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Subject: OPROEP _ AUFRUF _CALL
From: marleen <marleen@waag.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 17:34:14 METDST

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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 21:22:36 +0200
To: bandwidth@ waag.org
From: stikker@waag.org
Subject: MAY WE HAVE YOUR BANDWIDTH PLEASE?
Reply-To: bandwidth@waag.org (Marleen Stikker)

OPROEP - AUFRUF - CALL

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR: WE WANT BANDWIDTH !
@ HYBRID WORKSPACE DOCUMENTA X, KASSEL, GERMANY FROM 8 TO 17 JULY 1997

In the coming ten days the Society for Old and New Media will put the issue of Bandwidth up for a close examination. During this public research you can visit us, both on site and on-line. Please send us all your Bandwidth reports. We will broadcast your reports and comments in the Hybrid Workspace at the Documenta. Come and join our discussion in the news groups at the Workspace sites. (WWW.DOCUMENTA.DE/WORKSPACE & WWW.WAAG.ORG/BANDWIDTH). You can also participate in the regularly organised debates, off-line in Kassel.

We are interested in all your comments:
+ Personal Statements
+ The price and quality of your bandwidth + Research on the ownership of bandwidth + Manifesto's
+ URL's
+ Mapping of power
+ Conspiracy Theories

THE PUSH FOR BANDWIDTH ?!@

In the networked society the kind of bandwidth of your connection will determine whether you're in the game or out. It's not just about being flushed by the data-pipes, it's about setting your own trash against the data-stream. It's about the vision of wired citizens as passive consumers of virtual corporate waste, versus the active prosumer, the critical consumer and producer of digitised content. There are still a lot of questions to be resolved. First of all, who will own the backbones of the digital freeways of the mind, and will we have enough space to cast our own content on its tracks? What effect will the virtual monopolies have on the equal share in the data drive for everyone who cares enough to bother about it.
On the other hand we might be just a reactionary phantom from a technologically outdated past, and soon we might be flooded by bit bearing media. So what are we going to do with unlimited bandwidth? Is the fetish phantasy of full feed, full speed communication just another screen on which to project the utopia of an universal understanding between people? If everybody is a broadcaster, who will shut up and listen?