- Presentation by DeeDee Halleck (New York) co-founder of Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV, with screenings of influential old and new material from the Paper Tiger collection
- Interview with Juergen Linke (Berlin) director of the Berlin Open Channel and Nico van Eyk (Amsterdam) former board member of SALTO, Amsterdam Open Channel, as representatives of important examples of public access to cable television in Europe
- Presentation by Mark Dery (New York) cyber critic and author of 'Culture Jamming', with a street level perspective on the future of public access
- Spoken column by Rop Gonggrijp (Amsterdam) co-founder of XS4ALL and of Amsterdam Digital City
Moderation: David Garcia (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Paradiso hall: 10.30-12.00 hours
Copyright in the Next Century
To be able to interpret our history we must also be free to access and use information. With digital collage and sampling playing an ever more important role in daily culture, is the concept of copyright becoming obsolete?
Moderation and organisation: Tjebbe van Tijen, International Institute for Social History (IISG), Amsterdam.
Balie Salon: 13.00-14.30 hours
Workshop: Curator Activists
- Participants: Kathy Rae Huffman (Vienna) networker; Renate Lorenz (Zurich) exhibition organiser; Norbert Meisner (Leipzig) media artist currently involved in Kanal X; Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) arts curator.
- Moderation: Chris Hill (Buffalo) media curator and involved in the public access movement and Keiko Sei (Prague) media curator.
Balie theatre: 14.30-16.15 hours
Beyond the Metaphors of War
Does the use of violent metaphors beget more violence? From South Africa to Northern Ireland a number of societies are at various stages of transition from war to peace. What are the images and strategies that will enable them to grow towards reconciliation?
- Introduction by Marilyn Hyndman (Belfast) to the screening of key works by the Belfast based tactical television group Northern Visions.
- Presentation by Chris Gutuza (Bellville South Africa), producer of the Media Training & Development Trust.
- Interview with Maya van de Velde (Amsterdam) expert on Palestinian tactical communication, from magazines to electronic networks.
- Presentation of Radio Doble F (San Salvador) previously the voice of the resistance, the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberation Nacional. This radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity Fund.
Moderation: Michael Pollman (Nijmegen) founder of Antenna, access provider and networking node.
Balie theatre: 16.30-17.00 hours
Screening of 'Shock is Spreading', by Olivera Todorovic (Belgrade 1995).
Short documentary about life in Belgrade in the past 10 years, about the energy of youth so rarely noticed on film or video.
Screening of fragments of 'Zombietown' by Marc J. Hawker (Glasgow 1995).Documentary about radio B'92 and surroundings in Belgrade.
Paradiso hall: 14.30 -17.00 hours
The Desire to be Wired
A series of performance-lectures that will form a radical critique of cyberculture
- Calin Dan (Bucharest) visual artist, member of the artists group SubREAL.
- Konrad Becker (Vienna) video and computer artist, < www.netbase.t0.or.at > .
- Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin) member of Minimal Club, editor of the theoryzine A.N.Y.P.
- Heath Bunting (London) street culture hacker < cybercafe.org > .
- Pit Schultz (Berlin) electro artist, editor of the theory database Webstop.
- Dirk Paesmans (Amsterdam) media and web artist < www.jodi.org > .
- Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) art curator and media philosopher.
- Steven Kurtz (Chicago) member of the media/art activists group Critical Art Ensemble.
Hosted by Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Paradiso Cellar: 16.00-18.00 hours
Workshop The impact of radio on civil conflicts
- Participants: Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio B'92 (Belgrade), Radio Kameleon (Tuzla, Bosnia), La Voz Popular (Guatamala), Radio Doble F (El Salvador), Community Radio (South Africa), Martha Hawley (Amsterdam) European Community Medmedia Program.
- Moderation: Rita Brakel (Amsterdam) XminY Solidarity Fund.
Paradiso webspace:17.00-19.00 hours
Workshop: Latino Networks on the Net
Video conference / CUSeeMe in the two most widely used languages on the Net: English and Spanish.
- With Lourdes Cillerulo (Universidad del Pais Vasco), Marcelo Exposito (Universidad de Valencia), and the Universidad de Chile.
- Moderation: Mariano Maturana (Amsterdam).
Balie theatre: 19.30 - 21.00 hours
Lecture 'From Cyberspace to Neurospace' by Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York), member of the collective Autonomedia.
Paradiso hall: 21.00-22.00 hours
Performance by vakuum tv - Unplugged TV from Budapest
In the context of new forms of censorship in Hungary, these artists invented a new way to transmit their political opinions. In a small theatre in Budapest they transformed the stage into a television set. Every Monday they talk back to the media.
Paradiso hall: 22.00-23.30 hours
Screening of the movie 'Predictions of Fire' (1995) by Michael Benson
Movie about the Slovenian arts collective 'NSK' During the 80's this group shocked many people in western Europe with their use of fascist iconography. Only later, after the Balkan explosion, did people realise that 'NSK' were merely predicting the flames of militant nationalism that were to come.
Saturday January 20
Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours
Reality Check
Do the new media really lead to greater democracy?
- Presentation by Steven Lenos (Agora) and Nina Meilof (Beurs TV, Digital City), about current experiments with tele-democracy in Amsterdam
- Presentation by Rena Tangens from Zerberus (Bielefeld), alternative computer network
- Debate with Katja Diefenbach (Munich) journalist, Kees Schalken (Tilburg), researcher at the Catholic University Brabant.
Moderation: Marleen Stikker, Director of the Society for Old and New Media.
Paradiso hall: 10.30-13.00 hours
The Metaphor Machine
The issue of metaphorical language is not abstract. It poses the vital strategic question what language to use. An investigation of language and metaphor in the technological age.
- Performance interview by Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller (London), with demonstration of the CD-ROM Rehearsal of Memory' (1995) showing the physical memories of several patients of the Ashworth Mental Hospital.
- Presentation by Stephan Geene (Berlin), member of Minimal Club, about the language of biotechnology.
- Presentation by Karin Spaink (Amsterdam), author, about the Cyborg-metaphor.
- Video screening of fragments of 'Simultaneous City' (1994) by RongWrong Productions (Amsterdam). With the growing uniformity of the world - the same TV programmes, the same food, the same advertisements - culture shock is replaced by a shocking familiarity. Cities are as anonymous and interchangeable as hotel bedrooms.
- Presentation by Jochen Becker (Berlin), member of B=FCroBert, about 'Telepolis' and the impact of digital cities on urban spaces.
Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Balie theatre: 14.30-17.30 hours Tactical Media as Tools for Survival
Series of presentations from front-line activists who use tactical media as tools or as weapons in a struggle for survival.
- Lecture by Sivam Krishnapillai (Cambridge) scientist, about the ethno-national cyberquarrels in Sri Lanka.
- Presentation by Vesna Jankovic (Zagreb), editor in chief of Arkzin, the bi-weekly anti-war magazine that combines politics and subculture.
- Screening of the new video of Jelenko Bantic (Zagreb) about the armed struggle for a free radio station in Northern Kroatia
- Presentation of the Democratic Voice of Burma by Thein Htike Oo, the radio station of the democratic alliance, that has been banned by official authorities. The radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity Fund, who will be launching an action campaign to put them on the air again.
- Screening of videos about the current media activities from the Zapatistas in the Chiapas region in Mexico.
- Presentation by Sacha Mirkovic (Belgrade), producer from the radio station B'92.
Moderation: P.L. da Silva, social scientist at the University of Amsterdam.
Balie Autonomous Zone:15.00-17.00 hours
Workshop: Mortal Acts. The Tactical Body.
- A workshop produced by Almanac, an Amsterdam based tactical television program. On the symbolic use of the body in art and political intervention.
Paradiso upper floor: 15.00-17.00 hours
Workshop: Low End Technology
From a wide assortment of consumer cameras to wind-up radios, scanners and other hacking devices, this workshop celebrates the vitality of using cheap technology.
- Participants: Heath Bunting (London street culture hacker); Leo Jacobs (Film and Television Academy Amsterdam); Pauline Krikke (Amsterdam City Council); Debra Solomon (Amsterdam media artist); Bobby Tuazon (Peoples Television Network of the Phillipines Manila).
- Moderation: Raul Marroquin (Amsterdam) media artist.
Paradiso upper floor:18.00-19.30 hours
Workshop: Accessing Satellite Technology
Satellites need no longer be the monopoly of mainstream media, as tacticans from all over the world learn how to appropiate communication satellites.
- Participants: DeeDee Halleck (New York); Allan Fountain (London) formerly Channel 4, currently involved in the Mondial Satellite Project.
- Moderation: Raul Marroquin, Hoeksteen TV Amsterdam.
Balie Salon: 17.00-18.30 hours
Workhop: Media in the new Southern Africa
The role of the old and new media in social transformation: do the electronic media have anything to add to the process of political reconstruction in Southern Africa?
- With: David Adams (Johannesburg) ANC media trainer; Shareef Cullis (Johannesburg) Centre for Democratic Communication; Chris Gutuza (Bellville) Media Training & Development Trust; Jeanne du Toit (Salt River) Bush Radio.
- Moderation: Bert Frereks (Amsterdam) Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika.
Balie theatre: 20.00-21.30 hours
Tactical Research - The Myth of Easy Search
Serious research is the source of all tactical communication. Low budget investigative journalism challenges the superficial knowledge presented as background in mainstream media.
- Presentation by Frannie Armstrong (London) of One World of the McLibel Case, the judicial procedures of the Green Peace London Collective against McDonalds
- Introduction by Jamie Hartzell (London) of the screenings of the London based video collective Small World
- Presentation by Christian Golla (Bonn) of the Copex incidents in Germany
- Screening of fragments of Haiti: Killing the Dream by Babeth (Amsterdam) visual artist. Providing an eye witness account of the coup with enough inside knowledge to provide an account of CIA involvement in events.
Moderation: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam) research collective Jansen & Janssen
Balie Autonomous Zone: 22.30-24.00 hours
Workshop: Sex in the Age of Media
Open discussion to explore the pleasure principle, its directions and the use of abuse in the media today.
- Participants: Susan Janssen & William Levy; Peter Mueller Sziami, Mariska Majoor, Xaviera Hollander, Michel Beaujart, Jeanette Genant & others.
- Moderation: Marianna Padi (Amsterdam) writer and organiser.
Paradiso hall: 21.13-05.00 hours E~Scape
Technoparty by Digital Artists Xperiments.
- D.A.X. consists of Konrad Becker (Vienna) Monoton, Michael Wells (London) Technohead, Robin Rimbaud (London) deejay Scanner, Dano (Amsterdam) deejay, No Sweat (Amsterdam) producer, Liza 'n Eliaz (Antwerp) deejay.
- Veejaying by Cut Up (Rotterdam).
- With: hypermedia interfaces, videogates, interactive sound database, live techno music.
Sunday January 21
Balie salon: 13.00-14.00 hours
Mr President
Interviews by Cecile Landman (Amsterdam) researcher with Giovanni Ruggeri (Milan) the famous Italian critic, author of 'the business of Mr. President' and Gianluca Neri (Milan) Peacelink, about the current television and internet monopoly positions in Italy. What's behind Video Online, the fastest growing Internet provider in Italy.
Balie theatre: 14.00-15.00 hours
Net Criticism
The emergence of the Net is so significant that it forces us to reimagine the role of all other media. Like Art and Literature does the net require it's own independent critical discipline?
- Participants: Mark Dery, Katja Diefenbach, Paul Garrin, P.L. Wilson.
- Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) media theoritician, Centre for Tactical Media.
Balie Salon: 14.00-15.00 hours
Workshop: Financing Tactical Media
- Participants: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam); Arie-Willem Bijl (XminY Solidarity Fund); Jamie Hartzell (London); and a representative of the Soros Foundation.
- Moderation: Rita Brakel, XminY Solidarity Fund.
Paradiso hall: 15.00-17.00 hours
New Impulses For Translocal Culture
Discovering ways to give a new prominance to the diversity of global media. And eroding the dichotomy between the North and the South.
- Presentation by Sharad Argwal and Satuajit Sarkar (Delhi) on the current position of independent video makers and internet activists in India.
- Presentation of the Refugee Republic by Ingo Guenther (New York) media artist.
- Presentation by Caetanno Scannavino (Rio de Janeiro) of the Video Popular network in Brasil, a collective of media activists that put up wide screens in small Brasilian villages with limited media access.
- Highlights of the efforts of South African Community Radio to balance social justice with reconciliation.
Moderation: Olivier Pasquet (Queige, France) board member of Videazimut, the internatio-nal organisation of independent video makers.
Final Debate
- moderated by David Garcia (Amsterdam) Center for Tactical Media. The final debate draws together the key ideas to have emerged during the Next 5 Minutes and will ask whether such a diverse range of communities and interest groups can create shared strategies and a common agenda.
other formats in Amsterdam
INSTALLATIONS
Censored information by Babeth (Amsterdam)
is made up of original and shocking material recorded during the coup in Haiti, and which is combined with a forensic analysis by Noam Chomsky of how the artist's film Haiti: Killing the Dream was later censored by American broadcaster PBS.
There will also be an informal screening of the award winning Haiti: Killing the dream during the conference.
Rehearsal of Memory
by Graham Harwood (London)
is an installation based on his CD-ROM Rehearsal of Memory, showing the physical memories of patients from the Ashworth Mental Hospital.
MauzZ ZapP MuseumM (Enschede, NL)
expositie "Presence in A Living Room"A normal living room with an abnormal television. In this installation the artist realises the impossible dream of multi-channel tactical television.
Unpredictable tactical interventions by
- Ros Sinclaire (Glasgow)
- Hunter Reynolds (New York)
- Amalia Pevyovschi (Bucharest)
- The Electronic Cafe International (Santa Monica),
MEDIA PLATFORMS
Local television in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be an integral tool of the Next 5 Minutes. Radio and TV production and programming facilities will be available to participants of the conference. A satellite link, ISDN lines and other forms of tele-conferencing will keep the venues in the two cities in continuous dialogue. Cable operators in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam are available for cablecasting during the event for transmissions of tapes and live-events allowing for active collaboration with visiting groups. A World Wide Web site < http://www.dds.nl/~n5m/ > features an online journal, newsgroups, tele-conferencing, etc., throughout the four days of the event, containing extensive coverage of N5M debates and workshops. It will also be an environment for a number of visiting artists to realise new works. Teletext and other forms of digital television will keep people without computers updated about the conference. An extensive archive and media library will be accessible to all visitors on the upperfloor of De Balie.
DAILY PROGRAMME ROTTERDAM
Connection with Amsterdam:
- Thursday 18th January:
Bus shuttle Amsterdam 18.00 hours - Rotterdam 23.00 hours.
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday:
Bus shuttle Amsterdam 13.00 hours - Rotterdam 18.00 hours.
With live-TV broadcasts from the bus
Exhibition V2_ORGANISATION
- Paul Garrin (New York) video and webartist: MediaFilter
A multimediatic environment with on-line information and communication facilities built around the Worl Wide Web site MediaFilter. This project is located at the intersection between art, media, politics and communities. During the Next 5 Minutes, the exhibition space will house a number of presentations and workshops about translocal networks and media communication in Ex-Yugoslavia and other political crisis-areas. More info: MediaFilter.org/MFF/mfhome
- Knowbotic Research+cF (Cologne) D/AUT artists' group: DWTKS
Dialogue With The Knowbotic South is an installation which deals with the representation and formation of knowledge in electronic networks and with their transformation into sensorial experiences. Through the usage of independent computer agents, Knowbotic Research questions the autonomy of human beings interacting with machines. More info: www.t0.or.at/~krcf/
- Krzysztof Wodiczko (New York) artist and industrial designer: Alien Staff/Mouth Piece
Before and during the N5M, local operators will walk through Rotterdam with the 'Alien Staff' and 'Mouth Piece' projects of Krzysztof Wodiczko. Aided by electronic walking sticks and mouth-size monitors they will demonstrate how to communicate in an unfamiliar cultural environment and language.
Thursday January 18
20.00-23.00: General N5M Opening Act
The Matter of Media
- Performances by:
- Kevin McCoy (Charlotte, NC) media artist
- Critical Art Ensemble (Chigago) cyberactivist collective
- Presentation of Techno-Parasites
Friday January 19
Translocal Media Networks and the Diaspora
Electronic networks offer new means of communication and contact between the growing global migrant community and their relations at home, as well as among the newly evolving translocal communities.
V2-Exhibition space: 14.00-16.00 hours
Presentation of several electronic support-networks for Ex-Yugoslavia: MediaFilter by Paul Garrin, Zerberus (Bielefeld) by Rena Tangens, Arkzin (Zagreb) by Vesna Jankovic, and ZaMir (Zagreb).
V2-Exhibition space: 16.00-18.00 hours
Debate about media in the diaspora
- with Sivam Krishnapillai, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and others.
Zaal De Unie 20.00 - 23.00 hours:
The projects of Ingo Guenther (New York) media
