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Subject: <nettime> announcer 035b From: announcer <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Date: 22 May 1998 22:41:14 +0200 * * * * * Sender: owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk NETTIME'S WEEKLY ANNOUNCER - every friday into your inbox calls-symposia-websites-campaigns-books-lectures-meetings send your PR to sandra.fauconnier@rug.ac.be in time! 0.......1........2........3........4........5........6 1...Olivier Auber.........Experience poietique / Poietic experiment 2...Molnar Daniel.........ancient times art regime 3...Crash Media...........Crash Media II out now... 4...shedhalle.............MoneyNations 5...Ricardo Dominguez.....SWARM: An ECD Project for ARS Electronica '98 .......1.............................................. Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 01:52:51 +0100 Subject: Experience poietique / Poietic experiment From: Olivier Auber <auber@email.enst.fr> Experience poietique / Poietic experiment ============================================================== POIETIC GENERATOR Real-time collective graphic interaction experiment on the web Art and science research on real-time collective phenomena The Poietic Generator is now accessible on the web 24 hours a day for trials and consultations. For the moment, experiments consist of short sessions announced a few days before in order to get together as many participants as possible. Please check below the date of the next one and inform some friends! TUESDAY MAY 26, FROM 19:00 TO 20:00 (PARIS TIME = GMT+2) http://www.enst.fr/~auber The poietic image available on this site will be also displayed in real time during the conference "Collective creation on the Internet" animated by Charles Lenay, professor of philosophy and history of sciences, UTC University, Compiegne, France. PS 1 : you may also suggest dates of "rendez-vous" and occasions for futures experiments PS 2 : for the moment, the JAVA software runs better on PC than Mac, Ggrr... PS3 : the softwares which allow this (non-profit!) project has been developped by many contributors, specialy by some students and researchers of the "Ecole Nationale Superieures des Telecommunications" (ENST, Paris). ============================================================== ................2..................................... Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:30:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Molnar Daniel <b2men@biocom.bio.u-szeged.hu> Subject: ancient times art regime More Than a Decade Commodore 64 Scene CD The Complete Guide and Encyclopaedia http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/c64/demos/hof/project.htm ///////////////////// Daniel Molnar a.k.a. cj b2men / snail mail is H-6701 Szeged Hungary Europe POBox 285. pager +36-50-415-392 + fax +36-62-496-138 b2men@eastedge.neurospace.net + the same /~b2men if urgent <200 characters to 415392@pager.easycall.hu .........................3............................ To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Crash Media <crashmedia@yourserver.co.uk> Subject: Crash Media II out now... Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 18:19:22 +0100 ------====###====------ _______ __ / ___ \____________ _____| |__ / \ \/\_ __ \__ \ / ___/ | \ \ \____| | \// __ \_\___ \| | \ \________/|__| (______/______\___|__/ _____ ___ __ / \ ____ __| _/|__|____ / \ / \_/ __ \ / __ | | \__ \ / | \ ___// /_/ | | |/ __ \_ \____|____/\_____\_____| |__(______/ ------====###====------ C R A S H M E D I A I S S U E T W O O U T N O W ------====###====------ Where Media Reaches its Critical Mass http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/ ------====###====------ Crash Media is an independent tabloid and online publication, dedicated to independent media practice; released in print bi-monthly. Crash Media online is a thread based publishing environment for instant publishing pleasure... ------====###====------ EXTRA SPECIAL : MEDIA & ETHNICITY Shirin Housee on Media Imperialism, SuAndi on Black Identity on the Net, John Hutnyk on Curry, Beer and Cultural Packaging, and Jamika Ajalon on Archives, Media and Black Activism [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/esboard.htm] ACCESS DENIED MED TV, Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger TV, Free Radio Berkeley, Black Liberation Radio =96 When Grassroots Grow Aerials. Plus: Micro Power FM Kit in this issue's Crash Course, DeeDee Halleck and Joseph Cooper explore communities in orbit and the National Lawyer's Guild reveal more earthly suggestions for the future of low power FM transmitters. [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/adboard.htm] UNDER THE NEEDLE The Blind Rhythm Makers in Freak Alien Abduction. Kodwo Eshun explains the futurhythmachine to Chris Flor and Ulrich Gutmair - and Poets Get Paid (Micz Flor knows why). [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/utnboard.htm] CULTURE CLUB >From Bedroom to Bauhaus: Communication Follows Commitment... r a d i o q u a l i a reframe the webwaves, cunninglingo are on everybody's lips, Prison Radio and Radio Space, as well as Bedroom Communications on a global scale: fanzine culture. [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/ccboard.htm] STRANGEWAYS As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect... Nick Gonzales, Janko Vook and Die Kunst do something completely different. [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/swboard.htm] MEDIUM ROAST Revolutionary Vagrants and Hacker Honchos on a Cyber- Comedown. Korinna Patelis, Florian Zeyfang and Josephine Berry crack the ethos while Ian Gasse explores The Battleground of Hegemony: Mass Media in the Early 19th Century ... with stunning parallels to today's independent media debate [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/mrboard.htm] BALZAC NATION After the Fall (resolution number two by J.J. King) leads Lo-Fi Joe off the urban Richter Scale - with poems by David Fujino [http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/bnboard.htm] ------====###====------ [not all image based contributions for Crash Media can be found online, the web version of Crash Media is mainly text] CONTRIBUTORS TXT & IMG: Olyvia Adjaye, Jamika Ajalon, Josepine Berry, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Tanya Burton, Graham Clayton-Chance, Joseph Cooper, Emer, Kodwo Eshun, Liz Eversole, Chris Flor, Micz Flor, Ian Gasse, Nick Gonzales, Millie Guest, Ulrich Gutmair, DeeDee Halleck, Honor Harger, Shirin Housee, John Hutnyk, Richard Hylton, JJ King, Die Kunst, Liverpool Black Sisters, Manu Luksch, David Mackintosh, Pom Martin, Armin Medosch, Prema Murthy, National Lawyer's Guild, Korinna Patelis, Imogen O=92Rorke, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Catherine Seale, Justin Spooner, SuAndi, Tina Weiner, Martin Vincent, Janko Vook, Florian Zeyfang EDITORIAL, LAYOUT & DESIGN: Josephine Berry and Micz Flor SPECIAL THANKS TO: Florian Clausz, Rachel Cooper, Mukhtar Dar, the FACT team, Robin Hamman, Lisa Haskel, Damian 'Zipper' Jaques, Alan Korn, David Mackintosh, Ed van Megen, The Mutoids, Iliyana Nedkova, Laurie Peake, Graham Parker, Chris Paul, Simon Robertshaw ------====###====------ Crash Media combines a 12 page tabloid newspaper with an online publication. The tabloid edition is an attempt to create an offline forum for independent media practice. The website is built as an open publishing environment in which the contributor can bypass all editorial control and publish their views and replies directly on the WWW. Crash Media is made in Salford/Manchester, published by Skyscraper Digital Publishing - publishers of Mute magazine. Crash Media will also create a soft landing for the agendas under discussion in the temporary media lab - Revolting - happening in Manchester this autumn. [temp URL: http://www.yourserver.co.uk/revolting ] ------====###====------ GET THE PRINT VERSION OF CRASH MEDIA: FOR UK RESIDENTS ONLY: To receive a free copy of Crash Media, issue 1 or 2, send a stamped and self-addressed envelope to Crash Media (address below). For single copy affix 1st class stamp to A4 or A5 sized envelope. If you want to receive 10 copies, please affix 2 pounds worth of stamps to an A4 sized s.a.e. ------====###====------ Send your contributions for issue 3 now! If you want to send text, please use email, fax or the postal address. Images should be scanned at 150dpi and can be attached (compression: Winzip for Stuffit welcome) - before jamming our data pipelines: consider sending large work with the post. Thanks. !!!!! Deadline for issue 3: 25th of June !!!!! ------====###====------ Crash Media University of Salford Art and Design Technology Research Unit Peru Street UK - Salford M3 6EQ fax: +44.161.295 6180 mail: crashmedia@yourserver.co.uk url: http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia ISSN 1462-1347 ..................................4................... Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:42:26 +0000 From: shedhalle <shedhalle@access.ch> Subject: Shedhalleinfo:MoneyNations moneynations@access a Web- and VideoZine with contributions of artists, activists and theoreticians from Middle and Central European cities including a Conference >from 24. October- 25. Oct. 1998 and a Presentation of the Zines >from 23. Oct. to 15. Dec. 1998 at Shedhalle Zurich, Seestr. 395, CH- 8038 Zurich Phone :++41-1- 481 5950, Fax.: ++41-1-481 5951, shedhalle@access.ch second part of moneynations@access with artists, activists and theoreticians from Central and South America at the Swiss Institute, New York (concept will follow from Swiss Institute) "..For business purposes.the boundaries that separate one nation from another are no more real than the equator. They are merely convenient demarcations of ethnic, linguistic and cultural entities. They do not define business requirements or consumer trends." (IBM 1990) "The aparatuses of discourse, technologies and institutions (capitalism, education, mass media a.s.f.) which produced what is generally recognized as the "national culture"...but the nation is an effect of these cultural technologies, not their origin. A nation does not express itself through its culture: it is the cultural aparatus that produces "the nation". What is produced is not an identity or a single consciousness...but (hierarchically organized) values, dispositions and differences. This cultural and social heterogeneity is given a certain fixity by articulating the principle of "the nation". The national defines the cultures unity by differentiating it from other cultures, by marking its boundaries; a fictional unity, of course, because the "us" on the inside is itself always differentiated."(Donald, 1988) The project "moneynations@access" has a double focus. It is concerned with the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities, and with the role of national-politics in relation to the "transnational flow of capital" and their affect on the reconfiguration of those identities. The part of the project initiated by the Shedhalle Zurich addresses these issues in the context of the current changes in a European identity, which has always been defined and is now newly defined in relation to the important "Others", i.e. America, the "East", Islam, Japan or the Orient. In the case of the first part of "moneynations@access", our greatest interest will placed in the question how the big Other, "the former Eastern Bloc", is redefined in relation to the constitution of a West European Union as a "fortress", and its contemporary economic politics. The production of a pan-European identity will not only be investigated before the background of contemporary national- politics, but also in its historical context of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and the effect which the so-called "collapse of Socialism and Communism" had, on the one hand for a leftist discourse, and on the other hand for the power structures of transnational accumulation of wealth. The question is to what extent is the Western "identity" composed in opposition to the former Eastern Bloc states and to what extent does this affect the so-called "fortress" and its restrictive migration politics? How are the West in the East, and the East in the West represented and valued? What kind of reports and information does the media convey? In what way does the market and the promotion of the "Euro", as the new common currency, morally exclude and marginalize people within Europe? And what are our perspectives as to a critical discourse, now, after the utopia of Socialism is breaking down, converting into Neo-Liberalism? The aim of "moneynations@access" is to create a "counter-institutional pool" of theorists, (media) activists and artists from Middle and Central European cities. However, this "counter-information network" will not consist of a group of a few individuals. The aim is to exchange a wide range of policies of resistance; to link new identities and economic theories with anti-border campaigns, anti-racist and feminist movements; to discuss, understand and criticize the protectionism of Western Europe with regard to migration, while "capital flows beyond national borders and labor rights. The communication network starts out on two different levels. First a mailing list will be issued to instigate open email conversation via a WebZine, in which people from different disciplines can submit texts, projects and suggestions referring to the issues. The WebZine will be established by the end of June. The Second exchange medium is a VideoZine. The VideoZine will be used as a correspondent network initiated by a so- called editorial correspondent group. They contact artists, activists and theoreticians from Central Europe, who wish to address counter-institutional strategies within the framework of the project. The VideoZine starts right now. The first video has already been made by the Liga (a group of non-profit gallery spaces) from Budapest. The videos will be sent to Zurich, where we will copy them for the editorial group members. (have a look on ...how to proceed) The Shedhalle in Zurich established a project team (Agnes Bieber, Sascha Rvsler, Natalie Seitz , Marion v. Osten). The Shedhalle team will be responsible for the coordination of the information, texts and videos, and will establish the Web- and VideoZine in cooperation with the "editorial correspondent group", different (media=1F) activist groups in South-Eastern and Central Europe as well as with the ProHelvetia offices in Bratislava, Kraksw, Budapest and Prague. Extracts of the incoming internet texts will be published in a special edition of a Newspaper. This Newspaper will function as a small publication and could be organized together with "nettime" (Geert Lowink, Amsterdam). The video productions of the VideoZine will be presented at the Shedhalle in October 1998 in the context of a conference of theoreticians, anti-racist groups, media activists and artists. The VideoZine, the Webproject and the Newspaper will also be presented in the Swiss Institute, New York, in November 1998, where the project will be proceeded with Central and South American participants. The aim of the project initiated by the Shedhalle is not only to represent the "East" in the "West", but also to encourage the further use of the WebZine and the VideoZine for "multiple" shows or screenings in the various cities and countries of the participants. It would be our wish that the project will be more than a "one off exemplary project", but an attempt to establish communication and discourse between critical working people on both sides of borders. Theoretical Background: The West and the Rest... In the past years, the concept of Euro-Centrism has repeatedly been accused to stand for the hegemony of Western cultural conception, since the euro-centrist concept always seems to reflect a "Western" view of Europe only. The "construction of Europe" as a "fortress" has started in 1989: A fortress that excludes the Central European cultures, and with media that blocks them out at the borders. This "fortress Europe" produces new cultural identities, which are on the one hand based on regionalism and on the other hand the very same is denied and replaced by a common European identity. Who is in and who is out is redefined. New boundaries and new identities are produced, which are strongly related to market orientated values and ideologies. The international economic "competition", as an effect of the so-called globalization, serves as the main argument for the European Union. The spatial matrix of contemporary capitalism is one that combines and articulates tendencies towards both globalization and localization. Even if capital significantly reduces the friction of geography, it cannot escape its dependence on spatial fixity. Space and place cannot be annihilated. "The new culture of enterprise enlists the enterprise of culture to manufacture differentiated urban or local identities. These are centered around the creation of an image, a fabricated and inauthentic identity, a false aura, usually achieved through the recuperation of "history (real imagined, or simply recreated as pastiche) and of "community"(again, real, imagined, or simply packaged for sale by producers). (Harvey,1987:274). In this context the Schengen Agreement fixed the boundaries of cultural identities into borders that are protected by military and laws. Meanwhile the "East" has become a low-wage location for international investors. New technologies of control have been developed on the borders: genetic fingerprints; high-tech equipment; new border architecture has been erected; and the fortress is now protected by a specially trained border police who decide on the new Western European identity as a part of their job. Those developments, i.e. social restructuring, spatial transformations and discontinuities of identities are to be seen in the context of the social and economic restructuring of the former socialist states through investment, commercialization and privatization as well as through transnational accumulation developments. The conception of identity in a "Western European" society is increasingly tied to the lifestyle attributes of a more flexible, creative and efficient service elite. These cultural discourses or distinctions of the "European identity crisis" include repressive political means against so-called "illegalized" people at the borders and within the "fortress Europe". These exclusions and stigmatizations of the "Others" are present in Middle and Western European cities too, where a low wage working class of "illegalized" people serves the service elite to polish up their status, whereas in the inner cities there is an increase in repressive and racist politics against different marginalized groups. Along its eastern and southern edges, Europe, as an economic and political entity, must now re-negotiate its territorial limits. Last year a lot of critical events and campaigns took place focussing on these developments (Kein Mensch ist illegal, Innenstadtaktionen) . "MoneyNations@ access" is trying to broaden these critical actions by relating them to the perception of the so-called EAST in institutional politics, and its consequences regarding the construction of the borders, new nationalism and low-wage production locations. The Crisis of the "Blind Spot" In the current reports of the West it is obvious that the propaganda machines of the "Cold War" go on, either through refusing to recognize the situation in Central Europe, or through its capitalization. The postulation of Capitalism in all its violence is legitimized through the reasoning of cultural difference: On the one side that of "the East", historically associated with racist representations, and on the other side that of power claims against the former socialist states. Nationalism and racism are constructed on this, and the West uses it to polish up its identity, or better, to create a status of an "acceptable" identity. The premisses of the perception of the "East" are confirmed by the misrepresentation of an intellectual and cultural tradition of Central Europe during Socialism; by the never-ending representation of poverty; by spectacular reports on the "new-rich" and the "Mafia"; by the former categories of business; by professionalism, advertising and competition; and above all, by the unquestioned Western European legislation of rights of asylum made for Central Europeans. The social change from Socialism to Capitalism was described by many "Eastern" friends of mine as an every-day conflict. In capitalism the way you have to behave, do business, produce art, or dress, seemed to create a barrier: In order to cope with this adjusting of your personality you either had to position yourself against it, or over- affirm it. The capitalist ways of behaving are received as colonization. They reflect power relations and Western categorization of values. Alternatives like "self-professionalizing" or models of non-profit orientated ways of life are rarely found. The representation of European history in relation to a socialist tradition, used only as a negative projection, creates, historically and socially, a blind spot, which produces an identity crisis in the former Eastern Bloc states and its citizens. The only cultural identity which is given to the former Soviet states is that of an "older (deeper) European tradition", the tradition of the "Abendland". This sentimental and nostalgic view refers to a tradition of "culture", which is the very heart of the difference between Europe and the so-called "non-cultural" Others (Africa , America, Asia and Islam). This collective memory of "what Europe once was", excludes the experiences of forty-five years of life in socialist states, as if it had never existed. For a Western-socialized person, it is hard to understand what effect this devaluation can have on a person's identity. Once there is that feeling that Capitalism has "won", we, as Westerners, realized what that might mean with regard to our critical potential. Former West - Former East It is an aim of the project to reflect on this historical "blind spot" and its political and social implications. We suggested that it may be interesting to start a discussion, not from the point of view of traditional, materialistic leftist discourse, but rather from a perspective of identity politics. Working together with feminist activist groups and theoreticians from the "East", in this context, seems to be highly political. How did the social and economic situation for women and homosexuals change during the transition from the former socialist to the now almost completely capitalist situation? How is feminism, as analytic category, valued on each side of the border? Is there a deconstructing feminist economic movement which questions the over- determination of the economic discourse in terms of being right or left wing? What position and what kinds of resistance politics might we share together against the transnational accumulation processes? Where are the differences? How is the political valued? What part plays Pop Culture in the former west/former east resistance politics to build new subjectivities which go beyond a "whites only" and traditional "genderdifference" identity? All this questions and more might be asked, answered or discussed through several media in the project. Join and Let's start. How to Proceed and how to Take Part: The project will develop progressively on an exchange basis throughout the next month and can be accessible and presented in different places and institutions and in all the cities of the participating artists and theoreticians (if wanted). The project should not stop because of the conference in Zurich or elsewhere, it can proceed as long as necessary. The submissions of the Web- or VideoZine correspondents can be of a documentary, narrative, fictional or theoretical character. Besides the presentation of political and economic background data and information, the contributions can be texts, internet projects, photo stories and videos. They can be, for example, in the form of a guided tour through a city by video. (Where does gentrification happen? Where does the transformation of the city start? etc.), or may be a report of activities, interviews, statements about a video of other participants, or fiction. No institutional politics should be involved but current institutional forms should be criticized, or counter-institutional points of view could be developed. The editorial group (April 1998): A group of artists and theoreticians has been formed at my suggestion, which will from now on be looking for new partners in relation to their research and subject fields. Each member of this group is personally related to the subject of the fortress Europe, either through their own biography, or through the content of their work. This group acts as an editorial group in which information can be processed and brought together. The artists of the "editorial group" are: G=1Fls=1Fn Karamustafa (Istambul), who has often worked on the theme of migration and works as a correspondent for the complex "suitcase economy", in the Black Sea region ( Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey); Marion Baruch, as artist "Name Diffusion" (Paris, Milan), a former Jewish Romanian migrant who will be our editorial correspondent for Romania/Ex-Yugoslavia, as well as for migrants from these countries living in Paris or Milan. Marie Ringler and Meike Schmidt Gleim (PublicNetbase, Vienna) are invited to monitor the feminist perspective of the project. Geert Lovink, nettime Amsterdam, will inter-link the different media activist groups, and is himself asked to work on the question of Georg Sorros in the "East". The art historian Edith Andras, former correspondent in New York for Hungary, is invited to work on the representation of "Eastern art" in the West . She has made the first contacts with economists, sociologists, activists, artists and art historians made, together with Susi Koltai, Pro Helvetia Hungary. The group of editorial correspondant members can and will be enlarged. Marion v.Osten Please send your comments or contributions to shedhalle@access.ch ...........................................5.......... Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:15:15 -0700 From: ricardo dominguez <rdom@thing.net> Subject: SWARM: An ECD Project for ARS Electronica '98 SWARM: An ECD Project for ARS Electronica '98 by Ricardo Dominguez Stefan Wray Brett Stalbaum Carmin Karasic 1998 Tactical Theater Schedule http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd98.html Electronic Civil Disobedience ARS Electronica Festival '98 http://web.aec.at/infowar/index.html *The information revolution is the key to the development of new designs and capabilities for sustainable swarming--from the establishment of an initial posture of dispersed forces, to the coalescing of those forces for an attack, to their dissevering return to the safety of wide dispersion, and their preparation for a new pulse. Only a new generation of robust information gathering and distribution systems can support such pulsing.* --In Athena's Camp 1.1 Digital Zapatismo as InfoSwarm Systems. http://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html The Zapatista movement in Chiapas, without benefit of any technological infrastructure, has been able to manifest itself as a transnational network of email based activism that has constrained the Mexican Goverment from crushing them immediately. The advent of these networks has up to now been able to do the work that is needed--to spread information about the situation in Chiapas on a mass scale. This continues to be the most vital element of Zapatismo on-line. Digital Zapatismo is now concentrating on replacing the InfoWar doctrine of cyber-terrorism by pushing Electronic Civil Disobedience to the forefront of mass media discussion. This will be the main thread of the project within the INFOWAR list. 1.2 Electronic Pulse Systems. Digital Zapatimo calls all individuals and groups to participate in research and development of new methods of Electronic Civil Disobedience that move beyond email lists and information sites. This investigation should focus on non-violent Electronic Pulse Systems (EPS), that function beyond the Tactical Flood Nets that we have already built (http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/zaps.html), that will enable mass public participation in Zapatista actions between now and the end of ARS Electronica. We are also building a Zapatista Spider to hit specific URLS. 1.3 Infrastructure and Swarm Tactics Digital Zapatismo calls for the development of mobile infrastructures consisting of multiorganizational networks. This would be done by bringing together independent infrastructure nodes (The Thing in NYC , AZ in Austin, TX,CADRE Institute, San Jose, California, groups on La Neta, in Mexico, and nodes in Europe). These nodes would investigate the development of mobile infrastructures of defense and security of a server to be setup in a Zapatista Community in Chiapas. To protect Zapatista sites and actions from counter-attacks via remote firewall setups and the training of the Zapatista nodes in Chiapas. Finally, and most importantly, to develop a process by which the the myth of *CyberZapatistas* in Chiapas can be made into a Reality. To create a network of supplies to build a mobile digital infrastructure in the Lacondona jungle as soon as possible and by any means necessary. Ricardo Dominguez 1998 Tactical Theater Schedule http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd98.html Electronic Civil Disobedience http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl