15:20 Intro to the project, its themes and methods (Tuula Karjalainen, Jussi V=E4h=E4m=E4ki, KlausHarju) 15:20-15:40 Launching of the mobile documentation (Minna Tarkka, Adam Hyde et al.) 15:40-16:00 Trans-sib as a work of art (Akseli Virtanen, Anna Daneri, Genova) 16:00-17:00 Questions, interviews, refreshments 17:00-19:00 Aesthetics of Resistance =96seminar with Bracha L. Ettinger (Tel Aviv), Pierre Guillet de Monthoux (Stockholm), Jordan Crandall (Los Angeles), Steffen Boehm (London) Mobicasting brings the event directly for all: The Trans-siberian conference is documented and broadcasted through an audiovisual mobicasting platform to the internet. The documentarists, photographers, artists and researchers produce discussions, ideas, interviews, texts and films along the route. The documentation will be projected in Kiasma during the journey and it will also be available on several international www-channels. The webpages http://www.kiasma.fi/transsiberia will be opened on September 7th. See also http://trans-siberianradio.org Further info on the conference and the participants: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/conference Further info on the mobicasting platform: m-cult, Netta Norro +358 40-561= 8004 Further info on the opening seminar: Akseli Virtanen +358 400-302010 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The event is organised by Ephemera, Tutkijaliitto, Kiasma, Frame, m-cult, Helsinki School of Economics and the Chydenius Institute - End forwarded message - # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Oh to have lived to see the day
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTHEORY] Event Scene 164 - Katrina-Baghdad Date: August 31, 2005 3:37:55 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ CTHEORY THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTUREVOL 28, NO 3 *** Visit CTHEORY Online: http://www.ctheory.net *** Event-Scene 164 31/08/2005 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker _ * 1000 DAYS OF THEORY * _ Katrina-Baghdad: Initial Iterations of a Strange Attractor === ~Dion Dennis~ On August 30, 2005, George W. Bush was sent to the wrong place, at the wrong time, to deliver, in his pseudo-folksy ham-handed way, the wrong script: Bush's political choreographers crafted a speech that was delivered at a 60th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II, held at a California Naval Air station. As a salvo in the propaganda war over Iraq, Bush histrionically claimed the moral authority of World War II for the current U.S. occupation of Iraq. Besides the highly dubious claim of moral equivalence, the timing of the speech turned out to be inept. Unfolding events caught Bush and his handlers off-guard. Fifteen-hundred miles away, a concurrent event, the Category Five Hurricane Katrina, laid waste to a significant American city, New Orleans, and to a contiguous two-hundred mile swath of the Gulf Coast east of New Orleans. Mississippi's Governor, the former head of the Republican National Committee, Haley Barbour, unreflexively invoked another descriptive icon of World War II, as well. It looks like Hiroshima is what it looks like, muttered a shocked Barbour, describing parts of a devastated county on the coast. Meanwhile, the Louisiana levees broke in at least three spots, unleashing the fury of the swollen waters of Lake Pontchartrain on New Orleans. Potable drinking water, electricity, and the other taken-for-granted basics of mundane life disappeared into a twenty foot high stew of sewage, toxic chemicals, Mississippi Delta mud, and Lake Pontchartrain spillage. Basic infrastructure was destroyed. Tens of thousands of houses were severely damaged or simply obliterated. Bloated bodies floated in the water, as much of the coastal population became a large and instant group of internal U.S. refugees. Meanwhile, police looked on passively as looters raided both the upscale downtown shops such as the Bon Marche, and less status-conscious looters stripped the shelves of several outlying stores of the behemoth proletarian vendor, Wal-Mart. On the night of August 30th, the CNN website described it this way: New Orleans resembled a war zone more than a modern American metropolis on Tuesday. As Army Reservists and a remainder of National Guard troops rolled into New Orleans, they resembled nothing as much as their comrades-in-arms concurrently stationed in Iraq. Ironically, the shock and awe produced by Katrina's Gulf Coast invasion mirrored the effects of the Iraqi war, in novel and all-too-tragic ways. On Tuesday night, August 30, 2005, New Orleans became the ~de facto~ American Baghdad, as the contiguous Gulf Coast east of New Orleans became an analogue for the Iraqi countryside. It was no surprise, then, to see the juxtaposition of the following morning's (Wednesday, August 31st) split-screen front page headlines on MSNBC.com. A story on the Nightmare of Katrina refugees was paired with the Baghdad Stampede that killed 800 or more Iraqis. Panic, disaster, public disorder, the mass movement of refugees, tightening military occupation, combined with the key linkages between the disruption of oil production and refineries and long-term economic dislocation and debt accumulation; these are just the initial components of Katrina-Baghdad as a strange attractor. This emergent strange attractor we now call Katrina-Baghdad will spin off and/or accelerate a series of complex economic, political and social iterations over the near and longer term. Today, there's a post-apocalyptic sensibility in the air. Mayor Nagin's mandatory evacuation order of New Orleans will be carried out, in part, by dispatching 475 buses contracted by FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to move tens of thousand of Katrina refugees from the damaged New Orleans Superdome to the recently shuttered Houston Astrodome. According to the ~New York Times~, Texas state government officials expect to house the refugee residents of this new Dome City for months, if not longer.
Re: nettime Happy Birthday: Ten Years After
on 9/1/05 1:57 PM, heiko hansen wrote: even better would be to not move at all and to meet the other nettimers in their current location. the list is truly distributed (geographically) i like that idea, but why not have *both*? i could pretty well imagine something like a nettime relay race ;-) (well, maybe not a _race_) with local gatherings hopping around the globe from one spot onwards to the next. not all at once but distributed over a certain period time. this might also provide for an incremental development/evolution of discussion topics compared to a one-time-one-place event. schedules could be made according to other events to gain some momentum. in terms of organisation i would like to opt for a 'let it grow' model. i would like to suggest starting with collecting potential places (i.e. regions/cities), events/dates, and last but not least interested people and see where we can go from there. (wiki?) best, sascha brossmann p.s.: concerning the topics suggested by david, i sense some relationship with the discussion which has lately arisen on spectre (triggered by the situation of the icc), so there could be a certain potential for cross-fertilisation... -- :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::. :: .. :... . . . . . . . :: www.brsma.de :: ..: .:. . :.. ..: . . . . . . :: icq #121790750 ::.: .:. :. ::. .. . .. . . . . :: public key id 0x2EA549A0 ::.. :: . . . . .... . # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)
Anyone interested in more Isr/Pal/global military urbanism questions (as per Brian Holmes's question, below), check out Bryan Finoki's recent news-grabs on Archinect: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23879_0_24_0_C http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23708_0_24_0_C http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23454_0_24_0_C And BLDGBLOG, of course, circles through that topic quite frequently... GM # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
