[spectre] In memoriam: Oleg Kireev (1975-2009)
Dear friends, it is with incredible sadness that I learned about Oleg Kireev's death. He apparently committed suicide on Thursday in Moscow. Oleg was a very good friend and colleague whom I got to know via the Syndicate mailing list about ten or twelve years ago. I've alway had the deepest respect for the critical/theoretical/activist work he did in such an incredibly adversarial context as in contemporary Russia. I will miss him a lot. Inke Arns In memoriam: Oleg Kireev On Friday April 3, 2009 we received the terribly sad news that our friend and ever inspiring colleague Oleg Kireev from Moscow had died, apparently as a result of suicide. We are left behind as friends and colleagues, bereaved and puzzled by this dramatic fact. Kireev was a prominent guest in some of the most important projects in the art / media / politics triangle, which we had the honour developing at De Balie. Kireev was a crucial figure in circles of free culture, media activism and the arts in Moscow, one of the most demanding environments for such activity one can think of. (...) Eric Kluitenberg http://www.debalie.nl - From: Matteo Pasquinelli matteopasquine...@gmx.it To: rekombin...@liste.rekombinant.org Subject: [RK] Oleg Kireev commited suicide yesterday Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:52:51 +0200 From: dmitry vilensky dmvi...@gmail.com Date: 3 April 2009 12:52:17 GMT+02:00 To: transversal-l...@eipcp.net Subject: [transversal] Oleg Kireev commited suicide yesterday Very important Russian activist and friend - Oleg Kireev commited suicide yestarday in Moscow. He was amazing person - author of 2 important books, those one who organised several big activist campaigns (Against All, Barricade) and a trigger of many artistic and activist movements in Moscow. Also pioner and promoter of free soft ware (active participant of Next Five Minutes festivale in Amsterdam) and transform contributor Being a good friend with Oleg I could say that he is definitely is one more victim of new repressive climate in Russian political life that gives no way for such a brilliant persons to realise even a small part of their dreams and ambitions. We miss him a lot - it is a big loss for the whole situation in Russia. Dmitry Vilensky ps - in att the photo of Oleg speaking at Russian Social Forum in 2006 http://lists.t0.or.at/wwsympa.fcgi/info/transversal-list --- Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero) 44143 Dortmund/Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 M ++49 - 173 - 988 99 84 inke.a...@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Upcoming: „Wach sind nur die Geister“ - Uber Gespenster und ihre Medien Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund-Hoerde May 16 – Oct 18, 2009 Opening: May 15, 2009, 19:00 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call for participation: LIWOLI09
Sorry for , please -- Liwoli 2009 hacklab for art and open source 23 - 25 April 2009 - Kunstuniversität Linz -- Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and performances. -- Please register NOW to book a place in some of the many FREE workshops! http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Workshop - Select a workshop - Read the description - Interested? Click on Register and fill the form DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 15/04/09 !!! -- ... and do not miss out on the rest of the event! http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Vortrag http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Presentation http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Performance http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Interviews http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Intervention http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Installation With the participation of: Andrea Mayr, Andreas Trawoeger, Arjan Scherpenisse, Aymeric Mansoux, Christoph Haag, Claude Heiland-Allen, Dan Wilcox, Daniel Turing David Ayers, Eleonora Oreggia, Georg Jakob, Holger Schöner, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Johannes Kreidler, Marius Shebella, Pippa Buchanan, Ricardo Palmieri, Rob Canning, Robert Martin, Roch Forowitz, Sascha Neudeck, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Thomas Warwaris, Yves Degoyon, ... and more to be confirmed!... -- Questions? http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/contact Where to sleep? http://linz.linuxwochen.at/content/service -- :* __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
