Preview from a Running System Berlin, Welcome, first time visitor! If you start now...you might just make it before the rest of us. You can now make use of your know-how About The Net and its notorious state of becoming. Today everything is radical new. You can smell the fresh rgb-colours, step into clean newsgroups, the team is running to get the last work done, you are stumbling over tools and unfinished working material, you meet other confused first users, two days before the big rush. /pit Over the last few days things drastically changed in kassel. it gets busy. you suddenly realise that one of the more subtle power strategies of XXL events like the docu menta is to make you feel you are missing out on something. the more people arrive, the more one starts to feel tense. within the micropolitics of representational hirarchies the tables in the cafe of the documenta become locations with the potential of being the right place at the right time. of course they never are. but that just makes it worse. one might come to the conclusion that there should have been more to lunch or dinner conversation they had - and as soon as one starts thinking that they understand themselves as having been at the wrong place at the wrong time. and why is that then?!
we had a very calm and concentrated week down here. now it gets busy. it wouldn't need to, but that is how things might seem more important to few. however, we have to get through the opening rituals to get going. -micz
documenta mobilises every single person living within a 50 mile radius around kassel and who is willing and (somehow) capable of working. they will work non-stop up to thursday. however, we can have non of them. that's just they way things are.
we bought paint, brushes, sandpaper and all the utensils you need to have a prime time allnighter in the orangerie. the original colouring of the 'architectural elements' will be hidden by the time the first of participants arrive (the same counts for the press of course). it would not make much sense to describe them in ascii mode.
quite intersting that the consensus colouring will be grey... a light grey. if you had thrown all the individual preferences into one bucket and gave it a good stir that's what you would have got anyway. what an overwhelming metaphor of decision making...
thorsten already slipped into shiobhan hapaska's outer space overall and i will slip into another one as soon as this mail has been sent. whoever reads this in the night between the 17th and 18th of june 1997 - raise your glass towards kassel.
-micz
last day for updating the sofware, last day to prepare the space, last day for the members to join the first team, i wonder how many people are existed this night, cannot sleep, have a scewdriver in their hand or painting a wall... we are just trying to find bugs in the software. and every software has a but..
Scheinschlag send the first text and of course it is German, so another discussion about a basic principle which gets decided by practise finally.
/pit
what do you do with 1800 journalists? we don't know what exactly happened at the press conference of the DX press preview. but the visitors who came today to listen to 3 hours of manifestoes looked pretty confused, they were looking for art. diana and clemens looked really tough and beautyful, like 2 terrorists on holiday, on the evening the whole media studio changed íinto a audio visual chillout zone with great graphics from Eve Hurford and Till Vanish champagne as usual and lots of art fold around having a nice time... /pit
scheinschlag implemented their discussion in a rather modified way. due to perceiving the architecture and structure of the room in power hirarchies which made the initial plans unapplicable they suggested to have (yet another) debate concerning the aims and realities of the hybrid workspace. (real audio soon)
the first discussion involved not only the participants from scheinschlag, berlin, but including groups, projects and AGs from kassel (for furhter description please wait for the 'thread' to fill up).
about lunch time we had 30 minutes of rem koolhaas' valuable time and tom fecht manufactured an interview losely connected to the edward said talk at the 100 days and hundred guests from yesterday (see diary for brief critique).
the complete interview (as well as the debate above) will be on real audio soon. i guess we will also include links to the real ideo and VDO iles in the diary - but they are not on-line yet.
currently we are in the process of extracting 2 hours of radio (broadcasted tonight) from the masses of material produced. time based censorship. this also will be available on real audio soon.
What : Opening Screening
When : @11:00 - 13:00
Where: Orangerie
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screening of videos, selected by Scheinschlieg by Scheinschlag - pondering and contemplating the diversity of urbanism and urban identity]
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What : Dialogue
When : @13:00 - 15:18
Where: Orangerie
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Scheinschlag Berlin & Kassel Innenstadtaktionen & invited guests on urbanism, citizenship, buildings and people, objects and subjects
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What : Interview
When : @16:00 - 16:30
Where: Orangerie Media Studio
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Interview with Rem Kolhaas, architect, Rotterdam and Tom Fecht, journalist, Berlin
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What : conversation
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie Sofa
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Scheinschlag, Berlin in conversation with (and attempting to define) Hybrid Workspace
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What : radio
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: salzmann fabrik
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Production of the Hybrid Workspace radio - broadcasted tonight (as every Sunday) between 23.00 and 01.00 on 88.9 FM
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after digitising (and presenting) the WorkSpace radio show from june the 22nd we had a little break to reassemble the room for the 'Faktor Arbeit' presentation.
in a very sublte slide show we were introduced to the country side around pritzwalk in the east of germany. the unemployment rate is high and in rural areas there is not much hope to find a job anyway. the aim of a group of people (employed by the employment office - including peter funken) was to develop certain skills which were hopefully helping the unemployed workforce to get back into work... however, it turned out that most of the former agricultural employees had very little knowledge of reading and writing and it seemed evident to start at a very early level of job development - the more skilled participants trained the less skilled ones.
traditional (and urban?) models of employment and work did not apply to the given situation around pritzwalk. different forms of exchange established themselves(almost naturally). the group of participants in the training course started to work for each other. workforce and knowledge were exchanged underneath (or beyond, besides?) the surface of exchange mediums such as money. a 'give and take' strategy consolidated (leaving the traditional socio-political equity theories intact - nevertheless providing new parameters of equality). the 'headquarter' of the training course - situated in an old 'plattenbau' became a meeting point, a location of pleasure, recreation, planning for further activites in the community.they exchanged information while playing cards. while planting a pine tree the group (or workforce) burried a tin can including a polaroid picture of themselves next to it. identification.
eventually the training scheme had to stop their activities because it did not meet the aims set out by the central employment office. such were: training in writing cvs (which were not needed), training in job interviews (which there were none).
following the experience of two years in pritzwalk peter funken organised the exhibition 'faktor arbeit' (factor work). mainly consisting of politically or socially motivated works it comes across as the logical continuation of new arrangements to measure, value and exchange time and skills.
micz
What : opening + re-listening
When : @11:30 - 15:00
Where: Orangerie
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info-sound ambient kit / WorkSpace Radio of Sunday, 22.6.97
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What : Factor Arbeit - presentation
When : @15:00 - 16:30
Where: Orangerie
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- Presentation of the program/person
- Faktor Arbeit - introduction
- slide series from a project with longtime unemployed in Brandenburg
- talk with Karl Hofman Film and Claudius Wachtmeister on the movie Bild Leipzig
- screening of Bild Leipzig (45 min.)
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What : interview with Alexandr Sukorov
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie
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Alexandr Sukorov is the third guest of the 100 days discussion program
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What : Faktor Arbeit - presentation
When : @17:00 - 18:30
Where: Orangerie
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- Animation "Paradise Now"
- Karl Hofmann "Privatisierung - Leipziger Bahnhof"
- Karl Hofmann: "Paradise Now"
- Storyboard "Alle wollen gut leben"
- Beirut in Berlin? Siedlungswesen in Velten/Berlin
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after a frantic mailbox-reply-and-sorting procedure in the early (and not so early) morning hours we entered the second half of the day - precisely at 1500 hours (sharp). "Faktor Arbeit II".
the oscillating traffic between the workstations and the discussion/presentation space still swallows a vast amount of concentration and time and workforce. nevertheless routine seems to slowly creep into our day to day duties. routine is often associated with boredom - i can't wait to reach that level of understanding...
assuming that work is one way of spending time on whatever activity we had the pleasure to come across rather challenging types of work. T. Haake-Brandt's video "Faule Säcke! Nutzt eure Freizeit! Kaut auf Gegenständen!" shows the author knibbling on the lense of the recording video camera. the idea developed during experience of *working* as a night porter for a big company and spending the (free with the job) spare time scribbling on thousands of papers. scribbling is well known amongst telephone addicts - knibbling is as well, but only related to pencils and phone cables. so - why is that. the objects we come across here range from a stool across a variety of lamps to a bird house. the knibbled objects are in fact rather beautiful and remind one of photographic evidence in car magazines on little mighty animals attacking the inferior car owner, ruining the engine's connectivity.
something completely similar was presented in the video "heimlich" by P. Wiedemann. it showed an endless knitted tube from the angle of a camera being forced head first through it... flipping between sexual pleasures and claustrophobic atmosphere. beautiful colours and the closest you can get to hand-made mandelbrot fractals in wool.
micz
What : Video Films
When : @15:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace
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Video: D.Wenner, P.Funken, H.Höge,"Die Viererbande - Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem Land", 1997
Video: T. Haake-Brandt, "Faule Säcke! Nutzt Eure Freizeit! Kauft Auf Gegenstaenden", 1997
Video: von P.Wiedemann, "heimlich", 1996
Video: G.Leidloff, "Death-masks and Mannequins", 1997
Parts of "UTV Wochenschau", 1996,
A.Creischer, Andreas Sieckmann, 1996
G.Leidloff: "Mrs. Olga de Mooy", 1996
Discussion with all artists.
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What : Videoconference
When : @19:00 - 21:00
Where: Orangerie
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a public panel on the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
"Abendteuer Internet" with F.A. Kittler, Bazon Brock,
Margit Fischbach, Dr. A Rossnagel, Steffen Wernery,
Michael Klemen, Geert Lovink -- connecting to Workspace
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we are reorganising archived stuff, reviewing what we have, and working on the web architecture.
Berlin Pavillion rearranged the room architecture last night, be surprised! ...?
What : reorganising
When : @11:00 - 14:00
Where: Orangerie
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workspace staff: copying tapes, digitizing material, transscripting interviews, reviewing videos, reading old e-mail
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What : Berlin Pavillion
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie
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chill out, preview, presentation, chat, videos, tapes, surprises.. public-semi-public-private
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Thomax killed almost 7 flies so far. The DX workspace discussion forum is almost running together with the newsgroups and workspace main channel.
Wolfgang Ernst and Arnold Dreyblatt talked about archives and memory rooms which corresponded very well with the Interview Rem Koolhaas gave. Diana McCarthy is currently interviewing Arnold. The question is how much the room, the media, and the people (producers/visitors) are remembering, how much attention can workspace attract? The ten members which came from Pavillion of the Volksbuehne Berlin, rearranged the room into a kind of management training center, a consulting agency for young artists, and interested . It seemed that the space the documenta reinvoces the memory of Joseph Beys' seminars of 'Direkte Demokratie'. The funny way of affirmating and rearranging the clean corporate esthetics - for those who can remember...
What : Social Spaces Öffentlicher Raum Berlin
When : @12:00 - 15:00
Where: Orangerie
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KünstlerInnen des Pavillon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburgplatz sind im HybridWorkSpace. Verschiedene Projektionen und Interviewsituationen sind im Raum vorhanden.
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slowly starting, people filling the room, an info in German is informing about the existance of language borders. Up on the hill, in front of the dx-info-boxes the demo-catalogues are watered by the constant summer rain. 'Politics with an E'. So far the DX machine produced an impressive ammount of textes, and many of us havn't seen the exhibition yet. The summer of content is definetly also an ideal of C.D. - who did not show off here since the opening. Noon, we're drinking coffee, filling the web-workspace with textes because the workgroups still hesitate. Behind the Rigips-Wall another soundcheck is going on. Meanwhile we are waiting for the first control visit of the DX organising team.
The room is well maintained. Every morning it seems to get cleaned. Still we need some technology, more workers, and food. The five free 'Mitarbeiteressen' traded out with our commercial neighbor, lets one think if it wouldn't be better to open an own bar.
Berlin Pavillion just showed a video they did with some west german kids visiting the DX spectacle. The 10 members of the group seem to develope a left and right wing, one which is more for creating communicative situations, the other more for inscription into the various media, process against concept. They succesfully exlored the room, decentralised it with decomposing the elements into different 'communication zones'. Visotors 'browse' through the room and get in contact with one of the young artists.
Berlin Salon will start with their second panel today. Hope it will be more crowded with interested visitors. The concept of the memory room, got already included by the Pavillion group, which loop their own recordings of the first workdays in workspace.
Thomas Wendt a helpful sys-admin who is doing the mailinglists at www.Documenta.de just is calling in and gives some hints how to connect our mailinglist with theirs.
thomax killed 13 flies so far.
/pit
What : On Memory - Ort und Erinnerung
When : @16:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie
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Diskussionsveranstaltung zum Thema Ort und Erinnerung
Organisiert vom [berlin]salon
mit Simone Hainund Jürgen Hohmuth
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this morning we´ve taken over hybrid workspace. from 10.00 a.m.
a germanwide conference of more than 30 antiracist groups
took place inside the orangerie. we discussed the wording of
the appeal "no one is illegal"
tomorrow we´re gonna present it to the public. we can hardly
finish this diary entry, cause all of us are extremely tired.
the whole of last night we spent driving to kassel. now we have to sleep.
3 a.m. We started the second day of [cross the border] with a press conference at 11 a.m. to expose the yesterday's call for the campaign "No one is illegal" to the public. The campaign is running since yesterday!! The guests of Hybrid WorkSpace are asked to sign the call and lots of people have already signed it . The first one to sign was a member of the socialist party in the regional government. After the press conference we had a meeting to organise the rest of the day, to adjust the technical equipment to our needs. Right now videos are shown, there's an exhibition about refugee camps in Germany and an office for handing over EU-passports to illegal refugees is going to be set up in the next few minutes on the lawn in front of the Hybrid WorkSpace. - babse
What : presentation
When : @14:00 - 16:00
Where: orangerie
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this morning we woke up after a really not to much sleep. the night before we spent with some wine and grappa after a dinner to which we were invited. a warm meal! :)) we were in a good mood, because we had the first visit by the police, yesterday afternoon. they were quite interested in the passport exchange office, we set up in the grass in front of the orangerie and in the blazing sun. unfortunately the policeman refused to give us his id or passport. and also his badge we didn´t get :( but he promised to report all our work to his superiors. in general it was very exciting to see how people react, as soon as they are asked for the shreds of paper that prove their identity - more so, because it was obviously reality breaking in. o.k.
we changed the work space round, to make it useable for our interests: we pushed the stage into the corner, to get rid of the hierarchical room structure. now we have settees in a round to watch videos and listen to our radio programs and in the evening there is enough comfortable space for our meetings. we transfered part of our technical gear from the narrow studio space to the big room to create better working conditions. the result of the days work was broadcast at midnight on cassel free radio for one hour. the program's theme was migration. we broadcast the appeal "no one is illegal" in german and english, a report on the 'passport exchange office' and recordings of an event in munich with salah, one of the spokesmen of sans papiers in paris. the programm was a feature with topical musik, e.g. massive attack, draft punk and d'n'b from France. the programm was a great success and now we make copies for further broadcasts in other local radio stations. it's a good experience to do everything ourselves without technical support from other sources because traditionally the production aspect, i.e. the focus on content rather than entertainment,in the making of radio programms is totally undervalued. We made a stamp with the inscription "Kein Mensch is illegal" and offered the visitors to get their bank-notes stamped. One visitor wanted all his notes stamped (DM 300,00) and promised to come back to get a stamp in his passport. We'll see, whether he keeps his promise. The afternoon we presented four documentary films of Mogniss Abdallah by Agence Immedia, France. These were the films "Aufenthalt im Widerstand", "La Ballade des Sans-papiers", "Britain's Black legacy" and "Le syndrome Hoyerswerda". In the evening we offered a public talk with Mogniss Abdallah about the situation of the sans-papiers movement after the victory of the socialist party and on the question of media strategies.
What : video screening
When : @13:00 - 14:00
Where: Orangerie
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Aufenthalt im Widerstand
A documentary by Mogniss H. Abdallah & Ken Fero
D/30 min/1991
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What : video screening
When : @14:00 - 15:30
Where: Orangerie
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La Ballade des Sans Papiers
Documentary by Samir Abdallah & Raffaele Ventura
(english subtitles) F/30 min/1996
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What : video screening
When : @16:00 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie
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Britains black legacy
Documentary by Mogniss H. Abdallah & Ken Fero
(english subtitles) E/45 min/1991
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What : video screening
When : @17:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie
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Le Syndrome Hoyerswerda
Documentary by Jooy Banerjee, Mogniss H. Abdallah & Yonas Endrias
D/45 min/1995
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What : round table talk
When : @18:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie
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Migrant Media
About actual media tactics and strategies
feat. Mogniss H. Abdellah, Filmmaker, Paris
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yesterday night we edited our video and audio clips and some of us worked in the orangerie until 6 a.m. in the morning. no wonder, half of the group turned up only at 12 a.m. and as soon as we found a parking place miles away from the orangerie, a big cloudburst gave us the chance to a second shower. we go on asking the people to stamp their money with the slogan of our campaign no one is illegal . it looks very funny and tomorrow you can have a look at it on our websites. some minutes ago the connectix camera started to work and later in the evening we´re gonna have the first video conference with the people in paris, who occupied a townhall on saturday and were evicted by a brutal police action.
21.30
it seems that we´re getting into some routine. audio and video loops grow day by day. in addition to the material we already brought with us we are now adding footage from the festival, shots of ourselves and the pigs, even if they threaten us with legal action. mogniss from paris went back, and now we´re looking for the announced cu-see me conference with the activists there. after three days several hundred people subsribed to our call no one is illegal .
What : video-screening
When : @13:00 - 17:00
Where: orangerie
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Justice denied Documentary by Joy Garnder, Kwanele Siziba &
Joseph Nnalve
E/50 min/1995
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What : video-screening
When : @13:00 - 17:00
Where: orangerie
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Justice denied Documentary by Joy Garnder, Kwanele Siziba &
Joseph Nnalve
E/50 min/1995
La Ballade de Sans Papiers
Documentary by Samir Abdallah & Raffaele Ventura
F/90 min/1996
Sweet France Documentary by Mogniss Abdallah & Ken Fero
F/50 min/1992
Tasting freedom
Documentary
E/50 min/1994
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last night we made our first experiences with cassel nightlife. it was impossible to find something to eat round midnight. we went to bed hungry and got up not in the best mood. but it changed as soons as we arrived in the orangerie. lots of new ideas how to go on, even if some of us left cassel, because they have to work. we announced a poster competition for the campaign no one is illegal : "wanted: artists" is written on a big poster on the pillars of the orangerie entrance and: "our campaign no one is illegal needs a design". stamping banknotes with the slogan no one is illegal becomes quite fashionable in cassel these days. today for example a man from Estnia stamped all his estnian banknotes and some people came here only, because they wanted to get their banknotes stamped. some of us are distributing flyers with the request to stamp banknotes all over cassel. we´re waiting for three people from paris, we hope they arrive in the early evening. video and networking goes on, but much more slowly than in the last days. the weather is too fine.
Around midnight we had the CU-SeeMe meeting with rue l'olive in Paris. Just when we got the first pictures our next guests arrived: Amadeus, Gilles and Pascal from Paris. Gilles managed to open a bottle of red wine using only a knife and a screw and we had a drink together that could be seen in Paris, where our guests had just left. Only a short time later Marc, Annique and Pascal arrived. After talking about the next day's program we decided to go to our apartment, where we had some more wine. After a very short night we arrived at the workspace rather early in the morning. Pascal and Gilles had brought some collages and brilliant photos with them and we have them now exhibited in the workspace. Many visitors are interested in the Photos and the collages. The workspace is filling up now. The walls are covered with posters, photos, leaflets and other writings. All of us have seen the videoloop now many times and it is still not getting on our nerves. At 3.00 p.m. we had a round table talk with our french guests about the situation of the sans-papiers movement after the elections and the further development especially the occupation of the townhall on Saturday, 28 june. We also talked about church asylum in France and Germany, the possibilities of a movement of illegalized people in Germany and tried to find out, whether there is less self-organization of immigrants in Germany than in France or if it follows only different rules. At 7.00 p.m. the antirassismusbüro Bremen presented their book "They treat us like animals - racism in the police force and the legal system". A member of the group reported on how black people were arrested and abused by police officers, especially by violently forcing them to take vomitives, as this is common practice in the Bremen police force up to now.
What : round table talk
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: orangerie
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represent!
round table talk with media activists and artists
from paris supporting the sans-papiers movement.
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What : lecture
When : @19:00 - 22:00
Where: orangerie
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they treat us like animals
lecture and discussion with members of the
antiracist bureau, bremen, about racism of
police and administration.
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What : multimedia
When : @13:00 - 14:30
Where: orangerie
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for stowaways coming to germany harbours the
chance to stay in germany and ask for asylum
is nearly impossible. the slide show, the video
and the postcards are about their long way
through the sea and the bureaucracy but also
their wishes and thoughts
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What : multimedia
When : @16:00 - 17:30
Where: orangerie
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for stowaways coming to germany harbours the
chance to stay in germany and ask for asylum
is nearly impossible. the slide show, the video
and the postcards are about their long way
through the sea and the bureaucracy but also
their wishes and thoughts
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sorry for no diary entry yesterday. we got several phonecalls of people worrying about us. the line to the provider was down. so, today is radio day: after more than 24 hours offline we started working with real radio: since 2 a.m. we have a cellular phone conference with the people in paris, demonstrating in the streets for "papers for all" and global regularization of all sans-papiers. we receive the sound from paris and broadcast it to the crowd of art-hooligans visiting us in the orangerie. simultaneously a video-loop with pictures from the actions of the last 12 months is shown on three monitors and the beamer. in a few minutes a car with a soundsystem starts driving through cassel. we make a special program with music, and informations about our campaign no one is illegal today in the morning our friends from paris went back. after more than half a year e-mail contact we actually met for the first time. it was wonderful. it´s past 7 pm now and i´m back with an update of today´s events and a glass of wine: in spite of occasional showers we made our sound tour through cassel (see above). we drove through the whole of the city centre, and now and again, the van stopped and we got off to distribute leaflets of the appeal "noone is illegal". we documented the whole tour on video.of course we got all sorts of reactions from people, from approval and interest to abuse by rightwing people and frustrated down and outs. Finally the rain put an early end to our promotional tour and we took refuge at the street fest of the "cassel action refuge", and had some strawberry cake and coffee before returning to the orangerie. and now some information on an aspect of the workspace that so far has been totally neglected in the writing of the diary, mainly due to a heavy workload and very late working hours: video nonstop. the munich delegation has been working on a videoclip for the workspace since the beginning of our project in the orangerie. this video, a kind of "no one is illegal" - trailer, is screened as a loop. i.e. continuously, in the workspace during open hours, if nothing else is going on. what´s important is that this video is always work in progress: the film people are constantly extending it with new footage, that might have just been filmed during the day (footage of ongoing events etc.) or come from any other relevant sources. as soon as we have a new version, it replaces the old loop. at the moment it´s about 13 minutes long. and very successful.
What : nationwide demonstration
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Paris
More : de Nation a Republique |
For
- Global Regularisation of all Sans-Papiers
- Stop of the deportations
- Amnesty of the Sans-Papiers
- Return of all deported persons
- Abrogation of all anti-migrant laws
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after an allnight cu see me conference with the sans-papiers in paris we had some hours sleep. the people in paris went on partying into the morning - cause of one year of struggle. more than 30 artists and bands were participating in the open air. a data beamer projected our cu see me conference to several hundred persons at espace austerlitz. we met on a public conference of a reflector site in marseille and it was great to see how the chatting of the cu see me freaks was overlapped by the selfpresentation of many different sans papiers and our discussions.
now we have permanent video screening of the video tape "how to come through". last year in the end of september in frankfurt about 200 persons were arrested by heavily armed police forces. only because of watching this film. it is the screen adaption of an attack against the data net of frankfurt airport, in order to protest against expulsions and deportations of refugees. german prosecuters claimed an alleged support of an terrorist organisation, which should exist only by participating at the first screening. as it seems and the radikal case shows also, they are so afraid of a new generation of high-tech terrorists, that they involuntarily look for any chance to make a fool of themselves.
What : video screening
When : @15:00 - 16:00
Where: orangerie
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how to come through
screen adaption of an attack against the data net
of frankfurt airport in order to protest against expulsions
D/1996/43 min.
(tape was temporarily seized by german prosecuters)
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well, today is our last day here, which is very sad. "we" is just the remaining core group since a number of people had to leave in the last few days. those goodbyes were full of tears, and so will be ours. the videoloop is finished and we can finally just sit back and enjoy watching it, but its hard to get used to the idea that we are not going to work on it any more.
10 days of hard work, sometimes 15 or 16 hours a day, lots of unexpected actions, because we didn't really prepare anything. now we start to realize, what we have set off: it is really a proper campaign, which focusses lots of concrete and direct actions, and which will be coordinated from now on mainly by internet communication.
we keep getting lots of positive response to our campaign, heaps of faxes, masses of supporters' e-mails and phonecalls from all sorts of organisations, ranging from kindergartens and the critical policemen to members of the national and the federal parliaments. we are very surprised and of course very pleased. fortunately the whole project isn´t really over yet, it is just starting. groups from all over germany are beginning the campaign in their local context, and at the end of September there will be the next summit of anti-racist groups also in cassel.
now the room is empty, the thousands of daily guests are gone, and we are sitting on the terrace of the orangerie and we are waiting for you.
FLINSTONE SPEED 2400 bps
# We set up our basic camp# We are trying to keep the on-site and on-line happy# We had an interesting encounter with the DX window shoppers# and installed some of our research tools# Check also the bandwidth website www.waag.org/bandwidth Quote of the day: Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 22:10:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: John Horvath X-Sender: jhorv@helkaTo: bandwidth@waag.orgSubject: something for you(....) Thus, by demanding more bandwidth rather than concentrating on, and supporting the development of, less band-intensive web sites and applications, the dichotomy between "us and them" will linger on while the chasm separating the rich and poor widens, perpetuating the social, economic, and political injustices that such segregation breeds.John HorvathBudapest, Hungary
What : DX PING PROJECT
When : @15:00 - 15:30
Where: Orangerie
More : Workspace - We want bandwidth |
The Society for Old and New Media is Mapping the Bandwidth of the World, Tracing the Traffic
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BANDWIDTH OR BANDWITHOUT
Day 2 - 9600 bps - OBSOLETE
www.waag.org
# speeded up slowly to the obsolete 9600 bps
# collected many new slogans and quotes (see below)
# started to read the Documenta X manual - twice as heavy as the average dummie-gides - 830 pages - First sentence: "Like democracy information is not a right but a practice, not a dream but a passion". We feel very passioned.
# broadcasted live the telephone-interviews, meassuring the bandwidth in Estonia, Amsterdam and New York (on-line soon)
# recited two reports from Paris and Amsterdam - check the news-group
# 18 new personal reports from the public
QUOTES OF TODAY:
<quote> Bandwidth is the capital of the information economy. Commercial use of the networks should be tax rated. Public use of the networks should be free.</quote>
<quote> Broadcasting for all means to have the power to speak and the ability to express yourself. To have access to the bandwidth is a fundamental democratic right for all citicens of the world.</quote>
<quote> The demand for more bandwidth reflects the desire for an open and transparent communication space.</quote>
<quote> The distribution of bandwidth not only reflects the distribution of economic power across the globe it also intensifies it.</quote>
<quote> During the rountable of the Networked Economy Conference held in Paris 20-21 May 97 many speakers mentioned the necessity of "restriction" : restriction of costs, of costs of ownership, of access to new services which overwhelmed the users and turn them into technology's slaves, restriction of quantity and therefore choice with filters like "push technology". A true paradox as networks' technology is supposed to widen the scope of communication and access to knowledge, and globally enhance the user's life and the operators' profits. It is now obvious that states and business actors want to take control over the Net to bend its developement (in other words restrict it) to fit their interests, regardless to the users' ones.</quote>
14k4 - last years model
P U S H B A C K
# we finally arrived at the amazing speed op 14k4; at least that was how we experienced it 3 years ago when we upgraded our 2400 baud modems. Most people arrived at this speed last year, and now they have to boost up to at least 33k to stay in the game - hence the title: 'last years model'.
# a lot of research was done today. We found a lot of material on bandwidth and the spread of it (better: concentration) on various websites. More on this on the Bandwidth-site of The Society for Old and New Media.
# Our photofun-team took the reality of Kassel/Documenta and transformed it into a virtual demonstration for more bandwidth. Images will follow.
# Received a lot of bandwidth-reports from all over the world.
# We had a close encounter with a group from Frankfurt who are trying to reclaim street-bandwidth. Secret meetings about an even more secret nightly rave party tomorrow were supposedly organized.
# During the dialogue we have with our special reporter John Horvath we decided to change our strategy: instead of asking for more and more bandwidth now we demand dual standard bandwidth, Highspeed amazing fullfeed video multimedia T3 connections for all broadcasting citizens and parallel Flintstone-speed for all other vital communication needs. Slogans will be altered accordingly during the coming days.
33k3 bps - too fast for most of us
EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL
# the structure of what we are doing here is becoming more and more clear; the first couple of days we investigated which parts of the world have bandwidth and which parts don't. Now we start investigating the power structures (who owns the bandwidth). Next week we will be looking into the wireless world of telecommunications, from grassroots packet switching to commercial sattelite networks.
# we interviewed Saskia Sassen and Tom Keenan, both lecturing @ the 100 Tage Programme of Documenta X we learned a lot about financial and economic power structures. Power is spatial. The Kino of Documenta X is one of those. The elite is gathering to legitimate their views. the 'we want more bandwidth' group is basically operating by the same strategies.
# the people of Bellissima (broadcasting group from Amsterdam) arrived yesterday and joined our production team.
# we interviewed Joseph 'Boogie' Viegas from Goa, India. he is an internet expert. he explained to us the access and bandwidth situation in India, wich is still restricted due to govermental interference and monopoly position of the (state owned) providers
# we investigated the underwater bandwidth of the world. Fiberoptics lying at the bottom of the deepest oceans, connecting the financial elite centers of the world. We also started looking into Who Owns What in telecommunications. Great help was Boardwatch magazine.
# a spokesperson of RIPE (the authority that gives out IP-numbers, the house-numbers of the internet) was interviewed about the IP schemes of the new world. It seems IP-numbers are given out on a basis of need; we question this: the technological routing structure of the net also automatically imposes a hierarchy in the distribution of the numbers.
33k3 bps - too fast for most of us
EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL
# the structure of what we are doing here is becoming more and more clear; the first couple of days we investigated which parts of the world have bandwidth and which parts don't. Now we start investigating the power structures (who owns the bandwidth). Next week we will be looking into the wireless world of telecommunications, from grassroots packet switching to commercial sattelite networks.
# we interviewed Saskia Sassen and Tom Keenan, both lecturing @ the 100 Tage Programme of Documenta X we learned a lot about financial and economic power structures. Power is spatial. The Kino of Documenta X is one of those. The elite is gathering to legitimate their views. the 'we want more bandwidth' group is basically operating by the same strategies.
# the people of Bellissima (broadcasting group from Amsterdam) arrived yesterday and joined our production team.
# we interviewed Joseph 'Boogie' Viegas from Goa, India. he is an internet expert. he explained to us the access and bandwidth situation in India, wich is still restricted due to govermental interference and monopoly position of the (state owned) providers
# we investigated the underwater bandwidth of the world. Fiberoptics lying at the bottom of the deepest oceans, connecting the financial elite centers of the world. We also started looking into Who Owns What in telecommunications. Great help was Boardwatch magazine.
# a spokesperson of RIPE (the authority that gives out IP-numbers, the house-numbers of the internet) was interviewed about the IP schemes of the new world. It seems IP-numbers are given out on a basis of need; we question this: the technological routing structure of the net also automatically imposes a hierarchy in the distribution of the numbers.
128k / 128 kbps - not for evrybody
P U S H - U P - Y O U R - B A N D W I D T H
# The MAY WE HAVE YOUR BANDWIDTH questionaire is now on-line.
# We prepared the Bandwidth Party
MITTWOCH 16 JULY 22.00 - 02.00 UHR
@ HYBRID WORKSPACE - ORANGERIE - KASSEL
A HYBRID PARTY WITH SOUNDS & SLOGANS,
WINE, BEER & THEORY
WE WANT BANDWIDTH
DJ's _ VJ's _ TJ's_ IJ's
Society for Old and New Media, Bellisima, Nettime, Freies Radio Kassel, Baracuda Bar
T1 / 1,544 Mbps - some have it to their kitchen, some don't
NO ART ON WALLS
# Today Catherine David, artistic director of the Documenta X, was our guest. In the interview she spoke about the context of the workspace. She stressed the fact that she was very explicit in not wanting to have art on the walls here. It would distract the public of the political content.
# Yesterday we went on a Bandwidth Tour around Kassel and met the people of Dock 4. They opened a public access place for net activities. Today they came to the workspace and talked about their initiative. The existence of this initiative is hopefull, but their work is not easy. There is not a lot of conciousness in Kassel on the issue of public domain and most of the people who are able to program or design for the net are immediately being bought by companies.
# David Hudson, editor of Rewired, told us some gossip in the telephone interview we had. Please check out his own site, you will hear the latest news.
# We are preparing the FAQ Manifest for the Pressconference tomorrow. Not that we expect any (real ?) press people. A pressconference is just a nice format to present some conclusions of all these days of narrowcasting on the issue of bandwidth.
T2 / 6,132 Mbps - why not ?
DEMAND 10 %
# The Pressconference was a big success. Finally everybody understood what bandwidth is all about and yes: they will act on our demands. 10% of the world bandwidth will be given for free for cultural and social use. The FAQPRESS is on-line now.
# Susan George was our guest today. She spoke about the issue of language. How to discuss abstract questions with a large, nondiscript audience. Although we experienced we also have an elite language, we are under the impression we succeeded in getting our message across.
# THE BANDWIDTHPARTY IS TONIGHT ! Join us. It starts @ 22.00 PM Slogans and Sounds
T3 / 44 Mbps - Yes !
BANDWIDTH FOR ALL
# Our Campaign in Kassel closes today. The new group from Vienna is knocking on the door, drinking coffee at the terras.
# This morning we received by fax the first press publication (in a local Kassel newspaper) in response to the press conference of yesterday.
# We recovered from the high bandwidth party we organized last night. Many people came to the party and they even organized their own performance acts.
# The approximately 500 responses to our bandwidth questionaire were on display in the workspace today.
# In a way sad and happy that the We Want Bandwidth action is over now, we are certain that the end is merely a beginning... We will keep you posted. Please check our bandwidth site for updates.
The KUNSTRADIO Team moved into the HYBRID WORKSPACE last night and changed the space in the Orangerie into a radio production studio i.e. a workspace for the production of on air and on line radio (etc.). During the afternoon of July 18th the space turned into a public workspace with the Documenta audience witnessing the production of a live radioprogram for Radio Freies Kassel, videoprojections and very hard work on the Recycling the Future homepage.
A very friendly and interested audience walked through the on site workspace while all kind of live audio-mixes filled the real space and finally also the virtual space of Live Real Audio casting. As opposed to traditional radio usually broadcast from one central point the Recycling the Future Web Radio is supposed to be maintained by decentral - occasionally even simultaneous - programming from different locations. Today Berlin (Berliner Theorie) contributed substantially, Melbourne announced contributions from Sunday onwards etc. And AVATAR in Quebec City will present its Recycling the Future page tomorrow together with a telefone performance...
Meanwhile later in the day in Kassel (when the doors of the real workspace were already closed to the on site audience): not only the webcamera but also the project IP Zentrum (fed by seismic on line data from observation-points all over the world) went into operation. (IP Zentrum is providing a literally down-to-earth background to the on air - on line - on site-activities of Recycling the Future...).
So the first RECYCLING THE FUTURE day passed on site with a nice relaxed local response, on air with colourful first broadcast on Freies Radio Kassel and on line with the launch of several projects and an ongoing Live Webcast and reassuring reports from our partners in Austria, Berlin, Melbourne, Quebec City, Arles about the good progress of their joint efforts.
And on top of all that an ambitious programm at and from the Kassel location - supported from elsewhere - has been devised for tomorrow, July 19th:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. CET:
VIRTUAL FEEDBACK LIVE
- a project by Andrea Sodomka, Norbert Math, Volker Christian, Martin Breindl 6 p.m. CET:
THE HAMMERNESS OF A DEAD SNAKE
- a teleperformance by Christof Migone and Jocelyn Robert (AVATAR)
(Live from Quebec/ CAN)
8 p.m. CET
VERSION REANIMEE / REANIMATED VERSION
(Quebec/Kassel)
and of course
24 hours of Live Webcasting.
CHECK the development of our ongoing On Line PROJECTS
CONTRIBUTE TO OUR NEWSGROUP (you do not have to write in English!)
In Short:
What : warm up
When : @12:00 - 00:00
Where: Orangerie
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Click here to hear and see what is going on in the Workspace.
Recycling the Future @ Hybrid Workspace opens today...
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What : Einweihung des ARM Vereinsheims
When : @22:00
Where: Werner-Hilpert-Str.22 im Hof
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 Francoise Cactus and Brezel Goering von Stereo Total legen ihre Lieblingsplatten auf.
gez. das Festkommitee des Arbeitskreises Rhythmussuchender Menschen e.V.
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On July 19th - the second day of the KUNSTRADIO team at the Orangerie - the physical HYBRID WORKSPACE proved to be quite functional for many visitors witnessing four hours of live radio on the local frequencies of Freies Radio Kassel as well as for many more hours of work on the RECYCLING THE FUTURE webpage and its webradio - and also for a live on site interview Geert Lovink did with Alexander Huyssen...The performances in the space took on special energy when the artists on site in Kassel joined with an AVATAR performance from Quebec: the virtual distributed RECYCLING THE FUTURE workspace came very much alive not only with this VERSION REANIMEE/REANIMATED VERSION of the ongoing THE HAMMERNESS OF A DEAD SNAKE, for which Christof Migone and Jocelyn Robert are distributing and collecting recipes for Do it Yourself Performances - doing daily televersions with Kassel of those themselves...but also e.g. with the Vienna KUNSTRADIO starting to contribute a substantial amount of hours to the webradio - adding a second webcamera to it...Melbourne launched a successfull test of joining the virtual workspace and Berlin contributed the signature tune of RECYCLING THE FUTURE...The work on various web-projects progressed nicely in different locations. Do not forget to e.g. have a look at the daily progress the FUTURE SHIP is making on its trip from Linz to Kassel!
VITUAL FEEDBACK by the way will enable you to (inter-)actively take part in the virtual Workspace yourself and the IP ZENTRUM joins you to the movements of the earth...
So explore the joined RECYCLING THE FUTURE a nd WORKSPACE homepages and get to work on it yourselves e.g. contributing to the RECYCLING THE FUTURE newsgroup.
What : Seminar: Teurer als Disco
When : @22:00
Where: Werner-Hilpert-Str. 22 im Hof
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 DJ Christine vom E-WERK / Berlin
Arbeitskreis Rhythmussuchener Menschen e.V.
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Recycling the Future
Our remote locations have been steady contributors. More activity is on the way! Stay Tuned.
What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @11:00 - 13:30
Where: Koenigsplatz
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Sharon Zukin - Soziologin, New York
"Hansel und Gretel go to Disneyland - The Aesthetisation of Public Sphere"
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @13:30 - 18:00
Where: Koenigsplatz
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Yves Moutton, Architekt, Lyon / Anne-Laure Pauget, Kuenstlerin, Lyon
"Public Space and out of Shots"
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @18:00 - 20:30
Where: Pferdemarkt
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Jochen Blumenauer, Immobilienkaufmann, Muenchen "Der oeffentliche Raum - Betrachtungen eines Unternehmers"
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @20:30 - 21:30
Where: Hollandischer Platz - Unterf.
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Heinz Schuetz, Kunstkritiker, Muenchen "wo denn wo? - Zur Topologie der Gegenwartskunst"
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check out what is happening
stay tuned...
Monday (if you now what I mean). 3pm to 5pm usual broadcast from Free Radio Kassel and Netcasts from Canada and Vienna. Also August Black did his "Recycle this idea" performance during Sergio Messina´s performance and went walking around outside the Orangerie (full of Documenta visitors) with wireless headphones and microphone and talking by himself.
The hyperactivity of the team, on a strict bread and coffee diet (and cigarettes! - the webmaster), is taking its toll: various visions were reported and Karl Petermichl, our magic Soundman, is talking about building a permanent 34.897 channel ISDN webknodel mixer to react to the whole world at once (and still have enough ram to play Quake. For the first time in our 4 days stay here we had a real SOUNDCHECK. Ludwig Zeininger took care of it, and he means to do it even more full tomorrow. It was cast to a broad audience, in the best tradition of "public privateness" or viceversa. Last, but not least Olindo Mercier, renown southern french composer and performer, visited us and performed some of his infernal baroquisms unlive on the air.to/teaLast [imported from kunstradio-pages by pit]
What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @14:00 - 16:30
Where: Markthalle am Altmarkt
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Gerfried Stocker, Medienkuenstler, Linz
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: Rathaus-Treppe (Treffpunkt)
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Praesentation der Workshopergebnisse im Stadtrundgang
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: HBK - Foyer
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Abschluss-Diskussion: "What will public space and real be in the year 2027?", Moderation: Detlev Ipsen
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What : Oeffentliche Vortraege
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: Markthalle am Altmarkt
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Ulrich Hellweg, ehem. Baudezernent in Kassel, Berlin "Denk-mal im oeffentlichen Ruam"
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log #5 by Sergio Messina july 22nd:
Tuesday: The 3 to 5 pm broadcast featured the full blown version of the soundcheck by Ludwig Zeininger which included various jammers (see previous logs for the concept of KunstJam). We also are experiencing a personnel turnover (also referred to as "injection of fresh blood"): Andrea Sodomka left (but she's going to join us again on thursday night from Vienna for a night broadcast), Tina Cassani and Bruno Beusch arrived with their Radio TNC project.
Sergio Messina (that's me) decided to go out to do his Theremin set in the inner city of Kassel. August Black followed with a videocamera and filmed the whole thing. At the end of the 2 twenty minutes performances, we found 8, 72 marks and a joint in the hat: not bad.
This was the first sunny morning since we arrived (but in the afternoon we had a real storm, to remind us that we're still in northern Europe, despite the World Wide Web).
What : live from vienna
When : @14:00 - 21:00
Where: Orangerie
Live from Vienna by various artists by various artists
What : Berliner Theorie
When : @14:00 - 21:00
Where: Orangerie / Berlin
Berliner Theorie by Rupert Huber and Sam Auinger http://www.aec.at/residence/BT/
What : Recycling the Future
When : @15:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie - Hybrid WorkSpace
What : Fake Radio
When : @15:00 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie / Berlin/Linz
Fake Radio II Recycling Agents mixed by Lucie Zemann http://thing.at/orfkunstradio/FUTURE/DX/EVENTS/fake.html
What : Nie (1990)
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie / Berlin/Linz
What : The Hammerness of a Dead Snake
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie / Berlin/Linz
The Hammerness of a Dead Snake IV by Jocelyn Robert (Avatar) http://www.qbc.clic.net/~avatar/recettes/presentation.html
log #5, july 23nd, by Sergio Messina:
Wednesday: First full day of sun (you have to excuse me but I'm still italian after all). First we spoke in tongues, then we speculated about the sound of God(s); at 4pm the Great Radio TNC broad/webcast took place: one of the main features was our superstar/moderator Friedrich Tietjen interviewing everybody about clonation (TNC is doing a project on clonation).
Also, there were some rumours about pork cheese and Bowie clones (but none confirmed, thank God). At 7pm Elisabeth Schimana sang and played her Eat up piece (with the ever smiling tirolean Norbert Math on oscillators, from here in Kassel).
Main achievement of the day: we changed restaurant, after a week (we're such a bunch of lazy kunstlers).
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4 p.m. - 5 p.m. CEST:
RADIO TNC'S CLONE PARTY SPECIALS - by Beusch/Cassani, TNC Network The countdown for the Great Clone Party (September 11, 1997) at the Ars Electronica Festival is running! Meet the party agents, tune in to the first clone mixes and learn how to dance the body sampling step!
6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CEST:
The Hammerness of a Dead Snake by Avatar
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. CEST:
Eat Up by Elisabeth Schimana live from Vienna
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What : RECYCLING THE FUTURE
When : @15:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie - Hybrid Workspace
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Recycling the Future
on air - on line - on site
2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CEST:
Berliner Theorie by Sam Auingerr & Rupert Huber live from Berlin
2 p.m. - 9 p.m. CEST:
live Webcast from Vienna
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. CEST:
AGAKUK by Andres Bosshard
4 p.m. - 5 p.m. CEST:
RADIO TNC'S CLONE PARTY SPECIALS - by Beusch/Cassani, TNC Network.
The countdown for the Great Clone Party (September 11, 1997) at the Ars Electronica Festival is running! Meet the party agents, tune in to the first clone mixes and learn how to dance the body sampling step!
6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CEST:
The Hammerness of a Dead Snake by Avatar live from Quebec City
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. CEST:
KR.MOSH by Peter Rehberg from Vienna
11 p.m. - 12 p.m. CEST:
Virtual Feedback by Andrea Sodomka live from Vienna
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What : Berliner Theorien
When : @14:00 - 14:30
Where: Berlin
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What : live Webcast from Vienna
When : @14:00 - 21:00
Where: Vienna
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What : AGAKUK
When : @15:00 - 16:00
Where: Kassel
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from sonoferous gardens of matiungo to the acoustic observatory of trt and other hybrid dream spaces
by Andres Bosshard
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What : The Hammerness of a Dead Snake
When : @18:00 - 18:30
Where: Quebec City
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What : KR.MOSH
When : @18:00 - 20:00
Where: Vienna
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A DJ mix of sorts.
Manipulating Kunstradio Edition´s back catalogue of CD releases mixed and deconstructed by Peter Reheber, the DJ sometimes known as Pita.
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What : Virtual Feedback
When : @23:00 - 00:00
Where: Vienna
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What : Teurer als Disko (Teil 2)
When : @23:00
Where: Werner-Hilpert St. 22
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TOK TOK (Berlin) Live Act
bei Lolita Bar am Kulturbahnhof
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this day the deep_europe team is rearranging the furniture. one is getting new employee-passports, tests the 'mitarbeiteressen', enjoys the sun (after a long week of rain), and prepares the schedule for the next days...
What : deep europe welcoming party
When : @20:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace
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welcoming party - first drinks, planning
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The Deep Europe group is doing the first public presentations in the Hybrid WorkSpace today. We are also developing the first threads for our internal discussions and have to figure out how best to use the time that we have. After a discussion about the relevance or obsolecence of the Europe-theme, Calin Dan has posted a text which might spark discussions in the newsgroup. At a meeting in the evening, we talk about the on-going projects which we want to work on during the coming 10 days.
What : press conference
When : @11:00 - 12:18
Where: orangerie
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no one is illegal on june, 28th a summit of antiracist initiatives
took place inside the orangerie joined by more than
30 groups from all over germany. today the campaign
"no one is illegal"
is presented to the press.
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What : Performance and Presentations
When : @12:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace
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Performance by D. Pilikin & V. Savchuk (12-13.00)
Presentation of videos from Novi Sad/Yugoslavia (14-15.00)
Discussion about the Cyberknitting project (15-16.00)
Crossing Over - videos (16-17.00)
Letters Home - Deep Europeans talk about the dX and the workshop
in their native languages.
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What : presentations
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace
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Calin Dan (RO), Nina Czegledy (HU), Iliyana Nedkova (BG), Branka Davic (YU), Edi Muka (AL), and Marjan Kokot (SI) present media art projects from various east european countries.
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What : Performance
When : @12:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace
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Performance by D. Pilikin & V. Savchuk (12-13.00)
Presentation of videos from Novi Sad/Yugoslavia (14-15.00)
Discussion about the Cyberknitting project (15-16.00)
Crossing Over - videos (16-17.00)
Letters Home - Deep Europeans talk about the dX and
the workshop in their native languages.
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What : Discussions and Presentations
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace
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14:00 Edi Muka presents recent videos from Albania
15:00 Inke Arns and Andreas Broeckmann discuss “Kleine oestliche Medienrealitaet”
16:00 Dima Pilikin presents “The tension in russian contemporary art between Moscow and St. Petersburg” and Video Art Magazine No. 0 (May 1997)
17:00 European Media Debate - 1st circle
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What : Public presentations
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace
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14.00 - 15.00 Recent video productions from Yugoslavia presented by Alexandar Davic (Novi Sad/Yugoslavia)
15.00 - 17.00 Predictions of Fire (Michael Benson, Slovenia 1995) a documentary film about the radical art collective Neue Slovenische Kunst presented by Inke Arns (Berlin/Germany)
17.00 - 18.00 Presentation of videos, websites, and other deep european locations by the Institute of Affordable Lunacy/Institut für Bezahlbaren Wahnsinn (Eindhoven/Netherlands)
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What : Public presentations
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace
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14.00 - 15.00 Recent video productions from Yugoslavia presented by Alexandar Davic (Novi Sad/Yugoslavia)
15.00 - 17.00 Predictions of Fire (Michael Benson, Slovenia 1995) a documentary film about the radical art collective Neue Slovenische Kunst presented by Inke Arns (Berlin/Germany)
17.00 - 18.00 Presentation of videos, websites, and other deep european locations by the Institute of Affordable Lunacy/Institut für Bezahlbaren Wahnsinn (Eindhoven/Netherlands)
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What : Presentation of videos
When : @14:00 - 15:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace Orangerie
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Presentation of videos about Calanda/Spain, Banco de Ideas Z/Cuba, A fence in the desert.
Presented by the Institute of Affordable Lunacy/Institut für Bezahlbaren Wahnsinn (Eindhoven/Netherlands)
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What : Interview and discussion
When : @15:00 - 16:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace Orangerie
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Interview about the V2_East/ Syndicate network that runs the Deep Europe workshop in the Hybrid WorkSpace this week with Tom Bass (Budapest), Inke Arns (Berlin), Andreas Broeckmann (Rotterdam), Branka Davic (Novi Sad), and Rasa Smite (Riga) et al.
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The Deep Europe group has survived a long weekend. The visa department action on Saturday afternoon, the performance and party by the IBW from Eindhoven Saturday night, an unrelenting steam of visitors on Sunday afternoon with a frustrated outbreak from Andreas during the Syndicate interview: we were supposed to discuss publically the V2_East/Syndicate while the public was constantly changing, few people stayed longer than two or three minutes. At the same time, Dima Pilikin was approached by the police while reading Russian literature on the lawn outside the Workspace - fulfilling the Russian Mission. And then in the evening we went to the free Kassel radio station where Geert and Herbert moderated two hours of Deep Europe live-radio.
Today we continue the public presentations and our discussions, especially about the Syndicate Publication Series (a vision in progress) and about the European Media Policy of the Council of Europe. For the evening we are planning a viewing session of the video tapes that we brought.
What : Presentation
When : @14:00 - 16:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace - Orangerie
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Presentation of the web site Witnesses of an Age: The Residents of Leningrad and screening of the video Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) presents videomagazine No. 0 (1997) presented by Dimitri Pilikin (St. Petersburg/Russia)
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What : Presentation
When : @16:00 - 17:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace - Orangerie
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Project: "Sample Words. An investigation into the state of language affairs in Europe today" presented by Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia/Bulgaria)
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What : Presentation
When : @17:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace - Orangerie
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Recent video productions from Albania presented by Eduard Muka (Tirana/Albania)
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On the last-but-one day of the Deep Europe workshop the number of people still here is getting smaller, although we are still with almost 10 or so. Edi Muka left for Tirana this morning, Luchezar is going back to Sofia in the afternoon. The Chinese poet, Yang Lian, who gave a well-received lecture at the dX 100 Guest series last night, will come to visit around noon, and in the afternoon Inke, Andreas and Tom will be presenting texts and stories via our 'see me' intra-workspace TV system: in order to avoid the frustration of seeing people walk in and out constantly, we have installed a little studio at the back of the space from where we are broadcasting into the public space via the video projector. It's fun and it works.
What : Presentation
When : @14:00 - 15:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace - Orangerie
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Presentation of the video "Bravo" by Peter Vezjak (SI), a film about music group Laibach.
Presentation of the video "Gift" by Mike Stubbs (GB 1997)
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What : Presentation
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid Workspace - Orangerie
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TODAY: Deep Circuit TV (LIVE)
Inke Arns & Andreas Broeckmann (Berlin / Rotterdam)"Kleine östliche Mediennormalität", Vortrag / Text 1997
Tom Bass (Budapest)"The Tarnish of Silver and Black: Transsilvanian Obscenity Test", Lecture 1997
Inke Arns & Andreas Broeckmann (Berlin / Rotterdam)"Surfen an der Lower East Side", Vortrag / Text 1997
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This is our last day. During dinner last night we had more ideas for the presentations using our See Me Deep Circuit TV studio, and for a moment we considered staying till the weekend, but then we decided not to ...
Thorsten will do some Letters Home interviews with us today where we will talk about our experiences in Kassel in our native languages, Rasa will show her www work with RealAudio, and then we'll probably just show some videos for the last couple of hours. the workshop has been a great success, both in terms of the work that we have done and in terms of bringing people closer together. It also seems that Dima Pilikin's performance Russian Words Are The Russian Mission has made an impression on many people, we are told that he will be interviewed for ARTE today ...
There will be more to come in the newsgroup and the http://www.v2.nl/east/archive/deep_europe/hybrid.html website. So watch out for Deep Europe transforming around you!
What : Interview
When : @14:00 - 15:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace - Orangerie
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TODAY: Deep Circuit TV (LIVE )
Interwievs with Deep Europe
Conducted by Thorsten Schilling
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What : Presentation
When : @15:00 - 16:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace - Orangerie
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Xchange Radio Links
Presentation of the < real-time-net-radio project on audio-exchange within the network >
by Rasa Smite
+ real-time-network-stream and live-stream MUSIC
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What : Presentation
When : @16:00 - 18:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace - Orangerie
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Presentation of the videos from Deep Europe
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The first day of the Tactical Media Network in the Hybrid Workspace began with an introduction to the emergence of tactical media through the Amsterdam pirate media scene. As the doors opened people poured in, sat down and were very attentive to our program of lectures and tapes.. But the main purpose of the day was to be our connection to the Hacking In Progress-conference in the Netherlands. A kind of hacker's Woodstock, a campsite crowded with more than a thousand hackers from around the world. Our sound and image connections via internet and ISDN covered the debate on tactical uses of the Internet and marked the emergence of Contrast.org, a new collective of activists committed to using the net for political advocacy. The 'live' connections with the HIP were a bit troubled. First of all, the RealAudio server of the HIP was down until halfway the tactical media panel, so when it came on we just plugged in without proper introduction. Then after twenty minutes or so, the RealVideo kicked in too. It was hard for the audience to just listen to the RealAudio, while we where trying to surf the net for websites matching the speakers' words. With RealVideo it was a bit better... Then the PictureTel session begun. Actually, this was just a test, but since we were open already, we had to go live to the audience directly. People at the HIP didn't call in earlier in the day to make a proper testrun, unfortunately. We had video both ways, but sound only form HIP to us. After a lot of miscommunications with the people at the HIP (over mobile phone) finally the lecture was repeated over PictureTel but then the sound started to feedback (in a quite mysterious way), so a lot of the effect was lost again.
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The first day of the Tactical Media Network in the Hybrid Workspace began with an introduction to the emergence of tactical media through the Amsterdam pirate media scene. As the doors opened people poured in, sat down and were very attentive to our program of lectures and tapes.. But the main purpose of the day was to be our connection to the Hacking In Progress-conference in the Netherlands. A kind of hacker's Woodstock, a campsite crowded with more than a thousand hackers from around the world. Our sound and image connections via internet and ISDN covered the debate on tactical uses of the Internet and marked the emergence of Contrast.org, a new collective of activists committed to using the net for political advocacy. The 'live' connections with the HIP were a bit troubled. First of all, the RealAudio server of the HIP was down until halfway the tactical media panel, so when it came on we just plugged in without proper introduction. Then after twenty minutes or so, the RealVideo kicked in too. It was hard for the audience to just listen to the RealAudio, while we where trying to surf the net for websites matching the speakers' words. With RealVideo it was a bit better... Then the PictureTel session begun. Actually, this was just a test, but since we were open already, we had to go live to the audience directly. People at the HIP didn't call in earlier in the day to make a proper testrun, unfortunately. We had video both ways, but sound only form HIP to us. After a lot of miscommunications with the people at the HIP (over mobile phone) finally the lecture was repeated over PictureTel but then the sound started to feedback (in a quite mysterious way), so a lot of the effect was lost again.
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Independent Media in Ex-Yugoslavia
As the workspace opened slightly after three o'clock, David Garcia introduced the Tactical Media Network and the programme of the day to an audience of about 100 people.
He also gave an update of what we have been doing here during the last days.
After that we started showing some video material about independent media in former Yugoslavia. One of the tapes was about B92 and its role during the war.
At four we had, in spite of some technical problems, a live telephone link with Drazen Pantic from Radio B92 in Belgrade, Serbia. B92 was and still is the only independent radiostation in Belgrade, and it played a major role during the recent demonstrations against president Milosevic's regime.
Here is an excerpt of his speech.
For us as the Tactical Media Network, an important event was the visit of Catherina David to our Worksspace.
Today, we also started to broadcast RealAudio. During the opening hours (mostly 15:00 - 18:00) you can listen to a live audio stream, and outside opening hours we replay the recording of the day.
We are not always sending RealAudio, so don't be disappointed if you hear nothing if you click the following link:
Listen to the Workspace RealAudio Stream
People's Communications Charter
Today we opened at one 'o clock, with a interview with Raul Marroquin from Hoeksteen Radio, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Raul spoke with Silvia Mejia about Colombian politics and the role of tactical media in a country like Colombia.
The interview was broadcasted live on Hoeksteen Radio, and also on the internet by the Workspace (see link below) as well as Hoeksteen.
After that we had to rebuild the workspace for a Picturetel (TM) session with prof. Cees Hamelink, one of the initiators of the PCC.
Prof. Hamelink was located in the Theatrum Anatomicum in the Waag in Amsterdam. He explained the history and the aims of the PCC. He was very pleased with all the signatures that were collected to support the PCC during the last five days in Workspace.
The final episode of the programme was a videotape of the Colombian director Mario Burbano, about a Colombian woman that was imprisoned in Germany.
Tomorrow we have a presentation in the main Documenta Halle, so the rest of the day and the evening we are preparing for that. Be sure to watch the presentation (thursday 19:00) at Documenta Web TV
Since yesterday, we also started to broadcast RealAudio. During the opening hours (mostly 15:00 - 18:00) you can listen to a live audio stream, and outside opening hours we replay the recording of the day.
We are not always sending RealAudio, so don't be disappointed if you hear nothing if you click the following link:
Listen to the Workspace RealAudio Stream
We had only one hour of program today, due to the preparations for the lecture later today.
We wanted to have a live Picturetel connection with SALTO TV in Amsterdam, where a number of Dutch Politicians where debating. Unfortunately, the connection came not thru and we showed some very interesting video's instead.
In the evening, we were invited to present the Hybrid Workspace in the main Documenta Halle. Geert Lovinck and Pit Schultz, the initiators of Workspace, first held a general introduction of the concept of the Hybrid Workspace.
Then, there was a short presentation of websites and videomaterial of all the groups that where in Workspace (Social Spaces Belin, KunstRadio, Deep Europe, Cross the Border and Bandwidth).
Then, David Garcia introduced the Tactical Media Network in short. Next was the presentation of our guest from Colombia, Sylvia Mejia.
The videopresentation of the lecture can be found at the Documenta Site
Since Tuesday, we also started to broadcast RealAudio. During the opening hours (mostly 15:00 - 18:00) you can listen to a live audio stream, and outside opening hours we replay the recording of the day.
We are not always sending RealAudio, so don't be disappointed if you hear nothing if you click the following link:
Listen to the Workspace RealAudio Stream
Eco Warriors
Today was a special day because it was David Garcia's birthday. But apart from eating birthdaycake we also had our daily program.
The program started as always with an update about our work in WorkSpace. The topic of the day was "eco warriors". The term "eco warrior" is a British invention. With their remarkable protests against environmental pollution they set the tone for a lot of people abroad to follow their example. We showed some videomaterial made by eco warriors building treehouses and digging tunnels to stop roadbuilders from ruining the ancient English woods.
David Garcia then interviewed Ace Suares, our tactical computer consultant. Ace told us about his Internet activities, showed us the websites he made for example for Ecotopia and the Eurostop.
After that Silvia Mejia interviewed Ernesto Gallasch. Ernesto prefers to call himself an eco pascifist because he thinks you should take one step further than simply go out and protest. He believes in autarchy. That is why he helps people in Latin America to become selfsufficient.
We also showed a video from Sri Lanka about a protest against tannery pollution. They used the camera in a completely different way but with the same great effect.
At the moment we are organizing our final tacical back to basic party. We hope it will be a big success but that is almost inevitable because of the great DjLars!!!
What : Tactical NetParty
When : @23:00
Where: Orangerie
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BACK TO BASIC ! (this line centered, eric !) identity = 3 bandwidth = 2 content = 5 n5m: xs = xs + .25 ace = SIN(xs / identity) * 30 + 35 radikal = SIN(xs / bandwidth) * 30 + 35 david = SIN(xs / content) * 30 + 35 PRINT SPC(ace) ; "Hybryd" PRINT SPC(radikal) ; "Workspace" PRINT SPC(david) ; "Documenta X" GOTO n5m
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Dear diary/lief dagboek
This is our last day in WorkSpace and here is a live report from the the party.
About 3000 people are gathered here for the final Tactical Improvised FUN party.
"Is there any beer left???" is what many guests ask themselves. Well, the music (DJ LARS REAL) is still filling up the space !
The room is lighted by 4 sources of imagery - one slide show, two video beams and an internet site shower (ISS). Actually, the writing of this diary is shown live at this party.
The sound of the party is LIVE on http://www.icf.de/RIS/live.ram, and the webcam can be found at teh MAGAZINE !
Catherine David visited the party - we are very honoured - and Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz went on theorizing and preparing an interview for tomorrow - when MUTE is taking over the workspace.
Also, we are grateful for the existence of Eric Frymark - the orgtanizer of this party. And of course, our thanks go out to Ali, who helped us beyon belief during the ten days in WORKSPACE.
For us needless to say, but for you maybe unexpected, our gratefulness to Thorsten Schilling. he has hosted us so good and professional, with contacts with the Documenta HeadQ, clean sheets, a place to live and sleep (and snore), and all kinds of cables, videotapes, zipdisks and MITARBEITESRSESSEN !
THORSTEN WE LOVE YOU !!!
... and we can't forget Herbet Meier, professor in Utrecht ;-) who guided us to the radio program at Freies Radio Kassel, and helped us so much with the Real Audio Stream.
Last but not least, we thank Sylvia Mejia, independednt documentary maker from Colombia, who delivered a great set of speeches and lectures on Tactical Media.
For that matter, we also thank Ernesto Gallasch, who held a lecture about living self-sufficient and ecological.
Thanks to Catherine David for her interest, the Documenta Organisation and the Berlin Biennale for making it possible, and the Society for Old and New Media for giving us a great place to work.
That's enough for today. enjoy your party and wish us a good trip back HOME !
The Tactical Media Network TEAM:
Ace Suares
Roos van Duuren
David Garcia
Menno Grootveld
Geert Lovink
Yariv Alter Fin
Eric Frymark
Philppe Taminiau
Reinder Rusteman
Marjolein Ruyg
Madelinde Hageman
Lara Ankersmit
De Digitale Stad Amsterdam
and everybody that helped us through ten days of Hybrid Workspace !!!! 
Today we openend the WorkSpace for the first time. The questionnaire Direct Biocracy, which you can now find on the newsgroup, was our medium for testing out the public's response to the 'technoscience' theme.The questionnaire had two aims: to collect individual profiles - specifically on their level of awareness and concern concern/awareness for the technoscientific alteration of their bodies and environments, and understanding of the intersection of economics,politics and science. The second aim was to judge the degree to which the public felt actively involved in the processes by which technoscience is shaping our bodies, lives and environments.
The public tended to have to overcome their disspointment at the lack of '' on display before being able to focus on the issues we were exploring. They kept asking us;'So, where is the rest of the exhibition?'.The interesting thing there was that they really had expectations of our own 'accountability' in comparison to how many of them felt about the question of scientific accountability.
In the end we got quite a few questionnaires back and are now working on how to transpose the results into a useful tool.
TECHNOSCIENCE
Direct Biocracy at the Documenta Hybrid WorkSpace
Richard Sclove, Director of the Loka Institute interviewed by Josephine Berry and Pauline van Mourik Broekman.
The Loka Institute aims to make companies, research institutes and other powerful organisations in the areas of science and technology more accountable to the public. They have attempted to import models from European countries like Holland and Denmark which had already done pioneering work in this area through 'Science Shops' and community based 'lay-person' voting panels. As similar activities have been going on in the US, but far more randomly, the Loka institute also tries to forge links between disparate groups to increase their efficacy. Richard talked to us today about information technology, machine use and democracy.
Hmmmm our questionnaire was really popular today. Still haven't had a chance to look through all the answers, but at first glance there seems to be a lot of contradictions in peoples' answers from the point of view of their willingness to trust what specialists prescribe (medically)- even if it goes against the grain - and their mistrust of genetically engineered food products, belief that the world is losing its 'naturalness', and scepticism over the potential for genetically engineered food crops etc. to solve world food production and distribution problems. In other words,even if they are dissatisfied with the results or worried about the future of technoscientifically altered reality, they don't trust themselves or are unwilling to take the decision making processes into their own hands. Still, many felt that they were in a position to comment about specialist issues which have an impact on them as individuals even if they didn't (in the majority) feel up to participating in policy making. AS I said before, all the data has not yet been reviewed so these are only tentative conclusions from an, in any case, pre-selected 'art going' audience.
After a days preperation the mute ´technoscience´session at hybrid workspace started with the art and science curator Rob LaFrenais presenting the ´Incident´ project along with art projects related to the UK based group Arts Catalyst and the artist Kathleen Rogers presenting her project based around the solar eclipse due in 1999. The main thrust of Rob and Kathleens talks were the issues around the collaborations between artists and scientist. The organisation Arts Catalyst was specifically set up to initiate and facilitate projects involving artists and scientists, in doing so they face what is seen as one of the most burning issues under question relating to both these fields of activity that of the role and perceived role of the creative individual´s and of such diciplines to be the ultimate mediators of knowledge or truth. Both Rob and Kathleen confronted this issue head on from their shared interest in the paranormal and from their anthrapological research into how non western cultures aquire, store and transmitt knowledge outside of the epistamological systems of western science. Specifically with Kathleen´s present project based around the solar eclipse of 1999 she has been collaborating with a plant morphologist from the Natural history museum in London UK and looking at the Central American and southern North American cultures raising of the Maise crop. The Maise crop has been farmed for more than a thousand years and in that process the pland has become so dependent on it´s human relationship that it even needs the human to plant it´s seeds. But now bio-tech companies have decided that through thier manipulation of the crop based on western scientific reseach that this afords them the ownership of the genetically manipulated variety, which dismisses the long developed relationship of this crop with the cultures of this region. Later in the afternoon the mute team along with Rob and Kathleen took part in a discussion hosted by Josephine Bosma around the general topic of ´Technocience´, the proceeding of which will be available through the Sunday broadcast of the documenta radio @11amCET. -->
mellow beginning for luxus cont. and convex tv. at the hybrid workspace. 
currently we are still struggeling with connecting up two macs to the ethernet. the *display* room hosts
the dj pult and many samples of convex tv. texts. luxus cont. starts the first day with a bizarre collection of texts from the early 70s, a collection of pre krautrock physics students and their philosophising on the use of the transmitter (before the days of the ICs).
Where Rebirth marks the digitised reanimation of analogue hardware this marks the actual birth (and gives an interesting insight into the understanding of 'good sound' when it comes to the use of the guitar *wow* (sic)).
convex tv. starts exploring the depths of the 'German Schwarzsender'. with approx. 200 premade circuit boards convex tv, intends to spread a network of low-range transmitters over kassel. ultimatelly these transmitters (in connection with small receivers) will form a close network which allows everybody to plug in and broadcast. however, due to the vast amount of transmitters and the low-range of each individual transmitter they are basically untrackable... this is how the whole becomes bigger than...
the second half of the room sees the video/sound system explorers of martin dammann. reassessed football footage and fighter planes morsing desperately. good times spreading *around the world*.
luxus cont. and convex tv. on-line and on-air...
we just about finished the DIY radio kit, the 'German Schwarzsender'. with a brief text underlining the speciality of the german radio legislation and also some concrete data on how to build the low-range transmitter (and also including the ready to use circuit board in the deal) we managed to commit half a dozen of documenta x visitors to indulge in the illegal activity of producing radio transmitters...
exact http location will follow soon
fashion architecture taste (fat) arrived from london and look rather shattered, but will be up and running for their presentation on friday exploring the interlink between architecture and sound. we are delighted to hear more about the possibilities of turning office stairs in midi master keyboards...
also: whoever is in the area - TOKTOK will performe live tommorrow (starting 9pm) and will accompany a set of sci-fi and splatter b-movies with real time techno charme. the sound of the movies will be electronically altered and used as a base for experimental socio-spheres.
by the way: convex tv. and luxus cont. are on-air with the real audio live stream of RIS... this will also be clickable from sunday 11pm til monday 6am CET for the convex tv. radio show in kassel on-air and globally on-line at RIS.
this live link will also be open throughout the TOKTOK event tomorrow evening (start: 9pm CET)
our radio stream has already been picked up by 'extended live radio' in ljubljana www.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/xlr
the sound djing produced by convex tv. at the hybrid workspace is instantly remixed at the other end of europe where they bring together and cross-breed several live streams circulating in the net at the moment.
what becomes clear is that it is increasingly hard to develop a *statement* when everything being broadcasted (i.e. produced) is instantly taken apart and re-assembled at the next smart node. in the web you are being confronted with the reception of your production in real time. trash?
in fact the live span of your product is too short to be recognised as such without it insaminating (or contaminating) other systems. trash?
mail to: [] luxus cont.
we had some problems with the network, so this diary is very late... what's on: here and now: TOKTOK
live at the HWS the video projections show samples between manga and czech animation culture with the real time sound assembly of TOKTOK - filtering the video sound back into the music and enhancing the output with real time action on old 707,808,909, and the contemporary digital equivalents.
fashion architecture taste (fat) installed their work "environsynth" and we had a brief pondering on public spaces, sound, architecture. the talk has been recorded and will be accessible in the hws radio archive at RIS.
the German Schwarzsender sustained public interest. we started some test runs and found ourselves constantly explaining that this tiny piece of electronic will not be guitly of any plane crashes between here and hamburg (just in case any might occur). however, interesting how the imaginary picture of an electronic device which is generally being understood as illegal can create such warped perceptions. also interesting how the mere presentation of the 'illegal' 
device sparks the interest insome people to actively engage in the production... even more interesting how there seems to be a mild level of *subversiveness* in the everage citizen of germany which makes him engage in the odd illegal activity like in a hobby. and the German Schwarzsender seems to trigger this trait (whatever that means). 
anyway, i want to go, it's late, and everybody else is in the other half of the room... see you tomorrow at 8pm CET for the live stream of the convex tv. radio programme.
trash?
luxus cont. and convex tv. on-line and on-air...
mail to: [] luxus cont.
here and now: Schlingensief im Hybrid WorkSpace
luxus cont. and convex tv. on-line and on-air...
schlingensief made a mess for the best and the worst ... but definately for the spectaculum and the public. due to the extreme interest of the press in the project a restriction had to be invented on the spot charging 200DM per journalist if they wanted to spend the night with the group.
at the moment the celebrate 'polterabend' and it is extremely quiet...
we just came back from the radio and broadcasted soem essentials to fit with the programme here. oskar sala - dx cd-rom - ufo-krise - rehberger (whcih can be found on the conex tv. home page.
it's time to say good night and see you back tomorrow at the live stream of convex tv. at the HWS starting 11pm and going all the way to monday morning 6am - and take the last bus home.
starting su.11pm CET - mo.6am CET live stream from convex tv. radio. we will be on-air in and around kassel at 88.9 and on the audio stream (see above).
we also hope to connect up with ljubljana and cross mix the live streams. half of convex tv. will be situated in the studio and the other half will remain in the Hybrid WorkSpace where we will pick up the radio programme and feed it in the mixer which will host other audio streams from the web and additional material to remix what then will be altered again in lubljana and recorded in the hws and delivered to the radio studio by bike and broadcasted again including the bikers delay. there is no web access in the radio studio so we will have to rely on our bodies to transport the information form the hws to the radio (just to then pick it up at the hws and feed it into the web where it came from initially)...
loop
Schlingensief's statement: 'Toetet Helmut Kohl' (kill the German Bundeskanzler Kohl) caused the Kassel police to intervene at the Hybrid WorkSpace and arrest Cristoph Schlingensief and the actor Bernhard Schuetz. The Police entered the Hybrid WorkSpace early afternoon at the 31st of September, hand-cuffed the two 'artists' and on their way out the police dog bit the Japanese pop- star Hanayo who had joined the group of performers.
The radical statements in form of verbal of visual (i.e. theatrical) performances already caused a lot of trouble in Berlin, where Schlingensief's performance at the Volksbuehne caused Kohl himself to ring the Berlin Kultursenator Radunski and ponder if they should arrest the director and/or his actors...
Schlingensief himself thanked the Police for supplying him with such vivid reality pictures of the late 60s. He waved his Rudi Dutschke wig when re-entering the Hybrid WorkSpace and at the moment they all celebrate the turbulent weekend with 'Danke' - who never heard it should try to get on the waiting loop of the Volksbuehne (+49.30.240650)
The inside outside distinction seemed crucial at the event. One of the speakers which amplified slogans and performance inside the Orangerie, had been placed outside and not only caused the owner of the restaurant to call the police, but also the police to classify this event as an invitation to the public to commit crime. Inside the closed theater or art context this does not seem to apply. Why is that? Is the art context a law-free (i.e. governmentally assigded reality-free) zone?
20cm furhter to the door and the same slogan (to the same audience, who just sat down outside to have a cup of tey) causes the police to intervene. Good and bad at the same time that this intervention still takes place...
WorkSpace ... Work ... the performance was dedicated to the 6 millions 'unemployed' people in Germany. What happened inside the media laboratory was the 'work' of a group of people which then has been labelled as a political act as soon as it left the space it originally had been designated to (the 'Work'Space). The original phone call came from the pub owner next door who saw his 'work' being threatened by ours. And the leisure zone of the people who 'worked' hard throughout the week to engange in the luxurious activity of visiting documenta. It might be time to re-consider the exchange systems which have been established, the balance between: information, material goods and spectaculum. And more urgently: What is the space where such an exchange can take place?
'Danke'
luxus cont. and convex tv. on-line and on-air...
after the shattering experience of the arrest at the workspace and the intense experience of all night radio production (including the devastating experience of not being able to connect the live stream with lubljana and the illuminating experience of being on the phone with lubljana) we were very happy to present something soothing but nevertheless engaging and challenging today.
christophe charles who lives and works in japan (originally from france) set up a live concert in the space. a scattered pattern of sofas and chairs and a small table filled with equipment in the center of the room made the atmosphere seem unfocused as opposed to the *stage-like* set up of the last days. the decentralised and non-hirarchical arrangements appeared (to the few who lived through the events of the weekend) almost like a spacial rebirth. the sound came from four speakers in the four corners of the room which could be individually addressed. this allowed the virtual location of sound sources at any position of the room and demanded the active movement of the audience to walk inbetween the origins of abstract sounds.
the sound file will be made available on the contd home page [x] which currently features the text 'Systems of (de)composition' by christophe charles (in english).
the release of the new issue of contd will be announced soon.
Das Glatte und das Gekerbte - Fluchtlinien der Arbeit no-name-cologne Die Unterscheidung zwischen Freiheit und regelgeleitetem Prozeß bestimmt die künstlerische Arbeit. Gemeinsam mit Maschinenbauern, Künstlern und Kunstvermittlern sucht no-name-cologne nach begrifflichen Koordinaten innerhalb der Philosophie von Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, die erlauben, Zwischenräume im Vorherbestimmten des Kunstmarktes aufzuspüren. Geplant sind Präsentationen, Vorträge, Workshops. nachmittags (öffentlich): Arbeit in der Stadt Kann man den Computer eindeutig der Kerbung oder der Glättung zuordnen? Der Arbeitsraum in der Metropole steht in den Repräsentationen zur Disposition. Gäste: Richard Barbrook, London Toshija Ueno, Tokyo call-in mit David Larcher -live aus der NB1 der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln während der Arbeit an seinem aktuellen Video "Ich-Tank".(voice) live bearbeitet von Thomas Brinkmann (electronics) daily slot II: Unsichtbar-Sein - Unwahrnehmbar-Werden Geert Lovink (Agentur Bilwet, Amsterdam): Lesung aus "Elektronische Einsamkeit. Was kommt, wenn der Spaß aufhört?"
Lebendige Arbeit: Jahrhundertelang sagte der Bischof, der zugleich Politiker war, dem Schuhmacher, wie ein Schuh auszusehen hat; er gab die Idee vor, wie man zwischen guten und schlechten Schuhen unterscheidet Dies ging solange gut, bis die Schuster und die anderen Handwerker sich wehrten und eigene Modelle des Schuh- und sonstwie-Machens vorstellten. So jedenfalls Vilém Flusser, den Thomas Brinkmann in einem Realmix vorstellte. Thomas Brinkmann ist wie Bernd Ruzicska und Matthias Förster ein Maschinenschüler Turings. Er geht davon aus, daß Maschinen Modelle liefern, die Beziehungen herstellen. Wenn ich verstehe, habe ich ein Modell, und Modelle sind etwas Formalisierbares, das mechanisch abläuft. Am Nachmittag führten Thomas und Bernd vor, wie eine Turing-Maschine arbeitet. Es entstand dabei die Frage, ob Arbeit das ist, was man Maschinen überlassen kann oder ob es Formen der Arbeit gibt, die man nicht Maschinen überlassen möchte. Im Hintergrund stellte Frauke Gerhard Materialien zu Comtainment vor, die morgen im Vordergrund stehen werden.
What : bewußtseinskerbung
When : @15:00 - 17:00
Where: hybrid-workspace-kassel
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Kerbung des menschlichen Bewußtseins Thomas Brinkmann, Matthias Förster, & Bernd Ruzicska, Köln/Düsseldorf : Workshop zur Turing-Maschine Die Arbeitsweise und Zeichenkonvention eines Automaten wird durch die Konstruktion einfacher Modelle und deren Erprobungen anschaulich gemacht. Komplexe Maschinen entlang der Berechenbarkeit eröffnen das Spiel bodenloser Spekulationen.
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What : bewußtseinskerbung
When : @17:00 - 20:00
Where: hybrid-workspace-kassel
More : orangerie |
daily slot III: Unsichtbar-Sein - Unwahrnehmbar-Werden tot und lebendig Vilém Flusser: Die Informationsgesellschaft. Phantom oder Realität? Thomas Brinkmann (Profan Rec., Köln): live electronics
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Linienführung Andere Leute nach ihrem Verhältnis zur Arbeit zu fragen, ist unverschämt. So fragt nur jemand, der eine feste Anstellung und feste Arbeitszeiten hat. Ein Künstler, der Tag und Nacht arbeitet, kann nicht zwischen Arbeitszeit und Freizeit unterscheiden. Das ganze Leben ist Arbeit, aber vielleicht auch Vergnügen, eben lebendige Arbeit, nur wird diese Arbeit nicht bezahlt. Ein Kennzeichen lebendiger Arbeit ist, dass sie Leute und Personen zusammenführt, die sonst nichts miteinander zu tun haben. Zusammenführung bedeutet, die eigene Lebenslinie von den Umgebungen formen zu lassen, die Blockaden zu umgehen, anstatt sich von ihnen in den Stillstand zwingen zu lassen Frauke Gerhard, Bernhard Balkenhol und Martin Schmitz diskutieren mit no-name Cologne über Bewegungen und Blockaden, denen sie bei ihrer Arbeit mit Künstlern begegnet sind. Die Künstlern Frauke Gerhard besetzt Territorien, zum Beispiel einen Spielplatz in der Kölner Südstadt, eröffnet Künstlerinnen und Künstlern ihre Arbeiten einem gemischten Publikum vorzustellen. Bernhard Balkenhol berichtet über seine Arbeit im Kassler Kunstverein, der Kunst nach Kassel bringt, wenn Kassel nicht Documenta-Stadt ist. Eine Frage ist, wie sich historische Kunstvermittler auf heutige Kunst einlassen können bei leeren Kassen. Martin Schmitz ist Künstler und Verleger. In seinem Programm sind die Meister der Schule der tödlichen Doris, die sich mit Elfen, Fledermäusen und Wesen beschäftigen, die nach eigenwilligen Medien verlangen.
What : Linienführung im Kunstbetrieb
When : @15:00 - 17:00
Where: orangerie
More : hybrid-workspace |
Bernhard Balkenhol, Kassel Frauke Gerhard, Köln Martin Schmitz, Berlin
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What : Linienführung im Kunstbetrieb
When : @18:00 - 19:00
Where: orangerie
More : hybrid-workspace |
daily slot IV: Unsichtbar-Sein - Unwahrnehmbar-Werden Megalomaniacs Anonymous Thomas Brinkmann (Profan Rec., Köln): live electronics call-in-guest: Dr. Beeldplaatje, Amsterdam
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What : rillenkerbung-workshop
When : @15:00 - 19:00
Where: hybrid-workspace-kassel
More : orangerie |
thomas brinkmann zerkratzt fremder leute platten farbton: video-sound-modulationen local ueberraschungsgastdj anschließend real audiovideodrinks
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What : rillenkerbung-party
When : @21:00
Where: hybrid-workspace-kassel
More : orangerie |
21:00 frank dommert a-musik, köln selten gehörte musik - live 23:00 thomas brinkmann profan rec., köln studio 1 variationen - live 01:00 hi-fi agent rixe barracuda bar, kassel all time visuals
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-gespräch mit pit schulz über netzwerkarbeit -angela melitopoulos & nils röller zu toni negris begriff der arbeit -gespräch mit thorsten schilling über die arbeit im hybrid workspace -frank dommert mit selten gehörter musik II
Starting yesterday with a test, Ramon Haze is still at Work. Working with six persons, we are producing a programm mainly for the spacework itsself then for the net . More important is still the personal contact,human to human communication. For this reason we`re putting the network behind the production of a programm for the room in which Hybrid is located. Now the time is 8.20 p.m. .We´ll be back with pictures.
came late with the train from Linz, my laptop is broken and ars electronica was not much more then a luxurious environment to meet some collegues. so, we had a good nettime meeting there discussing the need of new ways of 'collaborative filtering' beyond moderation. Alexei Shulgin organized a formidable Form Art Competition. http://remote.aec.at/form/competition.html Matt Fuller was already there. Steve Kurtz arrived also. then, HOBBY ELECTRIC had it's first long night, Maelstroem from Kassel invited three live events of which we made a live stream at http://www.icf.de/RIS# ISDN to the radio studio may work tomorrow, the guy from the Technik of Freies Radio helped us a lot to finally establish an analogue telephone transmitter. moderating while doing some e-mail with a microphone next to the keyboard we relaxed the time away. Andreas Gram changed the big lamps outside to Red and Green, Orangerie in a rainy night, became a passenger ship on the way to somewhere. 6 o'clock - Thorsten kommt - und geht wieder. /p
For an update on the daytime activities of the ad hoc Kassel Committee, please see the First Nettime Report on the workspace site. The report discusses key in issues concerning the development of Nettime, and represents the conclusions reached by the committee over the past three days. Evening activites consisted of a radio broadcast at Free Radio Kassel. Listen via real audio at radio internationale stadt. This site can be found on the workspace homepage.
Time has passed very quickly for us here and we want to post this report to you now before we forget all the things that have happened so far. On Saturday night about 18 FACES gathered for a wonderful welcoming dinner prepared by Kathy and Eva of Face Settings. Picture us sitting around the festive table decked with candles, bottles of wine,lovely food, place mats, and lots of electronic equipment!! Unfortunately, the electronic link did not work last night so you were not able to join us by CUCME. The countries represented here so far are: Germany, Austria,Holland, Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, USA, Australia. The walls were decorated with projections of women's art from many centuries and places. On behalf of the OBN Cornelia welcomed us all to the cyfem workdays. We then went around the table and introduced ourselves and spoke about our hopes and expectations of what this week would bring.
There is an amazing variety of interests and competencies represented here -- theorists, artists, bad girls, cooks,writers,motorcyclists, videographers, and many multicombinations of skills and intensities. There was a strong feeling voiced that this was a historic moment, that this week is a momentous launching of a visible, global presence of cyberfeminism as a networked movement. We commemorated this historic evening with a thorough photosession in which we took pictures of all of us in many combinations and positions which was great fun. The special connection women have with technology was well demonstrated by the difficulty we had setting our cameras on the remote settings and trying to get into the pictures. If you see a lot of blurry butts in the pictures this is the reason.
Sunday:Today was the first day of full programming here. It was a beautiful early fall day in Kassel and there were thousands of art fans at Dx. We reconfigured the Workspace in the morning so that there was a clear division between us and the audience. The audience is allowed to come into the space at certain hours, but they cannot interact with us, they can only watch the monitors and listen to us. It is a strange but interesting way of making virtuality visible.
We began the public part of the program with Julianne Pierce interviewing Shu Lea Cheang about her new WEB piece called "Brandon" which is about a transgender person who was raped and killed a few years ago. Her piece will deal with the issue of rape. The interview centered on questions of the meanings of bodies in cyberspace; how can a person's identity be raped in cyberspace? Can one be raped verbally? Why is it important to consider such questions? Shu Lea stressed the issue of "fingerfucking" in cyberspace--the issue of whether words can constitute a violation or a rape. At the end of the interview Shu Lea expressed her continuing amazement at how women are hacking into the mainframes of cyberspace. She regards her own netactivity as a kind of "homesteading" project and is interested in smuggling herself into the mainframe.Shu Lea has consistently been categorized as representing a triple constituency:Woman/Lesbian/Asian -- at the moment she can't identify very much with the Woman label and therefore she prefers to identify herself as a cyberfeminist/Lesbian/Asian.
Next Claudia Reiche (litsci/curator/theorist at the Frauenkulturhaus in Bremen <www.thealit.dsn.de>) gave a provocative talk on "feminism is digital". This complex presentation (which we can't summarize here) addressed the paradox:1.Sexual difference is visible 2. Sexual difference is invisible. According to Claudia's construction this is possible. I'll tantalize you with the image of Claudia showing us excerpts of "The Blob" ("beware of the blob, it creeps, it leaps, it seeps) and of the l953 Bela Lugosi film "Glen or Glenda", which epitomize the feared female as that which cannot really be pictured, but which exists "between the frames" and inspires hysteria and panic. The sex which is not one, the sex which does not exist lives in the spaces between what is visible.
Next Margarete Jahrmann presented a workshop "superfem avatars--digital selfrepresentations". How do we represent ourselves digitally? What are our dataselves? Since avatars have become big business, and all the usual representations of women are now being offered as datastamps it behooves us to think about what our choices of selfrepresentation might be. Maggie ran through some of the choices which are already out there:idealised/idolised females --standardized images which can be found at Babes4U and REAL DOLLS (note that the latter are created by women). Maggie herself uses an abstract avatar which moves and roams around the inside of the board and uses fragments of text to avoid fixation on any one image as a self-representation. An animated discussion followed in which we began to consider various possibilities of escaping coded and essentialized and standardized representations of women as avatars. This discussion will be continued and even perhaps may culminate in an avatar workshop at a future date.
The evening ended with a pizza fest and a planning session for Monday. We still have not quite figured out what to do about the audience. Today the cue for Workspace went all around the building and hundreds of people tried to crowd in. So we are going to try out a couple of presentations that will build in audience participation and audience research tomorrow. What is of great importance to us is that we get enough time for discussion among ouselves while we have this unique opportunity to have a flesh meeting.
Goodbye for now. We will keep you posted.
If any of you would like to add to the discussion, or have a topic you want us to discuss please post to the OBN address and we will try our best. Or send us comments to <obn@icf.de>.
Faith and Cornelia, (for the text taskforce)
Hello from Kassel and the Cyberfem workdays at Hybrid Workspace. First we wanted to add a few things which we forgot to report in the first communique.
1. On Sunday, after Margarete Jahrmann gave her presentation on Avatars, Debra Solomon showed us her ongoing project "the_living", which documents and broadcasts the daily life activities of a female digi-persona." Living, communicating, creating and being part of a live-experience herself she attempts to ‘be in the present’ while simultaneously relaying her experience to her remote audience through streaming video and chat. the_living is hyper-living, living more than once, at once."
2. On Sunday evening from 11 to 1 AM, Josephine Bosma hosted the Faces radio show. Josephine had prepared several interviews with FACES members and broadcast parts of them interspersed with live commentary and intense discussion with studio guests which included Diana, Alla, Julianne,Verena, and Debra. This program is now available online: www.icf.de/cgi-bin/RIS/ris-display?874966047
Monday, Sept. 22:
After making it through the first official day quite well, but exhausted, we faced the public much more relaxed. In the morning a group of us (Debra, Ingrid, Vali, Diana and Susanne) went to a supermarket where they did an action about "cyberspace". Cyberspace is "real, uni-sex" and, of course, it's a "fragrance". They asked the shoppers and the staff how they like the smell of cyberspace, what they associate with the word and what they think about the internet. The whole action was not only videotaped, but also the taping was documented! Guess what, nobody knew what cyberspace is!!! Outside, on the parking place Diana started shouting: "There is a revolution going on, and nobody notices it!".
The weather continued radiantly sunny and beautiful. We started slowly as we were all pretty tired after the intense Sunday activities. After a short organizing meeting, we sat around the tables making up questions for Diana's quiz show "Who is that girl?" This turned into a really fun and funny session in which all of us dug into our various knowledge banks about the history of women's achievements and activities. We came up with almost 50 questions which Diana posted to the list.
Our public program in the afternoon started with a presentation "Diagnostic Tools for the New Millenium" by Josephine Starrs (www.icf.de/starrs/toolcorphome.html) who began by showing a 10 minute film "White" (made in collaboration with Francesca di Rimini) which attempts to depict a state of madness. Josephine also distributed her "dating" questionnaire, Fuzzy Love, which is part of her online dating service Web site. "The desire for information seems to be reaching fetishistic proportions," said Josephine. She also spoke about the high states of paranoia which the new technologies are creating in people, and showed us some of the "death interfaces" on the Internet which play on these paranoias (the Net could kill you!). Her WEB work, Paranoid Poetry Generator, also addresses this issue.
Next, it was time for the _Who is that Girl?_ quiz show. We set this up like a TV quiz show with 3 volunteer contestants from the audience and Diana (as Zelda, the Faces plant who knew the answers). Julianne acted as host, and "Lovely Thorsten" was the hostess who handed out the prizes. This was great fun, with many of the Faces sprinkled through the audience hooting and hollering and cheering people on. The questions proved to be extremely hard for the audience (no big surprise here, we all know that women's history is still not a topic of general knowledge)--amazingly no one could even answer the question: Who was the first woman Curator of Documenta? Our own Diana won the prize of a bottle of Cyberspace Perfume handed to her by the lovely Thorsten. The event was very lively and funny and was our best interaction with the audience to date. In terms of audience research we saw how happy people are when they are entertained and how much more acceptance we would find if we played to this desire more. For us it was an experiment in dealing with the "real" space here and with the different problems and issues of audience interface. We also felt that it was fruitful for our own education and enlarged our general transnational knowledge bank.
The third session on Monday afternoon was Verena Kuni's talk: How Hybrid Can We Be?. The theoretical part of this talk addressed some of the "utopic myths" of the Internet, for example, that the Net gets rid of hierarchies because there is a free interchange of information across boundaries; and the myth that the Net is non-gendered because you can be anyone you want to be in cyberspace. Verena pointed out that the new e-media exist within an established social frame and are not automatically liberating. She asked: Is there really a new free space for women on the Net? and warned that the Net is a contested zone, and that this fact must be part of our awareness as we work on it. However, let us indulge in a little utopic thinking of our own and posit that feminist artists and activists could create new possibilities and interventions beyond the genderized art institutions. What forms might such work take? Donna Haraway has suggested that the cyborg could be seen as a positive figure for women--but Verena suggests that a useful model would be that of hybridity (being a bastard and being proud of it) and that we could explore the concept of hybridity much more thoroughly- also in the sense of the "gender masquerade" discussed by Judith Butler in _Gender Trouble_, for example. Verena ended by showing us some sample women's WEB pages and looking at some of the tropes (especially that of the supersexed cyborg femme, and the 50's cartoon model from cut and paste zines "tupperware aesthetics") which appear repeatedly. You can see what she means if you look at >Cybergrrl Webstation< or >Grrl> or >Grrl Guide> or >Riot Grrl> >Grrrls> etc. As with Maggie Jahrman's talk, we began to speculate on other possibilities of images and representations. An interesting example was >Radikal Playgirls>. She also cited the work of VNS Matrix and the WomEnhouse Website. Unfortunately Verena had to leave immediately after this talk and we were not able to discuss this very interesting topic with her further.
After a short pause we began a discussion which was initiated by Susanne who briefly recalled some of the different positions taken in three texts (Josephine Bosma's "What are words worth?", Wilding and CAE's "Notes Toward a Political Condition of Cyberfeminism", and Susanne's response to these pieces) which have been part of the Faces postings and discussions on _feminism/cyberfeminism_. Although I cannot recap this whole discussion here (I got too involved to take detailed notes, but I hope to write about it more at length when I have time and distance to reflect) I offer a few points which stood out. (Please keep in mind that while I am trying to summarize and report for the whole group, my personal observations and opinions may also creep in here and what I write should not be taken to represent a group consensus). Clearly, there are strong differences between women in the group as regards their positions towards feminisms (many of these have already been voiced on the list) and of its relation to cyberfeminism. Some feel that the e-media are completely new technologies which give women a chance to start fresh and create a new language and new strategies. Many young women getting on the Net do not want to associated themselves with "old-style" feminisms or even call themselves feminists, for example, but they are more likely to relate to cyberfeminism and it could be a very useful tool for including and organizing these younger women. Others feel that the media are really not that new and that they exist in a strongly gendered social environment and perpetuate sexist codes. Thus (some of us feel) the history of feminist struggles for women's cultural and political self-representations, visibility, and power is relevant to the new communications technologies. While we want to avoid some of the terrible mistakes and blindnesses which are part of past feminist thinking, the knowledge, experience, and feminist analysis and strategies gathered thus far can be a strong help in carrying us forward now. If our goal is to empower ourselves and other women, then we must keep creating and reinterpreting our histories to encompass new conditions, new technologies, new strategies. The point is not to try to reach consensus or create definitions or limits, but to open up possibilities, create coalitions, continue the research, and figure out specific goals and strategies to reach these goals. Some of the ideas mentioned at the end of the discussion were: Creating new platforms; Education for cyberfeminists (a cyberfem handbook); Databases of skills, resources, venues, people; A letter to festivals, museums, etc. listing specific artists and speakers; A condensed history of feminisms; continued work on an activist and visible presence of cyberfeminism.
The discussion finally broke up because of violent hungerpangs and most of us went to have a good meal at a spanish restaurant. To be continued soon.....
.....At this point (on Tuesday morning) the Faces spent more than an hour doing stretching excercises and learning about RSI (repetitive stress injury) under the expert and gentle guidance of Josephine Bosma. She strongly counsels all of us to pay attention to what is happening to our bodies and to take action right away to change our workhabits. It was pointed out that the damaging relationship between bodies and computer work is also a political issue which should be addressed by us at another time. Thank you, Josephine, for an instructive and relaxing time-out.....
Dx Faces
1st cyberfeminst internationale
TODAY FRIDAY 26th SEPT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3pm to 6pm
INGRID MOLNAR - presentation
"Bo(a)rderCrossing Feminism - Cyberfeminism?"
VESNA JANKOVIC interviewed by Faith Wilding
about media activism and women's politics
BARBARA STREBEL - presentation
"communicatable diseases and transmittable disorders" DANIELA ALINA PLEWE- presentation
"ultima ratio "
